skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the preview releases of IE11 work fine. MS Changed a default value between preview and release versions.

I'm going to choose to apply Hanlon's Razor in this situation.

-How often do people who have to do something to detect chrome/firefox version?
Unless you are doing something with bleeding-edge experimental APIs probably, never.

-How often do people have to do something for a specific version of IE?
All the time.

Chrome & Firefox have been mostly compatible for the past 20 major versions. IE has yet to make two consecutive versions compatible with each other.

Also worth noting: Firefox and Chrome support more versions of Windows than Microsoft's past 3 Browser releases have.

Again I don't this is necessarily a distinct case of anybody trying to be evil. This is just a symptom of a bigger problem.
I am an unapologetic proponent of legalizing all drugs, however, I'm not sure what the best way is to sell them.

The freedom to conduct business runs into the moral responsibility of selling compounds that can serious have potential for abuse. Should advertising be allowed at all?
The history goes back way further than that. They were widely used as medicines. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cocaine_for_kids.gif

Wikipedia has a US timeline here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_drug_... including taxes on marijuana as a "nuisance"
You should be up and running now.
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"Take your favorite author and type your favorite story of his word for word. Wonder to yourself why he wrote each word. He’s your mentor today."

Good idea. Unfortunately my favorite story is Lord of the Rings, which is too long to type, but I suppose I could type out a chapter. But for now I will be satisfied with a quote:

"If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."
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We can confirm that there are large issues on Level3's network we've had to pull them from the routing mix until they get everything resolved and stabilized.

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I think the "revolutionary" part doesn't mean revolutionary alone, but in the context of computers.

There are also several possible structures of switching power supplies, so it may involve a new structure, or a new way of regulating the output, or just saving on components.

Revolutionary may be an hyperbole, but it probably had some novelty factor as well.

Edit: ok the article explains the patent awarded to the power supply, nothing too fancy. Oh and a TO-3 transistor, brings memories.
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How about 3x3x3x3 cube?
Seeing this made me smile. I haven't seen an A drive for ages now. I dont know about the times before 1998 where most people have a nostalgic memory of these, but they used to self corrupt like crazy all you had to fear was the "Do you want to format Drive A?"
I have to say after trying a few visual website editors (Dreamweaver, et), I've pretty much given up on this. But this video is really impressive. As someone else said, this could be really awesome specially for beginners. Looking forward to try the final product.
I think the key quote for me is about how effective Githubbers are as communicators. Which isn't at all common in our industry.

I think about it is as being highly networked. [...] you look at the strength of connections between people, the communication channels, and how information travels amongst them, and then you can draw a diagram.

What seems like a higher-than-average percentage of Githubbers are particularly effective communicators publicly, even outside the management team. (Zach Holman in particular comes to mind.)
...until Lotus won't run.

It's a cute saying, but almost certainly apocryphal:

http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done...

Microsoft has always put a lot of work into keeping applications running in new OS versions. Raymond Chen has chronicled these efforts over the years in his blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/

Many of the compatibility problems have been from apps that used undocumented features or APIs, or made bad assumptions about APIs. So Microsoft has put in compatibility shims and workarounds to keep these apps running.

Every time Raymond describes one of these hacks, there are comments about how they're just adding cruft and bloating Windows, and even worse they're encouraging developers to be lazy or overly clever, and they should just let the apps break so people won't do that.

His reply is always the same: when a customer upgrades Windows and their apps break, they don't blame the app, they blame Windows.

Of course something did break here. Nobody's perfect.
"Only if you assume that there are no significant cyclic effects on longer time scales."

We know about cyclical effects on longer time scales like Milankovich cycles, we understand solar variation and volcanic effects. We know about the Younger Dryas and Daansgard-Oeschger cycles. We know about shorter term oscillations like the AMO and PDO.

You apparently know nothing of any of this, and have never heard of Muller's BEST study even though it was splattered all over the New York Times a few years back. Yet, you feel competent enough to make statements about how climatology isn't a real science.

We also know about something called the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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Because it's not P.C. to talk about gang violence and other problems if they're minorities or immmigrants or whatever "protected class" the demented left come up with?
> Don't miss the rain and the cold, or the 'lack of seasons' some friends seem to complain about.

Mother nature is apparently great at causing Stockholm syndrome. You're lucky to have gotten out unscathed. :)
If i'm hiring a designer I want to see a portfolio. Not some drawn out non-interactive (because scrolling is not interactive) infographic in 8-bit design.
I work for PagerDuty. What issues are you having with the Pingdom integration? I'm sure some of our other integrations may be of interest: http://www.pagerduty.com/partners/. If you have any questions or need any help feel free to contact me.
Yes its HTML5. Saw header <!doctype html> ...
This is really just a 2d version of marching cubes - "marching squares".
I believe they do as long as it makes them understand the world and business they are in, not for becoming a programmer unless thats what they want to do.
What about the quote from the article:

> I'll tell you more guys. I've updated to windows 8.1 on my tablet a month ago through MSND subscription and Google search worked just fine. Looks like this problem appeared after public availability of Windows 8.1. So I believe it's something that Google or Microsoft should figure out.

How could they have tested as they were not on the list until, what appears to be, the public release?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enZ4P7Azxys

Doctor Who on 8 floppies
As a buyer, here are a couple of software I've bought-

- vBulletin forum (http://vbulletin.com) for the base of my site
- CometChat (http://cometchat.com) for adding Facebook like chat to the site
- Kayako (http://kayako.com) for support tickets and issues

The advantage I found with self-hosted software is that its one-time. I pay for it and I don't have to worry about a monthly billing. Similar software in SaaS model would cost me about $70-$100 per month. Eventually these costs start adding up. In one-time, I know that my investment is around $500-$800 or so. But that's all then. I can use the software for years without an issue.
That's a property of quantum computers (but as people already explained, it's not that simple), why do you want classical computers to behave the same way?

Or, in a short answer, no, no relation at all with that.
I had the same problem on OS X 10.8.5 running Chrome 30.0.1599.69. When I clicked the fullscreen button, the black went away, but it was only showing a static image of the program (I did have audio though).
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Doesn't the correct use of HTTP status codes cover 99% of these cases?
> It makes me wonder whether if at the time if the Drug industry was simply not that important, or if the 1970 law was similar to the Farm Bills, where by accepting more regulation, the drug companies would receive less competition.

Or there was continuing evolution in our understanding of what various drugs do to the body and their (possible) long term side-effects and harm and a strengthening of consumer rights and protection protection.

The Controlled Substances Act was not the first legislation outlawing various drugs and it's creation occurred along with the creation of the FDA. You ended up with drugs considered too dangerous of or no medical use outlawed and the rest regulated for health and safety. Along with that companies couldn't make whatever claim of health benefits they wanted to.
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> Hard to do when everything is decentralized.

It's funny, because when you think about it, the Internet is remarkably centralized despite its potential to be almost completely decentralized.

A coworker of mine was telling me just this week that the building we work in, in New York City, is one of two single points of failure for the Northeast (and both points of failure are in New York).

This is an incredibly chilling thought when you consider just how little control humans still have over natural disasters (we saw this firsthand last year in NYC).

By "single point of failure" I don't mean that every single person would be unable to access every single website, but that large chunks of the Internet (particularly anything coming from Europe) would be unavailable for most of those users.
It is coming to Windows... eventually.

https://twitter.com/macawco/statuses/378215232512208896
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Whoa. If you can find a source for that quote, I promise to use it forever as an illustration of what not to do. Great point on drug smuggling as well.

As a Michigander who has lived in SF a dozen years, the point about Detroit is especially interesting. Detroit lost out because they got complacent and exploitative. It allowed foreign competitors to come along and kick their asses in ways they couldn't even understand. (If you like This American Life, their episode NUMMI gives a very useful take on the cultural issue.)

I don't think we'll lose it that way, just because we self-define in ways that honor competition and user experience. But it's certainly possible. Google keeps growing, and Google Plus is a fine example of a dominant player getting fat and sassy and shifting toward exploitative behavior.
Gosh, nobody understands what I am saying?
Ask HN: How do you document your REST APIs?
Do you use tools and services like Swagger and Apiary or you write them manually?
Seems like a pretty average water park from the pictures...
Ah, self help tripe. A world in which the experiences of one person are assumed to be universal, and where depression can be solved by sitting in silence for one hour.

Congratulations on your blog post/book full of platitudes and cliché. I hope this is not the height of your accomplishment. When you're done being dismissive of the struggles of others, I hope you can write a book about humility.

As a generally happy and content person in the middle of a "reinvention", even I found this post absurd.
Awesome demo and App. Interesting name for the App. Made me look it up. Macaw: a large long-tailed parrot with brightly coloured plumage, native to Central and South America.
This should be the outage ticket number if anybody has a need for it.

3417269
Two different user agent strings for one version of one browser? That can change at any moment based on a list the site authors don't control? There's no way that'd ever confuse things!
Thanks for always having public live streams.
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You guys all love IE so much or what?
This just flew by on the stream's Twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/alfongj/status/391617592407777280/photo/...
Certain technical things really are amenable to the Archy inspired "Zoomworld" spatial organization ideas behind iOS 7. There are lots of things that are best understood in diagrams, as flows of information, or material. Scheduling natural gas or petroleum, for example. Operations that data scientists do to tables of data in something like Stata are another example.

That said, not all things are suitable for this. For many things, you still want code. I suspect that there are opportunities for people to find harmonious ways of blending the two.

EDIT: Wouldn't something like hosting a web app be amenable to a Archy/Zoomworld style representation? The relationship between front-end servers, app server workers, back-end processes, and databases could exist as a giant diagram.
up is left is not counter intuitive when you outright state it and its the only thing you have to keep in mind.
Any ideas as to how much it will cost?
More often than not, boring work that nobody wants to do at your company is an indication that something went wrong in the process of design & development of your product.

For example, from my experience as an end user, if a product or service relies heavily on documentation, "knowledge bases", forums etc. then it's pretty much fucked up already. Work of any kind at a company behind such a product would be boring: from management and engineering to QA and technical writing.

Github is obviously not among this kind of companies. And I wonder what would be considered "boring job" at GitHub then.
I was pleasantly surprised to wake up to a HN post on Miami!

I find the tech scene pretty miserable here but then again I've worked from home for almost 10 years and I'm terrible at networking events. So it could just be my self-imposed social prison! I live further south (Pinecrest), a little further away from our "tech hubs" in downtown and midtown.

If you're in Miami and are looking for any events, Startup Digest does a good job of showing you what's happening each week: https://www.startupdigest.com/digests/miami

I'd love to meet some HN minded brethren though.. Maybe we should try and do an HN Meetup, anyone else interested?

Shoot me an email.
http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&n...
Code at https://github.com/chimera-io/chimidi.
Zach Holman has an answer on Quora on this:

http://www.quora.com/GitHub/How-does-GitHub-handle-tasks-tha...
speaking on iOS 7, I would love to look at that page in an iOS 7 phone, landscape and see how much gets cropped out of view.
Agreed; Washington Post may be over egging this one...
See here for more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576399
Fantastic if "reinvent yourself" is supposed to mean "become a doormat for investors and VCs".

It takes five years and a studied lack of passion to fake being good enough to make money from it. It takes a lifetime and genuine passion to be good enough to advance the state of your art.
Looks pretty good in the immediate area: http://www.walkscore.com/score/253-ne-2nd-st-miami-fl-33132
Why does the entire web community agree that feature detection is the way to go and UA sniffing is bad, but time after time shows that Google does it on nearly all of their products?
Chicago/Cook County: 10%

I don't even get a decent startup scene for that.
I know the focus is on the technical aspects, but I have a small suggestion regarding art style in games:

Don't mix pixel art with fine gradients. Or more generally, don't mix pixel resolutions. If your pixel art has big chunky pixels, don't ever have a pixel smaller than that. It makes the style look inconsistent and built out of mismatching pieces.

The gradient edges could be replaced with a static edge piece, or at least a banded gradient. I know the images are probably just placeholder art, but it's something still to keep in mind.
http://www.servertastic.com
Why not just use a map builder like Tiled, you can build a much nicer map with several layers, heightmaps are really for 3D stuff
Google's been on the list well before the public GA release of IE11 to ensure compatibility.
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The extra dedicated IPs often cost more than the certificate.
The weapons industry also has big interest in the war on drugs.
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Thanks for the link. That definitely makes sense. They'll get a lot more involvement from Ruby developers when they wouldn't have to write it in Bash, that's for sure.
+1 for "get up and deal with it".
It worked well enough that I'm starting a nonprofit (http://indysci.org) in part to continue the work (by "previous boss", I mean, she quit her job as a professor - so the whole thing is the pharma equivalent of abandonware). It was 5 times less cardiotoxic by design, and not by design, it was 10 times more potent.

You delete the oxygen atom by doing something called mutasynthesis, if you want a better description email me, I'm literally going to the bank right now to open the account for the nonprofit:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=yonemoto+gerratana (click on "free PMC article")

It's scaleable since the hacked bacteria do all the heavy lifting.
Fascinating. I didn't know that bit about homesteading. That explains quite a bit. And I had forgotten that the governor apparently made his money partly via a giant medicare fraud, which definitely says something about the business culture there.
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I used to eat the gummy vitamins like candy, I got Hypervitaminosis, and my hair started to fall out. I thought I had a horrible disease. Then we figured it out. It wasn't much fun.
Seems like a pointless definitional quibble. What matters is that when people see "code" used as a verb in this context on this site, they think of programming. Whether that's "what it means" or not doesn't really matter.
We're recruiting in Myrtle Beach, SC: WhyNotTheBeach.com

Not quite so far south, great weather, big city amenities, even lower cost of living, fiber to the home...
Why "pinoccio" and not "pinocchio"?
Everything I've read about this in recent years seems to boil down to one simple rule of thumb: Supplement vitamin D and forget about everything else.
This is why I contemplate moving to Europe. In Illinois, I'm making ~$120K/year salary. After payroll taxes, I see ~$72K of that. Then take into account sales tax (10%) and property taxes (~$3K/year).

I'm effectively paying EU tax rates without any of the benefits (child care, universal healthcare, etc).
People making money selling software components:
http://www.componentsource.com/index.html
http://bfo.com/purchasingfaq.jsp
http://www.chilkatsoft.com/purchase2.asp

Discussion (though might be dying): http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz

Withholding Tax (if you are non-US, selling to US)
"Components" are taxed at 5%; "desktop tools" (like compilers, editors, IDEs etc) are taxed at 0%. The tax is an admin hassle all round, so this is one plus for not selling components. (NB: this is an oversimplification, there's tax treaties, 30% tax if not under a treaty, byzantine IRS forms, tax rulings on the definition of "royalty" for components, etc).

ASIDE an idea: "Software Components as a Service". That is, it's in the cloud and paid for like a SaaS; but the service it provides is not an end-point (like an API to a business), but a transformation - the kind of thing you'd normally call a library for. e.g. text->pdf. Sounds inefficient, but you co-host with AWS/dropbox/heroku/GoogleApps etc so bandwidth is fast and free. (Alt: let the customer install a copy in the cloud, but you charge like a SaaS business model - an advantage for them is they can expense it monthly, not taxed like a capital purchase).

I've seen some evidence of this, in the form of cloud integration services e.g. http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/castiron-cloud... (2010), but it's still mostly about integrating end-points, not the bits in between.
"I expect you to look at the items I pointed out and see what you think of them. If you don't agree with them, feel free to give specific reasons why not."

You need to do some research first. The fact that you had never heard of the BEST study indicates that you don't know the most superficial details about climate science and this debate (and ones that were splattered across the New York Times). I'm not going to do the work to educate you. I expect YOU to do research before you demand me to produce a 250-paper annotated bibliography of climate science and its justification. Come back when you can explain the radiative physics behind CO2 being a greenhouse gas and how it can be shown in a table-top experiment, and when you know what Milankovich cycles are. Explain what caused the last Ice Age to end, be prepared to discuss the PETM. Explain the theories behind the warming that led up to the Eocene optimum 49 million years ago and the subsequent cooling after that. Climate science is more than just arguing about anthropogenic global warming. If you want a place to start, go here:

http://www.amazon.com/Earths-Climate-William-F-Ruddiman/dp/0...

Then start hacking away at these:

http://www.amazon.com/Paleoclimatology-International-Geophys...
http://www.amazon.com/Principles-of-Planetary-Climate-ebook/...

Try getting off the Internet and exposing yourself to some actual science and not arguments about science.
You can't use their free certificates for commercial purposes.
You should probably hint on a price range.
Here's a higher quality pic from the Twitter stream:

https://twitter.com/SylvainKalache/status/391619633809063936...
I don't know how common this is, but I personally love working on documentation and fixing bugs. I can't imagine I'm the only one out there. Perhaps they just make sure they have enough people that are interested in that type of thing?
Slightly off-topic but kudos on that landing page.

Very cleanly done.
My suggestion: almost never blend between textures, there are very few situations where it is appropriate. More importantly, blending can kill the visual style of your game - a clean, minimal palette almost always looks better (with distinctive borders between colors or color gradients). A better solution is to give each tile type a layering priority - i.e. grass tile edges overlap dirt, sand, etc. Rather than blending, disintegrate the edges appropriately (i.e. grass gets less dense as it goes towards a barren tile, sand is dispersed as it goes over a rock surface, etc).

For example, look at the grass in this image:

http://www.rmxp.tigerseye.uk.com/images/td9_1.png
If that was on a site like codecanyon he might had no choice for the price. The staff there have their own ideas for the prices and doesn't let sellers set their own.
What do you mean by macro nutrients?
Using Swagger, which is fine. But it brings in a lot of baggage (Scala libs) which is unfortunate.