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> It's a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving. Google's only run in the browser, and poorly compared to Apple's browser choice, and Microsofts is expensive, buggy and while it has immense numbers of features it has terrible UI.

None of the points you made are true. Granted things like UI can be very objective, but how someone can with a straight face say Excel is uglier than Numbers (have you seen those awful randomly colored icons?) is beyond me.
Probably not. But I bet the $20 pair will work a lot longer than 5 hours per charge.

I have wireless headsets that last 20 hours on a charge. 5 measly hours is ridiculous and it makes all those other features "not worth it".
I'm not convinced. The record industry has already given up on DRM except for streaming. A lot has to happen before DRM is applied to headphones.

Audio is not like video, where it's hard to get a decent copy from the screen. With audio you can always just hook up to the analog output to the speakers themselves and get a copy indistinguishable from the original

Fighting for DRM on headphones would be an uphill battle in so many ways, and I'm not sure the record industry is stupid enough to waste the effort. They've already seemed to learn what everyone know: piracy is solved by making the content easily, universally available at a reasonable price. Piracy is tedious. Just make a better service and the customers will come to you.
POPs are an entirely different type of "toxins" than the ones homeopaths talk about.
The difference is in how smart the jack can be. First, it's under legal/licensing restriction, which means you have to pay to play (ignore the adapter for now; it's inconvenient and can also be detected as a particular kind of 'unlicensed' device).

Second is the subtler stuff -- like how the jack can now communicate about the music and the device with the phone, so you really could do things like have exclusive Apple music releases only playable on Beats, or (behind the scenes) have a higher quality version play on your Beats than your other headphones, reinforcing the illusion that the new port and devices are "better" than the old analog one (which is impossible). Or have advertising play on radio, except on headphones that have paid a premium to be "ad-free."

It also opens up much more positive possibilities, like the phone knowing the frequency profile of the headphones that are plugged in and automatically using the right equalizer settings to make it sound great. Or, simply wireless devices being able to charge through the port when plugged in. Or having headphones with memory that can keep a few hours of music on them 'synced' by plugging in so you don't even need your iPhone to listen.

So all in all, it's a set of tradeoffs, giving up some freedom and simplicity, for the opportunity of more possibilities in the future. It's difficult to say exactly how it will be used, but the realist point of view is that it's all ending up as the same analog sound in the end; there's only so much that can be revolutionized. Time will tell.
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Are there any good Stack Overflow IDE integrations out there?
> If someone's valid email address

> [*\"32f2@13.31.43.11

> they are up to no good

Well, that one in particular, perhaps — but what about "sam & jill"@ourfamily.invalid? What about john(for sly010)@nowhere.invalid?

> Also, according to the standard email addresses supposed to be case sensitive, since the username part refers to a unix user and unix is case sensitive.

The local-part doesn't refer to a 'Unix user'; it is what it says on the tin: the local part. It's up to the receiving server to determine what it wants to do with case. It's the duty of other servers to preserve the email address as transmitted.

> I work with a lot of email address lists originally collected on paper and of course noone knows that. So as bad as it sounds, part of my sanitation process is to lowercase everything.

I might use the email address as given, and if that bounces try lowercasing. I don't know of anywhere that has case-sensitive names, but it's conceivable.
Plus my girlfriend has a strict "No New Jersey" rule.
If you're looking to improve performance, the best thing you can do is learn how to use Apache JMeter. Run it locally against your solution, with VS running the performance profiler (which is under the Debug menu). This will give you a nice click through graphical break down showing you which parts of your code are taking the longest.
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You are definitely over thinking this. It's a joke.
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They are not for running. They said specifically beats was coming out with a line for that.
I think it's an easier "sell" to refuse third party headsets connecting through a legacy adapter, compared to refusing to use the bundled headsets that came in the box.
Ask HN: Internships open to non-US students?
Hey HN.

I've been looking for Software Development internships recently and was surprised by how difficult it seems for non-US students, as almost all tech companies, based out of the US do not even consider international students, and those that do require an F1 visa. Also, and more frustratingly, very few of these companies document this fact on their websites. Does anyone know about good internship opportunities open to all, regardless of visa status and citizenship?
> I memorize 3 passwords and they are extremely hard. The rest are not created by me and I don't have repeated passwords.

So why are you disagree with me?
Like all headphones?
It was probably because their white customers were racist assholes too so they would lose more money on losing those white customers than they would gain from new black ones.
This reminds me of a bug I had back in ‘98 or so. I was using a Parallax BASIC stamp and could not understand why when I put it to sleep it would sometimes using only 30 uA, and other times 300uA. I kept narrowing down my code until it was utter nonsense, and finally I made it to where if I removed or added a byte of code it would toggle between the two.

I got on the phone with the engineer responsible for the firmware and sent him my code, but I never did find out what the problem was (sorry for the letdown, maybe someone at Parallax remembers and reads Hacker News?). They acknowledged it as a bug, and made a fix. Unfortunately the fix made was to always draw 300uA at sleep!

Fast forward 18 years (!) and from their website it looks like their latest modal draws 50uA, so it was a happy ending after all. The end.
Did you read the article?

> Airbnb said it would also accelerate the use of instant bookings, which lets renters book places immediately without host approval.

The fact that the author of your parent-comment does go through and approve individuals means that this policy would hurt him/her.
What's relevant is that AirBnB is against the Freedom of Owners to select who stays at their place. In the end Owners should have the final word, no matter what, certainly not AirBnB.
Point 1 I will agree is about reputation. But to conflict with your perspective, this is less about ego than about contribution to your community and self preservation. If you're not as good as your word, eventually nobody trusts you or wants to work with you... and if nobody trusts you or wants to work with you, then your chances of getting where you need to go are quickly decimated.
Meanwhile, the 10kx engineer sits here on HN, doing nothing while requirements change again and again - waiting to implement the thing when the requirements finally settle.
My source tells me people did not use graph search. Only engineers or programmers used it. The wide population is not used to searching in a structural format. The cost benefit ratio did not work out
They limit their market to only those people who'll put up with DRMd music. I don't recall the dates of the decisions and changes too well but I'm pretty confident iTunes sales would have sky-rocketed some time AFTER the DRM came off.

Is the number of people who only buy music from iTunes really enough to keep iPhone where it is in the market?
I'm not so sure. Just because a few Chinese phones have adopted it doesn't mean anyone can do it. Just look at what happened when Samsung abandoned waterproof cases, removable batteries, and SD cards with the Galaxy S6 in their effort to ape Apple: their sales plunged, and the used-market prices of S5s were very high. Then they brought back two out of those 3 features and the S7 seems to be doing well. So Apple was able to get away with not having any of those features, while still enjoying a huge sales volume and profit margin. Samsung found out the hard way that their flagship customers simply are not the same as Apple's.

So maybe it's possible to dump the headphone jack on some cheap-o phone model in a different market and not see a difference in sales. That doesn't mean everyone could do it for all phone models. One of the strengths of the Android market is that there's many different phone models, by different makers, with different prices and features and strengths. Maybe Chinese buyers don't care much about 3.5mm jacks, maybe those particular phones are typically sold to a certain demographic that doesn't use headphones or listen to music, maybe those are barebones phones popular with economy buyers who just want the cheapest phone they can find, etc.

So you're right that it's false that Apple is the only company that could get away with dropping the headphone jack in any phone in any market. But that doesn't mean the opposite is true, that any phone maker could drop the jack in any phone in any market and not see a difference in sales.
Why stop there? The only reason the board has accepted the bad managment is because the shareholders provide poor oversigth! The company should be confiscated and then sold at an auction to a select group of responsible shareholders!
Atop is also a great tool
The other half of this is looking sql performance. Not being a DBA I'm less proficient in this area and can't recommend a good tool :(
That's frightening.

I would suggest your security team do an audit with CloudLock (note, we acquired them at Cisco) and my guess is that it'll be illuminating / shocking.
My experience suggests that this theory is dead on. Less because companies are putting up more openings, and more because the meaning of "posting an opening" has changed in a way that causes overcounting.

When Verizon wants a floor-sales clerk, they're likely putting the opening up on Monster, Indeed, and several other sites besides. That's 5-6 "openings posted" for one actual job, and it's made even worse if they aren't quick to take down the postings (why bother? you just route the resumes to spam). 30 years ago, you were posting a single job in specific places, and job boards or newspaper ads would turn over 'naturally' if you didn't keep the posting active.

So I don't know how important it is, but I'm definitely assuming that postings are being multiply counted these days.
> very public businesses

One might argue that posting pictures of the interior of a residence, advertising it for rent by the night, and posting a price for such privilege is what makes a hotel a "very public business." (It's also why regulations apply to hotels.)

One might also wonder that if these properties make a hotel or B&B a public business, what's different about AirBnB rentals?

Sure enough, back in 1964 the US passed a law that defines (many/most) AirBnB rentals as places of "public accommodation":

"any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his residence. "

If the lessor isn't living there, it's a public lodging. (Also, it's not the lessor's "home" by virtue of the lessor not living there.)
The funny part is that Gordon Ramsay's BURGR restaurant has truffle oil in the menu: https://gordonramsayrest-2938.kxcdn.com/assets/1-Menus/USA-R...
So, apple gets rid of the headphone jack and the fear of the END of headphone jacks propagates. . .
This is somewhat depressing and frustrating; depressing because one companies' decision has the potential to influence other companies implementations that therefore will affect us all? Frustrating because homogenization is apparently that simple to implement?
I guess this quote by who knows who is ever so true. . . "there is no profit in the current paradigm. . .you have to create problems to create profits", unfortunately.
A mountain view in Seattle or Portland might be a bit pricey. SLC and Boise are right on mountains, and are more rustic inter-mountain west cities (like Denver and Boulder I guess).

There is also Idaho Falls and Los Alamos, which both host major DOE labs, I think, that would attract tech activity.

After leaving Tektronix in Portland, my Dad moved further in tech at Hanford. The mountains are not so big in Richland, however (well, we lived on a small mountain when we were there).
but at 14 you could still do other things. It isn't like they give you $1M and say you can never make money ever again.
Couldn't the assert message just say something like ", warning: this is only checked in development". I don't know, requirement of knowing how something works are always kind of tough since a lot of people's first interactions with things are in the code (like if they've just joined a new project), and they may assume they understand the functionality, and their assumptions may initially seem correct as they test it themselves. Its one of those "don't know what you don't know" scenarios, and "look up every function you ever see just in case what you think it does isn't what it actually does!" can be a bit impractical. So if this is known to be a gotcha, making the function itself speak that gotcha might be useful.
They own a piece of The Pokemon Company and a piece of one of the companies that owns a piece of The Pokemon Company. No one really seems to know if that amounts to a controlling interest or not.

But empirically, it seems unlikely an independent Pokemon Company wouldn't put out Pokemon games for non-Nintendo platforms.
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The irrationality you are noticing is to do with the modern concept of rights. Since the New Deal and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 'right' has come to cover things like right to a job, right to healthcare, right to electricity, right to broadband, and so on. But these rights impose obligations on other people, to either work to provide these rights for you, or to stump up the cash to pay for them. That means you need an agency which violates property rights.

Since you can never raise enough taxes to pay for everyone's needs, there's no consistent way to implement the modern notion of rights, so it simply becomes a list of irrational demands.

The only consistent system of rights (of rights which can be granted to everyone equally), take the right to life as a fundamental, and derive other rights from that. The derivative rights in such a system are the Enlightenment-era rights, I.e, life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness.
that's indeed news-worthy, but should have made it in to the title than. (or at least in to the article)
Why does it need to be a factory Bluetooth system? DIN-standard decks have had a rich aftermarket for half a century at least, and have always offered more features than factory decks.

A Bluetooth+USB+AUX deck from a brand like Pioneer or Alpine is about $100USD.
Yes, it sucks to spend more money, but you also get Bluetooth calling, proper audio format support (does your Chevy so OGG?) and even support for apps like Pandora sometimes.
Worth getting _without_ even having an iPhone, for me at least.
> How does discriminating based on race, gender, age, etc guarantee that your property will not be damaged?

It doesn't but depending on where you are on the political spectrum it's either called "trust" or "prejudice". That's how people assess personal risk. While a legal hotel has proper insurance, do you really think that's the case for most airbnb rentals? furthermore an hotel manager doesn't have to sleep in the same room/appartement as his guest.

> If you want the access and business that using AirBnb's platform provides then you need to adhere to their rules. Pretty simple

The real question is whether these rules are seriously enforced or not. I bet they aren't, because most hosts are biased, like everybody else and airbnb business strategy is based on shifting risk upon hosts (and guests). If it wasn't the case it would only list legal hotels.
> Comments are not a real thing, RFC be damned.

Comments are and should be a real thing. They are, for example, how to use service-specific email addresses when using a mail provider who does not treat + as a folder extension (jack+suzy@provider.invalid is a perfectly valid email address for Jack & Suzy).

FWIW, I tested recently, and Google do exactly the Right Thing™ with comments in email addresses: they deliver the mail.
My guess is that when you call them on the phone, they ask for your password to validate your identity. Which means it's stored in plain text in their database so that customer service can verify what you said is correct. Maybe they don't want their employees to have to be cursed at by customers.

I can't think of a good way for a business that has an online interface and frequently handles phone calls from customers to validate that they're talking to the correct person. Asking for other personal information can be used by an attacker to compromise multiple accounts via social engineering: http://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/
I misread that as "to acquire Apple". Then I misread that again as "to acquire Apogee" (as in, the name 3D Realms went by from 1987 to 1996).

Now I'm wondering behind the reasoning of the Apigee brand. Was it an intentional play on Apogee Software of the 80s/90s? If so, why? Something about "playing with APIs" I presume, but that seems confusing.
> [wildcard @ wildcard . Wildcard]

That would invalidate ceo@cocacola, which is a legitimate address.
For a second, I thought you were directly addressing a guy named "Benjamin"...

That's a horrible story, very much "not with a bang, but a whimper".
If you're testing those, it would be nice if you could test and make a comparison with the cassandra-based Blueflood as well.

https://github.com/rackerlabs/blueflood/wiki
A deep dive into Python's dict module (based on browsing 10 years of commits)
...and baby oil.
> Is this due to Assange? Or due to the war on whistleblowers? Given the resource constraints of WL, Assange must choose between publishing unredacted information and not publishing at all.

Again, your argument is yet another conspiracy theory. You can't argue against this, because no matter what, it's the Cigarette Smoking Man in the background. And the resource-constraint argument is an excuse for sloppy, irresponsible journalism.

The argument that wikileaks is not at all affected by Assange's emotional and mental state seems to be an attempt to make him out to be an altruistic, infallible god, not a human .

Major news caters more towards the people that give them money, and they base their content choices on their sponsors.

It seems that every time Assange has a bowel movement, all of the major news sources write about it as front-page news, and immediately every comment is about how no major news outlet is reporting on wikileaks.

> Are you arguing that the information revealed by the DNC emails is not a reflection of very significant character flaws in Clinton?

I haven't read them all, so can you clue me into what they exposed about her directly in contrast to what they exposed about the DNC organization?

And were you aware of my other point, his attacks on Zeynep from the New York times? She pointed out the danger the leaks put women in. Instead of saying, "hey, that leak wasn't our fault, but mea culpa anyways, we're sorry". Then when she pointed out that if he'd had some Turks read the emails they'd have laughed and said "don't bother", he again went into a campaign of character assaults against her?
There's no excuse now that we have LetsEncrypt.

Thank you!
AirBnB places are not hotels. In the end as an Owner you should be free to select whoever you accept, just like you are free to decorate your place the way you wish. It's down to personal preference because it's the Owner's place in the end.
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No, there wasn't. That's the poster's point. Universal grammar in Chomsky is lower-level than any concrete language, English most definitely included. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
The first two sentences should suffice.
My tablet comment was just meant to give context to why I don't think having access to Android apps on Chromebooks is a game changer in K-5 education.

Probably the higher up you get the less students are using "educational software" and more just common productivity programs and I'd suspect the gap between platforms fades away there for general purpose reports, presentations, etc.
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> it is olive oil mixed with 2,4-dithiapentane, a compound that makes up part of the smell of truffles and is as associated with a laboratory as Californian food is associated with local and organic ingredients.

So, what this is saying is 2,4-dithiapentane has little more to do with a laboratory than any other randomly selected ingredient, despite being linked to it in popular culture? (Or, more likely, that this is an extremely poorly chosen analogy...)
So far as I've ever read, literally all -O does is strip asserts and docstrings. It doesn't really optimise anything.
I would guess some combination of feeling various minorities were filthy and not wanting to deal with them, and a network effect. Sure, you might make money letting rooms to a handful of blacks but you would likely then lose out on all the other racist white folk who don't want to use the same sheets as "one of those people". One can easily imagine it might have been economically harmful to NOT be a racist in those days.
> Does the dehydrated truffle not contribute anything to the taste

It does not.
The code's been updated to more modern Python and to not try to smooth the probabilities. (Also it computes probabilities instead of frequencies now, though that shouldn't affect the result.)
We love to believe in the exceptional, that's it.

We have concrete prof that earth is somewhat round and solid but some people still believe that there is a micro sun inside, and will fight you if say otherwise.

With these extinct or close to extinction species happens the same
Nope. I would not ever rent a room with instant booking unless Airbnb signs a blank check for any damages by the guest (which it of course won't)
> If I'm reading this proposal correctly, locks will still be needed within multithreaded guilds to guard mutations against complex object graphs.

That is correct. You'll still need to use locks if doing multi-threading inside of Guilds.

It looks like Guilds can have 1 to X threads.