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They always seem to have terrible reception in ikea stores. Probably due to large areas of steel cladding and RC slabs acting like a faraday cage. The building owner needs to actively supply booster base stations to provide a good mobile signal in a building like this and Ikea don't seem to do this.
Microsoft warns asks WP7 users to wait for the real thing
Ultimately, if two systems need to exchange data in any way, even in one direction only, they cannot truly be described as separate.
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Which, while pretty poor from a privacy point of view, is entirely reasonable from a technical point of view.
Oops, clicked yes by accident.
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Tell HN: Atlassian are sending me a 'free' Angry Nerds T-Shirt
On the back of the Angry Nerds April Fools joke:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2394082

I genuinely wanted to buy their t-shirt and I filled out the form just to see what happened and thought no more of it until I got this today:
http://goo.gl/tMdsm

£6 to ship to the UK. Worth every penny!
Here's the one thing about Gmail that drives me nuts: It doesn't let you preview its line wrapping. This is terrible when you're including bits of code in an email. How hard could it be? You could even pull it off half-decently with Greasemonkey.
Clickables:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2394082

http://goo.gl/tMdsm
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Cherry picking commits with git
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That's similar to the setup we've put together at our company.

* Subversion for source control
* Jenkins for building/testing/deployment coordination (each project has a Build, Push to Test Server, Integration Test Suite, and Push to Production set of jobs)
* NSIS to build installers
* Migrator.NET for database schema migration and rollback
* PsTools + NAnt + Robocopy + Misc. Utils to deploy to remove server

Our deployment process (managed by Jenkins), looks like this:

1. Pull code from SVN
2. Build the code
3. Run unit tests
4. Build the database migrations
5. Build the installer
6. Copy the installer to the test server
7. Use PsExec to run the installer
8. Copy back the install log to the build server
9. Build the integration test suite
10. Run integration tests (usually Selenium + NUnit)
11. Copy the installer to the production server

Final deployment is done from within Jenkins, too, but is a manual process for now. And by "manual" I just mean that someone has to click the "Run Job" button.

Sure, it's not an "integrated" solution, but I don't really see how I'd have needed less control or granularity if I were building and deploying on Linux and didn't use Ruby.
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We have been maintaining a set of HN accounts used to rank stories on the first page and it has been a valuable asset in gathering instant attention of a fairly large amount of users in a short amount of time.

Works, as opposed to what some people suggested in some comments.
Instinctively I hovered the text with dashed underlines waiting for a tooltip to come up. I'm not sure where I picked up this habit. Anyone else has the same?

I tried the anonymous demo, entered a product. Then I'm not really sure what to do next, I think it could use some more guidance.
So it's basically a dashboard for social media PR campaigns?

(if so then I can't believe nobody's used the word 'dashboard' yet)
Interesting concept, but I call BS on the cursive handwriting they showed in the video. Practically no one writes that nice with a pen, and they've got people writing like that with their hands in the air?
graffitti for weak people...
<OFF TOPIC> There's a live feed from that satellite with some interesting moments - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpNyAtU-3Tc&feature=share
On Reddit there may be more insight on this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gkl77/hashed_pa...
How fast can technology go...
Poor lady faces prison. What about people responsible for laying a cable like that, accessible to anyone with small scissors?
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Could light be like a harmonic overtone of gravity at a much higher frequency, with both being vibrations/ waves in the ether of space-time?

/serious-face
I don't know what I'm confused about, and I don't really care about technical details -- the behavior of copy/paste has been inconsistent to me.

Reading that article, if it really is the reason for what is happening, it kind of makes sense, but that's no comfort to me when I'm losing my selection because I have closed the origin; behavior that isn't even consistent across apps.
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Unfortunately I have disabled Compiz because for some reason the NVidia drivers are hanging my computer when I'm shutting down -- and now after I switched to Nouveau, my screen doesn't light up when waking up from sleep.

And without those effects enabled, the show-all-windows shortcuts won't work.
Homo-Robo relations...
"Mera Neta Chor Hai" movement gaining momentum in India
Hm, seems like they need quite some help with typography. The rest looks fine, also conceptually.
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Although I consider myself a Francophile I have to say that the Sarkozy government really seems to be out of control these days, of course the same is true here in Austria as well as in Germany.

We need common sense & neutral specialists in control. This world is clearly becoming far too complex for the electable caste.
Yep, CRT monitors where something special - LCD's just doesn't glow like that...

Of course they also won't fry your eyes.
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Sorry, but I can't see sh*t on those Solarized themes which you call the "best theme ever created".
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"People have to realise that an idea is worth nothing. A good idea with great execution has value, but without this execution, it’s worthless. Getting an estimate for execution of an idea in 2009 does not grant you ownership of it."

Bang on target!!
"You’ve come a long way, Tux the Penguin."

Penguin? Does anyone still remember the Platypus? ;)

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/logos/platypus/!INDEX.html
Based on my scientific research, Windows 7 will bypass XP in August 2011
I'd worry about being lean and frugal there, due to the cost of living. I bet there's some ways to save money (aside from cramming five guys into a studio apartment).

Related question: Did NYC ever get any of those miracle residential fiber connections covering the whole city? It's surprisingly hard to get broadband info w/o going through forms.
Once a court order is involved, any expectation of privacy basically goes out the window anyway. This law seems to just stipulate that a simple mechanism should exist to aid law enforcement.
What is wrong with generating fast machine-code?
Sorry for the stupidity of french politicians.
User-Defined Literals in the D Programming Language
Flagged. Not likely to be of interested to non-LLVM users, LLVM users can subscribe to the LLVM announcement mailing list if they want release updates.

What's the value to the HN community?
All the best to everyone! and specially to my best friend infosec_hacker!
Here's the problem I have with cryonics: in what future do they need to defrost people from the past for another other than freak show/historical novelty? There are so many problems the defrosted will have:

* no skills for their new environment
* no money
* billions of warm-bodied, warm-blooded other humans already there
* suffering from lonliness knowing everyone you've ever known is dead

Unless the defrosting process is great and there's going to be gene therapy, and it won't be for maybe the first few hundred/thousand people, you'll be disabled, diseased or still suffering from whatever killed you in the first place.
A freudian click? ;)
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What gets me on stuff like this is that for every one person who executes successfully and make something great there are hundreds of people waiting around to suckle off of that success.
> If it turns out gravity is not really a force ...

It definitely isn't. The word "force" implies a Newtonian model for physics. Under general relativity, gravity isn't seen as a force but a consequence of curved space-time.

The title was probably chosen by an editor without deep knowledge of the subject. It doesn't accurately describe the article's content either.
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Except in most cases validation cannot be complete on the client side, anything related to server side logic has to be additionally checked.

Validation is also two different concerns if you compare serverside vs clientside.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/162159/javascript-client-...

Basically: Client side validation is about user experience, Server side is about security. I'm hard pressed to believe you can get both with the same code.

I also don't see how localStorage is relevant to code sharing between client and server.
The title is poorly chosen. The article describes a new proposed method of formulating gravity in terms of quantum physics. Gravity is clearly not a 'force' according to the common Newtonian definition of that word.
I knew it :) Thx for being sincere.
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The whole idea of good or bad depends entirely upon the concept of value. Saying a 'good' idea is 'worthless' (ie. no value) is a contradiction in terms.
I bought one of these in Shanghai last year! Sadly I only realised it was acting strange when I got back from vacation (It had a perfect plastic casing, labels, little paper manual; we even tested it in store!). From my googling at the time, what they did was something like take a standard 128mb stick and flash it with some interesting firmware - there's even a utility out there which can help you figure out how big your flash drive _really_ is.

For the price of the drive I thought it was a good business lesson. It implies the existence of an entire supply chain - crooked engineers/programmers, distributers, retailers, and maybe even government, manufacturers, building managers, etc. All to satisfy the market's "need" for the product to appear to work for longer than someone's visit lasts. An interesting/scary demonstration of total free-market capitalism.
Hacker News Guidelines

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This article is "On Topic", IMO, as per the guidelines.
Why would you flag this? Its relevant to all of us with an interest in programming and development of systems. Dont you realise the significance of llvm?
Funny thing is this sort of application was my first idea for iOS as soon as v 2.0 was released. It seems a natural use case for a location aware device. I just knew I didn't have the resources to properly execute it.
We had the same adventure with a small dating product we launched in Feb: SecretPoke.com (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179649).

3 days after launch, we received a cease and desist letter from SecretementVotre (secretly yours, in french) asking us to basically close the service : http://www.businessinsider.com/secretpoke-secretementvotre-2...

We had more fun than fear, and actually blogged about it. Even playing off with the title: SecretementVotre wants to screw up SecretPoke.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, execution is everything. At any given time, 10+ people around the globe are thinking about the same revolutionizing ideas... The only difference between France and the US is that you cannot "protect" an idea in France... so nothing happened.
Only works on iOS/Android (i think).
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Personally, I favour manually adjusting the Earth's orbital and rotational characteristics to match atomic time.
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Interesting. I believe an additional survey asking people what they consider to be a free market would be quite enlightening. Welcome to 2010 and witness the world where your market economy fails every three to five years due to the greed of human beings.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this is deliberate. Its pretty well known that ikea never allow any clocks nor any natural light inside their stores, so customers lose all sense of time.

Building for poor mobile reception would just add to this sense of isolation.
On Mac OS X it actually works with Chrome but not with Firefox, Safari or Opera.
Toyota and Microsoft ink e-car deal in a cloud of telematics
GObject and glib in general aren't an improvement over anything, and both are largely shunned by the c-using community.
I was at the climbing gym yesterday and saw a notice that Petzl had found Chinese knockoffs of their gear being sold that failed at loads well below their stated safety limits.

Shonky hard drives are one thing, but dodgy climbing gear is another.
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Yes. I am using MonoMac and I also watch that mailing list. There are quite a few objective-c bridge solutions and I looked into most of them. MonoMac seemed to be the one that made most sense but mostly because some source code of MonoMac is shared with MonoTouch (or visa-versa). So, I think MonoMac is a stable/good choice for that reason. In the end, I was much happier with Carbon but that is another story.
Christ, thats terrible. I'll make sure to tell my climbing friends.
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Nice, but I was disappointed when I tried to use the browser's zoom feature--I guess I expected it to zoom in and focus somewhere.
It seems like thats what the catalog is for. The purpose of showrooms is usually to show things.
Not strictly true, it is quite possible to statically resolve many uses of function pointers.
Yes most likely, believe me I think there are fantastic Montessori schools out there. I just think that they are dogmatic about these questions for the sake of dogma.

If we just looked at all schools like that study did, even with a lottery, we'd probably come to the conclusion that the stodgiest, most regressive kinds of top private schools is the way to go.

*Edit: Read the link more thoroughly. This answer is completely subjective but I can't really believe many people would agree with that characterisation of imaginative play and creativity who weren't rationalising their belief in a particular dogma. It doesn't ring true to me at all.
The only thing about this whole situation is that what if a company is based in the US? Does it mean that the company is now ip-blocked from france if they don't conform?

Problem with non-international laws is like the US State dissallowing adult content to be served to minors, that becomes a world-wide law not only localized. Hence why the internet needs an international governing body to truly control because it is global, a concept never before seen in history.
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Does anyone have experience with using the C API from clang ? Does it improve from former versions (doc, stability)

I would really like to get a reliable C header parser for code generation, and gccxml is just damn awful to use.
It's a minor release announcement. Where's the intellectual curiosity ?

Here's a simple test: Are people commenting on the content of the story ? - I'd be curious to know how many of the people upvoting even read the release notes and how many just upvoted based on the title.
I mostly agree, except for function pointers. The C idiom of typedefing a function-pointer type results in code that looks more readable to me (e.g. prototypes of functions that take a function-pointer parameter have "typename varname" syntax) compared to the somewhat odd syntax you get if you scatter around function-pointer types inline.
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The interesting thing there is that these problems of wall-clock time have largely been solved at every level other than seconds.

Years vary in length - 365 or 366 days. It's 29th February. Add one year. Is it 28th February or 1st March? What if it's 28th February or 1st March now, but next year is a leap year?

Months vary in length - 28, 29, 30 or 31 days. It's 31st March. Add one month. What is the date? 30th April or 1st May? What if it's 30th March? Is your "add one month" function strictly increasing?

We KNOW that days vary in length - 23, 24 or 25 hours. It's 00:59 and the clocks go forward today. Add two minutes. What time is it? 01:01 or 02:01? It's 01:59 and the clocks go back today. Add two minutes. Is it 01:01 or 02:01?

Now we simply have a situation where a minute can also vary in length - 59, 60 or 61 seconds. It's 23:59:58. Add 2 seconds. Is it 00:00:02, 00:00:00 or 23:59:60?

These problems are not difficult. The same approaches can be applied to each one. The only difficulty is awareness. Leap seconds are rarer and less predictable than Daylight Saving, month boundaries or even leap years. But Daylight Saving isn't predictable either - the rules change all the time. Just solve it with tables.
As someone who used to hang out on LtU I'm well aware of the significance of LLVM, doesn't mean it's release announcement is on-topic on HN.

There are hundreds of packages which are of interest to programmers, if we posted minor releases of every single one of them to HN, we'd soon be drowning.

So we need to ask what's special about this release?

Are there features that are going to attract new users, are they doing something impressive, etc.

In this case the answer is no, it's just a standard release, so I don't think it's a good use of the first place postion on HN.
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I reckon the article title isn't really accurate, there isn't anything wrong or broken with asp.net deployment, it's just that there isn't a single, complete sanctioned product from Microsoft. I don't see this as a problem, I think using a bunch of techniques (NAnt, MSBuild, xcopy, PowerShell etc) is ok, gives you lots of flexibility. Not that MS creating such an integrated tool would be a bad thing.
Thanks to whoever sent the XSS vulnerability. It has now been fixed.
I didn't get the reference either. It fits my ego better to think of it as the Desert Eagle[1] language, I think. Or at least my subconscious seems to think so, I just misread the title of this story as such.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMI_Desert_Eagle
that may be the case, but it's nothing to do with what this page is measuring.
She was digging for copper wires, and not even in her property. The photo you see with a small scissors is just a stock photo.
"Not to mention that they can't print the code -- since it is 150+ chars wide(!) -- and browse it at a cafe."

You can't print code longer than 150 characters wide?

Since when?
I would have agreed with Rob, but I have to admit you make a good point.

Rob is nonetheless correct that deployment in ASP.NET is poor. I think you explained one of the reasons why: static languages. It seems like you've convinced yourself that something is convenient because you feel that there's really no other solutions. I think you right and wrong...You are right because it isn't going to change, so deal with it...You are wrong because there are alternatives which have changed.
The guardian articles seems to explain it better:

Pulling up unused copper cables for scrap is a common means of making money in the former Soviet Union. Some entrepreneurs have even used tractors to wrench out hundreds of metres of cable from the former nuclear testing ground at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.
It's good publicity, too.
Working on Linux with latest Chromium, but not with Firefox 4. Expected, as it's using a Webkit specific CSS property on the body:

.z91arm {
-webkit-transform: rotate(1deg);
}
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While I know these fake drives exist - wouldn't running the last 5 minutes of a video file utterly fail as it wouldn't have any of the header/codec/video envelope data since that's at the beginning? Have a feeling the story is more anecdotal than anything...
I probably overreacted, sorry about that.

For what it's worth, you are absolutely right that my hypothetical claim is stronger than most reasonable claims I'd make in reality. I wasn't aiming for completeness, merely trying to illustrate the fact that there are ways one can find such information reasonably actionable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-c...

"An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia"

Emphasis mine.
I'm curious - why do you need the C API? Do you plan to call it from some dynamic language?

That said, the C API of clang should be very usable, and they even have working Python bindings for it AFAIK
Sounds bloody hard!

It might be an idea to think about the actual mechanics of the game once you've come up with a possible solution so that the game itself doesn't invite cheating behaviour or at least makes it easier to detect. i.e. Making it physically impossible to shoot faster than a specified rate or move too quickly/accurately, etc.

Good luck!
It spans beyond just a release announcement. It introduces llvm to people who are unaware of its existence. It brings llvm into the mainstream so that more people may start using it. It gives us an opportunity to discuss the project in both positive and negative lights, whether that be relevant to the release or the project as a whole.

I agree that we cannot post the release announcement for every project in existence and I believe everyone here on HN understands that, but when an interesting and significant project has an update and may not have been on the front page for some time, it seems appropriate to submit it.
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This kind of thing seems too much like hostile subversion of my brain, I don't approve of it.
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