detector

So taking a narrow slice with a tunable optical filter (which aren't that narrow really) would mean the detector would see a very small signal indeed.

Also a note to people who write blog article with such titles: HN has a flame war detector.

And if the thread has too many comments it's automatically penalized by the flamewar / controversial detector.

If you want some sort of probabilistic lie detector, there isn't any reliable one out there, and the unreliable ones are proprietary.

I'm tactically resubmitting this, as the previous post [1] set off the flame-war detector (# comments > # upvotes).

Please weigh commenting carefully with your contribution to setting off the flame-war detector.

You can calibrate an inexpensive NaI detector such that it will tell you how much Cs-137 is in a given volume of water.

Instead just use a slightly different URL to get past the duplicate detector.

Threads like that routinely fall off the front page, mostly because of the flamewar detector, but we downweight them too.

Having such a bug detector can be worth its weight in gold.

This article sets off my bullshit detector, and let me explain why.

Three factors: user flags, the flamewar detector (a software penalty for discussions that usually aren't substantive), and a moderation downweight for not containing new information.

This post has more comments than it does upvotes, which means it flags the "flame-war detector" and will receive less visibility than it would otherwise.

Calling Valgrind a "memory leak detector" totally underplays its usefulness.

> "Just go to Gigster’s site, instant message with a sales engineer, tell them what you want built, and in 10 minutes you get a guaranteed quote " My BS detector is off the charts.