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> The government is selling Treasury securities on the open market...

And the Federal Reserve is buying a lot of those treasury securities with printed money.
This is typically not the case. The lock-up specifically prohibits trading options, pledging shares as collateral for debt, selling shares, or gifting shares to charities. It also usually a catch all for benefiting directly or indirectly (through a trust or foundation)

Source: I founded GrubHub and wrote the article referenced here.
Possibly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bubiyan

If ISIS grows to the point they field brown-water and/or littoral asymmetric warfare vessels (very large numbers of small craft carrying highly lethal missiles), then the expanded ammo capacity and stand-off capabilities of the railgun would likely be welcomed by the sailors on the US vessels.
Xcode 6.2 basically only exists for the Apple Watch. I think iOS 8.2 is similar, but I'm less familiar there. Xcode 6.2 has no significant Swift changes that I'm aware of, so if you're just looking at Swift, you should either use the latest public 6.1 release, or the 6.3 beta to get the newer stuff. The release timing will presumably be that .2 comes out with the watch whenever that ends up being, and .3 will be a bit later.
32 MJ is actually not all that much... it's almost exactly the energy in a single litre of gasoline (44 MJ/kg, 32 MJ/l).

The important thing about a railgun is not the total power put into it but that the power is dumped into the projectile continuously over the course of acceleration, which makes much more efficient use of energy than conventional weapons, which produce large initial accelerations followed by rapidly decreasing gains as the projectile moves along the barrel and the hot gases behind it expand (the limit of conventional technology is the so-called "light gas gun" that uses hydrogen as a propellant to maximize the speed of sound in the accelerating medium and produce a relatively flat pressure curve along the barrel.)
I was thinking the same thing. Change the GCC license to preclude such use by introducing a variant of the GPL for compilers and similar tools.
>Why don't we just collectively forget/forgive our debts, then?

I know, right? I mean, why don't I just throw these BofA bonds I own, paying 6.5% annually, into the trash because I don't like money. In the meantime, why doesn't Ford just give me the car I financed?

>Folks, if you think this astrologist/alchemist Krugman is doing scientific work in Economics, please stop and think

Don't project your financial ignorance on other people, just because you don't understand how a balance sheet works. Someone's debt is another's asset; someone's income is another's expense.

His politics aside, Krugman is right in pointing out a fallacy that I see over and over again in the mainstream. That is, looking at only one side of the sheet. For example, the US households have so much debt! Well, guess how much value they have in assets?
Another way to think about debt is that central banks are currently purchasing more global sovereign debt than is being issued[1] resulting in negative yields for many bonds. It is hard to fully articulate how perverse this is, but governments are issuing debts and then purchasing them through their supposedly independent central banks and these central banks are paying these governments for the honor of buying their debt -- world governments are paying themselves to take on debts, someone please tell me how anything resembling a market and price realization can occur under these circumstances, this is essentially central planning and is resulting in gross misallocation of wealth throughout the entire developed world.

[1]:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-09/stunning-chart-day-...
William Gibson: Why sci-fi writers are (thankfully) almost always wrong (2012)
The costs are not that significant a concern right now [1]. So saving money on the attacks will allow the government to spend more on useful functions, and not so much on more attacks.

[1] "Destroying a $30,000 Islamic State Pickup Truck Can Cost Half a Million Dollars" http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/10/08/destroying-a-30000-islam...
If you think that sshd gets restricted to "text-based input per spec", you should get out more. Or at least check your logs more.
Krugman did not foresee the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

If anything, bubble economics is his forte.

See here: http://www.businessinsider.com/krugman-in-02-greenspan-needs...
I think this can look pretty nice, properly formatted:

let x = conditional1 ? bar() :
conditional2 ? baz() :
conditional3 ? quux() :
someDefault
From what I've seen, it's built with a similar philosophy to Dojo. Its an older approach to JS development. Unless you're in the SAP space, I'd likely recommend you not bother with it.
It's amazing. We answered a crisis brought on by too much debt with -- more debt. And instead of investing it in things that would have a real benefit to larger swathes of society (say, infrastructure, education, an even less byzantine and more affordable health system than Obamacare) it seems only to have goosed asset prices and promoted malinvestment. I believe politicians are to blame: they are forcing central banks to try and stimulate the economy in unhealthy ways because they are too cowardly or stupid to promote stimulus programs that might have a chance of boosting real demand.
websql is so much nicer then the key/val firefox insisted on :(
Having said that PHP does make it very hard to run each interpreter process as the user it is doing work on behalf of. Some of the best systems out there run each user's process under it's own uid:gid (or equivalent), and each user has their own filespace and/or database. Obviously this pushes the separation issues down to the OS kernel rather than in the app, but most widely used OS kernels get at least an order of magnitude more, most of the time several orders more, testing for these user separation security features. NIH, re-inventing the wheel and all that.
The new Boeing 747-8 freighter sold well enough that Airbus was unable to get sufficient orders to launch the A380 freighter variant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747-8
I wish I could take this class online (not an alumnus, not even in the US) but thanks for the free material!
Thanks! Indeed from experience so far we've gotten more positive than negative reviews. However, we did get plenty of negative/critical reviews too (including serious stuff like money not coming through etc).

Just trying to make sure for other readers: all reviews will be anonymously posted, so there is no disincentive for not posting because you don't want anything to backfire on you personally. Of course, the point still stands for not wanting to hurt the image of the accelerator associated with your company.
More like another reason to eat grapes. Added calories from alcohol are unlikely to help anyone lose weight.
The fact that you've been downvoted is one of the main issues with the understanding of autism by the world at large (those not in the autism community). There is considerable research into the connection between gastrointestinal issues and autism, which co-exist in many cases. Those that look to things such as diet are sometimes ridiculed, but if there is a significant difference between the gut in ASD kids and the gut of 'neurotypical' kids, why wouldn't diet be considered as an option?

A few articles on the topic might help for anyone unfamiliar that wants to learn more.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564498/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-bacteria-may-p...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141114-autis...
I don't fully understand QE but I believe there is a balance sheet. It's not like money was created out of thin air as such. It did not increase M1. I'm guessing it did increase MB but I don't know. Of course my perception may be completely wrong.
If you wanted to get really clever, you could reach at least some orbits without a rocket (other than small corrections) by taking advantage of three-body interactions with the Moon or Sun. This would require even more velocity than just getting into low-Earth orbit, I imagine.
Thanks for the argument from authority, it is really adding to this discussion.
That is not the correct way to think about it.

Say that the initial offering is for 10 million shares at $20 a share. Then the price pops to $30. That $30 share price is based on a much smaller net influx of investment. It does not follow that you could have sold 10 million of shares at that price. The $20 price is a discount that is needed to make the market clear a very large number of shares, all at once. Furthermore, the pop to $30 only happened because retail investors know that the institutions buying into the IPO are reputable, long-haul investors like Fidelity, who will not be dumping the stock immediately. So if you don't have Fidelity and other reputable investors putting in money at $20, you will never get the pop to $30. And because of their size and reputation and relationships, institutions like Fidelity will be able to command discounts, like any big buyer can. The IPO-ing company generally needs Fidelity much more Fidelity needs to buy the company's stock. Thus Fidelity can command the discount.
Wow, now that we're bringing supposed war crimes in Ukraine into this, you'd do well to examine the US' conduct in Ukraine from a historically literate point of view.

For starters, recall our reaction when the Soviets put nukes in Cuba. In what world could we expect Russia to stand idly by while a nato naval base was installed on the Crimean peninsula?

The US supported coup of Yanukovych, came with an "impeachment" -- if one were so generous to call it that -- supported by less than 3/4 of the rada, ie not a quorum. This would be like impeaching a sitting US president by vote of 50 senators.

And given the success of the referendum in Crimea -- a reasonably legitimate election -- it's hard to honestly make the case that residents of the peninsula don't support annexation by Russia. The US is reduced to whining about a treaty that, um, we have previously publicly stated we don't consider binding.

If you wish to understand the depth of US meddling in the Ukraine, their finance minister is a longtime US apparatchik with extensive work experience in the US state department named Natalie Jaresko. Natalie -- and this is fucking amazing -- is a US citizen who received her Ukranian citizenship the day of her appointment as Minister of Finance.

And while you're complaining about Russian treaty violations, are you aware the US signed the UN Convention against Torture?
I think the military are already using coilguns but for mortars. With small munitions a very small fraction of the nergy deliverable by the batteries/capacitors is imprinted on the actual projectile -- a lot gets lost on the coils -- and there's not enough time to use a significant amount of energy. With mortars you can use bigger projectiles which have better magnetic properties and a lot more mass (more time to gain kinetic energy).
This could maybe be an xkcd "what if" problem....I suspect a train of mach 27 projectiles would have some interesting effects on our atmosphere.
Thanks for information - I wasn't aware this applied to non-insiders or ex-employees too for derivatives that expire after the lock-up.

I guess no amount of financial engineering can unscrew the little guy. :)

BTW, love your company and use it often, thank you!
> I think you're getting mixed up. ClojureCLR demonstrates that CoreCLR doesn't deliver on its intended functionality

What do you base this on? I have not heared major complaints, I clearly remember Rich saying that it was not technical early on.

> With that said, I'd like a better lib story between Clj and Cljs.

They are working on feature expression, that should help.
I like this theory a lot. Because when you think of it, nowadays products are either more reliable or more disposable. No need to fix a $7 remote control car or $18 quadcopter. Computer parts like memory and HDs can are warrantied 1-5 years and you ship to manufacturer. And by the time something breaks past warranty you've had for a while, you're looking for the next best one that's cheaper anyway. But nothing stopped radio shack from buying some big land and testing out some super stores to copy Microcenter, Frys, Best buy, home stores or even their own maker spaces with unique offerings.
I'm sure they'll show up on ground-based artillery soon enough, and there will be an arms race in the things, because for many theaters they could give one side an overwhelming advantage. Besides the range, the other benefit is cost: railgun launches cost 1-2% of equivalent missile launches, with fewer risks, eg if the enemy bombs your ammo dump, it's much less of a big deal because it's not full of high explosive. These risks matter a lot; in the history of modern naval warfare, the biggest risk to a warship was having its magazine hit, which would usually tear the ship in two.
This project is malicious fraud! I was expecting a Yelp for particle accelerators! ;)
Misallocation of wealth is only a problem if it isn't "misallocated" to you.

My question is this: how does this edifice collapse?
Anybody aware of a good C++ server framework supporting most of HTTP/2, including websockets?
Are there any active OwnCloud users out there? I'm curious about your experience.

How do you feel about it? What do you use it for primarily?
Because the future taxpayer doesn't have a seat at the table.
And note that "lose consciousness" is around 10g (depending on orientation, health, and many other factors) and "die" is something like 20-40g for more than a small period of time. A gun like this generates thousands or tens of thousands of g, which is more along the lines of "turned into a fine paste smeared on the back wall of the capsule."
Definitely a sweet idea and I can see some great use cases for onboarding new users to a site by demoing functionality. Really like how it just gets to work and outputs the vid without making me make any decisions. I'd love to see a gif output (maybe that could be one of your premium features :)

EDIT: Just cross-posted to PH. http://www.producthunt.com/posts/websitecast
tumblr actually allows you to use custom domain, i currently have 4-5 domains where my clients only update once a year for an event. i make up a custom theme and them take it over. no fuss around with hosting it.
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WOW Thanks. There are some very good advice in there.
Do you know any more articles in this area? Or how to manage a community in general!?
I'd like to throw in a little more detail on the project.

Sapien's Muse is a current project of mine to try and create a newsfeed that will help people become exposed to new thoughts and ideas. Ideas that they otherwise wouldn't see due to our inherent knowledge or interest bubbles and biases.

The idea simply sprung from the fact that I often don't spend enough time researching counter points to my own thoughts and views. When I try to fix this I also often get stuck wondering if there are other views on a topic that I simply am not exposed to or that aren't immediately obvious to me.

That is where Sapien's Muse comes in, by allowing anonymous posting with a character limit to keep it concise, you can simply scroll down the latest thoughts page or filter by broad topic to hopefully expose yourself to new thoughts and views.
Thanks for making this!

One suggestion: Average funding could become distorted from big rounds, particular big later rounds. It might be helpful to include median funding and/or break out by seed, series a, etc.
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From the FED:

" The term "printing money" often refers to a situation in which the central bank is effectively financing the deficit of the federal government on a permanent basis by issuing large amounts of currency. This situation does not exist in the United States."

http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12853.htm

Perhaps they are lying about what is really going on but I think transparency is of primary importance for the functioning of the bond market and I'm assuming they aren't lying.
I had heard of Cacophony Society, John Law, reference to parties on(in?) The Golden Gate Bridge and their connection to Burning Man. But I hadn't known about Cacophony Society's origins in Suicide Club... which sounds like a Chuck Palahniuk book, which isn't surprising as he was apparently a member of Cacophony Society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacophony_Society
Sure, but what are you going to do about the recoil? Equal and opposite reaction, F=ma, and all that.
> It's not like money was created out of thin air as such.

No, it was. Literally. The Fed can and does create money and then buy assets with that new money.
I understand your sentiment, but ultimately I fear that the only way humans will stop doing this is to genetically engineer it out of ourselves. Until then, I'd rather be stronger than weaker, since I cannot control what other humans want to do to me.

I don't like it, but I don't particularly feel like being conquered, either.
Goodbye to Microsoft Windows Server 2003
which points to an answer for jhulla's question:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9023395

In a sense a modern form of oligarchy...bread and games go a long way.
In the way that the existence of various government-maintained infrastructures (that is, "the system") is what permitted them to acquire wealth in the first place.
I wrote about it towards the end of the article a little bit.

There are a lot of interests in the IPO. perceiving "leaving money on the table" assumes the most important interest is the company's balance sheet.

Institutional investors would shy away from stock that had no potential upside to it, so getting this price right to attract the right kind of buyers (long term buyers decrease volatility ) but still maximize the cash to the company needs a process to find equilibrium rather than a maximizing strategy.

Ultimately the shareholders benefit more from a positive momentum on the stock rather than optimizing the price at the moment of the IPO
Well, it is cool, just on its merits as a machine. The fact that it's designed for killing people doesn't suddenly make it un-cool, nor does it mean we're somehow obligated to ignore it or pretend it isn't interesting.

There's a difference between admiring something because it kills, and admiring something for other reasons, that just happens to kill.
I love thinking up names and making logos. I would love to help. Can you tell me more about your project?
Which model applies and can you sum it up in a few sentences? I know it's generally accepted here to make an effort to deeply understand the issues behind the article, but one criticism I have of Krugman's article is that, while he does explain what he thinks Debt isn't, he never bothers to explain why the household model doesn't apply except in a dismissive sort of sense.

So what models apply and why?
Awesome, the ability to unwrap multiple optionals on one line should be bolded, underlined and all caps at the top of this article. Seriously though, this is an everyday pain point that happens all the time when writing Swift. Glad Apple is listening to developer feedback on this stuff.

Translation for those unfamiliar with Swift: Swift has a relatively strong type system. If a variable in Swift can be null at any point, it must be explicitly declared so as part of its type (e.g. an integer that can be null has the type "Int?", an integer that cannot be null has the type "Int").

Swift has a way to 'unwrap' these optional values and do things with them if they exist. Prior to this release, unwrapping multiple optional things required a bunch of nested if statements. With this release, unwrapping multiple optional values can be done in one if statement.
This article has an interesting retrospective on the early days of C (similar to my own experiences in the 1980s). But I don't understand what connection there is to the "hipsters" in the title. The time period of the early adoption of C was in the days before programming had any significant presence in popular culture, and it was definitely not something that people who wanted to be hip or cool aspired to do.

My own first use of C in a business environment was to re-write assembler code in C so it could be ported to many different machines. (That was after I had been using C for a few years doing Unix programming in college.)
Parallelism is always a good thing.

The specific similarity with PGP that jumped to mind is that you're not actually using your key (or recipients key) to encrypt the message. You're actually generating a random session key to encrypt the message contents and then you're encrypting the session key against the recipients key and sending them that.

I was really taken by surprise the first time I read that, but after playing some more with crypto "obviously" you'd have to -otherwise what happens when your message is longer than your key?
that picture is great -- the tanks look like children's toys next to the plane
Hi HN,

A while back I posted this link as a proof of concept. It was well received. So here is an seriously updated version built upon the input I got. Thanks for taking the time to look.
I think this might appeal to first time nomads.

I haven't found living life as a digital nomad too challenging. The biggest hurdle is just meeting cool people you want to spend time with, but that works out as long as you go out enough, or are in a city that has an active developer community (like Tokyo, my current haunt).

But I realize people doing it for the first time might seem intimidated, so they might be willing to pay extra for that 'peace of mind.'

I think that forum is also owned by someone on your team. Not that I mind, and it looks like it has value, but might want to gives the heads up for a product plug.
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This is my imagination vs your imagination, so neither of us really has anything resembling an argument, but I'm wondering if in such a scenario the following projectiles might not find themselves running into the plasma wake left by the preceding projectiles. As such, your scenario might actually be worse than firing things one at a time.

The plasma wake will be less dense than the atmosphere displaced by the leading projectile, but it'll be much hotter and comprised of [#] much heavier atoms.

[#] "comprised of" is a correct usage, for anyone sucked in by the poor guy obsessed with editing it out of Wikipedia (many words have opposing meanings and some great English poetry depends on this; the term causes no confusion amongst native speakers; etymology is irrelevant to modern usage...)
The difference in .99 and 4.99 is--non-existent, really, for the vast majority of end-users.

If it's useful enough for you to spend all your time building it, and I'm in the same position as you, it's probably worth $20/month, but it's most definitely worth $5/month.

Not trying to harp on this part of the thread, but it's the overwhelming theme of your responses for a reason.
Really happy to see this, was worried we'd have to wait for WWDC for further improvements. For me personally, it's nice to see Swift support for GLKMatrix and GLKVector now, which was an issue I just ran into just a few weeks ago.
Shouldn’t Apple finish designing the language before they even consider porting it elsewhere?
The term "permanent basis" is the only part of the statement that prevents it from being a lie.

The Federal Reserve does not want to do QE forever. But they have been doing that almost nonstop since 2008.