skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USB-C is awesome. It is the future and in some ways it is good Apple are being the way they are.

But... I wish Apple would put USB-C in the iDevices (honestly why does the iPhone and iPad use Lightning when USB-C exists??). It is annoying that I can ditch all my cables except that one fucking extra Apple cable.
You're right, I should emphasize on this on the conclusion ;)
Ha ha politics driven development. Love it.
The "arms" on MagSafe adapters are actually bad for the cable - wrapping it around them puts undue stress on the cable, which causes them to fray faster. And a stiff/inflexible cable should also prevent it from fraying.

Seems like Apple took an proprietary, easily-damaged charging cable and replaced it with a standard, less easy to damage one.

The charging indicator light is a definite loss, though.
Just for the fun of it, what tools could be used to bypass the crypto used in this post?
Do you mean something besides rent control?
I never used Energize C++.

I remember looking at the code to visualage C++ when i was at ibm about 12 years ago.

It was fairly impressive (it built a database of the program with fairly fine grained dependency tracking), at least to younger me.

I don't know if people today would have thought it was a mess or not :)
I felt the same kind of hesitation getting into Swift and C#. But last summer I finally set a 6 hr/wk schedule to learn the meat and potatoes of 2D game development using both, just to better understand what's out there.

I learned a lot. But the most interesting lesson was that learning new tools was easier than I expected it to be. XCode and Unity, along with a lot of great tutorials and example code made it fairly painless. The hardest part was pushing past the expectation that learning a new language would be time consuming and difficult.

The most useful lesson I learned was to embrace new tools sooner. I think there's a natural gravitation towards using a language/tool because that's what you know. Of course we don't all have the luxury of the same amount of free time to learn new things, but I think you'd really surprise yourself, like I have, at just how much you can learn.
> but didn't find new work for people to do, then all that happens is you have a lot of people out of work, which is in itself a waste.

Only if you believe people exist to serve the economy, rather than the other way around.
I find it surprising how Trump's opinion on databases changed:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/2...

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/US-GOP-2016-Trump/2016/05/30...

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-tech-data...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the...
but it says here: (I googled the phrase without quotes "can you sue after binding arbitration")

http://www.arbitration.com/articles/canapartystillsueafterbi...

>A decision on a binding arbitration cannot be appealed or overturned unless there are rare circumstances present (fraud, bias or other inappropriate actions on the part of the arbitration attorney). After the decision is rendered, the case is over.

The things that are the main worry here - bias - would be explicit grounds for throwing out binding arbitration. So I still don't follow how "binding arbitration" means "whatever the company wants, and you're SOL on your side."

It would be a clear case of bias if that were the case, and based on what I've just read would allow you recourse to a normal lawsuit...?

On the other hand, why are the decisions of unbiased arbitration worrysome? I don't understand what the problem people have with it is, and so far it hasn't been expressed clearly to me. Maybe you can help, jpallas?

Just trying to understand here. THanks
If you click on your incorrect voice command, Siri has a "tap to edit" link, where you can correct in text and re-execute the command.
The Eye of Baudelaire
10% is a lot though and another one in the article is ~25%. Typically it should be more like <1%. I am not sure it's a great policy but it's their store. It's also only one side of the story as well so who knows what amazon's side is.
HN is a large forum. There's no reason to expect it not to reflect the divisions of the society at large—or rather societies, since users here post from many places.
jpallas - okay - you're replying in two child comments, I've asked you followup questions above.
"It's to refrain from leaping straight to applying labels."

No - I'm objecting to this with this comment.

Moral relativism is a problem in our era.

Castro is Bad.

Period.
It's not free for commercial use. And it's probably the slowest compiler there is although the generated assembly is generally of incredible quality.
"Suspends", not "Waives". Wrong direction.
This seems less like an indictment of PhoneGap, it's more of a warning not to build games in JavaScript.

Had the author used an appropriate tool for making games--a game framework like Unity--they wouldn't have run into all of these performance problems and it would've still been cross platform. Hell, Unity even has a JavaScript-esque scripting language if you're so set on learning only one language (although it's vastly inferior to C#)
You don't need a tool for this. If you store base data in one schema, and functions/views in another, you can update this second schema willy nilly without worrying about damaging your data.

Just start the second file with DROP SCHEMA IF EXISTS schemaname CASCADE; CREATE SCHEMA schemaname;. Then, make sure any functions/views/permissions built on top of this schema are also contained within this file.
Whats wrong with wanting the youth of Europe to be well traveled and be versed in differnt cultures. Even if it is propaganda, it's certainly beneficial.
> I can see that you feel strongly about the equation of "alt-right" with "fascist",

It is not that I feel strongly about it, it is that the 'alternative right' ideology is close enough to various fascist ideologies to make the difference almost none. The effort to get them known as 'alt-right' is political effort to try and legitimise their various causes.

I think that the philosophies are so old, and have been fought again, and again, and again by people who persue freedom[0] enough to make the whole argument ridiculously obsolete.

I was taking you to mean 'right-wing' by 'bien-pensant', because I was not aware of the nuance in meaning.

[0]: Yes, I am aware of the various disparities in meaning of the word 'freedom'. In this sense I mean that isolating the rights of people based on various characteristics of them (Say, their religion, sexuality, etc.) is very, very wrong -- and the people who support this are against the very tenets of personal freedom.
Use the right tool for the right task. Using the wrong tool for the task does not mean that there is something wrong with the tool.

You want to develop graphic intensive games using a single code base without learning native iOS or Android app development? You could probably do that with open source platforms like Gideros (there are good commercial alternatives too). Since iOS can't run LuaJIT, in particularly resource hungry games you might have no option but to code in native.

A few years ago I developed a game for both Android and iOS using Cordova and was very happy with the results. It was a Scrabble clone against the CPU with nice animations and no one could tell it was not native. I knew it was way below what the web view could handle so I wasn't surprised it succeeded. I'd have never tried it in the first place with a 3D game or a game with many entities and hope to get 50fps.

I also use Cordova to get native looking apps (not games) by using Framework7 (http://framework7.io) - I'd like to see how many users would really notice the difference (I'd guess about the same amount of people who would complain about mp3's not giving a good enough quality for the music they listen to)

I do agree that Cordova apps will probably continue be treated like second class citizens (and perhaps worse) mainly because I assume it runs mostly against the interests of Apple and also Google who would prefer you invested your time getting locked in to their specific platform...
Someone is paying for it...

TANSTAAFL
Agreed, and giving Apple this much credit for "look how well these work with my USB-C Android phone!" compounds the irony beautifully.
Normally, it should make almost difference compared to the code generated by the same version of clang on which zapcc is based. It may make a difference in the long term if they don't keep up to date with clang trunk.
I think they will eventually level up and add more machines
Just a quick warning though. A lot of those flights are not originating from the city or main airports. For instance, the "Brussels" flight they suggest taking is from an airport that is one hour away from Brussels (in Charleroi). It means that you will need to spend some more money to get to the city centres. These additional costs from "low cost" airports to the cities do add up to a significant amount on that entire itinerary. Just something to keep in mind.
Time will tell, but I wonder if reliability will be the issue. USB-C has 24 contacts crammed in there. That's a lot of tiny parts for something that gets manhandled and lint packed as much as a phone charger connection.

If I was on the hook to warranty replace $600 devices when the internal connector gets ruined I might take my time jumping on board too.
Some clever use of NOTIFY might help with real-time? It's basically publish/subscribe directly in Postgres itself, but I've never actually used it.
Upwork.com is a great way to fill that gap: tons of great SQL guys, very reasonable cost.
I'd like reminders to work better on Siri. It puts them in this reminder app and they never seem to go away until I manuly delete them.

Also geofencing reminders seem to kill my battery and constantly make the location icon show up.
> dash/info center

Hell no. I'm keeping the tape deck!

The rest does sound quite plausible though. At best one would end up with an improperly balanced car from the difference in engine weights alone unless pains were taken to ensure the car's weight and weight distribution stayed the same.
The people in Guantanimo are mostly terrorists (label) and very bad (label).

This why they are treated as such.

Castro is also bad (label), which is why Cubans revile him.
I really wish I could talk to Siri in public without feeling silly.
Problem-Solution fit canvas
Can anyone say what the easiest development platform is to use to write a 2D game that uses code instead of a GUI, has tutorials that don't expect that you know the language/API/environment that well, and is free to use?

I've looked at several, but either I can't develop for iOS/Android for free (beyond the charges to get setup as a developer by required by Apple, Google, etc.) or the barrier to entry always kills my time, then I go onto something else. LÖVE https://love2d.org/ was the only one I actually got anything playable with, but Lua/LÖVE was a little finicky and got frustrating. I want to be up and running and deploying to an emulator with something interesting in no more than 30 minutes, and I don't care how blocky it looks.

Years ago I wrote homebrew games, so I'm not new to concepts required, but I don't want anything too complex.
I did both Interrail and Erasmus and its probably the best things I did in my life.

I will be more than happy to contribute to that with my taxes to give opportunities to young people to become more open minded.
Yes, you can store tokens representing a credit card number (whether an hmac, database identifier, etc) outside of PCI scope. https://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/how-you-can-use-tokenizat...
Well, personally I'm not dead set on non-native code, just thinking of ways to make something "cross platform" this is close enough to native code to make other team members comfortable. Personally, I'm the type to just write native code first as I believe it skips lots of the quirky situations as mentioned in the post. So I completely agree.
It seems like users are not anonymous, but this lead me to the concepts of overlay networks[1], darknet[2], and mesh networks[3]. Thanks for that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_network

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
Compare Cuba when he took over to Cuba now: the first a reasonably prosperous country (on a par with Southern Europe), the second a poor, stagnant third world nation.
Fun fact: there's not even border control between those countries.
> Since the returns on capital outpace the returns on labor, in the long run wealth accumulates with capital and reinforces inequality.

Also, capital-derived income scales far more than labor-derived income, with far lower overhead. This isn't just in the physical domain, but also the time domain. This presents interesting tax and industrial policy questions on whether or not to treat large-scale capital-intensive organizations the same as labor-intensive organizations.
It's because of words like anden and andEN. That second version is sing-songy because it has two stresses.
I think that's my point. PC vendors are slow to change. Not to worry, 2017 will be the breakout year for usb-c. Several hundred million phones will ship with it:

https://www.cnet.com/pictures/phones-with-usb-type-c/

It'll be common on Dell's, HP's, etc. Get ready for your usb-c headphones:
http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-offering-free-usb-c-35mm-h...
Are any of the Nordic countries better than the others when it comes to this?
This is probably the biggest improvement to Siri they could make right now. The ability to enter commands to a natural language command line could be really convenient.
That's quite right. You can safely add $10 per flight for transport to the airport.
Okay - I didn't know about those. I stand corrected.
This article is omitting a lot of side expenses.

Let's take Paris case: if you use Ryanair as stipulated, you'll end up in Beauvais which is about 80kms from Paris. You'll need to add a 20€ mandatory bus fare or find a car sharing in order to arrive in the city.

The idea is cool and definitely doable if you are highly organized. But you'll need way more preparation than this vague travel roadmap...
I didn't say wimpy :)

And my comment is not trolling.

I was seeing all the news of Cubans around the world celebrating, and then reading some comments here, in the Guardian, in the Globe and Mail - and noting the differences.

It's shocking to see so many people support someone who was almost so cruel.

'Please help us, this man we escaped is a totalitarian'

'Oh, you just don't understand your experience, we agree with this ideology and anti-Americanism, so whatever happened to you - it couldn't have been that bad, let's not judge him'.

It's one of those things that really tells us a lot about people.
I have not. Have to look into it.
I know nothing about the San Francisco housing market apart from what I've heard in discussions here on HN. The received wisdom here seemed to be that powerful NIMBY lobbies in SF were preventing needed development and causing the sky-high rent. But this article is talking about an "historic construction boom". Did something change regarding development in SF? Or was the NIMBY effect always a bit over-stated? Anyone care to speculate?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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It's important to understand the purpose of HN: to gratify intellectual curiosity. That means it's not a site for political or ideological battle. Accounts that use it primarily for the latter purpose eventually get banned here.
That is very interesting @joneholland. Can you tell me more about the RHUI log collector? I thought it was something hand rolled.
> the iOS 10 beta introduced some new behavior where WebKit ignores the user-scalable viewport meta property. This "feature" is supposed to be for accessibility reasons; anyone should be able to pinch to zoom any web page. That's fine and all, but this would completely and totally break most webview-based apps.

This. I don't read a lot of outcry over this for unknown reasons. It baffles me. Apple essentially broke all web based apps and not many people seem to care.
Science Journals Caught Publishing Fake Research for Cash
Teach kids.
Speaking of Trujillo, one thing I would recommend to understand the effect and legacy of Castro's rule is to compare Cuba to another, otherwise similar country in the region that didn't undergo a long period of communist rule.

I'm talking about the Dominican Republic. US had ensured that it would not go communist or socialist by two direct successful military interventions. It had its own corrupt capitalist dictator, but from there gradually reformed into a free (albeit still corrupt) democracy. It is geographically very close, and has a similar population size. So it's interesting to compare and contrast metrics like GDP, life expectancy, literacy etc:

http://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/cuba.dominican-re...
I tried switching to the 12" earlier this year. I ended up giving up due to the poor performance of the machine relative to my needs, but I did get used to the keyboard - once I got used to it, was able to pretty fast on it. (Then again, my work and home setups feature Das Keyboard Pros, one brown, one blue switches)
Got my programming friends doing codewars.com problems, and hacked together a Whatsapp bot that keeps letting the group know everytime someone solves a problem, if someone solves the current problem, and let them know when everyone has solved the current and what is the next one.
It's fun! :)
Here's a weird one that bothers me.

When Siri reroutes me because a faster route is available, describe to me what the old route was, what happened and what the new proposed route is.

Usually I have to pull over and review what's going on because it makes really dumb decisions.

Actually I guess if it navigated better that would be a better fix.
Not sure why your comment was down voted - http://blog.fosketts.net/2016/10/29/total-nightmare-usb-c-th...
I also wish they would adopt this standard, although I can't say I'm looking forward to yet another headphone transition.
Why Framework7 and not Ionic 2?
> Joking aside, it's not ridiculous to castigate a piece of bad journalism by a renowned paper.

Of course it isn't ridiculous, unless you do it in a thoroughly ridiculous manner.

I read the article on TI first then the WaPo, and have to say it fell well short of expectations raised by the former. I was expecting something out of Pravda C1922. The article is almost entirely hyperbolic, to the point of imagining the motives of PropOrNot, and then analogising said motives (with an added twist of sinister for effect).
No worries. :)

DMC++ is still awesome, because it's the only ISO C++ compiler out there that can target any kind of DOS platform and binary format, from 16-bit .COM files (!!!) to 32-bit DOS extender.
It's slow because of the multiple times it has to compile and optimize for all the different processor revisions.
Obviously Castro's death is going to provoke ideological outbursts on both sides, and therefore isn't really a suitable topic for HN. But this comment particularly violates the HN guidelines. You can't attack other users like this no matter how wrong they are, and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13042153 and marked it off-topic.
As far as I know, Crossy Road is built with Unity and it often skips many frames on my iPhone 5s. I'm not sure how Unity works, but it also felt like garbage collection - a single, long hang every few minutes of playing the game.

(Maybe things have improved, this was when the game was pretty new.)
The keyboard immediately made me decide never to buy such a device. It is absolutely terrible.
I didn't know I could have an opinion on this, but you sold me on OLED. Let's see when I can get one with a good response time in the format that I currently use (40" 2160p).
Previously, I used Vim. Now I use Emacs via Spacemacs. I honestly probably can't give a reason for changing. I wanted to check out Org and Magit. I also got tired of maintaining and hacking my .vimrc, endlessly tweaking it to never feel complete, polished, or content. My configuration is now well tested and changes are decided on by a large community of users. I've messed with Sublime and even bought a license, but don't feel like it's a good idea to commit myself to learning it and would rather use that time to be better with something like Emacs or Vim that have stood the test of time.
Over here, cremation is customary. The ashes are sent down a river.
Where in Boston could someone possibly find a two bedroom for $2600? Shenanigans
Zumper is pretty inaccurate when it comes to SF I have found. The influx of new residents still vastly outpaces new construction + people leaving SF. As such, rents are not going down. The easiest way to verify this is just to ask anyone trying to rent in SF.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-24/london-pro...
It does, but they are a minority.
You can't directly compare mAh values, as they're an unit of electric charge. The amount of energy depends on voltage, too. Power bank manufacturers are basically running a marketing scam; the batteries they sell have 3.7V while USB uses 5V. What's more, the MBP battery voltage is something around 12V.

So the 26,800 mAh power bank has a capacity of 26,800 mAh * 3.7V = 99,600 mWh = 99.6 Wh of energy. Meanwhile, the 15" MBP has a 76 Wh battery. So theoretically you can do about 1.3 charges; realistically I'd say one full charge.
Yet despite the user name, despite the strong language, cnnsucks is right: it's a crap, click-bait headline. Don't believe me? Then you go RTFA, and better yet go read the Reuters article from whence this sprang. Still convinced that the headline has anything to do with the truth? (And to be clear, the headline implies that customers agreed via forged signatures. No, customers "agreed" with their real signature when they willfully opened their original account.)

At the very least, link to the original Reuters article, and make a note to quit giving BoingBoing hits.
I didn't see anyone arguing that money is not needed for incentive purposes.
Money in Open Source, and How Needle and Thread Will Be Profitable
EDIT by reply: here is a (german) article about Amazon blocking an entire building: https://www.heise.de/video/artikel/In-Ihrem-Haus-hat-jemand-...
Ehh. More about boosting confidence and team morale than politics. The goal was achieved, and we can yak shave during slack time if need be.
Not to mention scatter-gather and masking in Cray's vector processors. You do still need dependency understanding in the compiler, but that's pretty easy now compared to the late 1970s.
DevConf (2015) the Art of Database Design – [video]
I really want a fully-featured podcast player that syncs with an app on my phone. I want to be able to manage subscriptions, ask about new episodes, play episodes at different speeds and generally use the kinds of features that the good podcast apps have.
See my reply to a sibling comment [1]. A 16,000 mAh power bank is about 75% the capacity of the 15" MBP battery.
Currently have an early 2014 MBP, and I never take my charger to the café. My laptop has more than enough juice to last a couple of hours. Never really bought into idea that spending $6 bought me an office for half a day or more.
Wow, is this really the norm? I mean, not knowing SQL and working purely with ORM. This seems weird to me, as I learned SQL first.
Out of curiosity, what's going through your mind during the shopping spree? Do you just feel a lot of giddy excitement and anticipation about all the cool new stuff you (think you) are going to get?