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I am still pissed at Apple for removing the jack and I held on to my iPhone 6s, until now. I ordered myself an iPhone Xs Max, but only because Shure now offers a Lightning cable for their IEMs. I use the SE846. The biggest issue with the Xs is still, that I cant charge and listen at the same time without using a dongle. And since I travel a lot, this could make me reconsider to buy Apple in the future.

Apple really lost points for removing the jack.
Yes, specifically spread betting, which is illegal in the US, but more common overseas I believe, because it basically is pure gambling. The other variations that are legal in the US are futures and options, with the latter being the most similar to spread betting I think.

Futures is a market to reduce risk for commodities producers. Options are higher risk I want to say?

Search around Investodpedia for better explanations; really good site that one.

EDIT: or maybe the spread referred to in the article is on the options market. I'll have to reread.
>Look what happened when people "lost trust" in Facebook. Shares are down 4% relative to a year ago. Is the company permanently crippled? Are people revolting and moving to alternate forms of social media? Fewer of the people immediately connected to your local graph are probably using Facebook. But that local loss of users gets completely offset by the new users they grow internationally.

The idea that because things are some way now they will be forever thusly hasn't panned out historically.

Once dominant IT companies are now dust. The same thing can happen to any company, including FB and Google is they piss enough people off.

And that's incremental. Today's annoyances matter.

Once all-mighty 99% of the Desktop Microsoft now has the more lucrative 5% of the desktop eaten by Apple, and is irrelevant on mobile and web services (search, mail). If they had gathered goodwill back then (like they strive to do now) things would have been different.
>crescent-shaped, creamy seeds

Are they really creamy? Just eaten one. It's relatively hard and fractures into shards when chewed, as you continue chewing the shards get smaller and smaller and finally approaches texture of a chewed walnut, maybe bit stiffer.

They must have mistaken it for cashews.
Teenagers have abandoned Facebook in favour of other social media platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram, according to a study from the Pew Research Center.

Just 51% of US individuals aged 13 to 17 say they use Facebook – a dramatic plunge from the 71% who said they used the social network in Pew’s previous study in 2015, when it was the dominant online platform.

In this year’s study reported Facebook use was, according to Pew, “notably lower” than the percentage of teens who said they used YouTube (85%), Instagram (72%) or Snapchat (69%). In the previous study, just 52% of teens said they used Instagram, while 41% said they used Snapchat.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/01/facebook-...
In US history, sorry it made sense as implied when I was typing it.
>a branch that is entirely value free

I think values are a little bit like the GPLv3. They virally propogate into anything they are even the slightest part of. So while game theory, as maths, is value free, its place in economic theory, its promotion, its funding, its employment, are all eminently value-driven. Seeing parts of a discourse as clean, free of value judgements is to misunderstand value judgements. Information without value has only analytical meaning. Every piece of synthetic judgement implies a value system - people telling you otherwise are generally trying to sell their values through dishonest means.
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Have you checked the Samsung Galaxy S8/Note8 line? It seems that these phones include a customized sound framework for very low processing delays, AND they include jacks. Google for Soundcamp.
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The most popular use cases for serverless are gluing different services together, where critical metrics are network throughput, network latency, and CPU scheduler. Fibonacci is not an interesting use case on its own, nor is time-insensitive computational work in general. Sustained 100% CPU usage is not affordable on these platforms.

When used in conjunction with a database, KV store, or blob storage, total latency for the end user is dominated by the CPU scheduler for small instances, and network quality for larger instances. Except Azure of course, they are still trying to figure out how to bolt serverless onto App Services without re-engineering the stack.
DJI is super interesting. They just have the best products. There was a time when they did not have the best products. Super curious as to how they leapfrogged everyone so quickly.
I thought a bankruptcy procedure is about distributing the remaining assets to creditors in an orderly and fair way. How can this prevent him from losing his assets?
>This is bizarre to me. Pivoting is seen as a tremendously good thing in the startup community.

What's good for the startup community is not the same for the entrenched behemoth community.

>. If you have a product that isn't working and isn't getting users, you do something different or your company dies. You simply cannot keep throwing developer time at such a product.

Google however can. But instead of developing their product further, they announce it as the next thing, get millions of users, and then forget about it, don't update it, don't promote it anymore, and eventually close it pissing off all those users and failing to attract more users due to their own inaction.

(See the ex-googler's comment above about how this process goes).
Remember there is an AMP proposal for certificates to replace DNS for web site identity. In that scenario, Chrome would stop showing URLs and would only show the human-readable identity that signed the page, as validated by a certificate.

This would allow signed site pages to be navigated offline or replicated widely or blacklisted :( There is a risk that Content IDentity would factor into EU upload filters and "link" taxes.

History and Chrome demo video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17920720#17923156
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I am aware of all those things, because I did it. So I know it is not trivial; I'm not being disingenuous at all. I made the trade offs for my family. I am just wondering what other people's thoughts are.
That's great in a single-variable universe, but in ours unfortunately there are a million other "it's (only) $0.5 per person" things. It's like letting the public choose what students have to learn - "but this is sooo important!" (and this, and this, and this,...).

I don't understand that kind of argument. You have to choose the right level of scale for what you are looking at. I would not trust an architect (of buildings) who is a particle physicist, or a forest(-system) manager whose specialization is the cell. Some things need to be looked at the the higher (compound) level to get any useful results.

EDIT (for the reply below, to which I cannot reply?):

> I find it important / useful for myself to put it into context.

Well, my point is that you don't.
I think he meant hold down volume down + power button for 10 seconds.
Yeah, while we may never win the war against HIV and Malaria, we will continue to make progress towards prevention and treatment, and they will become less and less of an issue with time.

With TB we seem to be losing on both of those fronts, and it is indeed something to be scared of...
Hi deepakkarki,

I prefer to only correspond with serious mathematicians, and for fun recently I have been using Sage to work through Mochizuki's paper on Inter-universal Teichmüller theory, I got a little stuck on this passage, if you can explain it to me I will tell you more about my project:

"In the first three papers of the series, we introduced and studied the theory surrounding the log-theta-lattice, a highly non-commutative two-dimensional diagram of “miniature models of conventional scheme theory”, called Θ±ell NF-Hodge theaters, that were associated, in the first paper of the series, to certain data, called initial Θ-data. This data includes an elliptic curve EF over a number field F , together with a prime number l ≥ 5. Consideration of various properties of the log-theta-lattice led naturally to the establishment, in the third paper of the series, of multiradial algorithms for constructing “splitting monoids of LGP-monoids”.

Just Kidding!!!!! I sent you an email =) Thanks so much for your interest in this project, looking forward to hearing more about what you are working on as well. Cheers!
It's the name of the round button at the bottom of the iPhones without Face ID.
You're mostly right, but there's probably laws governing exactly what assets are redistributed to the creditors. Maybe he is able to stash some assets with his wife or in some complex offshore setup. You'd need lawyers to say. Or the bankruptcy court even.
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It's not the audio DAC that is the limiting factor for good sound. DAC is old technology that is cheap, efficient and well understood.

3.5mm is de facto hi-fi.
So what do you trust? Google?
>With the new iPhones coming out today, I wanted to revisit the whole Apple vs. headphone jack fiasco.

You keep using that word, fiasco. I don't think it means what you think it means. It doesn't mean "hoopla". It means "disaster/failure".

With the phones selling more than any model before them, I'd hardly call that decision a fiasco for Apple.
I loved everything about the AirPods except that they have no noise reduction. The New York City subway is loud as hell. Street noise is loud as hell. Even when not wearing headphones I wear earplugs to block out all the noise.
The fund that got depleted has to be topped off again, with money from the other participants in the market. Fortum, for instance, will have to pay ~23M euro, and is largely owned by the Finnish state. Same goes for lots of the other players.
It's true that there are definitely some side-effects and we'll need to wait and see what the long-term consequences are. The good news is that they at least appear to be well-tolerated drugs, and newer drugs show fewer adverse effects - minor bone-density reduction and renal function impact are the main adverse effects of Tenofovir + Emtricitabine, with no obvious effect on bone marrow for example.

But it's quite a tricky decision to make. Vaccines aren't without risk either, though adverse reactions are also rare. Certainly from a cost perspective, PReP with high efficiency makes a lot of sense – lifetime treatment and monitoring of an HIV+ patient can be markedly more expensive than a relatively cheap preventative medication, especially in high-risk groups.

I have been beating around the idea of taking PReP for a while, what with being part of a higher-risk group in an area with relatively high HIV prevalence. It's definitely a harder commitment to make than vaccination is, but I hope that we can improve our knowledge and understanding of the risks as the trials currently underway progress.
Because it seems like you'll never need all that money to live, so you may as well invest/gamble it. You think you'll never risk your lifestyle as long as you only play with a certain pot, but then something like this happens.

My pet theory is that a lot of people who come into such money do so suddenly, and they don't appreciate the nature of the risk involved, on the upside or the downside. Huge wins are due to their genius, huge losses due to the market misbehaving.
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He might have put a subset of his assets in a foundation, which is not included in bankruptcy (as he no longer owns the assets -- the foundation does).

Foundations however, have no owners (generally only beneficiaries), so they often cannot be held liable for the debts of the (original) founders.
Flying domestic in the US is crazy expensive when compared with budget airlines in Europe, where (if you look out for it) you can get a flight from London to Rome for £40.

International from/to the US is pretty much the same as everyone else in the world pays. This is based on my experience paying for and flying to 32 countries, many more than once.

My understanding about why Amercians don't fly international is the same as the UK used to be - not many even have a passport, and even less have an interest in cultures other than their own. For these last two comments I have no data, only hearsay.
I got to know a Swede who came to France shortly after finishing his studies and we eventually befriended.

He told me how tough it was for him to be in front of people who he felt were bullying him to discover
afterward that he was, to take his words, a mimosa (a flower which crumples once touched).

He said that thanks God he had two brothers and he quickly recovered because they used to fight (like brothers do). He blamed, like you, the pampered way of life he had. A good life, just not ready for non-Sweden life.

I remember an article about Chinese students who had similar problems when they had to face student life, coming from one child families where they were demi gods to their parents.
To put this in perspective, the current OnePlus 6 is 155.7x75.4x7.8mm, so adding a mere 0.1mm to the thickness increases the total volume by about 1100 mm^3. A typical headphone jack that you might find in a phone has a PCB footprint of 9x14mm, so assuming it takes up the entire thickness of the phone that's about 1000 mm^3.
Browse or add yourself to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902902

Job ads outside the whoishiring threads are against the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and I would argue so are "here's my CV" counterparts.
A duinomite could have been an easier path. Natively does basic, has vga, and is pretty cheap. https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/Duinomite/DUINOMITE-MI...

Edit: Interesting...the Duinomite folks even noted the "Why Johnny Can't Code" post: https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/Duinomite/_resources/E...
Even if PUBG would support ray tracing, most users would probably turn it off, because being able to spot things in competitive games is more important than visuals. Good players even turn off shadows and post processing effects in order to get an advantage over players who dont. Ray tracing is a nice feature for single player games or multiplayer games that are not competitive (e.g. PvE games like Diablo).
Most taxi rides give me a strong motion sickness, while regular car rides do not. My assumption is this is due to the more aggressive and unpredictable driving style (quick, unexpected lane switches and turns), so I think this more or les correlates with your coworker's experience.
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>If you even mention that you're feeling long lasting discomfort, you will immediately be met with suspicion and resistance and assumed to be a drug seeking addict and a criminal.

This was to be expected and it is absolutely mind boggling.

People not having access to proper pain medication is absolutely abhorrent. Large parts of the world still havent recovered from world wide lobbing campaign to ban opiates. Where even terminal ill patients in abhorrent pain have to exist on paracetamol and even that only if the family can afford it.

And that kind of lobbying hasnt stopped. The last push I know of was for the ban of mean party drug ketamin, which is the only reasonable anesthetics for poor regions outside of the effective range of a hospital.

I am really hard pressed to not view people pushing for tighter regulation of pain meds as simply evil. If you have people accidentally addicted to opiates, that is of course a problem, but one that can easily be fixed with better informed patients.

You just dont fight the war on drugs on the back of chronic pain patients.
Why is it difficult for this guy to switch his locale to australia? The screenshot of the form shows the “NONE” payment option.
> Some planes are approved for Bluetooth (generally the ones with WiFi), others are not.

I would be very surprised if that is how it works, given that some Inflight WiFi solutions do not need any approval at all. (Keyword: Portable IFE)
Not quite the most telling statement is something close to: engineers are intellectually invested in their work that most don't have time for caring about politics, so they just follow what people around them are doing.
You've got a point, though it may be a bit of a simplification. Personally I'd say the problem with politics, religion and other such topics is that they're more a perfect storm of the following:

1. They're about topics you can't prove right/wrong with science (at least not for the most part), so there's never a consensus.

2. They're linked to their participants identities, meaning they're very uninterested in changing their opinion or listening to others they disagree with (since it comes across as a personal attack on their background).

3. People don't know if they're experts at these topics, but don't care and will argue about them anyway.

4. They're things everyone has an opinion about, informed or otherwise.

5. It's virtually impossible to tell who's an expert and who just likes to talk a lot, meaning discussions are filled with every kind of crank and extremist possible.

6. For the very few who actually are open to new ideas and perspectives, they're often easier swayed by emotional appeals than facts when discussing these topics.

Hence the raging flame war that will inevitably ensue when one of these topics is discussed in almost any forum (internet or otherwise).
Instead of "trickling down", a perfectly tight pipeline system was designed and build so that each single drop is taken care of... one can lick the pipes still.
The Chinese investors would just lose access to their land. If it was much of a long war, they'd likely lose the title to it. It would inevitably continue to be utilized for food production.
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Looks like people are taking offense to me saying that all hollywood movies are the same. If you can watch the same superhero movie 30 times (with different skins and superhero names), power to you. I can't any more.
>>> but I don't buy this idea that Apple did it to sell wireless Beats, for one reason: the product lineup sucks.

Counter argument. The product lineup sucks so they had to help the sales in any way possible.
I would argue that knowledge without context is incomplete knowledge unless you can reasonably expect the receiver to have the context necessary. You aren't really being ethical if you aren't giving a truthful account of the information.

It kinda falls under "well, I didn't actually lie... I just didn't say more than absolutely necessary. It isn't my fault if they assumed wrongly."

In the example of early-onset alzheimer's, complete information would come with a recommendation of retesting, given the incidence of errors, a likelihood of the disease (was given), and whatever the accepted medical advice to follow afterwards is. It would probably be best to include warning signs of when to see the doctor about it if most doctors and insurances won't cover anything without symptoms.

You can have all the legal disclaimers on this as well.
> Yes, I know that quantum key distribution is a potential replacement for public-key cryptography. But come on -- does anyone expect a system that requires specialized communications hardware and cables to be useful for anything but niche applications?

I don't think there is any inherent reason why this would have to be done using "specialized communications hardware and cables". Didn't the Chinese just demonstrate entanglement sharing via satellite?

I could imagine a post-quantum computing era where it is even possible to know, with certainty, if you have been hacked, or data breached, because of quantum cryptography. We are not any where near this kind of technology right now, but the physics is real.
Betting on a spread is not spread betting. You can but Coke and sell Pepsi, you then have a position in the spread. That's not spread betting, which is just a retail way to gamble on a price movement.

You cannot say options are more risky than futures, the two are related but different in nature.

Whether he implemented his trade in the options or futures is irrelevant, there was always going to be a blowout risk.

Source: I'm an ex options and futures trader.
Having moved countries, and lock-out regions, three times... this is precisely why I still buy physical copies of media (mainly video games and movies).

I'm increasingly worried about video game console hard drives, and the digital purchases I've made, surviving any future issues with the console or download/streaming services.
So Apple did it to fatten the bottom line of their Beats subsidiary, which currently owns about half the Bluetooth headphone market. So why is everyone else dropping the jack on their phones? They don't have a similar profitable arrangement. It seems like they're just pissing-off potential customers, but without an income stream to compensate.
I use a dongle too. I got it permanently attached on my headphones.

i think he makes a false dichotomy in his article. He is not bringing up a dongle at all and makes the choice to either a phone with a 3.5mm output or bluetooth. I would give this more credibility if this was discussed as well.
In short: sum types.

If behavior is controlled from the top level(as is suggested by the cases where the main loop grows to 10's of thousands of lines) your behavior branching also appears there. The data is still driving everything, but if the data model is inherently complex it bubbles up to the surface. And you can use sum types(whether provided by the language or in less structured "match a magic constant" type deals) to check your coverage. During prototyping, you can lean on dynamic types instead and get a similar outcome with more fluidity in model changes and lower debuggability.

That feels instinctually wrong if you're dosed up on polymorphism and expect a kind of "ultimate abstraction" where any of the enemy types could be totally different and you just write to an interface, but - the thing you want, and that is the practical situation in most gameplay logic, is not "wholly bespoke behavior per type of enemy, hide everything behind a facade and either duplicate code or use a complex indirection to reuse it where it's the same" but "98% of the behavior is on the same code path and reads top to bottom, except for the one or two important pieces of business logic that isn't". The latter is both more compact in total SLOC and by being surgically precise, gives more visibility into what the code does at the moment you try to debug or extend it - which is what we're really aiming for.

And if you have really complex behaviors, you do end up with Turing-complete script logic embedded in the data, just naturally growing out of data model extension to cover FSM logic. That indicates that you are never really "giving up power" at any point in this process - you're just gradually moving things up the abstraction chain in a controlled fashion, until your main loop is really an interpreter that deals with "opcodes" and "commands" more than it does any particular algorithm or data layout.

And then when you get there, you can go, "well, now that I have a virtual machine, let's optimize around that..." and then you start writing some tech to lower the overhead of the interpreter...and it just goes from there. You never have to jump off that train, but you can usually ship something well before you get it even to the Turing-complete level of programmability, too.