skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The researcher's blog post is much more informative: https://blog.fortinet.com/2017/06/09/macransom-offered-as-ra....
Just out of curiosity: Do you have difficulty hiring people?
That's 200 resources per CF template. That's a massive CF template :)
Culture comes from the top and Uber's is pretty rotten.

I did an interview there this year and it was the most aggressive questioning I've ever had. Two of 5 interviewers were really in my face while architecting systems; it was bizarre and I almost walked out. Nothing compared to the 'cultural' interview where there gave me an example of them knowingly breaking the law because "they knew they were right" and then asked if I had a similar work experience I could describe. I told them I have never knowingly or even likely unknowingly broken the law at a job.

I was trying to use them to counter offer another company but in the end they never returned my calls or contacted me to say if I got the job or not.
AHH TYPING OF THE DEAD! Best typing game ever (helps that it's just a rework of an actual rail gun shooter). From a gameplay simulation perspective though, mouse is the only method that I feel provides any relatable idea of aiming. Just being able to directly jump between targets would definitely be "more efficient", but so is an aimbot, both sort of defeat the general gameplay design.
Should be a prerequisite to owning a gun, after all we allow people to drive a car only after they have passed a test, why not also with guns.
You've been on a tear of uncivil and unsubstantive commenting, and it has to stop. Often a good strategy for this is to slow down. High-quality reflective posts are what we're after instead of dismissive, snarky reflexive ones, and the former come more slowly.
My vote would go to the cloning bacteria.
I just tried it out in Word, apparently it isn't. :)
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Is Taking a Leave of Absence
Regular backups with the drive disconnected from your machine when you're not backing up or restoring and a second (or more if you're paranoid) drive somewhere else entirely in case your house burns down. The best free options here are jwz's method[1] and Time Machine. Ransomware can't encrypt files that it can't access because the drive is disconnected, and by having a spare somewhere else (updated once a month or so) you prevent yourself from losing everything if you don't notice the malware and it eats your local backup drive.

I use Little Snitch configured in Silent mode to Deny All and then I allow only the things I want to go outbound out of my machine (though I do let my machine talk to my home network freely). You might want to consider that.

I also use Avast's free antivirus for the Mac, but with the Email and Web shields off. I find that overkill when I have the File shield (real-time protection on file access) already enabled.

[1] http://nullrefer.com/?https://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html

(Edit: fixed the referrer to the jwz page)
Jessica Alba to add another. It's so easy to not be taken seriously but her Honest company is now valued at $1 billion.
The information is in the links provided:

https://www.alienvault.com/blogs/labs-research/macspy-os-x-r...

https://blog.fortinet.com/2017/06/09/macransom-offered-as-ra...
it's projection geometry. You create a geometry object with the earth's surface shape. Another with the moon's surface shape. Then, a light source that emits from a sun's shape. All objects are placed at the appropriate distances, and made to rotate and translate through space according to normal orbits.

Then, you project the light from the sun onto the earth, with the moon in-between. This creates the 2D shape on the earth's surface corresponding to the shadow.

I've set up something very similar to this in Blender, although its floating point precision was too low, so I had to fudge things a bit.
What is the best virus scanner for Mac?
or a used last-gen phone, unlocked and with a new battery.
The article (which I'm sure you read) is not about IIHS testing. It's about NHTSA testing. Also, I believe that Tesla planned on tweaking the car for this IIHS issue.
I really don't buy the Travis Kalanik hate. Yeah, Uber started out as your typical SV unicorn (bro warts and all). Yeah, Uber's entire business model can be described as "grey-area" at best and its business practices as sometimes exploitative.

But this is exactly how you're supposed to run a massively successful startup in its first decade. This is exactly how FB started out. And this follows every rule in the startup book to a tee. Look, we can't have it both ways, guys. The recent stuff about Travis has been downright witch-hunty. I mean, every single article about the "leaked" memo was headlined as "You can have sex with your coworkers -- if..." I mean, come on.

There was literally nothing wrong with the email, but every single paper covered it in some weird passive-aggressive way. Same with the previous story where TK gets in the altercation with the Uber driver on video. Travis was (yet again) 100% in the right there, but everyone spun it like he was being some kind of asshole, when the driver blindsided him.

To be honest, I'm no Travis Kalanik fanboy (in spite of sharing the same alma mater), but the guy obviously knows what he's doing. He found, by accident or not, a market desperately in need of disruption and absolutely nailed it. Uber is a cultural phenomenon that arguably has more longevity than something like Facebook.

I just think he's been treated unfairly because of his playboy flair, but he's actually a pretty smart, ruthless business leader. Even this story tries hard to dehumanize him (cut him some slack; his mom just passed away). I don't really understand why.
> People spend far too much time ruminating about what makes an especially productive programmer. Essentially it comes down to making good choices most of the time, so basically IQ.

Are making good decisions and IQ directly correlated?
Yesterday there was a post about Marissa resigning, and it was nothing but "I can't believe she has been payed this much for sinking Yahoo".

My pet theory is that the first comment or so sets the mood, and the opposing camp can't be bothered to participate where their opinion will be met with critique.
I don't think that's necessary fair; she has far more celebrity attached to her name than just about anyone else who could have taken the spot.
Disagree. HTML is a fine output format, but one that can always be generated from plain text. HTML is a poor storage format for the editable 'raw' content itself.

Images, videos, and animations can all be done in markdown -- they're just references to files.

Even something as small as the the MathJax CDN getting retired means that I have old HTML notes which are now 'dead'. If I don't have the markdown/rmarkdown source for them, realistically, they're just not coming back.
Yeah. The TL;DR is "Two people wrote some ransomware for Mac and put it on _the dark web!_"

Well, who really cares about that? That's not an especially novel thing to do. It's basically a drop of spit in the ocean.

Someone wake me up when Mac malware goes viral because it's not entirely reliant on users making mistakes. Or if it uses some sort of vulnerability that I need to get patched.
True that, he created shareholder also, but that is forgotten here. Not that I'm a fan of ballmer fyi
The "by" line in the Amazon listing refers to the manufacturer. The sellers in the linked example have names like "TopPicks" and "South Side Enterprises" (and are probably doing what Pirate Joe did, but without crossing national boundaries, for a customer base of people like me* who live 1.5 hours drive from the nearest TJ's but like the products). TJ doesn't officially sell online.

*I've never actually patronized any of these sellers, but I've been tempted.
I don't see the point of booking something without knowing the weather unless you don't care about throwing it away and going somewhere else. My initial plan was to book several hotels in different areas, but it seems like every hotel inside the path of totality requires a 2 week notice to cancel (and this was months ago).

Since I'm about 1.5 hours from the path of totality in Georgia, my current plan is to drive out at like 3AM (before the roads have a chance to get packed) and just stay in the area.

If it looks like the weather isn't going to cooperate, I'm going to leave a day earlier. Get a hotel outside of the path of totality, and do the same thing I was planning to do at home (leave at 3AM to drive into it).
Nowadays you can just stick a class property anywhere in your React component:

handleSomething = (params) => {
...
};

and the use it in your render function like this without any binding:

<Foo onSomething={this.handleSomething}/>
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick taking leave of absence
> Software development has absolutely nothing to do with code entry speed.

I think this is false. I think, then I type. Then I think, then I type. The more time I spend entering code, the more I lose context on the problem. So while it's not as simple as "speed * time = total amount of code written", I'm fairly certain that code entry speed has a significant impact on my productivity.

Typing speed and use of shortcuts may not be the most important skills for a software developer, but I think it's borderline ludicrous to claim that they're irrelevant. For a trivial counterexample, try coding using an onscreen keyboard and mouse.
Checkout CommonMark http://commonmark.org

The spec is still not final. Github is going to base their flavor ontop of it https://githubengineering.com/a-formal-spec-for-github-markd...
Unless they've changed something in iOS11, no. I jailbroke my iPad Retina and connected it to a mouse a few years ago. Not a great experience.
Sure. I'm an Aussie that has lived in both Melbourne and Seattle.

Melbourne is a great tech hub, but nothing compared to SF, SEA Aand NY. There is no real way to get funding from public investors, you have to talk to "old money" (though this was a couple of years ago, this may have changed).

There was a great article I read a while back talking about Atlassian's move from AUS to USA.

When they were starting up JIRA they had to do it from $10k credit card debt. No investors in Australia wanted to touch them. So they moved to the USA and got funding almost immediately.

From memory Atlassian was profitable very early on. I'm not sure what's wrong with investors there. A lot of our economy is run from raw materials, so maybe they just don't get it?

EDIT:

My experience is that software engineers are very intelligent there. I've worked with a lot of smart people in the gaming industry and mobile.

The issue is a lack of leadership and funding.
> the european system does pedestrian and safety for other cars.

I had no idea this difference existed. That's really interesting!
Leap3 Thinks Outside the Box to Defeat Dharma Ransomware
Hey! Chris here - I'm the interviewer in this podcast.

This was a good talk with Brian (I think he posts here as casjam if you want to look him up).

If anyone has questions about the episode, feel free to post 'em up! I'm happy to stick around and answer.
> There's nothing to melt down, there is no (public) website there

You might want to be a bit more clear in your communication. When someone links a URL/domain, you'd expect that there's something there.

I mean, why not put up a splash page on your domain, telling something about your product (what is it? Something with plain text? A Markdown-based static site generator, maybe? Who knows.), or maybe a form to subscribe to a mailing list.

Did you think people would put that domain in their bookmarks and re-visit it themselves?
That anyone bothered to orchestrate an attack like this on Apple products seems to say good things for Apple's business. Although at that same time it seems to cast doubt on Apple's perceived superiority on the security front.

Oh well, I'll keep going with my preferred platform: Windows as a host for my browser and SSH to FreeBSD and Ubuntu servers.
Ask HN: How do you conduct literature survey for your research?
I am getting started with graduate research in Machine Learning and have a problem at hand. Other than consulting your research advisor, what methodologies do you follow to get the most information to formulate a new (and hopefully better) approach to the problem.

I am particularly interested in your discovery and organizational methodologies for the materials you read during literature survey.
I was prefacing it more in terms of the trickle-down effect; literally thousands of people have been hired into a culture that was mandated by Kalanick. (See PatrickAuld's post on this thread.) Just because he goes away doesn't mean that they all do; if anything, they might view what's happening to Travis as unnecessary, or worse, unfair.

Ergo, there's a ton of timebombs ticking away all over that place. Very possible the irreversible damage has already been done.
I would pay less for a car labeled "Powered by Google", I don't know if that counts? If I'm going to be datamined while it works and left stranded with a device that I can use for 20 years yet only gets 3 years of updates, then I want that car maker to pay me to use it, not the other way around.

But powered by Apple? Meh. For many people it still means "but I'm not using anything by Apple".
Losing a parent is a shock, especially when it happens in an unexpected manner like this, but it's something everyone faces and most people don't take extended leaves from work as a result.
You're quoting out of context. The first line of the email explicitly says he's taking time off to grieve, reflect and work on himself, in that order (he also enumerates "focus on building a leadership team" as a reason, though I'm not really sure how that is supposed to be done when one's taking time off)

The second paragraph (the one you quoted) is a tie-in to the third paragraph, where he says what's going to happen in terms of leadership during this interim period.
Nice. I suggest dropping the "Ask HN" posts or filtering them onto a second page, since those discussions tend to be a lot different from original story submissions.

We need to do more with the favorites feature! We'll do that eventually (in accordance with our motto, "move slowly and preserve things").
"Bro, Hitler built schools too"

gimme a break. stop giving people an excuse because they know how to have people build something good. leaders fail when they treat people like shit.
Steam recently got fined for their deliberate, long-running, fraudulent, criminal behavior -

http://www.pcmag.com/news/350574/valve-fined-3m-in-australia...

They're estimated to have stolen from Australians 22,000 times out of ~25m population so you can imagine why they scrambled so hard to change their policies before justice was served in the EU or US.
Note that links to jwz.org from HN results in a not very nice, not safe for work, image.
A high school graduation at the Expo center in Redmond is enough to cause 97 to backup. The eclipse backup will indeed be epic.
So what's your point?

I'm certainly not expecting any of my comments here to persuade someone who cherishes their gun rights.

But I don't believe that such people come anywhere near representing a majority, so I still see value in staking out a clear position.
Business is almost always all about share price for the shareholders, who are the ones who set a CEO's salary (via the board). A drop is share price can diminish or even wipe out any dividends a company might pay out of profits. Many companies don't pay dividends at all (reinvesting profit for growth), so the only possible gain a shareholder has in those cases is through capital gains from selling stock.
There is nothing stopping you from writing good code when doing competitive programming.
Show HN: Stream cardinality estimation since any timestamp (mod. HyperLogLog)
If this were a book or movie, a significant life event like either of those (or both) would be the natural opening of a new arc.
I think infiniswap is pretty neat technically. The real solution to this problem is to design your application so it doesn't swap though.
> hope hot reloading will follow

Which hot reload? (1) reloading the web page on change, (2) reloading the Dart source in the VM. For the later there is this: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/master/runtime/vm/serv...
If MtGox only had enough funds to cover 15% of deposits, and they paid back each creditor 15% of their claim a year ago, the creditor could have bought Bitcoin with what was refunded and be in the same situation now. Instead, they seem to be dragging it out. I think most creditors would rather have something last year than nothing right now. Additionally, there's no upside for creditors if Bitcoin becomes $5,000.
The Holder Report on Uber
New York Times Opens Up Comments with Google-Backed AI
> "Bro, Hitler built schools too"

There mere fact that you compare him to Hitler, even as a joke, makes his point about how ridiculous your views are.

If anything, compare him to Gates.
I'm not proposing this as the solution to fix the extremely outdated ACH/check system, just relaying what I read about what some companies do.
>, or western Nebraska.

I'll be in eastern Nebraska (Omaha) and will drive south on I-80 towards the eclipse path and hopefully pull off to the side and park somewhere.

What's hard to plan for is whether too many other Nebraskans will have the exact same idea which means I have to camp out a ridiculous 12 hours before the event to secure a spot -- or give up entirely.
Okay that was quite hard to read, any reason for no formatting at all?
In probability theory, when dealing with continuous sample spaces / random variables, events with probability 0 still have a chance of occurring, and events with probability 1 stil l have a chance of NOT occurring, see:

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

This strange property comes from strange properties of the real numbers (and uncountably infinite sets) that give rise to things like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox

Measure theory deals with resolving this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(mathematics)
AppStore applications are more sandboxed than regular side loaded applications. You need to request quite a lot of permissions up front before it can actually do some harm and requesting those permissions will lead to more scrutiny on the side of the reviewer.

That said it's still easier to get something in the AppStore that really wreaks havoc on your machine compared to the iOS AppStore where developers being used to a completely free reign over the machine never was a thing to begin with.
I may dislike Uber, and Travis, and the worldwide practices of the firm, BUT a tragic loss is a tragic loss. I hope his father recovers completely and that together they will manage to cope with the lose of a Mother and Wife.

(same goes to all who have lost a loved one irrespective of how they run their business)
He presided over a culture of widespread sexual harassment that has been echoed repeatedly by multiple employees and you don't really understand why he's being criticized?

Cool story, bro.
Uber chief Travis Kalanick to take leave
Could someone that understands crypto better than me explain why Bitcoin's fees and transactions times have become so high all of a sudden? Is it just a matter of network congestion, or does it have as its root some underlying mathematical factor instead?

Hoping to get a better answer here than on reddit. /r/bitcoin and /r/btc are both biased echo chambers.
I forgot to include this email of mine https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111624697710426 , probably the most important of mine.
Since Unicode already contains directions, smileys, combining marks, why not simply add VGA color plane and few [un]-bold/italic/big/sub/sup markers and forget about these shitty .docs, .htmls, etc? We already have a complex format, why not encapsulate at least simple formatting characters into it? These can be zero-width for rendering on systems that do not support colors.

For those who want to point me at html, html cannot be rendered without a browser and created without a messing with tags, but unicode 𝐜𝐚𝐧.
AsciiDoc seems the way to go then.

It's like DocBook with Markdown like syntax
Think your privilege is showing that you're equating a three figure purchase to a six figure.
Um, no, anti-gun laws are closer to nuetering than abstinence only education. One attempts to prevent the thing from happening the other refuses to provide actual education about something that is going to happen.

Abstinence only education is mandatory gun ownership and then refusing to provide any guidance beyond "don't shoot people".
> The concept that you only think while you type is non sequitur

That's not the concept being argued for. The concept is that you aren't thinking while you type; you're dumping what you already thought of.
Why not just get a hotel outside of the path of totality, get up super early and drive to it?
yep. this is the end of the convo. people trying to say "his mom died" is the reason he's built a toxic culture probably have no real attachment to how leaders respond to difficult situaitons.
I've found that the best way to make event handlers is instead of doing

class Blah {
private handleThing(...) {}
}

to instead do this

class Blah {
private handlething = (...) => {}
}

this means that it is created only once, at instantiation of the component, so it is fast, looks decent, and has access to `this` as it's technically a method on the object, not the class.

Also, if you're coming from C# land, head straight to TypeScript 2.3 - it's lush and handles the latest ECMAScript stuff wonderfully, and you get static type checking, interfaces, union types, etcetera. The only issue is when a package has no type definitions or no supplementary @types package, which sucks but they exist for most popular packages. Also VS Code is built with it in mind and brilliant to work with.

As for stacks, I'm currently really enjoying redux/redux-observable and my helper lib redux-rx-http (for API), I find harnessing the power of RxJS to manage side-effects through "epics" is a really elegant and decoupled way to chain a bunch of things that you want happen together.
Shouldn't it be able to park itself...?
> Apple's perceived superiority on the security front

Still one of the biggest lies that Apple ever told.

The very first I'm Mac I'm PC was 100% about how they are virus free OS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfv6Ah_MVJU
Oh, please start selling "fake" ads. Maybe for https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/ ? I would buy a spot!

The fake social network with real fake ads!
Everyone has difficulty hiring people. The most popular companies, like Google, may have a glut of applicants, but it's still incredibly difficult to know whom to choose.

For almost everyone else, there are two problems: not enough applicants and no infallible way to screen them.

Hiring is (and should be) the most difficult thing a company does. It's the most important thing a company does for sure.
dang, can we ban any account that exercises Godwin's Law? It always lowers the quality of discourse.
If leadership is replaced and strengthened, the rest of the corporate structure will fall in line or be terminated. Culture comes from the top.
So Greyball was fake? How about their Hell program? Or the fact that one of their executives illegally acquired a rape victims medical reports and circulated them around the office?

Uber has continuously demonstrated a total disregard for both the law and common decency. They lost the benefit of the doubt a long time ago.