skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the only way to find out if you'll be happy in a city is to move there for a while and see if you like it. Cultural affinity is very personal; you'll read all sorts of opinions from everyone on HN, but they won't tell you anything about whether you will like it.

FWIW, I've lived in Boston and Silicon Valley and have a number of family in NYC. I can't stand NYC - it's too busy, no greenery (Central Park doesn't count, it's all man-made), and generally feels like I'm living in a concrete cinderblock. I really liked Boston, but the culture is just a little bit too conservative, and I didn't feel like there were any professional opportunities that didn't involve paying my dues for 30 years while the world moved on around me. Silicon Valley has a wonderful openness to new ideas and a nice "seize the day" mentality, but everybody seems just slightly insecure about how their next-door neighbor just sold a company for $100M, and there's a big unhealthy competitive dynamic behind the surface. SF (& Berkeley) is charming but also has a slightly ridiculous lack of self-awareness - there is a huge population here who really values their quality of life but doesn't realize that their actions are the cause of all the things they complain about. (Witness all the folks who love their iPhones and Uber but hate the techies who make them, who protest rent increases but won't allow new housing construction, who prevent the state from raising taxes and then wonder why California is in perpetual budget crisis, and who hate the Comcast monopoly but won't allow any new fiber lines to be laid.)

On the whole I think Silicon Valley is probably the right place for me, but I still wish I could find a place with the openness to new ideas of Silicon Valley but without the competitiveness and greed.
I'll add to this post by saying that I live in Japan so, if you can't find the flavour you want, I am happy to buy it and send it to anyone. Obviously, I'd expect the person to cover the cost. I imagine it would be same/cheaper than buying on Amazon though.

Amazon Japan Kit Kat search:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82...
That would be frustrating for the user if the previous few queries were about learning foreign languages, or about the Great Wall.

If I'm having a conversation with you about learning foreign languages, and then I ask you about Chinese, I expect you to know I'm not talking about food.

Having to overspecify a query that could be determined from context is particularly annoying on mobile, or via voice.
Do you mean the accelerometer values drifted over time (i.e. the direction of gravity shifted on a stable accelerometer) or do you mean the value when doubly integrated drifted?
I don't think it's really meant as an insult in this case. It's a common phrasing often used by the Zed Shaw-style "opinionated"/"brogrammer"/"macho" crowd within the Ruby on Rails community. It's not worth taking seriously, to be honest.
The differences in the taste of chocolate between the US and Europe/the rest of the world all stem back to the late 1800's & early 1900's. This is when the great modern confectioners got their start as (mostly puritanical) family firms. Daniel Peter invented solid milk chocolate in 1875 in Switzerland. John Cadbury followed suit in England with his first milk chocolate bar in 1897. Milton S. Hershey in the US built his first chocolate manufacturing plant in 1903. Franklin Clarence Mars founded Mars in Washington in 1911 only to fail & restart in Minnesota in 1920.

Prior to David Peter's invention of solid milk chocolate in 1875 chocolate was known as a drink. One of the challenges of making the, now familiar, milk chocolate bar was reducing the water content of the milk to make it easier to emulsify and set the chocolate. This had to be done in a way that kept the creaminess and didn't burn or scorch the milk and that wouldn't spoil. The Swiss got there first it. Cadbury figured it out (or just copied the Swiss). Hershey struggled. He had a chocolate manufacturing plant that was closely guarded not to avoid someone stealing his chocolate recipe but to avoid anyone discovering he didn't have one.

One day in 1904 he cracked it & depending on who you believe, either by perseverance or by parsimony. Hershey's advocates will tell you that late one night, after many failed attempts he & his colleague John Shmalbach discovered just the right slow evaporation of non-fat milk that produced a creamy, faintly bitter chocolate. Hershey's detractors will tell you how a tight-fisted Milton Hershey did not want to waste a large delivery of milk powder that had soured and instead used it & found it sold surprisingly well. Either way that's when Hershey's distinctive "sour" flavour was introduced.

Then the Great War happened. Supply problems & rationing hugely restricted Cadbury & the other European manufacturers. Hershey, despite producing what many thought was a worse product had fewer supply issues and, without European competitors, a US market largely to himself. By the time Europe has finally picked itself up after the Second World War the American palate and taste for chocolate has long since been fixed.

TLDR: Americans have terrible chocolate because in 1914 a Moravian took a wrong turn and got an Austrian shot by a Bosnian

p.s. I love chocolate. I can't stand Hersheys.
Fine, but give me a program in any programming language, be it "text-based" or "purely graphical" and it's probably possible to translate it into a representation that's vice versa. (Problems arise when a representation is too abstract: ambiguity can occur.)

Program representations are like city maps. There's only one city, but there are many maps: the subway map, the map of post offices, the map of gas lines, the map of Wi-Fi coverage, and so on.

I will agree that different representations have different capabilities and use cases. However, text is also capable of great abstraction, e.g.

z2 = BesselJ(n, z1)
The paper is behind a paywall, but having read the methods and materials, this is a Very Big Deal. The amterials are cheap, the fabrication techniques are low tech enough that you can do it at home with basic tools, and the pwoer delivery is ridiculous. They've demonstrated it working with multi-kilogram weights. I'm going to buy some fishing line.
The story in the article is actually from 2002. The irony here is that the Kit Kat has gotten better than the rest of Hershey's lineup through attrition since that time.

In 2008 Hershey started taking the cocoa butter out of many of their chocolates[1], noticeably reducing their quality for many people.

Because of the terms of the licensing agreement with Nestle, Hershey was not able to do this with the Kit Kat, maintaining its quality.

[1] http://www.today.com/id/26788143#.UwbfqUJdUTE
In my case, for example, most of my friends are not born americans but rather people that lived in south america that moved to the US or still live in south america. In Colombia/Vzla EVERYONE uses whatsapp. At first it was because SMS has charges per text sent so a free, better way to communicate (whatsapp) quickly became the norm. Network effects pushed through boundaries and now I use it more than anything else to communicate with friends and family. I have groups with my immediate family and with friends across borders. Mind you, I've lived in the US most of my life so I use iMessage with all americans and whatsapp with the rest.

I think it comes as a surprise to most people in the USA because here we never had to deal with SMS charges (plans were for the most part unlimited). In other parts of the world, the opposite is true, which is where whatsapp gained it foundation. Add to that cross platform, free, awesome ux, network effects and the fact that IT WORKS PERFECTLY and boom, 19B. Cheers.
You may want to read this blog post from Prof. Damodaran. I thought it was one of the best valuation/ pricing article I read on Whatsapp acquisition.

http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2014/02/facebook-buys-wh...
So any manufacturer who doesn't produce a product at a minimum level of the government policy is an idiot?

It's as if you don't trust consumers at all. We need government policy to define exactly what chocolate needs to be, otherwise no one will make anything good.

How bout this? Buy a nice bar of Godiva chocolate. Or one of the many premium chocolates you can find at most grocery stores or online.

And yes, American KitKat's are shit.
However, now it's time seriously think about programming robots. I want tell computer what I want to do and the computer shall figure it out by itself, including writing code.
Personally I'm looking forward to the next generation of electric aircraft, once battery density improves and costs come down. A Chinese company is already producing an electric ultralight and working on a small GA electric:
http://www.flyingmag.com/aircraft/lsasport/germany-certifies...
And Max (http://cycling74.com/products/max/) which was its design inspiration
Postgres doesn't work out of the box with Meteor.
Moonbase.
> The worst case for the latter query is that it must aggregate over 999,910 rows.

No, it already said it only took 100 rows, it can't get worse from that.

Now if he actually meant the final result set was 100 rows (meaning after the group by) that's different. But that's not what he actually said, so the question is misleading.
When I see something like this, and comments debating the idea of it is a language/programming at all I think of this presentation: http://worrydream.com/dbx/ and the author of the link of this thread also uses one example that was used in the presentation.

We could have a bunch of different cool things to use for programming, but with a majority screaming "no, that's not programming" we kept ourselves from some really neat inventions.
The White House email that was sent out for this adds some interesting context:

Taking on patent trolls

The Obama administration is taking action to help America's inventors and innovators.

That's why, last June, the White House announced five executive actions designed to combat patent trolls (people or companies that obtain patents in order to take money from product developers), strengthen our patent system, and foster American innovation.

We're making major progress -- and we're pushing forward on new actions to protect our country's inventors.
"some random person's LinkedIn profile" which has 218 connections and explicitly states "Dreamhost" under "Previous" and "Bitcoin Builder" under "Current"?

Meanwhile, I'd trust CloudFlare to shut down a scam more than I'd trust any CA to do so. EV certificates are the scam.
Life Lessons from Fix-It Felix, Jr.
Thanks for your reply, zen. I have heard about startup visas, but at this moment I want to understand is it possible to control worldwide IT startup from Russia, or not. Also, why do you think Canada might be a better choice than Russia or Israel?
> So it's not an uncommon meaning. Delusional, but not uncommon.

"Innovation is a vehicle for the creation of wealth" isn't defining innovation as creation of wealth, it's saying [innovation as defined] is a vehicle...
"The private pilot is a dying breed."

Yes, literally.
This looks fantastic. Can't wait for a project to try it on.

Is there any provision for sending components that I either already have in stock, or that require 'exotic' sourcing, to the assembler? Or do I have to add them by hand after I get the boards back?

Also, my Altium parts library has a non-standard name for the manufacturer part number field. Hence most of the parts list didn't automagically populate for my approval. Would be nice to be able to teach Circuithub what field to look at.

Can you do basic mechanical assembly on the board? (stickers, press fits, nuts n bolts, install jumper blocks, etc.)
Run some nichrome wire up the center of the coil and you could heat it really quickly.
Well, if nothing else that's the end of Mt Gox.
Couple it with neuromorphic engineering, and we have a good robot AI technology in our hands!!!!
Infinifriends
When I'm deciding if an online comment is civil and productive, I tend to ask the question, Would the commenter be willing to say this the same way in real life?

Plenty of people use the Internet's cloak of anonymity to say things that are inconsiderate. I use this simple test to determine if they would stand behind their remarks if accountability were in play and anonymity were not a factor.

I think it's well understood that "fuck you" is considered an offensive term in the context of a disagreement between two strangers. My morning commute has illustrated this point on a few occasions. :)
there has been 7177.7139292 BTC traded so far according to the trade history data (https://www.bitcoinbuilder.com/trades.php)
Google Unveils Smartphone With 3D Sensors
SF Bay Area is also too broad a brush - SF is very different from San Jose, and a number of other regions (Peninsula, Mountain View/Palo Alto, Berkeley, Woodside/Saratoga/Atherton/Los Gatos/Los Altos Hills) all have distinct cultures as well. I'd argue that MV/PA is actually closer to Boston culturally than to SF.
I've been secretly lusting after one of these aerial SUVs for 10 years now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilatus_PC-12
> The one case where this does seem successful though is in the step-wise debugging case. There's a very definite flow, locality matters a lot less,

I think this has more to do with our conventional debugger interface being so horrible, that anything is an improvement. When debugging, I want my code ordered temporally in terms of how it is executing. Code bubbles give us that, but a 1D editor solution might still work better if the code can be dynamically reorganized.

> and debugging is an inherently mouse-oriented task - all the things you need for a zoom-based infinite canvas to work out.

It doesn't have to be, that's just what we have to work with at this point.
Jim Weirich was a legend, and deservedly so. Rake was (and is) a masterpiece. I'm sad to see Jim go and I want to pay respect to his contributions and his life.
Okay, but does the baseband processor have direct memory access to the system RAM? If so, it is useless from a security standpoint.
Looks cool!

Are there any applications for this? We can already do the same using pulleys. right?
>>I would expect a glorified redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower That is what I expect for any search that is vague or generic.

If they wanted the wikipedia page, they would have performed the search directly on wikipedia.

The question you have to ask is: what is the most likely thing they are looking to do? Is it to learn more about flowers (wikipedia) or is it to buy flowers (regular results with ads + map of nearby flower sellers)?
This might be down to the difference between those of us who are supertasters and are most focused on flavor, and those of us who are nontasters and are most focused on texture

Gee, or maybe it's the fact that you enjoy what you grew up eating.
> a messaging app can be innovative

I didn't say most startups are not innovative at all - I said most startups are "not very innovative"

Innovation is the act of introducing something new...sending SMS messages at a lower cost is not very innovative.
can a drug dealer?
Yeah. I grew up in Belgium and moved back to the US when I was still young. It's always been difficulty for me to take the chocolate here seriously.
Australian startup focusing on unlocking Instagram for real-world prints
Hahahahahahaahaha really? We occasionally get it as a novelty here in AU and US Coke is so much more sickly. Real cane sugar shits all over HFCS.
This and the banner github put. I'm usually a little bit thrown off by internet dealing with human emotions, like facebook profiles for passed ones, but this feels like a simple and genuine unprepared reaction from everyone.
Uh, you know that CloudFlare has been used in the past to issue fraudulent unverified SSL certificates, right? That's what happened to Bitcointalk.org, CloudFlare signed a certificate for the domain after it was hijacked so that the attacker could MITM the site.

The point is that linking to a LinkedIn profile proves nothing, there needs to be cross-referencing.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/tlytle

See? I'm Larry Page.
If mtgox recovers there will not be a crash, the price of bitcoin will skyrocket as people scramble to withdraw BTC by selling USD, since USD withdrawals are still pretty much impossible.
um, the whole thing is language agnostic, no?
You should add Nengo http://www.nengo.ca/, since it is one of the forefronts in neuromorphic engineering
A reveal.js Docker Base Image with ONBUILD
Seems like a good use case for Ripple.
CrowdtiltOpen (formerly Crowdhoster) started out as a side project built on top of the Crowdtilt API.

We chose Ruby because we wanted the project to be as accessible as possible. There are low barriers to entry to customizing the app and it's allowed for some pretty awesome contributions from the open source community. https://github.com/Crowdtilt/CrowdtiltOpen
A few points.

There isn't any coercion going on with any of the things we're talking about. Every technology product has at least the choice to not use it.

It's quite difficult to ask meaningful questions about what users are comfortable with, get meaningful answers, and then figure out how the answer they've already given applies to a grey area situation where the cost of getting it wrong is a lawsuit. It becomes no longer sufficient to treat the data with respect and only use it for beneficial and privacy respecting purposes. You now have to constrain it by another set of rules whose relationship to what's actually happening can be unclear and arbitrary.

Some products work without storing any data. Most don't. For those that require user data to fulfill their basic function, the engineering cost of exempting certain data from certain systems can be much higher. One programmer screwing up becomes a lawsuit.

This is essentially the situation with HIPAA. Everyone is too worried about liability to do anything innovative, so that sector doesn't improve.

If someone is actually harmed by something a company does with user data, then it's entirely appropriate to stop patronizing that company, or to claim damages through all the normal routes. The presumption of not trusting anyone with data in advance of any actual harm is what I object to. Data can do real and permanent good in the world, and some companies are worth trusting (particularly since all of their incentives are to remain trustworthy if they want to continue to exist.)
That's a fair point. Though I would argue that it's awfully hard to find an American chocolatier that doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Ghirardelli. Godiva is Belgium by origin, though their headquarters are now in NYC (Turkish owned, however).

If a corporation is looking out for shareholder value, producing chocolate with the least amount of the most expensive ingredient is a savvy move. Even more savvy when the bulk of your clientele doesn't know your chocolate is so bad. Thus, it's quite hard to find an American chocolatier that actually produces high quality chocolate. You can argue about the evils of gov. regulation till the cows come home, but the reality is that you can't really trust consumers because, as a group, we're really bad at communicating our desires and corporations are really good at informing our decisions.

Hell, Hershey's doesn't even temper half of their shit, that's why old Hershey's bars (or other chocolate candy bar) develop a white powder over time. That's the milk solids separating from the cacao. This doesn't happen in high-quality chocolatiers.
It's possible OP didn't realize what he was proposing would have a negative impact. Rather than assuming that, we could've just said something like: "Do NOT do that! Because of {these things}. And {these other things} will happen to you and other people."

There are plenty of ways to say politically incorrect things without being rude. One thing I like about HN (as opposed to reddit) is the information density -- it's higher because jokes and snark are frowned upon.
I'd be interested. I've got a small home business making an electronic widget, plus my day job is at a company that uses fairly elaborate PCBA's within industrial products.

I can give the perspective of an extremely small shop. I lay out my printed circuit design, order the boards from a fab, buy all of the parts myself, assemble, test, ship. I'm extremely lucky to have a good understanding of every step, so that when I'm entering my PCB design, I'm thinking ahead about everything from soldering to the mechanical integrity of the board in its enclosure. That's a lot of experience that we don't all possess, plus I deliberately limit myself to technologies that are within my wheelhouse, e.g., manual soldering. Fine pitch digital, or ball grid arrays, would force me to grow up and start paying for assembly, whereupon...

Getting boards made in moderate volume: Death by a thousand cuts describes it nicely. In my view the thousand cuts fall into two categories: First, the minor or major omissions and shortages that cause delays, force you to eat a bunch of scrap, or spending nights and weekends re-working boards by hand to meet your launch date. Imagine programming, but with a "compiler" that takes 12 weeks and you pay for every byte of code that you receive. Second, the number of board houses -- both domestic and overseas -- that will bid on jobs without sufficient skill, capacity, etc. Oh, the stories. Remember "for lack of a nail, a shoe was lost..."

That's what I see at my day job. Things have improved as we've gotten more disciplined about reviewing designs, but again, it's based on experience gained over time.

Having somebody who can provide that level of experience would seem to be a boon to the small to mid sized project.
Can't automate anything? That's just false. We have our entire build/deploy/test process automated. Hint: even our server build is automated, and gets rebuilt with every code change.
I wonder what is the potnetial of how quickly it could contract?

If not so fast, but incredibly strong, then I assume you could set it up with cranks and high gearing to make an engine. Like pedaling a push bike with your legs.
I think this blog post is overly caught up on the word “card” – HyperCard “cards” weren’t particularly like the cards inside android or twitter or facebook. Indeed, if HyperCard cards were like anything, it’s web pages, except designed for the limitations of the hardware of the time and targeting only one hardware platform (standard display, etc.) and running on a single non-networked computer.

Also, why “way too early”? Too early for what?

The most important feature of HyperCard, in my opinion, was that it gave end-users powerful general-purpose tools for programming and solving their own problems, in a way that was easy to get started with. Instead of being locked into someone’s existing program designed with an idealized customer’s needs, any HyperCard user could create or customize a HyperCard stack to suit their own preferences.

Unfortunately, tools requiring customer learning and mastery are very difficult to design and implement, and even more difficult to demo and sell. And so our software is designed in a very narrow and limiting fashion. The “cards” in android and facebook and twitter &c. are doing nothing to combat this, and to compare them favorably to HyperCard is in my opinion to completely (and tragically) miss the point of HyperCard.

I don’t see any particular signs of this trend toward closed systems reversing; indeed, as more people come online, and giant corporations spend billions of dollars hiring all the smartest people to work on developing software that gives them (the corporations) as much control as possible over uses of computer hardware/software, the popular machines and software systems are only getting more closed and locked down. The web itself is an open and flexible platform, but increasingly people are spending their time in a few centralized and controlled parts of it.