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If you are looking to get titles corrected, it's best to email the mods using the Contact link in the footer.

From the guidelines:

> "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Comments about voting, flagging, and other moderation actions detract from actual conversation: that's clear from the guidelines (e.g., Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.) and 'dang's moderation activity. As does enumerating every rule, as it encourages just this type of rule lawyering that I've now played a part in exacerbating, so I'll stop now.

Just as the guidelines ask us "If you flag, please don't also comment that you did", just vouch: don't also mention you did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you think a commenter's comments are dead in error, you can email the mods via the Contact link in the footer so they can take appropriate action.

Flagged and flagged dead are two different things: flagged dead doesn’t mean “strenuously flagged”. If the post is dead, no one can comment on it.

> Since version 3, TeX has used an idiosyncratic version numbering system, where updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end of the decimal, so that the version number asymptotically approaches π. This is a reflection of the fact that TeX is now very stable, and only minor updates are anticipated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#TeX82

Sounds like you code pretty tight. I've seen plenty of functions reference variables out of function scope, or be reassigned within long function bodies. I personally don't code that way, but not everyone does. And as you've seen in this thread, there are people that do like immutability. To each his own.

An aspect of immutability I really appreciate is that I know no variable has been changed after it's been assigned to, including by me. If I want to know where the value was assigned, I only have to look for the only place it could have been assigned. I don't have to search anywhere else.

I'm moving to nix. I use a combination of macports and brew, and brew's current behavior is unusable for me, so it's going to be relegated to "use brew for package X until I find an alternate solution for package X".

I don't want to have to keep updating brew just to keep from having to wait ever-increasing amounts of time when I want to install a new package or upgrade a specific one. I never have these issues with macports, and won't have them with nix.

That's what the "favorite" link is for.

In my experience emailing is better (using the Contact link in the footer). This is also better for getting the mods' attention, as things like @dang don't trigger any automated notification mechanism.

The article title is "Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink", which is over the 80-character limit for titles. The submitter likely made the edit to make the title fit.

If you have better alternative, feel free to suggest one.

Edit to add: the best way to get a title fixed is to (quietly) email the mods using the contact link in the footer.

That matches my recollection as well. Here's the announcement thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404

And some follow-up from 'dang at the time:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522433

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463480

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_reliability_engineering

From the guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's not shadow banned. They were explicitly banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25770512

If you think the comment is worth vouching, comment on its content.

There's nothing secret about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23559004

It's just text as part of the title. The submitter can do it (until the edit time runs out).

Clojure is strongly, dynamically (as opposed to statically) typed.

As I understand it, only mods have the ability to update submission titles. You can email them using the Contact link in the footer.

The guidelines include guidelines around submission titles. I don't know the title you submitted, but in my experience, mods edit titles to make them more in keeping with the guidelines. Often (but not always) they include a comment that they did edit it. But, if you've got a question about it, you can ask by email. They don't always see comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I didn't realize the source, but when you posted I was pretty sure I'd seen it elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Creativity, Inc.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077903-creativity-inc

It's on my list to read. Saw a talk Catmull gave on youtube (don't have a link at hand) and was pretty impressed.

Just a heads-up: for your contact information to appear in your profile, you need to include it in the "about" text area. The "email" field is only visible to moderators.

Good catch.

The title's been editorialized: Actual title is "When dissent is misinformation, fallacies become facts"

The title would be better if it included the project name, such as "macOS support removed from restc-cpp after Apple privacy announcement"

You might want to take a look at J, also by Iverson (along with Hui)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

https://www.jsoftware.com/#/

I suspect they're referring to the Elecom HUGE trackball:

https://www.elecom.co.jp.e.gj.hp.transer.com/products/M-HT1D...

Mapping CAPS LOCK to CONTROL is another popular option. But I suspect when one takes into account the entire population of computer users, CAPS LOCK remains CAPS LOCK and likely largely unused.

Functional programming