skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's analogous to physical pain. If you're holding your hand on the stove and it burns, it makes you pull your hand away. But some people may be "miswired" and not pull away. But then the solution isn't to give them painkillers and just watch their hand burn its flesh away.

But then again, there is pain that doesn't indicate something fixable. Like chronic back pain. Then it's best to just reduce the pain itself.

Now, how do you differentiate in case of worrying? Probably by asking a trusted friend or family member or someone else if they think your worries are legitimate and what they suggest doing.

But not all stress has a concrete cause, like bills. Sometimes people just get stressed and anxious in general.

I'd wager that some general base level of worry exists in all humanity that comes to surface regardless of wealth and security. I mean, the magazines in rich countries (especially Western Europe) are full of "how do I get happy", "how do I become myself", "how do I unfold my potential" etc. At least in poorer countries people can always point out why they are stressed. They can blame the bills, the credit, the other political side etc.

In places like SV, people live so well, they are past the point of realistic worries, so they don't understand why they don't feel fully happy.

If you have a shitty life in a poor country, without any hope of stepping forward, nobody will think you're depressed. Everyone, including you, will think it's just a natural reaction. I guess this is why depression is such a big topic in rich places and is seen as some whining and bitching in less developed places.
You are spot on! For what you pay for top $$ products they fall WAY short of what is required. If you do end up doing a write up please send me the link. I sometimes feel like the only person in the room that can see the end result just being a glorified ETL tool with some rudimentary dashboard porn that is of no use to anyone, all of this exactly due to the problem you described.
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The cost of occasional fraud is probably priced in already. Thats how credit cards are handled.
At 80ms per attempt you need 3 months to brute force an 8 pin password. Things get ugly soon btw, 9 characters 2.5 years, 10 characters 25 years and so on. We reach millions of years at 15 characters

edit: I was calculating on the assumption that you can only use numbers as a pin
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well that's just what the paper tested for and had a statistically significant result. it's not nearly like 5-year clinical trials, but it's much better than nothing surely.
The main issue here is actually the 500 euro note, not the $100 bill. The idea is that such notes fund a great deal of terrorist activities overseas, and I sort of agree that we shouldn't have such large denominations.

I would even be okay with getting rid of the $100 bill. Let's face it, people who deal in VERY large amounts of cash $100,000+ are not good people. Drug dealers or politicians (same thing in my opinion) don't use $20 bills as amounts that high get very cumbersome. If you find yourself in a situation with so many $20 bills that you physically can't carry them around, I have literally zero sympathy for you.

Slippery slope? Maybe, but as it stands I have no issue.
The service could present a phrase for the user to say, which prevents the recorded voice attack.
Are you using polling to discover new transactions, or do they send a notification to the mobile app?
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It's rare for hairdressers to act in bad faith, because acting in bad faith - slicing off ears for fun - is a bad way to make living.

In finance, it's incredibly easy to make a living by acting in bad faith. You can offer insurance with no serious intention to pay out, and tie up claims in bureaucracy and legal loopholes.

Good regulation should go some way to minimising bad faith actors.

In fact the industry seems quite scammy anyway. But it would be much, much more scammy - to a criminal extent - with no regulation at all.
1.5 hours/day it's a lot, congratulations.

Basically my routine is 10 minutes a day (in the mornings) and after one week doing this in a row I've already started to notice how differently my body react to anxiety.

Later on, how I handle stress changed completely, I started to become numb to harsh events.
> You can improve a bit on this by sending along a bunch of cache control headers to at least limit the damage.

It would have been useful to include those headers in the blog post.
The score seems to depends on the browser you test with.

Using Firefox 44, I get 52/100 on mobile and 92/100 on desktop.

Using IE 11, I get 59/100 on mobile, and 99/100 on desktop.
Civ2 was a world of railroads. I always "fondly" remember the games for my getting nuked by Ghandi or Lincoln
Thank god HN doesn't have the same feature (ehh, I suppose at least). But how about linkedin and reddit?

I also bet that Whatsapp has this feature since I often see "Last seen at ...".
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a new way to travel without moving through a new system!
I don't want huge denominations, but assuming inflation over the last 50 years, seems to me that we should have a $500US note.

Yes, I understand if LE had their way we'd be paying with 5-spots, but convenience has to mean something also. Let's bring back the $500 bill and then index the entire thing to inflation such that there isn't more than a dozen or so steps between the smallest and largest monetary units.

I don't think this is a political discussion/argument we need to have constantly. Fix it once and then leave it alone. I'm also completely opposed to eliminating all currency and going totally electronic, which sounds like an even more dystopian state than the current one our betters have created for us over the last decade or two.
> With math, there are no docs, no playground, no explanations, no nothing. Either you are the part of mathematical community and can hope for explanations and knowledge transfer, or you are not

what's the difference to CS here, where did you get that coding sample you mentioned? The playground is your mind, pebbles or pen and paper, maths are a projection of the real world.

Mathematics is not inconsistent. Isn't this the premisses of rigor? Math has mathematical consistency and that's not the same as literal consistency, but maybe that's a problem in semiotics and language. The language and the literature is inconsistent.
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I'm basically with you.

However, as a German, I find it interesting why you mention Germany as "less-principled". Less-principled than the US? Do you talk about current Germany or about former east Germany or even Nazi Germany?

Of course, there are enough problems here as anywhere else regarding privacy, etc. But I have difficulties seeing current Germany as "less-principled" than the US wrt. privacy, human rights etc.

Just curious what your impression is based on.
Against an insufficiently smart attacker. How about a computer that can learn to imitate any speech, perhaps by modelling the shape of the vocal tract (which is how modern speech synthesizers actually work, so it's not a huge leap).
Except the note size is kind of secondary here.

Having limits on transactions over 1000 euro (like France) does forces law-abiding citizens to handle transactions in a way that can be monitored by the security services (the non-law abiding citizens of course just ignore the damn law or wash the money through a front).

It's yet another attack on privacy, if I want to buy a bike from someone legally and pay in cash for it what business is it of the governments, it's a private transaction between two parties for a legally owned and sold item.

I'm rapidly coming to the view that Orwell wasn't far of the mark with "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." except instead of an actual jackboot we just have the complete removal of privacy, fear of the boot stamping on your face instead of an actual boot.
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Did you try Space Engineers? It has spaceship-building elements and also interactive planets (albeit tiny when compared to real planets, but still 120km diameter is enough to get a feeling you are on an actual planet). It also has multiplayer, although not in an MMO scale.
In the UK, if you log in to your bank account on the phone, pass the required verification checks, and say you want to transfer all your available funds to your long lost aunt's account in Russia, then your money is transferred, irretrievably. It's going to be up to you to prove that the bank's verification is faulty, so good luck with that.
Thank you for this video. I'm just starting to get interested in the subject, and I think I was approaching it more in the "Meditation Seals" mentality. Glad I saw this video before going in.
I once paid a five-digit amount for a used car in cash, using 1000 chf bills. This would have been inconvenient with 20$ notes.
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AFAIUI, yes. If a single bit in the root's checksum is flipped just before being written to disk you'll probably lose the whole file system.
> The idea is that such notes fund a great deal of terrorist activities overseas

That's the bare faced lie masquerading as an excuse. The reason they want to get rid of it all of a sudden is to cut down on cash hoarding in a negative interest rate environment.

>If you find yourself in a situation with so many $20 bills that you physically can't carry them around, I have literally zero sympathy for you.

I lack sympathy for the banks that would see a deposit flight to cash in the event of negative interest rates they lobbied for.
This article is ridiculously biased. The actual reason the EU reps want to phase out the 500€ bill is that according to the latest data, over 90% of those bills are used for criminal activity. Can't look up references well as I'm on the phone, but you read that right: only 10% of the bills are used by regular people. All the rest of it is used by crime syndicates because the larger the bill, the easier it is to move illegal money.
I feel the same. I have a 6 month old and 2 year old. I'm an only child and when I was young I had hour and hours (especially in school holidays) to sit, read, play on my computer and think.

Now I have a couple of hours spare a day. I work for about 8.5 hrs and sometimes spend a bit of time in the even programming but mainly find time to exercise/see friends and wife/read or watch TV. It seems to improve as the children get older. I've enjoyed meditating and yoga in the past and I think I will do more in the future, but I also find things like playing an instrument, programming, walking outside to be equally helpful.
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George, huge thanks for your work. Please consider putting iTerm2 on the App Store for a couple of bucks (in addition to providing it for free on your site).
I used to meditate for 20 minutes daily, but my mind still acted like a spoiled petulant child, so I upped it to two hours first thing in the morning (in one sitting). I use one of these meditation posters as a focal point: http://zenpusher.com

The results have been profound. My mind is quiet and obedient now. I experience equanimity throughout the day.
Bills are redesigned and go out of circulation all the time. USD is a bit special because it has been a de facto currency in many places outside the US for a long time, but that doesn't change the fact that anyone who sits on a $100 bill in whatever country, must be prepared to head to a bank and exchange it for a new $100 or two $50 before that $100 bill is no longer valid.

When there is a new design for any banknote, which happens every now and then (new security features added and so on) the issuing authority usually puts and end date to the old version a few years into the future. Otherwise it becomes very hard for the central bank to know how much money they have in circulation, and also they don't get the full benefit of the new security features if a lot of "old" money circulates along side it. As an example, I don't think any of the paper money I have in my wallet is of a design that has been valid for 15 years, or will be valid in 15 years from now. I have lived through the retirement of at least 10 different designs over the last decade, and at least three denominations were removed entirely.

That said, the use of US dollars outside the US might not be too sensitive to changes. I remember german D-marks still being a thing in the balkans even after the germans themselves switched to Euro!
You make a very good point: why do they even need to update the firmware? Surely, just cloning the phone's encrypted memory should be possible? (I have no knowledge of hardware at all, but I would have thought that the data is stored on a memory chip somewhere in a phone, and it should(?) be possible to copy the data from that chip to process it offline?)
I once saw a report about two persons having the same name, same birthday, and same birthplace. It really fucks up a lot of administrative databases.
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It would be great if there were a service that allowed you to search non-cached controlled 301s a crawler had encountered.
This is brilliantly creepy, and so well written as to be both engaging and informative. Thanks!
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In practice, I should imagine fraud protection would kick in and prevent the transaction.
Considering Europe's experience with high denomination notes, I strongly think this is a bad idea. In fact, Europe is considering eliminating €200 and €500 notes, since they're mostly used for illegal activities. Example: 75% of the cash in Spain is in €500 bills[1]. Considering me and most people I've known have only taken a glimpse at those (and usually, when getting paid under the table), this roughly means €45B in cash, used for corruption, illegal enterprises and tax evasion (really, few other practical cases exist for such high value notes) is flowing through our economy.

[1] http://www.abc.es/economia/abci-75-por-ciento-efectivo-circu...
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> where did you get that coding sample you mentioned

I learned programming by reading books and trying samples from there, then, step by step, beginning to understand how parts play together and why some things are faster than another. I could _feel_ loops and recursion, tinker with them, before trying to understand them theoretically.

I can't do that in learning math (yet; Wolfram Alpha is changing it). It's either I understand the exact meaning of symbols, or I don't. There are no intermediary steps.

And being rigorous is not the same with being consistent. (There isn't much consistency in programming, either, but this is a minor problem).
"too much medium,
not enough message"

The writing style works because those jokes, asides, and little mannerisms that are normally excluded from "serious" writing are part of how we think.

When we refine our writing (or speaking) to - supposedly to make it less jumbled and easier to read - we usually end up removing a lot of the little details that made up the original thought. The writing may have much better grammar and organization, but real thought isn't perfectly organized and we end up losing some of the "character" in the original idea. (this may be good or bad, depending on the situation)

Vi Hart has an amazing overview[1] of this concept, in which she discusses the very wise words of the Edmund Snow Carpenter in his[2] book "They Became What They Beheld".

The trouble with knowing what to say and saying it clearly & fully, is that
clear speaking is generally obsolete thinking. Clear statement is like an
art object: it is the afterlife of the process which called it into being.
The process itself is the significant step and, especially at the beginning,
is often incomplete & uncertain.

The best way to write will always depend on what the goals are, but in general the further away from the original thought you get, the more writing and other creative ideas tend to degrade. Incidentally, this tendency of a thought to degrade the further it gets from it's origin is also how plans become policy: [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4

[2] probably co-written - or at least "heavily influenced" - by Marshal McLuhan

[3] http://ogun.stanford.edu/~bnayfeh/plan.html (very mild NSFW language of the form "____ happens")
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That's possible with math too!
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Using Google App Engine for the back end, though all it really does is serve up the JavaScript.
The score will depend on your location, but I agree, it looks like the page has has 2 blocking CSS resources.

they could use their own advice and fix it: "Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML."
This is an alarmist piece on negative interest rates.

The real war on cash is driven by consumer convenience, the IRS, and Anti-(Drug|Terrorism|Vice) government agencies. Government agencies want a paper trail to catch tax evaders and illicit activity.

Whenever I see a very popular business (usually a bar or restaurant) that takes "Cash Only". I think to myself "Tax Evader". Which may or may not be true. Sadly, they are painting a target on their back.
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Please don't shout. Shouting doesn't make me want to click this.
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iButt? Seriously? Do you also still type M$?
Unhashed passwords don't get you pwned. They only become a problem after you've been pwned.
Typically, clusters without a majority (2 out of 3, 3 out of 5, 4 out of 7, etc) of nodes present will shut themselves down to prevent data corruption.
Sorry, my impression of how it is said to work is, if you deliberately devote your mental energy to something non-harmful, e.g., strong feelings of compassion for oneself or others, it seems to brown out some or all of the harmful habits, at least to some degree.
Coal is cheap and plentiful. It does have one of the highest carbon densities relative to energy produced, but there are developing ways around that:

Capture and sequestration

-CO2 from large source power plants is scrubbed from emissions, captured, and stored underground

-In some cases, this can be used to make oil wells more productive (and is economically positive, without considering carbon taxes or credits)

-There are some questions around long-term durability and resistance to leaking of underground storage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage

Coal Gasification

-Convert coal to natural gas, which has a higher energy to CO2 ratio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gasification

I'd be more put off coal by low energy (oil) prices at the moment, but these will turn around on a longer time scale.
Something like this says "keep this cached for 100 days":

Last-Modified: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:54:49 +0100

Expires: Sun, 29 May 2016 12:54:49 +0200

Cache-Control: max-age=8640000, must-revalidate

See also: https://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/#CONTROL
I'm okay with that. I just think we should solve this once, instead of continuing to turn the screws with less and less denominations. That was the thrust of my post. Pick an answer, index it, and let's just move on. Otherwise your argument will always hold true, no matter what notes are in circulation.

Having said that, I notice that we might be moving towards an environment of negative interest rates. If that's the case? Then it makes sense for everybody to warehouse cash, not just drug lords and terrorists. Having larger denominations could be tremendously useful to tons of legitimate organizations.

Downfall Hitler spoof video related to negative interest rates I was watching yesterday: https://vimeo.com/65679960
Shouldn't security be multilayered? if I want to transfer money out of my account or I exceed certain limits then I need additional authentication.
I assumed that was a reference to (or maybe caused by? I don't know if the extension affects textareas) Cloud to Butt Plus.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...
For an important busy web site, even serving up a redirect for a short amount of time could be enough to cause some serious problems. It's a way of turning "I hacked and defaced this website but they fixed it 24 hours later" into "I hacked and defaced this website and they fixed it 24 hours later, but loads of people still see the defaced version".
I guess they will start using promo fb messages to bait opt-in.

"Reply with the code PROMO10 for an exclusive 10% discount" and all that sort of nonsense.
Eliminating the 500 EUR would leave the 200 EUR in circulation. Assuming the criminals shift to using that, they'll see a modest 2.5x increase in volume to transport. Somehow I doubt that would be a show stopper.
I definitely have the same reaction to "cash only", usually preceded by "ugh, that's so inconvenient".

I can also never think of a good enough reason for this, especially in the UK where vendor-expensive Amex cards are far less common, and the majority of people use debit cards. To me, its severely inconveniencing customers - I know personally I've gone elsewhere to a different merchant that will accept my card to make a purchase.
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You can still buy gold (and if they try to ban that, they'd have to ban jewellery also, so good luck trying that). Gold isn't actually that dense - in terms of currency it's about as dense as $50 bills[1]. Platinum or palladium maybe?

[1] Assuming this site: http://1000000-euro.de/how-much-does-a-million-dollars-weigh... is correct.

Edit: Of course I'm confusing density with mass. Anyone want to work out the volume?
> Looking at the numbers on a single repository website will give you lousy data.

But lousy data is better than no data at all.
Italy's limit has been raised from 999.99 to 2999.99 at the beginning of the year. It means you couldn't pay 1000 in cash, now it's 3000.

Any banknote larger than 50 Euro is very uncommon here. ATMs don't give them. Anecdote: I was sure the 200 one is green and when I googled for the 100 note I discovered that it's the 100 which is green; the 200 is yellow. I remembered correctly that the 500 is pink.

Doing without the 100 USD bill would be problematic for tourists in those countries with very minimal credit card penetration and that insist to accept only pristine very recent bills, the ones that in the West would be looked at with suspicion. Example: former USSR central Asia countries.
I think the App Store Sandbox would restrict iTerm's ability to be useful. (Can only access files it has created, or via a standard OSX file open dialog, for instance.)
In the US, you have to present information for an I-9 form when starting a new job. This is to prevent people without work authorization from working. The penalties for an employer to skip this step or otherwise hire unauthorized workers are very stiff. That's likely the reason for the restriction. It keeps them in the bounds of the law for the US.