skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>hateful insanity
>Muslim ban
>Holocaust Memorial Day "actions"
>Neo-Nazis in government

I mean, I guess sure, if you want to use misleading language to paint a dire picture, then I suppose you might legitimately feel threatened.
It's not a show of solidarity - it is in fact the opposite. It's called scabbing.
Can you explain why you think that seccomp is even related to chroot? The two are very different technologies with very different goals (in fact, chroot's original goal was _not_ security -- it was a clever hack by Bill Joy in the 80s to allow compiling BSDs on older BSDs...).

Even if we pretend that chroots are designed for isolation, seccomp is not. Seccomp is designed to be part of a sandboxing system. Capsicum is a new way of dealing with processes that require privileges. And pledge is sort of like seccomp but with questionable granularity.

The point is that sure you can call them "security systems" because they are all based on the idea of blocking things, but that's like saying that bananas and humans are all carbon-based life -- it's technically accurate but not very helpful. Especially since you then go on to talk about the isolation aspects of chroot -- which is something that seccomp, pledge and Capsicum do not give you.
Will ask whether your EC2 instances have anti-malware on them?
Yes, it undermines the strike. Strikes are supposed to disrupt.
Carmack has commented on this piece: "I was making a dent at 19, but in 1990, the game industry didn't have many graybeards. I wouldn't have been so impressive at Bell Labs..."
You say that as if nothing important happens on twitter, but as we have seen recently, the president pays a lot of attention to twitter.
How much money can they make during a 1 hour strike? Lowering their prices seems like the opposite of making money to me
My post is about people who signed the pledge. I didn't sign it. It was too simplistic & unrealistic once I factored in surveillance companies with their massive, user base. I might actually have to work from within up the management track, in the Android/Chrome team, etc to get improvements. In the process, I'd have contributed to the surveillance tech to make possible the privacy-enhancing improvements to it. I try not to promise what I can't deliver working in moral spaces so complex.

Far as Gmail, I use it as an untrusted drop for potentially-malicious traffic with spam filtering and high-availability. Such a setup burdens them more than helps given free email is a loss leader. Dissidents can send me email from anonymous accounts or set up GPG exchanges where I just know them by a key and alias. I also have a private, Swiss-hosted email for users I've vetted to a degree. I pay for that under vote with my wallet concept. Thinking about moving drop address to Fastmail under same concept since I've heard enough feedback about it basically being as good as Gmail. Altogether, Google currently loses money to host my risky emails with anonymous, GPG-protected email available to those that want privacy. Looks morally neutral.
Ah okay, that makes much more sense.
Do you consider, for example, Noel Ignatiev a legitimate target of political street violence?
They can be barred as dual citizens.

Green card holders are not exempt from the order as per advice from the whitehouse itself. The DHS initially thought they would be exempt, but were later corrected by Trump.
It's an inferior service: Much longer waits for a ride, higher fares, tipping, awkward interactions, fewer ride options, buggy (in my experience) phone apps.
Aha, that's the part they we (nugget) help with :)

That said, it's still not easy, and requires a fair amount of annoying work that stretches one outside of their comfort zone.
This is another attempt to shell shovels during a gold rush, where the HN audience can play the role of the starry eyed rubes dreaming of easy riches. There is no substance here, just a totally unsupported claim that building a SaaS app (of all things!) will bring profound personal meaning in your life. The only reason this post exists is to get people to sign up for his community thing.

If anybody wants real advice, I got some for free: less talk, more product. You don't need any of the services people are trying to sell you. Build a product. Add Stripe. Profit. Not exactly rocket science.
edit: Re-reading this, and I realize I missed your point. You're absolutely right -- they did not say "we are cutting surge pricing in support of the protest".

This was my original post for posterity:

"They did say so. This was their tweet:

'Our CEO's reaction to immigration order: "We'll compensate drivers impacted by the ban pro bono for next 3 months." http://ubr.to/standingup'"
Nice way to get into focus on breathing. Mind is like a monkey, it keeps wandering. Keep it busy by asking it to watch or focus on breathing. De-stress and bringing emotions under control are just starting point of meditation. The next stage is achieved when we can do "Balancing breath". Our guru calls it "Gayathri sthithi". In this stage, both of our breaths (left and right nostrils ) are balanced. In normal conditions, either your left ( Ida or moon nadi) or right nostril ( pingala or surya) only has the air flow, based on your body type.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadi_(yoga). When both the breaths are balanced, your sushumna Nadi is activated. This is when you could achieve Spiritual state and a fantastic experiences will unfold before your inner vision. I am yet to experience it.

Our Guru, With his tough practices of Kriya yoga and other meditating techniques, could achieve this state and He can get into this Gayathri state at any time. This is THE ultimate state to experience the Universal source of energy. This is where every soul came from and will get into.

As technologists we are materialistic and we are operating in lower dimension.The other dimension (spiritual), once opened/experienced, can answer any question in this universe. This is how RUSHIs and yogis could fathom universal truths with out any scientific tools, eons before our modern science.
I was responding in kind, thank you very much.

Repeatedly responding to me with the same point and misrepresenting my position is equally rude. This person keeps saying that I'm "making a mistake" and that's all I'm saying back to them. Nobody is calling names or anything like that, so why don't you just butt out?

Furthermore, this person seems to just have a deep burning desire to have the last word, no matter how meaningless and trite that is. So, why don't you try reprimanding them instead?
Kalanick spoke out against that EO and condemned it but I think people are angry at him because he was on Trump's advisors team to lobby the admin for favorable economic policies for his interests.

He miscalculated and discounted all the far-right baggage that comes with the Trump admin and therefore he has no one to blame for this misstep except himself.
I don't think such a system would be notably better than standard mashine learning. Reliable image categorisation means you often have to take a second look and interpret context. The internet is filled with images that Intentionally lead to a wrong first impression and can only be recognized when consciously looking at them
Sure. Feel free to contact me. Either through the email in my hn profile or on https://info-beamer.com/contact
Visual Studio 2017 has built-in support for C++ Core Guidelines static analysis suite.

more info: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/10/12/cppcorech...
If people understood those that were building the Cyber liability policies within the big firms, they'd realize few have a clue. Having worked with the big 5 for years now on this, many are so far behind on reality it hurts.
FTA: "Most coders look pretty boring. Most of us are pretty boring. "

Yeah, ok - so you just rebutted your entire thesis here. Why would writers, directors, and producers want to have 'boring' characters in their movies and shows? It's fiction. Entertainment. That's it.

Do you watch Brooklyn Nine Nine or Longmire and think "that must be exactly what cops are like..."?
I just watched an old X Files episode (season 1) apparently aliens have six base pairs.
They didn't, but had Java and .NET been AOT compiled to native code since the beginning and you would see less C and C++ code around.

So now that even them have got the AOT memo, and Go and Swift also exist, I think the 2017's focus on productivity is very important.

The work done in the borrow check is incredibly and has already influenced decisions on the D, Swift and C++ communities.

Yet they all agree that they don't want to make it as hard as Rust.

Chris Lattner mentioned the feature in Swift should be exposed to expert programmers doing kernel and driver related programming.

I imagine Rust's image should be better than a language from experts for experts.
Isn't the kid in War Games rather nuanced? It was a while since i watched it, but looking for passwords in a drawer and war dialing is not exactly highly sophisticated h4x0r-skills.
Building a local Steam caching server to ease the bandwidth blues
Thank you, I will. :)
The mass immigration "problem" started shortly after Columbus discovered the America's, and hasn't let up since. It is not of the USA's making, in fact, it made the USA.
Didn't the Rollup creator claim that Rollup always makes the smallest bundles and if not, it's a wrong Rollup config?
Given that he started publishing games before he was 20 and had produced Commander Keen, Wolfenstein, and a couple of Dooms before he was 25, I'd guess he was well on his way in his teens.

Not to say that success correlates with skills, I suppose, but he's fairly well-regarded as an innovator from an early age. Odd choice of example from the article's author.
I'm not denying that, and I feel weird defending Uber at all, but then you'd also need to account for why they offered to compensate their drivers affected by this travel ban, and why would they lower their surge pricing. I'm okay with saying that they're trying to play both sides of this.
I think you think there's confusion about the textual meaning of "virtue signaling". No, we all get what it means: in fact, it's such a pugnaciously vivid term that we probably all understood it the moment it was first used, without explanation.

What I think you're missing is the subtextual meaning of "virtue signaling", which is, essentially, "there is no virtue except virtue I condone".

Since that's obviously not the case, most --- maybe pretty much all, in fact --- of the time the term gets used, it's a nihilistic attempt to shut down the good works and careful thoughts of others, casually calling into question their good faith, solely because their broader intentions don't square with yours.

And, as I said, those are the kinds of people we laugh at when John Goodman hucks a bowling ball into their gut. I'm laughing a little bit right now just thinking about it. Again I caution though, it could be more about Flea.
Do you prefer to force the mother to feed and host a parasitic child against her will? That's pretty uh...totalitarian.
Political shit like this should not be allowed here.
I've long felt that the front end community could benefit from making heavier use of the Closure Compiler. It has been very good for a very long time now.

The downside to its age is that it likes to do things its own way; it's had a static module system since long before ES2015 modules or even CommonJS modules existed. It does have support for other module systems now, though. And as the article mentions, it performs optimizations far beyond what other JS tools do.

One of the big things people disliked about the compiler is that to get maximum optimizations out of it, you had to write your JS in a relatively static way, preferably with JSDoc type annotations.

This is less of a barrier now, I think; TypeScript has become quite popular in the front end community, and the Angular team has created TSickle[1], which allows the TypeScript compiler to output Closure annotated JS.

Webpack is a lot more capable, but also results in shipping a much larger code bundle to your users. This might not matter so much for desktop clients, but in many parts of the world, mobile users still have pretty restrictive data caps, and overages are very expensive.

[1]https://github.com/angular/tsickle
> Uber profits from Muslim Ban.

Yes, This may well be the most important reason they did that. That PR would have far more disastrous for Uber.
Money – What Every Sysadmin Needs to Know
Please don't use the phrase "conspiracy theorist" as a term of disparagement or to indicate a particular bias. There are many that investigate conspiracies who have the opposite views of Bannon and are very skeptical and scientific.

You are giving a tool to the unscrupulous to bury conversations by labeling their opponents "conspiracy theorists."

Would you say Edward Snowden is in the same bucket at Bannon?
A one hour strike at one of the busiest airports on the East Coast with NO taxis available? Probably a lot.

The point is you hold a strike to STOP work, not work for less money. That's called scabbing and is the opposite of solidarity.
He started releasing games at 19. So probably pretty good.

I mean, hell, I'm 19 now and a professional web developer. I'm not exactly a "teenage coding god" but I'm definitely good at programming.

The trope exists for a reason. It's not beyond imagination (although it is unrealistic, just like any other trope).
yes, I tried algolia and google's inurl to look for it
While I have no doubt that the EPA will be more hampered than helped by the current administration, I think we could leave politics aside and ask what can practically be done short of banning all plastic production? As long as plastic exists, these microparticles will continue to be produced. I don't really see a way around it. Before we freak out, however, we should try to understand what this even means. Most plastics are relatively inert, so this may be basically harmless. Or, it may be a complete disaster; we don't know.
If Trump Bans Twitter Employees, should Jack Dorsey ban Trump from Twitter?
They are meeting their moral obligation.
Most practical security measures are about striking a (better) balance between practicality and security. You're probably right that there is no viable device without binary blobs, but if the (corporate security policy) conclusion from this is that you can't use smartphones at all, practical experience shows that people will be using their private (vastly less secure) phones. In that case, it's way better to provide a much more, if not perfectly, secure phone (and sensible policies for using it).

At least, this is the market I perceive the Blackphone to be addressing.
Exactly; I've just installed the app now. I don't use Uber a ton, so it won't be a big hit, but I will certainly try Lyft first.
If you have enough karma, you'll see a "flag" link under the submission title. I think the threshold is 20, (so you'd need 21) though I may be mistaken.

As you're new, I'd be hesitant to flag too many submissions, even after you have enough karma. Take the time to get to know the community more, and its standards.

You may want to review this as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
What phrase would be more effective in describing Bannon?
The mother's life again gets zero consideration.

How about if we consider that she should not be forced to feed and carry a parasite against her will. It is risky, regularly including death and disfigurement. People love to talk about the right to life when they are referring to an innocent zygote but suddenly everything changes if the mother's rights are brought into it.
They hated everything Obama stood for but now it's ok if Obama did it?
Everyone's trying to get on with their lives. However, everyone getting on with their lives crucially depends on other people doing their jobs. When a grave injustice is being committed the purpose of a strike is to say "we refuse to keep an unjust society running". A strike is an act of solidarity between people and the point specifically has to be to disrupt daily life. If a strike does not inconvenience anyone, then it isn't a strike.

By undermining the strike, Uber is saying that their profits are more important than the injustice being protested. They are saying that they are perfectly happy to help society function while it is committing such a grave act of injustice against a vulnerable minority. It is organizations and people like Uber who are perfectly willing to make money and let life go on as authoritarians destroy the lives of their fellow citizens that allow evil to persist and thrive. It is people who get on with their lives while those of their neighbors are being disrupted and destroyed that most threaten freedom.
> I believe you need to create a book on leanpub for that, which now costs USD$99

Yes, that is a new "feature." However, IIRC, once you reach a certain threshold of royalties, the $99 is waived. So,if I were starting today, I still wouldn't pay it because my very first book would get me over the threshold.

Now I had the benefit of having written a blog, so I had material and an audience. But these are important things to have even if you don't pay $99 to publish a book.

If you want to write a book, or start a software side-project, it is enormously helpful to "prime the pump" by building your brand a little. Speak at conferences, write a blog, be a thoughtful contributor on social media sites where your eventual customers go for help.

If you do those things, you needn't worry about the $99 for your first book, or whatever fee some captive app market charges you, &c.

Bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, but online reputations can be built over time by plugging away, a little like gold-mining in MMORPGs...
Petition calling on UK to cancel Trump state visit reaches 250,000 signatures
This could actually be quite useful for generating stimuli for artificial language learning experiments (used in psychology and linguistics) where you don't want to model longer-distance effects among speech sounds (avoiding correlated queues), and need a 1:1 correspondence between symbols and sounds. Do you have a command line version?

One other thought: you could compare the output with espeak (http://espeak.sourceforge.net/) or use espeak to generate IPA transcriptions for various languages.
As a software developer, if you have an appetite for risk; you're always better off doing recurring (well paid) contract work for some big corporation than playing the start-up lottery.

This 100K exit is actually quite an achievement I think.
I am really curious about the minimized and gzipped size differences. I created a library a while back[1] and experimented with extreme fileweight (it's an alternative to jQuery with just 3kb minimized + gzipped). I also wrote the topic from what I learned:

https://medium.com/@fpresencia/understanding-gzip-size-836c7...

Depending on the code, even if it seems quite large initially it might minimize and gzip quite well. Actually, automatic code generation is the perfect candidate for a good compression. One of the reasons is because this:

(function(module, __webpack_exports__, __webpack_require__) {})

Will become just:

(function(a,b,c){})

Which is 5char/function difference with the other example shown in the article with uglify. It becomes negligible when we take into account gzip, since that will be stored only once and then it's just 5char difference overall. So an apparent "module, __webpack_exports__, __webpack_require__" x N becomes just 5bytes of difference in total.

[1] http://umbrellajs.com/
"Apologies for the inconvenience while we try to fix our country".
Can you provide more information? How exactly do you help developers?
Happy to answer any questions people might have about this release.
What about the other half of the country?
Strikes are intended to disrupt. They are not entitled to disrupt. There is a huge difference.
A lot of people from Iran and other countries were also trying to get home that day. They couldn't call an Uber.
Ask HN: What's better, motivation or discipline?
Motivation is there sometimes, and not there others. Discipline is always there for you. Discipline is like a muscle, you have to train it against heavy weights in order to grow it. Also like a muscle, you get most of your gains on the last rep, which is the hardest rep. I made a short video about this on the YoutTube in my profile.

Once you have developed your discipline muscle, you can use it all kinds of places. If you trained against cigarette smoking, you'll probably find that it works great for turning down food you shouldn't eat too.
It'd be very, very useful if you could F/OSS this, so that we could build something to help illustrate hard-to-pronounce Wikipedia articles, which currently have to be manually pronounced. There are thousands of these needed!
... although it should be IMHO. Also I agree with the case made for a public internet.
When someone casts peaceful protests against immigration policy at airports as "terror tied", I classify that as conspiratorial thinking [1]. I have no doubt a conspiracy is at work here, but IMO it is not of the type that Bannon espouses.

1: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/28/terror-ti...
It's silly to think this is due to a $15 an hour minimum wage. This was coming as soon as the cost of installing the thing was cheap enough to make back the difference.

Automation is coming for all jobs that do not require critical and/or dynamic thinking.

A higher minimum wage may have accelerated the process, but this would have happened regardless.
Alan Kay Interview (1990) [video]
If you need help getting used to the community feel free to ping me.
How is it overtly political to note that Lyft has donated $1m to the ACLU? If anything it is newsworthy. Glad you created an account just to share this with us.
Only when people mix languages with implementations.

Just because the only existing Rust compiler uses LLVM, it doesn't mean another implementations will not surface.

So hypothetical the OS not targeted by clang, can still have a Rust compiler on the OS SDK, offering all safety guarantees from Rust.

For example, there are OSes and hardware architectures not supported by clang that have Ada and even Java AOT compilers.