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I think you misunderstood me. What I said is that Apple's numbers are highly accurate FOR WHAT THEY TESTED.

The problem here is that Apple hasn't given numbers about what it's like under heavy load. Or really any load it all. If you stick to doing the kind of things Apple does in their battery life test you WILL get what they say.

Unfortunately as we seem to be finding out if you go outside of that you're screwed. Obviously harder workloads always hit the computer more, but this year the delta seems much much higher. They are cherry picking tests that make their battery life look reasonable.

I should also note that this is not the first time Apple did this. The quoted battery life on the iPhone 7 is basically the same as before, but they made a slight change to the wording. This year there tests are all with wireless headphones. This is likely because it's always been down that using the speaker on an iPhone to listen to music will lower your battery life pretty significantly, and now that the new iPhone 7 has a double speaker arrangement it's likely an even bigger effect than before.

Apples not lying like so many PC makers used to do, they're playing lawyer games and choosing their words incredibly carefully.

This is not a good turn. Apple giving real life accurate battery estimates used to be one of the things that put them above PC makers in my mind. If they're going to start redefining the workload to doing nothing on your computer... why bother?
I agree with the thrust of what you're saying, but tech jobs are absolutely allocated on the basis of an extremely contrived test (the whiteboard interview).
What exactly do you think is the substantive argument of "but illegal immigration?"

Nothing in the article is about illegal immigration, nor is the discussion of a Muslim database about illegal immigration. It's a red herring. We already have immigration databases.

This is how the alt-right derails discussion. They exploit our preference to treat all arguments as valid until we're at the point of debating whether mass deportation of ethnic/religious minorities is okay. The growing and vocal influence of the alt-right on HN should not be ignored.
Keep the new ideas coming! The Higgs Boson is a LIE!!
> The only reason someone is freaking out now is because Trump was elected.

This is a good point. A lot of things that might have seemed sort-of reasonable under president Obama/Bush/Clinton are scarier under president Trump, and those things that were built in the past during different presidents remain in existence. So, when considering whether it's a good idea to build such tools, it's important to consider future worst-case scenarios, rather than freak out about what we've already built when it's too late.

I think a good test to apply is: "what would the House Un-American Activities Committee have done with this tool" and if the answer is scary, then that tool probably shouldn't be built. (I realize that Facebook would definitely fall into the category of "really scary tools", and yet I still grudgingly use Facebook because it's convenient for some things.)
Weird correction.

Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, mother to Donald, was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland in 1912, emigrated to the US in 1930, married an American in 1936, naturalized 1942.
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They claim AVX2 support, yes. No AVX512, but even Xeons don't have that yet (sadly).
> Do they have a moral right to live in the United States? Probably not.

Yes, they do. Everyone has a moral right not to be deported to somewhere they've never known, especially if it tears up families in the process, extra especially if it's ultimately just for bureaucratic reasons.
Until looking just now, I thought headphones were either "earbuds" or the full headphones. Earbuds are the kind Apple sells, while "in-ear" headphones are the ones I find comfortable for hours at a time. The cheap kind I like now are Skullcandy's Ink'd 2 which have a silicone ear-tip. I think I just lucked out in getting an ear-tip that's finally the right size. If you haven't tried in-ear headphones yet, I definitely recommend trying some out - maybe you'll find a pair that works for you.
You start documenting evidence and bring it to court or (threaten to)expose them in public. I don't see what this "code of ethics" can do to shield you from whatever.
Counting number of options I might have when trying to do a video/voice call with someone:

1. Facetime

2. Skype

3. Hangouts

4. GoToMeeting

5. Slack

6. Facebook

7. WhatsApp

The fragmentation / lack of standards we had with IM is now a reality in video/voice calling as well.
And now the VP* series of codecs are soon to be gone and replaced by VC1.
Forced periodic password change has got to be near the top of the list in terms of the dumbest things the IT world has blindly gone along with in the past decade. Glad NIST finally agrees with me on this.
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Can we have no politics week back? This fake news is getting boring.
The issue is that very few people would be willing to be treated by an unlicensed doctor.

The same is not true for software and will NEVER be true for software.

Nobody is ever going to care if the guy fiddling around with CSS and HTML to make a marketing landing page is licensed or not. Hell, I know small startups that will pay a bright high school student to do stuff like that.

Vast swafts of software engineering can be reduced to basic crud web dev that a bootcamper college dropout is capable of doing.

There is no "high school intern" level equivalent of medical work that the world has a massive shortage of.
And Black-Scholes just codified what seasoned options traders had understood for centuries. The reason it was important and rewarded is exactly that codification, which enables rapid understanding to a wider audience.

Discovering something new is exciting and important. Explaining that discovery in a way usable by the rest of humanity is ground-breaking.
I'm going to disagree with this "forget they are there" bit. I interact with my grandparents every day. One of them needs a hearing aid, which they will never wear.

These are light weight, designed for comfort.

I am sceptical
Honestly, I would love to have my own self-driving car that integrates with home robotics.

Imagine you leave your laptop at home... Just get your car to drive home, receive it robotically, and bring it to your location before your next meeting!

It would work just like Uber (even better), only you would own it. Every delivery company would be out of a ride the moment your car can go make restaurant pickups.
My wish was granted!
I as well, he's probably my top role model, up with Chris Sawyer, John Carmack, Rich Hickey and more.
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I think you're missing arh68's point. If it's supposed to find the magic number, and by definition the comment is allowed to contain the magic number, then this section of the code should (correctly) diagnose that this is not the magic number, but (incorrect in the current implementation) then continue to search backward for the REAL magic number.
Is there any obvious reason why the services currently available are so limited as compared to eu-west-1? Would we expect it just to grow with time?
> Trying to dredge up the articles; I believe that the CEO of a high-tech company was heavily investigated by the IRS after he threatened to make an NSL public.

Joseph Nacchio[1], CEO of Quest?

His case[2] is a clear warning shot that if you don't play ball with the spooks, the government has no problem throwing the hammer at you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio#Career

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a...
What's fake about it?
I never understood thecidea of having to change my password periodically. The password was good last month, why isn't it good now?
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https://www.random.org/passwords/?num=4&len=8&format=html&rn... FTW
How do you get to $2 billion? All of Oculus was purchased for $2 billion. Facebook's stock has roughly doubled since the acquisition. Iribe didn't own 50% of the company. Neither Bloomberg nor Forbes list him as a billionaire. Given their access & skill at measuring such well-known wealth, it's overwhelmingly likely they'd have those numbers pegged.
> You really think that Apple removed the headphone jack to make a bit more cash? Seriously? Hand-on-heart honestly, you think that's why? Come on.

Yes.

And honestly, if you think a big company like Apple does anything without the motivation of making money, then frankly you're being starry-eyed and naive.

Maybe if they were a little start-up or something, sure, I could buy that argument. But yes, I entirely, whole-heartedly believe that Apple is doing this for money. If not, why not release the air pods first, then release a few generations of iPhones with audio jacks? It's not like having that little hole in the bottom of a phone would stop Apple from generating more "magical" technology.

I don't doubt Apple thinks that air pods are cool, but come on, seriously.
>But you are openly advocating about that, people will frown upon you, and will keep you distance.

Having lived in an oppressively religious area (in the American South) this is one of the things I like best about China. It's a relief, compared to how it is in super religious areas.
This being HN, I'm hoping someone more competent than me in the area of CPU architectures can comment, but as a scientific programmer some of the details lead me to adopt a very cautious attitude for now, especially given the 95W TDP. Given the architecture, producing a performance-competitive 8C/16T chip at 68% of Intel's TDP (95W vs 140W) seems very dubious.

Most of the things they're touting in the slides amount to little more than finally catching up to Intel (SMT, branch prediction (minus the neural network thing), cache bandwidth, etc.). Also, some of the areas where they seem to exceed current Intel architectures may turn out to be a mixed blessing. For instance, I'm not sure if doubling L2 caches (512kb/core vs 256kb in Intel CPUs) is a great idea given bandwidth limitations and associativity effects. We also don't know the amount of vector registers these CPUs will have, which will greatly influence the performance of optimal CPU-bound code.

Can anyone with more experience comment on the low level details they've released, particularly the issues per cycle and cache architecture figures?
thank you (hugs)
Meeting the hype expectations of people who practically worship technological change is a pretty high and imo unreasonable bar for viable product.

Personally I'm of the opinion that because we've been making tools for 2.5 million years and don't seem any happier than the average animal, the very concept of a new tool making all that much of a difference is absurd.
And Tesla's "Self-Driving" autopilot already has one attributed death. Google has a few fender-benders...
I wonder- if these things do enough processing, would they get hot?
As someone who tries to do this on a daily basis, my two bits:

1. Set aside at least 1 hour daily on regular marketing/outreach activities.
2. Regular marketing/outreach activities = Basically, anything that brings your project some visibility - SEO, outreach on Twitter and blogs, social media postings...
Relevant: the top publications on HN https://medium.com/swlh/best-of-2015-pfffffffft-79d9b014f4de
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That's what your Sent Mail folder is for. Or some trivial record keeping.

Not being able to resolve that for yourself seems like a demonstration of sketchy problem-solving skills. This is a bad approach when trying to get hired.
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They should settle on requiring a memorable, yet high entropy password that is impossible to conpromise. For example the string "IpromiseIamauthorizedtoaccessthissystem". This string is very high-entropy (does not appear anywhere in Google, is 9 words, a mixture of upper and lowercase. For someone trying every character combination, it would take over a thousand years to crack. It includes a second factor (the promise) by definition. In short it should be the REQUIRED secure password for all applications.
Looks like they have just officially announced it on their blog.[0]

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-london-region/
You are not forced to use 8 only on most places. And most of the time 8 is good enough.

And by forcing more characters you may end up messing things up because people can start using patterns that defies the very core idea why there should be a 'minimum length'.

And rate limiting (see 5.2.2) should take care of most concerns about it.

Though, I think this is bad
> Unless otherwise specified in the description of a given authenticator, the verifier SHALL effectively limit online attackers to 100 consecutive failed attempts on a single account in any 30 day period.

Well, imho there MUST be no limit. This is prone to a DoS attack. Rate limiting and other things MUST be able to solve this one way or another.
It isn't about password hacking. It's a control to limit the scope of people sharing or otherwise compromising passwords within the office.

It happens, all of the time.
Sure they could. It's not like the federal government can just ignore local regulations in the areas where it operates.

Attorneys working for the government are all members of the bar in their respective jurisdictions.
This used to be my favorite Christmas movie. One year, I fell asleep during one of those 24 hour marathons they have every year on TBS (not sure if they still do this). I forgot to turn the TV off and kept waking up during different parts of the movie.

I haven't been able to watch it since.
jeff dean + healthcare + AI....makes sense
I can't remember who recommended "The Strategy of Conflict" to me, but it's an incredible read -- for people with or without a background in game theory or international relations. It shows how important commitment is, how powerful it can be to have your hands tied. Very highly recommended.

I hope fans of Schelling will meet up to celebrate his passing together (at a time and place not agreed upon beforehand.)
Indeed, it reminds of this article, which thankfully didn't end up killing anyone:

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
I wonder how many security exploits this principle is responsible for?
The code of ethics doesn't even have to be enforced by employers. All it takes is for a sufficient number of senior developers to adopt it, and then companies that want reliable access to senior talent will be required to reckon with their code of ethics.
But he's also shown a lot of what he says isn't intended literally.

I am so sick of this bullshit meme. The price of all the privilege and power of being President is that you take responsibility for what you say and how people could interpret it, because your actions have potentially life-changing consequences for people and so people have a strong interest in knowing (through your speech) what sort of actions you intend to take. If Trump can't or won't control his own speech, why should we assume that his actions are rooted in competence? You're basically saying that the concept of honesty is irrelevant when it comes to politics, which is an invitation to the worst sorts of corruption.

It also overlooks two things: one, that it's incredibly disrespectful of people who are victimized by his casual remarks to say that the anxiety and fear stimulated from his position of power don't matter and thus (implicitly) that it's OK to provoke anger and fear in other people - in a word, bullying. Two, that many of Trump's supporters do take him literally - about building a wall, or how to treat Muslims, or about it being OK to grab women by the pussy, and Trump is empowering them while simultaneously disclaiming responsibility for their actions.

I can't believe I even need to explain what a steaming pile of bullshit that position is.

No, as Hannah Arendt and many others have shown, large-scale human rights abuses often do not involve lots of people consciously doing evil. Instead, they usually think there are good reasons for what they do.

You mean like in the opening sentences of your comment?
Do we know the battery drain relates to playing audio and not maintaining a bluetooth connection? The battery drain would certainly not be zero.
Look at the kid rockin' the America Online T-shirt in the splash image. ;)
I would have thought it was actively detrimental to ask people to come up with a new one every month. I can just imagine villainous hacker sitting there thinking "Blast, none of the employee's passwords were in my database of common passwords. Never mind, next month they'll have to have a whole new set and maybe one of those will be."
I was wondering why so many announcements of non US data centers all of a sudden, in some cases very limited. My guess is that Trump winning has accelerated demand for companies to move their data off US property, and cloud providers are scrambling to meet that demand.
Following the new AWS Canada region a week earlier.

An application i maintain at $DAYJOB has a drop-down selection for AWS region and i have periodically updated the list of possible values. Is it idiomatic for end-user software to manually enter the endpoint?
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> The issue is that very few people would be willing to be treated by an unlicensed doctor.

That's true today, mainly due to centuries of work to professionalize medicine.

There was a time in history where much of treatment was basically the equivalent of high school crud work.

More importantly, I don't think we need to worry about the random fiddlers. They're not the ones building massive databases. It's the people working at places like Google and Facebook.
Journalism, law and social science are the last things I want my profession resemble.
Then consider this a rate limit with average of 3.3 attempts per day over a 30 day period.
This is wildly disingenuous. But then with your username, that's about what I'd expect.
It's fundamentally the same principle as forward secrecy: that the compromise of one password doesn't permanently destroy the security of the systems to which that password applies.
My guess is that Trump winning has accelerated the moving of a lot of data off US property.
The "Never Again" pledge also means you can't work at Google or Facebook, who already have those databases. They know our religion, ethnicity, etc. And as Snowden showed us the US government can and does get that information from them.
I think you mean AV1 from the Alliance for Open Media, instead of VC1, standardized by the SMPTE and designed by Microsoft.
> The issue is that very few people would be willing to be treated by an unlicensed doctor.

The size of the "alternative medicine" industry begs to differ.
Agree, for me this is not a bad thing either, just a fact.

Religion is not a taboo in China, as is not welcome.
How is "but Sergey Brin is Jew. So it's all bullshit" not an instaban?

That's blatant and unabashed antisemitism. There shoud;n't be any place for it on HN.
The justification I heard was in case your password was leaked/hacked (and nobody knew), it wouldn't be good forever.

I'm not supporting that position, just what I heard many years ago when talking with a security person.
Thomas, I'm not that inclined to be civil towards people who are actively trying to harm me or my family. Quite a lot of the alt-right people, some of whom are open participants in HN, subscribe to an aggressive white nationalism with a declared agenda of ethnic cleansing and genocide. If you're in any doubt about this shoot me an email and I'll feed you evidence until you're sick of it.
That code points are counted as a single character is absolutely mandatory, but there's no requirement to allow passwords over 6 characters? Interesting choices.
There are some awesome deals on ebay right now, but I'm getting to the time when it's better to separate cpu performance and things with a lot of RAM, and have a fairly small, low powered quiet workstation...

If somebody wants a machine with a lot of xeon cores and a ton of ram (but noisy), you can buy a dell poweredge r910 server with 4 sockets x 8-core xeons and 128GB of RAM for like $1100. Makes an excellent xen or kvm hypervisor dom0/host development machine. It's just noisy, so in a home environment, put it in your garage or something on the far end of a cat5e cable.
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The rationale was that if, password hashes got compromised, the attacker would only have until the next forced rotation to crack the passwords and take over accounts.

edit: or, in particularly terrible systems, if plaintext passwords were leaked.

Of course, that's only useful if it doesn't affect any other password security concerns, and it turns out that users who are forced to change their passwords frequently pick worse passwords, which is a bigger problem than the scenario this was supposed to protect against.
I should add: it's absolutely not the case that we extend due process only to US citizens.
Rate limiting is better than lockout.

Other federal agencies (IRS in particular) require lockouts with only 3 bad password attempts. That generates really high reset/unlock call volume -- easily 20-30% of users require intervention or reset compared to 7-12%.
>does not appear anywhere in Google

It does now! This is why it's so important to use a method like diceware to select a strongly random set of words for your passphrase.
I had thinking the same thing when I saw 600+ comments. I thought they announced L5 along with the spun out.
Well, if you have home robotics, what stops you from hiring a self driving service to fetch the laptop for you.
I'll describe democracy, and you tell me how comical it sounds:

"A group of people, within a geographic region marked by invisible lines drawn by human aggression, all gather once every 2nd rotation of the Earth around the Sun to put papers in a magic box. The people believe once an arbitrarily large number of papers are put into the box, it grants the owners of those papers the right to force their will and ideas on others within the invisible lines. The box does amazing things, for instance: the very minute before all the papers are counted, it could be immoral theft to take something from others without their explicit, individual permission, but just after counting the papers, magically, if by some form of mobtastic incantation, it becomes 'legal' and totally accessible to take that thing from others via harm and violence."

Holy shit folks, if you don't find that to be magical comedy gold, I don't know what is. It's like a bad M. Night Shyamalan script, except humans actually do it.
A tiny, tiny amount of people freak out about Google and Facebook's massive data collection. Not enough to be noticeable in the market shares of those companies' products.
Also line, wechat and webex, iMessage.

IMO, competitions, choices with communication SW are very good for all users. I like all the apps, options, free, ads, paid, webbase, mobile, etc. No need for unified standard.
Where did you live?

If I felt like talking to someone about religion I'd have to go out of my way to do it. The urban areas in the South are no more or less religious than the North unless you are in a few cities (portland).

The PRC on the other hand has actively persecuted religions/cults (the Falun Gong are a prime example).
The value of their review system has taken a hit from the sleazy seller practice of giving free and heavily-discounted products for (surprise!) uniformly favorable reviews. I've seen products with over 100 reviews of which more than half admitted to getting the product "free or discounted".
This comment doesn't make any sense. Have you tried VR?
I am less familiar with the librarian code of ethics, but yes, from what I've heard they are quite unique and different from the others.
Your comment wasn't asking for alternatives?