skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running bots for poker, backgammon, blackjack: https://github.com/alexhanh/Botting-Library
My kids and I concur.

Really, I'm not joking around.
Interesting tidbit, their logo looks a lot like the one for Google I/O 2012: https://developers.google.com/events/io/2012/
> Error establishing a database connection!
> (mysql_connect(): User oneandon_oneone2 already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections)

I wonder why you have a website that needs mysql to render, and why you appear to be leaking the connections...

This problem was solved ages ago by the likes of CityDesk.
Standards nonconformance has always been less of a problem when gcc does it.

(Of course, part of that is presumably that gcc's nonconformance is generally useful, as in this case...)
How will Google Glass change videoconferencing?
I've had some Guatemalan coffee with this taste. Here in Barcelona we are lucky to have Cafes el Magnifico, (--which--edited) they have an awesome assortment of roasts at good prices.
+ "it was originally expected to be operational for at least three years." and it even surpassed that for 11 months.

I hope James Webb will get some extra lifetime as well.
You can also read the online version which is free!
It's somewhat relevant (due to the input/output interpretation), not excessively expensive, and there are loads of great short domains available. I've got a few myself, my favourite being iso.io; which is for an in-progress photography site.
World Wide Web Security FAQ (2002)
Should you use flags in language selection?
The Best Things in Life Are Free . . . If We Take the Time to Notice . . .
I'd assume they'd handle sharing memory between a CPU and a part of the GPU the exact same way they'd handle sharing between two CPU cores.
Since when is "you're doing it differently than the designers intended" a valid defense of anything?

edit: not to mention that the countries/territories in question very often market their domains that way themselves.
It turns out that we've got massive domain squatting, America somehow snagged .com instead of .us, England decided to use .co.uk for no apparent reason, there's seemingly some sort of massive corruption going on in ICANN 'selling' tlds, etc., etc.

i.e. the whole thing turned into a complete and utter farce long ago.

In the end it's not a perfect world and it's a hack because the very tld domain system itself was woefully broken even in conception.
I'm taking this course too. It's the first "MOOC" (massive open online course) I've actually stuck with more than a couple weeks.

Matasano's crypto challenge complements it nicely too, if you want to go a bit deeper.
Of course! Thank you.
Please, stay away from not using caching with static websites.
Twitter is Spotted Testing Out a New Hands-Free Tweet App for Google Glass
I don’t see how changing into a proper shirt is such a big deal – imagine anyone making a film review only wearing boxers and no jeans whatsoever – that’s roughly how much you reveal if you wear a ‘low cut’ shirt.

Nobody would expect to get away with making a film review in their underwear without comments about putting on clothes. And if everybody did that, those who actually put on ‘uncomfortable’ jeans would obviously be thanked.

And regarding these ‘marry me’ comments: Go to imgur and you will find plenty of people identifying as female making exactly these comments any time an interesting male picture comes up. Hardly sexist.
I think they are talking about cognitive neuroscience and not neuroscience in general. Many in the neuro community consider fMRI studies to be the equivalent of phrenology. But looking at the top journals in the field (neuron and nature neuro) you rarely find fMRI studies. The bulk of the work is basic science that attempts to figure out how the brain works. Basic neuroscience has its problems too [1] but it is not full of overstatements. Unfortunately, what gets in the news is mostly catchy subjects that relate to psychology.

1] http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v14/n5/abs/nrn3475.html
Buying a domain and selling it for £1,200 a few months later.
Yeah, that's on my todo list
I simply asked for the sale. Whatever you are selling, make sure to do just that.
For those who had to look it up "nyan" is the sound a cat makes in Japanese aka "meow" in English.
Insiders only need apply. The over-regulation does nothing but protect the existing players and stifling start-up competition across dozens of industries.
Creating Map Visualizations in 10 lines of Python
I made a 3D animation using 3D Studio for the Thomas J Watson Research Center. I was subcontracted - and very young, and I'm pretty sure the people that sub-contracted me made a LOT more than I did.
AllAdvantage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage

Back when I was in middle school (on AOL)
Is that the future of gaming or the beginning of the Holodeck?
They could have used an active refrigeration system, no?
Completely agree but the same can be said the other gTLDs. The actual problem people are mad at is the lack of spec-appropriate domain names and TLDs
We chose it for forecast.io because of the input/output connotation. It is a concise way to imply "data service".

.io also allows us to use a short descriptive domain name. If we went with a .com, we'd be stuck with either something like forecastweatherapp.com, or a made up nonsense domain -- in which case we'd be basing the name of our app on the specific domain we were able to acquire.
[responding to your edit]

...If you think things shouldn't be hacked, then maybe "Hacker News" is not the site for you?

Everything is a "hack" on something else. When we invented the wheel, we noticed that round things were easier to move than square things. When we invented fire, we noticed that rubbing two sticks together produced something that kept you warm.

It's evolution. The alternative is to stay with what we've got today, just because.
Consulting pays well (very well) but of course it doesn't scale. I made my first $10k doing that.
I came here to say the same thing.

And, Feynman had a gift at making these ideas accessible to the layperson. He is very missed.
Sounds like the workflow of a developer working by himself.

I have 40 developers working in my company, all doing pull --rebase, I even blocked trivial merges on the server itself (see my answer at http://stackoverflow.com/a/8936474/258689)

Laziness is only acceptable when you work alone.

If you are curious, check out this project:
https://github.com/orefalo/g2
Would that work on a ZX81?
What's wrong with .co.uk? It's the same in Japan: .co.jp, .ac.jp, .or.jp... And I think it's good.
.de is also used in many hacks, maybe even more popular than .io, and Google does not allow to change the geographic target for those domains in Webmaster Tools.

Any idea why? Do they fear that this setting will be abused? Hope to hold the floodgate and have people use geographically "appropriate" TLDs?
How Do You Parallel Park?
"Tell us what you think of this site" lightbox + close button too small to press accurately on a touch device = walk away
Welcome to the 21st century. Cell phones are a dirt-cheap commodity, not a luxury.

If you can't afford a second-hand feature phone, you likely can't afford to ride the bus.
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins thinks tablets will be dead in five years
This site is called "Hacker News". Hack doesn't mean 'dirty', it means glorious, better-than-intended, revising-and-improving. And to be sure, the nonsense system that required me to slap '.com' on the end of everything, needed revising.
Looks like a useful TLD for some kind of websites
Check out Zerocoin, though I don't think it uses homomorphic encryption https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Zerocoin
Universities are communities of people from very different sub-disciplines, with every person considering their own sub-discipline or course the most important one, and as a result the curriculum is diluted and hurried to please the greatest amount of people. It might have its benefits, but if training great computer scientists is really the goal, I think it is a bit of a pity you cannot go to a place where you could just do a mix of SICP, algorithms and mathematics for full three years, spending much more time with a single instructor on a single broad topic.
When I click "Home," I just get https://www.facebook.com/. I wonder why you get the php urls.
What's worse than all the worthless merge commits is merge commits with actual functional changes introduces while resolving merge conflicts, but still with just the default merge commit message.
Selling a domain name.
Startups and Small Business:  How Would You Tell them To Plug In?
You know, we wouldn't even be having this discussion if people just didn't commit work in progress onto their upstream tracking branches in the first place.
Enumerating Android installed applications without special permissions
Well, the Nyan Cat was a meme hit something like 2 or 3 years ago. Reddit gets you this stupid knowledge ;)
Well... as your are not an certified magician (at last time we meet g) the only reason why OrientDB is sooo much faster is likely that you have choosen other trade-offs. So why not telling us something about the choices taken resulting now in this good benchmark payoffs? Perhaps smart customers will find their usecases and trade-offs they would choose reflected or not and have a better understanding of graph processing afterwards ;)
Fit for the future
It uses NTL, and NTL is GPL, so the choice is forced.
How to Convert PDF to PowerPoint on Mac?
Yes you are right, i should clarify that this is my personal experience, with zero previous knowledge on cryptography, and pausing the video continuously to investigate the topics and do some calculations.
You could, but that is a very big brass ring to put in front of your employees. If you are working that many hours there better be a good reason, like a big payday. Startups are different than PMEs because the only way you would even think about working 60+ hours is if you have some equity in the success of the company.

There are 2 ways the 35 hour week works:

1) You are paid for 35 hours/wk and work as much as you want all year long. December arrives and you go full RTT. You basically take a vacation while the company pays you the balance of those over 35 hour weeks. I've been in a few places where half the office is gone for the entire month of December, and sometimes November. If you don't use all your RTT by 31/12 you've basically worked for free.

2) Overtime. In my case my CDI (employee contract) is for 35 hours + 4 overtime hours that I've agreed to. Say the company only wants me to work 35hours/wk one month, too bad pay me 35+4. And if I go over 39 hours? RTT. Depending on the workplace, this can either get collegial or hostile very quickly.

Also, when it's 7-8 hours of work the french really do work those hours. This is in contrast to my American observation of working 6-7 and goofing off for 2-3. But then you're always having to stay late. This pacing requires proper project management, something that was really lacking in most of my american bosses (Americans tend to inherit the manager job, to go cadre in France you actually have to take courses on managing people).
Hm, I looked a lot of the links in my news feed and they were all direct.
This is actually something I've been toying with for some time. I have a pretty decent poker bot I've built from scratch, but I need a way of interacting with "real" poker clients, and configuring screen scrapers is BORING.

Do you recommend any other methods besides scraping? I've heard of people injecting DLLs into the process of the casino app, but I have no idea how to go about doing that.
Jawbone Acquires BodyMedia For Over $100 Million To Get Edge In Health Tracking
This is right along the lines of 'why didn't they?'.

When you get this close to absolute zero active refrigeration systems are no longer effective, but the phase change of liquid helium to gas still manages to extract a little bit of energy from the system cooling it down just that much further.
Another one is the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which have the .hm ccTLD [1] despite having no human inhabitants.

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

Edit: Corrected domain. Thanks @jonemo.
It's funny because if the company didn't want you they they would simply not reply, yet you are expected to show a much greater level of care when dealing with them.
There were a few assemblers avaialble for the Spectrum, and they weren't that costly.

I'm sure some people tried to get along with raw machine code, but I doubt that many did.
Rebase is for cleaning up history. Merge is for introducing new features. Use the best tool for the job.

Always "git pull --rebase"; it is fast, easy, and meaningful. You can change the default configuration and probably should; same goes with other tools like emacs and vim.

Worried about date rearrangements? For those few situations where it is important, git log --since="$DATE_OF_LAST_TUESDAY".
> England decided to use .co.uk for no apparent reason

Eh? The UK (not "England") use .uk. This is then subdivided into .co.uk, .ac.uk, .org.uk, .gov.uk and many more depending on the type of organisation, as ccTLDs were initially envisioned, i.e. type.country
I agree. Doing so would definitely make it much easier for the FBI to track criminals, right? And sociopaths - no longer would a low level detective require a search warrant to take an arrestee's computer to create a lineage of every action they've performed; now the detective could do so from his own laptop just by typing in the user id. And civil attorneys who used to have to have a warrant to get a doctor's computer records would now no longer need such a thing to show that the doctor's Google search terms clearly show a poor education/malpractice. This would certainly lead to a safer internet and probably eliminate crime on the web all together.

That's what you mean, right?
To the extent that it is interesting, I think it is in large part precisely because of the simplicity. It's doing the simplest thing that could possibly work (where work is defined as create an interesting image which in some sense is interpretable as the "essence" of the search), and surprisingly, even with such a simple approach it does work in many cases. See the results for Rolex (http://imgessence.com/browse/view/1543). It's very watch-y, even without any processing.

If you try to judge it more as art than tech, it's more interesting I think.
Thoughts on Coursera and Online Courses
Absolutely nothing wrong with hacking. But when i write my own userland i do not recommend it for production. And i do not compare my own radio with a B&O HiFi, and not my cart with a Porsche.

/edit:

Hacks are great. Hacks are evolutionary. Something like "hire and fire". If a hack does not work, try a something different! And this just seems not work very well.
Which would you recommend to read first?
I made my first $1000 by doing a project for someone while in college which was a javascript based Basketball scoreboard back in 2003. No fancy jquery. Plain old boilerplate javascript and DOM manipulations. It was fun. The guy sold it to high schools for thousands more while my cut was $1000. It was intense and took a while to get it right but it taught me a lot. Since then, haven't done anything like that and just a consultant now!!
Mirror: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5488616/raw/019c5fbfad1c16...

Anyone know how to make gist do word wrap with textfiles?
Agreed with "own merits" but that would be true is competition was local. Once you start compete with Delaware-based company, tax breaks can help and make it more fair.
nic.io want to exploit the extension for profit, so obviously they will encourage wide usage, but ultimately what they have under their control is a ccTLD.
There's another post on the frontpage saying to NOT use rebase.

This video comes to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeG4S-mJts

Git is fast, but it's a clusterfuck of weird command calls and esoteric flags. I kind of miss Mercurial in this regard, but I had to make the switch due to the popularity of Github. Having open source projects is a very nice way to show potential employers that you are a good asset.
Show HN: FineGrid is a light-weight responsive grid system
England has chosen to split up their tld into .ac.uk, .co.uk, .gov.uk etc.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk

Because the Americans owned ICANN, they got away with first-level domains for everything, .com, .gov, ...
Other countries had to either put everything under one domain, or split it up like the brits.
But if they are a security-oriented company, maybe not so much. Hiding potential attack vectors (contact info of technical contact) can prevent or delay spear phishing attempts. Now, if Xrecruiting.com and X.com don't match, then that would be a red flag.
First $10k was made almost 14+ yrs ago when we were asked to build a website for a music artist. We had never built a web site before nor had we any knowledge on the backend. But we spoke well and seemed to know what we were doing. We spent the first 2 weeks learning how to make it and luckily it turned out decent. That led to about 5 years of consistent work from the same client and launched our new web dev business.
I made my first $5000 writing open source code during Google Summer of Code.
Better put it on your 'done' list.
The little Schemer

Don't worry if the last few parts don't make too much sense.. I went back and forth between the two quite a lot
I found a couple: http://www.brinks.io/en/ and a whole bunch of subdomains under Mauritius.io https://www.google.com/#output=search&q=site:mauritius.i...
Merge commits are more than just a cosmetic issue. If you have merge commits from pulling master into your working branch you have broken the relationship of the commits which you just merged into your branch from master. Once you merge your branch into master, these changes you pulled in will now appear to be changes that were part of your branch.

So say you have your branch, Sally's branch, and master. You create a branch from master, and then Sally merges her changes into master, and then you pull those changes in, when you merge your branch into master it will look like Sally's changes came from your branch. If something went wrong and you revert your merge all of Sally's changes get taken out of master. Yup.

Not being able to do a clean revert of all the changes is just one problem with pulling master into your branch, another problem is being able to tell just what in the hell you are about to push to production. If you have merge commits your change diff may include all kinds of stuff already deployed, in which case you have to do a manual diff of the code deployed and what's in master instead of just relying on what the merge commit tells you.

So please rebase.
Internet of Things Printer for Raspberry Pi
Someone actually made money from AllAdvantage? How?!

I think I earned $100 or so but was never paid.
Shape-shifting mobile devices
Inflating an advertisement to 'rape' is in poor taste.
I studied ME and my only computer course was Fortran but over the years 70% of my work has become programming. For me SICP was a great introduction to CS. Up to then I had the typical practitioner's view that computing is all engineering and no science but SICP changed my view.
The first $10k I made were from ads on websites (pay per view, pay per click, affiliate marketing). In the meantime I sold one of them and then moved to domain names (catching dropped domain names and then parking/reselling them; still own most of them). Then I've built the biggest tattoo community in Poland with over 500k fans on Facebook (currently only making revenue through ads; next month we'll release our first t-shirt). Now I'm concentrating on building an easier and more secure authentication solution for the web (using mobile phone based cryptography instead of passwords).
It exists and it's called Mercurial :p
Maybe because .de is still pretty well used in Germany? And .de is still marketed as a German TLD, not a generic one (like, for instance, .io is). To get a .de domain, you must have an address in Germany, so it makes sense to consider it a German ccTLD.
A one time thing a while ago. Consultation job that evolved into a developer gig (when he quit) and that turned into a designer gig (he quit too) and I ended up doing all three.

But I have no complaints though. That company hired some very talented and loyal people who're still together to this day long after I left.
Hackers creating an untraceable and comprehensive financial system using Bitcoin
I emailed them about those, but they never got back to me.
A new chapter for Java starts today: Java EE 7 just went final
Was asked at university who would like to write code for the summer (no other details). I said yes as i had nothing else to do. It turned out to be a project working for a large company which paid the equivalent of $900 a week for 16 weeks. Went a nice way towards our mortgage deposit.
Ask HN: Do you know how to hack a wifi network?
I need to hack back into my wifi, to gain back control. Does anyone know how to do that? (I don't know my WEP, and I don't want to reset it)
Why Worrying What Others Think Makes You Dumber
Grocery delivery service is greener than driving to the store
I didn't have any prior knowledge either, I guess this is due to each person's method of studying. I generally don't go in very much depth.
Excuse me? I know it's not reinforcing what you want to believe, but this isn't an echo chamber.

Coworkers are starting to smoke in small meeting rooms where you don't normally get the smell of lunches etc. It DOES smell unpleasant, though it's not nearly as bad as cigarette smoke. Fortunately my coworkers are gracious enough to shower every so often so I can't say that BO is a regular problem.
Out of curiosity, what was the domain?
Dynamic arrays will be in C++14.

http://isocpp.org/blog/2013/04/trip-report-iso-c-spring-2013...

That being said, you are correct that it would be good to see warnings in something other than just -pedantic for that.
> I'd like to see control put back into the hands of the sites themselves, and have some way of tagging available in the HTML of the page.

I'd like to think that, as a web dev/master/admin/whatever, I wouldn't have to tag each one of my thousands and thousands of pages with the exact same tag. This is just a tough approach - it would work for super small sites only IMO.
Saved my lunch money from junior to college plus everything from birthdays and celebrations. Every cent was put away.

Worked surprisingly well as a strategy. Recommended, and gives a great start in life.
I find it grating too. I thought this was an interesting point:

"Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) don’t target specific countries. If your site has a generic top-level domain, such as .com, .org, or any of the domains listed below"

I actually consider .com etc to be largely US based, particular as it appears they can be seized by the US government and are under US jurisdiction.
Temperature of space is around 4K and the instruments were cooled to 1.4K. There is no system to capture and compress the gas after the phase change at these temperatures. The cooling system was designed to boil off helium. to keep the sensors cold. The same way an aerosol can gets cold after being used.
Nyan.cat at least used to have an information page explaining their use of .cat; having a version of your content in Catalan (which they still do) is apparently sufficient.
What makes you say that? There are plenty of gigantic professional services firms.
Virgin Galactic spaceship makes first powered flight