skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! I'm a female video gamer.

I grew up playing video games. I have played, and still play, a lot of games involving shooting things, punching and kicking things, and colorful explosions. I got hooked on the medium with Williams' "Defender".

I don't play FPSs because they are, with very few exceptions, coded as Games For Guys. I've had a great time playing Portal, System Shock 2, Antichamber, and a few other first person puzzle shoot things, because they are either genderless, or are strongly feminine. (You would destroy me in a high-speed deathmatch because my 'put cursor on dude' skills are minimal - largely because almost every single 'put cursor on dude' game requires me to inhabit the grey/brown shoes of Mancho McGruntsalot, so I really don't feel like playing them.)

I avoid most AAA games for similar reasons. They are all clubhouses with a "NO GURLS ALLOUED" sign hung out front. I played the hell out of Skyrim and Saint's Row 3/4 in no small part because I could make female avatars and the game would happily let me be that. (For that matter, I basically quit buying the 3D GTA games when they stopped having any 'play as another model' codes that I could input to force the game to acknowledge my gender. Even if it did sometimes result in a cutscene where a lady model stood with her legs wide open, talking in a male voice, and dangling a gun in front of her crotch obscenely.)

I have a bunch of lady friends who have spent tons of time playing MMORPGs. I haven't, myself, because I know I'd fall into that hole and never come out - but again: easy access to female avatars right there in the stock game, no hassle, hey maybe we'll welcome women.
This looks quite impressive, but I can't lose the feeling that "everything built into the language" simply means that everything got dumped into the same namespace. Anyway, now I'm curious enough to see what I can download to play with the language.
> If you don't think that debate is still important, you are essentially conceding it to the half the country you disagree with

No I'm not. The debate was over 100 years ago, the ignorant just haven't figured it out yet. They simply get laughed at now for trying to argue the case. Mockery is not concession.

> there simply is not enough data on the usefulness of central banking to the prosperity of the nation.

Not what I was referring to. I was referring to this, " For better or worse, most of the latent ambiguities in the Constitution were resolved in favor of the interpretation espoused by Hamilton and the Federalists."

You can't ignore 200 years of judicial interpretation and case law simply because you prefer to interpret the text differently, that was his point and he's correct. That debate is over.
If you limit yourself to concepts you can express by relating them to the physical-world objects and human actions then you lack the language to express abstract concepts entirely. The words used by mathematicians are chosen to describe these structures have no real-world connotations because the ideas, in their-full generality, have no representation in our every-day experience. There's no way you'll ever be able to describe any reasonably complex structure from abstract algebra by concatenating a bunch of household adjectives, it doesn't capture the full-generality or convey any more information.
Could we see an arcology built by Google?
Markets for stuff like video games don't just spring up out of nowhere. They have to be developed. Someone has to develop them.

Did you read that article about the making of the market for diamond solitaire engagement rings by DeBeers? That's how you make a market, you convince people to want something that they didn't before want.

Someone has to figure out how to market games for females. If you think that's easy, try doing it yourself. There aren't any formulas, nothing that works reliably.

Someone could make a good argument that games are made for guys simply because male tastes are much simpler than females'.
... Start? C++ has been picking up functional programming paradigms pretty much since its standardization and the inclusion of the STL in that standard. C++'s evolution has been inexorably in this direction for a long long time.
I wish there was a way to hack the fitbit at the phone level. They do have a public api, but only for getting exercise/sleep data at 15 min intervals. I think the real exciting applications are sending custom alerts/text/vibrations, but this doesn't seem possible.

Personally I hardly use the fitness features on my fitbit. All I really wanted was a minimalist smart watch - a clock function and call/sms alerts, and something that's low profile on my wrist.
>> Even a custom-written third party client still doesn't eliminate the requirement to trust Apple. They're delivering your closed source operating system, which could very easily include hostile behaviors like key logging and screen recording.

> It does eliminate the requirement to trust Apple actually.

As the parent comment indicated (emphasis added), in an extreme hypothetical scenario, Apple could (be compelled to) write a backdoor specifically for your device that captures all text and touch input events, or periodically takes screenshots and sends them somewhere.
I think the author is deliberately excluding interactive fiction from the kinds of "videogames" that are criticized here.

Which is too bad; there has been great stuff in the genre for a long time. Photopia (1998) has a heartbreaking story and a strong female protagonist and is well worth playing through ( http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=ju778uv5xaswnlpl ).
Whoever said there was no true scotsman is a liar!
How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone realizes
For the past few years, I've managed to earn more than I've spent, and have put a good portion of that money in savings.
If I should lose my job, I've got a significant cushion to survive on.

110K would make for a bigger cushion, though.
I understand the problem, I'm just saying, when you have a stream of data like this coming in then it's not a difficult thing to do. Nor would I see it ever having any practical application since, well, I doubt people will be hooking up to a fitbit so that netflix can pause their movie when they fall asleep.
> Without insurance, I couldn't have afforded the half-dozen trips to the doctor or the meds.

> Honest, non-snarky answer... to be pedantic, for me it's not a question of affordability.

This is a pretty good representation of the quality of health care discussion on HN.
$99 an hour turns into about 50$ after it goes through companies pockets.

Speaking from experience as capture manager.
I agree - it really deserves to be seen.
That's what I said, yes.

The problem is, it paid off. We've all been saying "Um, maybe doing major financial exchanges with an outfit so unprofessional that they do business under an initialism for 'Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange' isn't such a great idea." And now it turns out we were 100% right. So...there's no joke anymore. It's just historical fact now.
I agree that correlation studies can be valuable, but I see many correlation studies as (intentionally or not) exploiting a propensity (arguably a bug) in human reasoning that conflates it with causation. In this situation, we have thorough documentation of multiple people clearly making the error.

I'm actually not sure the study authors should be blamed.

But: given how politicized this question is, they could have reasonably anticipated the misuse of their results, and thus could have written their results in such a way as to avoid this. Or they could have publicly corrected non-experts who cited them for causation. Or: they could have controlled for factors that would make mortality and insurance-status independent. This last option is difficult & requires complex judgement calls (see [1] for a reasonable attempt), but even if you feel the other two aren't required of academics, this last one very much may be.

(Separately, I agree that Politifact should not be trusted automatically, but these seem like reasonable analyses, and I did not quickly find anything better.)

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739025/
The abusive stock-profits of these SEC employees is not an isolated event. The enormous difference in salary levels and wealth accumulation around DC vs the rest of the country over the last few years should be a clue.

Similar disparities in economic fate --between government employees and those they perceive as subjects-- are visible in most Western European countries I know well.

As our societies have gotten wealthier, governments have grown in disproportion -- and opportunities for steady income (including very early retirement) and indirect graft have increased.
Irrelevant. The joke is that they're such a bunch of incompetent goofballs that they couldn't be bothered to change the name.
It's not that we can't enjoy works starring a different gender. It's that in video games, we are pretty much given no other option. Look at your collection, pick up all the games that force you into a particular character's shoes. How many of them are about being a guy? How many are about being a girl? You'll probably be able to count the latter on the fingers of one hand.

Also did you know that "we wanted to make a game starring a woman and a bunch of publishers turned us down because only guys buy games and they never want to be ladies" is a common refrain from AAA-level developers who want to try to fix this imbalance?
Says spooky23.
I think there's more here than most comments reflect - yes, this is being done in many implementations today, but not nearly as efficiently. 4W for 1Gb of DFA stream analysis? That's pretty crazy considering that can put full on content inspection in a SOHO device that can end up in consumers networks. DFA is the shift from file based scanning in network security and offers parallelism efficiencies far beyond most of the UTM type platforms out there today. There are only a few companies using stream based platforms (Palo Alto Networks is one) and this is why the platform can do much more content scanning in one pass vs the legacy devices.

But, this is killer for SOHO networking IMHO. Puts a ton of power into the next wave of network security.
i embedded a tablet into my car dash to avoid the holding the phone in the hand - ive done the hand thing, and its def dangerous.

shortly though most cars will have the mapping function built into the dash and everyone will get caught cheating on their spouse when they check your map history
If each peer can retransmit to 5 other users, then a simple tree-structured fanout gets you to more than 1000 users with only 5 hops of delay.

Obviously in practice you wouldn't get a perfectly balanced tree, but I don't see where your "50+ users" is coming from.
Comcast: stop using Netflix and order more TV channels
Technically and graphically it's really impressive, but it fails to fulfill its purpose. We should be impressed with the product, not the site design.
Hi Tushar, you raise a fair point and you're right spaciousapp does solve a problem that could do with being a little easier for us couch surfers :)

Site looks pretty good. Like the app, and I think once our lease is up (sometime this year) we might just be using it!
Hmm, wikipedia says ICEs in cars are up to 25-30% efficient. Then there's additional losses from the rest of the car. But the electric car has its own losses from the battery charge/discharge and the motors and whatnot, so it seems like they're at least roughly in the same ballpark. Electric cars certainly have more room for improvement though, since fossil fuels aren't the only way to run the electric grid.
You are reading the graph incorrectly. The values for percent of mean income are in the line graph and shown on the right axes. So in 1979, 5%, 2012, 4%.

It's not a very good measure, it isn't worth analyzing it deeply, but (to me anyway), it doesn't point to a massive increase in energy spending.
But there's no lack of regulatory power here. What Yellen was saying is the Fed can't regulate bitcoin. But the Treasury Department can do anything from nothing to an outright ban.
Woah! So wait. Dave Sim is a misogynist? Like, a card-carrying member of the Misogynist party?

THE Dave Sim, creator of the Cerebus comic book?

How do you kick off an article with a bold statement like that, and not include at least a link to an interview or something? Is he like, the founder of some kind of Men's Rights Advocacy group or something? Does he run a political action committee?

Is he quoted anywhere as explicitly stating anything like:

Hello, my name is Dave Sim, and I hate women. Yes, all of
them, and as a general rule. You may know me as auhor of
the independently published comic book, Cerebus. At this
time, I'd like to go on the record about my opinion of
women: I hate them. Make no mistake. Much like racists
hate other races, my hatred of women is similarly general,
and all-encompassing. To reiterate, I, Dave Sim, am a
self-proclaimed misogynist.

Like, really? He's simply a misogynist, and it's a bald fact?
Internet decentralization is not "balkanization"
You're not allowed to "other than that" preexisting conditions. I'm one and the ACA means I got to quit my shitty telesales job and take a no-insurance-provided-at-a-small-company first software development job.

There are millions like me who can take risks for the first time, whether that's working for a small company or starting one. And I don't have to worry about the next 40K hospital bill burying me.
I think that you meant that is has the third biggest market cap.
You're missing the part where "custom client" means you aren't using an Apple device at all, if you don't want to be.

This is like sending a PGP message over gmail using mutt on linux via IMAP. Google owns gmail, but they can't backdoor you or read your message in this scenario. Any non-broken secure messaging protocol should have this property, regardless of if people use it that way. This is what end-to-end encryption means.
"And, as the motley team of software engineers looked on in admiration, a single tear drop departed from Mikey's eye. As the drop hit the marble floor, it suddenly exploded into a majestic bald eagle, who screetched dutifully and flew out of the White House."
I'll add more cities soon. I wanted to try out the idea in one city first - and SF seemed like the logical choice.
You realize that this phone is not for the public? right? right? right?
Who decides if they're moral?
Try Blue, it's the new Red.
> Pray tell me, why do I want a language which has both atomic exchanges (sorta, kinda, depending on your compiler and environment) and monads and function mapping? Doesn't that strike anyone else as, oh, I don't know...ill-focused?

Dunno, but I think part of the reason Rust is popular lately is that it combines safety and functional features with high performance by default and the ability to /theoretically/ easily drop down into lower-level code to eke more out.

I think C++ is an unnecessarily complex language for various reasons, but adding some basic functional methods to a STL class isn't the end of the world on that front and sounds fairly useful.

p.s. Java has atomic exchanges.
If you're looking to expand your perl repertoire into functional programming, you might want to check out Higher Order Perl by Mark Dominus

You can get it in dead tree from amazon or free (beer) from the author's website http://hop.perl.plover.com/
After the slides detailing how easy it is for NSA to break into Apple phones I'd be simply shocked if they hadn't inserted such a vulnerability.

The slides pertained to physical access to an iOS 6 device, which was publicly known as insecure before the NSA revelations:

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/08/01/2024212/iphone-hack...
Of course tetris fans are real gamers.
Also a Headspace subscriber. If you're interested, subscribe and then, instead of using their site/app, you can download the whole program via a torrent (5 GB).
Does this release include the new syntax Joe was blogging about recently?
In my experience, "small fraction of all cases" is inaccurate - in my C it's probably 1/3 to 2/3 of cases, depending on how much I structure my program to allow for it. For instance, synchronous processing of messages makes it relevant in many more cases, but has obvious costs (which isn't to say they aren't sometimes worth bearing). It is still true that there is a significant fraction of coding where it does not apply, and which must be treated specially.
The person who made up the "Current Label" should go look up the calories/gram of fat.
Yep, at about 2 million dollars you could go to a small friendly town buy a house there and have an income close to the median (and have your assets track with inflation) assuming you can get a 5-6% return on investment, not at all unachievable on 'safe' long term investments. This is all without doing a single hour of work after hitting that point.
According to androidpit, they need course location. Not sure how they got this info though.

http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/com.hes...

android.permission.ACCESS_COURSE_LOCATION

*On the permissions page, it says 'fine location as well'
The professional stock traders and their supporting institutions who, given that this is their day job and you're part-time, are more knowledgeable, better connected, and quicker to react. "Amateur investing" is part herd following and part gambling, with a serious case of hindsight bias.
I'm not denying peak oil, I'm arguing that oil prices (and other energy prices) have not gone up so much in recent decades that they have smashed the economy. They must impact the economy, but I sure would point to things like increased size of the domestic labor force, the skill hoisting of the global labor force and automation before I would point to energy prices. And then things like expectations of skilled labor in the U.S. have changed substantially.
Surf Air CEO ousted
Excellent points. I think if we broaden our scope to television (which is arguably becoming looked upon just as highly as movies) there are better pickings. There are a lot of characters that are based on sex, but there are a few that could work either way. That's not to say that sex-specific situations don't come up. They do, but that's more because of the need for greater amounts of filler content on a TV show than because of a fundamental basis for that character. So, not as perfect as Ripley, but not bad.

(I don't watch a lot of TV, but Continuum and The Black List come to mind, though neither offers a true Ripley)
Insects receive soil messages from the past
Hah! That's cool. Thanks!
I hope to cover this in my subsequent posts. Stay tuned!
Pretty much, yeah. Except a lot longer. He's a fascinating person.
Whenever a "New Study Confirms" something, we need to relax for a moment before we throw off the signs and proclaim that we've always been at war with Eastasia. I remember a group that claimed that an experiment had found that some tracked neutrinos had violated special relativity[1], one of the pillars of modern physics, and I too remember the excitement that developed afterwards only to dry up when it was found a faulty fiber optic connection was to blame.

It's not like the benefits of breast-feeding is some pillar of modern medicine, but when just one study is accepted to a journal (and I'm sure there are others), it hardly merits a complete rewrite of medical textbooks. Remember, the important thing in science is _consensus_. As far as I can tell, the consensus is that breast-feeding is more beneficial for newborns. So for now, let's trust what the majority of doctors and health professionals have to say.

Now, with regards to the article, it offers very damn strong evidence against this hypothesis, especially the controlling for different parents. It would be interesting to see in a couple of years if more studies corroborate the conclusion of no net benefit to breast feeding.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anom...
And I have bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
Netflix itself? What does it solve, the pressing "having to drive to blockbuster" problem? And Netflix streaming solves the "having to wait a few days for a Netflix movie" problem. And Wikipedia solves the "having to go to a library" problem...

The "first world problem" meme is excruciatingly irritating. If it's not starvation, or malaria, chances are it's a "first world problem".
Android's ListView also is built around view recycling. But these are both situations where the framework supports the recycling.
$105 mini-PC runs Android on quad Cortex-A9
Have you read his stuff on women? I like Cerebus, but he definitely has issues with women.

"Emotion, whatever the Female Void would have you believe, is not a more Exalted State than is Thought. In point of fact, I think Emotion is animalistic, serpent-brain stuff. Animals do not Think, but I am reasonably certain that they have Emotions. 'Eating this makes me Happy.' 'When my fur is all wet and I am cold, it makes me Sad." "Ooo! Puppies!' 'It makes me Excited to Chase the Ball!' Reason, as any husband can tell you, doesn't stand a chance in an argument with Emotion... this was the fundamental reason, I believe, that women were denied the vote for so long."

"Behind this...lies the Greater Void, the Omnivorous Engine which drives every... institutionalised waste of human time and energy, which drives, in point of fact, our entire degraded society. The wife and kids."

"In one of those Poor Us studies for which the Emotional Female Void is notorious, it was pointed out that after a divorce, the average male standard of living rises... the average female standard of living drops... I think the...explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six- foot leech from the surface of a human body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry."

"In labouring to fill the insatiable Void Need for material possessions at home, his time and his energy and his spirit disappear into the Vaginal Bottom Line of the workplace."

"The Male Light and the Female Void: Seminal Energy and Omnivorous Parasite."

"If you look at her and see anything besides emptiness, fear and emotional hunger, you are looking at the parts of yourself which have been consumed to that point."

"It wouldn't be that big a stretch to categorize my writing as Hate Literature against women . . . in this Fascistic Feminist country"
Ah yes, that's what I meant.

I'm new to following the whole crypto currency thing. It's all wildly speculative and way too risky to bet money on, but I'm enjoying learning how much I don't know.

--

" War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."

- Ambrose Bierce

"Bitcoin is the Devil's way of teaching geeks economics."

- Revalin 165YUuQUWhBz3d27iXKxRiazQnjEtJNG9g
There's another problem with the app stores ... they're crowded with applications that should have stayed web-sites. I think the problem in the app stores are more related to the prominence of the front-runners. Nobody goes looking for an app that's the 100th in a category. So the work of marketing is still up to you.

If there's truly no long tail, perhaps people will stop creating software to feed these stores (economics says they won't continue to perform tasks that have no benefits) but will that solve the problem or create worse ones?
Show HN: I am giving away free startup ideas
My first thought: I wonder if the wife/gf will be able to tell that the gifts aren't personal.

My second thought: What if they find out? Suddenly the BF/husband would go from being "TIMELY, THOUGHTFUL, AND INTENTIONAL" to "cold, careless, selfish bastard who thought he could fool me and take credit for some automated gift system."

I am by no means trying to shoot down the idea. I just thought since I am (presumably) part of your target audience, you would be interested in my first impression and concerns.