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Unearth Ruby
So we are two guys who love to work more with Ruby but aren't quite there yet. We both happen to frequent the New York Ruby Meetup (which is amazing) but we felt, as beginners, we need to be hacking more. Then we went to Ruby DCamp, an amazing code retreat + unconference organized by Evan Light (we can't thank him and all the participants enough for the experience) and have come back with the mission to learn & help others learn Ruby by pair programming.

This group is for people who have some knowledge of programming principles that want to learn Ruby (there is a Ruby Nuby group in NYC that is more for people who have zero programming experience) and we are going to be working with Ruby Koans, problems from Project Euler and Ruby Quiz to develop our ruby-fu. So if you are interested in learning Ruby and want to work on problems, come join our meetup group (http://www.meetup.com/unearthruby/).

We also encourage more experienced rubyists to come join us and pair with the beginners. A higher level discussion here and there to reflect on what's happening is always fun (as we experienced at Ruby DCamp).

We are working hard to iron out details on when & where we will have our first meetup but do join the group if you are interested in learning or teaching Ruby and follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/UnearthRuby).
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There's a certain vacuity to the core point here... "Why did Google do this thing? Why, to improve their bottom line." Well, yeah. Let me tell you, the company I work for also has quite a few initiatives that involve improving the bottom line. Wow.
Woman Kills 1000# Alligator w/ hunting knife (photo)
there is likely no you from the current you whose biological processes would predetermine those actions

...

every you you can be without you evaluating you-prime negatively, you should become.

Not really grasping how choice plays into your view of reality. Am I predetermined through biological processes, or do I have a choice to become the things I should become?
I hear Madoff has a 12% growth account for you.
Climbing up that mountain isn't always fun but the sense of achievement when you get to the top is always good.
I started with a SEP-IRA years ago since the limits are much higher (~20% or 25%) than with a regular IRA ($5k). When the Solo 401k came out I got one of those as well as the limits are even higher than with the SEP (100%). The main catch with the Solo 401(k) is that you have create it before the end of the calendar year whereas with the SEP-IRA you can create it up until April 15th.
From reading complaints about AT&T and the iPhone from people in/near San Francisco, I'd say a mobile phone running off a flaky 3G network is a common issue inside of Silicon Valley.

That said, Sproutcore lets you build rich applications that happen to run inside of a browser. If an app's requirements include "Mac OS X 10.5 or later," then I need to run on it on a Mac. Civilization V requires a discrete graphics card; I won't have much luck running it on a Netbook. And, Sproutcore apps require Javascript.
Yup. I'm just wrapping my head around the things like RabbitMQ and Redis and I think I understand what those are for. But can someone explain straight: in which case should I want to use this Octobot?
Official Site of The Loose Canon
Scenario:

A user began typing what would have been a long-tail query, but realizes the results have satisfied their query without typing the full thing.

I'm not saying long-tail is going to disappear, because it's not, at least not for now. But I'm sure a significant portion of would-be long-tail queries are going to be rerouted into short tail queries.
Probably because its in the upcoming issue of Inc. Magazine.
I don't want to use a database for that, Mailchimp could solve the problem indeed, I'll give it a try.
But by the time you're 65 the retirement age will be 75. So if you want the money at 65 you'll have to take it out with penalties.
I would take a wild guess that if you agree that the internet is full of worthless crap, you would be my target reader.
Ask HN: Anyone knows tool to rewrite HTTP content
Hello, I need a tool to rewrite content of HTTP exchanges. I can not control front end, nor the server but need to reformat/edit the content. Are there any tools to do that. IBM's WBI (webby) seems dead and could not find an alternative so far. Any leads appreciated. Thanks.
I just noticed that Google autocompletes 'j' with 'justin bieber'. I realize that letter has a high scrabble value but c'mon.
Army is Funny
I zero out at the end of the month so for the time being no. I'm 25 and with my next salary most likely from a job move I'll start saving then. However its more like that the money will be used towards funding my own business. I am an entrepreneur at heart and do not take the thought of a bootstrapped business lightly. The romantic nature in which viral startups are portrayed do appeal to me but I am a realist and understand that I'll need to do something that charges from day one.

To those who are responsible and do put away a bit of money every month. Smart, very smart.
Ancient prototype for Facebook Wall found in Pompeii
Sneak Preview of Django Zoom (Heroku-like service for Django apps)
Octobot (like Celery, Resque, et al) is a worker, meaning that it takes messages from a queue, such as Rabbit or Redis, and processes that message based on a task that you write. Imagine Octobot being used to create thumbnails for Flickr--a job that should be done asynchronously.
This is possibly the best "don't get into startup in any form unless you're designed for it" article I've ever seen. I've known a lot of people who want to either own a restaurant, or open their own web design firm, or do something entrepreneurial when they just don't know what they'll be in for. I could even use this as a form letter for many other areas (except for the "too fat?" part).
Agreed. Good advice.
If you tell time by the sun, it is factual. If you use a clock and accept the existence of time zones, then it is only true 36 times a day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#Time_zone_as_offsets_...).

Now get back to work or you'll end up like that timecube guy.
Actually, it's exactly the same. In both systems, I deposit my money with the company (RubyPay or iStockPhoto) in exchange for a certain amount of points/credits. They hold onto my money until I buy something. On iStockPhoto I buy a few pictures, on RubyPay maybe I buy access to a premium blog post. The points are transferred from my account to the seller's account. The seller then redeems the points/credits for a payout by check.

Is there a difference between the two that I missed (besides the fact that iStockphoto screens submissions)?

There are ample opportunities for fraud on both sites. For example, say I'm a drug dealer and I need to collect illicit funds from customers. I could post a digital image on iStockphoto and require my customers to buy it before I give them the drugs. Or if I already had a stack of cash I needed to clean I could set up fake accounts to buy my own images, and pay taxes on the profit.
Where does music come from?
The reason for using the .org is a conscious one. People are more trusting of .org's and it gives off a feeling I'm looking for.

Thanks for the offer though :) I do like innuen.do, though would you be limiting your market to people who understand non-std tlds? I've found lots of people don't even know about them.
Well, no need to go that far really, 'sun time' is not the same as timezones, midday is when the Earths motion makes the sun appear at it's zenith, a fixed number of degrees from that point would make it 5 O'clock, so such a point can always be found.

Timezones and time are a human convention, the rest of the universe doesn't really care.
If you can clear your mind of all the attractive tech that could potentially fill gaps, it may help isolate the essential needs you have. After reading your description I didn't have a solid idea of what you were working to accomplish so it's tough to judge.

Then add technology as necessary. I bet you'd be surprised what you could accomplish with couchdb, or node/express+a DB alone.

I'm wet behind the ears with web development (just started late last year), but look forward to seeing how you and your team makes out.
That and the fact I can't shake the thought: people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
That must be why VISA has explicitly forbidden stock photo bureaus from using their cards without special permission in their merchant account contracts.

Oh, wait, that was wallet systems after all...
Might be true, but the MySQL docs state that the 'My' comes from his daughter:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/history.html
I think it's really cool that Web 2.0 entrepreneurs actually want to build businesses that have a clear business model, sell a product that people want, and have a clear path to long-term, sustainable profitability.

That said, I don't know how well this type of business correlates with raising such a large angel round- are all of those angel investors on board with that plan?
On the other hand, Catalyst has a huge active community (277 people on the IRC channel right now), a ton of code for you to look at (1723 results for extensions on search.cpan, and many full apps), it uses Moose for its objects (giving you access to 100+ extensions that can cleanly fine-tune how your objects work, and a similarly huge community for support), and it integrates with pretty much any Perl web interface (FCGI, Plack, etc.) perfectly. (There are even two full books about Catalyst. But don't read the first one, I hate the author...)

I have written everything from raw PSGI apps to rolling my own web framework to hacking on other peoples' web frameworks (most recently, Tatsumaki). But every time my toy app becomes something I actually want to use in the real world, I turn to Catalyst. The backcompat is "ugly", but it's easy to do everything you'll ever need to do, and the defaults are reasonable. You can write messy code, you can write super-clean code, and everything in the middle.

What won't happen is you getting stuck with some aspect of the framework. "It does that."

Small web frameworks are appealing because when you are reading someone's blog, you think, "yeah, that's about all I ever need to do". Unfortunately, it's the "about" that's going to kill your project.

Take some time to learn the whole system and it will reward you for years to come.
Handy phrase, "painstaking practice and ongoing iteration"

Cal Newport's guest post is good contrast to the anti-meeting and bias-toward-action viewpoint. I think his points apply to more than academia.

Maybe instead of meetings we should be having debates.
I agree. Some kind of API to put this on your own domain would be really nice.
Ask HN: Do I need to secure (SSL) my login page?
I'm creating a real site for the first time, and I'm considering forgoing getting an SSL cert for financial reasons.

Money is tight, and I'm even considering paying monthly for a shared host rather than paying less per month on a longer contract so I can pull the site early if it fails hard. With the hosting itself being only about $10/mo, I'm having a hard time justifying to myself that I should pay 50% more to get a dedicated IP, in addition to the cost of the cert.

This isn't e-commerce, so the only thing being secured are the user login. The data will initially be entirely public, though I do have plans for private-unless-you-want-it-public features.

HN doesn't secure its logins, nor does reddit, TheDailyWTF, or any number of other forums, so how guilty should I feel about not providing secured logins? The site is aimed at developers, in case the users are an important part of this equation.
I don't have to. The burden of proof is on someone who claims that something "almost certainly won't show up", when in fact there are a lot of circumstances where it definitely will. I'll concede that you might need to look at more than one report to see evidence of this, but I maintain that the ggp is incorrect and I was right to call it "absolutely untrue".
Edit: What you say is reasonable, while I understand your viewpoint I want to add a little food for thought.

First off, 401k contributions to the S&P 500 over that time period would significantly outperform that due to Dollar cost averaging. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging. Even more so if you assume that they made smaller payments early on when they were making less money.

Also, for clarification I am assuming they leverage the roommate to rapidly pay down the mortgage, I know people in that situation making less than 65k that pay down an extra 600$-1000$ a month while trying to get out from PMI. EX: A 26 year old making ~52k decided to refinance to a 15 year mortgage when the rates dropped because he was paying significantly more than that anyway and with the new interest rate and he could pay it down even faster.

As to easy: In 2007, the "real" (adjusted for inflation) median annual household income rose 1.3% to $50,233.00. 10x the savings from 1.8x the average household income sounds works when the average savings rate is so low. There are rules of thumb that you pay X% of your income on specific category’s, but we are well into the ridicules stage so saving ridicules amounts of money is just as valid as having stupid bar tabs.

PS: I happened to put a fair amount into the stock market during the dip last year at the same time as my company’s annual 10% deposit so my 401k actually made over 40% ROI last year. Starting in 2002 I have made well over 5% plus inflation and I missed the dip right after the 2000 – 2001 crash.
I love his writing. Some of it is uneven, but it's mostly good. I first got hooked when I read the first pages of "A Cook's Tour" where he begins

"Dear Nancy, I'm about as far away from you as I've ever been... There's one lightbulb, a warped dresser, and a complimentary plastic comb with someone else's hair in it. In spite of the EZ Clean design features, there are suspicious and dismaying stains on the walls. About two thirds of the way up one wall, there are what look like bloody footprints and - what do they call it, arterial spray? How they got there, so high up, I can only guess.
The wall opposite has equally sinister stains - evidence of a more opaque substance - these suggesting a downward dispersal. Having seen the bathroom, I can't blame the perpetrator for anything."

I can read that letter over and over.
As a non-drinker and non-smoker I can't speak to the fun of those things anywhere, far less at work. Sexual harrassment would be super-entertaining but probably less so for my co-workers.

So, I guess it's a ball pit for me.
HP and Oracle Hug It Out, Resolve Lawsuit over Mark Hurd's Employment
Negotiating in Vietnam is a strange, strange thing
Octobot: High Throughput Distributed Task Queue Worker
> it appears to have worked for Mr. Pincus and not for his competitors, obviously he did something a little different.

Couldn't that be attributed to his company having a larger user base and more money than its competition?
I think it's valuable to have the ability to see situations from every perspective possible. If you're someone who's not naturally "dominant", experiencing it can be fun, empowering, and educational.

That doesn't mean you have to 'become' that way. It's all (ha) a matter of perspective.
I don't know about that. I know a lot of people with jailbroken iPhones, whom we'd all think of as "computer-illiterate" at best. Jailbreaking is very much a mainstream activity these days.

Edit: I'll go so far as to speculate that the large proportion of jailbroken iOS devices is what is driving the glasnost at Apple lately. They are faced with keeping some control over their customers's devices, or losing the control they still have. With widespread jailbreaking, the market has decisively rejected Apple's attempt at total control, while simultaneously embracing the products themselves.
I subscribe to the John Bogle school of passive index fund investing (Rebalancing once a year) - Currently have a 401k that I max out using Vanguard funds. I'm also working on saving a 12-month 'emergency' fund. When the emergency fund is complete, I'll move on to adding more funds to my taxable account that I have with Scottrade.

For whatever it worth, my current asset allocation is:

Vanguard Institutional Index VINIX 25%

Vanguard Extended Market Idx Instl VIEIX 15%

Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Inst VFWSX 35%

Vanguard Inst Total Bond Market Index VBMPX 25%

I use the following site and forums for my investing questions and info:

http://www.bogleheads.org/

I've found it to be very informative and the forum participants to be helpful.
The problem is that most managers seem to prefer to hire and work with people who have high levels of confidence. Why is this? Personally, I have no idea. All other things being equal, I prefer hiring people with lower apparent levels of confidence. Aside from, in my opinion, simply being more pleasant and easier to get along with day to day, they tend to stick around longer at any given salary level. Confidence commands quite a bit of a pay increase in nearly all job roles, and in the roles I hire for, confidence doesn't really help you do the job, so people with less apparent confidence are quite often bargains.

Besides, I'm pretty good at faking confidence, so in the rare instances where that skill is demanded, I can just do it myself.
If it's in a roth account, isn't your investment horizon decades away (assuming you're not already in your 50's)? Why is "a 5 year investment to see a decent return" a negative?
Don't knock your sci-fi books. I have an ex-g/f with a PhD in English Literature (more precisely Dickens) who read Star Trek novels to unwind. Different books for different times.
I'd say it depends on the level of security your users would expect from your site. If it's merely information you're offering than I wouldn't use an SSL certification. If there's financial data involved (mind you: payments through paypal or some other payment broker are SSL certified) it's a whole different story.
Also: an upgrade to your site is easier to sell your users ('now even more secure') than a downgrade.
If you need to do this manually, then Burp Proxy (http://portswigger.net/proxy/) might be useful. However if you need automate that then you'd probably have to implement your own custom HTTP proxy. Just find a library for your favorite language that can help with that.
A planned, documented 'team building exercise' has knowable risks and liabilities. "Letting people be themselves" is the stuff of nightmares to HR people.

"organic fun" in workplaces is great while it lasts, but that seems to only be until the first lawsuit.
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I think you may be taking the song a bit too literal (especially since you quoted the "somewhere" in your second paragraph).

It is a song about drinking any time of the day...

Maybe you've been living out the songs message and aren't thinking entirely straight.

Regardless, here you go: the 5o'clock refers to a method of keeping score. A day, hour, minute, etc is of arbitrary length, only having the value we agree to assign to it.

Because time zones (used to keep the sun generally rising and setting around the same time across the globe except in the extreme north and south) are differentiated in blocks larger than 1 minute (typically 30 or 60 minutes) it is not 5o'clock somewhere when it is 5:42 somewhere else.

However, the sun's location across a time zone will be higher in the sky as you move further west. So for example, in eastern Arizona (when it is on Pacific time) the sun will set earlier than it does in California. 5o'clock in Arizona may look more like 5:42 in California.

Enjoy my much more lengthy than necessary answer. I am sitting at work with nothing to do. So you get to read my ramblings.
I think one might miss the point here, if one would take his writing too literally, that he ended up on an amazing success by just following what was good for him no matter how long did it take.
The idea that you have to be willing to kill yourself in the process of being successful is a dangerous one, and will only be true measured by others standards.
I started working full time in 2004 and I put money in the company's 401k back when they matched, but since I change jobs roughly every 15 months (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1706920) it gets annoying having to roll it over into a new 401k. That, plus the fact that companies have stopped matching these days, made me decide to go the Roth IRA route. I think the Roth IRA is the way to go for young people because you put in after tax money (at a lower rate because your salary is lower early in your career), and you take it out tax free (a savings, since we'll all be in a higher tax bracket by then, right?).
I like http://www.gosoftworks.com/GoSkyWatch/GoSkyWatch.html (on my iPad).
The "problem" with old code is the same as the "problem" with old blog posts. Sturgeon's Revelation applies: 90% of anything is crap.

I trust that someone surfing the net for words I've written is aware that some are better than others. Likewise, I trust that someone surfing Github for code I've written has the same expectation that most of it will not be my best work.

Curating your work is not "free." In addition to the time cost, if I was worried about people assuming I'm a bozo after looking at my work I would probably avoid posting the things I've written that were failures like the Ick gem in Ruby.

That in turn might avoid being rejected sight unseen but it would also eliminate the possibility that someone would ask me, "So, Ick looks like a crap idea. What were you thinking? If you agree it's crap, what have you learned?"
You don't need to, just make sure your users are aware. I don't think users would disregard your service - as long as it doesn't deal with some heavily private stuff - just because you don't have an SSL cert.
Phone calls just seem a little antiquated to me. I wish I could pay someone $10/month to read my blog and make positive comments on it once a day!
what they say in public doesn't always match what they say in private.(i.e. just take the whole demandmedia "we are super profitable...HONEST!")

in private, I'd bet that they are looking to build this up for 4-5 years, then sell it off to intuit.
That's worth a submission, cryptoz.
Sounds like you have what it takes to get it done. Now it's just the matter of making it happen.
I recommend dedicating a few hours each day to simply learning and coding from examples. Slow and steady progress is the key. There are tons of great sites out there as well for beginners.
I recommend StreamToMe. It's the best $3 I've spent. Transcodes on the fly, works great. We watched cartoons in the car. (iPad tethered to my 3g android phone).
Fragmentation or Not, the New Samsung Android Tablet Looks Awesome
This video speaks for itself and despite owning a 3G iPad, an iPod Touch, and a BlackBerry, I want this new Samsung Galaxy Tab pretty badly.
No.

I lost the retirement account in the divorce.

Then again, I kept the businesses.

So, I am planning for retirement by creating businesses with recurring passive income.
Thanks, I wasn't joshing ;). Will investigate.
As a habitual tapper of things and singer of nonsensical syllables, I agree with the conjecture that music originates with the sound of people moving, but it also originates in everything we hear as we sit still and listen to other things move. And like spoken language (I think), as the music we produce grows from its roots, it is influenced by out exposure to cultural artifacts, including other music.

An interesting area for inspection is the spectrum between organic music, technical music, abstract music, and emotional music. Is the original music we produce from simply moving tied to an emotional experience? At what point do we begin understanding music as a language that can exist in absence of physical experience? It'll be a cool book if it delves into these kind of questions.
It sounds a lot like the video game industry.