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The link:
http://survey.innertrends.com/
Even if technically feasible, it'd be a waste - the most efficient inductive charging systems still lose more than 10% of the energy.
In that case, is the issue actually specific to pdf.js? If it's written entirely in javascript, could this not be exploited some other way? Or does pdf.js have special permissions in this context?
This is the far more likely scenario:

After watching this GIF, I imagined what it would feel like walking past a charging station with this thing on it. How it slowly turns its 10KV-charged head towards me.

"- You definitely do not look like a charging socket to me.

- I really am. Look, I am not human...

- No, you really don't...

- I just need a quick charge!"
No, that is not what I meant – the choice itself is not made rationally, even though a theoretical rational actor might have made the same choice.

The most we humans can do it to make an intuitive choice, allow the post-hoc rationalization to occur and then check its rationality by analyzing its logic. If the logic is bad, we go back and try another intuitive choice.
10 KV? I think it's max about 400 V, depending on region.
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Oh great. What could possibly go wrong, give javascript access to local storage through some 'hard to trigger' gate. That's just asking for it. Hindsight and all that but still, this is not a good idea. A browser should not use it's own internal language sandboxed for the web to have access to the local system through some loophole. It's only a matter of time before such a loophole becomes an exploit. I wonder if javascript has access to devices such as cameras and microphones through similar loopholes. That would be a bit of a problem.
try-catch-throw-warning is only useful for humans.

types on the other hand can be used by tools too.

better auto-completion, refactoring support, automatic boilerplate "please fill in method body here" construction etc.

and there is that axioms thing which builds on concepts to allow the compiler to do more optimizations. again, more tool-friendly.
>>> Neural net ... "I dunno, it feels like it's an ostrich"

I don't think this applies to deep-learning. Because with deep learning , the lower layers will will say "this has long neck", "this has legs" , etc... and that will help the higher layers to to understand "it's an ostrich".
In many ways WebGL is akin to a plugin. It's effectively replaced what plugins like Flash and Silverlight offered in the past by bolting on a new piece of functionality to the browsers.

The difference is the browser vendors are in control of the implementation that will make it slightly more secure, but it's still a long way from the HTML/JS/CSS environment people though would replace plugins.
Much of the confusion about free will and how much free is our will comes from experiments that study limit cases like our body reactions to external stimuli or something of the sort.

But I don't think anyone can seriously state that we are absolutely free, specially when our bodies are involved. Extreme cases reveal that that there's much to say about how we (body+mind) work, and we're certainly not absolutely free.

The simplest and, perhaps, best argument for our partial freedom is that we can ask questions. I don't think there is any kind of property in the physical world that would yield questions and truth-intuition about answers to those questions. Electrons just bump into each other. They don't ask questions about it. They move on like there's no tomorrow.
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In principle I agree, but unfortunately running in a VM is the one otherwise reasonable precaution that I can't realistically take on the machines in question. I do a lot of web development, so if I'm running everything in a VM all the time then I'm not testing using the same browsers that my clients' customers will be. Maybe it would have given some reassurance in this specific case, but in general if those client sites incorporate any third party resources this sort of attack is still a concern.
Well, countries have generally decided you can't copyright factual information, and they did that for a reason.
Very interesting study unfortunately the conclusions from the book has been debunked[0] a few times. It's a great example of how hard nutritional research is, even with an incredible big dataset and a bunch of very intelligent PHDs it's still very easy to come to the wrong conclusion.

I can highly recommend "Death by Food Pyramid" though, it's a very honest look into food science and the author is very honest about what we know (not a whole lot for sure but we have some strong indications that some diets seem to produce better results) and what we don't know.

[0] http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/07/the-china-study-fact-or-fal...
Not sure there is a perfect way to quantifiy that in DPI since its perception is function of the distance between the eye and the screen.

Maybe an angular density metric would be more appropriate to calculate a limit ? [1]

[1] http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-resolution-of-human-eyes-re...
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wow thats cool

if it was for modern architecture/oses this would be invaluable.
There's no reason to think they're on a rampage or anything. There was no threat of a future crime. So why is it ethical to throw out all the checks and balances? There's no good moral or ethical argument I can see, you're just hand waving because you feel like they deserve to get caught.

The police department was obviously just embarrassed that service weapons had been stolen.
Run the browser in a container or in a sandboxed environment (kindof like chroot, but note that chroot itself should not be used for security purposes). There may be docker containers with just firefox, if not it's easy to create one. Or use vmware, though that is much more heavyweight than sandboxing or containers.
Yeah sure, just mount your X socket into a container. No problems there at all, nah.
Thank you for your suggestion. Take a look if you can to the crypt() function, I use on top of a modified version of RC4 the use of 1 byte initialization vector to further fuzz information (the iv is trasmitted with the string).

I am not so much into cryptoanalysis so, I really should have some suggestion in this case.
I never liked the Ruby syntax, so the beauty of Ruby is a bit subjective and the title is clearly pure clickbait, 'dissing' go, which is a lot more popular and well known - but when clicking on the link there is not a single mention of it.

That said, it looks like a really cool project, with many nice language features Go is clearly missing. Attacking Go on performance is a bit silly though, this is purely by the choice of being a frontend for LLVM, not by language design. The choice for LLVM is understandable, and at first I thought Go made a mistake here, LLVM is really nice - but it also clearly has it's downsides. On one hand I wish Go had access to the optimization power of LLVM, on the other hand I'm glad it has no dependency on it and is standalone. Thanks to this, cross compiling is a breeze, and adding support for new platforms is entirely controlled by the Go team and it's contributors, although I don't know how they're going to handle iOS support now that Apple switched to LLVM bytecode for application distribution which they then compile to native code on their servers before delivering to the device. Maybe Go can add an LLVM bytecode target, which would mean it could also benefit from it's optimisations.

But in most cases, once you've passed a certain treshold, performance is not that important anymore, and once you're running reasonably fast native code, that should not be a problem anymore. I'm already happy with the current trend of going back to native code instead of thinking that CPU's are fast enough to interpret everything and that memory is cheap.

I also quickly tested compiling a 'hello world' example with both Go and Crystal, and the binary sizes were quite similar:

- Go (1.4.2): 620K

- Crystal: 619K

- Crystal release: 528K

So Crystal is a little bit more compact at first glance, but at first glance not that spectacular. Go is notorious for generating quite big binaries. The thing is however, that Go always produces static binaries - it does everything with it's own stdlib, unless it involves DNS resolving. A quick LDD on the crystal binaries revealed it wasn't a static binary and depended on libc. So I tried compiling the same hello world staticly in crystal, which gave me some warnings and a whole different picture: a whopping 1.8M binary. So more compact? Not necessarily.

Library-wise however, Go is lightyears ahead of Crystal. Go's stdlib is amazing, and there are an surprising amount of 3rd party libraries written in native go.
Crystal on the other hand has the advantage of being able to use existing C libraries with ease and little overhead, but this could also be a downside and impact clean library design and consistency in the long run. It not being 100% Ruby compatible and not able to blindly use any Ruby library is a handicap here.

All in all, I think both Go and Crystal could learn from each-other. Go is a bit more mature and has clearly been accepted in the server/sysops space, many new projects there being written in it (docker, consul, etcd, heka, kubernetes, prometheus, influxdb, the grafana backend, ...). For crystal to earn it's place somewhere, it will need a lot of work.
Shouldn't print – which is roughly dealing with the same distances – have figured it out decades ago?
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"You see, in NZ every DVD player is sold region-free."

I'm not sure what you're basing this on. I haven't seen region free DVD players being sold in NZ for the last couple of years.
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Your mental model of the code you're reading is probably incomplete too. Just be aware of where you're less confident and then you can use different mechanisms to build that confidence when it's the most logical thing to do (running a minimal test case, or log a function return value, perhaps).
Do they have permission to use the WebGL trademark in the name? Khronos has quite some info about that, but I don't see immediately how their use fits into the terms. https://www.khronos.org/legal/trademarks/#webgl
Docker containers can sandbox GUI apps[0], but I don't know if it's secure enough. Maybe not.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8426764
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Make it the arm of one of those bloody Minions and everyone will suddenly love it.
In very few ways Europe is a homogenous market, and certainly not in the search business or e-commerce.

French search in French, Germans in German, Danes in Danish, Spaniards in Spanish, Italians in Italian, Dutch in Dutch etc. Then, if your local language doesn't give you good results, you default to English.

Online shopping is mostly a local thing with Amazon as the prominent exception. Even in the market for plane tickets local websites dominate, meaning that a French person travelling from Paris to Berlin is likely to use a different website than a German guy travelling from Berlin to France. Again, the exceptions seem to be mostly American.

European countries even have their own payment solutions.
I'd definitely like to see some personal penalty. Though Jobs is already dead.

Worth noting: much as I despise Facebook, Zuckerberg did the Right Thing here and didn't play along (though it's not clear whether or not FB reported the collusion).
Most of what you propose already exists in the form of type traits together with `static_assert`. Originally concepts hold the promise of also writing adapters so that you could write meta-programs that transformed one type into another compatible with some other part of your code, but I think that part won't come until later on now.
Is there any objective scientific evidence that that device works? There are plenty of such stimulator devices on market but none of them has any good study showing that it really works.
Yes, it's a brilliant book that proves what we see as free will is obviously not free and it's not even up for contention that we actually have the ability to decide, even though it feels as though we do.
I didn't say it was illegal.

They just didn't do the groundwork.

And I'm sure copying maps is illegal.

Place information? Hmmm. Maybe it should be too.
Ack. I recall Apportable did something similar in their first cut, then redid it with the correct architecture. (I wouldn't say Foundation is on top of UIKit in Microsoft's implementation though?)

I am surprised they didn't use any of Apple's open source code, such as libdispatch or CoreFoundation.
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I'll just chuck this old blog post of mine out there:

https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simple_and_Sop...

Specifically, the "Securing the Web browser" section.

[edit] Also worth mentioning is the stuff about smartcards on that blog post. You can steal my ~/.ssh/ and my ~/.gnupg/, but because I'm using a smartcard, it wont do you any good.
Sorry about that, glad to hear that you guys are not involved.

From face value it does look very odd. I apologize in for assuming you guys were involved.
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Good stuff, suggest you add an entry about running the browser inside a VM of its own.
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The U-series of Haswell CPU-s only support 30hz for 4K resolution. Which is borderline unusable. However, using reduced blanking timings, it should be possible to get 50Hz. I have a ubuntu laptop with i5-4200U and after a couple of hours of googling found the link above. Looks more complicated in linux than on windows, where Intel provides a tool with its drivers. Disclaimer: have not tried yet.
For a long time, countries agreed that free-trade was the best way to avoid another war. Europe was created as an economic region first, to avoid another war.

But today I'm afraid Europe suffers memory loss.

They're using coercion against another country (always the same one, the USA) for ideological reasons... which is the very definition of war.

The fact they're citing money as the reason only makes it more frightening. Prosperous countries avoid war and favor trade instead, if possible.

As a European citizen, I can witness the anti-american mindset: it's growing, nurtured by press and politicians. Don't think "it's not the USA, it's Google/Amazon/Apple/Microsoft/Facebook": they actually cite the USA all day long until Google is a synonym for the USA in people's mind.

A quick check with the first article I can find in my Google newsfeed: in the french press, about Apple Music, the article starts with "Le géant américain de l'informatique Apple" (The american IT giant/behemoth Apple)

The internet is an amazing promoter of free-trade, so unsurprisingly it's the perfect target for Europe.

Please don't call it a conspiracy theory: it's not one, because I hope I'm wrong ;-)
I'm not sure if docker is the right solution here, a VM would seem to be much better at this kind of isolation.

https://zeltser.com/security-risks-and-benefits-of-docker-ap...
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That's not copyright. You can still enforce a licence on the data you provide. E.g. Exchanges do this all the time with market price data.
Ah right. Forgot about the one-time credit.
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Docker would seem to me to be the wrong solution in this case.
Are AMD's (or other non-Intel shops') CPUs vulnerable to this remap gimmick as well - or, is it specific to Intel's circuitry? (Sorry, I can't read the slides at present.)
Rather than ghostery:

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
>I haven't done it but isn't the thing with the new VAT regulations that you can pay your taxes to one revenue service (and just register with one) and they will divide it according to your sales data

I think that only works if you have limited business, but I'm not sure. I believe the problem is that we're in a country with 25% VAT, but if we want to charge our German customer only 19%, we need to do that via a German company, otherwise we would have to charge them the 25%, leaving us uncompetitive (6% is more than our entire profit for some products).
OnShape is amazing, built with Angular too :)
But that is The Tesla Master Plan. Pay for the R&D with luxury vehicles before producing more adorable ones.

Build sports car

Use that money to build an affordable car

Use that money to build an even more affordable car

While doing above, also provide zero emission electric power generation options

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-p... (August 2006)
Having read through the Trademark Guidelines[1] it would appear that they may have overlooked it. I can not find any attribution on Github or within the web app itself.
[1]https://www.khronos.org/files/legal/khronos-trademark-guidel...
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Docker is not secure enough (it can help but it's not designed to be bulletproof). MAC (GRsecurity...) can be considered the "right" solution.

Or just give up and go QuubeOS ;)
Software which clearly does not have free will asked a question allowing you to enter that post.

So, if you exclude the language part of asking questions as cruft the type of experiments that human baby's do is the same type of experemnts birds do when learning to fly. But, biological examples of this get really simple and plenty of people have built non biological examples.

At a lower level you can argue that QM shows every time a wave function collapsed a question was asked and answered.

Which is really the issue of free will, most definions boil down to either, 'humans' or include simple systems that clearly lack choice.
Well, if I recall correctly, pdf.js is an add-on, so it has special permissions, just like any add-on.
Apple is a company, i.e., a legal fiction. It is only right that it pays taxes to the entities that allow it to exist at all.
Validating email addresses with a regex is fine if you follow the HTML5 spec for email addresses: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#valid-e-mail-address

> This requirement is a willful violation of RFC 5322, which defines a syntax for e-mail addresses that is simultaneously too strict (before the "@" character), too vague (after the "@" character), and too lax (allowing comments, whitespace characters, and quoted strings in manners unfamiliar to most users) to be of practical use here.
Shhh... Don't show it to my mother ! If she sees this, my whole family is going to be on a regimen of hot peppers until she reads something else :)

My mother is the kind who changes the whole family's diet when she reads some sufficiently convincing diet book or study.
At one point we ate dissociated food. At another point it was blood type food.
At another point it was raw roots or something.
I love my mother and she's an excelent cook, and she never forced us to eat according to the books, but she would be very insistent, because there were studies that showed ...

Most of the time the results of those studies were disproved, either by another experiment or by some technical issue with the way the study was conducted.

Just like there were studies that smoking is actually good for you and studies that showed that children who drink sugar soda from an early age are heathier.

The point I'm trying to make is that these studies are not just 'informative', they have real consequences on real families. There are families out there who will start eating hot food just because they've read this study.

I hope they don't torture themselves for nothing.
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Sorry for the linkbaity cliffhanger.

Occasionally there exists a situation when there is huge demand for shipments in one direction (e.g. Hong Kong to Singapore) while there is not much traffic the other way round.

Shipping companies then need to get those containers back to origin, so the prices go down (better ship full container where at least handling is paid rather than empty container where carrier has to cover all the costs).

Not sure how often this happens currently, I got the information from friendly trade lane manager few years back.
Brilliant work!
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Instead of

$ firefox

you start

$ docker run mozilla/firefox

and get instant process isolation and protection from these kinds of exploits.

Heck, mozilla could use the same underlying mechanisms internally (cgroups, namespaces) that docker already uses without introducing the dependency on docker (if that's whats bothering you). So while the implementation may not be ideal (installing docker is an overhead, I acknowledge that), what it does technology-wise is an improvement for security.
The lack of additional detail in this very sparse announcement really compromises users' ability to damage control effectively.

Would like to know if an installation is vulnerable if:

1) If Applications, PDF is set to "Always ask"
2) Ublock and/or privoxy are used
3) Javascript is disabled
4) pdfjs.previousHandler.alwaysAskBeforeHandling == false
5) pdfjs.disabled == true

Also which advertising network and which Russian site would be helpful for blocklists.
> Why do advertising networks allow advertisers to exectue Javascript?

Because there is an empty place in their wallet that they require to be filled.
Wow, great information, thanks very much.
Computer scientists should stop overloading phrases like "over load" to mean other things.

Dark ages Europeans should stop overloading Latin words like "lingua" to mean other things.

Modern humans should stop overloading words like "existing" to mean exactly the same thing...
This is a very good point and I agree. How is this different from saying "we didn't fix the flaw because people exploit it"?
WebRTC ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC
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Even if Apple is the only place that he can reasonably contact to have the vulnerability fixed, instead of exploited? This law is weird.