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I believe we are already living it. It is happening right now after the introduction of services like Whatsapp and WeChat. And all due to their simplicity and user friendliness. They just work for 99% of most modern world daily tasks, and solve a whole bunch of problems one way or the other. So maybe the real challenge for personal computing is connecting these wonder tools to everything else in world that is still complicated or hard to use, making them easy to use or accessible.
maybe you can cut yourself on it because it's made for surgeons and they just wanna raise awareness that their product is not that safe for careless consumers?
That you don't have a revolution like the first iPhone doesn't mean it's ever "done". When you sum up all the boring, evolutionary changes over the last 10 years you end up with something pretty outstanding. Especially if you compare it to the previous 10 years before that (back when operators more or less decided the feature set of the phones they would sell).

I doubt there will be another big revolution in personal computing until you have direct brain communication (implants or sensors/transmitters that look unobtrusive).

A cell phone iWatch could change its usecase quite substantially, but whether it'll find new uses remains to be seen.
it redirects to /iphone, where the X is featured prominently, but you can reach them all.

edit: so does /iphone-6, but not /iphone-6s..
I'm disappointed that this doesn't support any of the 600mhz spectrum that is now coming online. This actually provides a fairly strong reason not to upgrade, since anyone buying a phone this year is going to miss out on this functionality next year unless they want to upgrade after only a year.
Please be realistic here, no one is asking for that when looking for a computer. You, and your peers are an incredibly small fraction of a percent.
Just switched to a 6s from an LG G4. I still have my headphone jack and the whole experience is so much better. Only thing I miss are my homescreen widgets.
Disclaimer: I do not own, or use, i Devices, and refuse to buy any laptop > 700€, or phone > 250€.

I personally use my Sennheiser headphones on the PC, but also on the phone, and elsewhere. I got them from my parents when I was young, and, just like my parents used their top-of-the-line sennheiser headphones their entire life, I plan on using mine for the next 60 years, and I’ve got one single set of them.

So leaving an adapter plugged in isn’t optimal, nor is buying new headphones. Because, who are we kidding, in 60 years lightning and USB will be long gone, but 3.5mm Klincke will still exist.
You're certainly entitled to that opinion, as is Apple, but it basically flies against the definition of anything else in photography. "Straight Out Of Camera" is about taking the time and effort to nail something so that when you hit the shutter button, exposure, focus, composition are all "as the camera saw it", not "as the camera saw it and then image manipulation software found the subject, and applied a mask to the image to burn out the non-subjective areas while keeping the exposure of the subject as-is, if not enhanced".

Edit: Hell, even Apple's own iPhone X page up now says this:

"A new feature in Portrait mode, Portrait Lighting produces impressive studio‑quality lighting effects."

"Create beautiful selfies with sharp foregrounds and artfully blurred backgrounds."

Somehow, these are "effects" which don't fall under the umbrella of post-processing.

But this is a nitpick, admittedly. Nothing wrong with the feature or whatever, but it amused me to hear "No processing. Just [applied post processing]."
Where I'm from we just say I took $highway, with highway being say 35w, 494, 13 etc....

Given the context the definite article seems unneeded to my ears.
Nope, unless one counts dropping the price.

However since it was released in March many Apple-watchers expect any updated version to also be released in the Spring as well. (This seems more likely now since Apple didn't kill the iPhone SE)
iPhone X "Pro"
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." (Richard Feynman)
You could do X forwarding
Apple Watch is the new iPhone. The iPhone is becoming a home computer. Watch it.
There is, of course, an alternative explanation.

Our society has changed, dramatically, in the past 30 years. We've gone from a completely disconnected society with connections spanning arm's reach to a globally connected society with connections spanning just as far. Baby sitters have been replaced with digital tablets providing endless entertainment and ensuring no person, adult or child, ever need sit with their own recreation being solely within their mind. One needs only look at the slew of digital devices whipped out at any eatery, lest individuals be left to their own thoughts for an agonizing 10 minutes.

The internet and our technology has shattered nearly all educational barriers. Getting an MIT caliber education for free is now something any child in a developing country who has access to the internet can do, if so inclined. On the other hand they can find countless entertaining drama to read or participate in, find an endless supply of porn, engage in social media and other online sites that are specifically designed for addiction, or find an array of games and other forms of fast response stimuli all designed to make him or her feel good.

Einstein constantly related his tales of meandering strolls as he pondered his work. Another individual that has managed to achieve some great things in modern science is Stephen Hawking. He's mentioned spending decades thinking intently, even if not exclusively, on singular topics. And there is absolutely every reason to believe that is in no way bluster. Given his condition, his mind is his recreation.

Is the breaking down of information barriers in our society helping more than the massive commercialization and directed addiction towards all sorts of mediums and vices along with the rapid reward systems they offer, is hurting it? It's not just high level academia that's failing. Education systems to be deteriorating at all levels with US (which is the center of much of this change) scores in math and science rapidly falling behind much of the rest of the world. Healthfulness has fallen to dangerously low levels. And more. Regression is not impossible.
yes, That will be great. There are some Android players trying to do it. I think Samsung also tried it but it was premature. And no big player is really pushing it. If Apple pulls it off with their eco-system of apps and quality hardware, it can be a big shift in personal computing.
Yet Apple is still probably going to be making higher margins on this phone that a $300 Android phone manufacturer
The charging bay isn't a thing yet, they plan to make this in 2018, but it seems they need to create a standard for that.
Having worked at Apple, the company feels like complete stress apocalypse all around for the 2 months before the fall major releases. I'm pretty sure no one would fall for the unplanned release thing, and that leaks would still happen
Can be used by police to unlock your phone by pointing it at your face.
What was so special about their copy/paste?
That's a great question.

Given that I have a pile of four generations of smartphones sitting on my desk waiting to be recycled, it's also easy to visualize that brand new $1,000 iPhone X sitting in that pile in a few years time. The new phone looks great, but the marginal improvement over my existing phone doesn't look like it's worth $1,000. (Particularly in light of the opportunity costs involved.)
I worked as both an academic scientist and in industry.

I can attest there is a lot of crap science published. So much so that when you find a really good publication you think "wow!!"

The one thing about industry is that if the science doesn't work you don't make money. However there is little incentive to publish.
It's not even that it's easy to forget, it's that it's annoying. More bulk in my pocket, and now if I want to switch from my phone to my computer I've got to unplug two things instead of one.

No, I don't consider bluetooth to be a great solution, either. I've got more than enough individual things to worry about keeping charged already. It's like the electrical outlet is trying to give birth to a damn squid every evening.
This is a fundamental issue with developing secure software/tech in a private. You have to hope you are the smartest team in the world and that you thought of everything. It's you vs everyone else.
Good monitor reviews include a test of the delay. 3 frames delay (<100 ms at 60hz) is absolutely atrocious and easily detected by players in games.

But of course, that's not the problem. It's ok that the phone doesn't unlock with out me noticing the delay. It just can't be so long that I start doubting whether it works.
Exactly!

Tim talked about Steve's legacy, but really, was SJ's dream to build a stale stagnating company? Did he prefer money over putting a dent in the universe?
I can understand the compromise of the "notch" for the sensor bar in portrait-oriented UIs. Some thoughtful juggling of the status bar, some added interaction, and you're all set. A reasonable trade-off.

What I cannot understand at all is the compromise in landscape mode, for games and video. Rather than just black out the uneven area and limit the drawable area to the largest unbroken rectangle, everything Apple shows appears partially obscured by the notch. The AR game example literally has the notch starting to eat into the UI. In my book, this leaps from "acceptable trade-off" to "bizarre sacrifice." It's like living with a cracked corner of the screen, right out of the box.
> the vast majority of "science" are poorly-controlled white papers that get accepted and are never looked at again

And worse, the vast majority of the evidence cited in major social science debates is deficient in this way.
I care because I sell my phones when I upgrade.
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For some it is a status symbol. Ask any teenager how make/model of the smartphone designates their social status at school... It is similar with other items. You can buy (second hand) jeans for $10 and you can buy designer jeans for $1000. Both are suitable to wear in most situations. Some people have no choice. Some don't mind spending (wasting?) $1000 on the high-end version. The features are not always the reason people buy things and this nowadays includes smartphones.
"journalctl -r" is loading all the available logs on your system. If you only want the most recent 50 lines, use "journalctl -r -n 50".
And are still failing.
iPhone X Cheetah.
> I had never heard of the ordering of the DNS servers being meaningful

Now you have. This is a common configuration in mixed-use situations.

> I'm amazed people are relying on that behaviour described in the ticket

Why? Using each server in order is the expected behavior. From resolv.conf(5)

nameserver Name server IP address
Internet address of a name server that the resolver
should query [...]. If there are multiple servers,
the resolver library queries them in the order listed.
[...] (The algorithm used is to try a name server, and
if the query times out, try the next, until out of
name servers, then repeat trying all the name servers
until a maximum number of retries are made.)

> Having a DNS setup that works in a different way when stuff fails should be seen as a bug;

You can call it a bug in your use cases, but having an imperfect fallback is important in some situations.

> DNS is supposed to be reliable.

Software is supposed to be lots of things, but good engineering understands that sometimes the real world deviates from these ideal.
Most people don't pay anywhere near to the unlocked retail price of the phone (so they don't consider it to be a $1,000 device), and many have insurance. If I drop my iPhone (which I paid about $100 for out of pocket after rebates/incentives/trade-in/etc), it's a $99 deductible.
> Something where the hardware and battery can keep up with the OS for the next 4 years.

I'm still using a 6 year old iPhone on the current OS without problems. And battery is working fine too.
What about twins? Does touch ID even work with twins?
Those same countries will also have exchanges with huge spreads or money transmitters charging exorbitant fees for converting in and out of bitcoin.
It's because of licensing fees and controlling the accessory market.
> You cannot exclude the possibility that some of our fundamental scientific understanding is totally flawed, and we've yet to discover how.

Much of modern technology is built on modern scientific findings. Since that technology unarguably works, the findings on which it is based cannot be "totally flawed".
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> Neat, wireless charging, exactly like I had on my Nexus 5, around 5 years ago :)

And I think we can all be grateful Apple decided to go with the Qi standard here rather than roll their own! What a mess that would have been...
I can't wait to see the Youtube videos of people 'taking a selfie' just to unlock their iPhones
This actually raises an interesting question. I say it's easier to do it since there appears on the surface to be less opportunity to mess up as with touch. Sure you could make a face etc but that just seems easier to do in stealth (not seen by cops as doing so) with a finger. [1]

Edit: As only one example you could in theory program a finger that wouldn't typically be used with touch id.
Comfort? How does bluetooth affect headphone comfort?

And all the Apple ones with the W1 chip "just work" when pairing.

Shit, even the 20€ chinese Bluetooth FM transmitter in my car "just works".
Curl is the back door.

A modern idiom is "curl https://$THING/ | sudo /bin/bash "

And the arguments around it being secure because it's https...
might be a step back in usability for the non-tech savvy people who have made up a large share of iPhone users

"non-tech savvy"? I write software for the damned things, and my first thought was, "oh, great, more obscure swipe gestures to try and memorize." As an added bonus, the control center is now a swipe from the top, not the bottom like it's been for the last, what, five versions?
Being that it is the 10th anniversary, I was hoping they will come out with something ground-breaking. iPhone X seems like a good phone. But it's just a better iPhone 7.
Might be hug of death, but it's not working for me. I don't like being denied my TinTin fix...
I find it remarkably difficult to actually get a pair of AirPods to try. Nobody wants to lend you theirs to stick in your ears to see if their comfortable or not, nobody I know or work with actually owns any.

I wrote them off immediately because they look identical to the pack-in iphone earbuds, and those are unbearably painful for me to wear.
Even with a fully unlocked enterprise license on it, autocomplete was lagging far behind me on a high end macbook pro. Maybe I just type too fast or the libraries I use are poorly laid out, but it was not working.
> I’m surprised that drug use is normalised to the extent that you can say with a straight face that the state should provide heroin.

People won't stop doing drugs, so it is more than justified to try to reduce the harm done by having people rely on street dealers:

- wildly fluctuating dosages, leading to ODs

- "stretching" agents, from harmless herbs in weed over rat dung to fentanyl in heroin (which doesn't mix evenly so you end up, from the same supply, with one dose having vastly more of the stuff than the other) and their associated side effects

- massive amounts of cash (2010: 109 billion dollars per https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-10/more-pot-...) funneled to the black market. This "competition for cash" creates violence by itself (e.g. gang turf wars), creates massive incentives for bribery (if I were a customs agent, I don't know if I'd say no to a million dollars for letting the occasional shipment through), directly funds wars and destabilizes countries (e.g. Afghanistan, Mexico) and also increases the amount of crimes the users do in order to afford a dose (e.g. if a user needs, for the same amount of heroin, to rack up 10$ vs 1000$, then the amount of crime he has to do in order to get said money is reduced massively)

> So far, all I’ve seen is the dependency switching to the replacement.

Better have the money flow to the state in form of taxes and (in a fully state-provided drug regime) revenues, than in the coffers of hardcore criminals.
Which material is less resistant to scratching? When I saw that shiny edge, I couldn't help but wonder how long it would take to get scuffed up.
Ugh, no. Goodbye privacy and corporate ethics, hello creepy analytics.
They are much harder to sterilize, and autoclaves don't work. Ideally you'd dispose all tools exposed to prions, but if that's infeasible, the CDC recommends an autoclave in a bath of NaOH.

https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cjd/infection-control.html
Iphone X One SE Plus
For a company, yes. Individual license is much cheaper, but the devs need to pay for it themselves.
just looking at their own website it becomes so glaring on any screen where the background isn't black. for me it actually looks worse than keeping a border area.
Also beg to disagree. The most important skill you can cultivate is wisdom. How you cultivate it is another story, though.
This is absolutely illegal copyright violation. I wish it was not as those are old and well beyond the age of needed "commercial incentive protection" but that does not change the laws.
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Kudos to Kahneman for owning his mistake. That's the right sort of behavior to model for younger generations of scholars.

I aspire to this level of self-awareness, accountability and integrity.
I just switched from an iPhone 6 to a Nexus 6P earlier this year and am extremely happy to be free of Apple and onto an OS which is far less hostile to users, imho.

Also, another nice thing is that the Android app sizes seem to be about 1/10th the size of comparable iPhone apps.
They are supply constrained by many of the materials and parts that are used on this phone (OLED screens, for example). You can bet that they will bring the price down to earth when they can manufacture in mass quantity.

You've got to remember they sell nearly 50 million of these things every quarter. They don't just appear out of thin air.
Yes, it’s a trick to find entitled consumers who would really benefit from an all-inclusive no-questions instant replacement device protection plan! Just $9.99 per week will give you the piece of mind that you’ve been missing!

Just put your phone number, address, and credit card details on your HN bio and one of our prestigious client grooming agents will be personally in touch with you at your earliest convenience…
You would still need it for the normal front facing camera (look at the Essential Phone).
Biometrics is always better than no passcode, using just a finger or 3D face model is a major hurdle for your basic phone thief.

If your threat model includes state actors, then you shouldn't be using any of these. Also start to toughen up your body for rubber hose crypto :)
Since its biometric, ill assume that it too like your fingerprint, is coersable.

Still the only safe way is a PIN.
Cuff someone, pull their phone out of their pocket, hold it in front of their face. "Is this your phone? Oh, it looks like it is..."

How's that Fifth Amendment thing working out for you?

EDIT: There's legal precedent that specifically says you can be compelled to unlock your phone with your fingerprint, and that's not "testimonial" (that is, your right against self-incrimination isn't in play). There is zero reason to think FaceID will be treated any differently.
I don't think Musk would be enticed by the prospect of heading up a company that's focused on animating poop emojis. He's busy saving our species.
They (ok, a different they) also said that the iris scan can not be fooled, and how long did that last?
> I'm not going to jump into a swimming pool on purpose

New models are waterproof, dive in ;)
Aight, I failed, but it's really not how I like such information conveyed.
THIS is all I could think since the rumors started. If someone wants to steal your phone can't they just hold you for 1 second and point the phone to your face to unlock it?
The internal DAC is good enough when I am on my feet. Its more about stability and convenience than sound quality in this situation. Its inconvenient to carry an additional adapter which gets accidently disconnected more easily than a jack.

I use an external DAC (Beyerdynamic A200p) when I use my notebook or my iPhone stationary.

Edit: I use Shure SE846 as headphones.
The edge of the X is made of "surgical-grade stainless steel"

https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/
iPhone 3 was definitely plastic, and it was horrible. Especially when the benchmark was set with the beautiful original iPhone.
Those fools? You'll be dancing on their graves.
I wear glasses, so I am used to wearing glasses at all time, but sometimes I can't (running or swimming or tired), let alone we have people that do not wear glasses at all. Perhaps eventually all humans are going to wear glasses (or have contacts) BECAUSE they HAVE to in order to "enjoy" life (which sounds depressing just think about what that means to human free wills and uniqueness). This is what I was referring in another comment: human wearable integration is going to be a huge thing in the upcoming years. No doubt.

Otherwise, there is no way for AR to really take off as a general use. It would be nice to watch your baseball game from a AR+VR (watching from the "eyes" of the players) views.
> I think Apple needs to position themselves as a privacy concerned company

They have already been doing this for quite awhile. With their practices on device encryption, public stance on cooperating with police for unlocking devices, etc, they have made it a key differentiating factor between them an Android in many ways. And when it comes to security and privacy, you are incorrect when you say that all phones today are the same.

Throughout HN comments for the last couple years, it seems to be widely acknowledged that Apple offers the best privacy of the current mobile industry.
Unlikely, since they hardened their model against professional face masks.
Let's ignore the morality claim and look at this from a pure productivity and intellectual standpoint. It has been proven, many times over, that being active (moving) will make you think better, work better and basically outperform those who do not. So if you need a reason to move around do it for job performance.
There is a distinction between making rational decisions based on events and being negatively emotionally affected by them.

You can leave your manager or country while laughing at the absurdity of the situation and being grateful for having had a unique experience.
Face ID bypass will sure be available Nov 4-5

Also wonder if this "security feature" is NSA-approved, m pretty sure it is.
Well, there's an efficiency argument related to holding onto cash instead of investing. That is, holding onto large quantities of cash and not investing means losing out on returns. The only time that's rational is if there's significant market risk, or if you get better returns due to appreciation in currency value (which amounts to treating money like a commodity/investment).

So, I'd argue that holding onto large quantities of money in lieu of allowing it to circulate due to fears does qualify as "hoarding", insofar as the money could be put to better, more productive use while the person holding onto the cash may be losing out on potential upside.

The term is particularly apt when there are concerns of a deflationary spiral, as cash hoarding truly does become a problem in that circumstance.
Doesn't really have to look like a hollywood mask though, fooling neural networks is a growing area of research these days: http://www.evolvingai.org/fooling

There are probably many redundancies in face ID, but I wouldn't be surprised if some interesting techniques for fooling it show up.