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Sorry I should have done a bit more research before posting ... yes it appears that the official line on lightning is that it's digital only, but there are conflicting empirical accounts [0]

Since my 5s still has a headphones jack there is certainly still a DAC there.

It could well be down to the fact that my car stereo has a better DAC on the USB line than it does on the bluetooth line. Or simply an older bluetooth audio standard as you suggest. Actually this is probably the most likely suspect!

Which I think all serves to underline how digital output is not "open and shut" when it comes to sound quality.

Thanks for the additional technical context on why they might be eliminating analogue signal altogether. I'd felt a similar rationale informed their refusal to include a FM receiver from the beginning.

It does make sense from many different perspectives for apple to make this "not their problem". I kind of feel it's a pity from a customer/functional perspective though.

[0] https://www.innerfidelity.com/content/apples-lightning-headp...
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Question: if you read a file is there an algorithm that will make sure it is parsing the right encoding?
From the description it sounds a lot like the Passenger Nginx module. https://www.phusionpassenger.com
You're right about exit polls not being particularly effective here, unless you're being very obvious with the rigging.

Luckily, the published results can also be cross-checked by the volunteers - often, but not exclusively representatives of parties up for election - that actually count the paper ballots and observe the process. This process ensures that a very large number of people from diverse political groups would have to be in on it in order to rig the election.

Any attack via this software would be detected with very high likelihood. However, the bigger problem would be the impact on the public's trust in the voting process. It's very likely that such an election would have to be repeated (as has happened recently in Austria, due to procedural reasons).
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... well, wow. (Great summary.)

How widely is this system used in the the german national elections? Is it just one of the states? (Which one?)
Something tells me housing will suddenly become a little less affordable after Amazon comes to town.
Well, I've destroyed two iPhones by means of accidents that resulted in them falling into water.
I'm not sure why, but I've always thought it interesting that radiation scales as a fourth power. It's unusual to see forth power relationships in fundamental scientific processes.
AFAIK nginx unit would still require to have an nginx in front, so they are in different weight category with openresty.

It looks like it's more of a replacement to good old NGINX+Apache set up where there would be mod_php, mod_cgi, mod_perl and .htaccess on backend to serve the app.
Yeah, also it doesn't help that the boxes look like checkboxes!
Mind giving a source for that claim? The S7 is IP68 rated, the iPhone 7 is only IP67. Are you saying those ratings are false?
You haven't actually tried finding good carpenters, have you?
Well if Java on phone is really fine then Google's pathetic attempts at Android should not matter as billions will keep buying those great Oracle certified Java phones.
That is usually referred to as adaptive design.
No, polling institutes do not only do exit polls. They also collect the final numbers. I've had that job a fair number of times and my mother actually does that this year at her polling station. They want the official numbers as early as possible, before they are announced on the official site.
Well according to DB Engines Ranking anyway
Nuclear weapons? Hydrogen bombs? Intercontinental ballistic missiles?

Bluster and belligerence?

Oh hang on, wrong countries aristocracy preserving power.
Since a code review is done why not use a good patch in production and hire the programmer?
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This should in theory be possible with current generation technology. I can get this info on my car stereo whether playing across bluetooth or usb, and I could get it on my pebble watch, but frustratingly it's very hard otherwise to find standalone devices that do this. As far as I can make out it's all down to differing bluetooth application profiles and licencing.

Again from a customer point of view very frustrating.
Interviewer: Also, do you have any full stack experience?

Carpenter: Yeah, I guess.

Interviewer: How quickly would you adapt to using a new tool framework that comes out in the market?

Carpenter: I would rather choose to use the tools that I have honed my skills in and am good at.

Interviewer: But, considering the toolbase that our org uses, our other carpenter say that some new kit/framework comes out every other day and they all keep up. I think that toolbench is called JS in short.

Carpenter: ...

Interviewer: Also, how about the fragile methodology, any experience in that?

Carpenter: Yeah, I guess.

But strictly speaking, considering that the outcome from both disciplines carpentry and software development are on opposite sides of tangibility, a straight up comparison isn't really helpful, to both disciplines.
Career opportunities for lawyers in finance industry
I think you are under-estimating the amount of tech talent that supports the automotive and satellite industries in the Midwest.
Asian shares rise as US debt deal gives investors relief
I'd imagine it would be along the same lines of what movies / studios get to shoot in certain cities -- relief from various tax types, priority in various permits, etc
The theory is simple. Circulating money means the economy is active and producing.

More money circulating means more of the economy is active.

More money in the economy increases inflation because more supply lowers value.

Inflation is good because it is not deflation, but it is not good because it devalues monetary assets over time. Low inflation is best.

The problem is simple. The additional money from cheap loans is not circulating. It is being sunk into mortgages and other debt.

The truth is that the policy is working in the sense that the alternate would have been deflation. Deflation kills retail because it is hard to stay in business if you buy low, sell lower.
It kills me that people like you can't see the long play. Haven't you ever watched a sci-fi movie? Do those guys have 7mm thick phones that they carry around everywhere with a cabling dangling out of it? Nope. They have 1mm thin things that are [printed on their sleeve|hover in the air|do some other ridiculous future nonsense].

Now, is the iPhone "8" going to be like that? Clearly not. iPhone 9? Maybe not. iPhone 10? 11?

That's what Apple are pushing towards. Thank god somebody is, or we'd all be carrying around 7mm thick phones for the rest of eternity.
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Yeah I have friends that have done that too. But like I say, if I had a choice between having to be careful with my device vs having to charge/pack an extra device on a continual basis it's a clear one for me ...
Recently I came across http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/ibilinear/ibilinear.htm when researching how to draw textured non-parallelogram quadrilaterals, without affine texture mapping, with WebGL / OpenGL ES 2.

I was disappointed to learn that OpenGL wouldn't do it and we have to calculate it on our own and send in a 3rd texture coordinate to each vertex for extra calculation on the shader.

Sadly, there isn't much useful info on this subject on the internet (I'm not talking about projective mapping, but bilinear interpolation).
I've found this: http://www.reedbeta.com/blog/quadrilateral-interpolation-par... that I think will work for my case.

My problem is that I also use normals to do "fake" parallel lighting on quads and it accentuates even more the affine errors on non parallelogram quadrilaterals. It's easier to just subdivide the quad to minimize the affine artifacts.

If anyone knows a better way to solve it, I'd love to learn.
Would you be interested in hosting the next German election? Sounds like they need someone!
The grauniad are just a bunch of tabla drumming lentil eating sandal wearing hippies
End users should receive /64 subnet and servers should receive /48 subnet. Given that many users might want to run some servers, it's just 65536 times more than IPv4. Good enough, but not future proof enough if you ask me.
I don't miss the headphone jack. At first, I was a bit pissed. Two reasons: I can only use my headphones with the iPhone, so I need to bring two. I can't use any other headphone with the iPhone, so I need to bring the iPhone one.

Why I don't miss it? The old headphone jack is not good. First, it has more risk of either breaking (itself) or putting another force on the entry of the device. Second, the audio transmission sucks. The old jack, for some reason, has lots of interference. I'm having this problem with the iPad and Macbook.

My only issue: I want the iPhone jack to be USB-C compatible, or the iPhone/Macbook Pro standard to be compatible.

Good riddance old jack.
Or is it the other way, days of overcharging and being locked into a cloud provider are numbered since the software that runs the infrastructure is not the secret / proprietary anymore.

See, can spin it either way :-)
Why can't we use the climate models?
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This isn't entirely true (not is Wikipedia accurate in its story of his illness).

TB is participating on clinical trials for effectiveness of Panitumumab in stage 4 colon cancer patients, its this drug that produced remission in his illness.

Original diagnosis was not wrong.
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somebody else pointed out the more established bluetooth digital audio standards aren't as good. This may well be the reason.
I was also thinking along the same lines for unpaid internships.

Companies have billions in the bank, make tens of billions profit each year, and have "staff" working who they don't pay a cent to.

The fact there are no laws against that is evil.
> there's so little talent

Citation needed. For example, the University of Michigan's engineering school is well ranked in many areas, grants 3,000 degrees a year, and is an hour away:

https://www.engin.umich.edu/about/facts/
Think the table is listing figures since 2010 for the Direct column.
It's all about tax breaks. This is a blatant attempt by Amazon to get years of taxes abated in order to provide the increased regional economic benefit of... doing exactly what they'd do anyways if they didn't get the break. US city and state then competes against other US cities and states in a battle to provide the larger tax break.

It's an odious practice in my opinion, and I wish lawmakers would do something to curb it. But being able to tell your constituents "Hey, look at me, I got Amazon to come here!" makes for great campaigning.
> were city states

They were not however geographically confined to their city-state, but controlled militarily a number of outposts , making them mini-empires in places where there were yet no borders.
I don't buy this. I buy Apple products and Apple accessories. I highly doubt Apple makes significant money through licensing unless you put the numbers.

Removing the jack was a good decision and now, a few months only later, I do appreciate it.
One of the very few things that I see as a massive benefit of the current Trump Whitehouse:

Now would be the time for moonshot projects!

I bet Trump would be willing to free a massive budgets if under his term there were a realistic chance on something like the moonlanding. Or something that would ensure him a positive entry in the history books. I truly hople Thiel or Musk use this rare opportunity.
Excellent. I think we've gone too far in trying to put all the tech work in the spots where early tech companies happened to spring up.

In the long term, I'd like to see VCs not be so provincial in their investments, so that people can start companies where they are. But in the short term, having established companies put offices elsewhere is a great next step.
From a PR perspective, it would make sense that some White Hat Hackers (possibly crowd funded) put in the effort to actually capture such an election and turn the result into an obvious joke (e.g. by voting a fictional character or an obvious third-tier lunatic outsider).

This could be used as very illustrative material to teach the general public about these risks, better than some hypothetical scenarios and "boring" articles that the average voter is not going to read anyway.
Corrected, i was initially going to write that they've added some valve for egress to balance the pressure so that stuck :P

And I'm not sure it's being pedantic.
Manhattan has been expensive for a very long time in spite of growing housing significantly.

The challenge is that they can go to places where housing is cheap and there's a lot of capacity. Detroit, Las Vegas... But they'd probably still have trouble attracting a lot of tech workers to those areas. [ADDED: Although Michigan is better than people in the Web tech bubble think in this regard.]
That's in the "Direct" section which has this footnote:

>From 2010 (when Amazon moved its headquarters to downtown Seattle) to 2017.
Good grief. The term "mentally strong" sounds like pop psychology or perhaps an idea dredged up from the eugenics movement. Sometimes I wish there were a way to filter out HN posts from certain websites.
It's really slow for a flat file cms...
I've heard that these future 'bans' on ICEs are actually just bans on pure ICEs and apparently vehicles with even just stop-start technology are classed as 'Micro-Hybrids' which would be allowed after these 2032, 2040 dates.
Obama didn't do it noticeably, Trump often, hence you hear about it.
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The RFP is rather more interesting than the marketing page:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/Anything...

The 2nd criterion is basically the total amount of sweet, sweet taxpayer dollars available to subsidize them:

Please provide a summary of total incentives offered for the Project by the state/province and local community. In this summary, please provide a brief description of the incentive
item, the timing of incentive payment/realization, and a calculation of the incentive amount.
My experience with HiDimensional has been fabulous so far and more is yet to come.

I have also been through the TripleByte channel and that process was simply "interview outsourcing" without any personal feedback or mentoring.
That if you succeed the quiz and the big interview, you could get to the final round of some cool company - in a way helps the co. and the candidate both.

But with HiDimensional, it was one step further - that whether I succeed or not wasn't the end of it - it was focused more upon MY growth.

The interviewer was very skilled at interviewing (my comparison being with past interviews with Google, Amazon & Microsoft)- helping me with my problem all along the way, and gave very direct feedback and areas of growth.

Those 5-10 minutes of feedback at the end were Gold. That will now help shape my preparations for the next 4 months!
Rather than staying in mystery about what went wrong? where can I improve? I now have concrete regions to focus upon.

Plus, my next interview would be with a very Senior person from the field who would mentor and champion me along the journey.

Surely a Home Run!
They can look futuristic without being practical. Google Glasses are another example. The future is not a race. Sometimes it need more time to mature.
For a while in the 70's, inspired by a book I'd read (maybe Nomadic Furniture, by Papanek and Hennessey) I took my showers with the drain closed. I would paddle around in the ankle deep warm water and leave it in the tub until cool, thus warming my chilly bathroom and small apartment for "free".
I do think it's a good thing they hire people right after school, just not exclusively.
Are they graduating from college or some other school?
"A stable and business-friendly environment and tax structure will be high-priority considerations for the Project. Incentives offered by the state/province and local
communities to offset initial capital outlay and ongoing operational costs will be significant factors in the decision-making process."

I'm no fan of high taxes, but holding this sort of reverse auction to see who will provide the biggest bungs rubs me the wrong way.
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Most presidents would, but they don't create the budget.
Of course Java and Javascript are the same, they've got the same name.

It's just like grapes and grapefruit. Completely indistinguishable from one another.
Why I wonder? While they're gobbling up DT Sea, they only have 1 building in Bellevue. Isn't there room to set up shop in Fremont or Kirkland and poach more engineers from Microsoft/Tableau/Expedia etc and reducing commute times? Not seeing the upside. This is a major management overhead, managing culture between both, all hands, IT infrastructure.

Austin, TX is a good candidate. Very strong engineering university attracting nationwide talent, better cost of living, they already have an office there so they must have some relationship w/ local govt, a good climate contrast to Seattle being much drier (barring the occasional hurricane), a Google Fiber city. $5B buys a lot more there than most places in the US.
Correct, this was a codebase that still had some Pylons (gasp! Not even Pyramid, but legit Pylons) code.
Yep. Somewhat tricky when you have 896 runtime options. That said, have been happy running uwsgi in production for a lot of python (and php) services.

Yelp.com runs behind uwsgi, and effectively all of the python services behind it do as well. Some use more uncommon features like gevent support.
Sorry, it was a vague attempt to foster discussion about the options of moving out of WSGI without throwing it out completely (I was really ill yesterday and couldn't quite formulate any logic thoughts around it myself).

Have you looked at the options there / if there would be an easy way to bolt on a more async driven framework? Obviously, it doesn't solve the missing framework issue, but maybe there's some clever tricks you can do because uwsgi is allowing you to bend the rules.
Seriously, they should look in New Jersey. Lots of tech talent from NYC that doesn't want the commute or insane prices of the city.
That's certainly not wrong, but it also is somewhat at odds with how we know modern software projects should be managed, which is a reasonable explanation for why so many government projects work out the way they do.
Thread on an article posted by the defendant : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15190081
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I think the Russian may consider the elections in Ukraine as one of their elections.
Lol open source contributor. Yeah nice and all but where's the money in that? The guy just fouled up a potential career track to half a mil engineering salaries but hey I'm sure the satisfaction from some open source work will be just as good! ;-)
Rather than speculate on anecdotes, perhaps we can focus on actual data[0]. 2014-2015 only saw a +280 change in fatalities caused by distractions (read: texting).

Florida and Georgia combined saw a +190 drunk driving fatalities in the same period.

EDIT: found a more specific report about electronic device usage: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

[0]: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
CA emissions have forced the automakers to offer basically two versions of every vehicle for the past half century or so. Nobody in the industry wants a repeat of that because it costs money.
Bluetooth headphones are $20 on Amazon and Apple makes $0 on them.
The problem is not for people like you who already decided, the problem is for beginners who aren't aware of some of the 'envs' and are looking for recommended practices.
Needs more time to mature away from a 3.5mm jack in to Bluetooth headphones?! Come on.

Edit: I'm not saying you have to like this, just that to say that Apple did it to make a few more bucks on a dongle is cynical to the point of absurdity.
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I came to ask the same question. The landing page is terrible it says pretty much nothing.
> what's the most popular kind of wood right now? Exactly. We're putting together a team to make a sink using it. In the second phase we will use wood to build a toilet. Interested?

that's actually kinda fun!
Yup. "Amazon seeks a city to provide cushy tax credits in exchange for vague, unenforceable promises of job creation" would've been a more accurate headline.
"What if companies interviewed translators the way they interview coders?" (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/welcome-to-the-software-inte...) is also very good, in a similar vein.
Eh, for me the health problems started once I turned 30 (I'm now in my mid-30s). So yeah, I feel a little old, because I get little reminders multiple times throughout the day. Nothing too bad, at least not yet, but enough that I suspect in ten to twenty years I'll be one of those with more serious problems.

Also even though I'm still pretty darn smart, my mental retrieval speed seems to be a lot slower than it used to be. Has made interviews in particular harder to get through.

However, on the plus side, I didn't really start getting comfortable in my own skin until my thirties either. Started figuring out how to talk to people without getting nervous or assuming they're judging every little thing I say and do, started dating a lot more (even though I was in much better physical shape a long time ago I was too self-conscious or kept making excuses not to take chances back then), and figured out some activities I really enjoy that I probably wouldn't have even attempted in my teens and twenties, so there's that.
Wouldn't really make sense, an HQ would need to be in an actual city, not a sprawling suburban bedroom community. Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal.
> you can poll on both zmq and sockets in the one loop

Which is magnificent. The ZMQ poller is tons of fun. (Although I think this doesn't work on Windows.)
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How does it feel spending so much time doing something so fucking pointless?
Relocation is a relative drop in the hat if you can otherwise attract talent--potentially at a lower salary than the West Coast.
I hope you also considered the risk for / asked all the people related to you before handing over significant parts of their DNA as well.
Bluetooth audio is typically loss-ily re-encoded due to limited bandwidth and has sounded really bad in the implementations I've tried (an iPhone connected to earbuds and a Toyota Prius).

I've had a hard time finding out technical details of Apple's new w1 chips - what increased bandwidth they support, if any. This one case where Apple hiding the tech specs from consumers is pretty irritating.

I'm no audiophile pushing for nonsense like 24/192 downloads, but I do care about music enough to actively avoid overly-compressed audio via bluetooth or Sirius/XM as the sound is grating.

I'm thinking Bluetooth 5.0 will solve this quality issue, but I'm certain there is somebody with actual domain knowledge in this thread to enlighten.

Edit: link to some reference on bluetooth quality http://www.sereneaudio.com/blog/how-good-is-bluetooth-audio-...
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> what the ecosystem for Python looked like in ~1999

Very small. The language was not popular and many people claimed a community project could not overtake languages backed by companies.
Same for the Linux kernel.
Seems like we agree. I am only saying current math is too focused on the mechanical processes, so much that many people never even see the other (more important) conceptual side. Times tables don't need to be taught in class - there is nothing to teach. They just need to be memorized by students.