sctb

8,310 karma · joined October 16, 2008

sctb··on Canada might hold Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of parliament

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20025871.

sctb··on How we found the source of the mystery signals at Parkes Radio Telescope (2015)

Updated. Thank you!

sctb··on Democrats More Positive About Socialism Than Capitalism (2018)

A moderator reverted the title from “Young Americans (age 18-29) prefer socialism to capitalism (2018)” to that of the article (as the guidelines call for). It's up to readers to decide what they find most interesting.

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sctb··on Hledger: Robust Plain Text Accounting

Discussion from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15818682.

sctb··on Higher Social Classes Have an Exaggerated Belief That They Are More Capable

This is abusive and we've banned the account.

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sctb··on Boston Student wrote ‘I'm from Hong Kong’ An onslaught of Chinese anger followed

We've asked you many times to please follow the guidelines and since it's not happening we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com.

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sctb··on No, Night Owls Aren’t Doomed to Die Early

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

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sctb··on Crossfit Deletes Facebook and Instagram After User Group Is Deplatformed

You can't compare stories that way because it's not nearly just about vote/time. In any case, the previous story tripped the overheated discussion detector which we've just turned off so it's on the second page now.

sctb··on Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

OK, we've turned off the flags now. Thanks!

sctb··on Blockchain-Flavored WASI

Please let's post more substantively, even if you get your buttons pushed.

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sctb··on Consuming Hacker News

> We like to think about filter bubbles with respect to political divisions on Facebook. Users are relentlessly profiled and marketed-against there. However, they are a natural consequence of the HN algorithm too.

No way, there's just one ranking algorithm for everyone.

sctb··on Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration

Please don't do nationalistic flamewar here.

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sctb··on Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978

> Please don't make insinuations about astroturfing. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried, email us and we'll look at the data.

Besides this, it's rude to address other community members this way. Just email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you have such concerns, we take them seriously and we have better options for addressing them.

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sctb··on Snapchat Employees Abused Data Access to Spy on Users

You're more than welcome to express an opinion about patterns of unethical behavior, but you'll have to do it much more substantively and thoughtfully than this. We've asked you many times to please increase the information in your posts—could you please try?

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sctb··on To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

Thanks, we've updated the title from “NYT Tracks Reddit Conversations Around nytimes.com Content” to that of the article with a more mechanical shortening.

sctb··on Computing's first 'killer app' changed everything

Could you please review the guidelines? Posting like this is just right out.

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sctb··on Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority over GDPR

Could you please work on increasing the information-to-inflammation ratio of your comments?

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sctb··on Google’s AI can now translate your speech while keeping your voice

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19935480

sctb··on Two dead after YouTube conspiracy video claims drinking bleach cures autism

No matter what you're replying to, it's not OK to post like this here. Could you please review the guidelines? We need you to break them less.

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sctb··on Physical kilogram is officially dead

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19936454

sctb··on Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars

Please don't get into old habits of breaking the guidelines. It's absolutely not OK to address other community members like this and we ban accounts that keep on.

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sctb··on Alan Kay and OO Programming

The bar for thoughtfulness is higher than this here. Even if the J-word gets us, could we please be more informative and kind or just not say anything?

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sctb··on US has underestimated Huawei, says founder

Could you please review the guidelines and make an effort to post more informatively and thoughtfully? We're here to have a discussion and to learn things.

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sctb··on Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and body tags

Could you please review the guidelines and then not post like this here?

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sctb··on Show HN: Oya – New projects set up lightning fast

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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sctb··on Why Racket? Why Lisp?

A couple prior discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9268904

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8206038

sctb··on Who killed Olof Palme?