skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FaceID with lag compensation! As soon as it sees a face it starts to unlock based on a fast prediction, then if the authoritative secure side of the chip says "No, authentication actually failed" it rolls back the clock and relocks itself!
This is a reason not to use a thick case, and avoid charging your phone over 80% during the day.
Name two economics Nobel winners you disagree their awarding and the reason why they don't merit it
Fingerprints don't confirm who you are though.

In certain circumstances they can, but a phone sensor accepting whatever input it is being given isn't one of those circumstances.
>>I don't have a better way to say this. Trust me, I've tried to find one.

>>Science has, in many ways, taken on some of the characteristics of religion.

There is no better way to put it. I have said this the same way. There is a growing sentiment of a "science clergy," a bureaucracy that controls Truth (tm).
Yes, I was agreeing with you and sharing my experience. That's why I said similar. Here, I am more inclined to read the article. HN people are just too smart for me to always be able to grasp it from comment context.
Sideloaded apps, by definition, are not tracked individually by Apple. You can't make a killswitch for an app if you don't know what the app is.
A few years ago, Apple bought Primsense. Primsense made the sensor in the original Kinect. They've now integrated this into their Face ID system, or at least that's what the keynote suggests. It projects a known random dot pattern and an ASIC does some image processing to figure out the depth in the image (nice patent, by the way).

So they have two bits of info: the 3D reconstruction and an infrared image with/without dots, they also have a colour image using the FaceTime camera. I would be surprised if they didn't use more information than just the point cloud. Biometric security at airports uses a similar system, you can see the laser light when yo go through the e-Passport gates.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/12/iphone-x-basically-has-a-k...
Companies need to invest in high quality cameras. Facial recognition software is getting so good even HUMINT is having a problem with it. Soon I see these things integrated with facial recognition software so realtime alerts can detect false-delivery persons and known criminals.
Read up on BadBios, Stuxnet, & Duqu because I believe its names given by different security experts for the same suite of malware that has evolved over time which has exhibited different and similar characteristics seen by the name givers.

At the same time always be cynical with what is reported, its not uncommon for law enforcement to not give out pertinent information and its not uncommon for the military to carry out experiments on the public in secret to get a better understanding of human biology & behaviour.

In a way, the internet is probably the best tool known to man to study human behaviour on a scale never carried out before, in a way a Brave New World, with a bit of Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 to name probably 3 important books which are topical today but conceived years ago.

There's a lot of psychology employed with this sort of thing so its not your usual run of the mill stereotypical hacking collective, as I've said elsewhere, there's not many entities in the world with the resources to pull this off using online and offline techniques, with additional elements like psychology also in use which would cover the social hacking side of things in many innovative ways.

Another reason for military secrecy is some experiments would never get past the ethics board of university's, but do criminals have ethics or obey the law?

If you look at the basis of Capitalism, businesses need to deliver results for the least amount of money in order to keep shareholders happy. With this in mind, its cheaper to deploy something nearly completed and then let users report the problems that affect them and then the bugs get prioritised using metrics like how many users affected and whats involved in fixing it, ie is it a quick fix or a major overhaul. With this in mind, this general modus operandi can be exploited by those entities who dont really have any budget limits in the same context as most businesses.

Its also the spooks job to know everything, because it would be logical to pre-empt any major threats to life, however other entities like news organisations or other entities with their own agenda cant be wholly ruled out either. Thats what makes this puzzle so fascinating.

I have caught some of the five eyes techniques long before Snowden showed up, thats not to say these were 5eyes actors, they could have been some other entity who independently arrived at the same idea for some of the techniques I've seen used. I've also heard from other sources some other stuff also mentioned by Snowden which goes back to the early 00's, and other references go back to the 90's because thats the beauty of all this stuff, theres always someone older and uglier than you that's seen it all before.

Anyway you could start here for some insight from those in the know. Body language may or may not be useful. These people like games whilst portraying a facade, but ultimately who and what do you trust?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQcPhTF9Jqs
This seems pretty annoying. Do/did they tell you anywhere that your ad would only appear on the specified subreddit previously, or was this just expected behavior?

In any case, you should stop advertising with them if you don't like their business practices. Semi-unrelated, but I stopped using Reddit a bit ago, it became too much of a haven for racism, misogyny, and an endless stream of sockpuppets touting white supremacy views.
The best comment threads are on Slashdot, the ability to filter comments less than +2 makes it much easier to skim read all the good comments.

On Reddit, if the top comment is a joke, you need to wade through a million other jokes before you get to the next top level comment (which may be interesting)

Categorising (a la slashdot) comments is interesting, you can filter out 'funny' and keep 'informative' etc. But I guess it puts a burden on the users to select the right 'up vote' .... do you have a funny button, an informative button, etc?

Facebook has solved this with their 'reaction' icons (like, funny, shock, heart) so user apatite is there for this kind of classification.
they have plenty of data from deployed cars to figure out what speed range covers 75% of the vehicles and set a slow moving car speed limit based on that.
It doesn't matter what they do, people will complain. Also, do you really think they "overlooked" it? I guarantee they had a ton of passionate discussions about it.
You are allowed to use the same words as an idiom while not using that idiom. The words make sense as a non-idiom. It is not a misuse to do this.
I see. So maybe a combination of fingerprint + shorter passcode to unlock, or a long passphrase to bypass?
Project Fi let's you do exactly this. You pay for data used, and can have up to 10 sims that use this bucket of data. It's on the pricey side, so it works best if you use wifi a lot.
They do that—there's a video in this thread somewhere that shows it.
3 Reasons to Never Use Fingerprint Locks on Phones (2016)
> the top Android devices are typically better than the iPhone

In some ways (and on paper), you're right. Apple's stores are a huge advantage though. Any family member that asks me what they should buy is going to be told to get an iPhone. The Genius Bar might not be perfect, but it's better than calling Verizon or posting a message on the One Plus forums.
If it works anything close to how it does currently, you have to swipe from off the bottom bevel to the top. If you look at all the screenshots and videos, there's a small bar there.

Current apps ignore input that starts on the bevel and only detect it if it starts and ends on screen.
You say that, but have you considered the downsides?

Imagine you know someone in the public eye, let's say a musician, with their own website. They enable comments, and site now has comments all over it that they have no editorial control over whatsoever. People are posting a high amount of offensive content. What do you advise that this musician does?
They do an adequate job for the vast majority of use cases. I guess you could hire a security guard to walk with you and ensure your ID matches your physical traits?

Nothing is ever completely secure and usable. There will be some trade offs.
How else is it pronounced? Tawn like lawn,ic
Everybody is discussing the features like they've already bought it. But I find that literally none of the features of the X make sense over the 7, or the 6 even. Maybe a lot of people said this before but to me that's it. The iPhone X event should be remembered as the event when Apple jumped the shark.
It also makes me look like I'm bored of the people I'm talking to when I keep looking at my watch while they're telling me something.
You think that, but it's super noticeable. Muliple times I've been in a situation where I'm in a conversation with someone who is constantly glancing at their watch. Depending on how well I know them, I either say, "You you like to just look at your phone?" or "Is time moving faster on your side of the table, because you seem to be very concerned with your watch."

Or I say nothing and just think about how rude that person is.
You could already load music onto your Apple Watch from your iTunes library and then pair your Bluetooth headphones with your watch.

The only thing this changed is allowing you to use LTE to stream music instead of having a static playlist.
this is a great reflection. thank you for sharing this.
Meh. I'm surprised they bumped the version to "X" for this.

Not every release can be amazing, but this is just an incremental hardware upgrade with some features taken out.

Meanwhile, they haven't fixed any of the most infuriating and annoying iOS bugs, and don't seem to have any plans to do so...
I switch between Atom and JetBrains IDEs all the time. Atom is definitely peppier and has been for over a year. It has a better feel to it and much more customization. The only thing that is better about JetBrains is the exceptional debugger. Nothing in the Atom platform comes close to the JetBrains debug (and test runner) experience.
I mean that's sort of the NYT model in everything, so it's not surprising their comments are exclusionary and based around a heavily moderated clique of elite whites.
I've always expected that to mean that it attempts the next on the list in case of a failure to receive a message from one, it attempts the next. Some of the people in that bug are saying something that would imply that it also attempts the next on the list in the case of NxDomain/NoData, etc., terminal errors in the lookup.

Once one of these is received, it's been my expectation that the query should been marked as failed, and not reattempted.
Google and Facebook are not opt in. They have your data if you browse the web and don't know enough to block/avoid their tracking techniques, or with Facebook if you just have Friends who use it. That argument is bullshit and I'm sick of hearing it.

Say you never signed up for Facebook but don't block their tracking stuff, or maybe you do block trackers but also have some friends who use facebook and have unwittingly shared a bunch of information about you. Someone can know just enough to fraudulently sign up for a Faceook profile in your name, and Facebook will helpfuly make suggestions and pre-populate bits of the profile with stuff they already know about you. That person knows a lot more about you now.

It's also not a stretch to imaging Facebook or Google profiles being used as ID for credit and other financial institutions in the future, there are already many online services which allow this and we already have things like Android Pay.

This shit's complicated, I think we're massively underestimating the risk of trusting these companies just because they haven't leaked user data. Making dismissive and oversimplified statements about it doesn't help anyone.
> expensive

To be fair, OK-ish quality wireless earbuds are now available for ~$30.

You can get voice quality ones for less than $20.

Charging is annoying though. :(
If you do US States, could you do Canadian provinces as well?
This is my problem too. There is basically no camera with the processing power and size combination of the iPhones. Some of the things they’re doing with the dual-lens thing are pretty impressive.

That said, they're still working around a microscopically tiny sensor and lenses. So if you can compromise on size a bit you can get a RX100 V which shoots great pictures.

Sadly, still no Live Photos, but you could shoot video and grab stills from it. I agree that these are a way more impressive feature than camera makers give credit for.
Physics/Math/CS also has the arxiv which is a notorious battleground to test your ideas in the open (a very good thing).
He ... has a history. Plus, I mean, trying to get out-of-game details like address/name is a big no-no in Eve (and should be in any internet game).

Leave it in game.
The Hardening of Consciousness
There is a ton of electric power available for features in a Tesla that might require an irresponsible amount of fuel in a regular car.
Your both right and both wrong. Biometric authentication is an identity scheme. The combination of username and password is also an identity scheme. A certificate chain is another identity scheme.

Identities both identify who you are and are, ideally, difficult to fake. Username password artificially handled those two concerns separately, but that doesn't mean that all identity schemes must do so. For them to say it's your password is wrong, but for you to say it's your username is also wrong. It can be thought of as both or neither but it isn't either one on its own.
replicability issues are mostly in psych and economics. devices and drugs rely on physics and chem/biology which are highly replicable. it's obvious how physics is replicable as anyone can drop an object and measure how long it takes to fall.. etc
> (unfortunately they still make the best laptops!)

Are they still soldering hard drives and memory down? That pretty much permanently drove me away from their laptops.
And people don't pick up after their dogs.
if you can find a well paying / interesting job in your field in the area where real estate is "cheap" - go for it!

in my field most interesting (!) and well paying jobs are concentrated in major metropolis areas around major university hubs ... where real estate costs are some of the highest in the country.
> First, the baseline isn't the total US population. We're not surprised that toddlers and retired World War 2 veterans aren't software developers. You're looking for the percentage of the labor market, which, of course, is higher.

~2.5% is the percentage of the US employed workforce.

> Second, what you're pointing out is orthogonal to the question. The premise of the question is that there aren't many women software developers; the dispute between the memo and Dahly is why that is.

The argument is that Google would not be excluding >95% of people, but 97.5% aren't even software developers.

> Third, if you bring international labor into this, you muddy the issue even more, because female participation in the software development market is sharply higher in some major overseas markets.

But why would a US employer hire foreign employees from those markets and not the world market overall?

> I don't follow your second sentence.

The complaint is that four standard deviations is a lot, but it's not actually four because the size of a standard deviation is not the same.
Say it louder! As a very interested non-scientist layperson, I have learned so much through blog posts critical of poor papers, which I often find through twitter. The more people doing that, the better the state of the field becomes, faster.

It's fascinating to see the "new guard" emerging in psychology, actively acknowledging the poor practices that have preceded them and fighting back were possible.
> if you want to use the wrong words

You say while advocating for a mistranslation.
Sleep tracking would be one of my primary use cases, how accurate is it? is it useful?
The A11 is a massive leap forward over the 6 and 7, that alone is a pretty big reason to upgrade.
Completely understand. We've just updated our scope to the minimum requirements to collect billing data. Please feel free to connect and let us know your thoughts. Thanks!
But not Cocoa and the UI :/
> the fingerprint sensor being in the middle of the back on 6P is unquestionably a better choice

I've been very happy with the fingerprint reader positioning on the Sony Xperia Z5 Compact: as a part of the power button, along the edge of the device.

It's exactly where my right thumb naturally rests when holding my phone. (And lines up nicely with my left middle finger rests, if I'm holding it in my left hand.)

Side view: https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/file...
That's interesting. I would think that identical twins would be very hard to distinguish... and those certainly have an almost 1:350 odds. Of course you're likely to know them, but still I'm not sure banks would be happy with that for FIDO.
Prosthetics were specifically covered in the keynote.

The neural networks have been trained to recognise them as fake faces.
ZipPhone founder here.

For some reason my YC profile had a non-existent website listed (awaaz.mobi). I have changed it now to zipphone.com (not hosted, since the company was acquired), and changed the email to founders@zipphone.com.
I use Atom in a couple of places

1) Old Linux laptop with 4GB of RAM which I leave open for days on end without issues

2) Linux VM on virtualbox on my 8GB Ram desktop. I went for months leaving Atom open in the VM (saving it day to day) without issues

I'm not even using an up to date version of Atom? I know Atom is not great with very large files (it warns you before you open them) but for me this is only things like logs which I read from the command line with tail and grep. I have no need to open large files in my coding editor.
> You need attentiveness to use your phone

No, this is not true. I can log in and activate functions of my phone right now without looking at it.

If I have to look at my phone, there is a problem. If the phone merely needs to see my face, maybe it's less of one. The iPhone is already slow enough I find myself waiting on it, I don't want it to be any slower.
Sucks to be in jail waiting for that process to play out, though. *edit typo!
This time they’ve got an infrared sensore, as well as two cameras with different focal lengths, so they should be fine.
Is this the fate of all text editors once they run out of ideas to implement ?

I for sure wouldnt use this, especially with the whole kite controversy just being over (is it ?).
I don't think would be a problem of armchair analysis. Rather, it would be an issue of trying to fit the wrong distribution to the data. Granted, not having even a peek at the data would increase the likelihood that the distribution someone pulled out of their hat is wrong. But it doesn't prevent people from making that mistake.

I don't think the tail of the techiness distribution would be an issue either, because this tail isn't that fat. Techiness is most likely constrained to a definite variance. I mean, Googlers are part of that tail, yet none of them are some sort of post-singularitarian cyborg, beyond the comprehension of their own colleagues. It might sound stupid, but this is the sort of thing we expect to see in the fat-tailed distributions.
This is a relatively small problem - that sure is one ugly red knob on the side. I don't think it jives with the design at all and looks cartoonish. Otherwise, seems like a decent upgrade
Men in lab coats have become the new priests, handing down ordained works for the masses and being held up on a pedestal.

I say this as a scientist.

It's almost as strange as how people will ask me medical questions when I'm introduced as Dr. KGIII. I can kinda understand when people ask me things outside my discipline, but I'm the last person you want to ask about your medical problems.
> Whoever know his real name, home address and other details msg me

This is a real threat par excellence
Code completion is still generally better in VS, for one.
Nah, there's no role-play.

The difference is between "Ok nerds, log in your eve clients, get on mumble, and undock and press F1 to shoot this guy. Someone pull up the map on Dotlan so we can see where we're going. Someone ping me on Jabber when you found the hostiles." vs. "Capsuleers, please board your spaceships, and prepare to undock and fire your weapons. Gallente pilots, break off formation and assist the Logistics wing!"
I think his point is that people in the "progressive world' and tech scene are routinely being taught (rightly so) to NOT to treat minorities like this. But annoyingly, the same attitude doesn't exist towards people from Slovenia.

Comparing suffering in general is a terrible practice, as it literally looks at people as unequal.
> On Reddit, if the top comment is a joke, you need to wade through a million other jokes before you get to the next top level comment (which may be interesting)

You can just collapse it.

I agree with you that the categorization on Slashdot was nice, as was the metamoderating. But when I find myself on Slashdot these days, I find it impossible to follow a conversation with so many collapsed comments.
That is not the quality content this site provides.

You must be a racist if you can't see that.

If you can't contribute, leave.
By not marketing it as a replacement for the 7, Apple has managed to significantly bump the price of the device with barely anyone the wiser. Anyone hazard a guess at the increase in apples profit margin on the X. The price appears to have gone up significantly, for a comparatively small increase in BOM cost.

Even if you question their design decisions, it's hard to fault their product strategy
Agreed, right now I use a spreadsheet to track subscriptions, it works great. I think an app like this can replace and add value to a simple spreadsheet but $300 more dollars year to track services I already subscribe too is way to much.

I would shoot for lower per year cost, around the $20 to $25 mark.
"A) No we aren't. Unjust laws should be fought. "

In the court system, not by disobeying.

Your view of 'what is unjust' is likely completely different from the view of others.

Particularly in this case, I don't have any problem with Google or FB handing over data for individuals under investigation, wherein a Judge had provided a warrant. This is 'legal' in every sense of the term and has been for some time.

As for 'mass surveillance' - well, this was a murkier area, and has been cleared up by the Supreme Court, and I don't suspect they are doing it.

If Google does not want to hand over data to officials producing warrants, they can take it up in court, and try to get an injunction against the process of handing over. If a judge feels there is merit to the case, they will grant the injunction while the case is being resolved.

"They could organize it so that even when the law comes asking, they can't comply, but they don't."

Nope. They can organize all they want, but if the Government is well within legal limits, Google et. al. would face some serious pain. Again for 'mass surveillance' stuff (i.e. legal ambiguity a few years ago), they'd have some legal footing to fight (i.e. try for injunctions), but for other things, not so much.
Yes, we do have better tools than vi now: Emacs comes to mind.