skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the writer went further, to claim that by and large even the people who were already regular users of word processors and spreadsheets would have little desire to work on them anywhere but in the office and at home: not that it was still infeasible or not worth the trouble, but that they just weren't interested in doing so.

As far as I can tell, he was right, and still is. I see no evidence that more than a few percent of such people do so to this day.

> it was already disconfirmed by about 1989 when the Compaq LTE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_LTE began the modern notebook era.

I don't see how that "disconfirms" anything at all. Is it your claim that the mere existence of the modern laptop proves regular work outside the home or office is not niche? Because I don't believe that at all.
Response #1:

Yeah man, it's all capitalism, they don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts!

What a revelation!

Pass the bong.

Response #2:

They're is no "Microsoft" as a person. That's a company, an aggregate entity which doesn't have either brains or a strategy.

What DOES exist is people running the company. Those people can change (and have, Gates->Ballmer->this new guy), and these new people can have different ideas about how to go about things.

If there are any propritary companies you like, then imagine that MS could be turned to behave like them. There is no "evil brain" behind it all making sure MS will always be like in the 1998 carricature you have in mind.

IBM circa 1999-2004 was hailed by OSS advocates for supporting Linux and OS -- yet the same company was the fearful Microsoft equivalent of its era, a few decades back.

Oh, and this evil AT&T that everybody feared and they had to break up in an anti-trust case? This is the company that gave us UNIX in the first place. (Not to mention Xerox Parc, another company's proprietary research facility, without which we'd have shit today).

And vice versa: those "nice" companies could change course if the wrong people came on board, or their current people saw an opportunity and got greedy.

Response #3:

A lot of us don't give a flying fuck about the success of OSS as some ideological venture.

We like some OSS software, and we like some proprietary software. Heck, some of us make a living creating proprietary software for proprietary companies, from small indie firms to Adobe to Microsoft to what have you.

And even as users, a lot of us won't settle for an inferior OSS product is there's an (affordable) superior proprietary one (and vice versa).
I'm pretty sure I can implement any imaginable algorithm without mutation.

Implementing it with any efficiency seems like a different question.

A common activity in many programs is scanning a list and changing a few items based on some criteria. So far I've heard in Haskel you either duplicate the list or create a complicated data-structure that somehow essentially makes this mutation OK. Either ways seems silly - especially do what you did before but with complex dance around it.
Try looking up mpesa.
It has always been more of a storytelling exercise with design in the middle. I liked this episode.
How is this a new point? This is literally why everybody uses adblockers.
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Again, all the points you raise hold true. But I still don't get why you see illegality as the result of flexible hours, just to pick an example.

I am not saying that we should give companies the legal framework to, let's say, hire you for X hours and pay per minute without providing any insurance, retirement benefits, etc.. What I am saying is quite the opposite - and it stands in parallel with your example for a shorter week: We should start looking at the needs and wants of people that sell their labour. We should start listening at the growing voice that says, hey, it's important for me to work less hours, please give me an opportunity to do so.

I don't see why you take it for granted that this opportunity will be wrapped by a layer of traps and dangers for the employee. As more and more people ask for such opportunities, it becomes society's duty to deliver them in the best possible environment.
I wish bitcoin could enable micro-payments like this. I would love to donate small (or large) amounts of money to websites that I found a useful answer on. Unfortunately, for this to be possible every website has to enable or provide a way for me to pay them (be it bitcoin or something else) and all of the end users also must have this same payment system set up, which will just never happen. I just wish there were a better way for content creators to make money than ads. A ubiquitous bitcoin type solution would definitely be a step in the right direction.
Fortunately this is impossible. You cannot copy a running program. You can keep a brain alive in a jar forever (the hardware the software runs on), but you can't transfer running software from one machine to another.
I wrote a blog post about this a while back and said how the economy of web is changing and a lot of businesses have to adapt or die: http://www.pesfandiar.com/blog/2014/04/05/is-adblocking-unet...

I think content is becoming cheaper to create, but there will always be business models for high-end publishers other than advertising. (Like many other forms of art)
Part of web advertising for the bigger companies is brand awareness. Every ad viewed is absorbed at some level, it can't be fully ignored. Even if you don't click your awareness of the brand has increased.
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I'm responding to this post because it's a good segue (esports). I'm an esports fan myself and count as one of that 50% on the few times I visit that site. It is, unfortunately, not their fault. I have on several occasions uninstalled my ad blocker for a time -- one time it was a few months, one time it was a couple years. Both times it was ended by a single website that was a bad actor. Once it was autoplaying audio ads, which frustrated me enough that I nope'd right into installing AdBlock Plus. The second time it was a flash ad that, after about 30 seconds on the page, began consuming about half of my CPU. After I figured out why I immediately nope'd on over to AdBlock Plus once again.

For me, at least, it's a tragedy of the commons out there. All it takes is one bad actor to spoil it all.
I'll be 56. My kids (hopefully) would have graduated from college. I aim to have been the greatest dad ever. We would have traveled the world together, started a band together, written a few web/mobile app together, etc., and always be there for them when they needed me.
Not so simple.

Different judges define "opinions" differently. Not every material opinion is published on a court's site.

There are all kinds of research tasks that require searching full-text briefs and viewing dockets.

PACER is a filing system used by reporters, the general public, litigants, and opposing counsel. The fact that public domain materials are locked up behind a paywall illegally is borderline criminal.
The main difference between Ampersand and Ember is that Ampersand has embraced npm and does not require you to find a way to fit the problem at hand into the framework. For example, at work we have an app that only uses the domain layer (collections and models) from Ampersand and uses React for the view layer. Ampersand has embraced the library concept and is not really a framework at all.
>or hacker news

Its because HN defaults to https. Https rendering of a site seems to be unaffected by this bug.
I completely agree that clients respond to you differently when you're a real business instead of a freelancer, contractor, etc.

Once I started saying I owned a business and stopped saying I was a freelancer, I could immediately charge more and my referrals got better. I was no longer the "I know a guy that does development" person. I became the "I know a web company" referral and companies are expected to charge more than freelancers.
I used PACER to look up that guy who DDoS attacked Hacker Dojo earlier this year and wasn't charged a dime for it, because it cost me $2.60 to download his entire docket. To be clear, I used my computer, on the Internet, to download a couple dozen documents in a U.S. federal criminal trial, and I paid $2.60 instead of having to drive to the courthouse in San Jose and wait in line. I spent more than that for coffee today.

Somehow this is an outrage, apparently, but I had to scroll for five minutes to find out why. A reporter from the Times reading a PACER case is generating more than the $10-$15 she will spend on the case when she publishes the investigative report. The one day a year I need PACER, it's pretty much free for me. I simply cannot comprehend the outrage here, because public records clearinghouses are by their very nature special cases. His problems are not my problems.

Why is the approach here to spitefully crawl the service and make it more expensive for everyone, rather than designing a clearinghouse for open access data of all forms in a marketable solution for governments to use? PACER does much, much more than docket access, too, and it shows in the text that the guy is not a lawyer. Legal teams pretty much live on PACER when they're in a federal case, and you file through it as well.
If an ad comes on the radio, I usually change the station. During TV commercials, I mute and do something else. There's nothing that compels me to sit through the ads to listen to the music or watch the television show. Similarly, I have no problem with "skipping", or blocking, ads.
For reasons I don't fully understand Carl left out the only lawsuit ever to directly challenge PACER fees, which I filed recently:

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/29himg3wm/california-northe...
A 'human right' is a right that every human on the globe should possess. The right to vote in a democracy is not a human right - only citizens of that democracy can vote in it. It's reasonable to say that French citizens have the right to vote in France, but not that the entire globes should, for example.
Angular can be SEO friendly too:

http://www.ng-newsletter.com/posts/serious-angular-seo.html
The bounty should be posted on Bountysource, https://www.bountysource.com/issues/10530078-style-the-scrol...
Also http://tilde.club/ as a more retro take on that concept.
You must not have heard about VMware or VMotion, it's their killer app. There are alternatives from other hypervisors, but I believe VMware was the first to do this.
Tim Swanson in 2007[1] on ad blocking:

There is nothing ethically or morally wrong with an ad-blocker. It is no different than using any other technology to filter language or explicit content. No one is being harmed nor has property been destroyed or stolen (the owner was not deprived of their property).

Plain and simple: if you do not want to pay for the bandwidth and hosting charges, don't put material online. Just because you are trying to make a living does not mean anyone should partake in your business model. After all, should everyone that visits your site be required to click on one of the ads?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070422181056/http://blog.mises...

(Interestingly, in the current link to this article, http://mises.org/blog/whats-wrong-blocking-ads , the author credited is B.K. Marcus, despite there being no change in the article.)
>Implementing it with any efficiency seems like a different question.

Nah, same asymptotic limitations, just different constants and patterns in what's sensible.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nh6LpcXGsI

Data.Map, Data.Sequence, Data.Vector all serve for most anything you'd want.
Sure looks like a toll-free phone number: 1-877-969-0999. Google hints relation to reporting natural gas leaks.

Edit - followed links
How will there be mankind in post-human future?
More importantly, no big publishers / ad networks really care about adblock. A vocal minority use it and think their convenience is socially progressive. The only people feeling the burn are niche sites that happen to have a core demographic which overlaps with adblocker users. Big companies don't care, and the second they do - they'll just block people from using their service who have adblock until its disabled.
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Summary: Pressure is mounting on the archaic technology systems that underpin some of the largest banks as they roll out online and mobile services to compete in the digital age. High street lenders are spending more on 'digitising' services, from renovating branches with new cash machines and iPads, to launching mobile applications and digital payments.

The article is soft paywalled. To read it, Google the title, if ft.com still won't show you the article, try a different browser or incognito/private mode
Haskell relies heavily on the compiler being intelligent. In most cases, it will use stream fusion to avoid duplicating the list.
> The fact that public domain materials are locked up behind a paywall illegally is borderline criminal.

(a) Court dockets are not public domain, they're often public record, which is an important difference and (b) pretty much every jurisdiction on the books has set it up so that agencies can recoup their costs when records are accessed. As an example, to get full parcel data for Alameda County, a CD-ROM is $20,000. Considering most of those records involve measurements in furlongs and chains and date from the Gold Rush era, I can understand that digitizing was expensive, but right next to it is a ZIP containing almost the same thing in Shapefile form for free.

Nobody said governmental fees to access public records are logical, but calling efforts to recoup costs "illegal" and "borderline criminal" is a bit much. Rein it in. Those are serious (and false) things to say, specifically because of the legislation allowing the practice in almost every venue. Call it anything else like "misguided," and I'm with you. Illegal? Come prepared.
counting the days to the release of perl 6.
Several other reads for those looking to learn more about the situation or hear commentary:

Also from CJR: "What was the single point of failure at Rolling Stone? The authors of Columbia's investigative report answer that and more" - http://article.cjr.org/q_and_a/columbia_journalism_school_in...

"Statement from writer of Rolling Stone rape article, Sabrina Erdely" (also includes statement from UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan) - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/statement-f...

"The journalism community reacts to the review of 'A Rape On Campus' " -http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/332683/the-journalism-...
> I didn't ask for on my limited bandwidth.

Your browser asked for it though. Maybe fix you browser so it isn't doing things you don't like?

Of course with HTTP/2, websites will be able to send you stuff that even your browser didn't ask for.
I would argue the content producers do receive a larger burden due to the costs of hosting that content. A more fair argument would be that users should just boycott the site, not consume it in an altered means. That kind of gets into the weeds, though, eh?

While, I think there is room to fund content producers in alternate means, I don't think advertising needs to be written out of the playbook. It's just a matter of properly recognizing the cost of violating privacy and the alternatives. I think society as a whole has a bit to learn about the price of privacy.
I hope this doesn't come across as negative but why post this on HN? Why not just file a bug on crbug.com? Browsers have bugs, all them. It seems kind of negative to turn it into a spectacle rather than just be kind and report the bug to the team.
> In these markets, the Chromebook isn't being pitched as a cheap substitute for a 'real' laptop, but as an upgrade from a smartphone or tablet.

In Indian due to the import tax Chromebooks are far more expensive than entry level laptops. I had to get it from some come in US as it simply doesn't make any sense to buy them at these inflated prices (Its like 2x the original cost in India for an outdated model).
You might find an alignment of the vision with Nim http://nim-lang.org/ . The have done a C backend as for their language, and the language appears to have the semantic properties you have mentioned...

from the site:

"
...
•Macros can use the imperative paradigm to construct parse trees. Nim does not require a different coding style for meta programming.

•Macros cannot change Nim's syntax because there is no need for it. Nim's syntax is flexible enough.

•Statements are grouped by indentation but can span multiple lines. Indentation must not contain tabulators so the compiler always sees the code the same way as you do
"
"The end of easy oil, and subsequent global collapse"

The paper might not be right on all points or might be completely wrong entirely. But it is right on one thing.

If you have have ever taken care of plants, what happens with a plant before it dies is something very odd - nothing.

It will look a little weak, but then it will suddenly completely die - almost overnight, shedding all leaves and going dry.
> Sit-down restaurants in the U.S. don't tell you as you walk in that you're expected to tip, but it's common knowledge that wait staff aren't paid minimum wage because customers are expected to tip.

That's also something the rest of the world scratches its head about. I'm not sure the best way to make your point is to use an example of how absurd the US is.
When I first moved to the PC from the Commodore 64, I was appalled that you couldn't write and execute code on the command line. You had to open up a whole different program just to write programs! What foolishness!
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I don't think he's being ignored. Take a look here:

https://cloud.google.com/

And here:

https://console.developers.google.com/project

Also the open-source releases of Bazel[1] and gRPC[2] indicate that there's a lot more coming in this direction.

[1] http://bazel.io/

[2] http://www.grpc.io/
I remember when Ara was first announced that it was in a special Google program where it basically has to have results in a year or they shut it down. I'd love to know how it's tracking in that and if it looks like it will live on or be put on hold. I'm pretty sure it's coming up on a year old very soon.

IMHO I think it's neat technology but I would not personally want all the trade-offs of more bulk and weight just to have the ability to swap out parts.
Imagine a site that started their business when ad networks were less abusive. Over time people started running ad blockers, and the ad networks saw revenues declining, so they started amping up the annoyance factor--more animations, more noise, more tracking. This drives more of the site's visitors to blocking, which makes the ad networks more desperate. Revenues continue to decline even though the site does nothing except produce more valuable content.

None of this is the fault of the site running the ads. Maybe it's inevitable, and maybe they just need to suck it up and evolve or join the ranks of obsolete business models, but it's hard not to feel some sympathy for the unfairness of the situation.
And as long as we're all whining in one direction or the other, the average U.S. citizen still watches more than 25 hours of tv per week. So we're all just yelling into the ether of the tech-haves for the next 20 years while that number slowly drops.
I replied with something similar elsewhere. The content producers have to pay for hosting (generally). Their business model may not work, but adblocking is basically circumventing their revenue model. The only "fair" means would be to not go to that site if it serves ads, but then the internet would be much smaller. It's just as moral as pirating movies in countries that don't offer them or offer them in friendly formats. I see why you'd steal, I don't think you're a bad person, but it's still not a moral means of acquiring the content.
"In general, all government records are in the public domain and may be freely used." --http://www.archives.gov/faqs/

NARA houses archived court records. I don't know of any exception for live court records. These are public domain materials we're talking about, so long as they're not under seal.

Read the E-Government Act of 2002 and the associated Congressional reports telling the judiciary to stop charging for PACER materials (summarized at http://freelawproject.org/2015/03/23/why-should-congress-car...). It is both illegal and theft from the public on a massive scale. I stand by "criminal."
I plan to be somewhere I won't be arrested for building stuff and having emotions.
another nice example of `less is more`.
So find a better business model. If it's not paywalls, and it's not ads, figure it out.
Agree someone should be fired.

But it isn't clear that this all happened because of "promoting a social cause." It's equally likely that they just thought it was a super-juicy story and wanted the pageviews. And indeed the article was super-popular - the most popular ever except for "celebrity stories" (whatever that means). That is motive enough for a paper to publish a story, sadly.

The full report doesn't corroborate ideological causes here; the closest is over-caution at disturbing the accuser and stopping to investigate wherever she asked.
There's also http://visjs.org/ that I've used on a project. See the Network examples; it's pretty cool.
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wow,this is stretching my imagination very far,I will be 67,I only wish one thing ,made enough money to have a home in planet Mars and healthy enough to live there
Totally valid, and not negative at all. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9326370
I'll pay for good content - and I do with WSJ, Nat Geo and more - but I'm sure as hell not going to disable my adblocker any time soon.

I'm sick of marketing and marketers. They bombard us 24/7 on every medium they can.

- Turn on the TV and you're not only swamped with blatant ads, but they've pushed subtle product placement into everything possible.

- Turn on the radio and you're blasted with ads.

- Go on Facebook and you're hammered with "tailored" ads, clickbait, autoplaying viral videos and more.

- Go on Twitter and every popular hashtag is flooded with people advertising unrelated products.

- Walk down the street and ads are everywhere.

- Open a "free" news site and you're bombarded with ads and ads disguised as articles. Look up a tutorial and you're presented with a slide-based site that loads up new ads every time you click, or throws extra ads in on every other slide.

It's a battle and I will never entertain a "morality" argument from those in charge of the above.

Completely "free" content online is total junk for the most part. I wouldn't pay to read Reddit, anything from the Gawker network, ReCode, etc. as they haven't content worth paying for, and I won't support their ad revenue either as it makes no difference to me whether they survive or disappear. I would have previously considered paying for some of the mainstream tech news sites but they've absolutely ruined their content in recent years in the name of getting easy clicks for ad revenue.
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As a former CfA fellow and civic-tech startup founder, this is a very intriguing comment. Would you like to say more?
While I like your poetic verve, this isn't true. Ads were always garbage. Old ads lied just as much and tried to instill the same feelings. They just had less direction since they didn't know how to measure and optimize on outcomes.