bbarrows's comments

I am hearing some very interesting points about how money could be a poor motivator or even a deterrent (it sounds like some people are saying, because it makes them evaluate the time they are spending on the question and therefore how much their time is worth)?

However in creating this I imagined a poor college kid that was stoked to get a few dollars helping another kid solve his homework.. We will see if that actually happens though..

Caching issue.. Just disabled caching.. Site might get overloaded again now due to HN traffic but im bringing up another large instance as I type this.. (facepalm) should have prepared..

Embarrassing.. and fixed. Thank you

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Should be fixed. Was that due to a "Unreadable CAPTCHA token file" error? That was a permissions issue with my deployment..

I put this up too soon.. so I am trying to deal with scaling and some other issues right now but to briefly try to answer those questions/points..

The point is not to get anyone to be your "part time DBA" that was just some example question I came up with, hopefully to spark some kind of debate or just usage of the site. I am basically just giving someone $3 for their 2 cents on a scaling question. I think asking for someones opinion on scaling is a little different then asking them to be your part-time DBA.

About the financial incentives, the creator of the question can set the "Bounty" for whatever price they want. And if it is not worth someone's time to answer the question for that price then they can just ignore it right?

Really I am just trying to create an environment where people can offer "something" for help if they are not getting it elsewhere. It is not meant to be a source of employment but just a nice reward for someone willing to lend their time and knowledge.

I have a hand full of friends still in college who would pay a few dollars someone to walk them through a math proofs problem for example..

I recently finished my site QABounty.

I would get annoyed when I could not get anyone to answer my questions on sites like Stack Overflow so I created this site, https://qabounty.com/. It is basically your standard QA site but you attach a USD $$ bounty to questions. For example I have a question up at:

https://qabounty.com/questions/what-kind-of-database-should-...

The best answer for that question will award that user 3 coins (which can be withdrawn for about $3). I plan on adding my own questions of the day for a while, basically giving money away for a while hoping people use it for their own questions eventually. If you want to make a quick $3 though and check out my idea please go to the site and try to answer the question!

Let me know what you think! I am also looking for a designer as well after I see if people like the idea.. I used Stripe's new withdraw to debit card feature so you don't have to use bank account info to withdraw your "bounty" (money you get for answering questions)... Please give me some feedback on the site/idea!

Great work! Loads quickly for me

Must stay up all night and develop first DataChannel based P2P BitTorrent style file sharing implementation tonight..

I actually was just trying to provide some context and show that there are already some well developed P2P live video streaming solutions around.

I am not trying to say BitTorrent Live is proven or correct in anyway.

By saying that Live does that funny playback thing and PPSP dosen't I was not trying to say that I think it is correct or that that particular feature belongs in the network protocol at all. Just trying to point out a feature that I thought was interesting and unique to Bram's implementation.

PPSP and LibSwift both look like amazing, well developed and thought through projects made by very talented individuals. It blows me away how the ppsp protocol really takes everything into account (huge fan of the NAT traversal section in that draft..)

After working for Bittorrent (I recently left for job that fit me a little better) on the Live team for almost two years (more so on all the software supporting the actual core protocol itself which Bram himself works on mostly..) it is awesome to see Live finally being released to the public. I cannot wait to see how the public will use it (I am sure anyone with an imagination can think of a thousand ways a P2P Live streaming protocol could be useful and powerful..). It will be interesting to see how usable people find it and if they end up adopting it or sticking with the current RTMP server client style architecture.

One thing I always found interesting while working on Live is that although in some ways it really seems like Live Video streaming is more or less an undeveloped field there is actually already a super successful P2P live video streaming implementation called PPLive that is BIG in China ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPLive ).

Another interesting thing to check out if this Live Video streaming stuff interests you is that some guys proposed a Live Video streaming protocol VERY similar to Live's sometime recently:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protocol-02

Just compare the BitTorrent Live Protocol and this proposal..

One interesting thing that Brams implementation does is actually speed up and slow down the playback of traffic depending on the latency and whether or not Live figures you need to buffer more or can afford to have less of a delay/buffer. Talk to Bram and you'll quickly figure out he is obsessed with low latency..

This ends up being funny in implementation too, as you will notice when watching a stream that the playback will speed and slowdown while you watch it...

This is detailed in the patent but I did not see anything similar in the ppsp protocol..

If you get going fast enough it looks like the collision detection skips over bubbles.. Pretty fun game tho

Awesome site. Im curious as to how you defined your heuristics? Finding good obscure music seems like a hard thing to do programmatically.

It seems like you would want to find "good" music (which maybe could be determined by how many unique references link it) but thats the opposite of obscurity.. So how did you determine the quality of the "obscure" music you crawled? By hand?