skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it me or have we reached the end of the road of mobile phone innovation? Is this going to be Apple's downfall as something like 70% of their sales are from iphone? We've had many years now of mobile phone enhancements and features but it seems like there isn't a lot more we can do on a phone. The next breakthrough ipod/iphone isn't going to be a phone at all. How many more times can we put a better chip or a better screen or a new camera into a phone at this point and have consumers seriously give a crap? Feels like things are going stale.
That's because of the nontrivial math. It will be found in general equilibrium section toward the end of introductory microeconomics, or at the beginning of a graduate course in macroeconomics.

Page 182 of this excerpt from Acemoglu's Economic Growth discusses aggregation and the possibility of a representative household.
http://users.econ.umn.edu/~guvenen/DaronBook1.pdf

Aggregation of firms (and production functions) works quite nicely theoretically. Unfortunately, the same is not true for household / demand aggregation. The Debreu-Mantel-Sonnenschein Theorem aka. the "anything-goes" theorem gives a stark negative result. Utility functions are just too idiosyncratic to aggregate in every possible case.

However macroeconomists still do this for purposes of tractability. We know that sometimes aggregation is possible, if utility functions take certain forms. This is only one of many dimensions modern macroeconomic models are far from realistic. This is no secret to anyone.
It gains international recognizability from being written, like Italian, in the world's most internationally used script.
So terminal UIs are coming back?
That is for a Qualified Dividend. S-Corp Dividends are "ordinary", and are taxed as regular wages minus FICA/Self Employment Tax.
An 0.8% fluctuation is entirely irrelevant to an instrument where the price has fluctuated by 20% in the last week.

Regarding use, one of the interesting metrics is "Bitcoin-days destroyed", which gives insight into how often the coins change hands.
No I think it means you can force someone to take the currency for payment. If I don't want to take bitcoins for payment, no one is going to force me.
> I made it through an engineering degree with "the alligator eats the bigger number" mnemonics for > and <.

I don't understand this at all. The bigger number is at the bigger end, that's the whole point of the symbols. What does the alligator introduce, apart from an extra step and doubt over whether it's larger or smaller numbers they are said to eat?
Interesting how they decided to already publish the article although they have nothing more than the teaser but no actual content.

> So what does a decade of iPhone innovation look like?

> Developing… Please refresh for updates.
Developing… Please refresh for updates.

Obviously the "hype" for a new iphone is still up & running since there is a thread for not yet officially announced device...
Not sure if you read the article, but no one is talking about a higher standards for pay and benefits. You're literally making generic libertarian points.

The only direct criticism is that they don't enforce their own safety guidelines which leads to the death of their workers. A great many of these jobs can continue to exist even if their managers simply request those with loose garbs or improper safety shoes, etc. to show up with proper clothes.

Moreover, if there were some sort of government mandated safety check (which I'm not arguing for, just saying) the imposed burden is equal to all other competing firms. Unless the onus of taking on such check was so great that they suddenly decide to put all their money into R&D, these jobs will continue to exist.
Apple iPhone 8 FaceID Announced
calling soft drinks 'coke' I think is more a TX thing..

so some confusion as TX was part of the confederacy ('the south') but isn't exactly 'the south', as most 'real southerners' would agree (but not southern leaning TXans)
Precisely. Besides, the West Slavic and half of the South Slavic languages are written using Latin script. The choice of script was very much bound up with the matter of which civilization (and religion) the respective peoples chose to align with. At the time these scripts were being adopted, it meant choosing between Rome or Constantinople.

So, if anything, a switch to Latin script is a signal of choosing to align with the West, and perhaps technological convenience.
I have a suspicion that removing the home button and relying on swipe-interactions might be a step back in usability for the non-tech savvy people who have made up a large share of iPhone users.
the problem currently has not been the number of TPS but the fact that different groups have incentive to "spam" the blockchain with fluff transactions 1) miners do this to set a minimum floor for transaction fees 2) subversive elements do this to make a point that Bitcoin cannot handle the use cases it was originally intended for

really thinking about this it is probably not a problem because the free market should find the true price for an on-chain immutable transaction. coffee transactions will happen off chain and be settled up on-chain (lightning network)
The last 90% of polish is what makes the difference however.
Ikea make furniture with built-in wireless charging. It's not remotely essential, but it's a nice convenience feature.
They put that stupid black thing at the top of the phone...
Yessir, we have around 100 active users at any point. The app is butt ugly (I had no choice in the design).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nexs.NexsC...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nexscard/id1124098775?mt=8
> The only developers I know still on Windows are either writing Windows software or using hardware that only works on Windows.

This varies a lot by place too. Where I live, lots of developers choose to use Windows. Fashion and momentum matters.
neither is even bearable on a Raspberry Pi, or any old laptop of which I have many laying around the house
Oh, I get it, it's just that the feature is often talked about like it's the second coming of wifi. It takes me about a second to plug in my iPhone.
I think Musk looks at it differently. There appear to be two fundamental truths about the current autopilot system. First off, the number of fatalities that have occurred with autopilot active compared to the amount of miles driven with autopilot active suggest that autopilot is safer than a human driver. Secondly, autopilot still is not flawless and it is possible for it to cause fatalities.

Some people feel the latter should be enough to stop allowing drivers to turn on autopilot. I am betting Musk feels that the former serves as a moral obligation to get the safety features of autopilot in as many cars as possible in order to save as many lives as possible. He is throwing the switch on the trolley tracks [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Show HN: Plug-and-play Resume generator (open source)
Soon will happen.
​Linux gets blasted by BlueBorne too
You’re ignoring the pasts of my argument which disagree with your position. I argued that, since the effects of the ignored complications in physics are easy to measure and account for in a specific situation, the ideal models are still useful. And that this isn’t the case with the economic models, since measuring friction is vastly simpler than measuring the irrationality of consumers in a given market.

To boil it down: the unknowns (which are ignored to simplify calculations) in physic models and known; in economic models they are unknown.

And, to put it another way: given a mass with momentum m which you want the change to m’, a simple physics model will tell you what acceleration to apply & would get you pretty close once you accounted for friction. Given an inflation rate and a target, no simple economic model would predict what policies to set with more accuracy than guessing.

These economic models are useless for predicting real-world outcomes; they are pedagogic tools only.
If the scene has a lot of variation in brightness, then I'll always opt to save the highlights over the shadows. Shadow detail recovers remarkably well, while clipped highlights are ghastly.
> Obviously the "hype" for a new iphone is still up & running since there is a thread for not yet officially announced device...

Doesn't Apple announcing it at their "Special Event" count as an officially announced device?
Every refresh is an additional set of ad impressions
In our tests a decade ago, we found that shared autonomy was actually much more frustrating for users than either full or no autonomy. When you were telling the computer to go over there and the computer wanted to go over here, it left all of the users frustrated and complaining that the computer wouldn't let them go where they wanted. Maybe you can come up with a better adjudication system than we did, but it is very tricky to design the system so that it catches when the user does something stupid but not when they are doing the right thing- if the computer could figure out the right thing you wouldn't need the human!
First thought: how well can they discern in the mail app whether I wanted to scroll down or go to the home screen?

I probably have to swipe carefully from the very bottom or stay away from the bottom?
Holy crap that's insane. That's 72 pills per year for each man woman and child.
New iPhone supports Qi Charging
>> "...that Google does not share sensitive data with the Government..."

It's possibly true that Google doesn't intentionally share data. But a nonzero fraction of Google's employees are actually working for the intelligence services of various countries.

The fraction is debatable but it's naive/misleading to pretend that the big tech Co's aren't thoroughly penetrated by every halfway respectable intelligence outfit.
Move fast and break things turns out to be a bad way to build cars.
This is what it looks like when people game HN. An article with no content submitted 3 minutes ago has 24 Upvotes. Seems legit...

Now it has 32 upvotes in the last 30 seconds...

38 now.

41...

44. These are less than 30 second intervals.

48

55
Device itself is announced, that news is exactly only that. Right now on apple stream you can see them going through specs
We've had a number of folks at work ask if their Android phone will be patched, so I thought it would be helpful to list the Android Open Source Project (aka: device operating system) versions that will be receiving the necessary patches [0]:

4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0

Note: it will likely take some time for your handset manufacturer to test and release the patch for your specific phone.

0: https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01
(see CVE-2017-0781, 0782, 0783 and 0785)
Face ID. I'd swear this was satire if I wasn't watching it with my own eyes.
I'd count that part human error, part design error. Constant warnings shouldn't be possible with this - it should disengage and refuse to function again until you start driving more responsibly.
Not because he can, but because me and they can decode and store these values in our far-from-npm environment that never even heard of nanoid. All we need to know is "base64url uuidv4". Irl, when someone tells you their data is nanoid-encoded, it is just pain in the ass, not an improvement in any way.

Btw, if you'd remove emotional "old crappy" from the sentence, it would sound pretty sacrastic.
My advisor wanted me to build something on his theory on a particular system with a particular problem. I showed him it wasn't possible.

He even made a simple problem more complex just to fit his base theory. It's only about getting citations.
It's memorable.
Keynote is quite boring after so many leaks.
Elementary and Fedora come close. It's the hardware that's the stumbling block.
I unlock my phone in my pocket with Touch ID all the time - ready to go and on the home screen by the time I've flipped it around in my hand. Feels like a straight downgrade in usability.

also, some engineer at apple had to continuously grow a beard to test this
[citation needed]

I disagree with your categorical statement, it's inevitably going to start comment wars just because of the provocative phrasing.
I don't know about iOS, but I think it recent versions of Android you can suppress notifications from an app at the OS level? Does it nag you about that?
The presenter claims that once you've tried it for the first time you will realize that it was the best way. I agree with you and think that it's quite an assumption. Sure the homebutton may of created problems when it needed repair etc, but I really love having actual hardware buttons on a phone.
Same here. I keep BT on for the Pebble I use, and the battery usage is negligible.
Does this invalidate dual process? Why?
There are times when just using a text editor is nice. An editor with better language awareness is even more useful. An experience like that has been possible for a long time, but this looks like a much easier way to get there.
People want to discuss the phone here on HN, and we need some article to do that with.
It does, but at the moment the post was put online, there is nothing official, except the name. Hence "this is iphone X" looks like a placeholder for a future event.

"Please refresh for updates"

Besides there is a new thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15229902 ) for the same subject - nothing offcially started, yet several threads for it.

Anyway, it will be fun to see if this one will hit 1000+ comments :)
I wonder if they'll let me add it to an old grandfathered unlimited plan on att.
Face ID = Where the camera watches you all the time.
Because the user is an integral part of Tesla's "Autopilot" system. The product name implies autonomy, but in fact, the vehicle requires a human in the loop for safe operation.

Unfortunately, a poorly designed user experience lulled the driver into behaving foolishly. That's why the headline mentions UX.
CCC hack of face id arriving in 5..4..3...
I had the same reaction to MacOS. It's permanently chafing me versus forcing me to fix something myself once. I don't see how that's a preferable option.

That said, if I could only use one computer and OS, it would be a Mac simply because it's the best set of compromises. I can play a few games, I can run things like Lightroom and Photoshop that have no compelling (to me) open source alternative, and I can use a serviceable if clunky Unix environment for serious work. But it's worse at any specific thing I want to do. It's just better than any single alternative at doing all of them.
How does Face ID work with identical twins?
Yeah, they hustled us. he didn't say that iPhone 8 WAS the innovation, he just said iPhone.
It's completely because of Apple's hardware design. No one else does touchpads as well as Apple and you literally interact with a touchpad every time you use the damn thing. Apple's cases and batteries and screens are also top 5 in the world as well.

You can tell that this is the stuff that's holding people back from other devices because when a manufacturer actually makes a product with solid hardware - like the Surface - people started to buy them.
Woah, they skipped 9 just like Windows!
Depends on what you call "developers". I believe that most developers in the gaming industry still uses Windows as their platform.
Better coverage: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/12/live-coverage-iphone-x-...
If by "spreading" you mean Facebook is publishing new open source projects using that license combination, yes, it's "spreading".

Atom-IDE is a Facebook project. It seems to be actually derived (in part) from their Nuclide project, which has a completely proprietary non-open source license.
Ask HN: What speech-to-text library do you recommend?
I need creat transcripts for a bunch of audio files. Also, they may contain a bunch of uncommon technical terms that might require continual training/updating.

Any suggestions?
Windows says hello. I imagine in an non-fixed setting like an mobile phone, trying to peek at your phone while not drawing attention to it (meeting or otherwise) will probably be somewhat of a challenge
Sorry if I missed something, but has it ever been explained why Apple went straight to the iPhone 8 vs. releasing the traditional S iteration, i.e. the iPhone 7S? Is it due to the iPhone's 10th anniversary?
FaceID shows the difference between Apple and other smartphone manufacturers. Apple doesn't release features until they are absolutely sure they can engineer them to work perfectly.
The tiny minority has tons of power.

Think of a three party system with 45 / 45 / 10 of the votes.

The 10% party gets to see which of the big party will support their measures. The party that gives in can now have a combined 55% of the vote, and can then railroad through all the laws of both the 45% and the 10% party, totally ignoring the wishes of the other 45% party.

So effectively, a tiny 10% party now has more political say than a party that represents 45% of the population!
Its not really about the article. We’re all watching the live event and wanting to talk about it.
I find the response as interesting as the facts. For me, science is always "as far as we know..." and for others, they have created anchors based on a scientific result which makes them angry if that science is later altered.

I think Kahenman's response was spot on and real. And I think by responding that way he gives meaning and life to the scientific process of constantly questioning and reviewing and trying to improve.

So much about a person is evident when you challenge their beliefs. There is a range of responses but I find people who respond with "help me understand how you arrived at your [conflicting] result" get to better results than people who respond with "if you believe that [conflicting] result then you must not understand what I said, here let me explain it again in simpler terms for you." The latter don't do as well and don't have as much impact.
A little surprising given all of their previous talk about "Leading innovation in security" to pick a technology that is inherently insecure
I think this is definitely well into "well, he would say that, wouldn't he?" territory. But I also think it's interesting that Morgan are also, as the article mentions, making forays into blockchains - he is specifically talking about Bitcoin, and not cryptocurrencies at large. I expect this is exactly the sort of thing someone preparing to launch their own version - that they have control over - would say in an attempt to chip away at Bitcoin's respectability.
Unsure why this was downvoted, but that black bar at the top really ruins the "full screen" effect.
Either you stop using it, or you convince a federal that it's unenforceable or unconscionable.
Neither one of you can know for sure. Could be a bit of both.
«It'll take you longer»

Incorrect. I trade at Gemini where I can sell BTC and wire the USD in less than 24 hours to a bank account.
> People are starting to learn that the vast majority of "science" are poorly-controlled white papers that get accepted and are never looked at again unless it is by a group of replication-crazed people (or what I like to call "actual scientists") reviewing conclusions drawn from decades-old papers.

I wouldn't generalize this to all branches of science. My own experience in physics contradict that, and I also get the impression that some of the large successes we've seen recently (like gravitational wave detections) couldn't have happened if the scenario you described were the norm.
Being overly impatient, but not to the point of being clinically diagnosed so, it's just a quick way to describe it.
iPhone X has no home button and will unlock with facial recognition
I don't have any particular advice. I searched the web for astrophotography stacking and used some software I don't remember the name of to do it. Sorry I can't be more helpful!
Could you say the expectation of novel discovery is to blame, though? If it becomes harder to blaze new trails, but the expectation of discovery remains the same, then scientists who wish to keep getting recognition and pay must find ways to fabricate discoveries to keep up.
have you tried prolonged book usage. Or prolonged being outdoors usage lol
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

― George Orwell
The biggest players in the bond market are either exempt (they're a pension fund, a 401(k), a foreign entity, a university endowment, a charitable organization, a church or other kind of non-profit) or pass-through (mutual fund, ETF).

I recommend Ken Fisher's "Debunkery" which covers a lot of economic what-ifs with hard data. Capital gains tax rates and treatment varied widely throughout the US history, yet collected revenues did not.
"Regardless, I think we could use a bit more automation in the legal field given how disproportionately distributed representation seems to be from my perspective as a relatively poor person."

On that, we're agreed. I was raised with no conception that there were legal options; attorneys were just too far outside the realm of affordability to be a thing my parents would have considered under any but the direst circumstances. I have the same mindset, even when it's been detrimental to my own economic situation.
I think speed of the facial recognition will make or break this. If it takes less than 500ms of me staring at it to unlock it could feel fluid enough. Any longer and it'll be annoying every time.
Clevo N130BU
How do you know it'll work perfectly? No-one actually has one of these to test it yet.
The bar is as low as today's iPhone home button. I have a strong feeling you will hardly ever reach it by accident, considering scrolling from a point that low is unnatural and uncomfortable.

Also, there is always a big obvious bar down there.
FaceID seems pretty impressive, if it works as advertised, and it sounds like they've thought of a lot of edge cases.

I can't get over the black bar at the top of iPhone X though. It looks like it has devil horns...
Well now, that's an interesting idea! Is that your idea?
BlueBorne attacks target billions of bluetooth devices
> This is the advice of a true scientist. I'm refreshed to see that they're still out there.

It encourages students to cheat, because most of the time you won't get either. Not a significant result, and usually not a counterintuitive one either. You're pretty likely to get a significant result that agrees with existing theory, though.
Check out the newest Fedora (Gnome Shell). IMO best desktop experience ever. Of course, for the masses the lack of MS Office and a few other commercial programs is a problem, but as far as the OS itself, the desktop, how everything functions, easily the best desktop I've ever used.
I'm glad your son is okay.
I had to disable double-tap for multitasking (and bunch of other gestures) on my family iPads because they caused a lot of issues with older users. I wonder if there's going to be an accessibility feature to make it more friendly to people who have issues differentiating between "swipe up", "swipe up from bottom", "swipe up from bottom and pause" and other overloaded gestures.
Schiller admits that 'evil twins' is a weak point.
...and all I wonder is why they are skipping number 9? Are the negative connotations some culture? iPhone NEIN?

With Windows 9, there was at least the explanation that software might confuse it with Windows 9x (which I didn't buy, since there is view api returning the version as a string, and Windows shims GetVersion if you don't declare compatibility anyway).

More on topic, this looks nice, I think people will not be disappointed like they were with the MBPs. Can't wait to try it in a store (and probably can't afford it either...). Edit: no touch ID?? Might have spoken too quickly...