skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it comes down to lawyers * time spent * rate + paralegals * time spent * rate, and knowing that a class action probably requires a lot of work.

Given that, I think GP is probably right in that the fees look reasonable, it's just that maybe it's a case that shouldn't have been litigated if the payout was going to be that small.

Think of it this way, if you want to sue your neighbor for causing some damage to your car, and you expect the money you can recoup is probably capped at around $5k (maybe the amount it cost you to fix), do you hire a lawyer to litigate it for you? If you do, and the lawyer gets you that $5k, but presents you a bill for $4,800 for time spent, do you blame the lawyer, or perhaps was it not worth using that exact strategy to recoup your money, and you would have been better served by small claims court.

So, the question here is, was the payout ever expected to by significantly higher? If not, then there's probably no reason for it to have been a class-action. If so, it probably just depends on even more variables. In the end, people got something out of it, which is probably more than they would have gotten otherwise. Also, there's the benefit of companies knowing they can be sued for these data breaches, which allows them to put a real cost to it, so they put more towards making sure it's secure, even if it didn't help the individuals much in this instance.
Nothing, in my opinion, but I do have a sort of funny story about IoT thermostats.

My SO's dad is a gadgets guy, and he travels constantly for work. He is also incredibly vigilant about bills. They're the kind of family that can't touch the thermostat until a certain time of year, weighs insurance costs into every decision they make, etc.

Anyways, when he was traveling—even in cold months—he would see the thermostat going up on his phone and panic, turning it down. His kids, who were freezing in the house, would turn it up again because winter, and several hours later the cycle would repeat. They were basically locked in a constant battle to warm their house against their miserly dad and the cloud.
As you noted, smartphones are already capable of this. Smart speakers are relatively moot from a privacy perspective, unless you keep your phone in a soundproof case.
> Every time I read the philosophizing of a venture capitalist, it sounds more and more like an indoctrination into how to run your company in the venture capitalist's favor.

They're not giving you their money for their health, ya know? You should already have decided that your business ambitions align with the way a VC wants you to run your business before you take their money. Want to start a passive income project? Take a loan from the bank :) or bootstrap.

If you're at the point where you've taken VC money and you're not sure you want to run a VC-type business, mistakes were made.
Really? Chances are you’re part of $recent_hack at $large_co which is a feature of the current system and not a feature in crypto.
That doesn't really follow. We don't need to have a complete map genotype to phenotype in order to have an understanding of the weight of genetic component of certain traits. Just because we don't know exactly which genes cause a certain hair color doesn't mean we can't guess which parents are more likely to have children with that hair color. The same goes for behavior that can be measured and predicted. As long as that prediction is more accurate than a random guess, the prediction has value.
Making a very crude analysis based on the size of data, I would say solving aging is a piece of cake comparing to scanning someone's brain content. Our proteins that eventually break down with aging are coded by the DNA. The DNA is a few GB across. Sure there are mutations, folding and other complexities, but it is still mostly digital data. The brain has 80B neurons, each with thousands of dendrites. You'd need to scan not only the (real valued) state of the neurotransmitters in each of these dendrites, but also the topology of the (varying) connection to other neurons. Not that it isn't a daunting challege, but I would bet my money on beating aging, rather than scanning the brain.
Mark Zuckerberg took on China in a speech defending free expression
Intel will publicly share its race and gender pay gap statistics
>Subsequently, you get judgements that are chock full of misconceptions of what FP actually is

I put the blame for that squarely on the Haskell cultists. They've caused everyone to have the impression that functional programming needs to have esoteric syntax and lazy evaluation by default.

It's like how the Java cultists have ruined OOP.
What is your website?! is it just a content website or you have some sort of services serving your requests in backend. Application DDos attacked can hugely impact your website if they can put load on your backend and eventually trash your servers.
Some useful solutions for those scenarios:
-proper authentication/authorization mechanism
-keep stats per user or session and set quota on the number of requests per user or session
-add captcha to your registration pages to prevent them from scripting your signup.
> I use it a lot every day. It actually syncs tabs and passwords better than Chrome (and without leaking them to Google without encryption)

Has nothing to do with performance, but I agree - to be clear I use FF but that doesn't mean I have to justify/defend "it's slow" with other reasons I choose to use it.

> It is not true, FF on Android is pretty great.

https://cnet3.cbsistatic.com/img/dzNTI91dH4nch-WEKzTkp_WWza8...
https://greenspector.com/assets/img/articles/2018-11-19-navi...
(Firefox Focus was on still on the WebKit base when that benchmark was done, not their own engine)

Even posts about how great it is have to contain qualifiers https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/97vqb2/firefox_for... "I know a lot of people complain about Firefox on Android... "es, the scrolling isn't as good as Chrome".

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/c2qovb/how_stable_... top comment " but it can have somewhat poor performance... But yeah, Android Firefox is actually being rewritten for that reason. " and only other comment "Yes you can sync. Performance is still abysmal. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bxr3yc/why_is_andr... "I've used Firefox, Firefox Beta, Firefox Focus, and Firefox Nightly. They're all absolutely glacial browsers on Android." top comment is basically what I said "Firefox Preview or fenix is a promising browser . It has modern superfast Ui . Better page loading time and benchmark scores . It is currently under development (that's why it's called preview ) ."

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I could go on, these aren't cherry picked they are just going straight through searches and clicking top results. These aren't rare opinions, they score decently high on forums dedicated to discussing FF. The comments on the rewrite are the complete opposite, praising performance and fixing laggy scroll, but it's not done yet. This is a constant source of discussion.

If the current version of FF on Android didn't have issues they wouldn't be rewriting it.
I love these discoveries.
Are proteins easy to detect and isolate? How does one tell where a protein begins and ends and if one megs protein is not just a bunch of smaller proteins.

Also how do they discover the functions of proteins? Just turn them off and on and try to see what effect it has on the body?

This is such a super interesting field; Any one have good resources (youtube) that show how this stuff is done in the lab?
Tabs vs Spaces, Windows vs Apple (vs Linux to a smaller extent), Xbox vs PlayStation, Coke vs Pepsi, people are opinionated and it’s as old as time itself (religion, nationality, us vs them).

People like agreeing with those that agree with them, and disagreeing with those who don’t. Very rarely will any news on any of those topics actually progress anything, or change anyone’s beliefs/opinions, but people still like trying.
Duress - meaning the war was still on, and the only government that could save them was offering terms effectively defining a new world order - definitely completely different from the world before the war.

Further, Bretton Woods was effectively a bribe, at least from the perspective of import tariffs.

So, yes, I believe that it was both carrot and stick, so that the US would be able to get the former colonial powers to fall in line. Doing so also destroyed the colonial status (witness India, a mere 2 years after the war as but one example).
The irony of that comment is that me and buddy are porting QMK to it right now and had to add to it :)
Zuckerberg Warns China’s Censored Internet Could Still Win Out
The exisiting settlement system serves the banking, regulatory and foreign policy interests of the US better than a distributed ledger would, so those institutions have no incentive to switch.

The only people who have reason to use Bitcoin (or have ever used it) are individuals wanting uncensorable transactions. Bitcoin isn't intended to be used for carrying your life savings around on your smartphone. It's a fast, cheap and secure way to send money over long distances.
Consider this argument:

"political secularism is the modern state's sovereign power to reorganize substantive features of religious life, stipulating what religion is or ought to be, assigning its proper content, and disseminating concomitant subjectivities, ethical frameworks, and quotidian practices." -Saba Mahmood

So, that's a lot of jargon, but let's simplify it. As Americans, we all understand secularism as "the separation of church and state." However, Mahmood is saying that doesn't quite cover it. We can look at different countries that all call themselves secular and that there are interesting interrelations with religion. Instead, she argued, that secularism is the government saying where religion can (and cannot) interact with the public sphere. (This is super simplified, mind you.)

Well, that's a testable hypothesis, but how? Well, Mahmood had an original question: when she was doing fieldwork with Coptic Christians in Egypt, she was wondering why it was not cast in terms of minority rights. In Egypt; Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak all were proponents of secularism yet questions of Copts and Muslims were considered attacks to nationalist unity. Well, is that a violation of the purity of secularism, or is it that secularism isn't quite what it seemed? We can look at Turkey and secularism as well - They are secular under the French consideration of Laïcité (Laiklik in Turkish) and yet they had a ministry in the government that certified Imams and provided for the upkeep of the mosques.

So they're not Secularist. But then, what of France, which may be considered one of the most strict adherents. but even then, schools follow the Christian liturgical year, including breaks for Christmas and Easter. Yet the government owns most old church buildings in France and pays for its maintenance, and there are clear governmental preferences of Christianity over Islam.

And how about the United states, where it opens with a prayer, most often by a Christian?

So, then, we have a lot of data, but it is data that is talking about the definition of a word. Who cares about a definition? Well, that definition tells us a lot about the cultures of the US, France, Turkey, and Egypt (among others - see India) but it's not exactly a testable hypothesis. It's closer to what a philosopher does than a Sociologist.
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But even then, what if it was "just story telling?" Anthropologists have helped to elucidate cultures not our own and referencing what makes them common and different. I argue that that is inherently valuable.
Bit of a non-article here. There's no actual proposal on how this could be done without introducing a delay (though it could be less than radio/TV's 7 seconds) in speech messages. But delaying messages would be pretty annoying for gamers actually trying to have a conversation or coordinate actions in fast-paced games. You can't even really use prediction very effectively:

"You're a ni-" could end with "-ce person", "-fty caster", or something much worse and there's no way to tell until the person says it.
New members of our team are greeted with a "Hi, my name is mbo. Here's your desk, here's your copy of The Red Book, good luck."

https://www.manning.com/books/functional-programming-in-scal...
I mean, on the backend functional programming usually really shines, since you're can implement your APIs using FP without needing to have any state (the FP will just be translating http requests into calls to stateful storage).

E.g. at Facebook, the PHP code I write is usually highly functional.
>It's had to be forced down people's throats at times, and frankly, there's no better place to force a paradigm down someone's throats than at a university, where non-compliance comes at academic penalty, and when the mind is most impressionable.

That's also a great way to make people hate it. An example is literature classes with mandatory reading and how they make students hate reading fiction.

I would also say that this might turn off more students from programming. We had functional programming in uni, where we learned Haskell. Maybe a handful of students liked it or were neutral about it, the vast majority seemed to have a negative view of it.

I think that FP is just more difficult to learn. Just look at essentially any entry level programming course and how people understand loops vs recursion.
Not only simpler, curing cancer is also necessary for curing aging.
It's a fair point... unless a device has a hardware mute switch, it's hard to know for sure if somebody can activate it remotely for listening. But why add more attack vectors unnecessarily?
you can easily live anywhere if you are a mobile developer and work remotely from any city even outside the states. however if you are looking to work in office Seattle, NYC, Portland, DC
Ask HN: About to intentionally hose my MFA, suggestions?
Greetings HN,

Murphy is busy tonight. Sitting at IAD with a cancelled flight, and my Pixel XL has concomitantly decided to start exhibiting the following lock screen loop:
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/12740836?msgid=12750715

I have a number of TOTP MFA that will be toast if I reset the phone from recovery. I don't have backup codes for all of the TOTP, and even if I did, they wouldn't be on the work laptop I am typing this from.

Any suggestions for now, or next time?
Musk’s attorney had the same opinion and expressed it with the exact same words. What a coincidence!
I also think there are a lot of people who have been both. When I came across the original Bitcoin paper, I thought it was interesting, a novel application of technology. I looked forward to see where it went.

In a decade, though, it has gone approximately nowhere [1], while I've been forced to deal with an incredible amount of hype. I am anti-Bitcoin in the same way I'm anti-Jehovah's-Witness: if they would just stop knocking on my door all the time to share the good news, I'd be happy to ignore them in return. But at least the JWs aren't losing hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money every time I turn around.

[1] In contrast to, say M-Pesa, which in the same period became a daily-use digital money for millions and millions of people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
I discovered that exit row thing for the first time a few weeks ago on my way back from Boston to Los Angeles. I know it's only a 6 hour flight, but having that room to stretch my legs, even with somewhat reduced chair reclining, made so much of a difference. That and today's in-flight wifi, which is outstanding. It blows my mind that I can watch YouTube and read HN during my flight with little to no interruption. Makes a flight blow by like it's nothing.

What would also help with comfort on flights is lumbar support. I don't really understand why airline seats have virtually no lumbar support, but I guess it gives them room to squeeze in some more chairs if they do that. IDK But sometimes it drives me nuts being on a long flight and getting a sore lower back. Sure, I can squeeze a pillow back there if I've got one, but still.

By the way, I discovered that you can get free wifi on a lot of these flights if you use the T-mobile free hour and, once the hour is up, spoof your MAC address and rotate to another T-mobile number. :)
For the problem you are solving and at your scale. Things start to change when you need to hire n+1 teams or engineers quickly.
This is the risk of "being your own bank", but I don't think it means crypto is destined to fail. You can have managed services that provide insurance to end users. I think cyrpto-currencies have a lot to offer the world. Prime example is Monero, it offers a digital equivalent to cash which is a rarity in this age of ultra-surveillance.

Edited to convey my message in a clearer manner.
I'm rather short, so I prefer to actually not have the galley/emergency exit seat (mostly because I feel it's "less cozy" and weird to have that open space in front of me, but also because the tables+entertainment are usually much worse).

But as for entire rows, I also was once lucky enough to be on a flight (long trip from Europe to Tokyo) where everyone in our cabin at least got an entire rope for themselves. Lying down horizontally across seats was indeed an enormous difference, and I managed to sleep for almost the entire flight as well.
Eh, this is a 50/50.

I actually completely agree that Elixir developers aren't many. What I observed however is that people who want programmers that know FP and can apply it to real world problems where teams of web devs can be reduced from 20 to 3... get treated like coding monkeys and not given much respect and creative freedom.

You can't replace a pile of clueless juniors banging their heads at the latest Node fashion with several experienced craftsmen and treat them exactly the same. It just doesn't work -- people get discouraged and leave. I've had that happen to three acquaintances of mine (and myself, although I don't dare including myself because, you know, our ego gets in the way of properly gauging our own competence).

I've been rejected with the generic "poor cultural fit" excuse enough times on interviews to realise that most managers and shareholders simply want soldiers blindly obeying orders and not captains that can successfully make a team pull through a tough challenge on their own terms as long as schedules and business priorities are respected.

So, to me, the problem is also in the attitude of the shot-callers -- not only in the scarcity or quality of the Elixir devs.
A bunch of IDEs/editors have remote pair programming add-ons now. Atom has Teletype and VS has Visual Studio Live Share.

Also, I'd recommend Glitch as a platform for letting your students host projects. It has a nice collaborative feel and lets them share their work in a "real" environment.
If you look at the actual trademarks you will see that there is no registration for Operating Systems. Trademarks are only for specific goods and services, you can't globally prevent use of a word.

[1] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:754...
[2] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:754...
[3] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:754...
We should really elevate our level of discoursce above throwing -isms at each other...
I don't know what you mean by "sterile for all societal purposes". A salt pond is not a good place to carry out a surgery, even though the archaea (more common than extremophile bacteria, and also more extremophilic) aren't pathogenic. It isn't poisonous, just dry and salty.
When AR (already happening) and human brain/AI symbiosis happens!
>I don't exist for your amusement.

Do you feel threatened by being asked to justify a claim? Perhaps you expect people to take this UFO stuff for granted without skepticism? Sorry... if that's the sort of community you're looking for, /x/ may be more your forte.

>but you may find this interesting

I notice every one of your sources reference TTSA, and this link does as well, and contains more claims from Tom Delonge, but you haven't actually justified your treatment of these claims or sources as factually accurate. You can't prove Tom Delonge is credible with more quotes from Tom Delonge, that's not how proof works.
But then Kuhn gives the game away within a couple paragraphs, calling RMS's views 'problematic' and expressing disagreement with several of them.

If you're gonna go with that line, stay on-message.
That seems unlikely. They surely would've done the most basic testing that would've found a bug like that. The issue here seems to be the addition of the screen cover is making all fingerprints appear similar enough to pass as the same one.
And youre over estimating the technical literacy of the average person. This is the first time I've heard of nabu casa, I just checked out their website and they're immediately talking about yaml, I've browsed every page I can see and I can't see anything about setting it up. Another labe mentionrd docker and JWT as troubleshooting steps - that's too much for 99.99999% of people to ever use.
Mark Zuckerberg: “People Should Decide What Is Credible, Not Tech Companies”
Margaret's Friend – Horror Submission for Promposity Writing Contest
so I guess the previous title listing the fees and payment to plaintiffs was a little too edgy huh
My cousin (mid 40s) developed blood clots in his legs from a long flight to Europe.
The clots passed through his heart, and lodged in his lungs.
He's alive, but struggles for every breath he takes.
Yeah, we need an honest study, and subsequent class lawsuit.

These cramped seats/long flights probably kill quite a few people.
Obeying a government order is also a political statement that you support that government. GitLab is an international company, they don't owe an allegiance to one specific country. One country might tell them to do something and another one might tell them to do the opposite. They're going to have to pick and choose sides sometimes.
This for sharing, this looks great! Layout was difficult when trying to manually create these
What else should have been used?

(Please note that in 1993 a typical PC would spend significant amount of CPU to decrypt even 3des, and encryption beyond 40 bits of key was restricted in the US and not allowed for export.)
Challenges of Human-Aware AI Systems
Well it depends on what side of the kernel/userspace boundary you are talking about doesn't it.

While C for userland programs may need to conform to the operating system's libc and system call interface abstractions, on the other side of the syscall boundary is C code (ie. the kernel) that is indeed very "close to the metal".
Okay, so FP is more difficult to learn. Assume for the sake of this argument that FP has a tangible benefit over other paradigms, that manifest themselves at scale. You're tasked with educating students in this paradigm, but they complain that it is more difficult than the techniques that they are used to.

What do you do?
You can shoot yourself in the foot with every language.

Your comments read like "but I was promised magic and I found no magic" to me.

Well, of course there's no magic. What there is is a really good runtime and a good tooling that allows you to avoid some mistakes preliminarily.
Unfortunately the author doesn't really even make any arguments to debunk. He just drones on about what money is, then Concludes Bitcoin is doomed.

The title should be:
"10 years and going strong, venture capital backed 'entrepreneur' declares Bitcoin is dead"