skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're getting a new pound; it's called the "dollar".
This seems by far the most likely reason. Few scenarios would explain why such valuable possessions were left alone.

He had obviously been involved in an altercation with some controversy, otherwise he would have seeked treatment rather than go up into the mountains. So his slaying would not have been a secret that needed to be covered up, as this article posits as the reason for his belongings being untouched.
Just like “until” is commonly shortened “till”, “around” is commonly shortened as “round”.
Reading the title that's exactly what I expected, discovering that it was simply a redesign of an actual coin was a let down. I guess this is related to the UK being close to falling apart due to brexit.
The old pound coin was round. The new pound coin is 12-sided. Thus, the pound coin will still be around but it won't be round much longer.
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Yeah, there are a lot of books & experts but they're likely not going to be able to give you the actual answers you need for your particular situation.
Am I the only one who's really interested in the actual bot? The article doesn't say a lot about this, but from what it does, I can't figure out the approach used.

Did he scrape LinkedIn? I would say no, LinkedIn has a high level of understanding what bots are. Did he scrape some random websites? How did he apply to a different number of jobs in two different versions of the software? Was the whatever job posting his bot was looking at drastically changing the number of open positions or something?

Also, how did he tweak the input over time? Did he had some set of, let's say, 10 different versions of the resume and the cover letter, and then the bot just chose one randomly or was there something else?

There's so many things I'm unable to figure out on the technical side from the article that I'm leaning towards this whole "I built a bot" thing is an over-exaggeration from the author to get the message across.
There is one problem with this service offering (and it isn't insurmountable). Put yourself in the position of a founder who just spent the last 12-18+ months building your startup. Would you then be willing to hand over the reigns to someone else or to some firm to do the launching for you? Especially when the launch is pretty much the one and only chance the company has to get off the ground? Outsourcing really only makes sense when you can transfer the risk in a way that mitigates it. Here it feels like you would be increasing risk of failure if for no other reason that the launch firm has less to lose if you fail than you would.
My parents didn't get rid of theirs until about 5 or so years ago - I can't remember if it was because of the switch to a cell phone or their smaller house as they happened around the same time. I got to the point as a teenager that I tried to avoid using the phone to dial because it seemed so inconvenient.
It's a play on words. Of course they realised.
> I've never spotted a fake - they must be very good

Some regions seem to get more than others, I used to see large numbers in the change I got in London.

The quickest "tell" for me is the lettering on the edge. Some of it is shockingly poor quality and almost looks like someone took a soldering iron to draw it on.

The next time a machine rejects one of your pound coins, take another look at it, there's a good chance it's fake.

EDIT: Here's the first page I found looking for example images:

http://www.larkinweb.co.uk/miscellany/counterfeit_one_pound_...

To my eye they look really shonky.

Edit II: A couple more examples:

http://www.cryst.co.uk/category/fake-pound-coins/

http://www.employees.org/~tw/quids/quids.html

FinalEditIPromiseNoReally:

Check out this stack, they're almost comically bad:

http://blog.alism.com/wp-content/2006/08/coinstack.jpg

(found on this blog: http://blog.alism.com/fake-one-pound-coins-part-three/)
As it's illegal to knowingly pay for anything with forged currency, I deliberately never check too carefully, and assume any coins rejected by vending machines must simply be worn.
It said that the email and password was shown to be the same as a compromised account so may well have been activated by a malicious party. Don't reuse accounts and don't consider Facebook to be unimportant even if you don't like it.
After two pints it won't be distinguishable from € coin, many people have both in pockets, it's already hard for < 1 €/£ :(
Lucrative for sure as one can tell from the number of fake in circulation. Very lucrative maybe not, I doubt one can become a billionaire unless maybe if the manufacturer if he was the only one making the fakes.
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I think the more HN appropriate angle on this story is that none of Russian top news networks have reported on the protests, even though thousands of people had attended them. Imagine US networks not covering Ferguson protests, or Occupy Wall Street. Most people wouldn't even know it happened.
In terms of driving down third world poverty and lifting hundreds of thousands of people out of hand-to-mouth existences globalization is unbelievably effective. A large fraction of the rural poor in China are now skilled workers. Factory laborer wages in China have rocketed in the last 15 years just as the number of such laborers has also shot up. The massive expansion of IT companies in India is sucking huge amounts of money into the Indian economy while driving down the costs of services in the West.

So it depends on what you think is most important. Yes many manufacturing jobs have moved out of the West, yet overall unemployment in the Western world is not particularly high. In the US it's fallen by half in the last 5 years to historically fairly low levels and job vacancies are at an all time high because businesses are having difficulty finding skilled or experienced workers. the real problem in the actual jobs market is training and education, not de-industrialization.

The anti-globalization narrative is utter claptrap peddled by a 70's soviet-era industrialist view of the world where all we had to do was put everybody in factories and we'd everything would be fine. Actually, it wasn't true back then either, hence the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The globalization equation has nothing to do with transfers of wealth from Western world labour to Western world fat cats. It's mainly about transfers of wealth from Western world labour to eastern world labour. The solution isn't to reverse that trend and impoverish foreigners. It's to climb our economies up the value chain and capture more global wealth. We have been doing that, but we're just not doing it fast enough.
Lol, how is the UK close to falling apart? Do you mean literally that the union is falling apart or more figuratively speaking that the country is unravelling?
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How much costs a #DDoS attack service? Which factors influence the final price?
Is there any insight into who might be making the fakes and with what tools?
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nice what do you use for displaying graphics ?
Really impressive. Although the title sounds a bit misleading, it's only mocking stuff from what I can see (which makes sense).

I know there's some actual open source reimplementations of bits of the AWS products, such as S3. Might be worth integrating into it.
They have a relatively high value and are easily faked (currently no bimetal design like the £2 coin or 1/2 Euro coins) – and nobody looks for counterfeit coins.
> Some day, I would like to design a language that gets this right. But for the moment, I remain focused on Sandstorm.io. Hopefully someone will beat me to it.

Two language that do it: Whiley (http://whiley.org/) and Dafny (http://rise4fun.com/dafny).

I expect (but not sure) that the proving power is about the same as what can be achieved by template meta-programming.
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There's a page on the site telling you how to spot counterfeits.

http://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/counterfeit-one-p...
That's pretty good, a nice improvement. Frequency separation is one of the most common retouching techniques, but works wonders in this case as well.
Due to the lower value the risk is also much lower, apart from vending machines who actually checks coins for fake and refuse them ?

For a merchant the cost of annoying a potentially unaware customer is more than the value of the coin that he will probably simply give back to another customer as change.

Try using an actual real 500€ bill anywhere else than Germany.
> That took me completely by surprise. Is there really that much of a market in counterfeit coins? The profit margins just seem so modest relative to counterfeit bills.

If no one's checking for counterfeit coins, and the users themselves don't know they exist, it sounds like a pretty awesome opportunity for the counterfeiters.

Just take a look at the number of comments here saying the same thing as you - from a counterfeiter's perspective, it sounds pretty ideal.
Hasn't UK been fighting encryption since at least the 90's ?
What specific reason would you expect me to cite when I apply for senior developer position?
I think you'll find the accepted name is "Philip Zimbardo's weird weekend"
I didn't downvote you, but I have to say your comment neither explains what async-to-async HTTP means (and the link doesn't help either), nor why it's important, nor why the article shows that Google doesn't understand it.

Frankly, if you want to claim that Google research engineers don't understand something regarding computing, you need to make a good case for it, rather than a short comment.
A higher-level type (which is a function, if you allow functions in your type system). Examples:

List of a

One or zero of a

A randomly chosen a

A function that takes an s and returns an a and another s i.e. s -> (s, a) aka "a stateful computation returning a)
A routine that reads a file and returns an a.

In each case, the point is that you can a) write code that acts as if the k isn't there and hence b) re-use code between all of these things without changing it.

I'm going to take the opportunity to recommend http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/. Do all of the exercises, even the really basic ones. What you learn by the end will blow your mind.
They hired the former editor of The Economist John Micklethwait as their editor-in-chief a couple of years ago. That was felt both by Bloomberg News, whose articles have become more interesting for the general populace, and by The Economist, whose quality and impartiality I felt has gone down since then.
This is something I hadn't really thought about before. Aside from this, how have AWS devs done local development (have they?).
Great links, I still wouldn't notice.

Those coins just look like they've been battered a bit too much, I just assume lots of coins get really rough treatment.
Frustrate returning customers ... not a great idea
There is a strong emotional effect at play, so it's hard to say what will happen. I know someone currently buying a house, and the question of what will happen when Article 50 is invoked has been a persistent theme. E.g. in London, thousands of banking jobs may hang in the balance, with at least one bank having made it very clear internally that once Article 50 is invoked they will start planning which jobs to move - something that for that bank alone will start to shift massive amounts in salaries out of London (hundreds of millions at least)

On one hand finally getting clarity might be good news in that some people who have held back might spend more once the uncertainty of the immediate reaction is out of the way. On the other hand for a lot of people it makes things definite and will cause more cautious spending patterns, and there's still plenty of other uncertainty.

It also starts the clock, which will make people speculate about the timing.

I haven't the faintest clue how that will make traders respond. What I do know is that because I don't have the faintest clue how it will make people respond, I'm acting accordingly cautiously, and have cut my spending considerably since the referendum, and I know many others in the same situation, and indeed the UK has a whole has seen consumer debt levels drop substantially.

All this to say that it is foolish to assume that it boils down to whether or not the actual event itself is expected or not.
I played Duck Duck Goose when I was a kid in the United Kingdom.
From my understanding, all money is created as debt. Counterfeits would be an exception. What is the impact of this?
Security through obscurity isn't a bad thing. The army uses security through obscurity by using camouflage. The only issue with it is when it is only 'security through obscurity'.

For example, the National Institute of Standards and Technology recommends:

> For external-facing servers, reconfigure service banners not to report the server and OS type and
version, if possible

http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublic...
I know that, but I'm not sure they realised it's a BAD play on words
They do ignore robots.txt sometimes, the pages just font end up in serps.
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>The past few years have made me realize that your appearance only becomes more important as you age and progress in a white-collar career

You don't think the same shallow people judging your looks will judge your plastic surgery?
There are distributed filesystems (?) that offer an S3-compatible API such as Ceph http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/radosgw/s3/
What's even the benefit of anti-counterfeiting measures that people don't know about? It doesn't matter if you fail a test that nobody knows to run.

Presumably some people will know about it, but who? If banks are the only places that can detect a fake, for example, does that gain you anything?

I suppose you can do something like "ah, this bank is getting a lot of fake coins, which means they're probably getting injected somewhere in the local area, maybe let's interview some people who've been cashing them in and see if there are any businesses they all frequent". Might be valuable.

Something I've missed?
They use coins from South Africa which are made from the same planchets. They put those into a hydraulic press with hardened steel dies.
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> The rich get richer and the poor, poorer.

How do you explain the massive transformation of China from a backward rural basket case, to a dynamic modern manufacturing led economy in which industrial employment and industrial labour wages have both rocketed in the last 20 years?

That has come at a cost. Manufacturing really has transferred from the West to the East. Yet the West doesn't have mass unemployment and job vacancies for skilled workers are at an all-time high in the West.

The problem is that low skilled jobs have gone East and the West is moving up into high value services jobs, but our training and education systems have adapted too slowly to bring our worker pools along for the ride. The answer is not to turn back the clock, it's to ride the economic wave and up-skill our labor pool because too many people in the west are being left behind in unskilled jobs, when actually there are plenty of skilled job vacancies available compared the the actual number of unemployed.
Bulk shipments of as many as 500,000 have been intercepted in the past, although that was further up the distribution chain than someone trying to actually pass them off in retail: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-33650317
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Only 3% of "money" is cash.
Which also tallies with the stylistic ripples emanating from the centre of the coin in the promotional video, when the 'hidden feature' is mentioned.
Article 50 has been priced into the markets for months, I’d be very surprised to see any significant movement.
1cc?
but ... but ... we are ... meritocracy ...
Thanks to the "you see what you expect to see" effect, it took me until someone pointed out the pun before I realized the word was "round" and not "around".
Maybe it's the niches. What was your old blog about compared to the new ones?

Also, the sheer amount of material you have to compete with for people's attention is insane these days.

I also wonder if most people still read long articles. Do people prefer video or podcasts over lengthy articles?
> I think our recent history with Trump, and the increasing friction with China suggest that perhaps the celebration of Pinker's ideas was a bit premature. As Taleb has shown us, a long period of peace doesn't mean that violence is declining or that we can presume that it will never reoccur with the magnitude and intensity we saw during earlier periods.

I highly doubt the increasing friction between the USA and China (and the rest of the world to be honest) is leading to any sort of third world war so I'm confident that a tendency to violence does in fact decrease in certain societies.
Because new kids graduate from the decadence of their family-provided lifestyle and come out into the world fresh, looking for ideas that help them gain an understanding for why the world is so broken: so such things as the conclusions made by this experiment are ever-more valuable.

It is disingenuous to assume that because something is 'old' in your eyes, 'everyone knows it already'. This is clearly not the case - if everyone knew just how bad human beings can be when granted power, perhaps there wouldn't be such heinous conditions in the halls of power as we have today.

Fact: either we re-fresh discussing the uncomfortable truths about human existence on frequent occasions, or we end up unwittingly repeating them. Also, frequently.
I've only heard recently about the imposter syndrome, and I feel bad for people who are feeling it. Note that I'm french, 45, and I think it's a very english or even american thing. Maybe the imposter syndrome is when you wonder more what others will think than what you're thinking yourself?

From this outsider position I have, it sounds like a very unlucky choice of words (imposter, fraud) for a human feeling that comes from lack of self-esteem... Psychologists should know better.

Conclusion: you can live a happy life without the "fear" of being an imposter or a fraud. Anyway, you should know when you're doing right or wrong, and that's what counts.
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You don't need to manage a password of an abandoned account.

Just make it long and random.
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If only bitcoin exchanges were actually secure...
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It's super cool, but this coin is not used in general circulation and is more or less only a collectors item.
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It looks like the only problem is they've missed off the GoDaddy intermediate certificate (which presumably most users will have cached from other sites). Funny how all the more complicated things like ciphers are considered well-configured but something simple like this is missed, but I guess it's an easy mistake to make (if you're not checking ssllabs) depending on how the certificates have been supplied by the vendor.
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My personal view is that people are not used to read blogs anymore, everything has moved to few big social networks. Medium is popular too, but it's more of a HN bubble thing.

People share and like things on social media for their headlines or agenda.

While I'm crying the blogs are dying out, I have noticed myself checking and finding new ones less and less too, despite having HN as my only social media.
And yet GP suggests facebook should frustrate returning customers who log in first time with the correct password.
To me, there are just more and more content posted out there. So yes, blogging has become a lot harder. To stand out, your content must not only be of great quality but also be shared and promoted by your readers.

If your retention is low, I advise you to create a subscriber list, if not done already.
Kivy actually is completely optional, python-for-android doesn't require any particular frontend. The main supported options for guis other than Kivy are SDL2 (you can use e.g. PySDL2) or a webview, but it's designed to be easy to add more options.
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"Inspector Horn reckons Ötzi was in no hurry. At 10,500 feet, he made what appeared to be a camp in a protected gully on the mountain saddle, spreading his belongings around and sitting down to his last meal."

It seems the site where he was found was the actual camp site.
OS/2 Warp is from 1994.
> We like impostor stories because we’re afraid we’re impostors (2016)

> We like impostor stories because we’re afraid we’re impostors (2016)
If you don't straighten your mat, your ass will get sore.

And damn, that man had long thumbnails. Never noticed that.
Interesting thought if, obviously a huge if, this or something similar turns out to work as advertised.

Would the drug be left unpatented as a gift to humanity, highly unlikely, or exploited for every penny like viagra?
Clashing in hashing
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Poe's law is failing me here.
I don't think they've changed; if they have, it wasn't recent. Stripping the hash doesn't break anything that I've noticed - I assume it hoses their "share this story" tracking, but I don't really care about that.
Well, it's a "compliance car": http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/fiat/500/87129/sergio-marchionn... . It would be far better if they took the idea seriously and did a proper electric car.

Pity, because I quite like the styling. They're nowhere near that cheap in the UK (ebay has exactly one, at £11,000) while Leaves are widely available.

Depreciation seems to be brutal for electric cars, and not just for the battery. It's more like the mobile phone market in the early 2010s: every year brings new features and is noticeably better.
-It would definitely be amusing, but given the current state of affairs - basically, the public is ignorant and vending machines are used to weed out the fakes - I don't think your average counterfeiter would care.

After all, your fakes don't need to be perfect; they just need to be good enough to enter the system without you getting caught every time.

(Which leads me to wonder - how do counterfeiters insert their fake coins in the monetary system? Where can you spend a lot of coin without arousing suspicion?)

-Coins sold at a discount to people who, perfectly aware they are fakes, use them for small purchases?

-Perhaps more likely - the customer is your friendly neighbourhood cigarette shop, which then mixes them in the change they give?

-Are some vending machines so bad at detecting fakes that you can use those (preferably ones with no security camera watching, which can be a challenge in the UK nowadays) to launder your fakes?

-Other?

Off to google I go. I really wonder how one can make a viable business model from getting fake coins into circulation.

I just looked over the £1 coins in my desk drawer (22!) - I found two dodgies. Perhaps I should bring them to the UK next time and ask in a bank - they may be just worn...
You should be able to actually delete an account, not just "deactivate" it.
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>Are they completely nuts?

Given their scale, Facebook doesn't have to ever delete anyone's account information, since they have enough money and power to keep everything indefinitely. Deleting account information would probably be like deleting money, since that data likely has real value (more so if someone changes their mind about deleting their account) even if it's no longer public.

It's not nuts, it just seems a bit mercenary. But then, Facebook is bigger than many governments now, so it also seems to be working in their favor.