skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple things:

1. We generally do a boring every couple hundred feet along an alignment for tunnels. The bore hole is about 2" in diameter. You can imagine that we miss white a bit of subsurface detail. We rely on experience and local geological history for fleshing out the details and putting things in context. Sometimes we just flat out miss things.
2. Geophysics methods (sonar essentially) is not very good at telling you what something is past "hard", "soft", or "void". In a glacial till you get a lot of all three.
It's as easy as "lein new mies". Hard to get much easier.
Follow your life mission. If you are the person who live by security then learning to
invest and save is your best bet. However if you are not worry about your future but the present,
spend the money on what you love most whether you love to help the poors, pay to attend
your favourite classes, help your parents lessen their burden or anything that you
wish for. Viewing from another angle, what you want by end of the day? Short or long term
gratification or both?
Important tech details before making your site public
This is probably not enforceable: http://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/labor-employment/b/l...
If they know every page I've visited on the site, how do they not know when I've made the purchase?
Good you aren't Google. That would be evil, drive away Chrome users, be quite possibly illegal, and not possible unless it had something like AdBlock. Once the browser -- any browser -- is communicating with a server, the server can panopticlick-identify it.
That's the same reason why many people don't share their salaries: for the benefit of others (who might get jealous).
That's what I see, too. I don't think this person deserves the anger. They were trying to be nice.
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Majority of what I said is opinion and prefaced as such, other than fairly true bits about Singapore's communitarian culture (true) and tax rates (true).

Otherwise, very little is normative and instructive (telling someone that this what they should do instead of what I'd do in the same circumstances). So I am not sure how I am patronizing someone as opposed to stating deeply opinion.

I mentioned this in another comment, but John Rawls had the concept of a "decent state" -- which may have a radically different tradition than, e.g., US or UK, but one where basic civil rights are still honored and respected. Singapore fits this bill, so I don't think its system should be condemned in the same vein as many states (perhaps majority of the world today) where, e.g., civil wars flare and religious and ethnic persecution is a day-to-day reality.

> 2: People move to Singapore because they're narrowly selfish

Sivers did surrender his US citizenship, so I can assume taxation did have some reason that choice (although it could be simply to avoid double taxation -- .sg taxes plus US taxes on top -- rather only choosing lower taxes).

However, I never stated that all -- or even most -- immigrants to Singapore do this. I can only state this about Westerners moving there permanently (it's another matter about living there temporarily as part of a job, etc..), for most of whom taxation plays a determining role.

I am actually aware personally of many people who moved to Singapore for far different reasons (fleeing civil wars, seeking basic economic opportunity) -- but none of them were Westerners. For example, I attended high school and university with people who grew up in Singapore having fled grinding poverty in Burma or reeducation camps in Vietnam. In what I think is a huge criticism of US, their families were not initially allowed to enter the US: they were only able to move to the US once their parents established themselves in Singapore, obtained the right employment and education, and move to US on H1B visas.
Oh wow. A few names immediately came to mind as I read this.

I remember the first time I encountered this, and thinking the guy had to be on crack.

His quote:
"A changed comment in code could possibly cause a problem, if the file were to become corrupted as its uploaded"
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This proposal is clever in that it greatly increases the (former) state's power in the senate, but does so by splitting the state's senators 50/50 between both parties.

That would net republicans 2 more senators than they have today -- so if the state passes it, I imagine the republicans in congress might actually allow it to happen.

This would change the dynamic for presidential elections dramatically (thanks to our byzantine way of selecting a president); pulling away several "secure" democratic votes to republicans. I believe republicans already have a electoral vote per capita advantage, as seen in the 2000 election.

Also, a 55 star flag doesn't look so terrible: http://i.imgur.com/5yKPsUR.png
Any sort of Terrorism charges for glitter or a banner protest are clearly absurd.
Google does actually, here: http://www.chillingeffects.org/search.cgi

You'll have to search under court orders to get those.
Wait are you describing the US and it's current relationship to others countries?
Ask HN: a "modeling" tool for Rails? 
Is there something like an abstracting tool(commercial or not, ide/browser/console or whatever based) to create, manage and have a complete sight over a Rails application models,their relationships (and validation as a plus)?

I've made my research but I could not find anything all-around enough...

An alternative could be a tool to import db tables and relationship into rails models...

Any advice? Thanks.
Just FYI, pg has stated his intent to kill any more submissions to HN about problems with coinbase [1] although I expect most of the mods are asleep right now.

You'll probably have better luck on /r/coinbase where people are talking about putting together a class action suit.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6936629
No worries, sorry for the confusion.
Fun. A $25,000 Pyramid style game with Unix subjects would be entertaining.
What she is doing is similar to implementing her own Lisp or Forth interpreter. It does not matter whether it will ever be used in production, what matters is learning whilst building, as opposed to by wrote.

You do mention that working on somebody else's construction would be useful, and would give a different perspective on the problem, but that process emphasizes different skills. Treat her wheel reinvention project as an investment in her future as a programmer and a systems designer. Re-building things that others have made to discover how they work is one of the first, vital steps in the process of developing new ideas and approaches to problems.

I would also add Rust offers some really great semantics, and it's well worth the trouble to see how a kernel would look in it. It's been a while since we've had a new, reasonably well known language that is truly capable of this level of systems programming.
Ouchies. On the narrow subject of strncpy(): strlcpy() and friends are the "correct" API, IMHO, and it's easy enough to copy-paste them from e.g. the OpenBSD code.
Still is. The Seattle Underground Tour is still one of those go-to tourist activities, like Pike Place Market and the Boeing Factory Tour.
Or, we could talk to people, invite them to events, and acknowledge their contributions. Just a thought.
I believe these are both meatspace identities.

Nick Szabo is a "former law school professor at George Washington University" according to Wikipedia.

Wei Dai has attended SIAI/MIRI workshops in person:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ig9/outside_views_and_miris_fai_endg...

("Wei Dai" could be a pseudonym but if so I haven't seen him mention that on Less Wrong.)
How can I accelerate my personal growth?
So 1-2 weeks ago my girlfriend forwarded me an article from some rightwing conspiracy nut journalist that covered all of the issues in this article. That article however was based on gross misreadings of the original academic articles on which it was based. Had I not read that previous article, I would have taken a lot more of the content from this article at face value. However, with the curse of knowledge and the fact that every example in this article mirrors that article, I can't help but think that this author basically rewrote that other article in a much more convincing matter and conveniently leaving out all the academic references, that upon closer inspection refute some of the claims here.

The thing that bothers me most about this article and the original article is that no causality is established and no other possible causes considered. The studies on bluefin tuna for example showed higher levels of radiation, but not dramatically higher levels and still at levels considered safe for consumption. The other primary sources I read suggested the same. Articles like this should definitely ask questions as to what else could cause so many problems, so widespread. For example, I would expect increased quantities of dissolved CO2 to be a much more likely culprit for these symptoms. Laboratory experiments with three tanks of fish, one control, one irradiated and one exposed to greater amounts of atmospheric CO2 and CO would do more to suggest the true cause that the speculation presented here.

I really wish I could find that article as evidence, because it was one that the average educated HNer would tear apart quickly, especially on closer inspection of actual data from primary sources.
Is inconsistency of substrate enough to be a problem? Like if you put marbles in a food processor?
I'm assuming this story is a Facebook generation thing.

Not sure if it's a disassociation of the difference between/loss of real friendships and acquaintances or perhaps the constant need to get attention which people are starting to use the death of others to get (amongst other things)

I can't tell if this story is true or not, it's certainly well written and of literary value.

But it is not normal to light candles, create movies and put people who have passed away's photos up in the workplace.

Those true friends in the workplace will go to the funeral, this sort of darkness in getting off on people who we barley knew who have died, kinda scares me the most in this story.
The Senate representation is by design, so that large states cannot bully the small ones. Big states get more leverage in the House of Representatives and the smaller states are on equal footing with the larger states in the Senate. I think it is a good system.

What would you have the small states do, anyway? The representatives are acting in the interest of their constituents, which is what they are supposed to do. How many corn-producing states are there? More than the 25 states needed for a majority in the Senate? Really? Even so, how did it get past the House? If the representatives of the populous extorted states can't see how the corn legislation is bad, maybe those other states need better representation. Maybe California even supported it, since they are all environmentally-conscious (even if not always well-informed). Or maybe it is not actually bad legislation: Wikipedia [1] seems to claim that ethanol in gasoline replaces a harmful chemical that was polluting groundwater, but that ethanol producers were having problems staying afloat in the Panic of 2008-9.

The government was well-designed, please don't try to "fix" it. Instead, let's eliminate special interests buying harmful legislation, which is the real problem.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_the_United_Stat...
> What federal approval would be needed for this?

Yes, by Congress.

> It would be interesting if California added some regional government level between state and county, then devolved almost all state power to that level

California has been progressively devolving state powers directly to counties for many years, constrained largely by things that are tied to federal funding streams that require a single state agency to be responsible for the federal funding and to perform certain functions with regard to the statewide program.
I don't think that a FSF certified Free software Linux distribution ships with that module, as that microcode blob is closed source.
> From the IWeek article:
The FTC and 37 states have taken action only against Google, likely because Google's privacy policy stated that the company would comply with Safari users' tracking choices.

> legitimate companies

Google is both an advertising company and a product company (and big and famous), and also uses Don't Evil as part of its brand; this why it has a user-friendly privacy policy to keep it honest.

B2B advertising companies, which is, like, all of them, have no need for privacy policies, unless their customers (website owners) demand them. And what website needs to have a privacy policy that impresses users? Googe, Facebook, sure, but cheapdiamondsonline.com?
May be opposite?
Word 2013 does this for me automatically. Does this do a better job of formatting them?
No, your browser sends all that crap in the HTTP headers.
Preferences of citizens instead of remote elites! What springs to my mind is the events of 1953, where a mere 9 remote elites ran roughshod over the preferences of millions of citizens. Also known as Brown v. Board of Education.

Federalism and the incorporation doctrine have been a powerful force for freedom and justice in the USA. Please let's not abandon it.
Impressive! It converted a 500 page long book in under a minute, and the layout looks good. Even the small borders around the informational fact-boxes look good.
I don't think you know how to communicate with people. I'll stop expecting you to. Bye.
Federal Government employees have their pay publicly visible, at least many of them. Some Universities do the same. I'm not sure why this is so mind-blowing for some.

Also, keep in mind that they clearly set the opposite expectation about privacy with their employees and (from what they say), cleared it with everyone first.
What does Laravel do that other frameworks like FuelPHP and Yii don't do? I hear a lot about it but don't hear a lot about why it's so much better than others.
It's easy to say a $60M take-home is wrong. But what number is right?
I'd rather have a normal program to do this. Too bad there isn't one.
*It doesn't produce word-format, it produces RTF-format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format
...um, FYI, this hack has been avail for several years now... welcome to a Brave New World.
Recording requests is a good idea.

Another idea once you're reasonably comfortable and have done a smoke test is to direct a small amount of your traffic/users (say 1%) to the HHVM version, while closely monitoring its error log.
> As for military conscription, that only applies to citizens, so if your children take US citizenship instead of Singaporean citizenship (US practices Jus Sanguinis, so I think this is possible), they wouldn't have to worry about military service (I'm not Singaporean or an immigration lawyer, so don't take my word on that).

If you (like afaik, Sivers) surrender the US citizenship, is there any basis for children taking US citizenship?

> In short, expats can totally avoid having that reality hit them. Expats tend to live in a totally different world than the natives of the countries in which they settle.

I think that's what bothers me, but I am also somewhat at a loss why: it is just for a country to allow an expatriate class that never takes citizenship, but which others contributes (indeed, that is a positive). It is legitimate for individuals to choose to forego the benefits of citizenship in order to avoid the associated responsibilities, yet I can't help by somehow sneer at a group of people who are in a country quasi-permanently (i.e., not a short-term business trip) by choice (they aren't fleeing famine or oppression -- which would be a different matter) by choose not to become its citizen.

I also don't think Singapore is a bad place. Quite frankly their immigration policies are far better than a large chunk of the world. They certainly put a far larger expectation on their citizens, but nothing really out of bounds of a Rawlsian "decent country" -- basic civil rights are respected. On the other hand US is guilty of a crime of omission -- there are many potential immigrants coming from unstable, dangerous, and poor places that are denied the right to settle in US, but would be able to settle in Singapore.

I guess if I had to pin it down, what bugs me is the way many Westernerns move and settle in countries without regards to their culture and ways of living -- out of purely material and practical concerns.
Overstock plans to accept bitcoin next year
European Union Loses AAA Rating From S&P
> Would California's perpetual budget problems be better solved by localizing the resources of a state government to be more accessible?

California's "perpetual" budget problems were largely solved when the people of the State modified the State Constitution to take out the unusual requirement of a 2/3 supermajority to pass a budget.
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This is both mistaken and a distraction from a very important topic.

EDIT: It's mistaken that she was banned for her two comments. It's unreasonable to read her comments and conclude she was hellbanned for asking a question about Steam and correcting someone about her gender. There's also no way to know whether she was hellbanned, or simply posting comments via Tor. If a new account posts comments via Tor, those comments are autokilled. It's not till the newbie status wears off (i.e. until your username is no longer green in your comments page) that using Tor won't cause your comments to be autokilled. This is done for obvious reasons: spammers use Tor to spam annoying things. Lastly, there are plenty of nefarious things that one can do to be deservedly hellbanned on HN; bans are issued for more reasons than just writing comments. Oh, and, if you are hellbanned and are sincerely sorry for what you did, you can email info@ycombinator.com with a sincere apology and may get leniency. I know from experience.

Can we please get back to letting people unwind about their heartwrenching experiences with mortality now?
An accidental journal of your life.
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Oh, so you mean the openbsd version doesn't suffer from these issues / features? :) I would definitely like to take a look. Thanks
> Tourists seek out the catacombs of Rome, the sewers of Paris

I think it's the opposite: the catacombs of Paris are quite famous (at least in France), and the ancient sewers of Rome are likely to be visited, since sewers are a Roman invention IIRC.
Non-consensual force is enslavement, not violence. In my view any reasonable definition of violence has to involve injury of some kind.
While you're at it, convert intrinsic types to objects too, while retaining backwards compatibility:

$foo = 'bar';
echo $foo->length(); // 3
echo strlen($foo); // 3

This would get rid of a lot of the confusion around string function names.
Let me use this opportunity to point out http://virtual-notary.org, an online witness to facts that can be checked online, where these facts are recorded in the Bitcoin blockchain. These go beyond the types of document proof of existence cited in the article, and can cover facts such as exchange rates, DNS address ownership, WHOIS info, weather conditions, housing prices, employment status, etc.

This article describes the usage scenarios in detail:
http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/06/20/virtual-notary-intr...
I get spam PMs from my deceased cousin from a minor social networking site she joined. Her account has been compromised. I contacted support to provide obituaries and such, I hope they disabled the account. While I don't mind so much, getting these kinds of messages would be horrible for her father.
Agreed. I don't think the sentiment intended was reflected in the words of their post.
A slight problem with that thesis is that employees are generally not forbidden from discussing their salary.

Rather they choose not to. Some consider it personal info. Maybe they shouldn't, but they do.

From that perspective, this could feel like the company forcing a decision on their employees that they would rather make for themselves. I would be a little concerned about injecting a culture with that.. it's a bit paternalistic.
I do!

The main issue there is that my build process is a bit broken -- my version of clang is not quite right somehow, and so I can't build properly without making some janky changes to rust-core.
Totally true about debt, however, in this market, with quantitative easing, current interest rates, etc. and with the right connections to people in finance, you can leverage a company for a lot less now than any time I can remember. Getting a loan is the hard part. If you can get one, you're getting it for pennies on the dollar.
"you need flash player"

Any description of what this is?
Yes, on the official wiki: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/_pages

First read the page related to your Linux/BSD e.g. "Prebuilt Packages on Ubuntu 12.04"

Then read the page "Using nginx as Front Server to HipHop"

As last step read this blog article how to write/edit the config file (/etc/hhvm.hdf):
http://www.hhvm.com/blog/113/getting-wordpress-running-on-hh...

Read this and copy things you need from the documentation: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/blob/master/hphp/doc/option...

This is how I got HHVM working.

To sum up:

* you need a little bit of basic Linux knowledge
* install Linux or BSD (e.g. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) (64-bit)
* install Nginx (or since last week HHVM also supports Apache with FastCGI)
* install HHVM
* install MySQL or MariaDB, etc.
* create a web directory where you place your php files
* edit the hhvm.hdf (config file)
* start hhvm

Btw. a lot of blog posts you find with Google search are still about the old HpHp (the former and now outdated PHP to C++ translator also called HipHop from FB)... so better skip third party blog posts older than January 2013 ;)
> With a host of misconceptions the author goes on a tirade about how (s)he “hates” bitcoin, how anyone can really hate a protocol is beyond me.

It's pretty clear he hates the monetary policy that comes with bitcoin, and that it (in his eyes) makes it easier to evade taxes. That's hating on the consequences of bitcoin, not hating on the bitcoin protocol.

> In the case of the author I’m referencing I think he’s just plain jealous of those of us who are winning.

You are ascribing emotions to him but I see little evidence to support him having those emotions. "They're just jealous" is a trope used by politicians to imply that issues raised by their opponents are not worthy of discussion, and thus to avoid having to actually address issues their opponents raise.
I've always wondered how they get the kind of seal necessary to maintain that kind of pressure ahead of a tunneling machine. Is the drilled surface smooth enough to provide that kind of seal?
I am absolutely serious. I know people who are pulling this salary with that experience.

I strongly suspect that salaries in the area have been depressed for a while and are now thinking about catching up to the rising cost of living.