skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big surprise the downloads-provided primarily online currency has better online security than the single page landing site of a primarily physical currency.
But the batteries don't have a capacity of 0.0385 MW-days. They have a capacity of 0.0035 MW-days when brand new, or 0.0032 MW-days if degraded to 90% capacity. (It looks like they divided kilowatt-hours by 2 instead of 24 to get kilowatt-days.) Not only that, but it looks like off-peak power is about 70% as expensive as peak power, so it'll cost $70 per MW-day to charge the battery.

Year 1 (corrected): 0.0032 MW-days x ($100 - $70) x 365 days = $35.04

Edit: This assumes they're cycling the battery once per day. Presumably there's only one period each day when they can sell at peak and one period each day when they can buy at off-peak.
At least for Euro coins (are these more difficult to fake?) it often happened to me that some vending machine accepted a coin only after multiple tries.
There's no single law. Is there a law in Somalia that allows US killing arbitrary people there, unilaterally? Is there such a law in Yemen? Syria? In Syria if you follow the letter of the law, and intention of the (idiot) leader there, he's against the US involvement, it would be a murder. What law was in Vietnam, that killing was somehow justified by it?

In international arena, there's no universal law.

Some idiots killed a few thousands Americans, and then some Americans did go on a killing rampage as a revenge, murdering 10s of thousands mostly unrelated people. That's about how it looks from the outside.
There was no deleting option years go, it only came to exists recently and there is no proof that any deleting is actually happening only that outside access is disabled.

I remember an insider interview a while ago explaining that at any time facebook hold several, seven if my memory is correct, copies of every data ever collected on all users and non users. Surveillance capitalism.
I'm not sure what you are suggesting facebook should do.

They can't very well just assume all attackers will set the evil-bit now can they?

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

The automated system has done "the right thing" and fallen back to manual verification when it detected suspicious activity. They can't request id for every activation or reactivation.
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> and often take more than minimal effort to dispute

This is where all ability to have a rational discussion breaks down in many cases, especially when people care a lot about their initial opinions.

Take an issue like evolution. You start with a source like https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/her/evolution-an..., which outlines a pretty good case for how evolution is supported by today's evidence. It gives plenty of lines to follow if you're curious to dig deeper, and absent other factors most people would just see it as a boring science thing that's probably true and they don't care much about.

But because some people are bothered by the idea, they've spent a lot of time thinking up objections. A whole lot of time. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objections_to_evolution for summaries of just some of the complaints that people have come up with. These have all been thoroughly demolished, of course, but to do so often involves a lot of really labor-intensive science.

As far as science goes, that's all good - it's great to be detailed and thoroughly justify every piece of a theory, chasing any loose ends down at any cost. It's part of the job description.

But casual debate about the issue is devastatingly difficult, even if everyone is acting in good faith. All someone that has a problem with evolution has to do is throw out three or four big complaints (the eye! carbon dating! transitional fossils! micro vs macro-evolution!) and all of a sudden a proper response to their 3 minute "gotcha" attempt means a good half hour sourcing high quality rebuttals and summarizing them in the thread. Which will likely each bring up three or four points which the anti-evolution person can quibble with (and they'll be able to do so quickly). Assuming you make it through that gauntlet and the person accepts that you've shot down those points, a list of ten more fresh "problems", each of which requires detailed research and attention to shoot down, is a low-effort Google search away (say https://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/07/what_are_the_to_1/), so you can get "yeah, but!"-ted into oblivion until you're just not up to the task of responding anymore, even though you absolutely could address every complaint without difficulty, if you had the time.

Like you said, moving the goalposts. When you have an almost limitless sea of low-effort objections to draw from via Google (which you do, about almost anything, as long as a lot of people have spent time coming up with them), it's easy to put up a shitscreen so thick that nobody can ever break through, and not even realize that you're acting badly.

I know that rationalists very strongly believe that with enough good-faith discussion everyone's beliefs should ultimately align, and there should never be such a thing as agreeing to disagree, but I fear that in many cases the relaxation time to that state is prohibitively long.
What happens if they have to remove the thistle and the shamrock after Brexit?
One could replace a coin by a small circuit that represents a physically unclonable function and a cryptographic certificate by the state, saying that this is a valid coin.

Make it look like a normal coin so people can trade by hand, but in any store interaction they could be checked.
That works great until you have to actually remember it.
Our government has said yesterday that encryption is bad and helps terrorists. So why should they use it for websites?
Minio is awesome, I use it in production to store many TBs of data and never had any issues. The clustering functionality could use some additional work (or I just havn't understood it right) and it would be nice to be able to generate multiple keys/users.
Nitpick, but you mean the Eurozone specifically.
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My guess it's because the production cost is too high, and counterfeit euro coins aren't a big enough problem to warrant them. Also having a germany-only euro coin in wide circulation would be a bit backwards and impractical, so they would have to implement them in all 19 euro countries.
In my (limited) experience, I've found that I get the majority of my traffic from aggregation sites such as HN and /r/programming.

So writing posts that appeal to these audiences is one way to get engagement.

But I've only been blogging for <2 years, so I can't comment on whether it's harder than it once was.
Breaking news: they delete nothing, at best outside access is disabled.
Who says they don't have plans to apply this technology in quantity production in future (just not yet)? I consider it as a very sensible choice to use a one-off collectors item to make a first test towards mass production.
Deactivate is different from delete. They knowingly only show deactivate which keeps the data, the link for delete is not immediately accessible from their site. https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
Those are good and important questions.

Our old "1.0" store architecture did in fact decompose things into multiple services. It has a separate ACL microservice that every microservice had to consult in order to perform permission checks. That was a really bad, stupid bottleneck.

For our new architecture, we decided to move things into a single integrated, opinionated package that's operationally simpler to deploy and run and reason about. It's also highly focused and intended for composition: The permission system, for example, is intentionally kept simple to avoid it blooming into some kind of all-encompassing rule engine; it only cares about data access, and doesn't even have things like IP ACLs or predicate-based conditionals. The idea is that if you need to build something complicated, you would generate ACLs programmatically, and use callbacks to implement policies outside of the store (the "comments only editable for 5 minutes" is an example of this), and maybe someday we'll move the entire permission system into a plugin so you can replace it with something else.

It's also important to note that the store isn't the Data Store To End All Data Stores. It covers a fairly broad range of use cases (documents, entity graphs, configuration, analytics), but it's not ideal for all use cases. There are plenty of use cases where you'll want some kind of SQL database.
So is the 'hidden high security feature' NFC? Something similar?
???

Pretty sure the knowledge that there will be a new £1 coin has been known far longer than brexit has even been a thing.
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The ones that are connected to fibre are great. Free 200Mbit connection! But then there's the ADSL ones...
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Many commenters in this thread are speculating on how counterfeiters are inserting the, apparently large volume of, counterfeit coins. Maybe one source is actually unrepudible /merchants/. In dispensing change to customers, market participants it would seem be less likely to scrutinize the coinage.
> I'm acting accordingly cautiously, and have cut my spending considerably since the referendum

thankfully you aren't the majority; we really would have had a recession if everyone had cut their spending
If you do it on a large enough scale you'd get inflation as you have more money supply for the same amount of goods so that the money loses value. This would then lead the central bank to raise rates to counteract inflation. This in turn is bad for the economy (more expensive to take out a loan leads to less investment) so you could get a recession. I doubt that you'd be able to inject enough counterfeit money for that, though.

However, most central banks do that on a much larger scale at the moment to get that inflation and it doesn't really work (the Bank of England has stopped that though).
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You can delete accounts, but the function is hidden and you have to search the help section to find it

https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
It seems this has been submitted before, but I found it fascinating and it's a subject I've seen discussed with interesting results here before. Perhaps it will get some more activity going this time around :)
I have an email from when I _deleted_ mine (September 2010):

Subject: Account scheduled for deletion

"Hi Mathew, We have received a request to permanently delete your account. Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days. If you did not request to permanently delete your account, please login to Facebook to cancel this request: http://www.facebook.com/login.php Thanks,The Facebook Team"

I know there was a difference between deactivate and delete, deactivate tried to guilt trip you ( like this http://mashable.com/2009/07/22/facebook-deactivate-account/#... ) whereas delete had some hoops on the form to jump through.

I've just checked by attempting to log in - "The email address you entered does not match any account"
Facebook is worthless, less than .1% reach in some cases unless you pay for ads to reach your own audience
Even in professional chess, openings are almost "by the book". There are quite a few main lines of openings and play is almost always along one of them, or variants thereof.
A friend failed opening it at all (while I can open it in FF51) and clicking it directly from discord gave tons of SSL issues (screenshotted here: https://s.ave.zone/556.png ). Yeaah, pretty secure, I guess.
>I still hadn't realised they might be fake, though.

Yeah, I was the same until a machine failed and a colleague said that the coin might be fake.

There is something rather delicious in the fact that we're so used to machines and computers failing that the idea the coin could be wrong never entered our heads!
The tech is there to do a rough approximation of a dozen combinations of this. I could imagine an intermediate step where a wire-frame mesh is constructed around the image. As I understand (And I know nothing of this stuff), there was already an app to take a picture of breasts and jiggle them.

I think it's just that nobody has put all of the pieces together yet. (Or if they have, the mainstream media hasn't heard about it)
No but that's also not what happens on Amazon. Prices may double but that's also pretty standard for fruits & vegetables when supply doesn't match demand.
Same for Euro notes. It often takes multiple tries of trying to straighten out the bill before a vending machine will eat it.
For some unbeknown reason, a telephone company installed three new phone boxes on the high street in my town last month. Two are no more than 100 yards from each other. My cynical theory is that they are being used to track footfall using wifi connections (but I have nothing to prove that). Very odd considering most councils are aiming to reduce the amount of 'street furniture'.
Perhaps you should take a step back and reread what they actually said.
You should probably share the fixes that made it compile (let alone work) for you. I'd like them, anyways.
there are three pillars of "editorial content traffic generation"

- social
- search
- newsletter

it does not really matter which with one you start

a) first you need to get one of them right

then b) "the strong feed the poor", convert them from one channel into the other. and yeah, if you do it baldy (i.e. newsletter popups, constant reminder to follow you on fb, ...) 99% will hate you, but you can iterate on the 1%.

the big questions: why do you need the quantity? if you do not have a quantity traffic dependent business case (i.e. adsense) then a few people who value your input can be more rewarding then 10 000 skimming over your content and clicking away the newsletter popups & follow me on fb call-to-actions. the strategy follows the goal, "lots of traffic" in itself is a poor goal.
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Yes, I saw a 25GB per month home broadband offer this week. Unlimited was moderately more expensive. I guess some people don't need more than that.
Is it a curve of constant width like the 20p and 50p? If its sides are straight it cannot be.

Also from wiki:

> The new design is intended to make counterfeiting more difficult, via an undisclosed hidden security feature, called 'iSIS' (Integrated Secure Identification Systems). [1]

Huh.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_pound_(British_coin)
> I'd like to see more books about how people actually argue in life and how to change their view.

Rule #0 for changing someone's view is that they have to actually be open to changing their view. It's surprisingly common that people will explicitly admit, if you ask them, that there is no realistic evidence or argument that could possibly change the side that they're on.
Indeed, the biggest problem with security through obscurity is not that people use it, but when people overestimate the level of protection it gives them and reduces other protections accordingly.
Not Brexit, just a hard fork.
> "security through obscurity"

My understanding is there is some luminescence profile that is very easy to create from basic chemicals if you know the quantities of those chemicals. But that it is very difficult to establish the precise quantities from the luminescence profile. In effect, a "one-way chemical reaction hash".
> So you think a professional job is exactly the same as working on a supermarket checkout?
> An attitude like that will get you filtered out as not a culture match in a lot of places.

There are people who are able to work with people who do not much their culture perfectly, you know. There are even people who like working with people of differing experience levels instead of perpetuating their frat boy days well into their thirties; do you believe it?
Coins?

How much longer will we be using coins for?
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I don't hold my breath either. I marked all content as removed, before deleting the account, and removed all advertising topics, and yet after a month of not using FB, the advertising topics were re-generated as if the old content was there. Also a few posts that I marked as deleted popped back in and were showing again.

But nevertheless, they advertise that they actually remove the content, when you delete the account (saying it can take a few months before they prune all the backups from it), so it would be fraud if they did not. Also EU, there's a right to delete.
The old one and the newer two are about understanding foreign cultures. The old one was about a particular country while the newer ones are focused on vibrant major cities. I know if I focused on tourism, I'd get more of an audience but since I blog for pleasure (and like digging into national identity, urban planning, historical changes and the arts), I prefer to produce content that interests me rather than write for clicks.

I also wonder about the same things (re:last two lines you wrote). I'd love to make a podcast, like 99% Invisible, but who wouldn't?
The UK has a large market in coin-operated gambling machines - there are heavily-regulated low-stakes ones in all kinds of non-casino locations and, I think, higher-stakes ones in legal betting shops.

A relative who works in the industry told me he sees large numbers of counterfeit pound coins. I would guess counterfeiters might launder coins through machines. Or even, though I've never seen it, sell discount coins directly to gamblers? In any case machine recognition would be a high priority. The machines in question would be relatively unsophisticated ones with a thickness gauge and a 'ski jump' that effectively checks the weight.
How do they determine that, though? All of the artifacts appear to be belongings that he would be carrying with him, as far as I can tell. Perhaps the location is inherently very accessible? But that could have changed over millennia (which might also explain why he turned up after so long).
Here in the UK the red phone booths are such a cultural symbol that they tend to stay around, but it's rare to see one with a phone inside. Villages get creative in finding uses for their phone both. I have seem them used as a mini-library or housing a defibrillator.
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> Many commenters in this thread are speculating on how counterfeiters are inserting the, apparently large volume of, counterfeit coins

I've written elsewhere that I reckon other criminal channels might be in use.

If you offer your street level drug dealers a choice of 1,000 pounds in "real" money or 2,000 in "fake," (or a mixture of them both) that'd probably do the job.

I'm working off the assumption that there's the exact same problem with distributing drugs.

Like, what would you do with a kilo or two of cocaine just lying around? Get many smaller dealers to handle the problem for you instead and make their money along the way.

If you also have some fake money lying around, I can't see any reason why you wound't try to combine the two.
If you know the 'wrong' people you can buy £100 of pound coins for £40 (if they don't work in vending machines) or ~£80 (if they do work in vending machines).

This is a thing in black market channels, so, for the junkie with nothing in life except where the next high is coming from, you can imagine that they can spend all day passing off these coins to get legitimate cash back, for that next high and for that next batch of counterfeit coins to pass off.
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Just tell politicians to submit to surveillance, after all, they should have nothing to hide.
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I was cheated in the most crude way in London once - gentlemen selling African street food gave me (in my change, amongst other coins) a coin that looks and feels very much like a British pound, but is Ugandian (IIRC) and has some kind of ostrich-like bird's head on it instead of the Queen's.
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Perhaps that's the point. They have a secret method for checking the authenticity of a coin such that counterfeiters do not know to imitate. This doesn't help the population to distinguish counterfeits, but it may help the government more easily keep track of the ratio of counterfeit coins out there.
I think this will be a Crim2Crim business model, selling £100 fakies for £50/£40/£30 real to other crims depending on volume.

I'd be interested to find out about who makes the molds / dies and sets up the machines to manufacture these. I like to think its some eccentric retired machinist in a shed in the middle of the Yorkshire countryside :)
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I was thinking a pouch-couch situation for offline-first usecase.

Basically I'd use gun-gunserverside on multiple clients, and get sync free on the clients, when the clients come online.
Why Brexit? Do you mean Scottish Independence?
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> Hidden high security feature – a high security feature is built into the coin to protect it from counterfeiting in the future.

I bet there's an RFID in each coin that uniquely identifies each one. If true, it'd also let them (or a thief!) identify the total value of the coins jingling in your pocket.

> Approximately one in thirty £1 coins in circulation is a counterfeit.

That seems incredibly high! Anyone have comparable stats for US dollar bills or 1 Euro coins?

> The legal tender status of the round £1 coin will be withdrawn on 15th October 2017. From this date shops will no longer accept these coins, but you will still be able to take them to your bank. We would encourage you to use your coins or return them to your bank before 15th October.

Six-months is a pretty short window for something like this.

What prevents a shop from accepting the coins after Oct 15th and then they take it to the bank?

Also, how does the 1/30 fraud number impact the returns of the current pound notes?
Decent or not is irrelevant to the triggering of the breached credentials. You could have the best possible password ever, once you give it to a service that stores it plain text it's game over.

The actual password issue here is password reuse and what should have been done is not having a facebook account in the first place. Is it even possible to get out of facebook once your data is in there ?

The user being the account owner, we do know (provided we trust him) that it was not him so yes it was reactivated without any user input.

From what I gather it could be that email/password was used on another service that got breached and either a bot or someone trying all those breached credentials on facebook caused the reactivation, or a relative that knew the user/pass or facebook trying to collect more personal data on old inactive accounts and inadvertently getting exposed once again.
I note that "this person does not represent the majority of feminists" isn't No True Scotsman for any definition of feminist. Someone can be a feminist while not representing the majority of feminists.

"This person is not a feminist" would be NTS for some definitions but not all.
Please don't blame the user for this terribly-unfriendly UI flow.
I'm a young developer, but if my experience is anything to go by I think that this age bias is driven by a desire for cost-efficiency over quality. It's cheaper per unit of work (for some fuzzy definition of unit of work) to hire two young developers than one experienced one, even if the quality of the latter's work would be superior. I'd say I'm a good developer, but I think my employability is as much due to my low wage requirements as it is due to my skill.