skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Misleading vividness is the use of a dramatic event that is not in keeping with the majority of the population group.

Hasty generalization is much the same, by weighting the effect of an outlier in an effort to substantiate an argument or counter. I was not using that phrase in literal. It is a type of logical fallacy. I was simply observing that the use of an outlier argument does not negate the position of the OP.

I conceded that the original article was naive. Meaning that it did not provide enough scope to truly address the issue, but the importance of having vision in an environment that allows little is very important.
Indeed. I thought the same thing, but I suspect he's including a design firm that tested out multiple versions of the site, backend infrastructure to handle potential load, support to handle issues in a timely manner should they come up, and maybe his personal time.
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Don't underestimate the hard, fractal, handwavey problems, though. Place a thousand apes together and they start forming chaotic systems that can be very hard to understand. What's worse, most bugs on that front are virtually guaranteed to be undiagnosable without altering the dynamic—and there's ethical problems with just getting out the logic probe…
Very odd, as this is effectively SpaceShipThree.
Of course you or I could do it for cheaper. But for someone without particular technical skills to contract to a good, reliable company, spec it out, and produce a solid product at market rates on a reasonable timeline? 32k seems about right.
You're proving my entire point.

You bought this because it's an experiment, you wanted to validate the experiment.
My anecdotal response...

I read the post, and decided I finally needed to see what the big deal about this video is. I did feel your reaction -- that he won't be hurt if I don't pay for it at this point -- and actually did search for the video on a torrent site.

I found it, but then realized that streaming the video right now is worth the $5. Torrents are a hassle compared to streaming. So I just clicked through to paypal and now it's paused on another tab.

I'm going to watch the video now. Cheers.
BASIC isn't a joke. I use BaCon for a lot of server stuff, usually as a backend to a website, and as an extension to Bash.

http://basic-converter.org
Thinking the joke could be much more elegantly written in Perl, sed, or LISP
$32K for a site that does checkout with PayPal!? That sounds nuts to me, even with over-planning for high traffic.

FYI I recently posted a RoR app that lets you sell a file with Stripe:
https://github.com/2tablespoons/Thylacine
Basically, because you're assuming that you can identify universal rights and a procedure for reliably identifying them, which you think is going to free you from the implementation problems of axiomatic statements of rights. This is the legal equivalent to squaring the circle, and it has been argued that legal rules are likely as limited by Godel's theorem as any other formal system. Indeed, recognition of such procedural shortcomings is a big reason for the elevated role of the judiciary in common-law legal systems.

system that possesses the mandate to regulate whatever is economically prudent

I don't agree that it's necessarily ever expanding, but insofar as it involves regulating whatever is economically prudent then sure, because I'm a utilitarian. Of course, I only have limited foresight, so I support the democratic approach as a necessary evil although I'd rather a pure technocracy. As long as it produces a reasonable approximation of Pareto optimality, I'm OK with that. It's imperfect, of course, but at least it's a methodology.

[...] it should be decentralized so that everybody doesn't have to agree!

But it already is; living in the US gives you a choice between over 50 different legal systems, and that's only at the state level. Some of them provide exceedingly poor outcomes for their citizens IMHO, but there you go.
That's bunk.

It boils down to saying, "sure, it worked for Louis CK and Radiohead, and Cory Doctorow and Humble Bundle. It worked for Trent Reznor, OK Go, and pretty much everyone funded by Kickstarter...

But it could never work for you."

This stuff doesn't because it's sprinkled with magic experiment dust. It works because the authors are doing good work, they're able to build a fan base, and they're able to make the case to their fans that the way to keep getting new work is to buy it. There's no reason that won't scale out.
10 GOTO Subject? For Pete's sake!

That's the problem with this whole "structured programming" fad: nobody knows how to write honest, plain old spaghetti-code anymore.

As for me, I enjoy throwing a goto or two into my Obj-C and Java code every once and awhile. It's perfectly legit.
Devil's advocate: In the post, he himself says he would've earned more by doing a show for HBO/Comedy Central/other (also note that he mentions, but doesn't factor in the cost of his own time in putting this all together).

Given that a lot of people purchased this only to support "the experiment" (i.e. they might not buy the next time he or someone else does this), does this really demonstrate the success of selling independently?

Yes, he still owns the material and can resell it to Netflix or whoever. Yes, he will continue to earn money from it. But I imagine most of his true fan base will have already purchased it by now, so how many people are there really left to reach?

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see this all become the standard way of distributing content. I think it will eventually happen.

But what does it say that today's most most popular working comedian makes less money selling independently?

EDIT: Based on these numbers, yes, Louis CK will end up making more money this way. But to say he hasn't done any publicity to this point is stretching the truth - he's promoted it all over his Twitter, gone on Reddit, did an interview on NPR, etc. It's not like he just dropped this out of the blue without warning. But my overall point isn't whether it will work out financially for Louis CK (clearly, it will) - it's that the circumstances of this business model work for Louis CK, but not necessarily others following in his footsteps.

EDIT2: Also, it's not as if others going the traditional route wouldn't make money in perpetuity. Maybe Eddie Murphy only got a standard fee for his Raw standup special, but surely he's getting residuals from DVD sales.
I'm glad he made some money on it. His mind will be blown when the 'long tail' kicks in (people buying this video 3 years from now, still). He mentions "This [$200,000] is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video."

Here is the part where this can go off the rails. So the long tail will hit, people will 'discover' him (maybe on his second or third video) and will download this one. There will be many copies out there in circulation. The temptation will be to think "Gee if people couldn't just get one of those copies out there already I would be making even more money!" Completely losing sight of the fact that the videos out there are an agent for discovery and 'tasting' which is bringing more people to his web site.

People sometimes go all green with greed when that happens. Money can do that to people sadly.

That being said, the really cool thing is it adds another 'success' story to Trent Raznor's Radiohead (I don't think they were ever this transparent with the numbers there but I may be wrong) and makes it harder to dismiss the successes as 'anomalous' rather than 'reasonable expectation'. It is the presence of success stories that will get more and more people to move this way.

I wish it wasn't like water eroding a rock though, progress will be rapid when the flood starts but for now it is just a trickle.
I did this back in the day to work around flexLM for maple among other packages. It's a very useful technique, and fun to do to boot.
I see that claim everywhere as well, and I don't understand it. Does it just mean "it has a type system that you won't hate"? There are still plenty of type declarations in that code, whereas if you ported it to OCaml they'd all be inferred.
You're doing it wrong. :{
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Of course this is personal analysis of my own motivations and thus hardly scientific, but yeah, my whole point was that I think I would buy this even if it wasn't an experiment. I didn't buy Trent Reznor or Radiohead's experiments because I don't like their music, but I did want to see this show, so I bought it.
sounds like a healthy startup company to me. I loved the insider jokes that got passed around at the last good startup I worked at. We had a bugzilla bug passed around for 4 years and several hundred people before the company got bought out and went to hell. It was a good run though.
Perhaps an article (or webcast) on how you use your debugging tools is in order.
The world of programming started to fall apart as soon as lowercase was allowed in code.
design, e-commerce, login/registration, authorized downloads, streaming, social integration, CMS (I assume), probably analytics, and who knows what on the back-end.

A little on the high side, and possibly not using the latest and greatest platform(s), but I wouldn't say unreasonable.
Everything is an app
No, but it's nice to mass-PM your friends before you do it so they won't think you unfriended them. I feel much better after deleting it, bottom line is it's just a piss poor means of communication and screws up more relationships than it creates.
At least of a few of the teachers outraged about Forbes will be working Google Scholar into their curricula because of the article.
Ask HN: what do you think of the name Squiry?
I have been looking for a brandanle domain to launch a service for quite sometime. I picked squiry cause it's short and brandanble, in my opinion.

Would love to hear your take. Also what are some factors you base your decision on when choosing a name?
I'd rather be a poor black kid rich in grammar, than a forbes.com writer whom uses "If I Was" instead of "If I Were" as a headline. Unsure if this were intentional.
I was trying to compare the expected societal cost from one person driving without a seatbelt, to the actual cost to the victim in one instance, which seems wrong in retrospect. Honestly you took me back with that $6M number. But then I looked into it, and 98% of that is "work-loss costs", which are clearly borne by the victim. The actual costs to the rest of the group are nowhere near this amount (roughly $120k), while the victim is sacrificing $6M of self-value. The victim is by far the loser, so the idea that the victim somehow externalized his costs and cheated society is preposterous!
why not just use the calendar in outlook?! or calendar app on any phone :S?!
Here is an example illustrating what I mean:

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
while (1) {
fprintf(stdout, "Hi.\n");
fprintf(stderr, "Hello.\n");
}
return 0;
}

If you run this program directly from the shell, every odd line says Hi and every even line says Hello. But if you run it through sexec (on a Linux machine at least), you get a large block of lines saying Hi, followed by a large block saying Hello, etc. Whether this is a problem or not of course depends on the use case. But to avoid it you need something more sophisticated than just pipes, e.g. the LD_PRELOAD hack in the original post.
I forgot he released those in that format, and you're right; he really hit some impressive numbers with that experiment: "A week after the album's release, the official Nine Inch Nails site reported over 750,000 purchase and download transactions, amassing over $1.6 million in sales." (Ghosts I-IV)
People pay for convenience. I wonder how many people used their two streams and would pay another $1 to stream it again.
You're thinking from the perspective of "geek who could actually implement this." Try thinking from the perspective of "entertainment personality who doesn't want their personal brand tarnished when their website blows up in their face and is willing to pay for surety of that."
Add more than one physical screen you'll see lion's fullscreen mode completely wastes the extra screens by blanking them out with that grey crosshatching. very lame if you have 3 screens
Thanks Ryan. I've looked at the RequireJS/AMD import stuff and it seems really over engineered for what I need. I feel like there is too much declaration going on. For now I think I'll wait to see what else people come up with along these lines.
That's good to hear. I remember starting to go through the signup process about a year and a half ago and by the third screen they wanted to know the contact information for my legal counsel.

I may have to revisit my project in light of your comment :)
Disintermediation FTW.

Congrats to Louis.
"Unfortunately, our current belief is that the layer-4 logging that has been observed, which goes to Android system logs, is in fact being inadvertantly transmitted to some third parties and otherwise made available to other applications on the device.

This happens when crash reporting tools collect copies of the system logs for debugging purposes. The recipients of such transmissions are unlikely to have anticipated receiving keystrokes, text messages, URLs or location information through such channels, but that can in fact happen on some of the phones to which Carrier IQ has been ported.

What this means is that keystrokes, text message content and other very sensitive information is in fact being transmitted from some phones on which Carrier IQ is installed to third parties."
What are Africa's "Killer Apps"?
I wrote a PHP class that does this for both JSON and XML, but no public API for it. Let me know if you want the code for it.
I felt the same way, until I wrote my first program that used DSL-style. The parens-optional syntax thing is immensely useful in DSLs; it has saved me from writing tens of parsers.

I'll add the ()'s to intra-class method calls, though; the ambiguity between variable references and funcall expressions bothers the hell out of me, too.

Optional parens are a net win.
My mother and grandmother have devoted their lives to outreach to the low-income community. From what they have told me, "poverty" is not at the heart of this issue. Most of these parents have self-destructive habits which will persist regardless of the degree of social engineering thrown at the problem. The only thing that will save children like the one in the article is one-on-one support from caring individuals around him.
But there is also the lower price to consider. Even if the rarity of the event brought more purchases, with $5 vs the $15 or $20 it would have cost in a more tradition method of sales, the price alone would certainly bring in some customers who would not have paid the higher price.
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When you put it that way, sounds about right.
There was one in LISP, didn't you see that one? ;)
From launch? Roughly an hour.
exactly! also, when its that low, the good feeling of actually buying something is not overshadowed by the bad feeling of spending money, since its so little money, at least for me at 5$.
In response to the initial comment- I was indirectly prompted to buy this because of the post he made... I don't know why, but after I read it, I bought the show. Probably because I want the experiment to work.
Fantastic! I highly recommend watching the bit starting from 2:30. It goes against the myth of Steve Jobs as having a magical talent for envisioning finished products.

He says that when they started out:
-They had no idea what people would use these things for
-Designed for 6 months and finally built their first computer
-All their friends wanted one, but it took 40 hours to build and debug a single machine
-They spent all their spare time helping their friends build computers
-So they decided to print circuit boards and sell them, to cut down assembly to 5-10 hours
-They scrounged up $1300 to have a circuit board laid out
-One day, when Jobs was out selling circuit boards, he met someone who wanted to buy 50, but insisted that the machines be fully assembled
-And so on...

Quite a different story than the usual version, which portrays Jobs as a natural genius of knowing exactly what people want before they knew themselves.
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Support ActiveRecord and Mongoid
Sort results by one field
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The first thing I did was to check if cultivat.us was available.. It's not.
So, this is really interesting...

JavaScript is forced to make the pessimal choice of only ever having dynamic-bound "this", because of that favorite whipping boy ... prototypal inheritance.

If JavaScript had a notion of a class (even as a constructor function + prototype) definition, then it would be possible to tag methods with the correct instance reference, as in Ruby and in Python. Unfortunately, because the standard pattern for defining an instance method is:

Klass.prototype.method = function() {
...
};

... where the function is an expression just like any other, you have to have dynamic-bound this to make prototypes work correctly by default.
Trent is not part of radiohead; Radiohead and Trent(nine inch nails with ghosts) did the same thing but at different times.
"This might be getting less interesting to the general audience ..."

Anything that you can say about actual engineering details at FB would certainly be of interest to many of the people at HN. Large-scale social networks are like supercomputing. Few people get to see the inside of an operation which pushes the software/hardware envelope of size and performance.
My favorite part of that whole article is the gigantic "buy the thing " button at the bottom.
Yes -- that needs to be fixed pronto, and a 1.1.4 release cut -- which should include both that patch and a fix for Node 0.6's inconsistent "fs.watch" behavior.
Now I get you. I'm tempted to write a small pty allocator which does enough to allow isatty() return true.
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IIRC I believe i read from Paul Irish (I could be mistaken) that Chrome is working to support projects such as CoffeeScript for debugging. No idea how tjry plan to implement this, but I found it to be an exciting possibility.
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The reason it works for those specific groups is because of their fan base. Do you think that if Britney Spears tomorrow launched a similar "DRM free pay what you want" sale that and the "viral" element (news articles about how edgy it is) didn't exist she would have the success that these people have? She would outsell all her other releases because "whoa DRM free this is incredible!"? I don't think so, her average fan (vs average fan of Louis CK or purchaser of Humble Bundle) do not give two fucks about whether or not music is DRM free or independent and would treat it just like DRM music is treated.

The reason this was succesful for Louis CK is because it (for want of a better phrase) "went viral". People spread the existence of this around because he is being edgy, because he's doing something nobody else has the balls to do. If every artist released their creations independently, DRM free and without any "major label" backing this would have flown straight under the radar and been a resounding "meh" in sales.

This sold because it "went viral". The story of what he was trying to do, the desire to prove people wrong. This had the absolute perfect marketing; better marketing than money can buy, but this isn't a group of buyers with endless supplies of money. If what he did became the standard it would no longer succeed like this did.

How many years ago was it edgy to release an album on the internet? I wasn't on the internet back then so I can't provide any examples, but I'll put money on this happening and back then it being a guaranteed success because the people that wanted to prove that selling online could work bought it. I'm going to try and find one.
Didn't Jonathan Coulton already show that?

> In 2010, Coulton's music brought in about $500,000 in revenue. And since his overhead costs are very low, most of that money went straight to him.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-inter...
Dishes is an object, a dish is an object. I know what I'm doing :)

dishes = {
ryansPlate: { dirty: true },
yourPlate: { dirty: false },
hisPlate: { dirty: false }
}

Now go into the debugger, find the _ref, and then add a break point, inspect it, and you'll see.

Or if it was just JS, you wouldn't have to mess with _ref, you'd just put in a break point right where you were last looking at the code wondering "what kind of object is dishes?"

Edit: Oh snapz you got me!

for key, plate of dishes

Missed the `key`, post updated. Go ahead an chalk that up to "Ryan doesn't know CS", if you believe it's any more incriminating than missing any ol' arg in a function signature.
A couple days. I made about $16 before putting things on hold because I was too busy and because I needed to come back with a more scalable model.

But let me tell you, that first $16 is addicting.
More valuable than the long tail is that he probably has an email list of ~20,000 people -- and more by the hour -- who have demonstrated interest in paying money for Louis C.K. comedy specials. I trust I don't need to tell you what to do with that if you're the exclusive producer of Louis C.K. comedy specials.
I haven't seen his other shows in their entirety, but the last half of his material wasn't as good as the first half.
I love that this worked, even though I'm not buying. For me it's a value-for-the-money thing. I'm sure I can spare the $5, and I'm sure I would enjoy it, but still, I get a huge amount more value from my $8 monthly-fee-for-a-limited-selection Internet streaming service (yeah, that one, I still love it even after the bumps).

It's really great for our freedom from DRM that this worked, and I almost bought it just to support that cause, but ultimately I think prices have to be even lower for me to do outright purchases of content. But then, maybe that's just me. A lot of other people voted differently this week, with their wallets, and that says a lot.
Louis! Best $5 I ever spent.

Keep them coming!
Title says "(no credit card)" but linked-to page says:

A Windows Live ID and credit card are required for proof of identity.
JavaScript looks better than CoffeeScript...
How do you find Asana fits in with the other tools you use in your development process?
I think the Humble Bundle is a good measure to how these kind of experiments will succeed of fail. People are now starting to "complain" that they are released too often, and I certainly am seeing less and less enthusiasm for each subsequent bungle but there are still making a shitload of money on them, otherwise they would simply stop doing this.

Personally, I think that in a (utopian) world where media is easily available, not restricted, and is fairly priced (like Louis C.K's video) piracy will still be a major issue. Perhaps it will be reduced but even if content makers manage to compete with the availability of pirated content, they can never compete with the price.