skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That moment was absolutely the ultimate in Apple Reality Distortion Field in recent years, but this article is also over the top hyperbole.

The reality is the audio jack did take a significant amount of internal volume on the phone, and there are advantages to using wireless headphones. In a few years I won't be surprised if most Android phones also forego the audio jack.

If you really think it was a huge mistake for Apple to do this, short Apple stock. The market will reflect it. Otherwise, it may be annoying but it was probably the right thing to do in the long term and you're just repeating the same silliness of the people who cried about the lack of floppy drive on the iMac or the lack of ethernet port on the MacBook Air.
Somehow IT manages to be an order of magnitude more bureaucratic than the rest of the company. Perhaps a case of IT people trying to be more catholic than the pope in a bureaucratic company!
Please don't consider this as an attack but, I tend to believe that Google is not in the possession of the absolute truth. They even usually contradict themselves.
That's actually not true at all. The "burn more calories than you eat" has been debunked many times over.

In fact, it's probably the best possible way to have a miserable nutrition and do all sorts of damages to your body.
Did some research - it's off by default in recent macOS versions. Configurable via the "sysctl net.inet.icmp.timestamp" flag.

http://superuser.com/questions/680200/os-x-how-to-make-it-re...
Is a headphone plug cheaper than a bluetooth chip?

It's certainly better form a usability perspective: plug it in, and you're done. Bluetooth has to be paired, and can be jammed.
Yes, I felt it to be extremely poor taste.
> Also, last time I heard, you couldn't even use Bluetooth to transfer data from an iPhone to a non-Apple device, so there's that.

What? Isn't it just a protocol?
So printing B isn't slower: terminal rendering of lines of text is just less obvious than thought.
I have three that are collecting dust.
I had plans to build a supergamegirl, but with tablets so cheap, and work so busy . . .my ambitions for the pi's just died.

I also ended up buying a 50 dollar ubuntu intel computer stick which was great, and replaced the raspberry pi for emulation.

I have a friend who has a 3d printer and tons of electrical engineering gear, who just loves his, and does tons of products with them.
Someone could have just created an account and accidentally put the wrong email address in. Therefore, putting a link that extends full trust in the welcome/confirmation email is a design error. The fix for this error is to require the newly created account holder to put in their password on this first login. While the account's in this state it shouldn't be possible to reset the password.
The mystery of the missing iPhone jack
What about crime rate and stuff like that. For some reason I feel that the town is almost 100% white.
Are ISPs still throttling Netflix?
"Toxicological Function of Adipose Tissue: Focus on Persistent Organic Pollutants"

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/121/2/ehp.120548...

"The studies discussed here indicate that AT (Adipose tissue) plays a central role in POP (persistent
organic pollutants) toxicology. This
role is complex and may seem paradoxical.
Indeed, there is evidence that AT is protective
under conditions of acute or subacute exposure
to POPs. Storage in the lipid droplets has
a buffering effect and prevents the persistence
of high blood levels of these POPs and also
prevents high POP exposure of other more
sensitive lipophilic tissues such as the brain."
Losing a 3.5mm jack is not just an audio issue - this port is also the simplest way to make phone talk to external hardware add-ons.
ok, the first one is just priceless!
Disturbingly, many do not, like the very first and longest one.

Of course, that one was gotten because it's simply the title of a song, mapped to lower case with spaces removed.

Password phrases, even if long sentences, must not be something pulled from popular culture.

I wouldn't expect, say, "thequickbrownfoxjumpedoverthelazydogs" to hold up.

I bet you that it woudn't have been cracked, had the user had changed a few words in a way that is easy to memorize. I would have changed "stripper is crying" to "stripper is dichloromethane". (Compound used as powerful paint stripper.)
I'm not sure about the not having to worry about money portion, but I agree with the rest. It seems to be the 90's adventure sports crowd "settling" down and enjoying family life.
Share your (SSH) terminal with everybody
> there are also plenty of people who just have this unused hole in their phone.

Having a useless hole doesn't inconvenience them, but taking it away inconveniences a large swath of people who use it daily.
Netflix geolocation spoofing
Ok I'll bite as this is near and dear to my heart. Instead of showing me a fast webpage with a minimal content, tell me how to make my tons of css and js load fast! That's a real problem.I deliver web apps, and interactivity is a must.

IMO, the real problem with the web is the horrendous design choices and delivery of very popular news and daily reading sites (ahem cnn) where subsequent loads of ads and videos start shifting the page up and down even when you have started reading something. Let's address that problem first!
Show HN: GLSL shaders zoomable images viaWebGL on openSeadragon
It look like someone fishing for a vulnerability instead of a real password.
I had a good chuckle at the first one.

alapdanceissomuchbetterwhenthestripperiscrying
Absolutely. But it feels good to pull Apple's leg in someway or the other.
Not only is this allowed, it is encouraged.

Why would people use sock-puppets, I don't know. It seems that the SO team has special ways to detect voting frauds.
Now you also need to power the external device if you use Bluetooth.
Garmin Fenix 3 HR owner here. Nothing else comes close to (a) quality of tracking along with (b) battery life.

I get 5+ days of battery including two 35+ minute GPS tracked sessions, and permanent 1-second update HR tracking all day.

The only improvement I'd like is if it was about 3mm slimmer, so it would fit under my shirt cuffs a bit better ;)
Ideally you generate the password for your password manager XKCD-style, and let the password generator spit out 128 bit ASCII passwords for everything else. Then an attacker needs to get a sufficiently recent copy of your password database first, and password managers can afford using much higher work factors for their master password than websites for every single user.
I saw a "translation for C", which was a header that #defined the keywords to their local language equivalents
There's protocol, and then there's implementation.

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-iPhone-not-pair-with-other-no...

I don't have an iPhone, but my cow-orker whose friend has one tells me that it's still the case that you can't transfer files between an iPhone and a non-Apple device over a Bluetooth connection.
Aren't they just bluetooth headphones? Given the airpods are backwards compatible, I just assumed they were vanilla bluetooth. Can't the hundreds (thousands?) of ones that already exist just pair with the iPhone?
On decisionmodels, the website looks like it is coming straight from the 90s (but after all so does excel) but it is a gold mine of stuff to know before one can claims to really understand excel. I highly recommend the reading to anyone aspiring to be a "poweruser".
Many years ago there was a harmonic balance (circuit) simulator in Excel. Pretty crazy.
> all the 50,000 words will not be chosen with the same probability.

Why?
Yeah but by the same logic what if 1% of iPhone users buy a second pair of headphones, even third party ones.

Tim Cook's Apple is all about grabbing extra small amounts of cash from users. e.g MacBook being unable to use USB devices or HDMI displays without a $90 dongle
People died of eating too much when the prisoner camps where liberated at the end of WWII.
No license information whatsoever in the entire repo. Not worth my time if I cannot legally use this.
Well, you can always choose another phone. Except you can't really, because you want Apple. For any other manufacturer there wouldn't be any discussion about the missing plug, people would just laugh it off and choose another phone model.
Sweating will eliminate large quantities of electrolytes quickly, but you will pass out before that happens. Any exercise beyond light stretching while on a water fast is dangerous.
The comic doesn't say anything about what hash function to use. At any given time you could identify a hash function which takes a millisecond per password. That will be the hash function to use for the comic's algorithm.

The point of the comic is that a character salad is both less secure and harder to remember than four random dictionary words. That's no less true today.

The MD5 hash of "correcthorsebatterystaple" might be trivial to brute-force today, but it is - and always will be - harder to brute-force than "Tr0ub4dor&3", even if in both cases the attacker knows how you generated the password.
>There are about 6 named cells that I have no idea what they refer to.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but doesn't that mean they're just badly named?
Yes you can. Of course you can; If you couldn't transfer data, bluetooth headphones wouldn't work.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-...

The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals,
a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager [Shkreli]. Turing immediately
raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of
treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I have 2 collecting dust, the other is a git server I'm not bothered to migrate to bitbucket.
I miss this as well, but only used it for location based searches to get complete lists while traveling.

My guess is that the infrastructure required wasn't worth it.
It comes down to two words: Horse manure. Color me a coward.
Also you can't really screw up the 3.5mm plug, while on the other hand a low-quality Bluetooth chip will ensure you constant sources of irritation when you try to use cheap wireless headsets. Source: bought a few different kinds in Shenzhen, and was universally disappointed by the BT issues (mostly pairing problems and random audio lags on the BT stack, though one particular headset managed to consistently hang up my S4).
So if the lightning to audio dongle is $9, whats the double dongle gonna be? $20? $30?
Yea, but not from Apple ;)
Exporting Server-Side Types and Endpoints to Ember
You don't need to remove the headphonr jack to get water resistance. Look at Android phones like the Galaxy S5 (3 years old, water resistance with headphone jack, SD card slot and removable battery.

And what about the battery life? Don't you care about that either? Or do you even recognize it's a critical issue for many people? It just sounds like you're desperately defending an Apple product at all costs.
With all due respect, if you have 20 years of programming experience and can't grok BNF, it might be worth stopping attempting to learn new languages and learn BNF instead. Given than BNF defines how Python (and many other languages) is parsed, it's well worth learning.
To trigger these you usually have to be aware of them and write your code in a certain way.

Compiler writers also look for common patterns in people's code and figure out how to optimize them. when you have both years (decades) of legacy code and developers who don't even know what patterns are optimized, you as a compiler writer need to optimize the code that is being written.
TLDR; (with my own interpetation)

1. Email validation regexp should be: /.+@.+/ => Tell the user to enter a valid email if that doesn't match.

2. Send a validation email to actually exercise the system
CVE-2008-5983 (https://bugs.python.org/issue5753) "Untrusted search path vuln... prepends an empty string to sys.path when the argv[0] argument does not contain a path separator"

Check out the "yes"es in the "fixed" column in comment at https://bugs.python.org/msg85966
Which apparently is the name of a song from Bloodhound Gang.

Not that hard to brute force.
I didn't mean to imply that they are similar aircraft. Interestingly, they have some similar strengths and a similar mission: relatively short-range and high-speed interception. They represent two very different, extreme engineering approaches.

They are both planes that set records for zoom climbing, a performance record associated with their interceptor mission, and some other speed and altitude records:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_climb

Anecdotally, one of the more interesting things I've read over the years about their engineering is their failure modes. (who knows how much of this is really true, but it's interesting) Given the correct flight profile, the F-104 will keep accelerating towards Mach 3 right until the canopy material or some other relatively fragile thing starts to fail. The MiG-25 will fly up to the often-quoted Mach 3 number, the airframe is brutally strong, but the engines will be damaged by flying at that speed. But it's entirely possible the Russians upgraded those engines in the eighties. Upgrades to the F-104 over the years only brought the (reported) top speed from Mach 2 to Mach 2.2, but the thing's got razor-sharp wings...
Why limit yourself to one language? You could even use dialects. Five words, five languages, and not too common words.
It's not a fad, there is quite a wealth of research supporting it's efficacy[1][2][3]. That also doesn't mean you need to fast for 3 days straight to consider your fasting intermittent - you can go 16 hours without eating and still reap the benefits. Skip breakfast and concentrate your calories into lunch and dinner - now you are intermittent fasting.

[1] http://easacademy.org/trainer-resources/article/intermittent... (see cited sources)

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25546413

[3] https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2015/10/interested-fastin...
Brute forced them?
This new apartment building has an ‘Uber room’ to wait for your ride
> More often than not the wired headphones become the hassle, whether it's tangled cords or just keeping them out of the way. I'm sure there are plenty of people who use wired headphones every day but there are also plenty of people who just have this unused hole in their phone

Nothing wrong with that - chances are you'll use it at one point or another. Most cars and stereo systems still use 3.5mm. Even for people who have Bluetooth in their cars they often prefer the stereo cable as it gives better quality, has no weird pairing issues and doesn't drain their battery.

I've ran both wireless and wired headphones and have settled on wired. It's just better, better audio quality, better headphones for a lower price, no waiting for the headphones to initialize, no forgetting to turn them off and finding your battery half dead, no having to charge them every few days. Just plug it in and go.

Hopefully this move will put pressure on manufacturers to get costs down on these wireless headphones and get the more off-brand audio manufacturers who often make the best products (quality/dollar wise) interested.
I really dislike fingerprinting.. I hope someday we find a significant reason (presumably a profitable one) to stop all this creepy shit. How do we make it advantageous for companies (groups/etc) to NOT want to do this? long term I mean.
It's not uncommon for airline employees to have non-standard living arrangements, though seems more common to use apartments with 4+ people to a room with beds filled based on first come, first serve; basically time-share like low cost version of AirBnb.

Using trailers and employee parking lots sounds expensive for the employees and airlines too. Beyond that, guessing it's noisy and that theirs not much of use close to the parking lot.
Which ... is kinda what the article also noted, yes.
The reason I brought it up is because Nintendo's level design is fantastic. I expect the levels to be varied and interesting, unlike most endless runners. My comment's parent was specifically talking about the novelty wearing off, and well-crafted levels don't rely entirely on novelty for fun.
I am a Ruby guy, but we had a project where we built a forking socket server in Python, I was really impressed with the documentation.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/socketserver.html

https://docs.python.org/3/library/socketserver.html
It possibly might have been scaled back along with the rest of their cuts to permissions in their Graph API in 2015: https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/facebook-api-shut-down/

You could check how that changed over time: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog

Not sure if they are the same, but it might be along the same lines of "We don't want to give everyone access to everything".
I meant files, not audio datastreams. Edited the comment to reflect that.
In all my projects I use the same methods for validating an email address: 1) Does it contain a `@` 2) Split the string on the `@` and make sure that at least one character exists on both sides of the `@` 3) Send verification email.

This check is done server side, while on the client I just use an html5 input[type='email'] with a required attribute.
Same! I actually prefer a phone that feels solid rather than thin.
How is a 500-600 calorie meal 'very small'?

Most normal dinners are 600-800 calories.
The biggest "gap" in manufacturing is the wages gap. Most new jobs in manufacturing require less skills than a Walmart greeter. They either stand around and press a button or stand around and pull a piece of plastic off a part. Manufacturers aren't willing to pay much more than $MinimumWage per hour for this job. The people who apply for these jobs are just a revolving door that cycle through all the local manufacturers once they get bored. And then manufacturers complain because they can't find someone who wants minimum wage and wants to press a button for the next 30 years and is dependable. They cite "work ethic". Technology and capitalism are the only one's we can blame in this situation.
Also no weird BT stack issues which make sound desync with video when you're watching a movie, which is what ultimately made me stop using Bluetooth headphones with a home PC.
No, it just means someone has encountered that particular problem in the past.
Well, yes. But the pony capabilities system checks ownership at compile-time already and has a much faster GC and smaller objects (actors), while in Ruby 3 you defer the deadlock or race errors to run-time.
There's a free adapter in every box. If you keep it plugged into your headphones, how is your day going to be any different?
Wasn't one reason for losing the headphone jack to help further waterproof the iPhone? That said, for even the best current bluetooth headphones, the sound quality isn't that great. Does the bluetooth standard need an update in that department, because there's a large difference in sound between bluetooth mode and being plugged in for these headphones?
I've worked a lot on trading floors the last 20 years. Excel was king in 90's and 2000's, recently there is a lot of Python & R around. Not that most of the really complex analytics and data come from C++/C#/Java DLLs or libraries, so many spreadsheets are complex but not that bad.
I guess they mean transferring files.
Laughed at that one myself.
It's an old Bloodhound Gang song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMGVMtnxXEw

And there's the connection to last.fm :)
Sony says the PS4 Pro is 4K-ready, but will it actually render games at 2160p?
I wonder if Dvorak keyboard walks are also targeted?
Be able to show, with data, that the improvements will benefit the business or product.
Blocked using ublock origin.
Can we just take a moment and be happy about the fact that we're on the edge of an era where every smartphone charger will work with every phone?

Edit: Google is leading me to believe this might not actually be the case? Are they just rebranding USB-C as "Lightning", or is Apple seriously going with another proprietary standard?
Yeah the Moto Z and LeEco already sold millions without a headpone jack before the this week
i think it was more like convenience. there was another article where schiller talks about having to remove the jack so that they could get the components to fit or something, specifically the haptic engine and also maintain water resistance.

i don't want to be making comparisons to steve jobs (okay, i actually am haha), but i feel like he would never let this fly and just tell them to figure out how to get all the components to fit or don't do it at all.

i feel like it was a lazy engineering decision to do it this way. one where the solution is based on convenience of design rather than what is best for the users.
The 10X immediately knows the answer. The 100X immediately knows the answer, but asks "That is an interesting observation and I'd really like to know why too. But is writing 1 million characters to the console essential to the problem your solving?"
This is my major concern with the "4 random word" approach: password crackers are extremely clever, and there may be non-obvious heuristics they can use to reduce the size of the search space. E.g. if we aren't totally committed to the method and we generate a few 4-word combos until we find one that we think is "memorable", that introduces an obvious bias that can probably be exploited.

(For the record I do use the "4 random word" method for some passwords I want to be able to remember without having to open up my password manager. But I have nagging doubts about its security vs. random strings.)
no surprises there, Radiohead were always most scrobbled artist when i used the site actively. They probably still are.
Toad's last supper helps solve Victorian mystery – Natural History Museum
Hard to take their e-waste talk seriously when they make statements like that and release so many dongles.
> Call me cynical, but I still don't believe that you can clone a endless runner game, slap Mario on it, and expect it to be successful on mobile.

Nintendo has a history of taking existing genres they don't have much experience in, making it their own, and releasing really compelling games. Pikmin for RTSes, Splatoon for FPSes, etc. I don't think they're going to half-ass it.
I'm not laughing.

This was probably an account created by a bot trying to detect the site's vulnerability to HTML injection.

It makes sense for a password cracker to include some common such attack strings, so it can get any accounts that get created by such probing: very clever.

A random, uncommon piece of programming language or markup language syntax would actually be a good password---you would think! I also wouldn't laugh if that were cracked.
I can no longer charge my phone and listen to audio at the same time. Something I do at my desk every day.
Unless the act of donating blood releases some endorphins because you're helping someone else, then this is just bloodletting or phlebotomy, which is considered pseudoscience by the medical community.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=vH1EAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT293&dq=b...
Does anyone know how Lightning headphones work? Is there an analogue line in there (I think I read somewhere that pins can switch modes?) so they're just traditional passive headphones with a different plug?

Or is there a DAC in the wired headphones?
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