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About that bulge.

The animation when loading the page made that bulge almost phallic. That phone appears like an erection, growing up and up...

It's almost certainly only in my mind though.
> You can't charge and listen to music at the same time. How often do you actually do that?

My two use cases that I expect are pretty common:

1. In the car, plugged in to charge since using GPS navigation drains the battery very fast, and car audio input is AUX only.

2. Phone on the nightstand, plugged to overnight charge and I go to sleep listening to podcasts or music on headphones to avoid disturbing my partner. I can dozily remove my headphones, but I can't switch cables without waking up.

I agree that there will be aftermarket products to solve it. Just makes the thing more expensive for me, so less likely to buy.
Ah, that makes sense. (Should have realized that. Frogmetrics is gone too.)
They're not saying the glass is unbreakable, they say it's strong. Water resistant sounds entirely different from 'should survive small splashes' and doesn't add anything if it's not actually watertight. I already use my android phone in the rain, covering it as well as I can, and take the risk. Or hope it survives when splashing water over it. That works, so the next step is actually being watertight.
We're more integrated with Dev than a traditional "ops" role where Dev throws the code over the fence at Ops and says "Deploy it!" and Ops throws it back if there's a problem and says "Fix it!"

Our devops team sits in on design and code reviews to help ensure that operational needs are met early on in the process, and we'll change code to fix bugs or support operational needs. We're not full developers and won't rearchitect entire systems, but we will do bug fixes when we can.

So now we're back to square one and we actually need to evaluate people and teams based on their knowledge and skill

Have we ever left that square?
this is what "one" is for... (instead of generic "you")
I'm more than a little shocked and disappointed that more people on HN don't care about avoiding proprietary formats. Most people here _make_ stuff. Open formats allow you to more easily make interoperable stuff.

I don't want a world what I have Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG headphone connectors.
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Centralization is no panacea. Photovoltaic can deliver decentralized clean power. Utility-scale power plants are slightly more efficient than portable engines, but it's less than a factor of 2; whether a coal plant produces more or less pollution than a gasoline or diesel engine depends on ① how well-maintained and well-equipped each is, ② how clean the fuel for each is, and ③ whether you're counting CO₂ as pollution, in which case the coal plant will always lose.

Here in Buenos Aires, diesel is terribly polluting. In California, diesel is super clean. The difference is mostly that in California you have to fix your car if it starts emitting smoke, and the diesel fuel is centrifuged to remove sulfur. Diesel unavoidably emits a lot of soot until the engine warms up, but lots of diesel vehicles are equipped with soot filters which periodically burn the soot off.

I don't know that it's accurate to say that centralization allows pollution control. It can just as easily prevent pollution control — even though there are less sources of pollution, they're each controlled by a more politically powerful entity. In many countries, this means energy companies can get away with murder. Literally.
> if you are willing to re-edit them in Photoshop to remove all the denoise and compression artifacts

They did mention that you'll be able to capture raws with the iPhone camera now, which will hopefully alleviate some of that.
Because there are absurdly rich parents who still show love for their children?
>What, so now you have to charge the selfie stick?

Question is does it charge via USB, USB-C or Lightning?
When you think you know everything you get your BS

When you find out you know nothing, you get your Masters

When you realize no one else knows either you get your PHD
Absolutely iconic. The iPod of it's generation for sure.
I believe the very first batch of the first generation did... I know someone who got one very early on and complained about it.
>The one killer app I'm missing on the Apple Watch is Siri

Agree -- I love my FR235, but Siri is the only feature that makes me want an Apple Watch. On balance, I still prefer my Garmin, though.
> I see now that JavaScript bindings do exist but are not maintained

That's partially because the amount of API churn for LLVM and for native Node.js bindings is high. It's actually a lot of work to keep up with LLVM in particular.
I've pretty much given up rhythm gaming on mobile platforms. There's always going to be too much overhead and too many unknown variables.

Only games that I think have ever gotten this right (insofar as lag correction can be "right") is the Rock Band series, which has auto lag compensation via a photosensor and mic on the guitars.

I imagine the best rhythm game experiences will remain on crappy PCs running Windows XP Embedded for a while.
I usually don't recommend it at pre-seed stage, but you could contract product development out and manage it from a technical level. Not cheap, but it would allow you create the first version faster. Either that or trim down your MVP feature set.

There also hundreds of other accelerators. Though I can't really recommend doing any accelerator while you have a 1-year-old. (But you also don't really need an accelerator to get your MVP done.)
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It angers you? Apple has both options available - the adapter or a dock - and tons of 3rd party solutions are available, so you're angry?
Never used a Samsung Note 7 but does anything in the pen holder connect inside the phone or is it just a hole surrounded in plastic? With a headphone jack there are a lot (at least 3?) of connections that have to pass into the phone which could complicate the waterproofing.
It wouldn't be uncommon for a Fortune 500 to have no Dell or EMC.

It would be a very unusual Fortune 500 that has no VMWare.
Millions of dollars in airpod sales. It's really as simple as that.

I mean, Apple's justification is that they are being courageous in pushing the world towards their vision of the future, which is wireless. Ignoring, for the moment whether this is a valid vision, how does a courageous move towards this future involve bundling not one, but 2 wired options with the phone?

I'm fairly certain I would have been unhappy with the decision to drop the headphone jack no matter what, but couching it as courage has taken me from unhappiness to screw them.
If you use just about any kind of case, the bulge disappears and becomes flush again.
The only time I've noticed BT drain was with Android phones. My Nexus 5 was horrible about random things spinning out of control and killing the phones battery. My current iPhone does not seem to have any of the same issues.
> They moved the headphone jack to the bottom of the phone for a reason

I seem to recall hearing that was because people most often carry their phones upside-down in their pockets, in order more quickly to bring them up to viewing position when retrieving them. (Think about it: Your hand goes fingers-down into your pocket, but viewing position has the top of the phone alongside your fingertips, so if you pocket your phone upside-down, you don't have to rotate it around the Z axis to get it into position before you can use it.)

No idea whether that's actually the case, or whether instead it was something to do with easier component placement or the like. But as far as just-so stories go, it's not a bad one.
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Verge is giving the haptic buttons a big thumbs down:

"Another thing I tried: the new home button, which uses a "taptic engine" to give you physical feedback when you press it — it's pressure sensitive too, so it can tell if you really mean to press it or just tap it. And it's awful. On a MacBook trackpad, you get this uncanny feeling that you're actually hitting a button. On the iPhone, the whole bottom of the phone just sort of "kicks." It's not bad haptics like you remember, with weird vibration, it's just a new kind of bad haptics. It doesn't feel like a button at all. It's a bummer."

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12827772/iphone-7-plus-phot...
Does anybody have any technical details on these headphones?

Are they Bluetooth or not? Or is it the usual proprietary crap?
Exactly. And then at some point they'll have the "courage" to drop bluetooth as well.
Of the users of this site with top 100 karma there's at least two people that are unquestionably in the top 0.01% of math ability. (They'd both pass the 0.001% cutoff, too.) And there'd be a third if we went to the top 150 karma (basing this off how karma tails off on https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders).

That would be very unlikely if HN was a random assortment of the population, or a random assortment of the top 25%.
The draw to iOS is rarely the hardware (aside from the camera, Apple wins that category hands down every time).

The software platform Apple has built is unrivaled.
Or they'll do it next year and have a USB-C to lightning adapter that you plug your lightning to 3.5mm adapter into.
1. I've never bent a Lightning plug because I've never used one.

2. I wasn't the one worried. You were, when you said "3.5mm male connectors are often somewhat flimsy".
It is possible there is a form of understanding that goes over and above what we'll loosely call reason?

I don't mean woo-like supernatural or mysticism.

Let's use an analogy.

We have instincts and reason. Instincts are quick but flawed, reason is slow but surer. Reason is to X what Instincts are to reason.

What if there existed X metacognition and above reason itself?

Suppose, for example with the assistance of an AI (capable of seeing larger pattern a human cannot) in conjunction with brain altering drugs to, crudely, give you a hit of comprehension/meaning (as a reward) when you successfully pattern matched with the assistance of the AI. That to me seems like much more than thinking from 1st principals. It would be something closer to seeing than thinking sequentially.
Which would be even thicker on a thicker phone.
God, so correct. If you are an employee of a company that gets acquired by EMC, consider finding another job!
In my opinion a case is necessary just so I can have access to a second battery. The iPhone 6s is unusable with only one charge.
I had an android phone a year ago. Battery life management is pretty horrible. It's really hard to figure out which apps are draining your battery a lot in the background.

For example, I rooted my phone to find out if any wake locks were draining my battery. It didn't show anything. Looked at the battery usage screen, it didn't show the culprit. Eventually I had to do a science experiment on my phone and disable all background processing and then switch on apps one by one to see the battery life change.

I finally found it was my carrier's generic usage app that was killing my battery. The app was installed from the app store on my unlocked device, so it wasn't carrier pre-installed crapware that caused this.

On iOS, I've never had to do this because app developers are not able to drain your battery like that.

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Camera software speed and quality has never been matched for me on iOS. Maybe motorola gets to iOS's camera speed. The software also makes getting good photos a lot easier with things like detecting your hand shake with the accelerometer and taking the photo when you're still in the moment.

Siri has better locked screen and in car voice interaction for me compared to android when I tried with android OS 5

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If google disappeared, you would basically get china and other companies would fill in the gap.
Please let us know where we can buy it?
iPhones sales are over 100 billion dollars a year [1]. If this change makes the iPhone substantially worse to the point of losing even 1% of the would-be buyers, Apple will lose over a billion dollars in revenue.

The risks are so staggering that I would think they must genuinely believe that the jack connector is so technically obsolete that it makes the iPhone worse than the iPhone will be without it. I just can't fathom Tim Cook (or anyone) betting 100 billions for $30M/year. Of course I can be completely wrong.

[1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/263402/apples-iphone-reve...
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"You obviously have no idea how Apple works."

I have no comment on how Apple actually works or doesn't work but I admire the marketing acumen of a company when a random internet user can argue so passionately about eternal goodness of the company. Especially a company that's about as secretive in it's actual operations as nation-state level intelligence agencies.
And I'm saying that's a tradeoff (marketing, sales, engineering, development vs maintenance, etc) that's as legitimate and at least as complex as the purely engineering tradeoffs I mentioned.

> And the word can get out fine by itself, actually.

Umm, good luck with that. There are only a few, small, specialized businesses for which that is true.
Don't think Jet Black will be the most popular. Think standard black will be.

Jet Black will be full of scratches by the time you've unboxed it.
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Take a breath. I know we all tend to get exercised over anything to do with Apple, but there's no need to be rude to anyone, and that sort of behavior isn't really worthy of you in any case.
So including the $9 adapter in the box is just a token gesture so they can pretend to care about legacy things?

I dunno - if they were really in this for making you buy new headphones, they'd not bundle the adapter, like they did in the past when they switched from 30-pin to lightening.
What thinkpads are garbage?
I can see this getting very annoying regardless, though I trust Apple has thought this through.
I would be interested to know how often those jacks fail and need warranty replacement. For whatever reason I seem to break them easily and have moved to Bluetooth to avoid this. The design puts the strain on the socket rather than the jack. There may well be a small minority who regularly need repairs because of this.
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There are also ways to do Active Noise Cancelling without an external battery and without a new cable. I had an old Sony laptop that did ANR with software on the laptop and mics on the earpieces wired back into the laptop. Also the connector was backward compatible with a standard 3.5mm. They just used a 3.5mm connector with extra conductors on it like this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Connectronics-TRRS-Conductor-Metal-Au...
It was in all versions of the Mozilla suite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite . It was never a feature of Firefox.
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To some extent this would provide a false sense of security, as if the CA misissues a certificate it wouldn't stop it from being used to hijack your session with an iframe.
The other extreme is, if you want what you want, go and make it yourself. Don't ask somebody else to do it for you.

In any case, defining "what something is" -- when the nature of the product is creative, as is the case with all of programming -- isn't helpful. Nobody has to "ask". A phone can also be a web browser, it can also be a GPS navigation system, it can also be a camera, it can also be a hand held video gaming console, it can be many other things along the continuum of personal electronic devices. Essentially, you're only disagreeing with where the equilibrium is.
Yep, the Sony Z3 compact did this a couple of years ago and was amazing. Top notch waterproof, superb battery, headphone jack, magnetic charger, SD card. Just one of those phones that really managed to hit the spot.

Oddly enough, the main complaint I had about it was that because it was so flush and shiny, it slid around too much on a table. Had to put a protective film on which was a bit more grippy.
It did not. You might be thinking of the fact that the headphone jack was recessed in a way that caused many 3.5mm headphone plugs not to fit:

https://www.engadget.com/2007/06/30/iphone-doesnt-work-with-...
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> But it can't just wish away language barriers and sovereign nation states.

It's telling you think that's the goal of the EU (especially the "sovereign nation states" part). And people wonder why Brexit happened…
IQ is a valid measure of intelligence. Individuals' outcomes on different intelligence tests are positively correlated with one another, you see. And they're correlated with external metrics of ability, of course.
The 14 issues tagged 1.7.1:

net: retry DNS lookups before failure?
io: endless loop in MultiReader in Go 1.7
path/filepath: EvalSymlinks is broken for relative paths on Windows
net/http/httputil: Proxy terminates HTTP/2 stream before reading response body.
hash/crc32: wrong output for unaligned input on s390x
cmd/compile: incorrect assignment to uint64 via pointer converted to *uint16 (new in 1.7)
doc: deprecation message for Transport.CancelRequest is not correct Documentation
compress/zlib: Writer appears to ignore underlying writer errors at times.
net: NATs client can't connect to server when client built with go1.7: "dial tcp: no suitable address found"
doc: go1.7 release notes include typo for TLSConfig.NextProtos Documentation
reflect: ChanOf makes "han" types instead of "chan" types
x/mobile: Binding go mobile framework on iOS 9 with golang1.7rc6 crash when call debug.FreeOSMemory()
net/http: nil pointer dereference in closeConnIfStillIdle
website: retina favicon Suggested
It's $9. Still annoying though
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The number of people that would like to be pampered is unknown. That is true.
Same experience with my 6P and my el cheapo Bluetooth gym headphones. Turned headphones on, hit pair, good to go. Apple has done "hassle-free" very well historically, but that doesn't mean that other vendors are incapable of it.
For us? None.

We store reduced-precision, reduced-accuracy copies of the mass data wherever we keep the logs for our measurement devices. We can't get at the "real" numbers, anyway, so we just go by what our instruments say.

We can, however, "write" to the real data store for mass--by doing things like picking up rocks and throwing them. If we are living in a simulation, and it is imperfect, we could potentially exploit an imperfection by manipulating the simulation in just the right way.
Unless the docs changed from last time I read them, those MSRs aren't one shot.

Also, the fact that anyone at Intel calls the signing system a "root of trust" makes me think that Intel is deluding itself. It's a root of licensing authority, not a root of trust in the system. You could set those MSRs to a public key for which everyone knows the private key and everything would work just fine.
Yup. They did it to fit in the haptic feedback for the the new home button. I don't see how a 3.5mm jack would have fit after they put that in there.

I'd rather the jack, however.
I know for a kindergarten classroom specifically, the amount of useful and quality software available on an iPad far exceeds what's available on a Chromebook (ie, as a web app).

Kits like Osmo are a great example of this.

https://www.playosmo.com/en/
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How long did you get out of your Dell charger for comparison? I've seen two solid years out of mine literally moved about all the time, every single day. I always fold it well when I put it in my bag though as to not bend near the connector.

The worst thing that happened was one of the dell chargers started making a quiet beeping/buzzing sound - I read it was to do with the components coming lose inside and the sound was caused by the switching supply. I decided out of choice to get another, although there was nothing actually wrong with it as far as performance goes.
Not if you're John Gilmore.
Based on overwhelming sales of some high end active-wear Bluetooth headphones eg Beoplay H5 it's clear that not everyone aligns with your experiences/choices.
To get to 95% income percentile, you need to earn at least $190k a year. I'd be very interested in seeing how many gifted students don't reach, say, 75% percentile, which is around $90k a year, and why.
"Well we'll get an updated OS, but no new Macs to run it on."

At the Apple store the other day and the very helpful sales rep mentioned to hold purchases until today. Not surprised on no new Macs.
> By the way each time you're typing netstat you're suppposed to get a message telling it's obsolete

Starting about when? Most of the distros I use are a couple years old, and I don't see "ss" under the package managers.
> Y-Combinator

Nitpick: it's Y Combinator (no hyphen).
webcompat.com is a Mozilla initiative for users to report bugs for websites that don't work cross-browser. Mozilla staff and volunteers then reach out to the website's developers. It's disheartening that many web developers can't be bothered to test Firefox or Edge.

https://webcompat.com/about
iOS is a free OTA update.
That seems off to me. Thinkpads are normally quite amazing machines. What model(s) were assigned?
From the Apple webpage: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEF2AM/A/airpods

Connections

AirPods: Bluetooth
You might try something like https://www.mathcircles.org/

(They weren't around when I was a kid, so I can't say from experience.)
You previously commented:

>Insulting people is not how you win arguments.

Perhaps it might be best to heed your own advice?
Well, estimating higher risk due to lack of information, is not a glitch - rather the rational correct estimation.
Say you're a complete stranger and want to hangout with me, this is pretty scary! However, if I know you, and you're a jerk - you might piss me off during the night, but at least I know you're not a serial killer...
No 3.5" floppy drive on the iPhone 7? What is Apple thinking?
I'll find it later this evening
> Side note, I think it is hilarious that Apple can't get the AirPods to ship at the same time as the iPhone. Anyone who buys the new phone on release is going to be stuck with the crappy lightning headphones for at least a month and a half.

There are other vendors that make Lightning headphones (Philips, JBL...) and plenty of wireless headphones in the market.
They could collect coverage data with a 12V barrel adapter, no need for OBD-II. That can only be nefarious.
Yeah we have some heavy integration going on. Our district even has a full-time dedicated gApps administrator now.
The iPhone 7 is not waterproof but splash resistant at most. Xperia line is and it has a jack. Interior space? You noticed the camera bulge, right?

It is a fad they are pushing.
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If you plan to resell it (either as an upgrade program, or as used pre-owned) then a case helps you retain resale value.

Used to be I could just gift to my relatives, but they're pretty happy with their iPhone5's.
I doubt ANY smartphone is waterproof.

The new iPhone 7, however _is_ water _resistant_[0].

[0] Which is what you probably mean.
They just solidified the iPhone SE as the best product they offer. No way to charge the iPhone7 and use wired headphones at the same time. A camera wart so the phone isn't flat like the SE. The loss of extra battery by going with a wart over a thicker, easier to hold phone like the SE.

I'll be sticking with my 5S, and my wife is no longer upgrading her 4S to the 7 as we were planning.

We love our iPhones, but we do need to replace hers and now looking for non-Apple alternatives since while I prefer the SE over everything on the market, she thought she was going to want the 7 Plus.
Yes, it proved its worth dealing with duplicative 3.5mm jack comments.
Apple has one too - it's called the dock