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Bluetooth is tolerably good but a headphone jack works so much better if you're listening on headphones IMO

Not to mention that most companies making medium-to-high end headphones are not even dealing with bluetooth.
Yes; the entirety of our internet infrastructure is...almost...hopelessly insecure. The OpenSSL team refuses to even use SSL/TLS on their website because "they don't want anyone to get the slightest illusion that it's secure" and want everyone to manually verify the SHA hashes.
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I thought it was a silly post at first, then I remembered I had in gmail draft emails for lists of: to read books, to watch movies, to never forget quotes, to never forget girlfriend related facts ... etc
Heh. Ironically, the HTTP WG (including Martin) went through a period where many of us wore bow ties, etc. to meetings. Trying to raise the sartorial standards of the IETF (under the guidance of the ever-well-turned-out Hasan).
"no I wouldn't"

I guess it was too much to ask you to walk a mile in their shoes, because we internet dwelling rich folk literally cannot comprehend poverty on this level, of watching your family die before your eyes as a teenager.

"vast majority of the impoverished do not commit such atrocities."

The vast majority don't have a years pay untaxed offered, never have to make the choice. Easy to say they won't do something when they have no option to do it.

Then again, with how INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL ISIS has been at recruiting perhaps you need to reevaluate your opinion of how the impoverished of the world behave when given opportunity.

Many impoverished will loot during riots or engage in widespread gang violence in cities, they'll overthrow secular governments in favor of Islamic ones in the Arab Spring, they'll take the money and kill for ISIS.

I think people need to be more honest and realize that true destitution means they don't have to play within the bounds of economic and moral systems. We're controlled by our jobs and our money, and if we have neither, we will do whatever is necessary to provide for ourselves and our families, including hurting people "from other tribes".
The most impressive list I came across recently was the FSF ethical gift guide - https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v6/

I have bought one item off it and am paused at the (no credit card, Romanian payment page) of another. But really the FSF could become the consumer guide for the net and I would happily read all their lists.
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Or you could just attach it to the end of your headphones, and store it with them. That would cover the bulk of the cases, except people that need to plug into multiple AV outputs throughout the day.
Look, I'm not on some big high-horse about audio quality in the modern era (cough Pono cough), so I really don't see any reason to be upset with Apple deciding "thinner" is an improvement by way of ditching support for a widely used industry standard. We're talking about consumer electronics, an industry where (subjectively speaking) over-priced, under-performing headphones like Beats command significant status and market share. iDevices are nice-to-have items, and after having several, I can honestly say I care less about upgrading for 'features' and more about build quality concerns (having various buttons giving out across different models, etc) so I'm really comfortable viewing Apple products as expensive yet disposable items. Shrug

Oh, and anybody who is surprised by such a mentality might want to refresh a few historical examples. CD-Rom drives, gone. Final Cut? Turned into consumer-class software. Now they have a high-priced laptop with a single connector which really doesn't make sense for live performers and professionals. It's kind of how the company does business, so yeah I buy this rumor somewhat.
I agree that an idea needs to be big enough to be viable but 1M+ is arbitrary. If overall margins are very thin it may take a huge customer base to support a business.

It also depends on the amount of operating income required. One guy in his basement should be trying to solve a simpler problem than a well funded, VC backed startup.
Props to the man for sticking this out for so long. He first point blank refuses to comply, the FBI then withdraws the NSL but keeps the gag order in place and he then fights them for an additional decade to get the gag order lifted. That's tenacity.

This reminds me of the Lavabit case, wonder why the one shut down their service and the other managed to simply reject the requests:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
"GooCreate's renderer is based upon ThreeJS". With that I thought you meant that our tool (Goo Create) was built on three.js which it is not.
Yes a subset of a few files in the engine contains some code from other open source libraries. Mostly it is a derivative of my previous open source (Java) engines Ardor3D/jMonkeyEngine and new code.
I was hoping to see the item they show screenshotted in various states of redaction, but I don't see any link to it. Anyone see one?
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Many of the things that make killing murder are sufficient for universal ethical principles. That is, there are things that are universally true within every rational, coherent ethical framework. This doesn't mean everybody knows about them, agrees to them, or even believes in them.

So this:

>people to say that there is a set of ethics that is universally believed.

...is absurd. There is nothing that is universally believed. That's because people can be wrong about facts. That doesn't mean there are no facts.
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which displays an error page that says 502 Bad Gateway

EDIT: Tried again without a + in the email and it worked fine.
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Apple briefly made a Shuffle even smaller - no on-device controls. That didn't last long, and the Shuffle returned to it's current size.

(Small size remains a problem. I've lost 3 Shuffles and a Nano in my house. The Touch disappeared for 6 months too, reappearing in the bed frame.)
I don't think the idea that US intervention in Iraq is to blame for the Syrian civil war holds true, considering that revolution swept across huge swaths of the Arab world with Arab Spring. Syria was as ripe for revolution as Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen. If we hadn't invaded Iraq, it'd just be Saddam Hussein dealing with rebels instead. Baathism is a dead end government style, out of touch with today's world. Only the rich oil kingdoms have been able to avoid Arab Spring, and not by a whole lot.
Phones have been plenty small enough for some time. If there's spare space, stick more battery in it rather than making the phone smaller.
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Unbelievably well stated. Kudos.

(And I get downvoted for saying something nice? Some people have way too much invested in the opposing POV, and way too little courage.)
I'm starting to suspect that as any thread on Hacker News involving the Middle East, Islam or Islamic terrorism grows longer, the probability of someone calling Mohammed a pedophile approaches 1.
I'd really like to see a laptop built on Nvidias X1. Maybe projects like this will push ARM on laptops?
"Apple is reportedly planning on shipping EarPods that connect through the Lighting port with the next iPhone"

Good proofreading Verge. Also blanket statements like "no one is clamoring for a thinner iPhone".

I look forward to iPhone removing the headphone jack, making a thinner, lighter phone, and also propelling forward the market demand for bluetooth headphones. I love my Jaybirds, but there needs to be more players in the market.

I mean, it would also be great if it also shipped with a lightning -> 3.5mm adapter, but there is almost no chance of that happening. You can buy one for 40$.
Cutting research and enrolling more students isn't necessarily the way to go.

How about save money for both students and the university. Drop the absurdly nice housing that's going into them. This will reduce room & board fees and cut staffing, construction, & maintenance costs for the university.

Athletics: Drop athletes that aren't student athletes. I'm sorry, but illiterate players don't belong in college. It's a disservice to them, the rest of the students, and the university's reputation. Stop spending astronomical amounts on football (primarily) and other sports, even if it pays for itself it's not needed for an academic environment. Rein these in, keep athletics but cut the programs so they aren't (budget-wise) on the level of some professional teams.
Here's Le Monde's English translation:

http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/11/24/clamping-down-with...
What's stopping a third party from making the software-with-better-core-abstractions you're talking about, and selling it—on the Mac App Store even?
Well this was a good read. Pretty long and dense for the tech focused audience here I would guess.

And to address the top comment, reason people don't like doing this is you get sued when it goes wrong just like in this case. It's safer for yourself to just stick to the protocol ...
Except they're going to sell the adapter for $30. It is just a rip off. From the sounds of things (ho ho), there's no improved sound quality or usability...
I think that's the key there, it's not income inequality per se, but whether what meager income they have is enough to buy food.
> Citation needed.

> One non-verified source cannot be trusted, sorry.

I don't work for Apple, and if I did I would value my job more over satisfying your need for a citation. But anyway, since I cannot prove or disprove that Apple did design their own chip, which they did, I will point out that NVidia, a much smaller company, has managed to do just what I claimed, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver

> Apple may be a big company, but they definitely lack the skill set to do such large chips themselves.

Really? I think their purchase of a processor design company in 2008 speaks to the fact that they do have this talent in house: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi

PA Semi designed their own POWER CPU, which they developed from scratch. Don't tell me these people (who work for Apple now) don't have the capabilities and resources to design a processor which can implement the ARM ISA.

Either provide a citation that proves that Apple hasn't designed their own core implementing the ARM ISA, or stop demanding some from my claim, which has a lot more evidence behind it.

The fact that they have dual sourced CPUs from TSMC and Samsung, which are on different processor nodes, thus requiring a different layout and mask, tells me that Apple's hardware engineers absolutely know what they're doing, and can design the internals of a chip:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-i...

Plus, around the time of the PA Semi acquisition, news outlets reported that the engineers were working on a custom CPU for Apple devices:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/15/apples_pa_semi_wor...

I honestly don't know why I put so much time into refuting this. Many other people on the internet think that Apple is designing their own core inside the iPhone, how else would a dual core chip smoking the living shit out of Samsung and Qualcomm's quad and octo core processors?

Here, have another person who says Apple design it themselves.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8083459&cid=506143...
I don't understand the desire to get ever thinner. I truly don't. I never ever hear anyone saying their iPhone is too thick. What I hear is that the 5S had the best design of all iPhones to date. I also hear that people would not mind a couple millimeters thicker if it meant a larger battery.

Who is Apple listening to? Are there people out there who think the iPhone should be thinner? (That was a rhetorical question. Of course there's someone reading this that is going to say yes. I get that. But I don't believe for a moment that most iPhone users want a thinner phone.)
I felt like no-one at Apple had bothered to wear a shuffle and go for a run. So much for the greatest usability team on earth.
I'm a bit confused at the certainty of your argument. There are many people who believe that someone saying "um" sounds stupid. Your absolute assertion to the opposite seems rather like "I don't think someone saying 'um' sounds stupid so this isn't a valid criticism".

Are people going to hear critiques if they don't want to? The message getting through is what matters, that's a person by person problem. Saying something make someone sound stupid is certainly not "taking cues from drill sergeants".
Here's an English translation:

http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/11/24/clamping-down-with...
Actually, most Muslims do not realize that Muhammad is not somebody to be emulated. They are simply unaware of who he really was, or use creative interpretation similar to how Christians interpret the Old Testament.
Here's an article by Horace on Aymco in 2012 on this same subject [1]. Back then Apple was spending just north of $600 million a quarter on R&D (in 2011, which is when he had figures for). Since then to reach $8 billion a year, Apple would have had to increase spending by over %30 per year. That's a very impressive ramp up in spending, especially when sustained over a substantial period of time.

The thing is their revenue growth has been so spectacular, it's swamped their otherwise dramatic increase in investment in R&D on a proportional basis.

[1] http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/30/you-cannot-buy-innovation/
It loads and scrolls fast, too. The web is getting slow and bloated to the point that on older machines I notice this difference.
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A little more on subject, and I am totally failing to find a good todo list app. I am not sure what I really want but something like

- can extract todos from my code
- can be very very context aware (location, time, am I in code base or out on street or on a phone call?)

To be fair that last one is the list problem - it's an Embodiment of intelligence - a list is a marker for a agent, that jogs my memory at one point in time
Many risky and unproven treatments are first trialed in these cases. The artificial heart is one example.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/14/us-carmat-patient-...
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This is definitely a product category that needs shaken up.

My parents recently had to buy four or five of these things just to find one that worked kind-of sort-of reliably.
If that were truly the case you would have stopped upgrading 5 years ago
There are a few other ARM laptop projects that are interesting to watch as well:

http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/laptop_15in/news/

http://wiki.vero-apparatus.com/ARM64OpenLaptopConcept

I hope that it will be possible to boot stock Debian on them without the need for binary blob drivers or userspace programs.
Wait, you have a hard time believing they can be so recruitment with a message based on an interpretation of an old book?

More than 2000 years of human history and religion shows that an awful lot of things (both positive and negative for the world) have come from religion, based almost entirely on old books and interpretations. The supposed word of a supposedly all knowing/powerful deity is enough inspiration for an awful lot of people.
I have to ask. Why do people dislike this? The browser scroll bar is often ugly as sin. Also its useful when having more than one area that needs scrolling capability without having that ugly default scrollbar junk up the middle of the screen in said application.
That would be amazing! It's too bad Apple made such an investment in Lightning; it's appearing even in peripheral devices such as the Pencil and Apple TV remote. I imagine they would be reluctant to switch away from it so soon, especially after all the rage from obsoleting the 30-pin connector the last time around.
Well, if you are criticizing a person, then the rest of the team may not need to hear it. For example, if the person consistently makes sloppy mistakes, that's a conversatin that is better had in private. If you're just saying there's a typo on that slide, that's a correction of somebody's work not a critisim of somebody, and fine to do in public. If it's a debate about an idea that obviously needs to be in public. But a debate is very different than criticism in my mind.

I agree it does seem ridiculous to say remember you are talking to a person :) But people forget all the time, and that is why they often say things in an overly harsh way.

If you are talking to a person, it must be personal, but it doesn't have to personalize. If you say, I think that's wrong, and that is something somebody has worked on for a long time, they will take it personally so it is personally. But you haven't personalized--saying you're wrong or you're always wrong is personalizing unnecessarily.

If you want I'll send you about 10 pages I've written on this stuff--would love your reaction, it's very helpful!
Have you read the article? It's not about them killing the headphone jack, as much as it is about them killing it with a proprietary connector. Something as ubiquitous as a headphone jack should be standardized in an open way.
Read his book The Great Rebalancing. There are pros and cons to it, whether you think it's an overall positive or overall negative likely depends on who you are and what interests you seek.

One thing I've learned, most people do not understand international trade or the balance of payments.
> Men want youthful, beautiful women

> women want strong, resourceful men

Ugh.
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Key quote:

"According to the Justice Department’s inspector general, the FBI issued a staggering 143,074 NSLs between 2003 and 2005. And every NSL was accompanied by a categorical and permanent gag order."

That's almost one per 2000 americans. I wonder how does this number compare to actual court orders.
I've corrected this. My main point still stands even when "possible" is replaced with "lower cost."
Apple will make millions for licensing MFA lightning to 3.5mm adapters. The only reason I would want something like this is if the lightning port was more like magsafe, magnetic. Break away headphone jack? Yes please.
1. New York City has less warm/mild weather than any coastal city southern to it along the East Coast. Yet it has the highest per-capita income of any of them. I don't know your location but this unfounded weather-as-a-migration-driver theory seems to be propagated by Californians and Coloradans.

2. Agreed, network effects are what drive these headquartering decisions now.

3. It's interesting that you're choosing Buffalo as an example. It's currently experiencing a resurgence [1] [2], as is Pittsburgh [3] [4].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/business/energy-environmen...

[2] http://www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/Home/Leadership/City_Comptroller...

[3] http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/02/an-urban-revi...

[4] http://www.economist.com/node/14460542
But you do get a smaller phone, which is a feature
Since you kind of elided it, their stated reason for killing is more or less "because you're not Muslim". We could take it at face value, but there's nothing useful you can do with that information.

What would be useful is to know how so many people get to that place. What are the conditions that radicalized thousands to the point where they are willing to kill others just for being less Muslim than they see themselves?

I think the Post's use of the word 'blame' is meant to be provocative. Western powers obviously aren't scheming to create ISIS with wealth inequality, and improved wealth distribution obviously won't inspire ISIS to lay down their weapons. But if that inequality really is a cause, it's worth trying to fix it if you want to head off the next manifestation of ISIS.
"and also propelling forward the market demand for bluetooth headphones"

If bluetooth audio quality actually improved, and they got rid of the lag that makes videos unwatchable - sure. Until then, I would rather at least have an option to use my old analog headphones.
Sounds interesting! Does anyone know anything about how much it might end up costing.
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> If you want a formal proof in the typical sense of the word (rather than a verification of fact based upon model checker output), then Coq userlands's tactics and theorems are useful.

TLA+ has them, too.

> in-so-far as one realizes that other people might have different experiences and so might (just as validly) consider other formalisms more familiar.

So you think some people are more familiar with type theory than with undergrad-level set theory (ZF)?

> sometimes, the type theoretic approach really is simpler, more familiar, and more flexible. E.g., in the case of this dissertation

I don't see it (probably because my type theory is very, very basic; I'm an algorithm's guy and the thought that a data-structure of mine might need type theory to be specified makes me shudder), as in I fail to see anything that isn't readily expressible in simple classical logic + temporal logic. Could you explain?
Seen that way, Samsung Electronics is basically an Apple subsidiary kept at arm's length to keep the market forces going.
can type-c be used to drive a peripheral while receiving charge using a split cable?

like this http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/lightn...

bonus point if the USB consortium could step up the game and make mixed mode a part of the port speck so one could use a cheaper splitter instead of a more costly hardware adapter. the driver need to be aware of the possibility tho, with added complexity.
As to your first point: I agree with you, both redistribution of wealth and regulating companies can be very good (even necessary) things.

Acting on climate change is one of those necessary things.

W.r.t the OP though: anecdotally the point sometimes does seem to be to take their income away - I've met many people who appear to have chosen their position on climate change because it happened to be the anti-establishment one.
Except apple has gone their own way of making everything proprietary. Which is not good for anyone but apple. They don't respect standards anymore.
Calling? It's a pretty well established 'fact' covered by Islamic sacred text, Its an assertion held by 1.8 billion Muslims. The books could well be works of fiction, the vast majority of people who assert the truth of the books are Muslim. I'm perfectly willing to accept that Mohammed was neither a prophet, nor a child rapist, but Muslims believe these things bring glory to him. However, to be respectful of their faith we must take their assertions at face value.

It's about as controversial as Jesus being a bastard, or God being intolerant of homosexuals.
Apple is planning on going in the headphone business?
And that's just about 3 years, imagine how high the number must be by now.
Looks like a few are in the market (my favorite being Sennheiser) but the prices are, from what I can tell, 2x what a comparable corded headphone set would run. Yikes.
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Well, there's no "consume" in terms of matter, stuff isn't thrown overboard. Besides, the food and water (or what they become) is still valuable radiation shielding.
Author also fails to explain _why_ the 3.5mm standard "needs" to be replaced.
Actually, combined with outlook tasks Sharepoint makes a pretty good to-do platform - you have a site per project already. Add a task list to each site (which you may already do). When you go to the mysite (or newsfeed, or whatever they're calling it nowadays) you see a consolidated list of all open tasks, including your personal ones from outlook).

I'd argue that the killer feature for a todo list-making app is the ability to delegate/share a task and then track it without your own list becoming overwhelming. Outlook is 90% of the way there, but strangely haven't seen a huge uptake in the BigCo's I've worked with...