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> balk at anything about $15.

Check out the Sennheiser HD 202! they're around 30 bucks last time I checked and great fidelity and durability for the price.

edit: ok ok sorry you're right, $15 > $30 "heck, it's even twice as much!" i guess my point is that there are things that won't break the bank that sound way better than you'd expect, that's all. :)

edit2: Oh, and i _ALSO_ frequently break or lose mine, that's why I don't like spending more than the 30 bucks. ;)
Or, maybe only depressed teenagers use Facebook.
There is job security in keeping it arcane. Lawyers know that, too. But, since some professional mathematicians teach and others need to communicate with business people, you'd figure there might be some interest.
Yeah I definitely won't discount that, it just seemed interesting that they said basically the same thing a minute apart.
I haven't reviewed the implementation, but this is a really good idea. I want one.
If buying from iTunes, you can choose ALAC, which is royalty free.

Patent-encumbered audio codecs are popular at this point because of network effects, not technical superiority. There are many ways to reduce the network effect, even without changing music buying habits. For example If you're a website designer, include a royalty-free audio format as one of your <audio> srcs. As a bonus, you'll save some bandwidth.
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To any of they naysayers, I'd say survey the competition for AirPods. They are far beyond anything else available in terms of ergonomics and battery life for wireless earbuds. Audio quality is less of an issue in the first place if you're talking about Bluetooth anyways. Audiophiles should stick with wired.
And suddenly Apple's usual marketing strategy makes a whole lot more sense.

Price it high enough that nobody who has to care about money would buy it, and make it crappy enough that nobody who cares about quality would buy it.

And, apparently, it seems the people who aren't filtered by that will say anything is the second coming of christ as long as it comes in a shiny enough box.
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Pretty much every large company running Intel hardware on professional desktops will have AMT on. It's pretty much SOP unless you really like site visits.

That's a lot of computers worldwide.
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From what we can see so far, potentially more the latter than the former.
Not all software patents are alike. Some of them actually demonstrate an original, complicated, novel, non-obvious technique, in sufficient fidelity that an engineer, looking at the patent filing can reproduce the secret design, with far less effort then it would take them to do so without the patent. That is an example of the patent providing benefit to society - that merits society providing it with legal protection.

Most don't, though.
I haven't liked active noise cancellation in the past. For office work I tried an old Bose quiet comfort (10 years ago) and decided I much preferred Sennheiser HD 280s for isolation.

Also I've heard bad things about the microphone.
Multiple private keys are more important than you might think, because Github won't let you use the same key in more than one account, so everyone who has more than one Github account and wants hardware tokens has to have multiple hardware tokens.
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Sex would have a major impact. At least in the US our justice system is extremely sexist, far more than it is racist. I once saw sex offender guidelines that automatically put the default sex offender sentence as medium for males and low for females (the default was used before an official evaluation was completed, and I would bet some money that the official evaluations discriminated based on sex).

While I don't disagree our legal system is also racist, the racism pales in comparison to the current level of sexism.
Totally agree. There's a lot wrong with them[1], but the audio is good enough and overall I find myself using them way more often than the EarPods so there's some proof in the pudding.

[1] - BT just isn't great tech and there's odd interference/cutout, often around cars; open-case-near-phone-for-battery-level is clunky and inefficient; double-tap to play/pause (voice control for audio control is just non-sensical to me) often doesn't work if it's been more than a few minutes, and seems to prefer opening the Apple Music app which I never use
So, who is taking bets here: Accident or Malice?
Mine are about 100%, but it does seem to require a decent little thunk. You can't just touch it. I've heard people say they don't like it because it feels uncomfortable in your ear when you hit it hard enough. It doesn't bother me but I'm not going to say it feels good.

I don't think it's capacitive, I think it's based on the little chip's gyro sensor.
For almost all consumers who have never owned super fancy headphones the sound quality is great.
There's not a Now Playing complication, is there? I hope I'm just missing it somehow because it'd be my most used complication by a long shot.
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But we either elect them or elect the reps that appoint them, and we have (some) recourse to make them explain their reasoning, which they usually offer openly.
No, the opposite is true. See upthread.
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Respectfully, this is easy: get a better phone and turn autoupdate on.
Ask HN: Would anyone be interested in a mind map visual search engine?
I have been curating mind maps for a long time that show step by step resources that one can use to learn any topic on Earth.

I also mind map books, courses and more. Here is the GitHub project of all the mind maps : https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge-map

There is already a working Alfred workflow that allows to find the mind map you need in an instant. Here is a screencast of how it looks in action : http://quick.as/b1gwsneao

I am making a search engine for it now and hope I can release a working version of it very soon. I would love to hear though how I can improve these mind maps and what you guys think of this idea as a whole. Would you use this?
Why would you be worried that your employees will leave after you've helped them grow and develop? If you're hiring employees for potential and fit rather than just going after people with big names on the resume (Stanford, Google, Apple, etc) you're not going to have to pay exorbitantly to get them in the first place. Or at the very least, you'll be able to hire faster and spend less money chasing a very small group of devs.

Put another way, you'll spend less money overall if you can identify, hire, and retain undervalued talent. If you build an exceptional workplace (and pay well) most will want to stay. And if you've done that, it'll be far easier to attract talent in the future.
And suddenly Apple's usual marketing strategy makes a whole lot more sense.

Price it high enough that nobody who has to care about money would buy it, and make it crappy enough that nobody who cares about quality would buy it.

Turns out that the Beats acquisition was the right move!
Doesn't any language that support Unicode allow that? Java for example. But, it's rather impractical to use, since greek letters are not that easy to type with English keyboard.
There's a pretty good argument they bought Beats for the music service (and it's people and relationships), which they turned into/merged with Apple music. They seem to have left the headphone business alone (other than giving one kind of Beats have the same chipset that the AirPods have).
I think I see where the confusion is coming from. A coroutine can be nexted repeatedly. A partial function can only be called once. The coroutine in the example is just a toy, so it's effectively the same as calling a partial many times in a loop. A more interesting coroutine might encapsulate state that changes across next'ing. Yes, other kinds of functions can change state across calls, too... It turns out many techniques can accomplish the same thing.
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Until the next time, when you need to either remember what you did once a couple months back or relearn it again.

The metaphors could be a little bit clearer.
All I can say is that I haven't lost mine.
So the Tunequest[0] article referenced got it wrong on the last two? I have a hard time figuring out what applies and does not apply to patents filed between 1995 and 1999

[0]: http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/
Thank you for the suggestion, I just ordered a pair and will be ecstatic if this fixes the issue.
Agreed, it's still very bad. I don't want to imagine how many company PCs are affected by this, and which percentage of those is going to get the firmware update.
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It's easy to think of ways to jump NAT -- port forwarding, UPnP, reverse tunnels, so on. To me the real question is whether or not this exploit can jump NAT without needing any of other hacks or techniques or (possibly unwitting) user intervention.
https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...

5. Somebody else discovered it and told SA. No idea why them rather than telling anybody else.
There's a wide range here. Complaining on a message board where most people agree with you is basically zero effort. Devoting your life's work to it is a ton of effort. There is a middle ground here.

My general thought is: you should, on a regular basis, feel at least a little bit of pain due to your opinions. If you don't then your opinion is probably worthless to society.
> Ironically I hear much more variation in Germany where there is an "offical" German that everybody learns at school but almost nobody speaks at home.

Nope.
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I noticed my inter-tragic notch [1] is much lower and wider than it appears on my friends' ears. This is where Apple headphones "notch" in. Looking forward to seeing my parents next month so I may examine their auricles.

[1] http://featherforge.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Ear-diagr...
I once saw a statistics prof give a lecture with so many different meanings for sigma, s and S, that he had to resort to colored markers. And we were all still lost!
There's been a plenty of Macs with vPRO CPUs. Unless Apple is getting custom CPUs or CPU firmware then it would seem that Macs do have AMT. No?

Enabling it is tremendously difficult though AFAIK.
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Rihanna? Well that's your first problem.
I agree with everything you've said so I won't add to it.

There is an interesting anecdote that I love. Some number of years ago there used to be a show called EcoChallenge. It was made by Marc Burnett but before Survivor. It was simply an adventure race but no politics and no contrived voting. Each team of 4 must be co-ed. There is a starting point, there is a stopping point and there are way stations along the way. Simply go from start to end hitting the way stations. Everything else was left up to the teams. The one big twist is that you can't win unless ALL of the team hits each way point. Teams are allowed to race 24x7.

One of the last years it was on tv, a team of navy seals bombed out and a team of 3 playboy playmates went further then they did. The team that won (from NZ) had a sick teammate and spent two days nursing their teammate into passable health. They loaded up all that person's gear split 1.3x, 1.3x, 1.3x, 0x and set off. They rocketed past all of the other teams and won by over a day.

This is what real success looks like. A determined team laser focused on the exact same goal and doing whatever it takes to get there.
That's a good point, I hadn't researched into this and it seems like there are solutions out there for ear shapes that don't conform well to Apple headphones.

https://appadvice.com/post/airpods-dont-fit/732275
I have read your comments, visited your linked website. I think you may have some points.. To be clear I am testing OPNSense now for the first time. I thought their license is Apache. I will consider your points during my testing. I will also continue reading your posts on reddit and compare it to testing and repository data. Thank you for your comment, though somewhat harsh.
Yea, I agree, I thought it was cool/clever to start out with but I have to reference the jargon when I revisit modifying formula or making bottles, usually there is a long enough hiatus from messing around with homebrew that I forget.
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You probably want to compress it as well - that can easily reduce the file size by an order of magnitude.
The results of this could be inherently dangerous not only for the education of people but governments role in people's daily lives.

On the other hand I'm curious as to how often the EPA is regarded as a credible source.
You are completely right up to the point that people are able to update their phones.
> It's laziness, pure and simple.

No: it's assembly language, for the hand and pen.
exactly this. its nothing more than brand/reputation management. 200k is a pretty small sum for the security of that.
Exactly what I thought. I also made an edit to refer to the process pipelining use cases which makes it more clear. Thanks!
I'd imagine Google would be more of a pkgsrc kind of place.
Car manufacturers won't do that kind of stuff purely for the reason that if they want the talent/company they would just buy it at market price. They also don't have the time and risk appetite for such maneuvers. Most likely the car manufacturer just got intertwined in their own decision making, then accidentally running over the little startup.
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This is why I never enter any google account credentials into an Android phone.
Do any of the major CI providers make this trivial to use yet? Travis CI, CircleCI, Buildkite, etc.?

Anybody have any positive or negative experiences to report with actually using headless Chrome?
For what it's worth, there's a network block device over 9p: https://github.com/chaos/9nbd
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"There are several features that AMT provides that are present in consumer systems even though the ‘technology’ isn’t there. This is one of the arguments that SemiAccurate has had with Intel security personnel over the years, we have begged them to offer a SKU without the AMT hardware for just this very reason. Intel didn’t, the pressure to lock corporate customers in to their silicon was too high."

Intel is playing this down heavily. This seems to be locally exploitable on consumer chips. Correct me if that is wrong, please.

EDIT: I'm not one to give a shit about downvotes, but it would be nice if someone could actually respond to me with a legitimate retort instead of trying to bury this post. I am asking to be proved wrong for my own sanity. Let's be mature about this.
Specifically, it's named the Music complication, but it remembers state and will restore the Now Playing UI if it was present.
Intel says Enterprise grade hardware is affected, not consumer grade.
"I balk at anything above $15"

"You should buy this $30 pair!"

:)

I actually own a pair of Sennheiser HD 280's for when I'm at a desk, but they're not really appropriate for a commute; for that, I just have a cheap pair of JVC earbuds with a microphone/button.

I specifically buy them cheap because my hearing's not awesome anyway, and I don't really need excellent sound quality for listening to a podcast on the train, and I tend to wash a pair with the laundry or dip them into my coffee a few times a year, anyway.

edit: yep, you're right - but there are places where I need quality, and places where I need quantity :P
So you start a number of workers and distribute the load among them. At least that's one way to solve the problem in Perl/Python/Ruby. You can contribute to the same solution by passing data to a master process, or using shared memory.

In Erlang and Scala you can solve it even more ellegantly using actors and chanels. Go has goroutines and channels. All of these can span multiple cores.
I had some worries about losing them, as well. These have proven to be unfounded over the last few months... though I haven't done anything intense while wearing them. In the course of my day to day life walking around, maybe occasional light running through the rain, they've never fallen out.

I did try some experimental jumping around and shaking my head wildly after I got them, and they didn't slip out from that.

I suspect a lot of this comes down to your ear shape. The fit of the wired EarPods are a decent proxy for how the AirPods will fit. The AirPods are less likely than the EarPods to fall out, because the wires aren't there tugging on them as you move your head, which turns out to be a useful difference.
Investing is hard - or everyone would be doing (and succeeding) it. The only "wrong" people I hear about in this story are his investors that haven't cut their losses yet. His job is to operate his fund, which he's doing - the losing investors job is to protect their capital, which they don't seem to be doing.

tldr; risk management and all those boring terms people don't want to think about still apply.
Will, it's 1/16th the kinetic energy required for the stage to get to orbit, but not 1/16th of the total kinetic energy needed. Most of the s2 mass is fuel, of which very little is taken to orbital velocity.
Just saying, it's a catch 22 because making a request will most likely prompt the FBI to now create a record of you if you didn't have one before.
Please see my comment to your sister post.
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Seth Godin actually talks about this in his book the dip where he mentions that the best means the best in their world (he goes on to explain the concept of their world). Highly recommend the read.
My first Modula-2 program back in the late 80s compiled (on a Sparcstation) to 94kB. I thought that was outrageous.
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I'm mostly interested in if servers with ipmi (supermicro in particular) are vulnerable, and to what degree. If it's the network with the ipmi ports, that's one thing, but if it's public facing...

Much stuff is going to be hitting fans.
I find mind maps vastly inferior to more linear representations such as outlines. Imagine if your file explorer were a mind map. Have you tried driving in a neighborhood with more curves and less grid. Grids beat mess.
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As I said in my post, the essential Japanese condition for surrender was that the Emperor remain in place.

After rejecting that, thus prolonging the war and using the atom bombs, the US ended up keeping the Emperor in place (ie accepting the previous Japanese condition) anyway.
Then i'd posit that you need to get out more often :) you don't know what you're missing out on.
One of my favourite photographs is this one:

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I was told it's from Gloucestershire in the 1930s, but I have no way of knowing if that's true.

I can't get my head round their shoes.
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The wealth gap can be larger while still more people being able to afford fancy ACs and taxi rides.
I can't fit them in my ears either, I tried once and it hurt :(

The sad thing is, we have the technology to make Real Wireless Earbuds that DONT suck! It's a totally doable engineering project! That don't have horribly lossy encodings and the like. That feature neat things like symmetric pairing, graceful degrading of signal quality with bitrate, and that actually would fit in our ears! But no, fashion too often wins over substance...