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> It is most infuriating when these people get hellbanned just for pushing the limit once, or for triggering the mods extra hard one day.

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> You'll also get your vouching rights revoked if you vouch for something the mods don't like.

I really wish that HN could figure out a way to fix the problem of abusive moderation. Moderation is, I think, really important and valuable — but it's so important that it's easily misused.

And of course just crowd-sourcing it doesn't work, because the crowd can just shout down important viewpoints.
Get a hobby. Start going to a place where people practice it. I'm over 30 and board games work well for me. Most people I play with are younger. The oldest of us, resembling the one from French Connection, is a former programmer(?) and regularly mops the floor with other players, often at games he's playing for the first time. I heard he attends dancing lessons too.

I think it's a matter of getting your priorities right and not neglecting work/life balance. My brother is a devops rather obsessed with career, progress, income, has wife and kids. If he sends you a message it's usually because he's about to follow up with something he needs of you. If he calls it's usually past 20:00 and he's not interesting in listening to you... then when he finishes talking he says he no longer has time. He regularly takes his work home. If he has a single friend, I'm not aware of that. He doesn't read, doesn't watch movies, no longer plays games. Doesn't appear to be interested in anything but work.

My simple principle is work to live, not live to work. Work should enable decent living and a lifestyle where I can occasionally travel at my own will, buy some fancy items and eat well. If the workplace regularly organizes parties or sends people on delegations, I'll look for another one. My brother says I could stockpile money much faster abroad. Stockpile... for what? Time is the resource you can't replace.
I would have something to say if you came with actual data. I've provided expert opinions that keto and Paleo are objectively bad. You've provided nothing but emotional arguments and pseudoscience.
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>Im a firm believer that one shouldn't be allowed to downvote without leaving a comment.

I guess that's been discussed/thought about many times. Does sound good at first. So how would it work? People would have to leave some kind of decent comment, not just one word, I suppose, like other comments. Could you downvote those comments in turn if they weren't substantive, or were snarky etc? Would you have then to explain why you did that? Hmm. There'd have to be a different comment category, a downvote-explanation comment. Sounds complicated..

> There is no other response to that other than frustration.

Well, yes there is! I tried that, doesn't work. I tried not caring. Is working great! They're only fake internet points, after all. But you said you're sick of people saying that. Sorry. ..Sometimes it's just too obvious why horrid, abusive comments are downvoted. From what I've seen, how people say things is almost always the problem, not what they said. What seems to drive people nuts is presuming it's always what they said.
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Think of all the real work you have done in that time. You would not have done it all had you spent 1000+ hours collecting those internet points that none of your real friends care about.

You are winning by not being able to downvote yet.

EDIT: ...as I up-vote y'all stuck in this thread...
For what? To turn them into ghetto in 10 years? Examples are almost everywhere in the world.
Does disabling raw sockets still allow the various IPv6 ICMP messages that can be necessary for things like PMTU discovery to happen?
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Works ok for me in FF for Android.
First things first, Maven's config files are an elaborate form of torture. Second, there is no such thing as remote artifacts that are immutable.

Check your shit into your git repository. And managing that becomes a problem, you've already done goofed up and have too many dependencies, and it's unlikely there's _anything_ reproducible about your software.
The labels were insightful, interesting, informative, funny, overrated, underrated, redundant, troll, flamebait, offtopic, etc. Comments maxed out at +5. You could set a threshold so you'd only see +2 and higher, etc.

At some point, you could adjust your personal measure for the categories of positive or negative moderation. e.g., threads turned into boring rushes to post memes for +1 Funny, so at one point I made Funny worth zero and Insightful worth +2. It was an interesting way to influence how a thread appeared for you. But around that time, I lost interest in the site and quit it for HN.

You couldn't vote all the time (like on HN), but you periodically received 5 mod points to use, so you would tend to pick the most deserving to boost or demote.

From memory, periodically, you might get meta-moderation points. Say, 10 chances to assess whether a post's moderation was fair or unfair. It was half-chore, half-interesting so it was often a happy distraction.

More info for those with too much time on their hands:

https://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml
https://slashdot.org/faq/mod-metamod.shtml
> For example the Google Memo. Even the slightest hint that someone agrees (on specific points) with damore was a guarantee for downvotes.

Which specific points? Because looking at the recent 782 (currently) thread on him losing the NLRB case [0], I don't see many posts downvoted to gray on any side, with plenty of people posting things which are generally supportive of Damore without being downvoted.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16396554
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If someone lets you down twice in a row they are always going to let you down. You learn this as you get older.
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Ah, perhaps in the other corners of the world, but in Finland we do not play such "games". That is, if you invite someone over by 17 pm, it might mean by 18 pm, or might not. Here, if you invite someone at 17 pm, whatever the cause, that is the target one should be aiming for. Some think of our culture as too direct or blunt, but in my mind ambiguity and misunderstandings are a root cause of much misery. :)
It is difficult to find developers that are experienced with building housing in the bay area, and experienced with building mixed use housing, and the location is suitable for mixed use.
A post with 8 downvotes and 10 upvotes won't show as gray.
FaceApp does this (inc gender swapping) and its quite fun for an hour or so of messing around.
Where do you have this interpretation from that "societies are established through violence and myth" and how is that idea contrary to Marxist political philosophy?
You seem to be in a hole, friend.

Victimization is a state of mind. You could be confined to a wheel chair but that doesn’t make you powerless.
I wish it were a straw man. Whenever one of these threads starts here, half the responses are "we need high rise condos, town homes, and dense urban units everywhere in the bay area!". If that's not the message intended to be sent, it's often the message received.

I don't care what you do to an already-urbanized area. Build housing on top of retail, knock yourself out. Pack another apartment high-rise next to the last one. Just please respect the desires of people who went out of their way to find one of the fewer and fewer affordable single family neighborhoods in the Bay Area to hang on to their lifestyle, too.
Some of the recent developments in Bangalore are heading in this direction. Mixed use is absolutely one of the better approaches to provide a good lifestyle to people. The sad drawback is that you get isolated and will lose the belongingness to the city as a whole. This is not a big deal in the short term, but in the long term, a set of isolated societies isn't that harmonious for the society.

By isolated I don't mean walled, but a natural preference to just be within your conclave.

What might rather work is super fast door to door transit, which in the present is quite unrealistic. Congestion creeps in pretty fast.
We switched to Slack the day Hipchat went down for several hours.
'It's very possible to have every intent and desire to be on time, and still fail at it.'

The people who try to arrive 'just in time' are the ones this usually applies to though.

If you've ever worked at a place where you have a long commute you'll likely have noticed that the people who are consistently late are those who live closest.
Over a decade of browsing HN nearly every day, and still don't have it yet. One day, maybe. :-)
Why do you need blockchain for that if it's centralized and controlled by the government?
BS ... Manhattan is dense and not a ghetto. Stop scare mongering. A lot of people are sick of paying 3-5K for single-two bedrooms in Mountain View. Just because you have had yours doesn't mean the rest of us don't deserve the opportunity to live in SV.
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> why tax based on the first derivative of wealth (income over time) and not wealth itself?

I strongly agree, if it could be implemented effectively. My completely uneducated guess is that it would be difficult to obtain reliable reporting of all wealth, and that income is easier to obtain information about because it involves financial transactions, often involving banks or large corporate entities.

Taxing wealth would have other advantages. For example, a wealthy person could predict their tax liability years in advance and integrate that into financial planning. Also, I think it might avoid the claimed disincentive of high income tax rates for wealthy people: Your incentive to earn is undiminished because you'll keep 90% of the money.

In the U.S., as far as I know, there is around $85 trillion in wealth and total government budgets are around $4 trillion. On that basis, the average wealth tax rate would be under 5% per year.
This comment is perpetuating many falsehoods about obesity. For most people with chronic obesity, it is not really a matter of willpower. Just because the direct cause of their condition is too high food intake, it does not mean that it’s a “choice”. Their bodies are programmed to require large amounts of food. Losing weight by willpower in the short term just increases the signals to eat, and may cause weight gain in the long run.

The only effective treatment in the long run is gastric bypass.
well sbt uses ivy which is way slower than maven, when it comes to resolving stuff.
Yes, so I think the UI is a really important factor here in terms of productivity and ease of use. For example, after Checkbot has scanned your localhost/development site and identified a page has the same title as other pages, you can edit your site, hit the "recrawl" button for that page and confirm your fix worked in a few seconds. Users I've worked with so far have really appreciated this fast and simple workflow.
I am very curious how they create grains of the cerium and then coat them with neodymium to then fuse them together.
I theorize that they first alloy the cerium and lanthanum together and then grind it to a correct particle size. Then they negatively electrically charge the rare earth particles and bond neodymium to it with vapor deposition but I don't know it that is possible at that scale.
They would then press the particles together and heat them up so that they fuse but don't liquify.
All of this looks very very cool I just have no concept for how it would actually happen.
> You'll still see those opinions if you have the link, but there is a very obvious pattern of removing threads about contentious issues from the front page once they reach a certain amount of wrong think.

There's an obvious pattern of removing threads about contentious issues from the front page due to an overt automated moderation feature referred to as the "flamewar detector" designed to demote posts than generate more heat than light, judged by comments vs. upvotes on the post. This is reinforced by the fact that posts that are likely to turn into flamewars are also likely to get flagged by users who are tired of the recurring flamewars.

Of course, removing such posts from the front page is a completely different issue (independent of methodology) from bias in downvotes.
descent*, FYI!
i think it's completely unheard in many European countries, you have family restaurants but that's not place to hang out with other and man looking after children it's still very rare
What does that have to do with GM? Doesn't this business model for seeds predate GM crops?
Thank you so much for that detailed reply, especially on so personal a topic.

It's obvious from the question that it is a reflection on my current predicament. I'm at a place where the company is doing okay, but not great. Part of me wants to move on, but the other part - fuelled by legendary startup stories where things took off or turned around at the last minute - wants to keep going till it's officially dead. Before posting my question, I was debating whether asking the question itself served as a signal for my company's demise, but I am glad that didn't stop me. I feel like the point where I am too afraid to even consider the possibility - perhaps because then I truly know the answer - would be worse than just seeking more knowledge/wisdom.

It's very useful to have a community where I can learn from very experienced people such as yourself and use that information to augment my knowledge.

Thanks again for your thoughts.
Personally I can't imagine a more ideal living situation than taking an elevator down in to a grocery store. Easy access to two completely different styles of grocery stores a block or two from my home has been amazing.
Work on your health and nutritional status. One of my sons had terrible executive function. With getting healthier, he is slowly getting his act together.

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I lived in Roatan and there is a notion of “island time” you hear flying out of every lazy white mouth who is trying to sound hyper-local, but most people I met that grew up there, that work there and make plans with friends there - they tend to be pretty respectfully on-time.

Nice stereotype though!
I disagree, it's a decent overview that introduces the major concepts and how they work. It's not intended to be at the cutting edge or to provide all caveats. By definition all textbooks in biochemistry, biology and the like are out of date by the time they go to press.

The average MBOC provides is enough of a basic understanding of molecular biology to move on to more advanced work including papers that start to get into the nitty gritty details. Note that many people haven't been even exposed to the basics!
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I'm one of those perpetually late people. There was a time when I was slightly overweight. I changed my diet, started lifting weights and running, and ended up running a marathon 18 months later. But I couldn't fix my lateness. Pretty sure I had to run to the marathon starting area to be able to start with my group.

I've found that exercising control over my body is easy. The body is stupid. It does what I tell it to do. It complains, but it will only fight back when it absolutely cannot physically perform the task.

Not so much with my brain. The brain is smart. It fights back. I can look directly at a (digital) clock, and my brain can refuse to process the time on it.

I can dig around and produce piles of evidence of all the different ways I tried to fix this, all the different treatments I sought, how much sincere effort I put in, and a complete lack of results. Don't take executive function for granted.

Also, our lateness usually hurts us far more than others around us. Nothing is "too important" to be late for. And the things that usually make us late aren't generally important. Most of the time, they're complete wastes of time that didn't need to be done at all in the first place.
It's certainly not an excuse for failing to pay income tax. Also, using a wealth tax, tax liability could be much more reliably predicted years into the future.
So put it on something above the buildings.
Ask HN: How to take back my attention and discipline?
I am in the process of launching my second startup, with first one of less than a mediocre success.

Past few months we have been building the product and launched to a small group of users, they love it. Now we just closed our small seed round.

The challenge I am facing is the lack of focus and discipline in my work. I am very motivated and get up everyday to ship but then end up wasting time all over the internet (including HN). And then feel miserable in during the last few hours (like right now).

Have you been in a situation like this? How did you get back to your focusing on 'your work'.

Thanks in advance for your help.
You should get a modern phone with a calendar and alerts.
Please call your state Assemblymember and Senator about SB 827 and 828, which will allow this to happen. They are certain to be contentious bills. You can find them here: https://sankarravi.github.io/yimbyscorecard/

Caltrain capacity increase is on the way in 2-3 years thanks to electrification and a new fleet of trains.
I have friends who are late often while being generally considerate people, it is zero problem at all. I just dont expect them be on time anymore. As far as disrespect goes, this is pretty low. I know enough punctual jerks to not care all that much about this.

If you are late, but after comming in treat people politely, are willing to compromise, dont assume they are stupid in each of your responses and dont go out of your way to insult them and respect them dont act like alpha-king-of-galaxy that needs everything your way, then it is much better then punctual opposite.
Honestly, what I want is someone like me to muddle through life with.

And simply put, most people over 30 aren't going to be "like me" in the least. Most of them are family-minded, career-minded, or both. I'm just not going to have much in common with someone who's married and either has kids or is trying to have kids, nor am I going to have anything in common with someone who's trying to aggressively climb the career ladder.

The people I have the most in common with and see as peers are by and large slackers in their 20s, not people my age. I'm 33, and the disconnect between me and most people my age is really jarring... I see most people my age as having more in common with my parents than me (this was especially noticeable the last time I saw my cousins in person... they're only a few years older than me, but they act just like my mom did at their age, while I'm still a big kid... I really feel like most people of my generation are effectively of an older generation).
Highly specialized interest classes are for graduate school, after you've shown an ability to take in information from a variety of domains.
Companies could certainly do more, but a lot of cities don't really want them to. Cupertino stands out in this regard; they wanted the huge office space but none of the housing for the 14,000 workers the new Apple office would generate.
There are high rise "settlements" all over the former Eastern Bloc countries, and none of them have become ghettos. It's social inequality, lack of access to good health care, and education that lead to ghettos; not density and public transit.
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You could have come in here and made a constructive comment about the number and the associate methodology of measuring poverty. Instead you made unfounded and unwarranted attacks on the author and made zero constructive contributions to the conversation.

If you want to make people more aware of better measures of poverty, you should have come in here with a critique of the measurement without the vitriol and ideally with examples of better measures that can be used.
You can still do form validation on submit though, according to dimgl's earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16426131
What? Yes there have! The Innsbruck machines, for example.
Except we all know what happens in that case. Sales promises whatever they need to in order to get the sale, and then engineering is left to pick up the slack, working unpaid overtime to compensate.
Just to distract you all from the very bad reporting...
Have you ever noticed that cerf looks uncannily like ecorp’s CEO in Mr Robot (phillip price, played by michael cristopher)?
He was talking about landline numbers.
CAP_SYS_RAWIO looks even more terrifying, but CAP_NET_RAW gates your ability to use raw sockets.

https://linux.die.net/man/7/capabilities
People are used to it but saying that is kind of a cop out. It's very easy to write code that reads well logically but forgets about reference semantics, especially if you're a junior developer.
The problem is not the env var, because whether or not it was set or with a default value, you have to clone the project https://github.com/foo/bar.git at ~/go/src/github.com/foo/bar and name the imports github.com/foo/bar accordingly and run the go commands from there. I used to (automatically) just export GOPATH="${PWD}/.gopath" but this doesn't work anymore since 1.8 or 1.9.

People† at large just want to clone https://github.com/foo/bar.git wherever they see fit, like directly at ~/Workspace/bar, ~/work/bar, ~/projects/contrib/bar or even /tmp/bar.

† "People" includes CI systems that expect the typical "clone and cd straight into" thing to work, resulting in a lot of boilerplate and/or symlink hacks to work around such expectations.
Perhaps I don't understand this rule properly, but isn't this dropping all traffic being forwarded from the interface?
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How is expecting someone to honor a mutual meeting time that they've agreed to in advance a selfish desire that everyone moves to their whims!
What I find worst about modern city life is not having a relationship with my neighbors. I'd much prefer a neighborhood where everything I want is within a 5-minute walk.
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if it's not in the territory for engineers, who's designing and building the quantum computers, and coming up with solutions to these noise problems?
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> these pages won't get crawled by Google anyway.

Hmm, how do you indicate this to Google? I'm thinking about how you could tell Checkbot to ignore pages like this.

> I didn't have much success adding it myself.

The "URL patterns to ignore" setting is just a JavaScript regex string if that helps. It needs some help text at a minimum.

A common scenario I see as well is you start a crawl, see the URLs flying by and think "oops, don't want to crawl those URLs". A cancel button would help but hopefully more can be done.
The places where people are proposing new development are almost always along existing transit corridors or adjacent to job centers, like El Camino Real or Caltrain.

Even those projects generate opposition. San Mateo just rejected a 10-unit, 35 foot condo building fronting El Camino Real, that had 26 parking spaces, because... it was "too tall."

Millbrae residents fiercely oppose 5 and 8 story buildings located... adjacent to the Caltrain and BART station we paid $400 million for two decades ago.
Fans of LineageOS and Replicant absolutely must look into CopperheadOS - the most stable version of Android I've ever used.
I guess the same reason I get a better computer every few years.
I'm not sure what you're talking about.
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> The purpose of downvoting is to reduce the effective signal to noise ratio

...whereas in practice it's often used as a "I disagree" button.

BTW Personally I often check flagged stories - they tell quite a lot about the HN community and deeply rooted prejudices.