skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
uop fusion was added in Pentium-M, the Pentium III modeled in the paper didn't have it.
kudos for Firefox team.
I hope they put more love in speeding up css animations (like here: http://bartaz.github.io/impress.js/#/bored)
I programmed myself a cheap keyfob purchased on ebay for my honda (no special hardware needed, just the car itself)
"BitLocker provides support for device encryption on x86 and x64-based computers with a TPM that supports connected stand-by. Previously this form of encryption was only available on Windows RT devices."

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn306081.aspx

They are not the same. Agreed. Sorry about the confusion.

Anyway, it's true that modern Windows Operating Systems, even on non-RT devices, upload bitlocker keys automatically and transparently to the cloud, where the data is indexed for the PRISM program. They do this with Device Encryption, which is supported by Bitlocker on x86 and x64-based computers with a TPM that supports connected stand-by.

Edit: Regarding Grandma. Keys can be stored on a non-boot internal drive. Keys can be shown on the screen as a QR code (and the screen can tell Grandma to take a picture). Grandma's keys can be printed out on a small detachable USB or SD/MicroSD device with a kilobyte of space. The machine can provide provisional encryption until Grandma's computer can connect to a printer (where it gets printed). Grandma's computer could send the key over USB/Bluetooth/Wifi to a trusted computer friend after pairing (such as a 'tech savvy' niece/nephew). There are plenty of options.

The 'grandma clause' is not mutually exclusive with key escrow. OneDrive is a nice place for grandma AND a nice place for the FBI.
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As someone who knows next to nothing about Tumblr, why?
I am ridiculously proud of Mozilla and everybody who has contributed to Firefox over the years.
Your link is fabulous ! Thanks for sharing it, that was not-so-well known.
i want to believe your post is satire but i just dont know anymore
Think you missed the sarcasm in pluies_public's comment :)
I use Wookie a lot (http://wookie.lyonbros.com/) but I'm biased because I built it. It's a non-blocking CL app server.
Resetting might help: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fi...

It resets your profile while preserving history, cookies, bookmarks, etc.

> I'm really looking forward to the new threading model coming up. I have a feeling that once each tab has a thread, things like this will be much more self-repairing. It's not always easy to kill a rogue execution path in an event loop, but killing a thread is pretty straightforward =].

First, it's "process", not "thread" :)

The plan is to start with just two main processes -- one for chrome (browser UI, mostly) and one for web content. So no processes will be killed in normal operation. This is because additional processes incur certain extra costs, particularly when it comes to memory consumption.

Still, it might help with your problem; it's hard to say for sure.
Facebook doesn't really gain anything by acquiring Twitter except a loss-making entity with a very large cross-over when it comes to userbase.
The infotainment system must be capable of taking address input, and that same computer would be internet connected for a variety of reasons. Taking over the steering as the above poster suggested would likely not be a desirable hack anyway. More likely someone would want to leave the low level control systems intact and just change the desired destination. A solid hack would actually wait until you get to your destination, and then once you send the vehicle to park itself, it instead just goes to the attacker's desired location. Might be a while before you even realized something was up!

It was noted that the Xbox One will accept voice commands from a video the console itself is playing. What happens when someone makes a hyper-targeted Pandora ad that uses your car's voice control function to enter a new destination address? If you are paying attention you will likely notice this, but many people have suggested that at some point you can sleep in your car and wake up at your destination, so even that isn't guaranteed.

No doubt direct control of steering and brakes will be highly locked down, but as you point out that in no way eliminates the possibility for mischief.
Kudos. But they should really invest time in making the UI responsive and fast. This is my biggest gripe about firefox. I also find it incomprehensible that it checks for updates on startup in a modal fashion. Very annoying.
There are enough browser benchmarks that you can typically find one that any browser wins on. Unfortunately many of them aren't very good.

Here's how I think browser benchmarking should be done: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/06/16/a-browser-be...
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I can really feel the swing back to Firefox happening like the switch to Chrome back 5-7 years ago.

Go Firefox!!!

p.s. Great work on Firefox OS too!
Given that they effectively killed off a number of useful and popular clients, like Tweetdeck, by changing their TOSes, or straight-up buying them and rereleasing different (neutered) software under the same name, i'm not surprised to see a drop in usage.

When they did that twitter for me went from a thing i had running all day on a second screen to a thing i look at whenever it emails me that someone talked at me.
Ack, I thought this was a way to use two photos of a location from different angles to figure out where in the world it is.
Great reply, thanks for taking the time to address all the questions being raised in the thread!
It's not threading, it's processes that's coming up. I would be surprised if each tab didn't already have its own thread, because eg. multiple tabs can load at the same time...

And umm, not sure what I'm doing differently but I usually keep Firefox open for weeks at a time and have no issues. Though I cut back a bit on keeping tabs open, I used to keep like 60-80 tabs open all the time but now I usually clean up when I'm done with something (more to reduce cognitive overhead than resource utilization).
I'm pretty sure that Sun didn't sue Google. They'd discussed it internally and decided to let it slide. Only on being purchased by Oracle did the the lawsuit go ahead.
C. 1858 Photos of Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars
My guess on "Bacteriophage" could be a general anti-biotic.
Your first paragraph makes the same mistake your original comment did - the comment was not speaking to all instances of illegal voting but specifically what might be addressable by voter id laws.

Your second paragraph is more interesting, and does in fact address owenmarshall's original comment. You're asserting that requiring id serves an evidentiary purpose and therefore allows stricter enforcement? It is an interesting theory, but I am skeptical that it is either necessary or sufficient - sending someone to jail because a poll worker says they saw their ID is scary (ID could have been forged, poll worker could be in error, &c). It could still possibly be a component of something more useful, but clearly the concerns about legitimate voters who lack ID should be addressed somehow.
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Classloaders usually reject incompatible versions of the same class when you do that. Plus they don't come with default SDK.
Check out http://arewefastyet.com/ (the website mentioned in the article), which tracks javascript engine performance. Spidermonkey is faster than v8 and Safari's JSC on all three popular javascript benchmarks [1]

[1] Octane (google's benchmark), Sunspider (Apple/Webkit's benchmark), and Kraken (Mozilla's benchmark).
If you haven't read it, the Gap series by Stephen R. Donaldson is really worth a read (though walking around in Donaldson's head for 5 books can make you want to take a shower later).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Donaldson#The_Gap_C...

The Golden Age trilogy by John C. Wright also makes lots of interesting and thought provoking predictions. It's an astonishingly dense read though, but the ideas will continue to unfold in your mind for a long time afterwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Oecumene
Genuinely curious if this is a common use case or not. I personally close chrome maybe half a dozen times an hour.
Ok, thanks for the info. That doesn't sound too bad.
I don't think the number of uops in the loop being a multiple of 4 is the factor there. To see this, replace `ADD RAX, 1` with `INC RAX`, which does the exact same thing but does not alter the carry flag. The number of uops remains the same, but the runtime difference vanishes.

I can't verify this at the moment, but my guess is that the true effect of SBB is to partially serialize the loop, therefore avoiding numerous store-forwarding and other pesky memory subsystem stalls down the line.
> In passing (which I should have mentioned earlier) Remember that voter ID laws only tackle one type of potential fraud: I go to the polls and impersonate someone else. is incorrect. It can also act as proof that someone who registered without being entitled to vote did in fact vote.

That shouldn't be "in passing" - that's the whole thrust of your argument!

It's also a bit odd, because once again, voter ID plays a negligible part in it. If I, owenmarshall, was born in Notamericastan and am not a citizen, yet I register and vote in an election, the act of me actually voting is sufficient proof that I, a citizen of Notamericastan, committed voter fraud.

How does requiring an ID provide any additional proof that the person voted? The fact that I signed my name and received a ballot is prima facie sufficient to demonstrate that.

> But this new evidence suggests that the incidence of illegal voting is several orders of magnitude greater than previously thought.

It demonstrates that requiring photo ID to vote is ineffective:

"Nearly three quarters of the non-citizens who indicated they were asked to provide photo identification at the polls claimed to have subsequently voted."

(from the article we are literally discussing now.)

> The previous conventional wisdom was that the known instances of illegal voting were in the mere dozens, which is negligible compared to the hundreds of thousands known to lack ID who might be unjustly disenfranchised by ID requirements.

It's also important to note this isn't the case: the conventional wisdom has always been that the known instances of illegal voting which could be reasonably addressed through voter ID requirements were in the mere dozens, negligible compared to the much larger body of legal voters who risk disenfranchisement.

--

So conventional wisdom indicates illegal voting of a form that can be addressed by requiring photo ID is incredibly rare. This research indicates that requiring photo IDs is not a sufficient barrier to prevent illegal voters from voting - illegal voters apparently have a photo ID anyway. And the number of voters who risk disenfranchisement from photo ID requirements is still very high.

So we agree that photo ID requirements are useless, right? ;-)
"This puts us in a position of strength, so we can say "these benchmarks are not very interesting; let's talk about other benchmarks (e.g. asm.js-related) and language features" without being accused of being sore losers."

But are asmjs benchmarks interesting? They are not representative of the vast majority of real-world JS, so wouldn't an asmjs-laden benchmark suite really be a case of optimizing for your own set of benchmarks, tuned to your own idiomatic-JS?

But anyway, congrats on the achievement. I like the fact that V8, JSC, and FF performance are converging. If the performance differential is too great, it creates additional headaches for the developer targeting a certain level of efficiency.
When some lawmakers openly admit they don't even read the laws they are voting for, it is no wonder things are passing that people afterwards go "wtf these guys were thinking?" It's like writing code without any review, testing and debugging - just type it in and ship to production. But it's about fighting terrorism - so who has the time to do it right? And of course then when people see the exploits and try to fix it, they get the pushback - you are siding with terrorists? So when we get lucky and somebody writing the law really cares about not breaking things - we can get reasonable limits. Otherwise, best case we can hope Supreme Court will eventually patch it, once it gets there, which probably will take another 10-15 years.
I am getting motion sickness with all the swoopy swoop swoop. SO MUCH SWOOP!
If it's for big dinner parties hosting the rest of the aristocracy and celebrities and guests, 125 (figure 4 per person?) wouldn't be all that much.
The point in this one is SpiderMonkey is beating V8 in the benchmark designed such that V8 wins on it.
As soon as firefox gets per process tabs in stable I'll switch back, I really want to switch from chrome but that's a deal killer for me.
> A group of agents then charged past him into the doorway. Lindquist was briefly handcuffed as they entered the unit, with guns drawn. Agents then told him that if he insisted on a warrant, they would take everything print-related in his shop as a precaution to keep him from printing further counterfeit apparel.

This absolutely infuriates me. I don't care how much of the law he is breaking - you are threatening to take away a man's livelihood because he was making sure due process was being followed. The fact that is remotely legal is absurd. Those agents and their supervisors should be fired.
Tor works OK on HN. It was one of the other unique browser settings I had that was triggering captcha.
All tabs are on the same thread in Firefox. Tabs appear to load concurrently only because io is async.
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I'm using Ghostery and I'm not seeing any off-site tracking beacons on the eff.org page (they have a locally hosted PiWik analytics install but that's it).
This is all quite interesting, but to me the most interesting piece is that Arkansas had suffrage for aliens until 1928.
I don't think I have, but feel free to explain it to me.
Yes, at the time there was still occasional thought about using bacteriophages as treatment for all sorts of infections, but interest more or less died out when antibiotics turned out to be so awesome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
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Is there a reason they don't have the new Safari 8 FTLJIT in those numbers? JSC (Java Script Core?) was Safari 7 wasn't it?
0xDBE is really nice: https://www.jetbrains.com/dbe/ Though it's still in alpha.
Interpreted languages are put together for ease and speed of programming, so the programmer gets stuff done quicker.

Compiled languages are put together to let the programmer work harder to create programs that have some kind of high performance. So the end product can be quicker, even if it more expensive to produce.

Only a few languages try to bridge the gap. Most notably Go. Go is compiled but is also set up to be easy to use. The result is a nice mixture of good performance and ease of programming. See golang.org.
Google damages users' brains, author claims
> Innocent till proven guilty? The onus is on gamer gate proponents to show there has been a conflict of interest . . .

If you're only reading Polygon you aren't going to see GamerGate showing you anything. And if you're skeptical of my sincerity I'll have to apologize: this obscure thread is not worth the effort to educate you.
[Disclaimer: Off topic and reaching for help]

Me and my girlfriend are looking for some gigs so we can buy a ticket plane and meet in February (she is in Italy right now while I am in China).

She is working through her PhD in Statics while I am a developer with a lot of interest in data analysis and visualization.

If somebody need the same analysis they did a ghost it is something we can handle pretty well.

If you want to collaborate just drop a line at:
simone (at) mweb (dot) biz

[End off topic, and sorry about that]
According to [1]:
"Last week I asked for benchmarks of the new JavascriptCore Fourth Tier LLVM JIT. Arewefastyet from Mozilla now includes such results. FTLJIT does particularly well on asm.js examples."

You can see JSC performing better than chrome on the asm.js benchmarks: http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=12&view=breakdown&suite=asm...

[1] http://blog.llvm.org/2014/05/llvm-weekly-19-may-12th-2014.ht...
If you're primarily a communicator and not a coder making code for other coders, text-primary composition already looks archaic.

Let's not forget that the main aim of PDFs and even TeX is to replace ink on paper.

As a goal for 2014, I'd suggest that perhaps this is lacking ambition - as is the idea that the best of all possible systems is one where you crank a handle on some input data to run a batch process which generates various output formats.

>much of the social media that I see is text-based.

In my very average Facebook feed most messages include at least one image, and as a wild hand-wavy estimate maybe 10% include a video clip.

Entire sites are devoted to slides, video tutorials, and photo sharing.

I guess if 'We only do text' works for you, that's fine. It doesn't work for a lot of users.

As a footnote, consider that it might be possible to write software using images, sounds, and video clips as semantic tokens instead of text strings.

There's no real reason, beyond fear of the unknown, to constrain programming to text shuffling.

My guess is that over the next century or so, associative intelligent systems that can parse (e.g.) visual, verbal and other sensory metaphors will provide better tools for solving certain kinds of problems than strict Turing logic.
Yup, that's what it looks like. I just encountered it last week: https://gist.github.com/cjp/f4dda3cc0f26ad10a3fe

Been meaning to try to dump some traffic so I can see more of what's going on.
What are you doing with the videos? Are you certain you need to license them, and you can't just embed the video via a Youtube API?
Wheeler was worried about the war in Europe, though, and what could have been had the bombs been developed a year earlier. That would have put them early enough to consider delaying D-Day until after the bombs were available.

What, I wonder, would have turned out different if D-Day had started with nuking Berchtesgaden?
Marc's definitely the best.
"GOTV activists might be in a better position to assist people lacking valid ID than the individuals themselves."

It would be quite a nice consequence of all this if it meant we found people an incentive to help their fellow citizen get their papers in order. It's a bit disheartening we have papers that need to be in order, but I'm not convinced it's meaningfully avoidable. I'm a bit worried that the incentives might wind up weird, though, in some way we're not anticipating.
Guns-drawn raids are just how things are done in the US these days.
“The lack of growth there comes from Twitter’s relative lack of innovation,” said Nate Elliott, an analyst at Forrester who studies social media. “The experience on Twitter today is the same experience people have always had on Twitter.”

I don't need innovation, I just want it to work sensibly. I stopped using twitter on my phone because I found it distracting. I decided to try and use it on the web only, but there are two really big problems I see.

1. Each and every time I login, it doesn't remember where I left off, so I have to scroll down to about where I think I was and go from there.

2. Once in a while, I'll leave it open, then see the notification "xx new tweets." I then click on that and it takes me to the most recent tweet, not where I was in the timeline before I loaded all the new tweets.

I can't figure out if these are really big oversights or I'm not using it as it was intended. As it is, it certainly isn't a consistent experience with the mobile client.
Sorry, I should have clarified: Any tool or technique can (will?) be employed by either side.

I moreso wanted to know: when the security > liberty fanatics employ it against us, how can we best disrupt it?
as a marketer i notice a lot of developers on twitter that respond better to my ads than on facebook. i wonder, and maybe posing a question to the developer readers, do you use twitter more or less than before?
Why the downvote? My question was sincere. I have kept up with the framework, but not the community
Too bad the article doesn't say what light is shed.
>Yes A5/3 is better than A5/1, but I call bullshit on this whole article.

Super pendantic, but the title is 'hardens' not 'makes hard'. If it's better, than it's been hardened. Might not be the best thing available, but that's the meaning of a comparative.
Don't be a douche. You just got chastised by a lame algorithm.
Yes, by email: abuse@comodo.com (the only non sales address I could find), no response yet.

I looked at the Twitter & Facebook but they looked pretty dead. No replies @comododesktop (https://twitter.com/comododesktop/with_replies), idem for FB account (https://www.facebook.com/ComodoHome), no replies on the comments I see on FB.

Also both FB & Twitter are about non CA-products, so I was hoping for a security contact form, email address, chat or phone line..
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Can someone give me the real skinny on corporate board seats? I hear they are basically the rich people equivalent of a blow-off class in the University of Soft Knocks, but few people who sit on boards seem to directly address this question.
What version of Firefox are you using? It hasn't done that in ages. You have to open the About window to check for new updates and install them.
I could survive without processes-per-tab, if Firefox gave some hint – any hint! – which tabs are being naughty. Maybe just a per-tab counter of allocations, or timeouts, or DOM edits, or some other operation? Anything that serves as a proxy for "more active than average while not in foreground".
It looks good and impressive. I'm assuming the audience is for casual photo manipulators who like to post their filtered photos on Facebook?

Adobe currently has a Lightroom/Photoshop bundle for $9.99/month, and I'm not sure who would choose this online app vs. native apps. Maybe if the cost was $50/year it would be more competitive in the space... $4.99+/month just seems like a lot.
Sparkseed.io: going from an idea to a functioning MVP in 4 weeks
I see many people speculate how the cars are being hacked.

In addition to listed attacks there's even easier one and harder to protect against. You basically need two people, one one carries a device and is close to the car. The other wears an antenna and tries to get close to the car owner. They relay information over radio.

They basically use owner's key to open the car.

I'm wondering if this problem could somehow be solved on cryptographic level. But even then I would love if manufacturers would simply provide a switch on the key, which simply turns off the keyless feature.
No, my fork of the HQ9+ language (called TQ9+) has the shortest TodoMVC implementation:

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Does anyone know if the raw text of the page scans is available yet?
Please now work on translate3d performance!
But net neutrality gets involved when they don't charge for that traffic.
Damn, where's the super like button on this. Kudos to all contributors (and donators)!
Django templating is still pretty slow.... the last time I benchmarked it (maybe 6 months ago) it was a fairly large amount slower than Jinja2 (3-4x maybe?)
Being representative of "existing real world JS" is one way benchmarks can be interesting. On the other hand, asm.js benchmarks are interesting because improving asm.js performance expands the scope of what the Web can do. Ditto for new language features.