skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not exactly by the UK government. It's by the team of actually really smart people they hired to make a replacement for directGov.
I did "actually" read the linked article. I also did a Google search for "digital design" to see how it's most commonly being used. I'm comfortable lumping everything I saw into "graphic and webpage design," with the assumed understanding that "webpages" are basically applications now.
I wish we could get this on the East Coast. D.C. -> Philadelphia -> NYC -> Boston

I would easily pay $1000 to $1500 a month.

It would as affordable as an Amtrak pass and just as convenient.

The possibilities for those who don't want to move to another city for work but want to broaden their options (or course if your salary range allows--but if you are making 100k or more it is brilliant).
Ah, I see. So this falls into the category of "very hard to fabricate"-evidence, if I get you right. Then, that makes it reasonable to use it as evidence.

Just a though experiment: Would a mobile phone with these possibilities (sending messages with specific data at a specific time, or calling another phone of this type and transmit preproduced sound input, all without being able to distinguish between a "timed" message/call and a normal one) be a legal electronic device? If so, will they change how the law looks at evidence of this kind?
Internet is became too important for us. So it' not problem of using it, it's how we us it. Most people use it for social networks, porn and other irrelevant stuf.
While I understand what you're saying, his deliberate choice is a form of self control.

"I don't have home internet" is more of a stand-in for "Removing the distraction of the internet is a working form of self control for me" than for "I don't have self control".
For personal servers with just a handful of nonobvious usernames, the simplest solution seems to be updating sshd's PermitRootLogin and AllowUsers settings. I just updated all my servers. Non-western names FTW.
Keep in mind -- NO TSA.
next time include these references in the original post, so people know you're not just some envious grouch :)
I don't believe such a gateway exists in GSM providers of my country :-/
This is actually a pretty cool idea! I'm sure content is slow right now being fresh... but it would be nice if you added some more features for exploring content.
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After reading the article and your comment, I went to watch "Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes)" on youtube, while downloading both his books with bittorrent.
This is an absolutely wonderful idea, I just don't see how it can scale into being a workable long term business. I would absolutely pay for this (if I was on the route) but the plane looks very small[1], if there's minimal room and reservations are important (you can't just turn up and fly) the "unlimited" is going to become "your reservation amount" very very fast. The value in being a subscriber would be the flexibility.

[1] "that will fly just below the TSA’s radar – using 9-person planes to dodge under their screening of any plane carrying over 10 passengers." -- http://www.forbes.com/sites/edzitron/2011/06/29/planered/
What's new about this? Other airlines also have vouchers and unlimited plans.
Neither is more correct than the other (in this context) without further qualification. He means linear pixel density, you mean area pixel density or total number of pixels (the latter of which isn't a technically valid definition of resolution).
I feel that you jumped to conclusions by believing giving up the internet doesn't have other effects on your mind and daily functions (not just a matter of using time!).
The sound files appear to be from [1]. What is that that you did, but to wrap a player around them? Or are these originally yours?

[1] http://archive.org/details/TenMinutesOfWhiteNoisePinkNoiseAn...
Er, I assure you it's not. This is a brand new site from a brand new team to try and clear up the mess that is government websites. There's hundreds of them just now.
I was quite a fan of listening to pink noise at work but found after a while that I started to get aural hallucinations. It felt like my mind was finding patterns in the noise that weren't there.

Probably harmless, but it did make me wonder about any lasting effects of extended exposure.
I strongly disagree that Functional programming is something that inherently is not suited to building a whole product on. Although I cannot providing evidence that it always is the case, Jane Street is a wonderful example of what happens when a bunch of really smart people get together and use a statically typed functional language to produce a robust piece of software which solves hard problems. Not everything at Jane Street is written in ML, but MANY of the employees write in ML, the software devs, the quants, te systems folks, and even the traders.

Sources
http://www.janestreet.com/technology/
Interviewing there
Knowing people whir work there
Heck, for way more than secure banking! I would use a VPN just to check my email at a cafe!
The least I can say is that you come across as someone who disagrees with your interlocutor's opinion. If you are not willing to admit that, I will call this conversation over.

I don't think that the relatively emotive statement that the interlocutor made paints a particularly complete picture. That's why I asked the question. I don't know enough of his opinion to disagree with it or not because he didn't answer.

If you reread what my interlocutor wrote you'll see that he introduces a number of different ideas which don't add up to a single coherent argument to agree or disagree with.

Typically when someone presents me with this sort of communication and I find it interesting, I don't consider it an argument. Instead I try to find out more.

You say 'all you can do is to question my intellectual honesty', but if you really thought I tried to win an argument using a strawman, you would be able to point out where I did that and yet you can't.

If you won't acknowledge the possibility that you have perceived an argument in what was actually a discussion, then I have to, in return, question your intellectual honesty.

It's counterproductive to the cause of rooting out fallacies to make drive-by comments out of context.
I see what you mean. He does promote open source although it might not be his intention.
A big argument seems to be the no-hassle idea. No security queues and the ability to book very spontaneously (apparently they make an app for booking) can be good reasons to go with them, I guess.

(The heck, I read their whole faq despite being on the other side of the ocean without any need to fly because I find the idea so intriguing..)
Moderation is pretty active on the site, in fact, users who have interacted with Quora moderation consider the site to be heavily moderated... you are right -- there is a sweetspot somewhere, but even that is just a sweetspot for a small subset of users. Nobody will ever please everyone.
Neat, but the user experience is somewhat lacking on my carrier.

curl http://textbelt.com/text -d number=<my phone number> -d "message=Yo momma!"

SMS from my carrier (305 000 01):

You have mail from txt@textbelt.com. Please reply with 'Read' to read your message.

After replying "read":

txt@textbelt.com() Yo momma!

Message came through, but with a fair bit of cruft.
Yea, it's hard to imagine many private individuals would rack up $1,000 every month flying from Palo Alto to LA and back. I've seen $80 specials to fly Bay Area to LA, so you'd have to be making something like 5 round trips a month.
Yep, they're creative commons. I just repackaged it on GAE to speed up downloads and simplify playing pink noise. I also turned down the volume a bit, since it's a little loud in the file:

$('audio')[0].volume = .2;
No TSA, which is almost worth it by itself.
So just to be clear, you believe gut-instinct "public good" overrides due process and the rule of law? This is certainly a very common and hence reasonable opinion, backed up by decades of juris-"prudence". I'd just like to be explicit about its general prevalence, lest people are misled into thinking that the lofty ideals in the country's founding documents have much relevance to modern society.
The encryption should be between your browser and the bank's servers, not between your network driver and the VPN provider. You do this with TLS/SSL (it's that little lock icon or security information panel you see when you're at an https:// URL).
$5 + one-week filter weeds out people without sufficient prefrontal cortex size (i.e., they don't have patience and can't understand the value of a future payout).
I was doing some Java coding recently for the first time in a long time and I was really shocked at how good the synergy between Java and a good IDE can be. Java as a language is uninspiring but it's only half the story.
They actually had planned to launch on the East Coast, but changed their minds because of the train services there.

More info: http://pandodaily.com/2012/04/05/silicon-valley-gets-its-own...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=vitamin-d-d...

We evolved spending most of our time outdoors for most of our history, only after the industrial revolution and now the information revolution did we gradually work more and more in doors. Vitamin D deficiency is at almost epidemic proportions. Short of switching careers to a road crew, Vitamin D deficiency should be very high on the list of suspects any time the symptoms of any form of depression are observed.
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I found the comment about Quora being an encyclopedia of sorts really interesting.

This sort of site would actually fill a niche between something like StackExchange and Wikipedia: thorough, comprehensive articles (although, to be fair, these can be found on SE as well) but with more relaxed editorial standards (no notability requirements or ban on original research).

That being said, a for-profit start-up is probably the wrong medium for such a site. Imagine if Wikipedia were for-profit. There's a good chance that the pressure to monetize all those raw page views would have degraded the quality of the actual content.

For example, I've been using Wikipedia basically since it started. However, I never created an account until about a week ago (to fix a typo). I would have contributed sooner, but I never had anything important to say, and I knew that if I broke the rules or failed to uphold the editorial standards my edits would be removed anyway (admittedly, Wikipedia may have gone too far with the rules in some cases, but that's not really the point).

Contrast that with Reddit, where I've had an account for some time and comment regularly. I do so even knowing I might be down-voted because that's what the site encourages. Making a dopey comment on Reddit once in awhile (accidentally or on-purpose) is just part of Reddit. Making a dopey edit on Wikipedia destroys the value of the site.

In order for Quora to fill the role the OP wanted it to fill it probably would have had to be non-profit.

tldr; Quora could have been Wikipedia-lite. But Wikipedia works because profit isn't important, so quality can be put before monetizing traffic and creating non-essential "engagement".
excellent, 'What Technology Wants' KK ~ http://www.kk.org/books/what-technology-wants
Haha, this is awesome. What can't be done?
OMGosh that is great stuff. Great! I just wish I could find it on pandora.
true, guess an admirals club is out of the question.
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Also cost you a couple of cents I assume.
I'm thinking that I work close to the Palo Alto airport, and houses are a lot cheaper near Monterey. I could easily see this working out for me. Then a whole bunch of other people will have the same idea as me, and then it won't work out well.

Of course, I also notice they think it will take 15 minutes to get from Palo Alto to Monterey (60 miles straight plus departure/approach navigation) which is unpossible.
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> houses are a lot cheaper near Monterey

If by "near" you mean Salinas, then yes, but then East Palo Alto is pretty cheap too. Monterey itself (and vicinity like Pacific Grove) is absurdly expensive!
Wow, this looks really interesting. Palo Alto to Monterey is definitely within driving distance for me, but if I had any reason to go to LA or SB at all frequently, this would rock.

If they'd cover NV, this would be a great way to save a lot of money on taxes -- live in the Reno area, have a NV residence, and fly to the Bay Area 1-2 times/week for meetings. You then only pay income tax on income earned in California, but not on capital gains, and not on any work you do outside California. That could easily be a savings of more than $1k/mo.
I am open to the possibility that this is a good idea for people who get a ton of email, but it would be nice if the sender got some sort of indication that his message is unlikely be seen by a human any time soon.
Legal definitions are an incredibly murky area because they so often diverge from consensus. Thanks for your explanation. Learned something new today. :)
I have been traveling around for a while so I can't comment on flight as I came via bus from Costa Rica.

Living expenses are extremely cheap. A nice apt on a short term lease in a nice part of Managua is 300-400 a month. A very nice restaurant is like 7 dollars a person; food on the street is <$2 a meal.

For comparison, day labor outside of Managua costs 150 cordoba a day; or about 7 dollars.
Am i correct in seeing (page 54) that Facebook logs every single mouse click you make within facebook? That's pretty intense.
I've been running SSH on a non-standard port on multiple machines for close to 10 years and haven't got a single attempt to log in that wasn't legit. Got quite a few of those over ESMTP though.
More like "I don't even have a phone". Internet is bidirectional, a TV is just a receiver. The difference is huge.

I do live without a TV quite happily, but I could never live without at least one bidirectional medium. It would mean returning to XIX-century communication methods, which were way too time-expensive for modern life; for example, I'd have to get dressed and leave the house every time I want to communicate, find a shared communication device (public phone, post office, etc) and then have to put up with contention issues and delays (wait for my turn, get a bad line etc) on which I have no control.

OP does that -- he's relying on shared wifi at his coffee shop. Which means he's putting up with slow speed and the impossibility to download large chunks of data -- unless he's being a dick or his coffeeshop is run by Cisco, he won't be able to get that 600mb Linux distro or those 6 Gb of Oracle installers, ever. And the day someone decides to be a dick, good luck downloading your email while the pipe is saturated by Mr. Streetpirate uploading HD movies from the safety of an anonymous IP.

He might be happy with that, I don't doubt it, but his lifestyle is not for everyone.
Well... that article is made completely obsolete by the latest C++ Standard.
So if they're right, they're right, and if they're wrong they're right because they could've been right?
Sure you can see the Andes, but it is obscured by the smog in addition to the high rises.

You can get free Wifi at Parque de Los Reyes next to the convention center, but it is unusable when there is activity in the center.
I am one. But I do a lot of work with XML documents (not just data in XML form, but documents marked up in XML). XSLT is an invaluable tool for this problem domain, but it's a relatively small niche. I can easily imagine programmers getting frustrated with it if they aren't using it for its intended purpose, or even if they haven't yet grokked how it's supposed to work.

It's probably not quite a functional language by most definitions, but it has a lot of features common to functional languages, including immutable variables, no side effects, XSLT 2.0 does have first class functions, recursion, etc. The Saxon implementation of XSLT 2.0 even has lazy sequences (I'm not sure if that's a language thing, or just that implementation).

Without knowing what the OP is having to deal with, I can't really evaluate his complaint. I've certainly seen some hideous XSLT, but it doesn't have to be hideous, and it's great for the (pretty narrow) domain it was intended for.

You can abuse any programming language—I don't think XSLT is particularly special in that regard.
This looks like a lite-corporate charter plan. Although this wouldn't make sense on my personal finance schedule, for my business this would be an amazing value.

But - what airport in LA does this service fly to? Please say Santa Monica. :)

LAX, JW, LB, or Burbank would be much less convenient...
I completely agree with this. I'm doing a... reverse tourism (?) every year by leaving the UK to visit my family in Europe and get my dental issues fixed there. Saves me a lot of money considering cheap flight tickets are around £50 both ways and a standard filling with local anaesthesia costs the same (in a good quality place)...

With local prices of ~£7 per month for basic dental insurance, this is a very simple choice.
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Anyone know what type of plane they're using (in the photos) and how many passengers it can hold?
For those who instinctively checked the comments before googling:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise
I joined Quora soon after it launched, thought it was kinda cool, forgot about it, and yes, then rejoined again sometime in the fall of 2010. There was a nice linguistics community built up for a while (I'm a linguistics undergrad) until everything kind of fell apart. Quora didn't know how to separate people very well, so people interested in memes gradually crowded everything out.

BUT I didn't actually have any problems at all with Quora (at least, nothing notable) until the launch of Boards. In fact, I really enjoyed the linguistics, philosophy, chemistry, biology, theology, travel, and cooking communities. I mostly ignored the Quora superusers and focused on niche experts, like you mentioned, but eventually it was just too much.

Perhaps I will revamp my profile when I get the time, start from scratch, and things will work out better the second time around.
It's a Pilatus PC-12, capacity of 6 to 8 people depending on configuration.
The difference being that for $80 you're flying with the masses, dealing with TSA, etc...
Here's an article from 2003 on (the old) Kuro5hin on the same subject, involving dental tourism to Mexico: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/12/20/121018/65
> Most world map projections cause distortion that can't be compensated for with just pan, scale, and rotate.

Sort of. At the level of indoor floor plans, affine transformations are just fine.
I was think more of Seaside or Marina. Not as interesting as Pacific Grove, and not as pricey.
Some time ago, I thought XSLT was quite interesting and potentially powerful with regards to its browser integration. XSLT, to me, represented the first attempt at truly separating data from layout. Even to this day, with all the 'div' based layouts and such, nothing completely and totally separates the data and view tiers in a web layout quite the way that XML with an XSLT stylesheet did.

Early browser bugs probably caused more harm than good for XSLT adoption. XSLT was available in browsers almost from the beginning, more powerful (at the time) than any other client side (javascript) solution. Too bad it didn't get off the ground some more, it might have actually changed the way we work today.

Yes, it's too verbose, and probably doesn't deserve the title of "programming language." But, it's a pretty powerful idea if kept in the scope for what it was invented; transforming one schema to another, with options for transformations occurring on the client or server side.
Notes:

1. Favicon does not match page background.

2. Include a link to inform people about Pink noise: what it is, what benefits it may provide, etc.
I'm guessing based on the picture alone but I believe its a Pilatus PC-12: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilatus_PC-12
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There's some old info that explains our process on my website that is still mostly correct: http://erichocean.com

As for a way to follow, that'll happen in June when we leave pre-production and begin production on Carpathia. I'll post to HN when the time comes.
Yeah, PMs and comments seem to be missing. Probably a whole lot of other stuff, too.
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I'm surprised there is no Vegas on that list of destinations.
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I'm a long-time user of the TI-89 (through hs, college, and now for business accounting) - has anyone solved the input problem? The keypad is only good for arithmetic and symbology, typing text is pretty awful.
I get exactly this with white noise, subtle chime sounds on a pentatonic scale. It made me want to do the realtime frequency analysis to see if I wasn't imagining it.
Don't forget Van Nuys. That's actually the busiest general aviation airport in the world by a wide margin.
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If it's really Unix-like, it should be possible to attach a VT-100 to the serial port ;-)

According to http://punix-os.blogspot.com.br/2012/03/floating-point-grays... they want to add support to PS/2 keyboards through an adapter.

This http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDeta... also seems like a good solution.
I wonder if you could resell your reservations.

Additionally, I would love to support a little airline like this even by buying an occasional single round-trip.
Are you deleting your account because of this?

What you do with your account is for you to decide of course, but it shouldn't really come as a surprise that facebook has this data (they show it on the site) or that they would comply with a subpoena.

The surprising bit for me is how much data is missing from this.
My complaints about Quora:

* You have to use a "real" name.
* Their members are predominantly white upper middle class tech/finance/marketing professionals - occasionally some Asians, but mainly from California or NY.
* There's no good way to browse the site - if there is, it's not easy to find.
* Groupthink and being penalized for speaking your mind, both common problems for high-IQ communities.
The admin should be logging in as a standard user with sudo access and using sudo for any administrative tasks anyway. This minimizes how much code is running priviledged, it also allows his actions to be audited because they're all logged.

Additionally, if he's using key-based authentication, that key should still be encrypted so it can't be stolen and used by someone with unauthorised access to his filesystem. So he still has to remember the password to unlock his key when he fires up ssh-agent.
That's a really good point I hadn't considered - diving into Q&A deeper. When boards were announced I was not a fan at all and don't use them. Your suggestions would definitely fit better, imho.
I listen to their streams every day. Site might look like crap but they have a ton of loyal listeners and amazing streams. Perfect coding music!
Thanks for the clarification. Maybe I'm too used to being just a number to my phone company, like a form of learned helplessness.
I'm a bit confused by the numbers here. They had 400 appointments and made $500,000 in revenue? Does that mean that they're charging over a thousand bucks to set these things up?