skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i) sometimes the domains, and not the users, are what is banned.

ii) Some hellbanned users know they are hellbanned but continue to post anyway

iii) The recent uptick may be connected to the flood of piss-poor threads about politics. I'm not sure. I'd like to see some kind of numbers to confirm that there are more hell-banned users.

There are several things you can do with hellbanned posts. You could check the user's post history and try to work out what got them banned, and then send them an email to let them know they're banned. That's one reason why it's important for people to have an email in their "about me" section of their profile.

It might be worth-while investigating a tweak, because it seems HN is reluctant to flag and downvote poor content, and that might be because HN users are reluctant to cause a hellban.
Technology in one country can most definitely affect employment rates in another. One example from history is when the Industrial Revolution in England destroyed a large textile cottage industry in India.
Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t
> No I'm afraid it's another shoddy PHP design decision to blame here.

Please keep in mind the context of the thread. The argument wasn't the implementation, but the decision to include eval functionality in replacement functionality. Something that exists in PCRE because of Perl. So unless you want to suggest PCRE doesn't have an /e modifier that performs an eval, you aren't really adding anything to the discussion.
You're not a 1%er if you have no assets.
You'd use radioactive decay:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/

You could probably do it with the radioactive source in a smoke detector.
Even though I've used Opera for over ten years, it kinda bums me that they acquired fastmail.fm, because I don't really know where I see Opera three years from now.

Ideally, I'd like a Pinboard for e-mail.
Indeed; I love the idea of Bittorrent sync (hence my posting the link) but hate the fact that I can't audit its security practices. sigh
No one is missing the point; we're all just quickly realizing that counting only in seconds isn't an improvement.

Nonetheless, kudos to the author. Time keeping sucks.
I find it strange that there is many replies to a useless comment, can you help me understand?
That was the first bookmark i added to my browser when i got a bike a long time ago. If you work on your own bike, and you are a geek/nerd, you will end up on this site regardless.

i'm using a lot the bicycle site at stackexchange. granted that most answers are just pointers to sheldon's site for now :)
> There are a few languages out there that don't support typecasting. I think SML was one, for example.

Haskell too, unless you explicitly opt in with Data.Typeable.

It's arguably true in a certainly commonly-used subset of C++ as well: this type of typecast doesn't work in C++ unless you use dynamic_cast or another RTTI system (like COM). dynamic_cast only works on classes with a vtable. Many C++ projects don't use any form of RTTI. (Note that the Go code does not assert that the Reader is a ReadClose; rather it depends on RTTI to determine whether the reader is a ReadClose.)
YMail TFA is also woefully unavailable to people outside the usual suspects of countries - which is something I don't really get for something as security-centric as an e-mail service.
Cancer surgery: Tumour 'sniffing' surgical knife designed
The problem you are talking about arises from the result of competition in the markets. If someone has a cheaper production because of better technology, then the market as a whole will use their business (as the buyer has the freedom to choose who they buy from). This is fair, consensual, and it makes sense to help society gain more value as a whole. Limiting this in any way (as many regulations unfortunately do) is a restriction of people's free choice and thus an aggressive and unethical act. But of course the negative part comes in when the person who used to work in that market has now lost their job and thus their income. Well that is like crying about the slow gazelle who got eaten by the cheetah. It's nature and unfortunately you can't artificially make everybody win, or nature would push back.

Some solutions include higher taxes to make an assured living wage. This is possible today but not if everyone keeps raising the standard of what a "living" wage is. If we could produce a guaranteed living wage, we could get rid of minimum wage and thus give people a ladder to compete in markets they otherwise wouldn't be able to get experience/train in. This would be because you could literally work for free, so the company could only see a benefit to hiring you (rather than being stymied by minimum wage).

The wealth disparity is normal, look at any statistical data like humans and you will see outliers. Thus you will see people with ideas that are a million times more productive than others. Don't worry, if someone else gains wealth and you didn't lose, it does indirectly benefit you. Don't be jealous bro.
TempleOS / SparrowOS / LosethOS / Terry knows he's hell banned, but continues to post anyway.

His OS is interesting. His posts are scary. He's looking for help with art and logos.
> Supporting typecasting is hardly earth-shattering

I think the problem is the standard library using it extensively, apparently without doing it properly. As an example, C++ has casting but the STL doesn't need to use it (much) because it has generics in the form of templates.
IIRC, the 28 day month was the norm before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, and it is still used, for example in the Islamic calendar (that's the reason why the fasting month of Ramadan drifts from one year to the next).
Look at the Man on the Moon crop. It's clearly not just cropping off the sides. It's anchored to the right.

That's what pan-and-scan is. Its done by the studio so they have some "artistic" control of how the cropping is done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_and_scan
> what you crave

Electrolytes?

But in all seriousness: are there any numbers we can refer to for the economics of this? It sounds like it could be similar to the issues around royalties paid by music streaming services.
Just added a mailing list form at the bottom of the page for anyone who's interested.
What a misleading title! It's really not Netflix's doing, and it's definitely not some kind of evil conspiracy.

The studio isn't going to pay for a new transfer just for Netflix, or maybe they have a better one but are only realizing it on Blu-Ray. Netflix just gets whatever version of the movie the studio happens to already have on hand, which is likely the HDTV version, which is sometimes pan-and-scan.

But that doesn't make a very sensational headline.
For those not aware, he's a paranoid schizophrenic who believes that God lives in the OS that he wrote from scratch. He's fairly well known around these parts as TempleOS/SparrowOS/LosethOS.
How are you able to tell whether you've been hellbanned or not? Have I, for instance?
> I'm no expert but, first of all, the peasants who died
weren't a different ethnic group or a social class
antagonistic to Mao

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign

The Hundred Flowers Campaign was a period in 1956 in the
People's Republic of China during which the Communist
Party of China (CPC) encouraged its citizens to openly
express their opinions of the communist regime. After this
brief period of liberalization, Mao abruptly changed
course. The crackdown continued through 1957 as an Anti-
Rightist Campaign against those who were critical of the
regime and its ideology. Those targeted were publicly
criticized and condemned to prison labor camps. Mao
remarked at the time that he had "enticed the snakes out
of their caves."

> Second, AFAIK Mao didn't intentionally set out to kill
people

http://laogai.org/our_work/death-penalty-organ-harvesting

In the thirty years following the establishment of the
People’s Republic of China in 1949, there were no clear
laws governing executions, which were carried out on a
massive scale. In the earliest years, millions of
Kuomintang soldiers, landlords, and members of the
bourgeois class, seen as threats to the new regime, were
killed. In 1950 alone, 2 million people were executed as
part of the “Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries”
campaign.

Throughout the Mao period, the number of executions always
peaked during political campaigns. In 1971, 100,000 people
were executed during a single campaign, one of many such
campaigns during the Cultural Revolution period. During
these political campaigns, particularly in the 1950s,
regional governments were often tasked with meeting
execution quotas, premised on Mao’s belief that a certain
percentage of the population was always beyond reform.

I can go line by line on the rest - Taiwan's GDP-per-capita was more than 10X the PRC's by 1978; Owen Lattimore and the China Hands gave considerable American support for Mao; and the reason you are repeating "it was just an accident that millions of people died" is that that was the propaganda at the time, also used for the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in the Ukraine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor).

But really, you should ask yourself why you decided to get into the nasty business of Holocaust Denial. Tens of millions of people died, and they were murdered by Mao, his men, and the communist regime under his total control. Google a bit, read the primary sources from the period. The famine was the same thing that happened in the USSR, and what always happens when farmers have their land stolen by communist regimes. As for the mechanics of how that happened, shooting a farmer in the back of the head or sending him to a prison labor camp wasn't an "accident".

Whether you choose to admit these truths or not is up to you, but it gets to the core of why this point needs to be raised and not simply glossed over by the likes of the OP. Mao was not some mere hapless incompetent as you're trying to portray him, some well-meaning guy who f'd up. He was directly responsible for the largest mass murder in history.
Agreed. I just couldn't help point out a some-what famous example right here. Sometimes I convince myself that it's just random garbage, but then I find comments that are a little bit on topic but still are incoherent rambling. I can't help but be intrigued.
It's interesting that you clicked on it anyway.
There's a feature in Gmail labs called "Quote Selected Text" that can be used to cut the remaining 66 lines

You can enable it through the Gmail settings > Labs > "Quote Selected Text", highlight the lines you want to respond to in your email and press the 'r' key to open a reply with only the highlighted part quoted.

http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_quote_select.htm
Understood. My assumption was that in the vast majority of cases, you would make zero because either the company fails or the exit is so small that VC liquidation preferences would negate any common stock. You are right, it isn't clear in the article. Thanks!
You're not hellbanned.

But of course, you're not supposed to be able to tell, that's the entire point.
My serious issue with it was forwarding my CV after typing a very personalized message (I send a CV every couple months or so to the rare job post that catches my eye) and when I sent it today, BAM! Forgot to change the hidden subject. I am john's lack of interface.
1) One of the best cryptographic analysis of bitcoins is from an Argentinian: https://bitslog.wordpress.com

2) If the developer is Argentinian he/she can do the job for foreign company and earn dollars.

3) They can bring the dollars to the country using the black market.
omg. you can be banned but still allowed to post?!

how do I check whether my account is banned?
At least quote me less misleadingly: "I don't remember edw519 ever making a post as low as you just did." - and it looks like you had to dig pretty deep to find something to make your counterpoint, too.

And the post itself? Even if we're retroactively judging someone for voicing a less than flattering opinion about a person who is by now dead, it's not nearly as low as this ad hominem attack above. Is that the worst you could find after putting in the energy to research that guy's content a year back? I probably said worse things this month, and most likely so did you.

I already speculated how we all made some comments that we're probably not proud of, so I'm really not getting what your point is.
Of course, there's always the option of side-stepping the entire issue:

> Matt Hofstadt wanted to make your day, and has sent you a $20 gift card...
Enough with the Search Engine.
Can someone explain why your public movements should now be private?

And when someone brings up the "pseudo-anonymity of the crowd", can you accompany that with a legal precedent for such a claim? Who actually came up with the "I'm acting privately in public" thing in the first place?
Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano is a very interesting read on just this, albeit fictional and taken to the extreme, but it has some interesting insights.
HN is very intransparent when it comes to their rules or karma system. I'm aware that the code is in github, but we're talking about formal rules, not algorithms (and we don't know if that's all the code or only a part).

* How can a user find out if he/she is "HellBanned"?
* Is HN afraid of getting gamed?
* How is pg using the data generated at HN?
* Would HN/pg sell it's users if they were forced by the Government?

Questions I don't know the answer to.
What's private about your public movements?
That is true (assuming it's random). However, it's also unjust and harms the community simply because this issue exists. The goal is to hellban only people who deserve it.

EDIT: I just realized I have showdead on and I've barely seen any, so this may not be a big problem.
Reminds me of the good old DVD days where I had to always check for two things: region restrictions and "anamorphic" format.

I somehow still have to deal with region restrictions today, because technology.
I'll not front: that's a much uglier device than Glass, and Glass isn't exactly the height of fashion. Plus it lacks much of the functionality that Glass has. I believe a legitimate competitor to Glass will emerge at some point, but this is more like a cheap knock-off.
Do not talk against the lefties or any vocal group you will be ok.

Because there is no 'disagree' people down vote.
is it IP based, or will chrome anonymous window be enough to always reliably tell my status?
500 for user comments, as far as i know submissions can't be. That being said i know there are voting ring checks and other fuzzing going on where it might not actually be someone downvoting, but votes being counted differently all the sudden.
summary: the article does not answer why.
One can think that technology destroys jobs, but still not be a Luddite because they support the change that technology brings.

An example would be people who are looking forward to the technological singularity which will make all work obsolete, and usher in a utopia.
For a second I thought you said gravy. Either way, yes!
Alternatives to using Google
For the 50+ million uninsured, these hospital 'sticker' prices can be disastrous
But netflix is surely cheating by hiding the warning.

If i'm paying to watch a movie, i want to at least be informed it it's a mutilated version of the movie.

...not that i would be paying netflix if i wanted movies. everyone knows it's just for TV series anyway.
The Best Exercise You're Not Doing
I remember one of his comment being dead on (IIRC about system programming in the 80's), followed by the usual ramblings.
the tool does count trees though. i find it relevant to discuss whether it counts 1e2 trees or 1e6, or a seemingly unsurvivable wage with one that in reality sustains families.
I thought etler was saying that the Man on the Moon crop wasn't pan-and-scan at all. It was just a complete lopping off of the entire left portion of the film that didn't fit the aspect ratio.
Load up your comment in an new incognito-mode browser window and you should be able to see whether you are not.
"The past is a different country."
FastMail will do this if the folder already exists, but won't automatically create the folder.
If people upvote for agree, then...
Isn't that the idea? At least in one sense, technology must destroy jobs, or at least it should. In theory, it frees us from drudgery and allows us to go on to do more productive tasks. In practice it isn't always so easy to find employment those who are displaced by machinery.
Isn't that just a needlessly complicated version of a stock grant, instead of stock options?

What benefit would this have over negotiating for a stock grant instead?
Glass seems to be well weighted. This doesn't. I wonder if it will lean to the right.
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I used to have a different HN account. At some point I realized that I stopped receiving points. I looked at my comments and someone had commented on my last comment, "Is this spam?" and then like 4 other people concurred my comment was spam. But it wasn't spam. I got bullied out of my HN account. 120 karma points down the drain.
I was as surprised as you were!
Would never ever post to HN personally if I knew that.

Not letting people know that they are banned, but still allowing them to post is very egoistic.
Its solves the problem that side effects that are not expected from the documentation of the behavior of the function are produced.

It doesn't solve the "Go interface types specify minimum functionality that must be satisfied at compile time but do not limit the methods that can be called on an object received through the interface type at runtime" problem, but then, that's a fairly fundamental Go design decision, not a problem. (Especially in the context of Go 1.x, which has a no-backward-incompatible-changes commitment.)
Ditto. I downloaded Airmail a couple months ago and rarely use Gmail these days because it's so much more convenient for me.
Look at the Man on the Moon crop. It's clearly anchored to the right because the focus of the scene is the guy on the right talking, and since the quiet guy on the left has nothing to contribute to a cropped frame but half a head or so, the sensible (if uninspiring) solution is to show just the one guy talking.

Overlooked in the outrage expressed is that movies are shot knowing that cropping will occur, and the scenes are often viewed with the cinematographer & director marking out which parts of the frame will be preserved for various formats. In the scene where Carrey is cropped out, he may very well have been positioned in the full frame such that if/when cropped to 16:9 he simply would not appear, rather than awkwardly have just his arm show while sensibly trying to preserve enough of the speaker within the frame.

http://library.creativecow.net/carlin_paul/35mm-evolution/5 describes a variant of this, presenting and addressing (as a deliberate process!) a little-discussed variant: the 2.39:1 and 16:9 versions may be the ones in fact guilty of cutting off part of the scene, with the 4:3 frame containing the whole scene, and the others preserving the full width but dropping top & bottom portions to make them fit the narrowed frames.
He may have tightened up the restrictions on voting rings. I know one YC user who was banned, and the only issue was that he'd send out links to a couple of friends asking for upvotes.

I feel that there's Catch-22 here - so few people browse/upvote in `/new` that one's practically forced to get friends to upvote, but then runs the risk of automated banhammer. More transparency would be great. It's ironic that pg calls for openness in government but governs HN behind closed doors.
"The following examples were actually encountered either in real programs or are taken from the ISO C99 standard or from the GCC’s testcases."
you're not banned
Instead of hellbanning, couldn't the site just rely on more extensive algorithmic ranking of comments and submissions? That way comments that are probably low-quality will only appear to a small number of users.
Debugging of your source code is not equal to a pervasive surveillance state intruding on individual privacy, unless you are to assume (incorrectly) that we are all owned by the state and have no independent rights apart from the state.
my personal experience on options:-

- I was offered holiday pay in lieu, or options @ 20% of their market value the options seemed like a much better deal, so I took it (as it turns out the smart punters took the holiday pay!)

- After 6 months or so most people were terminated, at the termination meeting the CEO told us we would have 12 months to exercise our options if we chose to do so.

- 2 months went by, I was then contacted by the new CFO and asked "Will you be planning on exercising your options in the next month, because otherwise they will expire", which was a surprise to me because we were told verbally (lol) that we had 12 months.

- So now I was in a bind, pay more money to the company to buy my options, or just give up on seeing anything for my efforts, stupidly chose to exercise the options, which cost me a thousands

- When it came time to deal with the tax office, I had to pay the tax on the market value of the options, which was going to slug me again, as it turns out the options weren't worth anything at all, which was good in one way - I didn't have to pay any tax on them.

- Also turned out that the VC who had invested in the company had options that were fully vetted, or fully vested, I can't remember the details, but essentially it meant if the company ever actually earned any money, the VC shares had more weight, and in all likelihood, were the only ones who would actually get any money out of any sale

my advice on people who are being offered options:-

- get some external financial advice

- make sure you read the fine print

- if some VC has already invested, make sure you understand if there are any exceptions with regards to the options you've been offered

- I know this is just obvious, but no matter how close or friendly you think you are with management (small teams this happens!) get everything signed and dotted
40 here, still going strong. 18-22 times a month according to my wife's daily tracker.

Exercise, exercise, exercise.
The NSA wants the cropped out bit.
Do they really?

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013
Egoist? Why?

As far as I can tell it is somewhat distasteful but ultimately too useful to not use. It's pragmatic, I don't see how ego is involved.
This seems to be the flaw in the data cited:

"By 2011, a significant gap appears between the two lines, showing economic growth with no parallel increase in job creation"

It seems the data set is US jobs only. In our new flat world, how many jobs did US-based companies create in other countries that previously were created in the US?

Not sure the US middle class has been destroyed, more that it has moved to other countries.
Powershell on ConEmu is a joy to use, especially after you add in posh-git. When I found out Powershell can instantiate and call .net objects and functions (including threads) I immediately set out to convert all my batch scripts to powershell scripts and haven't looked back.
undo send is dumb and the worst name/implementation.

i'd either add a dialog (with default selected button being Cancel) or replace the Send button with a Preview button, which would show the message the same way you read a message, and there you would have the Send button.
Think of a Platform-as-a-service like a web server that is already configured for multiple languages and all you have to do is install your web application and start/restart it.

The idea is that you can turn on and off web servers really quickly to do tests and also that it should scale as the amount of work that your web application needs scales.
I was referring to the fact that this function mutates the state of one of its arguments.