vox_mollis
Joined 11 years ago
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Comment · 10 years ago
Little bit of an aside: Why do most infosec practitioners prefer conferences like BlackHat and RSA to Bsides and Def Con? The price differences are staggering.
Comment · 10 years ago
[edit] I was uninformed, there is no delete option.
Comment · 10 years ago
Thank you. I understand why you wouldn't disclose the specific algorithms used, but perhaps issue a set of guidelines for not falling afoul of them?
For instance, I always access HN via a public VPN service, and I suspect coming from a shared IP may have an impact (I'm guessing, anyway). If this is a criteria, it would be nice to know.
Again, thanks for the clarification.
Comment · 10 years ago
Apologies, I wasn't aware of the backlog. It wasn't intentionally snarky - if I ran a board as popular as this, prioritizing popular accounts would be sensible thing for me to do, so I assumed.
Comment · 10 years ago
Ok, yes, it seems nobody responds to the HN email address regarding issues like this. They likely filter out those not as popular as you.
Comment · 10 years ago
At your suggestion, I did. I don't know what their typical response time is, but as of yet nothing.
Comment · 10 years ago
Verified it with both a throwaway and a friend. Also, my 0 minute posts always end up near the bottom of the page, as if I had on the order of 10 karma.
Comment · 10 years ago
What's never discussed is HN's "voting hellban". That is, you are permitted to upvote/downvote, but your votes don't ever actually count. This is the case with my account, but it's never discussed or documented anywhere.
Comment · 10 years ago
Hellbanning exists in a subtler form, though. For instance, my account.
Top-level comments that are literally seconds old are typically posted about 2/3 down the page. None of my votes appear to actually count. It's been this way for several months.
I'm used to it, but it's still very annoying and I wish HN would actually acknowledge they do this.
Comment · 10 years ago
Well, yes. The nominal standard here is whether the prejudice is against something the individual has choice over. One does not choose one's race, whereas once does choose one's own religion, even if raised in an environment suffused with it.
Choice and agency is the standard by which most people draw the line between generic prejudice and hate. It's no coincidence that gay rights dramatically improved along with widespread acceptance that, regarding sexual orientation, "I was born this way".
Comment · 10 years ago
It doesn't appear that the country is after an empire the same way the British had one 100 years ago
US empire is defined more by squashing incipient threats to its global hegemony than by UK-style colony management.
Comment · 10 years ago
Default rates have just hit their lowest point in eight years:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/chargeoff/delallsa.h...
From this halcyon point, there's more downside risk than upside going forward. Unless the cyclical nature of debt defaults suddenly stopped after centuries.
Comment · 10 years ago
Not to get too conspiratorial, but Urbit's founder is not a very popular figure around here. Mass autoflagging of * urbit * would not be surprising.