skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your question. A problem for what? For the geophysics methods or for the TBM?

Geophysics methods give a measure of density based on wave reflection/refraction and are therefore at the mercy of energy absorption of a given material. Resolution is a function of energy and so the ground smears in your results. The variability of the ground may or may not pose a problem to the geophysics methods used, it depends on how they do it.

For the TBM, inconsistency in the ground can obviously pose problems. Based on what I know about this project (which is not much), Bertha has mixed face tooling on its cutter head but is primarily a soil machine. This means that large boulders can pose a problem as the cutter head isn't designed to deal with massive, hard objects most likely. The way most of these soil machines work is that they have a cutter head with tooling that essentially scrapes the soil and there are windows in the head that open to an area behind the cutter head which the soil moves through before being spit out as muck from a conveyor or screw jack. This area behind the cutter head generally has a system to crush large rocks that enter this area into sizes that are fit for the muck system. The problem arises when you have a rock too large to fit through the window as the cutter head isn't really equipped to bust up rocks (for multiple reasons).

Let me know if that didn't answer your question.
...within the context of exploiting Craigslist for SEO affiliate crap. Fine by me.
PDF to RTF? There are several, mine (TextLightning) has been around since 2001: http://www.metaobject.com/Products/
As far as I can tell, yes. The hack is about rewriting the camera controller chip, which isn't platform specific in any way.

OS X allows non-privileged users to do that for some reason though...
> For perspective, California was part of Mexico for all of 10 years

1821-1846 is 25 years.
Glacial tills hate them!
Thanks to the speed of light and Cosmic Microwave Background, billions of years ago is here and now. Observing light from the past is quite different from predicting a stock in the future. For one thing, the laws of physics are inherently stable, while stock price fluctuations are inherently chaotic. Any attempt at an alternate explanation of the history of the universe must do a better job of explaining all the current observations (CMB, red shift, dark matter gravitational lensing, stellar formation and lifecycles, novae, fossil records, multi-isotope dating, plate tectonics, etc.).
Even though you're probably over thinking too much already, for some reason I would suggest reading William Golding's short essay entitled 'Thinking as a Hobby.' In Golding's taxonomy, Grade 2 is a powerful yet awkward place. To be on a higher level gives you a strategic advantage, yet it can be dangerous at the same time. I doubt anything could be said in a Hacker News comment or a blog post that could help change the way you think or see things, but perhaps pondering the beauty of a higher level of thought, less stifled by insignificant problems, may lead you to shift your perspective. Maybe it's not as simple as choosing to think differently, but give yourself a chance, break away from your routines, and maybe it'll just click.

Also, watch this: http://vimeo.com/68855377

Maybe it's as simple as choosing to think differently. Try to catch yourself dwelling on negativity and use it as an opportunity to be creative and think of positive perspectives. Don't try to be positive—just contemplating positive scenarios is generally enough to shift your frame of reference.
I don't know if it is Monsanto or another company, but I read recently that GMO companies have given away a lot of innovations over the years. People have to remember that most of the people working for these big orgs want their work to mean something and do good for the world. Feeding the worlds poor with better crops is far up there along the 'doing good' scale.
I'm always torn about this one. As a manager, I hate this guy. They can completely undermine a team's motivation.

As someone who's been in this business for 30 years I've come to recognize that "unlikely failures" is just a synonym for "pretty sure it's going to happen at some point".

Also, there are way too many programmers around that are the exact opposite, and don't see any of the obvious ways in which a design will fail, so I tend to be kind of protective of those that do.
Hedging via insurance, futures, put/call options, etc. The same way companies that deal in commodities like grains and metals handle this sort of risks. I'm sure people like the Winklevi are more than happy to offer this sort of service.
> 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.

And what do you think of clans of Indians who move to the U.S. for purely material and practical concerns, live cocooned in communities (especially in the South Bay) ?
Haswell has the disadvantage that it won't be FSF-free _ever_.
Sivers also did surrender his US citizenship:

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/04/30/2012-102...
Open it in private browsing mode.
Fair enough. I'll make some edits around this in the morning. Thanks!

Edit: Done. Thanks again!
I got curious how the machine works and I found this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk-8Q42NCSQ

Pretty fascinating stuff.
Travel hacks: How to travel if like Snowden, the NSA revokes your passport
Well written code covers the what and the how. The why is what you need to be covering with code comments. This is for the inevitable time when the "simply not so smart" developers has to fix errors in the absentee guru's code.
Analysis of LinkedIn Skills for political staff
FWIW, I have few Indian friends... This is typical "polite" Indian English
Disney Legend Glen Keane Joins Motorola’s Spotlight Stories
I reread what he wrote and I have to say on reflection you're probably right and my first reaction was probably too harsh. However, there is something wrong with expressing sympathies for a person's death by saying something that amounts to "yeah, that's because my imaginary FRIEND punished him". It implies the dead person was killed by an all-knowing supernatural force as a response to a transgression.
Finance is all about informational asymmetries. If I traded on informational asymmetries, I'd consider the US government surveillance apparatus to be a huge threat. At the end of the day, the analysts at Fort Meade are probably the least worrisome of the people with access to all this data. The biggest threat are all the consultancies involved in the US intelligence industry. Companies like Booz Allen simply have too many ties to the financial industry and the security industry, and anyone who has worked in finance knows that Chinese walls and other mechanisms to prevent conflicts of interest are simply security theater.
>EDIT: As an interesting additional note, all salaries (beyond a token minimum) at Berkeley (and the whole UC system) are publicly available at http://ucpay.globl.org/.

Fascinating, I had no idea this was public. Looking briefly at the results, it reveals a curious data point:

UC's highest paid employee is not, as one might expect, the chancellor or dean, but in fact the sports coach ($2,884,880 gross)
I think you might want to read up on both the philosophy of science as well as science itself. Your notions of empiricism/testability as well as the scientific process strike me as a bit naive.

For example, you seem to have some concept of "testing" that involves the observer having to cause the observed phenomenon in order for it to be empirical. On that basis you might have to classify the existence of the sun as a mere hypothesis without empirical backing, though.

Also, you should be aware that a lot of cosmological knowledge very much comes from the here-and-now, in that the light we capture with our telescopes is actually here right now - otherwise, we could not capture it with our telescopes. If you think we should discard those observations because the light we captured has been traveling for a while, you probably also would have to consider it a mere hypothesis that your computer screen showed this text one nanosecond ago.

Cosmology does not somehow mysteriously extrapolate the temperature of the microwave background - it's something you can measure, and which has been measured, a lot.

Of course, there are some assumptions - in the case of cosmology, the probably most important one would be the cosmological principle ("the laws of physics are the same everywhere"). But note that any cosmologist will tell you that that is an assumption, not something that is necessarily true.

Also, you may want to consider that looking back billions of years is what allows us to derive laws of nature which would be a lot harder to figure out by only observing recent events, which then can be used to understand things that are of more immediate concern to us here and now.

For example, the principle of evolution by natural selection was derived from observations of the past and its effects (that is, the biological landscape on the planet), and now is useful in order to explain an predict the development of antibiotics resistance.
I typed up a rant about boring vs drilling and the correct terminology but it sounded super nerdy after reading it.

I'm not really qualified to answer your question as I'm not as intimate with the machines as I am with the ground/structure side. Most likely the seal is maintained by the machine being too big for the hole being cut or by inflatable packers. The walls of the bore can range from extremely smooth to not smooth at all depending on ground conditions.

Sorry.
Prove it. "Trust us" is not verifiable.
Thanks for getting back to me.

EDIT: I realize I conflated "people moving to Singapore" with "majority of US expats moving to Singapore." Thanks for catching that, my bad.

--

I guess I'm curious about your use of the term "narrowly selfish". What do you really mean by that?

You also say that it would be more "principled and selfless" to refuse to compromise one's ideals, but... I can't help but feel that's a really context-dependent thing.

For instance, can you think of examples where a person's refusal to compromise leads to the suffering of others. You said you wouldn't endorse it in Derek's case, because he'd be forgoing love (and encountering misery). There are many worse cases- think about gay kids growing up in a homophobic family, for example. And worse.

So I feel like there's some unnecessary complexity in what you've expressed- I think what you describe as "principled and selfless" behaviour is a luxury that some people (if not most people, especially those who are poor, handicapped, oppressed, etc) can't afford.

You said that you can't imagine that you'd physically survive in a situation wherein you'd have to compromise your values. Yet you also acknowledge that there are people who live in such situations. So are these people "narrowly selfish?" Is Derek being narrowly selfish? What's the utility in calling a person narrowly selfish?

Thanks for engaging me,

visa
It sounds like source code available for adding extras when purchased. What is this built in?
Anarchocapitalism has some interesting answers to this question. It's not a utopian variant that believes everyone can simply be trusted not to behave badly.
+1 on Toastmasters

As a CTM, TM will do the following:

0. Depending on the club, give you recorded video of your speeches along with your assigned evaluator evaluating.

1. Eliminate your verbal (umm, yeah, know) tics and minimize your non-verbal tics (swaying, pacing w/o intent, arms crossed)

2. Assuming it is hosted outside your normal workplace, provide a safe supportive environment for failing and learning

3. Learn how to mentor. Once you get going, you will pass on what you have learned by teaching it one on one

4. Not a benefit directly - but provide an outlet to channel energy towards non-coding goals (getting the CTM designation - which requires 10 speeches is a function of initial speech velocity and consistent effort)

5. Teach you impromptu speaking by forcing you to talk 1-2 min on random topics
Appsfire wants to minimize the disruption caused by mobile ads with ‘Ura Maki’
Throwing out the textbook: Salt surprises chemists
I've been an Arcanist and know plenty of them. The reason is simple: a bonus calculated on availability meeting or exceeding SLA.

It is a general rule of human nature, you will do what you are incentivized to do.
When you go on vacation, you tend to pack everything you can into your short window of opportunity. If you don't need to rush, it doesn't seem too terribly difficult to find a TON of time to be productive. Some of my most productive weeks have involved 3-hour surf breaks in Mexico, rest stops during campervan road trips around NZ, cross-country (U.S.) train trips, and realizing there's not much to do but work all day if you're stranded on a tropical island and don't find tourist traps very appealing. If you're sufficiently engaged in your work, the periodic escapes provide an excellent opportunity to ponder and gather your thoughts. Just pace yourself. Work when you feel motivated and go out and do awesome stuff when you're not.

YMMV and I may be a workaholic.
Looking for a better Web Development Workflow
The React tutorial rewritten in Om
> If this were to actually pass in the State of California, would the only thing necessary after that be for the US Congress to accept six new states into the Union?

Probably not; even if the ballot measure passed it would still probably have to pass the state legislature: the US Constitution requires consent of the State Legislature (not just "the State") to form new states from the territory of existing states, and in other circumstances (the similar restriction regarding rules for choosing Presidential electors), ISTR that the federal courts have looked specifically to the Legislature.
1) I don't think they live "cocooned". I've lived in South Bay myself for 18 years and honestly haven't seen this. Quite frankly your statement struck me as odd (I earlier wrote racist, but on a second read, I don't think this qualifies) and reactionary ("clans"?). Maintaining ethnic stores, restauraunts, and community events is very different from being "cocooned". They obey US laws (assuming all burdens and responsibilities of citizenship), they don't live in compounds unreachable to outsiders, etc...

2) The delta in material situation between India and US is far higher than the delta between US and and Singapore. Westerners moving to Singapore aren't escaping grinding poverty.

3) There's a large Indian community in Singapore (indeed the very name of the country is in an Indian language) and if you're going to compare Indians moving to the US to another group moving to Singapore (well, perhaps not moving -- they've been there for a long time), this is probably the right comparison to make. I don't see a problem with multi-ethnic states, as long as everyone lives by the same basic laws. I'd still think I would find it acceptable even if the cultures were completely isolated from rest of the country, e.g., Amish in the US, as long as -- again -- they lived by the same laws.

4) I did state elsewhere that I think in terms of immigration policies, Singapore may be "superior" to the US. I strongly believe in immigration as primary human right: everyone should have the right to move wherever they please (with only exception being due to basic economic condition -- a mostly theoretical concern, as usually countries with greatest population densities and largest immigrant population tend to be more prosperous), whether this is the right choice for others is a personal matter (something I can speak out against, but have no right to deny).
I had a few teething problems getting it configured properly, but I managed to get ClojureScript working from scratch on a Windows machine in about an hour, I think. What problems did you have? (Mine were Java related)
I'm seriously wondering, do you have a citation for that? I've never heard that mentioned before now.
nice site, congrats
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That's funny. The ads were effective, and relevant, but you blocked them? Are you fighting a tool addiction?
Also: why would the boring machine have trouble with some wood or stones of the size you'd use for walls in an old building?
Problem: If you don't do anything. JavaScript errors on you sebsite are just lost. Your website can be completely malfunctioning maybe for 10% of your users on a specific browser and you will simply not know.

Solution: http://muscula.com
Yes. Hellbanning is random. Although making 'dissenting' comments, or disagreeing with the hivemind certainly accelerates your hellbanning.

I've been hellbanned umpteen times for essentially no good reasons.
Maybe I'm just That Guy, and maybe your example is from a non-critical system, but if you are dealing with a highly available mission critical system, any change carries a risk, even the act of deployment.

The tension probably arises from disagreement over what is critical.
Exactly. I myself have this secret fantasy that one day we'll realize that we'd buy 10x the security, by taking the 33 cents of every tax dollar we spend on defense and using it to help all the countries in the world that we want to like us. We can build a lot more goodwill by building nations than destroying them. If we're seen as the people that show up at your countries doorstep and improve your human condition until it's on par with most developed countries, then that would earn us a lot more security because we'd have popular global support.

Which is going to be more impactful?

1) Don't mess with us or we will mess with you? or
2) If you mess with us, we'll show up and improve life for your own population, where they will clearly support kicking you out to let us in to help out.

The former is the conclusion you come to if you view all the best possible outcome as the result of Pareto optimalities or the result of a Nash equilibrium.

It's like "how to make friends and influence people" for nation states.
I spent the day working out the React tutorial in Om. It was an enlightening process.

Code: https://github.com/jalehman/react-tutorial-om
The tunnel is not filled with water though. See abduhl's answer for the correct response.
As Jay Gould put it: "I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half."

The police have been and will remain the hired half...
There seems to be a problem in streaming. I have a 16MBPS connection but the files needed to stream every second, freezing the audio and video.
What do you mean "even more"?

If you turn off targeted ads, then you get more untargeted ads. Is that what you were saying?
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Oh, I had never tried the "privacy mode" of Firefox! Thanks for the heads up!

However why is this working? I already had disabled JS, so the only thing I can think of is my location (Europe), but "privacy mode" will not prevent anyone from seeing my IP, so... wtf?

EDIT: cookies, of course! I had forgotten I already read the NYT recently. Thanks!

EDIT': confirmed by disabling "privacy mode" again, deleting cookies did it.
You girls are giving away all of our secrets!
Just throw them the middle-finger if the honk... at least that's what I do.
Conversely, there are many 'citizens' who would rather see Russians leave.

Chechnya (Ichkeria)... Sochi (Circassia)... Karelia (Finland)... and so many more...
The Absurdity of Japanese Pornography
The invisible hand that pushed Apple up and down for six years
Well, your friend should keep a closer eye to the research literature ;) A number of projects have been launched to create smaller, leaner OS kernels.

This is particularly important in HPC applications as the kernel is a primary source of latency in computation. One of the major works in this area is (shameless plug) Kitten OS[1], which is a stripped down Linux kernel meant mainly for HPC.

However, I don't think recreating or hacking on Kitten is a good task for someone who wishes to learn kernel programming, Rust, or both. The best way to learn how something works is to remake it yourself.

[1] https://software.sandia.gov/trac/kitten
SnapAds. Monetization idea for SnapChat.
Or to properly modularize your application with something like OSGi [1]. No more flat classpath and name collisions will be apparent very early on.

[1] http://www.osgi.org/Technology/WhatIsOSGi
Well, you're implying that I think selfishness is purely negative. I don't: I'm selfish in many other ways; pure selflessness can be just as bad (as you've very well described -- parents snubbing children because of a different sexual orientation!). To put in other terms, selflessness and adherence to principle are virtues in the same that bravery is a virtue; yet we don't aplaud the bravery (or selfless, or adherence to principle, etc...) of a suicide bomber much for the same reason -- the immense suffering the rest of their action caused to others. We would, however, aplaud this in (to use a hypothetical example) a fighter pilot defending his country from a nuclear strike by ramming the incoming bomber with his aircraft after they've ran out of missiles or cannon shells.

I'll also point out that my native language is Russian, where there isn't a word like selfishness: there's egoism and egotism, but not really a world like "selfish". If you lookup "selfish" in the dictionary, you'll find a more value-free translation of the word.

My poor chances of physical survival would also not be due to compromising my values: it would be due to inability to adopt to surrounding society's values. Military service in former USSR, for example, is very different from Singapore -- bullying of nerdy/weaker/etc... enlisted men by officers is an endemic problem and has driven many recruits to suicide (lookup "Dedovschina"). The smart way some people took is by committing themselves to officer corps (for a much longer term) and (to fit in) becoming bullies themselves -- something I'd never be able to do.
Apple Seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 to Developers, Includes FaceTime Audio
If one of these negative stereotypes had been female, "agile girl", say, can you imagine the ensuing shitstorm? When people set out actively looking for "OMG sexism!!" they will find it no matter what.
Still looking for a PDF to Word converter than can do pdflatex compiled documents... equations, figures, layout, etc. This is one of the worst one's I've tried.
How creepy of faceblock to put up a mural made of tiles of their users pictures! As if anyone would agree to that. What bunch of fkin' creepos.

edit: how many of those pix are from underage people, and/or people that have committed suicide from being hassled on faceblock?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say balkanization is not the solution to the problem.
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Is REST losing its flair?
Perception and Action: An Introduction to Clojure's Time Model
No, 2x speedup relative to PHP with an opcode cache.
Well that was a cheery way to start my day. That and the chargeback from a confused customer, and the (really) mirror I broke by accident. Perhaps I should just crawl back into bed and watch movies....
How will you manage your digital self?
I'm one of the programmers to whom this laptop is just perfect. Common hardware that's well supported on almost any platform, good reliability, excellent keyboard and, IIRC, a clit mouse, which I would prefer over the fanciest of touchpads. And not just because it superficially looks like a clit.

Most of my work revolves around programming devices with no more than a couple of megabytes of RAM, most often with no more than a couple of kilobytes. A MBP is far, far more powerful than what I need.
I'm pretty sure that it's based on cookies. They let you read some number of articles per month for free and once you hit that number, they show the paywall.
Bitcoin may be following this classic bubble stages chart.
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