skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lots of people say that if we all start blocking ads, then lots of content will go away. I'm perfectly fine with that

Except it's more of a butterfly effect than people realize. Not just "article" type content, but also innovation. I doubt sites like reddit would exist (at least in their current form) without ads. Hell, they barely get by with ads. Google wouldn't exist without ads, etc etc... Sure those sites exist now, and you take ads away, they're already entrenched, but what about the future google or reddit or facebook?

A lot of innovation has been spurred from people's passions and their hobbies, but much more innovation has taken place as a result of people trying to make a quick easy buck. And that's what ads promise.

Everything from your favorite news website to your favorite android app wouldn't exist (or likely wouldn't exist) if not for ads. I don't think people (hackernews users) really have thought about how much innovation on the internet is directly and indirectly related to ads. If you actually stop and think about it, the complexity can boggle your mind.
So Spotify move all their infrastructure from AWS to Google Cloud, and now this? Seems pretty obvious what's going on here...
Some writers could be compensated by some combination of basic income, scholarships, crowdfunding, patronage, and freelancing.

It's a similar problem as how to fund high quality open source development.
One of the problems with pure capitalism is that it favours those that are buying. i.e. those with money. The direction of progress under a capitalist system is governed by the desires of the wealth-holders (whether that is millionaires, the middle class, or some other cross-section of society), not humanity as a whole.
If you look at the amount of money going into ad businesses, everyone would need to put in about $150/month for there to be no drop in revenue.

There's a reason why NYT is so expensive (and, of course, still carries ads) per month compared to what one might think
Acupuncture is a very effective placebo (because you can really feel it working). There's a whole complex theory about points all over the body which affect ailments in different parts of the body, also based on personality type, but (of course!) none of it matters. Carefully poke someone with needles anywhere (and pretend there's some meaning behind the placement) and the effect is the same.

The big give-away that a treatment is just a convincing placebo is that it claims to help with everything.
1-Use a to-do list. This might seem like a basic thing, but not many people know how important it is. It allows you to have specific goals everyday that you work toward. Also its very satisfying to checkout a goal :)

2- Work in 25-5 bursts. What that means is that you cut yourself completely from any disturbance, which include your phone, emails, social media, family members... for 25 minutes, that you dedicate completely for work. Then take a 5min rest. Its very effective and something that i do myself.

3-Hire a frontend developer or buy a ready made theme to only focus on the backend stuff. Since UI is very important.

Good luck with your project mate!
Error handling in Go(lang). Whats about it?
> Basically it would imagine a society without state or authority, which to me is the return to an uncivilized world.

That will be the case ONLY IF absolute power comes in the hands of one or few individuals (or capitalists). Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Hence, in an ideal world, there should be no state authority, but the authority/power should be DECENTRALIZED within a vast number of individuals not a single or few capitalists with vested interest.

I'm a Software Developer and as an implementation of this decentralization, I can think of open source projects. In large open source projects like Linux or Debian or Java, one might imagine that a few elite programmers can control everything like you say. But there is no return to the uncivilized world, because the power to influence the development is decentralized into millions of contributers, testers, security researchers and auditors across the world! As Eric Raymond says in on of his famous writings, "if there are enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". I think this same aphorism applies to the real world too if you replace bugs with general societal problems.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11226422
Firefox has the same thing, enabled by default.
Why "should" someone's cost of living be included in payroll expenses? Is Wal-Mart obligated to pay someone more when they have a child? Are they obligated to pay a teenager from a rich home less than a poor senior for the same job?

This argument is trotted out a lot, and I've never heard a thorough argument for it. In contrast, the argument for wages to be set by the market (including, of course, whatever contribution the government makes through welfare) is straightforward.
London used to have a similar system for distribution of mail throughout the city, officially known as the London Post Office Railway, or Mail Rail. I heard there were plans to open up some of the stations and tunnels to the public, not sure what they came of them though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway

I used to work in Royal London House in Finsbury Square and the lowest subterranean level was sealed up but Royal Mail branded; given that it was a stones throw away from Mount Pleasant, I always wanted to gain access and see if it had access to Mail Rail or was even a station.
> but that still doesn't refute the argument that you're selling your audience to someone else without their consent

You watch the big bang theory and they play an ad during the commercial break for colgate. Did you get sold something without your consent? It's literally the exact same thing.

When you browse the web or when you watch TV, it's inherent to the media that you will see ads and that ads subsidize that content. Admitting to anything else but that inherent truth is (to me) just technicalities and/or pointless pedantry. Unless it's your first time on the 'net, you understand ads subsidize the content you see. Pretending like it's some injustice is almost laughable. It's like you're saying commercials on TV are taking advantage of you every time they cut to a commercial break.
This is not a technical problem. It's a people problem. People, in general, don't want to pay for content. Never will.
Not sure if this is true, but if this post is not fake, i would say Mozilla have lost the benefit of trust.

Seeing what they have done in the last few years, makes this post look less like a fake.
The basic idea was commercialized by SAFEGE of France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFEGE#SAFEGE_type_monorail

However, there just aren't a whole lot of advantages of having a suspended monorail instead of a "regular" straddle monorail. The infrastructure needed is much heavier and bulkier, plus the trains sway rather unpleasantly when turning and if it's windy.
Just in time for easter
But they need low wage low skill jobs for all those economic migrants, sorry, refugees. All-automated shops are great for a highly educated, gainfully employed populace, but to keep those hands busy...
People pay for plenty of content on Kindle Store, for example.

But "books" are on a higher shelf compared to the "content" that people consume mostly out of restless boredom, for which they perhaps are reluctant to pay because they don't really care about it that much anyway.
I had a text from my bank due to some fraudulent transaction. It asked me to reply if the transaction was legit so I called them up. They couldn't understand why I didn't want to start a conversation about my account with a number I didn't recognise.

They said "if the text says it's from us it definitely is". I was not overly impressed by this.
Or perhaps file them as having a delusional disorder.
I really, reallly wish there was an AdBlock software with a proper acceptable ads. Get a few people to inspect websites with lets say 10-20-30$(cheap for any website which actually wants to make money) application fee to cover the cost of the inspection and whitelist that website. OF course give us plain and precise information about what is acceptable with a few levels of control from the user, plus a button to report a website that is actually not doing good. Once you lose your privileges, you pay double/triple or more to apply again.

This is actually what I do for myself, have over 300 sites which i visit semi-occasionally, that have disabled ads because I like those websites and those ads are actually something worth my connection, a nice way to pay out to the website. If AdBlock had done this, I really believe it would have been so much better than as it is right now.
Just checking: Is the judge saying that you should listen to the views of children, even very young children, during court cases about those children? (Because that seems reasonable, so long as those children also have full and proper representation from skilled qualified legal professionals).

Or is the judge actually saying that the children don't need lawyers?
> It opens the door to writing loads of Groovy code and making your build a nightmare, but there's a simple way to avoid that - just don't do it

The parent commenter said "I don't need my build tool to be a turing complete language". Perhaps s/he knows that when the language is there, people will use it, no matter how much someone in Change Control says "writing loads of Groovy code: just don't do it."
With the touchpads that most credit card readers use, it's pretty hard to get a signature that looks like anything beyond random seismometer readings.
That would be a lot more powerful argument if capitalism didn't so readily churn out ever-cheaper (ie, directed at the poor) offerings of, well, everything. Walmart and Spirit Airlines (to pick a few out of many such offerings) aren't exactly pandering to the rich.

Anyway, this was not the point the GP made, and thus not what I responded to.
That must have pissed more than one web framework coding true believer in the free market entrepreneur who are always quick to condemn "socialism" even though they don't know shit about it.
> Micro payments cannot come soon enough.

I know I must be missing something here, but what is actually preventing a service where a number on your account (which you have funded with $10, because lots of quality news and content sites are signed up to it) decreases by 00.10 and someone else's number (whose article you just paid to read) increases by 00.10?

One the face of it, this seems like the easiest thing in the world to accomplish, particularly for already established, trusted and extensively used payment-related companies like Paypal.
Any conviction in which microscopic hair analysis was presented to the jury should be automatically tossed and a retrial conducted...

Period, end of discussion

That is if you want a justice system, not a legal system

I have a feeling you want a legal system and do not give a shit about justice.
Hi tj, you have the power to inspire people with your ideas.

I can't believe your last submission on HN, which is about mocha, got only one point.

It gives me hope that some things arrive later in the wave, so I need just to wait for my own ideas to become popular.
> And it makes deportation literally impossible.

Why? The argument is about giving them (taxpayer funded) court appointed lawyers. The worst that can happen here is that someone gets a lawyer. Meh.

Sure, misrepresentation of age might be a problem as far as deportation etc are concerned, but that's completely orthogonal to what's being discussed here.
That's ridiculous. People pay for "content" all the time, and always have.
Well, that is the general challenge of the 21 century.
There are some equally irrational, sincerely held, if not more ridiculous, beliefs out there:

Flat earth society: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/cms/

James H. Fetzer's entire career after 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Fetzer

Should I continue with links? Because that last one really bums me out beyond belief. Fetzer seriously seems like a body that inherited the respect of an intellectual but deteriorated under the stress of an undiagnosed paranoid psychosis.
//That makes no sense. If hell is for eternity, why would any religious nut care whether the criminal is executed sooner rather than let to rot and die in prison later

Because they believe hell is more of a punishment. They'd rather see the criminal dead in hell, then sitting in a jail cell alive.
> That being said high fees don't negatively affect the main retail use cases Bitcoin has demonstrated the best suitably for: cryptolocker payments and contraband.

They do. Hugh fees per tx bite means higher cost for multisig transactions. All on-chain market already use some sort of multisig setup, including legal ones such as OpenBazaar.

Furthermore, this high cost also makes both metacoin protocols, timestamping services, as well as oracle services (smart contracts) very costly.
There's an obvious reason subscriptions don't work, and that's that whilst $4/mo is affordable for many people, that's only for one site. If I had to pay $4/mo each for all the random sites I visit each month... I wouldn't visit those sites any more.

What's really needed is a workable, simple, micropayments model where users can pay just one monthly fee and the sites they visit are compensated automatically.

(And, as an incorrigible cynic, I always wonder whether comments like mahranch's are made by people with a vested interest in the online advertising industry. They certainly wouldn't stand to benefit if the Internet switched to micropayments.)
Mobile Internet: How Much Do You Have to Pay for It in Iran?
Just playing the devil's advocate here:

* No soldiers of the side deploying armed drones need to be in danger.

* Robots do not act cruelly unless specifically instructed. Humans do have a pretty bad record of unnecessary cruelty due to racism, boredom, intoxication etc.

* If you log all descision making processes, you can justify each action taken. It's like bodycams for police officers. If you'd make all logs public after the war it would be possible to identify war crimes and who gave the order (unlike now).

* Nothing requires a machine to use lethal force all the time. Systems which have the primary purpose of capturing combattants can be considered when there's no risk of losing one of your own soldiers.

* Your robots priority doesn't have to be self-preservation (unlike a human soldier). When in doubt, don't shoot and analyze the situation.

All in all, if the military would use these autonomous killing machines with the intent of minimizing covilian casualties, would this not be an improvement over the current state of warfare? Of course it won't make war per se less likely, but not using these machines doesn't either. So why not use them?
But isn't the coordinated network upgrade problem already solved? In the Bitcoin XT (sp?) thing, the solution was to not switch over until over 50% of participants reported being in a version that supported 2MB blocks.

Core has offered a solution, but only 6 months after another equivalent solution was made and basically deployed...
And I suspect that there will be gangs that help hack robot lorries to help refugees get onto trucks bound for the UK and other desirable countries.
That's the model of Flattr. I have no idea how successful they are though.

https://flattr.com
Then start a search engine and ask people to pay per query.
Economics is a study on how to distribute finite resource. Traditional economics have only considered unbounded input resource such as air. Now we're entering an age where we'll be having near-infinite output resource. Nuclear fission energy, robot labor, and maybe even creativity. Economics needs to branch out to think about how near-infinite output resource can be fairly distributed.
These advises inspired me an educational simulation game like the rat race.
The latter. He's saying that the American taxpayer should not pay for lawyers for immigrant children, and he goes as far as to say that he personally trained 3 and 4 year old children in immigration law to a point where they could defend themselves in court.
>How are lay people supposed to understand the difference?

Well first off lay people not to stop placing government agents on a God like pedestal where by everything a "forensic scientist" from the state utters in court is assumed to be truthful and beyond questioning.

This is how we get terrible science and convictions, the public watches a episode of CSI or NCIS where you have infinite zoom and enhance, where you can do facial recognition on a person in a ATM video from 25 miles away, where 2 people can hack all encryption by typing on the same keyboard really fast....

They see this shit, so then when a person from the FBI gets on the stands, says a bunch of big words, and points to the scary man or women at the table saying they did it... the case is over....
Shareholder value is put at risk whenever a company takes actions that risk negative PR or reducing employee morale.
> because Lisp-like languages seem like they would be pretty cool for GUIs.

There was also Curl (a language, not the Net lib) some years ago. Tim Berners-Lee was involved in the company as an advisor or something. Around the 2000s, IIRC. Lisp-like in the sense that nested expressions were the main syntax. Had tried it briefly then. Was mainly for web apps though. Acquired later, maybe, by a Japanese company.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_(programming_language)

It got a 2008 InfoWorld award in the RIA category.
I got the same answer, mostly true however.

The real problem is it's a very broad answer anyway.
Yes, you are right about local storage. I just had my browser locked down too tightly.

But, yes, looking forward to really using it at work this week. I hope to have more useful/constructive feedback for you after that.
Which company is not dependent on advertising?
Hey Jacques, reading your post, I initially have a piece of advice: Use more commas, it helps the flow along. Currently it reads a bit urgently, here are some examples:

> what bothers me is that in many of these cases the company is much sicker than it has to be, the wounds are to a large extent self inflicted and if only someone had had the presence of mind to change direction when it was still possible the company might have survived

Better punctuation:

> what bothers me is that, in many of these cases, the company is much sicker than it has to be. The wounds are, to a large extent, self-inflicted, and, if only someone had had the presence of mind to change direction when it was still possible, the company might have survived.

Also, I, too, would appreciate an email with context, as something feels missing now.
The cases from the innocence project are bad, but they only see the cases in which the person pleaded innocent and was convicted by a jury...

Most cases end in a Plea, which innocent people with out proper legal representation, and many with proper legal representation take for a whole host of reason.
The most extreme example I had come across is JRT(0) which will, by default and with no prompt, remove every program from Chinese developers including major public companies such as Tencent, Baidu and AliBaba. Thankfully it only deleted the binaries and config files but not actual user data so I did not lose the logs saved in Tencent Messenger.

TBH I was not even mad but more impressed with the graceful and virtually silent process. Plus it actually managed to get rid of the search malware that came with the latest version of uTorrent (silly me) that refuses to go away and I was happy.

(0)https://www.malwarebytes.org/junkwareremovaltool/

P.S. My episode was before Malwarebytes bought JRT in house so it may have changed since.So yeah, will recommend to friends as long as they don't run software from China.
No, I wouldn't. (Do I know you?) I don't even use ad blocker.
The core of Google is a search engine and that case has everything to do with the founding principles of Google. As I said, this is just one of the cases. There was also Parker v. Google. Or Authors Guild et al vs. Google. Or Viacom v. Google.
2/3 hours a week! Thats the dream right there brother!
Working at Google does not give you access to the data of users!
There are no acceptable subscription fees. Why should any of us put up with paying for content when we have no interest in giving away our money?
No, because they don't actually have to expose the cache to make a working search engine.

The Authors Guild had to do with Google books and Viacom vs Google was an outflow of them buying youtube.

Really, you are simply not correct about any of this.
It'll only work if the review process is fair and executed by competent individuals.
To share one of my last reviews, after exceeding expectations, my reviewer assessed: "...but I expected you to exceed expectations!".
Hehe, previously people told me to use less commas...

Ok.

Will drop you a line.
Cleaning a wound hurts but is necessary for the healing process.

But it can be very difficult to know how to clean the wound.

I think the most important lesson from this article is to always acknowledge a wound exsists and that a CEO is always responsible for taking care of the wound.

Sometimes I got the feeling that shareholders also like to eat meat from the corpse so they don't mind a living or dead body.

This is a strange conflict.
If you can bare to listen to Gangnam Style, this is pretty interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWJH_BvBDs
Since "eat less" for weight control is too hard, we are on constant search for stuff we can stuff ourselves with with minimum weight gain.
I've run into the programmer vs normal person difference in thinking quite often

As a programmer I can't understand how we are more secure by bunching people into large tight groups in security lines to protect people on the other side of security lines.

If terrorists want to kill the traveling public, one grenade and a few guns could take out dozens if not hundreds of people in a security line. And it requires no security to reach it. It really just seems a textbook case of security theater to me.
Isn't a search index a kind of cache? I mean, invert it, and you get a pretty good picture of the original data.
> There are no acceptable ads

That is laughably and trivially false. I'm in the market for a good and affordable house cleaning service. An ad that could hook me up with exactly what I want, when I want it would not only be acceptable, it would be fantastic.
Because how else would you find such a service? :)
And walnuts.
There certainly can be shareholder value in acknowledging externalities. Proof examples: The Body Shop, many cases where a company gambled on something immoral not being illegal (pollution, fraud) and being wrong, cases where the public gaining knowledge of the externalities cost the company its reputation, etc.
It's despicable that animals can still be abused anywhere for show and that Wuppertal's tourist department makes money off Tuffi but probably doesn't donate it all to animal causes is the icing on top. Steve-O at least got paid for the abuse and had a choice.
I think that's giving it too much credit -- this forum is much more a part of the marketing arm of YC (the investment firm) than it is a general forum (like e.g. Reddit).
Or he might demand better painkillers from the doctors.
Yeah it is different on the motorway though. It's much more boring driving and lorry drivers get tired, do other things, etc. I see them swerving a lot more than cars.
Sure, eat your heart out. Just try not to eat your heart out.
Acupuncture does not need even to have an effect of placebo to be helpful.

One benefits from anything that at worst can bring very little harm if it keeps the person from a surgery with a small upside at best but that can potentially bring a lot of harm through post-operational complications.