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From Leonardo, who founded MPEG, on the page linked: "Even before it has ceased to exists, the MPEG engine had run out of steam – technology- and business wise. The same obscure forces that have hijacked MPEG had kept it hostage to their interests impeding its technical development and keeping it locked to outmoded Intellectual Property licensing models delaying market adoption of MPEG standards. Industry has been strangled and consumers have been deprived of the benefits of new technologies. From facilitators of new opportunities and experiences, MPEG standards have morphed from into roadblocks."

It's been such a disappointing trend of companies initially welcoming developers, just to then eat their lunch. Twitter has been one of the worst: they killed their developer ecosystem.

Please, skip the first 90 seconds of the video. This is the Apple product intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SHMDMJPuwM

This was the original use case for blockchain back in 1991: https://cointelegraph.com/news/circling-back-to-blockchain-s...

What has changed in terms of technology?

They still have nothing (as of now) https://www.autodesk.com/search?qt=john%20walker&sn=en_US&us...

We need to put some work into this...

To the contrary, it’s a service to the community to link other versions of the same story with the right context, facilitating discussion.

Also, you're actively suppressing African news sources, so I question your bias?

You might have to get your vision checked.

Nigerian media have more info about the suspect https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23871447

Marginal costs can be upheld through protection, self-regulation, and enforcement -- essentially of human rights.

I think people who are able to make a living by doing such work - won't burn all the money by buying yachts and party airplanes (like modern Internet "heroes" of entrepreneurship) - but by creating more pro-bono information work.

I think there's a difference between receiving basic compensation for the work put in -- and extracting excessive rents.

How much better could Internet be if it was easier for non-programmers and non-marketers to earn a living contributing to the Internet?

Government-funded systems tend towards a very mafia-like insider-crowd funding model - very far from an inclusive ideal.

I like your statistic about people not keeping up their resolutions: it's perhaps the best argument for using a tool. But how to formulate a realistic goal?

Nice! A sample project where a commit shows the changes you've made would make it easier for folks to follow in your steps.

Malware that can hijack the users' cookies can do that, as described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6950758 at 15m40s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6K2GqyijM#t=15m40)

Hmm, would it would be possible to actually detect if Google's got information about a visitor - by creating a web page with google ads and then snooping what targeted ads are getting shown (which is possible through DOM traversal)? This way, information can leak.

Skynet is actually on Google's Master Plan http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/21468536/in/photostre...

Ben Horowitz: "Larry Page, in contrast, seems to have determined that Google is moving into war and he clearly intends to be a wartime CEO."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/peacetime-ceowartime-ceo-2011...

Snowden with NSA should be considered to be white hat hackers: they demonstrated the inadequacy of private information protection by Google and other companies https://medium.com/p/1bcff7c0f25f

I want folks to commit to removing bugs!

Having seen animated gifs, I can assure you that mngs (pronounced as mings) would be likewise huge. It's better to just have a 1-line JS script do this, and a standard for sandboxing nonthreatening JS.

Honestly, I tuned out. Animations are procedural and are best represented with a scripting language - not with a declarative image format. Resource-constraining javascript within an (i)frame is probably a better way to spend a browser developer's time.

Finally a feature browsers can compete on! :)

See http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/

The image quality improvements with JPEG2000 were mathematical but not really perceptual, see http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~jakulin/jpeg/artifacts.htm

At the PNG Group we designed the MNG format for animated images, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-image_Network_Graphics

A lot of insight into Google's strategy regarding maps.

How about new lifestyle business referring to themselves as new lifestyle businesses versus referring to themselves as startups? How should a startup call itself not to be ambiguous?

There's a difference between a "startup" and a "lifestyle business".

Probably worth calculating how many lifetimes of computer science students have been wasted on this inanity.