skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like someone else commenting on your post said, the entire idea of being hellbanned is not knowing that you are. For the sake of humanity around here, let's not start tonnes of threads asking whether you're hellbanned.

The fact that people are replying to you shows that you are not. Besides that, just keep on commenting and assume everything is okay.
The NSA stands behind PG's shoulder and forces his reluctant finger onto the "hellban user" option.
Terry's been discussed a lot by now, he has schizophrenia. It seems he went through clinical treatment but sadly that didn't help him. Really just a tragic thing... I wish he could have been better helped because he seems like a smart individual otherwise, what with having made his own operating system and all.
It's the result of the Fed's policies.

They kicked us into two massive recessions in a mere 10 years, two stock market crashes, and one giant real estate crash, destroying trillions in wealth through malinvestment. If the Fed severely distorts the economy - which it has been doing frequently (currently 'printing' 6% of the entire economy) - it leads Jane to appraise her financial surroundings incorrectly, inevitably leading to disaster.

Try figuring out a way to get minimum wage to keep up with even just 3% to 4% real annual inflation over 40 years. Impossible.

Try figuring out how to get Americans to make sound financial decisions with 3.x% mortgage rates. Impossible.

Try figuring out which stocks to buy, when everything is going up courtesy of easy money policies. When will the party stop? Only Bernanke & Co. know. It's not earnings growth driving the stock market, it's pure PE expansion.

Try keeping the savings rate up, when your dollar loses value every day that you attempt to hold onto it. So you spend it today when it has maximum purchasing power. Wait 10 years and it'll lose half of its purchasing power. The Fed spurs an anti-savings culture through inflation. Ever since Nixon unlocked the dollar from the gold standard, the savings rate has been in a death spiral, to the point where now America has an extreme negative savings rate when all debt is accounted for (and nearly everything priced in dollars has soared in price since 1971; from health care to education to commodities to stocks to housing, meanwhile the real standard of living is lower than it was 50 years ago).

At a time when America is creating more oil than nearly any other time in its history, oil prices are at $106+. See this USA today story from just a decade ago by comparison:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2003-...

"Instability in oil producing nations like Iraq, Venezuela and Nigeria helped boost U.S. crude oil prices to an average of $31 a barrel in 2003, the highest yearly average in more than 20 years, energy experts said Wednesday."

Global commodities are of course priced in dollars primarily. As the Fed debases the dollar, the input cost of goods soars.

The Fed's policies affect every single aspect of the US and global economy. Their policies are extreme by any US historical measure, and the consequences are guaranteed to be extreme accordingly.
You must be banned because I can't read what you post.
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Does it always has to be the same in all cases?

The results of technology advancement are various and complicated. It's not all white and black.
Life, and therefore getting things done (especially as a startup CEO) is all about setting priorities. The number 1 priority always somehow gets done, regardless of what it takes. And there are things that one "should" do, and never does.

But then there are also the hybrids, the ones that start out as unimportant back markers, and then move up the ranks over time, predictably so. It's funny to observe how you absolutely know they are there, how you see them coming, getting closer and closer, how you know they will become critical at some point, because you have been there before, and how you still manage to find something "better" to do up until the very last minute. They feel like that heating pipe in your basement that you only fixed provisionally with duct tape on a summer weekend and meant to get repaired for real before the cold season starts. It's always on the back of your mind as summer comes to an end and fall approaches, but, well, "tomorrow" will do as well....

As time goes by, you live more and more in denial, you start getting anxious to the point where you are simply angry with yourself for not taking care of it while it was still easy, hassle-free, inexpensive, and non-pressing. In the end, you find yourself in a situation where something becomes your number 1 priority not because it is per se important, but only because you have no other choice but to make it happen on that very day.. "Again?" is the question you ask yourself when you finally dig through all the documents you need for preparing that damn corporate tax return on the 14th of March. "Really?" goes through your mind when you start packing a bag for an upcoming trip 2 hours before you have to leave in the middle of the night.

And as frustrating and senseless as it might be, it seems to be one thing above all: human. As a startup founder, I have come to appreciate that in the end it doesn't matter how you got somewhere; the only thing that matters is that you made it.
yeah there is no panning or scanning there, that's for sure.
hahaha. I posted this question few months ago.
Here is the result of my poll:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734
Landscape's changed in 10 hours. Negative comments have gone to the top.

And true, but not necessarily depressed people.
Maybe I'm on the fringe, but the yahoo mail experience for me through a browser has been terrible since their last big iteration. It is often unresponsive to the point of being unusable.
My understanding is that it's not a board issue but rather a flaw in the i.MX6 silicon that would affect any board using it. Freescale claim that it just limits the data rate achievable from the built-in Ethernet, but my experience is that the i.MX6 gets a lot of Ethernet overruns even at much lower data rates, resulting in packet loss and unreliable Ethernet. TCP often works around it but UDP/connectionless protocols are thoroughly broken on this SoC.

I would think twice before using the i.MX6 as a router. A laptop maybe, but not something for which you require/expect reliable network links.
You can tell if you post links and comments that never get voted on or replied to (I presume, unless hellbanning reports false votes). If you have showdead enabled, which is an option after you pass a certain karma threshold, you'll see posts and comments from hellbanned users. Most of the posts are simply spam, which is fine. Many of the hellbanned users, however, don't appear to have done anything wrong. You can pinpoint when they were hellbanned by checking their comments until you find one that isn't dead. Either that or one of the comments immediately preceeding it, or a post that tripped the spam detector, is usually responsible.

Hellbanning is done both by the spam detector as well as by mods. Unfortunately, there really isn't any transparency in the process, nor is there much anyone can do to reverse it. You can send an email to info@ycombinator.com, but I don't know of anyone successfully being unbanned by doing so.
Larvatus Prodeo, a website that I host. One of the authors uses Pavlov's Cat as the nom de plume.
What if you were banned from school and still had to pay them without knowing that you got banned. Even worse, what if all of your schoolmates would ontop of that start ignoring you and nothing you do could change it? Wouldn't that be an egoistic act?

Legend: pay = posts; schoolmates = HN people/investors
Baloney, my friend. Government student loans are the PRIMARY reason the costs of college have skyrocketed. End them - observe as the army of administrators dwindle, the pointless BS classes disappear, the tuition bills decrease.
That's cool. The io.Reader is an unnamed field, so its method is effectively pushed to the surface of the wrapping struct instead of needing to be explicitly forwarded to.
But so does Read(), right?

Even in Haskell I'd be calling the HTTP thingy in the context of the IO monad.
> It's the result of the Fed's policies.
They kicked us into two massive recessions in a mere 10 years, two stock market crashes, and one giant real estate crash, destroying trillions in wealth through malinvestment.

I think there's a much better case to be made that Congress' fiscal policy (and financial industry deregulation ) did that than that the Fed's monetary policy did.

> At a time when America is creating more oil than nearly any other time in its history, oil prices are at $106+.

Oil prices are driven by global supply and demand , not US production in isolation.
Customers in this case may be more worried about low bus factor.
I had no idea that FastMail wasn't free any more until just now when I thought "why can't you just sign up and see it". I've been using it since 2002, although it hasn't been my primary email for a long time. Crazy.
Stumbled upon HN when I was around 14-15 (took me a while to work up the nerve to make an account)! Had been fairly familiar with ESR's Hacker Manifesto at that point (probably found that at around age 11?), and I think I was searching for something related to that? I've been reading it fairly consistently since. Was and still am a fan of the interesting random links, though I've been enjoying the technical ones a bit more in my "old" age.
I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about, but if you want to see an example of "runtime casting and duck typing" in Go, have a look at my torrent tracker project:

https://github.com/drbawb/babou/blob/master/app/filters/flas...

What I've linked to is a filter that gets put in front of a controller. -- To keep some modicum of type-safety while making use of interfaces, I've added these TestContext() methods to my interface.

Basically, when a controller is registered with one of these chains, the entire chain is checked to make sure that its dependencies are satisfied. (For example, this "flash" filter requires the "session" chain, because it uses session storage for the message being displayed to the user.)

The controller has a similar test; and these runtime penalties are only incurred once when the route is registered. So the app will panic immediately if the types needed for the chain to work aren't present.

It actually works out quite nicely: but you _need_ to write these tests or it falls flat on its face. -- I like to approach it as a form of test-driven development whenever I add a new filter or controller.
Good point. Teaching hospitals probably get more complex cases, so that is a nuance that should be considered as well. It would also be neat to see how outcomes relate to obesity scores for the area, walkability, crime, etc. We did not find find coorelation between outcome and price. If you click on the hospital icons, the second and third tabs show some aggregate outcomes measures.
I have made it a point to always visit the /new page when I stop by HN. (I also have show-dead enabled, but I've not really considered what it means that so many submissions are dead. I had thought that was caused by accidentally submitting something that had been submitted earlier.)

Frankly, I find the /new page at least half as interesting as the front page, which is to say, quite interesting indeed. I recommend it to anyone looking for another bit of entertaining news on each visit.
Also, don't criticize Go (the language). It seems to be one of several sacred cows around here. I think that's what happened to my original CamperBob account.

Oddly, it also seems that anyone who uses any of several terms for, well, "the sin of Onan," is likely to be hellbanned for it.

Someone could get at least one thesis in linguistics out of reverse engineering all of the undocumented HN pitfalls that lead to hellbanning of otherwise-legitimate users.
Hadn't know there was a bike s.e., thanks!

http://bicycles.stackexchange.com
>It's ironic that pg calls for openness in government but governs HN behind closed doors.

It may be ironic, but it's not hypocritical. Rules that apply to governments need not, and should not, apply to private citizens or corporations. Government can't endorse a religion, but people are free to. Similarly, it would be bizarre if CEOs were voted for by employees.

Government needs to be transparent in order to live up to the maxim that government should operate with the informed consent of the governed. Private entities have no such moral compulsion.
Vernor Vinge wrote a Sci-Fi book where space-dwelling traders used a metric time system like this.
"9% of people in this study admitted to using their mobile device during sex"
I would have a problem with that practice, but my problem would not be that it is egoist... Are you using egoist as a drop in replacement for "bad"? What do you mean by egoist?
If you don't trust a chip vendor's remote patching, there's nothing you can trust on the chip cryptographically at all.
I turned it on after reading this askHN and it was interesting, but I think I'm more thankful for not seeing a bunch of the dead links and comments.
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> * Would HN/pg sell it's users if they were forced by the Government?

isn't all information on HN publicly viewable?
Ask HN: Developer wanted to debug Facebook Share issue
I'm looking for a developer who has a good knowledge of integrating Facebook's share buttons in web apps that has some time to debug something. Contact me massarogi (at) gmail (com)
Kickstarter Game Review: Legends of Dawn "Not Indie, Just Amateur"
Hacker News is leftist, but they are not too quick with the down votes on dissidents. This is not reddit, yet.

I prefer to keep all politics off of HN, because otherwise this will become another site where leftists pat other leftists on the back and no real discussion is permitted.
Very good point. pg's not under many of the compulsions that our government is, but I at least would like to see him live this one by example.

Besides, this is Hacker News, shouldn't we strive for openness/tweaking?
Help, 23 hours left for Kenya to get it's first planetarium
Why your pitch should be 8 seconds long
"I know that on a site called 'Hacker News' informing users that their username or their IP has been banned or restricted is asking for trouble,"

Does PG have a policy against this? I seen people point out that so-and-so was hellbanned before and never noticed any repurcussions and I have also seen people repost useful comments from users who were hell banned.

Or do you think "the trouble" stems from the word hacker in the site name?
I happily use a coercion-free language every day: Haskell. I don't miss coercion at all. Being able to trust the type contracts that each function portrays is an incredibly important part of the confidence that Haskell gives a developer, team, or leader.
I will note, once again, I already did but you're choosing to ignore them since you can't seem to shake away from the "direct access" fallacy because Schmidt told you otherwise.
...which now means you need to spend money to protect yourself against a situation where you've done nothing wrong.
This is an interesting idea, but the numbers are bogus. It says 2% of the world (130M people) makes more than $25,000. This is, however, the median American personal income, so we know that at least 150M Americans make at least that much, plus all the people who do so elsewhere (probably at least another 150M, counting UK, Germany, France, Japan, etc, all the wealthier countries).
Somehow can't reply under your post. By egoistic I mean that someone can continue profiting from the time you take to write posts or submit links without letting you participate with the HN users.
Interesting concept. Most sites that do deals don't let people submit their affiliate links.
That is a true statement on a 150 year timescale (or possibly even a millennial timescale) but on a geologic timescale it is very false. Also, it is misleading to attribute this deviation solely to the activities of man when solar output has been on the rise for nearly two centuries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Activity_Proxies.png)
What are the rules on asking friends to vote? I am a rookie HN user and have heard rumors that it is looked down on, but haven't seen any official word.
While we're at it :) Make retina graphics
Just checked: http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/email/

I was stung by the loss of free apps for domains, because I use Appengine and need several distinct email addresses per app. None of them need Drive or anything but email forwarding, so $50 per year per address means a considerable expense. Yahoo's $120 per ten addresses seems far more reasonable.
1. George W Bush

2. Anarchism

3. Muhammad

4. List of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. employees

<record scratch/>
> Somehow can't reply under your post.

The [reply] button takes longer to show as threads get deeper. This is because deeply nested threads tend to be flame-bait and argument, and slowing down posting is meant to help with that.

Usually clicking the [link] button gives you a text box.
Thanks, yes makes sense, didn't know that :)
What specifically worries you about this idea?

After the OP made his first blog post about it [1], I've considered making one for myself too. But I'm open to being convinced otherwise.

[1] http://blog.chocol.it/2013/06/08/personal-api/
Why would the average user want to see that warning before every movie? It's a waste of time for most people.

If one is such a nitpicker, Netflix isn't a good fit. Pay for the BluRay director's cut. Netflix $7.99/month, and it's a pretty good deal for what they provide.
Love the indie game movement but think it'll take awhile for people to adjust to the higher failure rate that this will naturally spawn.
Coincidence that the link is down?
It is pretty passive-aggressive. An outright ban would get the point across, rather than this weird toying with people that we see in the form of hellbanning.
"It's ironic that pg calls for openness in government but governs HN behind closed doors."

Even if I accept the Alanis Morrisette definition of irony I still have trouble finding the irony in this situation. Administering a nation-state and administering an online community seem like two entirely separate endeavors.
Why not use bitcoin instead of dollars? The point of using dollars in Argentina is to avoid inflation by a central entity, but doesn't bitcoin solve that problem better? It has the added benefit of not being explicitly illegal and having to use a black market.
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#10 "Autism Study Reveals No Genetic Associations" is pretty interesting though probably reflects heterogenous population more than no actual causal mutations
Every social website (I include forums in this category) is, at its core, someone's experiment in autocracy. There's no escaping this, however much power users might appear to have, the admin will do what the admin wants and mods are gods.

Whether this implies anything by extension about the nature of governments or militaries I leave as a futile thought exercise for others.
The ACLU report appears to claim that Minnesota is actually one of the few states that keep recording plate data for a maximum of 48 hours. Was that a recent result of this disclosure? See the callout on the map at http://www.aclu.org/alpr
I think quantum (computing) really revolves around one single thing, the superposition. Either you believe in it, or you don't. The power of it has probably already been realized way before this article, it's just that it's @ a point where we can understand and use it because we have practical uses for it now.
I got bullied out of about 6,000 karma points on what I considered an unjust hellbanning. There's nobody to talk to about it, there's no real recourse. There isn't even a warning or probation system, which makes a lot more sense than destroying a user account because of one comment judged purely subjectively by one mod.
i'm waiting to see how long it takes for my username to get me hellbanned
I agree, I spent over a year posting regularly (1-2 times a week) on an account that was hellbanned before I finally found out nobody could see my posts.

It also bothers me that downvoted posts have lighter/more transparent text. It makes it really hard to read, and most downvoted posts are interesting to read, so it's damaging to my eyes to have to read those posts with some weird text editing on it.
Welcome! I hope your stay here is enjoyable and expands your knowledge. The FAQ/Guidelines, accessible at the bottom of the page, are a little shaky on voting rings. Try to avoid it if you can, and don't be disappointed if your submissions don't get upvotes, just keep shipping!
Mobile web apps are slow (and it's okay)
An ASCII histogram of HN users ages. Average = ~27
Inspiration cred: mixmax's post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039)

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Is there actually any discussion among those who are hellbanned? Otherwise it could be argued that if somebody keeps posting without noting the lack of interaction they probably aren't that much socially aware in the first place.
Wouldn't that theoretically even help creating much better predictions about that user and make auto-banning possible?

Maybe you've recently read the post about browser-fingerprinting. That could help to "anonymously" ban this person/bot.
Disappointing. There's no discussion of how much they paid, or how they actually got their domain name. From the article, it makes it seem as though they are in a lease to buy situation.
Personally I've never understood the 2.39:1 aspect ratio. My TV, computer monitors, laptop and phone are all 16:9. TV shows I watch are 16:9 as well. Other than 4:3, it seems like the universal ratio. So why are movies shot at 2.39:1, a ratio that causes black bars on any device you watch it on?
You're not paying to use HN, so the analogy is a non-sequitur.

You're a guest in pg's house; hellbanning is a generous form of dealing with the unruly by at least letting them visit and talk to those who want to hear the unruly, without either letting the unruly annoy all the guests or throwing some out entirely.
I saw a post of his the other day--it mentioned he might be in jail. Is he okay?
Yeah, I actually find his/her comments intelligent, but maybe too political. If he/she restructured the wording, he/she would be getting huge karma.

Maybe hellbaned was extreme, but HN is not a place for political commentary.
Sorry, I didn't mean to conflate the two. Thanks for the clarification.
Would you mind linking to that account/post? I don't doubt your story, I'm just curious to see the comment that people perceived as spam (maybe it included some words or phrases that triggered the algo?).