skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About the experiment, how can Libet conclusively derive the decision came after the initial EEG measurement. I mean how did he know the duration it takes to report the decision. The origin of the decision to being able to reflect on it may take a variable amount of time therefore invalidating the claim.

Also the strict separation of conscious/unconsciousness seems simplistic. Most actions may very well be processed subconsciously with very little decision making bubbling up to consciousness. Driving a car comes to mind. This also means when asking a subject to process something impulsively the vast majority of their actions may be subconscious.

tl;dr
People spacing out does not invalidate free will.
> The moral question being raised here is about potentially hurting Apple users via irresponsible behaviour

The logical next step is that Apple have been intermittently flippant about security (of late they have improved but their approach is still wholesale unacceptable). Why do users knowingly use an OS with this track record?

> anonymously informing the controlling party

With government surveillance could he have had any guarantee that his disclosure wouldn't have been snooped?

Either way this discussion can be argued ad infinitum. The real villain here is the European Commission for such a brain-dead policy.
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Firefox's 'About' page seems to lack enough information here.

My page just said 'Firefox 39 available' and 'restart to upgrade'. But the exploit page notes that you need version 39.0.3 in order to be protected. So it's unclear if the upgrade would fix things or not.
Even though the rendering performance is very snappy and efficient, to me this fails on the most important thing for this sort of software - UI. Can you imagine someone totally new to 3D modelling opening this thing and just going for it? It's completely unintuitive and yet, because it's so accessible that should've been the primary concern.
It appears that since we're discussing this on a page related to a firefox issue of exactly that nature that this approach is insufficient.
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Sure, you can make licenses, but if someone gets a copy outside of the licensed channel, you have no recourse.
You can disable the PDF reader quite easily:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-built-pdf-viewe...
But it is not a 3d modelling software, it is a 3D scene editor, like Unity. Improving the interface is the easy part, for me the important aspect was to be sure that all the important features are there, so now I can focus on improving the experience.
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What you're asking demands science in a field of marketing, journalism and baseless opinion. Good luck.

Then there's the almost cult-like religious aspects of fad diets to consider which almost drive the above.

Ugh.
Since the vulnerability is in pdf.js, is the Tor Browser Bundle vulnerable?
Maybe, I had just observed that others seem really to enjoy the overwhelming burning sensation and drew conclusions that something must wrong with me if I want to taste something more than chili in my food.
Im here but my license knowledge is limited, thats why I just applied the MIT which I think is the one that fits better
>I'm sure copying maps is illegal.

You can't directly copy the artistry, things like label sizing and placement, but you can copy every road and city.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

>I didn't say it was illegal.

I'm not commenting directly on the legality. I'm trying to refer to the deeper reasons that lead it to be legal. If it's truly ripping someone off to copy facts that they painstakingly collected through their sweat of the brow, why is there a specific exemption from copyright?
One of the goals of ad networks is to fill as much capacity as possible before relinquishing control to the website owner. The website owner then passes that unused capacity to a chain of competing networks. The last in the chain is usually a poor quality remnant network with junk ads.

The way an ad network fills capacity is by allowing other ad networks to be their advertisers. Those ad networks buy the crappy traffic and fill it with junk ads.

It's those crappy ads that look bad and may have scams attached to them - they get passed around so much that they can get lost in the system.

That said, premium campaigns can also have bad ads. Like advertisers pretending to be premium clients but under the right conditions (like geolocation, date, time, viewing host) the ads will turn bad. It's a game of cat and mouse, and those ad networks are more geared for sales.
Copyright is not a tool created in the interest of producers, it's primarily in the interest of distributors.

Technology has changed for good; when almost everybody carries in their pocket a machine for creating perfect copies of any kind of information, it's basic economy that the value of a copy reduces to nothing. It's the world which has moved on, not a desire to inconvenience authors; legislation needs to reflect that change. The value of original creation is worth something, but forcing people to buy copies in order to sustain such original creation is a market inefficiency; better processes need to be found, which are more well adapted to the way people behave.

A more apt analogy to your farmer example would be if everybody would carry Star Trek matter replicators on them. The farmer would not have a right to send cops to tie the hands of everyone passing by one of their tomatoes, or near any copy of a copy of the tomatoes, so that the walker can't create a copy for their consumption and thus have no need of paying for the original.
Ah-ha. I believe it can also be run embedded in a page (GitHub does so), so it CAN be run without special permissions.
I have to agree. My personal experience suggests if you want to get good at something, keep doing lots of it and aim for speed rather than perfection. You'll end up being speedy and get closer to perfection, than if you just try for perfection.

But one good counter example does come to mind - designing a database schema.

I'm trying to wrestle with what the difference might be. I think Markov processes, e.g. processes where the future state depends on a prior state, are relevant.

Maybe we could say tasks are either "strongly Markvoian", that is, how well we do them now will influence our future work and hence we should really think them through, e.g. designing a schema. Weakly Markovian, in which case there may be some future impact but not much, and so we exercise caution but "done is better than perfect". And finally non-Markovian - e.g. throwing out the garbage, cooking dinner, most emails - getting the thing done is simply a pass/fail and so we just have to do it, quality is relatively unimportant.

I think what I'm saying is, most tasks will be weakly or non-markovian, so we should "move fast and break things", but every now and then there'll be something we need to do that is strongly markovian. For such things we should be prepared to take a step back and give ourselves a little extra time, so things don't blow up further down the track.
I would hate for Google to leave the UK. The aggregated lost productivity would, presumably, be massive! And I'm part of that aggregate.

If the EU, or UK want to improve their tech chops, they should allocate more resources to the brightest of their respective populations.

If the UK scrapped the war on drugs and gave the billions which are saved/earned through taxation to people who tested as high IQ (say > 139) to invest in STEM activities, what would happen?

I'm not in the set of high-IQ individuals which I propose giving additional resources to; but it's clear in a positive sum game I would benefit greatly from their invention (creation of new products/services) and innovation (improvements of current products/services).

Unfortunately, there's a recent fetish for equal outcome for all (vs. even equal opportunity). As soon as there's equal output from all: that'll makes sense!
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I'm not sure where you're going with this.

That `unset` is useless since they don't call sudo to initiate the exploit. The setuid/setgid bits on the newgrp binary are to blame here (combined with the env variable). They could just overwrite your new /usr/bin/sudo file if they wanted to. Hell, they could brick your entire system just out of spite. No sudo necessary.
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Well, sending some user files to Ukrainian server is a bug.

But sending hashes of your downloads to Google [1][2] is a feature, right?

1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...
2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138721
> I'm saying taxation is extortion, and just as immoral as when a mafia does it.

This is a ridiculous comment. I realise the social contract has broken down somewhat in recent years but if you can't see the difference between Mafia extortion and government taxation there's something wrong. Here's just one difference: we can vote for the government.
Agreed, I use an ad blocker and have Firefox's PDF viewer disabled and I have no clue if I'm still vulnerable. At a minimum, I'd like to know if disabling the viewer is enough to mitigate the risk, or if popular add-ons like Adblock Plus, NoScript, or Privacy Badger are enough.
Both are in the wrong. The behaviour of neither is a valid defence for the behaviour of the other.

Apple are irresponsible for not addressing the issue in good time (they have known about it for long enough).

This fellow is irresponsible for not following decent "responsible disclosure" procedure. He released information of a serious exploitable problem without first making any attempt to inform the people who could do something about it or otherwise checking to see if they were already aware.

Relative size, income, employment/employee status, and so forth, are all irrelevant here.
Working quickly is important because it's the better method to survive and thrive. Quickly producing 100 deliverables with qualities ranging from shit to pretty good, will probably on average always defeat carefully crafting one deliverable in the same time frame.

Speed lets you try many alternatives, experiment with many different even opposite options, and draw out creativeness.

Another possible reason is that speed is the strength of the younger generations. In human history, if new comers want to beat the current authority (in business or politics) who have already mastered the intricacies of the current game, one have to propose and experiment large quantity of new alternatives, new rules of new games, even though most of experiments might have low quality results judging by the established rules. But it's the better way to compete and survive.
Yes 100% this. This sounds like my mother.

She followed every nutritional fad that appeared on the table. I can remember nothing but horrors for dinner for the best part of 10 years of my life. She was scared of eating things in case it affected mortality in some way. In fact I ended up getting quite ill on occasion, now to what I know was simply malnutrition. This affected my schooling, my physical condition and my mental health at the time. The latter was quite devastating for a bit to be honest.

It wasn't until I got a shit job stacking shelves in a supermarket and moved out that I started eating properly and literally after a month I felt like a different person.

Now the cruel result; she had a heart attack and a stroke a couple of years ago due to what they reckon is 60 years of poor dieting.
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Is there any 3D modeling software that is intuitive enough for a beginner to jump in start creating 3D scenes? The barrier to entry and learning curve of 3D modeling has always been high and steep.
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Thank you, this may be exactly what I need for a project!
I believe using "about:config" and setting "pdfjs.disabled" to "true" will neutralize the vulnerability, at least from the description they gave of it, but confirmation from them to that effect would be appreciated, especially for users stuck on the current (or older) version, as the download page acknowledges some might be:

Note: If you use your Linux distribution's packaged version of Firefox, you will need to wait for an updated package to be released to its package repository

It would be particularly scandalous if they knew that disabling pdfjs would suffice yet refused to mention it because they couldn't bear to see their precious CPU/memory-hogging scribd knockoff no one asked for being disabled by their users, in effect putting their grandiose vision of the browser-as-OS ahead of their users' security.
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Hm, what is really interesting would be to understand how this can impact a shared machine, say an EC2. Is there any more reasearch on this?
Yes. I would expect the typical health study like this with 12 subjects to be weak. It's quite possible (possible) for this one not to be weak is because it involves DNA, which is a highly dimensional thing. For example, if they set out to look at the (large) set of genes with property S and see what proportion of those had property P for all women and not-P for all men or vice versa, and found a result like, 50% of these genes are like this...

At that point you know this made-up result is not luck, there absolutely is something different about these people. (But it is possible it just so happens all the men in the study ate Froot Loops as a kid, and all the women didn't, and that's the cause of all this.)
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Every major browser has a built-in PDF viewer (except maybe Safari? I don't own a mac). Mozilla's is the only one that's written in JS. The rest are proprietary native blobs. There have been security vulnerabilities (significant ones) found in the native PDF viewer blobs before, so given the choice between a same-origin policy breakage in pdf.js and an exploit in a native PDF viewer that can own my entire machine, I'll take pdf.js any day.

Maybe it would be better if browsers didn't have a pdf viewer, though. Then I'd have to manually download it and open it in a viewer to get owned, which is not going to happen with an ad network.

The fact that every major pdf viewer app tries to install a browser plugin doesn't help.
And the police? Fire departments? Social security? Town planning/maintenance/social policy/etc etc etc.

Essentially the only system without tax is anarchy, and if you are bona fide advocating that - well I wish you the best of luck in your brave new world.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...
ISS crew members make regular amateur radio contacts as part of the ARISS scheme. A proportion of these contacts are pre-arranged for school and youth groups, but many amateurs have made spontaneous contact.

Contacting the ISS doesn't require anything more sophisticated than a 2m/70cm transceiver and a handheld Yagi-Uda - the difficulty comes from the very short windows of opportunity and the substantial doppler shift.

http://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html

Similarly, many amateurs have made earth-moon-earth contacts, using the moon as a reflector. UHF and VHF are most common, but some highly skilled amateurs have made EME contacts using millimetre-wave bands.

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Wouldn't selinux be enough? Browsers have no business touching files outside of ~/.mozilla or whatever.
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Totally agreed. I use a few of those, and I have exempted pdf.js in the past because I would rather use that then native PDF readers on my work laptop, since Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a wonderfully famous vector.

Inquiring minds would like to know.
Not sure about that... In general, if you buy a stolen car, it's still stolen, and while you won't be held criminally responsible, you'll still lose your money. I guess it's the same with data licences.
You're getting old and grumpy, Jacques, before you know it you will start your sentences with "back in the day..." :)

On a more serious note, I guess this is the toll we have to pay for innovation pushing. I can understand the reasoning behind writing everything in JS: it allows you to consolidate a lot of mechanisms in a single platform. Once you have that platform secure, any application you will write will (should?) be secure too.

Too bad that theory and practice are usually not the same, in practice..
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How many PDF.js security vulnerabilities have been found so far?

A quick Google search found only four:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-9... (another local file disclosure)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-3... (needs to be "combined with a separate vulnerability" to be exploitable)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-6... (needs to be "combined with a separate vulnerability" to be exploitable)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-7... (this one)

It still is looking better than the plugin it replaced.
Even with all Mozilla's been doing lately (Hello, Pocket), I still trust them more than Google. That probably says more about the latter, though.
The subjects reported the position of the dot, that's how he knew the exact time point in which they were 'aware' of their impending action. There was a comfortable time difference between the two.

More recent experiments have been able to "foresee" actions ~ 10 seconds earlier: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18408715

These studies do not invalidate free will, they just show that free will is not something ethereal, but a product of the specific makeup of ourselves, which is encoded in our brains.
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Pretty cool homepage. Seems like the product (physical device + app) has a lot of features, maybe too many to get them right at the same time (I like the auto-combination of footage from multiple cameras though. But as I said, quite hard to do right).

What are the tech specs compared to a GoPro Hero 4 Session?
(By the way GoPro has announced they will enter the video editing market soon).
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How do you know that? Have you had any practical experience with a large code base using new style (e.g. post-C++11) Concepts? People have been using Concepts in some form for a very long time and even properly documented they can still be a major hurdle to less advanced or interested users.
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Yes.

In general, lab-bred languages are a 19th century concept (or early-20th if you prefer) of the "smarter-than-though" guy who thinks he'll unify the world from his university office and all that's lacking is a "common language" people will adopt en masse.

Especially attemps such as esperanto, in a time when linguistic understanding was totally lacking.

Actual languages are breed in an evolutionary fashion over centuries (or millenia in some cases), and are shaped to fit the culture and history of the population that breed them.

As for "universal languages" we had them too aplenty, and they are adopted for commercial, cultural and other reasons based on an initial push by a prevailing country (Greek, Latin, French ("the language of diplomacy" at some point), now English, etc).

Even the least succesful of those universal languages has had 1000x the reach of artificial languages like Esperanto.
I thought Wikipedia's license specifically allowed that (presumably Britannica's does not)?
> appears to be a bit of bubblegum neuroscience.

Libet's experiments were carefully planned and are highly regarded. That's why they have never been refuted, and in fact spawned a lot of newer studies in the field.
From what I read it's actually more 8-10% increase (bigger in some cases, smaller in others). Still not much, but good enough.

More important for me are other stuff we get with new architectures (support for Thunderbolt 2, better integrated graphics for low power laptop use etc).
I'm not sure whether you have the best information available. VAT/GST must be paid depending on the country of the customer, through a form, and doesn't require a local company. The location of the company doesn't matter and we have an EU-wide VAT identifier. http://www.happybootstrapper.com/2014/im-us-whatll-happen-ju...
The fascinating thing is, there's already Russian propaganda in that article's comments - called web brigades.

They just mention that there is no conflict between Russia and Ukraine, although Russia send unofficial armed troups to Ukrain :p, because they didn't allowed the coupe of "obama's" administration.

The problem is, America didn't send any troops to Ukrain, Russia did:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1165...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades
It makes sense, also fast food chains don't tend to make spicy food.
> There was no threat of a future crime.

If there is any circumstance in which someone is likely to commit future crimes, it's probably after shooting a cop and taking their gun. At that point, the punishment is so bad that additional crimes are a rounding error. If carjacking or robbery can decrease your chances of getting caught, they're worth doing. Ditto for destroying evidence. It's fortunate that none of these things happened, but they all too easily could have.

> So why is it ethical to throw out all the checks and balances?

I never said that. I live in Oakland. I know my phone could be targeted. I'm completely in favor of checks and balances. I'm simply looking at the specifics of this case: Someone is accosted, beaten, and shot by armed gang members. An informant names some suspects. Is it ethical to look up the location of their phones? I'm pretty sure it is. If you disagree, I'd love to hear where you'd draw the line for stinger use.

> The police department was obviously just embarrassed that service weapons had been stolen.

That was a factor, but it was minor. The main reason for the OPD's ridiculous overreaction was that one of their own had been shot. That's what I wish had been the focus of this story: Poor training (and possibly corruption) causing public servants to do a bad job.