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>The "natural law of supply and demand", specifically, the supply side doesn't magically stop at the border of a country. If anything, protectionism is against the free market ideal. Labor is just another resources like any other, and the extreme version of free market would include free immigration.

It seems like you're implying that supply and demand cannot exist without the libertarian free market. Supply and demand can exist in any system even ones constrained by managed economics or artificial restrictions.
Just a side note: the Nvidia Shield TV is on special sale in the UK for £129.99 only, http://www.amazon.co.uk/NVIDIA-Shield-Android-Box-Controller...

I already have mine on order...
If you want to say that you're[Canada] doing a better job than Europe, please prove, or at least make likely, that the Canadian migrants are similar to the migrants in Europe.

The article also doesn't define the relation between migrant and refugee. If you're cherrypicking migrants, which I believe Canada is doing, you'll have a easier job at integration.
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The actual ballot initiative "15-0097" can be found at https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0097%20%...?

Source: https://oag.ca.gov/initiatives/active-measures

I am also trying to compile all information I have found so far and put them here: https://caisnotforsale.github.io/
> We can have the luxury of rights when we're there. You're telling me to eat cake since we ran out of bread

The majority of economists would disagree. More economic and political freedom would accelerate economic progress, not hold it back. Check out Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu for an in depth discussion of this in relation to China.
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> Sort of the same end result, with the two being in bed with each other.

No, not really the same at all. When the companies have all the political power, they do what's best for their shareholders - their bottom line. Whatever helps them acquire more profit and revenue. Here, it's all about the money.

When the government controls the companies (As it is in China), the government does what's best for the people in power (the government). And that usually means doing whatever helps them hold onto or increase their power by way of strict authoritarian rules & laws, censorship and all the indirectly related things that go along with it.

Their goal is to keep the population under control because that means they get to stay in power. China's biggest fear is a revolution or an uprising which is why they're so strict when it comes to public demonstrations, censoring things like Tienanmen square, and cracking brutally hard on rights activists and the leaders of these "change-bringers" (Source: http://world.time.com/2011/02/26/chinas-fear-of-a-jasmine-re...). The last and absolute worst thing that could happen to China is a revolution. They will commit atrocities like you can't even begin to imagine to keep that from happening.

In the west, you don't have to worry about that. Why? Because it's bad for business. Not good for profits and not good for revenue. The best environment for capitalism and for businesses to make the most amount of money is one of peace (Source: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jan/22/iraq.economy)
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich: "We will apply Moore's Law to grow today's FPGA business, and we'll invent new products that make amazing experiences of the future possible"

PHB, how you've grown !
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> But then, all laptops and tablets are manufactured in China, right?

Nope, we're not (mostly) talking about devices that are just assembled there, but China's own brands (the ones that are designed in China). I'm sure companies like Samsung have strict controls in place to make sure China isn't messing with their products.
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Seems like an extreme move. Why not vote to raise the fractional reserve minimum and then see what effect it has?
I'm swiss and you'd be surprised how many don't even know what we voted about after the vote. Less than 50% of all people vote and everytime it is over 50% it's because the right-wing parties shouted really loud and spend a lot of money.

It is getting really absourd. Next year we have a vote about if we should enforce a vote back from 2010.
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Quite. Now suppose you take that $900 you've been loaned and spend a mere $90 of it buying goods from a supplier that uses a different bank. Suddenly your bank cannot meet its reserve requirements. However, if the supplier used the same bank everything would be fine. The amount banks can lend is constrained not by how much deposits they currently have, but whether it could cause a net outflow of deposits to other banks in the future.

Amongst other things, this means that how profligate a bank can be in lending money depends heavily on how much all the other banks are lending. So long as all the other banks are lending just as much out and their savings terms are competitive, the outflow of loaned funds will be balanced by an inflow of other banks' loaned funds. What happens in practice is that there's a glut of easy credit during booms which dries up during busts, making the boom-bust cycle worse. You can find some discussion of this here: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/documents/workingpap...
It does seem bizarre that Google would put in all the effort to develop ART and then retire it so quickly.
Too late! HP just announced a 3D semi-holographic display based on just this same optics. With theirs, each tiny reflective groove has several conventional LCD pixels in front, plus bright RGB edge-lighting. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/512716/new-3-d-display-...
> I can never quite get my head around what constitutes a patent and what constitutes copyright infringement. To me this would fall under copyright infringement.

I think both those are the wrong thing if your concern is buyers getting confused. Trademarks are the way to address that: MS should have a distinctive, trademarked logo for Office, feature it in their advertising or the like, and aggressively pursue anyone else who uses the same logo in their products.
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I always had this idea of a distributed search engine that uses free CPU time and bandwidth on client machines for crawling and indexing. The code could either be distributed by <script> tags or as browser plugins

The problem is however not so much if it's technically feasible but why users should contribute their CPU time and bandwidth in the first place (particularly on mobile where both are scarce).

I suppose enterprise environments might be more amenable to such a system than consumer applications, particularly because most office PCs don't use most of their CPU time anyway. The question is what exactly to do with distributed computing capabilities in such environments.
If they manage to keep XSS vulnerabilities off of the pages on their domain(s) for longer than a year I'll be very surprised.

Personally speaking, I'd rather know. If it's a piece of security software it's reasonable to assume the bad guys are already looking at it or using it.
Bitcoins are susceptible to being stolen (by rubber hose cryptography if necessary) and when stored safely are inconvenient to spend versus a debit card.
The bubble thinking is not mutually exclusive with subprime loans and government failure. Bubble thinking makes banks take risks that they are blind to. I'm not super familiar with how debt is regulated in the US, but in The Netherlands the mortgage industry has been much more tightly regulated since 2008. If it is the governments task to regulate debt, then a mass default of course implies that they failed to do that properly.

If it was harder for banks to supply subprime loans, then that would have tempered the fire feeding the bubble, and the crisis could have been smaller.

Of course, you could also take a more liberal viewpoint and not blame it on under-regulation of the government, but instead on mistakes of the big banks. I'm not that liberal though, so perhaps someone else can explain how liberals think debt crises should be averted. If I'd have to guess the simple answer would be that they would say the banks should've fallen so that the healthy banks would be the only ones left standing, so the whole event could be a proper free market process (so they also would say the government failed by bailing out some of the banks).
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GPS-limit type accurate on the X on the centre of the pad. 5-10m off.
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Bright to brilliant
Wow feels nice and Snappy. How was the implementation made?
Kosmos 954 nuclear-powered RORSAT
I do like this tool. But it is not a replacement for quality web applications, which is an area I would still say that AWS is failing to deliver.
A lot of people have tried to retrieve boosters. The Shuttle approach is suboptimal (solid boosters can't be throttled/relit/extinguished easily, the sea is evil, turnaround times are huge). ESA and the Russians and NASA have all thought about glide-back boosters and got mired in complexity. The new-space approach of "just the rocket, plus better control systems" is paying off, but it does take modern kit and thinking.
>Because it would still be legal for banks in every other country to loan out Swiss dollars with fractional reserve. (Or even with 0 reserve)

There is more to money creation than just extending loans and crediting customer accounts. In order for such a debited balance to be actually useful, a bank needs to be able to settle interbank payments.

Interbank settlements are usually performed using central bank reserve accounts – and the central bank is free to limit access to that system only to 100% reserve compliant parties.
> Because that is the law of the land and it is fair since...

By the argument, any legal discrimination that blankets entire groups of people with the same random chance is right and fair. Slavery - OK as long as blacks kidnapped from any African country were treated equally. Segregation - OK as long as blacks anywhere in America got the same treatment. It sounds like a wind-up, but really immigration discrimination is just like race or gender discrimination. It's not fair. The difference is that popular culture hasn't graced it with its wand of disapproval so most people can't recognize it.
Sorry, I was kidding about "what entity". The same entity that traditionally steps in to solve the needs that otherwise are not met due to tragedy of the commons -- government.

Patents, copyright protections (yes, they're screwed up now, but better than without), infrastructure like roads or postal mail historically.

Just that US legislative process is spinning its wheels at the moment and for the foreseeable future.
We used golang for backend, it runs on the appengine, so it scales easily. To keep the costs low (minimal reading calls), we use just one poll object. To deal with the writing problem, we sharded the poll objects (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/articles/sharding_counter...). This is very cool stuff, it was completely new for us.
Could this lead to an domino effect?
Not really, insurance is bought by people because of the non-linear utility function of money: losing $1 million has a far more negative utility that 1000 times the utility of losing $1000.

The same with lottery tickets. People don't buy them because they're stupid, but because they value $100M far more than 50M times the value of $2.
Why white people see black boys as older, bigger and guiltier than they are
Basic logic: as you cram more and more out of order and parallel execution, branch prediction and other advanced techniques in a core, there is a diminishing return. If it weren't, you could create a single core of unlimited computing power.
Well, preventing Cancer has been a priority for evolution since the first multicellular organisms arose. It's just not that easy.

Developing a drug is an economically difficult thing: Spend billions for the chance to win billions. The only alternatives to big pharma in developing these drugs are big government and big charity (Gates' Foundation et al).
Show HN: Image-triangulation (delaunay and voronoi)
Hey guys,

it's my first post here, but I've been reading for a couple of months.

And right now I am ready to share some stuff I made. Please feel free to ask, criticize or suggest alternatives :)

https://github.com/MauriceGit/Delaunay_Triangulation

A couple of months ago someone here (don't have the link anymore) inspired me to finally sit down and implement a delaunay-triangulation and voronoi from scratch.

What the python-script does is:

- take an image, extract points dependent on the contrast and color difference of the image (more points on edges or in contrast-rich parts).

- triangulate the points with a delaunay-triangulation (from scratch).

- transform the delaunay-triangles into voronoi-regions.

- render the triangles and voronoi-regions into new images with the average color for each polygon (from the original image).

The delaunay-triangulation runs in Omega(n logn) but I'm not 100% sure if also in O(n logn).
The transformation into voronoi-regions runs in O(n).

Please tell me what you think :)
Best regards
Maurice
The chicken-egg problem has been solved and nobody told me? my, my.
> The central bank can still create money on a fractional reserve basis.

The central bank does not even need to hold fractional reserves: As the entity creating base money, it can literally create that out of thin air.

Of course, history has taught that unlimited money creation is usually a bad idea, so usually base money is now backed by public or private debt, but this idea is distinct from fractional reserve banking.
I don't know, maybe it would be nice to get to the polls directly (you know without the need of entering a username).
sweet thx for sharing :)
Doing Grammar by Max Morenberg [1]For me, isolating the concepts spared me a lot of confusion.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Grammar-Edition-Max-Morenberg/dp...
I'm surprised that Trump is not excluded when agreeing on "Taxes on wealthy people should be increased."

Otherwise four candidates from two parties that aren't that different in reality is really not much to choose from.
>percentage to 50x increase

you can do that today going from ruby/js to c
Though that trust is mostly based in how big a pile of money you have, and how stable it seems to be, even if you act nothing like a bank.
In my experience, most people simply vote for the opinion shouted loudest
and the one their relatives/friends vote. Only a very few investigates
the topic independently, but their votes are lost in the noise. I would
not trust decisions, that require specific knowledge and that can't be
explained in layman terms, to the masses.

Could you provide some examples?

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Personally I don't trust politicians as much anymore these days to make choices in the benefit of the people. Most often the politicians' votes seem more aligned with business interests compared to the people interests, especially in large powerful constructs like the EU. I've also seen politicians make plenty bad choices in my country.

My opinion is that we should get more referenda in the future. The innovation of internet makes it possible to do this very cheap.
+1 for pgweb. Their one-click Heroku deployment makes it easy to spin a dyno for db monitoring
It took quite a while before rails released a version of 3.2 that worked.

As for how fun upgrading to rails4 is, you obviously don't have a project with 200 database tables that has models using the attr_protected for the five columns (appwide) that actually need it. Forced whitelisting is not fun, regardless of if it is on model or controller level.
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This is an interesting comment. GPL licensed code is divisible, so Google could technically achieve the same thing by adding a comment in the NOTICE file that said Api method signatures are Copyright Oracle, GPL, the rest is Apache. But the NOTICE file doesn't say anything about Oracle at all! Nor did they carry over the openjdk LICENSE file, which adds to the mysteriousness.
I only did a cursory examination of the commit. Someone please post if I'm wrong about this.
As a keyboard analyst and former Foursquare user, I believe it was a mistake to remove the "chekin" from the Foursquare app.

The new app (cannot recollect the name) would have been ideal for pushing their new focus of review while Foursquare remained and did what it was meant known for - checking in and providing data.

By creating a new feature/ direction for an old brand and moving the old feature to a new brand, it caused a lot of confusion.

People simply decided to move on
related HN topic "RoboVM Is No Longer Open-Source": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10498635
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iOS does support adding links to pages on home screen, caching the application, hiding the safari UI etc. Granted, you won't get service workers and some touch events related stuff (yet) but nothing is stopping you to make an iOS app fully on web stack and distribute it while bypassing the App Store. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AppleA...
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The whole thing gets started with a simple python call to "drawTriangles.py" (Have to rename it later...).

The only thing to do is now to specify the filename in main().

After that you should be good to go.
I will work on that later, to make it more user-friendly :)
I would guess the author means fiat currency where coins aren't worth exactly their weight in gold, but rather some representative value.
Because it's fast and easy.

Python is a nightmare especially when you copy and paste stuff together from the internet because spaces and tabs are a different thing, Perl is next to unreadable (but immensely powerful) and Ruby is exotic at best. Then there are bash scripts, a drama in itself and only to be used when you want cross-platform/cross-distribution compatibility.
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The evidence they present points to bubble thinking, not the other two reasons. The material in question is here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-financial-crisis/home/...
Same here. Handwriting is much better in order to retain the information, science has already proved this. However, currently, there is not a very good product (software and hardware) in the market to allow this. Unfortunately, I still read important things in the printed versions.
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I don't run antivirus either. And I haven't had a problem. But most people work with computers.. differently. I honestly think an antivirus is a must for most.

And whatever bullshit people write here, most of the major AVs do work (whether their business model entails installing toolbars or not). And again, unlike belief of many people here, viruses and malware do actually exist. And it really sucks if you somehow end up with a ransomwere and lose everything on your PC.

So, while people who are tech savvy don't need antivirus at all, most of people desperately do. At least the MS one if nothing else.
Thx for the fast answer!
Absolutely. While most people are looking at an expensive stock market (median price to earnings for S&P500 is higher than in 2000), the real action next time may happen in the broad bond markets.

Just verbal speculation of course, but it remains hard to swallow that Italy borrowing for 10 years at 1.61% or Japan at 0.27% accurately reflects the full long-term risk of the single-point-of-failure policy of central bank buying.
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> There are way less perverse incentives at play

Then again, they have less incentives to make a good AV. And it shows. But it's definitely better than nothing. And it's finally installed and on by default.
Only if central bank deposits do not bear interests. If they do, depositing money at a commercial bank would increase that bank's central bank balance. If the central bank's deposit interest rate is higher than the commercial bank's, this would generate a profit for the commercial bank.

In the Eurosystem, for example, minimum reserves bear interest even today; only excess reserves are "punished" by negative interest rates.
yes currently using cpanels for the same purpose. It is not great but works well for our client base.
> In no place I've lived would the average person walking into the voting box have spent time studying the history of banking law and policy to make a well-informed rational decision

It is the responsibility of those advocating for a position in favour/against fractional reserves to inform voters and debate in front of them. Experts who can't or refuse to communicate to laypersons on matters than concern the latter are near useless.
An electric guitar is a slab of wood, some pickups, some controls, some outputs, some strings, a neck, some frets, a head, some tuning pegs, and a couple of pegs for the strap.

But even with this small number of elements there are many differences between Gibson guitars and Fender guitars.

The obvious difference is the shape of the head. Gibsons tend to have a spade shaped head with three pegs each side. Fenders tend to have a scroll shaped head with all six pegs in a line.

The screen shots supplied in this thread are much harder to tell apart.
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It's a great project, must admit I was expecting a camera and some AI to detect whether I was the fairest of all!
Say that to my face I'll have you know I am trained in black ops cyber warfare and I will hack you in to oblivion. I am an expert on technical nuances in financial history, and I will exclaim one truth:

HACK THE PLANET
Looks promising. Seems like it's written in JS, using Electron and React.
Just remember, Cancer isn't a disease.

It is hundreds of different disease related to mutations in the function of cell division. Cells that don't need to divide, start dividing but the daughter cells are not the same as the parent.

In order to treat Cancer with a drug, you need to identify which of the hundreds of subtypes it is and give the right drug. Either that, or give people cocktails of lots of drugs and hope that you can identify the right one before the other ones kill the patient.

At this point there do not appear to be any magic bullets that will cure cancer, just lots of work and research to chip away at the problem, one subtype or one patient at a time.

And cancer appears to be inherent in what we are, animals. It seems unlikely that we will be able to change what we are sufficiently to avoid cancer. No vaccines are likely.

On the other hand, all the investment in Cancer research is paying off and is chipping away at this family of diseases. There are lots of reasons, not just new drugs, but some new drugs are part of the solution.

Maybe the human race is at a point where we have solved all the easy problems and now have a hard slog to chip away at the rest of them, bit by bit.
> The miseries from bank runs and crashes are real, but even so, the total impact on human welfare from fractional reserves has been overwhelmingly positive.

It surely has been positive in the past but that does not mean it is positive now or in the future.

We are entering a new era, where (economic) growth is no longer necessary for human development, due to automation and that an increasingly large percentage of innovation is in software. In a world of progress without growth, we cannot have an economic system that requires growth to function properly.

Instead, we need economic stability.
Show HN: Product Hunt 2015 Year in Review