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The wireless charging is a gimmick. If you have a new iPhone, a new Apple Watch, and AirPods with apparently the proper case, then it could be compelling. I prefer to just have fewer things that need charging.

As you point out, it could have been done earlier but I'm guessing they waited because the utility is so small. Whereas Android manufacturers seem to want the most features, the most checks on the list, even if they don't necessarily work too well.
Account managers would be the ones mending the existing clients. They get less commission but they can coast a little more easily.
C# is a great language no doubt (been using it professionally since the early 2000's) but it always felt sluggish when creating complex forms and handling events in those forms where Delphi, C++/Qt and even Lazarus feel much faster.
Suddenly a 128gb iPhone 6s for $549 sounds like a heck of a deal...
It's having to look away from the primary activity of getting through the barrier that is the problem. Not sure how this will go down at 8am at Waterloo.
Sure, I see that but different users - different habits.

I manage just fine with a 25+ character random alphanumerical password that I change at least every six months. I only use Touch ID when I'm home and am very aware when entering my password. In the end it's just a phone but I like to have it at somewhat secure.
I think the true test is what people think about it after using one of the phones for a while. People very often make a big fuss about things they think they aren't going to like, where they often completely forget about it after a bit of time actually experiencing it.
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I Also grew up in cincinnati. You've probably seen signs with my last name (Neyer) on them, as my family has been there a while. Also live in the bay area now. Cincinnati really was like a small town; people did seem to look after each other.

I think if people like us moved back there to work for other tech companies, we'd exacerbate the problem.

If we moved back and started companies that employed low skilled labor, we'd make things better. If we could end the pointless war on drugs, and spend that same money repairing infrastructure, we'd be way better off.

Our old system is breaking down. Unfortunately i think it'll have to get worse before it gets better.
To be fair Apple always was further behind the adoption curve for bleeding edge technologies perfectly timing for them to become mature enough first.
Their glass is actually more scratch resistant than the metal. Of course metal doesn't usually shatter.

I'm pretty careful with my phone, but I've dropped it in a way that I'm sure would have done serious damage if I hadn't had a case. Three times that I recall off-hand. So there is no way I'd not have a case on this.

Which bugs me because my 6s+ is still awe inspiring when I take it out of the case... but my case is a bit rugged, and the feel and thinness of the phone are completely lost with it. Yet I feel compelled to use it... too much risk of serious damage otherwise.
Same with all biometric information, there are tradeoffs to every security measure.

Someone running around with a perfect 3D model of your face isn't an every day occurrence, though.
No, A See-through phone is something Robert Scoble predicted since last year, but i never bought his hype and even the AR stuff is not really ground breaking.
Of course, but you expect people to keep that straight when they just want to cast shade on Apple products?
I think the bloat about Eclipse and IntelliJ is more about Java. As much as I hate the language, if I have to do some Java I don't think there is a smoother alternative than IntelliJ.
the prevalence of surgical masks in China might also be a challenge
There is a different way to trick neural networks.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1897
The memory is finally enough even on the base model (64/256). I know a couple people who bought the lowest before (16gb) and it was painful. They'd actually swap apps in and out.

Solid upgrade. I'll hang onto my 6s and my wired headphone ways a bit longer though.
> six digit passcode

Which is insecure. I use a 25+ character random alphanumerical password that I change at least every six months.
Different expectations? With Linux you're kind of expecting to get your hands dirty whereas Mac is supposed to "just work".
Ah I hadn't thought about inoperability with peripherals from other manufacturers. I was focused on the need for adapters within the apple ecosystem (e.g. charging an iPhone from a MacBook). This still seems very inelegant but perhaps the Apple we have today has a beauty that is only surface deep.
Do you mean AR? I am not sure how VR is going to change the phone/mobile industry. You need to wear some kind of glasses to actually experience VR. I think you are referring to augmented reality, but correct me if I am wrong.

When it comes to AR, I am not interested in those "look at the pokemon on the street" kind of AR. I'd like projection on the street from the device. I want the Apple Watch to show me a hologram like in Star War. That's the kind of real AR I want to see. I will enjoy driving if map can be projected like hologram on the car windshield so I don't have to check the app on the side.

I think the next breakthrough is just happening now: all cashless transactions. This is already happening in China, India, and some country in Europe (I forgot which one, but over there even newspaper street vendors accept credit cards). US is way behind. Also, chip in human will eventually take off. So just wait for more human-wearable integrations (and this is depressing and dangerous, see my comment below). I bet in no more than 10 years.
I guess it is. Haven't read Piketty, but from hearsay I thought he argues for wealth tax too.
systemd's behavior is completely reasonable. The folks arguing otherwise on the issue would probably be better served by installing dnsmasq locally to do what they want and pointing systemd at that.

It may be worth pointing out that dnsmasq has a similar behavior by default and points out the correct way to override specific hostnames/zones:

Q: My company's nameserver knows about some names which aren't in the
public DNS. Even though I put it first in /etc/resolv.conf, it
doesn't work: dnsmasq seems not to use the nameservers in the order
given. What am I doing wrong?

A: By default, dnsmasq treats all the nameservers it knows about as
equal: it picks the one to use using an algorithm designed to avoid
nameservers which aren't responding. To make dnsmasq use the
servers in order, give it the -o flag. If you want some queries
sent to a special server, think about using the -S flag to give the
IP address of that server, and telling dnsmasq exactly which
domains to use the server for.
At the time, I understand that Tesla was effectively relying almost entirely on the computer-vision AEB system to prevent crashes like this one in auto mode. The radar was only used to provide more information about the distance of objects that were seen and recognised by the single monochrome camera.
Great way to integrate the government backdoor without actually publicly saying it.

Catch the perp, get full access to the device. -Apple
or even XI XII XII. Hail caesar or something.
The screen is the big deal. It's quite a lot better. Oled. Ridiculous dpi.

But the problem with that is that the regular iPhone screen is unbelievably good already. Why would people pay so much for the improvement?
Can still use a passcode
It's stored in the secure enclave.
> people opt in to Google and Facebook

What about shadow profiles? Nobody is opting into those.
On macOS, there's a straightforward solution for the VPN use case that doesn't involve a "fall back": the VPN registers its DNS servers for specific domain names, and so anything in example.com has its list of DNS servers (tunneled through the VPN) and everything else has the original list of DNS servers from your physical network connection. See resolver(5) https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Dar... for a description of doing this with files named like "/etc/resolver/example.com" (and having the same syntax as resolv.conf), but you can also do this with SystemConfiguration (googling "SupplementalMatchDomains" should be helpful).

It looks like systemd-resolved implements something similar: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.net...

The fact that there is an incredibly common use case that consists of an unreliable workaround for people who don't have a local resolver that does this correctly is hardly reason to avoid writing a local resolver that works correctly.
Hi. Should be easy! I have another demo that actually send images, rich messages and other elements. However, I can't share its source code yet. Sorry!
I do. I have no interest in a self driving car. I hate being a passenger in a human driven car too. Give me control of my own destiny!
Perhaps not but not all of us follow such things as closely as you might so the assumption that it's common knowledge is not necessarily accurate.
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and it created a wonderful market for people sell replacement back glass.

still does it really matter? how many phones are not in cases?
I usually enjoy scrolling through Apple's product pages, they're often quite interesting design-wise. This one is way overdone.
Huh. I stand corrected. I've never seen that before. Mea culpa.
> Feels like a straight downgrade in usability.

You know, it really depends how fast it is. You need attentiveness to use your phone, so requiring attentiveness to unlock it doesn't seem unreasonable, provided it happens in less time than it takes to move your thumb to the glass.
Not unique, but fitting that hardware on a phone is pretty incredible.
My old plastic/rubber back Nexus 5 had it. The glass is there for more than just wireless charging.
I stand corrected. The Prada predates the iPhone by 6 months with capacitive single touch screen. I guess I got angry in my hasty reply; it was a combination of things.
> Make large 'wire' transfers for less than it would cost through your bank.

Assuming both the sender and the recipient want to use BTC as a store of value. Otherwise there's a commission involved from BTC-to-fiat conversion at both ends of the transaction.

Also, banks tend to have a flat fee on wire transfers. Assuming a $25 fee on both the sender and the recipient, sending $51 will likely be more efficient in BTC. But at some point ($5,100? $51,000? $5,100,000?) the wire transfer becomes the preferred choice.
They look like they worked hard to cover that, even training the network to reject 3D face models done up by Hollywood makeup artists. It's hard to see how you'd spoof it better than that.
so instead of stealing your finger print it's now enough to get a picture?
No kidding, iPhone 4/4S was a paramount of iPhone design and it all went downhill from there. I was almost literally crying when I had to upgrade my iPhone 4 that got unbearably slow and dated, to monstrosity that is iPhone 6.
Personally, I interpret GP as we have already proven many of the true hypotheses that can be simply and easily formulated, based on the categories and concepts that we currently find intuitive.

And this shouldn't really be a surprise. Our cultures and societies have had thousands of years of evolution; our human instincts have had at least hundreds of thousands of years. In that time, both culture and instinct have picked up many true facts about the world that have helped us survive. A lot of science has been taking those facts and systematically investigating how far they hold.

So these both can be true: the more questions we ask, the more questions we have to answer, but also that many of the 'easy' hypotheses have been mined out, and any true advance in science will by necessity pull us further and further from the realm where our basic instincts and intuitions can usefully guide us.

Quantum mechanics being the prototypical example, of course.
I would also expect that you want scalpels to be sharp as new on each use. The blade probably doesn't take too kindly to the sterilizing conditions.
I want one computing device, or an iPhone that can run OSX (or some future OS thats a blended version of IOS and OSX). Like a Switch that I can take me, or plug in at home and get more power/features.
Sunglasses and hats too!
I would like it. It's not a super big deal to me, but I'd like it. In my car. As a part of the holder. Otherwise, meh.

In my car I hate dealing with cables.
I guess that's why the added the 5 press power button which disables the Touch/Face ID features
Thanks. <3 GitHub!
You can also buy high bases for existing Aeron chairs. I use a knock-off, though.
Expensive?!?

It is a bargain compared with what I used to pay for programming tools during the 90's.

In other professions people care to buy their tools.
I like VSCode, but the Clojure integration in Atom is top notch. When that catches up I might take another look.
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You say that, but when WW3 is prevented by Xi Jinping using a russian model Animoji to negotiate a peace treaty with Trump, you'll be less sarcastic
Bingo. It’s fair to reject someone because they scored low on a test. It’s not fair to reject someone because they belong to a demographic that on average scores low on a test — that would be discrimination.

Of course, a lot of the discussion is about faulty tests, that claim to test for individual aptitude, but end up testing for demographics instead (eg. interviewers inadvertently giving higher scores to people similar to themselves)
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Why are people comfortable carrying a $1000 piece of equipment that can be dropped or stolen in an instant in their pocket? My Nexus6p takes great pictures, runs everything smoothly, and I don't have to freak out as much if the $350 suddenly vanishes.
Regardless, they said the phone gets 2 hours better battery life. That's pretty remarkable.
Understood; thanks for clarifying.
We don't have socialized (single-payer) medicine but we are still over-prescribing painkillers. Why do you think socializing medicine would change this? Do countries that have single-payer healthcare have more or less problems with heroin and prescription drug abuse?
Well, certainly you should never use unregistered suffixes because how else are you going to get SSL certificates for your internal services?
Since it's based on neural nets, I think there might be ways, but they will likely not work consistently.. they will only work in certain conditions. Also note that they also track head position (must face camera) and check the eyes (must be open and look at the camera).. this will be hard to get right all at once.
I think he's saying that because the iPhone 7 was also water resistant, it cannot be that the new one is so due to the new design, given the old one allowed for it too.
A non-conclusive list of places where this will be an issue:

China, Japan, S.E.A.: Surgical masks against smog, or to avoid spreading germs.

Northern Europe, Canada, Northern US: Winter clothing that covers the face to avoid the cold temperatures

Middle East: Religious clothing for women hiding their faces.

Anywhere with hot summers: Sunglasses covering the entire eyes, making it impossible to see if you’re looking at the screen (which is a requirement for FaceID unlock).
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It wasn't always an evolution. Despite all the apple "oh we changed everything look at us" they really did. And for the first few years after that everything was changing so fast it was a revolution. But it has since slowly died out and I guess new technologies with faster innovation will become the new iphone revolution
Yes. Please bother to even read the linked article before commenting.
Probably because they've been using known and unsafe practices for a long time, and we're giving them a bunch of our data. Seems like "propaganda" is the wrong term, and "legitimate concern and skepticism" would be the correct term.
Let's just make sure we're talking about how it will actually work, not what we're guessing based on some tech blogs and today's presentation.
they are promoting it before pasing through FCC certification, maybe they wanted to keep it secret since FCC data is publicly available and that would basically reveal their design and specs
I haven't used wireless charging and am neutral about it. Why do you think it's a gimmick?
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I think Apple Watch with Cellular is the best news from Apple event today. No more tethering to your iPhone. Finally you can leave your iPhone behind.
Wireless charging is not a gimmick. It's a category below Tivo for me in "things I never knew I needed but get really annoyed when without now".

I'm on a Pixel XL now, and I greatly miss the convenience of simply having a couple charging pads laying out throughout the house/office. It feels like a chore to remember to plug in the phone every night. I won't buy another phone w/o Qi charging support.
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You really didn't read the article did you. Second paragraph says "Apple says the facial scan is so accurate there’s now only a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of another random person’s face being able to unlock your phone. This is much better than the 1 in 50,000 error rate for Touch ID. And no, holding a photo up of someone can’t unlock their phone – nor can a Hollywood-grade face mask, which (shown below) were used by Apple’s engineering teams to train the feature."
Yes. I was thinking about other removed old features from PHP and answered in a lame and arrogant way. Bad day, bad mood...

Please, accept my apologies. :)
Who cares about scratches though? I don't care about scratches on the back of my phone. I do care if it shatters entirely, though!
The iPhone 8 is $699 for the base model in the USA. ($999 is for the iPhone X, which has a separate discussion thread)
I had a similar experience. 7yr old, Halloween evening, and he's having trouble breathing. The sort of thing that brings medical staff really quickly. We were in semi-rural Washington, 2-10 acre lots, most of the houses set well back on private roads. All the house numbers were on the mailboxes, and all of them on the same side of the road for the postal route. Except -- our house was an even house on the odd side of the road, and a good 300' back on a shared drive.

10-15 minutes later, I see lights through the trees. In a minute, I decide to run out. They were across the road at the vacant holiday rental, I wound up in the ambulance to guide them to the right house.

The next year, we ran into the EMT at the county fair, he was pushing for people to sign up for county provided blue house emergency numbers at the turnoff to the house and at the road. And he was telling our story as the inspiration.

Also, in that time, the county renumbered our house to the correct side of the street. Helpfully enough, they did it while we were refinancing the house, so the documents were all wrong when we went to sign.
Why not get an iPhone SE?
> Do you think phones are a "done" thing?

The basic pattern of mobile phone design was more or less settled in the 80's with the DynaTac, and the phones leading up to (but not including) the original iPhone were all refinements of that same original pattern. The same thing happened with smart phones: the original iPhone set the pattern and then there've been a number of refinements ever since.

I'm not saying the refinements aren't huge improvements (particularly when viewed collectively over a period of 10 years), but just that the basic pattern is relatively fixed most of the time.

> All these features are cool and somewhat exciting but nothing groundbreaking that will change computing/communications forever.

Personally, I'm not that excited about a world where there are are continual 'groundbreaking changes that will change computing/communications forever'. There's a lot to be said for consolidating the gains made in these periodic steps up in functionality, and taking the time to understand the new capabilities offered by each.
How Apple's New Face ID Works (Infrared Projector, Like MS Kinect)
It's not for everybody. It's for certain types of people, and even certain stages in their lives.

I also worked in a hypergrowth unicorn from the early days and I would also call those first couple of years there my happiest job, even though it was tons of work and full cowboy mode.

That was when I was in my mid-20s and single. I am 100% sure that I wouldn't enjoy that right now in my current stage in life. (mid-30s and married now)
It didn't include the domain no.

I've used digital ocean droplets for some things for a similar $5 a month price, but it hardly seems necessary for a static site. It's much less faffery to just upload some files to S3 and click some buttons in the AWS console to configure everything.
I actually think I might pick one up. In fact I may look for a 2 for 1 deal on the 6s.

I'm headed back to Apple after having an Android ever since my IPhone 4, I'm just done with Android. I love my 6s work phone.

I think I'll just be choosing between the 6s and a 7.
I think we're going to look back on that "animoji" bit as a turning point in modern entertainment. It's a silly, even dumb little feature, but look at what's really going on there: realtime near-Pixar-grade facial expressions.

Someone's going to build a toolkit that lets kids make their own CG movies with friends acting out all the roles. That's gonna be nuts and is just the start.
I started working on resilience about a month ago after reading a post on HN regarding stoicism. I didn't know about stoicism prior to reading the post. In a short time it has had a positive impact on my life. Certain things just don't seem so stressful anymore.
You can open the file via SSH but use a local copy of VSCode/Sublime: https://codepen.io/ginfuru/post/remote-editing-files-with-ss...
Also, what happens when I shave my big beard off? :(
Or grow it bushier?
The "picture of person" attack works for basic version of facial recognition, like the one Google or Samsung have been doing for ages (though I think both now allow you to require a moving face with blinking or whatever).

What Apple (and Microsoft via Hello) are doing is a little more interesting, and they're actually capturing a 3D model of the face, using an IR projector that works a bit like the Kinect did. They feed that model into an on-device hardware accelerated machine learning engine to do the recognition, and the results are substantially more robust than the traditional 2D versions.

Personally, I'm still not entirely sold on using any kind of biometrics to unlock my device, but this does represent an interesting improvement.

I'm more interested in just having that machine learning hardware readily available and built into every new phone, it will be really interesting to see what devs do with it.
Every update I hope there won't be lag, but sure enough there always is. Leave it open for a whole day and text input + browsing a project tree will freeze periodically. I'm on a maxed out Mac too...
Yes, but I've seen this control center option get buggy when apps require similar low-swipe gestures. It would be quite frustrating to deal with this without a home button option. Nevermind how annoying it would be if (god forbid) your screen cracked a bit and lowered the touch fidelity slightly.
Sunglasses?
I just left mine plugged into the headphone connector on the headphones. I briefly considered keeping a rubber band on them to tie to adapter to on the rare occasions when I needed to plug it into something else, but it wasn't actually a big issue for me.

Alternatively, they also have bluetooth transmitters that plug into the jack on your headphones now that you can use. But I don't know what the battery life of UI convenience is on those. I switched to the Beats X for listening on my iPhone and have never been happier. The occasional frustration of not charging my headphones pales in comparison to the everyday frustrations of untangling wires all the time.