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With my own disclaimer [0], a few comments:

> Personal freedom. As a PhD student you’re your own boss. Want to sleep in today? Sure.

This is largely true, but only if you're on good terms with your advisor and they're happy with your progress. God, I miss being able to sleep in until 2pm.

> Personal growth. ... you’ll become a master of managing your own psychology

Yes, it's definitely a roller coaster. I know what happens to your body after a month when your only calorie source is peanut butter and white bread. Depression, random trips to Canada, and more.

> Picking the school. ... your dream school should 1) be a top school

No, at least, in mine and other's experience, you should go to the best school where you're still capable of being in the top ~1% of your graduating class. You'll feel like you're the best and that's almost all that matters (Malcolm Gladwell's talk [1]).

> So you’ve entered a PhD program and found an adviser. Now what do you work on?

You will not be interested in the same exact topic for ~5 years straight, so keep that mind. Try to keep it broad.

> Giving talks

Do this / practice this as often as possible. It's how you'll get hired (or not). I've had to sit through some embarrassingly bad ones, where the candidate then has to survive the next 7-hours of interviewing where everyone knows they're not getting hired. (In my experience the talk is first thing in the morning.)

[0] He gave the fields of "Computer Science / Machine Learning / Computer Vision research" as a disclaimer, my disclaimer is that I only know about experiences in molecular biology / chemistry / materials science / synthetic biology / microbiology.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UEwbRWFZVc
I've got portable speakers that sound absolutely terrible when actively charging. Do you reckon this would help?
I don't really understand the point of iWork. I did back when Apple was worried that MS would not maintain Office on the Mac, and when Office didn't run on iOS. But since those cases aren't true, it's a lot of engineering expenditure for a feature that will not cause someone to buy a Mac, iPhone or iPad. Even now they are still toys even less capable than the clumsy google docs apps.

Any ideas as to why this is worth Apple's time?

(This isn't an anti-Apple rant: I am a heavy user of their hardware).
You could get water delivered to your home in large 5 gallon jugs. Its not quite as bad as the small bottles.
I run and bicycle on alternate days in gross humidity, and I have been using the "resting on the back of the neck" design of the Philips/Nike Flite Sport headphone for ten years:

https://www.amazon.com/Nike-HJ020-headphones-Discontinued-Ma...

For bicycling, I am mainly on bike paths but when I have to enter traffic for a bit, I would never, ever ride with any kind of ear bud or closed headphones. The Flite design has gentle pressure pushing the phones against my ears, for a very open design that keeps me aware of what is happening around me. They are very stable, resting on the back of my neck, even while running. I don't remember them every falling off from exercise.

The original Flite headphones were somewhat overpriced, and lasted about a year before they failed. The Chinese clones moved in and the price collapsed. I bought a batch of ten knockoffs for $17 a few years ago, and they still last a year or so.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=sport+headphones+behind+...
YC screens who can get into its incubator which improves the yield.
> it's not common practice in a German laboratory to watch Youtube videos on your cell phone while working

Boy have I got news for you...
I really dislike how every point release of certain projects (Go and Gitlab being prime examples) gets onto the HN frontpage. Even as someone who loves some of the projects, I find it to be a problem.

Yet I don't want to "flag" the post, because I assume there is some kind of penalty for the submitter, beyond mere downvoting. Maybe it makes sense to have some kind of option to indicate a story fits site guidelines, but really doesn't belong on the front page.
This good be a great break for competitors like Pure Storage, Nimble, etc.
There's a legacy connector in every box. All your legacy headphones still work. Apple didn't want to add an additional port and they can't exactly switch to usb-c at this point. In 3 years when all other phone makers drop the headphone jack for usb-c, can we get a lightning to usb-c?
I laughed, because so many decisions in California are based on compromise.
> Naturally, there is no proof that superbugs are coming out of the feedlots, because the feedlot owners do not allow any sort of sample collection by scientists.

"In the bed of a truck that they parked on county roads adjacent to ten Lubbock-area feed yards, they set up small, generator-powered vacuums. On a number of windy days, they collected upwind and downwind air samples. The results confirmed their suspicions: downwind, they found antibiotics—specifically tetracycline—present at significantly higher levels than in the upwind samples. Yet as they dug deeper, they discovered something even more worrisome. Along with the antibiotics, they found another hitchhiker: remnants of bacteria that had acquired a gene that made them resistant to tetracycline." (1)

The article also describes the pushback from the CFA (Cattle Feeders Association)

(1) http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/when-the-dust-settles/
You sleep with it on? When do you charge it?
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As soon as distributed rooftop solar takes off, I see a large industry in condensing drinking water directly out of the air with surplus energy.

https://github.com/openawg/openawg/tree/master/blueice
I like the point about the UCC. I have thought about standardized contracts myself, though I didnt think to compare it to the UCC.

"But until terms of service are both standardised and codified with users' interests in mind"

But what about sites with a different revenue model? Say an image hosting site meant for personal photos, and an image sharing site meant as a platform for artists to sell their work. You would not want the former allowing any sort of copyright transfer, but the latter cannot function without it(at least without the ability for the site to take payment and provide a license). Im not sure how we could standardize everything. Especially if consumers are not willing to pay a subscription.

"In particular, ordinary transactional terms are limited by:"

1. But this would be an ongoing relationship, assuming they continue to use the service.

2. Again, subscription fees would be needed to sustain the business. Otherwise advertising is the only way. And there's an old joke in advertising: half of all advertising budgets are wasted, the trick is figuring out which half. I do see your point about a drivers license number not being needed for a long period of time.
Ah, that sounds like a reasonable explanation.
some of the 1297 are still on stealth mode.
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Remember Flash?

It looked like it was the wrong time to drop it, but Apple was able to move consumers along.
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Do you think airpods will reach millions in sales? Yeah, Apple is high end, but it's also kind of a commodity or generic for a smartphone. The lowest end Apple products sell in way higher volumes than the higher end stuff. Especially since they're not included with any product, I think there's a good chance that the AirPods fall into the same niche as in-ear headphones (which I'm surprised Apple still sells).
You're right. I was just ticked off because they were making the exact same dismissive comment that someone else already made.
Keep in mind that weight is another major factor in considering battery size.
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The grand-parent implied that DoF phone cameras aren't available, but they are. That was my main point. The other stuff was because, well, I was frankly surprised at how good the new Android phones are. I suspect that a lot of iPhone users might not care about Android hardware enough even to consider that it might be competitive. And yet, it is.
Image manipulation isn't my thing, but I would think it would have to be the other way round. You're at 2X telephoto so each of those pixels is four of the wide angle pixels in terms of detail now.
Cities have a dark side. I think that most people who grew up in a small town and later moved to a big city have gone through a period of disillusionment.
"This confuses me too. The camera wart is ridiculous, and I bet if they made the device just that slight bit thicker they'd have room to retain the 3.5mm jack."

This looks like another method to lock in the consumer to their eco system and or squeeze that extra buck out of them. Not so much about shrinking in size or technology.

IMO this is nothing more than selling and controlling peripherals that can play with iphone and drm.
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You're right. I was just annoyed because I felt like they were being rude to me, and also making the exact same dismissive comment that someone else already made. What I posted was actually much tamer than what I originally wanted to post, but you're absolutely right, I should have refrained entirely.
It's sort of a shame this is built around an Atmega chip as opposed to an ARM Cortex M0 like in the Teensy. I guess it doesn't need much horsepower for a 128x64 monochrome display, but it wouldn't have been much more expensive to put a much more powerful CPU in it. E.g., if you want to maintain a framebuffer, there goes 40% of your RAM.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that! That was really my entire point, that good cameras (with natural DoF) exist outside of Apple.
a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move

I seem to remember commenters on "social media" (or at least their precursors) being just as confused over all of those changes. (With the possible exception of less outcry over optical drives going away.) It seems like there's always some supporters and always some detractors when Apple does something like this.

Maybe that changes soon or maybe AirPods solve this for iOS users (they by design can't be a universal solution)

There's an Apple pattern, where they support a less popular but more capable existing standard or come up with something superior to a standard, which spurs the development of an even better universal standard. It's high time that someone developed wireless headphones that weren't as much of a compromise as they generally are.
Or "Digital circuits are built from analog components"
Probably but I'm shocked that's something anyone would actually need that level of clarification on.
"(2) as a result of that increased productivity, there is a raise in wages."

That stopped years ago. Ask any auto worker.

There's no economic reason that increased productivity should lead to an increase in wages. The benefits of increased productivity accrue to capital, not labor. What produced the increase in wages with productivity was labor activism, and fear of government intervention.

It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time when American companies were seriously afraid of what workers could do, both through unions and politics. Communism was considered a serious competitor to capitalism from about 1930 to 1980. That's what kept wages rising.

Once Ronald Reagan successfully made the case for unbridled capitalism, that ended. Now the US has "just in time" workers, few unions in the private sector, and weak worker protections. Competition between employees keeps wages down.
There's a long litarture and philosophical debate on the whole concept of human rights. I also tend not to find those discussions particularly productive, as it's something a "get out of rational discussion free" card: a person can simply declare that some favourite property or aspect is some universally privileged right. I'm less familiar with the debate, its particulars, and various advocates than I'd like to be. Generally, though, I find the empirical arguments more persuasive.

This isn't because I don't like the specific rights conveyed. Generally, most liberal rights strike me as personally quite desirable. And preferable on a social basis.

It's the latter which I think makes a better basis for arguing for (or against) rights. There are rules of behavior, including rules reserved to individuals, which seem to make for more viable societies, cultures, and civilisations. There are also, though, overabundances of freedoms which can be counterproductive -- as Will Durant has noted, if you've got a choice between an excess of order or an excess of liberty, he'd choose order, because you still have order. (Mind, I'm not entirely convinced he's correct either.)

But generally: a right (conditional, empirically-based, predicated on an increase in overall social welfare) to privacy strikes me as something which, on balance, tends to promote rather than diminish preferred function of society as a whole. And a loss of that privacy generates highly negative consequences.

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This is so factually incorrect and full of opinion that I felt no choice but to downvote.

No, mothers don't just push it because they are concerned about cosmetics. What an overreaching and insulting generalization.
I've often joked that shininess is so important to Apple, that all you get in the box is the item, a charger, and a cleaning cloth.
Well at least for screen renders you can make sure render threads stay on the big cores and with GCD you can use thread priorities to determine what to put on which core. iOS has concepts of active/inactive and is mostly a one-app-at-a-time os. They also have a well defined background processing modes and extension API. With all of this structure, I don't think it will be as hard as we think it will be.
365*5 = 1825 hours.
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The thing is that the fake charger provided current leakage from the same outlet that the original doesn't, so I concluded that the fake charger was at fault.

Both chargers where connected without ground using the 2-prong round adaptor.
I don't get the slimness either. I had no issue with my old N900 being twice as thick as my current android (and I loved physical keyboard on it too).

I guess if they make battery last 30% longer, then you won't be forced to change a phone in 2-3 years when battery starts deteriorating and it is bad for business.
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A PhD is super fun and super hard. But it is key to be realistic about the outcomes. It is a life changing experience, but definitely have a plan for the end of it. There are so few academic tenure jobs and so it pays to do a bit of research on what you want at the end off it beyond just academic life. If you can do that the experiences are amazing, learning to think and work at the higher level and learning to compromise and work through others work is utterly refreshing. It is definitely a space to let yourself really explore thinking and researching.
Maybe because 16 of the 19 top Apple executives are white men. (Women lead retail, HR, and public policy.)

http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/

Aren't there sufficiently talented women -- and also people of Hispanic and Asian ancestry -- who could serve as leaders and role models at Apple?
For the record, I was being facetious on purpose to show how ridiculous this is.

But more to your point, the adapter would belong with the phone not with the headphones. There are potentially N number of headphones, and one phone for which the adapter will be used. So the adapter being carried with the phone instead of N adapters for N headsets makes more sense.
> But would this be a good idea to implement? Could there be a benefit?

> In Unix land, in addition to munmap, we also have madvise, which is a BSD function, known in POSIX as posix_madvise. One of the things an application can do with these functions is tell the OS that it "won't need" a range of memory (POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED / MADV_DONTNEED).

As mentioned in the article, Win32 has something that addresses the problem described as well: VirtualAlloc(..., ..., MEM_RESET, ...).
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The adapter in the box isn't free, it's "free". You're still shelling out hundreds of dollars for the box, and the adapter is merely part of the bill-of-materials.
Those won't get lost...
Novel to the line of iPhones. Someone with an older iPhone looking to upgrade would find the new one is different in that it has water resistance.
$9.00

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35-...
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You're right... But there is no faster way to kill the coolness of AirPods than to have it associated with the stereotype of bluetooth headset-wearing douchebags fielding phone calls in public.
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There were rumors about them being Bluetooth+ - proprietary extensions on top - and since they claimed to eliminate transmission delays, I was curious if the rumors were true.

Thanks.
As someone who was measurably "gifted" as a child, I will say that the idea that I was more tenacious or laser-focused could not be farther from the truth. Instead, I just "got" things very quickly, such that it required very little effort to learn. I also read at a very high level through practice (I read fiction voraciously), which probably helped. I have since levelled off, and confess to struggling to learn through brute force things I don't readily apprehend. That said, I find the frequency of really good, creative ideas that I have is much higher than my peers, which has translated into a lot of success in the dev world (I dropped out of a phd program in philosophy and joined ama-google-softbook as a dev, as a bridge to starting a business).

I don't dispute that effort is a variable in long term performance, but it's more of a criterion for long term performance than a predictor of raw talent imo.

I will also say that being singled out for special treatment is pretty silly, I think a more constructive use of my time as a child would have been to help peers who were struggling.
As someone who was measurably "gifted" as a child, I will say that the idea that I was more tenacious or laser-focused could not be farther from the truth. Instead, I just "got" things very quickly, such that it required very little effort to learn. I also read at a very high level through practice (I read fiction voraciously), which probably helped. I have since levelled off, and confess to struggling to learn through brute force things I don't readily apprehend. That said, I find the frequency of really good, creative ideas that I have is much higher than my peers, which has translated into a lot of success in the dev world (I dropped out of a phd program in philosophy and joined ama-google-softbook as a dev).

I don't dispute that effort is a variable in long term performance, but it's more of a criterion for long term performance than a predictor of raw talent imo.

I will also say that being singled out for special treatment is pretty silly, I think a more constructive use of my time as a child would have been to help peers who were struggling.
Alphabet? I dont think they have any dell, emc, or vmware equipment.
Currently there is no way for me to push updates for the code to PiBakery, but there is a way for me to push block updates. I guess I just don't want the 1500+ people that have downloaded PiBakery to have to redownload PiBakery to get new blocks, if it's possible.

That said, I am looking into an "if" block and then reporter blocks for it, and it may happen in the future.
I had the same thought. At this point, those 8-bit computers are really not worth it unless you are using the really tiny form factors and size is a major concern.
It's interesting how you didn't compare it to buying a new computer every year, but rather to cars/clothes, i.e., as a form of conspicuous consumption, a way to enhance social status. But this makes sense as this is how Apple markets its products.
Also a runner. When you are saying headphones you are refering to earphones which always fall of for me aswell, actual headphones have never been an issue for me though. Loving my $25 cheap chinese bluetooth headphones. And no I don't need to have great sound quality when i run due to heavy breathing anyway.

I vastly prefer bluetooth for working out, but I am incredibly sceptic about the sound quality from that lightning adapter.
Naive question: do faster cores perform slower tasks with more efficiency? In other words, if a game uses 80% of the old processor, but only 50% of the new one, is there an impact on the battery life just by being a faster CPU?
Succinct.

At least the toilet drop is okay now.
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I almost feel that they are at the end of the smartphone innovation. Its going to go similar to PC where people don't need to upgrade every year. Thats why Apple started the whole Subscription model to feel secure. But they need to innovate fast if they want to keep their customer base. I seriously don't need faster iPhone at this point. I am pretty happy with my 6. Slim factor is also not that important anymore.

I can't imagine iPhone line continue this way for next 5-10 years. They need to get into something new fast. VR, AR etc.
Before my son was born, we tried to persuade our OB to allow us to do this, or at least to look at the research herself. She wouldn't budge.

As an aside, my son was born 12 lb 1 oz, he now weighs 31 lbs at 5 months. The same weight as my 3 1/2 year old daughter.
They assume the axiom of choice because it makes a lot of nice results possible. So, it's not exactly arbitrary.
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>I'm pretty sure those airpods are not bluetooth compatible.

Apple's tech specs list them as bluetooth.
I carry it regardless. I carry it because I have a commute of almost an hour and a half, much of it on a train, and I like having my Kindle and my sunglasses and other things, but don't carry my laptop to/from the office (thus no laptop bag). So I have a small shoulder bag that I put stuff in and bring with me.

So any time I'm going to be out long enough to have to theoretically carry full kit for my phone (in a hypothetical multiple-dongle world), I'm also going to have that bag with me, or some equivalent object for carrying things (i.e., extended outings not involving going to work), and not have to stuff everything in my pockets.

Apparently this is weird enough to be downvoted into negative-score territory.
I believe IP ratings are for "resistance" (for a certain depth/period of time). Water "proof" means completely impervious to water, period.

I don't believe any phone is water proof.
Does anyone have advice on applying to a PhD from industry & without significant research experience (but a BS + MS degree from Stanford)?
LG tones are bulky in the sense that you're essentially wearing an unfashionable necklace

Hmm. Interesting.

If Apple wants to continue pushing into the jewelry and personal-accessory business, this suggests an obvious direction. They tend to be good at making unfashionable things fashionable.
Enskede (next to it) is one of the better areas in Stockholm so it's less expensive neighbour Enskededalen is perhaps bad only in comparison.

I think I've might have seen some druggies in the area a few times more than I would expect but that was 15 year ago... But maybe those things stick.

It's definitely not one of those no-go zones.
That really depends on time period. Remember, the b-52 was introduced into service in 1955, and first flew in 1952. Well prior to the introduction of ICBMs.
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I think it would produce a runtime error and return a stack trace. Someone more qualified than me should chime in though...