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Well, that's why you compress then encrypt first

Entropy is a good measurement but it's not the goal. The goal is a smaller file size

Yeah, I guess that for 'generic compression' the advances are going to be slow and few. Without any knowledge of the type of file it's only bytes so you have to work with that. Also disk space and network speeds are getting cheaper, so what might have needed compression in the past might not need today (even though compression got much cheaper)
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Blame Aristotle.
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> Compromise is the name of the game

In most cases, I'd agree.However, it's never a good idea to compromize on your mission statement. How does pre-bundled Pocket integration promote an open web? IMO, it goes against it.

While they are losing market-share, Mozilla are not running out of cash any time soon and they are not in a death spiral. They can afford to, and should think long and hard about how they diversify their revenue streams, rather than trying random decisions that alienate part of their userbase trying to find anything that sticks - which is the impression I'm getting.
One could make the argument that a government bidding process that expressed such a requirement was an administrative rule that prevented parties from selling or distributing their software.

Given that the arbitration procedure outlined by the TPP is operated by private lawyers who are already unreasonably biased towards their corporate clients...

The entire treaty strikes me as a brazen giveaway of national sovereignty to private interests. And as such should be stopped.
That would make a great Sci-fi humorous short story.
Is this the article you're referring to?

http://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/how-5-florida-schools...

It's a bit thin on data / statistics..
I don't think that's why people don't keep private diaries. I would rather guess that they have no interesting thoughts.

Technology actually made it easier to keep a diary that's truly private (I use a simple rar archive with a password). When I was a teenager without a PC, I had a paper diary, which always made me worry about my parents finding it.
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To be fair tho, it seemed like a decent revenue path to pursue. I can't see how it would bother users much. While revenue has increased this year that doesn't mean it will next year. I am all for Mozilla trying new ways to generate cash to stay around. If FF died, Chrome would be a lonely browser :)
> so why was Pocket pushed so hard

Was it?

All I saw was it being integrated into Firefox, and there being a lot of backlash. Against that backlash, there were a couple of people pushing hard to justify it, but they were either independent or Mozilla employees (often from a different team) posting independent opinions. I don't think Mozilla pushed Pocket a lot. Pushing features through the release cycle is pretty common.

Bear in mind that Mozilla integrated Pocket because it was the kind of feature it wanted to have in Sync (or Accounts, whatever it's called), but decided to use a third party service instead of making their own. From that POV it's much more reasonable. Not denying that it could have been done better with a pluggable open API and an open source equivalent (or whatever), but it's not that bad from that lens.

Sponsored tiles was an experiment, IIRC. Mozilla wanted to see if non-annoying, easy-to-disable ads could be used to fill otherwise blank space. It seems to have failed. But I would guess that a lot of the devs were hopeful about this experiment. I (not a Mozilla employee, but I do contribute a lot) was, at least.
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Absentinsomniac gave an answer that echoes my feelings. I was a dealer for many years (not on SR though), so I had to think about this. I'm not sure 100% what I personally would have done in the situation, but if someone snitches on you then that is more or less tantamount to violence. You'll get your home raided, and then you'll be thrown in a cage for many years. Much of it did come down to "it's either you or me" -- I know that sounds simplistic, but when you're faced with some draconian prison sentence for doing something you feel is entirely moral, it's easy to feel that way.

I also agree that the online drug scene tends toward higher quality, more accurately marketed products with far less risk of the violence that is typical on the street. SR users felt like they were part of a movement that was making things a lot safer for drug users/buyers, so if an outsider was threatening that by cooperating with LEOs then, in a utilitarian sense, any sort of action against them was justified.
Interesting post at http://blog.rkh.im/code-reloading
Why the rush to distribute it first and figure it out later? Couldn't they figure out the API extensions required during development, but before shipping?
Is this an advertisement? Why does the author plug Nest Cam every other sentence? It would be interchangeble wjth any other home security camera here.
Previous denials by Mozilla employees:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9668285

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9885360

* http://www.pcworld.com/article/2930532/reading-service-pocke...

I think (and hope) they just misinterpreted "didn't pay for inclusion" as "doesn't involve money", not that they deliberately lied to us.
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> Well, that's why you compress then encrypt first

Just be careful of CRIME-style attacks...
Because it isn't "so much more expensive"

http://energyrealityproject.com/lets-run-the-numbers-nuclear...
I love these sites. Here's a similar one that covers the Apollo 11 moon landing:

http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/

Great to hear the banter of Cernan/Evans/Schmitt during the launch. A Saturn V must be a hell of a ride.

I hope we get back to this sort of thing in the next 10 years.
> By "worth the price", if you are someone that considers a 60k to 120k car "worth the price" then yes. But personally I would rather not fool myself and admit I have the money and I want something luxurious.

Value is subjective, by the way.

That means that if a Tesla costs $70k and someone buys one, then he demonstrably values the Tesla higher than his $70k, which means it's safe to say he considers a Tesla worth the price.

> maybe even "objectively"(lol...) nicer than other sports/luxury cars

Nope, not "lol". For example, Teslas are objectively safer than other cars. That's because they can be constructed to be like that because they're electric vehicles, but that doesn't make it any less objectively true.

Also, there's no problem with someone having the money and wanting something luxurious. The fact that some people do is the reason why lots of jobs involved in serving their wants exist, which surely you'd agree is a good thing.

(So basically: Teslas getting bought for their current prices is a Good Thing for us little folks, so I'm not sure what your problem is)

> My point is. [..] They. Are. Not. Within. The. Price. Range. Of. The. Middle. Class... [..] Apple. Computers. Were.

If both of those claims are true, then you've established that "Tesla is not like Apple that way". But is that what you mean?

It seems you're more concerned with some other people being able to afford Teslas than whether Tesla is like Apple that way.

> if you look at it from a price-to-value standpoint

Again, what the hell does "price-to-value" mean?

> Maybe they do in your life and then you are most likely either single, upperclass, or bad with money.

Huh? If someone buys a Tesla, it most definitely doesn't follow that he's bad with money.

> The first two are ok, expensive luxury vehicles are ok. Am I touching a nerve here?

Did you accidentally a word there? But no, you're not touching a nerve. I'd like to have a Tesla for myself, in the right circumstances (which don't even currently apply), but I couldn't afford one anyway.

That's perfectly fine with me though. It's alright that I don't have one, and it's fine I wouldn't even have the money. It's also perfectly fine that some others do, and buy them. If that touches a nerve with you, then there's something wrong with your nerves.
At Portland last year this was part of the keynote speeches. The idea was to have a non-spying non-intrusive advertising model which can be disabled easily. Many of us were hopeful about this; if you have more successful ad programs of this kind, perhaps advertising on the web can get nicer.

I guess the experiment failed, but I hope they keep trying things in this space.
Awesome work, Murray (and your team). Any chance the data will be anonymised and made open? The report is great but it leaves me wanting more answers! I'm sure many folks would be happy to trawl through the dataset on their own.

Will definitely be participating next year! When do you plan to run the survey?
It's not block-oriented. Image components are meshes, and they're filled with textures. Between frames, the meshes change position and shape, and the textures dissolve. It's a full morph.[1][2]

This got to the demo stage, and there were a plug-in and an SDK around 2008. The playback side worked fine, but the compression side was really slow at the time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHHfNZFuM0g
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBfss0AaNaU
Wouldn't that just result in duplicate content?
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Old version (poll):

10/12/22/435/10500 us.

New version(epoll):

10/13/8/6/6 us.
Prediction: Within 10 years Alphabet will be in a position to buy Apple.
I see mostly dump people in real work, they haven't tryed or at least learned the Common Lisp to have their own opinion.
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It has been tried with images:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression
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Very nice. Now do wildcards!
You can file for an extension on the paperwork even if you owe money, but you need to send a payment (based on your estimate of what you owe) with your extension application, since the money is due on April 15th whether you get an extension or not. (If you significantly underestimate what you owe, you'll be charged a penalty plus interest.)

Also, to clarify what others have said: If you start work in January 2016, you will not need to file taxes in April 2016: the April 15, 2016 filing date is for taxes on income in the previous year (January - December 2015). For income earned in 2016, you'll need to file taxes by April 2017.

"Now I'm going to work for a new US based company and the salary is six figures."

This sounds like you'll be a regular employee of the company, which is what all the people who have replied here are assuming. However, if you're going to be paid as an independent contractor (taxes reported on a 1099 form rather than a W-2), the tax situation would be entirely different: the company won't withhold taxes and you'll be responsible for making quarterly estimated tax payments.

The agency in charge of U.S. federal taxes is the IRS, and they have a huge amount of information on their web site, http://irs.gov, ranging from very basic introductory stuff to the most detailed information for accounting professionals. Every state also has a similar web site for their state income tax.
Haha, I like this statement.
BTW I'm curious. Humour me, What do you see happening in the not too distant future
For a very narrow definition of the term "fix", maybe.

What is the fix we're looking for? To alleviate traffic congestion? To spend less time on the road? Or maybe just to remove the necessity of having to focus all our attention on the act of driving itself?
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Now would probably be a good time to post a link to my tutorial on how you actually set this thing up:

http://jdpressman.com/2015/11/25/how-to-setup-a-common-lisp-...

I plan to use this for some projects soon, one of which I'm in the middle of right now.
The question is how much money and at what (ideological) cost? Employing people is not Mozilla's core mission. As the recent Wired article[1] says "...the Mozilla Corp. must still find ways to make money so it can pay the people to develop Firefox. But if its money-making schemes stray too far from Mozilla’s ideological roots, there will be little to distinguish Mozilla from every other Silicon Valley outfit"

I hold Mozilla to a higher standard, just as Mozilla ought to.

1. http://www.wired.com/2015/12/mozilla-is-flailing-when-the-we...
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> you should at the very least give us a hint as to why you're doing that

Well, they did. In the very thing you quoted:

> On Medium, we speed this up a bit with JavaScript. [...] format=json," download the article text

eg, they send what actually changed, probably highly compressed and cached, and not an entire new webpage. That's not super uncommon, and it's hardly weird or roundabout. We can discuss whether they've correctly identified the bottleneck (although, spoiler, they have), or whether it actually improves things for their users in real world conditions (probably), or if the technical overhead is worth it for something like Medium (debatable, but apparently they have the funding...), but it's not "bizarrely strange". It's a well known technique, and while maybe it's more common (and more sensible) to use it on a webmail app than a weblog, it's not black magic.
If a country wants to do this with domestic software produced by a domestic business, which other country that is a party to this treaty is going to have standing to bring litigation?
I thought this would be something like Spacelog[1], which is impressive in its own right.

I'm simply blown away by the integration of audio / activity graphs / images.

[1]: http://spacelog.org/
Really nice article imo.
The docs for importlib are a nightmare right now.

So many things are deprecated that it is hard to work out which things you should use.

The deprecated bits should either be moved to the end of the page or to another page.
Apple designs the best mobile CPUs in the industry. They're years ahead of Qualcomm and the rest. They have some of the best hardware and software engineers on the planet.

You just have no idea what you're talking about.
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goodtar:

#!/bin/bash

find $3 type -f | rev | sort | rev | tar -cv $2 -T /dev/stdin -f $1

Now put `goodtar` in `/usr/bin`. Whenever you want to compress stuff, just say:

goodtar -j output.tar mydir

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The problem with Google Trends is that it shows what people search for, not what people post and talk about.
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I was in Australia a few years ago and was flabbergasted that many ISPs were still operating on a complicated set of caps and on-peak / off-peak rules. I blamed the de-facto monopoly created when the copper got privatized and all sold to a single company, Telstra.
> But that would be against a lot of cronies' interests and very much in the people's interests, so it's never going to happen.

Not necessarily always in the "people's interests". Here's a bit of Wealth of Nations that you don't often see quoted:

Corporation laws, however, give less obstruction to the free circulation of stock from one place to another than to that of labour. It is everywhere much easier for a wealthy merchant to obtain the privilege of trading in a town corporate, than for a poor artificer to obtain that of working in it.
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I was thinking of policies such as preferring "minority owned" businesses, which don't strictly prevent other companies from competing.
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I think the author means that tweeting keeps you from writing a diary in a way that it makes you feel that you already wrote about your happiness, problems, emotions, etc somewhere else.
In my opinion there is a misleading feeling of privacy in social media in general. If you post something online, by keeping it "private" you may be mislead to think that no one else is going to be able to read/see it at any point in time. There seems to be no space where you can currently be alone with yourself anymore.
It's a settlement so in most cases this would be the end of it and there should be no higher court ruling. But in reality Samsung is still pursing an end around via the USPTO.
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> I think this view, of "free trade", is very popular among my crowd as well as popular among Sci-Fi authors.

In the sci-fi I read/watch, "free trade" is very popular and very well presented (and I'd say pretty accurately) - it all looks cool and pretty at a first glance, but then it turns out that big parts of the population are extremely poor miners slaving away their whole lives in some godforsaken hellholes, and on the free market you can easily buy anything from innocent people's organs to weapons of mass destruction.

As for libertarianism - it has some good ideas, but the more extreme forms burst into flames at the first mention of the word "externality".
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There's more discussion if you follow the link to the relevant Chromium issue at the bottom of the page. In particular it doesn't seem malicious and actually it's only started on demand.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=498272
It does not fix, but it helps. At least you can do something more useful while on the road.
Every time I see an article about 'oh noes, STEM jobs aren't being filled!', I can't help but add '...at the paltry salary we're willing to pay'. I've had a series of job interviews lately where it was obvious I was more than qualified - senior sysadmin, devops engineer, what have you - but the salary on offer was junior wages at best. Even after showing them the Puppet labs 2015 salary report, the response was still 'we'd rather hold out for someone cheaper'. Companies, if you're having trouble filling a role, up your salary budget and make it known. If it's a truly competitive salary, the world will beat a path to your door with exceptional candidates.
> What would the rationale be for such a rule?

Because __iadd__ automatically delegates to __add__. For immutable objects that's the best you can do, so there's no reason to write both.
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To social sciences research, really.
> Just stop intervening in trade in any way, and you'll have Free Trade. (...) Stop intervening in what people do with their property, and you'll have a free market.

Well maybe, but you don't really want a Free Market. Be happy that thanks to not having it, you can still eat food that, while crappy, is not downright poison.
Why would you expect MoCo not to act like a corporation? They do care for their users a lot, but they consider that they would not help them a lot if they did not exist.

Given the deep pockets that have risen to develop the Web to new lengths, Mozilla has needed more money and more developers. They are lacking in the chrome (the UI), in tooling, in platform presence (the iOS version came very late!), and little by little, in Web features. Not to mention musts like tab separation into processes, things that are now implemented in every browser but them.

(Edit: removed parallelism.)

Imagine you saw that issue, and need increased revenues. You don't want to impact existing users, as you know they would be mad. What do new users see that old users don't? Those empty tiles in about:newtab. Those tiles are useless anyway, and from a UX perspective, new users don't understand what they stand for. Having a few example websites would be a good indication. It fits marvellously in the constraints they had.

How about Pocket? As we discussed, their chrome is getting old. In particular, the bookmarks feature is both old, has a lot of old bugs that don't get fixed, and they have wanted to do an overhaul for a long time (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697359). But they lack development effort.

If only there was a company that did bookmarks better than we did, we wouldn't have to do the work! Oh, there is: Pocket.

One last thing that they can do to increase revenue is to make competition among search engines be felt. So they switched to Yahoo!. However, Yahoo!'s perspective was to show the world that Yahoo! Search had grown to be much better. Unfortunately, it is still behind as a product in terms of UI cluttering, quality of results, range of inputs... They still don't have a cartographic service! Let alone a worldwide routing engine and a GTFS crawler... So they may disappear.

It has become phenomenally hard to compete against Google. Their best shot at relevance is Servo now, but given the huge amount of work that is, they will still need deeper pockets.
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After looking at the available sources, it seems all quoted claims very specifically only said "Pocket didn't pay for the integration", so technically a revenue sharing agreement established later wouldn't be covered by this.. Technically...
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I totally appreciate complete focus on content.But is there any specific reason that people would not want to use any form of templating/styling?

This is a genuine question and not sarcasm.I have seen this sort of styling on several sites which excel in material provided.

EDIT: I do love the content.Gonna be trying this this weekend
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In a word: yes. "Has access to" needs to be defined. Is it at work? At school? Your own purchase?

I like to think long-term and be independent. I'd hate losing access to an essential tool because I change jobs or finish school.

If I purchase something myself, I also think long-term. What if I progress to larger or more complex designs (EAGLE becomes expensive quickly)? What if I don't want to pay upgrade fees?

So yes, there are legitimate reasons to use KiCad even if you "have access" to a more mature commercial package. I don't think there are any reasons to use EAGLE, though.
The website is under construction, I haven't gotten around to styling it yet. Any suggestions on what it should look like?

If you look at the homepage I have the skeleton of a layout and styling there: http://jdpressman.com/
Or, as people in the trade say - good stage lightining / movie soundtrack is the one you don't remember hearing after you leave the theatre / cinema. If you do, it means you paid attention to it specifically, which means something went wrong.