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I believe you may have picked the one language which inadvertently illustrates my point.

My understanding is that Python does these things because it's in the SAME bag as JavaScript: it's actually a proto language in implementation down deep, but with a class-based syntax, thus inheriting the disadvantages of both and the advantages of neither. There's some dynamicism bubbling up from the object implementation but it's a far cry from the elegance of a real proto language.
I do not know why Guido chose to do this awful thing, but he is at least to be excused given the age of the language. JavaScript has no such excuse.
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I buy all my components from Tiger Direct, and have had very good luck. I order stuff regular shipping, and it is here the next day.
I either walk or take a tram (60 minutes on foot, 30 by the tram), and it's not good. I've got plenty of time to see how is this city ugly and how everything is getting only worse every year. Most of the time on the tram and walking to the stop is spent waiting at some crossing, making way to the cars (considered more important by the city), trams are old and almost falling apart, stops rather derelict, sidewalks taken as a parking lots. Well, eastern Europe at its best. Not very cheerful.
"I predict that it has at least another thousandfold increase to go in the coming few years"

Clearly a 'Bernard Madoff 2.0' pyramid scam.
Only profitable for the early adopters, pay by the last suckers whom enter.
I use Task on my Linode too. I have the output of "task list" cronned to a text file under a virtual host. The file uses auth-based htaccess rules, and I have the unique user/pass saved in the URL bookmarked on my machine.

I usually have a terminal window open, but it's nice to be able to click the bookmark bar and have it right there. I also have a widget that pulls in text files, so I can see my tasks at a glance by moving the cursor to the top-left of my screen.

Taskwarrior is great. Like david_shaw said, if you're looking to finally start doing your to-do list, use Taskwarrior.
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I want a passive "black book" more than anything. A universal contact list. Got it. I like your thoughts. You've got what you want down to a science.

The summary in three sentences: Build a passive blackbook with universally accessible contacts which allows ease of use and encourages participation with a points system. Layer a minimalistic design on top and lock it down with a bit of password security.

So simple. Did I miss anything?
It's trap. Becareful
This is pretty much the same technology that Adobe demoed back then. Todor Georgeiv and Chintan Intwala also refer to Levoy et al. in their papers, e.g. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.104...
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If such silly thing as gold became money and paper printed by governments became money then a tool possessing qualities that bitcoin possess is bound to become money eventually.

Only two real risks. Crypto weakness or Bitcoin 2.0

Gold is intrinsically similarly useless as bitcoin. We used it as money only because it was durable and rare.
We used paper as money because strong, trustworthy entity declared that its supply will be limited and controlled. Bitcoin has this basic necessary quality but also much much more.
As a good number of folks have pointed out, this article (helpful for sure) is basically nginx + PHP-FPM.

nginx servers up static content (e.g. if you are using WP-SuperCache and it's generating those static cache files for you, JS, CSS, images, etc.) then you configure a pool of warmed up PHP VM instances via PHP-FPM (Check /etc/php5/php-fpm or some equiv dir on your server).

Then you setup a rule that directed PHP requests to the FPM service, that would probably look something like this in nginx:

location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/mysite.com/$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;

}

and instead of adding the layer of Apache servicing the PHP requests, you are having nginx pass through the PHP requests directly to PHP processes to run.

Going from an Apache2 + FCGID configuration (somewhat similar to this, but with Apache) to nginx, I saw a 75% drop in server load.

I'm almost certain this still isn't a totally tweaked out setup that someone more familiar with this process could do better, but for my needs it took my server crashing under load no matter what I did, to typically being idle most of its life (~900k/month pageviews)

So I'm a big fan of nginx. I'm not saying you couldn't configure Apache to do the same... just 5 years of attempts to do so never got me anywhere with it.
My idea: Turn your challenge into a website were people can contribute and harvest ideas for free.
This person lost all credibility to me when he said that he borrowed money to invest. I'm a huge admirer of Bitcoin's technical aspects, but I would never even think of borrowing money to invest in anything, let alone bitcoins.
> Why would anyone enter a loop and expect the iteration variable to have a value defined outside the loop?

Thus us the takeaway point, I think. The loop would work perfectly fine if $bar was lexically scoped to the foreach, but it isn't. That's a general weakness in PHP compared to pretty much any other scripting language used today.
Similarity/convention is actually a good thing for the consumer - as long as it is by sound design.
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I don't know everything about everything.

I rely on the community to give insight on those other things.

Scoring helps me do that.

Without it I cannot tell if a comment is rated highly, or merely appears that way.

Scoring adds a ton of value to the comments.
"[Bitcoin is] an entirely new kind of currency that can’t be seized or frozen by governments"
Simply not true. At the end of the day you need to change Bitcoins back to real money. The money that actually has some value because it (is supposed to) represents goods. The stuff you need in order to survive and live (food, clothes, ...).
Goverments can declare these "banks" that change bitcoins back to real money illegal - mabe because bitcoins can be used to launder money (because it's advantage is, that "you can transfer any amount anywhere instantly without any authority knowing or interfering"). In this case all your money is worthless.
But you can still write nice blog entries and get other people to buy the stuff from you ;)
Does anyone know of any balls-out investments that paid off (or didn't)?

(I'm referring to "if this investment doesn't pay off, I'm jumping out a window" risk.)

I'm just looking for interesting stories, and that sounds promising.
Has anyone used both Taskwarrior and org-mode? Any words of wisdom?
Leveraged positions are common, but leveraging yourself to the maximum possible and not leaving yourself a safety net, as is implied by the article, is crazy. I assume the author is speaking hyperbolically.
I had no idea what that thing was from reading the overview page. Reading some of the comments here I've got a better idea. Someone should let them know.
Writers think it's the writing that makes a startup successful.

Engineers think it's the good, well-organized, efficient code.

Salespeople think it's their clever, shrewd selling strategy.

Management think it's their leadership.
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I totally agree. The best case scenario is to make a product that is useful for 1 user, but becomes even more useful as more and more users use it. The best example is FourSquare. You can check in, and earn badges, but as you tell more and more friends about it, those badges become a bigger status symbol. Yet even without any friends, it still feels good using it
Those stories could be made any day. Take any volatile stock and stake out an extremely leveraged position on it for a day (or a few hours). If the stock moves in the direction you've bet, then congratulations, you've just made a bunch of money on a gamble. If not, you've lost everything.
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Bob Parsons had already made tens of millions from an earlier startup, and he put all of his money into starting up GoDaddy, to the point where he would have been broke if it had been failed and he was almost out of funds to keep it going, before it turned profitable.

He wrote an article about it but I can't find it right now.
Showing comments after 2 days should be enough.
I would suggest two modifications to your plan: Using a VM (easier and fairly safe, very few viruses can break out of a VM), and getting the viruses some other way (I don't see that many in pirated material). One way that works is to follow the links next time a spambot hits a large IRC channel you're in.
It sucks for public transportation where I live.

Using the bus or train is not unequivocally good (nor bad).
Investing in Bitcoin is akin to investing in a startup. There's a chance the startup will become wildly successful and you'll make a tonne of money from it. But you also have to be prepared for the more likely chance that you will lose everything you put in.

Investing all your savings in anything is a risk. Investing everything in a risky startup seems the height of madness... unless you don't have a lot of savings, I guess.
It seems to me that the entire site is made up of fluff articles and the the bulk of submitter's history is made up of links to this (and also its 16yo founder's) site. File this under self-promotion.
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What about this, for a 90% solution: comment scores are visible to everyone, except people that have commented on the page.

Skimmers can get useful information, but those involved in the discussion can't easily get obsessed with points, they'd have to ask a friend, or maintain multiple accounts (maybe have a karma threshold?).

Scores would have to be invisible to those logged out as well, and HN Scrapers would have to agree to delay publishing scores 24 hours.
I was asking for specific examples that have already happened. The point is to hear a fun story, not to learn any valuable or deep insights.
On technical issues it is vital to see which approach the best and brightest (HN users) are in majority. Not everyone has time to write up a definitive comment and as someone learning many techniques concurrently I need to separate the wheat from the chaffe as efficiently as possible. Paul is undeniably brilliant, as shown by the Distrupt video in which he probably made several lucky startups quite a bit better by shear acumen. But he says in this post that the voting on this was roughly even. Hmmm. Not quite. He knows what he wants to do and can (and has, I don't believe we are going back), but he would like the community to back him up on this but it's not happening. Last time was 57% in favor of submission comments and this time 60%. I plead, beg and grovel please let me see comment scores. I will be here regardless, and thank you for this tremendous resource I was lucky enough to stumble upon.
People accept bitcoin as direct payment for things already, removing the need to switch back to dollars. Granted it's not a big selection
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I find comment scores instantly bias you towards or against a post due to crowd mentality. It happens on reddit even worse, so I'm not sure they're such a great idea.
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On May 25th, 2011 YouTube turned six years old and announced
"more than 48 hours (two days worth) of video are uploaded to the site every minute"

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/05/thanks-youtube-co...
<sarcasm>I can't wait to have the PPC vs i386 arguments all over again... </sarcasm>

Seriously though, what are the implications for virtualization software (Vmware, VirtualBox, etc) on an ARM platform?

I'm all for innovation, but the fact that MacOS/Linux/Windows/BSD all currently support one common architecture has been very convenient, in recent years.
Bernard Madoff ran a Ponzi scheme, not a pyramid scheme, and Bitcoin cannot be classed as either.
For 1/ if you're based in the UK you can use http://www.billmonitor.com/ which analyses your bill every month for you
I don't follow the creation v. evolution debate so this was new to me. I did google to see what the other side says about this and found this interesting:

"Human-designed devices, such as radios and computers, do not need to function until their assembly is complete. By contrast, living organisms must function to a high degree in order to thrive during every developmental stage from a single-cell zygote to adult. The embryo as a whole must be a fully functioning system in its specific environment during every second of its entire development. For this reason, adult anatomy can be understood only in the light of development."

http://www.icr.org/article/recurrent-laryngeal-nerve-not-evi...

I do not vouch for the science behind either article, but the concept that everything must work all the time rather than only at completion is an interesting concept that shows the difference between things I make and how I was made.
I am preferring it with the comment scores hidden. I am more likely to judge based on content than if i see the scores.
Maybe like

http://captainobvio.us/
This is just FUD. Why don't you go trash sub-prime lenders before you trash bitcoin? Don't buy bitcoin. Buy Euro instead!
The history of bitcoin is 14 months. How stable has it been over that time? It's only been in the news 2-3 weeks. I see the three bc/$ figures given, but it says nothing of stability. Other than that, it's fairly sensible. I'll stick with my 4.2%+ tax free isas.
Put tourists in touch with locals. Couchsurfing.com without the couch, and marketed much better.
Make a better calendar. There are plenty of ideas posted online on what makes for a better calendar.
Dating guidebook/flowchart app. Tap the situation you're in and it gives you some tips.
I had exactly the same reaction to the overview. Their introduction has a surprisingly of business-speak for a FOSS project: "Taskwarrior is an ambitious project bringing sophisticated capabilities to a simple and elegant productivity tool." It's a command-line todo list.

Despite the confusing overview, it looks highly polished and to be under active development. I wonder how well the device syncing works.
Apple went through this before with MS..looks are not patentable..
But can you pay your rent in BTC or at the grocery store...
As long as the essential things are not available via Bitcoins it is not an independent system and thus successible to goverment intervention.
And even then. People tend to trust currencies issued by the government more and money is just an artificial thing based on trust.
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We use paper as money because a strong entity said they would accept those pieces of paper for tax payments. Rather than going to jail.
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Create a database of every product in every store and make it searchable. Make a search engine that tells you where nearby the product is available for purchasing. Some of the bigger retailers provide this already on their own websites.
The best products solve niche problems that the solver is familiar with and is personally invested in solving. So if I have 3 good ideas, I'll do one and give the other 2 away - that way all my problems get solved!

This is called commerce, and it doesn't have to be the cutthroat fixed sum game that corporate culture has made it.

The goal of business should be quality of life and prioritizing problem solving, not getting richer than the next guy.

So there should totally be an idea exchange!
I have been in your position before—I still am in a way—and I can understand the frustration you’re going through. But first, I think you should really narrow-down the subjects you want help with if you want to find a dedicated mentor. There are many of us here that will help you in some capacity to get to where you want to be. But your current list is way too big for a dedicated mentor to help you with and from the sounds of it it sounds too big for yourself to take on at the moment.

I know you want to catch up with all the stuff you’ve missed working in a dead-end job, but you should treat this as a marathon and not a race. Leave an email in your profile and focus on a few practices and technologies that the people that contact you can help you with and that align with where you are heading. Pick stuff that naturally bleed together, ie: Rails and TDD

Are you still in your current Java-based job? Ask your manager if there are any projects you can join where they are testing the stuff you are interested in—even widget companies and megacorps have projects like these. Also ask your co-workers about what they hack on outside of work, you might find your mentor this way. Even though you dislike your job I’m suggesting you look towards it to help you on your journey, because if they’re supportive enough you’ll be able to turn a situation you hate in your favour and boost your happiness a bit.

If my advice about looking towards your current job doesn’t work out, you may have to just take a break from everything for a while, like others here have said. Then come back and take on your problems with renewed energy.

Again, leave an email in your profile for others to contact you. I’m moving from away from being a developer to a designer, but hit me at energy@eswat.ca if you found anything I’ve said useful. :)
Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if:

- home screen widgets

- addressbook/social media integration (so I can see the faces that match all those names)

- unlock straight to missed calls

and other Android/HTC/Samsung innovations appeared in future versions of the iPhone.
Marketing - a piece of cake...
They will want to support x64 on ARM anyway, because Windows is going on it. If Apple was to do this, now is a good time. Have a Windows program, and a Mac port you care about? Port both (hopefully). That's assuming anyone other than VM and driver companies will notice the change and will have to code for ARM.
Are there any sites similar to ThemeForest that have designs better suited to content heavy, non Wordpress sites? I haven't come across anything that is even close to the quality level yet.
The article was written by two persons, who, by the descriptions of their credentials at the end of the article, have a very weak background in economics. Following the article's suggestion of "making medical education free, while charging those doctors who want to gain specialty training" still leaves open the question of how many M.D.s will want to engage in primary care, leaving unaddressed "the chronic wage gap between primary care providers and specialists." And when the article says, "For the plan to work, it will also be critical that medical schools do not start raising tuitions just because people other than their students are footing the bill," it basically announces that the plan won't work.
It's a social problem, not a technical one, so it needs a social solution. (That probably means assertive moderation, thread killing and user-banning.)

I don't see how you can align the game mechanics of a scoring system with the kind of tone and content HN's looking for. We're geeks, we'll work out how to game it.
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This is probably a very bad idea. It's too early to tell where Bitcoin will go, and whether it will achieve widespread acceptance as a currency. Putting all of your savings into something highly speculative isn't very wise, unless you can afford to lose them.
There is a certain benefit to tried-and-trusted systems with known strengths and weaknesses.

I'm not advocating lethargy when adopting new technologies, keeping reliable equipment and weaponry is a good thing.

Also, the cost of creating new technologies may not yield significant benefits. E.g. the F-22 is only marginally better (or marginally worse depending on your perspective) than the aircraft it was intended to replace, but at a huge cost.
Maybe god just sucks at design
The mini reactors still have the same unsolved problem like current technology. The waste needs to be stored somewhere for thousands of years and it must be ensured that it doesn't diffuse into ground water.

We can state with confidence that we will never solve this problem.

A pitch for thorium reactors on google techtalks argued how that type would produce waste that is safe after 500 years. But what could happen in an accident? The US thorium test reactor he talked about is arguably the biggest radioactive mess and will cost a lot of effort to decomission.

There are similar pitches for nuclear fusion systems which may work or may not work (ITER or some weird accelerator pulse based system in sodium gas !!!). One can argue that fusion will create LOTS of neutrons that will bombard and activate the surroundings and can easily create the same waste problem we have in fusion reactors.

One should argue that from now on every time someone brings up a new 'safe' nuclear reactor technology that they also talk about decommissioning costs: What is the price to put each gram of expected radioactive waste into a proton beam at CERN and transmute it into fast decaying products.

Alternatively they are free to propose lasers for transmutation or whatever is cheaper.

One can expect solar power to be the winner in any such comparison. The sun has been proven to be a safe place for a fusion reactor since the beginning of time.
People introductions is a nascent field. Nobody has owned it yet as all the companies in the field are just getting started.

So far we've seen the trust model: http://sonar.me lets you know when your FB or Twitter friends of friends are in the room. Then there's the recommendations model, like okcupid.com recommends people to each other to date, but take the dating out of it and add foursquare checkins for location down to the venue level. Not sure if anyone is doing this model.

There's Agora (http://agoraapp.com), but I'm not really sure what they do to tell you whom to meet.

http://grubwith.us is doing an excellent job in the dining niche.
Anyone wants to speculate on battery life?
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If you get malware, it’s virtually certain it’s your fault?
We originally used paper money, because it was backed by something (banks, gold, etc). Nowadays most (all?) paper money has been centralized to government control.
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Seems to happen a lot with bigwigs.

Soros shorting the pound. Buffett investing in Visa.

Bitcoin is going to go through the roof, speculators or not. The guy in the article is taking a calculated bet that will pay off.
Perhaps just give them an API where they can get the scores?
Yeah, I don't get why it is suddenly real prototypal inheritance just because it uses a wrapper function which hides the constructor. The resulting instance have exactly the same inheritance semantics.
Knowing Rick, this is exactly the kind of thing he would do. You gotta give him credit for putting money where his mouth is, though. He previously took all his savings, and a bank loan to start the Pirate Party, and that worked out pretty well.
This could just be a user option. Turn the scores off by default but allow people to turn them on if they want. You could then easily query how many people had them turned-on and it might give further data points to later query with regards to how it impacts the site.
This is a completely viable concept-www.freepatentsonline.com makes at least $150k/month through taking patent information and putting it online in a searchable format.

When you take useful information and put it up like this, that also creates a lot of value for people-trying to search the USPTO for patent information is a nightmare when you don't know what you're doing.