skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time

Was that downward slope clear at the time Apple made the changes, though? I remember "no Flash on iPhone" being a major complaint of many pundits.
It's hard to know without it in my hands how big of a deal the stereo camera is going to be. The fact that it wasn't designed for depth (at least publicly stated) makes it a little unnerving - for example having to compensate for two separate focal lengths to get good parallax is going to be a pain. However we built our SLAM around taking on dual cameras IF they happened to show up so we should be ok with some parameter changes on each input.

Anyway, AR is about to explode.
I think they are really shooting themselves in the foot if they don't open up and license the W1 chip to any manufacturer that wants it. If the only way forward is to buy poor quality AirPods (I'm assuming that they audio quality, like with the EarPods, is 'okay', but not great considering the price) or even more overpriced Beats, then this is a really user hostile move.

Yes, you could use Bluetooth, but I'm guessing (hoping...) Apple has done some work to make the stream quality sound better and the connection process more stable. If they were to freely license that technology, people could buy great sounding headphones, with an improved UX, from any company they chose too. Now, it just seems like Apple's "courageous" way forward is all about pushing you to high margin Beats and EarPods.
Except USB was a standard. Lightning isn't and it doesn't appear that the W1 chip is either.
They provide the lightening-to-jack adapter for free in the box.
USB isn't a good counter example, unless they were switching to USB-C. But they're not, they're sticking with their proprietary port.
I'd really like to see your extended thoughts, and this is getting better traction than I'd hoped when submitting it.

I half agree with you: technological solutions alone will not suffice, though they may be part of the solution.

But additionally, legal reforms, economic reforms, and social reforms need to be part of this.

Legal reforms to limit the ability of organisations to access, appropriate, store, exchange, and act based on exfiltrated data.

Economic reforms, as noted, to change the business model of publishing from ads-supported media.

Social reforms such that people push back on this. That's less a burden than necessary, IMO, as awareness of the scope of invasion seems highly developed, though responses to that are presently limited.

In concert with the above, provided and mandated technical means for people to protect their information, and to keep corporations and other organisations from grabbing and using it in the first place.
Agreed. I find it useful to answer, and many times reject, phone calls.
iPhones are currently 'splash resistant'. Now they're 'swim resistant'. They are now up to the IP67 standards.
The only other company putting up a serious effort in the same niche is aiming at $150 (and releasing a month later than the AirPods) [1], so there's probably some lower bound here set by the complications of the hardware/R&D to seamlessly connect two separate earbuds through your head and to the phone.

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/5/12798640/bragi-wireless-hea...
I have a Pebble Time and love it!

The display is not bright, can be read without backlight even.

The interface is well thought through and pleasant to use (even though it doesn't have a touch screen). Filtering unwanted notifications is super easy.

I find myself looking much much less at my phone since I have that watch.

Oh and the battery life is the best!
what makes you think that?
Because of the reasons you mentioned, and the better camera?
In this comment, you're just calling into question the definition of intelligence.

We have widely-accepted manners in which to gauge intelligence. If you dispute them, that's another matter.

It's well-established that the measures show a genetic correlation.

If you were to find another measure of intelligence, besides the standard ones, we can use our experience and facts to surmise with a high confidence that those, too, would prove to be influenced by genetics.
I can't get over the headphone jack either.

Another dongle to loose. Tons of headphones obsoleted. Can't charge while listening. Laggy audio. more batteries in the world. They're ok with a bulge for the camera but not headphones? I work in a lab and a phone with headphones is standard equipment on the commute and work (for at least part of the day).

I would seriously move off iOS if I was making music with it. If only iOS devices were made by other manufacturers... (I know I know....)

on the plus side minimum memory had been bumped.
This has been my concern since the moment I heard about lightning headphones. I saw no solution presented either.
Honestly I'm glad they're moving towards wireless. I replace way more headphones than I care to admit just from them wearing out with normal use. It's usually just the wire itself that is worn out, the earpieces are almost always in good condition. The only thing I worry about is losing the AirPods, but they seem like a step in the right direction.
> At the microscopic level film pixels look like "clouds" of colored ink.

No, only color reversal film (slides) looks like clouds. Negative film, the one used in movies, looks like crystals (because they are crystals).

> actual capturing technology produces a cleaner signal

This is true, albeit for a film like Kodak 5203 or Kodak 5213, you'd have a hard time proving that this is true. These stocks are so smooth with good exposure and proper development (as it done when making movies) that you need a grain focuser to see the grain. Many blockbusters and big productions that you probably saw in a digital cinema were shot on this film, and you never knew.

> Digital clearly won

Digital is much cheaper, it's very good, and allows much easier intermediate processing (editing, vfx, color timing, etc). Of clourse it "won", although film is still widely used, and although archival copies are still done on film.

The fact that digital won doesn't mean that projection has better resolution (it's roughly the same for 35mm, but worse for larger formats) or better contrast (it's far, far worse for digital) or better colors (film has more saturated cyan and yellow, although this doesn't matter much). It sure has less flicker though.

There are still plenty of reasons why people shoot film, use a digital intermediate workflow, and print film today.
I was really impressed with the new camera. It seems to me this was a bigger improvement than what they usually do.
did not see any mention of if they will have lossless audio or not (important if Apple really wants to have their technology replace wired for also higher end headphones)

Also no mention of standby time that I could hear, only 5 hours listening, but no idea if just having them on (in case of infrequent phone calls) would use up the battery as fast or not
I recommend watching Silicon Valley a HBO series which in my opinion is geared towards engineers. They have covered this topic very succinctly.

Engineering or rather sometimes over-engineering things might make it super easy but not intuitive to use.
> I also must re-emphasize the fact that during Soviet high-altitude nuclear tests over Kazakhstan in 1962, rugged diesel generators having no solid state parts were burned out by E1 EMP.

http://www.futurescience.com/emp/vehicles.html

Magnetos have induction coils, that's sufficient.

Typical E1 pulse component has up to 50KV/m at ground level and is a high-frequency spectrum, you don't need a long antenna for that. EU railway field immunity test is 10 volts per meter and huge portion of industrial electronic equipment fails that already.

Stuff that burns power lines are lower frequency (and lower yield) E2&E3 components.

https://cdn.selinc.com/assets/Literature/Miscellaneous/EMP-T...
Where are you getting a $365 iPhone from?
I think that's a fairly narrow view of the options. Sometimes you want to focus your company on the markets you are interested in and have cultivated talent to excel at. Not everyone wants to be a software company, or wants to write internal software. Some companies have a division of lawyers, some interface with an external firm. At some point, depending on the work being done, it makes sense to use one over the other. I don't see any difference between that and whether you have your IT department assembling your own hardware and/or developing your own software, or outsourcing that to some other company. It all comes down to how much money it saves, and how many more options it opens up, and how much it increases or decreases operational complexity.
I created this to get news from YC companies:

http://techtronium.com/posts?tag=Y+Combinator

It doesn't include all of them, just those with a blog feed.
Ok, I moved it to the conclusion. I try to have a good pacing between the text and images, but I guess that paragraph was too short to be wedged between the images.
Apple vs Pebble

Battery: 1 day vs 9 days

Price: $365 vs $169

Android Support: No vs Yes

https://www.pebble.com/

Edit: Original comment below for nicky0

Charge my watch every night? No thank you, I'm buying a Pebble.

Pay $365 for a watch? No thank you, I'm buying a Pebble for $169.

Android support? Don't think so, I'm buying a Pebble.

https://www.pebble.com/
>> "poor quality AirPods"

...you haven't even used them yet...
I listen to music most while on the bike, even in-ear earbuds just randomly fall out of my ears very often. I can't imagine finding one of these if they were to fall out of my ear during fall.
I don't understand, aren't there tons of companies doing bluetooth/wireless earbuds right now?
Some silly stuff happens with bluetooth headphones such as my PS3 bluetooth headset being unable to hear music played from the iPhone but they work fine for calls.
This sounds like a really cool idea. I'm still a full-time student at Holberton[1], but the fact that things like this exist make me excited about joining the industry.

[1] https://www.holbertonschool.com
> 2× louder than iPhone 6s

Just the thing BART & MUNI really needed.
But wireless is an option already. That's not a reason to eliminate the 3.5 jack at all cost.
Confused about what earphones come with the iPhone 7. The standard analog ones (since an adapter is included)? Feels very backwards... unless I'm missing something...

Also, no new MBP is very disappointing.
Lucid Emacs -> Xemacs was mentioned in a sibling comment, but I remember people being in awe about EB working on those. There were many interesting employees back then--J. Chenault, J. Gehlen, R. Braumeller, F. Eiden, K. Sears, etc. I've lost touch with most of them but I learned a lot from them.

I started in October 1997 and did Perl work on backend systems, but I had a few friends who worked on the frontend. They used to talk about how Catsubst had a very small set of verbs and that everything was a function, even arithmetic, and that prefix notation was used for all macro calls. They thought it was Lisp-inspired, but they were also pretty junior programmers too. I never worked with Catsubst myself, so my information is second-hand, while yours is zero-hand since you wrote it. :-)

Thanks for all the work you did on Amazon's infra!
I've tried a number of bluetooth headphones, none of them have had the sound quality of wired. Songs would skip, quality was not great. Are there bluetooth headphones that don't skip nowadays?
> "Up to 5hr. of battery life on one charge"

How the fuck is it acceptable to completely remove the jack and replace it with this 'superior' technology?
I don't know, it seems like, however unprepared anyone is to nuke a popular CA, they're going to be even less prepared if that CA didn't actually violate the policy.

You keep writing as if it's common sense that the policy should say "nobody can issue CA=YES certificates to enterprises". But while I agree strongly that they shouldn't, this is not common sense. The certificates that Trustwave sold were never deployed on the public Internet, and their disclosure outside of whatever giant bank bought them would presumably have been accompanied by massive civil liability.

The policy didn't mention this behavior not because it never occurred to anyone to ban it, but because it was overtly, actively thought to be OK, by pretty much every stakeholder, until browsers started getting better at monitoring certificate issuance.

Really, the simple truth is: you have Google to thank for pretty much every positive shift in norms about SSL/TLS CAs. Until they built the team they have doing this today (which is amazing), certificate issuance was --- not hyperbolically, but actually, factually --- the lawless wild west.†

Do I wish they'd built that team a few years earlier? Yes, of course. I also wish heap and integer overflows were better known in the early 90s. You can't always get what you want.

† The Google team will pointedly add that we should be thanking the Mozilla team for the work they've been doing on keeping a coherent CA policy and trusted root set going all these years; as you can see from this thread, it's a thankless task. I don't agree with all of Mozilla's decisions, but if you throw down in a m.d.s.policy thread about them being incompetent or ineffectual, be prepared to have people who have forgotten more about certificate issuance than you've ever learned give you some pretty vivid comparisons to how other certificate stores have been managed all this time.
> Of course, Mozilla needs to add support for CT for this approach to work.

Is there any chance of this happening?
I got the in-ear Bose noise earphones for that reason -- I didn't think I could wear headphones all day without my ears and head getting hot. The earphones are great, really makes it possible to work at home with toddlers screaming downstairs.
That's what macrumors has been saying for a while.
There is still the adapter so i don't really get the hate. Moving to digital has a lot of potential in the long run and personally i am very happy with my bluetooth headphones.
And the adapter is digital, right? Phil said the Lightning port was great for "digital audio". They have to cram a DAC in each one?

I could just about tolerate a very simple small analog adapter, but this is going too far.
You can complain about this, but I have recently bought two pairs of headphones, LG tones and JayBirds, and they are both bluetooth. I really do not see myself going back to wired headphones ever again, so this move is pretty timely.
It isn't. As an Indian, this is very nearly the price that we are used to paying for cable television (monthly). (DTH providers like TataSky might actually be costlier). And internet has now become almost as important as cable TV for a huge population.

There is also the dependency with the "smart-phone". A decent smartphone with 3G would cost ~120 USD (8k INR). If you can pay for that, you can usually afford 2$/month or so for half a gig of data to spend on WhatsApp.
In my experience, the OS starts to feel very, very slow not long after a major performance bump in the top-of-the-line iPhones.
If you want a really comfortable set of headphones (not earbuds) that sound good and don't block your hearing, consider the Sennheiser HD 558.

They're circumaural, so they sit comfortably on the sides of your head rather than mashing your pinnae flat, and their velour pads are nicely breathable; they also mass only a quarter kilogram (260g), and they're an open-back design so that ambient noise is merely reduced rather than totally occluded. (Also, unlike closed-back and especially noise-canceling headphones, they do not produce a constant pressure on your eardrums, which has been suggested to cause hearing loss and certainly plays a role in listening fatigue.) Their reproduction is quite good as well, with a surprisingly flat frequency response for the price range; if that suits you, you're good to go, and if you prefer otherwise, they won't interfere with you EQing your music to your heart's content.

Depending on where you find them, they run anywhere from $100 (Amazon Prime) to $180 (MSRP), so they're considerably less expensive than your QC15s, too. I really can't recommend them favorably enough.
At the end, there was a slide about the Apple iPhone upgrade program for $32/mo. That's just about $1 a day.
The Earth rotates and has people all over. We shouldn't have "after hours"
It's less necessary, because there are more Chinese computer systems that correctly support ascii names than English computer systems that correctly support GB/Big5/UTF16
Especially when they look like this:
https://s.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2016/09/apple7-...
IP67 is not good enough for swimming (1m submersion). Note the emphasis of the watch being able to be swum with, but for the phone they only showed it being used when it was raining
Well, for anyone else who like me can't get the Apple earbuds to stay in my fucked up ear (cauliflower ear, from wrestling), I bought these Bluetooth earbuds a month ago and now use them all the time: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GDIUA8Y/

At $45 they're not the cheapest but they've got pretty good sound quality and work well from a physical standpoint
This is the "cellar door" phenomenon. Turns out that when you divorce certain names or phrases from their meanings, names for mundane or gross things can actually sound quite beautiful.

The canonical example is "cellar door", which is frequently considered one of the most beautiful strings of syllables in the English language. Tolkien was one of its most famous proponents, but a good many writers have said the same thing. And another has said the same about "salad or" (as in "would you like salad or roast vegetables with that?"), which is almost the same thing.

Just forget about the meaning and respell it as "Selador" (it's better if you pronounce "cellar door" with a non-rhotic accent), and you've got a quite pleasant fantasy name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_door
Reselling the older model, most likely.
> We used to do this before the RDM and the whole shabang collapsed.

No, it didn't, and relational-theory-purists aren't going to sell their ideas to practitioners in the real world by pretending that it did. The RDM certainly offers all kinds of abstract benefits, which practitioners often do not fully understand or leverage, and there is a very real problem when the not fully leveraging is due to not fully understanding (rather than weighing practical costs and benefits in the particular use case.)

OTOH, the reason that things built on the relational model took off in practice wasn't that non-relational systems had reached a point of catastrophic logical failure that led to their rejection, but because the relational model had a convenient mapping to implementations that were convenient and efficient in the technology of the day (particularly, hard disk storage), combined with some of the structural improvements over other approaches being particularly attractive for important application domains.

> And we're still doing it because practitioners know nothing beyond SQL and coding.

Yeah, look, we're probably never going to have a time when most practitioners are deep theoreticians rather than expert tool users, and if you want to sell practitioners on deeper consideration of the underlying theoretical models, you're going to need to make explanations of the practical benefits much more accessible than you have in the source article or your comments in this thread (and you're going to need to be a lot less personally abusive.)
> whose sole purpose is to interrupt me with notifications

But this one has Pokemon Go on it!! Waiting for them to have a knob that goes to 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
While from a financial standpoint this would make sense, most of the guys making the executive decisions at Apple are design focused and oriented. Dropping the headphone jack differentiates Apple even more from its competition, makes the phone sleeker, helps with water proofing, makes the wireless headphones more appealing (which not only act as headphones but also communication devices). This was much more than just a financial move for Apple, and in my opinion it looks to be a smart one.
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They claim the plus as "optical zoom" and talk about a 2x factor. Do they mean it can switch between a wide and tele focal length? That isn't "zoom" (at least not in the normal sense) - it's just two focal lengths with a switch. Did I understand the feature correctly?
Did you get over the ear (couldn't tell by your post).

The QC20 have been amazing, and have longer than apple's 5 hours battery life. The wireless QC20 will be out soon, and they're rated at 10 hours I think (maybe 8, can't find the article now).

I don't suspect they'll be able to do wireless active noise cancelling, so the argument for the lightning port supporting active noise cancelling functionality is weird... do you want people to go wireless, or not? My first reaction is that that was a poor justification.
This is PKI at its worst; when the incentives of a particular user's trust delegate (the browser) don't align with that of the user.
Never forget, my friend. Never forget... http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2015/10/slide-06...
The word Devops means that the Dev team is the Ops team. If you have both teams, you are defeating the purpose of DevOps
I have been envisioning such a feature for a while. I can imagine some pitfalls, but I think that my teams will be working this into our approach pretty quickly.
Seems awfully iterative. You can usually tell by the meaningless "2x more speed" "x% brighter" figures.
John Edgar (former VP Strategy at DigitalOcean) and his team are working on and writing about this extensively >> medium.com/city-as-a-service/
In to make a post before a bunch of narcissist HN'ers (subtly) brag about their childhood accomplishments of being math wizards and programming assembly at age 6 and a half.

Edit: Too late.
Funny, I just got back from an interview with EMC. Would now be a good time to take a position?
So have you solved the problem (without resorting to other comanpanies extortive pricing for ready-made solutions) or not? :)
This is the fundamental premise that object oriented thinking was created to solve. You cannot understand a sufficiently advanced system from both an overview and granular view. You have to either see the overview and trust the granular objects, or specialize in one granular object and then trust your adjacent objects.

Its a problem written about in detail by Marcus Aurelius in Meditations when he comments on running an empire. He notes that the most difficult part is not having information in a timely fashion at scale -- you can either have timely information about a single place, or out of date information about the entire empire.

They key part in both is trust and responsibility. You must trust that granular objects can take responsibility for themselves. If each one requires knowledge of the entire system to function, then the weight of that will overburden any system over time.
> Why did it have to be this way?

We could have a world where Vulkan was the one stop shop graphics API anywhere. Instead, we are in this situation where everything but Apple products supports / will support it.

Why did it have to be this way?
This was reported a few years ago and may no longer be the case but they have aparently bought EMC storage in the past - http://www.crn.com/news/storage/229401100/report-apple-buys-...
I think the "imagination" Descartes is imagining is something with the ability to create the thing we typically call "imagination". i.e. You're ability to "imagine" is just part of the imagination :)
Very long years or cheap iphones where you live.
Partly, but we can grow food in a more efficient way. It's currently cost prohibitive because we use feed lots, and subsidies water and fuel for farming.