skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quit drinking. After several years of battling alcoholism.
This is a pretty black-and-white view of things. A security technology does not need to solve all problems simultaneously to be of use. (But, you do need to do thorough analysis and be cognisant of the risks.)

Ignoring the cloud computing aspect of SGX, no amount of attestation can recover from your-OS-is-compromised-from-day-one scenario. The attestation is only as good as its verifier.
"Do you really need a basic income implementation for this to work? Can't you simply downsize your expenses to x/10 what they are now, work x/10 as much to pay for them, and do whatever you want for the other (10-x)/10 worth of time?"

I am genuinely curious to know as to how this equation can be practically implemented. To be really effective in your non-work time, x would have to be at most 5 or less. There are multiple problems with this:
1. Reducing expenses to half is pretty tough given the biggest expense is rent/mortgage.
2. Reducing work to half is harder since there are not very many companies that are okay with 20 hrs or less a week. This also means you wont get health insurance.

I guess it can be done by moving to a different country with cheaper expenses, job hunting for a while till you find a company that meets your needs, etc, etc. But as a single person or a family in the US, this just doesnt make sense.
Ask HN: OSS projects/communities we should learn from for Eve
Hey folks,

As we settle down into a version of Eve that we mean to stick with, we want to make sure we set ourselves up to be a great OSS project and community. We learned a lot in terms of things to do and things not to do with Light Table, but I'm curious to hear about examples that you guys find particularly good or bad and why. While emulating a community wholesale isn't likely to work, I imagine there are many things that we can borrow from others while finding our own identity.
Caskets and especially burial vaults aren't decomposing any time soon.
Does this still incur the penalty of context switching from user space to kernel space? Filesystems are an interest of mine, and this would be a nice alternative to FUSE if it could mitigate the context-switching overhead.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11009022
I did my Masters in CS from Georgia Tech. The amount of doors that open up just by being attached to top tier brand is astonishing. Even things like visa interviews become a formality.

Though I disagree with the "better education" part. There were some courses that were unique only to Georgia Tech or taught by professors who were well known in their field.
>> ...after enough time has passed.

That time is a century or more. The US national cemetery (Arlington) is nearly full. Even after 150 year nobody would dare suggest reusing even the oldest plots.
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Is the tabletop you bought the Gerton by chance? Looking into pairing the Skarsta frame with this table top, but wasn't sure how stable it would be at standing height.
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Somewhat topical story: A co-worker was part of a jogging group (this was in Virginia, USA), and one of their members died after a fight with cancer. He wanted his ashes to be spread in the Botanical Gardens, where they ran.

But said Botanical Gardens had rules denying this (don't recall if it was hygiene, environmental, or just not wanting to open the door to piles of ash).

So the group somberly gathered, took his ashes, divvied them up among a collection of plastic bags, poked some holes, and went for their normal jog around the park.

At the end the bags had only bits of bone too big to fit through the holes left. (Turns out cremation doesn't result in ONLY ash).

I haven't decided if this was a triumph of individual respect over bureaucracy, or a blatant disregard for the commons.
I guess it depends on where you go. My assessment has come from interviewing people and getting into a discussion about what they learned in school and finding out they used the same textbook and exercises as other people I interviewed who went to elite schools. So my assessment is admittedly anecdotal.
SBCL 1.3.2 released
ZNC channel playback is configurable:

KeepBuffer = true
Buffer = 5000
> ... I do not want to jump back up the page.

I thought the exact same thing and almost mentioned it. That's very annoying to me.
It would be great if you could add some kind of avatar system on top of (or outside of) IRC with this client. Also auto expandable URLs, emoji support and pretty much everything Slack offers.

We need an IRC-based Slack alternative badly!
> He then disassembled the firmware, which looked quite a bit different than disassemblies of normal code. It looked somewhat like electronic schematics had been turned into code, rather than spaghetti-like output from other kinds of programs, he said.

The actual logic diagrams and definitions of this data for Bosch ECUs (sans the emissions cheat, obviously) can be found in the "Funktionsrahmen," leaked but easily available from many VW tuning forums online. It's quite fascinating and worth a look for anyone interested in how modern ECUs work (it's a far cry from the oldschool "fuel table" style of engine management).
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hi - it's not normally this slow - and the slightly increased traffic due to the comment above shouldn't have caused it. We're looking into it!

and thanks for trying it out :)

edit: AFAIK we've not been featured on product hunt
The problem is when yahoo does parties that cost some millions when they announce the layoffs... I'm wondering if yahoo has any earnings since her majesty became ceo.
Try search from Google, then open resulting link in a private / incognito window.
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Great example of how it often makes sense for one parent to stay at home. Just remember that 1) this is a luxury that many families don't get because living on a single income often isn't possible these days, and 2) we should be equally supportive of stay at home dads as we are of stay at home moms.
Sounds interesting, but you should have someone edit your copy. Below is a sample of some issues I found.

> We are the first to do this.

Have cheap prices? Not really a selling a point.

> We care about not only the privacy

"the" is unnecessary here

> we guarantee that our interface is top of the notch

The expression is just "top notch"

> so that you could easily spin up and deploy new servers

"can" easily spin up

> every month you'll receive discounts and other prop

What is a "prop"?
Wow... bookmarked
It must've taken quite some time to add >300 APIs.
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"Open source" was created specifically to avoid talking about freedom. If you want to talk about freedom, please say "Free Software".

In that case, we are talking about the freedom of the user to use software as they wish, to study it and modify it to suit their needs, and to share it with others. We're not talking about the freedom to go about their lives as they wish---that's a separate fundamental freedom, although it can certainly be restricted by nonfree software. Ideally, that software would also be Free, but that's their own choice.

But we should never encourage the use of proprietary software.

If you're talking about the "open source" development methodology, though, then the argument ceases to exist, because freedom is not important enough to discuss, and so those who adopt that perspective won't understand why it's bad to recommend Slack to someone, or even require it.
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I have bought my Apple Watch two weeks ago after convincing myself since it came out that I would really not need it, would probably annoyed by constant distractions and charging yet another device at night. I really wanted to wait at least for version 2 as I thought of it as way to gimmicky and clumbersome for above reasons. I got one for my mother as a birthday gift and surrendered some days after that to get mine soon after as she was calling me specifically to tell me how much she loved it. Long story short to my great surprise I really like it. Like a lot. I find myself reaching for my phone much less than before and as a consequence I am much less inclined to follow Twitter/Facebook/Email OCD than before. When I check some notification / reminder on my watch there is nothing to do due to the severely limited software. Apart from a quick glance and maybe a very short reply there is little I can do with it. The "apps" are - apart from the watch face - very slow don't offer a lot of notifications. But surprisingly it covers the things I use my phone most for on a daily basis: Checking notifications, setting timers, adding reminders, navigation. It handles these things well for me yet. While being miles away from that it reminds me of the movie "her" where technology gets rid of visual interfaces and fades away from the "glowing squares" to are the ubiquitous screens of today. And for that reason alone it is much more and something completely different than a smartphone with a tiny screen. Sadly though there are nearly no apps that use the tactile interface etc in a innovative / surprising way for e.g. real life games or something like that just yet. But this will hopefully change over time. One last thing that I really find worthwhile sitting in front of a screen way to much is the activity tracking and reminders to "stand up and move for a minute". In combination with my whitings a lot of aspects of my life are now measured completely automatic and continuously (Hearth Rate, Weight, Distance Walked, Steps, Body Fat, Workouts) which I value quite a bit. Since I know only two people that also are using a smartwatch I was curious what the HN crowd things of them so far.
I'm willing to bet it's heat related. Nothing destroys battery life quicker than heat.
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In the same boat, mate. I upvoted you to 500 though, enjoy the downvoting!
I've recently moved from a 4-5 person office somewhat as you describe to open plan. It's a BIG difference.
Thanks, I fixed the title. (For the record it was "OpenSSL: the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime").
In all honesty, you're bringing nothing new to the table here. This is the same FOSS-uber-alles pissing match anybody can see and participate in by spending five minutes on 4chan's tech board.

It's not interesting and serves no purpose on HN.

(earlier comments in furtherance of said pissing match deleted)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005637
In addition to outericky's post, consider if you can present a sample project to employers. You say you had an idea for a website; do you still have it? Is it running? Put that in your resume, link to the source code if you can. (Perhaps take a bit to clean it up if necessary, or make sure to highlight what it is and where the best stuff is.) There's a lot of places you can get a foot in the door if it's a decent website. You probably do want to stay away from anywhere with heavy HR screening.

You may also want to consider trying to angle for a management track. I'm not sure you can jump straight there, but if you can find something a little bit larger than a 5-person startup, and can find something growing, you may be able to work you way up that path; put a bit of that under your belt and you'll probably be in pretty decent shape.

Perhaps some people who have gone that path could offer some insight?

But, upshot, with some hustle you seem hireable to me based on the given info. You just definitely aren't in a position where the job will hop into your lap right now.
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dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11009022
Almost everyone I work with uses ZNC. I've stuck with my same old method of tmux/screen and a text mode client. Apparently ZNC isn't hard to set up or use but I have no direct experience with it.
That's what happens to pet ashes in my area. There is a farm outside of town that accepts the ash and ploughs it into fields.
I have the same question.
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This is what's Alphabet quarter earnings is about. They are going to show separately how Google and all their other bets will do. Elon Musk is the most celebrated visionary of our time but Larry Page is not far behind and now that he has passed of Google for someone else to run. It will be interesting to see what he does.
Wow, I wouldn't trust that site with even a single cent, even the prices are the same as the ones on the bootstrap template O.o

I like the name though

Edit: Also the about talks about there's been spent years on this, while the website looks like something slapped together in a couple of minutes at best.
Did anyone notice that the "previous" link at the end of the article was to an entry named "Live and die by the keyboard: How to be more productive!"?

Good article -- though I feel like it might be common sense to most adults... Do stuff you like while balancing the rest of your life and responsibilities.
I've switched to Matrix[1] with auto-bridging to freenode. It automatically syncs new notifications across all devices, that way when I read something on the desktop, the notifications on my phone are gone. It has a slew of other cool features, too.

I use vector.im for desktop and matrix console for android.

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When you use Slack, you don't "use it in a web browser", you use the (proprietary) software, delivered by Slack Technologies, which happens to run in a web browser. The fact that the web browser is itself free software is as irrelevant as the fact that the kernel and user-space services supporting skype on linux/bsd systems are open source. The actual software, everything that actually relates to the task at hand (group communication), is non-free.

Actually it's not completely irrelevant, as the fact that the host platform of proprietary software is free software has value in the security-based argument in favor of free software, but that's only tangential to the topic at hand.

Would it also be bad to host the project's source code on GitHub

Not necessarily, if really all you're using github for is hosting, then there's nothing wrong. That is, if you don't use their issues/PR system or other auxiliary services. This is how, for example, the linux project uses github. In this case, all that you're asking people to do is use git (free software) to download some stuff from servers owned by Github, Inc.

Running the website on IIS is fine though; this imposes absolutely nothing on your users or contributors.
I sometimes feel like I have an inferiority complex for not attending a prestigious school. Hopefully it'll come down to my actual skills and not just the name on my degree when it's time to find a full time job.
The top post yesterday was literally about how Facebook was shutting down Parse and terminating support (in a year) to everyone who depends on it. You seriously don't see the relevance to this discussion?
Exactly 0 of those things are required to interact on IRC.

Source: have been using IRC since late 1993.
When you, as a free software project maintainer, rely on proprietary software for your infrastructure, you send a bad message of "I expect my free software to be good enough for you, but your free software is not good enough for me."

That makes no sense at all. Firstly, most people working on free software don't make assertions like, "My free software is good enough for you." Most of us are much more realistic and assert something more like "My free software might be good enough for you, here's why you should consider it."

Secondly, even if one were making that assertion that one's free software is good enough for others, why would that mean they should believe all free software is good enough for everyone? It just doesn't follow.

I am completely opposed to editing messages after they are sent (chat is append only!)

This isn't relevant. Your personal communication preferences are not universal. Slack's popularity shows people don't care about this.

But ultimately, even if Slack has more convenient features, we cannot rightly use it because it doesn't respect our freedom

Most developers aren't as dogmatic as this. You're in an extreme minority. Which is totally fine, and you should try to convince others if you feel they should be convinced, as long as you recognize most of us aren't in your "we". It's not true that I must reject Slack.
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Why would gold bars be cooler? Gold can be bought on the regular market. 150 years old pickles are rarer.
Go falls. What's next?
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It's hard to say from afar, of course, but I believe you are not only hirable, but potentially a very valuable employee.

Writing skill is a big plus, even if many people (including HR people) don't realize that immediately.

Psychology can be valuable, as well, especially if you find a tech field to "dock on". Maybe some user experience stuff or so? Security (social engineering)? I don't know, but it would be a shame to totally abandon that amount of knowledge.

The problem is, as you have realized, that it takes effort on the hiring manager's part to correctly evaluate your potential value to the company.

Write your resume more in the direction of cross-disciplinary projects, show the (very different) things you've done of your own accord.

And (although this may be very tricky to do, depending on your personality) don't go into it as a supplicant competing with recent university graduates. Paint yourself a career changer, a bit apart from the masses.

Still, hiring tends to be conservative, so I wouldn't want to give you high hopes of immediate success.

Depending on the time frame you're contemplating, maybe use your writing skills and curiosity, paired with technical skills, to impress people.

Julia Evans (http://jvns.ca/), for example, is much admired here on HN. I don't know her backstory, from my point of view she simply showed up one day with an interesting blog post, then another, then another.

And while all of those blog posts are kind of basic, maybe even boring, to people who are deep in whatever she's writing about, she managed to write about lots of different subjects competently, gaining lots of respect and job offers, IIRC.
It could also be high expectations:

Woman: I'm going to marry a rich guy that I love and have three children and live happily ever after

Man: I'm going to change the world with my non-profit start-up and be a rockstar programmer. Later, I'll sell it for billions and spend time with family.

Reality: Man and woman have a relationship that ends after 5 years, no children, and both have a standard peon job in a big company without any influence or reponsibility.
Lol, thats a great point.