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If you're interested in similar implementations, Microsoft has a non-standard try-except statement in their C library:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s58ftw19(v=vs.80).as...
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That's a good way to put it. Would love to read the post talking about it, if you ever find it again.
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Hi, CraftStudio developer here.

Just woke up to a surge of visits & contributions and realized CraftStudio made it to the HN front page. Thanks for the love and criticism, I value it a lot coming from the Hacker News crowd.

A bit of technical background for those who might be interested: CraftStudio is built in C# using the XNA framework.

I will port it to MacOS X and Linux using Mono + MonoGame (https://github.com/mono/MonoGame), when MonoGame reaches enough 3D support. I already managed to get the UI to run under Linux so I'm pretty confident this will pan out well.

The network code uses the most amazing Lidgren.Network library (http://lidgren-network-gen3.googlecode.com/). Honestly I don't know that CraftStudio could have happened without it. It's entirely UDP-based and does such a great job of handling all the low-level bits while providing a great API.

The user interface uses a custom built library (which I open sourced under the MIT license over there, documentation is severely lacking for now though: http://nuclearwinter.codeplex.com/).

You can also find the Operational Transform library I built for real-time collaborative document editing (MIT too, https://bitbucket.org/elisee/nuclearot). It's only used for the text-editing support.

If you have any questions, please go ahead and ask :).

You can follow me on Twitter there: https://twitter.com/craftstudiodev if you want to be kept in the loop. I also do livecoding on CraftStudio every once in a while: http://www.twitch.tv/eliseegw
Write-in for Prolog. Pure Prolog is a neat language for a bunch of applications, or would be, if wasn't unusably slow. Real Prolog is a horrible mess that's hell to debug.

The biggest advantage of declarative programming is that the compiler's got more information to work with, and then Prolog throws this away with weak typing and weak moding (every predicate is nondeterministic by default).
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Agreed that both doing and telling are important. When done well, both can become an art-form. One thing I find myself struggling with all the time is switching between these two modes of thought. I find that the switching cost to go from 'doing' to 'telling' is even higher than flipping from 'doing A' to 'doing B'.
After this happened to me, I managed to get Sprint to lock my account from having any SMS subscriptions added, since I'm not in the habit of signing up for them on purpose. It took some persistence and a transfer to a manager, but they eventually agreed. Might be worth trying.

I do think the mobile phone companies are at the very least turning a blind eye to it; some very basic vetting, like making sure the company has an actual address at which they can receive postal mail that doesn't bounce, or terminating services that generate too large a percentage of fraud complaints, could catch a large portion of the worst offenders.
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I wish the wikipedia leads were more concise. A two sentence description of the concept in the most basic understandable language possible.

Then the next paragraph can be a more accurate lead.

The the content list; then the contents.

Your zoomable book idea is a good one. I'd prefer authority with good cites over crowd-sourced with semi-random citing.
Does anyone still remember back in the days they were marketing Zend Framework as "Extreme Simplicity"? ;) http://fredwu.me/post/19888742513/zend-framework-from-extrem...
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but instance store is transient! You may argue if you do triple replicated in different availability zones then you are ok. Well, in this case it would be very costly as you will end up with constantly spinning EC2 cluster. Even if you don't do any computation you must keep it all spinning. And see what happened to elasticity... you end up paying inflated cloud prices for constantly spinning fixed size EC2 cluster! Instead of being able to rapidly roll out large cluster, make the computation and fold it back and pay only for what you have used - isn't it the true promise of cloud?
But you should read it cover to cover. You should buy a notebook; and some basic electronics equipment (and there's probably free simulation that's good enough online now) and work through it.

Draw the diagrams (freehand!), do the math (on paper, not with a calculator!), do the examples.

It's dense because it's complete (for the time, there's a lot of stuff that's missing for modern world) and it's terse because you're supposed to be doing the work at the same time.

And, if you really want to get in depth understanding you buy the AoE Lab-book and build stuff while you're reading the main text.
Looking at things like the Doctype class is not the best way to evaluate a framework. How often do you set a doctype? Once. And seeing how many site have a broken doctype because the developers tried to be smart... probably not the worst idea.

Look at how it translated to real project usage.
> This third one makes using longjmp for exceptions almost untenable in real life code.

No, it's pretty simple. Postgres does it with something called regions: your code essentially becomes transaction-based, where resources that need cleanup are put into a region associated with a try block, and all remaining resources at the end of the block's (successful or failed) execution are freed. It requires slightly more work than in C++, obviously, because you're not using C++.
It doesn't have to be perfect, just better than the alternative (choosing randomly or based on Amazon review scores).
That's a really, really good point. Once I switch myself to "telling" mode, I find myself maniacally refreshing HN, replying to every tweet, obsessing over traffic stats and referrers, and doing countless other unproductive things.

I usually need a day or two before I feel comfortable ignoring the rest of the world while I switch back to "doing" mode.
I actually do take that position.
Go is my current favorite language.
So ? You can still do that. No one forces you to use a framework.

You can do the simplest page or a complex MVC application, with the same language on the same server stack.
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The analogy breaks down when the people themselves are responsible for making their own irresponsible promises.

That said, cheating is terrible. It will create even more unrealistic expectations and the more unrealistic things become, the more honest people will be weeded out.
It spreads so far and wide it disappears very quickly too.
How does the ability to get the UDID combine with the (recently leaked) silent ability to access and upload the whole contact directory on iOS?
There's a nice plugin for connecting Django with Facebook - the description includes a link to a site where this is running live.

https://github.com/tschellenbach/Django-facebook
I'm working on a design using a special-purpose, custom-built text editor which will provide visual cues and mouse-based interaction in addition to your regular keyboard support. So beginners could write conditions and call API functions without much or any typing.

It's very important for me to not hinder the productivity of people who already have scripting / game dev experience and as such I want the scripts to be fully editable with a keyboard. There will probably be a way to edit your scripts externally at some point too.

The details are still a bit blurry as I'm quite busy implementing all the other core features but it's coming together. I'm looking at a lot of what has been done, too.

CraftStudio has scenes, which are pretty similar to Unity 3D scenes. You have game objects in a hierarchy and you can add components to them to render stuff or add physics or script behaviors.

I plan on using Lua as the underlying scripting language, but I might change my mind by the time I get around to implementing it. I expect (just a wild guess) to have scripting support ready sometimes over the next 2-3 months.

There will be a library of "black box" scripts with a bunch of variables and nobs you can turn. People will be able to make more and share them with the community. You'll also be able to reveal the underlying code if you want to tweak it to your specific needs.

On that front, I think CraftStudio has the potential to get people into programming by starting with simple tools and then learning with the help of others thanks to the real-time collaborative editing capabilities. Being able to chat and interact about code will be pretty awesome I think.
I was curious how troff/eqn and TeX syntaxes compared, and didn't find any nice side-by-side examples, so here's a quick translation of one from the troff manual (http://www.troff.org/prog.html#eqn):

.EQ
G(z) ~=~ e sup { ln ~ G(z) }
~=~ exp left ( sum from k>=1 { S sub k z sup k } over k right )
~=~ prod from k>=1 e sup { S sub k z sup k /k }
.EN

In TeX mathematical notation:

$$G(z) = e^{\ln G(z)}
= \exp \left( \sum_{k \geq 1} \frac{S_k z^k}{k} \right)
= \prod_{k \geq 1} e^{S_k z^k / k}$$

The TeX is a bit more terse, especially in using ^ and _ for super/subscript instead of sup/sub. That can make a big readability difference in things like simple polynomials; a^2 + b^2 = c^2 is just that in TeX, but a lot more wordy in eqn. The troff/eqn looks a bit less like line noise, though, especially in things like "from" in the summation, and >= for \geq.

Though really I'd guess that TeX's math notation caught on as the de-facto standard for "ASCII math" because TeX as a whole caught on, rather than because of its ASCII-math representation being better.
Ask HN: 45 Dutch students are visiting Berlin. We'd love to visit some startups.
Hi HN,

45 students (EE|CS|AM) of the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands) will be visiting Berlin from the 17th to the 20th of May. The University of Twente encourages students to develop an entrepreneurial spirit. Therefore, it won't be a surprise that we would love to visit some start-ups in Berlin.

So, to all the start-ups in Berlin: may we come and visit you in Berlin?

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PS. if you have any questions regarding our trip, please do ask :)
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I can also recommend Zotac's HTPCs for XBMC. While more expensive than the Apple TV ($250~), you get a great little linux-friendly box that does full HD without any issues. If you don't feel like messing with it, you can just drop Openelec on it and you're pretty much done.

They also come with SD card slots so you can buy them without a hard drive and boot from a class 10 SD card as a poor man's SSD (provided you have a NAS). Alternately, it makes a great NAS ;)
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You make a very good point.

And I think it is no coincidence that the creator of Unix is one of the designers of Go, a language that shares Unix's conceptual and implementation simplicity, makes very conscious tradeoffs and where channels work somewhat akin to pipes.

Of course interfacing with the rest of the world has become much harder thanks to XML, SOAP, XMPP and every other such monster, but as somebody else pointed out, the modern equivalent seems to be REST+JSON, I would have preferred something like 9P, but oh well, one has to pick their battles.
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Apart from the obvious Jane Street example, quite a few. F# is used pretty widely at this point in the Chicago area. Many of the larger banks either have their own private dialect of ML or a strict, ML-like subset of Haskell (Standard Chartered).

But for most it's not their primary language; those roles are usually still filled by C on the server and some GUI-friendly language for the trader apps. It's mainly used less latency-sensitive work that is more financial modeling in nature.

Sorry for being vague with names; other than Jane Street and Standard Chartered, most of them will only talk about it confidentiality. Many take secrecy to the point of lunacy.
There is other issue with running hadoop on EC2 (w/o S3). Instance storage is relatively small - about 3.6 TB on largest instance and 1.5 TB on other "large" instances. In typical Hadoop machine I would expect about 8TB. So local storage is prohibitively expensive for the big data tasks.
In the same time - if we use local storage we a loosing elasticity - we have to run cluster all the time, even there is no jobs to run. It kills main point of using hadoop in the cloud - to pay for the computational resources on demand.
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> [Steve] Jobs later said, "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."

This point is brought up quite a bit. If you replace college with sitting in front of a TV or playing video games, then yes, college becomes a far more stimulating environment.

If, on the other hand, you devoted 4 years to traveling to every country on this planet, you can spend 1 week in every single country. How rewarding would that experience be? How much would you learn? How would it change you? And all that traveling will still cost you less than tuition at a public university.

> And it's also a great place to get laid.

I can't argue this point. However, I will note that you do not have to be a matriculated student to enjoy the benefits of the student body, if that's your cup of tea.
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Yeah I've watched a few videos about WarioWare. They really nailed the "it's a game" thing, but the restrictions are really heavy. Having worked on a couple Nintendo DS titles myself (nothing worth mentioning), I'm pretty sure the hardware limitations had a great part in this. Those consoles were / are amazingly limited.
> The only downside is that it’s conceptually more complicated, and requires some understanding of underlying components (zip files, http responses, streams).

There's at least one more downside: the user loses all indication of progress as the Content-Length is unknown when the headers are sent
Ask HN: Open Sourcing my old PSP projects
Hello!

Once upon a time, I developed some applications for my PSP using the PSPSDK (https://github.com/pspdev/pspsdk). Since I have no reason for not doing so, I'd like to open source these apps. Should I be concerned about anything? My main question is: since the PSP must be 'jailbroken' to accept these applications and the official SDK is not public, will I have any potential legal troubles?

Thanks in advance.
Constructive criticism is welcome!
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Ask HN: A good intro to set theory?
Wondering if anyone could provide some links or good recommendations on set theory literature for a beginner. I'm looking for something to give me a really good foundation on the subject, preferably with some interactive examples/problems. Much appreciated!
ZF2 might be bloated but it is supported by Zend and have a lot of great and stable components. Stop trying to make a framework by yourself and start contributing to make things change ! (moreover, you don't even need to sign a CLA to contribute to ZF2).

(note : i'm not related to Zend. We were using ZF1 since the beginning and we are now experimenting with ZF2. And we will not hesitate to contribute :)
I am working on a similar boggle clone for facebook (there is none for my main language).

What did you use for the server side? First I started with a Java server with sockets but I noticed that it does not work behind the firewalls and now I am using PHP as a messenger between the java server and flash client. Since flash is now only doing HTTP requests it should be fine with firewalls.

Also did you pregenerate the boards? I generated some but they are not very good.
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Because it powers tens of thousands of huge systems in use?

How about that?

Have you tried programming BEFORE Java, when the same kind of systems were done in C++ with CORBA or similar monstrosities?
"the matching words shouldn't be passed to the client, keep as much data server side"
Communication cost between clients and server would be too high I guess. Also you would notice the delay between entering a word and getting the reply from the server.
Tests are the only thing defining the objectives. They may not reflect the intended goals, but passing the test is the only objective, and that is why standardized tests can undermine education.
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You can do a solid best-guess estimate, especially if those images are already in compressed formats.
...or you could use Erlang. :)
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Really bad journalism and reporting. No fact-checking, no reliable sources, just pure speculations based on random “tweets” (from the Chinese clone of Twitter named Sina Weibo).

TL;DR:

1. A high-profile politician was relieved of duty.

2. A famous businessman tweeted a cryptic message about the censorship about this event on Sina Weibo.

3. Someone tweeted that there was police and military vehicles in front of the central government and thought it might be a coup.

4. Someone else tweeted that s/he heard gunshot.

5. Someone claimed it was actually fireworks (which was actually banned in inner parts of Beijing except for a few days during the Spring Festival).

6. The term “coup“ was then put into the censorship list of Sina Weibo and thus became unsearchable.

7. A spokesman of the Foreign Ministry denied rumors of the coup.

Seriously, what's the point of this kind of stuff?
Are there any other sources on this?

This Techcrunch article sounds a lot like hearsay to me, especially the part about the review teams.
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I'm pretty sure any evented framework in any language can do the same thing.
Surely a simpler explanation for that is that business people don't usually work with crisp, binary data. Instead they're (implicitly) doing some kind of statistical inference on noisy data.

Propositional logic might be an acceptable approximation to this kind of inference in certain narrow situations, but the approximation breaks down quicker when the chain of inference gets longer.
With regards to the "Rucker, Infinity and the Mind" except that says:

>The proof of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem is so simple, and so sneaky, that it is almost embarassing to relate. His basic procedure is as follows: (...)

Actually, Godel's theorem is not that simple at all. It involves lots of hard math. And it's not about some hazy "Universal Truth Machine", it's about a specified axiomatic mathematical system with certain specific properties.

The "simple" thing that RI&TM describes is a variation of the Liar's paradox. Which is somewhat like what Godel used, but he did not use it in a simplistic way, not at that level of coarseness, and surely not "embarrassingly simple to relate".
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OK, so they analyzed 69,000 schools by comparing test scores to a model they created predicting what the scores should be, and 200 out of the 69,000, or 0.3%, didn't match the model. (Note: main article says 200 districts, but the associated article showing the data says 200 schools http://www.ajc.com/news/cheating-our-children-1393866.html)

It's amazing that 99.7% of schools matched their model. Must be a very good model.

It's ridiculous that they are using this to say there is evidence of cheating though since, even though their model is 99.7% accurate, it is not 100% accurate, and that's to be expected.

The methodololgy also relies on questionable assumptions. They look at 3 year slices to find cases where test scores jumped up one year and then back down the next. They consider these evidence of systematic, district wide cheating. That is unproven. If it was cheating, why would the scores go back down. Is there a correlation then between years of upswing and schools being on the list of underperforming schools about to be forcibly shut down by the feds? That might be evidence of cheating if so. But if that was so it would surely be claimed in the study. Also, district wide cheating means a mass conspiracy in which hundreds of teachers managed to, under direction of a coordinated central authority, successfully cheat for one year but not the next, and to keep the secret, and did so at hundreds of schools. That's quite a conspiracy.

I am sure cheating takes place from time to time, but it is far more likely to happen at the individual teacher level than as something happening district wide and thus coming from a central source because the larger a conspiracy gets, the less likely it is that everyone can keep the secret. Checking for schools that have a single year with higher scores and finding a small number that do is poor evidence of a cheating conspiracy.
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>For example, ask the user for a boolean, and do a while loop based on this value. You can't say whether this will halt or not, but it does contain unspecified variables.

I don't think that's an issue. The Halting Problem ask the question whether a program will halt when supplied with a given input. Nothing is stopping us from providing a separate proof for every single program for every possible that it'll stop.