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On Mac it's magic and seamless, just like with the iPhone. They have a special integration with the volume menubar item, to make them particularly easy to switch to.

On Android or Windows... they're bluetooth headphones. Experience is like any other.
Upgrading Java 5 minutes, 0 $

Upgrading your CPU 2hs, 300$

Having no secure CPU to upgrade to: priceless
Vojo rabbits. Or something similar. They really help keep the newer Apple headphones in.
My experience is that it's possible for people to understand each other. But the farther you go and the more difficult it gets. It's mostly the accent and the word endings that change.

My family is from Aveyron/Tarn (near Albi). We can understand texts from Frederic Mistral, written in Provençal (near Marseille) even though it sounds weird. My uncle says he had some success speaking Occitan in the Italian Piedmomd. However neither my parents nor my uncle understand any of the Catalan spoken in Barcelona. (I do, but I'm fluent in Spanish and not in Occitan...)

I think my parents (born in the 1950s) are the last generation fluent in Occitan. In France, even though it's now being taught as a second language, it's essentially gone. My mom told me she used to be punished for using Occitan at school whether in the classroom or during recess. I remember when I was a child, the farmers used to speak it among themselves (or more likely to their elders). The same people today only really speak French, even among themselves.
Works on Android, but you don't get all functions.

Samsung has a similar product for Android, check it out.
Kiosk delivers pirated movies to USB sticks in the middle of a mall
> Mathematical proofs can't be patented,

Only because we've decided so. In the United States, for example, you can copyright the law.
Apple didn't buy a headphone maker for expertise at making headphones that sound good. Apple Stores sell headphones from any number of brands—including B&O—so there's nothing to gain by making their own headphones more audiophile-friendly. They still make money off of other companies' audiophile-targeted headphones, without having to actually design and produce any.

Instead, Apple bought the headphone maker whose products make money through a combination of visually-distinct brand-recognition and a high level of "fit and finish"—the same way their own hardware does. Beats slots into Apple's product-design paradigm as naturally as if they had created the brand themselves.
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There is a major difference: 1) it is static and 2) it provides totally stable and reproducible performance behavior.
Agree. I really just want the same functionality that was there with the click button from the old headphones: volume up/down, play/pause/prev/next.
I don't think so. Beats has about 70%+ share of the headphone market, cost over $200, and are hated by people that care about 'sound quality'.
Agreed. They're basically always with me, no wires to annoy me, and sound a bit better than the standard EarPods. Sure you can get better sound out of other things, but the fact I always have them is a huge deal.

The best camera is the one you have on you right? Same thing.
Here we go again with another variation of "it's free so you are not allowed to criticize it".

Can we move on as a community and drop this?
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Looks like some advanced level trolling to me. The only way I can imagine 98% of a group being satisfied with such a product is some variant of Stockholm syndrome.

Some days it feels like the "Next "Great" Apple product will be ... a place where you can work for free, to benefit Apple. And then we'll hear the usual suspects extolling the benefits of that.

(warning, audio geek, also wireless protocol geek, and also their damned overpriced P.O.S. don't even fit in my ears >.>)
Well it surely can't identify me.
So now Facebook wants advertisers to try to sell kids pharmaceuticals or therapy? What good would that do?
Clever that it uses the client instead of the server! I've dabbled with phone-based authentication via a server-side PAM module before, but you generally don't have full control over the servers you SSH into.

Although the question remains: is this more secure than just storing your key on your computer? If you're assuming your machine to be compromised, then as soon as you login to another server you've basically given your attacker potential access there as well.
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vPro is Intel's marketing term for a bundle of stuff including AMT, so "business" PCs have a vPro sticker and "consumer" PCs don't. It may be hard to tell if you already peeled the sticker off, though.
Why not get the Bose QC35s then? Much longer battery life, tune the world out.
I'm one of the very happy ones, and I listen mostly to podcasts in fairly noisy environments.

Audio quality simply doesn't matter that much to me. Really small/no cords/relatively minimal bluetooth nonsense is amazing.
I don't know if you've done it correctly.

You can use the built-in signature digest support and still add support for whatever you want in the future.
I suspect the parent post is aware of that but worded the post in a confusing way for a medium in which you can't use tone to convey added meaning.

By "Linux doesn't use GPLv3?", I think the poster meant essentially "But...? Linux doesn't use GPLv3".

In any case, the idea is a valid point. The GPLv2 and the GPLv3 are substantially different and it isn't that surprising that some people who were okay with GPLv2 terms are not okay with GPLv3 terms.
Nope, I'm actually satisfied. Bought a couple for friends because I liked them so much. They're both satisfied despite having paid $0.
I'm not convinced that the climate model is accurate - ​ climate modeling is a billion times more complex than a 3 body problem which we can't solve. Nor am I convinced that the increase in co2 is human driven. Or that we know how the atmosphere will react with such increase
I see a lot of RoR shops (and a few Laravel ones which is similar to RoR in many ways) moving to Elixir/Phoenix.

I've considered it myself, there are some use cases where Elixir on BEAM is a nice fit I've run into.
Shoulders down. Palm (not wrist) rests. Fingers curved down. Ergo keyboard with wells. Lap stand. Feet up! https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B09JtdOXm0JUpj
How to find the right skill sets for new technologies
We don't have access to the sentencing algorithms in the minds of judges, either.
I found this Richard Stallman talk to be fantastic (found it here on HN) http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-speech-arsdigita2001.og...

In it he describes that he searched for better terms than "free" as in free speech not free beer and there were 60ish of them, but they all had problems of their own.

the Free software movement did more to help open source OS's happen because it was it's goal, than open source has done to create free OS's (because their focus was only the specific problem they were solving, and not the holistic many parts of an open source OS.)

Open source is less likely to pass the same licenses and freedom it was built on down to the next iteration, for it's not legally required to do so (which is why whether you got freedom with your X software or not was a function of where you got it from. X software was free, but became unfree if you got it compiled from certain vendors.

Open source documentation is also important, as software wit documentation is better/easier to improve software.

When you use non free software, you advertise that you're ok with not helping anyone else that might want you to, because you can't give them a copy of what you have.

When about half of linux is Gnu and Gnu preceded linux, it's pretty unfair to the Gnu community that they get about 0 credit from many publications, events, the general public.

Thus you can give free software to the world, and they'll never even understand what free as in speech and not beer is.

Free software is a political movement, open source software is more politics agnostic. I think credit should be given where it is due, for only accurate assignment of credit can reward the good and punish the bad.

P.S. Stallman is happy to see you make money on Free software. Free as in speech, not beer. Also the best numbers I could find on what percentage of linux is actually Gnu code is about 8% and linux code was about 9% with the amnt of Gnu going down quickly if you were working on an embedded system. I believe those numbers were from debian and 2014, but I'd be happy to hear a better analysis.
No joke. The fact neither the the old Apple headphones nor the airpods will stay in my ears while running makes both sets no more than a hardly usable alternative to actual earbuds, at least to me.
I can't get the damn things to stay in my ears if I'm doing any physical activity beyond brisk walking. Working out in them is out of the question, so I'm still using my regular bluetooth headphones, and I looked quite comical running to catch the train with both hands over my ears so they wouldn't fall out. I'm surprised only 1 out of every 50 people who bought Airpods are experiencing similar dissatisfaction.
Did someone try to render an SVG using it? I'm using QtWebKit for now, but it's just a huge pain.
Thisx1000. B&O, B&W, Sonus Faber, PSB... I'd run out and buy any of them with a W1 Bluetooth chip in a heartbeat.
I don't have a watch myself... I've been pulling out my iPhone and doing all of the controls there.

Not sure if my AirPods are defective, but I'm getting a successful detection from a tap on the AirPod sensor maybe 1/3 of the time.
> It seems like having a whole framework/ecosystem for loop lifecycle management, async libs, state/comm, etc will unfortunately be needed.

... twisted has been around for ages for exactly this reason
as a 'framework' unfortunately this means it's not 100%
ported to python3 yet, but I suspect (not a dev, etc) that as
twisted becomes more mature and 2.x dies off, there might be more
overlap between these two things.. and perhaps other similar projects
Congratulations homebrew contributors! First thing I install on any Mac. <3
Yes, it was Rockbox. I followed it when they were first bringing it up on the 4th Gen iPod.
Most of the things that people use their headphones to listen to these days are streamed, which means they're using the lowest bit-rate they can get away with, to save on data. Paying more for better audio would be pure waste for most people.
Yes, but in addition to bringing in more of the general public it also means you can get up to speed in a new area of the field more quickly.
Several years ago I tested the remote debug protocol and was insanely slow. Is it now faster, like evaluating scripts at the console?
From your job details link:

>"How To Apply
We did not make it obvious on purpose. As the first step in the interview process, please use your HEAD to figure it out. :)"

Can I ask why you think trying to be clever and adding friction to the application process is a good technique for getting talent? I read that and closed the browser tab.
Another way to look at it is: What causes projects to succeed or fail?

I've seen my share of failed projects throughout my career (as a participant and as a co-worker watching it happen). By a huge margin, most of the failed project did not fail because the engineering team was weak, or because they didn't hire "rockstar" programmers, or because the engineers didn't go to Stanford. They failed because of things like requirements growth, unrealistic schedules, emotion-based/gut-based (rather than measurement-based) product decisions, and external factors (market changing and company couldn't react). If companies spent more time worrying about these things and less time worrying whether their engineering interview candidates can balance a binary tree on a whiteboard, we might see hiring practices change.
Update, Intel has now confirmed that there's an issue: https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...

They claim that it doesn't affect consumer CPUs, but that leaves a ton vulnerable. It's pants-shitting time.
It's free and you are allowed to criticize it.

But we're also allowed to criticize your criticism too.
Yes, but we've only figured out how to do that for old hardware.

Check out https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/gm45_remove_me.html
Mine have never fallen out, even when running or jumping or leaning over. Do apple's wired earbuds fall out of your ears? Seems like this varies by body.
It looks like this also affects systems where the feature is not enabled, but for "local" attackers. Does that mean exec as "www-data" or "nobody" accounts (what about VMs?). Making every little wordpress plugin vulnerability into a CPU-rooting hack?
You probably mean channels - yes they let you avoid dealing with synchronization of shared memory access explicitly, but they still use mutexes underneath, so you can use those directly if you want (instead of/along with channels).
When the budget is small, you don't build for situations that you cannot imagine. You get what you pay for. Now climate is changing, these situations are suddenly reality.
Could this be used to create a screenshot service that'll automatically take screenshots of sites? Or is that not permissible under Chrome's license?
I seem to remember those has pretty bad battery life.

I've used my AirPods with a Mac that didn't have the latest software (so they were just treated like any other Bluetooth headphones) and something else and they work just fine. You don't get the double tap control (I think) or the auto pause? (not sure) but they sound just as good. If you want really tiny headphones that are easy to charge they'd be a good candidate.

But the experience on updated Apple products is amazing.
Sure, PNG instantly took over as the lossless non-animated format, but Animated PNG is still not widely supported (Firefox only IIRC?)

Mostly the "auto-playing animations without audio" stuff is moving to videos, e.g. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/07/autoplay
My Point of View on Google Cloud
No, you get a patent for your secret anti-clog dishwasher, so that the courts grant you a monopoly on it. In exchange, you have to give something back - specifically, you have to reveal your secret design to society - so that it is useful to someone in the future. That's the contract that you agree to, when you patent something.

If you don't want to reveal your design, you could always keep it a trade secret.

If you're a genius working on software, you shouldn't have trouble filing a patent that would be useful to another engineer, once it expires. For some reason, though, people instead patent stupid shit like 'a software system that does _______.' They don't actually explain how to build a software system that does _____, they don't give anything back to society, and are instead leeching of the largess of our legal system.

If you want protection for your invention, tell us how it works. It's a pretty simple concept.
There is no good solution for Intel chips.

You could sidestep the whole issue by buying a C201 chromebook (quad-core ARM) and putting Linux on it.
Search Amazon for Vojo rabbits.
That very much depends on the details.

The bits that are available right now suggest that someone has figured out how to jump the gap between the 'public' and the 'secure' networks. If that's true a NAT would not help once packets are forwarded.

It would really help if Intel came clean and indicated exactly what the exposure is here.
Redux for state management in large web apps
Reading this I might actually buy these. I was pretty set against because of the fear of losing them. I've been annoyed on many occasions at not being able to use my lightning headphones with my Macbook Pro while traveling and I can see this being a superior option to any corded headphone solution. I use video chat a lot and using corded Apple headphones with a laptop is definitely awkward.
Haha, I just looked up the product sheet for Compas CORE, the software at issue:

http://www.equivant.com/assets/img/content/Risk-Needs-Assess...

It has a section titled "Make Defensible Decisions":

> Fully web-based and Windows compliant, COMPAS is applicable to offenders
at all levels from non-violent misdemeanors to repeat violent felons. COMPAS
offers separate norms for males, females, community and incarcerated
populations.

That has ... nothing to do with defensibility. Defensibility is being able to say, "Here's the evidence and the reasoning I used to arrive at this conclusion."

What I think is especially frustrating is that in all three risk scales the product offers -- risk of new violent crime, risk of general recidivism, and pretrial risk -- they're dealing in probabilities that don't work on an individual level. That's why they're called "norms." So, if you have 1,000 offenders who match a certain profile, you might be able to fairly accurately predict that 40% of that population are going to reoffend. But being able to predict which offenders constitute the 40% and which constitute the 60% is a totally different thing. There is simply no way to take these probabilities that apply to groups of people and apply them in any fair way to individuals.
Not really, I chose to stop studying math because what I found interesting was generally really useless, and I find a pointless life's work to be a terrible waste of time.

Worst outcome I recall was being yelled at by a professor for not getting a PHD. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Only hiring the best is inherently unsustainable, because it implies a need for "other companies" to train people into being the best, and only then are you willing to hire them.

The greatest companies are those who offer an atmosphere in which good developers can grow into the best developers. The worst companies are those who believe they can hire people from great companies, and consequently transform into great companies themselves. Great companies produce value; poor companies consume it.
I'd very much not bet on this being the only or the last bug. See it more as a confirmation that this system is not as secure as they thought it was and that will cause a lot of people to now be encouraged to look at it closer.
I'd love to know why they're still being sold at a 6 week delay. Tim Cook is really good at operations stuff, and this isn't like Apple. They certainly know the demand is there by now.

Seems like the only possibilities are some sort of part shortage (maybe it's really hard to get those tiny batteries) or a very high defect rate (there were rumors of that around launch).

I wonder how long this will last.
Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis.
And if there's not a small number of perturbations, then it's the proprietary combination of a large number of small, individual perturbations. But either way, since it's proprietary, it's not practically refutable.

Not to mention you'd never get access to do the differentiation, as it would rely on access to the proprietary process; the company would have to be compelled to cooperate.
[C++] ctai – compile time assembly interpreter
This same stuff is used to decide things like probation length, if someone gets a parole, and what level of severity a sex offender is set at. All of this stuff should be freely available online if it is used in any legal decision making process. As it stands even the police who use it don't know how it decides anything.
* Every application on the phone is sandboxed.

* The disk is encrypted by default, and the OS is aggressive about keeping it encrypted; a booted-up computer is almost always decrypted.

* The language runtimes on the phone are hardened.

* The phone's kernel, in addition to being more important attack surface than the Linux kernel (because of the jailbreak market, among other things), is auto-updated.

* The phone's users, at least on secure phones, are never superuser.

* Virtually all of the shell command attack surface is gone, since you can only install apps through the one app-install interface approved by the phone vendor.

I could go on, and I'm probably missing a big one. Phones are more secure than "computers". They kind of have to be: their OS design benefits from 2 decades of security architecture lessons learned.

I use a Y4 for some of my SSH keys, but it's a gigantic pain in the ass, and one that Egor Homakov is not entirely wrong about calling a marginal bit of security theater (whoever owned up your computer also owned up your ssh binary). It's true that the phone software token doesn't fix that, but it also doesn't cost anything.
It has two, actually. I'm looking at the 3700 and some of the NXP CPUs for a 2018 "microfirewall".

We have a 3 port ARM board (one port has a switch on it) being announced on Thursday.
Yeah. Volume doesn't bother me too much, but I'd love a next track thing. I kind of wish I could setup different things for the left and right AirPod. At least then I could have pause on one and Siri on the other (for most other tasks).
The simplest thing, IMO, is just to buy your music on CD and rip it to a free format yourself. Some indie artists release their work online in free formats, but for mainstream artists a physical copy is often the only way.
For those who know your CPU model(s), ARK gives you this information under "Advanced Technologies", label "Intel® vPro™ Technology".

In Windows, you can see your CPU model under "System", label "Processor". (Shortcut key "Windows-Pause".)

http://ark.intel.com/