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> Sort of. Banks under fractional reserve are limited by a "reserve requirement" [1]. This limits the amount a bank can loan at any time.

Slightly tangential to the main topic, but this is a common misunderstanding and incorrect. Bank lending is not constrained by the amount of reserves a bank has, because banks can and do lend each other reserves (or sell each other reserves in exchange for other assets).

So banks just make loans regardless of how many reserves they have. Afterwards, a separate department checks whether they satisfy the reserve requirements. If they do and they have too many reserves, they will try to lend those reserves to other banks. If they don't, they will try to borrow reserves from other banks or from the central bank.

Note that banks still cannot make loans willy-nilly. It's just that they're constrained by capital requirements instead, as opposed to what people commonly believe.

Edit: If you are interested in the low-level workings of the system, I recommend reading the corresponding writeups of Modern Monetary Theory economists. A good starting point (though somewhat lengthy) is here: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/p/modern-monetary-theory-...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who still switches across to Quake and Nethack to clear the mind for a few minutes.
Having a Jewish father doesn't make you Jewish. Only people who have Jewish mothers or those who convert to Judaism are considered Jewish. If the agent thought he was being inaccurate then the agent was just being ignorant.
If I understand BTC correctly then the return on mining is going down. Once the cost of mining exceeds the return in coins then there are only a few reasons to continue mining:
1) Altruism. Some people will just want to support the network.
2) Botnets. If you aren't paying for the hardware then you don't care about the cost.
3) Control. You are a large entity that wants to take over the network.
4) Ignorance. I assume some people will continue to mine and just not know they are losing money doing it.

Please let me know if I am missing something.

I am betting on a turning point where it becomes more reasonable for the government to take over the network, at least temporarily. It is not a stretch to think that someone (not necessarily the US govt) with enough computer power could get a benefit from controlling the entire network.
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"Normally, I work a focused-but-relaxed 60 hours in a week." Ouch, not sure I could cope with that.
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People need to eat every day. Give people cash, it goes for random things. Give people food stamp - at a minimum they have food. I'm guess you've never been hungry. The folks who invented food stamps were trying to reduce a real problem.
There has been some absolutely ridiculous media coverage from the usual suspects like Fox[1], but it doesn't really have the smell of a organised campaign to me (yet). It's just the usual right wing talking heads taking a skewed view of things because of their preexisting biases.

I think a lot of Tesla fans are getting into the conspiracy theory zone with this and they are starting to sound fairly cult-like. HN and the Tesla users forums had quite a few people seriously suggesting that some agent of 'big auto' was out on the highway looking for teslas to throw debris under (no doubt the 'big auto' spies inside Tesla had alerted them to the vulnerability of the underside of the battery pack).

The personality cult surrounding Musk turns a lot of people off. Also the Boeing incident is coming back to bite him now, and rightly so.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhMjRzvE1Ng
Would be one less.
He tried to enter on the US Visa Waiver program. If the guard doesn't like you then you don't get in.

Getting a visa in advance does make the guard do more paperwork if they refuse entry.

From some US gov website;
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To use the program, visitors must waive all rights of review or appeal of decisions made by an immigration officer and all rights to contest action in deportation except for asylum.
Why is this better than the Google or Bing translate APIs, which also offer language detection?
Right now while the market is ~6 billion US and liquidity is fairly low, it's pretty easy for deep pockets like hedge funds and their ilk to manipulate, as might have happened just now.

As Bitcoin grows in market cap, volatility will reduce, quite considerably I think.

Eventually BTC might have a very low volatility and become to investors more like gold or silver.
> I learned not to say I was there to take a class. Just visiting. Hope to spend lots of money. Ok, have a nice day!

Isn't lying to those people a really bad idea?
That makes sense if there is a dispute between you and Google. But if the dispute is between you and one of your contacts instead, to claim that the signature is forged would be to claim that your contact has Google's cooperation. That bar might not be as high as claiming your private key was compromised, but it is still quite high.
If it is not profitable to mine, then people will have to pay transaction fees to get their orders processed in a timely manner. These will have to be enough to keep enough people mining. It will only be cheap to run a 51% attack if there's not many people using the network to process transactions. Which isn't to say it necessarily won't be cheap enough for some specific goal. Simple ability to double spend isn't likely to be worth enough to a state, though, I think.
This one is easier on the eye, IMHO: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD
I'm sure the bug count was ridiculously high.
> Or to restate, one of fractional reserve banking's key purposes is to influence the money supply.

No. There were experiments with trying to influence the money supply in the past, but it doesn't work. Today, the money supply develops endogenously, that is, it is determined by potential borrowers' willingness to borrow and by banks' determination of the credit-worthiness of said potential borrowers.

The central bank is tasked with making sure that the interbank clearing system works smoothly and with setting the short-term interest rate.

Also, your story about how banking works today is a bit muddled. Whether Bank A can borrow those 9$ has nothing to do with how many reserves they have, but with quality of the bank's assets relative to its capital.

The volume of reserves really does not have a noticeable effect on the behaviour of the banking system, mostly because, as I wrote above, it is endogenous anyway.
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why is vanilla android not the answer? i don't even need apps. just a browser, really.
ElasticSearch with Haystack is the next logical move after outgrowing Whoosh.
I've been left perplexed a few times after having Disconnect block otherwise perfectly innocent parts of a web page leaving me wondering why a web app isn't working as expected. Had to uninstall it.
Do, really, immigration officers ask "What the hell where you doing X?" "Aren't those countries Islamic?" There are parts on this writing that are hard to believe, like they were written to sound like a novel, but I have never been on a situation like the one described, not even close.
"test it out" comes back as french...
"Dropbox, which is increasingly competing with Microsoft and Google as well as fellow startup Box in the fast-growing field of cloud storage,"

This implicitly (if not explicitly) reverses the actuality, which is really:

"Dropbox, which is increasingly facing competition from Microsoft and Google as well as fellow startup Box in the fast-growing field of cloud storage,"

They do a better job later on with,
"Those features come at a time large rivals like Microsoft and Amazon Inc are muscling into cloud-storage, a strategic weapon in an era of widespread mobile computing."
What do you like about Kubuntu more compared to openSUSE?
This is a pretty empty argument. It's up to the United States to decide all of its policies. So what? That doesn't make it unreasonable for outsiders to comment on how stupid or broken they are. Similarly broken policies in other countries aren't really much justification either.
I think many perl advocates try to have their cake and eat it - they talk about the power and conciseness that perl's short operators allow, and then also claim that you can write maintainable code in perl by using english function names, strict mode and so on. Both claims are mostly true, but you can't do both in the same piece of code.
No, it is 1-indexed :)
Why define Notation for pairs and then not use it?

Instead of using match/with/true/false, you can use if/then/else.

Verlang looks great. Will have to try it out.

Strange that Verlang generates uncurried functions. I know that's not the default in Erlang, but as you found out, it breaks extraction.
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Kotlin is not an option for me. Android studio is completely inaccessible with my screen reading software as far as I can tell and there isn't an Eclipse plugin yet. Scala looks like my best bet and it's a reason to learn the language
Agents use their read on a person to determine entry/denial. The OP mentioned all the things he was asked and how he answered. He didn't/couldn't explain his attitude, eye contact, how quickly he answered the questions, facial expressions.

You've met people you took an instant dislike to - maybe its their hyper-vigilant appearanch; maybe they involuntarily smile at everything you say making you think they know something you don't know. Things like that can get you turned away at the border.
Do we need to know Ayn Rand to 'truly get this' ridiculous list? Coz it sure seems like self-preservation/-idolatry is the goal here.

Fact: you cannot live without other humans.
Some day I have to rewrite whatlanguageis.com (currently not working) with all the great ideas I had to improve it...
Exactly, it prevents breaking context by switching windows back and forth to access a piece of information.
Tiling is, of course, another way to solve the problem. I prefer snappy because i can extract the exact piece of information i'm interested in, for example a portion of an image or a paragraph of text, instead of the whole thing.
Lying by omission.
Hmm, it takes 5+ seconds to get a response, and it chokes on the same test phrase as Google, thinking "Ik hou van vette lettertypes." is Norwegian...
Rather than directing your "advice" to the victims, direct it to the US immigration officers.
https://github.com/toastdriven/django-haystack
Tesla is a very low run product compared to even the least successful phone.

Something that happens once in a million will happen on an iPhone, not on a Tesla.

If / When they produce a mainstream car that will be another story.

All cars in Tesla premium category have quirks that require trip to the dealer. I have had colleague with bricked Series 5 BMW that requires full rewiring, ... Except for Tesla being overhyped with people that will not buy it, the actual clients of that kind of car seems generally happy to go through the "pain". (see, not an opinion I share, but then I don't buy 85K car either)
Can't go wrong with a little todo list with angular and firebase.

I recently made a silly little Halloween game http://clickortre.at with angularjs.
So half a day later, and no one on HN noticed the most interesting fact about the ad was its THREE AND A HALF MINUTES LONG?

I mean I've had mythtv and commercial skipping for I guess over a decade now and I adblock all browsers etc but do people "out there" really sit thru almost four minute long advertisements? Back when I used to watch them, commercials were long enough for a bathroom break, sounds like commercial breaks are approaching "short workout followed by a shower" or perhaps "cook and eat some hot pockets" length of time.
Except the Schengen area includes countries not on the EU (and exclude countries part of the EU - for a reason)
Interesting LTC's mini-bubble has also burst.

What is inevitably going to happen is it will plummet to near its value before the bubble ($200 if I remember correctly) and people will want to buy into it so that they can catch the next upward curve. BTC/LTC are probably going to be extremely volatile for some time to come.
And how broken were they? Clearly the agents had just caught a smuggler; the OP said so. They were performing their duties up to some standard.

This article is essentially about a 'false positive' by the border agents, nothing more.
What matters in the banking system are capital requirements.

The amount of money a bank can lend out is a multiple of the bank's capital, because when a loan defaults, the corresponding amount is subtracted from the bank's capital, i.e. from the net value of the bank (assets minus non-capital liabilities).

We as society want to limit the amount of loans that a bank can make to such an extent that its bank capital won't go negative. Because if bank capital were to go negative, the bank would be in default and would effectively have given money out "for free".

And banks are limited exactly in this way: Loans are limited in terms of the amount of capital that banks owe their owners. You may argue that the capital requirements are too low (and they are...), but qualitatively, the system makes sense.

It actually makes much more sense than this foggy picture of reserve banking that most people have in their heads.
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That's wrong. The ambition clearly exists, steps for free movement are already taken and it's only going to be more unified with time advancing.

http://enwp.org/UNASUR#Free_movement_of_peoples
Best comment. :-)
No, they can't spot lies, they can only spot things they are not expecting. Tell them a short boring story if the truth is unusual.
Thanks for the overview, but...

I am a hard line atheist anti-idealist that don't make that much difference between islamists, socialists and astrology readers. Idealists lie to themselves and others, because they mix up their self image with their opinions -- or they are just propagandists (since they know they are correct, the target is "winning" as in convincing, not learning.)

Politically, I think the US left is as crazy as the US Fox right.

The point is, there are subjects where I'm less of a laid back "live and let live"-guy -- but it is hard to be more unlikely as a dangerous criminal or terrorist than me. Still, I would be nervous entering the US borders by now.

From what I've read, the Israelis make border checks less problematic. It is hard to scale their solutions to US?

Edit: ma2rten, I answered that first half to swombat 40+ minutes before you wrote. See "There is a serious position to have"
Sounds like an actual financial issue - not to you, but perhaps to one of the previous owners who was cheated. Turns out not to be the case; the fact that a German checked a paperwork detail is not at all surprising to me.
Better font rendering, larger software selection, home folder encryption, WIFI firmware included on CD. I also think apt is better package manager. On other side SUSE has better installer.

I am not sure Kubuntu will survive 14.04. Perhaps there will be replacement based on Debian. Perhaps it will be time to move to OpenSUSE.
> Indexing (python, single threaded) took a while

The documentation indicates there is a multiprocessing option. (Also configurable memory limits, if you didn't see that.)

http://whoosh.readthedocs.org/en/latest/batch.html
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The article is really interesting, but I start rolling my eyes when the author jumps to the implication that this is some sort of plot to make government intrusion easier. I doubt that -- the police and litigants already have a myriad of ways to obtain and get chat transcripts admitted in court.

Perhaps this is a way to ensure message integrity when people are traversing networks that inspect TLS sessions?

Many enterprise environments, for example, use proxy servers that terminate SSL sessions at the network boundary, inspect the content, and then re-encrypt using a self-signed key. Perhaps Google has observed some malicious or obnoxious use of that technology in public or institutional wifi environments. (ie. inserting ads, filtering "naughty" words, etc)

The article implies that this is some sort of plot to make government intrusion easier. I doubt that -- the police and litigants already have a myriad of ways to obtain and get chat transcripts admitted in court.
The less information you give to these people, the less reason they have to stop you. So don't volunteer info.

He didn't say he was lying. He said he learned not to say something.
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This pretty much sums it up:

> "We are under the impression you have more ties with more countries we are not on friendly terms with than your own. We decided to bring you back to the Canadian border."
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And, as always with browser wars. This is your anecdotal opinion.

Different users and configs have different experiences and the memory or speed issues are something from the past even if the features were comparable (You can't beat the amount and quality of FF's addons).

A concerning issue about FF is that it might be drifting away from one of the things that makes it great. The ability to customize.

Disclaimer: Chrome, Firefox, Opera are all great browsers and people should use whatever they like but if you start pushing a case for your subjective choice, be prepared to deal with arguments.
The article cited disputes Gould's particular allegations about Morton's measurement bias.

The authors however did not dispute his "ideological" position which does have a sound scientific and historical grounding:

"In reevaluating Morton and Gould, we do not dispute that racist views were unfortunately common in 19th-century science [6] or that bias has inappropriately influenced research in some cases [16]. Furthermore, studies have demonstrated that modern human variation is generally continuous, rather than discrete or 'racial', and that most variation in modern humans is within, rather than between, populations [11],[17]."

Also:

"Morton indeed believed in the concept of race and assigned a plethora of different attributes to various groups, often in highly racist fashion."

Gould was wrong in his analysis of Morton's measurements and made his own errors but those were errors of methodology not ideology.
Every place has problems. E.g. Sweden is consensus oriented and has only one officially accepted opinion at a time, so much stuff just can't be discussed. This along with being a small duck pond (the elites, media etc generally know each others) means that problems might be a long time being corrected.
Pretty ironic considering the US started producing tourism adverts. Maybe they should add a disclaimer to the bottom: only applicable to WASPs with $10k in the bank who have never left their home country before.
From the screenshot it looks like that's what was happening. Update: I take it back. It looks like it's doing more than that. So there's a bug in this plugin. Even so, not relying omn disqus would have avoided this issue.
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That's not how fractional reserve banking works. An individual bank cannot just "invent 1000% of the money it has on deposit," but the banking system as a whole can create a multiple of the total amount of money on deposit. No need to try to explain when Wikipedia provides a clear explanation and a table showing how this works and how the Money Multiplier effect is calculated from the Required Reserve Ratio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking#Exam...
There are plenty of long ads around.

Sometimes they're good, and I don't mind sitting through them. There's one featuring a British Bi-Athlete (skiing, shooting). I have no idea what it's advertising. I looked up the gun he was using and they do a really neat laser & target system. Like Tin Can Alley but for adults.

Long ads are much less impressive when they're repeatedly something I have zero interest in ("It's showtime, you've been coding like a beast "[SKIP]) or when they're lousy ads created by people who don't know what they're doing.

I usually leave them running in another tab until the content is ready. I understand why other people would hate them and want to ad block them.

Also: I have zero interest in gambling, and I never want to see a gambling ad, but I get loads. I wonder what recovering alcoholics or addicted gamblers could do to prevent those ads from appearing, other than using ad-block?
Try removing the button on the top left. The one with the three horizontal bars.
Erm, the law?
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My X230 has the plug in the back. I'm careful when I pick up my laptop. It's a really stupid design decision, exacerbated by the shape of the plug. Otherwise I love my Thinkpad and it's Linux-friendly hardware.
You should also consider full-non-ambiguous words before trying with trigrams. "marché" is only available in French, whereas "mar", "arc", ... are available in lots of languages. This should drastically improve your results.
Based on my own experiences, by the time search is an important enough feature to outgrow Whoosh, you've also outgrown Haystack's API.
Didn't they have massive riots recently

They where "massive" by Swedish standards, but tiny by any international standard you may care to use. Certainly much much smaller than riots that have happened recently in many other European countries
Newer vehicles often get software updates as part of the maintenance schedule; so all OTA does is avoid a trip to the dealer
I've submitted this over a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6553418
I don't want to go back, and I'm from there.

5 years to go for citizenship...
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Your Australia-related articles were posted in July. Tony Abbott didn't become Prime Minister until September.
Store only the top N common non-ambiguous words if the RAM consumption matters ;)
Motivation is all.

To created purely to give pleasure to people is one thing, it is an act of generosity and altruism, if it is done to manipulate, then it is something very different. PR and advertising are manipulations.

The worst thing is to see something like this, allow it to emotionally effect one, then discover at the end that is is a corporate manipulation. Dunno about others, but that makes me feel used.
You clearly haven't met the more intellectually challenged of my countrymen (that's most of them, for the record)
Pure Python is definitely a selling point for those of us who regularly deploy to multiple platforms. Knowing you can 'pip install pure-python-lib' on any platform and have it work every single time without regards to what c compilers and c libraries you have available is a major boon.