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I have a question regarding Apple's touchpad palm rejection. Or, maybe my question is regarding touchpads in general.

How much raw data is sent from the device to the computer? Or, to what extent is the information preprocessed before sending?

I could see palm rejection being implemented either in hardware or in software. When a user's palm is resting on the pad, there's a large area of slight capacitance change (i.e. hand is either just barely in contact with the surface, or very very close above it), which is not normal when the user is intentionally dragging their fingertip across the surface.

Does the touchpad report a real-time capacitance map across the whole surface? Or does it do some interpretation onboard and send to the machine what it thinks are the separate touch points and pressure values for each?
* in the future it will use contextual bandits to probe for broken backups (such as: hey, is file XYZ with size X uploaded at Y weird?) and learn from all the customers triggering the AI flywheel, more backups more data, better contextual bandits, better service, more customers (the idea is to use bandits[or something else with exploration factor] for probability of "good" notification)

i think the problem needs exploration, i have been bitten by bad anomaly detection and setting up alerts post-moretm after losing data one too many times :)

i imagine creating a bunch of features such as:

* file extension
* time of upload
* delta from previous version
* size difference from other files in the directory
* etc..

and having enough customers we should be able to do good-ish prediction

when a file version is "weird", so we could send notifications such as:

> hey is this file ok?

with some exploration factor, even using UCB will(should) be better than nothing

I plan to use vowpal wabbit's contextual bandits with only 2 actions, "send notification"/"dont send notification" given all the context

this of course will be just extra on top of the manual alert rules, but hopefully it will save some data :)

If the users agree we could also publish anonymized datasets with labeled data (such as: given context alert was sent: was [good]/[bad])

Which will be awesome.
Rottentomatoes is extremely biased and subject to the so called "Hype Train" effect where popular movies have massively inflated scores regardless of content (Don't mean to sound like a hater but The last star wars films have been critically acclaimed despite most of the fans disliking them for various reasons).

I can imagine this happening with news but along party line with critics upvoting sites that fit their world view regardless of actual content.

IMO this obsession with "Fact-checking" and "Journalistic Integrity" is just people still trying to deal with the fact that conservatist populism has been surging lately and the opposing sides just cant get their brain around it so they are just trying to say "No you are wrong and full of liars; See this fact-check proves it!". But neither side really cares since they are just trying to push their agendas.
> Let's just hope this "gaming as a service" stays on mobile devices where it belongs.

What do you call Steam? Sure it's a-la-carte pricing, but you get all the good & bad sides of subscriptions - you don't own anything, you can play on multiple devices, etc.

Netflix for gaming is a big deal. I think it can work on the desktop but perhaps with a different pricing model. Also look to a v2 where "offline only" gets re-thought (possibly with DLC).
No. I personally wouldn't complain that prices are exorbitantly high. If the price should be higher to cover the cost, it should be higher! It should NOT be hidden in an absurdly complex cancellation process. That's my opinion.

Maybe you feel differently. But know that a lot of people feel the other way also.
No, because it won't be a discrete shift from 100% humans to 100% robots - things will get automated in small parts. And even without that, the factories rely on the nearby supply chains. Eventually, when you'll try to move something back to the US, you won't be able to because there just won't be any ecosystem there. E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/technology/iphones-apple-...

Classic "We moved the supply chain to China because it's cheaper --> We can't build stuff in the US - all the factories are in China!"
On top of stripes 2.9 percent fee?
To expand on the other posters, if you can do voice around the world (a few kHz bandwidth) on those frequencies you should very easily be able to do very low bandwidth modulation for data and at reduced power. It would be nice if I could do typing speed but I'd be thrilled with 1 bit per second. Looking around they do have HF packet capable radios but they are quite expensive. I'm going to research those a bit later.
>I doubt the other banks are too afraid of Apple though, I didn't see anything so compelling about the Apple card that would cause it kill other credit cards.

Interesting. I thought it offer fairly good Cash Back, no Fees, no hassle, ease of use. Even if it manage to reach 10% of the US iPhone users it will be a serious damage to other CC. While I may not get the best Rebate and Points when using Apple Card, I don't think those few percentage are worth it for my privacy.
Glyphosate is not approved for organic use so that's an irrelevant point.

Whether total pesticide load (however you want to measure that) is higher or lower for organic vs conventional, varies widely with crop, location and farming method.

There are toxic organic pesticides like copper-based compounds that persist in the soil. And things like strawberry fields are fumigated with methyl bromide regardless of organic or conventional.

There is not perfect data on the harmfulness of many synthetic pesticides, so it's really hard to make a great judgment on whether it's worse or better for you - unless you have general faith that petroleum derived mystery cocktails are pretty much always going to be harmful.

It's all bad when it comes down to it, we should prefer something like permaculture.
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> the guy behind all of their innovation died more than a decade ago.

Who?
Be sure to check out open source repos.

https://github.com/haraka/Haraka
How does the X1's trackpad compare in size to a MBP? Trackpad is probably the showstopper that kept me from switching to some Linux in the past.
> instead they seem to be moving into a totally integrated platform

Apple has been traveling this path for what, decades now? It can't possibly be a surprise. I suppose we could all wish it to be different, but this is in line with what they've been doing for a long time now.
Maybe not enough to live off, but you would be surprised by what is possible. Check out https://happenfilms.com/film/the-plummery (free to watch, ~10 minutes).
Depending on what exactly you want to do, this can either be an unsurmountable problem (unrelated to Clojure but to the restricted browser environment) or something that can be solved with just redefining how you approach it.

1. JavaScript has poor selection of high-performance numerics resources. The language itself does not help...

2. If you would like to write code examples, which your readers should execute on /their/ machines, the issue is that it either has to be pure JS (ClojureScript) or your users have to install the underlying native performance libraries, at which point you can also ask them to install Clojure proper, and use that.

3. If you are fine with these examples running on the server /you control/, you are already covered by either gorilla-repl (not actively developed any more) or some of the plugins for popular notebook environments (Jupyter etc.). These work today but may need some fiddling until you set it up.

4. There is the more straightforward way that I prefer: provide straightforward Clojure projects for the code you explain in the web pages and ask your users to run these in their favorite programming environments.
Curious about this part:

> Very informative and, if you're like me and are constantly panicked that everything's trying to kill you, I recommend it.

So are you saying this will help me STOP worrying that everything is trying to kill me? I'm kinda to the point where I feel like if you aren't eating organic broccoli for breakfast lunch and dinner, than you're killing yourself. So I'm not sure I need any MORE information to enforce that.
This really isn’t why. Fraud cost is negligible.

Apple literally gets a cut out of every NFC transaction. So they get to double dip here.
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How does one pay the bill to Apple? I never owned a credit card, only debit cards, and they are tied to your bank account. As I understand it, bank transfers pretty much doesn't work in the US and it not really the way you'd want customers to pay of credit card bills anyway.

Denmark has a services that will ensure that your bills are paid automatically, on time, from a bank account you choose. I just never heard that the US having anything similar.

I would assume that you can't pay of you bill with another credit card, seeing as that would be illegal, at least in some countries.
Goldman is a client of Apple's. It's possible that they do some shady shit, but it's also possible that they don't want to fuck up their relationship with the world's most valuable company or jeopardize their entry into the consumer space.

Their profit motive might save them. Or it could be a disaster, who knows. My guess is that Goldman would trade on the aggregate data
I do suffer from a similar condition, being able to get in the mood can be quite challenging.

I found that whenever I need to get started on some brain intensive task, be it writing or designing a piece of software architecture, being out and about in a social space (a coffee shop, a pub) works wonders.

I have both a lack of distractions (mobile on silent and out of sight) and a drive to do something instead of staring at folks awkwardly.

What's more surprising for me is even in a noisy environment, I still maintain my focus. I tend to favour pubs, so maybe it's the alcohol working its magic :)
It's not ever going to be serious if it doesn't allow you to play older games and it doesn't have a physical controller. Immersive gaming on a phone/tablet is almost impossible when your fingers are attached to the display.
The AES/MAC composition itself in Borg is done correctly, the problem is the way Borg uses the composition: with a single AES/MAC key for the entire repository which a) never changes b) cannot be changed and c) IVs/nonces used with those keys are primarily tracked by server-side, i.e. untrusted, state. This means that using multiple clients with one repository is never secure in Borg.

> It would be much better to use a dedicated authenticated encryption scheme, like AES-GCM.

Actually, in the scheme Borg uses, which is vulnerable to repeating IVs/nonces, using AES-GCM or Chapoly (or indeed any Wegman-Carter authenticator) would not only delete confidentiality, but also authenticity, i.e. it wouldn't just disclose plaintext to the attacker, but allow an attacker to potentially change your backups [1].

> That being said, I don't know if I'd call Borg's encryption "weak." It's not ideal, and I don't personally trust it. But it's not like they're using AES in ECB mode or Mac-Then-Encrypt CBC mode.

I'm calling it out as weak because it is an insufficient and poor design. If you say encrypted today it should better be up to me throwing my encrypted data up on a random cloud server and be sure that it's actually encrypted. This is not the case with Borg; partial credit for getting some aspects of the construction right (e.g. EtM, separate keys, properly salted master key encryption key derivation) isn't worth much when it fails to provide confidentiality in not-at-all unreasonable, practical usage.

[1] Probably not because by necessity Borg uses a separate HMAC over the plaintext for deduplication, and the manifest has a third layer of HMACing due to protocol issues, so it should be impossible to just change stuff even if you break the ciphertext authentication.
Nice app. Suggestions for Polar:

- Make it so that you can /draw/ on PDFs (Okular supports this).
- Create an Android app which also allows local/offline usage.
> I once saw a pdf which listed all the third parties that PayPal shares its information with.

It's immatetial how much data paypal shares around. What's important is that I can share my CC with paypal and use paypal to buy stuff from any store that accepts it, and the risk of my CC data ending up in the private stash of any random CC fraudster is so low that such a thing is practically unthinkable.
Today was really disappointing. Takeaway: Apple spent untold shareholder dollars to pay Oprah to say "Appllllllllllle!"
This argument is old, and pretty lazy.

Basically, they are saying that AI both creates and destroys jobs. Well no shit.

The problem is, the average truck driver isn't going to retrain and relocate to San Francisco. He will just be out of a job.
Kubernetes 1.14 released (and Windows Containers out of beta status)
I think this is called conditioned place preference. You've associated dopamine hits (junk food, social media, etc.) with the chair. You've also probably conditioned yourself to timing (after work) -- do you go this routine at other times? Say, on the weekend?
The only things that appear to be under our control is what we say and do (or perhaps choose, as 'saying' is a form of 'doing', e.g. in a courtroom) in any given circumstance. Since that too can be reliably predicted for most people, e.g. I know how my daughter will act if I leave her alone with candy in the room... or how an ethical officer of the law would act if he discovered a million in cash buried in an offender's backyard under the dog house.... which are voluntary acts, but almost always predictable, then the question isn't really what is under "our" control, but more like, who is really running the show? Is cause/effect real, is libertarian free will real? I'd say so. What I have trouble believing is that free will is absolute, meaning, that one does not necessarily do X just because he can do X, and almost always does Y instead (e.g. what is right versus what is perceived as a possible choice, which may or may not be 'right' in the given context), Y being the almost always predictable choice of how a person would react in a given set of circumstances.
at least not with Terminus
I have an office with a door and I love it (but no windows to the outside, unfortunately). If I'm on a call or just want to be able to work uninterrupted for a while, I'll close it, otherwise I'll leave it ajar so colleagues can stop by if they have a question or want a quick chat. I work in product R&D; the building also has a cube farm area for IT and HR and business folks, so I'm really happy I'm not there.

My team is distributed around the world so my team collaboration is all virtual, although my management and some of my [internal] customers are located in the same building as me so they can stop by my office or vice versa if we have things to work on together.
Is intentional carbon monoxide poisoning from car exhaust a "vehicular death"?
Same with Sling and Britbox - no fuss cancellations all online. Was impressed.
There should be a distinction between sensory hallucinations and delusions. I think it is usually the latter that people are more concerned about.
Is your username a reference to the ship in Halo?
Agreed, I don't think it is a coincidence that here in Finland VISA/MC credit cards don't offer cashback and the merchant fees are much lower than US (Nets offers 0.31% for EU consumer VISA/MC debit cards and 0.9% for EU consumer VISA/MC credit cards).

Though I guess lower fraud rate due to chip-and-pin requirement also plays a part.
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I haven't written any unit tests for this yet :P
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thanks!
Unless they are willing to work for free, you can decrease costs by getting rid of them.
Maybe Tim Cook picked this strategy up over dinner with Trump.

Trump - "And all these people lined up to pay me to put my name on their products".

Tim Cook - Silently taking notes

Trump - So, I was telling you about ... Tim, Tim Apple?

Tim Cook - Will be back later, on a call with Goldman + Mastercard.
> Apple is likely no better or worse here.

Apple will be piggybacking off of MasterCard's network.
I'm trying to figure out a way to get small messages to transfer over P2P radio: http://radiomesh.org
I see. I guess it seems fundamental to me that a credit card would have these properties -- even though it's not necessary to actually fulfill the role of a credit card -- which is just to provide credit.

The two seem intertwined, even though they aren't. I just assumed Apple -- if they became a payment processor -- would still provide those protections.

If they didn't, which I see is maybe what the OP was alluding to, why would anyone use the card?
Only on their Premium plan. It's also sad that they seem to be the one of the few companies outside the US that does this.
That depends on how big your backyard is and where you are located geographically. Assuming you have a temperate climate with decent soil... Can you build or afford to buy a greenhouse & a chicken coop? Do you have space for early, mid & late season orchards? (btw, how good are you at canning?) You'll probably also need a big shed or barn to store your tractor since you won't have the time to work the acres by hand.
Apple Pay (and Google Pay) penetration in the U.K. is nearly universal.

We have had very good support for contactless payments for a long time, something that Apple/Google Pay will both fall back to if necessary. No one blocks them. Charges are capped in the EU, and low, so retailers are onboard. Add to that the fact that cash usage is declining fast and some places are going card only (London public transport being most notable), it’s everywhere.
Unfortunately the only approach that I know of with Citi is this Flash-based app, which is increasingly getting painful to use on desktop browsers and seems impossible on mobile. Have you found a more modern approach to using them?
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F-35: What the pilots say
So essentially you're saying, between rising minimum wage, other government involvement, various economic reactions, competition between companies, and the customers desire for cheaper products drives production overseas?

If American society insists that we legislate ourselves into a more comfortable environment (higher min wage, better working conditions) then I think we'll have to accept that certain production will just never happen here.

What other reasons can we identify?
> The difference between this and music is that most people do not want to hear the same songs over and over again.

Uh... my kids listen to the same damn song hundreds of times before they cycle to next. YMMV, and there's a large market out there that likes repetitiveness in their music.

That said, I agree that "no purchase barrier" is a huge step forward to getting me to try out a number of games just like songs.

It would make the old good games like "Sword & Poker" viable for developers. They would be incentivized to simply make more such games or add content so players keep playing.
And it's much easier to get your money back from a fraudulent credit card use than debit card use.
Yes, in order to climb the corporate ladder an employee must seem to enjoy it
>The term I would use is: 4chan users engaged in Live Action Role Playing.

Role playing Nazis, by choice. And this wasn't a historical reenactment, or even a skit/play. This was an attempt at showing fear through symbology and crowd size.

You seem to sympathize with them in a very odd manor.

>They were trying to spook you, and they did, apparently.

LOL I see what you pathetically tried to do there.

Please explain, what's so friendly and cuddly about people who's ideology involves extermination of other humans.

>The most they could muster from the entire world is < 200

Not sure what you mean, feel free to clarify.

>I remember when the media tried telling us about how "Anonymous" were "hackers on steroids" who treated things like a "real life video game"

So because one news outlet was wrong one time, we should now disregard all reporting from any outlet till the end of time. Got it.

>Yes, there are some creeps out there. But they are not a serious threat.

You are an expert on what defines a serious threat now too! So in your clearly expert opinion (/s) what is the definition of a "serious threat?"
It's a foot in in the global financing system. Billion people buy their products, and given their price, I'm ready to bet that the number of people who finance their purchase instead of buying with cash is not insignificant. That's lots of interest payments.

Once they have a foothold in the finance sector they can start financing their own devices and capture that revenue, instead of letting it slip to third parties.

This makes incredible sense. Lots of large companies have financing services that are very profitable. Finance is one place where it's much easier to enter than self driving cars.

Now I'm a bit sad I don't own any apple stocks.

With this game plan they can increase their leverage in the consumer market enormously.
So every newspaper with ads that track you can be prosecuted in Japan?
Unsurprisingly since they have had a strong tech workforce with cheap labor cost and an advantage in language (English). It will be interesting to see them move up the value chain and the disruption it may create.
> Glyphosate is not approved for organic use so that's an irrelevant point.

Actually it is a pretty interesting point.
One of the new AR15 with .300 AAC Blackout munition, maybe. But there are some really good rifles out there and, especially of the 6mm breed. Beretta has the ARX-160, IMI and the Tavor is a awesome, the Russians have the A-545/A-762 which solves the AK's recoil issue.

In general it is a bold statement to claim something to be the best with so many new options out there.
I don't see why you're being downvoted. Regardless of whether it's good or bad, regulations on resource extraction, manufacturing, wages, unions, pollution, among many other business practices are the reason why those jobs went abroad as soon as other countries stabilized with their own market economies.

Even the most mundane industries were operating in the US just fine up until the mid 1900s.

You can rightfully critique and regulate the golden goose, but there is a point at which it becomes incapable of producing as many golden eggs as other countries.
Didn't people abuse this one time to by buying $1 coins from the US Government with credit cards and then immediately re-depositing them into their bank accounts? They were essentially pocketing a fraction of the merchant fees the govt had to pay in order for people to buy the coins with credit cards.
True, as we already know from the myriad fact-checking sites.
Opens up wallet app, looks for card number, doesn't see it
> It absolutely matters if we're talking about useful scales, ie delivering hundreds of MWs over days.

You do know that countries tend to be a lot larger than, say, cars and phones? But even if energy density were a factor: The one of liquid hydrogen is great.

> And yes, we do need power to be reliable. We need to power infrastructure that runs 24/7 (not everything is industrial production).

We need some power 24/7, not all.

> Nuclear is definitely the best clean energy in terms of land use

Land use is what makes nuclear inacceptable. Once they fail, they make thousands of square kilometres uninhabitable.
There’s no way small transactions cost Apple that much. Square and Stripe charge their merchants something like 23 cents for small transactions.