skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toxicity in gaming + virtual communities (particularly against women) seems to be an issue that no company has a great grasp on.

I recently gave Fortnite a try and ended up turning chat off due to relentless abuse by someone that sounded like they were pretty young. It made me a bit sad - I met some of my best friends growing up online in irc channels playing CS, WoW, etc - not sure if I would be able to do so today.

Also Polygon article where Ninja talks about why he doesn't stream with female gamers (for whatever reason espn didn't link...) -

https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/11/17675738/ninja-twitch-fema...
This resonated with me a lot:

> These values reflect a deeper sense within me: that software can be permanent — that software’s unique duality as both information and machine afford a timeless perfection and utility that stand apart from other human endeavor.
I think a note app should be designed around the idea that the first action you take by default is always taking a note, and that actions should be made available where appropriate as a reaction. Shockingly, not many apps do this that I am aware of. Taking notes in an expeditious manner isn't always a design priority, and I don't think that's a needed sacrifice to make in a note taking app. That's why I never used evernote, anyways.
>The US has been cheating, bigger, better and longer

Citation?
I’m sorry but I thought the issue we were talking about was whether global winner-take-all, IE most votes cast in the country determines the winner, is disenfranchising compared to our current electoral college system.
Wish that I could but I'm stuck in an endless cycle shown here:
https://imgur.com/a/nnt1f75

...and iTunes is unusable during this cycle.
The Autofill API is an Oreo feature but password apps can draw over others and fill forms without it so it has worked on Android for years. It was one feature which meant I would never consider an iOS device, so good to see it implemented.
That's not really how digital advertising targeting works though. In fact, they go to great lengths to make sure you illegally exclude by a class (Google is especially strict about this) and don't transmit anything that is considered PII or "potentially PII". Gender, like IP address, is in the potentially PII realm.

What this actually is going to do is target "people interested in typically male interests". That is going to end up including men, women and trans men. More importantly, the hit rate of gender-targeted ad spend trends towards 50% regardless of gender. It is not an effective tactic.

This is totally overblown.

/signed someone who used to be a digital advertiser in the legal space with a yearly budgeted spend north of $100 million.
See my other response..

Can't use iTunes:
https://imgur.com/a/nnt1f75

The above is what I get when I plug my iPhone into my Mac and it pops up iTunes.

EDIT: After some trial and error, recovery mode may have been activated, not sure it's working yet. Hopefully I don't brick my phone.
EDIT-2: Nope, same result..
I've been an Evernote premium subscriber for 4 years. I love Evernote and use it everyday. I haven't found a tool with as high quality of a web clipper, great search and optical character recognition and intergrations with everything. Will be sad to see it go if it does.
One of the big functions of a bicycle/motorcycle helmet is to make the head slide, instead of sticking and snapping.
> At $100 a bottle I'm going to be loading up my SUV with as many water bottles as fit and I'll be driving to the disaster area. I'll take work off, maybe even risk getting fired for that type of payday.

So would hundreds of other people, which would get in the way of actual relief efforts and probably cost lives. In fact, for enough money, you could even lobby the government to ensure that you would profit off of future disasters.

> I probably wouldn't have done that without the financial carrot.

Probably not, but others would have. And those organizations, whether private or government are also willing to help the people where there is no financial incentive to do so.

In the example you give, the result would be those that have the financial resources would stockpile the water, while poorer folks would simply die.

There are some areas like disaster relief, education, and the provision of medical services where the free market has shown itself to be woefully insufficient.
Oh the stress of modern celebrity! I'd give you all my pity but I already spent it raising children and paying a mortgage and working for sociopaths.

Having said that, now I fucking well WANT to play Fortnite every day
But it's your compiler, that does exactly what you want.

;)
Another reason for the redirect would be to mitigate the relentless web scraping which occurs. Some people just don't want to connect their apps with keys.
Wouldn’t that database be just positively massive? How fast does the database grow?
> What next? Hold AT&T culpable for providing internet to these advertisers?

If AT&T is otherwise interacting with the content (e.g. throttling or zero-rating based on it being an ad), I don't see a problem with that.

Traditionally, common carriers were protected under the premise that they didn't discriminate based on content. In this respect, I think internet carriers are putting themselves in a precarious position in not supporting net neutrality.

Once a carrier shows that it can (and does) discriminate content, what makes it different from a publisher like a newspaper?
> Why do we think that way when we're young, that we're immune to damage? What changes?

I'm not saying that all of the "life experiences" answers are wrong, but I think there's more to it. For an organism to be successful it has to survive (to a point), but it also has to be efficient at doing physical tasks. I think we're naturally inclined to push our limits at a young age so that we know where those limits are, and we can more safely straddle them when we're older. Evolution could have made children cautious, and it did, to an extent. But there is a balance. A child who is too cautious never learns how to run safely, and an adult who doesn't know how to run safely can't chase a gazelle very well.
Advertising on one platform for one gender doesn't mean the job is only for one gender. And if job was open to one gender only, there're already laws against that...

Saying that "FB is not a single gender platform" is like saying that "Higher education is not a single gender platform".
That first one. As mentioned above Facebook is also breaking the law
The hedge fund? Wrong. I have those returns too. Ever wonder why neither he nor anyone talks about his returns? It’s not a conspiracy...

It is insane to me. We detest more than anything the notion of the high fee hedge fund manager who gets rich while his clients lose money, but the world gives Chanos the biggest pass of all time. This is a guy who has made something like $1 billion pre-tax and pre-divorce while his fund has just lost copious amounts of money over any relevant time frame.
Best news from them in months. I wish Instagram would do the same. The "smart" ordering of tweets and photos just makes my experience with both the apps worse.
It is on the Android team’s todo list. If you want to help please dm me on Twitter. Thanks.
Helena Web Automation and Web Scraping
Right, when you make uninformed jokes like this, you trivialize the hard work that others are doing.

This isn't Reddit.
This explains why visiting twitter.com has been horribly broken for months. Literally every time I try to visit twitter.com in Safari, it would just load a blank page and do nothing, and I'd have to manually reload before it would come back to life.

Though trying right now it's working. So either they changed something, or upgrading to Safari 12 fixed this issue (or turning off legacy extensions did, which was a side-effect of upgrading to Safari 12, though I wouldn't expect Ghostery or the DuckDuckGo extension to prevent twitter.com from reloading).
In the past week only there have been 33 posts about Rust. Y Comb loves to constantly push technology in short spurts.
How did they imply that hiring women is charity?
> Many places are named after famous slaves that successfully fleed their master.

This is great for La Réunion, but many places in the US are named for slaveholders, or even generals who fought to preserve institutionalized slavery. There are monuments to these monsters all over and people still proudly display their traitorous flag. We're touchy about this subject for good reason.
> EDIT: another comment pointed out goto; I have no idea what the performance implications are but I’ll have to add that to my list of “stuff C has that Rust doesn’t.”

On that front, one interesting thought would be to reimplement the CPython bytecode interpreter in Rust and see if you can match the performance of C using computed goto.

In principle, there's no fundamental reason Rust couldn't optimize "loop around match" exactly the same way, without needing the computed goto. (For that matter, so could C.) Doing that would help cases like this.
Accidentally Quadratic – Rust Hash Iteration and Reinsertion
Why do we need to slow down and even stop cars if we in your proposal even have a dedicated bike lane? Why not put up a small barrier between cars and bikes and have everyone go their own way? Speed limits on the US already are insanely slow compared to most of Europe and the bike thing seems to work better their regardless. We need more diverse infrastructure for different modes of transportation. I want trains that go 200mp/h, dedicated bike routes, and smaller dedicated roads for cars that are better organized with much higher speed limits and walkable city centers where pedestrians can feel safe from cars AND bicyclists. Sounds crazy but works in parts of Europe.
These twitch streamers and their relationship to their audiences reminds me a lot of William Gibson's simstim celebrities in the Neuromancer trilogy.
With Microsoft going to "fat pointers" in their systems, some pointer conversions are not going to work.
If anything, GP is conservative.

If gdp growth stagnates, there's a very real risk that the Chinese housing bubble will collapse and bring down the entire economy with it.
Ask HN? Question regarding low cost fanless linux dev system
Hi.

I'm in the market for a low cost fanless Linux system.

The best option so far seems to be the Intel compute stick.

But I would prefer an ARM based solution

and a small desktop form factor

for the ability to add peripherals more easily.

Also, I would prefer a non-branded system that I can configure myself

Are there any small time PC integrators that still do that, here in the US?
I've been a user of Evernote since 2011, and previously I would use various ways of documenting my personal notes/work notes. Why I use Evernote is it's decently polished, works across OS versions and allows the best mix of storing attachments. A few months ago I tried a large selection of other note-taking apps and really wanted to like Standard Notes but it just felt not as polished and the extensions were not so great. I really think Quiver would be a winner if it was open to Windows, and I'm starting to think Onenote is the winner. But most of these lack the tree view of the notes (nested tags/notebooks) or they don't allow attachments storage.
I think you're assuming a lot more intent from my comment than there was. I don't think scientists are better than artists or vice versa. I don't think any two people experience life in the same exact way. I didn't say artists "do nothing interesting."

However, an artist and a scientist are going to see literally the exact same thing when they pass by the moon (barring any medical conditions, e.g. Van Gogh). That's what I meant in saying they will see the same thing.

And I want to point out two observations about your definition of what an artist can do.

First, your definition is limiting. It is overly specific. You can agree that not every artist looks at a scene from N perspectives to synthesize all possible emotional impacts, etc. especially not in some conscious, trained way. And if it's unconscious, people capable of such a talent aren't the only people qualified to be artists.

Second, the definition itself sounds like it was written by a scientist or mathematician, a bunch of little checkboxes describing process and behavior. Maybe you were just doing that to try to get through to me. If so, I appreciate it.

However, I assume this is just how you think. And I believe that this insistence on how important and significant it is to have an artist look at the moon from up close is one heavily rooted in and biased toward empiricism / scientific-mindedness / whatever you want to call it. ("If only I could get a little closer to the moon, to measure it etc., I could properly gauge the emotional impact etc. etc. etc.")

Artists are able to write or paint (or do something in another medium) about experiences they have never had, still with significant impact. Dostoyevsky didn't have to murder anyone to write Crime and Punishment. It's not a prerequisite to see or touch something to be able to conceive of its emotional impact. The same goes for this. It may be the case that an artist gets closer to the moon and is inspired (similar to the idea of a muse), but it's not a foregone conclusion.
China will try to avoid this extreme scenario lest they end up like Russia --at least Russia has natural resources to export, if nothing else.

They will have learned that scaring off foreign investment is not good for their economy long-term. They don't want to squander their potential, I don't think.

Still, they have serious problems to address. Issues the US and the EU and other Asian economies have with them vis a vis their unfair trade practices.

If the EU and other Asian economies join up with the US and form one front on this, they will very likely come correct, if reluctantly.
They should, yes. That bug was actually fixed in one of the 2.0.0 betas (https://electronjs.org/releases#2.0.0-beta.1) – those apps may just be slow to catch up.
The free version of OneNote is lighter. The version that comes with Office is full-featured. (Don't know exactly what's different, I've only used the office version.)
I've honestly moved to Google, adding

`{search query} -site:github.com/{repo}/{file i want to target}`

Its much clearer and concise.
That first "rejected" sequence is actually pretty close to something quiet interesting.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.4470.pdf
The Mac version of OneNote is missing quite a few features from the Windows version. Evernote doesn't have that problem.

(I use OneNote anyway, since it's so much better then Evernote for me, it's just kind of annoying given that I switch between Mac and Windows a lot.)

Also, the free (non-Office) version of OneNote is missing some features, I think.
I agree with the points you make, but not the overall sentiment of your comment:

Bitcoin does provide a level of privacy and self sovereignty that hasn't really existed since cash. So i agree with your:

> (although perhaps different ones)

Powerful players can only play games with each other around the price. And if you are a retail trader you might get caught up in this. But that's about the only thing they can do, limiting the attack surface drastically.

I'm saying see cryptocurrencies more as an expression of freedom and less as a place to dump all your savings into. Unfortunately too many people got that backwards.
Grandparent poster was arguing that it's just as easy to change society's conventions like opening hours and business hours everywhere, as it is to change the time.

I'm saying that that is absolutely not the case, and that grandparent is delusional.
I remember doing some calculations years ago and calculated that if one was capable of riding in a vacuum one could reach a speed of over 2000km/h based just on friction of moving parts and road
It helps me with autocomplete. In Python at least, I find

int.__add__(a, b)

is less idiomatic than

a.add(b)

which removes the global abstract. Though I see it looks less symmetric.

I'm not a Rustacean - I only speak to the syntax difference.
Totally agree with the sprawl issue, but I cannot see why we have to make one more of transportation worse to make another better. Not everyone can ride a bike. Either because of their physical ability or because of the for they'd need to travel. Europe has better bike lanes and higher speed limits for cars. We can have our cake and eat it too. Let's get rid of the sprawl, add some decent public transit and prohibit cars in city centers and we get somewhere. The sprawl that's subsidised by everyone is the root of all Urban planning problems in the US.
This is total BS.

> Does the interesting 1970s “programmer” job still exist?

Sure! Go right there: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/cobol-jobs/

And enjoy the not-bloated-at-all systems you'll find there!
> there are de facto more shares in existence.

> because there are de facto 20% more shares in existence

Sorry, what? Am I misunderstanding you? How does short selling increase outstanding shares? It's hard to parse the rest of this given what seems like a grave oversight.

Once you borrow the shares from firm A and sell them to person B, person B is the holder of record for those shares now. Firm A doesn't own them anymore - that's why you have to pay out company dividends to firm A from your own pocket while you're borrowing them.

Regardless of how they track their positions, the only thing firm A owns is an obligation from you to give them shares back at some point. There's no change in the number of outstanding shares.

Or are you talking about naked shorting? Because that's been illegal since 2008 (regardless of whether it still occurs).

> People are worried about volatility as an indicator, not because it's a good in its own right that society benefits from creating artificially.

Well, for one: People are worried that volatility has become a good in its own right - hence the famous "Volatility has become a player on the field" quote and why the $XIV delisting was such a big deal.

For two: You said that short selling increased volatility. I said volatility is really low, to the point that some people are concerned it's too low. Clearly, short selling hasn't had a major impact on volatility.
> from a giant pool of cheap, generic, interchangeable, fully replaceable developers

A giant pool? Sorry, not really. JS skills are highly sought after, and finding good, experienced front end developers is very hard. Inexperienced developers are easy to find in any language, including your favorite one, whatever that is.

The "cheap, generic, interchangeable, fully replaceable" part just sounds bitter and vindictive, no need to respond to that.
I feel like Bear[0] comes pretty close. I’ve been using it for the last few months and it’s one of the few apps I’ve found that actually allows me to just go in and take a note/jot down a quick blurb as needed.

I tried to use Evernote and it just never stuck with me. It felt like it was too much overhead just for capturing quick ideas.

[0]https://bear.app/
China will not overtake US at least for the next 100 years.

On what metric? By GDP PPP, they've already passed us:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

They are a much larger country. At about 15k gdp per capita, they'll match our gdp... and that's just a solid middle-income country... not exceptional. As they start to exceed that, certainly that economic power will start to show itself globally.

For comparison, Taiwan and South Korea are at ~$30k. That would result in a gdp 2x as large as the US (about 40T).
Try Logic Supply
organ stance?
The same is also true of the USA.
Sorry - edited. Still didn't answer the question, though :p
The Lighttable Saga is def a sad one and occasionally kind of irritates me.

I have no idea of what "really happened", but my layman's interpretation of how that went down is...

- Make a great thing w potential.

- Kickstarter it.

- Rush to meet the KS deadline.

- Get frustrated. Abandon it.

- Take VC money to take "the next step" (Eve)

- Spend VC millions over X years, release some ideas in WIP repos, nothing holistic or truly practical.

- Fold.

- Then go to work for a proprietary Database Tools Vendor who will implicitly inherit any learning made during the previous projects.

Sadness and "loss" everywhere. If I was a VC in that early deal, I'd be pissed when Looker "finally releases" Eve as some middle-ware BI system.
Can you explain how the mixed-use makes this worse? Not having seen it, I'd expect it to make the situation better that I have a restaurant right next to my apartment or office and don't need to get in the car.
It would be even more disappointing if the stock barely moved, and then crashed 2 days after the option expired. In that event, the put goes to zero and the traditional short wins the jackpot.

A more abstract way to make the same point is that a put or call is making a bet about volatility, whereas traditional long or shorting is a pure directional bet.
After thoroughly reading your post and thinking about it for quite a while I came to realize that you had made an excellent and thoughtful point that should be made known to a broader audience.
> But if the site relies on cookies and localStorage and cannot work without it, "no" option is equivalent of "ban".

This - unless I misread it - is flat out wrong for most of the cookie warnings I see.

There's no valid reason for a news site to need cookies or similar except for logins.

It can be proved easily by wiping cookies and verifying the site still works.
I spent a good year of my free time in high school creating navigable 3D worlds with VRML. Now it seems like noone has heard of it, and they’re next to impossible to render.

What’s the latest scoop on VRML? I’m curious.
Good point on trivializing other people's work. I can definitely see how it can be interpreted that way. Just to be clear: that was absolutely not my intention. It was more like a "this reminds me of some good old times, does anyone else share the same nostalgia?" type of comment. So, again, sorry if I rubbed you (or anyone else) the wrong way. And I appreciate you taking the time to expand on what I thought was a simple comment.
Is this supposed to be a Show HN? It's a fucking landing page with no details and an email harvester. Woohoo.

Oh boy does this sound like a terrible idea to me. I mean...I want to like it. I really wish I could. But the only thing that makes first dates sane and safe is when a person can just peace the fuck out at any time if they feel uncomfortable. What am I supposed to do on the second day of my 2 day sailing trip if the other person turns out to be a piece of shit? Go home? Do you reimburse me?

Are you asking someone to be away from any safety net with a person they don't know who, because it's a dating app, has dangerous expectations? What's your don't get raped and murdered on a tropical island safety story? Please tell me that you've at least thought about these things.
The flaw to that argument (from my perspective) is that if a company wants more capital they can find lenders, issue bonds, or even issue new shares. If Kodak has a real way to pivot they could have raised money. Instead, it is pretty clear their business was dying and they had no way to compete against larger tech companies who could provide a better product with cheaper costs to consumers.
I didn't remember hearing about those; you say that like it's Bad, well, dark innuendo at least, beerlord.

A lil while googling about them seemed to say no-one's sure what good or bad effects they have, if any. And they're in a lot of things:

"According to one study...foods with the highest relative phytoestrogen content were nuts and oilseeds, followed by soy products, cereals and breads, legumes, meat products, ...vegetables, fruits, alcoholic, and nonalcoholic beverages."

And well, Japan has the world's greatest life expectancy doesn't it? And they have soy everything.
And I feel like I'm going fast when I hit 15 mph
Does "have an issue with it" mean "put people in jail for it"? Because thats what it sounds like you're getting at.