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1) There is a precedence for twitter posts in HN: https://harishgarg.com/writing/hacker-news-front-page-tweets-2020/ https://harishgarg.com/writing/hacker-news-

1) There is a precedence for twitter posts in HN: https://harishgarg.com/writing/hacker-news-front-page-tweets-2020/ https://harishgarg.com/writing/hacker-news-front-page-tweets... 2) How am I breaking the guidelines? "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups." The person writing the twitter post is the author of "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" so I believe his comment does follow the On-Topic criteria as he is a renowned person in the science community.

filoeleven 5y ago
“Off-Topic: Most stories about politics,” The tweet is not even a story, it’s a flatly divisive statement with nothing to back it up. It makes claims about affirmative action, so it is political, and IMO it is also flamebait. Starting a flame war doesn’t appear to be your intent based on your other comment, but linking directly to that tweet gives no surrounding context to prevent one. (I’m not sure more context would prevent one, but it might help.)
- atlacatl_sv 5y ago
  I guess it might be interpreted as a political statement. However, I saw it as a ‘scientific’ claim that could be refuted by someone in our HN community as I believe his statement is factually wrong. His only citation is this study https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12062/gender-differences-at-critical-transitions-in-the-careers-of-science-engineering-and-mathematics-faculty https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12062/gender-differences-at-crit.... You are right, It was never my intention to start a flame war at all.
  - filoeleven 5y ago
    Right, that’s why I think that Twitter posts need higher scrutiny before landing on the main page =) From what I read of the Twitter “thread,” the original post went up and sat for a day or so, then someone else finally posted some references and the first guy retweeted them. Other HN posts have already said they don’t support the original tweet. Which seems to be the answer you were looking for. If the original tweet and the eventual references had all been rolled up into a digestible blog post, I would have been less likely to flag it—even though I don’t think HN is the right place for it. My take on the post has nothing to do with you personally. If you had made the same reply without mentioning that you were the OP, I would not have known and would have responded mostly the same way. Probably less charitably TBH, since I wouldn’t have seen your other comment.

filoeleven 5y ago

“Off-Topic: Most stories about politics,” The tweet is not even a story, it’s a flatly divisive statement with nothing to back it up. It makes claims about affirmative action, so it is political, and IMO it is also flamebait. Starting a flame war doesn’t appear to be your intent based on your other comment, but linking directly to that tweet gives no surrounding context to prevent one. (I’m not sure more context would prevent one, but it might help.)

atlacatl_sv 5y ago
I guess it might be interpreted as a political statement. However, I saw it as a ‘scientific’ claim that could be refuted by someone in our HN community as I believe his statement is factually wrong. His only citation is this study https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12062/gender-differences-at-critical-transitions-in-the-careers-of-science-engineering-and-mathematics-faculty https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12062/gender-differences-at-crit.... You are right, It was never my intention to start a flame war at all.
- filoeleven 5y ago
  Right, that’s why I think that Twitter posts need higher scrutiny before landing on the main page =) From what I read of the Twitter “thread,” the original post went up and sat for a day or so, then someone else finally posted some references and the first guy retweeted them. Other HN posts have already said they don’t support the original tweet. Which seems to be the answer you were looking for. If the original tweet and the eventual references had all been rolled up into a digestible blog post, I would have been less likely to flag it—even though I don’t think HN is the right place for it. My take on the post has nothing to do with you personally. If you had made the same reply without mentioning that you were the OP, I would not have known and would have responded mostly the same way. Probably less charitably TBH, since I wouldn’t have seen your other comment.