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Good, good, almost there. Now elaborate on "bugs in the packaging code" part.

What does "the wrong set of copyright headers" do in a vicinity of the packaging pipeline and how it came to exist in the first place. It's easy to throw around flashy one-liners. It's a bit more work to actually try and read into the facts presented.
> no proper color management in Chrome

Can you elaborate on this? I'm relatively new at it, but I write code for a color science company so I'm curious as to what you mean.

Edit: I'm also reading halfcamerageek's URL: http://cameratico.com/guides/web-browser-color-management-gu...
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Then I have certainly seen some Dadaist code in my day.
Isn't that tampering with evidence?
Didn't he "allegedly" murder someone?
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If the doctor learned his material properly, what difference would his belief that you evolved from some base mammal vs. belief that humans were created by God a few thousand years ago make? So long as he's following current understanding of what medicines and procedures work, the why doesn't matter all that much and what humans were like a million years ago has literally zero bearing on anything your local doctor will ever do for you.
If all you test is the layout then, for the most part, you are Right! Right! Right!

But...

Even with little traffic, you can still achieve
significant gains by focusing on the
copy as opposed to the layout and colours.

I learnt this mostly with Adwords. At the prices
they charge now, you just have to find the gains
wherever they are.
Well, Chrome can't even be installed without being a pig about it -- no way to set the installation location, no option to disable the background updates or keeping the last few versions of Chrome around. I guess it's okay if you don't really do much with your computer though, and don't mind the resources wasted on Chrome being needy. (e.g. I have old school DSL with 100 kb per second; I like to choose when I want a browser update, and it's hardly hi-tech to allow for that)
You know, because the reason there are threads in the first place is that a single running process can share its global variables and heap space. When Chrome runs in multiple processes, it has to duplicate its global (mostly static) variable space each time.

Albeit, that is certainly peanuts next to the v8 interpreters heap, the web page itself, loaded images, etc, but there is a reason few programs do the multi-process thing.

Chrome doesn't really get a speedup from it, it gets a stability bump. If one tab crashes in Chrome a tab goes, if a tab in firefox goes it drops the whole browser process.

As a development design pattern, if you are concerned with stability, you fork your threads into their own processes and prepare for them to go down in flames.
I will say this for Firefox--the recent work to fix memory leaks has created a HUGE improvement. I often have dozens of browser windows or tabs open for days at a time, since I just sleep my laptop between work sessions. Firefox is now as stable and snappy as any other browser over such time frame. It's really a great improvement.
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Using A/B testing and then measuring conversion rate skips a lot of useful steps.

A/B testing can be used to increase engagement with the site, which may result in a conversion days or weeks later.
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Could it be their their Flash implementation? I'm using FlashBlock, and I never experience crashing in Chrome.
"If Mozilla can’t turn Firefox into a modern browser because of all the legacy code getting in the way, perhaps we need a Phoenix 2.0."

That sounds like Servo [1] to me. That would also be a much more forward-thinking approach to Electrolysis than fully separating the old Mozilla codebase. Firefox is also competing very well with Chrome in JavaScript speed. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo
[2] http://arewefastyet.com/
So you're for or against Firefox using a multi-processor architecture? For me, FF becomes unbearably slow when I have about 15-20 tabs open.
http://kotlin.jetbrains.org/ runs on Android and isn't Java.
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The irony is that Leaseweb's slogan is "reliable hosting"
What were they supposed to do? They filed motions a long time ago that the cost of simply being forced to store a lot of data for a client who couldn't pay them (because their funds had been frozen) was incredibly high.

The government wasn't going to let them sell the servers to dotcom, and they had a business to run.
I just found an article[1], which advises that,

"SD Cards, while they have a write-protect switch, are actually no good for this purpose because it’s not actually hardware write protection – at best the card reader sends a signal to the operating system that the drive should be treated as read-only."

"It is the responsibility of the host to protect the card. The position of the write protect switch is unknown to the internal circuitry of the card."

"Basically this means that either a) cheap card readers that lack the sensor or b) operating systems or malware that don’t respect the 'please don't write to this disk' flag can write to the drive."

[1] - http://www.fencepost.net/2010/03/usb-flash-drives-with-hardw...
Human to human link is too narrow for the whole city to be conscious. Same way ant colony is not conscious. I have no idea what is the threshold but my guess is that conciousness requires more connectivity by at least few orders of magnitude higher that any city can provide. Also there is a factor of time. For being that lives and observes human brain for 1 ns it's not concious mind. It's just elaborate bit of architecture.
Take a look at my comment below. Page elements and untagged images are rendered on the full display gamut. If you have a wide gamut display, like my 30" Dell, everything looks super saturated.

The correct behavior would be to interpret all page elements and untagged images as being in the sRGB color space. This is what the W3C recommends and Firefox follows.
"No company have ever increased the revenue by changing an insignificant detail like a button color. None. Zero. Get over it."

This is not entirely true, if you have enough traffic, even the slightest change can make a difference. HOWEVER, for 99% of sites what you say is true. A/B testing should be used last, to squeeze out the last few percents of optimization, once you've done everything else. Not as a 'first step'.

One cool thing that can come of these tests, as an anecdote, is to see what is really working on a page, as opposed to what needs to be optimized.

We ran a Multivariate Test once for a signup form. The results were all similar, except for 1 which was much, much worse then the others. We could not understand why because there were no big differences between the elements, but this one particular combination set was having a bad time at it. Turns out, the headline was longer for one of the variations. This wrapped the text and pushed the call to action down below the fold, resulting in a ~30% (negative) difference in the conversion from the ones that were above the fold.
Notifications were taking over my life.
suggestion: make it interactive (click to select etc.)
It doesn't really go both ways. It should be expected that Chrome would be playing catchup since it launched six years after Firefox launched.

Now, as the author pointed out, Firefox seems to be unable to keep up in some key areas.
I think that's extremely generous of you.
Middle click causes tabs to open in the background in Firefox. IIRC cmd+click is a left click?

Ctrl-click also seems to work (on Linux).
you should try !sp since it works like !g but passes through https://startpage.com/ (proxied google result)
There are several I can think of: Open Grid Scheduler, TORQUE, Condor (ugh), and Slurm.
A very good friend of mine is high up the management tree at Ocom (parent company of Leaseweb) and told me they wiped the servers 2 weeks after he got arrested because there were no requests from the dutch government to seize the servers. It's standard policy for Leaseweb to wipe servers 2 weeks after the account is closed and my guess is that Mr. Dotcom knew this very well.
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I haven't been following his case in too much detail;

I understand that some people used Megaupload for genuine cloud storage, even though it was a small fraction.

I have noticed Kim is always talking about wanting his data back, can anybody tell me why?

I thought some of the evidence was conversations essentially about enticing people to upload more (pirated) content, what exactly was on the Leaseweb servers that would help Kim out?

I'd always thought he would have wanted them wiped?
Not a very informative comment, but I mostly agree. I use both browsers and never noticed any real annoyance in the Mozilla side.

I don't know if the author is trying to make Mozilla prioritize his desired features, but the years-behind metric doesn't sound very friendly, or used-centered for the matter.
And there is a simple solution to that (poor multi-core utilization): go back to a one-window, one process model (go back, as in delete a lot of unnecessary code); forget the browser tabs - let the OS handle multitasking and let the window manager handle the windows.
He is like the Kim Dotcom of skinny people.
Both Chrome and Firefox utterly loose out against Opera in that department, where you can actually edit the cookies, without jumping through any "expert" hoops. Admittedly I don't think I ever used that for anything but debugging, but I still think it's a nice touch, and I am sure someone out there learned a thing or two about websites and browsing just by studying the Opera config dialog.
Use the ADD command.

ADD <folder/on/host> </mount/point/on/image>
Navteq is part of Nokia. And Nokia Here [1], their maps service (used by MS, Yandex, etc), is actually mostly divided between offices in Germany and the US.

[1] http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/about-us/our-structu...

Edit: added a reference to Nokia's company structure.
As long as they are getting substantial amounts of karma for it, I suppose that's what most of the people want to read.
I'm afraid it's very relevant.

It's also important to note that there is a divide between OSS Chromium and Chrome.
They should tie up with a good content provider. AMC has excellent shows all available on streaming, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Walking Dead are of course famous. Other good shows are The Killing, Hell on Wheels. I think if they make partnership they will get a better deal out of it, rather than them creating such content on their own.
As has already been stated on this same page, there's a community edition and a commercial edition. They're likely part of the same packaging pipeline.

Do not be condescending on Hacker News when someone is responding to your question. It's easy to jump to conclusions. It's a bit more to actually try and understand what happened - that is the point of Hanlon's Razor. This may have been intentional, yes. But it may also have been a bug.
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Kind of OT: With the latest Chrome update on Mac OS X, the tabs just freeze if I try to load a JS heavy site like Facebook, Youtube, etc. and as a result, I have to just close the tab. Any pointers on remedying this?

I started using Firefox again and everything works except for some reason, I cannot login to Twitter. After entering the details, and clicking the Login button, I'm redirected back to the login page. I can view tweets just fine (without being logged in).
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Skinny people? I don't think we were watching the same video.
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Ireland is not in the UK. Just to point that out mr andyjohnson05.
Thanks. I wonder if there are studies in conversion rates when using different currencies...
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In theory it might be so but when I open a large number of tabs in Chrome it becomes sluggish. Not so in Firefox.
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Probably worth noting that depending on your office culture, this may be NSFW.
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The job-advert that has since been taken down, but has been linked to as a google-cache lists:

Date: May 15, 2013
Location: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Job Number:	1742031
Business:	GE Power & Water

I'm pretty sure that you'll be able to get contact to someone in that department by looking for similar jobs at the same location on GE's career/jobs site.

http://jobs.gecareers.com/key/ge-careers-peterborough-ontari...
...and if open source software is the future, the Firefox is lightyears ahead...

I use Firefox - on Windows. I am not a Gnuist. I use Firefox because there are some areas where my interests and those of Microsoft and Google are not sufficiently aligned to justify using their software in lieu of convienent alternatives. The desktop browser is currently one of them.

As an aside, I don't really want my browser sucking up as much CPU bandwidth as it can.
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This is something that has garnered my latent curiosity years. I appreciate that it changes from game to game and can often be dictated by the design of the game, but imagining a vanilla, MMORPG 101, where would I start with an architecture design for this? Does anyone have any resources that discuss commonly-used architecture for these kinds of games? I am familiar with the EVE set up but only as almost a canonical example of how to do it differently...

There is no commercial motivation behind this question, I am just genuinely interested.
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I believe the story turned into one of extortion by a politition looking for millions in donations.
Bangalore, India is not detailed either.
I started using Scala last year with the Play! 2 framework (did a write up on it earlier this year on HN) and was a breathe of fresh air. I didn't have any prior functional programming skills so it was a bit of learning functional programming and the language as well, but it was a fun experience. When ever I have the chance to choose the tech stack for a new project whether personal or professionally, Scala and Play! is the first choice. I just finished a Scala lib for rethinkdb (will announce later).
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And they are extremely reliable. If you pay your bills. Happy Leaseweb customer for over 5 years.
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It was looking pretty good until that last picture.

That mains wiring is plain unsafe and almost criminal...
What about "soft skills" like being able to manage their time well and relate to clients / customers in a productive manner?
Yeah, get a Mac
Direct link to the Servo wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(layout_engine)
For me, everything except FF is unbearably slow and memory-hog-y with more that that many tabs.
Mozilla are leading the way in other areas. Firefox OS is entirely based on HTML5 - even the UI. Mozilla invented asm.js, an open, backwards-compatible and fascinating alternative to Google's proprietary Chrome-only Native Client technology. They've done a lot with emscripten to compile large native engines to the web, complete with WebGL and Web Audio support. Chrome looks to follow Mozilla's lead by adding asm.js support to V8.

I agree Firefox are overall more behind, but they are still an innovative company coming up with some fantastic tech. The main reason they're behind is probably because their codebase is pretty old, back from the days when they were busy saving us from IE6.
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Or maybe **C, to account for all the indirection.
Wow, thanks. I kept looking for this in Firefox's home.
He would have liked to use all the non-infringing content that was there as evidence that Megaupload was a genuine cloud storage company.
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I doubt they guarantee reliability even after you stop paying for it.
Chrome really needs to add tagging of bookmarks. I know there are many people who say it does not need it, but they are wrong, it does.
I know that it does because every time I have to dig, search and poke around looking for a link in Chrome that has something to do with 'x' and 'y', but 'x' and 'y' are not in the url or title of the page, I can't find it. If I had the ability to tag the url with 'x' and 'y' all I would have to do is is type "x y" (like you can in Firefox) and the link would be there.
Do any of you know why does Chrome not have this feature already?
Actually, Navteq is no longer an independent entity since 2011-2012. The business unit is now called HERE [1] and mostly divided between Germany and the US.

It provides maps services for MS, MapQuest, Garmin, Amazon, Yahoo! Maps, Yandex, BMW, Oracle GIS...

But the Navteq brand still exists.

[1] http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/about-us/our-structu...
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And maybe at the end of all this, the government will get a conviction. Maybe.
I also switched from Firefox to Chrome.

Then I started to experience Chrome crashes.

These were total crashes, that either kill the browser or freeze the OS - Ubuntu 12.4 Linux. The only thing I could say was consistent is that every time I was in Google docs (if anyone on that team is reading, I'd swear it was a drag event in Drive).

Once you move your main email and Drive browser back to Firefox, you're kinda stuck there. Every link opens in that window, and unless you start the dance of copying links from one browser to another you just tolerate it.

Firefox is now the primary browser again in my work.
The hard stuff isn't the window system/widget integration, it's having multiple processes open for the same domain (or iframes in different processes) and mediating access to local storage/IDB/cookie jar/network cache/etc.

It was only very recently that WebKit2 handled most of this stuff -- up until then they just had a single WebProcess (I think Safari on Mavericks is the first multi-WebProcess browser Apple have shipped). So it's a hard problem and isn't due to some lack of competence that Mozilla have been slow to adapt. FxOS is fully multiprocess afaik.

Actually getting the rendered page image into a window owned by another process is easy: windows and X let you host HWNDs and Windows from other processes (if you choose to allow your WebProcesses access to the window server) or you could draw into a shared memory segment. The hard stuff is all of the regular browser hard stuff.
Judging by Windows Phone updates, Microsoft probably will not update all consoles simultaneously.
The big take-away for me was SnapChat - there is a huge amount of sharing taking place - vast - and none of it exists on the typical internet record (not counting anything the NSA may be doing)
That's pretty close to what riseup.net does.

https://help.riseup.net/en/privacy-policy

Of course, you have to trust them to actually do that.
Wasn't he on the run and wanted for murder?
And to the downmodders: granted, I only speak from personal experience, but from that I speak. Since I stopped using Chrome (both regular and canary), and stick to Opera, Firefox and FF Aurora, I can basically do whatever I want. Having 20 websites open in Opera, a bunch more in FF, and a video running in VLC or Renoise playing a song -- while playing L4D2 in a window, zero problems, even with my crappy GPU and otherwise good, but not crazy specs. With Chrome in the picture hard crashes were the norm for me.
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Pretty sure the reliability applies only to paying customers. MegaUpload's account wasn't active - what were they to do? In a perfect world the US government would be compensating them, but like all businesses, they had to make the best decision given the circumstances (Mega's funds frozen, potential legal liability in giving data, daily cost to keep data)
Allegedly. The rule of law in the Caribbean is sketchy at best, and corruption is rampant. You're more likely to get robbed, framed, or killed by the police than to receive any kind of help or justice.
> Mozilla invented asm.js, an open, backwards-compatible and fascinating alternative to Google's proprietary Chrome-only Native Client technology.

Native Client isn't proprietary, its open -- no other browser vendor has adopted it, but that doesn't change the fact that its open. Backward compatible is a real issue with asm.js vs. NaCl, there is no reason to obscure the real issue by throwing a fake one in with it.
And for those with computers people can be bothered to write virii for because of the massive market share, I would suggest Microsoft Security Essentials or if you have windows 8, don't bother with AV as it is built in.
I use IE, Firefox, and Chrome for work related activities and my browser of choice is Chrome followed by IE, then FF if that puts any of this into perspective...

I use an extension for Chrome called Session Buddy because even in the initial periods of the browser, session management wasn't seemingly a priority. Session Buddy is way better than any browser's internal implementation, possibly only followed by Firefox but there again I use another session manager plugin so my thoughts are further skewed.

I guess tl;dr is I don't believe a browser really needs perfect session management internally, especially given how full featured these plugins are. My only gripe is they aren't magically grafted in but I suppose due to the sheer number of plugins and feature parity means choosing one wouldn't be easy and you'd want to promote a system where it could be replaced easily. The current mechanism of finding plugins that suit your needs is good enough to me but I'm a developer, not a grandma.
It is also rather broken, and the author doesn't appear to care. I'd second the suggestion to avoid it.
So the preeminent difficulty with aluminum-air is the cost of aluminum. Going off phinergy's number (8 kWh/kg), and assuming Tesla-parity range of 260 miles for an 85 kWh fill-up, you need 10.5 kg Al per fill-up, which costs $1.80/kg on the London Metal Exchange as of today, costing about $20/fill-up, or -eep- eight cents a mile, before considering tax, transit, manufacturing etc. For comparison my 2009 Toyota Prius (yes, I -am- that lame) costs nine cents a mile for fuel (350 miles, nine gallons, $3.50/gal). So aluminum-air largely negates the cost advantage of an electric battery, unless phinergy can come up with a superior way of making aluminum, which is already one of the most optimized processes in modern industry: the cryolite process has absorbed millions of hours of human attention.

If the power-density problems can be solved, zinc-air or similar may still be a good idea. Zinc is, unfortunately, quite heavy.

Incidentally, I have put over 15k miles on my car this year alone. Some people drive a lot.
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