skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is going to be a huge mess. The bid was rejected last year due to doubts that the deal would go through, and also that the Murdoch family was much more comfortable with Disney, which has a solid reputation of dealing with acquisitions (Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar) as opposed to Comcast. This deal now being all stock is designed to cause a revolt from the rest of the ownership interest in Fox from the Murdochs, who want the Disney deal.

Hulu is one of the crown jewels here. Because of the way the contracts are structured, whoever buys Fox, gets total control of Hulu. There were some court orders that recently expired on Hulu which is part of the behind the scenes reason this war is going on now.

The breakup fee is a lot of cash here - Disney had made a similar guaranteed (2.5 billion), but Fox itself will be on the hook for 1.52 billion if they break off for Disney in favor of Comcast.

There's been a lot of speculation that part of the deal with Fox was that James Murdoch would eventually be the heir apparent to Bob Iger. That speculation faded a bit, but still something to keep a eye on.

What what happens with Hulu and with the Murdoch controlling interest in Fox. It may take a shareholder revolt to go with Fox over Disney.

I don't see this deal as a must-win for Disney. They have the possibility to go over the top with their new Disney streaming service, and they have all the content in the world right now. Disney lawyers will probably find some event to use to justify yanking the Marvel rights from Comcast if this deal goes through.
These are the wrong questions to ask. There's no doubt that total surveillance would result in more crimes being solved, and more criminals being successfully prosecuted. It's not a question of whether the technique is effective enough that it should be allowed.

The question is can the government be trusted with a backdoor into our personal devices that "only they" can use? Should the people trust their government to only use that access lawfully, and can the people trust their government to protect that access from unlawful outsider access?

Since we've seen nothing but incontrovertible evidence, throughout history and to this day, that government cannot be trusted with this level of access to our personal devices (lives), then I can only hope that Apple and companies like it will fight to provide us with secure devices, and that our courts will protect our right to strong encryption to protect our personal data.
> “They are blatantly protecting criminal activity, and only under the guise of privacy for their clients,”[Hillar Moore, Baton Rouge District Attorney] said.

I understand a Law Enforcement point of view of having access to private data in order to prosecute criminals. I disagree with that point of view, but I would never say that point of view is a guise to implement a surveillance state.
Yeah why throttle them when you can hand them pure profit surcharges instead?
I agree. Is there language that differentiates between human processes that are in equilibrium/harmony with the rest of the non-human world, and those that are not? Artificial vs. natural is the first pair that comes to mind, but I don’t think it truly captures the idea.

My opinion is that as time moves on, we’re going to develop that language to describe the human effect on the rest of the world that doesn’t necessarily separate humans from the rest of the world.
Both Ethereum and Bitcoin mining is very centralized, with the top four miners in Bitcoin and the top three miners in Ethereum controlling FAR FAR more than 51 % of the hash rate.
Yup, the circle-jerk is strong.

My PI at Janelia once dismissed a proposal I had for an 'unsexy' but pragmatic tool that probably everyone in the building would have used. I was told it would 'do nothing for his career'.

That was pretty depressing.
You might try replacing Lodash with Ramda. You have to get your head around “partial function application” (if you haven’t already), at which point all the bits for processing arrays and associative arrays via FP techniques really starts to gel.

E.g. - https://ramdajs.com/docs/#find

Var find_default = R.find( R.prop( ‘default’ ) )
Var list = [
{ name: ‘Abe’, default: false },
{ name: ‘Bob’, default: true },
{ name: ‘Chuck’ }
]
Find_default( list )
//. -> { name: ‘Bob’, default: true }

(Apologies for gratuitous caps and periods my iPad is forcing in)
One relevant factor the article doesn't mention: some deals of this type include a breakup fee to hedge against the possible rejection of the deal by the government. (Or, for that matter, a party to the deal backing out at a late stage.)
Sorry, I don't understand the point you're trying to make.
I shorted (a very small amount) from about $320 down to about $270. That's when Elon had his very standoffish and defiant earnings call. After that I exited at a profit because I didn't think the downward reaction was severe enough.

People were asking legitimate questions about orders and finances and he told them to shut up, while directly insulting their intelligence. That was an extremely bad sign to me. When I saw that even after that, there was still support in the $270s, I declared the market too bullish for my liking and was no longer comfortable being short.

As far as I'm concerned TSLA has to turn a profit in the next couple of quarters or they're just not going to be able to be competitive enough with the additional financing they're going to require. Elon promises they won't need to raise capital. If he's right, great. But I'm not betting on it one way or the other.
This conversation is 6 months old though.

Quite suspicious the New York Times have come to this incredible revelation now, yet didn’t mention it in Nov 2017 when it was actually a hot topic.

I must admit I find most crypto journalism hard to agree with. Hopefully that will change.
Of course, from TFA;

"The encryption on smartphones only applies to data stored solely on the phone. Companies like Apple and Google regularly give law enforcement officials access to the data that consumers back up on their servers, such as via Apple’s iCloud service. Apple said that since 2013, it has responded to more than 55,000 requests from the United States government seeking information about more than 208,000 devices, accounts or financial identifiers."
Well, they get through life without debilitating food poisoning in large part because of existing government regulation regarding selling food....
My two choices are my rural-telepohone co-op - or satellite. I'm not complaining b/c my ISP seems fine, but there isn't anyone else to run to if I'm unhappy. I don't consider satellite an option.

If we count satellite, doesn't everyone in the US have "access" to broadband?
> Now, is the rest of the statement true?

No, clearly not. There are a lot more problems with the paragraph than can be solved by a simple substitution.

The root problem is that it's very hard (almost impossible) to make statements about the whole of an uncoordinated, loosely defined group that are both specific and true. Also, when you think you can easily make such statements, it probably doesn't mean that you're right but rather your thinking is being driven by biases and group-prejudice.
I know someone who uses their nobel prize as a kind of currency.

I'm more impressed by the guy who managed to figure out how to transact in bitcoin.
Completely agree. But look how much support he maintained in Hollywood, even winning an Oscar for Best Director. The fact that someone who raped a child, can maintain such support should tell us that getting people and institutions to really go after harassers(who while awful are not child rape level of awful) is going to be an uphill battle.
the "stupid arrow syntax" is not nearly so stupid, and I speak here as a 10+ year Python developer, as the misuse of the equal sign that every C-style language seems to think is ok. The = sign meant something long before computer programming, and it is something the developer community ought to be ashamed of that it is being used for "change this thing to that". /rant
If this fix disables the data port when the phone is locked, presumably all future zero-days will be blocked.
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I'd argue that the car in front is at fault changing lanes at last possible second. This may or may not leave the drivers behind enough time to follow suit. Clearly this is a manufactured situation but in order to draw conclusions I'd like to see tests when unsuspecting human driers follows the leading car.

I re-watched the video and it really doesn't look like the Tesla is breaking. The video says "unable to break in time". This to me sounds misleading. It is not clear whether Tesla tried to break but the distance was too short or it didn't attempt to break. Which leads me to conclude there's an agenda here.
If you are interested in this topic and haven't seen Advanced R, I'd recommend taking a look - the book explains why those functions have key-value pairs as parameter names. Note that the functions you cite aren't related to factors.
Intel SA-00145: Lazy FP State Restore
I'd imagine a good part of the price difference is that good and services are generally cheaper in Romania. Wages in Romania are 20% of those in the USA (not 20% less, 20%).

The fact I pay 75 dollars for the same service doesn't sound so absurd after accounting for that.

And like consumer electronics, which easily flow across borders, which is why an Xbox costs the same in the USA and Romania, ISP is a local service that relies on local labor costs.
> There's no doubt that total surveillance would result in more crimes being solved

I guess I'm doubting that. In any case, we're weighing costs and benefits in a limited context: access to a phone's data with a court order in hand. Framing an attempt to understand the benefits as "the wrong questions to ask" is counterproductive.
It's also worth noting that R becomes much more pleasurable with the Tidyverse libraries. The pipe alone makes everything more readable.

I'm also coming from more of an office setting where everything is in Excel. I've used R to reorganize and tidy up Excel files a lot. Ggplot2 (part of the Tidyverse) is also fantastic for plotting, the grammar of graphics makes it really easy to make nice and slightly complex graphs. Compared to my Matplotlib experiences, it's night and day. Though I'd expect my experience with programming to be quite different from others' though, mainly because any code I write is basically an intermediary step before the output goes back in Excel.

That said, if anyone's interested in learning R from a beginner's level, I can recommend the book R for Data Science. It's available freely at http://r4ds.had.co.nz/ and the author also wrote ggplot2, RStudio, and several of the other Tidyverse libraries.

EDIT: I'm also currently writing my master's thesis in RMarkdown with the Thesisdown package. It's wonderful, it allows for using Latex without really knowing Latex which is great for us in business school.
I sympathize. My cofounders are international students. The pressure is on be in a place to do H1Bs for them before they graduate.
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I would be interested in a double blind experiment confirming that their specific implementation of chroma subsampling is even detectable. The eye is much less sensitive to colors than intensity, as you point out. If it were perceptible, I think the codec designers wouldn't feel it was an acceptable tradeoff.

So your encoded 1080p might be able to render after decoding only e.g. 540 lines of those components, while with the 4k stream it might be: 2160/2 => back to 1080.

I'm not sure that's accurate -- whatever downscaling process was used to convert from 8k to 1080p on Google's servers is probably the same process to convert from 8k to 1080p in the youtube player, isn't it? At least perceptually.

I would agree that if they convert from 8k (compressed) to 4k (compressed), then 4k to 1080p (compressed), then that would introduce perceptible differences. But in general reencoding video multiple times is fail, so that would be a bug in the encoding process server side. They should be going from the source material directly to 1080p, which would give the encoder a chance to employ precisely the situation you mention.

Either way, you should totes email me or shoot me a keybase message. It's not every day that I find someone to debate human perceptual differences caused by esoteric encoding minutiae.
A smart criminal would disable cloud backup of a phone used in criminal activity.
Seeing Nature reporting this as news feels to me a bit like watching Captain Louis Renault telling ‎Rick Blaine:

"I am shocked -- shocked! -- to find that gambling is going on in here!"[a]

Still, it's progress.

[a] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
Your bolt cutters will chip and shatter when confronted by 16mm hardened chain.
Librarian wins surprise judgement against Equifax in small claims court
It doesn't work like that. This attack requires the user to enter the password WHILE the NSA is monitoring the power.
>>Have you ever tried explaining the various python package and environment management options to someone with a background in Excel/SQL?

Yes, well, from the outside it doesn't seem like Python programmers have any better grasp of those either.
Plume just announced that you'll need to buy an annual cloud license for their new stuff as well. I just dont see this taking off as a business model. How large is the intersection of people who know give a high enough importance to router security with the people who couldn't roll their own solution?
Thanks. My experience with ZocDoc for other specialties has been (for lack of a better term) disappointing.
> can the government be trusted

Full stop. No they can't. They should always be put on a short leash and when they're doing things we don't like we're supposed to stop them and/or vote them out.
Modern day internet "activism" basically, and a legacy of the Anonymous circus.
The sibling post's point about differences in prices/costs below is correct. The dominant cost of deploying and maintaining fiber is labor costs, which vary dramatically by country. It's not like consumer electronics that is all made in China and costs the same around the world.

The Romanian model of "micro ISPs," ISPs serving a few blocks here and there, is also illegal in most U.S. cities. The U.S. places a very high value on universal coverage, both of lower-income people and rural people. In nearly any U.S. city, the only way you will get permission to build Internet service to anyone is if you agree to also serve low-income communities or rural parts of town, even if doing so isn't profitable.
If we could ban parallel construction than any NSA exploit would be rendered worthless for domestic criminal prosecutions.
If guns had the same safety mechanisms as the iPhone, maybe we'd see fewer shootings. You know, register a gun to an owner, not allow anyone but the owner to fire the gun, etc. (yes, I realize ownership is already registered, but you can circumvent registration through various means)
Using bolt cutters is pretty obvious, both during the break in and afterwards. And a serious inconvenience.

A hack will likely be practically impossible to detect afterwards and could even be made to look legitimate. Anyone in that gym locker room will believe I was the owner when I opened your lock and took your phone out.

However, a skilled lock picker will pick most locks very quickly anyway (but it will at least look suspicious).
People see what they want to see unfortunately. I guarantee that if you ask the majority of the people here what the BlackLivesMatter movement is, they'll bring up the peaceful protests and activism of the black community and not the riots and widespread arson that also occurred. Same thing here: they'll focus on the small minority of people that personally attacked Quinn et al instead of the larger issue of a corrupt industry.
Before even narrowing down the professionals; I would strongly recommend you to question the nature of your problems and think about the possibility of them being symptoms of underlying physical problems.

Most of the time and for most people the so called mental health issues are only symptoms of chronic health conditions or a bad lifestyle. Digestive issues, auto-immune disorders, hormonal imbalances, vitamin deficiencies, excessive stress/unhappiness, a bad diet and similar conditions are all known to cause "mental health" issues in the mid and long term.

I suggest you to review any other physical conditions you have and definitely see a naturopath/nutritionist or a similar natural health practitioner beside your therapist/psychologist/coach/whatever (if any).

Seeing a naturopath over a mainstream physician is important. As mainstream medicine normalizes many health issues and usually fails to grasp chronic conditions; it usually misses important clues regarding not-so-apparent problems and is prone to declare that you "are fine" and "probably need to see a psychiatrist". That is a way of saying that they have no clue.

The human body is a whole and usually the words of a therapist, or the weird drugs of a psychiatrist fall short on restoring your sanity, according to my experience. Please be very skeptic of the professionals who fail to exhibit a broad knowledge on the human nature/body and the ones who strongly promote a single "magic" method of healing, such as a single drug/herb, or bare conversations, however "empowering", "motivational" or "insightful" they may be.

Let me repeat: Check the hardware first for failures.

If all seems to be fine, and you are fit; you probably need to quit your job/partner/town and seek new company/activities.
An earthquake could easily convert such a structure into a casket that 'respects your privacy' with no hope of dialing out for help.
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Trust me, I'm an engineer
I don't want gigabit access to youtube and netflix. I want gigabit access to the services that don't exist yet because you can't build them until lots of people have gigabit access. If the only ISPs in America are the ones who only offer gigabit access to youtube and netflix, then I better start learning Korean[0], because those hypothetical services will not be built in America.

0: "It is important to note that 100 Mbit/s services are the average standard in urban South Korean homes and the country is rapidly rolling out 1Gbit/s connections or 1,000 Mbit/s, at $20 per month" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_South_Korea
Can I ask how you're doubting this:

> Total surveillance would result in more crimes being solved

With perfect and total information how would fewer crimes be solved?
I think it's Moloch [1] - people behaving based on incentives of a system that nobody really controls and exists largely because of poor coordination.

It isn't easy to fix because nobody has total power over the system in order to fix the bad incentives.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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Asymmetric encryption is cheaper, survives storage, requires only the transmission of public data, and is not fundamentally flawed like that. It is also more versatile.
I know this is impertinent, but can you lodge a bug with the project?
I don’t hate R as much as I hate universities insisting on mandatory use of R for all comp-stat courses. This to my mind verges on civil rights infringements. Bear in mind we aren’t talking about a private institution such as a company, where when you sign on as a dev for a paycheck, you do so voluntarily, knowing that the company uses X language and you won’t have a choice in the matter. In a public university, students, especially grad students, who go on to do research and write papers etc., must have a choice in what they use. If I don’t like R, doesn’t matter what the reasons behind my dislike, I should have a choice. Let me use numpy, scipy.stats and pandas. How does that bother you ? First of all, you should be teaching statistical concepts, not syntax - so this whole notion that graders & TAs don’t know python is nonsense. Let them grade my numerical answers, not the R syntax used to get that answer. And at that point, how does it matter if I use R or python to get my answers ? Sorry, had to get that off my chest ( and don’t even get me started about sas )
> the superfluous presence of the aes() function (rendered unnecessary by better lazy evaluation tricks not really well-explored at the time)

I find this statement interesting - the aes() function helped distinguish attributes that were bound to values as opposed to being bound to constants. What would you propose as an alternative if the aes() function were eliminated?

EDIT:

Looking at ggviz [1], the presumptive successor to ggplot2, it seems that two new syntactic features will be used to distinguish constant vs. bound data.

[1] https://ggvis.rstudio.com/ggvis-basics.html
What he said above: unless you have a long or short position, you don't care whether you get a full unit or some fraction thereof.

There are some elements of behavior economics that counter this - people like to buy lower-priced coins and stocks because they get "more" of them, from a unit perspective. But rationally, there's no reason to consider 1 BTC @ $10 any different from 0.1 BTC @ $100, hence the number of "units" seems potentially irrelevant.
this type of news unfortunately won't change the consumerist nature of most people
> where is this lake in WA state?

I' don't know. Even if I knew I wouldn't say in a public forum like this, it would be irresponsible.

> have you been there?

No. If I wanted to talk to aliens I wouldn't go rubbernecking at them like a yokel.

> are you reptilian?

We're all reptilian. ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory

The "reptilian" thing is a human psychological issue, there are no reptile aliens secretly ruling Earth.
Actually it is in Google's favor to "lose" the SEO wars.

So long as the paid ads are more relevant than the search results, the less likely you are to scroll past the ads and find the "real" search results, which are either repeats of the paid results or spam.

Google can always blame the spammers and they can control them entirely by turning them off when they feel like it so there is no motivation for the spammers to invest in improving their sites, or not for anyone else for that matter. (Google can always turn you off)

After all if you want more visibility in Google, Google wants you to buy ads.