fortepianissimo

I've been using iOS 10 beta since Public Beta 1. Like others have said: mostly stable, with terrible battery life.

One thing particularly annoying for me is HTTP Proxy: it seems that as of Public Beta 2 setting it will cause the device flood the server with many requests. I'm using GlimmerBlocker and on the server side it'd get 1k+ threads almost instantly after I turned on the proxy setting on the iOS side.

Other annoying bug is WebKit View would lose width setting randomly in 3rd party apps (e.g., Reeder).

Radiation effect on flight crews and frequent flyers: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131113-the-supernova-insid...

I'm shocked at this quote: "Advocates say it would take $60,000 to $100,000 per year for a family of four to escape life in poverty."

For all the rocket science, why can't they get a lens that deices itself?

Does anyone worry about the privacy implication of being constantly watched by your phone?

Could it be because the estimate already took Moore's law into account?

Care to detail your calculation?

Quote:

"A new paper published Monday by the New America Foundation... closely examines the 225 cases... the controversial bulk collection of American telephone metadata... appears to have played an identifiable role in initiating, at most, 1.8 percent of these cases."

(That's 4 cases)

I really don't appreciate the media's blood thirst - the slayer of this and the killer of that. Why can't we just have something that contributes in a non-zero-sum game?

Near the end of the article:

"Specifically, mothers who used more "deflections", such as "Tell me more" and "What happened?" tended to have children who subsequently recalled more details of their earlier memories."

Are you hinting this is not really a concern? Could you elaborate?

Where did "IBM" appear in the story? I can't find it.

"One participant suggested the president pardon Snowden. Obama said he could not do so, said one industry official."

I wonder who that is.

There's only one reason for me: tethering.

Exactly - for people who've done this a few weeks before: could you go back to check if things have changed?

What's the new procedure to achieve this? Thanks!

It might be wiser to wait until Mavericks is shipped.

More info and papers can be found here: http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/neurosynapti...

All of the statistical analyses sound to be fairly easy to beat.

Say you want to pretend to be another author: first build a language model of the target author, then use the model to single out sentences of high perplexity from your writing. Then, have the model "rewrite" your sentences by replacing your words with synonyms of higher n-gram probabilities according to the model. Similar things can be done to fool the character n-gram analyses, or analyses above words (e.g., parses).

I would love to have this with Python syntax (possibly with support of numpy and scipy).

This doesn't change anything as long as FISA is the same.

Thanks - I guess it's because the URL is different?

Lots of what they produced can be said to be frivolous too - just produced at a much slower rate.

One thing is missing: package importing and the related gotchas.

"In the space below draw three circles, one inside (engulfed by) the other."

Hm... how?

On a second reading the author did include this footnote:

"In practice it's not clear if Apple devices encrypt to this key directly or if they engage in an OTR -like key exchange protocol. What is clear is that iMessage does not include a 'key fingerprint' or any means for users to verify key authenticity, which means fundamentally you have to trust Apple to guarantee the authenticity of your keys. Moreover iMessage allows you to send messages to offline users. It's not clear how this would work with OTR."

So I guess the need to send messages to offline users ruled out the use of OTR.

Why can't Apple adopt something like OTR to eliminate the need of centralized key distribution?

So, can we say Apple is lying by saying "Apple cannot decrypt that data (iMessages)"? Is there a creative way of reading their press release that doesn't entail their dishonesty?

But what's the difference? Whether the messages are stored in plaintext, or whether they are stored as part of the iCloud backup, the author proved that Apple can get to them in order to restore your newly purchased phone.

Accuracy is known to be a unreliable metric to measure the quality of a test (classifier). One paradox is that tests of higher accuracy might have less predictive power than the one with lower accuracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_paradox

I'm sorry, but 36/(36+96) = 27.27%.