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The headphone jack was putting the additional risk on your device to be crushed.

Can you expand on this? I'm assuming the force required to collapse the 3.5mm cavity would be incredibly high.

Jacks themselves were good spots to break due to mechanical stress, especially the cheap ones.

The same can be said about the lightning connector.

It was literally stopping any innovation. Without the jack, new alternatives will pop up at an incredible pace.

This is forced obsolescence. Suppose the jack remained in iPhone 7. Apple would have a much harder time selling wireless earbuds.
FWIW, I present a case where race does not directly cause increased failure to repay, but common approaches to modeling could discriminate against race.

These issues have been discussed in detail in statistical considerations of Simpson's paradox. One need not accept that racial differences directly affect an outcome of interest, in order to be concerned about a model being biased against race!
That's... optimistic. In the long run, maybe, but someone has to actually do it.
I don't think that changes the point. The parent is saying that there's a difference between dropping a universal standard in favor of a closed standard.
Sure, but we're having this conversation on a forum for members of a rather upper middle class profession using a $1000 computer, talking about a $600 phone. We're all firmly in the camp of first world problems. Being extremely fortunate to have these problems doesn't delegitimize them. Nobody's saying it's on par with anything truly terrible in the world.
There are some people that probably get to worked up about it especially on the internet as you said. But in a professional environment where you have deadlines and a budget you don't have the luxury to be a language purist. You have to use libraries and choose from whats available and whats the best choice often that means mixing C and C++. I'm not saying that people necessarily like to code in C if they prefer C++ or the other way around but they will often have to. And so have some competency weather they like it or not.
The difference works more like insurance than tech sales.
Plenty of places have adequate bicycle infrastructure.
"Advertising in iOS apps is non-intrusive by design."

Not sure what apps you're using, but in many ad-supported apps I use, the ads are always visible or takeover the full screen between screens - both very intrusive. There's one game my kids tried and they could barely go a minute without accidentally hitting an ad with their palm while tapping with fingers.
I agree it's only a matter of terminology - just like Teslas "Autopilot".

"Optical zoom" has always meant continuously variable optical focal length. That doesn't mean there is a clear definition, but there is room for confusion using it in this context.

In binoculars there is quite a difference between "dual magnification binoculars" with a switch, and "zoom binoculars" which allow for continuous change.

I'd be completely happy with the use of "2x discrete optical zoom" here - it removes all confusion.
Making the phone thin is a wasted goal. Everyone I know has a thick iphone cover.
>Chess has a limited set of rules, once learned all that remains is practicing and letting it to sink in //

I learnt recently that Chess computers/programs are pre-seeded with standard moves and apparently do very badly if they're set to play without using the traditional openings. This seems to move against your analysis of what is needed to play chess well. Study of stock openings also appears to be required to perform well.
Great points. These are exactly the kinds of issues researchers are grappling with in trying to nicely define, and attempt to achieve, fairness in ML.
Joel Yliluoma's arbitrary-palette positional dithering algorithm
> aside from the very obvious one: they're going to make a shitload of money by forcing everyone to buy new headphones

You obviously have no idea how Apple works. Apple would never in a million years make a user-hostile decision like this simply to collect royalties. They hold user experience to be sacred, and the fact that they're making this move now means they think that, at least in the long term, this will provide for a better overall user experience, despite the pain of the transition.

Everybody complained when Apple ditched the 30pin connector for Lightning too, basically all of the same arguments here (e.g. "Apple just wants everybody to buy new accessories"), but it turned out to be the right move. Making this argument again over the headphone port just means you don't know Apple and you don't know history.
Yes:

> Connections

> AirPods: Bluetooth

> Charging Case: Lightning connector

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEF2AM/A/airpods
I enjoyed this article. I thought this quote was spot on:

Build an organization where everyone is out for themselves and you’ll build what Schopenhauer called a culture of individuals “fencing in the mirror.” When we are caught up in our own agendas and circumstances, we forget to live up to our obligations and commitments to each other. This is where dysfunction foments; this is how startups die and missions never get completed.
The iPhone is apparently the phone of choice for photographers, who know what an f stop is. I believe that spec is for them, everyone wants their f/1.2 L lens or whatever. Look at all of Apple's recent iPhone ads; they are all about the photos you can take (if you are willing to re-edit them in Photoshop to remove all the denoise and compression artifacts, which they even mention in the ads with a white-on-white disclaimer).

Small sensors are getting better. I am shocked at how good the image quality is on my RX100 (with a "one inch" sensor; one inch refers to the size of vacuum tube that would contain such a sensor if it were 1960 or something, no dimension is anywhere near one inch). I'm not going to give up 4x5 for it, but it's way better than a phone.

That said, the camera bump is ugly. Why can't they use a telephoto design (your 500mm SLR lens isn't 500mm long, remember).
I'm not a Bluetooth headphone user but how does the Bluetooth affect the iPhone's battery? Also, carrying two cheap sets of headphones around doesn't sound more convenient than just using wired headphones. Is the wire really that much of a problem?
This is totally wrong, women are afraid of c-sections and many c-sections start as natural births and go until the baby begins to falter. In fact, many women choose to have natural birth second child AFTER having a child via c-section even though natural birth after a c-section (VBAC) is very high risk for mom.

Women who are "afraid" of natural birth will get an epidural to help mitigate the pain, not a c-section.
"If only iOS devices were made by other manufacturers"

This seems backwards. Only reason to buy Apple phones is the superior hardware. As far as the OS goes, Android (and the google services backing it... especially Google Now) have completely surpassed it and continue to increase the gap every day. Increasingly, Google is treating the mobile devices as just a conduit to access their cloud services (including their far superior machine intelligence backing it). While Apple continues to treat the iPhone as a beautiful device with mediocre cloud services backing the hardware.

Don't believe me? Imagine if you Google stopped creating apps for the iPhone. How big a catastrophe would that be for Apple management? Now imagine Apple ceased to exist. Would the Android ecosystem be affected in any way?
Although the console supports 4K, it does not support Ultra HD (4K) Blu-ray. I feel like this was a large missed opportunity. I was on the fence about upgrading before I heard this, now I don't think I will.
No matter how much the Apple hardware may catch-up with Garmin etc's capabilities, Apple's closed system is at odds with the data mobility sought by most advanced Garmin/Suunto users that I know e.g. to/from Strava, MapMyEverything, TrainingPeaks etc.

I think Apple will be happy to leave the Prosumers behind and appeal to people who are less active, and maybe even be a first step towards dedicated sports watches. At least for now.

After a year with the Apple Watch as my day-to-day watch and Garmin Fenix 3 for sports (swim, bike, run, hike), I've now switched to Garmin Forerunner 235 for day-to-day and Fenix 3 for sport purely so I can get all of my data into a single repository, easily.

The one killer app I'm missing on the Apple Watch is Siri.
The mechanics of how do you send them money? Or how you get the $ to pay them (and the IRS, potentially).
Companies that shut down aren't included in this list.
To me the biggest difference between this and the examples you mentioned (floppies, CDs, Flash) is Lightning is a proprietary connector, not an upcoming industry standard.
Nobody mentioned ISO or IEEE. You're projecting your own expectations onto a conversation that did not even reference them.
Flying commercially is never going to be a privacy-preserving activity, for a wide variety of reasons that have nothing to do with payments or online calendars. This is just a trade-off that one must accept.
Wasn't the whole point of consoles you wouldn't have to upgrade every couple of years?
Slack has a native desktop client and has for a long time.
People's situations may vary, but most of the ones you list differ in two important ways. One, they need to make an effort to invade your privacy. Yeah, my neighbours could observe my daily routine, my electric company may do more than know my use of electricity, but these would take some effort, while the tech companies can data mine about millions of people at a time.

And the other important distinction is that these other things are highly compartmentalized, tech isn't, especially for the kind of person likely to be reading HN. I'm sure I am not alone here in that I basically live on the Internet. I read news online, I buy the books that I read online, discuss topics that interest me, watch movies, research my medical issues, read about stocks I invest into, talk to friends and family. My complete browsing history would certainly reveal more about me than ransacking my house for all the physical items, and corporations like Facebook try to have access to that, plus more - such as your private conversations, which is why they push their own messaging services.

This is the truly scary combination. The extent to which online activities matter in your life (especially for the tech-inclined), and the ability of large companies to automatically process and analyse those activities.
Those Chromebooks in many cases get coupled with Google's classroom software. One doesn't imply the other, but lots of schools seem to be jumping on the integrated platform.
If you've never bent either plug, then what are you worried about?
look for the unvote link on the post
I've found the backbeat headphones to be pretty great for running and everything else, and they are $70 on average. They are still open ear too.
New research shows women ask for raises as often as men–they just don’t get them
Hm, why userspace PRNGs are bad? Does code executed in kernel mode become better automatically?

If OpenSSL has bad RNG, then a lot of SSL traffic is in danger...

Also, do you think Java's SecureRandom is not a user space implementation? I guess it only uses /dev/[u]random for seed.
Ask HN: A website where you can store, share, and "run" your coffee/tea recipes?
Sounds good?

I'm a bit bored and want to start a new programming project. I'm a big fan of the iOS app Aeropress Timer, which is just a bunch of Aeropress recipes you can run (as in, there's a timer but it also tells you how much water or coffee to put in at what time and for how long).

The problem is that the nature of the app is to be a curated list, so you can't add your own recipes. I've always wondered if a similar app that allowed users to enter their own recipes, share them, run them, and maybe have a follow user/recipe feed kinda thing could work.

For now this would just be a learning experiment so I don't care who uses it or if it works but it'd be interesting to see if there are any people that would use a service like this (for free!) or if any current apps already do this. Thanks!
Don't feel it's a problem because I have my iPhone charger to charge it up and have my iPhone head phones to listen to music. What's the difference?

Many people have the micro usb cable for charging, and iPhone users use the lightning charger.

Only issue for me is you can't listen to music via headphone and charge at the same time.
those went on sale recently and are in the $80 range now. I picked them up, they're great.
Yeah, but Apple isn't using Bluetooth for the AirPods (they've already been quoted in the press as saying their technology is more battery efficient than Bluetooth). Do we really want everyone moving away from a wireless standard and implementing their own custom pairing solutions like Apple did, that will only work when the producing companies for the accessory and the host match?
> wireshark/tcpdump/ngrep/etc might be challenging to practically use in the presence of SSL/TLS. you can mitigate this problem by setting up SSL termination at your network perimeter so you can monitor unencrypted traffic.

https://mitmproxy.org/ is pretty awesome for that type of work.
As of iOS 9.3 (March 2016).

Too little too late. Our switch to chromebooks took place last year and the planning probably started a year or so before that.

I also don't see where iOS' "Shared iPad" feature lets you log in to any iPad anywhere like a Google Apps account would.
I suspect they are, they've said that the AirPods work with Macs and iPads, which as far as we know don't have any special radio hardware except the standard Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Any chance of adding YC Fellowship companies?
It's probably not ripe for disruption. There's too much furniture to move. And "ancient tech" lives forever because it's a solved problem - one need only develop replacement parts as they go obsolete.

Until you've "done what they asked for" and then have 'em be completely unprepared for the ripple effect, it's hard to explain the phenomenon. The status quo, especially in a low interest rate economy, is a really Big Thing.
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That's an excellent observation. Probably a better question would be what software younger than 10 years will still be around in 10 years. I'm thinking Go, Rust, Servo, DeepMind, Uber, Slack, Android, iOS (not sure about the age of the last 2), all the cloud providers' software, and a lot of other stuff. Probably docker as well.
I really can't understand why anyone would consider it a good trade-off. For a bit extra slimness, sacrifice first a good battery and now the headphone jack? I don't get it. Do a few millimetres in thickness make the slightest bit of difference to anyone? On the other hand probably the single most prevalent complaint people have about modern smartphones is the short battery life. They could easily extend the battery by a good 30% or more by making it as thick as the camera bump. Bam, better battery, no ugly camera hump, space to spare for the 3.5mm jack. But no, let's sacrifice all that for a few fractions of a millimetre -.- I swear I don't get it.
Some are on (unofficial) http://yclist.com but not here.
Although it is more powerful and supports 4K gaming and streaming, it cannot play 4K Blu-Rays: https://twitter.com/thisisFoxx/status/773617609547849728
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That's just fine, as long as on-call expectations are fixed as part of the job offer, just like salary is. If the on-call expectations change for the worse later, that is exactly the same as a salary cut.

IANAL but I believe (in the US or in NYS at least) this would be grounds for quitting with full unemployment coverage (you are not usually eligible for unemployment benefits if you quit, exceptions include the basic nature/hours/wage of the work being changed without your consent, since that is philosophically similar to having your old job terminated and being offered a new, worse one)

Get any on call expectations in writing when taking an offer if you can, just like you'd expect salary in writing
Why is that? Feels like AWS and Azure are bad for pretty much every aspect of their business. Genuinely curious.
I'm sure that argument has been made many times. ("Better" depth of field!)
Yeah no, I won't pay $160. I thought they would be $40 at most. That's ridiculous.
that you can immerse on water.. :-)
That detail totally validated the story for me (new parent lol)
Just like megapixels. The general public has this notion of "more megapixels is better". They don't understand that there's more to a camera than megapixels: F stops, low light performance, etc. I've actually met people who know 1080p "Full HD" is 1920x1080 but had no idea that it's only two megapixels.
Yes. That's why I have one of the Cat ruggedized phones. It's thinner than some iPhones in their cases.
You don't have to. It will still play current and future games at 30 fps or so - which if you are on console in the first place you are probably okay with.
I'm going to concede on the particulars of how low the price was because it must have been just a killer loss leader in-store sale at walmart - the cheapest I can find now online is ~$7 for the same flat of 35 17oz bottles.

I am, however, going to disagree with how much water. 2 gallons of water for a single person each day seems to be more than just excessive for drinking water. Even if I was drinking 17oz each primary meal and another upon waking and upon going to sleep, that still leaves 171 oz remaining to reach 2 gallons.
You are confusing induced labor with c-sections. Many natural births are scheduled and labor is medically induced...there are fewer babies born on weekends for this reason. Basically once you're within a week of the due date, doctor and mom have wide discretion to induce labor and begin the natural birth.
To be fair the B-52's that fly combat missions today are nowhere near the same as what was flying 25 years ago.

I suspect MIG-25's in private hands have been maintained at a flight ready level, but not significantly upgraded in the way the active B-52 has been.
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise sells its software business
I can't wear insertable earbuds and found these behind the neck Kinivo to be great https://www.amazon.com/Kinivo-BTH220-Bluetooth-Stereo-Headph...
One of the challenges I have had particularly with small teams (aka startups) is deciding what is worthy of failure and how to avoid fatigue if being too aggressive with what failure is.

I have found if you are not aggressive with what a failure is (aggressive meaning classifying things that are not really fatal as outage... the system is up but there are lots of errors) it will bite you the in the ass in the long run. The small errors become frequent big errors.

The problem is if you are too aggressive you will eventually get alerting fatigue.

I don't have a foolproof solution. I have done things like fingerprinting exceptions and counting them to the extreme of failing really fast (ie crash on any error).

In large part this because small teams just don't have the resources to get this right but still have the demands to deliver more functionality.

I wish the article delved into this more because there are different levels of "its down".
I find people come to the defense (although you aren't attacking her - just noting how her privilege lends to her lack of self-awareness) of people of higher means in order to feel less guilt about their own privileges/upbringing/good fortune.

I assume this is some coping mechanism because people feel attacked when you point out their opinion may be influenced by their affluence and perhaps not all their success is their own.
Where in SoCal are you? I do that kind of investment, and also live in SoCal. You can email me at: erich@xygroup.co

I've also been in your exact situation a number of times; much of my past consulting work was because I'd already developed a solution for something for my own personal use.

Best, Erich
in Singapore, the public transportation is run by competing private transportation service providers that bid for contracts; the subway itself loses some money (but not much) but the service providers make back the money by charging rent on establishments that operate within the stations and usually a small footprint of services around the station.

In this way, commuters have easy access to a variety of services on their commute home (groceries, drugstores, bakeries, hawker stands, etc.) and the incentives are aligned for the transport contractor to maintain passenger throughput with few disruptions to service, lest the commuter opt for a different mode of transit to get home (e.g. taxis)
Of course they will. iWorks isn't in their primary wheelhouse, so it'll have an on-again off-again lifecycle.
A decent pair of earbuds can cost about $10, even their wired alternative is grotesquely overpriced.
In this case I think the percentage of people that use the headphone jack in their iPhones is a lot higher than 20%.
"They're portraying the negligent company as the victim!"

Perhaps that's why Experia's little breach never made the headlines. They couldn't be framed as a victim as the guy bought all the data legally. It's less than reassuring to ponder, depending on the "how" the data is used, anyone with a shell company, a little diligence and, most importantly, cash could buy this info, too.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/03/experian-lapse-allowed-id...
I guess "gratify intellectual curiosity" is indeed a broad category.

This is satisfyingly obscure :) .
The issue I've run into with the docks is that I have to remove my case to use them.
Right, I feel like we're back in the days before iPhone when so many different companies were coming out with lame gimmicks to sell their flip phones and sliders that were all virtually identical. Maybe we're stuck here until wearable tech becomes more of a reality?
As fair as I know the new iPhone will come with a ligthning adaptor for regular headphones jacks. So that will sort users for now.
Happily, this is not a problem I have.
They fixed it with the screens in the Pebble Time series and the Pebble 2. It's a connector problem, so fixing it required a redesign.
I was about to recommend these. I have had them for about a year and they are awesome. Reviewers on Amazon seem to have hit/miss reviews with BT connectivity, but given my experience with the iPhone 6s, I wonder if it was something with the other peoples phones and not the headphones.

My connectivity has been fine while running, and always surprises me in the gym. I leave my phone in my gym bag now and range is no problem if I'm super setting exercises and moving to different equipment. These are my first and only pair of BT headphones, and they spoiled me to the point where I'll never go back to wired for exercising.
I've always thought Feynman did poorly on some test in high school for whatever reason and then used that score for the rest of his life as a good story. Feynman was all about the good stories.
WoSign issues certificates for domains outside .cn.
"I’ll assume that the second option you are considering is joining a medium-large company (which is likely most common). Ask yourself if you find the following properties appealing: ..."

Why is every conversation about PHDs always cast in the light of as-opposed-to-working-for-the-man? I don't see discussions ever bring up the plethora of other life courses one can take. It is though the author sees a very clear binary: PHD or go work on fixing bugs in Gmail (or some other such cog-in-a-machine project).

Where is the discussion of starting a business? Of making your own company? Breaking free of the political shackles of academia and blazing your own path to glory?

I am all for PHDs, and all for people pursuing, and pushing, the boundaries of human knowledge. I would just like to see that discussion live on its own, without comparison, if that is possible.
I hope Apple will sell an AirPod (either left or right) individually since these are definitely going to be the socks of the technology world.