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iOS is incredible with its amount of music making apps, and I'm not talking about mixing existing songs. There are synthesizers of many different types (sampler, rompler, additive, subtractive, FM, granular), traditional samplers, loopers, drum machines, live input, etc.
But does the screen stay on?

I used to have one of the first-gen Android Wear watches, an LG one. I really liked how it acted as an extension of my phone, it was particularly useful for voice queries (Google still beats the pants off Siri), and directions. But the best feature was that even when sleeping, the LCD screen would still show the time in black-and-white and with the backlight off. It still lasted a full day.

Apple seems to have gone in a different direction, emphasizing the Watch as a fashionable fitness tracker. I don't care as much for the fitness tracking aspect: I'm not an athlete, and GPS tracking on my phone is usually enough to get a rough estimate of things I do. I also don't do workouts for the numbers, which Apple seems to be touting.

Overall, they seem to have prioritized many other energy-draining features over doing the most basic thing I expect from a wrist-mounted device: displaying information. I've had an Apple Watch for almost a year, and its finickiness about turning on or off the display is by far my biggest annoyance.
All the time at work
I imagine the iPad Pro will keep the audio jack indefinitely, much as MBPs still have many ports Apple had eliminated in other devices.
My issue with this is there are wireless headphones today, you don't need to remove the headphone jack to support them. It's a step back for no compelling reason.
I like this

One feature I would like is the ability to plot multiple axes via bubble plots- categorical data could be shown with colors and quantitative data with circle size.
That way I could sort out monitors by price, size and response time for example.
And room for -shutter- a bigger battery.
So don't hire them. Let a payrolling company officially hire them. The payrolling company sends you a monthly invoice and takes care of all the legal stuff.
I'm currently doing this in the Netherlands, and it's totally legal.
Sally (short story) – Asimov
Well, now we are forced to be lenient, because half of engineers and other highly educated individuals who come out of school nowadays cannot write a single sentence without at least one fault :-(

Yeah, it sounds like I worship the good old days, you have to see it to believe it.
Or about paying for one
Unfortunately only one of my devices has a lightening conveyor on it but I'd like to use those headphones for more than one device... Apple flubbed here no question about it, hopefully they bring back the jack with the iPhone 7s/8 . Meanwhile I guess I'll stick with my iPhone 6s
Their site specifically markets the bright white device against black skin. They want them to stand out - it's a status symbol.
They look ok in my opinion, but as soon as I take like 5 steps when I go running, I may as well kiss them and $160 goodbye as the damn thing(s) will just fall right out of my ears.
Depends on what the job is. EMC pays good benefits for boring jobs. Assume that "good benefits for boring jobs" won't change any time soon.

EMC will also slash out departments and products that don't perform. Make sure that whatever department / product you're going to work in is doing well.
I think its more: Comparing multiple companies, my total yearly income won't be any higher if I pick a company that requires oncall than if I pick one that doesn't, even if the one that requires it compensate for it. I can do the same job at company X for 200k without being on call, 175k at another that requires it, or vice versa...there's no correlation.

So if its not obviously worth my time, I just wont' do it.
But it does come in two different shades of black!
I'm pretty sure that's not the same SecDB. It's interesting that it's written by Serge Aleynikov, but it doesn't really match the extant descriptions of the Goldman tool and it's a fork of https://github.com/maxlapshin/stockdb

(BTW, Nice username.)
No, he should tape the adapter to the phone, using silver duct tape.

Or a simple analog jack would work too.
Exactly - at the price point of the iPhone, it's a bit ridiculous to ask the user to make compromises as if it's an entry-level device.
Except the Dash is very specifically engineered to remain in the ear. It's one of their selling points. Apple made no mention of this and at first glance it doesn't look like they had the same concern. For example, the Dash doesn't have parts that extend out and down beyond the ear itself like the AirPods do. Seems like a simple way to accidentally knock them out.
If you read the article, the study was done in context of other studies showing that most of the gut bacteria comes from vaginal birth, e.g http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/3/3/769/htm

Correlation between healthy gut bacteria and lower obesity rate are not that surprising.
OK. Mine aren't. I already carry a small bag over my shoulder on the way to and from work; it has a spare battery in case I somehow need it (unusual, since I fully charge my phone every night while I'm asleep), plus my Kindle, sunglasses, and other daily useful things. My pockets tend to be used for keys and phone.

Am I that weird?
Less so the iPhone than iPad, which appears to still have a headphone jack.

I've definitely seen some live iPad mixing and synthesis, though.
Yes I think this is key. If you can leave your phone behind for runs, hikes, biking etc I think it becomes very useful in it's own right. Right now you're still probably going to take that phone for emergency/connection issues.
> I still can't get over the headphone jack

People can't handle change. Reminds me of Steve Jobs ditching Flash in 2010... https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
This is a really good point.

The car is another use case. My car has the cable, but no Bluetooth. Gps navigation is still a big power draw.

I get the feeling our use cases are no longer the same as the people who design these devices.
I specifically said that intelligence was a factor.

The hypothetical was meant to show that your analysis was insufficiently sensitive, not to posit that the hypothetical was actually the case.

You have an odd habit of pointing to secondary and preprint material, rather than the primary literature. Your APA links to several papers, including http://www.drtomascp.com/uploads/HungryMind_PPS_2011.pdf , titled "The Hungry Mind: Intellectual Curiosity Is the Third Pillar of Academic Performance". It concludes:

> The current study suggests that traditional sets of predictors of academic performance, notably general intelligence and Conscientiousness, should be accompanied by a third factor: intellectual curiosity. Jensen (1998) stated that “[general intelligence] g acts only as a threshold variable that specifies the essential minimum ability required for different kinds of achievement. Other, non-g special abilities and talents, along with certain personality factors ..., are also critical determinants of educational and vocational success” (p. 544–545). A remarkable number of studies on determinants of academic
achievement have focused exclusively on ability and effort; the present findings, however, recommend further expanding the “g-nexus” for a better understanding of individual differences in academic performance. The latter requires—beyond intelligence and effort—a hungry mind.

It does say "intelligence is the single most powerful predictor of academic performance", then said:

> intelligence sustained the strongest effect on academic performance with a path weight
of .35. TIE and Conscientiousness had slightly lower, identical path parameters of .20.

I believe that means that the other two legs together are more important than intelligence alone.
The Apple Plug – our lightest product ever
It is a tax bill from Ireland. The EU isn't a state, it doesn't collect taxes.
so you would rather 5%+ more battery but have a separate device to charge at more frequent times?
I know this is a minority use case, but my iPhone is a great tool for testing whether audio equipment is working or not when I'm doing media system installs. Simply plug in the iPhone and play some sounds. Alas...
But they probably can't be paired with any other device than Apple's.
I'm curious. Do you not like the switch because it is dispatching locally and thus might end up a with a giant switch statement or because of the String type?

Or in other words is that you would you prefer OOP polymorphism dispatch or is just that Javascripts switch case statement is weak?

Part of the problem is Javascript doesn't have ADT aka structural pattern matching which is a far far far more powerful switch-like dispatch. Elm does (maybe TypeScript as well?). But OOP dispatch (and I suppose other polymorphic types besides inheritance) are a valid way as well to do this.
And there is my co-worker … constantly on the phone with Google.

He is selling ads. And he gets lots of support.
I guess it's because IP67 means it's only "protected against the effect of immersion between 15cm and 1m" so it's not really 100% water resistant (nothing is, I guess).
On the website it's written that the iPhone comes with a jack to lightning adapter.
Idk, it looks weird on person in my opinion: http://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4973/as-images.apple....
Yeah, I worked at a hedge fund for nearly a decade. I got called back to the office from vacation after driving across the country for a development - not production - issue. I started getting 2-4 am calls for outages in dev by our offshore support who were too lazy and/or incompetent to read a log file and take action. Glad I don't work there anymore.
Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Fails Consumer Reports Water-Resistance Test

http://www.consumerreports.org/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s7...
Forced adoption is a factor to be considered in their strategy. In the United States, 13 states and DC have standing laws forbidding the use of cell phones in "hand-held" mode while driving. [1] In other words, you can talk with it, but not on your ear.

To ensure compliance, most manufacturers include cheapy bud and microphone wired headset kits in their boxes.

By virtue of their control of 12% or so of the phone market, Apple is putting a lot of Lightning headsets into the stream, and making a bet that a lot of those people in the ecosystem will upgrade to the pods.

[1] http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/cellular-phone-u...
> I would seriously move off iOS

Where to?
Take a look at what earphones are people with iPhones using. 99% those will be the ones found it the box.
Jason Snell "joked on Twitter last week that it’ll cost $19 if Apple’s sort of sorry, $29 if it’s not sorry, and if it’s free in the box then Apple’s really afraid of consumer backlash."

https://sixcolors.com/post/2016/09/what-to-look-for-at-wedne...
Will Imagine K12 companies be added to the list as well?

http://www.imaginek12.com/all-ik12-startups.html
Not only that, but a higher rating as well, IP68
It's not that there have never been phones without a proprietary headphone jack before right ? But it's the first time a really popular phone does it, similar to when they introduced the first iPhone. Pretty sure in a few months nobody will really care about the missing headphone jack anymore, i mean the only real downside i see is losing the ability to listen with analog headphones and charging at the same time (but there will probably be adapters for that as well)
OT / @dang: This thread really makes one appreciate the new collapsible comments!
It's so easy to replace cables for headphones though? Even if the cables aren't detachable (and they are in many good headsets), it's a trivial soldering job.
Now we have iPhone headphones and MacBook headphones, even worse.
I can't believe that even the newest Beats 3 Solo Wireless have Micro-USB charging. Talk about Apple not knowing what their product charging/connection strategy is! (Lightning for AirPods, but Micro-USB for Beats, Lightning for everything else, from Apple Pencil charging to Apple Mouse)
> If you shell out for the AirPods, you can.

Which will need charging themselves.

Now I have to choose between being concerned about either my phone's battery or my headphones' battery.
Well the Gen 1 version suffered from ever decreasing sales. So right now it would seem as though the HN crowd and general public are in sync when it comes to interest in the watch. I guess you could argue GPS support could create a strong use case with the fitness vertical and that is not well represented here but not sure if that's true.
I am right there with you on this one. I scoured the product pages as soon as they went live on apple.com, looking for any new information on security features. Couldn't find anything.
also.. http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ap...
> people will buy lightning headphones instead of bluetooth

Yes, another proprietary connector no better at it's task than the equivalent industry standard connector.
And they are an open invitation for some annoying kid to grab them out of your ear.
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3D Touch was featured in the Instagram demo.
> Audio+GPS+Charging in non-Bluetooth Car.

I can do this with iPhone 6 already. And could do with iPhone 5. In a 2013 model year car. There is an USB port in my car, connect lightning cable and thats it: phone is charging, music is playing.
This bothers me as well...and definitely becomes an argument against the iPhone 7 Plus. It's going to be difficult to choose between dual camera / longer battery life, and correctly mapped pixels.
I'm also waiting for the new Pebble (I had a Pebble time before) or to check some real reviews of Xiaomi Amazfit Smartwatch and see if the battery life is as good as they claim.

A thing I like a lot in these devices is to monitor my sleep, something that is impossible with a device like the Apple Watch that must be in the charger during the night.
> A post-industrial state is one which was dominantly industrial, and has moved on to some other primary basis for its economy, usually because it is engaged in international trade and its comparative advantage is no longer in manufacturing but some other area.

In case of Russia it wasn't so, they still struggle to get back to Soviet level of industrialization after USSR fell apart.
It's an Irish tax bill decided by the EU. Think about that. Starting to think Brexit wasn't such a bad idea after all.

Also, spending money puts it back in the economy, and Apple spends plenty. Taxes are probably the worst way for money to cycle through from an efficiency standpoint.

All that said, they should obviously pay what they legitimately owe.
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Why does serverless matter? I use MailChimp or Sendgrid and never deal with their servers.

How does this product differ/improve on what's out there?

Also, why is Lambda important? I have no idea what Lambda is. It's pretty easy to use AWS SES from 20-30 lines of code in a single script to send emails, so more "Why would I use this over existing solutions?" would be helpful.
Everything Apple announced today
Yeah man, people should say what they mean. Like, I bought a new wireless phone the other day, and when I cracked it open, there were a bunch of wires inside! WTF?
Apple's adapter is only $9 (http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35-...).
I somehow expected a ton of conversation around the new A10 Fusion chip. After 340+ comments I couldn't find any mention of it (I just did a page search for A10, A10 Fusion). Apple were already ahead with their per-core performance but seems like they have widened the gap even further this time with their version of the big.LITTLE arrangement. Wonder how Qualcomm's next chips will be. From what I heard, 820 will be the last custom chip they will do and from now on the CPU will be just the reference ARM chips and they will focus on the GPU and better integration of radios on the chip. Someone with more knowledge (about Apple's and Qualcomm's chip) please fill in.
According to Gervase Markham of Mozilla:
"If you believe you have a right to access all the free content on the Internet while blocking the ads which fund it, you continue to believe that [..]"

Mozilla seems to not want to interfere with online advertising practices.
Well, the one I have does that. The silver thing you see in the image can be removed as it's just an adapter. Then you have the normal aux connection.
Craigslist in my experience is full of lowballers and hagglers (and objectively, zero safety for buyers/sellers).

eBay probably has a more accurate picture of price for the average person.
Couldn't they push this out as a future software update?
USB audio has existed for decades and can be used with type-C like any other USB class. Intel's thing may provide improvements but it's hardly necessary.
They are. They're moving to Bluetooth. If you don't want those then you can get a Lightning adaptor.

Edit: no they're not, I was skimming the news too hard. Oops. Well I guess they're trying to fix the Bluetooth latency everyone is complaining about with their existing stuff then.

In a few years I'm sure Apple will find a wireless charging solution they like, and then they'll drop the Lightning connector as well. I cannot even begin to imagine the hue and cry that one's gonna cause.
I ask, what is the qualitative difference?
This is a Nice Device. You can read my other comments lamenting the headphone jack, this comment isn't about that.

The screen is beautiful. The two cameras are a clever trick that I hope work as well as advertised -- and their cameras have been historically very good. Splash resistance is overdue, but appreciated.

But A10 is a bit of a disappointment [1][2], only as powerful as the A9X. Do they have any new hardware encode/decode blocks at least?

With A9 they were having yield issues and had to different traces being manufactured by two different fabs to enhance capacity. What do we know on the chip front?

[1] https://www.techtastic.nl/smartphones/apple-a10-soc-van-ipho...

[2] http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/iphone-7-benchmarked-here...
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so, what's the next market/eco-system?

mobiles are mature products and the players are strictly in cash-cow or market share mode. nothing of importance is changing.

I've got an iphone se and an iphone 4 and you can't tell me that's the most they can do for 6 years of product development by one of the richest companies in the world. (yes i know that it's faster with more a and more b and more c etc)

Apple needs to drip feed improvements over the next x years to keep sales up so we can't expect anything game changing.

"The Others" are trying this and that but nothing seems to be sticking, probably not able to drive consumer desire enough.

so if nothing is happening, what is the post-phone next-big-thing to get into?
I do think women choose c-sections because the are scared of natural birth for whatever reason.

I think that is pretty rare.

From what I have seen, women are much more likely to genuinely choose a C-section because they have a career and need to have the baby on a set schedule so they can get back to work. Having a baby the natural way is a fairly messy organic process that does not readily fit into the highly scheduled lives of modern two-career couples.

IIRC, only about 5 percent of babies show up on their actual due date. Most are either early or late. I have read plenty of articles where career women scheduled a C-section so they could schedule the birth and also schedule time off from work. Waiting for a baby to show up when they feel like it is rather inconvenient not only for you, but for your employer if you are anyone of any importance. It can amount to being willing to leave the entire department in a lurch when you suddenly drop everything. Babies can be anywhere from several weeks early to two weeks late, from what I gather. That leaves a window of potentially two to three months in which baby might decide "now's the time." In fact, my understanding is that a baby three weeks early isn't even classified as a preemie. So there is potentially a five week window for a "normal" birth.
Couldn't care less. Have a Sony that is full waterproof and works well with normal headphones.

Good luck with that wireless and constant charging thing..
Bluetooth headphones can be found that don't fall out. Having to find them is a chore but doable including something that lasts long enough.
here comes "find my airpods" app :)
Interesting, the Unlocked option isn't available on the Apple Store right now. Temporary quirk until preorders?
If you find a bottle of water to be that great an encumbrance, then you were never really going to walk or cycle anywhere. There are plenty of good reasons to drive somewhere, but cupholders isn't one of them.
They are just playing catch up to Android once again. Typical Apple behind the curve but claiming a "revolution". But alas the sheeple will lap it up.
Sony figured out the waterproof headphone jack issue three iterations ago. My z5 is just fine in the shower
Genius does not emerge solely from tenacity. Genius comes from figuring out new things to try in pursuit of a goal over a long period of time.

If you tried something and failed, how many permutations could you go through before you ran out of ideas of what to try? Could you do it for _years_? Could you keep trying, learning from your mistakes for a lifetime, until you reached your goal? Maybe you're a genius then.
> just so you are dependent on yet another Apple product

The hardware requirements of a headphone jack put some very real limitations on phone design (waterproofing, interior space taken up by the digital -> analog hardware, etc).

Whether that was the driving cause or not is in the air, but "getting people to buy Lightning stuff" isn't the only reason to do it.
I have a design issue with AirPods. When my earphones (with wire) fall off (and it happens when you're running or doing some other similar activity), I know for sure, that me or someone else accidentally won't crush them, because the wires often prevent them from falling on the floor. I don't know how the current design of AirPods would prevent that.
Does anyone know more about the cameras on the Plus? Are they synchronized via hardware?
Yes, lots of cars don't have Bluetooth or USB. A quick Google search shows the average age of cars on American roads has reached 11.5 years.

My personal car is 14 years old and runs fine, but I need to use the aux input on the radio to listen to my phone.
That's a good question as during the presentation of the new features, one of them was called "Wireless" and for a moment I thought "Oh, so that's it, wireless charging too so no need for that strange dongle to charge the phone while listening to music!"
Yes:

http://techland.time.com/2010/12/27/gorillaz-reveal-what-app...

https://news.djcity.com/dstrukt-performs-i-heart-kanye-routi...
This is strange: you buy a jet-black phone so that it looks slick. Then you buy a case and change its appearance because scratches might show? Weird logic.
Finally decent depth of field on the camera that's always in my pocket.

Recently I upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy S7. It was about $400 and it has an incredible camera; far better than my old iPhone 5s, and it looks substantially better than the iPhone 6/6s photos I have seen. Plus, it has a headphone jack, microSD support (so nice to be able to upgrade), and a really beautiful screen. Yes, Samsung installed some bloatware but some of it is actually useful (their UI for toggling radios is quite good) Android Kit-Kat is solid. To me, this was Android's first reasonable phone.
Right?

> New stereo speaker system

Oh cool, you mean like the forward-facing stereo speakers on my 2-year-old Nexus 6?
I run about the same and have had pretty good luck with the Jlab Epic2 bluetooth headphones.

http://www.jlabaudio.com/products/epic2-bluetooth-wireless-s...

Not sure if you've seen or tried these.
Yes, for $39.
There are 2.1A lighter-socket USB adapters.