skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the ash tree too. I remember seeing a bow made of it, but I think the person told me it wasn't the best wood for a longbow; he said yew was.

I remember the hemlocks were in trouble in the late 90s during a gypsy moth breakout in the NE US. Neighbors were spending a fortune trying to protect their trees. I didn't have the money to put into it, and I was lucky.

I had about eight of them on my property, and I didn't do anything, and in the end, I only lost one. Two of the others looked beyond recovery, but I left them, and today they are good again. Some of my neighbors lose that number, or more and they had spent a couple of thousand of dollars over two years trying to protect them. I don't knock their efforts, since I am a tree lover.

Let's hope this invasive beetle meets some obstacle like the cold where it can get cold, or a domestic predator finds them tasty!
The phrase "middle class" is misleading here[1]. If you are talking about people with IT industry jobs, they certainly have enough disposable income to spend on flights or cars. Even lower income migrants travel home for major holidays, much like the author herself did when she was young.

[1] http://qz.com/578793/indias-middle-class-is-almost-impossibl...
Again: Rather than complain, what can I do to make this a little easier for OS X people?
Front page of HN will lead to hundreds of concurrent visitors as long as its up there, provided the link gets fairly high.
> would suddenly be hosting a ton-o-warez.

which could then be found by searching for "index of"...
Post nytimes on hackernews...hmmf

The problem set was piss in terms of intelligence had a false assumption of a rational/intelligence dichotomy. Of course it's more likely that she is a bankteller than a bankteller plus (insert whatever). This is probability theory 101. But hey, it is nytimes you're reading so what would one expect anyway.

I was more thinking in these lines:

How rational is it for someone to be outspoken against nuclear energy when there hardly exist any real valid renewable alternative to substitute that energy source to begin with? Do it like Germany and rely on the importation of oil from Russia?
Yes after you edited your comment
Awesome jekyll theme
On mobile, on vacation, don't have link
I think you should read what GP said again. To repeat: there's no point in downloading a PGP signature over SSL -- if you have the signing key locally (which you can get over HTTPS). Because you use crypto to verify the signature and if someone MITMs you then the keys won't match. The reason why most people use HTTP for distribution (including many GNU/Linux distributions) is because mirror sites generally don't have HTTPS, and so you would have to require everyone to connect to your main server (which increases bandwidth and latency costs).
I adore his short story collections, both the ones meant for children and the ones for adults. "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" has always been my favorite.
> In your hypothetical example in Go you would pick one of the set values (e.g. "1") as a "zero value".

> The alternative of not having a "zero value" is to have variables with undefined values, and we know from C/C++ that it's extremely bad idea.

Selecting a "zero value" that also happens to have actual meaning is insane.

The real alternative to not having a zero value is to require all variables to be initialized with some value. If you can't, then the variable should be an optional type wrapping the type you want. Pointers/references have something similar (you can have a valid pointer, or you can have null), but optional types are generally applicable to any type, and pulling a value out of an Option generally requires you to check for the null-equivalent or explicitly say "I know what I'm doing, assume it contains something" (unlike null pointers/references, which you can blindly dereference).
I've been using the Ratpoison window manager for more than ten years now, and I love it a lot.

Back in like 2003, I wanted to check out the CVS repository, probably because of some new feature, but the read-only CVS server at Savannah or whatever was down... so I asked in #ratpoison if someone could send me a tarball.

Instead, one of the authors and maintainers just gave me an account on the commit server, mostly out of laziness I think.

But it felt nice to be trusted. Loyal user ever since.
If you are on OSX, I can't stress enough how important it is to swap opt with cmd. Not sure if there's a better one but I use cmdkeyhappy for that.
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I ported over a few years of custom keybindings and other config to Spacemacs. It was not too difficult, basically you can just tell Spacemacs to load whatever.el at startup.

Eventually I switched to evil-mode and I rarely use most of my old keybindings, but I still keep them around!
Try using Steam Streaming - it's some work to get it to mirror a desktop rather than a game, but because they assume high-bandwidth connections, it does 1080p at 60fps for me, with super low input latency.
Creating My First Video Game for Ludum Dare 36
Will Fog Computing Hide the Clouds of the Internet of Things?
Quite an interesting story. I've favorited it.
They already did the processor shift thing twice.
There was a time that no one got fired for buying an HP printer because they were reliable workhorses from which HP made enough profit to not have to pull such crap on consumables. Unfortunately that time was twenty years ago, and anyone assuming you'll have the same enjoyable experience now as you did with your LaserJet III is going to be really disappointed.

At home we just use a B&W Brother laser. Cartridges last forever and are inexpensive. If we need color we just print it at Kinko's as that happens so rarely. I don't know, does HP still make decent office printers, or are they trying to screw everyone these days?
I'd rather train a language model on the audio. If it can predict the next sound, then there is some structure there. It could act as a translator.
What I've seen and (briefly) read from this article seem to agree - as soon as the Emerald Ash Borer appears in the UK, it's game over for us. We've (UK) been suffering from ash dieback in a very large way, and although we seem to have got it under containment via selective killing/leaving to rot of certain trees we're very aware that a large proportion of our remaining Ash's could go very quickly. I know of a few people that have worked with trying to work with different lichen species that favour Ash trees and transplant them onto others with varying success - the same was tried with species that favoured Elm trees before they died back. It just seems a shame that there's not too much we can see to do about it. (This all comes from a UG perspective, albiet one with extensive lichen experience and some experience of conserving some of the oldest woodland in the UK, so other opinions very much welcomed!!)
I used to work with someone who had stomach cancer. He was one of the most tenacious people I ever worked with and did not back down to anyone. If anything, his condition made him care significantly less about what people thought about him, and that made him bolder in his job and in turn helped him succeed.

Draw strength from surviving and let the fleeting nature of life empower you to re-prioritize things that are truly important to you.

Also, don't feel bad about needing to rest more often or ask for help. Everyone has their issues, and needing to rest frequently due to therapy is perfectly reasonable. If you get ANY shit whatsoever from your employer over the situation, start looking for a new job.

Best of luck and glad to hear you are able to think about getting back to a normal life.
It's been a while but I believe that's a response from Apache server not ftp.
They don't need to know, but if we were talking about something less politicized by the fossil fuel industry, we'd think they were idiots for not deferring to the generally accepted science and instead saying "I don't know."

Like, say they were doing a show on the big bang. That's a pretty non-controversial thing, but we obviously don't know what happened back then. Still, we sure don't see a whole lot of big bang skeptics around (and probably a lot of us here would think they were being willfully ignorant or coy to say "well, I don't know, I wasn't there"). Big bang skepticism isn't an unofficial part of a major political party, either. What's the difference here, I wonder.
The article actually mentions using traps:

> [NYC's Medical Entomology Laboratory] has also acquired new mosquito-hunting swag: the laundry-hamper thing was one of a hundred BG-Sentinels (two hundred dollars each), mosquito traps designed to target both albopictus and aegypti.

> The new trap is cylindrical and shiny, with sides made of black fabric and a white plastic top. If you were a mosquito, you might find it good-looking—especially compared with regular mosquito traps, which resemble buckets. This is intentional. According to Shah, albopictus prefers “attractive visual cues.”

> Regular traps release small amounts of carbon dioxide, to mimic humans breathing. The albopictus lure is more sophisticated: it releases a bouquet of substances commonly found on human skin, like ammonia and lactic acid, which are present in sweat and breath. The mosquitoes come to feast, and get sucked in. Shah unscrewed the trap’s bluish-white lure and took a whiff. It smelled like a hot subway car during rush hour. “Whoa,” he said. “It gets me every time.”

The problem with consumer traps is that they're rather expensive (~$200) and don't catch all the mosquitos. Also, I wouldn't put it past nature and evolution to quickly make a trap obsolete.
A rotating savings and credit association, for Cryptocurrency
Coincidentally the sparkfun AVC was today. You can see videos on their website, but here is a direct link to the start of the classic autonomous race.

https://youtu.be/XjWWUj6ia34?t=27m16s
Cve-search – gather and search vulnerabilities
What's your blood type and how's your metabolism? Supposedly mosquitos are more attracted to people with Type O blood.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/science-nature/why-...
"Simply put Americans don't seem to care very much about other Americans."

You hit the nail on the head. What else do you expect from a society that won't even provide the option of healthcare to its citizens, that has massive industries whose sole purpose is to profit off the sickness and death of others, and that incarcerates over two million people at any given time, many for ordinary, everyday activities or mental health problems? It's a reflection of the people and many of the people are stupid, cruel, hateful, and puritanical to the point that they will do anything within their power to stop others from enjoying life. For example, the next time you hear someone talking about something they don't want their tax dollars going to, listen carefully to what they're saying. Rarely will it be the unjust wars we fight or other horrors like that, and often it will be others' well being and health. Or just talk to any Trump supporter (or almost any Republican at this point).
Bill Maher admits when he makes a mistake. I think he's in the upstairs room.
Inside the Hypnotic World of YouTube Marble Racers
This is only true if you don't trust the machine you are connecting to.

Private key (only you know) -> signed by CA -> public key you share.

You put the public key on the server , the CA can't change that file... And they can't make that particular cert work without a private key that you hold.

Most CA can do is revoke and break the chain on you.
It's hard to do that with human hearing, but we can use neural networks to model the sound of their conversations and build a language model. The purpose of a language model is to predict the next sound based on the past. If it learns to do this precisely enough, then we have access to a transcription from "dolphin audio" to word vector representations. Then we need to match those word vectors to concepts based on observing how they correlate to their actions.
I used one of their earlier boards, an ALIX 2D3, a few years ago before needing >100Mb throughput.

http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm
I'm probably near the higher end of the distribution to this among my Internet buddies: about 4 years. Partly this was due to it truly being a hobby, partly because bingo cards are not the most renumerative thing in the world, and partly because my skill level at the time was rather low.

A more typical number among my SaaS buddies is about 18 months of sustained effort until you hit $10k in MRR, which typically is enough (after expenses) to keep a solo founder in the field indefinitely.

The fastest I've ever seen it done is about ~6 weeks for SaaS. Even shorter for infoproducts, although depending on the dynamics of the business that might be "launch one, get relatively flush with money, buy yourself enough time to launch a second one" until you figure out some not-too-obvious things about how to sell them repeatedly.

A consultant, naturally, can hit day job equivalent levels of revenue virtually immediately after hanging out their shingle (if they've got a client lined up). A fairly common pattern is "Inform day job of intention to quit; immediately go back to working for day job as 1099 during transitionary period; start building pipeline while delivering for Client #1."
HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Working in Its Printers
I remember this as well (I still have mine in fact!).

However, I didn’t really care that much considering how much better the Game Boy Advance SP was than all the previous Game Boys.

It was the first Game Boy to have a backlit screen, which meant I could finally easily sneak and play on it in the night without alerting my parents (instead of trying to do the same with the much less effective wormlight accessory I had for my Game Boy Advance).

The D-pad was far more comfortable to use over long periods compared with the ones on previous Game Boys. I distinctly remember having my left thumb hurt after playing for a few hours on my Game Boy Advance, since the D-pad on that one makes you feel like you have to press down a lot harder than the one on the Game Boy Advance SP.

And the biggest point: it was the first Game Boy to include a rechargeable battery! This was huge, since people really didn’t buy rechargeable batteries nearly as much back then as they do now, so you’d pretty much be either wasting two alkaline batteries per day or two, or staying tethered to a wall by using the included AC adapter. That was a pretty annoying option too, especially when the power in your home died right before you could get to a save point…

When I got one, I essentially stopped playing GBA games on my Game Boy Advance, since playing them on my Game Boy Advance SP was a far more enjoyable experience (so much so that I didn’t really lament the loss of the headphone jack all that much).
That's interesting; why should Agilent enforce an Intel NDA?
containers are pretty cool
Guix / Nix might be a solution to this problem.
> there hardly exist any real valid renewable alternative

Most people don't know that. Exaggerations like http://thesolutionsproject.org/ make them think that wind/solar/tidal could put more than a little dent in energy.
Supposedly, this is pretty much... the law in the United States. That you make reasonable accommodations to allow the disabled to do their jobs. However, Google is incredibly good at marketing and PR, and hence gets journalists to write posts like this for them.
>Shadowing I'd assume is "solved" with warnings (as errors)?

Yep, shadowing variables are caught by the linters built into every golang package for major editors. Using these linters is built into the culture and as a result they tend to crop up less than you think for such a glaringly obvious issue.

>I don't know enough Go to know how you'd effectively avoid the non-nil interface to nil instance issue, short of carefully checking for nil on every conversion.

You let it panic. This is a programming error, which is what panics are for. If you caught the error, the proper thing to do would be call panic manually.

>As for the for loop scopes, do you just declare new variables in the local scopes? Interestingly, I expected the "WRONG" behavior in 2 of the 3 for loop examples... and C# actually changed their behavior (in C#5?) from "WRONG" to "OK" with for-each loops.

This is subjective, and easily testable. Most early Go developers learn to test their understanding of "for loop scoping" after they implement an infinite loop that expects `defer f.Close()` to close the resource, but instead it builds up until the kernel kills the process for not releasing file descriptors.

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I was recently surprised to find out that `type MyError error` and switching on types like `switch variable.(type)` can be a bit scary [0]. Basically you should always define your new error type from a string and never attempt to re-use the builtin error type. In retrospect it makes sense, but you'd naively think this is the proper way to create a new error type.

[0]: https://play.golang.org/p/3BSKu8Cd4o
Org mode configs are really Emacs configs.

It's true it's easier to build your system in small pieces as you discover your needs, but it helps a ton to have a better idea of what can be accomplished through customization.

In my case, I didn't write any Elisp between 2004-2010 and probably used Org mode as a bullet list during that time. Until I had enough interest to read its documentation and explored how others are using it.

Only then was I able to come up with a half-decent solution that was still quite good, but really so far off of what can be accomplished with a better understanding of the parts at play in this mode, as demonstrated by Bernt Hanson's setup (http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html).

To this day I'm not even considering trying to rethink the way he is using Org mode because his setup works out perfectly for me, and I have to GTD like everybody else.

All I'm saying is it may not be obvious at first glance and without studying documentation but a very powerful set of tools are available in there and anyone with half a brain can use them, and that it's best to adopt complex-type configurations once you've wrapped your head around them.
Yea, the US' military is run by the same clique of people. McArthur, is one such example who has the privilege of being one of the only commanders to lead a military attack against US Veterans over the fear the ruling class of the time had of ret. General Butler. If an uprising happened in the US military, then the pampered generals and their sycophants would do everything they can to squash it.
Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series)
Ok, so change "free" to "cheaper", and the point remains: you like it because they charge less.

Still, most people in HN threads use it because it's free. Which is great for an open source tool, but bad for an unprofitable, VC-funded startup.
One other reason there are so many homeless in SF: they are paid to be there.
It'd take a dictator to fix the USA. I think I could do it, but it wouldn't be peaceful.
I don't really care to spend that much time considering the political correctness of my opinions - I use my best judgement.

If you put your opinions up on youtube (whether you have a mental illness or not), you open yourself up to public criticism. Maybe 'bigot' is a shitty word in general, and I was being partly facetious - but I've watched a few of the full templeOS youtube videos and they're disturbing - that's just my opinion.
China seems pretty regionally diverse. They have whole regions with completely different languages and large variations in cultures.
Exactly. People are "homeless" because it makes economic sense for them to be homeless.
I reckon that article from mailchimp. Would like to hear whats their view now
This reminds me of the "feature phone" era in the early 2000s, where every phone had a proprietary charging port, proprietary headphone jack and the removable memory interface was not yet standardized on MicroSD.

Thankfully European Union pushed for MicroUSB standardization. While vendors (like Apple) can still get around it by bundling an adapter in European markets, it was enough to push the entire industry to standardize.

Still, both Nintendo and Apple still change charging port standards frequently (and not adopting the universal standards even when they're superior): the original GBA used a certain proprietary charging port, then both GBA SP and the original Nintendo DS shared a (different) charging port. But Nintendo DS Lite used another standard (looks a lot like MicroUSB but wasn't). Finally all handhelds since DSi (including DSi XL, 3DS XL and New 3DS variants) all use another proprietary variant!

New 3DS systems don't even ship with AC adapters! Not even a cable from the proprietary 3DS connector to USB type A! This means little Johnny will get between 0 and 1 charges out of the system on Christmas Day, while his exasperated mother has to go find a shop that's open during the holiday period just to charge the device.

Very surprising since Nintendo have sometimes been very good regarding backwards compatibility of interfaces on their hardware - Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64 and Gamecube all shared the same video cable (a proprietary connector to composite audio/video out via Red/White/Yellow RCA connectors)

Apple of course do it with constantly changing MagSafe variants, as well the old 30-pin iPod/iPhone connectors (and not switching to the MicroUSB standard) and chasing Firewire (and to a much less degree Intel Thunderbolt) and most recently choosing the superior (to USB2.0) reversible Lightning connector over the new industry standard, USB3.1 Type C.

The reasons for doing this appear to be mostly related control of an ecosystem to enable price gouging. (Can't really be due to increasing water resistance, as competitors show it's possible to have even better water resistance without removing any standardized jacks)
Then you better bootstrap an S corp or an LLC. VC funded S corporations are not even structured for this.
I suppose the author shared his feelings about how overwhelming is to share code with others and work together in one group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebre...
Indeed, you're correct. Although the server always got something. And if it was a hashed password, well, works as if the password wasn't hashed UNLESS the hash changes AFTER some challenge prior the authentication attempt.
Has Telsa achieved much autonomy? They are just doing lane assist and active cruise control on highway driving right? Ford was doing that in 2013. It won't stop for red lights will it?
>Big bang skepticism isn't an unofficial part of a major political party, either.

Isn't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right
> But most homeless people are the chronic homeless.

That's wildly inaccurate. Chronic homeless account for less than a fifth of the homeless population.

* https://www.usich.gov/goals/chronic

* Look at "Key findings": https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2015-AHAR-P...
Libertarians.... I'll agree that being a libertarian can sometimes be less than pragmatic, but I hardly think it's the same level as a conspiracy theorists or climate change deniers.
Benjamin Bach seems to be awesome, however there are few people like him. Chances are your contributor won't be a Benjamin Bach. If the majority were like him, I'm sure we would have much less abandoned open source projects, but the majority isn't like him. Expect the worst and slight possibility of turning out like what the author described.