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sinak2

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sinak2··on FCC ‘Net Neutrality’ Plan Calls for More Power Over Broadband
Bypass paywall: http://goo.gl/mjK8h3
sinak2··on Today is The Day We Fight Back
I switched into writing Markdown by accident. We've got the site frontend running on jekyll so it's static and easy to scale, and I've gotten too used to using the syntax.

I can't edit that comment any more (time expired), but the correct link is https://whispersystems.org

sinak2··on Show HN: thedaywefightback.js
Hey Lucas, we need to add something like Jekyll-RSS-Feeds (https://github.com/snaptortoise/jekyll-rss-feeds) to our repo. I'm totally strapped for time, but will try - if you fancy submitting a PR though, the repo is here: https://github.com/tfrce/thedaywefightback
sinak2··on Show HN: thedaywefightback.js
Sorry, our bad. Fixing that now, should be done in a few minutes. That's our GeoIP server not returning a value, and our javascript freaking out as a result.
sinak2··on The Day We Fight Back
This project was originally suggested by David Segal, Aaron's co-founder at Demand Progress, back in November. We'd been waiting for the right date to actually build and launch it, and David suggested that using Aaron's passing was likely the best marker, particularly since he and Brian Knappenberger had just uncovered some footage of Aaron talking about the need for a "moment of activism" around state surveillance (which'll be released soon). I can definitely understand the skepticism, but from my understanding it was definitely an issue he cared about.
sinak2··on Poll: Are there too many NSA stories on HN, or not enough?
91 comments doesn't seem like that many, but that's definitely a possibility.
sinak2··on Poll: Are there too many NSA stories on HN, or not enough?
Interestingly, this post appears to have been flagged or relegated in some way. It has 141 points in one hour at 10th place, while the Steam Family Sharing post has 150 points in first place and is two hours old.

Certainly some of the discussion on other threads should be filtered. But the moderation on stories themselves appears to be heavy-handed right now. Many significant new stories aren't making it to the home page (see above).

A proposed solution: If the reason for this in fact flagging, and not moderation by admins, then perhaps showing the guidelines and possibly requiring users to give a reason for flagging might reduce the number of wayward flags. The official guidelines for flagging are: "If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link"