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Hello!

iPhone X has a "TrueDepth" front-facing camera system that powers FaceID. It can also be accessed in limited ways through the ARKit framework. I used the facial tracking API (used for animojis) to create a game that is controlled by the player's eyebrows. The app is available for free on the App Store.

The gameplay is simple: eyebrows up -> character jumps up, eyebrows down, character jumps down. I posted a video demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k_9BKA3w_Q

Some tech details: The app is 100% Swift, the game is built using SpriteKit, and all design was done in Sketch.

Would love to answer any questions about the game, discuss the ARKit API's, or talk about the privacy / accessibility implications of the technology.
Why would she go back to Microsoft if her rapist was hired back as well?
people will agree with any sanction the state has for a particular action whether it is summary execution for a furtive movement, or merely being put on a list

so this is a good move from the parliament to preserve compatibility of offenders with enlightened society
Reminds me of Goodhart's Law:

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
> Answer: it's not really profitable.

Do you have evidence supporting this claim?
Sounds trivially avoidable.

Access the RPC call as httpSerbice.getFoo() and make it return a Future/Promise, or even a special subtype of those. 100% obvious what it does.

You're going to be calling REST methods the same exact way anyway - you have to pass around the result of that restful http.get call somehow.
While businesses ought not act orthogonally to morality, I'm not sure they should exactly be in the business of it either.

If a person is working in a company with foreign customers, employees, or relations, perhaps they may have a coincidental policy stating, "We do not initiate conversations on Taiwan and China." Another company may have a policy stating, "We do not discuss Apple products outside of this company." These are all restrictions on speech which clearly aren't examples of hate speech, and yet they all seem quite reasonable to me in the promotion of a competitive and harmonious business atmosphere.
In all fairness, there are tenant protection laws in presumably all states and they're quite strong in some. Nonetheless, if a landlord decides to sell the building or move into it themselves, you're likely going to have to move when the lease expires. And, of course, if you live somewhere that's popular and growing, you may simply be priced out.
I wonder if the same people who got upset at Uber detecting and avoiding state inspectors who pretend to be customers are also upset about Uber agents … pretending to be customers.
Here it goes again, my favorite OS, Emacs. If only it had a web browser as good as chrome.
This smells like the Cultural Revolution. Scary.
> If our police forces are failing to press charges against rapists, shouldn't that be a big priority to change?

This is also a priority as the police are generally bad at this apart from a few places which have made it a priority. There is a national backlog in the US of unprocessed rape evidence kits: http://beta.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-rape-kits-legisl...

> What should the standard of evidence be for Microsoft?

See other comment, but civil standards rather than criminal standards sound like a good place to start. But really consider the normal standards of "evidence" at work; people are fired for all sorts of reasons on the flimsiest of evidence all the time. Remember that Microsoft was a pioneer of "stack ranking" which would sack 10% of employees annually simply for relative performance on the judgement of their manager.

> I just feel like many of these articles stop short of discussing obvious questions

A separation is usually maintained between "news" and "opinion", but I agree that journalism is often very bad at giving context.
For me (beta channel FWIW) the extension was installed and enabled. Apparently the code wouldn't modify page contents unless an additional setting was set, but yes it was installed and run without permission.
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But isn't the policy set by the banks by specifically telling the government to remove laws and restrictions?
You are using too general argument.

We are talking about continuous multidimensional optimization. We have already selected our bias and subset of problems we want to solve. Now we are figured out that in this domain there are some theoretical reasons that explain why gradient descent works so well over large number of problems.
You do realize that most banking regulations and misaligned incentives are written and lobbied for by those same private bankers?
No it's awful. They are most certainly not up to date, and even worse, the compilers they ship that advertise certain flags aren't even necessarily feature complete. A glaring example of this was the lack of thread_local support for ages.
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little
of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been
able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute
the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as
know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either
opinion. The rational position for him would be suspension
of judgment, and unless he contents himself with that,
he is either led by authority, or adopts, like the generality
of the world, the side to which he feels most inclination.

I think this is highly relevant considering the times we live in (identity politics, nationalism, feminism, polarization of opinions and beliefs).
Introducing Pointed.io: Mock backends as a service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15939060
While I can agree with author on some points, I don't understand why everyone bashes Mozilla for Pocket so much, they have bought it and I thought it is part of Mozilla now: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...
Plase correct me if I'm wrong.
"in general" covers all changes of all variables.
The fact you talk about “public transport” makes me think you’re British, in which case when you say

> We have trains from the 70s on the track, and aside from multiple steps and a gap, there are no places for wheelchairs

you’re wrong. The only 1970s train still in widespread use is the HST. These have generally been refitted with wheelchair spaces: it’s in carriage C on a GWR HST, for example.

Besides, HSTs are being either replaced or hugely refurbished (power doors etc.) by 2020 - because really serious accessibility regulations come into force then (RVAR). Entire fleets of 80s trains (Pacers) are being scrapped because of this. The British railways are already good for accessibility, and getting much better.
This has been suggested by the liberals (Venstre), socialists and the greens for some time now, what made this happen to a large extent was that a number of younger conservatives have spent lots of time lobbying for a new stance in their party (Høyre).

With any luck, the next goal will be legalisation and most drugs being sold by either pharmacies or the state-run stores (Vinmonopolet) which already have a monopoly on selling alcohol at over 4.75% by volume.

Replacing the dirty drugs addicts currently consume with pharmaceutical-quality stuff will work wonders for our drug-related deaths statistics - not to mention the improvement in quality of life for those affected and the hit the current criminal suppliers will take.
Did Madoff blow all the money of his ponzi scheme on cocaine? Is that why he's behind bars? I don't think it's as clear cut to just say that purposefully deceitful fraud that collapsed the world economy is simply a civil matter.
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And yet, none of them, not Linux, not Kubernetes, not even Chromium shovel ads for a TV show into my face. Or cooperate with German ad, tracking and publishing comoany Burda, and their subsidiary CliqZ. None of them use Google Analytics in their browser, like about:addons did. Not even Chromium.
So your key take-away and complaint with my post is that they volunteer to bump her book's reviews instead of being expressly asked? I really don't see what difference that makes.

Fakespot was being criticized above because the person claims they misjudged his wife's book reviews while also revealing that his wife was conducting the very behavior Fakespot is designed to detect. Whether the biased reviewers volunteer or were asked is completely besides the point.

Look at it from a consumer's point of view, volunteer, paid, or asked the result is the same. The reviews are at best biased and may even be fake (depending on if they actually read the book, and would have given it less than five stars under any circumstances).
It's just increasingly more separate from what people usually call "Android".
You're correct, although Stewart actually had to face a jury trial, unlike practically everyone with major involvement in the financial crisis.
Aww, give me a break! Do I need to have a degree in it to have an opinion?

There was a question mark, I'm not stating a fact.
One of the reasons people are angry, is that this type of investigation has been made as hard as possible currently.

Posts are being removed from bugzilla and threads being locked. The code itself comes from a random github repo, not affiliated with mozilla/firefox. (https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424977

people here were asking why normal process wasn't followed. No answer or links to resources.

another closed discussion here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425187

and here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425171

I appreciate your input as someone who knows the process, but this really wasn't followed this time.

edit: they've changed the repo now. so it's redirected to https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr
Rape cases are hard to prove, and prosecutors would rather go for things that are easy to prove, like drugs. But courts and the police aren’t the only aspect of our society charged with ensuring justice. This should be obvious to anyone on HN. Entrepreneurs don’t file a lawsuit every time someone screws them on a business deal. And if someone says “we shouldn’t go into business with that guy—he’s shady,” nobody asks “well if he did what you’re accusing him of doing, why didn’t you file a lawsuit?”

Reputation systems are important to fill these gaps. And in a reputation system, where peoples’ freedom isn’t on the line, a different standard of review is appropriate. If someone says “we shouldn’t hire this guy, I know he cheated in his classes.” Nobody says “well can you prove that beyond a reasonable doubt?” That’s not how things work.
Design and create the equivalent of a web browser in a modular fashion.

Yes, that is a lofty goal. That does not make it unreasonable.

> Is the solution to break that into its component parts, so that each part can be maintained by a smaller group, and composed together to produce the browser as a whole?

Possibly, but currently, a "web" browser depends on its monolithic qualities. A web page is a DOM, defined by HTML, styled by CSS, and manipulated by JavaScript.

I think it may be time to start designing something less inherently monolithic.

One advantage to modularity is that we don't need to finish before we can use it.
The article was misleading here. Zero people unexpectedly had content change as a result of this. The only way that could happen is if you edit an undocumented config option. That is not what the controversy is about. It's about Firefox adding an addon with a name that sounded suspicious to many, and whose purpose was marketing-related and did not provide any functionality benefit to the user.

Present or not, enabled or not, it didn't actually do anything without explicit user action. But that's not the point, for people whom this bothered.
> sin(a)/cos(a)

Also called tan(a) ;)
Because you need to buy wholesale quantities and it's still not the brand name product you want.
Would be better if Volta-based P3 instances are involved in the comparison.

Spoiler Alert: It is a game changer.
The Pentagon has confirmed its $22M program to investigate UFOs
Metafilter was the absolute worst social experience of my life. When I joined, it was common for individuals who did not fit in for some reason to be routinely ganged up on by other people. Mods would ask the person being ganged up on to stop posting, then let other people continue to make personal attacks against the person who had been asked to leave the conversation, who could now not defend themselves. If they did come back into the conversation to defend themselves, they were "behaving badly" for disobeying mod instruction (but the people attacking them were never told they were behaving badly).

As someone who was openly homeless at the time that I was gifted a Metafilter membership (by someone on HN), I ended up on the receiving end of that on Metafilter. At some point, I stopped participating.

It is clear to me that both Hacker News and Metafilter have a high percentage of well educated, well heeled members. In fact, there is significant overlap between the membership of Hacker News and of Metafilter. Some active users of both sites have the same handle on both sites.

I fairly often see remarks on HN by well-to-do people that strike me as sort of clueless wrt how the other half lives. But I have not been openly, actively and repeatedly ganged up on and continuously harassed here the way I was on Metafilter.

Given the similarities of the populations and the actual overlap of membership, in recent months I have been forced to conclude that the difference in culture is due to a difference in moderation. So, you do good work and should be proud of that.
True. My team started targeting site availability since using that as a measure. Now my site uptime is four nines! About to tell them to cut it out.
All of those projects have their constituencies, and it isn't always the typical end-user.
point 1:

The wheel was, in fact, one of the first instances of a centralized structure replacing an inefficieint distributed structure.

The central "hub" of a wheel bears the load and the "edge condition" is the substantially reduced "rolling friction".

This is in contrast to ye old "distributed load" way of a zillion poor slaves pulling a load.

So as far as the "wheel" goes, VISA is a chariot, and Bitcoin is an army of slaves pulling a wheel-less load.

And in fact, the "facts", prove this. Almost 400 KWh per transaction, and that at the feeble rate of 7 tx/sec.

That is your "technological wonder".

point 2:

"Technological wonder[s]" of this time -- now -- are Machine Learning, CRISPR, etc. These are the "inventions" to pay attention to, not a thinly disguised play by private wealth to finally fully take out the national governments from the monetary system loop.

That CJW -- Crypto Justice Warriors -- like you fail to see this is the actual "wonder".
The solution is to fork, or start over.

I like the latter idea.
Actually, I guess I do have to agree with that.
"Ungoogled" is actually a superset of Iridium, and includes patches from it.
No, to both. Religion is a choice (in free countries, at least) and does not require special protection. It's no different than saying disparaging remarks about Republicans or Democrats.
"The answer is that regulators did an abysmal job of understanding the perverse incentives that plagued the industry."

My cynicism kicks in here. They did not fail to understand. They actively ignored, downplayed and dismissed clear evidence and demonized everyone that failed to participate in the fiction. There are powerful pressure groups and special interests that support from the debt driven, government incentivized mortgage system. They have captured the necessary regulators and legislators and expect these people adopt the appropriate blind spots.
Thank you for your evaluation! It should have been dblDenominator instead of dblDiscriminant and I fixed it accordingly. However, this change does not seem to significantly affect performance.
> You’d think if using commute time productively was a big draw, everybody would be riding the bus already, right?

No, because the buses themselves are not a reasonable working environment. Every single person I know who can take the train to work does, many of them able to work (on trains that allow working - that's not, e.g. subways anywhere I've seen).

Not a single one of those will use a bus, even if it is overall faster (better route, etc.).

Driverless cars are likely to provide a reasonable working environment.
Completely unacceptable. But with how much disrespect Windows 10 gives users in terms of forcing distracting ads into faces, I can see why they think it's open season on us.
I'd love for this to be the case, but your options are severely limited if you only accept physical cash or bitcoin as payment. Pretty sure my company only allows direct deposit or paper checks, for example, which means I wouldn't be able to keep that job. Furthermore, as seen in the past few months, the alternatives to banking (e.g. cryptocurrencies, and bitcoin transaction fees/delay) would not be able to handle all the people currently using banks. So for the time being, using a bank isn't practically a choice, because one option comes with the loss of many social opportunities that are otherwise assumed.

But in the long term, this is all the more reason to develop alternatives to the current banking system. And maybe in the next 15 years, or perhaps a few years after the next crisis, we'll have an alternative that can support the volume of the current system. It's no coincidence that bitcoin was launched so shortly after the last financial crisis.
How do emotions affect productivity?
We never did that in the first place :-)
These PMs are clearly predatory grooming and not at all somebody who may be interested in dating a colleague. If you're interested in somebody you don't act like Jian Gomeshi or Clarence Thomas constantly bringing up sexual innuendo, touching them or talking about porn. That's what predators in prisons do in what they call the 'punk test' to see how far they can push you. If you ignore them that means they can progress to level 2 and up the harassment.

As for these conferences I always think not allowing alcohol is the best solution for avoiding the pack of idiots the author ran into with one loudly bragging about 'banging smoking hot chicks'. You could have behavior police there kicking out the people acting like they are in a frat party or you could just not have alcohol and at all times push this is a professional conference not a nightclub. You'll still run into creepy predators because that is a fact of human life. The advice I was given a long time ago when in pretrial lockup for bogus charges of violating the CFAA is never let anybody get to level 2 of the punk test, always make it known their behavior is not acceptable by directly telling them or use banter, which is how males typically interact with each other in these situations. With banter you also establish a rapport which makes it easier to tell them to cut out unprofessional behavior. The girl in this story when the drunk creep threw weak banter at her after she gave him the look for his loud creep comments could have responded with her own bantz instead of feeling humiliated, as that was a prime moment for a joke about him being at the wrong conference as it wasn't a fictional story writing con or stats joke on inaccurate analysis, with a direct reminder to keep their frat antics down. No humiliation, and message gets received the behavior isn't appropriate and the creeps will respect that you can keep up with the banter so usually won't persist. This sounds like victim blaming but predators are also good con artists who can insulate themselves with other powerful people to retain their status and deflect discipline so reality must be checked. A large accounting firm here that a friend of mine worked at in HR discovered they had a manager with numerous settled sexual harassment lawsuits none of the employees knew about they tried to keep secret. The company was more willing to keep paying settlements than they were willing to fire the harasser.
As it happens, I posted http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2017/12/google-mozilla-and-deb... around the same time.
wait till they outlaw bitcoin. prisons will fill up again.
One sense implies that the author is scheming- soliciting reviews to boost her sales- and has a connotation of her agency in dishonest behavior.

The other sense is one of a natural human (but honest) response of friends excited by the celebrity status of one of their own.

I agree fully with your comment on the consumer's point of view, though. As a consumer that point's not lost on me.
As a reminder, decriminalization is not the same thing as legalization. This distinction seems to get lost in these kinds of discussions. Decriminalization is an approach for countries that see drug abuse as a serious problem that needs to be managed as well as possible. It is not a solution for people who regard recreational drug use as a civil liberties issue.
There are two internets now -- the internet of documents and the internet of applications. For reading documents, including somewhat dynamic documents like HN, all I need is w3m. But for the internet of applications you need a thin client: a javascript VM and layout engine. I regard anything that runs javascript as inherently malicious, out to violate my privacy and drain my battery. Of these, shenanigans notwithstanding, Firefox is still the least bad of the bad actors. Like most of the community, I'm disgusted but not surprised by this stupid stunt.
Prosaic bits of metal and rock, perhaps, spun to be containing some sort of unknowable potential for unknowable purpose.
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The Looking Glass extension doesn't do anything unless the user manually sets an about:config flag.
I am finding myself more and more suspicious of buying from Amazon. I have had issues with fake reviews, disclarity over the actual vendor/source of an item, particularly due to their mixed logistics system. It’s scary how many 1-Star reviews are clearly from people who’ve gotten a fake / different product than what’s listed. I am close to done with buying from Amazon.
>But the best deal with regards to GPUs is to buy your own and put it in your office.

Of course, if you need to use it _all_ the time (or need to heat the space). The whole point of cloud computing is to share those resources with others when you don't need them.
> judge, jury and executioner

Oh come on. It wasn't even a firing decision, it was a decision on which interns to hire. They can't have been short of applicants. How about not hiring the guy with the rape allegation?

Alternatively, if you believe the woman is entirely lying, why wasn't she barred from hiring? No, they just dropped the question on the floor entirely.
There are lots of gray areas, but the article does not cover any of them; these were not gray areas, but very very dark. I'm not in that field, and no longer in academia, but we should out those a-holes and fire many of them (we as humanity :)

Sexual and romantic relationships among people in direct supervisory relationships are too close to sexual harassment, and prohibited by most HR departments, as they should be. That should be a big no-no. Notice nothing precludes people from acting on romantic feelings after the supervisory relationship ends.

I think talking about gray areas and splitting hairs when we have accounts of horrible behavior is detrimental to solving these issues. Let's get rid of these a-holes, and then we can discuss shades of gray when we have gotten rid of the horribly abusive behavior.
With those low effort conspiracies that are popular today, creating a fake like this would be a overkill.
Do you have any ideas on how a standards body or its procedures could be structured to fight against this tendency?