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>> Right. There are plenty of situations where a saver becomes richer, one of them is if an employer can make his employees work the same for less.

That's certain goods getting cheaper, not an appreciating hold over the economy in general that a deflating currency represents.

>> But you still haven't answered my question: why is the money producer - who makes sure we have inflation - a more deserving recipient of the increase in wealth from increased productivity than the money saver?

Deserve? That sounds awfully like a moral judgement...

But I don't think you'll find I said that either one deserves it. I said that I'm not going to, by choice, buy into an economy where my effort enriches currency-squatters. That's not my idea of fun. A currency that inflates roughly in line with economic expansion is more pragmatic.

And frankly, if it goes to the money-printers, well that's the government and in theory they get to use it to build useful stuff we all use. I have no issue with reasonable taxes.
Sure, but in this case it was the actual flight computer that aborted the launch. No human had a part in it :)
Ask HN: What are the basics of cryptography with regards to cryptocoins?
I am a CS grad but I didn't touch cryptography much at all because I thought it was a specialization that I didn't need. I think I might be proven wrong in the near future. I would like to build a solid foundation of understanding mostly in regards to cryptocoins but also covering the basics of the field, math and theory included. Where do I start?
You know, unless you need to buy sovereign currency - the thing the vast majority of life's necesssities are denominated in.
Same thing's happening to me (with the same score, at that!). Is there any way (short of clearing cookies) to reset it?
My pi shipped with a plastic, semi-transparent box, if you don't mind the pink colour, you can turn it into a makeshift case.
yikes!!! That's actually terrifying. The dark side of inflation.
Aborting after ignition is only possible with liquid engines. The F9 in particular is designed to light and stabilize all nine engines before removing the restraints holding the rocket down - this gives them very robust abort capabilities. And since the engines are designed for multiple lights, they can even retry it without needing refurbishment.
Yes but Roku supports a wide variety of formats, does Pi + XBMC support anything more than mp4/m4v (H.264) format?
Agreed. In fact, I have no control over photos of me that anyone can post anywhere on the web, where Google indexes them and makes them searchable. At least with Facebook I can untag them and in some cases get them removed....
> EDIT: It's impressive they were able to abort safely after ignition. That's historically rare, isn't it?

I'm not sure how rare it is with liquid fueled rockets, but I know it's not even possible on solid fueled rockets (like the Shuttle's two boosters).
It says a cello must be carried with no additional fee - that means the guy is getting a free seat. Which means the cost of that seat is split between the other passengers.
>> If they are getting richer just by sitting on cash, it means - by definition - that the economy is increasing in size.

FAIL.

It might just mean that more people are sitting on currency and less is in circulation.
I got all excited until I read it won't work in the UK, but it's a great thing otherwise.
half a year? Nothing comes to mind.

Interestingly, 10 years is a different story! http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index
Just said that they're putting a bit more fuel on in the hopes of trying again if the engineers can figure out what went wrong, their window is about an hour.

Also said that if not today, they have more or less the same window tomorrow

EDIT: someone just said starting the clock momentarily ... looks like they might be going again
If you think this is good news for guitar players, it's even better news for cello players. A $3000 guitar is a fairly expensive guitar; a $3000 cello is typically a beginner/intermediate student instrument. And then you have to add a significant amount for the bow.
Caster said they have about 65 minute window today.
Another attempt tomorrow if today won't succeed.
Does SF have a large homeless population?
There must be some reason though.
Did somebody say JSON?!

Oh, sorry... Never mind...
> Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than food

It must be sentient.
I'm interested in what leads you to believe that

Experience shipping hardware. Not much happened to me that Bunnie didn't warn me about, directly or indirectly. (I've followed his blog for a long time.)

I don't understand what this means in the context of business to business deals.

"Full retail" meaning "buy production inventory from DigiKey." The manufacturers' reps are usually able to cut you a much better deal than DigiMouse(tm).
The whole point is that the intelligence is "universal." By definition, we are talking about a thing which is able to transcend what it knows. So to me, the whole point is to introduce a variety of environments so that it learns the truly salient knowledge that is applicable across many games. And the most important of facts is this: stay alive. We might be able to bootstrap an ai up to a self-aware, self-preserving, rational agent which can adapt to any environment.
Thanks. That was really interesting.
Don't lament on your foregone profits. You would probably have selled them with 200 or 300% up.
Most scams are hard to get money into because the finance system is specifically organized to make it hard to be scammed or run a scam.

You know, the thing all those regulations are about.

Which is why every scam starts off having to convince you to do something you don't quite understand, with a financial process that will always be a little odd.
My advice would be really fucking careful. It takes time to learn what millions are really worth.

For me, 10k started looking like pocket change. I knew it wasn't right so I made a point not to spend any money for the first 6 months. Of course I couldn't resist the nice car, but that's all I spent really.

I also made the mistake of just keeping the money in my checking account to avoid screwing up. That was at the bottom of the 2008/2009 crisis so that money could have been worth a lot more today.
The size of the economy is the volume exchanged, not the sum of the market value of hoarded assets.
Yeah, I never carry anything valuable or fragile on planes. Thanks for clearing that up.
An airline (Royal Air Maroc) once destroyed a flight case containing a synth of mine (fortunately the synth survived, though a custom flight case isn't exactly cheap). That's why musicians are so afraid of gate checking their precious instruments.
No. Where writing is concerned, 2+2 is greater than 4.
But... they're just computers!

--edit-- so this comment isn't orally worthless, I ought to say that over the years I've come to the conclusion that, when it comes down to it, they're all just computers. Some may have a graphical output, some may not, some may have the RAM, the processor speed, the SATA interfaces, whatever.

When it comes down to it you can stuff debian on any of them and make it do whatever the hell you want. This is a worthwhile and awesome pursuit, but when it comes down to it it doesn't matter - Pi, NAS, micro server, 1U pizza-box, mainframe... they all do the same

--edit 2-- Orally worthless? WTF? I'm getting rapidly sick of my new Mac's autocorrect features!
Is it possible that the trails have burned off rapidly and we can't see the head?
No, it's no additional fee beyond the ordinary cost for the ticket. It makes the revenue for a cello equivalent to a passenger--you can't charge extra because it is a cello.
I use almost the exact same setup, but with an Ouya instead of the RP.

I could get an Ouya shiped to me next day via Amazon Prime, and installing it from the store was a breeze. The UI is also really smooth.

I've also plugged in a cheap ebay media center remote receiver (which I have programmed on my Logitech Harmony remote), and it works perfectly.
What other formats do you use? Most if not all container today use H264...
His point is that you HAVE to be used to it. There is no 'person' that can recover your password for you in these cases.
That's my point exactly. The free time is scary. I had a typical 9-5 gig until 2010. Even then I was constantly making things on the side. Since 2010, I switched to 20hrs/week consulting and initially, life was awesome. But then I got really really bored. So I started watching online courses (e.g. bioengg lectures from Berkeley) and learned how to solve the Rubik's Cube. The self-inflicted mental pressure to not waste my free time was tremendous. If I wasn't being productive, I felt guilty. The guilt of not being productive was worse than the stress of working crappy hours.

So I started working on an app for people with ALS and things were great for the next two years of development. Then I sold the app and now I'm back to having the same free-time = guilt problem. Next year I'm starting another project with a friend to help kids with psych issues. I know all of this sounds great but the stress of continuing to be productive 24/7 takes away from the leisure that starts at 4pm Fridays for people with 9-5 jobs. There is no period of downtime for me on weeknights or weekends or holidays. When you have a 9-5, you can do whatever you want outside of it and nobody bats an eye. When you can do anything you want all day, you being to wonder if you're using your time in the best possible way or not.

Again, not saying I wouldn't mind being debt free immediately. Just confirming PGs statement about finally writing the book. When you have no excuses, how do you explain stagnation or failure?
in the USA that is. I've heard that Richmond B.C. has some of the best Chinese food in North America.
They turn into drunks not beacuse they have too much free time and money. It's because they were raise in a culture that said that a man is only worth as much as his job. Now they feel worthless and self-destruct. They also are too old to use modern entertainment. With internet, electronics and wide variety of recreational consumer goods hardly anyone should have become drunk to not be bored.
add to the above quote that the guy literally sneezes and he is front-page on HN and some hundred thousand linux/OS related forums... Which means that he is the exact opposite of a nobody in the tech community and you have a good bargain reading what he says.
Nice to know the Ouya also does media server..

On of the best part of XBMC is the HDMI CEC support meaning you don't need a new remote control and trust me this is great!
Yeah, I didn't realize there was more than the video until I read these comments.
Passport Files of 3 Candidates Were Pried Into (2008)
I think you're being disingenuous here.

> What scams have you ever heard of that made it hard to get your money into them?

The first thing a scammer will say is that he doesn't want your money. Depending on the scam and circumstances, he will even refuse it.

> how many "shady" operations do you know that comply with government regulations?

All such operations must avoid showing up in any government's radar. For that they have to hide some parts of their activity, and look pristine, lawful and compliant in the rest.
If anyone hesitate you HAVE TO buy the B model! Much more power for so little money.
Elon Musk just tweeted: "Launch aborted by autosequence due to slower than expected thrust ramp. Seems ok on closer inspection. Cycling countdown."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/406194506011525120
No, as michaelhoffman says, the passenger may purchase a seat for the instrument, but must not be charged additional fees simply because it is an instrument and not a passenger.
You get the right to buy a ticket for your cello. The "no additional fee" bit is as michaelhoffman states: they can't charge any more for your cello's ticket than for a passenger's ticket. See http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/18/delta-no-more-frequent-f... for an example of what used to happen before this law.
The operations team are getting ready in case the engineering team give the green light
This is actually a good analogy to doing a startup.

Many people want to buy bitcoins, but only the ones that are really commited to doing so succeed.

It's very easy to say you wanted to buy Bitcoin, but did you really try that hard?
I grew up as a space junky, with NASA still running manned missions when I was a kid. It didn't take me very long to understand the concepts of gravity on the moon vs. earth. I trust that if I asked grade-school me, I'd get the right answer.

While it didn't take long to get the physics of the problem, it took a lot longer for me to grasp the social side of things. Specifically, if your grade six teacher says something stupid like this, there is absolutely nothing to be gained from correcting her. I wish I could go back in time and clue me in.

OTOH, if it's a university lab at a science and engineering school, then give 'em hell.
‘Unclutter’ marketing
If you're in the US and if you don't get denied as a high risk transaction and then maybe a few weeks later you might see some money.

The story of Bitcoin is practically no-one seems able to cash out at the reported rates - you're lucky to get about 1/3rd of that.
Emotional Programming in Open Source
Should be back shortly. Meanwhile:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=170...
Torpio - the micro scripting platform for joining up and extending cloud apps
For exactly this reason we have founded https://bit4coin.net in Amsterdam - an easy-to-use bitcoin gift voucher service. Customers can buy vouchers online (later also in retail shops), and we ship them to their doors. They can then redeem them for bitcoins.

We felt we had to make bitcoin more tangible for new users and put it in a form they are already familiar with and attribute value to: gift cards.

Would love to get some feedback from you guys!
Because their theory inculpated a person (Satoshi) with criminal activity and they were wrong. That is why an apology was appropriate. This isn't just a matter of scientific incorrectness - someone's reputation was attacked.
When flying with Iceland Air a couple of months ago (AMS -> NYC), I was surprised how incredibly smooth the whole check-in experience was. I thought I would get into trouble, because I was carrying both a backpack and a guitar (MONO Vertigo softcase), but literally nobody asked me about it.
2. It's negligible I think but if the plane is packed other passengers may have to check their bags at the gate because there isn't enough room left in the overhead after the musician stows his overly large and awkward shaped carry-on. Thus they pay in time lost after the plane lands and inconvenience of not being able to get into their carry-on during flight.

Mainly though I think the OP is just lashing out because it's sounds unfair that one person can stow an up to 165 lb, overly large piece of luggage simply because it's a musical instrument.
Training programmers to ignore a builtin type, and set up hacks to make string literals use a different type, is hardly "nice".
Did you noticed how farmers are subsidized? This is actually form of basic income in artificially lowered food prices.

I think there will be some adjustments in real estate necessary for the rent not to skyrocket after introducing basic income. I'd go for tax rate on housing directly proportional to how much housing you own, reaching 100% tax when you won 50 or so times the amount of housing necessary for one family.
> Technically the airlines must comply "Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this section." So February 14th, 2014, BUT you don't need to mention that part when arguing with the gate attendant. It is the law and they should comply with it.

This feels like a breach of information ethics. You're presenting information to another party without a key detail that could potentially undermine your case, simply because you feel you have the moral high ground and the detail shouldn't be there in the first place.

The author believes "it is the law and they should comply with it," except for a certain element of the fine print which the author thinks is too lenient. It makes me a bit uncomfortable whenever someone openly justifies using omission as a tactic.
Thinking about this some more. I would call up / email, and ask to speak to whoever evaluated your tests. It is fair game to want to know what was done wrong, and what the proper solutions are. That should kill your curiosity, and show what the real deal (or deceitful game) they are playing is.

Sorry you had to go through that mate. There are plenty of jobs out there, hell, if I was you I'd work remotely :-)
I would never check my synthesizer. I'd rather not fly.
Has the TIME Person of the Year vote been fixed?
A few days ago I voted for Edward Snowden, and at the time I'm sure he had nearly 200,000 votes. Now he only has 44,000 - http://poy.time.com/2013/11/25/vote-now-who-should-be-times-person-of-the-year/slide/edward-snowden/
Don't worry, I get a feeling you wouldn't of listened to yourself anyway, just ask your grade six teacher! (I mean no offence by this)
I'd avoid using the nexus devices as a base price, google doesn't need to make profit on them so they can run them low.
There is no subsidy. It says right in the law that they can be charged the comensurate rate for baggage. Or the cost of an extra ticket in the case of a cello.

The only thing it enforces is that they can't be gouged to pay extra merely for bringing a musical instrument aboard.
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I remember going to Yodobashi Akiba and being confused. Then I went into the small shops, I couldn't read the names of the parts. Then I ate ramen and bought a toy train.
Thanks, it went pretty well although I wasn't expecting to play solo, was supposed to be working with a live drummer but he had troubles finding the venue.
Musk seems to think they're going forward.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/406194506011525120
There are some in the Vancouver proper.
They're not contradictory:

Prices for basic necessities such as food and housing would rise, causing an increase in inflation. Meanwhile, spending for luxuries would see a contraction as additional tax burdens shrink discretionary spending.

The net effect is to shrink the middle class, as I explained.
Synth lover here, what was the model?
Hang on now... Come to Seattle, we can show you some Chinese food that will blow your socks off
Yes. Plus his story is also too disastrous, he does not matter to point to possible solutions for his situations. He seems like he is just stating that he is in the worst situation in the world and desiring that people feel sorry for him. It's strange.
I do Qt development for a living, as well as iOS work, so the Jolla has my interest piqued. This review is overly effusive but I can't shake the feeling that I really, really want one to see where this platform could go. It certainly doesn't look boring.
sure. basically, 7 cups is a site you go to when you need someone to talk to or someone to listen to you.
I think this is an accurate guess as to what is going on.

I wonder if there's a reliable way to get people to start using critical analysis on a subject. Such as when you're training someone how to send an email, this would be helpful information!
Bought the book after having read the story on Priceonomics.
As many have pointed out, the current price for the paperback makes the kindle book a steal, and he might be leaving some money on the table.
"Strange happenings have been observed by cosmologists such as the Andromeda galaxy, 2.2 million light-years away speeding towards the Milky Way at 200,000 mph. This phenomenon makes sense logically if gravity leaking from an invisible universe were pulling the two galaxies together."

^Citation please?

"It may make me feel less unique as a person, or maybe grateful; because many things I've not found time for are maybe being done by a copy of me somewhere else!"

Puh-leeeease! This person is confusing two different connotations of the phrase "multiple universes". One is Everett's many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics (which some people think of as having multiple "you"s). The multiple universes concept used here has nothing to do with that.

This article is like a child born out of a speculative mother and a speculative father. I'm at a loss for words to describe it.

The article gets progressively worse after that. The last two paragraphs are pure and utter BS. Sorry if I'm not polite, but as someone who understands a bit of the physics, I find this to be a very very bad article.
Every situation is unique. It depends on the connections, previous experience, and how much work will they put in the project. Just for reference, YC invest ~$20K for ~%7 equity. So, 50% for $10K appears to be a lot.

http://ycombinator.com/apply.HTML

> 3. We decide who to fund after each day of interviews. Yes decisions will include the amount we'll invest and the percent of the company we'd want for it. We usually invest $11,000 + $3000n, where n is the number of participating founders, up to 3 (i.e. 2 founders get $17,000, 3 or more get $20,000), in return for between 2% and 10% of the company. The average is 7%.

Another thing. What does “Potential Co-Founder has successful software” means? He has another software company? Had he programmed that software? Is the developer still working there and happy?
And the Moto G is $180...
It says that a cello requires purchase of another ticket, but cannot include additional fees merely because it's a cello. If anything that subsidizes other passengers because cellos don't also have carry on baggage, they don't breathe air, they weigh less than the average person, and they tend not to consume many snacks and drinks mid-flight.
Yeah - it seems weird to point at Facebook when the elephant in the room is Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_%28Q%29

Ah, the deep wisdoms passed down to us from the Ancients. They ring so much truer when spelled in Latin. This one may even be one of the truest.

So what?

Oh yeah, conversation's over —if there ever was one. Well, good day to you too, then.
It has always been. The online vote is just merely for fun, the actual choosing is done by the editors, and hsa absolutely nothing to do with the online vote.
By failed you mean successfully aborted.
> "I'm glad that they didn't go with Java"

That School (Aalto University) has used Java as a first year language for quite some time. Then they switched to Python (I think), and then to Scala. Before Java, it was Scheme. Before Scheme, I don't know.
Love it. Cosmological constant, dark energy, parallel universes, combining of our clones to become better humans. All things in the mind of people claimed to brilliant, not proveable (so far, of course) with any scientific method. The prove always behind the corner.
I think this happens when people with a predetermination to esoteric thinking become scientists: They reach the barrier of science and start to invent stuff.

Sure, if any of it proves true, it may be groundbreaking. But till then, I will stick to things which hold true in experiments. Not god, not the invisible pink unicorn, and for sure not merging with my clone of a parallel universe.
Nice, thanks for posting. I've been traveling between USA and South Africa with a Les Paul for a couple years now and always thought I was being sneaky avoiding the extra bag fee by taking my guitar to the gate and then either keeping it or being told to gate check it but without the fee. Didn't realize you get to do that by law.