skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really is an issue for me when it comes to anything fitness-related. Recording exercises drains it fast, and I am willing to bet that the GPS is the same story as heart rate -- it will probably sample every 5 minutes or so when you're not exercising and then bump up the frequency when you are. Which means it still can't be used to capture anything over a couple hours.
I work in an office with a lot of 2.4 GHZ wifi going on - bluetooth anything (including keyboard and mouse) doesn't work worth a damned in that environment.

Wireless is a poor substitute for wired in most real-world usecases. Wireless gives you: unpredictable performance, latency, contention for available frequencies, and having to deal with batteries.

I think it's OK for wifi, only because most of the time the bandwidth of wifi is greater than the bandwidth of your ISP. But I think that's a problem with the state of ISPs, not a blessing of wifi.
We'll first of all it's turtles all the way down. Like all morality there isn't an absolute answer that tells us what is good or bad in a secular setting.

So the thing that comes closest is the culture and history we've been carrying with us. And that the 'right' to privacy has been a 'right' for a long time (eg. the right to private conversations and mail etc.)
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The two photos they showed to demonstrate the depth of field effect looked absolutely terrible. The edge of the mask was extremely blurry. It looked like something you could create in a photo editing app in a few seconds by just drawing over the background with a blur brush.
It sounds like you're describing something called "camping".
Except that it is a non flexible extension that sticks out, in addition of the jack itself which already sticks out.

I won't go wireless. The last thing I want is another battery to manage, and I do care about music quality. I always saw the iphone as an ipod with internet. I stashed a spare iphone 6s so I don't need to change my habits for another 1-3 years. Then I guess I will have to learn how to use my phone again by switching to Android.

I'd be curious if the 6s starts trading at a premium to the 7. That was the case of the Galaxy Tab 1 at one point, bigger screen, better battery, looks like people preferred it to the Galaxy Tab 2.
Most, if not all of the previous tech they abandoned seemed too early at the time. It forced those who were making products for Apple to follow their lead. Apple has always tried to reduce clutter with design, and a lot of that times it means getting rid of something that doesn't seem like it need to be removed, e.g. limited ports, no removable micro sd for iPhone, wireless devices and accessories, removing drives, soldering in laptop parts. There is a population of people that absolutely despise Apple for doing this. This seems like a classic 80/20 situation where the 80% don't have the need for a headphone jack or are willing to use wireless headphones and be fine with that. While the 20% are upset because like many of the replies below people have specific use cases for why they need it.

It is more likely that we will see other manufacturers drop the headphone jack as well because Apple did. Again, most people will be fine with that. Bluetooth headphones and ear pieces have already been around for awhile. You also have to think about Apple's purchase of Beats Audio.

With that said I will concede that I am also a bit bummed about them removing the port now as well, but I have learned that Apple is incredibly stubborn when it comes to listening to their consumers about these decisions, and you just have to abide, or buy something else.
Fitbit Charge HR and previous had manufacturing quality issues. Blaze and Alta are "benefiting from lower warranty costs due to their inherent design and the improved manufacturing processes we have implemented this year. We expect this trend to also apply to other new products we will be introducing heading into the holidays"

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3995113-fitbits-fit-ceo-jame...
The point is that anyone that knows what "f/1.8" means knows that a sensor of that size won't perform well. It's a weirdly technical term to include.
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Never claimed otherwise, although my steps are enough to expose far less data about myself than the average Internet user. These steps are also completely usable in everyday life without sacrificing much time or convenience.

On the comparatively rare occasions when I need more privacy, I do more. For instance, I tend to use Tor if I'm staying at a hotel that ties the WiFi connection to you personally - I think those connections are as bad as it gets for privacy.
A Moto X has the same symmetry, and manages to keep both a 3.5mm port and a USB port on it.
This will probably sell like hotcakes, but even for a (recent) Mario game, this seems unimaginative. Hopefully the Fire Emblem game(s) will make it Stateside.
they said W1 chip about 1000 times. you're an idiot.
There are tons of call center farms with people packed very closesly using Bluetooth headsets (and have been for a decade) and there doesn't seem to be an issue
I know it's not random, but liking a post does not mean a person is obliged to perform a further action for your benefit.

My understanding is an invite will just push a notification to a user saying 'Such and such invites you to ...'. Its different to a friend request as that has its own context where you accept, reject. People get notifications all day, so it's easy to understand why they might brush over an invite for some other content.

A little side note, someone liking your page doesn't mean they are going to see your content. Only 10%-15% of people who like your page will actually see your posts on their news feed. Have a read about it on the net, thats a facebook policy that's been in place for about 4 years now. If you want to extend your 'reach' you will need to boost your posts for a fee.

Sorry reply might come across as bit negative, I just wish to give you some realistic expectations. Keep doing what you're doing, keep promoting, keep growing.
You don't buy them for when they work. You buy them for when it goes wrong. At that point EMC type firms will throw engineers at the problem and provide plenty of relationship managers to help you keep your job (sorry, assist in ensuring that your business relationship continues to be mutually beneficial).

No-one ever got fired for buying IBM.
Really? I'd have thought it would be higher. Although this figure does fit with things I've heard before.
Should be pretty much the case of anyone sitting with an iphone in his/her trouser pocket. Unless you wear rapper baggy pants!
>Some of the great developments of th 20th century were proofs of limits, of what cannot be achieved even in principle: for example the incompleteness theorem and halting problem, and the uncertainty principle.

these are internal limits of the models they are confined to - reminds about the Achilles and the tortoise paradox before availability of the limit/differentiation/integration tools.

>We may know that a glass of water has a wave function, but we will never know the particular wave function of any glass of water ever.

once the model of wave functions gets obsolete, the question itself wouldn't make sense. Such inability to brute force the calculation of such wave functions is one of the reason driving the more deep thinking in science.
One thing to note about open circumaural headphones is that everyone around you can almost certainly hear what you're listening to. I work in an open office and like to listen to rather offensive comedy podcasts, so they're a no-go for me.

But I will say that Sennheiser is one of my favorite companies. I've purchased 5 different items from them over the past 7 years or so (HD 555, RS 180, MM 550-X, CS 686G, and the GAME ONE headset) and they all still work to this day with fantastic audio quality. I broke the MM 550-X, out of warranty and totally my own fault, and they still replaced them with a brand new set.
Apple chargers have terrible reviews directly on the apple.com website. Go look for yourself if you don't believe me.
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Also a runner. My choice for headphones are commodity (<$10) Philips with over-the-ear loops to hold them in place. Because I sweat a lot, they rarely last more than a few months, so cheap matters. (I have nicer Bose headphones for non-running.) Bluetooth phones that cost 5x as much? out of the question.

Edit: In previous version I accidentally said Samsung Headphones.
The keynote addresses this. It is indeed a new wireless format
Yes, I totally get privacy, and I'm glad to read that you're not saying it is good.

It's the hiding it in public records such as Death Certificates, information given to the family, and performance statistics that I find suspicious.
I would have guessed at least half failed. This number seems pretty low to me.
Just a suggestion, but why not switch to a services model to get started? Sell them on the demo, present a plan to integrate it into their systems and the costs associated with that (integration being the key word). The costs associated are however long it will take you times $125-$250 per hour. That's enough to set yourself up as a going business at least, then figure out how to grow it from there. It will be a lot easier to raise money if you have 5 customers and example case studies that have worked through this process. You may find you don't need to. You don't need YC's stamp of approval to do this, and many others have followed a similar process in various verticals.
> a scenario where your phone is out of power, your AirPods are out of power, and the AirPod case is out of power

No, I'm simply talking about a scenario where I want to listen to something but my headphones aren't charged.

In such a scenario, I have to wait 15 minutes.
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> is still more convenient and dependable than wireless headphones for most people in most situations

And about the same as USB-C driven headphones. Which the iPhone supports just fine. How did you manage to avoid mentioning that in your comment?
Hey Siri is completely local. If you turn on Airplane Mode, it still works.

However, it can mishear you sometimes and thereby send a snippet of your conversation to Apple, I suppose.
It obviously wasn't the SecDB just an interesting "coincidence". Who knows if there is any relationship or similarity between functionalities there.
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Funny enough, I thought the exact opposite. I predicted they would be $200 at the absolute minimum.
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I'd love to write a CHIP-8 emulator for this. It has the perfect screen resolution.
It was an extreme example to convey a point but now I realize I didn't take it far enough. My original point was that path keeping should be handle by a standalone program for several reasons: web pages aren't the only source of paths I want to keep; my primary browser isn't the only program I want to open paths in; there is often more data I want to associate with a path like a tags, notes, user names/passwords (often more than 1 pair), etc. We already have window managers so tabs are taken care of. URLs are just like file paths... Actually, my file manager looks exactly like my browser, I just don't have an HTML/JavaScript/CSS handler that doesn't also have it's own version of a file manager. The internet is just another file system and we already have file system browsers. You're right about dev tools, that should be separate, probably best to incorporate it into gdb. I think I'm on to something here.
So you _can_ wear it on a hike, you just can't record the whole exercise. The Apple Watch samples your heart rate every 5 minutes or so normally. If you start recording an exercise, it samples much more frequently and also seems to do more communication with your phone. The end result is that any exercise that lasts a long time (hours) will drain the battery fiercely.
> since the dongle can just be treated as an extension to the headphone cable

When in use, sure.

When not in use, then it becomes an extra item to carry / keep around.

> the fairly durable Lightning connector (whereas 3.5mm male connectors are often somewhat flimsy)

Citation needed. Actually, since the 3.5mm port is deeper, and the 3.5mm jack thicker, physics says the same amount of force would be better spread out via 3.5 connections than via a shorter, thinner connection as Lightning.
I'd love one if you have any left :)
I completely agree. If they're going to get on their high horse about being brave they should have done this with USB-C. Now their phones will either never go USB-C or it will take 5 years before they do it otherwise all of those lightning headphones you just bought are now useless.
I wonder if Apple felt that talking it up would be needlessly provocative, given the new crypto wars.
Seems like a problem to be solved with a blockchain! Obitucoins.
well lady gaga was listed she is sorta a rapper.
Easy, put the permanent records back in place and negotiate back the domain.
i was thinking the same. I guess she was blasting Highway To The Danger Zone?
If it's really Airpods or bust, they just added $160 onto the price of the phone. I don't think they mentioned any third parties other than Beats.. I guess because they own Beats.. but if the choices are Apple and Beats then the price is going to be ridiculous.
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Agreed. I'm working on a project with FOIA to build paths towards bulk communication records in Chicago. It's gone much better than I'd have hoped in comparison to the state it started in. If others would like to help out, I'd like to start expanding it out to all of the US. :)
Or Google Cloud Functions or Azure Functions. But AWS Lambda seems to be the one that gets all the coverage (was it first?).
Really? As a PhD what you do is explore a -- best case: niche, usually: theoretical and worst case: completely made up -- problem thoroughly in absence of workplace realities like deadlines, office politics and backstabbery, and try to come up with a solution that's better in at least some sense than what's been written before, then write a big piece of documentation about it whose total number of individual readers in most cases won't reach double digits.

This does not prepare you well for most workplaces, except for maybe Google, who have enough resources to create an alternate reality for their engineers so they don't have to grow up.
Buy a better set of headphones (i'm not a Bose fan). I used to have problems with my ears sweating, or my head hurting after wearing a pair of closed headphones. About 20 years ago I sprung for a pair of HD545, which were light, open, and the foam/felt surfaces never resulted in discomfort. I could wear those headphones for 12 hours straight.

I've since moved on to other headphones, but I always consider if the headphone is to tight, heavy, or the ear cushions are cheap pleather that makes my head sweat.
but gps is a must if you want accuracy.
Remember Touch ID hardware > Apple Pay? I expect we'll see something similar with the dual cameras.

I expect either VR support, 3D imaging, or using them+dynamic light sensing of iPad Pro to have a "reactive" UI where gradients in the UI behave as if they might have real world lighting applied to them
interesting, do you know of any studies showing this?
Apple permanently lost their "sleek" cred when they introduced the camera bump on iPhone 6. No way in hell Steve Jobs would have released that monstrosity.
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Getting downvoted for citing numbers and a gut reaction? I don't get HN'ers sometimes...
So DCP players in cinemas have to have access to a network? (or someone has to get the key and move it over via USB stick or something like that?)
>> I don't want to buy new $200 headphones

> Also $200 isn't that expensive

But forcing a $200 purchase is. Your parent already has good headphones they like, has had them for years, and none of those headphones needs replacing because they broke down or are obsoleted. The $200 purchase your parent mentions is because of Apple obsoleting something.
But they're not bluetooth, right?
OneDrive as I've got an O365 account and it backs up my pics on my Android phone :)

I've got a (paid) Google Drive account too and I'm considering using it for replication. Does anyone have an IFTT recipe to copy files between providers?

Forgot to add that I've got a free Dropbox account with old, unimportant stuff.
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I see statements equivalent to these in the article:

- Cities are inefficient Rube-Goldberg contraptions

- Portions of city systems are too complex for one person to understand

- We see evidence of complex, unpredictable systems when things go wrong

- Cities have multiple complex systems that can and do produce unpredictable failures

- Methods inspired by scientific study may help us improve city life

I'd summarize it as: Here are some problems caused by complexity, and here are some (vague) ideas for how to fix them. From the article's content, I think there's an implied "yes" answer to the title.
At least in a toilet it'll be right next to all the other turds Apple has come out with over the years.
picture two friends in a car: "oh hey this music is the jam, let me play it for you."

5 minutes of dicking with bluetooth pairing later: "FUCKING BLUETOOTH GODDAMN IT. welp, never mind"

(conversational lull follows)
They looked astonishing lame all throughout by constantly having to tell the viewer how glorious and awesome everything was. If they can't just tell us what the feature is and let us be amazed by the feature itself, then whatever they're saying just isn't that great. I don't care how many transistors are in a processor, it's trivia. I don't care what a marvel of engineering the W1 is. I don't even care that they dug out their childhood rock polishers to make the new case shiny.
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I think it has to do with some kind of global locking/racing conditions.

The current version of LastPass is a big culprit, I've had it lock up nightly for >30s some times. They have a beta version that is e10s compatible which doesn't have this problem.
A headphone male connector is already a non-flexible thing that sticks out. I don't see how the lightning adaptor is any different in that regard. It's a bit of non-flexible stuff that sticks out, attached to a flexible cable. The biggest difference is the cable then has another short non-flexible bit in it, but nobody complained about having short non-flexible portions of cable when headphones started including volume controls on the cable (it's just on a different part of the cable).

> I do care about music quality

It seems that AirPods aren't bluetooth but are instead something else. I'd expect the audio quality to be better than bluetooth. But I guess we have to wait until people have actually tried them out to determine how good it is.

> Then I guess I will have to learn how to use my phone again by switching to Android.

I do not believe for a second that you're going to actually change platforms simply to have an audio jack without a dongle. I bet in 1–3 years you're going to realize that there's a plethora of lightning headphones to choose from, along with an adaptor that lets you use headphones and charge simultaneously, and you'll stop thinking about this change as a problem.
Bluetooth v4.2 is not yet 2 years old. Bluetooth v5 is coming out in the next couple of years.

Bluetooth 4.0 really dropped power requirements for a lot of use cases. It's an adapting standard that's not sitting still by any stretch.
I believe that weird Motorola iTunes phone had 2.5mm
You don't even necessarily need to be talking to someone smart, or with any knowledge in the subject at all. Often times I'll figure something out just by explaining the problem to someone. The act of breaking down where the problems could be and showing someone what you've tried often leads to more ideas on how to fix it.
Yes, I do this too, and it angers me because it proves that this datapath is possible to build. Double-dongle sucks, but it works. I marvel at how backwards apple can be when it wants to be. I wonder if this new headphone dongle they announced can be hacked to do charging.
And of all the people sans Snowden, or people like him, this guy is also in a place to know.
Pray tell, which ones? My experience is the opposite.
That gain in form-factor is not comparable to the removal of the 3.5mm port though.
> Companies can still track me, my data's still out there.

It's not all or nothing. Like any security (and confidentiality is one of the three pillars of security), there's no perfect solution but you can make it more costly for attackers. A few things that help for little cost:

* Use a pre-paid phone plan; don't give your identity to the telco. (Maybe not possible in all countries.)

* Use a VPN and/or Tor. Protect your browsing habits from your ISP.

* Use an ad-blocker or something like uMatrix to stop most tracking

* Pay for things with cash when possible. If it was invented today, we'd all be impressed with the technology: Complete trust between strangers, anonymous financial transactions - all implemented in paper; no encryption needed.

* Use one of the many anonymous, confidential communication services for chat, text and voice.

But I agree that the answer in the law, not technical means.
> In the general case I would guess that 'most' C programmers write some C++ and vise versa.

That's not what I've seen. People usually either write C++ exclusively or C exclusively and hate the other language (probably more C writers that hate C++ than C++ writers that hate C).

Some people write very C-accented C++, with mallocs and frees instead of news and deletes and so forth (these are usually people who prefer C over C++ but are writing C++ for whatever reason). I guess those people could be said to be writing "C/C++". But in general I think people overestimate how close the two language communities are. What I have seen is that people like one language and deride the other.
Courage.(Apple, so courageous right now. Apple.)
The people who wrote SecDB are now in charge of the technology org at Goldman, and they have presented the stack as a core firm asset in need of constant development and investment to the business, which has -- surprisingly -- accepted this position.

SecDB is not just another IT project with an end date for the business. Ultimately, that is what distinguishes it from all the other copycats on the Street.
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