skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Portland, I've never seen the direction at the end of the street address. It's always <house number> <direction> <street name>.

A lot of the City of Portland systems have you input your house number, street name, then direction so (guessing) they can validate it. Of course, browsers have been filling form fields for many, many years and I wish they'd just put an address field there.
It does, because investors typically do not transact in Bitcoin. Buying and leaving BTC in an exchange wallet does not create a transaction on the blockchain.
Same goes for your fingerprint, surely?
I love how for their demo they selected videos where it was dark where the screen bump is.
If this slows people down going through barriers on the tube there will be barely (but just) contained rage across London
Well the Credit Reporting bureaus would make less money that way, so they can argue against it. And since they're the ones who have to do it and pay lobbyists, they get what they want.
My use of the BMW slogan was intentional, because that is absolutely true that the marketing messaging between most luxury brands is incredibly similar (though differences exist that are relevant in ways that are interesting to some).

If you modified a P100D to use a Mercedes drivetrain, the car would feel slower and would launch like an ICE car. The feeling of initial acceleration in an all-electric performance car like the P100D is vastly different. Maybe you wouldn't notice from the backseat of a taxi, but that isn't really the point in selling a performance car. :)

But even that doesn't really matter as much as you might think. I think the fundamental issue is that you appear to be using engineer thinking and are thinking about the situation from a purely logical framework. Buyers in the real world don't behave that way and the romance copy and image that a company sells really does matter in the marketplace.
it looked pretty slow on the demo. In the order of 1500ms.

TouchID is much faster.
Great work. You could add Impraise and Gitlabs to the Netherlands.
retina display, taptic engine, digital crown - seems right up Apple's alley.
I would say the expectation that novel discovery is easy could be to blame. Also that the incentives discourage the process from working in a way that would allow further novel discoveries. Science needs per review and replication of results to work properly. If the incentives discourage this then novel discovery gets harder. Scientific discovery is a long-term game which means business methods are poorly suited to managing it.
Fiat, while in a way better shape on that part, is not perfect either. I don't know for other countries, but here in france we have three means of payment : payment cards, paychecks and cash. Cash is annoying to manage because of its fixed values, always having to deal with rest and counting. Paychecks, you never know if a merchant will accept them (it's more and more rare). payment cards have weekly rate limits, and we have no mean to know before paying for something how close you are from it, except if you track every single payment you make.

Last year, I tried a bitcoin payment card. It was not practical because of bitcoin volatility, but there was something super cool about it : it was a prepaid rechargeable card that I could recharge in the hour, by sending bitcoins to it. I always knew how much I could use on the card and could basically use everything that was on it, without fearing to hit some obscure limit.

This was the perfect payment method for me. I hope we'll have something similar to this but with non volatile currency soon (I know this exists for fiat, but I have to wait like 2 days for a wire transfer to happen, this is not practical).
True, but your face data is also saved on any photo anybody might have of you. It's not that hard to generate a 3d model from that.
Because that concept only works in an idyllic small town dominated by sole proprietors.

The example they provide

> Farmer spends $50 on tractor repair from mechanic. Mechanic buys $40 of corn from farmer. Mechanic spends $10 on barn cats from farmer.

does not involve stuff made abroad, massive corporations with economies of scale eliminating the middleman, or foreign-owned entities.

Most of that velocity will end up in China invested into another skyscraper ghost town, a massive infrastructure project or a cryptocurrency mining farm.
the hack will be to unlock the i-phone with a photo or some probe. i'd guess starbuck will need less than 5 days.
The US uses more than 99% of the world supply of hydrocodone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/15/ameri...
Developers have a lot of power here. Encourage others not to use anything that's BSD + Patents. If, in 2 years time, Vue is more popular than React and Facebook perceives PATENTS is the reason why, it could well vanish.

This is a great demonstration of the danger of BSD + Patents. First it's Facebook using it for a great frontend framework. Now Github is using it for an IDE. It truly a threat to open source.
I think its because this is the 10th anniversary of the iphone. And they want to have it seen as a major step forward.
Like TouchID?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8b8d8kSNQ
You have the arrow in the correct direction. The magnitude of the effect is unknowable. But sociology/psychology/etc are highly, highly susceptible to bias and political leanings.
They couldn't release 7S in 2017, one year after Samsung released their 7S.
Fraud like the current banking system?
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/12/live-coverage-iphone-x-...

"Face data protected by A11 chip's secure enclave. On-device processing."

Looks like its using a dot projector for the depth sensing (similar to the xbox kinect).
They worked with Hollywood mask makers. On the keynote they said it still knows you if you're wearing a scarf, sunglasses, grow a beard...

Touch ID: 1:50,000

Face ID: 1:1,000,000
"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."

Obviously you see how this deduction is subject to dozens of biases stemming from the fact that people turn on autopilot when the road conditions are safe to begin with. One would have to really carefully filter this data to avoid these biases, otherwise such conclusions are absolutely bogus.
How about "Don't you dare forget Equifax, and Google and Facebook are even worse"? Bloomberg's gotten really annoying with their clickbaity titles this year.
I've born in Uzbekistan. In 1990s Uzbekistan moved their entire language to Latin-based alphabet. Even I was small kid I knew it's just a stupid sign of nationalism.

Changing your official language to a new alphabet is pretty expensive thing (especially when your country's economy is collapsed and your country has extreme inflation). You have to change all official signs, texts and reteach whole population.

Another stupid thing Uzbekistan did is to publicly burn (literally) soviet school books while not having a good replacement. I remember looking at those burning soviet math books in my school's backyard.

And it's all done instead of what? Instead of:

1. Teach population of proper fluent English as a second/third language along with Russian;

2. Making competitive free-market economy without clan-type quasi-government monopolies which run by top government official's relatives;

3. Attracting and protecting western investors;
It’s stored in the secure enclave locally on the device.
They said it can’t be fooled by photographs and they tested it with “Hollywood mask makers”. It’s “one in a million”.
TouchID is great, but if I've been sweating or have some moisture on my hands for another reason (say I'm cooking and want to check the recipe) it fails horribly.
Thankfully, the blockchain's 8 million trillion hashes per second and robust elliptic curve cryptography don't care what Jamie Dimon thinks.
For somebody who claims to live science you really don't seem to understand how our why it works. Replication is not at all important to science. It never had been and never will be. What is important is falsifiability and predictive power.

The article is a perfect example of science at work.
I've got an Asus UX305C for 1,5 years now, very nice machine.
Wise actually. This way nobody can say that they were being unfair to Symantec, and it costs them nothing. They can still decide either way.
I didn't claim it changed anything. I didn't agree nor disagree with anything, for that matter.

My "point" was that I got curious about these numbers, googled them, then posted them here in case anybody else was curious too.
Of course I don't. But the presentation gives enough information to be able to assume it is secure. Some other manufacturers' solutions can be tricked with photos. Since Apple mentioned dot projector, you can assume they are tracking the 3D model of your face which by itself should be much more secure. And it works with Apple Pay, the banks wouldn't allow it if it wasn't equivalent to Touch ID.
So what I'm talking about is: I place my thumb on the home button and three fingers on the back of the phone, while grabbing it in my pocket. The fingers are initially pointed down, in the same direction of the phone. As I drag it out of my pocket, I click the home button and flip the phone around, so now my fingers are horizontal across the phone (standard phone-holding position basically). It's almost always unlocked by the time I can see anything on the screen.

This requires you to always orient the screen "inwards" (towards your leg).
Ha, very. My previous life as a data scientist and economist knows your comment all too well.
Not necessarily, X will likely be a sub-line for iPhone like "Air" was for Macbook. See: OSX
I'm looking forward for the CCC hack of this.
Maybe you can now tape the picture around your face.
The traditional to Roth conversion can help those who remain in the same bracket as well. This is because by spending Roth dollars one can avoid pushing one's taxable income into the next bracket. Technically, that's what you said, but this can be a significant issue even if one's expenses don't require that income, because of RMDs for tIRA but not Roth IRA. Likely to be an issue for those in the low-single millions of assets which is actually quite a few people who consistently save a large portion of income.
Yeah, just when the price is lower. A lot of these so called experts have a personal gain on this :)
It's interesting how Apple is moving away from being the first phone with a feature (face id, Samsung did that before, or oled displays that are edge to edge). I think the shift from that innovation is a maturing step, but also a sign that the company is aging poorly. They can no longer claim to be leading with creation, just with quality. More and more the focus in smartphone development, not just Apple, is on being the best of what currently exists instead of actually bringing groundbreaking technology to the table.
Sorry but not only could I not disagree more but you're demonstrably incorrect.

Anyone who says a text editor "can accomplish the same things [as an IDE]" just doesn't know how to use an IDE.

The text editor vs IDE difference is the difference between using regexes and a lexer/parser to read, analyze and manipulate source code.

The amount of effort I see people put into configuring their .vimrc or .emacs files to get a subset of what you get out of the box with a decent (ie Jetbrains) IDE that at the end of the day just dosn't work as well is... staggering.

I mean text editors have their place and most notably vim/emacs work over an SSH connection. That's fine. But where possible give me IntelliJ or CLion every time.
Say what you want about practicality, the facial tracking on this is pretty impressive..... aaannnd Apple uses it to give us the Poop Animoji.
Perhaps you could include poverty and despair (and trace back from there to a collapsing education system, ideological pathology...).

It's hard not to see the opioid crisis as anything but an "ensemble effort" of everything that's falling apart in America - punctuated by the refusal of pundits and politicians to acknowledge these problems or move towards solving them.

Edit: you could even say the willingness of drug companies to effectively transform themselves to dope dealers comes as a combination of for-profit medicine and regulatory capture, problems that have been festering for a while.
Probably because it's been ten years since the original iPhone, and they feel this one's far enough from the original to merit the version bump.

They may also be trying to indicate that they feel this iPhone is on a par with OSX for productivity or something.
What gives the tokens value? They're worthless until there are enough users to answer questions on most subjects. However, it's very difficult to create networks that rely on users to gain users. As others have mentioned, convincing users to use your service over stackoverflow/quora will be very difficult at first. You'll need to get a critical mass of guaranteed users before the site goes live in order to succeed.
Because it's not merely an init system anymore. That was the initial pitch for it; now it controls everything, including things that were not broken to begin with.
Here is a list you will find helpful
http://blog.neospeech.com/top-5-open-source-speech-recogniti...
> "Outstanding scientific importance" screams no boring replication studies that confirm pre-existing work.

I don't know, "couldn't replicate this other major study" seems like it would qualify as outstanding scientific importance. It all depends how you frame "scientific importance". Replication seems like it should be high on the list of scientific goals.
Hasn't this been true for a while?
"a study shows that drug manufacturers paid more than $46 million to more than 68,000 doctors over a 29-month period." https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/08/opioids-influence

"Most recently, the FDA announced that it will begin reviewing prescription opioid products that contain hydrocodone or codeine to treat children's coughs."

http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/fda-turns-attention...

When they are writing pop songs about it, it's probably time to do something...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYN14UfO-Uc
I think you're right. Swipe up to go home is fine, but swipe up and pause for multitasking is going to be a pain to explain to my parents.
At one point (iOS 10?) iOS's quickness in falling back to the passcode prompt regressed greatly.

In the cooking use case you ought to be able to say "hey Siri, keep my phone unlocked", but she'd probably just search for that on Bing.
The tube could write much faster than that. That's a terminal running at 1200 baud.
«people don't buy bitcoin for its use in transactions»

Data shows otherwise. Bitcoin speculators typically leave the coins in an exchange wallet (not sufficiently technically savvy or motivated to run their own wallet). Doing so does not create a transaction on the blockchain, therefore the transaction rate (https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all&d...) reflects mostly non-investment-related transactions, and it is sharply increasing.

«The more it goes up the less people are likely to spend it.»

Historically, transaction processors like BitPay have noticed precisely the opposite. I guess people are excited to spend their newfound fortune when BTC goes up? I observe this behavior on myself: I cash out and spend more bitcoins whenever the value is going up (Jun 2011, Nov 2013, today, etc)
Well, the beauty of presentations...
Touch ID also fails sometimes. The important thing is that your finger can't unlock my phone.
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There is far worse they could do to you in that state that open your iPhone...

Biometric has the same issues regardless of touch or facial recognition.
It reminds me of Motorola's option to remove Android's black button bar and rely instead of swiping gestures over the fingerprint reader [1]. I tried it and, to their credit, it works very well. But it felt unnatural and my muscle memory didn't adjust quickly, so I disabled it.

[1] https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/inde...
But where's iphone 9
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Interesting, cool to hear your experience!
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Don't you lose some of the benefits associated with filing as self-employed? E.g., health insurance premium deduction, ability to defer a larger portion of the income into SEP-IRA?
Face ID seems like a great way to build a global database of people's faces. Not saying they will, but if they wanted to, that would be the way to do it.
I'd agree with you if they called it "Ex", but they're calling it "ten"
If you'd said toilet paper (or most other things) instead of cigarettes, I think you'd have a different conversation, but as cigarettes are a restricted and specially taxed thing, I suspect that using individual cigarettes as bartering implements is almost certainly taboo.
I got decently far in my implementation, but probably wouldn't suggest you use this. The actual guide is pretty sloppily written and doesn't outline all that much, along with not explicitly saying what you have to define at each step. It doesn't define what the different cases of the mal Lisp value type should be, for example, or when to implement pretty much all of the "optional" extensions it mentions in the first or second chapter. Most of the forms in each chapter get a sentence explanation of what they do, at most, and I hit several snags where I read an explanation and thought I implemented it correctly, only to find out there was something subtly wrong with the obvious implementation.

Also, writing a Lisp in a purely functional language isn't the best :X Things like by-reference function environments and atoms are hard to implement if you're not Haskell, at least if you try in the method that the guide outlines...
Nah, he used his backup iPhone and it worked!
I believe that's the very definition of legal tender:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender

It doesn't prevent you from accepting other means of exchange (though in some countries it does), but it does force you to accept it, even if you don't like it.
Probably because it's cased that way in camera menus (correctness notwithstanding).
Thank you for your comment! Interesting thought.. if many more think the same as you, could be a possibility to add those too.
Could we have a modicum of skepticism in repeating press releases?

>Thanks to this new design, the iPhone X is sealed for water and dust resistance.

So the iPhone 7, which does not use this design, was not water and dust resistant? I know this is a meta point, but it's annoying. Apple can say whatever they like in their releases, but it would be nice to have people familiar with the domain do a smell test on the content.
I was just about to embark on "Thinking, Fast and Slow" as my next commuting audio book. Ought I not to bother?
There is a measure of self-serving here, to be sure. But there's also a major point often ignored by people who emphasize technology over sociology - money, and economics in general, is a social thing. It's not the technology, the technology is a tool, the society, the decisions taken by people and their interaction is what makes economy. And laws is the distillation of what society thinks about it.

Surely, new technologies influence decisions, and enable new ways of interaction, and laws can be outdated. But ignoring that sphere altogether and claiming since we've got new technology old laws of how money works does not apply anymore is dangerous. A lot of it still does apply. If we ignore that, we get what happened at dotcom boom and then crash - people claimed old rules of economics, supply and demand, scarcity, etc. do not apply anymore - turns out they largely still do.

Yes, we've got some new ways to do things, but fundamentally it's still the same story. And it seems to be, the same story with Bitcoin - money do need legal support. Some people - mostly those who live outside the mainstream community - can be ok without it, but vast majority would not be.
The Essential phone has a dot in the middle but The Verge review said that you get used to it and it becomes invisible essentially.
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Evil twins have faces made out of skin, not rubber.
I'm generally not an Apple person, so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I'm just that not that excited for anything they are doing. It feels way behind Google Home and Amazon.
The unlock itself actually looked pretty fast... it just seemed a bit awkward that it had to be paired with a swipe to unlock.
I saw that- I am very curious how this will pan out as its released. I am wondering how well it will really adjust to your face changing(for instance a significant weight loss/gain, or injury)
There are rows of 4K TVs at Costco and WalMart. Apple is late to the party.
As legend has it, DJB rerolled most of libc for qmail.
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What about unlocking without looking at it ?
I would recommend you read one of Paul Krugman's book to understand how banking and the economy work.
Might be helpful to check out how New Relic and Docker did it.

https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/new-relics-growth-p...

https://www.slideshare.net/julienbarbier42/docker-growth-hac...
naive take is he grossly overestimates AI capabilities ... tech today (1) cannot broadly drive a car (2) is not a near existential threat to humanity
Huh, I learned about singular y'all about 15 years ago by someone from Dallas who used "all y'all" to address groups. She claimed this was common usage in Dallas.
"We put some rubber at the seams so it will resist water ingress at smallest possible pressure. Please use only pure distilled water only. Do not swim or take shower with it. And in smallest possible print on page 37 of TOS - we do not promise anything really.". I get it, WR is a nice feature but I would not obsess over it.
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Like a prepaid Visa or Mastercard?
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15229900
Not like touchid worked through gloves either.

Passcode.
The $5 transaction fee creates a floor for transactions. If other processors charge a 2% fee, then it doesn't make sense to use Bitcoin to transfer funds or use for purchases lower than $25. This already blocks a huge array of daily transactions, including a $20 ATM withdrawal and probably lunch.

Additionally, there is a floor to the fractionality of Bitcoin, of 100 000 000 Satoshi. If Bitcoin ever reaches $1,000,000, then it could only be divided into $0.01 denominations, and not further. If it reaches $2,000,000, then 1 Satoshi would be worth 2 cents.
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Seems like it. I tried Nuclide back when I used Atom, but the performance wasn't great so I eventually uninstalled.
You can notice sub-200ms lag, but for when you aren't specifically watching for lag or firing a series of rapid events one-after-another, sub-200ms seems to be roughly the point where it "feels instantaneous."
I actually thought they were always of the opinion that they will only lead when they feel like they can make it a good experience or that the tech is finished or mature enough.
> saturated fat was bad, low-fat/carbs-rich diets were good

That was the sugar industry.
"Defensive upvoting," you might call it. I've certainly done it.

I've also seen many of my own comments go up and down quite a lot as the upvoters & downvoters battle it out. (Eventually they tend to settle on a solid "meh.")