skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some extra thoughts the article doesn't address...

1) the "ambition" may be deeply rooted in a person's genetics if it's connected to unchangeable personality traits like novelty seeking[1]. It would be a general feeling of wanderlust and/or wanting to make a change in the world. (e.g. The older brother Ron in the article.)

This would be contrasted with someone who has a genetic
disposition that prefers routine and familiarity. The visible effects we'd notice would be the person's need for long and stable relationships, and living in close proximity to his/her childhood home. (e.g. The sister Ruthie in the article.)

2) The "quality" of friends people are likely to encounter. Depending on the circumstances (e.g. living in Los Angeles), people can accumulate "friends" but those colleagues from work, fellow church members, etc are not necessarily free of materialism like the Amish neighbors or the Dali Lama. If one is living in Los Angeles, it may be hard to acquire genuine friends who are not plastic. When a difficult life event happens (like losing a job), many so-called "friends" will disappear. When you're hot, everybody wants to know you; when you're not, nobody returns your calls. It's not like the close-knit community of friends the article talks about.

3) a combination of the genetic disposition for restlessness and a society structure that often defaults to shallow friends, is it possible for some types of individuals for the correct advice to be turned on its head: "Ambition is more important than relationships."

Think of the mother who has a child (probably the most important "relationship" to nurture) but she is constantly resentful that parenting is blocking the life she could have had (actress, opera singer, etc). Or the adult son that stays in his small town home caring for his sick mother but harbors resentment over missing out on exciting opportunities in London/Manhattan. It's the whole "I could've been a contender!" sentiment. The mother may have been happier getting her tubes tied and pursuing her dreams. The son may have been happier finding other care giving arrangements for his elderly mother instead of being enslaved by a constant guilt trip.

For those folks, relationships are still important but it's the relationships that are a consequence of their ambitions that actually become meaningful.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_seeking#Genetics

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensation_seeking

[3]http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ICouldaBeenAConte...
I think Rust is making the case that you don't.

In particular, I think one of the largest sources of complexity is C++'s backwards compatibility.
Marvel Avenged: From financial ruin to the biggest film franchise in history ... to financial ruin again!
add a vpn on top?
The lock-free claims are really interesting.

I guess it was only a matter of time before people started trying to get their VM's closer to the meta. I look forward to watching their progress. Really very cool.
Why do you feel it's judgemental?

I read it as saying "there are people like this", which is certainly true in my opinion.
mega65.org is a name that doesn't resolve in DNS at the moment.
Why would a DB driver need to integrate with libuv in the first place?
> Victims in range cannot do anything about it. Think about the impact of launching such an attack on Wall Street, or maybe at the world’s busiest airports, or at large utility plants. The results would be catastrophic.

While I can certainly agree it would be annoying, a nuisance and productivity-hindering, calling this "catastrophic" is probably overdoing it a tad much.

Catastrophic means by definition that it's related to or involves a catastrophe. iPhone-users not being able to use their iPhones hardly counts as that, no matter where on the planet that happens.

With all that said: Neat hack. Now I feel like reproducing it :)
Am I confused, or is this the opposite of the Feynman algorithm? Using your variant of the Feynman algorithm, I found [1] :

1. Write down the problem.

2. Think real hard.

3. Write down the solution.

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FeynmanAlgorithm
The article is well written, but the comparison is made on a false premise. People do not choose ambition over relationships, or vice-versa.

These terms are much more abstract than people think. The underlying denominator should be purpose, or rather definiteness of purpose. What I mean by that is, the arbiter of whether you should invest resources in your 'ambition' or your 'relationships' is the purpose with which you choose to live. If my self-determination and calling is to colonize mars and build self-driving cars to better humanity, I will position myself to do so, be it through relationships or allocation of other resources.

The problem is most people do not have a purpose, ambition can be interpreted both ways, as with everything. If I am defined by egotism and vanity, I might do almost anything I can to feed my vices, whether by buying cars, houses or spending money poorly. People would characterize me as ambitious, and they would be right, but it would be irrelevant, my purpose is built on a flawed foundation, a psychological need to prove myself to others.

TL;DR: We shouldn't be comparing terms without considering the purpose through which we choose our everyday actions.
Swiss police release robot that bought ecstasy online
I wonder if producers began to take video game movies seriously whether they could uncover a demand like what happened with comics.
I liked Turbo Pascal back in my childhood too, even wanted to replicate one myself.

Now I use python, but have a lot of headaches with debugging/GIL.
How long before someone the EPOR gene and creates a set of unbeatable endurance athletes, ala Eero Mäntyranta (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_Mäntyranta#Genetics )?
If it was in javascript, we could play it right away :)
Pretty cool my man but how do you deal with false positives?

I don't know about hockey but in soccer (football), commentators are as much excited about near-goal scenarios like the ball hitting one of the posts or the goalie making a superb save as goals themselves.

I can't imagine employing such a system for football games. What do you think?
Show HN: Humblepad, minimal web publishing (between Medium and Pastebin)
C++ isn't evolving; it's just accumulating features. That's a crucial difference. The amount of harmful patterns you can accidentally use just keep on strictly increasing.
Their movies had a good blend of quality and 'newness' since they weren't reboot. Thor was surprisingly well executed and strange at the same time. But they may pulled the Saint Seiya string inside of me (who else?) with their golden armour and nordic mythology.
Thanks for the link; that's interesting.

Apparently even in the US the Democratic National Convention gives state-level recognition to Democrats Abroad, an organization for overseas Democrat voters.
Slow Motion and Flickering  Red Epic vs. Alexa
Is there an easy way to identify the number of tasks queued in uv's work queue?
Open source bicycle sharing system in Bratislava, Slovakia
as well as r://
AMD CEO Says Windows 10 Will Launch ‘At the End of July’
Show HN: Create Submission Links to Reddit and HN from the CLI
Well no. Usually visa and work permit. Not hard to get for high value individual.
I work in IT in the car industry and we are part of the GENIVI aliance, see http://genivi.org/

> GENIVI® is a non-profit industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoption of specified, open source, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) software.

GENIVI is getting some traction and perhaps this is the an answer to problems like the OPs link explains.
Glad I wasn't the only one struggling to figure out what the true value or insight this kind of articles provide, other than supplying random anecdotes regarding "paths of life".

To put it another way, if the coin was flipped and Mr. Rod Dreher stayed at his small home town, a place where he was bullied and misunderstood, instead of leaving for journalism career in big cities, then today he could very well be giving an interview about how he lacked courage to pursue his dream and how he had been trapped in an unhappy life because of that. Then an article would be produced on the detriments of not fighting back against the constraints of relationships and backwards communities.

We don't know. Would he be happy or unhappy if he stayed? The article (and all the 'academic' research mentioned) makes the answer to the question even more elusive.
Assuming that you have some sort of B.A. or B.Sc., then it likely wouldn't be a terrible idea to get something that's specific to Data Science.
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mega65.org doesn't seem to agree, that's weird.

Of course it worked (and works) for me, otherwise I wouldn't have found it, and certainly not posted a link here.
Sky-high expectations for release of AWS numbers
A curated collection of the best FPV quadcopter racing videos
If the primary name doesn't bite back, the modules named Mr. Fusion and Flux Capacitor likely will. ;)
>> It's a simple, permissive license, but it's a license.

I don't think it's that permissive - it could be interpreted as a license to use the software, but it makes no explicit allowance for redistribution.
If we design a ui, it looks more feasible..... :) :) :)
Strategies to store/remember very long password
Tablo the social writing tool
'Man' is mankind, so all of humanity.

Anyway, Wikiquote concurs with my feeling about it being misattributed: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama#...
Good article, but some concepts are being mixed a little too freely I think. Mental and physical well-being are not the same as happiness.

Also, people who have mental or physical health problems are more likely to be relatively isolated. So it is sometimes a cause rather than an effect.
C# 7 Work List of Features
I don't know about the specific intentions of the author, but I also refuse to put an explicit license on my code, because I firmly believe that code cannot be owned, sold or licensed anymore than the Pythagorean theorem can.
In that sense, I consider the refusal to put a bunch of legalese nonsense on/near my code a form of protest against the current copyright laws.
I'm here to write code and I don't want to put a license on my work just to appease some lawyers, as it lends credibility to a system that I reject on principle.
Doing it this way only presents a problem for people and companies who subscribe to the view that copyright is indeed a real thing.
Italian neutrino experiment to move to the US
What happens when there are no boys in the room (Women Tech conference)
Only the fastest finger will survive, tower slash
E L James is primarily a marketer. Reddit had a very interesting comment from someone who knew the backstory about her relationship to the Twilight fanfic scene.

Let's just say people still remember her there, but perhaps not very fondly.

The Amazon gold rush for new authors is pretty much over. That's mostly a good thing. The people who stick with it now will be talented and/or persistent, and quality is going to start increasing.

As for tech - book sales are actually incredibly low. The general audience "How to use an iPhone" guides can sell very well, but titles on specific niche developer subjects rarely sell more than a few K copies.

A title on - say - JavaScript that racked up sales of 10K would be considered a run-away best seller.

Also royalties are closer to 5%, because they're usually calculated from net publisher income, which is around half the jacket cost.

Publishers sell tech books because many authors accept very low advances, so the numbers still work out. But to some extent it's a legacy industry. It was big in the 80s, peaked in the 90s and 00s, but has been in decline ever. There is so much excellent free training/example content online that it's making less and less sense to package it up in book form.
> Where are you getting this from? Withdrawal syndrome is a minor component in any real addition and is nothing without craving for the substance which is not present with SSRIs. As someone who has experienced both reasonably severe SSRI withdrawal and nicotine addiction I find your comparison ridiculous (no exp with opiates, but it seems safe to assume they aren't better than nicotine).

The issue is the way your body normalizes to the new default of higher Serotonin levels - when you suddenly return to normal the present state is worse than the it was before you started taking SSRI's (I read a few good papers on the topic a while ago, but I don't remember their titles now - wikipedia is probably a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressant_discontinuation_...).

Also lack of craving is a ridiculous justification for effectively prescribing substance abuse - for example aderol et. all are amphetamine salts - that people don't have a craving in the sense that they would for cocaine is just because the high lacks the euphoric effect -- they still can't function normally without dosing -- and it definitely doesn't mean it's fucking reasonable to prescribe to seven-year-olds.

Likewise people have cravings to watch their favorite tv-show or check their Facebook accounts - these cravings do not qualify these activities as substance abuse.
It is a shame Evernote does not support free OS-es.
Graphene champions the next generation 3D display technology
How an empty repo can have 100+ stars? https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad
React Native – When the Mobile Web Isn’t Enough
Ask HN: Directory of stable mature software
I am looking for an online directory that is human maintained and contains software development libraries and utilities that are considered stable and are actively used in production environments for at least 10 years. Any programming environment/language will suffice. Thanks!
The Linux port seems to be using OS threads from Pthreads instead of coroutines for the concurrent queue.
Page in-memory data using dynamic data and reactive extensions
It is only for file system operations, and mostly these do not actually block, as the results are available in cache. So it is probably reasonable for casual use.

Now if you want to get good performance on an SSD (ie the rated iops) you will need a decent queue depth, like 32 or so, so it wont work but thats a specialist use case.
Hey guys I'm Tower Slash creator, I'm available for any questions you have
Chrome 42.0.2311.90 breaks sites
Open https://soundcloud.com/stream and check the console.
Is it not allowed to access subdomains in HTTPS, if the correct headers are not sent?
Sundance selected filmmaker launches next project on Kickstarter
Full Stack Engineers – Swiftype Is Hiring
Judging by the degree to which my girlfriend is glued to Facebook on her iPhone, she probably would classify getting hacked this way as a 'catastrophe' :)
Sometimes I see annoying people talk at the school library. Not sure why, but it's mostly on newer iphones (maybe the library demographics favor iphones, maybe assholes like to show their newer phones, who knows).

It would be amazing (but highly illegal) if you could just shut them up with a simple command line stroke..
“With heavy use of devices exposed to the vulnerability, the operating system crashes as well. Even worse, under certain conditions, we managed to get devices into a repeatable reboot cycle, rendering them useless.

So it only crashed the whole device if the device was under 'heavy use', which seems to contradict the claim that it renders devices unusable immediately.
Google PDF renderer is now available on .Net
Vietnam is in general an amazing place to work from cafes. Free WiFi is standard, most cafes serve a decent breakfast for less than $2, and many of them are quite elegant and beautifully appointed. The biggest downside is that everybody smokes here so if you're sensitive to cigarette smoke you might have a hard time finding a seat that isn't close to a smoker.
Startups and the productivity puzzle
Matt and his team at PodPonics have a similar idea, but with farms in a shipping container.
Ask HN: What development platform would you use for a robotics / vision project?
Hello HN,

I'm about to embark on a robotics project that will have a fairly low power budget, will need to use two video cameras for stereoscopic vision, will periodically communicate via Wi-Fi and will eventually have to be as autonomous as possible.

What kind of hardware platform would you use for a project like this?

I've looked at arduino (seems not powerful enough), spark.io (seems to tie in a bunch of services that I really do not need nor want), and teensy (seems to be not powerful enough).

If you are aware of other options out there then I'd be most grateful if you told me about them!

Cost is initially not a huge factor (this is the proof-of-concept and prototyping state).
As the article mentions, at one point Marvel was really broke and simply started licensing out the rights of characters to different studios, here's a breakdown of what studios own which characters.

http://screenrant.com/marvel-comics-movies-characters-carl-6...

Because they sold the rights of the X-men to Fox they can't use that character in their own movies. Same with Spiderman to Sony until recently (last month) where Sony is going to let Marvel use Spiderman in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and also produce future Spiderman movies (Sony was simply constantly rebooting Spiderman because of his limited stories and hasn't been able to expand the character and story too much with other characters).

Marvel has started getting back some of these characters, mostly by defaulting it back (studios are forced to release a movie every X years or the character goes back).
Sometimes you need tuples in Java. Or not
Yes, a brave new world.
http://www.vice.com/read/chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a...
A crude version of what you might be looking for is available on cloud-notes.info

This was an MVP I threw together which I've been using ever since- to be honest the interface needs a bit of work but solves the problem for me.

Syntax highlighting shouldn't be a big issue to add.

Note the iOS app isn't currently on the app store, but contact me if you want to test that as well. (email in profile)
It's odd, it feels more like conceptual art than a physical project, but there is clearly some real design behind it.

More and more retro electronics do seem to be headed into the realm of art. This particular project is retro-futurism, to all intents and purposes.
I would love this... if it wasn't by google. I'd rather not have them digging through yet more personal data :(
I have thought the same thing many times, and wondered whether this decision would be my battle of Waterloo, that is very good advice!

I wanted to not just build a manufactured product, I wanted to build a kit, like the RepRap, that could be fabricated by ordinary people out of a combination of printed and mostly commodity parts. I wanted to build a new kind of hardware product, one where the lead time of tooling and manufacturing could be cut out, at least for the kit version, I plan a full normal manufacturing process as well. So building was us eating our own dog food.

It's an experiment to see if the RepRap model can be extended to other areas. It's an experiment to see if 3D printers can live up to their hype. The hype is incomplete, as small plastic parts are only so useful. But I think plastic parts in combination with circuit boards, arduinos, laser cut wood parts and commodity manufactured parts is incredibly powerful.

This was my thinking on building vs buying a 3D printer when I made the decison:

I needed a large build area, and so the 12" Prusa for $650 seemed a good choice, compared to a $1300 Solidoodle that I read bad reviews of, saying that it did not work well, or a $2000+ Makerbot that I just did not have the money for on my bootstrapping budget.

When I bought the kit the seller advertised a build time of 3+ hours. I thought that's nothing, we can do it in one or two evenings and it won't set us back at all. It took much longer, but what really took time was the fine calibration and the learning curve of designing 3D parts that are able to be printed one layer at a time.

The instructional videos were outdated in many places, on older iterations of the kit. We had a heated bed short out, and we had no experience with RepRaps. The parts didn't come labelled and just figuring out what was what took a while. I didn't realize until the end that Colin at MakerFarm provides heroic, incredibly responsive email support and so many of the questions that stumped us for a while could have been answered almost instantaneously with a quick email.

Despite that, Makerfarm still makes a really great RepRap kit that I highly recommend and Colin is seriously a standup guy that replaced the shorted out heated bed for free.

I considered farming the parts out, but knew I would need to print multiple iterations and I would not get it right on the first or second or third attempts and it would slow down our OODA loop.

I can't wait to show the world what we have been doing but we are just not quite ready yet, still in super secret g14 classified startup mode.
Shame, though. I'd love a guerrilla enforcement tactic for the Quiet Carriage on our local trains.
Monitoring Zeus P2P and Dyreza with Malware Lofts
Btw, how reproduce it? I can't find any technical details about this hack
Why do we permit these groups to act as if they were in a James Bond movie?

Only incredible ignorance and lack of perspective could permit this.

Its just criminal activity excused by puerile worldviews shaped by propaganda and elitist 18th century philosophies propagated by powerful thugs.
Show HN: An open platform to easily share and play your indie games
Folders, attachments and the Webclipper..
More people rode this same system in 1956 and I seriously doubt they had all the routes and trains they have available now.

The subsidy on fares is such that fares themselves only pay forty percent of the cost to run the agency.

So there is an upside and downside to all of this, the upside is more people use it, the downside as they do it costs everyone more.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/nyregion/delays-and-costs-...
Ants Swarm Like Brains Think
The Science Bill with the Bit That's Very Bad for Science
To clarify the ethical problem in this research: It's not the same as in stem cell research. When just using stem cells for research, and not "growing them out" to a human being, the main ethical issue is "messing" with creation, however you believe creation happened or what it means for your religion or morality.

But in this research, the intent is to let the embryos develop into full human beings. It would be unethical to edit such a genome if it is uncertain whether or not the individual will suffer due to these changes.

The problem they talk about is that you trade one deadly or very damaging mutation with a couple dozen other mutations with unknown consequences. These are almost certainly harmless, but the risk of introducing another catastrophic defect is still too big.

To make this tradeoff more secure you would need to sequence the embryo's genome at a certain state in its development (after gene editing, but before transplantation) and check it for errors. But we neither have the technology to get accurate genomes from a few (or just one) cell, nor do we have the genetic maps required to tell if mutations have consequences or not.
I got your point about the logic sequence, and I meant to convey that while that is something that I found appealing in the book, it is not by far the only foundation for its conclusions.

As for your second paragraph, I don't think it stands up to scrutiny.
What the west can learn from Japan’s “lost decades”
A lot of people working with C/C++ I know are looking forward to Rust, but the problem is that currently it's nowhere near as mature and widespread as former languages. I hope that will change in the near future as it looks like promising system language.
They haven't disclosed technical details publicly.