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Perhaps all Boston residents should carry GPS? For public safety of course.

Of course, to disallow people from removing such device and defeating the public safety effectiveness of this measure, the device would be implanted surgically.

And to allow for the identification of bodies, there should be several, just in case a limb gets lost, or a bullet destroy one...

The procedure should be painless (relatively) and should be covered by the Affordable Care Act (we think, we haven't really read the law), so residents that resist such measures could be deemed troublemakers and put into a government database such as the no-fly list, and other such lists, for possible rounding up at the first sign of trouble.

All in the name of public safety, of course.

Of course.
I've asked you why you think gold is a better currency than Bitcoin. You've answered, roughly, "There's a lot of it being hoarded by some people all over the world."

I think maybe I just don't understand you. Are you saying because gold is one popular store of value, it is a better currency than Bitcoin? That's kinda what I'm hearing, but that doesn't really make sense, so I assume I'm misinterpreting you.

From my perspective, the US currency (and most of the currencies found the world over) are not backed by gold or other precious metals. The idea of gold==money has been kind of dead since before I was born, and I'm not convinced there's a useful reason to return to it in the Internet age. Sending gold over a wire is not feasible, so I'd have to trust someone to hold my gold for me, were I to use it as a currency. That's not really appealing to me. The de-centralized nature of BTC is what makes it so disruptive.

It just feels like a really old-fashioned idea that we should return to gold for currency (and I've felt that way even way back when I was a card-carrying member of the LP and a subscriber to Reason and Liberty magazines).
Once goods and services are available ubiquitously to buy in bitcoin fiat money will become worthless.

This isn't a bubble IMO, it's just that USD won't hold it's value compared to available currency that has at least has some value.

:-D
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it's pseudo anonymous. I send 1 bitcoin to a wallet. You are law enforcement. Prove the owner of the recipient wallet. good luck with that.
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I'm turning 40 next week and I haven't been in a situation like that, but I've been in many kinds of situations.

If you expect human beings to act rationally, to stay true to their vows no matter what, to actually know why they do things, to actually do the things they know are best for them, etc........ I can only say you're in for a hell of a ride.

Good luck.
funnily enough, the average increases if you ignore gox. presumably because of the volume of BTC China.
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pulling the code right now!
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Who's sold their Bitcoin?
I only had 0.9 left So I sold it for about $450. With the recent rise to $750+ I cant help but feel i should've held out for a few more days haha. Who else has unloaded theirs ?
Watch the watchers.
Is this site no longer working?
http://realtimebitcoin.info/

What's the best site to bookmark for a simple real time price quote?
I don't think there is any question that democracy is an absolutely awful system of government. You might that it's the best system we have, like I do, but it is terribly inefficient and full of problems.

There are incentive problems, like people having no incentive to do in depth research on all the political issues before they vote. There is the problem of respecting minority rights since only the majority has any control. And psychologically it's a terrible system since it creates "Blues vs Greens" type situations and needlessly polarizes everything. Any kind of rational discussion gets drowned out over a thousand voices cheering on their "team" against their hated rivals.
I just mention tooth like interesting side factor. Surely it's not the main reason, but may be a consequence supporting the reason. And surely there is no nations that, holding their smiles just because of their tooth not glowing in the dark.

Maybe you confused with the mentioning teeth by itself, but its normal for cultural anthropology to try taking physiology, language, healthcare e.t.c as a whole if it giving any clues.

Talking about conscious we should consider that it is one of the reflexes "tamed" by human. Reflexes have its own specific muscle tension/relaxing patterns. You can see reflexes in clean form when looking on babies. Than human learning some communication norms and codes just imitating what it see around. Than he can use trained gestures, sounds e.t.c unconsciously, just little cortex fire and we performing it. We can train to suppress reflexes this way.

Imagine, we have salute gesture like scratching a nose. The muscle tension and motional pattern will be a little different from the case we really have an itchy nose.

Or you have a cough or just imitating cough sound. It's easy to separate. But if you spent time training imitate cough naturally it will look and sound naturally.

So we can differ several cases:
Human smiling but suppressing it.
Human smiling or well trained or self-trained to smile "sincerely".
Human imitating smile of request.

And i behold that Russians:
imitate smile on request very rough and this mean deficient practice of imitation.
have suppressed smile relatively as often as other ones.
smile noticeable rarely.

So we really have rare-firing reflex. What the reason? This is separate and interesting question.
Sorry, havn't kept myself update on BTC lately. What could be the reason for such quick rise in its value?
The analysis sounds a bit absurd to me. It does not matter if Dropbox is making $1B or $0.5B, what matters is how much profit are they making and if that method of making profits is scalable.

If a company that is making $1B in yearly revenues is raising a paltry sum of $250m through investments I am not sure if they see themselves in good financial situation.
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"yes, you should throw a few grand into bitcoin..."
> bitcoin doesn't seem suited to handle the economic needs of the modern world.

There's a school of thought that the expansionary fractional reserve system we've had for the last 100+ years has worked OK because more and more fossil fuel energy was available over that time. It's possible we're in a new era where total energy usage will be essentially static, and the current monetary and banking system won't work.

I'm not necessarily saying I buy the argument.
BTC just crossed $1032 in China

http://i.imgur.com/etPRM0q.png
The point is so does bitcoin - to respond to a few parent comments above you
Is it actually possible to sell BTC held in a random wallet and withdraw the proceeds as USD? I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the various exchanges, and am wondering if it is truly a convertible currency. (Assume that selling ~500 BTC would not move the market.)
That's a feature, not a bug. Yay! (Chrome) I have 40 tiny tabs and I don't know what any of them are! At least Firefox + tabs provides real tab management options: scroll bar, Tree Style Tabs, Panorama, etc.
Arguably, A good time to invest in litecoin too. It has almost touched $10.
The proliferation of these kidns of boot camps is startling -- I wish the best to anyone who signs up, but to be good at just about anything, you need to put in more than 9 weeks...
I wonder how much this fellow paid in Social Security taxes over the years. I don't understand why people can't use their own resources when they need them, rather than when other people think they need them.

The rules of a 401K and IRAs allow you to borrow from your own retirement funds (albeit with penalty if not paid back within a certain window). It seems like that would be more desirable than the funds being untouchable.
It's an IRC channel called #bitcoin-otc-uk (they have ones for the usa etc too).
I just talked to people and found someone who wanted to buy. They have a little rating system and someone who was online said they'd dealt with them before. So that was good enough for me as they had good reviews and seemed trustworthy. I then transfered the bitcoins and they sent the money by bank transfer. (We made the transaction publicly in the chatroom so that there'd be others to record it.) It wasn't too bad. If you want to buy/sell some I'd recommend this.
I've been to France dozens of time and once lived there for a year. I find the French easy to engage with and generally courteous and friendly, unlike the usual stereotype.
Not so much in the American colonies, but they were informed by the ones in Europe. This was the era Thomas Malthus himself grew up in (b. 1766).

The basis of the U.S. "yeoman farmer" idea was, in part, that there was land available for continual expansion. Simply go west, kick out the natives, and all your citizens could be given a plot of their own - organizing around this goal gave the government stability and purpose, even though it had several obvious flaws.

This was also the genesis of the internal conflicts during the 19th century; the eventual victory of the federalists in the Civil War was, in effect, the creation of a new nation organized around industrial capitalism.
You forgot "I want something to read while building, so hey what does hacker have to say."
I can't emphasize how easy it is to extract JVM runtime information and how useful that information is for performance tuning. Sure the JVM uses a bigger initial footprint when compared to a natively compiled application, but the ability to see how it's working is invaluable.

My program is RAM hungry...ish, but with its easily accessible garbage collection (GC) information, I can really get the most out of a 512MB VPS. Just have the GC logs written to RAM disk and have it rotate and you'll be amazed at what kind of useful stats you can generate.

You can see how I'm using it here:

http://screenshots.gitsense.com/jvm-monitoring.html

The 10 minute ratio stat lets me know how much time was spent doing garbage collection within the last 10 minutes.
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and now he blogs for degreed.com, a startup focused on breaking the University's strangehold on degrees as an indicator of personal educational outcomes and career potential.
Yup. There's a certain absurdity to it. The names of the current mafia bosses in the New York area are listed on Wikipedia (Five Families).
I'm not an expert at all, but right now, I think the only thing stopping them from buying large quantities of Bitcoin is availability. Throwing money at a problem is sort of a unique proposition when the problem is money, and everybody else is doing the same.

The question I would have is what objective would that satisfy? Is there some power in holding a slight majority of the currency? I mean, they already hold quite a lot of regular cash (or at least do transiently), but that doesn't seem to be affecting dollars in the same way that shares in a corporation does.

Perhaps I'm missing it, but I don't know what significance would arise from a single entity holding a majority of the currency. If there is, and I'm clueless, my apologies.
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Great idea! Getting the word out to the target audience is will be key.
I developed a system called Ad-Curve that helps you crunch the numbers.

(I'm working on a better explanation, but in the interim check out the "Mendoza Pottery" case study which walks through the calculations.)

It's really handy at doing things like crunching whether or not you'll lose money with a given CTR, for instance, and also contains an explanation and suggestions for most of the key variables.

Too bad it doesn't write headlines for you, too :) http://ad-curve.com

Email me directly (jamieson at ad-curve.com) if you have any questions
Yikes that totally is not working on the iphone.
Yeah, you just register on an exchange, deposit your BTC, trade them into USD and withdraw USD.

I just did this with BTC-E.com today.
The Dropbox board obviously feels that an $8 Billion valuation is appropriate. As rational actors, they want to raise money at the highest valuation possible. They have more information than any TechCrunch blogger, so I highly doubt Dropbox is undervalued.
Good thing that's not all they are doing.
I sold my 10 at $309 :(, bought 3 back at $400 the next day.
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Actually, I whole-heartedly agree with this statement. Not sure whether that means I should continue being a "douche".
Hehe. How do you know I made a massive profit. I could have bought it just hours ago. ;)
You're correct though, I got mine for $100 dollars a little while back. I may regret it but $700 is not to be sniffed at. I feel that although it may go up massively it could of course go down too. The economy is just too unstable for me at the moment.
This seems like a very convoluted way of coming to the valuation. Revenue != profit. I can easily create business that generates $1bn/month in revenue by selling dollars for 90 cents. Dropbox may be worth $8bn, but surely it makes more sense to assess the valuation based on the growth in profitability?
What I was alluding to was if you and I both held 100,000 BTC for example, and we wanted to push up the value of BTC so facilitate a sell off in the future... because of our large holding it shouldn't be too hard for us to accept a loss while we buy/sell large quantities as long as we push the price up higher.

If we were colluding to push the price up, we could both coordinate large buy/sell orders and dump them into the market adding volume and shifting the price a bit... people watching just see trades and see the price moving, thinking its credible trades...

I could be wrong, but if market buy orders take the lowest offered, and market sell orders take the highest offered I think it would work as I imagine.

This means those two parties now have a bunch of cash on hand and still hold a lot of BTC, they could now set a bot to continually put buy orders in at an escalating exchange rate. Also sell at an escalating exchange rate. Every now and then execute a large trade to push some volume into the market... it wouldn't work for every trade as normal people would jump in and buy or sell and take their cash/BTC... but on a long enough scale I think it would work.
Right, but you no longer have a "pure bitcoin" banking system. You have a dual currency system that is predicated on the trust of (1) the US government and (2) the bitcoin community.

Also, such a system mutes a key feature of current "money multiplier" based systems, which is recursion. Under the current system, when you deposit $100 in a bank, that bank can then lend $10 to nine other people. Who can then each take that $10 and deposit it nine other banks, which can each lend $1 to nine other people...

Without this effect, the money multiplier would probably need to be tweaked pretty drastically.
All of this sounds like great advice. Heck, it's even perfect advice.

And, therein lies the problem. Life doesn't always (i.e. almost never does) present you with a perfect set of circumstances that allows you to respond by making the perfect set of choices.

For instance, you point out the need to consider that a job can have negative impact on family life. That's true. OTOH, perhaps that was his means of maximizing economic opportunity. It's a tough choice, and many make the same one he did every day (for better or worse).

Another: "being a single-source-of-income family is risky". Sure it is, but this must be weighed against the benefit of having one parent focused solely on raising the children (especially with a large family). Also, the costs of day-care in the case of multiple younger children vs. the earning potential of the at-home parent must be considered.

That's not to say the author didn't make poor decisions (as he's acknowledged). It's just to say that life presents a lot of really difficult decisions that frequently require making tradeoffs. Nailing them just right can be very, very difficult. Further, many times the quality of our decisions (or lack thereof) are borne out by circumstances that are beyond our control and not always by our prescient and masterful decision-making.
If severe deficiency at playing an instrument caused heart attacks, sure, that would be a great idea.
Bitcoinity's site is probably one of the better ones.

http://bitcoinity.com/markets

You need to watch the other US exchanges as well, not just MtGox. It's basically impossible to get USD from MtGox right now, making it a very poor benchmark for the actual exchange rate.
What do you mean by quality control innovations?
... and VisualVM, and Flight Recorder + Java Mission Control, and BTrace/Byteman... the list goes on and on. If you need to, you can print out the assembly code generated by the JIT at runtime, modify your code on the fly, and see how the assembly changes. Erlang's BEAM VM has some of these capabilities, but not the JVM's performance. Other runtimes are decades behind.
The claims made on that site are pretty damn bold... No problem with getting people into coding but to be job ready and be "the best in the market"... wow...
Never give up..
I think an HN person made this one recently http://pricebtc.com/
Author here. The makefiles I'm using are on github:

https://github.com/dwrensha/capnproto-rust/blob/master/Makef...

https://github.com/dwrensha/capnproto/blob/benchmark/c%2B%2B...

I compiled libcapnp with the latest Clang g++ that ships with XCode. It perhaps would be more fair to also compile the C++ benchmarks with Clang, instead of the Macports gcc4.8 that I'm using, but unfortunately Clang barfs on some template hackery in the benchmark driver.
I think you should learn how to use a version control system in an efficient way, in github you have days with >20 commits of css in a row...
Can we please redefine what bargain means?
If they successfully push the price up 250% losing out on trading fees is a cost of doing business...
True, a better way to ascertain value is by factoring in the profits, which is why you have the P/E ratios. However, it is not uncommon to use revenues to calculate value as well.

It is also important to note that they are not making $1B yet, but have just hit a run-rate of $1B. Having $250M in cash is a different thing.
Yeah that kind of pissed me off. It felt like he was promoting the moat that makes it harder for smaller teams to compete. You don't need to start with $10 million in capital to innovate in the bitcoin space. Especially if interfacing with banks is not a key aspect of the business. Accountability is important, however.
The concept of social security as a form of investment/retirement account is a bit of a misconception. In reality, your immediate payments into social security are for the current population that is elderly or disabled. The "promise" of social security is that when you're elderly or disabled, you'll benefit from the system. It's a slight but important difference.

That said, he may have qualified for some sort of federal or state assistance while he was in this state.
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I have had personal success with DBT practiced in a clinical setting. A lot of the skills taught are really great life skills that are applicable to everyone not just those with psychiatric conditions.

It seems DBT builds off of CBT.
Why would you buy 51% of BTC? What you really want to buy is 51% of the hashing power in the BTC network.

And the correct answer is nothing stops them from doing that (or even stops them from having done that in the past).

Its generally presumed that they haven't and won't because it is presumed the cost to do so would exceed the value to the government of doing so.
If "how they are structured" is going to be an argument for calling a 9 billion dollar franchise a non-profit organization, yeah, I'm not sure I want to hear that argument.
Even if they did, it wouldn't matter. They need 51% of the _hashing power_, not 51% of bitcoins, to be able to manipulate the blockchain.
Indeed. Especially given that Dropbox uses Amazon for the actual storage and the massive scale, I wonder what % of that revenue ends up in Amazon's pockets.
Considering that Dropbox are completely dependant on Amazon for their service and overnight Amazon could sink them "ooops your instances just got deleted, oops"

8 billion is a bit of a joke

Now if they owned their own equipment in their own datacenters...
I suspect that this comment was downvoted for a DH2 reason (http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html).

1) I think it's ok to say that someone did something stupid.

2) I think the error he made (not being able to lose) is an important error to be avoided. That's why I posted the comment.
Er, Gold was a currency for a few thousand years. Deflation is a good thing in a currency since it increases it's value when you aren't spending it. I've heard some argue that that might be bad for the economy at a large enough scale, but at an individual level that is certainly a positive.
This is both the worst and best thing to happen to Bitcoin.

It's good because more and more people are learning about Bitcoin. It's never going to stand a chance without mindshare (ignoring any other problems it has).

It's bad because when this bubble bursts, the resulting backlash from people "investing" in it (instead of using it as a currency) is going to put people off.
Sold at $220, for a 150%+ profit. Felt great, thinking it wouldn't get any higher this year.

Yeah, right.
Your example worked fine for me, and returned a list of search results from HN for me with the words 'foo' 'bar' and 'baz'.
In the early 1980s when NFL was enjoying it's first rise to dominance on the national airwaves, PPV was seriously considered and debated. The potential audience was one of the reasons Al Davis moved the Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles.

However, market research demonstrated that there was strong consumer resistance for the concept of paying to watch one's "local" team, and the market for PPV out-of-market teams was not deemed large enough.

(to the cite-your-source pedants: there is a book that says these things, I read it once, but I do not guarantee that my recall is 100% accurate, nor do I remember title of said book.)
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I'm still puzzled as to the manufacturing of these devices. Is the Neo900 just updated internals in a refurbished N900 case, or is it actually a fully manufactured phone based on the design of the N900?
My husband was laid off two years ago. Since then, I "bring home the bacon." He cooks, does the dishes, does the laundry, cleans the house, does all of the shopping, works on the house, walks the dog, does my errands, and just about everything else. When we have a baby, he will be the primary caretaker of our child. It is not the usual path, but it is working out well for us so far. The hardest part for me was getting over the notion that I was being taken advantage of. Money was not the issue, fairness was. However, we are in the admittedly privileged position of being able to live well off of one income. If we were struggling financially, I suppose that I would be telling a different story.
I have not noticed this. I'm using the Nightly version of Firefox though. For me, since Firefox 23/24, it has performed comparably to Chrome.

And believe me I have LOTS of tabs (sometimes > 50) open. Firefox handles them much more nicely than Chrome, uses less memory and doesn't crash, EVER.

Chrome is just too happy to show me the sad face randomly during page loads.
> I have a hard time believing that obesity is causally related to "college football" or televised sports in general.

Correlation is not causation, but it is correlation...i.e. things which will affect college football viewing might affect obesity as well. Ergo, if college football becomes too expensive to watch, maybe obesity rates will reduce. This is my hypothesis; only an actual experiment can show if this is true or not.