skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't require any password on my phone. The only reason I put a fingerprint on it is to prevent pocket dials. And even with that, it sometimes almost seems to dial 911 by mistake.

All I need is a way for the screen to ignore input (when it turns itself on) unless I activate it with the power button.

Are there really that many people who truly need very high security on their phones?

Seems to me most people just want to deter casual snooping.

Personally I would rather that any app that has high security requirements would secure itself and not require that the entire phone be secured.
> the biggest problem with their comments section is the commenters

I think that's the problem with comments on any website. The questions are 1) how to bring out the best from people, and 2) whether that is sufficient.

The same person will behave very differently in different contexts. They may be professional but constrained in a business meeting or around superiors; intellectual, curious, and challenging in a classroom; and obnoxious and loud in a bar. How do you make your comment section, and website in general, bring out the qualities you want in your comments? I'd guess that many websites are not so altruistic as to want intelligent comments more than provocative ones, to generate traffic. I recently read an interesting history of the NY Times Op-Ed section, which said that provocation, rather than wisdom, was the intent.

And even if you bring out the best in people, is that sufficient? I find almost all columnists and op-ed writers to be a waste of time; how much time do I have for uninformed, random people? (And I appreciate the irony of saying that in my comment!)
Watching someone key in a PIN and recording it, then swiping the phone is easier than building a 3D printed color model of someone's face. Not to mention that having the biometric unlock sitting on top of a PIN means that there are many fewer chances for the PIN to be observed.

Whether biometric access is a password or username is trying to force the wrong paradigm. Going back to first concepts, we had keys and we tried to make them hard to copy but not too inconvenient. The face is the key. No, there's no practical way to re-key this lock, but it's still a lock and key. But the door also has a deadbolt (PIN code) which has to be disengaged for the "face key" to function.

The username concept applies when you have multiple people using the same resource (and don't want to know or reveal whether any 2 people use the same password) -- which again doesn't apply to a single-user device.

Finally, all this combined with the quick "hard lock" of the device (5 taps of power button) gives me the impression of a very thorough approach to security.
I notice a 1 frame in 60hz delay (<17ms) when comparing vsync on vs. gsync @ 57 fps. I'm sure many other video gamers will as well.
I've dropped Jekyll just because of windows support. I've been using hexo and hugo in two projects and worked great!
"Historically it was unsafe to fly in an airplane so you shouldn't now"
It's interesting you're modelling the pairs as being unordered.

If person A's face unlocks person B's phone, does the reverse hold? I'd guess it's moderately likely, but not certain (e.g. the chance in the other direction becomes 1 in 1000 instead of the magical 1 in a million).
I absolutely agree that our current situation needs to be improved, but looking at the history of media leads me to believe that by progressing past the centralized and regulated system of TV and radio we've left a local maximum when it comes to "civility". Older forms of "ugly" news, like the press of the french revolution or turn-of-the-century america, didn't get fixed over time, but by the law "catching up", either through oppression or the increase of regulation causing regulatory capture. Of course, the idea of recentralizing speech is more or less unacceptable: what would that even mean when the problem is not a small group of newsmakers, but literally everybody? I don't see any other solutions in our long past, though.
> Our vision has always been to create an iPhone that is entirely screen. (...) Say hello to the future.

Haven't we seen such phones from other companies already a thousand times over?
Thanks for the reply, but can you see how the very simple configuration possible on the DHCP server suddenly becomes much much more complicated with the above solutions? You're basically suggesting I run a chef server (or some other central workstation management) in my home to allow talking to machines on my local domain by hostnames.

That's tough to swallow.
It's good to know you're a tool.
And this is the true irony of the persistence of title-safe areas: Broadcast switched over to digital nearly a decade ago, analog set-top boxes haven't been produced in large quantities in years, and thus the concept of overscan should be completely dead by now.

Yet TV manufacturers, for some reason I cannot wrap my mind around, continue to implement it, often by default (or in the extreme case, as you mention, with no way to disable it). And so title-safe areas continue to be an issue long after the obsolescence of the technology they were invented to work within.
The open source angle could be interesting in the long term.
Because both companies believe that owning proprietary self-driving systems will be a big competitive advantage. If one company beats the other to mainstream adoption by 12-18 months they'll have a shot at dominating the industry.
Its detection of how far I'd scrolled down was also off; the images kept "popping in" at higher and higher levels on the screen until by half-way down the page they were presumably entirely off-screen because I couldn't see anything else at all. Extremely unpleasant reading experience.
To add more examples to this, Florida courts have also ruled that you can be imprisoned for not giving police access to your phone.[1]

The "police can't force you to give up your passcode" misconception stems from a case in Virginia from 2014 [2], and while that may still be the case in Virginia, it does not mean you can just say "my phone is locked with a passcode, fuck off cop" in every other jurisdiction.

1: https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/01/fifth-amendement-passcodes-pa...

2: https://9to5mac.com/2014/10/31/touch-id-police/
The point is to effect a separation from self-harming habits that are far more dangerous to your general well-being than believing that "inanimate objects or intangible ideas" may be interconnected in ways our small perspective on the world is unable to perceive.
Things that are in that cutout:

- IR camera
- IR illuminator
- Proximity sensor
- Ambient light sensor
- Speaker
- Microphone
- Front camera
- IR dot projector

Taking the selfie camera out doesn't let you make it significantly smaller, and FaceID probably uses that anyway (in addition to the IR camera).

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Scree...
Exactly, thieves can decide which phone to steal after seeing the PIN (think about a bus or subway in a rush hour.) It's possible to get many pictures of someone if you know who s/he is. It's hard to collect fingerprints, at least for the average thief.

If you want to protect against police, whatever the reason, then PIN is ok butbut be careful when entering it in public.
>Also, it's interpreters all the way down. Even assembly is interpreted.

Speak truth to power. Every time someone says this there seem to be nothing but haters.
I wonder what the odds are of someone unlocking your phone with a picture of your face? I've heard lots of biometrics companies say that their system is immune to such simple hacks in the past, only to immediately fall to such simple hacks in testing.
"Brendan Eich was not fired. After his appointment, there was backlash from the Mozilla Community. He came under pressure to resign and he did. The Mozilla Board that appointed him knew about his donation; they did not "remove him because of his views." If that alone was the issue, they simply wouldn't have given him the job in the first place. Resignation (after only 11 days in the CEO role) became the only viable path forward when a sizable portion of the Mozilla Community refused to follow the person that the Board designated to lead the organization. That wide refusal and rejection fomented the issue, and Eich's decision to maintain his public stance on gay marriage -- as is his right -- created an impasse. It is incorrect to say that he was fired or removed; it is fair, though, to say that he was forced out."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/04/11/did-mozilla-ce...
Observationally, that is untrue. There is a wide display of varied opinions that are given positive moderation.

Of course, it takes some work to read through the trolls, but their moderation system is cushioned by the meta moderation impacting who gets mod points and who does not.

I have, for example, been given great scores for comments defending Microsoft and even systemd. It's not just what you say, it's how you say it.
Reasons Today’s Kids Are Bored at School, Feel Entitled, Have Little Patience
Are you saying I can run plugins as a site user (not administrator)? That doesn't seem to be the case.

https://coralproject.github.io/talk/docs/running/plugins/
Buildzoom went though YC, and YC companies can post job ads.

Past of posting a job ad is disabled comments.
I don't understand why the website keeps repeating "it's all screen" even though the phone is not all screen. I own a entry-level Motorola G5S, never owned a Samsung before so not fanboying here, but their phones strike me more as "all screen" than this iPhone X. Am I missing something?
Answering the question: “What programming language do you write?”
I don't know about commenting, but reading the comments felt like a chore with all the sliders, buttons to load more comments that went to another page where you couldn't follow the discussion, some comments being partially loaded or whatever.

By far the worst UI in a comment system. And they still do the slider and "load all comments" bit, but at least the UI feels a bit better than some years ago.
One thing not mentioned in the article is the size of the area and the population. I have no idea how big Cincinatti is or how many people live in those counties. So I don't know if those are big numbers or not.
Delegating access to a resource protected by a SIM card seems dangerous if not executed with meticulous security considerations - both technical and behavioral.
Until these things are flagged upon inspection (and they would) I'd take it with a big grain of salt.
Mine's fine. Maybe you got a defective one? Worth asking for a warranty fix.
And it’s defeated by someone just watching you unlock your phone in public once.
Yell Mozilla certainly thinks it's moderating tools are better.
I was thinking about the Chinese boy who hit the truck parked on the service lane, not the guy who decapitated himself in Florida. But either way, both were tragic.
I would personally like to have groups of things that can be unlocked - that I can define

- Nothing - essential what's on lock (weather, maybe news headlines)
- Face - basic stuff - games, calculator, News apps
- Fingerprint - mail, calendar, text message, browser
- Pass code - banking, settings

A one all seems backward - there are something things I don't want to protect at all (don't care if someone can access) on one extreme, and things that MUST be protected as much as possible on the other extreme.

I get leaking between apps is an issue, and there are other problems around this - but this approach seems more reasonable

And yeah, for some users (my parents) they just want something simple and don't want to deal with this. So face or fingerprint is a lot better than no code, so this is still an improvement
So it has a software SIM? If so it's the first time I've heard of a device with one.
Notches will disappear when we’ll be able to put all those sensors under the screen. Until then I think of them as “more” screen rather than less. However cutting into videos/photos taken on the phone is wrong.
Like Apple Maps?
Just mount your remote folder with sshfs [1] and enjoy your local toolshed :) . X forwarding is overkill when all you need is accessing files.

[1] https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs , packaged by your distribution
I've found mine is accurate as long as it is snug. But if it's not snug, it can be way off.

Also, when I first tried it I had wrist pain, and learned that I actually was "wearing it wrong". Moving it further up my arm fixed it, and now it's literally my favourite device.
Why is it ironic? Alabama gets many tornadoes, so it makes sense that an audio clip describing a tornado is from a place that receives tornadoes. It's like saying it's ironic that someone from Buffalo NY is describing snow... they get it quite often.

It might be ironic if someone from Alabama was describing snow, though.
To be fair, this is an argument for AI being a bit of a misnomer for current "AI" tech
The moderation at Soylent News (uses a forked version of Slashcode) is pretty good, for such a small community.
I used to solder a bunch as a kid, using my dad's Weller gun (which was built like a tank and still worked last I heard, even though it was something like 40 years old). When I bought my own cheap soldering iron "pencil" as an adult for one project, I thought I'd forgotten how to solder. It seemed so hard to get good joints with the cheap iron. The Weller gun wasn't even temperature controlled but it worked. The cheapo pencil iron just didn't get hot enough fast enough to be useful.

Then I bought a mid-range Weller station and things got super easy again. It's about ten years old now and still works fine. It's probably a worthwhile investment, even for rare use. I mean, it's only ~$100 to get a pretty good iron, vs. $20 for garbage.
They should rename this to iPhone N (N for Notch).
You created your account 19hrs ago....sketchy.
Don't they already have that choice, though? No one is forcing anyone to use Autopilot.

That's my main issue with the parent posts and the self-driving sentiments they're expressing - the person using it was grossly negligent and ignored all the warnings presented. You accept that the technology is in beta and that you accept the risks of that. The person ignoring those warnings is, more than likely, much less safer of driver than Autopilot ever could be.

I just really don't see how this could be pinned as Tesla's fault. We're treading very closely to territory where we absolve people of personal responsibility simply because we have technology that we can blame, even if it's irrational or misdirected blame.
Not always, but it's useful some times. Say you are in a meeting / class and want to discreetly check something. Or while driving, in which case you want to deviate as little attention as possible. Ahem, of course those are hypothetical examples.
isn't that about right given a 19% sales tax? if not, what would be an identical EUR price for the $999 phone (tax not included)?
As is a passcode?
Hey Apple, I Tried the iPad Pro as a Dev Machine. It’s *Almost* Awesome (2016)
Lightning jacks get accidently disconnected more often than 3.5 jacks when I move around. Also the Lightning connector wears out faster because of the stress a cable imposes on it. For instance, the Lightning connector on my iPhone 6S suffers from a defective contact already. The 3.5 headphone connector is fine, even when I use it much more.
Considering their market share, a lot of people have never been excited about them.

I think the iPhone excitement is mostly a US thing. For a lot of people here, it was the first smartphone they saw - or even their first mobile device.

It's hard to get excited about iPhones when you're used to more modern technology.
It's not just about fees; the biggest problem is that the transaction takes time, and by the time your money reaches the other end, the value of the BTC you sent could be very different from when you sent it.
What part of the guidelines are you referring to? [1] says "Adhere to the safe area and layout margins defined by UIKit", and the graphics show a "safe area" which excludes the notch at the top.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/v...
As a site admin, not a user. If you see our server side plugin api [1] you can see ways to extend the graph schema, hook into existing mutations/queries completed by the system to apply any set of rules or moderation policies you want. It would be a neat implementation if as a user, you were given the ability to create your own filters, which would certainly be possible if implemented via a plugin! But don't expect to do that on WaPo anytime soon.

[1]: https://coralproject.github.io/talk/docs/plugins/server/
While that's the official libertarian rhetoric, from experience talking to people who identify as libertarian, they're less about life and the pursuit of happiness, and more about liberty and the protection of property rights.
The N4 was the first phone I sat on for longer than a few months; it was such an amazing phone. The N5 was the next phone I bought and I kept that until my Xperia Z5 because I was not a fan of the N6. I was completely sold on the Nexus line until then.

I completely agree with you on newer devices being worse in some aspects, especially when it comes to rooting.
So many people pre-complaining about some actually neat stuff. The screen looks fine, stoked about the HDR10. Portraits will looks really nice. Wireless charging is a big plus. I think this will be a great phone.
They are exceptionally huge
It seems the camera sticks out at the back. This would mean it's not possible to put the phone stably on a flat surface. Is this true?
I feel like if they're determined enough the type of lock you use is irrelevant.

The only reason I have a lock on my phone is so if I lose my phone somewhere randoms can't access it.

If they're going to mug me for my phone they can mug me just as easily for my passcode or my fingerprint.

I guess there is an argument for pick pockets but that's a lesser concern for me. Anywhere it's likely to happen my hand is usually on my phone.
The feature I want is, as a site user, to apply my own set of filtering and moderation criteria.

E.g. "I don't want to see comments posted by user XYZ, or containing regexp W. Any comments by user ABC, or upvoted by ABC, or containing regexp D, go to the top. I trust the moderation of site trollblocker.com"

I don't see these kinds of ideas represented in the user engagement research.
The air pods were the revolution for me. This is the one thing I was looking forward to until I heard that you needed a connected iPhone as well. Now it is a non-starter. Guess I need to go test the Samsung buds.
Let the inaugural cordoned-off HN comment sink be about Electron apps having high resource usage.
If you have email set up on your phone and someone steals your phone without a passcode it’s pretty much game over for all your online accounts. Also defeats two factor auth in case you have that on your phone.

Also a lot of services let you reset your password via SMS etc.
It looks like "THC" and "tetrahydrocannabinol" resolve to different isomers. One has wedges (stereo information) and they have different double bond positions (the double lines).

The problem here is naming compounds - a name like "THC" is not precise enough to distinguish between these isomers. A more exact name could be "(–)-trans-Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol" (from wikipedia).
Interesting, CA ranked 41st out of all states for its school system this year.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/05/california-schools-ear...
No, atrial fibrillation occurs in distinct episodes (imagine your heart occasionally having an epileptic seizure that lasts a few hours) and it can be difficult to get an EKG when you suspect something is wrong.
I had a fun issue for about 6 months with a Cable (DOCSIS 3.0) modem I'd purchased. A Motorola/Arris Surfboard 6183

The modem would randomly seem to keel over with some unknown fault. Causing my internet speed to drop from 300Mbps down to 0.25Mbps, ping to Google.com for instance would then spike from 5ms to 1900ms (or more)

Curiously the upload speed would stay pegged at 30Mbps however!

After a few days of this happening, I picked up a Chinese "Smart Switch" that ran OpenWRT, and set up a small shell script to simply ping Google.com, then cycle the modem if the average ping results exceeded a certain threshold (I think 100ms?)

It would also record the exact date and time and log that, so I could try and correlate the issue. Unfortunately it seemed to be utterly random, without any rhyme or reason.

Since I worked at Comcast at the time, I tried to gather more data on the issue internally. Eventually writing a report that totaled something around 10 pages.

From what I gathered: There were no physical signal deviations when the device would "hang". The device would respond normally to SNMP requests etc, everything on Comcast's side appeared normal. The device had some internal fault with its software that was causing problems (kernel bug perhaps?)

I contacted Motorola/Arris for support, and was advised that the warranty specifically excludes Software faults(!) and then kindly recommended to "upgrade" to the newer SB6190 model.

Unfortunately being a Cable modem, the firmware is completely controlled by the ISP. Since there were only 25,000~ SB6183's on Comcast's network at the time, and even fewer on the speed tier that I had, there was not enough data to report the issue back to Motorola/Arris through Comcast

Eventually a software update was pushed out which corrected the issue roughly 6 months later
It isn't better for the publisher though. The longer that they can keep eyeballs at a site that they control, the more advertising they can sell. Commenting also allows the publishers to collect more demographic and psychographic data, which allows the publisher to charge advertisers more per view/clickthrough.
The "door lock" analogy ignores the biggest flaw with fingerprints: they're forever.

If your door lock is compromised, you can change the key. If someone steals your password, you can change the password. If someone steals your fingerprint, you can never change your fingerprint (same with your face).

The other stuff is dead-on: its a "good enough" security measure for phones. But as a security practitioner, the biggest problem IMO is that Apple using TouchID and FaceID is giving the general public the wrong idea about security. Apple claims that these innovations are "cutting edge" security, and so consumers buy into this and then also use fingerprints to secure things like their bank accounts, work logins, password vaults (this is a big one - someone steals your phone and you use your fingerprint to access your LastPass account, which has all of your passwords in it? And your phone is also your 2FA device? You're screwed.) etc, where they really aren't "good enough" at all.

I've worked at companies where we disabled fingerprint logins on certain devices because highly sensitive info is held on those devices, and fingerprints just aren't secure enough to protect them. Then we get yelled at by people from the company because "Apple says fingerprints are the best for security, why aren't you letting us use them?" It's a pain.
> Watching someone key in a PIN and recording it, then swiping the phone is easier than building a 3D printed color model of someone's face. Not to mention that having the biometric unlock sitting on top of a PIN means that there are many fewer chances for the PIN to be observed.

With how cheap video surveillance is these days, any PIN that you've regularly entered on your phone in public is probably recorded on video somewhere.

So is your face, of course, but like you said that's much harder to reproduce.
Not just runs, you can also use it to have quality time on date mights without worrying about checking your phone all the time.