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Its weird having HN submission where only a subset of HNers can make comments though. I am happy for them to have a paywall but question whether it should be ke
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Its weird having HN submission where only a subset of HNers can make comments though. I am happy for them to have a paywall but question whether it should be kept on HN if there is no information for most people to comment on.
It is the equivalent of linking to a paid book on Amazon and having a discussion about the book's content.
- imron 10y agoIt's not paywalled. NYTimes automatically redirects to the login page if you have cookies disabled. The link works fine if you haven't disabled cookies - and that's on the user as much as it is on the NYTimes.
- esrauch 10y agoI don't have cookies disabled but I do have adblock and I get the paywall, but if I open it in an incognito window it shows so I'm guessing its also triggered by ABP (or some other condition).
- user5994461 10y agoWell, if 99% of the book was freely available for viewing on 9 other websites than Amazon, I bet that people would complain A LOT for being given a link to Amazon instead of one of the numerous readable sites.
- pjmorris 10y ago> It is the equivalent of linking to a paid book on Amazon and having a discussion about the book's content. I'd wager, without proof for the moment, that the majority of books discussed on HN are 'paid books' at Amazon or elsewhere.
- taneq 10y agoTo be fair, Blindsight comes up on a very regular basis, and that's freely available on the author's web site. :) But yeah, despite the increasing prevalence of legitimate free-to-air soft copies of books, paid is still the default.