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Because even small islands in the Indian Ocean have strategic value (especially one with a permanent source of water). And because flying in is a lot easier than getting there by sea.
Hope some day Meteor meets Mysql.

By the way we have made air pollution monitor app using meteor. Will checkout possibilities of plugging GraphQL into it.
http://oizom.com/
Springer books are great—but academic publishers are widely reviled.
I like how the island is in a teeny little spot of hi-res imagery in a low-res ocean.
Could a company manufacture a device in China, and sell via the internet (also from China) and completely ignore the FDA? I suppose the unapproved devices could be "banned" and shipment could attempted to be blocked, but is that not damn near impossible with the amount of mail coming in from China on a daily basis?

I can appreciate what the FDA does, but sometimes there comes a point where it is preferable to provide warning and education to consumers but let them choose which product they wish to use.
If there's no money in a cure, how are the new hepatitis-c cures being sold for tens of thousands of dollars?
It is not meaningless. There is a push in the west for the same kind of laws. In the US and UK particularly, not whataboutism at all.
These kinds of products would be much more interesting if you could download the database and periodic updates. API only means a no go for a lot of use cases.
You mean like with Samsung?
I haven't looked at Nim in a while actually (it was still called Nimrod back then). But I want to say right away that Nim is a great language!

I prefer meta-programming in D as I don't get to think at the AST level; its practical in Lisp because the code is the AST, but everywhere else I like compile-time function evaluation better - it feels more natural. It's the same reason why I don't like template-Haskell.

D also has string mixins for the rare occasion when templates reach their limits. You get something akin to "eval" in javascript, but as a compile-time construct. Mixed with the other compile-time features of D (function evaluation, reading files, full reflection and more) it makes for the most powerful thing I know of after Lisp macros. I never have to write offline code analyzers and generators again!

I prefer interfacing with C in D because I don't get to mess with a FFI; I can copy/paste the C definitions in D, run a few Emacs macros and I'm good to go. (Although that's becoming a non-issue over time as more and more bindings are published!)

As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong!) there's no way to declare pure functions in Nim. This is something I do all the time in D!

Nim has memory-safety only when using the GC while D has decoupled it from the allocation strategy. D's memory-safety is actually part of the type-system (as function annotations) and I absolutely love it!

That's about what comes to mind right now :)

Please note that these points merely makes D a better fit for my own use-cases, I'm also biased from knowing D a whole lot more than Nim, so take what I say with a grain of salt ;)
Currently reading The Big Short and struggling to get my head around what actually happened - now its supposedly happening again?

EDIT: I came back from reading the article a second time and was relieved to see that the speculative title had been changed.
Can you write solid papers about the software? If it's original and impactful, you ought to be able to write about it. Journal editors can be happy to receive papers about popular and widely-used software, since the articles are likely to be cited a lot. Your happy users write nice reviews and everyone wins.

Some colleagues and I edited a special issue of a journal that had only papers-about-or-with-software and it was pretty well-received. That way I got to do service to my software-heavy colleagues too, with decent credibility due to my own well-known software. Tenure points all round.
Thanks, I don't have to read this clickbait crap then.
> I am fully aware of these historical facts and I'm also aware of racist people (I used to live in Texas for 7 years).

It comments like these that make me believe you like to stereotype people. That does not help your arguments. The most absolute racist people I have ever met were from Washington DC and it would be wrong to assume everyone there was a racist.
If you're doing anything significantly laborious in Excel, you should be using a different tool. Excel is not performant for anything >200,000 rows for even simple queries.
I don't think this is a significant issue because it's a one time cost. It could be done at browser startup. Even for a cold start, Hotspot and V8 are comparable.

$ time java com.Hello
real	0m0.096s
user	0m0.103s
sys	0m0.013s

$ time node /tmp/hello.js
real	0m0.073s
user	0m0.067s
sys	0m0.007s
In fact he does not say this, but he does have a lot of interesting things to say about troubling trends in banking and regulation.

Article is worth a read despite the clickbait headline.
Ah. First, since I just said I run Linux in the instance, what would make you think I'm not doing that, and second, because I'm not doing that ;), it's because there's multiple purposes to having that VirtualBox Linux instance. For example, it came in handy when testing out obscure (or not) systemd features, such as how to boot into read-only root[1] without using a production system for testing when a bunch of people complain that it's a pain and a shortcoming of systemd.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10213608
"libopenjdkjni" looks like someone slammed their hand in the keyboard.
With GraphQL, it's possible to connect database or backend. That's the whole point here :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10804873
"Money can be safely "fractionally reserved""

What you describe is the opposite of a fractional-reserve system. It is a full-reserve system.
>I'd just assume 90-95% of patents are outright rejected if they're too similar to existing concepts

I'm not sure how to look at this statistically, but isn't the OP a counter-example?

>Make the application fees cover real research

Not really sure what you mean here. How much is time worth?

Okay, so I have an invention right now that I think is really novel, and I'd like to build a business around it. I may just want to patent and license though. Roughly speaking, it might fit roughly in the "Mathematica" space - note the example of an inventor (Wolfram) making good money on his (software) invention! Isn't that how the system is supposed to work?

Here's another question: of all the innovation in the internet space, what, if anything, do you think is patentable? Is the Facebook feed novel? If nothing is, doesn't this leave the only businesses the ones that are social, the same ones that treat users as product not customers?
Thanks for ruining my holiday season. What's the precedent situation if they do settle it? Is Oracle's latest victory binding even if the final resolution of the case isn't decided by the court?
If his 10, uh, "preparations" hurt less than the 2 actual crashes, he might have a good thing going.
Think this might be the article you're looking for; figured I'd throw a link out in case it was: http://lisacharlotterost.github.io/

Was posted recently. Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10737876
I do think there's some value to pointing out the irony though; two men from two cultures that couldn't be more distinct, with titles that could be synonyms, using what is essentially the same scripted prose to control and appease the media/populace.

Personally I find it disheartening. I think the Chinese are copying key aspects of the American Media/propaganda model because it's been demonstrated as so damn effective...
Ok, we changed the title to just say "Interview with".
> Yea sure, those terms were used by Westerners in 1761. I bet the Africans would have seen it differently.

Why do you suppose the Africans would see it differently? They were in fact confined to belowdecks in anticipation of being sold into slavery by white men. Do you think they weren't cognizant of this? Do you think they would have rejected the institution of slavery on the basis that they were getting the short end of the stick? Slavery exists to this day and is generally recognized where it is seen. Attitudes towards it vary, but it's not a matter of belief or conjecture.

> Nevertheless, it is our duty to correct the terms they used to better reflect the reality. And this is common practice. If it weren't, Socrates would be remembered as a corrupter of the youth and Galileo as a heretic.

Socrates is remembered as an instigator of rebellion, and Galileo as a heretic in the eyes of the church. As it so happens, predominant Western culture cares much more about Socrates' other contributions to culture than his relationship with Athenian politics, and regards heresy as something of an unreasonable charge.

I really fail to see what the big deal is. Certainly attitudes towards slavery have changed dramatically over the years. Much as attitudes towards many historical facts of life have changed. That doesn't make them cease to be facts. Are you objecting to the article's use of "free men" and "slaves" as primary identifiers? The point of the article appears to be primarily about race and the institution of slavery, when in isolation shipwrecked on an island. The labels are not false, neither are they inappropriate in a historical context.
Microsoft should not have been allowed to patent this particular design because it is made up mostly of elements which are in the public domain. For example, the 'plus' and 'minus' symbols are universal symbols. Circles and straight lines would also fall into the public domain.

I don't think you should be able to patent designs which are just basic compositions of symbols/motifs which have existed for thousands of years.

Besides, lots of old remote controls use plus/minus symbols to indicate volume-up/volume-down in a similar fashion. This design is obviously derivative.
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That is not correct, unless you consider demand-deposits and intentional duration mismatch fundamental aspect of a fractionally reserved system. If you follow that definition, then I concede the point, but I don't think it really matters to the fundamental argument.

All demand deposits must be reserved at 100%, of course, but duration-constrained savings vehicles (e.g. CDs) can be loaned against safely, allowing credit to expand as time horizons do.
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Economic historian Niall Ferguson beautifully describes fractional reserves as one of the greatest innovations of humankind in Ascent of Money.

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.

How do we know?

There were holdouts in Europe originally, some central banks were slow to adopt fractional reserves. They were trounced by the economies of other European nations and their superior access to liquid capital.

We've essentially done the laboratory tests here, it's one of the few areas where econ plays like a hard science. We know the answer here, and it's not 100% reserve requirements.

It's a tragic topic to put to a referendum though, because I don't expect every random person to be an expert on the technical nuances of financial history. And this is a topic where intuitions are a pretty poor guide, one where I'd expect the wisdom of crowds to fail hard. PhantomGremlin's quote from George Bailey is a good example. Most people aren't bankers, and don't really understand how it works as a system, beyond their own account, so it's weird to ask them to make key decisions here.
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So what you mean to say is that the Swiss will now create a system where Swiss banks are required to have a tiny and fully controlled "overseas" (about 5 cm overseas preferably) subsidiary that "really"/legally originates all the loans ...

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)

I bet France and Germany will soon be voting a 2% foreign bank tax and send a box of flowers to every Swiss citizen as thanks. Nah doesn't sound realistic. They're governments. They'll never send thanks to anyone for money they suddenly can steal.
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If you want to have a research career, you pretty much have to go to a top ten school (or better). Of course, this doesn't apply to everyone...
The original argument essentially mirrored that of copyright (indeed, design patents were originally called design copyrights): To reserve ornamental designs to their creators, since nobody would spend time on such designs if they could be legally copied.

Design patents came to exist with the advent of mass-produced goods which were both functional and ornamental. Copyright covered objects which one merely looked at (books, paintings, etc.) while design patents covered objects which were used for a purpose (flour mills, stoves, etc.); neither of these applied to a work of art engraved into the side of a cast-iron stove.
If the vendor is incompetent and the bug is being actively exploited, then it's reasonable to violate the 90-day policy, which is designed in the spirit of cooperation with competent vendors.

6 months ago they decided to limit inline installations [1] and they probably started reviewing poorly-rated add-ons like this one at that time.

http://blog.chromium.org/2015/08/protecting-users-from-decep...
This diff is more explicit about what's going on:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore.git/+/aab9...

Change dependency from libart -> libopenjdkjvm.

There are also diffs adding lambda support, tweaking various classes for compatibility with applications that use reflection to access internal capabilities, and fixing lots OpenJDK compatibility bugs.

Android still needs to run dex bytecode somehow, so there are two possibilities for how N will work.

Option one is that Android stick with ART and replaces Harmony with OpenJDK: from a technical perspective, that wouldn't be the end of the world, especially since the Harmony implementation is rather inefficient.

Option two is that Google ports Hotspot to run on Android and, then has PackageManager convert dex bytecode back to Java bytecode on device. That would be awful, since ART is built for low-end devices and, well, Hotspot isn't.

In favor of option one is that Google is still developing ART. In favor of option two is Oracle being Satan incarnate.

I also wouldn't be surprised if Oracle has compelled Google to simply ship a copy of Hotspot, allowing developers to ship "authentic Java" APKs instead of dex-bytecode ones, with the two environments running in parallel, with two different zygotes.
Since Android's zygote does preloading of system classes and ART does precompilation to native code, I think having these many additional classes in the core is bound to have an adverse effect on app startup times and device memory consumption. I'm surprised they're doing this so sneakily.
Thought it was interesting that Growth was at the center of both of the following:

> What makes you most nervous about the future?
Debt. The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians, but the citizens end up paying the price.

> What, if anything, makes you hopeful about the future?
Innovation, especially in America, is continuing at a breakneck pace, even in areas facing substantial political or regulatory headwinds.
>Fast cores take exponentially more energy than slow ones

What's your source for this/why does this happen?
I see this and I'm wondering.. when writing ruby code, could this serve as a good way to write performance-bound code in a easier fashion than it is to implement a ruby C extension?

P.S.

I know this was posted already [1], but for some reason I could not open the HN discussion page for it...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10680759
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> Any company that authenticates customers with nothing more than static identifiers — address, SSN, DOB, phone number, credit card number, etc. — is vulnerable to these takeover attempts.

Does having two-factor auth even matter if it can be circumvented with social engineering from static data?
pgweb is also nice: https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb

I'm excited to see all the work that's going into tools to work with Postgres :)
An "intentional duration mismatch" (as you call it) between a CD and a loan would indeed create a case of fractional reserves. But it is not "fundamental" as there are other events that can cause fractional reserve to occur. For example the CD and the loan could both be established for, say, 5 years, but if the loan recipient defaults after 5 years the bank would be missing the money to repay the CD depositor; so safety policies need to be established to avoid this, eg. never loan more than 90% of the deposits.
The 250K is a very well selected figure from a political stand point as it incorporates most of their current voting base and any one who's on the fence.
Families with income of 50K and below are more likely to identify as Democrat in the current political climate, 50-150 is more or less evenly split and the higher you go the more ground the democrats usually lose.

Over 250K it most likely won't matter as their political opinions might not be swain but 150-250K is quite a lucrative poaching ground for both parties, the republicans spread fear that those are the people who'll suffer the most under the Dem's taxation policy and the Dem's advertise that they are part of their precious middle class that must be protected.

The 150-250K range is also where quite a few of the Dem's force multipliers lie; young educated professionals which are tethered to social media and are quite likely to be politically active on various social issues attacking and preserving them is quite paramount for the Dem's long term strategy if they want to keep the white house for another 8 years.
"Interest rates are used to price risk, and so in the current environment, the risk-pricing mechanism is broken." This is the money quote.
Bitcoin has built in limit to lending: you can't, in the classic way it's been done. Whoever has control of coins, has complete control. If I give you any bitcoin in a way that you can spend it, then I don't have a mechanism to get it back without your consent. So no "lent" bitcoin really exists within the system.
So you claim, absent any supporting data, that adding 500k skilled employees (85k times 6 years), not even including other types of visas doesn't affect labor markets? That requires either solid proof or, well, motivated reasoning.

3.6m software engineers in the US; if even half of h1b holders are devs that's a sizeable increase. Even under modest demand elasticity assumptions you can back of napkin estimate a large influence

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2483690/it-careers/indi...
I would probably do it like this in D (disclaimer: I haven't tested this code!)

import std.typecons;
import std.socket;
import std.variant;

struct Disconnected {}
struct Connecting {}

alias Connected = Typedef!(TcpSocket, null, "connected");
alias Transferring = Typedef!(TcpSocket, null, "transferring");

alias ConnState = Algebraic!(Disconnected, Connecting, Connected, Transferring);

You could use plain structs instead of the typedef template for the same result.
Thanks for the pdf and this comment. The source seems reputable and it definitely changed my understanding of how money is created. I thought banks could only lend the money they took in through deposits or borrowing and had no idea they had the authority to actually create money directly.
They'd get them via banning the financing, not via stopping the product in the mail.
Not very conversant with the theory behind design patents, but seems to me they are used more for protecting distinctive UIs and associations with brands than for protecting the investment in actually designing them. Here's the closest thing I can find off-hand (http://republic3-0.com/design-patents-primer-david-gerk/),
which also links to another article (http://ilj.law.indiana.edu/articles/7-Du-Mont-Janis-1.pdf) that I have not yet read:

> Gerk: Design patents have been part of our intellectual property framework for a long time. In fact, the first U.S. law providing for design patent protection was passed in 1842.

The impetus for protecting “designs” came about in response to the prevalence of copycats misappropriating the popular designs of the time, both here in America and elsewhere across the globe. For example, laws providing protection for “design” were developing in Britain during that time period as well.

At that time, manufacturers in a variety of industries, including iron works (think stoves, railings, and kitchen utensils) and textiles, began including ornamental designs on their products to distinguish themselves from their competition. These original designs were quite ornate, time-consuming and not surprisingly – given the time period – often done by hand. When copycats began to use these designs to sell their own products, this prompted efforts by businesses to seek separate protection for their designs, especially since they weren’t being effectively protected under either patent or copyright.

Indeed, in this particular case, the alleged UI copying was deliberately done to free-ride on the popularity of Word's Ribbon UI (yes, apparently it's popular):

> Among many examples, Help for WordPerfect X7 suggests that the user “simulate the
Microsoft Word workspace until you are accustomed to work in WordPerfect”

Copying the exact design of a slider does actually seem like more work than just throwing something together by yourself...
If you want to go the route of people using the idea of things that have been used for thousands of years in patents, no one should be able to patent a wheel design because wheels have been around for a very long time and every wheel is a derivative of the original wheel design. Sure, wheels are a utility, but the design of a wheel is using pieces from other people's ideas.

Patents are silly anyway, imho.
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Not mentioned is Indians also face the choice of torrenting a movie or paying to see a possibly censored version of the same film. Paying to see an uncensored version of say Game of Thrones is not possible.

Some newspapers talk about upcoming shows that might not even be available on Indian TV as they assume some middle class will torrent: https://twitter.com/b50/status/681673141593227264
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Meta comment, but it's amazing to me how frequently articles about the cost/value of higher education hit the front page of HN. I wonder what the fascination is?