skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cocos2d-x is in my experience very solid, well documented and productive.
>If I still believed The Intercept article, I'd agree. But after reading the Wash Post article myself, I found The Intercept was deceitful and don't trust anything in it. I'd need to (and would like to) see other evidence

The fact here is that the WaPo article cites Wikileaks as "fake news." That should tell you who not to trust, if it doesn't already scare you enough.
Rents are going down. I am moving this weekend, and in the 2 months I've been looking a bit, it's very, very obvious. At first, it was just that you no longer had to essentially arrive with 3 months of rent in hand and sign on the spot. Next, there was emphasis on how "this is the only property at X price" (which was false on it's face). When we finally signed, the leasing agent told us "if the price is too high, make an offer." So we came in 10% below list price and asked for a discounted first month of rent. They agreed immediately. Stories like this are common to anyone currently in the process of finding a new apartment.
It isn't like Lightning is super reliable. I have had many official cables fall apart within a year of normal business travel and at least one port on an iPhone 6 fail most likely due to something getting in the port (although Apple never stated that obviously).

I doubt USB-C is that much worse than Lightning. Even if it is say 10% less reliable as a cable it would still be much better to have a USB-C port simply because you are more likely to have a USB-C cable if everything else uses it.
I'm wondering if more celebrities and otherwise famous people really dying at a higher rate this year than any other, or is it just that this year some of the deaths were really famous people?
The body is not a steam machine. It doesn't burn energy at the same rate all the time, and what we input into our bodies can affect that rate.
1. Both.

2. The "dominant" vs. oppressed false diachotamy gives you away as an ideologue with whom I cannot have a productive discussion. At one time or another we are all the oppressed and we are all the dominant.

This ridiculous caste system isn't some static hierarchy that was ordained by God or an inevitability of our history. Race, class, and gender are societal constructions which must be actively sustained to survive. Yet you insist on utilizing the very same categories drawn by racists, which only reinforces the persistence of hierarchy you claim to despise.

Finally, dismissing every contrary argument by attributing identity-based motives to your opponent is facile. Categorizing all those who disagree with you as stooges of some eternal shadowy "dominant" cabal is the exact type of unscientific babble that constitutes every conspiracy theory.

Most importantly, it is also a very convenient way to turn every argument into an ad hominem based on the race/gender of the speaker.

This is what happened:

I read a post written by someone who broadly stereotyped millions of people in a racial and gendered fashion, and I raised an objection. It was very simple.

The question is, why are you so desperate to make this about "white male dominance"? This is about what the author stated.

Is it because you realize your vacuous arguments cannot stand on their own merits, or because you are too insecure to confront the intellectually arid world view which you clutch like a safety blanket? Or do you merely think that the "dominant" persons (as determined by you) simply have no right to a voice at all?
Curiously, why would you admire Soros?
The macs battery is about 50 or so watt hours, your average $40 external battery is around 70. Disregarding inefficiencies of charging a battery from a battery, about one.

Realistically, closer to two.

To do your own math, it's mAh * voltage / 1000
I am surprised you were downvoted. The 4 points you make seem straightforward, and are accurate.

The timeline for economic damage (from global warming) is fairly long. Even in the worst-case scenario, the Earth as we know it is still recognizable for the next 50 years, and all of the seasons and climate patterns remain roughly the same. The major changes will tend to show 50 to a 100 years from now.

Also, I'd like to point out that the increasing acidity of the oceans is a much worse problem, in the long-term, than the warming of the atmosphere. Carbon washes out of the atmosphere, and ends up as acid in the oceans. At current trends, in less than 100 years the oceans will be more acidic than at any point since the Cambrian Revolution. It is not clear that life in the oceans can survive with those levels of acidity (other than organisms that live in volcanic vents and love acid).
I used to work with DB throughout the 2000s. Occasionally, I was surprised on the levels of incompetence of middle management. It isn't uncommon in investment banks, especially when the economy is good enough, but DB upped it to the whole new level.
At least it's approaching Manhattan prices.

Let's hope it starts approaching Newport prices soon :-)
at least one port on an iPhone 6 fail most likely due to something getting in the port

I've found a wooden toothpick works wonderfully to clear out accumulated pocket lint from the port every 6 months or so.
"Why when I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?"
I believe it only looks back a very short time unless the old story has got points (or comments?) above a certain threshold.
That's reading a lot into my words. I was happy to "get used" to the new keyboard because I thought it was awesome that my laptop had become thinner and lighter... two things that I value more than having a keyboard that might be slightly better.
As others have pointed out, your mistake was trying to develop a graphics-heavy game with the wrong toolset. I'm one of the devs that works on the Android and iOS apps for lichess.org and we've had a lot of success with Cordova/PhoneGap. It's allowed us to do all our development once with occassional workarounds needed for platform specific issues.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.lichess.mo...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lichess-free-online-chess/id...
IMHO they should have done it with the iPhone 7 has they ditched the 3.5mm jack forcing people to buy headphones that will only work with an Apple iPhone or iPad. Hell not even their laptops have Lightning ports so they are literally useless for anything else.

I also find it amusing that they released the new MacBook Pro with a 3.5mm jack when they clearly don't need it. It makes even less sense on a laptop than a phone IMHO.
Britons could pay a fee to retain EU membership
I think that's a pretty common setup for many hackers, yes. Some only buy it for the hardware, but I see plenty using macOS as well.
Francis Picabia, the Playboy Prankster of Modernism
It actually makes perfect sense, and is a really good idea. For people having packages delivered that require a signature, and can't just take the day off work, their only real option is a weekend delivery, or waiving the signature. I'd MUCH rather be able to receive a package on Saturday at the expense of Monday, and I'm guessing most of the working world would as well.
Code inspired clothing on the lower end of price points.

I like the "OR 1=1" hoodie.

https://codegear.io
New desktop version works great!
I don't see any evidence The Intercept's article is deceitful. The Intercept and Greenwald are almost always credible and legit. Being targeted and harassed illegally by your own government for doing journalistic work on your government is a much greater badge of honour than a Presidential Medal of Freedom or Nobel Peace Prize.
I think 60fps is not "extreme performance" but rather expected performance for a mobile app. Only one part of this article was about performance, anyhow.
Hahahahahaha.
Anything can be spun to look more positive, or more negative. But that's BS. There are other ways for Comcast to inform their customers that it's a Comcast Wi-Fi. And even if there weren't, are they even working with the Wi-Fi Alliance to create a "perfect protocol" to do this in a secure way?
Sadly nothing fixed it and I tried a dozen things.

Totally anecdotal but I have had a Nexus 6P for over a year now and no issues with the USB-C port so, for me, it is just as durable so far as Lightning :)
>>Maybe keyboards were already à solved problem.

This is a terrible attitude for a technologist to have. Cellphones were a "solved problem" before the first iPhone came out. Laptop monitors were a "solved problem" before the first retina MacBook Pro came out. Look where we are now.

Of course, this doesn't mean every change made to an existing technology will be an improvement and/or be embraced right away and by everyone, but I see it as a Good Thing that a major technology player is still experimenting with things that everyone else has written off as "already solved."
The body is not a simple thermodynamic equation unfortunately :(
Let's assume Comcast really thinks it is a feature that many people will like (I personally rather think it is a feeble excuse, but don't want to completely exclude this possibility). But why doesn't Comcast enable people to opt out of this "feature" then?
Agreed, they've done a really great job and pushed it to the limits. Unfortunately they do not have support for even simple gestures, so the parent comment still applies -- afaict it's not possible with WebViews currently.
Related thought: Before I switched majors to CS, I was taking pre-med classes. I remember my anatomy and physiology professor telling us that the pancreas produces insulin the moment the tongue tastes something sweet. One of my fears is that these "diet" sodas are causing the drinkers' bodies to release insulin needlessly; in other words, lots of insulin in the bloodstream but no sugar to digest. I wonder if this could lead to insulin resistance and diabetes.

The article hints at this [1], but I haven't researched the issue very deeply. I'd be curious if other HNers know something about this.

[1] "We previously showed [this enzyme] can prevent obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome [a disease characterized by a combination of obesity, high blood pressure, a metabolic disorder and insulin resistence]. So, we think that aspartame might not work because, even as it is substituting for sugar, it blocks the beneficial aspects of IAP."
No, I decided that the keyboard is terrible. Does anyone that agree with you have hands-on experience and anyone that disagrees got its facts off the internet?
You might want to compare tcc to just about any compiler with -O0 -- they're a lot faster if they are allowed to generate slow code. It's also super-straightforward to find compiler bugs, if you're lucky enough that it's an O0 bug!
You can increase the text size in accessibility settings.
Sharp edges seems to be a trend that has migrated to other manufacturers as they ape Apple's design. My three year old Lenovo, and new work supplied Dell are both unforgiving to type on for the same reason.
This is not harder the the issue of 8P8C connectors.

Depending on cable configuration, pinout, wall plate and structured wiring system that 8P8C might be usable (or not) for multiple different types of data networking, from the assorted ethernet speeds to E1 to token ring, or for a serial console, or delivering power and audio to a remote speaker, or hdmi-over-utp, or even -48V telephony, and let's not even get started on the only-subtly-different but actually incompatible RJ45 connector, or people sticking RJ11 plugs in 8P8C ports.

And yet the world has coped with this proliferation.
Both parts were evil. I don't justify what he did, but we should not forget that they tried to kill him on more than 600 occasions. To plot to assassinate a person in other country just because this seems convenient for your interests is, in its own nature, 100% evil. Trials were created for some reason. I bet that even the more equilibrated mind would become extremely paranoid and ruthless in that scenery.
Weird, the print dialog opened directly when I clicked the above link. Is that a "normal" PDF feature, or was it triggered from someplace else?
An important part of the abstraction in any fiat currency with a modern central banking system is that the quantity of future financial obligations in that currency exceeds the broad quantity of money (because the greater part of the money supply created on banks' balance sheets literally is debt, and the government insists your future taxes are paid in that currency too)

Bitcoin isn't dismissed as "fairy money" because it's digital but because it doesn't have a similar rather large built-in reason to assume there will be a non-trivial demand for it at a particular point in future.

However [purposely] opaque certain other classes of financial asset are, they tend share the general property - which BTC doesn't have - of representing one entity having a future claim on another's resources.
"The Need to Read"... but you can't read it unless you pay us.
MonoGame is rough code with a rough build system and a lot of strange behavior. Frequently undocumented, too. I would suggest investigating FNA (a significant fork of MonoGame used in 40+ shipped titles) instead; I have had my tangles with its primary developer but the code quality is significantly improved and it's really worth your time. Doesn't support the PS4, but you can code to the XNA baseline and then hack around MonoGame for the PS4 later.
This makes me pine for the days of KNEX tbh
Ask HN: How to implement AirBnB-like animation with react-native?
I really love the current version of the AirBnB Android App.
One thing that strikes me is the search bar:
if you scroll up or click on it, it shows the search criteria
with an awesome animation (the other criteria get shown with a vertical parallax effect while fading in/out).

Does anybody know how to achieve this effect using react-native?

Or if somebody knows how to do it using CSS3 or/and JavaScript, I would be glad to learn it, because it looks absolutely gorgeous.

Edit: To get more specific - this [1] shows the animation I would like to have, but I don't know how to synchronize it with a parallax effect.

[1]: https://cssanimation.rocks/list-items/#slide-down--fade
Glad this topic came up here. So my question is...how to block it? VPN?

Also what stops them selling access to this?
Why You Probably Will Not Own an EV (A Harrowing Day with the BMW I3)
I build my current game with Cordova, and really the only major breakage i ran into with updates was iOS 9 audio changes. Patched howler, and it worked fine after that.

I realize this is anecdotal, it would be interesting to see his/her game, what was so demanding to cause performance problems. Many platforms have their quirks and SDKs that you need to learn.

I've had a lot more breaking changes with my React Native app. Opened the other day, and text boxes were overflowing their container. Didn't happen before. React Native is younger, so I find it's to be expected.
Is it possible/likely that other sweeteners like sucralose and acesulfame potassium do the same thing?
I agree this was a necessary step, and understand apple's justified aversion to adding more options/switches for their users, but maybe the website could pop up something that asked the users for permission to make the viewport unresizable?
AMD Zen 8 Core SR7 Flagship to Sell for $499 and Outperform Intel’s $999 I7 5960X
The list is of sources that repeat Russian propaganda, IIRC. If so, Wikileaks certainly belongs on the list, having published information very likely provided to them by Russian intelligence. Drudge would not surprise me, as it is already a propaganda site for the a U.S. political group.
Is there a "for" missing in the title?
Why is it that causes of death like this are simultaneously ridiculous and horrifying? Is it my brain reacting to the horror accounting for the hilarity, or is it just that molasses seems so benign?
I haven't come to a conclusion w/r to those "shiny" new MacBook features yet, but I'm not an Apple user either. Time will tell though.

I hope Dell will improve its power circuitry in the future and support USB BC and PD 5V/3A. Let's hope it's just that current power chipsets lack those modes because of time to market pressure and Apple is ahead of its competitors here.

I can understand your anger at Apple, I hear the same a lot from design and audio professionals... You may have got some downvotes for that last statement.
I am happy Steve Jobs has died, he was so stupid...
Meh. "Plunging" is a strong word for an 8% drop. Even if you buy the "effective rent" argument, 22% isn't much of a plunge. This is a start, limited to a very few neighbourhoods, and merely makes the housing market slightly less insane.
"I would wait for a biologist to do a more careful analysis of why those genes are being activated before using this to justify any political action."

Already done.

I refer to the "Dunedin Study", (Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study). [0] Read the summaries of how this was/is being conducted. The most revealing insight into the links between poverty, disease and mortality. People born into poverty and who increase their wealth considerably in later life, do not get healthier.

Disease (damage to the immune system) is directly related to poverty.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunedin_Multidisciplinary_Heal...

[1] http://dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz and http://dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz/publications
>I say ok then, let's make it part of the deal: a decent minimal wage.

works fine until automation gets rid of most of the jobs
This submission is linked to https://www.muliess.com , not an article.
that would be bug #11482 in my bug log.
Disrespecting your users has very little to do with the tool you use and everything to do with how you use it. One can also be pedantic/fanatic about going by the book to the letter in order to conform with every one of the platform UI's "laws" and still generate a crappy application due to lack of insight on what will be intuitive or useful to the end user. No - a sub-par product will mostly have a sub-par developer responsible. Quality and craftsmanship will come across no matter what technology you decide to use. That's not to say that a good developer couldn't produce an even more polished experience with native programming, but as mentioned before, I doubt the difference is noticeable enough for many applications to justify the dramatic increase in learning curve and maintenance.
The point is that you still end up misallocating housing units. The marginal Googler at San Francisco may end up taking a lower paying job elsewhere in the country reducing overall productivity. If the renter moves because they can't afford the rent they may find a place where costs are more favorable to their earnings. It's part of the difficult changes introduced by market-based economies but I thought the consensus was that in the long run everyone benenfits.
Market corrections in overpriced cities. Seattle still growing, turns out sustainable growth is sustainable.
> Russian propaganda

While it might be to their interests , podesta's emails were not russian propaganda per se.
> Truth is not the absence of propaganda ...

Well put and essential; thanks

> I'm very wary of this attempt to silence "fake news"

But then the comment seems to slide into a propaganda talking point. 1) It's not being "silenced", just identified, and such exaggeration or hyperbole is a standard technique; 2) it presupposes this extreme relativism where there is no fake news; and 3) criticizing news sources is a very common, normal part of a health marketplace of ideas. Look at the criticism the NYT and Fox take, for example.
You'd say the same thing if Kodos won the election though, right? Is there anyone you wouldn't support the peaceful transition of power to?

Had the Germans fought a civil war in the 1930s instead of accepting their populist leader they and the rest of the world would have been better off.
The conspiracist gold bug economics of Bitcoin
There are a lot of mechanisms involved in the relationship between eating food and getting fat. One that I often think of as a fatal flaw in many weight-loss diets is that different foods have varying effects on satisfaction and hunger — some foods make you want to keep eating.
It is. Keep in mind this was more shorter term (3-4 months) rental of a fully furnished room.

If it was a long-term lease of just an empty room it would be closer to $1300.
Fidel Castro 1926 ~ 2016
Because it's an expected feature of the web that has been in every browser since at least IE 3. If anything it is nasty that you can't pinch and zoom in apps, because there's no really good reason not to have it.

That said I prefer my text smaller, have my phone at the smallest font size and rarely zoom in on text. I also wish there was a "remove the pointless whitespace" option and that other ui elements got smaller along with the text, but I'm rambling.
There's no doubt in my mind that low rates are driving up house prices, but the link to rental prices is a bit more tenuous to me.

Yeah, the link to house prices is clear: low rates means you can afford a larger mortgage, so prices get bid up. The link to rents is less direct: low rates are effected by loose monetary policy -- by central banks pumping money into the market. This means more inflation (not quite the same thing as "rents getting more expensive" of course.)

In theory, anyway. Inflation has actually been very low even with historically loose monetary policy, so folks have been flummoxed (but generally positive about it, because they think it has let them encourage job growth and economic expansion more than they otherwise would have been able to.)
I don't know why you are getting downvoted(I guess it's the fuck you at the end), but I absolutely agree - if a cable fits in a port, it should just work. Anything else is horrible design that's user hostile. Apple sells an LG USB-C display, and if you use the USB-C cable bundled with the MacBook Pro, it doesn't work. And you don't get an error message - it just doesn't work.

Some companies, for example Nintendo, figured this out a long time ago. Notice how with their consoles, if the disc/cartridge fits in the console, the console will always play it, even between generations. The customer shouldn't have to research arcane names and study symbols on cables - if it fits, it should just work. And USB-C is just a mess at the moment.
I'd expect the PR/marketing people to laugh at "the plebs" as they make up press releases like that :)

Maybe I'm just cynical, but I can't imagine anyone believing that ads are a "courtesy".
Iraq is burning
"A big advantage of taking the time to read a book, even if the book has just one central idea, is that it forces you to spend 5+ hours thinking on that idea. "

Exposing you to ^new^ ideas, ones not encountered before.
Be careful with false equivalence.

US media has many serious faults, but it is not state-controlled as it is in Russia, China and North Korea.

They are not the same.
Can you explain more? Does China capture ssl traffic or something similar?
I suspect that some of the life in the ocean _could_ adapt, if they were not also being over-fished (or having their prey over-fished). You need a large population for variations to crop up, and then some period of time for the beneficial variations to spread out. 50-100 years is _breakneck_ speed as far as evolution goes, but if you have an annual-breeding fish then they could get 50-100 generations to adapt. Whales & dolphins may have a bad time though.
Native apps has many upsides, but also downsides. The same goes for Phonegap/Cordova. In general I'd say that games and performance-sensitive apps aren't the strength of Cordova.

But having used Cordova for several years I'd say that overall it's an excellent framework that can power large, complex apps.

I'd also wish Apple would give the web-views some more love, but overall they work really well for many things.