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Using perlbrew, I can install a version of Perl without messing up the system installation, as would the default package manager. I have to migrate data from a legacy Catalyst app which pulls in a lot of modules with specific versions, which should not reside in the OS package management system (nor should the OS try to update them).

Thanks for the FPM-link, that looks interesting for packaging my own software :)
Modest CPUs produce bitcoins very slowly. So, there is an incentive to create a botnet to harness the power of thousands of CPUs to mine bitcoins.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
I wonder what world people come from where $10,000,000 isn't worth taking. Are they sitting on a family fortune?

Also, once you have your $10,000,000 payout, then you can swing for the fences all day on your later projects. With a few million in the bank you can afford to take the bigger risks. The stress of running a start-up while you have $50 in the bank is real.
Canvas is way more of an LMS (Learning Management System), than a learning platform. My only experience is with MITx, which has a very different goal than an LMS.
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And I wished the R main website would get a face-lift as well :)
It's actually a thing: https://github.com/paultag/hy
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Moved to San Francisco on my own last September(19, from Portland). Worked at Trader Joe's for a while before landing an internship/entry level position at a Oakland MSP. Studying for my RHCSA currently. I love my job as a help desk assistant. It is the highest paying job I have had and most relevant to my hacker interests.

Planning on returning to school this Fall. Accepted into the software engineering program of a very small school (Oregon Institute of Technology) as a junior transfer thanks to taking CC courses throughout HS, 3 year graduation plan. Other options are SF State or CCSF to finish lower division Calculus an attempt to transfer to Berkeley in 2014.

Struggling because I'm not sure what I would be happy doing. Living in SF these past few months has been exciting! But also a lonely experience. Haven't made many friends at all. Still I feel like it could be easier to accomplish what I want to do with my life if I stay SF.
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Thank you, I tried to find the flag definition, I think newsguidelines.html is the wrong page, or it should ALSO be on the FAQ.
> it clearly is not a fully developed language

Says who? Your intuition?

> the parallel drawn with French was simply incorrect

If you'd actually read that part carefully, you'd notice that the specifics of the example were incorrect, but even the correction is still a valid double-negative in French.

> if you're not teaching English effectively

As has been repeated several times throughout this thread, the argument was never about changing the English teaching curriculum. It was about having the teachers learn AAVE so they understand their students.
Can we stop with the bitcoin topics that are solely about the price? Sure, if a company starts accepting it it's news, if something happens to bitcoin network it's news, but not this. This is getting crazy. This is not 'pimp your currency' news (yes, I say that as a bitcoin dev). I'm sure everyone one HN has made their mind about it by now anyway...
You might need desire. What I (and millions of ordinary people) need when it comes to cars is a cost-effective solution, which means resale value, parts, cost, petrol etc. Desire comes last.
A toy with a 1.4 bn market cap.

Of course no one - including you - will remember your prophecy come August, but I am pretty sure you are wrong. Why? Because history does not repeat itself, esp. not when it comes to speculation.
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as a catch all. if they want to get rid of you, they can always cite this as a reason.
Because the OP doesn't mention which version of Backbone he's using nor is there a date for his posting, it's hard to tell how up to date the advice is. This stood out to me (though I think it's relatively minor):

Listing 7: Get model from collection by client id
ImageGallery.getByCid(534);

The `getByCid` method has been removed since 0.9.10: https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/compare/0.9.9...0....
And they used to be running on bartering, gold and silver.

Things change.

I wonder how "running" cyprus is now :P

I'd say the fundamentals could be found looking in the weaknesses in government/central bank fiat and the controls put in place on how freely people can obtain and receive goods/services.

But yeah, this is a bubble, but if you look at the fundamentals that governments/central banks are running on now, it just takes one country with a overly bloated private banking sector and dieselboom to apply his templates… :P
I'm raising my LOL target to over 9000.

Also, mtgox is down; has been for about an hour.
It seems like a price target of $400 misses the point.

Bitcoin is likely making order of magnitude changes in value, one direction or another.

Edit: Oops, didn't read the article first, the author isn't actually setting a price target because he doesn't like Bitcoin, but I still stick by my statement.
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If I adjust the numbers to something more reasonable I would end up with about $700 a month. Which really isn't that bad for a car in this class, but more than I would pay. I'd love to own one someday though.
USD used to be backed by silver (and it was explicitly stated -- see http://www.ebay.com/itm/1957-1-Dollar-Bill-Payable-in-Silver... for an example)

Nowadays the power of the US government backs the dollar.
I find that certifications are often contra-indicative. I am afraid when people do not ashamedly mention them.
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They are somehow different. Governments back currencies up with debt (it used to be gold) and/or natural resources.

Bitcoin is decentralized by definition, and that's a huge difference because only rely in market value (not saying is bad per se). This might change if governments start regulating and supporting the currency.
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It could be the fact that you have a strange combination of both an old phone and (what could be a customized) Opera Mini.

I have an iPhone at Orange and never saw this.
It's assuming you make a separate trip to fuel your car (it mentions time to drive to the station, fill and return home). It's an idiotic assumption.

Changing it to five minutes (or less if you just top your car off at 1/2 or 3/4 tank) is much more realistic.
Wanting attention for your submission is not always a bad thing. An enlightened individual seeks the feedback of people they believe will provide valuable insight. Although, even amongst these people, I wouldn't find it surprising to discover an undercurrent of expectation that their posting will result in a chorus of agreement.

For example, my blog doesn't have a community of people nearly as strong as Hacker News, so while pushing the discussion to HN is almost always a self-serving act, I don't believe it is always about ego. Often it's about learning.
According to that graph, mtgox stopped responding and they've been displaying the last available price since then.
Maybe a good analogy would be intelligent design. Sure, we can't say there is a 0% chance ID is false. But all evidence points to that. It's a fallacious argument to say something is possible because science hasn't proven it completely false.
Or should you always list it, so you have the conversation if they try to follow that before you get an offer :D
Why don't you link to peer-reviewed studies that definitively prove that corn and sugar cause cancer. It's quite disturbing and outrageous that you're using Iain's cancer to scare the public for political gain.
api is still working…

http://data.mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/depth/fetch
Hacker News: for when all you really want to talk about is Bitcoin and Aaron Swartz.
For stock, at least, you can exactly pick and choose which individual shares you are selling, UNLESS you are also buying at a similar time. That would be a "wash sale" and LIFO is Required in that case.
Yeah the S-class value drops tremendously as do almost all other luxury vehicles. I buy used Cadillacs because they drop 50% in 2-3 years.
The 1.0 spec is at:

hybridmemorycube.org/files/SiteDownloads/HMC_​Specification_1_​0.pdf
Awesome! Would be useful if there were callbacks for binding events after the node has been created.
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In other words, when your goal is not to build a sustainable, profitable company with lasting value, but rather just to get out as fast as possible with as much money as possible... just how far away is such a person from "scam artist"?

Sure, I don't disagree with any of that. I mean, wanting to have "fuck you money" does not necessarily imply that you're only interested in the exit, or that you want to "just get out as fast as possible with as much money as possible". There's some middle ground there.
More money is not what is needed here--we already pour tons of money into cancer research. What's needed are new ideas. If you really want to fight cancer, skip the startup and go to graduate school. Computational and mathematical approaches to understanding and fighting cancer are still in their infancy. There is a lot of scope for smart, motivated people to do good.
If you believe this so heavily that you are already quoting your previous comment, why not short Bitcoins at https://icbit.se/? Surely you'd make a killing on it if what you believe is true.

It's easy to make grandstanding statements from the sidelines. If you're wrong, no one really remembers. If you are right, you get to harp on it whenever the subject comes up.
I see where you're coming from, but I think there's a place for these, even though I wish there was a unified solution.

I do like the "isolated" package management these systems offer, and would like to see a good way for user-level packaging to be managed in a more universal way. It's extremely useful to be able to deploy multiple isolated environments, with conflicting dependencies, on the same server and not affect the system libraries in any way.

Say I need libfoo1.1 that conflicts with the system version for project A, and when related project B rolls around, it needs libfoo2.0 in the same system. Do I build a series of _project_A.deb and _project_B.deb packages, with separate install prefixes, and rebuild their associated dependencies in turn?

Large deployments are often very complex systems, and being able to decouple individual environments is a huge improvement.
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I should have been more specific in the original comment...'his last two Culture books'.
Ok now that's new to me. If you can go 320GB/s on a measly 16bit bus, then it's really feasible to have this as your main memory. On the other hand imagine what you can do with this memory on a GPU, you'd probably get over 1TB/s there. Actually, that's something NVIDIA already has on their roadmap as far as I remember seeing it at GTC.
These are also nice and would like to join in the party :)

map *.total, @orders; # perl6

@orders.map: *.total; # perl6 OO

map {$_->total} @orders; # perl5

orders map(total) # Io

map-each n orders [n/total] ; Rebol
"Because history does not repeat itself"

Sorry but human history is full of cycles and mistakes repeated over and over.

Have you ever heard "Humans are the only animals that stumble on the same rock twice" ?
"Because history does not repeat itself, esp. not when it comes to speculation."

See every bubble ever.
"Be strong on YouTube." Great Advice. Also, advice for pediatricians: "Be good with kids." Love it when advice is so general that it's insulting.
Me too man but I gave up that dream a decade ago.

The hot-new-scripting-language community and top-two-or-three-linux-distro communities just never seem to get along well enough to eliminate this needless layer of duplication and complexity. IMHO its a lot more about fiefdoms and autonomy than technical considerations.
If you want to get meta, then people should not invest at all-- no risk of loss. But people also enjoy then thrill of gambling, son let it ride.
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But unless the blogger uses very specific software (read: excluding static generators), there is no way to know someone has just posted a comment to a post you wrote two years ago. I'd much rather them send me an email so I can answer in due time rather than let the comment rot, and look like an ass for not responding.

Honestly, I understand your argument and I respect it. But if it's a two-way communication, email is better albeit private; if it's between more than two people, then I feel like HN or alike is a better place.
I would have agreed with you if Qt used something like the #pragma directive. Alas, they decided to inject keywords inside of the standard language which breaks every C++ compiler.
during the first bubble i bought about a hundred bitcoins (2k usd worth), just after few days the bubble unfortunately popped and the price was back to 4-5, and i decided to sell them (it was my first "trading" experience, the stress of the losing was high), after a while (late 2012) i bought back what i had left for $9 and sold them for $13, now I just wish that I kept them instead when i bought them initially :-(
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That's been displaying the same price ($141.32001) for the past hour, though.
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As I noted in a comment elsewhere in this thread, Comcast (or any other vendor) doesn't need to go through the work of getting certs into major browser. They just need to purchase and use a root signing certificate that works under the existing root CAs that are already in all the browsers.

This is part of why the trust model of the current CA system is fundamentally broken. We need to add a layer that can ensure that we are in fact using the SSL certificate that the site owner wants us to use.

There are multiple solutions being proposed out there to add this trust layer. I am a strong advocate of DANE ( http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/dane/ ) but there are others out there, too.

There was a good talk about this at Black Hat USA 2011 on "SSL and the Future Of Authenticity" at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
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I think you would be better off with a straight lease, but to set that up you need to calculate depreciation correctly. In this case it seems like tesla is protected from having to eat it if the depreciation of these vehicles is insanely high. The cost is passed on to the customer. Although tesla will be on the line for the difference between the Model S and the S-class should the Model S depreciate faster.

The other thing is that I thought they couldn't make these fast enough as is? Why do they need a financing product like this to get people into the cars?
Sounds like he's getting back to his research; which is good, since maybe it won't be as maudlin and self-indulgent as _I Am A Strange Loop_ was.
I'm willing to bet that once the dust settles on this a year from now, some sort of huge Wall Street-esque conspiracy or fraud will be exposed that propelled the price up so insanely, and then all crypto-currencies will be at risk. All other bubbles we've seen in the last 15 years have been frauds, be it the dot-com bubble, the housing bubble, etc. This is no different, and reeks of fraudulent behavior.
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and we've never ate so many chemical food preservatives, taste modifiers, colourants like we're eating now. we've never been exposed to so much radiations like we are now. mobile phones being the first source. and the list goes on. we definitely are doing something to ourselves.
You can still have bitcoin banks that are allowed to "print" money like they do now.

It would be the bitcoin dollar. It will first be backed by actual bitcoins.
After a while, banks would negotiate the rights to lend out money they don't. They'd only need a small ratio. We then have the same situation as now ;)

The good thing about BTC is that it's a cheap fast and safe way to transfer money and the supply is limited
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Oh I didn't catch that part. You structure a purchase like a lease because you can only get the tax credit on a purchase. The reasoning makes a little bit more sense now.
Agree - Tesla taps the passion of the die hard enthusiasts. The range and performance of the Model S is comparatively exceptional to that of the Volt and Leaf. Model S is sexy and exciting and I WANT to drive it, I don't simply concede to drive it as a best option.
Here you go (from source): http://blockchain.info/charts/market-cap?showDataPoints=fals...
> Now, I'm rather skeptical of the whole process myself, but the crynoics guys understand biology 101.

Actually, they mostly understand Psychology 101, which is that people are willing to pay unlimited amounts of money for the promise of life after death. SEE ALSO: turning lead into gold.
Way too speculative for new users. I think its the players themselves.

This might not be that known but Bitcoin has a stockmarcket with bonds and stock. For the volume of the coin, a significant part of the users of the coin are people trading and speculating with it.
They are way more comfortable and likely to play with a rise like this than any other.

Someone with 1000 BTC made over 60k dollars in a couple of weeks.
I would have to argue that I trust an anonymous computer network and my own ability to keep a wallet file safe over any bank in the world.

At least a blockchain isn't actively out to scam me out of money.
Please note that patents are not considered by the FDA as an compensation method in regard to investment in clinical trials. For clinical trials, FDA gives out a special monopole status to encourage further trials to be made. In this case, Tecfidera got exclusivity power in the market from both the FDA and the patent office.
Noob question: as I understand Bitcoins are linked to values of other currencies. Is it possible to link it to a stable non-currency value/index? (I'm thinking about the Big Mac index here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index)

Or to put it in another way: it it possible to link a Bitcoin value (or any currency) to an index not influenced by greed? Could it be linked to the number of people alive for example?
House prices seem to bubble and crash over and over.
then... turn off the keywords?

Every Qt "keyword" you talk about can be disabled with a fallback to namespaced macros.

foreach -> Q_FOREACH
slots: -> Q_SLOTS

etc.
If the value drops so much that there aren't enough coins in circulation to support then spending level, you can't spend it. If sellers aren't also buyers in the virtual market, they won't generate demand for BTC.
I often observe the same thing.

I consider myself the lowest of the low, and even I am disappointed by 9/10 HN posts hiding their valuable comments (they do exist) far below the first thing that I see on my web browser.

Self-indulgent comments like yours and mine should be ignored, not upvoted.
It's not pointless, see my other reply:

> If what you want to say is, "Okay, Shakespeare used double negatives for emphasis, but he spoke a different dialect than I do, and in my dialect double negatives reverse meaning", that's a fine and fairly uncontroversial statement, in that it forces one to acknowledge that one speaks a dialect. If on the other hand you're trying to say, "Okay, but that was an old kind of English and English today is different," that's factually false.
I think we disagree on the extent to which "desire to become wealthy" should be a driving factor. I think the state where founders are primary driven by short-term wealth is not appropriate (it is easier to be wealthier in other areas like finance), whereas I take your comments to suggest that you think it's acceptable for making money to be the primary motivation.

Aah, gotcha. Well, we may not disagree that much after all. I am not saying that "desire to be wealthy" should be a big driving factor, I'm just OK with the idea that it might be. And, more to the point, going back to my original comment that prompted all this, I'm saying that it's OK to "take the money" (that is, take an acquisition) if you need a large sum of money, at a point-in-time, and that's the best route to get it. The reasons you might want to do that are very varied, personal and subjective, and I don't think any of us have the right to judge somebody who makes that decision.

As far as what I find "acceptable", you should understand... I'm a libertarian who finds everything "acceptable" as long as it doesn't involve initiation of force or fraud. But finding something "acceptable" is not the same thing as finding it "desirable" or "good". And since I have no standing to judge someone else's decisions, it doesn't really matter what I think about their motivations, goals, desires, etc.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is why if you are hiring a programmer, you always ask for a work-sample test before making the hiring decision final.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923

Yes, the code sample suggests someone clueless about programming in general, even more than being clueless about the particular language of this program. So on what basis was the coder hired?
Price doesn't change because mtgox is down and people cannot trade.
I post about my beliefs relating to bitcoin/cryptocurrency right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5486245

Would love to see much discussion about the topics.

Anyway the post (posted 2 hours ago) is not in the front page anymore.
That quote lost a lot of its punch after it was used over and over by parapsychologists, perpetual motion device "inventors" and other groups that went on to deserve ridicule. I'm not saying that Bitcoin isn't going to do interesting things, but being used as the rallying cry of clowns seems to have given it a stigma. There are plenty of ways to promote BTC without claiming that ridicule means that history will absolve you and give a stunning legitimacy to whatever concept.
> "A few days ago, the value of all the bitcoins in the world blew past $1 billion for the first time ever"

Can somebody help me understand something? Might be very basic, and perhaps I should understand this already, but...

How is it possible for the "value of all the bitcoins in the world" to be anything, in truth?

I understand that this comes from saying "1 BTC is selling on average for $X USD, and there are X Bitcoins in circulation, therefore the total market size is $1BN"

But... knowing that they are not underwritten or backed, surely they're only "worth" what somebody will pay for them. Nobody would pay $1BN for all of them, because that would render them all worthless.

Even if 10% of them were sold in one day, surely the value would drop precipitously, therefore slashing the total "value" of all the bitcoins to maybe half or a tenth of its current estimation.

So I ask again, how can the "value of all the bitcoins in the world" be any figure, let alone $1BN?
The 5-year survival for the earliest stage (I) neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer treated with surgery is 61%. The latest stage (IV) is 15%. Stage II puts you at about 50%.

That just doesn't seem like he "more than likely" would have survived to me, but looks more like a coin flip. And that was with the "good" pancreatic cancer.
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If you're not really willing to put money down on your prediction for whatever reason, you should at least use Prediction Book. I even made the initial prediction topic for you: http://predictionbook.com/predictions/17184
Bitcoin price increase lacks the necessary volume element. So little people are buying and selling at this price.