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It really isn't a problem unless you are someone who sleeps with their watch on.
Emmett Brown, is that you?
I can easily get over lack of a headphone jack. Bluetooth headsets are so much better for comfort, practicality, and other reasons. Also the cables of headphones with jacks tends to brake near the jack. I'm sure it happened to all of us.
I haven't tried that one specifically, but neckbands on wireless earbuds have always been too heavy and caused problems in the gym. If you lean back they can fall off you and then pull out the earbuds. So, that large battery isn't all good.
It's aluminum.

The "9 step polishing process" is pretty much how you'd polish anodized aluminum to that level anyway.

(I do a large amount of machining).

Anodizing does not make it actually stronger. The layer it generates is slightly harder, but still do not have great wear resistance

There's not much you can do about this as long as you use anodized aluminum.
Naw, not if I want to get to work and then hook them up to my computer. Or I want to connect my phone to my car via an aux cable.
People really need to study the timeline here. Lightning was out year(s) before USB-C ever got certified.
I'm not easily offended, but that use of the word made me cringe.

Courage is running into a burning building to save a family. Courage is going to war for your country knowing you might die. Courage is being more afraid than you've ever been in your life and doing the right thing anyway.

To call throwing an age-old standard into the toilet while shoving vendor lock-in down people's throats "courage" is offensive. Shame on Apple.
PS4 Neo (under the name Pro, though) officially revealed
Don't need to. iPhone 7 gets way better battery life than any other iPhone before.

(Sarcasm)
I mean if you really want to think about it as matching what it's modeled after, then it's not so different from having to reach inside a bag/pocket for pokeballs to throw anyway.

If they add catching to the watch it might become overly simplistic.
You're not "giving them money", you're exchanging your money for their product. If you are so keen on giving money to your government, there are plenty of ways to do it.
The corollary is that you have to worry about the DAC in the phone if you have an analog jack, and they're not good. So with digital only, you have the option of buying a good off board DAC (if you care), or otherwise selecting digital headphones at a price point you like.

All that said, I'm struggling to see the good side of Apple's decision to remove the 3.5mm jack. It'll make the phone worse in daily use for me - I won't be able to sit at my desk all day and charge my phone while listening to my existing, good headphones.
> I had a Zony Z.

I saw one of those at the store, but instead went for the Hamsung Falaxy. Then I went and got a sweet Magentbox TV.
Of course. And if they come out with another new feature I'm sure you'll point out how it should have been in version 1. But getting v1.0 out the door is tough - trying to add every feature will just delay it indefinitely.
I guess there's no way to know for sure right now, but it seems like the Airpods probably do in fact run over Bluetooth since they'll work with existing iPhones and Macs. Maybe they're using Wifi and building on top of Airdrop, but that seems like excessive power consumption for tiny headphones. I'd bet they're using Bluetooth 4.x + some proprietary magic to get them to pair super easily.
Nope, sorry. I'm with the (great grand) parent(s) on this one: my first association when reading about 'ss' in this thread was "Schutzstaffel" as well. I think I would think about it every time I'd have to type it into a shell, but luckily, I don't do much network related development.
Because it depends on other factors. See what happens for the 1/3" Sensor Size, f1.8, 29mm focal length, etc..

http://dofsimulator.net/en/
Rumors has it they will come in October
It comes in beautiful glossy black! I really don't like the "space grey" (6 was a bit better than 6s), and the other colors don't look all that pretty either. Call me shallow, but if I spend 870€ on a phone, I want it to be pretty...
Doubt it since the 6S has 2gb.
You're mistaking the ease of comprehension with the ease of recall. Do you think I'll remember what Flat is in 8 months? Nope.

You can bet the first time I learned about GCC I remembered what it stood for, though. Same goes for things like ALSA. That is a descriptive name that's easy to pronounce.

Meanwhile I'm trying to remember the difference between Square, Stripe, and Box. One of them is a payment processor and which one is it again?

The difference with Apple and Google is that they have massive advertising budgets to overcome that obstacle.
I tried to buy DVMT and couldn't get any.
My iPad 3 is pretty much "the Reflec Beat machine" and while it does have a timing adjustment option it only moves the moment in time that it uses for judgement. If I delay it to compensate for wireless earbuds then it will be visually delayed too past the judge line. Sure they can compensate for this with more options but I like sane defaults. I have never had to touch this slider because zero is already perfect, and in games with separate audio and visual lag compensation options I'm never confident that I've gotten it accurate. This isn't something you should have to ask the user to do. https://i.imgur.com/qU2TEP5.jpg
For low traffic volumes, lambda is better than an instance because it scales back or goes away altogether when idle, so it's pay per call really, instead of pay per instance-hour. It's probably a bad idea for high volumes.

They also have some nice integrations with other AWS components like S3, dynamo and api gateway, if those float your boat. Eg trigger a lambda function if someone writes a file into S3.
That's assuming I ever use only one pair of headphones and don't need connecting to aux cables / external speakers.

Or that my headphones are always used with just iPhones.

Basically, no more plug-and-play. This is exactly why 3.5mm was good: universal plug-and-play.
To help quell the shit storm that would happen if they didn't include it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12444131 and marked it off-topic.
Actually, having a c-section would be worse for "career" focused mothers.

Sure, you get to schedule your due date, but you are having a surgery. It takes longer to recover from a c-section then a natural birth. There is driving and lifting restrictions for weeks. FMLA leave is usually extended for those with c-sections by a few weeks.

And as for scheduling, you can define a maximum date, but the baby can still come early. Just because I'm schedule to have a c-section on September 1st, doesn't mean I can't go into labor in August 15th.
Every single smartphone has the same clause in fine print. Even the almighty Samsung does this.

If you need to go diving with your phone, either get a proper waterproof case or get a properly ruggedized dumbphone.
My point is the difference is a difference of terminology not in functionality. A zoom system is one that can achieve multiple focal lengths with the same setup, and in that sense the iPhone 7 plus has a 'discrete' zoom, just like for example, microscopes, or telescopes with different magnifications, or leica's tri-Elmar lenses. (Leica doesn't call them zooms because in the world of Leica primes are the standard, but I don't see why you wouldn't.)

If you define zoom as the physical action of sliding a piece of glass to achieve different focal lengths in a lens, then a digital zoom, by that definition is also not a zoom.

Now, the iPhone is not using a teleconverter, which is something that is added to the lens, but a different lens plus sensor alltogether to create the effect of a zoomed image. And this is the point where the old definitions break down; is a camera the sensor or is a camera the device that creates the picture? I think it is the latter, and in that sense I think iPhone 7 plus does have a 'discrete' zoom.
It's crazy how many of these websites dont even work anymore.
Not reputable. Does the author have any conception of diesel engine theory? I do. Prior to computer controls (circa 1990s), the only active electrical component involved in keeping a diesel like the one in my Audi 5000 running, once started, is the fuel shutoff solenoid. Jam that open mechanically, and you can throw the alternator and battery away.
I also prefer Cyanogen, although I like having access to the Google Play store even on that. While that's tied to my Google account, it's an informed choice, I am fine with Google knowing what Play Store apps I have installed, and I use F-Droid at the same time for some other apps.

One of the great things about Cyanogen is maintaining tight control even over Google's apps and how much they track me.
At more than 400 dpi it's not really visible. I've scrutinized it heavily, and I can even (barely) see the pixels on the retina iPad and regular iPhone.
ARE Your EXPECTATIONS SETTING LIMITATIONS ON Your SUCCESS?
Sunnyvale, CA
That you have to be in the valley or get into YC to build a successful venture backed startup is just not true. I know it's hard to go against the grain and it's hard to bootstrap, but just focus on getting users and customers and traction and you can figure the other stuff out later. Don't let it paralyze you because it's just an insecure illusion (I know, I was there at one point and realized it was all in my head)

Also there are other accelerators if you really want to go to one (ex: Digital Ocean is out of TechStars).
That's interesting. I've never noticed it myself, but it makes some sense.
> 1) This is the first time tracking stock has been issued on a public company so there are alot of people out there who aren't really sure what to make of this class instrument yet.

I don't think it's the first time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_stock has some examples (although I don't know if those are public companies). I thought I had heard of other examples in the articles about the deal.

> 2) You'd expect a steep discount due to liquidity and lack of typical share holder rights. For example, if VMWare did pay a dividend, then the tracking stock would not necessarily have to pay that out to unit holders.

Sort of. The tracking stock is non-voting, but I'm not sure how much that matters. (You'd expect a small discount for that.) VMware doesn't have a dividend now, so I don't think that should influence the tracking stock price much.

> 3) EMC paid a dividend. There are alot of funds that bought EMC to get the dividend. They've been forced to sell the tracking stock as VMWare doesn't pay a dividend and the tracking stock won't pay one.

Sure, but theoretically VMW shareholders (anyone who thinks VMW is a buy or hold) should be incentivized to buy a bunch of cheap DVMT, propping the price up relatively close to VMW. Why do VMW shareholders think VMW is worth ~$73 but DVMT isn't worth more than ~$46?
I can only take so many wireless items. I absolutely hate charging things.
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Except most of the devs use chrome / safari and if it works there, it's done. No one cares about ie / edge anymore either.
How many headphones are people even buying? I have a drawer full of headphones I have collected over the years. Not at all surprising people would only be buying wireless headphones, but it does not mean they are more commonly used.
I was thinking the same thing. First time I've used it.
Unemployment is arguably the most important economic indicator that most people care about, and "realistic" measures of it show that it's just as bad as, if not worse than, 2009: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...

Official unemployment numbers are so frustrating due to so many exclusions.

If GDP is up but all of that growth is going to 0.0001% of Americans, who cares?
Unless Bluetooth earphones support AAC over Bluetooth, they are going to sound bad on an iPhone. So there is the potential for the Airpods to sound much better than cheaper earphones. Looking at the presentation, they do pack a lot of faszinating technology. So, taking the typical Apple pricing into consideration, I do not think they are especially expensive. Of course, all depends on how good they actually sound.
That is an excellent question!

There are two separate issues here:

1. How many bits of real entropy can you count on getting out of a TRNG in a given amount of time?

2. How many bits can you safely extract from a PRNG that has been seeded with N bits of entropy?

This discussion is about issue #1. The /dev/random vs /dev/urandom arguments are about issue #2.

Just for the record, the answer to #2 is: once your PRNG has been seeded with "enough" entropy, you can safely extract an essentially infinite amount of pseudo-randomness out of it (where "essentially" means that there might be a theoretical limit, but you won't encounter it before the heat death of the universe).

(How much entropy is "enough"? Again, it depends on how paranoid you want to be. 128 bits is barely enough. 256 is plenty. 512 is overkill.)
For clarity, 'usability goal' I was referring to is plug-into-slot-blindly-with-your-eyes-closed.

I used the word 'usability' to attempt to imply UX, and I was deliberately avoiding commenting on speed, features, DRM, and the like, because those aren't delivered by USB type-C, which is only the plug. As you imply, those points are addressed by the jump from USB 2 to USB 3.0 or the type-C-compatible USB 3.1.
Plugging an iPhone 8 into my car was my biggest worry but it looks like some type of BT adapter (that I never knew existed until today) will work just fine for me.
In fact, my understanding is that a baby three weeks
early isn't even classified as a preemie.

Correct: 37 weeks is considered "term", with a standard due date being somewhere between 39 and 40 weeks. My son was ~3 weeks early: he was totally fine, but definitely a "oh, I guess this is happening now!" moment.

Anecdote: he was 7lbs. 7oz. (right around average) and 3 weeks early. He likely would have been a monster at his due date, and may have been a c-section because he just would have been too big. Is that normalized in the study? Or are we flipping causation? Instead of "c-sections are correlated with obesity risk", is it "obesity risk is correlated with c-section"?
Totally agree. I've purchased a new phone in even numbered years going back quite a while but I'll be passing this year especially with a bigger redesign rumored to be coming next year for the 10th anniversary.
> dropping it in the toilet might be enough.

the old phone that is
Incidentally, the iOS 10 GM Seed came out today, and Apple is in fact offering OTA updates from iOS 10 betas to the GM seed.
This is what I'm talking about. I don't really use my phone to play music that much (although it is definitely a non-zero amount). The dealbreaker for me is that they've made a device that doesn't lay flat without a case. Although, since it has that ugly bump on the back, it's not like I'd want to have the phone outside a case anyway.

Actually, it's not really about appearances for me. It's just that it wouldn't sit flat. Like a table with 1 leg that's an inch longer than the others at a shitty diner.
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And VMWare owns SpringSource. So basically the Spring framework is owned by Dell.
Interested in a cryptographically signed identity?
I have a few invites to Keybase if you want to skip the line of 25,000+ people on the waiting list. :-)
https://keybase.io/daniellamb﻿
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It actually looks like they timed this pretty well; in June bluetooth headsets outsold wired ones:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/07/prweb13581918.htm
In the video, the author claims to be part of a hardware accelerator in China called HAX (https://hax.co/accelerator/).

Any other information on this? I find it interesting on their website that the conclusion of the accelerator is to get a successful crowd funded project...
It wasn't even the point of my post, but I'll bite: a digital cable means you no longer have to rely on the form factor/budget constrained DAC included in the device itself and can go for DACs of your own choice. That doesn't necessarily imply improved audio quality, but it means you have more control over your audio quality.

A digital cable can also do error handling and correction, meaning damage to the cable does not have the same impact as it does on analog cables.

Yeah, you only have one port. But that's not a restriction of digital ports but of Apple's implementation, I fully expect Android phones with two or more USB Type C ports to be released. As you can see from my post I'm not a fan of Apple's implementation at all (despite the fact that it'd be merely a nuisance for me).
But is it possible to use Google Play Services without a Google Account? For many people, that's synonymous with using Android.
Yeah, I don't find bluetooth drain to be an issue at all.
Quick analysis:

1297 YC companies (from here: http://www.ycombinator.com/press/)

860 YC companies listed as either active or acquired (from here: http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/)

= 33% failure rate

That's a lot higher than I would have expected, to be honest.
It's in the exact same price range as comparable wireless earbuds, like the Jaybird X2

You're just comparing them to shitty wired $5 chinese earbuds from Amazon in your head. $160 isn't even expensive for earbuds in general, more like lower mid-range.
For the water resistance, from what I understand there are many ways to waterproof using lots of chemicals that likely don't live up to Apple's environmental standards; perhaps it has to do with this (along with many many other factors).
Looks like they silently killed off the 64GB version :(
Given that headphones are purely analog devices, I'm not sure an all-digital solution really makes sense. You have to put the DAC+amplifier somewhere, and it seems just wasteful to incorporate it into each and every pair of headphones.

That, and you'll wind up with at best, something that performs equally well to the traditional analog output jack. Is that really worth mangling years of standards and backwards compatibility for?
My understanding is that you own it once it's paid off. So it's not a lease. It's more like they're loaning you the money and you're paying off the loan.

The prices are not bad either. They seem to range from $32.41/month up to around $46/month for the most expensive possible model, which translates to about $1/day up to $1.40/day. It includes AppleCare as well.
It's a well-known phenomenon and was the subject of an HN submission a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11838349
Apple's selling them for $9
At minimum, GS has done this in the past via political back-patting. Any other means would not surprise me, although to be honest I could care less if I am right/wrong about this particular case. :)

https://newrepublic.com/article/132628/goldman-sachs-settlem...
Your Audi has an alternator, just as the diesel generator mentioned there. It has no active components, just stator coils and possibly a rectifier, yet it was cooking up.
OK, I guess I'm supposed to agree with you if I beg the question that "available data on blacks specifically is completely irrelevant"...? I do think that the distribution of data specific to blacks is relevant.
Now that this is done they go on and make a ~1.3-1.5kg XPS 15 with a 4K screen that lasts > 9 hours.

Please.
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You know it's not very helpful to come into a thread about thing X and say "Well I bought thing Y and I like it a lot." This thread is about thing X. (This goes for people coming into an iPhone thread to endorse their Android phone as well as vice versa.)
"Sure, but so what? "

Point being that a person with a baseline of electronics training knows exactly what one or two basic components are doing right next to each other. Products like A/V that use extra tricks can make the analysis more difficult or just take more knowledge. I lean toward the simple ones. A mic or camera sensor with nothing messing with its input might be fine, too.

"All you need is a good lower bound on your noise quality estimate, multiply by 10 or 100 or 1000 depending on how you want to trade off speed for paranoia, and you're done."

That part sounds right.
Lightning connectors with their exposed leads just make me all kinds of paranoid about leaving them out on my always cluttered desks. Also, I often get a big spark when plugging my official Apple chargers(Macbook Pro and the 29W USB-C charger) into a surge protector.
A9X has a far higher thermal envelope than a smartphone processor, if the A10 is as powerful I'd say that's very impressive.
It doesn't mean anything if you don't know how to ride the wave:
1. Winning #1 makes you more "newsworthy" (guessing, working currently on PR).
2. it’s a milestone for a company and it makes for good social proof.
3. This launch gave our bottom line a boost.
4. Winning #1 place means that on a certain day you had the most votes.
5. We made some good connections with influencers.

In the end, winning means nothing if you don't continue to push with a defined planned to tap on that success.
H.
The gold Apple Watch is dead
I tend to be fairly optimistic and see the good in even bad situations, so I'd probably OK with even a worse set of circumstances (once that was the steady-state normal).

IOW, if I suddenly lost my wife or we split up, I'd be unhappy as hell for a while. In a counterfactual where I never met her or even ended up single, I'd probably still be happy because I'd shape my world and interpret my world in a way that made me happy. Likewise, a career that paid me the local median wage, I'd probably find a way to be happy.

I don't claim this to be a super-human strength of mine, but just a choice. I have friends and friends-of-friends who seem miserable despite no particularly devastating circumstances. They just choose to focus on the bad rather than the good. I have no idea if that's correlated with anything SMPY-related or not, just one guy's life experience.
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The biggest problem with all of these I think is who owns the data, you're much better getting Mattermost and creating your own inhouse system. It'd also be much more secure - assuming you have the team to do so. I haven't looked into it but how easy is it to get all chats from slack to ryver? Is there an import? What if there were a protocol for that like imap ?

There's lots of room for disruption with this technology, but being the same as slack in most things isn't it..
Normally headphones come with a connector that is ubiquitous instead of proprietary, though.
That's awful. I'm a Charge HR owner and I was considering the Nike Apple Watch (it looks so cool!) but if what you say about the battery life is true than the Apple Watch is completely off the table.
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They're standards, there's just too many of them! [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)#TRRS_s...
So, its not like you can't buy something like this https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Receiver-Portable-Wireless-...

That that said, I have a few of them and pretty much never use them because the extra battery life hassles aren't worth it relative to just plugging into the audio source.

Apple has lost a few sales in my house because they failed to support one thing or another. My wife is an apple user, but I can never get over the lack of sd/pci/whatever slots, or frequently things like bluray playback... When shopping for a new device.

As far as headphone jacks? Probably just another reason for me not to buy an idevice, I have a fairly large collection of bluetooth headphones, because of some work I was doing with A2DP a few years ago, but I pretty much use wired headphones because I've had the headphone battery die before the phone/etc way to often, and frankly when it comes to comfort (while sitting at my desk), or fit when running I stick to certain headphones not because they have cables but because they are better in the given use case.