<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nthcolumn</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nthcolumn</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 18:49:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nthcolumn" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nthcolumn in "Other ways to read Hacker News"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>hnews.xyz - scans quickly, avoids comments, leaves, ftw.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 20:22:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15321520</link><dc:creator>nthcolumn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15321520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15321520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nthcolumn in "Twitter Suspends 300k Accounts Tied to Terrorism in 2017"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You think that if they can tweet they won't have to go out and murder. Let off a little steam on facebook??? Really???
Really??? Obviously they are doing both and by 'shitposting' you mean posting videos glorifying their victims being beheaded and burnt alive. I suppose you think pedophiles should be able to publish their rape vids too? Anything goes right? No rights more important than the precious!</p>
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<p>Glad you know that most vets are underpaid. Entry costs are massive - you can't just rent some office space and you cannot really do it alone, there are some single vet practices, they don't make much.<p>If you think some of the equipment is 100k, x-ray 30k per plate. You also need a territory before you start. It is too easy for bigger practices to starve you out to just pile in 250k and hope for the best.<p>You have to join a small practice, crawl up through the ranks, getting paid next to nothing, somehow kill your colleagues before they make partner and then you might be in a position to jump ship stealing customers as you go or organize a coup take over the practice by joining with another bigger practice nearby and buying out the seniors.<p>If you had said lawyer now... I don't know maybe - but I got your american dream point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:02:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15226558</link><dc:creator>nthcolumn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15226558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15226558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nthcolumn in "Deep neural networks more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>80% of times according to this research the robot overlords will not be fooled. Of course, the success rate is little consolation. The fact that it will be applied at all is the problem. People who expect gay people to go back into hiding are the past.</p>
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<p>Never mind reeducation camps what about people trying to sell you loafers...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:31:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15199424</link><dc:creator>nthcolumn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15199424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15199424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nthcolumn in "Deep neural networks more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is your point though? Who cares how it does it? The fact that it can tell gay from straight will have privacy implications for both. Not to mention that it is not revealed in the study how much of the feature set was based on grooming.  This is pure speculation. Clearly these trigger points mean more minuses for me and a lack of any sensible discussion of the actual point of the study.</p>
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<p>Totally agree! Heterosexual women will have to wear makeup and grow their hair long to avoid being misidentified as lesbians. Personally I think it is wishful thinking on the part of people who think that you aren't born gay.  This algorithm will out even the most repressed homosexual as it is not entirely based on 'social characteristics'. Science doesn't care what you think.</p>
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<p>And in the context of privacy with regard to public surveillance systems with facial recognition capability your point is exactly what?</p>
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<p>Sorry my bad didn't google it properly first, not a spelling nazi - it just makes my brain hurt to look at it.<p>js library names has become like domains now - everything already taken, boing.js, bounce.js, pulse.js, throb.js, even wubwub.js - hey how about palp.js? meh...no rythm.js <i>is</i> better :) there were too many haches in that word anyway.</p>
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<p>Not part or ever will be it seems. Their application officially just recently being moved to the out tray.</p>
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<p>e-Stonia has e-Residency, and various other internet-based shenanigans. You can get an e-passport, set up business, get residency, travel documents, online, I think. Just visit your local embassy with proof of id. They are selling themselves as a digital destination/economy. Russia occasionally does massive DDoS there. so ymmv. Not sure how that relates though just surprised it was them. Maybe they are leaking it because they want it nipped in the bud.</p>
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<p>The views they disagree with are fascist views so yes duh. they are literally anti-fascists. Have you any examples of them opposing any views which aren't fascist, violently or otherwise? We should oppose that.</p>
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<p>Yeah I remember it doesn't apply. This isn't Godwin as we are talking about actual Nazis. The right, the vast majority of decent Republicans want nothing to do with these scum. If you call yourself alt-right then you probably are a fascist. I don't think it is a spectrum.</p>
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<p>Reddit is a business. I don't support businesses that facilitate child rape forums. You do. That's how we are different. Other businesses should not suffer for what Reddit does so I use the internet, on usenet other providers likewise, on reddit you all share the blame because you support the same business. I can't tell myself I'm only using this tiny part and those nasty people aren't anything to do with me because it's bullshit, or to provide an extreme example - I don't think you'd use 'just the comments section' of 'Playpen' and be guilt free (or free outside jail). I think you conveniently ignore the fact that there are inappropriate images of children on the site not because you believe in free speech for pedos, you simply don't care enough. And no I don't think pedo sites are a free speech issue - there are things we will not tolerate nazis, pedos, being two of them. I can't believe I even have to have this conversation. I said HN had not succumbed, I should have said '...yet'.</p>
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<p>How much free speech you think you'll have when they have their fascist state?</p>
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<p>There will be any number of reasons to favor PostgreSQL over the DolphinDB and vice versa.<p>I have owned various on linux, aix, windows, sco-unix, vax from pick, rms, isams, 4gls dbs, ingres, informix, sybase, mssql, db2, oracle, solid, postgres, mysql to mongo, influx, and redis. I hate them all. I found mysql very slow, much slower than postgresql on equivalent datasets/queries. I had done evaluations before choosing an open-source db for a particular project.<p>And that really is the crux of the thing - comparing benchmarks is usually meaningless, some don't scale as well, some suit a different kind of application, some need to be distributed, some not, it really is on a case by case basis, what is good in one case is not always the case.<p>Perhaps stating the blindingly obvious for those getting very het up about evangelism...</p>
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<p>I was on digg but stopped using the site as it was overrun by pedos and not wanting to be associated with child-rapists I was part of the reddit-exodus. Reddit was even worse than digg, still is. I complained about violentacres and his ilk to no avail. I gave up using the site 1009 days ago. I cannot understand how anyone would use a site that does not harshly punish anyone like that or want to be associated with such a site in any way.</p>
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<p>My free speech/opinion:<p>>and even the Dark Web will allow paedophiles, hit men, and every type of criminal<p>alt-right? Why don't you call them what they are - Nazis and fascists. They are lowest of all these. There is probably strong overlap. Fascists think nobody should have any rights but themselves.<p>The vigilantism/collaboration was made necessary by the alarming fact that the people who should have been doing something - authorities all the way up and including POTUS were tacitly sanctioning them, facilitating them, normalizing their behavior.<p>They present a clear and present danger to the country and free speech. They still have their free speech, they can still cry on youtube. Daily Stormer was just one head of that hydra.<p>If you know of any pedo, hit men or criminals then reach out to law enforcement and failing that publicly shame them so that the same can happen. None of the above should or will be tolerated.</p>
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<p>They get all their best ideas from UK.</p>
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<p>If I had a choice it would be tp2 - that's a beaut piece of software you got there... definitely does not suck.</p>
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