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I've spent enough time asking for programs for the benchmarks game in Ruby forums, to start to doubt whether the "more clever Ruby programmer" will ever come forward ;-)

Maybe "a more clever Ruby programmer" always drops-down to C?

Maybe there's only a more clever Rails programmer :-)
launchpad does that triage, they have people processing stuff most days. It was educational watching how the various freezes along the time line funnelled the bugs that would get fixed. This is an extreme example, a whole operating system with non-trivial packaging. Your phone app should be easier!

pyroom have a suggestions tracker... the thing is meant to be minimal!
Since when is S3 a 'database'?
dlvr.it allows you to create filters on items. You can get it to post as much or as little as you want and it provides full customization for formatting, you can even find and replace within the text
Who even makes a UTF-8 implementation that can't handle UTF-8? Unfortunately, having dealt with mysql libs lately, I don't doubt that at all.

That said, if you think Unicode is a pain, try storing and retrieving "𝒜" in any other encoding. I'll stick to Unicode, thanks. :)
I wish we could vote this guy out of office. Unfortunately, with his big money backers, I doubt he'll be leaving anytime soon.
SHOW NOTES:

Ryan Dahl
- How it all started.
- http://twitter.com/ryah

Matthew Podwysocki
- Node at Microsoft
- http://twitter.com/mattpodwysocki

Matthew Eernisse
- Node at Yammer
- http://twitter.com/mde

Isaac Schlueter
- Node at Node
- http://new.npmjs.org
- http://twitter.com/izs

Visnu Pitiyanuvath
- Node Knockout, Nov 10-11, 2013
- http://nodeknockout.com/tell-me-a-story
- http://nodeknockout.com
- http://twitter.com/visnup

Guillermo Rauch
- Story of Socket.io and Socket.io 1.0 announcement.
- Socket.io came out of wanting to implement operational transforms ala Etherpad.
- http://twitter.com/rauchg

Daniel Shaw
- “More Realtime” - RedisStore Docs, Socket.io-Announce, Redis Monitor
- http://dshaw.github.com/2012-07-nodeconf
- http://twitter.com/dshaw

Mikito Takada
- “Real time at larger scale”
- http://mixu.net/slides/nodeconf
- http://twitter.com/mikitotakada

Bert Belder
- libuv
- http://twitter.com/piscisaureus

Fedor Indutny
- Candor
- https://github.com/indutny/talks/
- http://twitter.com/indutny

James Halliday
- http://substack.net/doc/nodeconf_2012/
- http://twitter.com/substack

Voicebox Party
- Top 5 songs: Bohemian Rhapsody, Never Gonna Give You Up, Fresh Prince, Sabotage, Don’t Stop Believin’
- http://voiceboxpdx.com/nodeconf-2012-aftermath/
- http://voiceboxpdx.com/api
- http://search.npmjs.org/#/voicebox-karaoke

Tim Caswell
- Luvit (Lua + libUV + jIT)
- https://github.com/creationix/nodeconf2012
- https://twitter.com/creationix/

Marco Rogers
- https://github.com/polotek/nodeconf-2012-streams-talk
- http://twitter.com/polotek/

Felix Geisendörfer
- Live coded the beginnings of node-mysql.
- Benchmark first.
- http://twitter.com/felixge/

Max Ogden
- JIFASNIF
- http://imgur.com/a/9vFGa#0
- http://twitter.com/maxogden

Matt Ranney
- Streams at Scale
- http://twitter.com/mranney

Paolo Fragomeni
- http://twitter.com/hij1nx

David Pacheco
- DTrace, Node.js, and Flame Graphs
- http://dtrace.org/blogs/dap/files/2012/07/nodeconf.pdf
- https://twitter.com/dapsays

Danny “Rockstar” Coates
- “So, you've got a memory leak”
- “You are all rockstars”
- http://twitter.com/antiserf

Jed Parsons
- Memory Leaks. So What?
- https://twitter.com/drainmice/

Emily Rose
- http://bit.ly/Pm8Wfc
- https://twitter.com/nexxylove

Russell Hay
- Node and SPI
- http://db.tt/PMxuVoiR
- https://twitter.com/RussellHay

Rick Waldron
- https://github.com/rwldrn/johnny-five
- https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3531958/nodeconf/index.html
- https://twitter.com/rwaldron

Elijah Insua
- http://tmpvar.com/nodeconf-2012/assets/fallback/index.html
- https://twitter.com/tmpvar

Family Photo
- http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=440917832595692&s...

Holoscene Party
- Stream || die() w/ Max Ogden (drums), Rick Waldron (bass), Paolo Fragomeni (guitar), Carter Thaxton (trumpet), Substack (vocals/code)
- DJ Joe McCann
- Pies + Big Lebowski

Reflections on NodeConf 2012
- http://rzrsharp.net/2012/07/06/reflections-on-nodeconf-2012....
- http://jeditoolkit.com/2012/07/05/nodeconf-2012.html#post

NodeConf SummerCamp
- Sept 4-6, 2012
- http://www.nodeconf.com/
I wonder how hard it will be to write an Android app that's compatible with both the OUYA controller, and the Xperia Play keypad?
iOS apps everyone should own
I use Boxcryptor. When I look in my dropbox folder all the files, file and folder names are encrypted.
Instead of this, I as a user interact with my mounted Boxcryptor drive where I view same files and folders unencrypted.
Nodejitsu is now in public beta
I thought this was really fun. Its been interesting to watch the Navy Railgun program where they shoot a projectile at Mach 6-7 out of a rail gun [1]. Once they hit mach 10 or so you start seeing a purple light trail from the Argon where electrons get excited by the passing body and then drop back down to ground state emitting a purplish photon.

[1] http://atg.ga.com/EM/defense/railgun/index.php
You'll probably also need to partition it using the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
I thought the Rails install process couldn't be easier, and I don't even like Rails... ducks
As a business owner, I can't think of anything worse than trying to maintain an archival system for a bloated platform that would combine all of that together.

I do however think that interoperability needs to be improved.

Sounds like this would be a great time for a rewrite of the UNIX Finger tool to solve a problem like this. Real-time client/address lookup and can be protected with some kind of pub/private key.
> Meanwhile, Debian/Ubuntu's package management continues to work pretty well at what it does.

But what it does moves at about 10% of the speed of the ruby community (at least post-Rails). I'm not saying that the ruby culture is better—it obviously has serious consequences for stability and leads to all manner of headaches. However it does mean that if a new and better idea of how to do something comes out, Ruby is probably one of the first places you can use it in production.

My feeling is that the benefits outweigh the costs if and only if you are a full-time developer in a paradigm that Ruby is good for (eg. traditional web development). If you are just dabbling in the language then Ruby will continuously pull the rug out from under you. And if you are just trying to install some software as an end-user, then Ruby is probably one of the worst possible platforms.
Articles do not combat fraud. Until Dwolla actually starts protecting merchants from fraud and covering the losses themselves they will remain unsafe to use.
Steve Ballmer: We won't be out-innovated by Apple anymore
AsK HN: Why do Kickstarter videos take so long to load?
When visiting different Kickstarter pages, why is it that their videos take so long to load?
What backend video system are they using that creates this long of a buffering problem?

I'm asking because I'm looking to avoid these sort of problems with my project (curating custom band videos on a page).
>I'm not sure there is much of a demographic of people who are "indie gamers" , most people who play indie games also play AAA games, so a console for Indie games only doesn't seem like it would have a huge target market.

I'm not so sure. I feel like one of those people; I really appreciate the indie aesthetic and I respect small teams that are able to make great games. I do play AAA games but only occasionally (buying about 1 per year).

The problem though is I already can play plenty of indie games on my xbox 360: Braid, Limbo, Spelunky, Super Meat Boy, to name a few.
A few of the things we think makes Montage special are

* very fast, realtime, two way, object to object bindings (non DOM based)

* reusable components built using regular HTML, where markup and behavior are completely separated (see the .reel directories under ui/)

* based on CommonJS, with complete script dependency loading

Edit:samples now up at http://tetsubo.org/docs/montage/samples/

We are also developing an HTML5 and Montage authoring tool, built using Montage: https://github.com/Motorola-Mobility/ninja
No, Dwolla WILL take your money if they are hit with chargebacks. Do NOT use them if you value your payments.
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

Still in beta? I'll try it out on a test box later on when things are quieter.
While I disagree with the tone and tenor of wolframarnold on most of it, I do agree that the amount is a little low. I personally think it should be at least $4500 or so, but I could get by with $3500 if I needed to, but then you'd be on the hook to pick up software afterward (Photoshop isn't cheap, etc.)

Also, outworlder's point is germane. The term "tech stipend" leads me to believe that you're going to give me $2500 to pick up my own stuff, that I would then own. If that's the case, it changes the equation a little better, because I already personally own three larger monitors that I'd be happy to drag to the office if that was the expectation.

Regardless, I thought the job posting was MUCH better than 'cute'. I think I've officially ruled out working in NYC, but this offer is tempting, if only for the coffee. Still though, it's very tempting. If the platform choice weren't Ruby, I'd be all over it.
That's not an answer to the question. The question was "how would you title it if not like that?", so answering "not like that" is just begging the question.
It's pretty hard to get formatting you need with rss feed.
In some cases formatting human readable tweet require addition GET query to github API and many other more specific problems.

dlvr.it is just to general to be good for one thing.
tweethub is good for one thing.
Paypal redesigns
StackOverflow(SO) allows to ask only 6 questions in 24 hours
I just tried that and got this message?

Why did they put this limit?

A person learning a new language might have as many questions that could be discussed over SO.

I feel now that SO discourages asking questions on their website ;)
I've had very few issues making programs I've written unicode friendly, but then I gave up on MySQL about a decade ago.

The only real issue is handling bad input, as you never get an error with decoding e.g. ISO-8859-1; for a lot of applications you need to handle potentially malicious input, so you can do it there, but even for trusted input, there is a lot of really-broken external programs that output "UTF-8" or "UTF-16" (scare quotes intentional).

I really think a lot of the problems with unicode is that a lot of languages/libraries try to handle it transparently, and that just doesn't work; encoding/decoding is part of dealing with external formats, and trying to do it transparently means that it will fail unexpectedly.
I could also imagine that someone wired up my car to explode, but there's a reasonable level of paranoia. Link shorteners are fairly frequently used to hide the true destination of a link.

Although, I wonder how hard it would be to set up some text with CSS that looks like one string, but is actually another.
e.g. the user would see

https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contributions/install_homebrew.rb

but when copied-and-pasted is revealed to actually be something like

https://raw.github.com/mxel/homebrew/master/Library/Contributions/install_homebrew.rb
I'm not interested in using PayPal again, and my desire to support the comics does not rise past that threshold. Wouldn't call myself "adamant" about either, but I definitely do not wish to use PayPal.
Honestly, as long as they are still passing the chargebacks on to merchants then none of these "procedures" matter. Because Dwolla keeps the user information secret you have to trust them to do all the resolution and such. In the meantime, you are still out of funds and have no recourse.
Forget the fly-by-wire, the crucial difference here is that the input devices on the Boeing craft move together. If the AF447 crew had this feedback the accident most likely would not have happened.
This is (almost entirely) a myth.

http://www.salon.com/2009/09/25/askthepilot335/
Lady Gaga's Social Network Opens to All the Little Monsters
It looks like we're still seeing fallout from the "16 bits are all you need" thing. Maybe telling people that they'd never need to worry about this stuff after adopting (BMP subset of) UTF-8 wasn't a great idea.
How to be more creative by using a memory palace
I give my users an option of email + password or Facebook.

Only about 1 in 3 choose the Facebook option.
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First of all, I think my statement "the world needs C not Lisp" was meant to be taken metaphorically, not literally. Of course there is a place for Lisp, but at the end of the day, who has gotten more done in the real world? That certainly hasn't stopped the Lisp hackers from looking down their noses, however.

The bottom line is that the sense I get from the kinds of rhetoric in the OP is not the kind of high-minded idealism you express but rather just a bunch of software aestheticians casting value judgements on the people who are focused on making things happen. My perception could be wrong, I'll grant you that.
When is a C# cast not a cast?
Relativistic Baseball
Google Does Not Have Innovator's Dilemma
It personally happened to me. I had a Dwolla merchant account for a while and then it was hit with fraud. Dwolla took all the funds out of my account and provided no real way for me to try and get them back. They WILL NOT work with you to recover your funds, they will just take them to cover their ass. They have no incentive to recover them since they just pass the fraud and costs onto you.
I kinda like how easy facebook/twitter makes logging in to new sites, but I find it annoying when they request for permissions they do not really need.

Then again I like when a site allows me to create new account for the site, because this does not share my social data to the site, but the registration process is annoying, because I of course want to use the site right away.

OpenID is pretty cool system, but I do not use it, because I do not use any of the OpenID services like Google anymore.

Never before heard of Mozilla's BrowserID, so can not say much about it.

These days I have been thinking about system where log in form asks for email address and password. Then the client will send this email address to the server and the server will check if the address already exists in the database.

If the email does not exist then the server will reply to the client and the client will send the password to the server and the server will register new account and authenticate the user right away. Then the user can do whatever they need to do on the site.

If the email does exist then the server will reply to the client and the client will send somekind of hash generated to the server to authenticate the user. The hash function will use the user password as the secret key. Once the server receives this hash it will authenticate the account if the email and password were correct.

I think this kind of system would simplify the registration process. If you need the email address verified you can send the verification email on the registration process, but do not require the email to be verified right away, because it's damn annoying to go to your email to click the damn link to verify your email address which usually opens new tab in your browser when you already most likely have the site in open tab.
I wish someone would do compiles of these programs with static libraries as binary blobs for Linux...
I haven't seen it, but I will now proceed to catch up with the thread and learn too, so thank you for pointing it out to me.
Improvements in CodePorting C# to Java Library and Mapping
Actually, rated for 10°C (thus 18°F) hotter conditions than previous WD offerings.
Fair enough - I appreciate the explanation. Thanks.
I submitted the same subject some hours earlier and not sure that title(taken directly from WSJ) is any better.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4224661
I could get along with a 6-8 year old desktop, as well. The reason I don't is because it would suck, not because it would physically break down.
It is not a benefit if that money isn't actually there. They provide no guarantee that the funds are yours to use since they can be hit with chargebacks and will just take the money from you. This is just as bad as paypal.
Show HN: Wikipedia Prettification CSS/JS Skin
Online Piracy in Numbers: Most Pirated Stuffs on Internet
The 7 Day Belly Blast Diet
"Formerly Obese “Diet Guru” Reveals the Deadly Foods that CAUSE Belly Bulge and the 37 Foods that KILL It… Make These Simple Swaps to Your Meals and Finally BLAST Away ALL of Your Unattractive Belly Fat FOREVER…"
Thanks Tom. That helps! We do have that on our launch plans
DC taxis are a nightmare. The funny part is the contrast that you can have when you take an Uber car to a destination and then hail a taxi to get back.
When I cracked the back window in the taxi cab since he wasn't using his air conditioning, he promptly rolled it back up and locked the window. He said nothing. The price for the ride was actually more in the taxi, because he very sneakily took a longer route "by accident" by missing an exit for the quick route and then taking the next exit on the longer route.
If they say that's what they need to fund the site, then fine. From my own selfish consumer perspective, though, the amount of money they're asking for and what I would gain from it just aren't proportionate.
> MySQL’s utf8 encoding only covers the BMP. It can’t handle 4-byte characters at all.

Wow. That is pathetic.
'Frankenstein' mummies, made from body parts, found in Scotland
To do cutting edge graphic design. To program in python. To develop engaging new web applications for government data access. I know you can do these on my OSes, but I'm guessing your view of government "computer work" might be slightly limited.
Major issues in Netflix case per their last blog post due to bugs in their environment not properly failing away from dead ELB's. Also the issues were related to API backups due to everyone rushing to launch new instances in a new AZ, but existing services in other AZ's continued to work fine.
The EPEAT rules required that 95% of your products comply with gold to keep your gold.
FTA: "Note however, the ElasticSearch UDF returns nearly instantly, while the FILTER is slooooooowwww… "

It's just 450MB of data (in Avro format). Why should the filter be "slooooooooowwww" ?
I don't know what the standards are so I can't make any sort of informed guess about if they need to be changed or not. But why does EPEAT need to work with Apple to amend the standards to accommodate their new design direction? Apple chose their new design direction fully aware of the EPEAT standards. You can't blame EPEAT for that and get mad when they don't adjust standards for you. I'm not sure how many people really care, but it seems SF Dept. of Environment cares.
Yeah it's one thing that does a very simple job that I have to give both my twitter and github auth too. I might forget about them or not be sure how to disable it. Are you going to build one of these for the 20 or so other feeds I put into my Twitter? Yeah it's a nice idea, and the implementation seems good, but it's not really fixing a problem so for most people it probably won't be worth the effort.
Paying to receive an SMS makes absolutely no sense.

Here in the UK, we pay to send them, not to receive them.
TED Launches iOS E-Bookstore With Subscriptions and Embedded Video
Are there programmers and graphic designers that are City employees?
Clot-busting technology goes straight to work
It might be kind of interesting to form an internet hit squad. Identify politicians we want voted out of office, and analyze their constituency and potential people to replace them, and then descend upon their district en masse to convince the voters to back someone else.

I don't know if it's feasible, but I think it would be interesting to at least see what it would take.
Collect a list of companies which might be interested in your product. Collect their phone numbers and call them and try to sell it to them. Telemarketing skills to work.
Most MMOs are free to play for the first month, right? The whole game doesn't have to be free-to-play, just some portion of it. It seems a time-limited demo would fall within those rules.
Right. It's not that Dropbox doesn't want to offer less than 50 GB, it's that they don't want to be charging anything less than $10/month. Customers that care about the difference between $5 and $10 per month are not going to make a business rich. You will not get twice the paying audience at $5 than at $10. And it runs into pathological customer territory; statistically in all walks of software and technology, the cheapskates are the greater support nuisance.
This is a MySQL limitation that they have fixed in recent releases (as the OP notes). It's not fair to blame Unicode at large for MySQL problems.

However, it's true that Unicode is (relatively speaking) very new for such a fundamental technology. Support in applications still varies widely. I wouldn't characterize it as cutting edge though, since we have many mainstream programming languages built using Unicode internally.
What part of the wireless controller do you think is expensive? You can buy wired controllers for $5 (sure they're cheap build quality and are probably manufactured at massive bulk) and you can get 2.4 GHz wireless modules for $3 a piece (probably a lot less in bulk and bluetooth is likely just as cheap in bulk) so wireless isn't really the cost factor..
How to Deploy .NET Apps to Private PaaS
I don't understand why this stuff isn't front page news of mainstream (cnn, fox news, etc.) newspapers. You'd figure with all the lingering resentment this would be a huge field day. Currently relegated to business news journals.
No, I'm complaining that those benchmarks aren't mirroring the way developers actually write code.
Sharding is a difficult design problem. It would be easier to make games (and nicer to play them) if you didn't have to shard the world up.
Oh right. Too bad I never plug my phone into my computer.
I might be a part of the minority, but generally I would rather give up my (Facebook|Twitter|GitHub) account than create a new account, for a few reasons.

1. My email is more important. I generally don't want you to have it if I feel like you might bug me. I can disable your access to my info on Facebook (and usually do), but with email you can still send me things I don't want.

2. I don't want to have to sign in. With Facebook logins I can usually click 1-2 buttons and I'm in. That's what I want. Unless my interest is particularly piqued, I will probably just Cmd+W you out of my life. :)

That being said I would never do something like this for say, my online banking account. But for social/online services? I would definitely take this route.
Many Wall Street executives say wrongdoing is necessary: survey
FTC poised to spank Google with its largest penalty ever
This was my prediction [1] back around the time that SOPA died. Not that it isn't obvious or anything.

All the pieces of SOPA/PIPA/whatever will turn up somewhere. They know they can't cram the whole thing through at once, so it's fairly likely that the bits will just turn up in other bills -- I can see last-minute amendments to big spending bills as a great way to get this stuff pushed through before there can be much outcry. Once they're passed, they'll be really hard to undo.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3884959
Fixing it... thanks for the heads up.
Why should people use it over other frameworks like AngularJS?
Specifically, somewhere around 30% of it. The Kickstarter levels say to add $30 (to $95 or $99) if you want an extra controller.