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Can some kind soul provide the body of the text for us poor souls or instructions for how to access the article? No luck with the web button or outline.com.

Etheryte 7y ago
I don't really see why it's okay to submit paywalled articles to HN to begin with. Either a) someone finds an open source for it, which the OP should've done instead or b) only a small subset of the users can actually access the content being discussed.
- chewz 7y ago
  > I don't really see why it's okay to submit paywalled articles to HN to begin with. Why? I would probably haven't found this article if not on HN.
- dougmwne 7y ago
  I find the paywalls on NYT and WSJ a bit bizzare to begin with, especially now that they're closing the loopholes to read an article now and then. Certainly any business has the right to charge for its content, but as newsrooms have shrunk and journalists have been retrained for the clickbait era, these articles are typically worthless fluff or outrage porn. Though I can't actually read this article, I assume that the catchy title references a breif moment from an interview, not a deep cultural analysis. I would pay for the latter, but not the former.
  - dannyw 7y ago
    I’ve never seen a NYT paywall in Australia. Maybe it’s geo specific?
  - mcv 7y ago
    > I assume that the catchy title references a breif moment from an interview, not a deep cultural analysis. That assumption is correct.
  - Nasrudith 7y ago
    I suspect it is a result of being afraid of cannabalising their subscription base and internal disputes between philosophies. I suspect the paywall leaks are a left hand vs right hand thing - if they make it fully accessible they get maximium click traffic but the boss gets pissed off about "giving money away". If they make it fully sealed Webspiders can't get there and this kills the traffic.
- readingnews 7y ago
  I will just go ahead and carry on the tradition, as it was smacked onto me the last time I complained about a paywall: The FAQ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html ) states clearly that paywalls are ok. No matter how much we hate them, apparently.
- CPLX 7y ago
  Should we limit our discussions of software to only free software, or not discuss Apple’s new laptops until they are giving them away? Or is journalism the only thing that you feel deserves this treatment?
- a_imho 7y ago
  If the links dont work for you why not flag them?
drubio 7y ago
Add ?mod=rsswn to the end of WSJ urls (e.g. https://www.wsj.com/articles/always-on-work-culture-creating-broken-people-says-reddit-co-founder-11558464608?mod=rsswn https://www.wsj.com/articles/always-on-work-culture-creating... )
- westmeal 7y ago
  Nice trick!

Etheryte 7y ago

I don't really see why it's okay to submit paywalled articles to HN to begin with. Either a) someone finds an open source for it, which the OP should've done instead or b) only a small subset of the users can actually access the content being discussed.

chewz 7y ago
> I don't really see why it's okay to submit paywalled articles to HN to begin with. Why? I would probably haven't found this article if not on HN.
dougmwne 7y ago
I find the paywalls on NYT and WSJ a bit bizzare to begin with, especially now that they're closing the loopholes to read an article now and then. Certainly any business has the right to charge for its content, but as newsrooms have shrunk and journalists have been retrained for the clickbait era, these articles are typically worthless fluff or outrage porn. Though I can't actually read this article, I assume that the catchy title references a breif moment from an interview, not a deep cultural analysis. I would pay for the latter, but not the former.
- dannyw 7y ago
  I’ve never seen a NYT paywall in Australia. Maybe it’s geo specific?
- mcv 7y ago
  > I assume that the catchy title references a breif moment from an interview, not a deep cultural analysis. That assumption is correct.
- Nasrudith 7y ago
  I suspect it is a result of being afraid of cannabalising their subscription base and internal disputes between philosophies. I suspect the paywall leaks are a left hand vs right hand thing - if they make it fully accessible they get maximium click traffic but the boss gets pissed off about "giving money away". If they make it fully sealed Webspiders can't get there and this kills the traffic.
readingnews 7y ago
I will just go ahead and carry on the tradition, as it was smacked onto me the last time I complained about a paywall: The FAQ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html ) states clearly that paywalls are ok. No matter how much we hate them, apparently.
CPLX 7y ago
Should we limit our discussions of software to only free software, or not discuss Apple’s new laptops until they are giving them away? Or is journalism the only thing that you feel deserves this treatment?
a_imho 7y ago
If the links dont work for you why not flag them?

drubio 7y ago

Add ?mod=rsswn to the end of WSJ urls (e.g. https://www.wsj.com/articles/always-on-work-culture-creating-broken-people-says-reddit-co-founder-11558464608?mod=rsswn https://www.wsj.com/articles/always-on-work-culture-creating... )

westmeal 7y ago
Nice trick!