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(edit) To elaborate - there are people who care deeply about privacy,…",{"value":108,"source":53,"evidence":109},"Gesture detection gives false positives and is unreliable",[110,114,118],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"4186790","sim0n","Have the gesture algorithms changed much at all since the initial HN release? I had to uninstall it as it kept mistaking me touching my face\u002Fetc as holding my hand to the camera.",{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"4186923","rbn","Hate to be that guy... But out of I don't know 20 tries it only worked once. Maybe it's because of the room doesn't have enough light.. Really cool concept though.",{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"4186683","brackin","I had to uninstall Flutter because it opened on install and I couldn't find a way to delete it. 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