skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are a software developer, the risk of committing to one year (three months at least partially in Mountain View) doesn't sound that scary to me. If you leave on good terms with your current employer you could probably just get your job back if you failed at your startup.

It sounds like you have a great potential business. The size of the addressable market will determine whether or not you could have a startup [0] as defined by PG. Generally speaking, YC only wants to fund startups in their main program, which would be the one that would give you enough capital to actually make a run at it.

When we did YC (S13) we had three cofounders that all had families and single incomes. We made it work. We rented an apartment and lived/worked together for a few days during the week, and returned to our home offices the rest of the time. You could find a room to rent somewhere if you are a solo founder. Some used credit cards to float things. You'll have to get uncomfortable...

Part of doing a startup is about sacrificing bits of your life for your business. Investors (including YC) want to make sure you are all-in. I would be surprised if you would be able to raise any capital from experienced startup investors while working part-time on the project. They typically want you to have already dove into the deep end.

If you don't have a startup on your hands, but instead have a great small business, there's nothing to be ashamed of there and you can probably find some investment from local high net worth investors if you do some networking. You can test that with pre-orders or LOI's or something of that sort. However, those investments are probably going to be more "Shark Tank," full of onerous terms and potentially much more dilution for you as a founder.

[0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Lighting to 3.5mm audio: $10
Lighting EarPods: $30
MagSafe to MagSafe2 Converter: $10 (for that new laptop)

So yeah, an extra adapter is going to run the cost up about 1%.
That's cool. I guess there's no reason why things wouldn't naturally progress towards that. Phones are now powerful enough.

My only experience with creating music electronically was with Fruity Loops back in the day, so that's what I had in my head. I figured it would be hard to manipulate something like that on such a small screen.

The iPad does seem more suited, as the other comment mentioned.
Agreed. Having other reasons Google may buy Twitter. But not because they are number one at something at which Twitter is number two.
Decreasing sales yes. Also provided the second most revenue in watches in the world. Right after Rolex.

Also the only smartwatch in the top 10.
The new notification framework in iOS 10 feels like a genuine step forward. The rest, I agree.
Just find a theater staffed exclusively by bored teenagers who don't enforce the policy :)
The camera bulge bothers me on every phone. The lens always ends up wearing after some daily use. Why would you want that to be the contact point on any device?
If you sell your old phone the math works out fine
On the other hand, perhaps the answer is that they're just complicated enough. If the big, old cities didn't provide a unique economic advantage through their increased interconnectivity then no one would stick around to tolerate that ancient infrastructure.
Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion per Year
> Digital connectors are superior in almost every way (space use, port flexibility, sound quality, even cable integrity).

Then why has almost no one decided to use Lightning headphones when given a choice?
I had an S2, an S3, and an S4. After trying each one for a month, I reverted to the respective iPhone. Trust me I've tried. I'm sure the S7 is great, and maybe it is the first "reasonable" phone from Samsung, but I have yet to use an iPhone that I didn't like. I have used 3 Samsung phones that were laggy and loaded up with garbage apps.
This will be the first year I pass on upgrading on the 2-year cycle. I'm happy with my iPhone 6. I don't do much on it besides photos and texting. Although the camera in the 7 is nice, the 7 Plus seems to have gotten the most love in the camera department and I don't want a phone that big.
I purchased a bluetooth receiver for my car last year since I already had a headphone size cord to plugin to my phone. The same thing could be used for your now obsolete headphones. Although all I could find was the refurbished version. https://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Bluetooth-NFC-Enabled-Certif...

Now you just have to carry your phone plus a bluetooth receiver to plug into!
Also consider that data isn't timeless. Data about your habits now, are outdated and close to worthless in a few months. So, reducing your data footprint always has an effect.
16GB for smart phones has been a terrible option for years. It's sort of comedic, though also very tragic, to watch people juggle images and audio and apps on 16GB devices.
I submitted the URL for archival as have a lot of other people done, but what I found strange is that there are archived versions of "page not found" results going all the way back to 2014.

http://web.archive.org/web/20160907200621*/http://www.apple....

Meanwhile, nobody has attempted to archive links for iPhone 8.

I guess maybe the IA crawlers found links to the page from elsewhere. Links made either by mistake or by someone making a joke about the release of iPhone 7 back in 2014 and betting on people not actually following the link. I dunno.
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You are correct that Lightning predated USB type C, but Lightning is proprietary and thus is not a standard.
Weird. Nowhere is stated the amount of RAM the phone has. Not even http://www.apple.com/iphone-7/specs/

Wikipedia claims 1GB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_7). Can't be right?
So in essence, if you want to verify the authenticity of your macbook charger, you should put a paperclip in the connector.
Worse yet, _one_ of them.
I wouldn't say "weird", but I am curious how you manage to swap your iPhone battery to the spare you carry.
YC invests in the types of companies they know how to deal with. Why the fixation on them? There are people with money other than Y Combinator.
It goes a bit beyond "an ops team with development skills" in my company -- someone from Devops sits in on design and code reviews to suggest changes for operational needs (which almost always means adding metrics so we know how busy it is, and when it breaks or is near breaking, followed closely by adding enough logging so when it does break, we know why and don't need to page a developer to read a stack dump to try to figure it out).

But ultimately, the developer is the one that best understands how their code may break so he needs to instrument the code accordingly. And when the developer knows that giving the right information to Ops may avoid a 3am phone call, they have good incentive to do so.
> the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move

Were any of them? MacBook Air released in 2008. DVD media sales rose YOY 2005 => 2009. Flash video did not decrease in popularity pre-iPhone, it decreased because of the iPhone.

> The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been

"DVDs are as popular today as they have ever been" - someone in 2008

> they by design can't be a universal solution

They've been explicitly designed to be as close to a universal solution as is possible. Pair them with one of your Apple devices and that pairing is synced to all others. Instead of unplugging your cable from your phone to your Mac you simply start doing something on your Mac and the audio source switches.

If the Airpods did not require power and were simply completely wireless they'd be the perfect solution. Apple is betting that battery advances will mean that the utility of these headphones (no wire, built in sensors) massively outweighs the cons (require power). Right now they only benefit "a lot" of people.
They probably deleted the jack so they can sell more airpods and beats wireless headphones. This technology delete doesn't strike me as an improvement, but rather a a way of coercing clients to spend more on accessories sold by Apple and subsidiaries.
It's just setting expectations.

The series 1 watch had the same caveats but proved very water resistant in practice. To make stronger promises you need to understand how the seals age and how the device behaves in lots of situations, or you need to over-engineer it with bulky seals and other compromises. You also need to understand and deal with extremely tight manufacturing tolerances.

If Apple said the iPhone was waterproof people would take it scuba diving then post YouTube videos showing how "crapp" the new iPhone is, then we'd have watergate (lol) all over the tech press.

Much like Trump/Hillary, people don't hold anyone else to the same high standard they hold Apple to. (If Trump manages to not vomit on himself at the first debate he'll be declared the winner by the media. )
That's precisely why it's spec ip67. It allows them to have their phone independently verified while still leaving the customer on the hook for damage.

Yes, it's unfortunate that if its damages under 50m it's your word versus their word.
Super slick AR glasses... If they ever arrive.
> True geniuses know the social value of humility.

Wouldn't you have to be a genius to be able to make such an evaluation?
There's also these for around $200 from Samsung, though supposedly battery life is poor.

http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-iconx/
Its way too late, the war is over. Wait till you see what they are going to do in 50 years with all this info and capability.
> (space use, port flexibility,

Except they only gave you one port, so you can't even do something as benign as charge your phone and listen to fucking music at the same time.

> sound quality,

I challenge you to prove that one, I'm sure sound quality is indistinguishable. If it's good enough for every sound engineer ever it's good enough for me.

> even cable integrity)

Again, is that even true? You can knock out a cheap headphone cable that works perfectly, whereas lightning devices are always crazy expensive.
I've had a pebble (which was chewed up by my dog), fitbit (literally fell apart - fitbits have the worst quality IMO), and a microsoft band 2.

The Band 2 has most of these functions (except water proof - it's just water resistant), and while i enjoy it, i find the bulkiness and battery life (have to charge every day or every other day) tiring. I was hoping the apple watch would focus more on battery than adding new features like GPS, so if a Band 3 isn't released with a better battery i'll probably revert to a new pebble.
Try being the ops person expected to be able to troubleshoot this dumpster fire in the middle of the night; they didn't write a single line of the breaking code either. Why exactly are they expected to know what broke and how to fix it while you can't seem to be bothered learning how the rest of your stack works?
They're not moving to Bluetooth. They're packaging Lightning headphones in the box and announced their own wireless earbuds that are not Bluetooth.

Update: as noted below, they do use Bluetooth though that's not in the marketing pitch. They don't promise compatibility outside of Apple devices though so who knows if it's based on a standard profile.
This is not the same thing. I block all cookies and I still see plenty of ads. What's different is that the ad networks don't get to aggregate a profile on (effectively) all of my browsing. And yes, I believe I have a right to that.
The telling thing for me was Phil had to defend the headphone idea with three different arguments, along with an inflammatory photo of a switchboard. When Steve Jobs deleted the floppy drive, he simply declared that floppies had no future.
I think Apple needs to add a few younger people to their executive team, because it seams they no longer can even pretend to be exited during the presentation.
They require you to relocate to SV during the program. Whether to move there permanently is up to you.
Speaking about countries.... yes there are countries like e.g. Germany with strict privacy laws. The problem with this laws are... they should theoretically protect your privacy but they stop at the border. So the privacy laws are strict for German companies and maybe also some of EU countries... but data from a foreign company like e.g. Facebook do not stop at borders. There are many legal cases that say what Facebook (I'm only using FB as an example) is doing is illegal in Germany but how would you stop an international company betraying your privacy laws in the Internet?
Creating a company in Germany which does not respect your privacy is impossible there (maybe this is the reason we are not world class at internet companies).
Ah, thank you. I got that confused.
I looked up the definition of "hobby" and got this:
"an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation"

So yeah, it seems to fit the definition.

Remember, these women aren't doing this as part of a marriage or other relationship with a partner, they're doing it all by themselves. Unlike other people who usually find a partner to procreate with, and then share the duties and responsibilities of child-rearing, these women apparently are unable to maintain a long-term relationship, but they have plenty of money, so like some people like to buy expensive pets, these women get IVF and have a kid, and then hire a full-time nanny or au pair to raise it since they're always busy with work, going to the bar, going to cultural events, hanging out with their single female friends, etc. But for that minority of time they want to feel like a "parent", they'll have the kid there and can do something with him/her.

Sounds like a hobby to me. Not too different from some rich guy with 30 cars in his garage, and he might take any particular car out for a spin once a month or less, but he can afford full-time mechanics and detailers to take care of them in the meantime.
For those who don't know, 1000memories was a service meant to allow people to create a "permanent" online memorial to loved ones who had died. Their CEO leaned hard on me to use them after I complained on my blog about the shabby business practices of a competitor, Legacy.com, when my best friend died.

Stay classy, YC. I'm sure it would have cost a fortune to keep the domain up.
The AirPods come with a charge case that holds 24 hours of juice. If you manage to end up in a scenario where your phone is out of power, your AirPods are out of power, and the AirPod case is out of power, that would be a fairly impressive bit of poor planning.

Besides, you can charge your phone and your AirPods at the same time, you just need to have two outlets (or two USB ports) and two cables.
I should have been clearer. I really expected them to announce a free repair for anyone suffering from the issue, not to keep ignoring it like they have so far, even when the problem is obviously effecting many customers.
Forget the algebraic mechanics of symbolically evaluating an integral -- let a CAS do that for you -- and just focus on the relationship to the shape of the function being integrated.
Pretty sure that the adapter would work just as well (I don't know anything about the readers, but assume they are just encoding the CC info as an analog signal and listening to it over the microphone port... I wonder how easily they might be snooped via EMI).
Orange and dark blue are names we give to perceived frequencies of light.

Dark blue isn't really any 'darker' in terms of energy content spectrum than orange is, its our brains that have evolved to make this association that X spectrum is dark and Y spectrum is bright.
Ha ha, no. It was CLI all the way. I generated like a few million numbers as a text file and put those in a table and called them off.
...which he didn't say.

And while his/any steps aren't enough to mitigate all tracking, they do mitigate a lot of tracking, which is far better than doing nothing.
GS scathed away with their former president as the Secretary of Treasury overseeing the rescue of their dependencies.

Who has made such attribution?
Welcome to being a weird niche market that nobody else cares about it. While you're here, try a fountain pen! They're great!

(no, really)
Right...many people seem to confuse genius with being really smart.
Ask HN: Can a mesh network replace fiber?
or is using fiber inevitable?
This is by far best enjoyed on paper. Print one out and share it with your office!
I believe that Apple collected anonymous usage data of how often the headphone jacks were used on their iPhones and determined that it would be safe to remove - even with a vocal group that would complain.

Whenever you install or upgrade to a new OS, Apple prompts users if they'd like to send the anonymous usage data and I feel the headphone jack would be an important data point they've been researching.
Bluetooth audio lag does depend on the buffer size of the audio device. My car also has a two second lag when playing through Bluetooth, but my Bluetooth headphones have nearly no perceptible lag at all.
Courage is not how you sell iPhones
I'm more concerned about the government tracking me than private companies tracking me.

As we've seen with the NSA over the last few years, mere laws will not stop the government from spying on you (if you can convince them to implement token restrictions on government surveillance in the first place, which is not often the case).
Thanks for that! I was hoping something like this existed so I could do the car audio aux + gps + charging.
I'm not talking about USB-C.

I'm talking about the ability to walk off an airplane, in any country in the world, and having forgotten both my charging cable and my charger, I can find a plain old USB port somewhere[1] and someone (possibly my hotel) can hand me a plain old USB cable and I can charge my (device).

[1] On my own laptop, preferably.
I think the term developer is a bit loaded. If you're properly developing an application, you should know what your dependies are, where you store your data, what are the failure condiditions are, how to prove your appication is actually functioning.

In my world, developers barely understand the programming language or framework they're using and are more interested in using buzzword foo rather than solving the problem at hand or dealing with actually running the systems that solve said problems.

As someone who does both dev and ops jobs, together and seperatly, I think your job will be safe for a very long time.
Note to HN readers: I've deleted the post from my blog, because, though this did not happen initially (when I wrote the post), a day later the link to the site was not resolving correctly and I was getting a warning message from my browser.

Not sure of the reason, since it worked the day before. Maybe their certificate expired.
IoT and VR are the obvious technologies that have been introduced after smart phones. They both have significant obstacles in addition to the significant potential.

I won't pretend to know how things will pan out -- I agree with the idea that inventing the future is easier than predicting it.

I'd like to hear some contrarian thinking against IoT and VR. And maybe a list of "next big things" that weren't. Clean tech might be one of them. I recall some pre-www hype by Bill Gates about the "CD-ROM business", which seems to have been less of a business than a cheap distribution medium. Flip cameras were a blip.

This definitely applies: http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

"Live in the future and build what seems interesting"

People trying to jump on trends are usually too late, because 1) they pick the wrong trend due to lack of fundamental understanding, and 2) It takes years to develop true expertise.

The people really profiting from deep learning now were toiling in obscurity 10 years ago. And plenty of people picked a line of AI research 10 years ago that has already fallen out of favor. There's no free lunch: risk and reward go hand in hand.
Amazon Just Blew the Lid Off the iPhone 7
I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in thinking that if they made the phone a little bit thicker to make if flush, we could get some crazy battery life (and a headphone jack).
Yeah, the labor laws are broken.

Salary shouldn't be a thing that a company can ever hide behind.

Labor laws really do need to cover the maximums that an employee can be expected to work. They should also make going above those maximums exponentially more expensive in 'bonus time'; and the accumulation rate shouldn't magically reset after time, but only after time back on normal/reduced work load and duration.

Also, while I'm on this subject, 'full time' work should really begin at more like 24 hours / week. Benefits for part time work should be pro-rated. (It should never be more cost effective to split a full time job in to part time jobs. That is defrauding the economy and making others pay for the costs of your labor.)
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Sure, but so what? That's my whole point: none of that is necessary, or even helpful. 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. Anything else is a distraction.
I just bought a Moto X, and I'm glad I did because the Moto Z looks like its replacement. A standard headphone jack is a basic requirement for me, anybody who doesn't have one won't get my money.
> a Trump voter

Is that really necessary?

Some of us are treating the political system like a blackbox, I'm just sending a different corrupt payload at it to see what the output is.
If you don't break it, that is (or you run into issues after the warranty is over)
There is no encryption AFAIK, and there wouldn't need to be any compression. Even today, you can connect a regular USB DAC / headphone amp to the iPhone via the USB camera connector dongle and use that. Any device that follows the USB audio standard is supported (depending on power draw, of course).
They're pricey (~ 450 USD), but I recommend the Sennheiser Momentum bluetooth wireless [1]. Great sound for music (aptX) and phone calls, comfortable, solid noise cancellation. You can still use them corded if you want too.

[1] https://en-us.sennheiser.com/momentum-wireless-headphones-wi...
Do people play a lot of graphics intensive games on phones?
This is correct, it's called 'Audio Device Class', specs here [1][2]. It's said that the new enhancements that Intel is pondering add power-management features to this spec, but I can't find much documentation on it, other than rumours.

[1] http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/audio10.pdf

[2] http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/frmts10.pdf