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> Does nature tend to create forms which
> are easily detected by relatively simple
> neural networks?

Poison markings and mimicry, for sure. Furthermore, large swaths of plant life in various spectra.
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Ah, I was wondering about the '23' in the name '23andme'.
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Keeping secrets isn't the problem here.

Whether secret or known, why should any woman want a man that would be so careless with his own offspring that they end up being adopted by strangers and searching for their parents all their life?

Whether secret or not, why should any woman want a man who has children by another woman?

Whether secret or not, why should any woman want a man who is apparently really bad at using contraceptives?

Maybe it wouldn't have been a divorce, it just would never have been a marriage in the first place. But whatever the eventual result, the problem was that the father was a piece of shit.
There's a new Moto X about to come out and The Verge reviewed it, calling it "The best Android smartphone ever made".
Because "just information" can be incredibly damaging in lots of ways. This is why most ethical systems include guidelines for determining when it is okay to share information with others and when it is not.

In this particular case, the FDA appears to be concerned that 23andMe are essentially providing the sort of information known as "medical advice" without sufficient context. And (regardless of whether they are correct in this case) that sort of thing can be dangerous.
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I will admit that I might be completely wrong about the technical requirements for this. I'm sure that at least the hardware will support it, and from what I understand there may be a difference in how the terminal goes from talking with a payment method to a verified payment.
Withings Activite is a much better looking smartwatch
I have tiny wrists and own a Moto 360. It's not huge at all. Try one on at a BB once they're in stores and see for yourself.
Android gear can't sell for $50 now.
> As antlr creator Terence Parr says "Why Program by Hand in Five Days what You Can Spend Five Years of Your Life Automating?"

Uh, yes, and in the rest of the talk he answers why automation is good. You didn't just stop at the title, did you?
So before I even read this article - is this a real, scientifically sound, proven way for this to happen? Or is this woo, hope, prayer 'biomed', quackery and other nonsense?

Because everyone and their grandmother has a 'cure' for 'recovering' autistic kids, but most of it is bullshit bordering on abuse.
a bit weary of companies...

It is "wary". Please. Please.
visiting every machine is trivial; it occurs daily/weekly for all cash-accepting machines in order to get the cash. This is also not performed by just one low-paid employee; it is typically performed by two people, one of whom is armed and has his weapon drawn. So there's no issue sending out trained personnel to every machine, it happens every day.

Where there is an issue here is that if the software change only applied to credit card sales, there would be an accusation that the machines now favor more affluent customers who can afford to own credit cards.
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I'm with you--I thought the iPad was dumb and happily ate crow after using one. Looking at the Apple Watch today I'm scratching my head wondering what's the point and who really wants to be even more distracted by their devices.
No, I'm basically saying that the current CO2 problem is something we can engineer our way out of.

There are plenty of other theoretical problems that I don't think quickly engineer our way out of, like escaping an expanding sun, a sufficiently large blackhole, etc.

However for the strawman of "we can engineer our way out of anything in 20 years" I would agree with you that that is arrogant.

As I noted in the deleted post, the reason the IPCC still publishes reports is because it's a problem we can do something about. Do you disagree with this assessment? Are we beyond the point of no return?
I bet your iphone is trying to use cell tower locations or wifi hotspots it's picking up around there and borking up the location. The area around there is kind of open and flat so I wouldn't be surprised if it's picking up location information from across the river.
So one should use Apple Pay when paying in apps, but the credit card stored in iCloud Keychain when paying on the web? I find it a bit confusing.
People's expectations can, though. And when it comes to quarterly revenue statements, it matters.
While I share your intentions, as a practical measure, I doubt Apple could have dictated those terms to their financial partners. Have you ever tried dictating terms to a bank?

De-facto useless organizations like your FISO example with not enough players on board to start with are just lip service. Essentially you're arguing that Apple should be doing the governments job...
It really doesn't do this. Apple Pay is not the solution to moving money between parties who aren't registered merchants, with the relevant banking setup.

Anyone can be become a merchant with a PayPass reader today. Apple Pay is not changing that, nor can it since that sector is entirely dependent on local commerce/finance laws and payment processor anti-fraud costs.
If Dad knew he had a child and didn't tell Mom, that's why they got divorced and it's the lie's fault.

If Dad didn't know that he had a child, and found out along with Mom, then the divorce is the fault of good-old-fashioned Puritanism.

I assumed it's the first - but regardless, airing out "I had a child who was born at %date" isn't something that ruins relationships by itself.
> Nonsense.

I entirely disagree. I would hate to use a tiny watch the same way I use a phone. Input is dramatically more constrained and expecting to use it the same way seems silly to me.
Morally neutral technology does this all the time. Human social interactions are filled to the brim with lies of all kinds- falsehoods, fabrications, lies by omission, etc. Technology is gradually stripping them away.
ApplePay is only on iPhone 6. This means that the availability rate for this technology will get into (tens of) millions in a couple of years, based on the update cycle with the phone carriers. Realistically we're talking 2-4 yrs. Plenty of time for providers to get acquainted with the technology and to integrate it into their retail systems.
For developers it would be interesting to see how the API looks like and if it will be available at all in any shape or form (which I doubt actually).
Very useful feature for werewolves. This watch will be a hit in the Twilight universe.
So does anyone actually like the IPhone 6"?
PCI compliance is a high bar that has limited a lot of innovation in real world transactions. Merchants are still using POS and payment terminals that are a decade old. Merchants have been quite reluctant to change this as it has been expensive and does not add value to them to upgrade.

Due to EMV liability shift, tokenization, windows xp deprecation (as well as a number of other changes in the payment industry), merchants now have the catalyst to look at other solutions. This has opened the door for everything from POS to payment terminals to hand held registers. By lowering the bar of PCI compliance and risk, it opens up the sector to other devices and applications that do not need to meet the bars of payment compliance.
TBH I think the gimmicks are just tech demos - they've got the API's ready for it (apparently), and I can really see this device take off with app developers.
Of course that you have a lot Hootsuite alternatives. But not any as Hootsuite. Really do you know how work with the dashboard¿? Perhaps in Hootsuite University you would learn more about it
The example was more about showing that concurrency and threads are not synonymous, but you can imagine one of the functions producing a stream of values and the other waiting for and consuming them.

In vanilla javascript, you have to resort to breaking your code up into callbacks, which looks trivial in a two function example but becomes unwieldy once you add a few layers and do error handling.

With CSP you organize your code around channels according to the code's logic, rather than according to the needs of coordination. This makes things like error handling and reasoning about your logic much simpler.
I was just thinking about this the other day: contactless payments is the norm in Australia, having the highest adoption rate in the world[1] I would guess that between 75-90% of retailers accept it? It's always very frustrating when a retailer doesn't accept it.

100,000 contactless terminals across the country[1], the numbers for  Pay usage in Australia would be very impressive.

[1]: http://www.smartcompany.com.au/finance/42250-australia-leads...

[2]: http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/australia-hooked-on-tap...
> how does it know where to zoom

If it's a single element/app, it will just transition to a more detailed mode.

If it's a 2D canvas, it will be the center of that canvas. Kind of like how the zoom widget on Google Maps works today.
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Google exercise control over the software shipped on all mainstream Android phones through Google Mobile Services licensing (GMS includes the Play Store, gmail, maps, GCM, etc.) These restrictions could include ones which prevent MNOs and OEMs from adding bloatware, but they don't.
You're right about the relative similarity (and that's the key point), wrong about the number of chromosomes being involved in the 25% calculation. It's about the proportion of bases (letters in the sequence) that can differ between two people that actually differ between these two people. See mbreese's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8293159
"At a recent CoreOS meetup, I gave a presentation on the design and implementation of Psyduck, which is the name for MemSQL’s test infrastructure."

So does the test infrastructure get exponentially more powerful when under pressure, or what?
So is Apple Pay in essence another way to get a credit card processed against stripe? If you have an app that customers can store credit cards on, it's not clear to me what the additional benefit of apple pay is? Is it simply a better/faster way of getting the card information to stripe by way of thumb press as opposed to key entered?
Also on the watch.
Or he could have meant that he was tired of these companies disclosing deeply personal information so carelessly. Either one works.

When the meaning is that ambiguous, you should probably be kinder and more reserved in your attempts to correct it.
"It requires an iPhone and seems to essentially serve as a small, remote interface for your phone."
This is basically the same as the Android watches (Samsung Gear Live, Moto 360, etc). All the smart watches have this problem. They are just a subset of your cellphone, but require your cellphone to be w/ you to work. All it does is save you from reaching into your pocket/purse for your phone. But Apple has done a great job with it and might be able to make it succeed.
Apply Pay uses the same tech as existing contactless payments, like PayWave or PayPass, so the availability is already pretty high.
Most people's phones are more expensive, and IIRC back when people still wore wristwatches they were just as, if not more expensive than that.
It said that the Dad had the child before meeting the Mom and didn't know about the child. The problems arose from the Data wanting to meet the child against the wishes of the family.
Infectious diseases tend to follow two paths:

1) Cull the herd, aka very old, very young, or very sick will die, but most will be fine. Like most flu seasons, but not all flu seasons. Not like ebola or rabies.

2) You get it, you're probably gonna die. Like rabies, or ebola, or once in a century or so flu seasons (the flu season right after WWI killed more people than WWI itself killed)

Last time on HN I suggested a mutation could affect transmission rates and it caused an epic flamefest or authoritarianism, so for the good of the site, we'll agree ahead of time that surely no mutations can occur, and the example of some flu seasons being much worse than others for genetic reasons is merely coincidence.
Apple trackpads can already distinguish between a finger touching them and being physically depressed, though I don't know what it has to do with payments.
That's not the real issue. The real issue is that it doesn't fulfill the promise of you not having to hold your cards anymore (unless you only shop at Walgreens).
Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Something tells me the author would have checked the box even if it required a physical key. Time to reread the myth of Pandora's Box.
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'weary' is perfectly valid. You're welcome. You're welcome.
Withholding information that wasn't asked for is generally not considered lying. Which is why everyone is calling it a 'secret'.

It sounds like the big contention was that he wanted to contact his son, not that the son existed.
> How cool would it be to vibrate someone's wrist with a martini glass saying implying that I haven't seen you in a while and want to go get a drink. No need for email, calling, texting anything.

At best, "cool" is all it is. It certainly isn't useful. If you haven't seen me in a while and I get a poorly drawn martini glass picture, I'm not going to think, "Cool. Drinks with AlwaysBeCoding." I'm going to think, "what the hell is this picture of an ice cream cone with a marble in it?"

In comparison, texting "Drinks tonight?" is faster to type, faster to understand, and has some vague hope of conveying the intended message. And both show up on the watch.

Pictures might be acceptable to your significant other. If one of my friends sent me one, I and the rest of the group would spend the next 10 minutes brainstorming unflattering nicknames to forever annoint him with.
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There is a probably a middle ground (and possibly a large one) between people running triathlons and couch potatoes.
It's fantastic that, in this enlightened age, the simple fact that about 30% of people, across cultures, have wrong idea about their biological father, is still deeply suppressed.

This is why such ad hoc testing has been prohibited in many countries (Germany, most recently.)

Yes, about every third reader of this is deluded about her/his biological father. Deal with it.
I don't argue that it would be an easier sell if it wasn't so anti-social to use. But it certainly can't be compared to 3D TVs or movies for that matter, which are an awful hack.

This generation's VR is the real deal, and while the technology isn't quite there yet, it's within touching distance. People will be prepared to put up with the inconvenience because the experience will be significantly more compelling than anything else they've seen. It will be massive based on word of mouth alone.
By blowing them up or centering them at 1.0 scale?
But in that case the child's mother caused the problems by keeping the child a secret from the father.
Well, unless you mean that the entities are tired of the companies, rather than cautious of them, in which case, "weary" is the correct word.

Come to think of it, most of the time "wary" is used to refer to reaction resulting from a worrying pattern of behavior, "weary" probably is also accurate, even if its not what the author is most concerned with communicating.
I am the guy who made the original claim. You integrated the Inspectlet screen recorder and keylogger into your extension. Enough said.

The popup's textarea className had a hyphen, which caused inspectlet to include this in the data to upstream. This was done deliberately; if you were watching user's on your end, you would have noticed and corrected this. Instead, you allowed this to go on for months.

You were also doing this in your $7.99 "pro" version, which was mysteriously unpublished days later... Here's a suggestion: why don't you unpublish this one too and get off the webstore.
The iPhone 6 / 6 Plus include an NFC transducer, whereas the old hardware does not include the ability to operate at this wavelength (13.56 MHz)
I think it depends on exactly how good this generation of VR technology turns out to be. 3D was really pretty underwhelming and hard to watch for a lot of people. And at the end of the day it didn't look terribly real.

The cumbersome nature of VR goggles could potentially be outweighed by the sheer novelty and intensity of the experience.
>Imagine a typical scenario. You are walking down the street and suddenly need to navigate somewhere. How many minutes are you going to waste playing with that little nub and resizing things on the screen before finally pulling out your phone and just using that.

Reminds me of a joke I heard:

A local school board was trying to find ways to increase the efficiency of their schools. A local computer programmer had come to the board meeting with a proposal.

He suggested that each desk be equipped with a small button, that via wireless technology would light up a small panel on the teachers desk.

That way if a student wanted to ask a question, they could simply press the button which would light up say spot A17 on the panel. Then using a quick lookup sheet the teacher could then see that desk A17 is where John was sitting.

The teacher could then look up quickly and say, "John...you have a question?"
Are you saying that the phone in the water tight bag is not much use a a watch? Because yeah that makes sense. Or are you saying that the watch on your wrist with a Bluetooth connection to the phone is not much use as a watch? I don't understand that point.
Good point. I'm still skeptical that's the plan for the watch, but I guess it's plausible at least.
Ask HN: Would building GUI's for CLI applications be very helpful?
Hi HN, I'm someone with quite a bit of front-end experience. I've built a few applications in my work where I've always had comments about how easy it is to use, as well as websites and done small bits of design here and there. I'm a security hobbyist and I've just switched over to Ubuntu on my desktop. As most of you would know, most security tools are written with CLI's in mind. This is likely to automate a lot of the tasks, and speed up workflows for the power users.

But from a usability point of view for beginners (I come from Windows 95 and Macintosh II, so I've always had a GUI) and the younger crowd, I think the barrier to entry for a lot of these tools would be lowered if they had a GUI.

Pretty much what I'm asking; is does HN think it would be helpful or beneficial to contribute to existing projects by building GUI's for them (or improving existing ones)? A good example I think is ZenMap GUI for nmap. Tools I have in mind are:

wpscan, joomscan, sqlsus, grabber, fimap, deblaze and BlindElephant (and improve wfuzz's GUI, forgot the name for that project though).

Also if you have any ideas for others let me know. I don't want to just limit this to security-related tools, if there's an everyday CL app you have in mind..
Do we know for sure that Satoshi actually had a GMX account?
I suppose the idea would be that you want to lower the barriers to payment and a thumb press is pretty low.
What I'm missing in this sub-thread is guesses as to what went wrong. The video quality of all past Apple events I've watched where border line perfect, and I've seen quite a lot of them! Any ideas?
Not really a valid argument; a lot of people have their phone out at all times (or even just to check the time), which isn't even attached to their wrists like this one is. Second, at $350, the resale value on the black market is what, $50? $100 if you're lucky? Not sure if a robbery is worth that.

Besides, how do people with expensive watches (Rolexes and whatnot) manage?
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> The genetic testing didn't cause the divorce, keeping secrets did.

Keeping secrets didn't -- the marriage ended as a fairly direct result of the secret failing to continue to be kept.
I have no idea. But I'd wager that cause and effect in natural systems has more to do with visual systems adapting to shapes than shapes of entire animals adapting to other species' visual systems.
... That's not directly. The "interface with the payment provider" is what Stripe is and this lets you interface with Stripe.
Might be one if by land, two if by sea.
iPhone 5 and 5s will be pair-able with Apple Watch, so I would assume they will have access to Apple Pay too
For what it's worth, Google Wallet never actually discloses your card. It uses a virtual MasterCard to complete the transaction.
Do positive comments signify that the product will be a failure?

Or do both positive and negative comments suggest to you that a product will be a success? If that is the case, are you actually factoring in whether comments or positive/negative, or are you merely basing your predictions off of the volume of comments?
author here:

Pioneer uses cucumber and Pioneer for its tests, you are correct. We also have a suite of unit tests that are powered by mocha.

Since we wanted true integration tests we choice to use Pioneer to test Pioneer. We wanted our feature files to act as documentation thus Cucumber was a clear choice.

As far as precedence goes ... This is not an uncommon pattern

Mocha uses mocha to test
https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha/blob/master/test/http.m...
While that may be true, that is not what happened in this case. I also thought that was where the story was going based on the title, but it's not where it ended up. The author found a half-brother: before the author's father married his mother, his father put up a baby for adoption with a former girlfriend.
Genetically it may be difficult to tell a grandfather from a half-brother, but logically it seems like you could easily add some basic checks like "is dude A more than x years older than dude B? No? Well lets rule grandfather out then".
Same; for me it was mostly a practical reason though, my wrists started to hurt from computer work and the strap (metal one) was annoying against the edge of my laptop, so I had it off most of the time. Of course, if this thing proves to have added value (and just notifications isn't added value for me, I don't get them that often and if I do they're not important enough to warrant having to check them at all times), I'd consider going back to watches - pulling out your phone to check the time isn't the most convenient of actions.
I don't think you can compare the two situation. Life as a miner was awfull, owners gave their employees just enough so that they could eat and have a roof.

Here the contrast is much bigger. Typical cyberpunk corporate workers have a dream life, but ows total loyalty to its company to keep it.
Apple Pay is intended for purchasing items in Stores, not apps.

Apple Pay won't change anything about purchasing apps / in-app purchases.

Apple Pay won't take a 30% cut of every transaction.
Contactless?