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Despite the potential for a conflict of interest, Accuvant is a well-respected firm, and its researchers have performed a thorough and fair study, even making the tools they used to test the browsers publicly available [1]... Nor are Accuvant’s findings entirely positive for Google. It points out that Chrome fails to effectively blacklist malicious URLs, though neither of the other browsers fared better on that front.

...but as a journalist, I can't let that get in the way of my constructed narrative! Mozilla and Google are totally in a fight. Seriously guys, if you could argue a little in the comments section, that would be great for our page views.

[1] http://www.accuvant.com/capability/accuvant-labs/security-re...
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I agree. Most of the comments are overlooked. I suspect that the OP is competitor to the said company?
It seems to me that what may be happening with sites such as Facebook is behavioral sink. That is, the frequency/intensity of interactions, especially facilitated by involuntary sharing, is beyond what the biological system can handle and the result may be maladaptive behaviors.

From Wikipedia:

"When forced interactions exceed some threshold, social norms break down. Thus social density is considered more critical than geometric spatial density."
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I think in both cases, the driving force behind it is compassion to other human beings. Needless suffering is truly an awful thing. As I found out in Dying Well, which is an amazing book, is that sometimes extreme pain is so severe it can't even be treated properly. In some cases, medically-assisted suicide might be the best way for a very sick individual to take control of their own destiny.

In the case of mandating healthcare, it's not that I think people should have the choice of whether or not to participate in the system, it's just that the rest of us can't go on just letting our fellow citizens die when they get severely injured. It's just unthinkable.
I don't think attacking the companies is productive though. Lobby the government to change the law.
Just wondering: why do browser makers fund studies like this? You always hear MS have funded a study that shows IE is more secure, Google funded a study that shows Chrome is more secure, etc. etc. Doesn't seem to really help anything.
In laymen's terms I will definitely not claim that Firefox is less secure. BUT what is up with the damn RAM leaks and crashes?

I love FF but it's a very one sided relationship from a user perspective that is about to end if FF and MOZ does not fix the mem leaks that have been sucking since 2007!
Agreed. Waterfall is usually better when you do client projects. Agile would be better when you do your own product, at the same time Agile may lead to cost overrun.
Nice. No attribution for the "Browser Wars" comic at all. This small link could've helped maybe: http://shoze.deviantart.com/art/browser-wars-215022942

This is the sort of thing you'd expect from a respectable publication.
Note that in many dynamic languages (and I think that includes PHP), syntax checking is done right before you try to run it, and type checking is performed at runtime. When you're programming in a Java IDE, these kinds of errors (and related ones, like typos in variable names, etc.) all get resolved while you're typing. In PHP or JavaScript you only find out once you run the program, so saving 3 seconds can be a huge win.

Of course, you can do static analysis to some degree which would cut down that time even further, but you may also get false alerts or miss some issues.
When I saw "Google funded browser study..." I already know the answer of browser war on security.
The fact that Steve Jobs pioneered the '1984' style commercials that Futurama so successfully parodied is a testament to the fact that you can indeed become larger then your cult.

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They are not so unrelated.
Selling actual apples is safe (for now) but you better not have "apples" in your company name.
more seriously, the chart forbes copied makes the report look seriously amateur hour (forbes's jpg of it doesn't help), but the report is pretty interesting.

long section in the front about why previous browser security studies have been pretty poor, then gets into what seem to be good details on testing JIT hardening on page 28 (34 in the scribd). Haven't read farther yet.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/75194017/AccuvantBrowserSecCompar-...
Going slightly off-topic; It's always said that a great interview is really in the hands of the interviewer. That lady is a very good interviewer. She's researched and understood the topic at hand, and she's given then interviewee the right cues to convey his message well.

She should definitely get more recognition if she hasn't received any already.
Google basically made Firefox. And they make money from them as well. I don't think they hate it that much. Maybe they just don't like being held back and want to pursue their stu..eh dart ideas.
Because the story wasn't about the US health-care system.

It was about a family that decided to relocate to be closer to their son's doctors at Duke. They also decided to stop working during their son's treatment to better take care of him. To do this, they needed financial help and the Reddit community stepped up to help cover the bills.

These were all tough (and valid) choices for the family, but doesn't have much to do with the state of the US heath-care system. Their choices were all outside the heath-care system, it was about caring for their family during a hard time. Their son was denied treatment, in fact, insurance wasn't even mentioned in the original story.

By starting to talk about the need for universal health care, the entire conversation changes away from what was a simple story about the power of social media to help people. Instead the thread devolves to a pro-universal health-care versus libertarianism debate. Unfortunately, this is the way HN has started running on the weekends. All we end up with are the same arguments: libertarianism is awesome, Apple sucks, Android sucks, Google sucks, religion sucks, HN has degraded :), etc... it is a little tiring.

So while, it may be a good time to discuss the state of heath-care in the US, this story isn't the place. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.
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Publicity. Simple as that. It's news-worthy article (as you can see here) and they gain users or at least a good name from it. Chrome's campaign value is in billions of dollars. Why does it surprises anyone they want to spend some more?
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As long as Firefox is the only browser where complete versions of add-ons such as NoScript, RequestPolicy and many others are offered, it is with no doubt the safest for me.
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... or they would start their own project similar to Unladen Swallow.

I think picking simple language like PHP makes it much easier to create your own fully custom stack once you need one.

Ofcourse Facebook problems will never be your problems so every one should pick what is right for him at any given moment and stop dreming about (im)possible future.
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Yeah, that would be productive, right...
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You can always expose and boycott the companies who do deals you morally object to. You can always call others to do the same.
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> the risks associated with the follow-on tests (xrays, biopsies, etc) outweigh the risk that you'll miss something curable

And that doesn't even cover the psychological effects that can come from false-positives.
I'm not that familiar with Scala, but I have done some significant Clojure work, and I can assure you, the difference between inner classes and closures is significant. Having used C# for many years, it's notable that people started to use closures vastly more after Microsoft improved the syntax.

And yes, Hibernate really is that gnarly. Imlementing a rest/Jason interface in Clojure is vastly easier, never mind simpler.
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Floating point performance shouldn't be a major bottleneck on Linux except maybe for OpenGL heavy applications. The amount of cryptographic computations doesn't dominate either.

OpenGL in desktop effects doesn't count because it takes a lot more number crunching to rotate a complicated scene graph in a game rather than composite a few layers of window surfaces together to form a desktop screen.

I'm also surprised that using hardfloats with an FPU is only a few dozen percent faster than softfloats with a CPU! Makes me question if an FPU is needed at all in the future. Some FPU usage could be offloaded to the GPU as well, and that's a lot faster than a single FPU after a certain overhead.
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Interesting how recently I am feeling more guilty using my Apple products (Macbook, iPod) and less guilty using my Android cellphone. Apple's attitudes related to patents is really starting to be a deal breaker to me.

I may be looking for notebooks alternatives next year. It is a bit sad because I love the build quality from Apple's products, but I like to think that I value my morals more than my consumism.
"""How does this maintain the spirit of patents where we encourage innovators?"""

You think anyone in Congress cares about the spirit of the law?

Once a body of patents exists and is owned by big lobbying companies, it's all about protecting them.

Similar to the copyright protection, that just keeps expanding to the whims of Disney et al.
What did Samsung copy exactly? rounded corners? did Apple invent those? The iPad is simple, it doesn't really have unique characteristics in terms of design, I don't think simplicity can be patented.
Has that ever worked for a large multinational?

It's not the local grocery shop around the corner with the rotten produce...
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A lot of my time is dedicated to messaging (which is handy because a lot of my friends use FB more than texting), and I also occasionally read through and comment on wall posts.
My app uses a lot of these: I generally hand generate them however due to the range always changing.

From an astetics standpoint, when I have two times I personally like a slider with two handles. in GCal I'm always dragging my apointments longer and shorter in the overview, not in the details. My "solution" is to use two select boxes with the times, and then use this plugin to convert it to a slider: http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/update_jquery_ui_slider_fro...
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How the hell does Zuckenberg belong to this category, with Linus and Doug Cutting?
We all have to keep our priorities straight. Most likely, you already pay a monthly fee that's being used to fight wars you most probably don't agree should be fought.

Wouldn't you much rather see that money being used to keep you sure that some medical condition won't drive you and your family into financial ruin? That it doesn't matter what kind of weird disease you may get, you'll get proper treatment?
Yeah, and UMG fell straight for it. This will also give the Megaupload song much more media attention than it would've gotten otherwise, which again will help Megaupload.
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In a word: fragmentation. Just look at what Amazon have done with the Fire. Separate branch of Android with a separate app store. Same thing happening to webOS would be bad news.
As far as I can tell (other comments suggest this is being misunderstood), the change is not about switching from softfp to hardfp-- the FPU was always being used-- but switching from an ABI designed for softfp, where float arguments to function calls are passed in general purpose registers, to one designed for hardfp, where they're passed in the VFP registers.

Interestingly, iOS uses the "old" ABI:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Xcode/C...
Actually I think it would be different case - they would probably not need to reimplement language in their own way - because speed benefits are already there (when it comes to pypy). Instead they would patch other libs to work with pypy on a need basis. Which seems way less work than start from scratch and implement whole lang - and community would benefit a lot from this too. But since it will not ever happen it's just speculation at this point.
Although the computer itself is reason enough to be impressed, I must admit I more impressed with the use of the "super" computer. Beautiful that us geeks can contribute so much to every other discipline.

Immediately, back in my head, I got this gnarling feeling that I should also use my skills in such life improving projects instead of building the next social _______ life drain.
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Actually, this is a barrier to innovation and small, disruptive newcomers. The richest corporations are using patents to lockup the marketplace and secure the status quo.
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But that's luck. Getting amazing care like that is a matter of circumstance in Canada. By luck I don't mean, "it's usually bad, but you got lucky", I simply mean that it all depends on where you live, what doctors happen to be kicking around, what facilities are present and if you manage to talk to the right person with the right pull at the right time.

Good health care is a scarce resource. The US has decided that it will ration it based on who can pay, Canada based on a queue. Both methods have disadvantages.
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Pretty soon we're going to be emigrating to other countries and making jokes with punchlines that start, "in corporate America..."
By writing in inferior languages, you are creating apps with more bugs that take up more developer time (leaving less time to fix bugs, update older apps, etc). By your own claims, this means your apps will be dismissed. It's a mistake.

I'm not sure what you mean by inferior language. By this reasoning pretty much all of the best iOS and MacOS applications are developed with inferior languages...

I don't really see why an experienced C++ developer would create any more bugs than one developing in any other language. Most of the difficulties people complain about (explicit memory management for example) are massively overstated and not in any sense a problem for anyone other than a novice.
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I assume by treating their argument in a rational non-emotional way...
There's a debian hardfp port as well (arch "armhf", as opposed to "armel") in the current debian testing release (aka wheezy.) http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort

Not all packages have been successfully ported yet, but it seems to be coming along well.
If you value your morals, the other two choices aren't much better. Apple might be making headlines now for their patent shenanigans but next week it could very well be the other two.
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Actually, both of my previous comments made mention in passing of situations where I though a method wouldn't work. You say "every situation is different and you should do what is appropriate" but make no mention at all of which method is appropriate for which situation.

Books and seminars, we got these, but good agile is done by adding in some open source software tools, a whiteboard, pens and cards, and people with enthusiasm and an open mind. The last one is most important.

If we're still talking about the original post, then absolutely it's a belief system. Not a very well thought through one, though.
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I am an user not familiar with the software, but I think you should leave Amber to Amber Alert and use a different name.
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Don't be religious about programming languages. Who cares what other developers' reputation is, just because they chose .NET over XYZ?

That said, I'm sure you've seen, say, the Sharepoint Stackoverflow? http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/

And maybe check meetup.com for local .NET groups
Going to use that line next time a client asks me "how close we are to launch".
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> But lawmaking isn't fundamentally driven by logic, ever.

Fixed that for you.
I can. I'm seeing automated tests. A whole lot of automated tests. Unit tests, performance tests, integration tests, executable specifications, tests with real hardware.

I can be done; you have to optimize for what's important to the project at hand.
Open Source is not only about access to the source code, just like Free Software is not only about software price. By using these terms inappropriately, you only create misunderstanding and confusion, so please don't.

CC licenses are not supposed to be used as software licenses anyway.
how about upgrading to the latest version?
Firefox remains the best choice. It doesn't send data to Google or someone else to monitor what sites you visit and other things which Chrome might be doing.

Firefox also allows you to use AdBlock Plus, NoScript, Ghostery and a few other addons to improve security, lower bandwidth usage and improve performance.

I really hate these studies paid by other companies. Where's the "don't be evil", Google? Are you afraid that Firefox will kill your beloved monitoring tool Chrome?

Why does Chrome have a unique ID? Isn't this meant to identify you in a very precise way by attaching the browser unique ID to the gmail account?
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The difference between those who do and those who bemoan not doing is motivation. The Hemingway Trick is a simple way to give yourself the initial motivation. Then again, you might just be lazy.
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You'll never find a politician worth his/her salt taking cash from a company.

The way its done is to push through favorable laws for a company with a wink and a nod, and then come back and work for the company as a consultant/lobbyist with a minimum 1 million dollar per year salary.

Billy Tauzin did this quite well with PhRMA (lobbying group for pharma companies). He headed up the committee which oversees drug companies and led the push to pass the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill which was quite favorable to drug companies. The bill among other things allows drug companies to set an arbitrary price for the drug without Medicare having the option to negotiate on prices.

As soon as the bill was passed he retired from Congress to lead PhRMA with a $2.5 million USD per year salary. Mission complete.
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This reminded me of the people in egypt (i think it was, or somewhere near) that named their baby facebook cuz he was born during the arab spring. The reddit story is more poignant to me, maybe cuz the only other mainstream media coverage of reddit was that whole jailbait debacle. Nice to see the site redeem itself..maybe redditors really do get the whole karma concept after all
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In an ideal world, Waterfall will lead to a worse product than an iterative one. We don't live in the real world, and I expect these guys deal with clients who regularly fall into the -from-hell[1] category. I would bet that many people posting here aren't running consultancies and don't have experience with such clients (or any clients).

In such a situation, it is in fact entirely rational to develop a lightweight, low cost UI that a non-technical person can commit to, i.e. sign a contract. The developer can then go off and implement it with a very clear legal case if the client then chooses not to pay because "its not what we wanted".

Its not what I do, and I know that many here take a more involved approach to their clients, but its undeniable that it is a successful business model, and in some cases I believe it can produce some result where otherwise there might be none. Equally I'm sure it produces results that are ultimately not used, but where the company still gets paid.

[1] http://clientsfromhell.net/
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AFAIK there are not many comprehensive studies of this kind done without some sort of corporate\company backing. In the industry its the reputation of the company doing the study that is at stake, so what most companies do is they fund a research but reserve the right to decide in the end if the study will be published or not. If the results end up reflecting positive view on the company that funded it they publish it, otherwise they use the information collected by such study to improve the product