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I realize that to some it may appear as obvious, but quite often the obvious is overlooked as people respond to the hastily promoted propaganda relative to a system and become emotionally entangled in it instead of holding to reason.

Having prefaced my response with the above clarification, such an outcome should be expected rather than being unexpected. There's no such thing as a totally secure and uncompromisable system. Any system can be compromised. Where there's a system, there's a way to compromise it.

When all is said and done, what can reasonably be expected is a system that's as secure as it can be reasonably made and a genuine effort to patch vulnerabilities as quickly as humanly possible.
and " Ironically, we got the best results with laser printers made by Samsung"

You can tell they really had fun with this!
The one concluding that would be a judge, of course.
> But I'm not sure that there's enough of that kind of useful work

Perhaps we should not worry about that until all the useful work has in fact been done.
No but presumably in a cost oriented operation, you could problably get 2 vehicle to work in tandem vs 1 vehicle and 2-3 human pilots.
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Hey Josh, I'm running it on Minikube though and the storage had provisioned without error. Perhaps I needed to allocate more disk space to my minikube instance (the default is only 20g), it would be good to include that in the documentation as well!

Minikube will be the gateway to most people trying this I assume. As such, you'd need to increase the default CPU/RAM/Disk for Minikube:

minikube start --disk-size 80g --cpus 4 --memory 4080
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> but in ray marching you don't cast secondary or tertiary (or more rays) like you do in ray tracing (thus limiting the processing, but also the level of realism)

Not necessarily. The marching is used to sample a volume to find intersections (or density), so you can absolutely march secondary rays for shadows, reflections etc.

http://9bitscience.blogspot.se/2013/07/raymarching-distance-...
These kinds of forms are the WORST! I'm forced to fill out FAFSA every year and they try to seperate the increadibly long form onto multiple pages. The result is that I don't know what information I'm going to be asked after moving to the next page so I get to play telephone tag with my parents.

Even when I have all the information myself it's still pretty painfull. I stopped using turbotax because they build their site this way. Moving down the form provides plenty of "a sense of progress" for me.
Computers already pased the Turing test so there is nothjng to prove any more
I remember the Anglia TV knight! I didn't realise it had such a fascinating story behind it.
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> Turing proved that the halting problem cannot be solved on a Turing machine. This opens the possibility for the existence of programs that might be "productive" in your sense, but might also never stop, and it is not possible to know in advance.

Maybe. I struggle to imagine a practical case where we want to run a program that we didn't and couldn't know whether it worked though.

> I am not convinced of this at all. Perhaps true if you are talking about banking systems or web applications, but probably not true if you are talking about AI. Intermediary states of an endless computation might be interesting. Maybe this is a way to obtain unbounded creativity. Maybe this is the way to build minds. We don't know enough.

This is ridiculous reasoning. "We don't understand X, we don't understand Y, therefore X might be related to Y."

> A more general observation: I find that we live in an era that is too obsessed with productivity at the cost of fundamental research, dreaming and imagination. I am convinced that the latter mindset is the only one that can bring qualitative changes to our culture and civilisation, and I think that our long-term survival depends on such qualitative jumps.

> Of course, I also understand that someone has to take care of the plumbing...

Choosing to look at non-halting programs rather than halting programs is like choosing to look at crystal energy instead of nuclear fusion. A certain amount of willingness to question baseline assumptions is valuable, but I think our long-term survival depends far more on being willing to acknowledge the fundamental results of the field and put in the hard engineering work necessary to achieve things under the constraints of reality, rather than trying to wave them away.
Sony Mobile is still somewhat separate from Sony itself I believe, since the Sony Ericsson days when it started out mostly the old Ericsson mobile team. E.g. they still have development in Sweden (although with continual layoffs).

Back in the day Sony Ericsson and Sony were night and day. Sony made DRMed ATRAC players, and Sony Ericsson made walkman phones thst would let you Bluetooth MP3 files between phones right from the music player.
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It would be interesting to have the departments of a company interact based on capitalism.

I've worked at such companies and it kind of sucks. Everybody optimizes for their local optima without any concern for what is good for the company. People end up a lot less willing to lend a hand to a 'rival' groups, and projects that would be good for the company as a whole end up scrapped because the individual departments involved cannot agree on how to spread the profits/risks internally. Also a lot of work ends up duplicated because it is 'cheaper' to get someone in your department to do it rather than to 'pay' a rival department to be allowed to use their solution.

Basically you end up losing many of the advantages of scale that a big company should provide without gaining most of the advantages of flexibility and nimbleness that a small company should provide
Gotta love these CCC takedowns. I find myself smiling in anticipation when clicking these kinds of links....
There's this one: https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Kanban-Mapping-Work-Navigati...
Non-physical things (i.e. pure information) are the one thing you can tie to a blockchain. Maybe there are enough valuable pure information things for it to work.
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Whilst it's certainly valuable to make people aware of the limitations of the security systems we use, this shouldn't really come as a surpre. If someone is close enough and motivated enough to take a high-res photo of your face just to access your mobile device, they're also probably close enough to film you typing in your passcode - sure, you might do that less often, but for an average user are either of those things a real concern? The security model hasn't really been "broken" because if someone steals my phone they don't have access to the device by default.
Wouldn't IPFS be a better fit for storing data than the Ethereum blockchain?
> my employer is a thief. Tax fraud, wage theft, copyright violation. Staff are expendable, ... What keeps him in business is powerful friends in government (in a country with "low levels of corruption")

That sound horrible.

Is there anything that can be done to bring such people to justice without exposing dvtv75?
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„But biometric authentication does not fulfill the advertised security promises“

This is completely out of context. For the average smartphone user Iris-Recognition on a phone (just like touch-ID) VS pin-disabled on the phone is a huge step forward.
No, dude. Everyone's the same. You obviously haven't been reading enough left-wing news publications. NYT, The Guardian et al.

IQ is alt-right propaganda. Definitely no IQ. As such, we need to teach everyone to code. If only the evil white men would let everyone spend 60 hours a week coding.

And the reason some people go to top universities isn't because they're smart. It's their class. Their class allows them to handle abstraction & complexity dude! We need to level the playing field & equally distribute ability to learn via capital redistribution. Being able to buy better brands is def going help shepherd us into a nu-world of equality.
>Most of it is just gone.

Ive wondered if over a very long period of time it might be possible for our descendants to build a simulation which can aproximate the entropy difference b/w now and our past on earth. Or if such calculations would be forever practically impossible, even given enormous power, i.e. a computer harnessing the power of the sun
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When you can no longer do (ii), you start to do (i).

But since no one wants either, the pressure usually ends up on doctors. If there is an exodus from the public sector, instead of a slow downgrade, then it will collapse.

edit: the original point is that the US should have a system like the UK - but is the NHS even sustainable?
You might find https://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/234939... interesting.
> The Samsung Galaxy S8 is the first flagship smartphone with iris recognition.

That's not quite true, Lumia 950, Lumia 950 XL and HP Elite x3 came out a lot earlier than the Galaxy S8 and all of them use iris recognition (still undefeated, by the way)
Add that that humans millions years ago were not in billions as today. They were actually in very small numbers, like tens of thousands on the entire planet.
LOL, apparently Chinese media has been ordered to censor all coverage of the loss.
Do you have any GAE resources (blogposts, github etc) recommendations?
Hydroponics and aquaponics are both considered closed-loop (compared to other agricultural methods). Hydroponics involves growing plants.

If you're raising fish in addition to crops in your system, with the fish excrement providing the nutrients the crops need, then you're engaged in aquaponics.
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Based on the write-up, Samsung has lower quality Iris recognition than could be written by an undergrad in a few hours. I say that, having done so.

Most obviously, the system should not tolerate a constant-size pupil, ever. The pupil has micro-dilations around twice per second, and your system is really terrible if you don't verify that changing diameter.

Also, multi-spectral is a pretty good test, though I don't know enough about the capabilities of the S8 camera to know if that's feasible (shouldn't be that hard.) Capturing the patterns of the iris at 500, 800, and 1200nm results in three templates that are quite different from another.

CCC were able to do this for about the cost of a S8. I would say this is one of the rare situations where defeating the attack would have been even cheaper. It's that simple a programming exercise.
Yes, the Oracle problem is the elephant in the room. Augur tries to make it work by creating a new reputation token that accrues to oracles that provide true information (so effectively paying people to be honest), but I'm not sure where development is it - it seems pretty slow.
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No he didn't - I notice you totally ignored the questions and statements in my last post(s).

Trump did not answer to the allegations made. You quote the tweet yourself, and it does not address "classified" information, you're assuming that it is, and hence putting words in Trump's mouth. you don't know.
It's essentially the same here in Norway and so far the system is working reasonably well. It does mean that my job as a software developer doesn't pay as well as it might in the US but on the other hand I have a lot more security; I can't be fired without cause, notice periods are six months after working for the company for ten years, etc., redundancy compensation is generally reasonable, and so on.
With a 4k camera and decent light conditions that could be possible in public space. Whereas you can avoid entering your passcode in public spaces (or shield it well enough).

It shows again that for people with very valuable data (where others would spend significant amounts of money to get data), passwords remain the only secure way.
Might be a short program that generates them? I'm going to go ahead and file that in the understate of the century folder.
I get pretty cool artifacts on the first logo when scrolling. Kind of looks like a spotlight centering in on the line intersections.
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I can obtain an image of you online, while I need to be on-site to spot you typing your pin. So if I have your phone, I can do research at home to break in.

Additionally, you cannot change your iris once it's compromised. This is an absolute no-no for secure systems! Changing your pin is easy.

This is definitely not a huge step forward. And, as already mentioned, the average user gets misguided by exaggerated marketing promises.
I didn't downvote you, but there's more going on here than just inferencing over a database of prior knowledge. The game is too complex for that. Compare this approach for instance to Monte Carlo based approaches which aren't doing so well.

Speaking of Monte Carlo, the Lee Sedol version of AlphaGo did combine a series of deep networks with Monte Carlo sampling, but rumor is that was replaced in this version altogether (it's also running on TPU's now). Would like to see some more technical details as well.
There could a bit of a bias, Lumias and HP Elite x3 aren't anywhere near as popular as Samsung Galaxy S8, same as most malware targets Windows rather than Linux/macOS.
The important thing is how much more/less difficult is this than spoofing a fingerprint. If it is significantly harder, I still see it as a win for samsung's security.
>Iris recognition may be barely sufficient to protect a phone against complete strangers unlocking it

I suppose that's the attack scenario those systems (at least in phones) are supposed to protect against, to be fair. Suppose the alternative might be that some users use a predictable pin or none at all. Fingerprints or the iris sensor is an improvement for them because they are quick and easy to use.

Of course it's still good to deflate the hype around Iris scanners a bit and demonstrate that it is currently a very limited technology after all. Especially considering their remark that iris scanners spread to other devices too.
Honestly, unless the rate of progress of technology changes, the topics you mention will not be machine-less for too long. It's relatively easy to imagine a general artificial intelligence (however far off in the future that may be), that can out-think us on the topics of world peace and ethics. Unless you reject the very possibility of a true general artificial intelligence (or assert some kind of metaphysical superiority of our biological existence), the list of things we're truly best at gets smaller and smaller.
No, but you could weigh the information against the source/context. You can lie off record much easier, since there is less likelihood of damage to reputation.

That's a tangent anyway, if there is no verification, the only value a statement has is the authority and sincerity of the person who says it: we have neither that, nor do we even know the context (we have just the words, or interpreted statement - it's easy to cherry-pick those).
Here's some context:

The patterns in your irises are unique to you and are
virtually impossible to replicate, meaning iris
authentication is one of the safest ways to keep your
phone locked and the contents private.

Source: http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/galaxy-s8/security/

I think the quote is fair.

Also your pin disabled argument doesn't make a lot of sense. That's like saying 123456 is a good password because many people disable the password prompt at login.
"The claim that U.S. employers cannot find enough adequately skilled computer scientists within the United States appears to be an overstatement."

Corporate lies get such polite labels.
I suppose Samsung tuned the system to avoid false negatives, which might be difficult in all the lighting conditions that might come up in real world use. It's a device for the mass market and average user after all.

Might be that they did a bad job with the Iris recognition, but why not give them the benefit of the doubt and consider that they were aware of the trade-offs involved?
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Calling people out publicly is potentially dangerous to your future career. In this context, if you are going to attack someone else's career you must annihilate it completely and preferably in secret. In this case the doxing has not achieved this goal and therefore comes off weak. Having said this I sympathise fully as I have been in a similar situation but in the medium to long run this public doc might come back to haunt you... the internet never forgets. The best advice I can give is to try and take it down and do your best to scrub it from search engines. You will undoubtedly be feeling terrible now but indeed you have been given a gift to grow and be more formidable against these types of people and situations.

I humbly suggest to finding another job ASAP and take a moment to read "The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene. This will be the best time investment I can think of for not finding yourself in this situation ever again.
Unless we pull a Sparticus, and all claim to be bitcoin millionaires?
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AlphaGo does not distinguish between 0.5 points and 30 points. Its only objective is to win, and to absolutely secure the win. It doesn't care by how much it wins.
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This is happening to a friend of mine too by the CEO of his company. There is very little you can do about it except quitting the job. Only the boss of the boss could do anything, being in this case the shareholders, who don't give a xxxx as long as the money keeps flowing in.
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Can you read Chinese?
Every news site in China reported his loss.
Try harder.

I'll give you one of the biggest media sites. http://www.163.com/
It's on headline.
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Musicians can use this immediately. I'd like to write an app for it that I can use with my piano.

In fact, pretty much any object could be the use-case for this. Very exciting .. I wonder when they'll be available in Europe.
Do you have a source about these micro-dilations? I googled a little bit but couldn't find enlightening results in my superficial search.
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Well sites doing TS work you can sort of understand that

I knew someone who worked for the scientific civil eservice and they where not allowed to have a phone with a camera.

I have also been for an interview at a site (HMGC) where you have to hand in all electronics at reception - this was an avowed role btw so I am not breaking any laws the organisation even has job adverts on the local buses
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Spoofing this eye is significantly easier than spoofing a fingerprint, because modern fingerprint technology detect if a fingerprint is "alive" by looking at sweat pores, pulse, veins under the skin and other features of a living finger.
I am curios how much eye damage these system can cause. The S8 gives a warning before you activate it that you should not place the phone too close to your face.

How bright is this infrared light and can it cause eye damage although we can't see it?
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> VR only exists for gaming. No one is going to put VR goggles on every day to watch the news or check the time.

False dichotomy. There's a huge range of potential and real applications for VR that are neither games nor "watching the news".

Pop back here when you've tried SoundStage, TiltBrush, some decent social VR, CAD or interior design in VR, some high-quality VR storytelling experiences, training/education VR, historical reconstructions, music visualization, data visualisation, a physics sandbox, visual programming, interactive character animation etc.
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While I'm all for learning Rust on new platforms, I'm curious why something like Lua wouldn't be more appropriate for this particular use case. Maybe Rust was chosen just to scratch an itch, but it seems like the author could have given a little thought to using Lua in this environment, too ..
Biometric data is not a password, it's an identity. Fingerprints and iris scans are equivalent to a username or email.

To secure a device you need a password.

Basics: something you are (iris scan, fingerprint), something you have (2fa token, usb unlock key), something you know (password).

One out of 3 is probably not very secure.
Well, encryption helps with deniability, no?
Agreed, but like a child comment said, this is a lot more popular now, and new words pop up all the time in natural languages. I get your point, but to me it adds clarification in Nim's case as compilation could mean going to JS, C, C++, or we could be talking about the part where that is passed to gcc or the web browser or whatever.
No point in repeating the well-known. 0.5 is almost nothing, go is not just binary win or loose.
Oh, I meant that the counter-argument would use "No true Scotsman", not that the article did.

> Maybe, but between marketing, hidden sponsored posts, fake news and crappy/agenda-driven "real" news, I wouldn't start from Armin's blog :-)

I think I can comment on this article, and that the few HN commentators here will see it, and my message will certainly reach a small audience. For those relatively larger problem, I don't have access to a suitable medium or audience and thus, even though the privation is greater, I would reach zero people.
> CCC were able to do this for about the cost of a S8.

I think you misunderstood this. The cost was buying the S8.

You only need a laser printer, a decent camera and a contact lens.
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