skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OOM errors dropping by 30% when you go from 20 comments to 5 doesn't sound like "a job well done", that's more your initial hint to figure the hell out why 20 comments cause memory issues.
My post was not so much about spam services, more about companies, from startup to large, listed companies who simply ignore current law (opt-in) in the country where I conduct business. In these cases, the sender is mostly the beneficiary too.

Such spam mostly gets through filters which makes it costly in terms to handle.

Most folks don't even care when I tell them about current legislation - I am thinking about starting to sue these companies.
Thanks a lot for this clear analysis. I had gotten till the “difficult combinatorial question” and was stuck. Didn't think of just going into continuous space.

The “crappy approximation” is actually what I used up until now and it's good to see that I wasn't wrong in assuming it would overestimate the loss.

You made one small mistake at the end: The approximation says you loose 2.3 nats = 3.32 bits, so they actually differ by over a bit.

Btw: What did you ask wolfram alpha to get the -log m + 1 - 1/m? It was out of computation time when I asked :)
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=-+int_0^1+%28m*%281-x%2...
Or do you have a subscription?
President Jimmy Carter Speaks Out: Calls the U.S. An Oligarchy
URL was corrupted for me. Working link: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/t...
Sometimes things seem obvious to some but not others. I'm glad he put this out there.

I also put some ideas down in a Medium article last week. https://medium.com/@lanec/what-to-expect-as-a-new-ceo-9489df...

There are a lot of things to learn when you are becoming a CEO.
Of course. Unfortunately the main issue there is that people disagree on exactly how much gun ownership should be regulated.
that's also true. but at such an early stage it really helps if you do it yourself. you can and should hire later
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$2.89 seems particularly high. Would it be right to guess that you are a non-price conscious buyer in California? Here's a map for the US: http://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPriceMap?z=4

Here's a map comparing average San Francisco, California gasoline prices (one of the highest in the US) to Tucson, AZ (one of the lowest): http://charts.gasbuddy.com/ch.gaschart?Country=USA&Crude=t&P...
First Mac-targeting ransomware hits Transmission users, researchers say
There'll come a time when you realize the extent of how wrong you are, enjoy the 'me too's in your mailbox in the meantime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
> Concerned that this style of game was a significant
> departure for the brand, Stealey suggested adding
> Meier's name to the game's title, in order to get
> his fans on board.

While I get it was a marketing ploy, I still don't get the logic. Was Meyer famous at the time? If so, why was his name needed when they departed from their normal style, and not for the normal flight simulators?
Conway's Game of Life in Guile
That is a great idea. We'll add a blurb about us and our history with MIT App Inventor. Thanks for the suggestion.
I don't buy the "we do not know who Bansky is" meme.

The guy has had exhibitions at major museums, interventions where someone, at least police, should have allowed him to carry out his stuff without interruptions, and yet the media claims that all these things can be carried out by an anonymous player.

What surprises more is that pretty much everyone is falling for that fad.
So you're calling Pierre Omidyar a _______?

Did you tell your kids about Santa Claus? Did your parents tell you about Santa Claus? Does it follow that you or your parents lack integrity?

The world is not truth vs lies. There's more nuance. This illustrates why many brilliant technical people lacking marketing sense are relegated to obscurity.
It ensures that servicing is performed by qualified personnel, thereby mitigating the market for lemons.
Show HN: How to demo a product with classical animation
You simply can't enable Autopilot if the car is produced before May 2015, because it is missing the required hardware.
My vague recollection of the relevant bits of the C standard has it that there are a few differences between how pointers to void, pointers to char, and pointers to anything else are treated in some respects. This might be one of them.

"A pointer is a piece of memory/register that contains an address, and an address is just a bit pattern."

This is true on virtually every modern system, but (if memory serves) not literally every system ever, and the C standard leaves room for some surprising things in some places. It would have been very nice if the author had actually included some references, though.
You don't associate Doom with John Carmack? Or Monkey Island and Full Throttle with Tim Schafer? Or Leisure Suit Larry with Al Lowe?
They're not just gateway drugs, but also a huge problem in and of themselves. I have a friend who went to rehab for heroin and he said most of the people there were addicted to oxycodone, not heroin. Opiates are not to be trifled with, yet some doctors are more than willing to throw them at people. My other friend was prescribed Norco for a sore throat >:(
I think that people constantly devalue the achievements and accomplishments of the ancients (in this case, not ancients literally, but medieval people), and feel like they need to resort to lost civilizations or geniuses in the Elysian past.
Especially with the Middle Ages-no one wants to admit that they were capable of engineering or scientific achievements.
Show HN: Lightweight Twitter for Mac client
Zadig
I live in Mexico, and a few hundred dollars will get you a complete new exhaust system for both your car and your partners car. It won't be OEM, but it will work.

And tires, I see that as a consumable like gasoline, so wouldn't include that in the few hundred dollars.
There was also the UK ruling that VAT was chargeable on books with CDs on them, but not other books.
sure, it's how most of us work. well, as per default your contracting rates should be at least your salary + expenses and if you are any good (both, as an engineer and a salesman or at least one of the two) your rates should be multiples of that. if it's a long term contract, rates can go a bit lower. if it's a short term gig, rates go up as they need to cover your living and business expenses between gigs
http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/02/10/australia-medical-mari...

> The bill that would legalize cultivation of Australia medical marijuana is guaranteed to become law, with the main opposition party immediately pledging support
Perhaps a person who wants you to contract the said virus?
you're right. however, pot is less terrible than alcohol in basically every way.

except that alcohol currently and historically has generated huge tax revenue. if i were the alcohol lobby, i would make damn sure than no other drugs become legal and taxed.
> On BMW M3 you even need a computer to "program" a new battery.

You're "calibrating" the battery. This has been around on BMWs for a long time (my 2008 535xi had this). If you replace the battery yourself and obviously can't program it in, the car will bitch endlessly, but it'll still work.
Some people also just do things because they love doing them. Not everything needs to be monetized and optimized for ROI.
The gasoline dwarfs the initial car manufacturer, as far as environmentalism goes.
There likely exists a larger stockpile of fairly well-engineered manually driven cars than there were buggies during the advent of the automobile. This existing stock will likely buffer the robotic revolution of our roads somewhat. Also, I think the convenience delta from self-driven car to "driverless" car is smaller than that from keeping living horses to regular maintenance of an automobile.
> It was my understanding that the only true maintenance part on the Tesla was the wiper blades.

And the brakes / tires.
Yes I always liked this quote...

True, linux is monolithic, and I agree that microkernels are nicer... As
has been noted (not only by me), the linux kernel is a miniscule part of
a complete system: Full sources for linux currently runs to about 200kB
compressed. And all of that
source is portable, except for this tiny kernel that you can (provably:
I did it) re-write totally from scratch in less than a year without
having /any/ prior knowledge.
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have called it stupid, that was needlessly inflammatory.

Basically my point is that most people where you could diagnose appendicitis from elevated WBCs followed by ultrasound will probably not be in the hospital or clinic or ED in the first place. The reason this is a surgical emergency is because the symptoms are of rapid onset. Thus, elevated WBCs are of limited utility. Furthermore, because appendicitis is an emergency, ultrasound is not the preferred imaging modality–CT scans are used instead, which are relatively more expensive and expose patients to ionizing radiation.

You can choose to treat patients with antibiotics (and they've done studies), but generally over 50% of patients managed initially with antibiotics will ultimately require surgery anyway within 48 hours, and of the <50% that don't, there is a relatively high recurrence rate that will ultimately also require surgery. Given that appendectomy has a very low morbidity and mortality, this is one of the surgeries that are harder to argue against in my opinion.

From my reading of Uptodate, experts in the field feel similarly; after performing a cost/benefit analysis, initial management with antibiotics is indicated only for patients who cannot undergo surgery.
Back when Apple still made Mac OS X Server as a separate operating system, they included ClamAV¹ to scan for malware in mail. They don’t include it anymore, but ClamXav² (been around since 2004³) is a nice GUI for ClamAV that I’ve been using for a while now.

――――――

¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam_AntiVirus#Mac_OS_X

² — http://clamxav.com/index.html

³ — http://clamxav.com/birthday.html
LBRY – a P2P censorship-resistant information marketplace and discovery protocol
I don't think so:

Metal Gear and Hideo Kojima

Final Fantasy and Hironobu Sakaguchi

Mega Man and Keiji Inafune

The Unreal and Gears of War series and Cliff Bleszinski

John Carmack and Doom

Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, etc. and Shigeru Miyamoto

Assassin's Creed and Jade Raymond
That would be impossible. The code must be signed, so it cannot be tampered with. That's why they need Apple's help.
Legally speaking, perhaps. I still like to ask permission before using other people's funds though.
If I could install aftermarket side airbags I would. It's the main advance missing from the older cars.

I don't agree with your statement about the high speed collision though. If it's front on, the strength of the passenger compartment and the weight of your vehicle vs the other car are the most important thing, in which case the Mercedes is likely to come out even or better.
Running software in VMs to stay safe is not a new idea. So is it effective in this case?

Just because attackers can break out of VMs, doesn't mean that they always do. I wager most malware out there isn't set up to do that.

Locking your car door won't keep a dedicated attacker out of your car. Simple ceramic shards from a sparkplug will get them through the window with barely any effort at all. Nevertheless, locking your car doors is an effective way to reduce your risk, as it dissuades more opportunistic attackers.
I was there in 2000, on a study abroad program for communications and German.
> If you can tell a car how to make a decision between hitting an old lady in the street vs. crashing into a tree and killing the passenger and get that right enough to please the public, I'm sure we can figure out how to tell a robot in a battle situation which person to shoot . . . well enough to please the public.

I have not seen any indication that this is a solved problem and a major reason why I'm against autonomous cars as they stand today. I'm extremely concerned that in the rush to get to self-driving cars that issues like this are swept aside in the typical Valley attitude of asking for forgiveness later.

To be clear, I would love an autonomous commute vehicle that lets me work on the way to work but only if it's safe. At the same time, I love diving for pleasure and do not want a future where that's out of the question. It's a big dilemma.
Sweating and profanity, too?
Why refer to these women as 'girls'? It'd certainly stick out if anyone said that a bunch of 'boys' had learned to program a computer – it would be implied/assumed that children were doing the programming.
The media is plural, it has many agendas. So?
Here's to hoping people realize and deal with the real gateway drug: Alcohol, that great destroyer of worlds, marriages, cultures, physical health and particularly the brain, time (hangovers, boredom), coping strategies (emotional pain), real pain (coping strategies), poor decision making (you know it), and so on. Start here, and come into it with a few entrenched problems, and sure enough you'll find yourself elsewhere should time and circumstance align.

To all the magical, healing drugs that are currenly illegal: may you one day be free. http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...
The headline should definitely say "at least Mac". It so annoying to hear about "computer viruses"... (protip: it's Windows, Osx, well, maybe even Linux virus).
The Opposite of Hoarding
That's silly. The aftermarket doesn't exist for electrics because so few electrics exist.

People at hacking LEAFs already.
He came to be famous for making military sims/flight sims. When they ventured into a new genre with "Pirates" they wanted to get the people who only knew their military sims on board, so they added "Sid Meiers" to the name and this seems to have helped in getting people to consider a game in a completely different genre, because they thought of him as someone who built good games (and rightfully so, I may add).
The malware version was signed with the Transmission developer key.
I like the layout and stuff of Medium. I just hate the idea of one website being the place where everyone writes on the web. That's not the web I love. The web I love is full of home made websites and blogs. The aims of medium I can neither relate to or agree with.
Apparently you're 8 times more likely to die if your car is half the weight of the one you have a high speed collision with (sorry from memory no reference, could be bogus). Add to that the over-the-top strength of the Range Rover and even though it's a classic, I think you're going to be more likely to survive in a head on collision than 95% of other vehicles on the road.
ODB-II is really super focused on ICE systems though. I'm not surprised they omitted it from an all electric.
Why Women Are Flipping for Kate Hudson’s New Athletic Line
the fact that you say something isn't a justification of it's correctness.

a legal ruling creates PRECEDENT. you're an idiot.
Is service by third party mechanics really the dominant factor in creating lemons, and not design or manufacturing defects or abusive driving by previous owners?
"It will then sleep for three days. Note that, in a different sample of KeRanger we discovered, the malware also sleeps for three days, but also makes requests to the C2 server every five minutes."

It's fascinating!
I think the better question is how do we stop war?

I think too often the casualties of war get dismissed as collateral damage. I'm for requiring politicians that vote for war to send their offspring into battle. Put some skin in the game so as to speak...
Agreed. I'd also add that it isn't even just about rental prices, it's about an existential threat to the community.

I've noticed that opposition to airbnb is highest in highly residential areas that are also appealing to tourists, partly because of the local culture. The left bank of Paris, various neighborhoods in New York and San Francisco, and the garden district and french quarter in New Orleans. What keeps these neighborhoods great is that the are still places where people are from. "Spare" bedrooms are actually occupied by non-rent generating children rather than revenue-generating boarders. Interesting people, long term residents, a community, exists. This is one reason why the french quarter in new orleans remains more interesting than the recreated french quarter in disneyland.

Airbnb profits massively by converting housing that used to go to people who live in the community into tourist housing. They sell much more than housing, they sell the interestingness of the neighborhood, and the destroy a little bit of each time they do.

Even the "spare room rental to make ends meet" model is a bit risky. This is the least objectionable aspect of airbnb, a local resident hosting people from other places, and making enough money to make ends meet. It's certainly the image airbnb likes to market. But even this does take long term housing off the market. I live in a 3br house in SF, and the two "spare" bedrooms are where my non-rent paying kids live. I don't think a family could be able to win a bidding war against someone who buys the house and factors in the rental income of putting the "spare" bedrooms on to airbnb year-round. SF is already down to under 14% families with children, and while airbnb is hardly the only factor, I think it makes thins worse, not better.

And that's the best scenario. The worst is entire units or houses completely taken off the market for long term residents, and clearly that is also happening on a very large scale.

Prop F lost in San Francisco, but a pretty large margin (about 55-45, which is a pretty solid win for airbnb), but keep in mind, spending was almost 20-1. If it takes a 20-1 funding ratio to win by 55-45, I actually like prop F's chances in anything approaching equal funding.

That equal funding contest may never happen, but there's still plenty of fight left here.

It's a shame that such a wonderful service (a family will be out for a couple of weeks on vacation, they rent their place out here and there) has become such an angry and divisive issue. These rental sites clearly have a good use within proper limits and regulations, maybe we'll get there eventually.
The article itself does say: "the resulting 'geoprofile' was a good match for an obvious candidate: Robin Gunningham, whom the Mail on Sunday named in 2008 after an investigation into Banksy's identity... 'What I thought I would do is pull out the 10 most likely suspects, evaluate all of them and not name any ... But it rapidly became apparent that there is only one serious suspect, and everyone knows who it is. If you Google Banksy and Gunningham you get something like 43,500 hits.'"
Thanks! I agree about the lack of public comments being a big mistake. We should have just thrown Disqus in there to get it started. We tried to do a weird, more complicated feedback feature and it didn't really work out.
I've heard that Heroin was invented in first place to be a "phasing out" drug of sorts, to fix Morphine addiction...
That's resale, not aftermarket parts/modifications
you should write more often, higher quality and at more places. read more on content marketing. content marketing is powerful, cheap but takes plenty of effort. so it's a great way to get traction as a bootstrapped business without marketing budget. as with any business, being where your clients are is what counts most. check out http://affbuzz.com/ . it's a great affiliate marketing blog aggregator. reach them out and offer guest posts or work out some mutually beneficial arrangement
I understand that ads going away means loss of jobs in industries supported by advertising. It means sites may no longer have ways of supporting themselves easily.

If lost jobs and less web content is the cost of having no advertising, it's a cost I am okay with. I think. It's an internal mental debate I have on this topic from time to time.

The one and only case that I have a hard time with myself is for people that really can't afford to pay for content, people who barely can afford internet in general. If suddenly most content online becomes paywalled (though this isn't maybe a given in an ad-less web, hard to say), then a lot of underprivileged people will be left out of access to the general web, and if we want the web to be a place of easily accessible information for everyone, then this becomes a problem.

Personally, I've had enough family members' machines affected by malware from ads, and I've been to enough intrusive ad-cluttered pages across the web that I will continue ad-blocking myself (and for my family's machines), despite any particular larger consequences for the web that my result. The performance, readability, and security differences between not-ad-blocking and ad-blocking are staggering.

If all of our ad-blocking eventually kills the web... well at least short-term I didn't have to deal with ads.

A selfish, short-term view. I don't deny that.

Acceptable ads maybe is some kind of special middle ground we can all arrive at, but the problem is that "acceptable" is arbitrary depending on who the arbiter is... and so far ABP's ideas of "acceptable" are not acceptable to me. Ads from something like "The Deck" ad network are closer to what I consider acceptable.
This is mostly due to pent up demand from very wealthy customers who are not price sensitive. When Tesla (or competition) can satisfy new car demand and start selling to less wealthy consumers, the story will change
Among many, many other models both in and out of production, Teslas are not the best choice for hot rodders. Got it.
A Differential Approach to Undefined Behavior Detection
At the same time, I never can settle on a design that I like at http://sdegutis.github.io/. Every year or so I spend a whole Sunday trying to make it look better (today is that Sunday for this year I guess), and it's just always terrible so I eventually just give up and leave it alone. I kind of like the idea of not having to worry about design, and having a decent one just handed to me.
Tesla can offer a stronger warranty if they know more about the cars' life. The car is full of sensors.
Maybe it was valueclasses you heard were not possible on the jvm? I think those are indeed possible on the CLR but not on the jvm. PS: yes I know scala has value classes, but sometimes those have to be instantiated.
http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

When behavior is undefined, the compiler can legally do anything up to and including formatting your hard drive or making your computer burst into flames. It's counterintuitive, but C compilers follow the C standard and not necessarily programmer's intuitions about C.
A few personal experiences, and the stories of many family and friends, have left me with the strong opinion that surgery is a very reluctant, last resort.

Not my worst experiences, but two similar injuries left me with very differing experiences, as comparative examples. In the first one, the doctor wanted to get me into (arthroscopic, fortunately) surgery right away, without even doing an MRI. In the second, a different doctor said that, even if surgery were eventually warranted/needed, the condition had left me too weak to be a good surgical candidate. So, see a PT and work and strength-building, and see how I tolerated it.

The first doctor racked up a big bill and produced no positive effect. The second doctor saw me for one visit, got me to a good PT / rehab program, and helped me make a full recovery.

Anecdote, sure. But, combined with some other singular, not positive experiences: I'll go under the knife only when I have no other choice.