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by skygazer 9y ago
I love Newsify on iOS. With a yearly subscription, it pulls full text articles (stripping adverts) of all RSS subscriptions for offline reading, and displays them (graphic+snippet) somewhat like a newspaper on screen. It has settings to a
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by skygazer 9y ago
For .0 releases they’re furiously coding against a daunting fixed deadline. For .0.1 warranty releases, lingering showstoppers. The .1 releases get all the care. If I were smart, I’d wait around for dot-ones and eat my broccoli.
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by skygazer 9y ago
11.1 will likely help a bunch, if the beta is an indication.
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by skygazer 9y ago
I have a 6s 128gb. It was was fast on the latest iOS 10, was acceptable on iOS 11.0, but on iOS 11.1 (currently beta4), it seems as fast as, if not faster than, ever. I think I could happily wait until next year to upgrade, even though I
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by skygazer 9y ago
I just train my wet and dry prints separately, as separate fingers. If you promise no to tell any would be thief/gov about the backdoor into my phone, I’ve done the same for my capacitive glove finger.
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by skygazer 9y ago
Pardon my ignorance. FR industry? Foreign Relations? First Responder? Flame Resistant? Google was no help. Edit: Oh, do you mean facial recognition?
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by skygazer 9y ago
I would suggest it's probably a matter of time, rather than any judgement of infeasibility. Apple uses an iterative 80/20 rule approach to functionality. Podcasts didn't make the cut, because more people listen to music, an
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by skygazer 9y ago
Well, perhaps stupid in that calling them conspiracy theories is a mark of ignornace, when they'd be better termed as uncontested and easily supported public facts, or something.
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by skygazer 9y ago
When I was a teenager, I wrote a connect four game, and my brother would play it. Every time he'd win, I'd jump back into the code. I realized it was a fruitless cat and mouse (not only because the game is trivial) but because of
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by skygazer 9y ago
"The future is the hardest thing to predict." I just made that up, AFAIK, but I wrapped it in quotes to encourage reuse. ;) "The future is fickle." Seems on point as well. If I close my eyes and imagine the future, all
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by skygazer 9y ago
Me too. We're either all 43, or there's something about that third grade recess.
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by skygazer 9y ago
“Hey Siri, remind me in two years to tell Veejay how his prediction panned out” OK, I’ll remind you.
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by skygazer 9y ago
Perhaps I was too flippant. Point being, the “public availability/replicability” of the biometric would seem correlated to the point on the username->password continuum. This will probably matter less once our future devices can in
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by skygazer 9y ago
Where would Genital ID fall on your continuum?
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by skygazer 9y ago
I don't know that that's true. I'm by no means, even remotely, an expert. But it sounds like you've got a "hidden variables" take on it; that you're suggesting the probability wave is our statistical pre
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by skygazer 9y ago
Isn't collapse of the probability wave instantaneous across the arbitrary distance between entangled particles, from the frame of the measurement, in violation of relativity, and isn't that what Einstein disliked?
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by skygazer 9y ago
I really look forward to seeing HN's take, and typical HN-like, in-depth discussions of some of these topics. HN users have an impressive breadth, depth, and diversity, and are insightful and generally courteous and respectful, and as
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by skygazer 9y ago
I also think your (now flagged) parent comment is mistaken, in that, I, personally, don't know it's a witch hunt and total fabrication. Is it possible that there's no there there? Well, yes. But, is it certain? Of course
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by skygazer 9y ago
Not to mention he's quite out of the loop these past three plus months, being formerly employed, and all.
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by skygazer 9y ago
That deputy AG letter seemed to imply that the reason for the firing was Comey publicly berating Clinton last July, against policy -- the act that Trump praised Comey for at the time. And lets not forget Trump hugging Comey at their first
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by skygazer 10y ago
Oops, I guess the gizmodo article is the one that's popular here on HN. Although it's about BrickerBot rather than Hajime. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14201908
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by skygazer 10y ago
Surprised about the lack of commentary about Hajime here on HN. This article was interesting. Is the author really whitehat? Is it just one person? Is it a state actor? Are they biding their time for a malicious payload? Maybe it would
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Hajime vigilante is putting a huge amount of work into infecting IoT devices(arstechnica.com)
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by skygazer 10y ago
Overwhelming chances are that if you mistype an ipv6 address, it points to somewhere nonexistent. That sounds preferable.
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by skygazer 10y ago
Here's the post/thread that caught on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11954780
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by skygazer 10y ago
I guess it was the decrypted arm64 kernelcache that was discussed elsewhere on the net on the second day of WWDC, a week ago. So, perhaps this is stale news to those in-the-know. Interestingly, only the 64 bit ipsw was left unencrypted, no
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by skygazer 10y ago
Oh, my ignorance and the questions I now have -- I wish there were some up votes on this, because I'd love the knowledgeable people of HN to weigh in. Does this mean the "cat's out of the bag" forever more? If they encr
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by skygazer 10y ago
The WWDC app on HR new Apple TV has the live stream, starting shortly.
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by skygazer 10y ago
Google built their own voice recognition using neural nets. Apple licenses theirs from Nuance, the makers of Dragon Naturally Speaking. I don't know what technology Nuance uses now, but historically it was Markov Models, I believe.
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by skygazer 10y ago
I think your description of what happened is exactly what is meant by "letting Samsung and others take the lead" -- Apple let itself be surpassed, in that it could have done otherwise, but didn't.

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