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Qi is old news. It was in most android phones, and was removed already from new phones.

It's been integrated into many appliances years ago...

All the technical people used and done with Qi cause it's so slow compared to quick charge 2.0/3.0 why bother. Just plug it in.

I am sure the market will definitely uptick again with apple and the apple centric crowd. Definitely agree with you there it's good to be in the QI business.

Time to dust off your old Qi product with the new label packaging that is support Apple products
Dunno I used to think it was, for businesses. But if you buy your own personal license you're paying a lot less than you would for Visual Studio overall. I was fortunate to have a discount for having had a student license, so I got like 40% off the price tag or something. I paid under $200 for software that allows me to make thousands every year. Not only do you get all those fancy Java IDE's but you get ReSharper and the whole family for Visual Studio. I say it's underpriced, and every year I renew they lower the price, but my license is perpetual the moment I stop renewing for a year. I think if they charged me $300 a year I'd still find it worth it considering all they give me in return. I'm able to be much more productive in not just .NET, but Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP and other languages, and hopefully someday a Rust IDE comes out of their workshop.
RNGs shipped in browsers today are pretty good, and there is also crypto.getRandomValues().
Now there's a contextually amusing question.
Can someone explain what Java EE really means? I tried to parse the bundle and license the last time this came up, and I didn't really get anywhere.
Java EE seems drag on Oracle's cloud future. One can see where Oracle would like to focus, at least, through their open source efforts [1].

1. https://github.com/oracle
> You can't tax-free swap Facebook stock for Amazon stock,

You must convert to USD first to swap stocks. With crypto you don't have to.

> they end up owing more in taxes than they are worth

That's bizarre and punitive, and does not seem to be consistent with a fair system.
The message during the demo said "Your passcode is required to enable Face ID"

This indicates an error. When you have too many failed Touch ID attempts, the iPhone says "Your passcode is required to enable Touch ID"

After you restart your phone, the message is "Touch ID requires your passcode when iPhone restarts"
Not really the same thing, since nobody except GNU actually uses that prefix when talking about things. (To the point where it's a minor meme)

Emacs is just Emacs to most, not GNU Emacs.

>I certainly gained much from only having to learn a single, predictable config format that GUI tools can parse easily

Linux's primary use is on servers where there usually isn't a GUI, which already had conventions for config formats, usually delineated by debianlike or RHELlike. For people that run servers (read: most Linux users by far), these changes are obnoxious.
I know I'm supposed to turn my phone to flight mode but I often use my phone on planes so I know it works. I've been doing this for years. Jets are not faraday cages. The speed of the jet slows down your connection and you need to be over a city but it works just fine. I can browse the web, watch youtube vids, etc. I don't make calls on a plane cause that would just annoy everyone around me but I'm confident it will work.
One piece of advice I often give to my graduate students is "Pick problems where 'Yes' and 'No' are equally interesting answers."
Because wireless headphones work with all BT devices and cost hundreds of dollars less.

They are also convenient to use while commuting and while working out, which is basically 95% of my time using headphones with my phone. Ambient noise while walking, riding a bus, or being in a gym is generally too noisy to prioritize audio fidelity anyway. That's not what listening to music on my portable phone is for. I have better headphones for my desk.
Both questions: I don't know.

But as an individual: I'm vesting while I work to satisfy the conditions for a GM payout.
>"Hundreds of e-mails and many teleconferences later, we converged on a technique but still had a stupendous three-day difference in lifespan between labs. The problem, it turned out, was notation — one lab determined age on the basis of when an egg hatched, others on when it was laid."

Wow... this is pretty basic info on what was measured.
Rather off-topic question. How do you make an animation via scrolling like their "X"?
Sure. Just very few people used them. Also, I know WAP looked great then, but today it looks kind of crappy.
Have you tried Shures, or any other decent pair of in ear monitors? If you haven't, you should.
In a lot of ways this kind of stuff is what we were warned about by many including the FSF. Cloud software you don't control, or which knows a lot about you, can be used to censor you.

Always better to self-host and backup/distribute via the cloud as a secondary method. Easier said than done though.
> But now nearly all of the low-lying scientific fruit has been picked so the scientific endeavor needs to adjust its expectations.

Of our current energy/resolution paradigms

We know that ~20% of the universe is Dark Matter and that ~75% is Dark Energy. All we really know about Dark Matter is that it falls down and doesn't really interact with itself or anything else, really.

Dark Energy? Yeah, whatever it is, it pushes galaxies apart, that's about all we got.

There are a LOT of pretty easy discoveries to be made yet, but we just don't have the engineering to make them yet. The LHC was a marvel of engineering, but it can't even come close to the energy required to produce (theorized) Dark Matter particles. If you tried to make a bigger one, you'd need an LHC with a radius larger than the Earth's. That's not going to happen anytime soon, not by a long shot. We need another method than particle colliders, probably a very large space-based telescope to stare at black-holes with jets.

Biology is also rife with 'easy' things to do, but ones that we just don't have the tech for yet. Strangely, with all of the data that the Googs and the Zuck have, we have not seen a similar paradigm shift in psychology, criminology, or economics. At least in public literature.
I use face unlocking (just the builtin(?) Android one) and I am well aware that it isn't secure. I use it because I'd rather have an insecure way of locking my phone, then no way of locking my phone. I try not to keep to important of info on my phone, and also I need my phone a lot when it isn't safe/easy to unlock it, and just pointing it at my face is pretty simple.
Cofounder made app more accessible to vision-impaired in honor of blind father
So, should we expect LessWrong to be amended with retraction notices across half the Sequences?
The pressures applied to getting tenure are the same pressures that get applied to keeping your lab funded, getting your graduates and postdocs jobs, etc.
People have asked various representatives but short of an admission by one of the involved parties or US intelligence agencies detailing what they know, I don't think there's a good way to do any additional research.
As a FLOSS contributor/developer, I don't like this idea. Having to apply for and receive a license to write programs or modify existing ones would pretty much kill any FLOSS project not backed by a company.

In addition, how would this be enforceable? Unlike a civil engineer, where there's some amount of physical presence required in what they do, SW engineers can literally be anywhere in the world and still be productive and it seems that this system could easily be gamed.
It means the whole server-side JDK API, including the servlet spec, jsp libs and JDBC SQL framework under the javax.* packages, whether actually distributed as part of the JDK or not. [0,1,2]

[0] http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/persistence/packag... / http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/sql/package-s...

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/package-s...

[2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/jsp/index.html
Can Techie Parents Reinvent School for Everyone–Or Just Their Rich Kids?
I confess that I'm seriously considering no longer reviewing for open peer review journals. I vastly prefer double-blinding.
The Surface Book has had facial recognition for almost two years now and it is actually impressive. Short of a full latex mask that has padding to shape the wearer's face it is pretty impossible to break into it. We did tests with iPad pictures and depth options, straight camera prints and a 3d printed model. None of it worked. It is also not easy to access latex custom latex masks.

I feel my only issue with FaceID is that when you are in handcuffs all it takes is for the phone to be held in front of you. It will be interesting what safety regulations are used to prevent illegal entry by police or captors.
A tempered Bostonian. If it is formal, Broadcast English. If I'm out and about, I'll do a mild form of the regional accent, as appropriate.

Off topic, but the missus gets a kick out of it. It's a valuable skill. I do a mean Down East accent, which is different than the rest of Maine. (I live here now.) With practice, you get an ear for the variations.
Proven how? You mean when people like Samsung or HP just do a very simple photo match where you can hold up a literal picture and it gets recognized?

Apple is using 3-D scan data as well as infrared reflectivity and for all we know temperature sensing. You can't compare the two.

Did you have something that's a closer comparison?
If by interesting you mean regular ol racist crap; I concur.
Just started a new job at a Ruby shop and really wanted to use VS Code… but the plugins just aren't there. RubyMine is miles ahead of the free stuff right now. Maybe one day!
This article pretty much sums it up.

http://tinyletter.com/mbutterick/letters/q-ligatures-in-prog...
It's interesting because that would have been obvious to anyone looking at the methodology section of the original paper. Unfortunately it only takes one review paper or two paraphrasing or quoting the the original before it becomes standard lore (without the methodological caveats).
The LTE Apple Watch still has to be linked to an iPhone. You could leave it at home, but you still need one. I assume that means you need an active service plan for it too. So that $10/mo would be in addition to your iPhone service. Kinda steep, I think.
Huh? If anything, the acronym for ML acronym for machine learning has become further entranched and ML the language gets virtually no coverage these days, even the FP people are more likely to talk about how to do ML in Haskell...

Search for ML in the monthly job postings. Guess how many mean machine learning and how many refer to the programming language :).
NTT Docomo places Qi wireless charging all over Japan. Okudake Juuden. Fujitsu F-10D has wireless charging, waterproof, 13MP camera, on first quad core with LTE in the world, Jan 2012. Wireless charging is built into the removable battery.

Apple waits for a winner in wireless charging. Finally arrives to the game 5 years after the dust settles. Of course they choose Qi. Ships 12MP camera, in 2017. lol. Sealed battery. Planned obsolete from day one.

Apple buyers already think Apple made wireless charging popular. It was kinda slow TBH fam. Neat to watch your F-10D charge wirelessly while submersed in water on the display though. Maybe good for Apple phones though. Can't electrocute you using non-Apple approved charge pad.
Which is torture, so they could do that until he tells them the passcode aswell.
No it doesn’t but maybe most people think that’s exactly what it means...
You should consider reading the article.
...and charge it how? If it's in active use recording there's a decent chance it would be nice to charge and record at the same time.
Facial recognition is something humans are known to be better at than computers, and identical twins throw off humans all the time.

Even when computers surpass humans at this task (probably not that far off) they will likely have difficulty with identical twins because of how they do facial recognition. At the moment computers do it by identifying points that correspond to the geometry of the face, like nose, eyes, and cheeks. These are all features that would be similar between twins. Usually humans can differentiate twins by fatness, scar tissue, hair style, etc. Not something that can't be overcome, but also not something common with current approaches.
Help me understand-

Alexa O'Brien has a Youtube account with many hours of video.

She also has a google account, drive, etc.

Some of her videos contained material that Google (being Google), didn't like.

Despite the fact that it was all very important journalism, Google arbitrarily decided it was #extremism, therefore #banned.

I would say that 5 years ago I would have been shocked and outraged, but lately I just absolutely am not surprised by Google anymore.

I hope Alexa kept local copies but I'm imagining maybe she didn't. At the very least she is losing all of the views and PR associated with her channel.

If you do have local copies, please try to publish elsewhere!

Google is on a crusade to demonitize any video it doesn't like, so it can keep dwindling ad money flowing to only the people it chooses.

Good luck, how can we help??
Someone reinvented shareware.

This doesn't tackle the problem it claims to (livelihoods in free software) and misidentifies where the burden of license compliance falls (big companies are often among the most reluctant to use free software).
This is a security nightmare. For one thing, it makes it impossible to use GCC's (and clang's) format function attribute, which allow the compiler to statically type check the format string and variable argument list. For another, printf bugs are a fertile ground for remote code execution and this glibc feature, by relying on runtime-assigned function pointers, is considerably worse. Combined with the lack of static type checking (because you can't use the format attribute GCC extension), I'd fire anyone who relied on this feature despite my objections.

Thankfully, I've never seen real-world code that made use of this feature, and hopefully never will. And if glibc knew what was good for them they'd kill it off.

If you're early enough in your C programming evolution that you find this stuff enticing, there are better ways to screw around. For example, read about GCC's __builtin_types_compatible_p feature (and the slightly less powerful, but more portable, C11 _Generic), and ponder how you might devise an interface that transforms variable argument list arguments to self-describing structs which don't solely depend on a separate declaration in the format string for type information. (Hint: also read about C99's variable argument preprocessor macros.)

I wouldn't recommend it for production, but exploring that space is a decent way to hone your C skills. Learning what _not_ to do, and why not, is at least as important as learning what to do. Poking at glibc's printf extension doesn't offer such dividends.

Finally, if you're interested in the mechanics of printf more generally, stay as far away from glibc's implementation as you can. It's a nightmare by every conceivable metric.[1] While there are simpler implementations, of the fully compliant implementations which see widespread use, I'd recommend musl libc's and OpenBSD's implementations.

[1] It's not even a good example of what _not_ to do because by the time you've mentally mapped out what it's doing and why, you could have completed a Ph.D or burned through a dozen rounds of VC funding.
Node v8.5.0
What if Snowden intended to end in Russia and has been an agent for a long time? I fail to see the logic that USG would have publicly refuted the notion that they'd pulled his passport. Please illuminate.
What I've seen in bio research is that inconsistent results are always chalked up to some difference in the methods.
Someone's gotta do something about Google.
While they can't be responsible for someone putting all their eggs in the same basket, their terrible customer support policies can really ruin someone's work beyond repair.
TI Nspire Calculator Playing Doom on Linux
Only what will android people do for their bad choices in life.
your ipad doesn't have a phone number :)
My own experience in plasma physics contradicts yours. I've been in research labs where the PIs would throw journal articles, relevant to our work, in the trash after reading them and subsequently telling us what was intrinsically wrong with the papers. These weren't papers from unknown institutions, a couple were from PPPL.
something you should do if you're going to an airport/border/protest/pulled over/etc
No, he specifically separated out the blockchain technology from the currency component.

Via FT Alphaville [1], he says, "I’m going to be really clear in this one. Forget the blockchain, that’s a technology… But… the currency isn’t going to work." The article also points this out, but doesn't differentiate it which has the effect of making him sound hypocritical.

> JPMorgan and many of its competitors, however, have invested millions of dollars in blockchain, the technology that tracks bitcoin transactions. Blockchain is a shared ledger of transactions maintained by a network of computers on the internet.

[1]: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/09/12/2193624/money-creator...
Normally I try to rule out conspiracy theories, but this one is pretty interesting. A video being removed I could understand, but deleting an entire Google account seems like a rather extreme measure, and I wonder who is really pulling the strings here. I could certainly think of motives for doing so.
> The only thing that I notice about Lisp are the bracket jokes and memes.

You have also noticed that lots of people use it to create cool things which reach the HN front page.
Apple's pretty good at accessibility, they may have thought of that with one of their settings.

They seem to work so hard at making sure all their products work well for people various levels of vision problems I have to believe they would've done something. After all even the Apple TV has support for people with total vision loss. I don't see why they'd break their flagship product.
Collect your last cheque from the front desk and get out
I believe in President Trump's words you are a "Sucka".
> It's just amusing that you and I don't imagine normal behavior to be role play, and can conceive of a meeting wherein people bring their Eve personas together in a simulated star system and agree that these characters will then engage in a recursive level of role play.

Say that to my face in nullsec.
Is the playstation 3/4 vulnerable to this?
They worked with my Galaxy S6 so pretty sure it's Qi
What are you doing right now?
Isn't Case 1 an attack on every possible method?
Do we have any idea what carriers like Verizon will charge to lease the X? I am currently paying $109 all in for 4GB of data and unlimited calls and txt. Phone is iPhone 7 128GB.
Does oracle have a equivalent?
With the Kinect "sign in to profile with your face" we made sure the person had a heartbeat - there's minute color fluctuations in your face that actually allow you to discern heart rate/ BPMs.

That was using primesense. Apple bought primesense. I'm sure they're doing something similar
I am not sure what causes what.

Well, if you mean whether misery 'cause addiction or addiction causes misery; given that people actually vary a lot in how they react to things, I'm pretty sure that each causes the other some significant part of the time. And maybe life out-of-control just cause habit out of control. But if so, "same difference" as they said in the eighties.

Add peer pressure causing a lot of this too.
Changes in the new iTunes
Cellphones used to have a 1 week battery life.

The market spoke. We care more about weight than charging frequency. Sorry for those of you who have other preferences but this is not changing any time soon.
> That's not Amazon's MO,

Actually Amazon isn't always the lowest price or the best selection; their #1 aim is to try to be the most convenient (where cost is an important, but not exclusive, factor in "convenience"). In fact they differentiate prices to different consumers and ramp up prices in some popular items when they think they can increase margin. (Not that there's anything necessarily nefarious about that). They do try to make it hard to compare prices, which other retailers do as well.

> [n]or goal with the Whole Foods purchase.

We don't know Amazon's goal with the purchase. There can be several, possibly even competing ones (launch a couple, see what fly). For example they have Echo in the store: it can be just a way to switch people to online ordering and/or a way to see if people buy non-food products through this real estate they already purchased (this is how Fry's transitioned from a grocery store to an electronics store in California) and/or a way to link in-shop shoppers to their online history and/or something we don't even know about -- or they haven't thought of yet.
> Easier said than done though.

Not by much, once you understand the consequences.
Pros vs. Cons of Website Push Notifications
My guess is that next year they drop the numbers and it just becomes the iPhone, the iPhone plus, and the iPhone X (or something similar).
The line wasn't that they succeeded in the vision. He was laying out what the vision was.
There are several issues around that association that have little direct connections to poverty rather than more US specific issues. First lack of medical care to fix or prevent the underlying causes of much chronic pain.

The second is a tendency to prescribe opiods to poor populations rather than focusing on less addictive medications. Further, non chronic pain can transform into chronic pain as Opiod uses/addiction increases pain sensitivity.

Combine the above and poor healthcare more directly links to Opiod addiction than you're suggesting.

EX: Mildly Injured > no medical care > working while Injured due to lack of sick leave > more significant problem > prescribed Opiod's vs surgery > addiction.
Why not use machine learning and a sort of "reputation system" to filter out the noise and trolls? The system could analyse comments, but the users could also, instead of upvote/downvote buttons, have buttons with reactions such as "Interesting", "Insightful", "Not relevant", etc...

Some people have informed opinion/interesting things to say and some people just contribute noise to the discussion. The system can learn both from the language and reactions from people.

Just like in "real life", if someone is always talking out their ass, you learn to listen to them less and less because they don't have anything meaningful to say. It's just noise.

The comment system should do the same. It learns from multiple comments and their reactions to determine a reputation. Obviously, if your comments are always seen as "not-relevant" and "toxic", then your contribution is worth less than other "insightful" and "interesting" contributions, so past a certain threshold, you stop being able to comment.
Piggy-back. You do not get a separate phone number for your watch. They will charge you $5 or $10 a month for the 'wearable device'.
There are plenty of ways to pursue happiness with little emphasis on liberty and property rights. Check out buddhism, for example, which is big on finding happiness with what you've got.

Private property is not a prerequisite for happiness (and certainly not to the degree that libertarians talk about it). For example, Americans are happy that the government prevents strangers from walking across their lands. Northern Europeans are happy that they have Right to Roam, allowing them to cross private lands as long as they don't damage them.
It would be nice to have two gestures. One to unlock, and one to force passcode mode.