skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'm a Gen Xer, so yes, the audio jack has been working well since before I was born, but what I'm seeing a lot of in this thread is people with slightly niche use cases.

The end result is - don't like it? Don't buy it. It's not coming back, no amount of wailing or gnashing of teeth is going to change that, if it's a massive inconvenience for your particular use case, the iPhone isn't the phone for you.

The proliferation of AirPods and other wireless headphones points to most people just embracing the new normal, which in some ways is superior (I really don't miss wires at all).
The thing with OVH is, that it's a fully automated service with a very basic level of support. There is no hand-holding. They expect you to read the docs yourself.
> voting

That's the "they're just going along with it" argument voiced by both sides of the aisle.

> campaign contributions

> not something that generally talked about it publicized

There's gotta be some reason Eich made it less weeks as Mozilla's CEO.

I guess we'll never know.
You could argue that the US military uses ego very successfully. The money isn't good all things considered but it is reliable/stable. So, I think it is a mix of M and E.

Now imagine if we make universal health care and universal college education free of cost and available everywhere to everyone regardless of income. I bet military recruiters' job will become a lot harder.

This makes me wonder: why can't we use ego in civil service? I'm thinking police, firefighters, and transit workers (from the bottom all the way to top management). Because after all, if we want to reduce cost (and I hope we all do) then what's better than to reduce pay?
That's odd - I've never had issues with AirPlay, but now have a whole house Sonos setup which I use instead. Have you tried AirPlay 2?
"We just have a lot more land, lot more culture"

LOL. You know the difference between America and yoghurt, right?
So you're totally fine with carrying around an external hardware amp, but a dongle for it is intolerably inconvenient?
I only use screen/tmux when connecting to a server to preserve compile sessions/outputs.
In my case, I have spent most of my life so far in places like those you listed and am a new arrival in Montreal.

But tech workers native to Montreal who consult remotely for SF/NYC tech companies or VCs after spending some years doing a US work stint for networking purposes can definitely build up savings rapidly. I know one such example personally.
You just wrote the argument for lightning being the wrong protocol for headphones.
UK councils use AI to predict child abuse
> For an audiophile experience, you’d better love the DAC built into your phone.

that's why i use lg's v series of phones that include a high-end audio dac.

> Meanwhile, for mobile use you, need to tether your head to your phone and manage the cord. Not a great fit for mobile uses because you don’t want to move around too freely.

that's a false argument because the inclusion of an audio jack does not prevent the use of bluetooth. i use high-end headphones at work, home, and in certain travel situations like a plane and use bluetooth everywhere else like with my car and wireless bluetooth speakers.

you said the 3.5mm jack would not be the interface designed today, but yet, you didn't come up with an alternative. the sound with a proper dac and headphones and a physical audio jack is incomparable to bluetooth and bluetooth headphones. and having the physical audio jack makes it much easier to do what i want with the audio when i want. whether it's attaching to a bose bluetooth speaker or outputting audio to sample on my op-1, it's the best of both worlds.

the problem i have with apple is that they have never given a compelling and logical reason for removing the audio jack. my lg v35 has the audio jack plus a high-end audio dac and yet the design is every bit as sleek and compact as the iphone x phones, in fact, maybe even more so because the camera doesn't protrude.

so all of this is pointless arguing simply because apple can't even answer the question of "why", as in why even remove it in the first place.
I agree. When a fair election is held, the results must be honored.

If the outcome is truly that unpopular, then the opposing side should re-group and put it to another vote through the same channels that set up the first election. To do otherwise is anti-democratic, IMHO.
>> In September 2014, the list of people not allowed to fly into the U.S. or through U.S. airspace contained 64,000 names. Before 9/11, only 16 people had been on it.

Oh. So there are ways to quantify the rise of paranoia in US security agencies following 9/11, after all.
It's possible that Jobs might have made the same move. And just as possible that he would have been as wrong to do so.
Thank you for this mature point of view.
> That's the whole point of dongles -- a smaller/simpler device for 90-99% of people, at the cost of a tiny bit more expensive/complex solution for the remaining 1-10%.

I like your completely made up numbers. Basing of the sales numbers from the article, this is the argument you are making:

A smaller/simpler device for 17% of people and a solution that is up to 2x more expensive and far less convenient and functional for the remaining 83%.
Yes, it's good to give a comment a corrective upvote when it has been unfairly downvoted. That's one of the main ways the system self-regulates.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=corrective%20upvote&amp;sort=b...
I've purchased a large number of USB-C cables, and the Apple one is the only one that seems to charge a macbook pro at full-speed (87watts). All the others (Anker, Amazon Basics, a few others) only charge at 30w or 60w which can leave your computer out of battery after a full day of use even when plugged in if you're doing compute-heavy things. Not saying the $19 price-tag is "fair," but at least it's a high-quality cable.
What does veganism have to do with HN or the article? This seems like basically a political discussion hijacking a science post.
50 Years InTech. Part 4: The Exxon Delusion
I do not have experience with the iPhone and Apple's Bluetooth headphones, but I've tried a bunch of 3rd party brands with moto g and oneplus smartphones. Sadly at home we only have 2.4Ghz for Wifi, which means it's absolutely less than ideal to stream something over wifi and listen to it on wireless headphones.

I'm surprised this is not a problem for the iPhone, or I've never read anything about it yet.
Oil paintings can be perfectly reproduced using 3d printing, including the brushstrokes:

https://shop.verusart.com/pages/vincent-van-gogh-collection

The only reason this is not more widely available is due to snobbery and elitism in the fine art world, IMO. Imagine a world in which there were only a single copy of every work of Beethoven.
“Both these scenarios are a million miles from what was promised during the referendum campaign, only further exposing the lies and mistruths sold to the public," he wrote in the paper.

If Brexit is not what Britains voted for, then carrying through with this is against the will of the people.
A nice thing about electrical kick scooter is that one can easily take them on a train. I started to see in Oslo how more and more people living in far away suburbs use them to get to/from train or underground stations.
My 2018 Toyota Sienna requires the phone to be plugged in to the USB port on the vehicle while using Bluetooth in order to provide moving map functionality through the Scout GPS app.

Not sure if this is something Toyota could fix with Bluetooth or if they'd need to move to WiFi or something else... just tossing this out as one of the ways I use the port daily on my phone in my car.
i would search over the innumerable other times this has been covered in HN and many blogs
tangential, but check out that your power supply is ok, that's the second most common source of random lockups during load (I assume drivers are up to date, that'd be the first)
https://www.teamblind.com/article/Google-Engineer---Total-Co...
Not quite. Birds, in general, appear to have evolved from a subset of theropods. They are in the same clade.

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_0...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/50-mil...
Pretty sure this is fairly old, and pretty sure they are following Amazon's lead...almost literally via copy + paste(as an ode of approval and liking what they are doing)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172401#c9
I fully agree with your sentiment, but...

The trouble with taking shopping back to brick and mortar is that half the best stores, and especially the eclectic specialists that had the interesting and quality things, have closed down over the last 10 years. Leaving many areas with little more than basics and discount chains. In good part thanks to Amazon and the rise of online. Five or more years after it closed I still haven't been able to fully replace the local hardware store, offline or on.

There's an awful lot more charity shops because the landlords struggle to rent all the retail units, far more betting shops everywhere, but very few new shops opening to fill the gaps.

Meanwhile Amazon isn't a patch on what it was before the rise of marketplace.

Backing out of everything at Amazon could prove difficult.
I have a product that generates 1 report per client per day. It has a single dev who doesn't know anything about infra automation.

He got his code running on Elastic Beanstalk in about 2 hours. I spend $40/mo on AWS, but an extra team member would cost me at least $10k/mo.

Never say "never". Many (most) of us would prefer predictable, high infra costs over unpredictable (possibly even higher) payroll.
The role of politicians in a representative democracy is to act as a moderating force against the tyranny of the majority.

The pro-brexit camp has been shown to be full of lying propagandists. Another vote seems necessary.
Nobody can answer that question for you.

It's hard to even say for sure without knowing what the startup is working on, but I would probably choose the startup because I think Google's tracking is creepy and unethical, I don't like big corporations, and the extra money isn't important to me.
I heard the other day about a partner at a major law firm who despite his first class degree applied to 500 positions before he got his first job.

As rubbish as it is, send more letters!
Yep: +1
> When a fair election is held, the results must be honored.

Yes, when a /fair/ election is held. However as of late most elections are heavily influenced by outside forces.
Wow makes me think it’s more for water sealing than form.
you are certainly misreading the offer. there is no way you are getting 6%
Hacking an assault tank...a Nerf one
It's simple. Fragmentation of the consumer market (languages, habits, economic values) leads to a rough ride up for B2C unicorns. Look at Spotify and Soundcloud, Skype, UStream... Whereas the current state in business due to the family owned businesses is one of fear. They don't have the resources to innovate internally, and the prevaling technical sophistication of the available labor force along with the disincentivised compensation plans for engineers means its hard for them to build solutions on their own. Building a B2B in europe just makes more sense from a founder perspective. Consider that in Berlin a couple years ago a pretty popular recruiting firm found that 85% of startup CTO's or VP Engineering's were Americans. I myself am a US expat, currently founding my second B2B business in Europe. A common truism is that european (german) investors say: do not tell me how much you will make. Tell me how much you will spend.
That's why I suggested a USB dongle that you plug into your car and that dongle connects to the iPhone wirelessly but your car thinks that it's a regular USB connection.

That's actually something that I always dreamed of :) Wireless USB.

Which seems to be a real thing anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_USB
That looks pretty good - how times have changed since I used Lohnes and Strothman at uni
Given that Uber/Lyft track every inch of the car's journey, it seems entirely feasible for them to automatically catch some types of bad driving (exceeding speed limits, illegal U-turns, frequent hard braking, etc). But currently they're not incentivized to.
> Ground loops have never been a problem for headphones.

No, but they're a problem for consumer hi-fi systems, which use the same 1/8-inch RCA connectors.

> And SPDIF over optical (presumably you mean ADAT) is considered vintage now.

Yes, but it still exists, and you still have to consider its existence in the design of a modern component that could be hooked up as part of an audio reproduction chain, especially a component of a consumer hi-fi system.

My point was that the signalling standard which modern devices connected via a headphone jack have to obey if they want to be able to talk to "anything else that has a headphone jack", is complex, in the same way that e.g. USB-C is complex. Everything "needs" active circuitry just in case the other side isn't playing/expecting plain analog audio over the jack. ("Needs" in quotes because you wouldn't expect a $10 pair of headphones to work if you plug them into your CD player's SPDIF-out port, but you generally would expect the same of a pair of Bluetooth headphones that have their own internal DAC.)

> Bluetooth is simply not a professional audio technology. It's not enough of a standard, and not reliable enough even when it's implemented correctly.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that Bluetooth was good, or that it was suitable for professional usage.

What I meant to assert, specifically, was that when comparing the signalling standard of the Bluetooth audio profile, to the de-facto signalling standard required on e.g. a smartphone's audio connector, the Bluetooth standard requires around the same number of active components at the [antenna] connector terminal, as the headphone-jack de-facto standard requires at its physical connector terminal, to achieve the same level of user-expected interoperability. (And something like Audio-over-Ethernet is even more complex in terms of the number of active components required!)

So, while Bluetooth might not be good, I wouldn't describe the thing being mourned here (the de-facto signalling standard backing the 1/8 inch headphone jack) as being very good either. It's also complex, it's also "not enough of a standard" (because it is extended with things like SPDIF and TRRRS connectors), and it's also frail—and comes with a host of problems of its own, like signal degradation over short distances and wire frailty, when implemented at the wire gauges consumers [rather than professionals] gravitate toward.
Oh wow. Another echo chamber!
> Some people don't care to leave the country? So what if it's not their thing?

It leads to an uneducated populace, ignorant of other cultures and with a very limited perspective of world affairs.

People's understanding of the world becomes limited to what you hear from the state department and the news media.

Makes it easy to drop bombs on people a world away if you never bothered to get to know the people or places you're destroying.
That's small business pricing. Their enterprise pricing is higher: https://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-more-offi...
This is correct. You'll still repost prorated signing and relo, but some of your stock will have vested.
What external hardware amp are you referring to? Bluetooth headphones have an amp, not wired headphones. And the phones themselves will continue to have an amp as long as they have speakers.
I like how no-one commented on this. Its a formidable bit of writing. You'd need to make sure you really got it before risking a critique or an analysis of it. A risky thing to comment on.

I find the language interesting, he's having to use very specific phrases and structures again and again to try and carve out what he's saying and what he isn't saying. Makes me wonder what a philosophical declarative language might look like, or even a philosophical programming language (what would that even mean?? I like the idea though).
Google is an election fraud scam

Google is not in a position to pretend it is a certificate authority
It's not just space: Mini (kei) cars are subsidized via much lighter taxation, which is why they're so popular in Japan.
Ceeate Weekly Hackers News a link with the most voted news lastweek in hackers news
Apple won't switch. They pissed of many people with the switch to lightning and were aware of that.
They will probably do the same thing as with the headphone jack:

Getting rid of any kind of connector.

They already have the basics for that in place. It's just a matter of tooling now.
> easy to move

You need to stay ~12 months in your initial team; if your performance rating is bad (non-trivial chance of that after 1st year), no other team would ever touch you and you'll be slowly driven out (rare exceptions happen). 18 months used to be average stay of a Googler inside company. If you are out of luck with your team/boss, you are done internally, and this happened to many clever developers. You'd also have to get used to usual corporate CYA, internal politics and all the fun that comes along, with many developers barely doing anything but excelling in those "soft" metrics. Smaller chance of that in a startup with strong pre-selection, a mission and personal relationships, if it has solid funding.
Those who think 3.5" floppy drives and CD-ROM drives just worked in the same way that 1/8" jacks just work have yet to grasp just works.

As for the rest of the airpod tech... inductive charging is old, resonant coupling is roughly contemporary with A2DP, and even Qi-branded resonant coupling is 2010ish. Amenable NFC tech or other means of easy pairing are older. If these were somehow a crucial key to The Future™ that Steve Jobs himself had seen in a vision, there's little reason those couldn't have been out sooner (with Apple's resources, possibly before his death). And all this assumes that for some reason the form headphones take with the airpod is for some reason the primary line for marking the obsolescence of 1/8", which isn't a solid assumption because (a) plenty of people are happy for their application with other devices and (b) for some applications, the prevailing bluetooth profiles are still inadequate even assuming universally adopted airpod tech in all bluetooth audio devices and (c) how far away are we from universally adopted airpod tech? and (d) 1/8" would still be closer to just works.
There was no legally binding vote in 2016 on UK leaving the EU.
I was wandering that myself. My numbers seem low. I wrote version control for my CLs to improve the speed but I need the discipline to sit and create them.
A non-computing recommendation: 10 Minutes to Better Paintings

This playlist of 6 videos by Canadian artist Marco Bucci is excellent. Even if you can't draw or paint, or you have no interest in doing so, you'll still learn so many surprising details about visual design and colour. All presented with no fluff. I highly recommend it

(Note: the playlist is not ordered correctly but if you prefer you can watch only the only the videos you're interested in)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLmXZMqb_9sbNLM83NrM0...
Amazon Investigates Report That Employees Leaked Data for Bribes
Job search doctors will tell you that hiring is an elimination process; if you are getting interviews then your resume is "good enough" and it isn't the problem, it is your ability to pass the interview.

Most people make mistakes in the interviewing process that cause them to interview below their level. Don't be that guy.

One class of mistakes is actions that offend some people: the range of these are large and if you want the job you won't be leaving posts on social media complaining that other people are too sensitive. For instance I interviewed for a job at a company that was making small satellites in Southern NH and got turned down because I touched the knob of an oscilloscope without permission and the guy who ran that particular lab thought that meant I couldn't be trusted and I was passed over, even though everybody else thought I was great.

When you become aware of this you can certainly stress it because any person you see could blackball you but you have to eliminate any sign of negativity, hostility, etc. If you radiate "I've been hurt" it is all over.

One way or another you have to face it and you will.

You can certainly try a temp agency like Kelly if the wolf is at your door, but you can get paid better anyplace else.

Don't think about remote if you don't have experience. If you want to move somewhere I say anywhere but the bay area. New York City is great in 2018, but there are tech scenes in cities like Boulder, CO; Henderson, NV; Boston , MA as well as general areas such as Southern California, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Salt Lake City, and Research Triangle Park.

If you can get a security clearance (clean rap sheet) you will find work that is often interesting and innovative for defense contractors who are geographically distributed and might even move you around from one site to another in the flyover states.

I'd suggest figuring out a way to live light and move to a low-cost tech hub and get into that scene and be ready to move again in 6 mo to 1 yr.

I like the SkillIQ tests at Pluralsite for a quick assessment of "how well you know a technology". I have taken many of them and they reflect my own assessment of things I am good at and not good at.
That makes sense, but since users are disagreeing about what's accurate here, it's probably best that we stick with the original title of the article.

Once a thread gets this popular, it's not so title-dependent anyway. Readers will click on the comments and quickly get up to speed with what the article is about.
Dumb meme for the name.
Dumb memes all over the site.
No information about who created it.
Major contributors who work on altcoins.
Mastodon and Diaspora for social media accounts.

Yeaaaaa, no.
The 2016 referendum was neither fair nor election.
What outcome should be respected though? Nobody voted for Chequers. Which, obviously, isn't acceptable to the EU either in its current form.

A lot of people voted for £350m a week extra for the NHS, continued unfettered access to EU markets (read: things don't get scarcer or more expensive, and my job is safe) while restricting EU immigration, and absolutely no change to the status of Northern Ireland and its border with the Republic. Exactly none of that will come to pass.

This whole fiasco is happening because David Cameron took a reckless gamble with people's lives to shut up some backbenchers in his party. That shit makes me dislike politicians.
Thanks for the link! Didn't know the technology existed.
However, browsing the site it appears that only a few (250) repros are made available - such a pity. Hope the tech gets applied more widely.
Two years is a long time. The U.S. House of Representatives has two-year terms. Do you think it would be appropriate not to hold midterm elections because the people have already voted and their votes should be respected? Or is two years long enough to permit the question to be put to voters again?
"High quality" in this case probably means that the microcontroller embedded it spits out the right sequence of bytes to make the laptop enable full-speed charging.
Goal: Live Service Model https://abload.de/img/ubisoftls1awjcu.png

Reality: Training people to wait 6 months to a year before purchasing complete version of game, on a sale.
Based on the largest study currently available[0], there does not seem to be any evidence supporting a vegan or vegetarian diet having any protective effect on all cause mortality. There's a lot of pseudoscience in the health and wellness community so I would remain skeptical when reading about any alleged health benefits of a particular diet.

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312055008_Vegetaria...
This is interesting in the context of the Massachusetts gas explosion earlier this weelk