skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny...looking at the OP, I suddenly realize how much real estate is wasted on HN and its single column layout...if the OP reduced font-size and a little line-height, it could fit almost as many headlines above-the-fold as HN does, using much less horizontal space.

But maybe I'm old, and too familiar with HN, and too resistant to change, but HN's fuck-it-just-fill-the-column-with-a-table layout is comfortable in ways that I've only noticed when doing direct comparisons to HN-like sites.

In regards to the OP, I think that what HN loses in information density, it gains in "zen"...On the front page, there's simply less "conflict"...my mind feels more relaxed at looking at a single flat list...and when I click through to the comments, seeing just a long (and admittedly, too wide) column of comments. With the OP, my mind has to divide itself between scanning the list on the left and whatever may be on the right...and even if the right side is mostly blank (as it is with empty threads), something in my subconscious thinks that something is wrong...it's enough cognitive burden to make the experience not as effortless as it is with HN.

But I may be stretching here...HN works instinctively because I read it enough for its quirks to be instinctive. But the bigger picture is that HN, day in and day out, provides good reading material and almost never fails to disappoint in the comment threads...so any HN-clones, regardless of improved UI, still have that major hill to adoption to climb.
Excellent! Thanks a lot.
The Joy of Unix in Windows: tool bundle for Windows
Comparing floats for equality is equivalent to comparing them with tolerance that you don't control. I don't see a good reason to risk like that.
The 10 most collaborative projects on GitHub
Companies will be charged, under Obama's new data collection proposal
OP here: I definitely don't prefer paper. ;) I actually sold all of my physical books before my last move.

I think authors moving to self-publishing is a good thing. And when the author sells directly to the reader (and not on Amazon), he/she can build relationships directly with the reader, and can earn more money. That's a good thing.

The problems are:

1. Discoverability - finding good books that have been self-published by authors.

2. Reviews - even on goodreads.com not all books are reviewed, and there is no way to find books in the startup space. Having a community of people who can recommend good books on a topic could be valuable.

3. Interaction - personally, I find interacting with other people that are reading the same book motivating. Hearing their point of view, and their ideas for applying a book's topic can improve the reading experience.
Redboard also has a USB mini connector, not the full sized square one that standard Uno has. Personally I'd prefer the mini connector, I've always thought that the USB connector was the most oversized thing on an Arduino board.
Das is a little over $100. But, I absolutely love using it.
Yes, thank you. So many people here are missing the point. The debate isn't whether or not minds are simply too special to be modeled by a computer. The debate is whether or not the mind itself is a computational system

I mean, consider the solar system. Can the solar system be modeled by a computer? Yes of course. Is the solar system a computational system? Is it organized on computational principles? Of course not. These questions are not the same thing, and yet conversation about the latter always seems to get drowned out by people saying "How could you possibly deny the former!"
Nice collection. It will definitely be helpful for a lot of prospective applicants!!
Portland is starting to wake up to the issue

They're all stocked up on organic, locally sourced emergency supplies, then?

Sorry, I couldn't resist. Worth the karma damage.
The Grammar Book for Creators Has Finally Been Released
How to start a project (and complete it)
Ask HN: Equity for engineering hires
Folks, a question to gauge the market:

At an enterprise B2B startup with a little traction, what sort of equity would you expect the first five engineering hires to seek, and what would you expect them to get?

What would you be looking for if hired on as a senior engineer?

(for simplicities sake, pretend there's no dilution due to investors or other cleverness)
Fuse lets you put your own 3D characters into Steam games
This happens today in the US, especially with African-Americans with 'unique' names.

'Charles Taylor' is going to get more callbacks than his sister 'LaQuashandreka Taylor'.
Thought I agree with the message, this site is terrible. It essentially collects anecdotes and treats them as data. You could do the exact same thing with "real" medicine as well (so and so died during this operation, so we shouldn't do it anymore? no.).
The Patterns Behind the “Most Shared” NYTimes Articles
A man has won a 16-year dispute over a laptop he bought from PC World
First, I have a collection of unread books sitting in a folder called “eBooks” on my computer.

Second, it’s hard to know which books are good.

I have had those exact problems long before ebooks. I still have a pile of unread legacy books. Some bought a decade before, others borrowed and never returned (my local library closed down), many inherited, older than me.

Not to mention, new books are being written all the time while older titles remain available. You can read a book a week and you'll still be behind... forever.

This is a direct result of the effort required to really read a book, tens or hundreds of hours. It's much easier to buy than to consume.

Professional reviewers and a recognizable author's name are the traditional solutions to those problems. Buying a book from someone whose blog you like (essentially sampling) is IMHO superior to both. Maybe because I don't share reviewers' tastes.

A better solution is of course always welcome but the challenge isn't new.
http://famo.us

There are two embedded youtube videos, the one on the left.
AWS Achieves DoD Provisional Authorization
Here's another app for torrents: http://jstorrent.com. It is a torrent client itself, no outside client needed, though proprietary.
You will become who you choose to be around
More info on Dr Decapitator’s SNES decapping escapades at Mameworld (archive.org link as the subsite is dead): http://web.archive.org/web/20111115180306/http://decap.mamew...
I like the BoArduino USB[1] for breadboarding. Use something like that if you like breadboards and don't intend to make use of any of the shields.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/products/91
Now we need a newsletter
The model is a lot like GitHub, actually. We let people create all of the public dashboards they want for free so that people can share live data with the community. They also get one free private dashboard.

Business accounts pay the bills, though.
https://www.thedash.com/business/pricing
I'm around 2000 ELO in chess and I'd win every single game vs anyone with 4 pawns or a minor piece handicap.

You'd only break even starting from opponents at around 2400 ELO, and would start losing about 2 out of 3 games when facing a top rank grandmaster.

Being a single pawn up is usually decisive in chess.

It only gives you slighly less than a 66% chance of winning (a bit more close to the endgame).

There's no point in arguing from your personal beliefs here. You're vastly and utterly overconfident in your own ability. The definition of the rating system and a few million games of evidence are against you.
I hate it when I miss valid points in my sklm :). That's a perfectly reasonable concern and an innovative bias-correction strategy.

It still misses the homogeneous point though: Russia might have a lot of doctors emigrating for higher wages, whereas Italy might have had people fleeing as refugees. We'd expect higher skilled workers with hard names to adjust their hard-to-pronounce-and-therefore-hard-to-sell-services names.
This will just push everyone sharing info to Facebook.

Next move bye bye Facebook...or internet.

Any way to build a mobile app that rotates servers enough to circumvent this kind of blocking?
I read it like the intention is to introduce comparability layers for certain "rough" APIs such as logind, and have Gnome depend on those, rather than eg: "just" logind.

I've yet been able to track down any recent comment from the bsd side of things (I don't follow the bsd-dev lists) -- so I'm not sure what the schedule is like.
You're encouraged to do that. I wonder why it seems to upset so many people? (I'm honestly curious, I'm not trying to be snarky)
Shameless plug: I just built a Hacker News for Education, and I'd love to get some feedback/ interested users:

http://educatornews.net

PS Also very happy to check out OP's take on building an HN "clone". I am a math and science teacher, and keeping up with current science always makes my classes more interesting and relevant.
I sort of assumed that they would just use fat binaries, and store the cached, translated version in the same file as the intermediate code.
Can I get an invite to Lobste.rs ?
Atari resets with jump into social casino gaming
Not too viable I'd say. The fun already starts when you need to explain the url.

"Yeah it's Famous. Not normally spelled, but with dot us at the end."

I believe a name should be obvious beyond explanation. If you can't afford the straight dotcom better use an slightly longer url that features the name (like getbootstrap.com).
Facebook – with help from Google,LinkedIn,Twitter releases MySQL built to scale
It's interesting to see a country dismantle internet access site by site. It challenges our notions of what we think will always be there.

If your site has a dependency on YouTube, your site isn't going to be functioning in Turkey.

It's like Netflix's Chaos Monkey [0], but in real life.

[0]http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...
Just a note - It's not GPS satellites taking the pictures. It seems to be the RapidEye [1] satellites, which are much closer to earth at 630km.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidEye
Show HN: E-paper room booking system with Google Calendar, Python and Bootstrap
I don't think that will happen. Though I didn't think that they would block twitter too :)
I hope enough copies of whatever damning evidence the Turkish government wants to suppress are being disseminated outside of Turkey as well as inside the country.

Long live Sneaker Net.
Plane crash off Spain's Canaries
Why I Hate Virtualenv and Pip
Eastern Europeans in London do this. Andrzej becomes Andrew, Wojciech becomes Voytek, names beginning with Sz drop the z. People working in coffee shops often change their name after working there a while.
Exercising for Healthier Eyes
I believe the point is some of us have aspirations for a society that minimizes the number of people in terrible situations. The idea being that some of us feel many of these terrible choices are as much the result of circumstance as otherwise.
Not very often we get stories about Ethiopia on front page of hacker news...
SEO – Dicas para Melhorar Resultados na Busca Orgânica
I believe Admiral Akbar might have some advice for this CEO.

Given the U.S. propensity for arresting foreign nationals for allegedly breaking U.S. laws while completely outside of U.S. territory just as soon as they finally set foot on it, I would politely decline this request as well. The offer to pay 100% of all travel expenses up front is particularly suspicious.

Given what has already occurred, I'd probably also wear nitrile gloves and a dust mask when handling the "first class plane tickets" sent by my former customers.
So does this mean I should change my first name? My first name is one syllable and it does not involve anything like tongue clicking or rolling. But many people still find it hard to say. Name starts with a J and end with N and I think people sabotage themselves by always trying to fit a "John" in there.
Advanced AngularJS support in WebStorm
zerop posted a comment with links to many different HN clones here, but it's marked dead. Maybe because it included too many links?
Keeping Live Events and Promotions Running Smoothly
I don't know if any of the rest of you remember it, but my favorite book club ever was the Global Business Network (GBN)[1] book club, edited by Stewart Brand [2].

The GBN was a network of "interesting" people, and they would put forward books. Stewart Brand would take these suggestions, add his own, and write very insightful reviews. You would really hear about new, interesting stuff there first. It was a book club in a broadcast sense, where they suggest things to read, rather than a discussion forum.

Sadly, GBN was acquired and people moved on. For a long time, the list of books and reviews was still online, but now all of gbn.com seems to be down.

Maybe that could inspire more of a HN book club, which wouldn't just be "startup books", but interesting stuff in the HN vein.

Edit: [3] is a list of the books for 1988 to 2006, from archive.org

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Business_Network

[2] http://sb.longnow.org/SB_homepage/Home.html

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20070316053617/http://www.gbn.co...
I took some homeopathic 'marbles' as a kid. Probably the best placebo ever designed. The only pill I'd never forget to take. While everything else is sour and alien in taste, this instead, is a doctor approved crunchy candy.

Icing on the cake, the dispenser http://goo.gl/xsT3IM would be vetted by Steve Jobs, cute squary bottle, press the cap to fill it with a dose, open, ingest, close. Genius ?
The analogy that a mind is like a computer is just that, an analogy. It's used to present the high-level structure of the brain in a accessible, understandable way, not as a logical argument.

Actually, this analogy is the foundation of our modern understanding of the mind and is accepted by nearly all experimental Psychologists/Cognitive Scientists. It is certainly pervasive enough to be arguing against. Few of them seriously recognize its limitations.

This analogy is not the justification for why people believe that "the mind can be replicated on a computer". And yet the article tries to disprove the latter, deep and meaningful point by attacking the relatively superficial analogy between [current] computers and minds.

I think you're missing the point. No one cares whether the mind can be replicated on a computer. Researchers/theorists care about whether the mind is a computer. The solar system can be modeled on a computer, and yet there isn't an entire theoretical approach to astronomy predicated on uncovering the algorithms running on the solar system computer. This line of discussion about the capabilities of math and computation are beside the point.
At least we have a Redundant Array of Independent Social Networks to help us route around this intentional damage.
Show HN: Donate $1 to Big Brothers and Sisters for every win
A Simple Explanation of COGROUP in Apache Pig
I disagree with your last sentence. Because of the problem in Syria our borders are not secure and Turkey is trying to solve this problem diplomatically for a year.

Recently ISID threatened Turkey to attack Sulaiman Sah and after that government started to think about a military attack to that area.

You can't just say "they want to attack Syria to strength Erdogan's position."
That just makes the "collection of unread books" problem even more confusing.

In any case, none of this is due to self-publishing, but rather a particular approach to self-publishing which does not seem to be all that common.
It's pretty ghastly that people are willing to fabricate rationale for getting into war. I really hope that the Turks dispose of their leaders expediently and forcefully.
and the next revolution comes to...
Seamless two-way CRM and Google synchronisation that actually works
Who Built the ID Theft Service SSNDOB.ru?
ProCSSor.com is for sale
Great opportunity to takeover a highly respected resource for Web Developers.
Chess Anarchy, inspired by Twitch Plays Pokémon
The link to the actual content is probably behind a Facebook login page and might not even be viewable to all Facebook users.

Thanks for NOT posting the link to Facebook and instead using imgur :).
The compiler is just avr-gcc, you can use that and upload code with avrdude directly, bypassing (or even overwriting) the bootloader. You don't even need an Arduino, with the right breakout board and serial connection you can write directly to a naked microcontroller.
It's not XOR.

Taking someone else's property can be both theft and conversion.

Conversion is a tort, a matter of a lawsuit between parties.

Theft is a crime, a matter between a citizen and the state.
Yes, if by faster you mean slower.
I made this, the source code is at https://github.com/rdwallis/ChessAnarchy
If you use Windows, consider Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net) instead of GIMP. It's much quicker (particularly the 4.0 beta builds) and has a much more Photoshop-like UI out of the box.
> Why is it that [...] so many people intentionally choose to "hate on" science?

My impression is that people miss the Devil. You know, the horny guy with the pitchfork: something well identified, to hate personally, almost anthropomorphically, for everything that goes wrong with their lives, with the world, and with their lack of control and understanding of it.

Disclaimers:

1) the ravings that follow are grounded in anecdotal and mostly Western-European observations. They only partially and imperfectly apply to the USA, but that you'll find significant similarities.

2) I'm intentionally caricaturing to get my point across. Just keep the grain of truth deep inside.

Consider the caricature of the homeopathic believer: ecologist, liberal, anti-vaccine, anti-big-corps, who might have graduated in humanities but probably not in sciences, who sort-of believes in astrology, completely believes in every alternative medicine that either uses a couple of greek-sounding big words to explain its "theoretical foundation", or draws from extreme-oriental mysticism. Easily sympathetic to conspiracy theories, especially when it's about big money colluding to destroy the ecosystem or maintain suffering populations into poverty.

This person is typically defiant of organized religions, be it Catholicism or conservative protestantism. But although she--she seems to be majoritarily female--rejected organized religions, she still needs identifiable, if possible anthropomorphic, incarnations of Good and Evil to worship and hate respectively. Ecology is her Pachamama, a thinly veiled reboot of the Mother-Goddess cult. Science, this mysterious and powerful thing that's used by corporations to shape the world and sometimes dehumanize it, is the instrument of Evil. And her reactions to science at large, including medicine, are uncannily similar to her (great-?)grand-mother's reaction to the Devil. First she'll pretend it doesn't work; if it's too obvious that it does, then she'll be convinced that nasty side effects are going to haunt those who use it, and she'll be desperate to believe in any hollier alternative. And when her religious views contradict her obvious immediate interests, she'll use science, but first she's temporarily unplug any part of her intellect that might see the contradictions between her faith and her acts.

This could probably be fixed, by offering less counter-productive ways for people to indulge into their religious feelings. Established mainstream religions don't cut it anymore for most people in Europe, and for increasingly more people in the USA, especially those of liberal inclination. They need a better alternative religion than anti-scientific new-age cults. The difficulty in engineering such an alternative is that in order to work, it must be non-obvious that cults are manufactured by humans...
That's confusing... it's Backbone's event model basically just an Event Emitter? Is there some special functionality that warrants bringing in all of Backbone vs. just using one of the millions Event Emitter libraries that are out there. You can even get just Backbone's models if that's what you want.
Unit Testing Your Twilio App Using Python’s Flask and Nose
icc isn't open source, is it?
From Twitter:

https://twitter.com/TwitterOSS/status/449202984786739200
https://github.com/twitter/mysql/wiki/WebScaleSQL-and-Twitte...
Blocking social media sites and expecting it to reduce tension is like turning off TV & radio broadcasting and expecting people to remain in their homes; it's a failure to understand modern systems of control. Orwell doesn't work at all. Huxley is your only hope Turkey :P
Any price info?
Google's live traffic stats for Youtube: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/explorer/?r...
Always a great read: "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic"

PDF rendering: http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse320/Documents/FloatingPoint.pdf

HTML rendering: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...
I am decent amateur (2300 ELO) and I crush the strongest computers in blitz (which are way stronger than the strongest humans) with bishop odds and it's not even interesting.

Either your rating is wrong, your are not actually playing the strongest computers, you're arguing from a too small sample size, or your definition of "crush" means "I win half of the games but those that I do win I do so convincingly".

4 stones is more like a pawn

This is completely and utterly wrong. The winning odds of having a 4 stone headstart are an order of magnitude higher than those of being up a pawn.

There is huge difference between a bishop and two pawns.

Yes. About 150 ELO - equivalent. More than being another pawn up.
This article has a description and demo of many different maze generation algorithms: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/2/7/maze-generation-algorit...

I like the mazes generated by the Hunt-and-Kill and the recursive backtracker algorithms the most. They both generate mazes with long dead-end paths.
This is not a new problem. I self-published a sci-fi novel in 2001: http://www.amazon.com/Reflecting-Fires-Thomas-Claburn/dp/073...

The book sold a few hundred copies, thanks to a few reviews on websites and a post on Slashdot. The challenges then are the same today: self-publishers tend to be poor marketers or to not have the time/resources to market effectively; lack of quality reviews and an abundance of pay-to-play review sites that will take your money and do very little for sales; self-published titles are (often justifiably) seen as less worthy than texts backed by an established publisher; and there's an overall shortage of available attention, thanks to the abundance of media options today.

>Tools like Draft, Scrivener, and Penflip have improved the writing, editing and collaboration process.

Technology may make editing easier but it does not improve it. A decent writer won't need a grammar checking algorithm.

>Publishing software like iBooks Author, Leanpub, Softcover, Pressbooks, and Liberio allow authors to easily design, format, and publish their books themselves.

These tools are helpful but there's a reason professional designers exist.

>And e-commerce platforms like Gumroad, Memberful, and Digital Goods Store have solved the payment and distribution problem.

But these problems pale in comparison to getting marketing and attention.

What's more, these issues are the same for other self-published media: apps, music, and videos.

I'd love to have my book or my app (http://blocfall.com/) discussed by a reviews group, but a review in the New York Times or front-page placement in the iTunes App Store would be a lot more helpful.
Circle founder: Goodbye to Bitcoin's libertarian phase
This is the one (or two, if you have the desk space).
Yes the keyboard navigation is great, I didn't notice it at first.

Whilst I agree with danso's comment below, that there is too much to look at on harlembiospace.com vs. HN, I think a hybrid between the two would be great.

HN list layout with keyboard navigation!

Infact, if someone could build that into my Chrome HackerNews Extension suite I would be very happy!
Reminds me of the story where Toyota decides to help charities by donating help with management/process:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139960