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On windows you can catch segfaults with __try and __catch.

Trust me when I say you don't want to be writing code in a stack frame above someone else who catches and ignores exceptions using them.

There are actually some cases where windows will catch and discard segfaults if you have them in response to certain window messages. That bug was hard to track down, let me tell you.
Urban Outfitters Buys Yard Sale Clothes And Resells To Hipsters As 'Vintage'
I didn't mean to say that the Windows Event Log is better than syslog or Rsyslog, but it has a particular structure that is really dissimilar, as well as access patterns (WMI, WinRM) that lack an analog.
GitHub Releases New Gist
It is until it buys "Fifty shades of grey" and a XXL baby doll.
Lorem Pixel
STOPZilla - What is your opinion on this software? Rogue? Criminal?
So we shouldn't care about privacy here? That's pretty serious if it was how I thought.
Angel Investor-backed Company Launches a Gamified SEO Plugin
Linked in the PR: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-21-101-...
Mobile app’s first steps – so far so good
Standardized testing is orthogonal to focusing on the lowest performing students.

You could use standardized tests and focus on top students just as easily - we just focus on the underperformers because that's what our political culture demands.
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> As usual, the numbers in the pop media news article are nonsense.

Currently 2 headlines on HN from extremetech, neither one of them worth a damn.

Anyone have an extension to block their crap?
I hope you are kidding.
JIT's often have a large number of crashing bugs, usually even more than static compilers (because it is often hard to reproduce every set of circumstances that cause something to happen, unlike static compilers)
> Macros? There are numerous arguments on both sides about whether those are good or bad.

Every argument I've ever heard about macros falls into one of two categories:

1. Concerns about overuse, which says nothing about correctly used macros - any tool can be overused or used incorrectly.

2. Complaints about macro systems from heteroiconic languages like C++ - these two concepts are similar in name only. Lisp macros have nothing to do with macros in any other language, and they provide freedom that is literally unavailable in any other[1], as explained well in this description: http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.h...

[1] Yes, yes, Turing-completeness, so nothing is stopping you from writing your own parser from scratch. But the whole point is that Lisp doesn't require you to go through all of that - and secondarily, even if you did, parsing sexprs is so easy, you've finished before you've even started.
Not listed: ability to route through very restrictive network setups ("galvanically isolated" networks.) MQs, being latency insensitive, can even go over protocols like e-mail.
Worse is better.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Removals Camberwell SE5
Agreed. I would have expected to see things like ICA, PCA, SVD, pseudorandom number generators for various discrete and continuous distributions, misc. multiplicative and arithmetic functions, misc. metrics (of the minkowski kind) and so on to label the library as advanced.
I don't what's worse about your comment - that you seem to think that there is nothing wrong with having pirated music, that you admit to having done so in a public forum, or that you are so blasé about it that you did so with your (presumably) real name.

I wonder where people like you draw the line at such behavior. Why is music any different than TV Shows? Or Movies? Or eBooks? Would you feel comfortable "pirating" all those as well? Hell, why not go all the way and pirate software as well - presumably that has no protection from your urges to accumulate.

I often wonder, under what moral authority, other than "It was really easy and I wasn't caught and/or punished for doing it" people feel comfortable "pirating" other people's intellectual property.
The windows ones apparently work with this version of Samba.
It has turned into a very useful discussion. I am planning porting a few things over from iOS next year.

There are a few things I still need to figure out before going over there tho.

Where to get a free/cheap device? I keep hearing people saying they got free testing devices

What lang I need to write in for it to work on win7phone, win8phone and win8rt/win8
Why is it possible to gain admin access to an operating system by sending requests that crash the web server? Bugs happen.
Here's the blog post about the redesign: https://github.com/blog/1276-welcome-to-a-new-gist
Enlightenment17 Gamma Released
Off topic: I'm wondering when HN users will figure out how to get permalink of a Tumblr post. Everybody is linking to blog home except companies hosting their blogs on Tumblr.
$3 vs $1 is a 300% price increase. No matter how small the actual amount is, that's how it shows. We're paying a 300% markup. I mentioned that this is likely due to risk, then went on to say that this risk mitigation sometimes ends up causing more damage than it helps. Raising the price doesn't always make more money, sometimes it just decreases sales.

I didn't set the standard price for apps. The market did. Is software worth more than 99c? Sure. But that's the standard price for a standard app. $3 is seen as a major hurdle. Some big-name publishers are putting out Pac Man and Galaga etc at $7 on Windows Phone. The reviews section is full of "this is way too expensive, I'm just playing the demo over again". I have paid $15 for an app, but not many people will. If you want to sell, you need to price it at an appetizing rate. $3 is fine if you can justify it to the market and it's a fair price. Telling users "your platform is more expensive to develop for" will get the developer nowhere.

It's basic economics. Valve even did an analysis that is posted occasionally here on HN showing that their profits went up when they reduced prices. I've heard some developers say that their ad revenue on free apps is more than their sales revenue on paid apps, regardless of the platform. Whatever the reason, if you think that dollar or two difference is insignificant, read the reviews of some WP apps with a price differential between marketplaces.
Should We File a Patent? The Pros and Cons for a Small Software Startup
Be creative....Create interesting content...that's not hacking, that's common sense
Yeah, numeric.js is awesome and very fast compared to other libraries. Would be interesting to see a comparison in terms of performance between these two.
We use Clojure at twitter and I believe that google supports CL as part of the after-effects of buying ITA. At the time I wrote this, clojure didn't exist and ITA was not particularly well-known.
I'm the guy who built the original XKCD-inspired bot -- the original blog post is still around at http://bieh.net/wordpress/2010/11/08/xkcd-576/, though the images have since broken.

Possibly the web service you mean is http://www.eachdayisagift.com/ ?
Yes. Except the one you had on line 42.

Seriously, how do you expect someone to give you a useful reply?
Can I Kick it? Predicting Success with Kickstarter
Proposed 'Main' Element Would Help Your HTML Get to the Point
But how does "64bit is needed in specific applications that are not the majority" translate to "64bit is not needed"?
Those transaction costs are going down to the point where they will be a non-issue. Technology is making it happen. 1%/flat fee brokers were common during the last cycle as well as all sorts of tools to buy/sell your property. Check out something called homecoin.com. Additionally, did you know you can become a licensed broker for less than $1000?

BTW, I am both a landlord and a homeowner, have been since 2003.

I also have known 5 gentlemen/families over the years who have made 8 and 9 figure fortunes solely from real estate. No, it didn't happen over night, it took several boom/bust cycles and leveraging up. I'm just echoing largely what I've been told.

I'll take practical experience over studies any day.
Yeah I totally agree. In two years, Ubuntu has gone from one of my favorite distros to one of my least favorite. I'm on 11.04 and I'll probably stay here until it's EOL'ed then move to Mint.
Wow...we all write software with bugs in it. I'm not sure it's worth throwing out the potential of the system just because you found a bug in it.

Recreate instructions? It appears at least one of their employees is monitoring this thread...I'm sure they'll appreciate your help.
The point is to avoid casual easy association via a name/address lookup, not defend against in-depth analysis from entities that know everyone in real life and in the database.

Plus, you could be an unmentioned adopted-out person, which would look identical, so they couldn't prove it was you without further examination.
RIM is allowing basically VOIP calls over BBM for free.
Rob Walling has a bundle of these little app, all making pretty good money.

[1] http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

[2] http://www.softwarebyrob.com/
Very well designed indeed. Since so many people are raving about the design, is it really that important to launch an app with very good design or is that something you can iterate on? I am always interested to see the comparison on app performance (in terms of downloads, on-boarding and retaining users) when launched with super slick design and mediocre design which becomes better with each iteration. If anyone have anything to share please help me out! From my experience I see people tend to talk more about apps that are rich in design and tend to use them often too. And obviously design is one huge element that slows down shipping. I also hear people talk about getting the MVP right (with design and all) but hardly see any app that only does MVP. The apps that I and my friends use are quite complete and still tend to add more features with every update. I find this whole idea confusing where people talk about something (MVP, sticking to one thing, etc.) but I see something else (Very polished design, does a couple of things integrated together, other bells and whistles) winning in the market.
You mean taking care of driver issues, taking slightly better care of newbies, making it easier to install useful nonfree stuff and releasing reasonably fresh packages in a Debian-based distro?
Meeting Annoyance: Chronic Interrupter
Yes, that's it! Thanks. Here's the related show HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3825524

re: blog post, the wired article (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/09/xkcd-packages...) links to http://bieh.net/2010/11/08/xkcd-576/ which is broken (missing the wordpress I think)
I hope you don't really think that $10 is "bit high, but fair". Spotify is horrible for artists and pays them next to nothing. Assuming you fully own the rights to your music it takes 232,000 plays per month just to make minimum wage for a single artist [1]. Now consider that Spotify, and similar streaming services, are losing money hand over fist and it's obvious this model can not last [2].

Personally I put Spotify at the same tier as piracy. I mean that not in terms of morals or ethics but in regards to the viability of the industry. If you want to copy all music ever recorded that's fine, go for it. We're almost all guilty to some extent. If however you'd like to see new music created in the future then you owe it to yourself to compensate the artists you enjoy.

The most dangerous thing about Spotify is that people genuinely believe listening to a few ads an hour or paying a mere $10/month is enough to support the industry they love.

[1] http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120730infamou...
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-revenue-2012-10
I thought I was a tin-foil-hat-wearing nutcase for switching back to Debian but this kinda seals the deal for me...
Spotify is great, but my main concern with it is it is not profitable yet - far from it actually. So they could either go away at some point, or do draconian things that will make the experience too unpleasant to continue. So I'm not quite willing to rely on it yet.
These must have been awesome answers in the late 80's.
Check out Songbird at http://getsongbird.com/

I prefer foobar2000 on Windows for a pure, unadulterated, customizable music player, but Songbird is the best player I've found on OS X. It is fast, plays music, and has a plugin for last.fm, which is everything I require.
It's not hardcoded. It's a feature that's opt-in. Firefox has a similar feature and most people find it quite useful. This is a bug in software that caused the browser to crash. It just so happens that the outage caused a certain scenario to arise that caused this particular bug to surface. It's in no way a design flaw. It's just poor implementation.
sigh

This just reminds me how I'm still trying to convince some devs (and customers) of the importance of having Retina graphics at all, let alone starting with @2x and then supporting @1x later.
Unnecessary (and intrusive) features being piled onto an already bloated OS is the reason I, a former Ubuntu fanboy, installed Arch Linux a few months ago: Now I know exactly what's installed on my system and exactly how my system runs and works.
There have been recent articles about police finding offenders by using Pintrest. Perhaps you can do something similar. I would suggest organizing an online campaign to disseminate your friends brothers image. Local distribution of his image will help as well, especially in stores. Ask if you can hang a sign in your friends brothers grocery store, CVS, etc etc.
I think, Ubuntu wants to win the huge Windows user masses, so they have to become a better Windows. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
Yeah, I phased out the blog a year or so back, hence why it's not on http://bieh.net any more. I wish I'd worked a bit harder not to break the links now :)
FITSAT-1 LEDs to Flash Morse Code over USA and Europe
Tesla Model S 60kWh Gets Official EPA Ratings
In this (amusing) context, I presume?

http://horseecomics.tumblr.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_and_ultimate_causatio...
It's a pretty cool new feature.

Something similar could be done in a browser with http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/color-thief/.
I think that's what it does: http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/35454415921/randomized-...

It also bought him a Chomsky book on Linguistics and a electronic music CD. And if the bot did that on it's own that'd be a little too spooky.
In my collection, The album art matcher is quite bad. Stuff that's tagged correctly and well known (e.g. Led Zeppelin) comes up with the wrong (but related) image. Where it really falls down are compilations, I think it's running about a 20% hit rate on those.
It's a NoScript/Ghostery/RequestPolicy world.

Sorry, but no, it isn't. Whether it's building their own PCs or running a custom Linux kernel or installing privacy utilities or using three factor authentication with a telepathic failsafe for their security system, geeks tend to vastly overrate their collective importance. In reality, they tend to represent tiny fractions of any market that isn't specifically built around geeks by its nature. Most people aren't like geeks.

Now, suppose your new interactive web app doesn't offer a good user experience without things like JavaScript. Maybe you could make it work up to a point, but realistically it's never going to be a polished presentation or do everything the full app could. Now put yourself in management's position, considering the cost/benefit of implementing a second-rate fallback vs. allocating the same time and resources to improving the core experience for almost everyone. Can you imagine how little they care about geeks who deliberately nerf their own browsers in a way that means they couldn't use that service anyway and therefore aren't likely to pay the service provider money either?

(Edit: Incidentally, people in glass houses etc. Your own web site's home page, under the amusingly ironic headline "passenger: Rails deployment that just works", appears to be doing anything but working. HTH.)
Any Lisp, but it turns out to reveal a bunch of Lisp warts. The most obvious one being that no Lisp out there ships with a built-in macro to do this. The subtle truth, though, is that most people who use Lisp start out wanting this and then either give up before they become proficient enough to implement it, or else get acclimated to prefix math and once they are proficient, they don't care anymore.

If you were to set out to do this, the first thing you'd have to accept is that the macro is going to look a little weird. For instance:

(infixmath 2 + 3 * 4 * (2 + 1))

You're going to want to put spaces between all the terms, every time, because you'd rather have separate atoms for numbers and functions. The next problem you're going to run into is that Lisp doesn't ship with any context-free grammar support akin to Parsec or Yacc. This is the corollary to the point above, that once Lispers become proficient enough to do this they don't want to anymore. Once you're fully enamored with prefix notation, you never find yourself wishing for the kinds of grammar that necessitate this kind of work. (This has a lot to do with why most Lispers hate loop and format too). In other words, you'll be writing your own recursive descent parser from scratch.

Once you've written your recursive descent parser to handle infix math, you'll face the next challenge: what to do with the parse tree. The simplest thing to do is just evaluate it. If you were really clever you might be building a Lisp prefix expression as you went and you can just let Lisp evaluate that directly with eval. A part of you will wonder if you should instead generate a compiled function, but then you have to capture the variables properly and it will be a lot more work, but it could become more efficient, since the Lisp compiler would have access to that information and could do better things with it...

Anyway, my point is that this is sort of a will-o-the-wisp or mermaid example, because it's intended to capture the imaginations of non-Lispers, but actual Lispers have never actually gotten serious enough about it to make a robust implementation and ship it with the system, because the mindset that values infix math is incompatible with the mindset that produces good Lisp programmers.
Ok. I'll start on some of it tonight.
CLOAD..... And you had to try it at least 3 times.
Yeah. My point is that balance isn't an issue on a bike. The rider might not be able to hold on, but a bike is perfectly capable of keeping itself upright. Sometimes even to the detriment of the rider.

Low speed accidents where a rider drops a bike isn't enough of a concern to design something like this, so I'm ignoring those for the above statement.
It's not the cost of a few domain controllers...it's the $50-60/user cost of client access license (CALS). I have 2500 users...that's quite a pricey (approx. $62K) system for directory services.

I personally am going to give Samba 4 a look.
Matt Mullenweg Blocked Me On Twitter But Still Did What I Wanted
I won't disagree (coming from Canada) that the american "For Profit Medical Insurance" system is pretty cold ("You're poor? You get the cheapest possible health care that keeps you out of the emergency room, which you are more likely to land in because you haven't been getting very good medical care.") - but it is insurance. Some people go fifty years without needing it. Some people make claims multiple times a year for hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical care...
Nice one. #11.
> and can't really imagine MBE being used to produce millions of chips

Cell phones are example application for millions of chips. There's really nothing that magic about it.

What is difficult is the large-scale integration of transistors, which is why you don't see CPUs (for example). There's a number of reasons, mostly relating to the nature of III-V materials. One example is the lack of a decent oxide: SiO2 is god's gift to electronics.

However, Si is not a direct bandgap, so it is next to useless for devices involving light. It's why the bazillions of lasers on the planet are III-V.
My experience with WP development. I have a Twitter client (I know, it's not an original app, it started just as a playground) since February, and I can tell some things:

- A lot of people answering questions (even if WP itself doesn't have a big developer community, lots of questions are common to Silverlight, C# and .NET platform ones so you have plenty of resources). The documentation is really good, at least comparing with what I've seen on Android and iOS (Android was far worse when I looked into it).

- VS2012 is also pretty good. Of course, you don't get as deep as you would with a plain C compiler, but that's another point. I've heard that it really becomes great when you use all MS tools like TFS for version control and collaboration. With git... well, there are plugins but I think it's better to use the console. Same with unit tests. There is a library for unit testing on Windows Phone and it's good enough, but I expected something more from MS.

- The store is a 5/10. It's good enough, but it can improve a lot. Luckily, they're very open to new ideas and are improving each month.

- Making money: My app is free, made 3000 downloads last month. Not a bad number taking into account that it's difficult to compete with well established apps like Mehdoh, Rowi, Gleek and Peregrine and I don't get so much exposure. But I'm pretty sure that this number could be far higher: on average, I got ~50 downloads per day, but the app was highlighted three days in the spanish Store, about 1200 downloads more.

So, with a bigger user base and more exposure in the store (localization helps a lot, for me it almost tripled downloads of the app) you can make money. Of couse, if nobody downloads your app, you won't make any... But there's less competing apps here, so it's easier to get to the top of the market. You won't get as many benefits as if you were on Android / iOS, but probably there you wouldn't be on the top.