skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice that Odio gets to call the outcome on the experiment.

Secondly, is he still stealing money from it?
You ruined the experiment! Not a question, but I do feel genuinely bad for any distress that I've caused.

Neither Sam nor anyone else that participated "ruined" the experiment. They added to the data on what happens when you run the experiment. The key point here is that Jonathan ran, in his own words, an experiment. Not a service with a mission or a protected outcome, but an experiment. If anything, it exposes weaknesses in the plan that future implementors can correct.
Aside from all the hatred for Odio, in utilitarian terms this outcome may have been better than if the experiment were just to continue. One can complain that it's all about higher horses, but I doubt the children who may be fed or clothed as a result will care.

I know, I know, Odio's moralising is irritating. But people are acting as though he's taken our capability for altruism. I assure you, people are able to be nice without Jonathan's instruction.
"I'm disturbed by how much damage one stupid, somewhat douchey action is going to do his reputation."

Every message that I have seem from him, both on HN and on his blog confirms that he IS a douchebag.
Well, it's a good lesson in thinking about the consequences of your actions before you act. What you choose to do matters.

Not sure that would've helped in this case, though, since Odio still doesn't seem to get it.
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I'm in Hong Kong a lot of books are "not available in my region"..I need to go through a US proxy, with a fake US amazon account to buy most books on the store. I buy a gift card with my normal account, and redeem it with the US account so I have money.

Remember those infographs that show watching a movie from a bought DVD (20 steps) vs pirating it (1 step)? The Kindle isn't as bad, but it ain't great either.
One of the aspect i like from nodejs function callback, future, callback, future... do i need to say more?
>For DRM'd books this is the case but you can't share physical books in the way he's referring to, you'd still have to pass the physical object to another person. In this respect Kindles and their ilk aren't really that different from 'paperware'.

They are, because with paper books you have individual physical objects for each novel, not a single object with all of them.
About the IDE: I've tried using Emacs, and I've actually managed to do it for a good while, but when I finally discovered Eclipse's Clojure plugin, it was as if big chunks of iron were removed from my hands. Emacs is simply not for everybody. Eclipse's Counterclockwise (the Clojure plugin) may not be as rich in features, but it's easy as pie to install and start using.
Corporations dont tend to rationally shut down when their market goes away either, there are inefficiencies in the corporate model. Charities do change as demand changes though.
I like HN coming to for the links. I just wish I could refrain from poking fun at the sensitive egos of some commenters... sigh. Must try harder.
are you 100% sure publishers can set the price to $0? I've done some research on this, and I was under the impression that only Amazon can set the price to $0.

A quick google search seems to confirm that $0.99 is the cheapest price people can set.
A coworker introduced me to Requests a couple of weeks ago. It makes life a whole lot easier.

It does highlight my biggest gripe about Python, though. I love the language, but the class library is hit-and-miss, and anything to do with HTTP is a pretty big miss. httplib, urllib, urllib2, cookielib -- yuck. I like that Requests has a nice API, but it's still built on top of pretty bad class libs underneath. (And the Requests API does expose some warts, like having to use cookielib's CookieJars.)

I'd really love to see someone's take on a clean break from the standard modules with a simple, maleable API.
>the scientific value of the [Standford Prison] experiment was lost //

I strongly disagree. It has informed psychological experiment strongly since, yes partly by being an example of how not to conduct experiments but not wholly. It has also strongly informed understanding of human nature and the conditions in which minimal pressure can modify moral action.

Under test was how "assignment of a label" would affect the development of "norms, rules and expectations". The results showed how such assignment could affect a persons character dramatically even to the point of drawing in Zimbardo to the point that he had to be corrected by his partner to stop the experiment.

http://www.prisonexp.org/links.htm is a good source.
You are aware that that comment in the blog article (not mine) was tongue in cheek, right? I mean yes, I want to know what other people are reading, but it is not the most important problem in the world.

Also, I think it is weird if you are not at least a little bit curious about the people around you.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same standard required by the PPA for pretty much every private company?

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00004:@@@L...;
That's silly. Of course volume would drop marginally if the price increased marginally. Why do you think you know whether the relationship is linear?
I've only used it for converting books into Kindle format, will try to learn more about it's capabilities. Thanks for the suggestion.
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While it _seems_ bad to hire someone who's already receiving a pension, what's the alternative? Hiring someone else, who's unskilled, and _still_ paying the pension? Maybe the problem is the pension itself, not the double-dipping.
You two disagree about an idea. This isn't like two fighting factions that need to compromise and share. There is no need for him to take on your view (or vice versa) and the whole idea of coming to terms is misguided.

I wouldn't have even sent the email. Your public comments are clear enough.

But just in case the replies here arent obvious, your comment reads as self-important and also sounds like you're playing a victim when you clearly aren't. What, he has to go and apologize to you for stomping your gift?

Just in case those reading this don't know: I know Sam and would say this to his face. I'm commenting about this exchange and not about the experiment / hack.
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There are not that much brain dead bodies available, those that are available are used for organ donations. Do you really want to reduce the number of available organs for medical testing at such an early stage?

I imagine that most of these tests fail whereas a functioning organ has a very high chance of saving a life.
Direct paper, submitted 3 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2870955
If I do business with you and I’m an asshole, is my moral defence really that you should have realized I would be an asshole?

We have to disentangle asshole/nice guy from legal/illegal. Being an asshole in business is legal. But that doesn’t mean it’s not repugnant. Sure, we can say that Sam has not broken Jonathan’s law, and we can argue that he doesn’t need to reverse his transactions legally.

We can also argue that he was or was not acting like an asshole. Perhaps he wasn’t. But the question of whether his actions were in accordance with the “rules of the game” has very little bearing on whether they are repugnant.
I would be surprised if police would investigate or a jury would convict. If you're doing something that looks like a social experiment, police usually don't really want anything to do with enforcing it. If someone stole your gift card out of your wallet, sure. But if you post your gift-card information on the internet and invite people to use it, it's not really their job to enforce your unwritten rules on how people should've used it.

At least if there were formal written rules on proper usage, you could make an argument that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act should cover misuse of a card number, when the user agreed to an EULA in order to acquire it. Though I think that approach of turning EULAs into criminal law is also dangerous.
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I have been using Gaelyk for some of the projects. It's incredibly intuitive and simple enough for new developers to learn.

I have also played around with Sinatra for a hobby project but did not dig deep into it.

As most of the work I do is Java related, I have to say I'm impressed with Spring Roo it's got serious potential.
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Wow! echo the same feeling here. I just got my Kindle a couple days back.

I'm reminded to take my Kindle with me more than my phone already. I love reading on it and it doesn't hurt my eyes since there's no brightness of the backlight. I didn't know how to use the clippings feature. Thought it was supposed to be shared online instead of a file like what you just said. But that's sweet too. Thanks to you sivers! :)

I got my first computer 8yrs back and only after I got my Kindle I realize how less I've been reading. I wish they start allowing sharing statuses for books bought outside the Kindle store on the new http://kindle.amazon.com site.

I've applied for beta access to the Kindle SDK (not to develop distracting apps!) to see what I can develop that can be useful on the Kindle. Waiting for access. If anyone here is from Amazon and can help me out with it, I would love to thank you in anyway I can.
I live in the Boston area and would say the BART is more like the commuter rail then the subway. I pay $7.25 each way and there is virtually no discount for a monthly pass considering there are usually 20 work days in a month. If you work from home at all, you end up losing money. Considering the cost of living in SF, I'd say the prices are basically the same. Boston is definitely not killing it.
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I don't believe that he's sorry; I believe he's sorry that he was demonized.

He apologized, but kept the money. That's silly.
I am confused as to how redirecting Sam to talk to the other participants is “stomping” on anything.
He did use the money to buy something at Starbucks; he bought a gift card.

We talk a lot about game mechanics, and games have economies. The interesting stuff often happens where the game economy and the real economy intersect (gold farming for instance).

I think the error is really Starbuck's. They probably shouldn't allow a gift card to be bought with a gift card.
Same story, different source:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880815
You're wrong because you have no idea what the relationship is between price and demand. Even though you might not care if the price is raised by x, it is obvious that for essentially every x, there are people who do care and will no longer pay it.
totally agree. Sam's action is a variable/result of the experiment. i don't think the experiment looked for a linear binary result/pattern on cash in/out. this experiment has caused a human being to question and think about another human action, and Sam's action has resulted in a great, publicly shared, outcome. to him i say "chapeau"!
Previous submission - many comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2882070
Some of the criteria are biased towards older papers. Influence is extremely biased-- it's rare for a paper to change the world immediately. Future influential papers written today may not actually earn the label for another 10-20 years. Breakthroughs and introductions are somewhat biased in general, but especially biased in computer science given the youth of the field and the fact that access to computers was rare and difficult before the 60s.

"Latest and greatest" is not biased, in theory, but in practice it can be a lot harder to identify what truly is the latest and greatest as opposed to what is merely the most popular.
"Why not iterate a giant array instead of using hashes? Why not use LINQ everywhere, repeatedly and inefficiently filtering a massively excessive superset of the needed data?"

There's not prematurely optimizing and there's criminal neglect.

Sure, if you take the First Year Student™ approach to problem solving then a simple database query and processing might be O(scary) and fail to perform.

Generally speaking though, a few milliseconds away from that clever bitwise operators hack would be fine.
I don't drink Starbucks coffee, so I didn't participate in this. There was already an implicit request that this be used for something at Starbucks; otherwise why would he have used a Starbucks gift card? Does Starbucks now sell iPads?

From what I've read I do think this guy would have broken an explicit request concerning scraping; he seems like just another crook that believes they are innocent and always has an excuse.
Lol - the guy is so much more nerdy than I expected given his 'radio voice' on the youtube videos.

(That's not a criticism). :)
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This could be pre-calculated.

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That semicolon after the 'if' means the next line will always be executed regardless of the value of the condition, so the if is useless there.

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In the same spirit, I love the AA-Project[1], especially their demo, BB[2]. Now that is fast.

[1]: http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/index.html
[2]: http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/
If I am curious about them I will ask them a question and engage them in a real conversation.

If you substitute "what color of underwear" for "what book" it seems super creepy...just saying.
MongoDB, and CouchDB. Both very similar, very different databases. MongoDB is fast (they say it's almost as fast as writing to /dev/null), has cool update features (i.e. increment count by 4, if count is less than 10), and great documentation, but it's dangerously unreliable by default.

CouchDB is rock solid, and has a very nice map-reduce setup (allowing your aggregations to update themselves quite quickly as underlying data changes), but the documentation is very bare, and it's not very fast (somewhere between 50 updates per second, to 3000 updates per second, depending on how you do things).
I think it doesn't matter if there was private content or not.

The same way Sam violated the social contract of the experiment, I think Johnathan violated the social contract of email.

We all realize email we send could be read by anyone, but still don't want it copied and pasted in a public forum.

What Jonathan did is of course less annoying, but I still nevertheless find it of a similar nature. I think he could have still made the post and just paraphrased.
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Even if true that it's only the USPS, and yummyfajitas implies that it's actually a broader requirement, here it's a difference between a mistake and not making a mistake. It's not simply an accounting treatment. It's not a defense of the USPS to suggest they should be allowed to make the same mistake that other companies make.
Some of the misunderstanding might be which kind of experiment it was. In the scientific usage of experiment, you're right. But there's also an informal usage of the word, where, for example, you might call the Hacker Dojo an "experiment in building community spaces". There's a strong implication there that you're not supposed to actively try to screw up the Hacker Dojo, because it's not really an experiment in that sense, but only in the sense that a lot of tinkering with ("experimenting with") different ways of doing things is encouraged---if you're doing it in good faith and in line with the endeavor's shared goals.

In this case I can see how people could interpret it either way. Unlike in the Hacker Dojo case, it doesn't seem as inherently clear to me that there was a strong expectation of good faith; buying coffee is a sort of unimportant enough thing that many people might've assumed Jonathan's motivation really was more of a "let's see what happens" type experiment, rather than a genuine attempt to make social-coffee-buying work.
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Without enforcement of the social contract, society would quickly collapse, or transform from something very different from it is today. We all want to believe that people are all good, but the sad truth is we're not...at least, not all of us. And it only takes a few renegades to disrupt this whole thing we call society in the absence of enforcement.

I don't ascribe any particular moral judgment on Odio. He was a part of the experiment and his actions only confirmed my belief that any exploitable system will be exploited.

An interesting additional outcome from this social experiment to me was how 'the community' reacted to Odio. Like adultery, what Odio did was one of those rules that he wasn't supposed to do, but he did anyways. We can't throw people in jail for cheating on their wives. So what do we do and have done for thousands of years? We shame them. And that's exactly what's been happening to Odio here and I'm assuming on Facebook too.
I'm going to go ahead and disagree. Sam's a disruptor, in this case on a huge scale, and there are plenty of pople out there willing to bet on someone who can disrupt a market with a combination of guile, foresight, skill and a complete and sociopathic lack of moral solvency.
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They should be subject to the same standards as other companies. If they aren't, that's unreasonable.
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It's not unreasonable from the taxpayers' perspective to require the Postal Service to fund its pension obligations as they are incurred. And this is also not unreasonable from the employees' perspective. When the US government runs out of new creditors (as has already happened to Greece and Italy) employees who are relying on government revenues for their pension will be out-of-luck.
You say 'discover what mistakes [users] are making' but explaining why would be really helpful. Perhaps to allow me to identify typo-domain names that I should consider purchasing. Or maybe I could use your product to research ad keywords to purchase.

It looks like you have a really polished product, but I'm not entirely sure on how and why I should use it. I'd expect that information to be the most prominent thing.
It seems like Freshplum is a YC company and what Odio has done clearly puts him over and across the "No Assholes" rule that pg talks about.

(I don't know how that correlates contextually, but I feel there should be a connection).

Regardless, Odio acted like an utter douchebag, IMHO. And he is just making it worse with his un-apology apologies.
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More than an olive branch, it appears to be more of an appeal to make the hate stop. If Sam Odio was unsure of the consequences or of his ability to handle the consequences of his actions, he should've kept a lower profile instead of cheerleading himself.
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After decades of mismanagement and neglect, service broke down completely in Chicago in 1966. "The sorting floors were bursting with more than 5 million letters, parcels, circulars, and magazines that could not be processed," Lawrence O'Brien, the Postmaster General at the time, would recall somewhat poetically. "Outbound mail sacks formed still gray mountain ranges as they waited to be shipped out."

And here I thought Terry Pratchett's Going Postal was fiction.
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It's hard to feel sorry for an organization that is going bankrupt even as they maintain a government-enforced monopoly. If business is really so bad, why doesn't the Postal Service allow private businesses to compete with it? If there's no money in the business, then there's no need to fear competition. No one wants to enter a business you can't make money in.
Yep, the political angle reason why is that all of the prefunded pensions help national debt forecasts as they count as income against national debt.
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This is another one of those online conversations that there are all sorts of people who are very different from each other. I don't think we are even speaking the same language.
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On a week at the beach, I never saw another Kindle besides ours. I saw multiple people with iPads out on the beach. I was quite surprised. I've seen a few Kindles "in the wild" but mostly in the hands of homeschooling / soccer moms that spend a lot of time waiting for kids at various activities.

I struggle with purchasing ebooks. I'm ok with reading them on the Kindle, but the idea of spending $10 on an ebook that I can't resell, give away, or loan to anyone except other Kindle users doesn't excite me. I love the idea of not adding to my overflowing bookshelves though. So I mostly only read DRM-free books from free sources.

I've found that I get more reading done on the Kindle than I do on other devices. As long as it's the only device I have in my hands, there isn't much else to do except read. If I have any tablet or phone or anything like it, it's too easy to read a couple pages then flip over to email, Twitter, etc. and never get back to the book.
I'm slightly concerned that more people here don't get this. The whole point of an experiment is to have a hypothesis, perform a test, observe the result, and make some conclusion related to your original hypothesis.

It seems like what most people wanted was a "challenge". I don't have any issue with that, but call a duck a duck. If this really was a social "experiment", you have to expect people to behave as they would in society, including leaches.

This experiment is a reminder of why we can't have nice things on an honor system. There will _always_ be actors who game the system - typically for personal gain, but sometimes for the lols.
> Would you look at the stamps, scream bloody murder, and stamp (hah!) out of the Post Office?

Maybe not me and not by one cent but eventually, if they keep raising the prices, I would look at the price and think, "hmm this is getting kinda pricey. I wonder what UPS would charge to deliver this..."
I would say no. How is a color original when stars have been making it for eons?
I have never gotten anything except Amazon purchases to sync to my Android Kindle app. I can manually copy .mobi (and I think .azw) files to my Android and the Kindle app will read them, but there's no Whispersync between devices except for official Amazon purchases. It's the same with my iPod Touch but not many people realize you can manually copy books to the Kindle app.
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AirBnB for food, I like it :)

As for ux: I tried searching for "nyc", "new york city" and "san francisco", and nothing, so first thing would be to improve your search.

Good luck with this, I really like the idea.