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We just pushed the button on stage at the Mozilla All-hands. It should by live in most countries now.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1055677337

Ask us anything you want to know about this product.

Also, keep an eye on the Github repo.

https://github.com/mozilla/focus

We are still watching the Keynote but will flip the switch soon.
That's what it's called[1] :)

http://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/889/what-is-a-waterfa...
Sorry, Eurosport Player is not available in this country.

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It's just surprising to me that "Focus by Firefox" wasn't first made a Firefox Extension for mobile and desktop...
The first amendment applies to the government, not to private corporations.
And to add, the credit card companies would know about the fakes so as soon as someone tried using it, we'd know about the breach and where it came from. All without having LE trying to buy the information from criminals.
Cross-compilation is sometimes an option, but not necessarily a good one.

It is usually a significantly manual process (I now have to download and install an OS which is supported by the runtime and build a cross-compiler for my target platform, which may or may not even be possible, or even work), isn't always supported by the runtime, usually requires changes to the build procedure, often requires special patches - and at the end of all that users are still left with either having to repeat all this themselves, or trust someone else's binary bootstrap.

Compared to a simple, portable, C-based bootstrap where any user can type 'make' and ensure provenance directly from source. For what gain?

Uninformed? Perhaps. I haven't designed and written my own language, and I'm certainly no expert. I'm just someone who gets asked to port these new languages to platforms which aren't Linux or OSX, and it's a lot of hard work. I just know that if I did it write my own it would look a lot more like perl/python/lua than ghc or go from a build perspective.
I wasn't trying to personally attack the guy, it was just surprising that an article by one of the heads of a major tech company wouldn't have something basic like that taken care of.

I'd recommend the tinypng plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinypng-for-wp/), which will do the optimization (though not resizing) automatically for you.

Edit - More downvotes, someone is having a tough morning.
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the way i understand the quote it's not about the artist being rich but about the owners of the art who are.
Billion-Dollar Startups That Were Told Their Idea Was Stupid
A whirlwind tour of Haskell, via Advent of code solutions
HTTP status codes are also useful for infosec people during breach investigations. Sometimes all that's available is access logs, and those codes can provide a lot of context.
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GitHub returns 404 instead of 403 to prevent these information leaks.
> The "model" isn't the creation of venture capitalists; it's just mathematical reality.

Only if you invest in startups they way you play craps. The statistical distribution of outcomes is not predictive of the chances of a particular startup succeeding or failing. Some founding teams are virtually guaranteed to fail; some have a better than even chance to succeed. If you are willing to give up on the unicorns you can also eliminate most of the duds. Valley VCs are not willing to do that.
There can always be some checking that happens as part of creating a new account.

Remember that to be effective, the follower needs to be able to find the new account when the old one is closed. They will do this by searching for an obvious keyword (in this case TurMedia or IslamicState), so checking the username against a block list of known terms previously used by terrorists should catch it.

For example, FB has a real names policy - try opening a FB account with a stupid name and see what happens - its not that hard.
Right! They already know who they all are anyway, because they are paying them. ISIS is their pet project to convince us to ban encryption so they can spy on you and me, that's what they really care about! ... /s
We worked for it hard. Reinstalling stuff, spending evenings fixing problems, frustrating games with vertical learning curves. We have the skills to remove spyware from kids' laptops but must build tools and UIs that are user friendly enough for the next generation.
If criminals stopped selling to stupid people, they wouldn't have much of a market.

Smart crooks don't break the law. Stupid ones do.

Breaking the law isn't cost effective, and I am not talking about morals, I am saying that the additional overhead involved in covering your tracks and the potential liabilities (years of $0 or negative dollars income, legal fees) doesn't make sense.

Only rarely do you get a legitimately intelligent criminal, and that is often the result of personality issues/emotional problems.
> For the NFL, having ESPN drop out would probably be a blip.

Perhaps, but worth noting that when NHL ended their relationship with ESPN business suffered.

While NFL is much larger, w/ greater and more diverse revenues, NHL suffered all sorts of unintended consequences, like reduced exposure when ESPN deprioritized hockey highlight packages.
I'm sorry, but I think your guide just reiterates the old wisdom that one needs to practice a lot and analyse games.
Nor should any normal retail investor purchase crowd-funded equity for retirement purposes. These are risky bets on immature companies with unproven products & business models and unvetted financials. I'm fairly certain that the majority of retail investors who are looking to put their money into crowd-funded equity will understand the higher risk associated with this new asset class.
I use it all the time, something like 3000 notes now! I integrated a bookmarking app with it (search for bookmarking on my blog if you're curious) so it's a mix of bookmarked pages, notes, to do lists, reminders, and recently I've been tracking my dreams with it. Fun stuff!
Maybe they do <img src="API" onerror="gotcha()">?
By all means use Python if that's what you prefer! But it doesn't solve the problem discussed in the article: what if the Python binary has been compromised?
I don't disagree with this, but this is exactly what Intel has been doing, too, especially with the Atom platform in mobile. And Intel has a track record of abusing anti-trust laws, so why hasn't anyone given a second look to Intel's practices again? Maybe Intel is just better at hiding it in "deals" with OEMs.

> Europe’s antitrust officials in Brussels said that Qualcomm, one of the world’s largest makers of chips, had abused its dominant market position in the region by offering financial incentives to smartphone and tablet manufacturers that agreed to buy equipment solely from Qualcomm.
How Startups Should Use Behavioral Economics
Yep, I find myself in a somewhat similar situation. I'm a business analyst who taught myself enough front-end skills to build a JS app that replaces an old legacy application we have. The result saved us dev resources(because it completely avoided the standard waterfall timeline), but has now given way to "if we don't have dev resources, let's give this task to him."

Which is fine, but the tasks that go down that path aren't really enough to point me toward a full-time dev gig. So I'm in a weird middle ground between being a PM/BA/Developer without acquiring full experience in any of the three roles right now.

That being said, if I had to do it again I'd do the same thing. Just not sure how to navigate out of it.
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If it's easy to create new accounts, then closing old ones is a losing battle for law enforcement. If it's hard to create new accounts, Twitter's business might just fall apart.
"resource-management game" aka Roguelikes. Heh. It does more strongly resemble puzzles though. For anyone that hasn't played, the gameplay resembles a single level of a roguelike with stationary enemies. The difficulty is in progressing through enemies to gain XP as efficiently as possible so you can take on the level boss. Everything is a resource. Even fog of war, once you discover a tile it restores health and mana.
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I am not trying to attack you personally. Please don't take this the wrong way. I just want to understand... why would a recruiter for a militant (likely illegal) organization use a government-owned public platform?

The only possible reason for a recruiter to join is if there are potential recruits there. With USPS, a recruiter would have the ability to send mail to John Doe or current resident. There is some kind of targeting available as well. But that is besides the point. The main problem is how do we get everyone to be on this new public platform?

I think if we can get enough people to sign up for this public platform, it could be feasible. There are still privacy implications of such a public utility though. When you connect to the service, it can keep track of at least your device ID (trivial with apps) and your IP address. Assuming everyone is on this service, the service could reliably track who you are with at what times.

I understand that there already exist "shadow" profiles for me on various networks . However, I do not like the idea of an online identity that is connected to my real, legal identity. what if someone else gets a hold of my account while I am away for a few days and starts posting pro Sinn Féin propaganda on it? Will I get flagged for terrorism? How do we know handle all these false positives? I'll go ahead and create a straw man here that is ridiculous: how about we require people to prick their finger and submit their blood sample when they start using a new computer or when they have been inactive for ten minutes?
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> (and is nowhere near the speed of optimized C/C++).

Please file bugs! We consider them as such.
See the Venray TOMI processors that do exactly that. Result is incredible performance at many fold lower cost in silicon.
If you finance it over 5 years its less than $10 a day per set of arms. put it in a fast casual line and or drive through and you wouldn't need workers. You could drop prices by 20% and still make better profits. so much for $15/hr minimum wage.
I suspect that its a fundamental truth that small business need to be adaptable in order to be successful. If their users dislike the ads enough to put them on blocklists, then an alternative strategy might be in order.
Subnotebooks are almost as cheap as Nethack. A no-brainer for sure!
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Anyone else having issues with the Safari extension? After clicking the trust button the extension still failed to install.
It maybe that your iPhone is not compatible with this app. I have iPhone 5c and I can't install it. Focus is supporting iPhone 5s and newer.
I see it's biggest application as an accelerator for any application that's basically pattern-matching. Mining text or network packets especially.
"Announcing the Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.0"
Wow, Microsoft takes backwards compatibility really seriously. ;-)

(Obviously a typo; should probably read "Announcing Git Credential Manager 1.0 for Windows")
If the ad blocking is built-in to the browser, it should work fine. It's the new content-blocking plugins that only work in Safari.
>I don't think they see value in home storage of power, first off the amount stored is way way WAY too minuscule if you look at it from a grid perspective.

A 7kWh battery can hold quite a few hours worth of household usage in state like Vermont where people don't use much air conditioning.

The value to the utility is due to peak shaving, the cost of the marginal energy at peak loads is much more than the average wholesale price.
> - What would you do with code comments? Things like "f(/+old_value+/new_value)".

Comments are included in the AST, the AST should be reprojectable into canonical plaint text.

> - How to store code before preprocessing (C and C++) ?

This could get tricky, punt. cdata

> - How to store files mixing several languages (PHP, HTML, Javascript) ?

Same file format, different semantics. PHP is a DSL.

My new language manifesto includes having a mandatory publicly defined AST.
I'm apparently a little out of the loop on this - can you point me to some examples?
> content-free upscale marketing exercise

Like a market for tulip bulbs[1]? ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
First of don't go for tools first. Develop a strategy for process flow and then look for tools that meet your needs.
And even worse, it's for (and only works with) Safari, not Firefox.
> Isn't copyright a wonderfully logical instrument?

This prompts me to think of the case where instead of taking a photo-of-a-photo, one takes a "series of photos in rapid succession of a series of photos also in rapid succession", a la taking a camcorder into a movie theater.
Then I'm carrying around sensitive work information on a device that I control. Sure, my password protected Excel spreadsheet isn't really protected, either, but if it gets compromised on my work machine, IT at work takes the heat, not me.
Seamless integration between Rollup and PostCSS
I see no quality-judging in that comment.
I appreciate the suggestion - I have a 5s though and have used other ad blockers, I guess it just hasn't propagated yet.
I built my own simple static site generator in ~150 or so lines of Ruby. It's a fun thing to do.

That kind of inspired me to start a simple static website hosting service which is still in beta: http://www.statichosting.co/

I've tried all the other hosting options, and they are fine. I just never fell in love with any of them, so I made my own with a couple friends.

If you are interested in trying the beta, please sign up. We'll be opening it to more sites soon.
Working for the federal government has some solid perks including great pension plans. Having grown up in DC, my parents really hoped I would go work for the government. Instead they got an entrepreneur!

As for post-astro careers: my understanding is that a number of astronauts have gone on to academia.
Point taken. It then just becomes a statistical probability of how many steps between A and N. Considering that everybody using this system better have 0 steps (former point made) 1 step is about the furthest I would hope. But you are right: there could be more steps.
Searching for it in the app store on my phone returns nothing. I had to message myself the link to get to it.
The number of people who recognize the Firefox brand vastly outnumber the people who recognize the Mozilla brand. It makes complete sense.
“Resolve means depriving jihadists of virtual territory, just as we work to deprive them of actual territory,”

The problem with that line of reasoning is that we good people are poised to lose some of our "virtual territory" i.e. freedoms too as a collateral damage in this fight.
"startup investing" depends on your definition of startup.

For example, a person that has applied for a patent - no VC would call that a startup, but perhaps those with intimate knowledge of what the patent will lead to may indeed call that a startup.

Another example are "stealth startups" - we explicitly refer to them as startups yet many are merely patents with maybe a partially working prototype but no product yet.

There are instances where both of those examples are combined (sole inventor + operating in stealth). Just because the entity doesn't fit the profile of "startup" for VC's doesn't mean there isn't room for that type of "startup investing".
Rugby and cricket do well on the spectator side and pretty healthy participation levels.
The bottom has fallen out of the ad market recently. Anyway, content blocking is still opt-in. That means most people will never enable it, and the people who enable it are probably not going to click on your ads anyway. But most importantly, if users are going out of their way to avoid paying you, your business model is plain broken. No point trying to prop it up by banning ad blockers.
Content blockers are only supported in Safari, per Apple.
I mean no offense, but out of all complaints I've heard about Mozilla's work on Hacker News, this is probably the stupidest. What the web really needs is less vitriol against those that actually do something.
It's a browser shell which has been doing ad blocking for over a year, so it would probably do it's own thing.
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That is one way to frustrate people.
Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking
That wouldn't work.

Your assumption is that these retail companies are storing full credit card information in some large database somewhere, that is not the case at all. Most large retailers only store the full credit card information for seconds while they process the transaction, when the transaction is complete it is discarded.

What the criminals are targeting is the card terminals themselves. Meaning when you swipe your card, as the transaction is being conducted they take a copy of the information and re-transmit it to a host somewhere they control (or to a C&C machine on that network, which they then exfiltrate somehow).

Plus even if you could get your "gotcha" credit cards into the criminal's hands, the chance of law enforcement buying one back is tiny, since the stolen batch is mixed with other cards, and only then a small sub-set is sold (since they verify if the card is still active, and meets other conditions).

My point is, it just won't work with the situation we're dealing with today. Chip & Pin may help reduce retail card theft as it is harder to reproduce a physical card to later use, and internet transactions should require the CSC which a brick and mortar store won't record (even momentarily).
Try obtaining a different browser on your iThing. It can't be done (unless you build one and sideload it through Xcode, or jailbreak). There are "third-party browsers" out there, but they all use the same engine as Safari, by decree of Apple.

However, the reason why Apple gets away with it while Microsoft doesn't should be obvious if you're at all familiar with Microsoft's history and current market share numbers. (Hint: MS got hit for anticompetitive behavior when they owned ~95% of the PC OS market. Apple owns maybe 15% of the world smartphone market.)
Why not "Your New Medical Team: Computer Scientists and Physicians" ...
> and text messages discovered on one of the attackers’ phones suggested that the attackers were not even using encryption.

Did you miss that part in the article?
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I thought Apple added the ability to create content blockers to reduce revenue on the web so that more content providers resort to ADs and they get a bigger slice of the pie.

There's no non-tinfoil evidence of this. A much simpler explanation is that Apple did this because mobile browsing was becoming unusable. Nothing Apple does by tweaking their browser is going to get them a 'bigger slice of the pie' than the 40% of sweet profit on selling you a $600 phone. Unless the browser is so horrible you decide to buy a different phone.
> Focus is a tracking blocker, not an ad blocker. Mozilla doesn't have a fundamental problem with display advertising on the web, but we do have a problem with the privacy intrusions associated with invisible trackers.

This comment is not directed at you, but is a more general take from your statement. With the state of the web we've had for quite sometime, I think the distinction between advertising on the web and privacy intrusion doesn't exist (barring very few exceptions). Most advertising platforms specialize in and indulge in privacy intrusions.

I know only of The Deck (deck network) that does not track users. And that's used only in a minuscule amount of sites that most non-tech people may not even encounter it.

Additionally, advertising has also become very heavy (in terms of bandwidth), distracting (how many ads can you even show until it becomes irritating and impossible to get to the actual content?) and annoying (just stop it with the popup layers, prompts and auto-playing videos with or without sound).

The entire user experience is completely ruined on many sites because of the insane amount of ads present. Nobody seems to care about this aspect at least until they get hit by ad-blockers. Not even large and popular tech sites do anything about user tracking (Ars, I'm looking at you and other popular sites).

Even if they do care, some or many are unable to change things. The whole system is complex and corrupt. Fighting back with ad-blockers despite "collateral damage" is probably the best way forward since the ad industry is not really stopping and changing things effectively or quickly.
This mindset is unfortunate, and detrimental to patients. There have been a lot of studies on CBT/GET, and there isn't really any doubt that they are moderately effective. The only issue I have with the treatments is that the theories behind them (deconditioning and abnormal illness beliefs) don't really have any evidence. I suspect they work for other reasons. However, that shouldn't be a reason to completely reject them.

I was speaking to someone recently who recovered from CFS (after being mostly bed-bound) through CBT and lifestyle changes, and she is now completely recovered. In her case there were a lot of recent traumatic experiences which contributed to her illness, so CBT was very helpful in addressing those issues.

Some charities, such as Action 4 ME, seem a little more open-minded about CBT.
Most journalists probably don't know the first thing about encryption or the internet in general, so it's not surprising that they would fail to represent the views commonly expressed here.
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Creating Netflix/VLC remote using C# and the Xbox 360 Scene-it controllers
That Github URL isn't working. Cheers to the team! (I'm way off in the corner of the room) :)
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they just send a link for a test there
App is live
And what happens when there are 2 consecutive weeks of bad weather during winter?
What's the two-word summary of why I'd want to use this app over one of the other content blockers?
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Yea, I always seem to miss the "sign up" window at hockeystreams. I'll have to check out the audio stream, I hadn't heard about that, and I listen to a whole bunch of podcasts so I'm no stranger to audio-only entertainment.

Also, I totally understand the hate from an Avs fan, and can only say, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I'd be interested to see those numbers. Most of the "easy" hydro locations in the world are already taken so we can't just extrapolate the as-built costs of existing capacity.
You Github repo is unaccessible at the moment :/
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> Also, note that astronauts tend to be selected late in life - mid-30s and early-40s

Late in life? Can't speak for everyone, but my life expectancy is considerably longer than my early-40s.
This is why we can't have nice things.

The argument for bundling is that it subsidizes production of the long tail of TV programming that would never exist if each production had to stand on its own feet.

But cable providers can't be satisfied with the status quo. They want more and more money, so they are killing the golden goose. Americans were perfectly willing to pay $30-50 a month for cable. Industry greed has kicked that up to $70-80.

It boggles my mind how utterly stupid they were to, not just negligently let this happen, but to work as hard as they can to force consumers to look for cheaper alternatives.
Do feel free to frequent all stories about iOS and continue to spread the word about your buying preferences. It is a wonderful use of your time.
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This is awesome. Any plans to add autocomplete functionality similar to HHVM's typechecker?