skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
€500 is a crazy large denomination.

Stuffing as much in as possible does make sense. In to ATMs. Central banks have crazy trouble bringing new notes into circulation, and it costs as much to fill an ATM with 1000 €5 notes as it does to fill it with as many €20 notes.

Why should a bank fill in ATM with 5s when it can fill it with 20s? Incentives, for sure. IIRC 5s had an average life of 3 months in circulation, though the linked article suggests is is now 6 months. Larger value notes have a longer life (because smaller notes exist).

Banks have a lot of incentive to push higher value notes into ATMs, while central banks have a big desire no not let this happen all of the time.

If you're a larger business and have a good relationship with your bank, you're likely able to gain a discount on fees or the price of cash for your effort to get smaller value money into circulation. For example, if you operate machines that give paper cash in change (depending on country and regulatory environment).
Regarding gmos, thats not really true. While a lot of the research was done by industry (which is how its supposed to, why should the public pay for safety testing of products ?), there is also publicly funded research that confirms that GMOs are no more risky than traditional breeding and mutagenics.

The EU funded a 10 year project in that area
https://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/pdf/a_decade_of_eu-...

The genera database can also give an indication of the funding by private and government in biotech (i think its 1/3 or 1/2, but can't find the link)

https://www.biofortified.org/portfolio/infographic-world-map...

Update: Replying to some of the comments, just want to clarify that company should pay for the testing, but the actual scientific research should be done independently. Of course the company will probably have done some initial research of their own (at least you would hope so), but it would need to be replicated independently.

Update 2: Grist covered gmos a few years back and here is the part about the regulation
http://grist.org/food/the-gm-safety-dance-whats-rule-and-wha...
If you want you can use the now defunct web search engine boitho.com list of adult words. It is avalibal at https://github.com/searchdaimon/adult-words .

We mostly filtered out porn by using a two word phrase method. There were a lot of edge cases because many potentially dirty concepts are made up of words that are not bad when used alone. For example a text can have both "girls" and "nude" in it without being vulgar, but if it has the phrase "nude girls" the chance for it being pornografic is much higher.
I don't see how it makes much a difference if new features comes once a year or once a month. Being part of a "major release" doesn't invalidate anything.
I'm all too used to my argument being put in a box and dismissed with a standard argument for that box. But please don't do that, OK?

Hell is nowhere in this chain of argument. God arguably is, but that's in step 2. It's step 3 which may kinda, sorta remind you of Pascal's Wager, but it's only an argument against nihilism, not even for theism.

Yes, conceding step 3 leaves wide open the question of what to believe in instead of nihilism. Even conceding step 2 leaves open the question of "what sort of god are we talking about". But this is precisely the point. That means you can argue these things separately, while still acknowledging your opponent's ultimate concern.
Wonderful idea, but competition exists on AliExpress, 0.75€...
Dataloop develops DalmatinerDB. Guess which database won first place.
Why? This only loads the page on click when it would have been loaded anyway.
Definitly not. Two faces, say 5% of the total image are correctly exposed at the expense of the other 95%. If you're serious with photo editing you increase the exposure of the faces afterwards a bit...

Thanks but no thanks Mickeysoft.
It's all open-source. So, yes.
The still picture faces look better with Pix ...

They are using face-tracking and stabilisation around the faces in the videos which look's odd to most people because we definitely are not used to seeing this and probably disturbs our brain neurons which have not evolved in any way to compute this..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3KvI4yDAwM
Wait, among all the stuff we eat, the primary fuel source for our bodies is the most useless one?
Not sure about Konqueror, but Dolphin still supports "fish://"
People who deliberately mislead the public at the cost of the publics health in the name of profit are some of the worst of the worst. I would like to see the people involved in this punished but it's wishful thinking. It is evil.

It's absolutely rampant in the food industry.
> Disclaimer: Dataloop helps build DalmatinerDB so there is a massive conflict of interest.
The pages crashes my browser (Chrome on OSX)
It would be great if you can share (at least) some information about the kind of hosting setup you're using, how much of bandwidth and how long it took to crawl and index the 2B pages.
An industry paid for favorable research ? Tell me something new.

Elon Musk rants about environment. Do you think he does it out of his concern for planet or his company ?
How Telegram and a few bots greatly improve the mobile experience
This is just the thin end of the wedge

Still a 300 000 000 000 € thin end. There are nearly two 500€ notes printed for each euro-area citizen [1]. That seems a lot to me. I have never seen one too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_euro_note
Clearly I was not talking about butchering cattle.
This Shape-Shifter Could Tell Us Why Matter Exists (2014)
I suppose, but most of them are attached to you with a handy piece of wire. These are more ... invitingly grabbable.
The iPhones 7
How is sugar regulated differently to MSG in Australia?

(Looking at Food Standards Australia, the requirements on MSG are that it's declared as an ingredient with an exception if it's naturally present in the food. How is that different to what's required for sugar? http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/consumer/additives/msg/Pages...)
New programming language delivers fourfold speedups
Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Chip_Set#Copper

The good old days indeed!
But can it show that it's actually running this correct algorithm to determine whether the statement about itself is probably true?

There is always an external context that runs the computation. A computation never exists in "abstract space", it always happens on a physical level. Any computation is only good if it runs in the context that it was designed for.

What I mean is that the AI can never "know" if it's still following the "righteous goals", because a new environment may have grown around it, that "transforms" its inputs and outputs so that to the core machine it seems like nothing has changed, but actually its real-world effects have become very different. And at this point you could actually also say that this part of the environment has grown onto the AI machine and it now effectively has new goals that are incompatible with the ones designed into the core part of the machine.

My point is, there is no isolated system, reasoning by itself in an isolated fashion. Subject and environment are not clearly divided.
How a scammer stole 500$ from me and in the end begged not to tell his parents
I am a master donut artist at Dunkin Donuts. I make $5.3 million a year. See how this works?
There is nothing inherently wrong with a briefcase, but I think the ideal use of large internationally recognized notes is to sew your life savings into your clothes before you sneak across the border to try to start a securer life.

The alternative to flight is fight.. The more you deprive someone of options in one direction the more often they take options in the other direction. But what kind of cold, sick people would like small arms skirmishes so much that they would fund bias towards them in international policy over decades under the guises like a pathological fear of chemicals?
Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgment, and his self-respect, and he'll resent your triumph. That will make him strike back, but it will never make him want to change his mind. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

--Dale Carnegie

For the above reasons, in social situations, I avoid every argument that I can.
well, i don't know if thats the case in good ol'merica.

But i don't think there are major obstacles to introduce such law in germany/europe. We already have media-laws and special press-laws (which regulate how stories must be published, for example we have a "journalistic duty of care" which amongst other things mandates that unconfirmed statements must be marked as such. The law follows the codex of the German Press Council).
But how is airhelp.com a P2P system? I had a look at their website and they look like all other flight-delay systems, just fees seem to be slightly lower (still 25%). I couldn't find anything regarding P2P on their website.
David Heinemeier Hansson: An Interview with a Real-World SuperLearner
I think you misunderstood me 180 degrees.
I was not advocating stronger evidence. I was questioning our culture need for "Now scientist have finally proven the old x is correct/incorrect".

Wasn't Pascal beautiful passages already obvious true before this psychologist made his statement?
the french example is a bit beyond ridiculous - all the people I know that had to do home reconstruction recently myself included, or some bigger shopping (ie car), ended up fed quite a few times when their basic credit cards were blocked for rest of the month (visa classic has 10k/month limit) and you cannot then proceed and pay rest of the expenses in cash (withdrawn ahead).

I am all for curbing criminal activities (somehow suspecting big ones are few steps ahead anyway), but these things have consequences for rest of the folks too.
Ask HN: Secure file sync service with mobile clients?
The recent Dropbox mishaps and intentional violations of users' choices makes the need of a decent secure file syncing service even more pressing.

Secure as in:

- Open source clients

- Data stored encrypted on the servers or usage of P2P syncing without servers

- Encryption keys handled only by the clients

Decent as in:

- Reasonable (or not any) file size limits

- Not too hard to use mobile clients

- Easy to use desktop clients

With these in mind:

- Dropbox is out

- Google drive is out

- Box is out

- Bittorrent sync (now called resilio) was not particularly safe according to one report from 2014 - although things may have now changed?

Is there any option other than setting up your own owncloud server? What are you using?
Which microcontroller you'd love to program in Python?
Show HN: A pastebin clone I wrote several years ago (Perl+ExtJS)
Similar with cellphone radiation research that is funded by industry, medical research etc. If the taxpayer is paying, it will be seen as a hidden subsidy, if the industry pays, it will be seen as conflict of interest.

On top of that, it can be true that industry funds research that is potentially biased to a certain conclusion where the conclusion is actually true.
You've not seen that?

It's HostCertificate in sshd_config. Then in known_hosts:

@cert-authority *.example.com ssh-rsa AAAAB…

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-crea...

Edit: Oh, you mean for making them more short lived.
An invite would be great, thank you!
soda is only taxed a minuscule amount for some reason

Getting a 1% tax approved and then raising it to 10% over a few years is much much easier than passing a 10% tax.
How many are still using a 56K modem? serious question.
This is probably less savvy than that. If you login to various apps across devices, particularly a Google account, they are linked by a GUID. This can then be used for retargeting purposes as the advertiser wants to target the person and usually not just the particular device/cookie.
Payments in Facebook Messenger
KDB+ is the number 1 time-series database, no question. Per-core, it's 10 times faster than any other time-series database. Seems like an odd omission.

http://kparc.com/q4/readme.txt
I have also found a "reverse" effect. Engineers in general (not just software guys), tend to not assign blame to errors, especially in panic situations. People declare errors as a matter of fact ("the database load is beyond the roof"), not as a result of wrongful actions ("your commit thrashed the database").

Both ends of behavior are the result of being confronted often with error, be it caused by wrongful action or caused by externalities. When a circuit goes up in smoke, its just physics being a harsh mistress; getting angry about it is useless, so we just skip the blame/anger part.
Why no web application?
> Most shops here in Finland don't accept 200€ or 500€ notes at all.

Is this legal?

I ask because usually they have to accept them by law but can refuse change or something like that.
Dubai Lifestyle App Scam Review
Quite a few services bind to all interfaces by default. Redis used to, elasticsearch used to, iirc mongodb as well. The list is probably long. While this is a bug in the software, having a firewall that denies by default is an additional layer that prevents turning a slip-up into an RCE.
Exactly. But then this is already "evidence" to them about the existence of God. Such people have no need to ponder that "If evolution is true then there's no meaning in life so that case is uninteresting, so therefore let's believe in God since then life is meaningful".

If God "speaks to you", you already "know" he exists. This was precisely what I tried to point out in my previous comment. If you have a method to pick out a particular God out of all possible Gods, then this method (or something related) can also be used to reject atheism directly. There's no need for the elaborate argument that I responded to.
I can't agree that "That Sugar Film" is the best documentary outlining the subject. It's overly dramatic! The lead actor is obviously rich (a house around which he can go for a jog, a personal gym... all that). Most people don't have such environments and choices. His way of experimenting can also be easily challenged.
There are plenty of mililenials out there with cars, they just don t have NEW ones.

But for the millenials out there with old cars, and for the ones without a car at all. Nobody wants to buy a car because they're a huge financial responsibility. Duh? Millenials, who are sattled with student loans or, even worse (statistically), didn't go to school, don't want to attach themselves to a huge payment every month. If they're in a city, owning a car probably comes with huge parking fees as well.
Not that anyone's looking, but here's a strong critique of this methodological approach by a linguist(icist?):

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4685
You are referring to glucose. GP is referring to fructose. One is the primary fuel source of living things while the other one is straight up poison.
A curious case of page cache
The sad thing is the US has a focus on taxes not spending. SS, Medicare, State, Local, Federal spending add up to 41% GDP yet taxes are no where near that. But, unlike say Japan at 42% GDP spending we don't get free healthcare etc.
Finding the right balance of incentives needs some trial and error. The discussions are not new and well known e.g. with generic prediction markets like Augur or Gnosis.

I think we will find a way to deal with those issues. Experiments like these will help us (and society in general) to come to the right conclusions. Of course we should be careful not to cause too much harm on the way.

Also see https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/529o5p/flightdela... and the discussion there.
I’m a VC and I Have Multiple Sclerosis
Just a note, this is a supremely old project that I did years ago when I was working at Hostgator. Nothing too special, but I did want to share it just in case anyone wanted to improve on it or found it useful.

Oh also, this is designed to run with PostGreSQL. I didn't really specify much information in the README as I just wanted to make sure it was up for retention, not necessarily with the intent to share (it used to be a private repo) but I'd absolutely love any thoughts and comments anyone has.
watch -n1 df
2016 NFL Season: How to Watch Every Game (for Less) for Bitcoin
camelCase and PascalCase, right? Maybe it comes from the language name (python -> snake, JavaScript -> PascalCase) :-P

Now being serious: Actually it is not a standard, since it is not defined like PEP8 kinda defines[1]. Then it goes by what the community uses. From what I've seen, most projects use the camelCase/PascalCase, but some like Foundation switched to underscores[2]. There's no reason why one is better than the other in terms of readability.

On a more serious note: A study[3] suggests that "camel casing leads to higher accuracy among all subjects regardless of training, and those trained in camel casing are able to recognize identifiers in the camel case style faster than identifiers in the underscore style." There's a discussion in this blog post: [4].

IMO it's too immature to be attached to a style, like it is too immature to think you're better than other developers because you use vim.

--

[1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#naming-conventions

[2]: http://foundation.zurb.com/sites/docs/v/5.5.3/upgrading.html...

[3]: http://www.cs.loyola.edu/~binkley/papers/icpc09-clouds.pdf

[4]: https://whathecode.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/camelcase-vs-und...
We have had CHF 1000.00 (~1000 USD) notes for a long time (since 1907) and it was never an issue until now. It is convenient if you make a larger purchase to not have to carry around a giant bag.
> Inflation in the Eurozone is essentially at zero

Its because one keeps repeating a lie that it makes it true.
Interview with Aderonke Bamidele (Infopreneur Queen) – MaxiPharo
So, if I understand correctly, Google records everything that is said next to a Android phone with voice search enabled?
The crazy thing is that other people's phones may record your voice.
Their individual ones? Or the ones other citizens are paying?
> All those features can exist for any lossless image format.

Yes, but for most image formats they aren't defined. They are for TIFF.

The problem, of course, is that if you use an exotic TIFF feature, very few TIFF readers will understand you.
As noted in the scope section along with some other omissions:

> Only free and open source time series databases and their features have been compared. Therefore if someone asks “have you tried Kdb+ or Informix?” the answer will be no. They are probably awesome though.

Article could have been titled "Review of the Top10 FOSS Time Series Databases" since that's what it is.
We had also (obviously) built a (proprietary) ranking algo that took into account some 60+ individual factors. If it can be of any help, I'll create a list and send it to you.
I think the way its done in biotechnology is that the company pays and some 3rd party lab (e.g. university) then does the experiment.

There is also a positive bias from industry studies due to the fact that products tested internally that don't work will not be pursued and therefore that research is not published.
To be more precise, this is a review of more than 10 free and open source time series databases, wherein the author chooses 10 favourites, by some metrics.
In windows 10, resizing the command window would break npm
https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/12887

Workaround, not resizing the command window...

And response from someone in Microsoft:
https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/12887#issuecomment-2225253...
4 servers in total.

2 are used for crawling, index-building and raw-data storage. Quadcore, 32gb RAM, 4tb HDD and 1gbit/s internet connection on each of these. They are rented and in a big data-center. Crawling uses "only" about 200-250mbit/s of bandwidth.

2 servers for webserver and queries. Quadcore, 32gb RAM. One with 2x512gb SSD, the other with only 1x512gb SSD. These servers are here at home. I have cable internet with 200mbit/s down, 20mbit/s up. Static IPs obviously.

A full crawl currently takes about 3 months.
Sounds like an opportunity for a more opinionated error logging tool...

"@Dave, you seem to have made yet another type error on line 56. @jon recently committed code that didn't fail any integration tests. Why can't you be more like @jon?"
> In Italy the maximum cash payment is 3000 euro.

And the maximum withdrawal is 1000 euros. At last, credit cards have begun to spread.
Kenya's digital revolution continues to exclude women
Vim 8.0 has been released
This is the "if you have nothing to hide" argument against (one type of) large-scale surveillance of citizens through metadata collection.

If you're OK with the government keeping track of all but the most trivial financial transaction to protect against tax fraud and organised crime, why would you not be OK with them keeping track of your phone calls and where your car is (ANPR)?
> why should the public pay for safety testing of products?

Because private companies have strong counter-incentives to ignore or obfuscate safety issues with their products? Counter-incentives that have been shown repeatedly to have caused companies to lie, cheat, steal, and corrupt the scientific, political, and social processes in place to prevent unsafe products from being sold to the public?
> cellphone radiation

Doesn't look like one-sided research, just missing evidence. So unless you can come up with clear evidence that this radiation is harmful, I'll guess we have to live with

"to date, no adverse health effects have been established
as being caused by mobile phone use"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_hea...
iPhone 7 Review
> While a lot of the research was done by industry (which is how its supposed to, why should the public pay for safety testing of products ?)

Actually, no, this doesn't make sense to me. If a manufacturer is in charge of safety-testing its own product, there is an obvious conflict of interest and incentive to interpret the test result as favorable for the product as possible. (Or to tailor the product to the test)

To put it bluntly, you wouldn't put the wolf in charge of safety-testing the chicken pen either.

So especially for safety tests a publicly funded, independent institution would make sense to me. (Of course, keeping that institution independent is another problem)
Lol healthcare is far from being free in Japan.
Ah, I see you too have learned how to have a happier marriage.
More accurately, Danes value their welfare state and high-equality society and are smart enough to accept that it has to be paid for. Therefore any campaign on cutting taxes immediately attracts the suspicion: what services are going to be cut?
Not mentioned is that Denmark has the OECD's lowest inequality. Having visited a couple of times, it does feel like they're doing something right.
IIRC, that is also true for protected members in Java (it has been a while, though, since I have written anything in Java).

If that is a concern, you can create a new package for your type.
My BT HomeHub5 has been pretty unreliable - regular dropouts of Wifi from some Macs, similar to the DHCP thing that OP described. Then monthly reboots when everything stops. Performance is pitiful, but I blame that on the ADSL1 :)
New Hampshire to defend ban on ballot-box selfies in court
It's a bit different if you're prioritizing exposure of different faces based on their attributes though right? If you're taking a photo of a black person and a white person together you're often underexposing someone or overexposing someone.
Why not write that list here ?