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Ask HN: Anonymous bank account?
Hi! Is there a possibility to make a anonymous bank account for recieving and sending small payments? Possibly connected with a anonymous debit card?
Fuck bitcoins. I want to know how many electric sheep [1] this beast can breed per second!

[1] http://www.electricsheep.org/
Mine is later than 1960 (but not by much), with all-mechanical controls, and I don't think it has out-of-balance detection since it will jump around and make loud banging noises long enough for you to notice and stop it. It's happened to me once or twice. A search of the Internet for "walking washing machines" reveals that this isn't uncommon, and there are many others discussing the balance problem with stories of machines moving several feet and shaking loud enough to be heard throughout the house --- but not any mention of "explosions", and very little mention of similar damage to the machine or its surroundings.

That really makes me wonder what's happening with these Samsungs --- the article has quotes like these...

One Georgia mom was pulling clothes from the dryer, with her 4-year-old son nearby, when she heard the boom and saw the damage.

...which make it sound like the machine was behaving perfectly normally, and then spontaneously self-destructed with no signs of vibration beforehand. That is very unusual. Even in the destructive videos on YouTube where the machine is deliberately unbalanced with an extremely heavy piece of non-clothing, they still shake loudly and viciously for some time before disintegrating.
How is this supposed to work on mobile?
Our little trouble seem so tiny, when you see something like https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ctk7stYWEAA10jf.jpg:large and ponder on one of our vessel landing on there.

(Don't astronauts feel a very strong version of this when they look back at the blue globe from space?)
Ask HN: Best anonymous debit card?
There's a plenty of anonymous debet cards. Which one is best?
I guess if you are a regular user (and have paid some invoices already) the limits will be adjusted automatically
MindMeister reveals the tantalizing future of cloud-based mind mapping
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12611676
Can we have a rational discussion about web technologies without resorting to insults and ad hominem attacks on an entire "generation"?
Looks like a nice build!

I'm currently running a Synology 2013j which has 512MB of RAM and a 1.2GHz Marvell Armada 370, and the only thing I'd like to speed up is PAR2, otherwise it does the job of feeding AppleTV just fine. The quad-core 1,5Ghz cores should definitely help here.

AM1 looks like a 25W CPU plus what the chipset consumes, which I don't consider to be very energy efficient anymore.

The price for the whole system (RAM, PSU, case) will probably be quite a bit higher as well.

But it looks like good option if you need a standard platform with comparatively high single thread performance.
New MIT app: check if your car meets climate targets
Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance
While the article is a bit polemic, I really wish more people knew how hash tables work under the hood.

When I was looking for a job, I flunked out of one interview where I got into an argument with an interviewer about the runtime properties of hash tables - more specifically: the interviewer was adamant their access time was always O(1), wanted me to admit my "mistake" and move on, but I just couldn't ;) It was one of those rare cases where they give you feedback on why you're not being hired, too. The lady on the phone said my "technical knowledge" was not up to par with what they needed for the position. Yeah, I'm still salty about that.
It looks like Postgres Professional is working on improving FTS. Here is a relevant presentation from Oleg Bartunov about the new RUM index and its benefits for FTS:

http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/talks/pgopen-2016-rum...
So, how come one gets so many years of experience?
You could look at using some altcoins like Monero.
And this adds a whole new set of engineering challenges and project risk. Nobody's spun up anything bigger than a rocket stage to date.
All the other reasons in the thread why civil asset forfeiture is bad aside, it seems to me like a cood vehicle for corruption, too.

Imagine I run a drug cartel and want to make a deal with some corrupt cops. How can I pay them without raising suspicion? Simple:

- Open a new bank account and transfer the payment to it;

- Given an "anonymous" hint to the cops that the bank account is connected to the cartel; (indeed it is)

- The corrupt cops could seize the money using asset forfeiture and even make a nice PR show how it allows them to make progress in the war against drugs...
I can start g2 but not p2 instances (limit 0). My AWS usage is very low, but Amazon has charged by credit card a few times so I guess I am a paying customer (not using free tier)
Some anecdata:

Somebody tried to use a university department's T2 because it was unused and reasonably parallel for some experiment on hashing.

Single core SHA1 speed on a t2 was ~300KB/s or so.
Even with its 32 threads I recommended going for any ancient desktop that happened not to be used for a couple of days because the experiment would finish much faster there.
Those desktops were about Core Duo class and managed 50-100MB/s SHA1 throughput (I think, it's been a couple of years).
My aim is for this series to be such a resource :) http://philipnilsson.github.io/Badness10k/

If you feel it's still too opaque, feel free to let me know anything specific and I will try to amend the articles with further explanation.

Categories/Functors/Monads will appear in the series in the future, as these arise as generalizations of topics discussed so far.
Fastest Longboard Bearings of 2016
Just because a language has a feature does not mean you need to use it.

We use JavaScript, but in 90%+ of our codebase we use it without 'this', without prototypes, without classes, and without other ugly parts.
Avast CEO on why it’s just spent $1.4BN to absorb security rival AVG
Our IQs have never been higher – but it hasn’t made us smart
Wow, this is nuts. I spend 5k a year in taxes for a $128k home... New York State for you...
Introducing the Startup Battlefield Scholarship Fund
And fortunately, they have enough computing power to do the math.
No, it's not. With enough data leaking, like ordering and timings attacks are computable. Only a proper collision resolution method can prevent from DoS attacks. The blog post doesn't even know about modern hash tables, not chasing ptrs in a linked list, which is not recommended where ptrs chasing is 50x slower than adjacent entries (cpu's of the last 15 years). But for newbies it's at least a beginning.
WhatsApps privacy U-turn on sharing data with Facebook draws more heat in Europe
To capture imagery of Calgary.
Is that a PC XT? Did they come with a 3.5" drive or did you replace the older ones?
Poor. See https://github.com/rurban/smhasher
StackOverflow 10k repotation
I would not use that implementation. It is broken in multiple ways. The most impactful to normal browsing is that it only supports a couple of RR types which doesn't include CNAMES.
There was a similar case of an Amiga used to control GRPS heat and AC in a school: http://woodtv.com/2015/06/11/1980s-computer-controls-grps-he...
First people need to know about it to use it. Then it needs to actually work and not fail. https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html
> Open DevTools Setting -> Experiments tab (it started being visible after the reload)

> Press "SHIFT" 6 times (enjoy it ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯) to show the hidden experiments

> Check the "Node debugging" checkbox

(emphasis mine)

Out of couriosity, why all the jumping-through-hoops? You've already downloaded the canary build, activated a hidden flag to enable experiments and will have to enable that particular experiment. Why additionally hide it behind a cheat code?
Wireless headphones and smart speakers herald a new class of devices
You what?
I wonder if this would fly in US.

> and I see no problem with this

It goes against fruit of the poisonous tree principle[1], what Danish government is doing should be wrong because it tacitly approves future illegal activity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
For all its virtues, limited liability continues to provoke criticism
How many lines of code is Candy Japan?
GMT is deprecated, please use UTC instead: "GMT is no longer precisely defined by the scientific community" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
There's also BPG [1], a javascript image decoder that can be used on the web today, with (in my estimate) about a 40% improvement over jpeg. It's a bit disingenuous to use something so far from the state of the art as baseline, but it's still an interesting line of research IMO.

[1] http://bellard.org/bpg/
Scientist.NET 1.0 released
How+to+write+a+Thesis+fast
Shorting Kabbaj seems to imply that Goldman themselves thought there was something wrong with his work, perhaps even that it demonstrated "undue influence". IANAL, but one could certainly imagine an inference like that being drawn in court.
Streaming with Apache Spark 2.0
I think you meant the evaporator; ice on the condenser would mean it's running backwards! Was it advertised as having automatic defrost/"frost-free"? Not all are. If you live in a humid climate, even the auto defrost may not be sufficient to remove all the frost.
I think the author is hiding (intentionally or not) an important part: The PUT option. This is supposed to hedge against the risk of the stock going down.

It's very possible that the Libyans were informed that they are hedged against a crash, only to discover later that the PUT counterparty got liquidated.

Any one willing to investigate this particular point deeper?
The best (observational) evidence I've seen suggests that possessions are an extremely temporary way to increase happiness. By not buying stuff the parent poster lowers his monthly expenditures and increases his invested capital bringing him closer to financial independence. Not going to say that brings happiness, but I will say that money stress seems to be a permanent happiness drain. (Again, purely an observation)
Honest question - I have several machine learning with Python books that I'm about to dive into but before doing so, which resources would you recommend a complete beginner in ML to read?
Weekly Roundup-Cyber Security, Snaps Spectacles, Artificial Intelligence
> the increased difficulty to debug the code compared to js

Elm has an amazing time-traveling debugging system: http://debug.elm-lang.org/ This is a cut above pretty much every other front-end JS framework, and languages that transpile to JS.

> the lack of third party libraries

It has JavaScript interop that's based around message-passing. The JS library is treated sort of like a service, and thus the Elm code is kept isolated from it: https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/javascript.html

> the increased difficulty to find good training courses for new junior developers you hire

The official docs are pretty good. A good programmer shouldn't have a trouble picking it up. The architectural benefits of using Elm (that lead to a high-quality, almost zero bugs website) is IMO worth it.
It really depends on how you learn.

Traditionally the best answer is to do Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course[1]. It's a great course, and you won't regret doing it, but it is kind of annoying that it is in a language (Matlab/Octave) you'll (hopefully) never use again.

A lot of people now recommend working through CS229[2]. I haven't looked at it depth, but I've been impressed with a lot of the class projects.

If you like books, then Statistical Learning in R[3] is generally well regarded.

If you like doing stuff, then Kaggle and SciKit-Learn will throw you in the deep-end. Just be aware you can't just program, though - you really do need to understand some theory. It's good to run into a problem, and then really, really understand the reasons behind what you are seeing.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

[2] http://cs229.stanford.edu/

[3] http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
Can some actula
Yes. All intelligenge agencies are by definition criminal organizations outside their home country.

While conducting these clandestine operations they may also collect information which could convict someone domestically in court... but US courts will not permit that evidence to be submitted as it was collected illegally.
Sounds to me more like the interviewer/company flunked you're test rather than you flunking - you might have dodged a bullet there.
So what about your own seemingly mostly emotion-based blanket one-sentence statement that omits even the attempt of citing prove, or even to actually examine the issue you present?

Relevant ancient educational tiny story: https://riddlesbrainteasers.com/three-philosophers-tree/

I got an epiphany moment about that story when I read a story about a medical doctor visiting a "quack" conference. There was one "esoteric" who complained about the others being "esoteric" (he practiced something else than the others, but still something weird), and the doctor looking down on them all. But the crowning part of that story was that the doctor herself held a believe by now proven to be wrong by studies. So they were all laughing about each other, in addition to the original three-philosopher problem this anecdote included a hierarchy (I am better than you), going over several levels, and it turned out the person who thought was at the top looking down on everybody else actually wasn't and should have had a good look in the mirror herself.

The hint should have been seeing that one guy lamenting that all the others were esoteric, but introspection based up on what we see in others isn't many people's string suit. No, (only) they are "stupid".

The philosophers in the little ancient Greek story/riddle managed to get to the truth by including themselves into their logical reasoning and not just think about the others. When you come to a conclusion about other people, always consider if/how it applies to yourself.
The more modern saying is that about throwing stones in a glass house... but it lacks the educational value of the three philosopher problem because it's only the "TL;DT" (too long, didn't think).
CIA is a foreign intelligence agency and in their opinion some protections do no apply to foreigners.
I felt something similar while using a VR headset with space simulator. It really changed me.
You presume too much and don't understand the story. Maybe you grow into it some day, some things cannot be taught.

Not to mention that your reply is the pinnacle of hypocrisy and stupidity. "Even when I'm wrong I'm better wrong than you!" How incredibly stupid.
Optimising LINQ
Ding ding! Hard things are hard.

It seems... at least a bit arrogant for a developer that doesn't write any of the languages that rely on these features to claim that they're insane and excessive.
They've been doing that since ~1984, but sold it to Hanwha (another South Korean conglomerate) less than two years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Techwin
Is it possible to choose a different background for 'blank ntp' extension?
> Likely how??

Those who are predisposed to buying & installing high-end graphics cards are likely to be either gamers, interested in machine learning or both
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/ has the current p2 spot prices
How does someone use a DT without some feature engineering?

I mean - I like people who say they'd try a random forest first for a given problem because it's almost always a good answer.

But yes - feature engineering is almost always the difference then.
Conway’s Law and Distributed Working
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HN interface comment:
This list is displayed badly in Android Chrome. I get an invisible 24-char-wide horizontally scrolling box to see the items in. Definitely suboptimal for reading. fovc's comment below in this thread also demonstrates this issue in the list.

Does anyone else have this issue?
Random structure generation really is a big thing to do. There are way too many parameters and possible things to happen so all it comes down to is the imagination of the developer.

I have tried generating a simple city, which took quite a while to accomplish, while I am not 100%ly happy with it, I think this is as simple as it can get: https://github.com/iMarv/CityGenerator
While I understand why have Deutsche Bank fail could be a huge issue, I also believe it's necessary to show that banks are responsible for their own bad decisions.

In at least the US and Denmark we have the concept of systemically important banks. Bank that are to big to fail. These banks will, currently always be bailed out by the tax payers. So far it seems to have worked out for the benefit of the tax payers, because the governments have managed to make money on bailing out these banks.

What I however don't understand is why governments allow "to big to fail" banks to exist. The Danish government have actively encouraged people to choose bigger banks, arguing that there are to many banks in the country. It seems like what they should do is break up banks that are large enough to harm the nations economy, should they fail.
To be fair it is a BBC site - if they started reporting times in UTC then it would just confuse the vast majority of their readers.
Breeder reactors run on a different cycle, and allow uranium to capture neutrons and turn into plutonium (spallation). Last time I checked the US had two breeder reactors operational, to make material for nuclear weapons, and one ready but not operational.

I think we could take a vast majority of the nuclear waste we have today and turn it into fuel. But it would make plutonium as part of the process, which makes some lawmakers uncomfortable since it's easier to make small nuclear bombs from plutonium.

Why can't we build a breeder reactor near Yucca mountain, have a reactor core that's completely closed off from human interaction, and breed react current nuclear waste into energy? Design it to need refueling every 10 years or so, and have local national guard present during each refueling session. Considering it should need much less interaction than a non-breeding reactor, I think the plutonium threat could be mitigated.
There are resizing algorithms out there which specifically avoid the single-insertion-spike that you're worried about.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2200345

If you're working with small data sizes, the difference between O(1) and O(lgN) isn't that big a deal, so you can use whatever you want. But once you start working with larger datasets containing millions of elements, and the only thing you care about is insertions and exact-match-lookups, it's hard to justify using a tree over a hash map.
While Germany might not step up now, the ECB will not let DB fail, it would send a shock wave through the euro block that can cause it to implode.

This is especially important now when countries like Poland have the Euro hanging over their heads.
Regular expressions can help you to solve programming interview riddles
No argument.

But for most of the datasets that most people see you won't actually do any better - you just don't have enough data for a deep neural network to work, and you probably have to do the feature engineering work anyway.
I love JS/ES2016 how it is, I seriosuly don't see the advantage of typescript except maybe for a gigantic application
> Vodafone told the Volkskrant it did not ‘collaborate’ with Appen. Appen said in a statement if it does collect data, it does so with the permission of ‘participants’. The company said it does not collaborate with ‘telecom companies’...

So basically Vodafone should sue Appen to see where this rabbit hole leads?
This is paradoxical, do you recognize?

> bringing him closer to financial independence

And what do you do with that independence if you are not going to spend it on anything? Living like that will train you to stockpile money and after you've reached the tipping point (when you can live on the interests) you are likely to continue to be the person who you were before: not spending on anything special, stockpiling money.
If anyone's wondering, here's the important bit:
https://youtu.be/erq4TO_a3z8?t=259

I suppose this technique could be modified for most UK pugs too, but I've no idea how you'd manage it for a recessed EU-type socket.
What mistake? It is routine to make claims about the world that might end up being true or false. Bald assertions don't become logically fallacious because you choose to call them "begging the question".

As best as I understand your comment, you think I need to avoid defining "useful results" of a definition of evolutionary change in terms of whether those results support a distinction between living fossils and novel species.

(I am in fact not defining them this way.)

I've claimed that of the four possibilities:

1. Our sense of "change" is scientifically fruitful,
and "living fossils" are identifiable.
2. Our sense of "change" is scientifically useless,
but "living fossils" are identifiable.
3. Our sense of "change" is scientifically fruitful,
and "living fossils" are not distinctive.
4. Our sense of "change" is scientifically useless,
and "living fossils" are not distinctive.

only (2) and (3) can occur. I could make this claim a tautology by defining "useful results" as "results which do not support the concept of 'living fossils'", but there is no reason to do that. Rather, in the event of an observation in category (1), I'd be wrong.

In my original wording, I have claimed that (4) cannot occur. That is, obviously, untrue, and that explains the parenthetical notes I attached. I'm relying on the implicit premise that when someone chooses a measurement of evolutionary change, they have some goal in mind, and therefore they will not choose a measurement that does not meet their goal.
Show HN: New version of Monod, the markdown editor
Neural Redis: simple to use neural network data structure module for Redis
To clarify, most jails are used to house misdemeanor criminals, those awaiting trial, and transferring prisoners. If you live near a state penitentiary, it's very likely that your most of your city's jails consistently have prisoners transferring out of or into that state penitentiary.
Isn't it basically a variation on giving drug dealers lenient sentences to find out who the bigger players are?
When banks are held responsible its the people who end up losing money.

You can't just let them be when they struggle because you'll end up paying double.
It doesn't mean that banks don't end up "paying" especially if there was misconduct but it's not as simple as just giving them a cold shoulder.
This may be true generally, but given the subject of the article this would be an ideal pilot for a gradual changeover
I wouldn't have worked for the interviewer, it's often just a gatekeeper you need to overcome. Also, when you don't know how to make rent next month and the company seems pretty cool (apart from that person), it's hard to see at the time how you dodged any bullets...
Vancouver charges an extra 15% to overseas investor buying property
The latest one goes on for more than an hour, and he actually has the telemarketer reminiscing facts he told him about his third eldest daughter Laurissa, right before a duck attacks! The poor guy's starting to sound very tired, but that's only 7 and a half minutes into the hour-long phone call! [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/D-RAlSGWQlI?t=7m32s
A Periodic Diet Promotes Regeneration, Enhanced Cognitive Performance
Where are storing CO2? And do we have a method to move that CO2 to another storage location?

Fission isn't a perfect solution, but it's vastly better than the current one. Having to figure out what to do with the waste is a desirable quality.
It's a little thing called decoration, you should look it up sometime...