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I doubt it, actually. They have a history[1] of removing ports and features which seem unbelievable at the time, and then pushing forward with that decision, however unpopular.

1: Floppy drives, optical drives, MacBook Air ports, etc
That part of the presentation was awful and had me rolling my eyes. "Oh, I wonder what Pokemon it's going to be inside this egg... Pikachu!" <halfhearted claps>

They could have made it funny by having the worst Pokemon appear. Or having it run away. Very poor showmanship.
I didn't catch that the AirPods aren't Bluetooth. I wonder if that was designed based on problems with Bluetooth or more to get tighter integration with Siri. Perhaps they needed it to sync pairings over iCloud.

Edit: From the official product page:

> Connections

> AirPods: Bluetooth

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEF2AM/A/airpods
No, it's virtually the same price it's always been, but with more storage. The first iPhone with 8Gb was $599, 9 years later it's only $50 more for the 32gb model. What weird blogs have you been reading?
If you want a CS Ph.D., demonstrate that you're a REALLY REALLY GOOD programmer; that can make up for lack of significant research experience. I've advised a few dozen students of various ranks, and I still rate programming ability as amongst the top prerequisite ... everything else can be learned more easily in a short time, imho:

http://pgbovine.net/prospective-students.htm
Why would cognitive ability be different than any other characteristic, like height, athletic ability, and so on? Those same twin studies have shown that intelligence and academic performance are also highly heritable.

Certainly nurturing an ability will enhance performance, but there's an inherent upper limit to everything. Just like eating right and exercising won't make you grow taller than some max threshold, so studying and solving riddles won't make you more intelligent than some upper bound dictated by your genes. We don't know how to measure that yet, for either height or intelligence, but that bound is there.
Global warming as falling into the Sun
I was actually making a Simpsons reference. Apparently my pop culture knowledge is out of date.
Native feel, reliability, and responsiveness make the iWork apps pleasant to use, if you don't need the full feature set of what MS Office apps offer (e.g., making a "Table of Authorities" in a legal brief). Sometimes one can make better looking documents too.
You mean mono, right? Or did they really say "full" stereo (whatever non-full stereo is) through one earbud?
I tried to go iWork only for a while and numbers barely made it for me. It had too small a level of functionality and in exchange was more complicated than it needed to be to get a small amount out. I found Soulver (a re-imagining of the calculator interface) was both simpler and more powerful for straightforward calculations -- by the time it tops out, Numbers has probably topped out.

But the home point is a good one: Numbers was great for making up a weekly chores sheet for the kid, easily decorated with fun photos and such. Still: does that justify Apple's investment?
The problem with external DACs is that they don't easily fit in your pocket and cost a pretty penny. Cheap headphones will get even worse and good ones will get more expensive for including a good DAC.

There are no winners in this game except for Apple, which can push more licenses and proprietary accessories.
The Apple AirPods is cool, but be prepared to buy a second pair or regret
I've never heard of any Hewlett-Packard software other than BIOSes in HP PC's, and firmware in HP printers, and of course HP-UX plus surrounding paraphernalia.

Micro Focus is involved in the merge, a name synonymous with COBOL.
Maybe it will be another software update, or something 'software new' for the iPhone 7S or 8 like they did with live photos & the 6S.
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I don't want to seem mean, but you're like a caricature of a country person. People are living things which grow to suit their environment, everyone thinks their way is the best way and that their hometown is the coolest. When you say things like "city people care more about money" and "city people are mean" you sound like a bumpkin.
So what, the poster mistyped "Sorny"? Big deal....
I've also heard the argument that steel was in some ways better, because when the enemy is bombing your factories, you can almost always get steel somewhere. Titanium composites, like those used on the Americans planes, not so much.
I like watches myself (have quite a few, have collected american pocket watches in the past). I don't think this has a lot to do with the demographics of the viewers as much as it has to do with Apple not changing much about the watch. If this actually is a complete re-design, I view this as Apple Watch 1.0 v2. They haven't meaningfully expanded what the watch does or introduced new ideas around how it could be used.

The Series 2 is a better Apple Watch, but it's not much more than the Apple Watch was. I don't see many reasons for someone who passed on the first to buy the second. I think that's the source of the reaction here.
Find a topic you like and mail some people in the field directly. If you make it personal you'll probably get a response. I've finished one PhD and dropped out of another. In both cases, it started off with a friendly chat with my potential supervisor.
What options currently exist to improve a person's microbiome?
HP Enterprise in $8.8B deal with Micro Focus for software assets
Bus commute + work > 5 hours.

So now I'm carrying my headphone charger with me everywhere?
I've been trying out $49 Android phones lately after using an iPhone 6 Plus for over a year.

Android is getting to the point where most users will not really notice a difference between Android and IOS, even on a very inexpensive device.
Can you use the ios remote app?
DVD media sales don't mean much because most of those would be watched on home entertainment centers, not MacBook.

My ~5 year old laptop came with a blue ray drive. It has never held a blue ray disc and only once held a DVD. I wish other manufacturers were quicker to follow suite.
Maybe there's only one image processor so it can't capture from both cameras simultaneously.
Platform lock in.

You are right that Apple needed iWork for iOS/Mac because they couldn't depend on Microsoft. But, now that they've got iWork it's another tentpole Apple can use to keep consumers locked into their platform.
This a thousand times.

(Also a very constructive philosophy for technical folks, regardless of their preferred operating layer.)
prank your enemies or your friends for 3.99$ i wake him/her up between 4-9am calling them anywhere GOING ON WAKEUPYOURENEMY.COM
> 3.) No more listening to music/audiobooks as I fall asleep because in the morning the iPhone won't be charged for my desk usage the next day unless I wake up and plug it back in during my sleep.

Can you really sleep with earbuds in? In that use case, I use the device's speaker.
I'm not exactly sold on the AirPods, but when I first saw them being worn in the video, I smiled. They say "the future."
Newsflash: when you make computer hardware, you're still going to make software, because it doesn't work without firmware for those 10 different processors and SoC's on current mainboards...
Interesting. Somehow i have no recollection of that term even after reading that book. It was a number of years ago now... perhaps it's time for a revisit.
When people talk about whether a cable is "standard" or not, they are drawing distinctions between different types of cable. By your definition every cable is standard, or at least every cable that can connect to two models by the same manufacturer. That's a useless definition. People don't mean that, they mean something adopted by ISO/IEEE or similarly available for anyone to use with a lot of adopters.
I mostly agree, though I think that California's massive amount of readily available tech venture capital, as compared to anywhere else on Earth, is a far more important factor in its abundance of startups, rather than its obscure law banning non-compete agreements.
I have the same problem and use the loop method as well. I have tried quite a few headsets and like them the best though. I think the real reason why they fall out is the weight of the wire lightly tugging the bottom of the ear bud. I'm hoping the lack of wires will solve that issue...
And in real life:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CryDBXuWgAIJIRY.jpg

Awful
This is a neat project. I've been slowing exploring some of these ideas myself both for work (offline field work) and fun (games and communications apps for running in the mostly offline world of a cruise ship). It's neat to see Mozilla exploring the space directly.

One of the hard parts here is that although mDNS is now a standard, it seems very inconsistently supported. It seems a shame that you can't just rely on http://mdns-address.local to work on every device or at all reliably.

Offline capable peer to peer apps I think have a lot of uses and are a great idea. Hopefully something like this Mozilla project might push forward to some standard generally accessible to the public.
> Apple's closed system is at odds with the data mobility sought by most advanced Garmin/Suunto users that I know e.g. to/from Strava, MapMyEverything, TrainingPeaks etc.

You clearly haven't used the watch or any HealthKit related apps. All of the data collected in any HealthKit app or accessory is available to all of the others. Strava knows if I ran using Nike Run Club yesterday, Withings knows that I biked with my Wahoo cadence counter over the weekend, and my diet tracker knows how much I weigh from my Withings scale. There is no lock-in such as you describe, it's incredibly open, portable, and under my control.
I don't trust Apple. Although I'm an Android user bemused that they actually removed the headphone port - hardly their target customer.
Yea, Sound quality likewise isn't an issue for me when running, but I do sweat much more than the average runner. The loop headphones really work well for me.

FWIW this is what I use, and I buy 3-4 pairs at a time, about once per year: https://www.amazon.com/Philips-SHS3200BK-37-Flexible-Headpho...
Goodbye Middle Class: 51 Percent of All American Workers Make Less Than 30k/yr
Shut the book and watch tv (and eat chocolate bars) is the sure way to low self esteem, you'd never go that way. Your kid being super smart doesn't matter here.

Also most parents will believe their kid is smarter than average, no need to encourage this illusion which can hurt a lot when you have to face reality.
How was it possible to forbid this procedure? Couldn't the mother (perhaps with some help from you?) just do it herself?
"Right on their website", but not in any of their marketing materials or during the presentation. It will be interesting to see if they work at all with non-Apple devices.

Update: CNET is providing a little more on this, looks like they will be compatible (but without any buttons on them, it may not be a great experience):

http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-intros-totally-wireless-airpo...

> They all work with Apple's new proprietary W1 chip that's being described as a custom chip that uses ultra low-power Blueooth and keeps the two earbuds in sync. CNET reporter Shara Tibken spoke to Apple reps who confirmed the headphones will work with other Bluetooth devices, not just the new iPhones
DNSSEC is not decentralized -- it follows a strict hierarchy from ICANN => TLDs (world governments) => you.

DNS is distributed, not decentralized.
Yes you are. You're so fast I don't even see you refresh.
Are you sure about that? I can unflag something I flag but I don't see any place where I can unvote. Unless it's karma gated? Though I would have figured I would have access to all the features by now...
> A PhD is super fun

Experiences differ. A lot. Personally, I had an awful time during my PhD, and between the penury and the toil and the bleak prospects afterward, I'd say you're definitely in the minority on this one.

I wouldn't recommend a PhD to anyone who isn't dead set on a job that requires one.
I was under the assumption that VMWare owned Pivotal after it was spun off. I would assume at the least that VMware owns a large share.
Another factor is that it takes some time for a company to admit it failed, and everyone's opinion of "failed" is different. I suspect the actual number is higher, especially from an investors perspective.
My car doesn't have aux, so I've been achieving it with a Bluetooth FM transmitter. It's not ideal with occasional FM interference when traveling, but it's also ≤ $50 vs replacing the head unit, etc. And it works in every car.
It's the first gen of a new product. They will only get better from here. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they iterate on it annually to go along with new iPhones.
Even then are there compelling features (I didn't see the keynote) that make the web-based service superior to others?
I agree that new institutions that never had pre-internet systems are a harder problem.

> it's unreasonable to expect institutions to build and test paper alternatives just as a backup.

Some type of backup is necessary for anything critically important. From my previous [2]:

In sum, as a matter of policy everything that is officially
categorized as a critical infrastructure must conclusively
show how it can operate in the absence of the Internet.

Depending on a single source for mission critical features has been popular since at least the dot com era. Maybe some people can live with the risk that e.g. Twitter can shut their business down at any time by banning their API key, but some institutions need to be reliable. In the past, this need for reliability lead to the agreement where Intel licensed AMD to second-source[3] the 8086 and other parts.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_source
Because ditching the 3.5 mm jack is a fairly big deal and you'd think they would show you how well it works to encourage people to buy in to their idea and included them as standard.
I'm genuinely curious what endgame Meg Whitman is planning for HPE, she seems to be divesting most of the 'E' in HPE. So just commodity servers/bladecenters, storage and networking (half of which is already rebranded Aruba)?
Skin tone for you is probably not skin tone for me.
I went through a PhD at a non-top-tier school (borderline between second-tier and third-tier). I definitely dealt with politics extensively. A huge amount of people-pleasing, both with your advisor and with others in your chosen research area and the broader field it sits in. A fair bit of funding-related politics. And a fair bit of actual politics politics, if you want to fit in.

There's a lot of in-group / out-group politics in academia; don't make life more difficult for yourself when you know a straightforward way to survive. Learn to deeply bury any opinions you might have that don't completely align with those of people who control your fate, especially in areas fundamental to their in-group identity, and if that fails, lie convincingly. (Remember that dodging a question where enthusiastic agreement was expected is a form of answer, and not the one you want to give.) You might get lucky and work with people accepting of differences of opinion, but I wouldn't recommend risking it when years of your life are on the line.

I don't regret the experience, and quite frankly I learned a few other survival skills in the process that simply hadn't come up as an undergrad, but don't go into it thinking it's a purely technical experience, or that you won't have to deal with a pile of utterly ridiculous BS and unpleasantness.
Anyone checked out pantelligent?
Seems silly but who knows?

https://www.pantelligent.com/
Seems everyone could wait until they try these on, instead of the hot takes that Apple probably didn't engineer their headphones to stay in the ears.
That's fine if you don't mind abandoning the externalities of the service.

For example, when all your friends now communicate mainly on Facebook (or WhatsApp, etc.), then your choice is to either lose touch with your friends, or use that service. Sure, nobody's technically forcing you to use Facebook, but the social externality means that you become cut off from your friends in a very real way if you don't.
How can you lose the Apple TV remote, it's not going to walk out of your house on its own?
“Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI,
Fair point. What I've heard comes secondhand from kindergarten / early elementary school teachers where students can't do those kinds of things yet.
Genius move by apple. Nothing said 'I'm cool' like the white headphone cables, same effect with new wireless Airpods
Isn't the market itself supposed to sort this problem out? To take your toothpaste example - customers will pick different types, perhaps randomly, and slowly gravitate towards best quality/price option. The word of mouth is pretty effective locally.

Now obviously, humans being humans, there's no way to prevent companies from trying to influence that word of mouth mechanism. But there seems to be a benefit from keeping it a shady (or perhaps illegal) practice - the society in general will shun corporate shills and attempts at influencing people's opinions. Which seems to be a better option than what we have now, where marketing is actually a respectable occupation, and people get assaulted with advertisements.

> all else being equal, the better toothpaste should have access to a larger marketing budget

This doesn't work because the definition of "better" for the market is different than "better" for the consumer. A market!better product is the one that sells more than alternatives, while the consumer!better product is the one of greater quality/usefulness. Market!better gives you profits which increases your marketing budget which increases market!better - you have a positive feedback loop here that bypasses the consumer!better variable entirely - hence the observation that investing in marketing has better ROI today than making something that's actually useful for the consumer.
This comment will probably drown in the deluge, but it'll be interested to see if there market for higher quality Bluetooth DACs just got cracked open a bit. I use a Soundblaster E5 myself; this thing is great.
Another word for complexity is diversity. Resilience comes from that complexity. Very much like biology.

NYC (where I live) is wildly inefficient, except at delivering benefits that millions of people consider worthwhile.
Ask HN: Rendering transparent overlay in cross-platform desktop application?
I'm new to desktop GUI development (web developer) and at the simplest level, I'm trying to do the following across Linux, Mac, and Windows:

- Overlay a transparent PNG/SVG & text label on the screen.

- Stay on top of everything else (as much as the OS/window manager allows).

- Ideally, not interfere with user input, but I can work around this.

I've done a ton of digging on this, and these are my main takeaways:

- wxWidgets and TkInter do not support transparency.

- I've gotten a hack to work with GTK/cairo on Linux, but portability of the transparency part doesn't seem likely.

- Electron and friends are in the progress of supporting this sort of use-case, but that seems INSANELY resource intensive for my needs.

- QT and Java seem to be the only two options that even roughly support this, but I'd imagine my third requirement of not interfering with user input can only be accomplished through the respective native APIs.

Given that all I need is an icon and text rendered transparently on the screen, would it be overly ambitious to try to write the "rendering" part low-level and platform specific (X11, WinAPI, Cocoa?), and have something higher level that toggles/abstracts the implementation (either at packaging or runtime, doesn't matter)? Are there any good examples of simple GUI applications that build native UI's for each platform but communicate with them using cross-platform code? Should I just give up and use QT or Java?

I'm definitely not looking for exact code on how to accomplish this, but rather a high level "how would you do it?" from those experienced with cross-platform desktop app development.

Thanks HN!
Ah, thank you, I was really more interested in what happened to Belenko than the jet itself.
Apple users surely seem to. I hardly see them without carrying their vga and sometimes rj45 converters, if not also a custom phone charger.
Most people don't know what they're interested in and consumers are starting to actually take hold of AR. Ever seen Snapchat filters? Yep those are 3D tracking with depth. Not fiducial AR or just non tracked "overlay" so it counts. It's steps toward HMD AR by showing people what is possible to do to changing the real world dynamically.

Having hardware that can do depth at scale with an application layer is a big step - not sure that the 7 plus gets there but it's a start.
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Just to point out, there's no particular reason to host a page like this on a VPS at all. You could just throw it on S3. Even better, you could put it behind a CDN like Cloudfront and the total cost would be a dollar or two a month, not $25+ and it would be significantly faster.
All the more reason a bike rider should be aware of their surroundings.

Someone else being inattentive doesn't dismiss you from your responsibility.
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In Defense of Food: GoogleTalk on problems with modern western diet
HP arbitrages commodity hardware, commodity software and commodity software consulting through enterprise sales channels and their well known brand.
Not every acquisition is a success.
AirAsia X flight to Malaysia ends up in Melbourne after typo
My point is that ROE are applied only by the side that feels very much sure of its power and ability to win the conflict. When you fight for your very survival, all rules go down the drain.
Yes, it has an alternator, and as I already explained, if you push-start the car and jam the fuel cutoff solenoid, you don't even need the alternator (or the battery). OK, you need them at night, for the headlights.

Those windings and diodes will carry 100 amps continuously. The E1 pulse isn't going to touch them. It doesn't last anywhere near long enough for them to even begin heating up. The E2 and E3 pulses aren't even a factor.
There has to be infrastructure to regulate (in the engineering sense) power distribution. Right now, this only exists going from centralized plants out to homes. (Industries which produce electricity as a side effect often have to pay for this infrastructure.)
They asked linear algebra and probability in the interview for machine learning in my school. Most rospective candidates got asked "what's an eigenvalue?" (among many other questions).

I guess what you should learn depends on the field. But they'll be looking for demonstrable interest and possibly outside learning.
I mean, easily.

At $159, they only need to sell 15000 to reach $2mm in sales.

Unless you thought I meant units. I definitely think millions of units is possible, if Apple continues selling hundreds of millions of iPhones. But it's not just AirPods sales. Apple makes a few dollars with every lightning device that is sold. So essentially, even if those hundreds of millions of iPhone devices don't lead to sales of millions of Airpods, they will lead to sales of 10s of millions of Lightning headphones. Which means tens of millions of free dollars for Apple.

Here's the other thing though. If Apple does not expect to sell millions of Airpods, then the whole "Courage, because the future is wireless" justification falls apart, because if not even 1% of the headphones being sold are Airpods, it's likely the future is not wireless.