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Very misleading article - per the company's latest 10-Q, they only have $4.8 billion in debt. On a net leverage basis, they are currently around 3.2x net debt / EBITDA which is down the fairway for most high yield public companies.

The remainder of their "debt" as the article lays it out is in Streaming Content Obligations and is not debt as you and I would think about it. Yes, it is contractually committed; however, unlike debt, they likely can default on their obligations and the only recourse would be a lawsuit for either damages or specific performance. (There is also no interest payment - as interest expense on $15.7 billion would be significant relative to their current debt burden.)

Compared to true debt instruments, which carry covenants that allow the debtholders to push the company into bankruptcy, the streaming content obligations very likely do not have any such ability to do so. (From what I can tell, the cross-default clauses in their debt instruments do not trigger in the event that they do not fulfill their streaming content obligations.)
Thiel is correct. Any centralized system wherein multiple cultures must fight for a majority with which to impose their culture on everyone else, does not respect the freedom of slightly under half its citizens.

("Red Tribe" and "Blue Tribe", as one may call the collection of traits held by the average conservative and average neoliberal, respectively, are effectively different cultures[1].)

[1]: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
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Servant isn't the "simplest" way to get BasicAuth: you get what you pay for.

You can just use one of the raw HTTP servers, like wai or something. They expose an interface not unlike the ones you'll find in, say, Go or C++ or Node or something.

Also:

{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
{-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-}
{-# LANGUAGE UndecidableInstances #-}

These extensions only serve to lift a couple of restrictions that the compiler imposes because the original Haskell Report did. DataKinds and TypeFamilies are the real "new ideas" that you need to pick up after a book at the level of LYAH to understand Servant.
This looks to be the presentation:

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20pre...

From:

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20pre...
I'm confused.. the article claims the extensions doing the clickstream gathering are illegal... but that the collected data is 'supposed to' be anonymized? Supposed to by what standard? If they're already breaking the law by gathering the data, why would they bother to anonymize it?
Milo Yiannopoulos?
Google Play Store is also not usable in China without VPN
Is there any human endeavor where going super technical, analytic, and by-the-numbers on it sooner or later robs all joy of it?
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:) I forgot about that. Yeah, he needs some serious backing.
The pair found that 95% of the data they obtained came from 10 popular browser extensions.

So uhm, which ones are these and how did the researchers obtain the data? (Bought it?)

Edit: The answer to the second question is: social engineering.
That has been the case since about the mid-90s.
I'm guessing it was because "trivial" suggests it is so for everyone, whereas "easy" suggests it is so for someone with the expertise.
If Netflix could provide all my movie watching needs then yes I'll consider them. As a consumer I couldn't care less about their debt, I just want a solution that allows me watch movies without stealing them, but until then I'll happily steal - it's a problem this industry created for themselves so it's up to them to fix it.
I've been caught out a couple of times by describing something as trivial (or non-trivial) to people not versed in software-speak. They can either think you are dismissing the whole discussion in some way or just have no idea what you're talking about whatsoever.
If you really want to go for efficiency sprints on an exercise bike are about as time efficient as you can get. 30 seconds flat out, 30 seconds slow x5 and you are 90% of the way there. The stress on your joints is way less than running too.
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The issue is the required gap to slow down from those speeds.

You might want to take a look at the train crash in Emden at the Transrapid facility.

A maglev train crashed into a maintenance vehicle at a speed of 500km/h because it takes too long to slow down.

The required gaps to operate a maglev system efficiently would end up with one capsule every 10 seconds - which means it can carry less passengers than a lane of highway.

The only way to get more capacity is by running actual trains.
I would also add Redbox to the list. $2 for a bluray rental.
> it actually hides the malware in a .jpg file that appears benign at first (promo.jpg for anyone who wants to analyze) but when loaded in a canvas element and decoded in some manner

I am guessing the extensions had a "content_security_policy" key in its manifest[1], with a 'unsafe-eval' CSP directive in its value?

Any extension which declare such CSP directive in its manifest should be presumed malicious until further thorough investigation proves otherwise.

The 'unsafe-eval' in a manifest is essentially the ability for an extension to execute arbitrary code in the extension context which can't be code-reviewed by reading the source files.

EDIT:

"User-Agent Switcher for Google Chrome" confirmed to have a 'unsafe-eval' in its manifest.

"Block site" does not declare 'unsafe-eval' in its manifest. It does however add many "script-src" directives in its manifest, including one for ".wips.com", which means the extension can pull javascript resources not bundled with the extension from its own web site (hence outside of the Chrome store review process if any), and thus the behavior of the extension is subject to change at any time as far as its permissions allow.

So I guess the suspicion should be extended to any extension declaring a "content_security_policy" key in its manifest.

===

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/ma...
There's definitely a bias. That's why the last paragraph of that announcement is there; that's wikileaks denying that they're a front for Russian intelligence, an allegation which is being made a lot these days.
I think it makes a lot of sense to start a register of data providers. I.e. so that if you want to sell user data you have to register as a provider and specify where the data comes from and what it contains.

That'd make it so much easier to critique the possibilities and to further legislate. It'll also allow for independent control of how anonymous data is and independent attempts and de-anonymising the data.

I think it's still not well understood by most people just how much can be known about you and it's potential for misuse. I think an initiative like this would go a long way to bridging that gap and to better legislating for it.
> but being opposed to multiculturalism is fairly common

If only Europe would learn...
Because even though it might be accepted in the future, these things have real consequences now and for the foreseeable future.
I hope companies uninterested in the data go undercover as potential buyers and expose these extensions.

Maybe we can crowdsource a purchase to expose them.
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The UID's are a dolphin invention, though, on the hardware level there are just a bunch of registers set. So either you store a complete dump of the cpu state for each shader configuration or you invalidate all shared shaders when dolphin internals change.
I believe you can use Google Closure Compiler on Elm JS files with great effect the same as Leiningen uses it on ClojureScript JS files. (Although most people probably use uglifyjs instead.)

But of course ClojureScript's JS is generated carefully so as to be better optimizable by Google Closure Compiler, and that's not the case with Elm. IIRC, in version 0.19 Elm will change it's JS so that it's better optimizable by uglifyjs.
> sizeof will give a correct result for variable length arrays as well.

In C99 with rather spotty support. And never with malloc and similar, which is how the vast majority of arrays are (and can be) created. And you can't return or store those dynamic arrays somewhere else without losing the size info, nor it can be declared static.

In other words, you're right but for very limited situations.
and if an extension is not downright malignand, they are often slow.
.. and thats why its good when those claims that are less valid are called out as such, especially from so-called 'journalistic sources' who should know better if they wish to keep their coveted spot by the throne.
It's worth looking at the actual presentation. It looks like they didn't buy the data, but used social engineering attacks.
Sure, they were sued for publishing someone else's sex tape.

But the reason they were put out of business - rather than reaching a settlement or paying out from insurance - is because Peter Thiel had a (arguably justifiable) grudge against them.
Breaking the law in Europe != breaking the law in the country where the click-stream gathering company sits.
If I'm hungry now, I can ...

1. Phone for delivery, and they will say "45 minutes" (it will probably be here in 35).

2. Phone an order for me to pick up, and they will say "half an hour", and I'll go and get it, and it will probably take me 10 minutes to get there and back, again 35 minutes.

3. Take a small detour, and spend 10 minutes sitting at the food vendor (as in your example). How convenient this is depends on how big the detour is. If you are on foot, even a small detour can add quite a bit of time. If you are driving, parking up and walking between car and vendor is an oft-ignored time sink.

4. Spend 20 minutes preparing and cooking, then eat. Put the leftovers in the fridge or freezer.

5. Get something I made earlier in the week out of the fridge or freezer, put it in the microwave for 3-5 minutes, eat it. (Granted, the same is true if you over-order your takeout)

Options 1, 2, and 3 all rely on the vendor being open and not too busy at the time I decide I want the food.

If you only ever eat out or takeout, hire a cleaner, and have someone do all your laundry, you might be able to get away without doing any grocery shopping. In which case, adding such shopping to your weekly routine might add an extra hour. However, if you do already have to do that shopping, then spending an extra 20-30 minutes each week in the supermarket choosing vegetables is likely to be more convenient than stopping off at a food vendor each day.

Depending on the variety of food vendors available on your route home, and the size of their menus, you may be stuck eating pretty much the same thing every night, or having to take larger detours, or make special trips to get something different (negating the convenience). If you cook at home, then there may be a few dishes requiring exotic fresh ingredients that you can't have, but beyond that, the world is your oyster. You can get a lot of variety from basically the same stuff put together in different proportions.
But some mathematical logic is indeed sectarian.
I am arguing it's not not inherently positive or negative, but you can become someone that views it as a negative or a positive. Many people enjoy walking as a time for reflection and to de-stress. Other types of repetitive motion like folding clothing can fill the same void.

However a big part of this is simply how much space your keeping up. An efficiency can be kept clean though habitat, a 1,000 acre estate takes a staff.

PS: That's not to say having groceries delivered is a bad idea, just maximum productivity is simply a wasteful goal.
Only thing that concerns Apple is to make money. They don't have a moral ground on issues like these because they are a business.

Don't tell us you would say "no".
I find if I am procrastinating in situations like that it is often that I don't actually know what the next step is. YMMV but that may be worth thinking about :)
Should "holding Gawker accountable" mean forcing the company into bankruptcy? It's possible to agree that Gawker went too far while disagreeing with the penalty.
what would be the option? Leaving the Chinese market, having iPhones be pulled from the market and the AppStore blocked by the Great Firewall?

Even without VPN clients, iPhones still provide superior client-side security to a lot of other phones out there.
Oh, this is awesome, json2elm really helps :) thanks, didn't know about it.
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Perhaps they learned after the Nixon tapes?
FYI you can enable https without the need for an external webserver
Not all data collection is illegal, legal data collection requires anonymisation for sale.
Do you think the average driver is more knowledgeable about their car than the average computer user is about their computer (for the sake of argument lets limit both to the same age group)?

Computers are now appliances rather than power tools.
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Two practices forced me to learn:

1. I joined a CSA with a rule for myself not to let anything go to waste. That forced me to figure out how to prepare local, in-season fresh vegetables and fruit. The first year I did it, I had to steam a lot of vegetables and eat them with salt and pepper since I didn't know what I was doing. So, healthy but not delicious. The next year I knew what I was doing and learned to make things delicious. Now I can go to farmers markets and get local, in-season produce, which is cheapest, healthiest, and most flavorful. I barely ever go to markets any more.

2. I gave myself a rule to buy no packaged food for a week (no bags, boxes, bottles, rubber bands, stickers, etc). The challenge seemed hard at first, but I made it 2.5 weeks and by the end of it, my views on food changed. Packaged food became far less appetizing and more weird in a way I can't explain but you have to experience. Anyway, it forced me to buy almost exclusively fruits and vegetables.

Oh, third: I found a store near me that sells bulk foods, so legumes, nuts, oats, and a few other things I get there.

The short answer: force yourself to buy only fresh vegetables and fruits and you'll figure it out! You're not going to die. You'll only face a challenging transition.
Also, as long as you're not being sued in a district that's extremely friendly to the celebrity. And as long as you're not proudly defying a court order[0]. Or butchering your case with ridiculous testimony[1]. And as long as you're not giving the finger to everyone every step of the way so you have powerful enemies who are willing to fund the incredibly long process that will take you down. And as long as you don't realize that the decision sets no precedent as Gawker settled instead of appealing(pretty much any lawyer analysis concluded it was very likely to be struck down on appeal).

But yeah, it just MIGHT happen to you. I believe newspaper writers should also reconsider the threat of lightning strikes, I hear they kill people every year.

Gawker acted like a petulant child that was appalled it was getting punished by an admittedly broken and hypocritical system. This does not mean other people now need to fear the system anymore than they should have feared it before - its brokenness was not magically illuminated by Gawker. There are so many cases of defamation lawfare that anti-SLAPP statutes exist(bonus points not in all states!) and there are several high-prominence FA lawyers who write about the issue and organize a defense for it.

If the newspaper writers were somehow unaware of this before Gawker(including all the small-time blogs which get ruined by defamation lawfare because they cannot afford representation - essentially what happened to Gawker here, just on a larger scale), then they were blind to reality.

[0] - http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hoga...

[1] - http://nypost.com/2016/03/09/gawker-editors-line-a-sex-tape-...
+1

I am 53 and started running about 5 years ago. I started running using traditional running shoes, but after 3 months I almost gave up, due to my right knee (that had undergone ACL replacement surgery) constantly being sore.

Then I switched to Vibram's Five Fingers. I have now been running over 5 years wearing Vibram's and I have no knee pain and no major injuries. If you would like more info on barefoot running, the book "Born to Run" is a good read.

Try out a pair of Vibrams, you will never go back!
There's a malediction that reads: "You have lawsuits and you win them". The idea is that lawsuits are so painful that even if you win them, they're so draining that you wish you never started them. If I were you, I'd focus on your real customers and wouldn't lose much time on the deadbeats. When you realize that there will be always people not wanting to pay (either open source or closed source), you can better focus on your customers in a lot more relaxing way.
>If you are immersed in it you definitely won't be confused about it at all.

That stands for everything, and it would still prove that it's not the thing that it's confusing, but it depends on the familiarity (or lack thereof) with it.
> it basically puts your company product under someone else's rules, and if those rules changes or worse, if these companies go bankrupt, migrating to another system could be the death of your product as well.

This is basically where standards has to come in. Imagine if electricity was not standarized - you'd have to buy into one frequency or another. Then you'd face the same problem as with using BaaS!

I say, there needs to be standardization, so that commodities can be commodities. Companies like to pretend they are some special snowflake that sells something unique and un-replicable. That's not at all the case, and i wish that more people call them out on it. Making sure that standards exists for a particular commodity offering (e.g., apis, or via some sort of RFC), or don't use them at all.
I have a different experience. Osrams dont flicker (measured using the cheapo way: deferent types of cameras), whereas Philips LEDs do.

But otoh the osram ones have all failed or started blinking due to what I think is over heating.
That's kind of circular isn't it? I understand we care because it has real consequences. But why does it have real consequences?

That's what I'm wondering and have been for a while. Where does the outrage come from? We all know we all watch porn. But if it comes out that so and so important figure watches porn, suddenly it's the end of the world? Why? Who decides which instance breeds outrage and which doesn't?
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The problem is, the mining comes and goes extremely sporadically, and can cause huge problems. Namely:

* Overproduction for the sake of mining can leave you with huge oversupply of cards, which is very costly.
* GPU miners can crowd out the enthusiast market, which is terrible in the long term:
* gamers have brand loyalty and buy peripherals (like FreeSync monitors) and miners don't.
* if gamers can't buy GPUs at affordable prices when they're building their new PC, then (some companies perceive that) they might just buy consoles instead, which shrinks the entire market. This is more a problem for the "budget" market, obviously.
* Enthusiasts recommend products to non-tech-savvy consumers, which again, means that if temporary mining sales crowd out non-mining sales, they lose money in the long term.
Sure I would. Chinese market is already dominated by Android. Only those with a lot of money can buy Apple and people with a lot of money have influence.

I would love to see the party trying to come up with an excuse for their VIPs and their angry daughters for an Apple block.
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and the reverse, we use these examples to highlight things you might not want to come out now but what happens when there's a marked shift in the political stance to e.g. Homosexuality/Transgender people?

Say an ultra-conservative government was elected on a platform of hate towards people that we're currently moving towards accepting, wouldn't you want it to be hard for someone to find out if you spent a lot of time looking at certain materials relating to those topics?
"People using something in industry" is rarely an indicator of anything, really.

Industry uses everything and anything. Heck, Javascript is (arguably) world's most popular programming language, used everywhere.

Haskell is used by Chase Bank. J and K are used by banks (J is used by SAP AFAIK). There are stories of Smalltalk running entire factories. There's Active Oberon in a nuclear plant in France. Excel is the world's most widely used FRP environment (unsurpassed, I might add, by anything anyone can offer).

For almost any programming language you name, I will probably find examples of people using it in an industry somewhere, no matter how good, or bad, or obscure, or popular, or well designed, or badly designed a language is.

"You need a PhD in type theory" is a hyperbole which I use to say "to proceed to any advanced level in Haskell you will need to dive quite deep into type theory as it's highly likely you will not even understand how most of the libraries you use work. Most of documentation and material around Haskell is riddled with incomprehensible jargon that often assumes the reader is already versed in any number of obscure Haskell things. Haskell has always been and remains a language designed to specifically test multiple theories of language and types design, and will remain such a language for a foreseeable future, no matter how people try to make it 'more approachable' or 'more pragmatic', and no matter how many people 'use it in the industry'."
If people are this serious, why don't they just set up their mining operation next door to the factory?

I imagine the factories are where they are in part because land and power is cheap?
> At the time it surprised me, but of course it is natural to expect long games to be long.

Indeed, which is why I am skeptical of purely anecdotal claims of the Lindy effect, as they may be skewed by survivorship bias. In this case, however, you have the numbers to back up the observation.
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I guess people just don't take into account the fact that our ancestors usually didn't live to their 50s, so they couldn't experience most of the problems that nowadays middle-aged runners do.
It's fine, the Chinese piracy apps will continue to support freedom of information. </snark>

The irony of that is alarming.
Every business has to follow local law. Same holds for Chinese companies doing business in the US.
What's the exact part of the DRM that bothers you?

Personally I hate the restrictions such as "4K only on Kaby Lake with Edge etc" and I downgraded my subscription because of it.
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