skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I personally viewed her job as managing the divestiture of the valuable part of the company (Alibaba) in such a way that it delivered maximum value to the shareholders of Yahoo.

If that was the case she never would have been given the job. That's something any old bean counter could do and they wouldn't require hundreds of millions of dollars for the babysitting job.

She spent Yahoo's money like a drunken sailor, an odd thing to do if her job was managing Alibaba (how exactly do you manage a passive stake in anything?).

Some examples:

* Tumblr - $1.1b with the majority of that later written off because they have only figured out how to keep losing money

* Polyvore - $230m A fashion search engine run by people she used to mentor at Google

* Summly - $30m to a teenager for a news app that was shut down and never heard of again
> 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.

Of course - in the context of an FPS, where the basic expectation is for it to be "skill-based".

But this makes the notion a truly great metaphor, IMHO: The goal behind a text editor is for the user to get stuff done. "Fairness" is not a constraint; everything is allowed.

I'd even go to say that if you've developed some AI that allows me to quickly do what I want without getting in my way, I'm in! I don't think this will be the case any soon (at least in a usable manner), but having it would certainly be great.

In fact, I already pondered if it might be doable to use the new, cheap eye tracking hardware one can buy nowadays (e.g. Tobii devices) to develop something like Ace jumping with...
Maybe you should stop watching too much TV.
Sounds like the argument folks were trying to make about the housing market, and we know how that turned out.
I've been using it for weeks if not months.

Their documentation might be lagging occasionally. It's a small team tackling a big challenge.
An Abridged Cartoon Introduction to Web Assembly
Am I missing something here? Addition? Subtraction?
I thought the job of a CEO was to increase shareholder value. Yahoo stock is up roughly 230% since she was officially signed on as CEO. Sounds like she did her job to me.
> The recommendations included reviewing Mr. Kalanick’s responsibilities and reallocating them, with an increased emphasis on a chief operating officer at the company.

Does that mean moving him from CEO into more of a COO role, or bringing on a COO and reallocating those responsibilities to that person?
20 out of 200 cases found by the investigation. Who knows how many others were not logged or never reported.
How many high level departures do you need to read about to acknowledge Uber is doing something about it?

Maybe if it went all the way to the top, and Travis Kalanick himself stood down for a while, maybe then you'd ease off?
Since you're here, is something like that relatively easy to use in a UWP application? I have an idea for a chemistry app and am looking for a good way to show formulas.
> But this [grey-area, sometimes exploitative] is exactly how you're supposed to run a massively successful startup in its first decade.

No, no it's not.

> This is exactly how FB started out.

People keep comparing Uber to Facebook. "Facebook acted shitty, therefore acting shitty is part of the recipe for a successful startup."

It's not.

In fact, your comment is evidence of how destructive some of this unethical behavior can be: It can directly influence future founders and give them a pass on their own unethical and shitty behavior. "Facebook did it, so it must be okay." "Uber did it -- it's just part of how startups work."

But it's not.
This is super neat! Comments like this keep me coming back to HN. Thanks for sharing!
>In 2017, is it recommended to use some kind of antivirus on a Mac?I've always been told it's unnecessary

AV-Comparatives[1] puts out a pretty comprehensive, quantifiedm real world benchmark of antivirus comparisons that they update every month for Windows (a more dynamic threat environment) and once a year for Mac[2].
Let's take a best case scenario (which isn't likely) that there are _no_ security vulnerabilities in any software on macOS. You still have the issue of being an accessory to spread malware to Windows machines if you aren't screening for them. "Oh hey boss, include this file in the Windows deployment of our software".

A biological equivalent would be, even if you are an asymptomatic carrier[3] (macOS claim) you can still transmit the disease to someone else, therefore should limit transmission through condom use, gloves, general precautions (run an antivirus)

A final point to add is one regarding risk engineering. The decision to increase the robustness of a design is not governed by the probability of the event (Mac's hardly ever get infected!), it is governed by the magnitude of the effect of the event. Even if the probability of malware on a Mac is low[4] if the effect of the infection is catastrophic (your entire business is destroyed) you should be increase the systems robustness to threats.

[1]
https://www.av-comparatives.org/about-us/
AV-Comparatives is an independent organization offering systematic testing that checks whether security software, such as PC/Mac-based antivirus products and mobile security solutions, lives up to its promises. Using one of the largest sample collections worldwide, it creates a real-world environment for truly accurate testing. AV-Comparatives offers freely accessible results to individuals, news organizations and scientific institutions. Certification by AV-Comparatives provides an official seal of approval for software performance which is globally recognized.

Currently, AV-Comparatives' Real-World Protection Test is the most comprehensive and complex test available when it comes to evaluating the real-life protection capabilities of antivirus software. Put simply, the test framework replicates the scenario of an everyday user in an everyday online environment – the typical situation that most of us experience when using a computer with an Internet connection.

AV-Comparatives works closely with several academic institutions, especially the University of Innsbruck’s Department of Computer Science, to provide scientific testing methods.

[2]
https://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/a...

[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptomatic_carrier

[4]
http://www.thesafemac.com/mmg-catalog/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_malware
You apply mathematics all the time - when you watch a car, you estimate based on it's position, first derivative (velocity) and 2nd derivative (acceleration) whether it is safe to cross the road. But you do that intuitively, and you're probably asking about using math explicitly. In that case ....

Probability is useful in any setting that requires a decision, and can often be done in your head or back-of-the-envelope style. Requires that you be aware of bayes' rule (and base rate fallacy) to not lead you astray.

Logarithmic scales are often useful for things that behave that way - like stock and currency prices. It's very rare to see a long term logarithmic graph of such values, although much of the information is only apparent on this scale.
Who said anything about a precursor?
Machiavelli outlined the choice in 'The Prince': To be loved to to be feared?

Remember the the conclusion the Italian came to: Fear is more stable, become feared.
You may think it was MM's primary job to sell Yahoo for parts, but I don't think she did. Look at the initiatives into media, big-bet acquisitions, reinvestment in search. I think it's clear she was trying to reinvent Yahoo, and that's the story she told the board. She even did a rebrand right away, a rather dubious logo designed by her and some associates over a weekend.

I was optimistic when she came on board, because Yahoo really needed a strong product vision and someone who had a touch of ruthlessness. But maybe it was unsalvageable.
It goes both ways.

People project their gun attitudes onto their grandma's that have never been attacked anyway and demand that we live in a less safe society because of it.

My mom was pretty unnerved when her house got broken into (she was there, asleep, didn't wake up, wasn't attacked). She wouldn't be any better off with a gun because she isn't prepared to use it. Effective restrictions on guns would be a 100% win for her.

So do I lack perspective? Or have I maybe come to different, reasonable conclusions and am sick of people making absurd emotional arguments about how guns make people safer?
Between this and Fred Wilson's recent comments, it's pretty neat seeing a meme take shape right before our eyes.

I'm not saying this article is wrong, but that it offers little substance.

My pet theory is that Ethereum will transiently surpass Bitcoin in market cap in the next weeks, triggering a 5x surge in Bitcoin's price. Ethereum will then follow, and what happens next is anyone's guess. Why do I think that? Uh..heuristics.
Funny thing is that it may have been more true back before OSX than afterwards.

According to Woz the early Mac's held so much of the OS in ROM that a malware could not get a solid foothold.

That said, i have found Apple to be more of a marketing company dabbling in consumer electronics, than a computer company.
There are quite a few popular books on this topic, e.g. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking :

https://smile.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Wrong-Mathematical/dp/01...
Absolutely fantastic book. I was surprised to learn there were a few examples closer to me that I had expected. Of course, their precise locations are usually obscured.
No - National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.) places the responsibility for classifying a particular vehicle in the first instance on the vehicle's manufacturer. The NHTSA follows that model, and while technically they could disagree with a manufacturer and over-rule them for the purposes of safety testing, I don't believe that happens very often if at all.

For the record, from a 'size perspective', the Model X is much bigger in person than it looks in photos, and fits well in to the cohort of vehicles calling themselves SUVs.
For what it's worth, I upvoted you.

Nonetheless, I think you're making a bit of a generalization here from messageboard karma to the real world.

The community here on HN is self selected for a particular kind of person, and the people that would be on my side in this discussion really tend to avoid this board for similar reasons.

I have no doubt that you'll get more karma for being cordial instead of abrasive, respectable instead of radical. But I care very little about how much karma I have.
The rate is a red herring, it's the reaction when it was reported.

Imagine if your local PD reported that they only ignored .01% of 911 calls. Would you find that acceptable?
Actually, you probably can. It's just that no one cares about "Initech corp" or whatever, while Uber's name alone guarantees headlines.
While I do think you have a point regarding how the company is run in a general sense like most start-ups should run (at least according to the ethos on HN), you're down playing the sexual harassment and culture issues by an incredible margin.
Would love to try this (out of curiosity) but do you have a list of jobs you'd send my profile to? I'd bet most jobseekers would want that to, as an assurance that they won't get messages just from _any_ recruiter.
Why Ethereum's price is outpacing Bitcoin - FTFY

The pace of adoption leaves much to be desired. And if you think bitcoin is hard for the layperson to understand, ethereum is a whole other can of worms.
Re: being successful because they have an aggressive internal culture, is that really true?
> What more can I do to be safe?

• Work from an standard (non-admin) user account.

• Review the settings in System Preferences » Security & Privacy and pick a reasonable ground between convenience and security.

• At the very least, "Require an administrator password to access system-wide preferences" (found under the "Advanced..." button.)

• Be wary of any third-party app that asks for an administrator password, and try to see if it runs after denying the prompt. Dropbox, for example, seems to work fine even if I cancel its second (after installation) admin prompt. (There were news about it faking the prompt and storing your macOS password [2] for automatic updates...)

• You may want to tighten the firewall settings, and/or consider Little Snitch [3].

• If you have to install something from a .pkg file, which can autorun scripts, try to review the .pkg and its scripts with Pacifist [0] first. It may be possible to just extract the payload with Pacifist and run the app just fine without "installing" the .pkg.

• Make regular backups. Automatic (e.g. Time Machine) AND manual (of your most important stuff at least.)

• Don’t use the same passwords for different things.

• Enable multi-factor authentication on as many services as you can.

• Visit dodgy websites in private browsing mode, or a secondary, locked-down browser like Tor [1].

• If you can't help downloading pirated/"cracked" apps or games, try to run them from a different user account.

• If concerned about outright theft of your Mac, enable FileVault full disk encryption, and set a firmware password. [4]

• Whenever you're bored or something is acting janky, check the usual places where third-party processes can install themselves and hook into your system:

- System Preferences » Security & Privacy » Privacy » Accessibility

- System Preferences » Users & Groups » Login Items

- /System/Library/LaunchAgents, /System/Library/LaunchDaemons, /System/Library/StartupItems

- /Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchDaemons, /Library/StartupItems, /Library/Internet Plug-Ins

- Check for 3rd-party kernel extensions:

kextstat -kl | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 $7 } '

• Oh and before you paste any command/script (like the above) from the internet into your terminal, see the man page for each command and its arguments first. :)

----

I've used Macs without an antivirus since 2012 and I haven't been hit by malware yet... I think. :)

[0] http://www.charlessoft.com

[1] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338 (How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac)

[3] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

[4] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204455
I've found that Pandoc [1] is a wonderful converter if you want to write in a future-proof format (like markdown) but also generate nice PDFs.

[1]: http://pandoc.org/
It seems worth mentioning that plaintext is discussed here as the storage / source format.

That doesn't mean it has to be the distribution / consumption format.

One of the great things about something like Markdown is that it can be rendered to HTML trivially, to display video, equations, etc.

Same thing for ebooks, PDFs, whatever (thanks Pandoc!). It's also easy to translate between formats (e.g. .md, .org, .rst, etc.).

If a new format comes along that everyone wants, there's an extremely good chance that plain text can be rendered to it.

The reverse is not true.
> There was literally nothing wrong with the email

There were at least two things wrong with the email, from my perspective as a guy who's been around plenty of benign bro culture.

1. Explicitly mentioning "sex" as opposed to "relationship" or "dating", and talking about it so casually, sets a very aggressive tone. 20-something guys with lots of hormones will definitely hear that tone and push hard for sex during the trip (the implication is that there will be lots of it, and nobody wants to be left out). Females reading this surely know that they'll receive lots of attention and advances during the trip, whether they want it or not – even if you assume that the guys will be asking for consent, it's still uncomfortable for those who want to be professional and avoid work relationships.

2. "Yes, that means that Travis will be celibate on this trip. #CEOLife #FML." Implication there is that there are many people on the team that the Travis wants to sleep with. If you're a female subordinate of the CEO whom he speaks with somewhat flirtily, you can infer that he's thinking "FML, I wish I could sleep with her".
"... 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"

Incredible. Isn't this how mafia organizations hire?

I don't know if this interview method would expose Uber to liability under organized crime laws, but maybe it should.
macOS has a builtin malware scanner, XProtect:
http://osxdaily.com/2017/05/01/check-xprotect-version-mac/

If you want additional protection, I believe your best option is Avast:

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-antivirus,review-2588-6.htm...

https://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
People who love iPhone never hesitate to call Jobs a ruthless leader. We as a community are only interested in the benefits while insanely criticising the primary causal factor of it. Same goes with everything abt Travis. He made his mistakes. No cover up in it. But that doesn't mean he's inherently bad or unqualified. Had it been someone else, Taxi industry wouldn't have disrupted. We enjoy the luxury of travelling in Uber or Ola or Lyft which is fundamentally the problem solved by Travis, that's a long forgotten fact. This is again not an excuse for his mistakes but he's been over cut and over punished.
Getting ghosted seems pretty common, especially with newly-large companies.
AV-Comparatives[1] puts out a pretty comprehensive, quantified real world benchmark of antivirus comparisons that they update every month for Windows (a more dynamic threat environment) and once a year for Mac[2].

[1]
https://www.av-comparatives.org/about-us/
AV-Comparatives is an independent organization offering systematic testing that checks whether security software, such as PC/Mac-based antivirus products and mobile security solutions, lives up to its promises. Using one of the largest sample collections worldwide, it creates a real-world environment for truly accurate testing. AV-Comparatives offers freely accessible results to individuals, news organizations and scientific institutions. Certification by AV-Comparatives provides an official seal of approval for software performance which is globally recognized.

Currently, AV-Comparatives' Real-World Protection Test is the most comprehensive and complex test available when it comes to evaluating the real-life protection capabilities of antivirus software. Put simply, the test framework replicates the scenario of an everyday user in an everyday online environment – the typical situation that most of us experience when using a computer with an Internet connection.

AV-Comparatives works closely with several academic institutions, especially the University of Innsbruck’s Department of Computer Science, to provide scientific testing methods.

[2]
https://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/a...
I had a phone interview with them 2 years ago and the interviewer was in the room with two other _very chatty_ people and the three of them were engaged in a separate conversation from my interview pretty much the entire time. I cut that one short and don't regret it in the least.
Chuck Thacker has died
I dunno, did you really look at Yahoo for content that profits from editorial independence?
Presented graphically here: http://i.imgur.com/xMyblyM.png

Though the graphic, like this post, doesn't talk much about elf segments.
Sexual harassment cases are like cockroaches: by the time you see one, you can be sure there's lots more crawling around behind the walls.
I am doubtful nice, rule following Uber would have ever been able to break in to the markets they did.

There are good examples here and bad ones. We've seen a few bad ones where startup founders do crazy stuff and end up in prison (and a few I suspect will be headed that way.) Whatever Uber did right and wrong, make sure you learn the correct lessons and not the wrong ones.
Absolutely, but to frame that sentiment in the analogy with sex that the GP made would be something like "we have a natural urge to have sex, therefore we must protect sex toys". (That may or may not be a valid argument with respect to sex toys, but my point is it's a different one than presented above).

Put differently, "natural predisposition to protecting self and family => self defense OK" is not the same proposition as "natural predisposition to protecting self and family => guns OK". There's an extra step in the latter, "self defense OK => guns OK" (which I was not making an explicit evaluation on). The analogy in the GP is a false equivalence.
Perhaps they realized he was "trying to use them to counter offer another company".
I don't think there's anything gray about a car service booking app. The gray area is Uber's deliberate pushing of legal boundaries and using skechy business practices. Lyft is in the same business and has not become infamous for this kind of thing. They are fairly successful too, even if they are (for now) 2nd place behind Uber. In New York City anyway almost all the drivers are using multiple services anyway so it makes very little difference (in this market).

So why is it that other businesses doing exactly the same thing Uber is doing are able to do it successfully without the legal and cultural issues?
These are consumer protection laws in name only. The laws/rules/regulations that Uber is breaking are first, foremost, and pretty much exclusively protecting the taxi industry.
Gun safety should be taught in school. Just like driver's ed. Why do we give no attention to these weapons which are real, commonly available and impossible to eliminate from our world? Showing teenagers 3 months of ballistic videos of various projectiles going through gelatin will give them a better appreciation for reality, rather than relying on games like call of duty to 'mis-educate' them. What can possibly be learned by an 18 year old in a single hour safety course prior to getting an FID ?

And knowing when a gun is being handled safely will prevent many of the accidents that occur when the naive start handling a gun like they've seen done on television and film.
It's not about "most people," it's about "most cash."

The "whales" are buying ICOs left and right, and dumping their Bitcoin/other altcoins. That's the main reason for ETH's rise.

Eventually some of these ICOs will prove to be scams, or will get hacked with catastrophic results, and ETH's price will fall again. It doesn't necessarily mean it won't rise back-up again, but by then we'll just have to see if ETH is still a top 2 coin to get.
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That's because they sell out so quickly.
ICOs can earn tens of millions in seconds.

This seems like a plausible theory to me.
The main harm from cars are co2 emissions, and electric car emissions are weighted to manufacturing and raw materials. So it makes sense to tax their purchase.
Book it months in advance, and then the price is normal. That's what I did. I'll be in Salem.
Charles P. (Chuck) Thacker (born February 26, 1943- died June 12, 2017) was a American pioneer computer designer. He worked on the Xerox Alto, which is the first computer that used a mouse-driven Graphical User Interface.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_P._Thacker
The Grand Tetons/Yellowstone are super packed on normal summer days. Jackson Hole is super expensive on normal summer days.

Probably gonna have a hard time.
Well there are a lot of musings in the field of psychology about why society creates celebrities from a fundamental need to have living idols.
@taietal great job. My company (SnapHop) researched that path for a little but decided to stick with recruitment marketing tools. We couldn't figure out a quick way to monetize and since we are self funded for 5 or so years it just wasn't worth it yet.

Anyway I might be able to provide some insight and some connections in the industry if you like (email is in profile).
I'm curious about the tech stack you are using for this service.