skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "you can't tun out of demand" idea is more universal than just Freshwater economics. Even Keynes resorted to "animal spirits" to explain things. Once velocity picked up, you had the Postwar Boom.

The connective tissue is that in order to think that, it helps if you think there's untapped demand constrained by monetary policy.

At the margins, the cost of additional production is so low that there are multiple deflationary pressures even if everything looks normal.

The basic Market Monetarist ( the intellectual sons & daughters of Friedman ) stuff these days is quite interesting. It's very little fun because there's nothing to it to where you can have a "program" - either spending or austerity - to fit the ( lack of ) ideology[1]. So policy makers aren't interested. My favorite Monetarist - Scott Sumner - gets dismissed by such as Paul Krugman, saying that the stories are too hard; that's the politics are wrong[2]. It's not an assault on it even; just a dismissal. Very enlightening.

[1] which is in itself an ideology with certain blinders on - one I ascribe to, unfortunately.

[2] which I think means it has no politics and resembles control theory too much. If everybody can buy the Monetary Policy expansion pack for MATLAB and check the economists' work, there won't be any economists beyond a level....
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Good point!

The screencasting tool from the same author:

https://github.com/rprichard/x11-canvas-screencast
> High-tech state-of-the-art tracking technology from Google and Apple indicates that these people are somehow involved in the disappearance of a missing person.

It is rather odd that you insist on this when you know it to be false. The technology is not state-of-the art because it is missing the crucial feature of telling you how confident it is in its assessment. These people were clearly not involved and the tracking app was simply malfunctioning.

In my opinion this clearly shows how irresponsible it is to make an app like this which recklessly reports results without providing information on their accuracy and reliability. Of course the app will disclaim any sort of liability, but common sense tells you there will be life-and-death situations such as this where incorrect results will have consequences.
Android enables revenue for Google, which is probably all that matters from Oracle's perspective.
We have shipped high-traffic production web applications using OpenJDK for years.
I am a type B person (if this designation even makes sense), and have a diagnosed ADD.

However, I prefer statically typed languages like Scala, as it is easier for me to compensate for lack of internal discipline with external constraints.
Hindsight is 20/20. Naturally if they'd known the future they might have made different moves.
I was referring less to general blogging companies like Typepad/Blogger - IMO those are pretty similar to Medium in functionality but minus the community aspect (blogs only linked to one-another by intentional choice, versus Medium where everything is aggregated and quasi-curated by the application).

When Svbtle first came out it seemed to cater to almost purely tech audiences and allowed new authors on a limited basis - this might have been coincidence due to the creator's roots or connections, but it created a sense of community and credibility within that social sphere (similar to Hacker News in the tech world). Unfortunately, since they've opened signups to everyone it seems like its lost that sense of community and become just-another-blogging-platform.

Also would be extremely curious as to the stats on historical blogging data.
I only switched to building releases at 1.4 because I thought the nightly treadmill could finally be over. Alas I guess I'll skip installing 1.6 and just switch back to sporadically-updated checkouts whenever some dependency has breaking changes (ooh, such stable).

I'm not looking to get the rats on my face and switch to butt-based development ala rustup/multirust/etc.
I believe Google has yet to spend 4 billion dollars in this litigation matter, so they're still ahead regardless?
Forward the dump to Facebook support so they can lock the account for suspicious activity and require the user to complete security verification... they generally do this by way of sending them ID scans or having you identify friends in pictures. Both of which are not hard to BS individually, but difficult to do in batch.
That's like saying a magazine doesn't generate revenue, the ads do. It doesn't really make sense. The ads won't exist without the platform, therefore the platform generates revenue.
Apples mobile revenue lead has accelerated further ahead of Google's this past year according to App Annie's newest report.

http://photos.appleinsidercdn.com/gallery/15636-12047-Screen...
Just for clarification, and I know you did not mentioned the GOP, but Republicans did not champion the idea of "trickle down economics".

http://rare.us/story/memo-to-liberals-theres-no-such-thing-a...
I'm going to go out on a little bit of a limb here, but I bet you -- like most HN readers, including me -- are kind of, well, geeky/nerdy. (The fact that you're talking about generating content with org-mode and pandoc is kind of a big hint here, honestly.) Our requirements for hosting can be a little more demanding than the target audience WordPress aims at.

But you know, I'm running WordPress for one of my sites now, and at least in my experience, the "constant security updates" are about as much of a nightmare as they are for iPhone applications at this point. It updates itself! Every so often I log into the admin panel and make sure the plugins I'm using are updated, too -- which is generally a few clicks. From a user standpoint, rather than a nerdy hacker standpoint, WP is frankly closer to a maintenance-free, turnkey CMS than I really thought possible. The majority of WP users never need to hack their theme and post code, and I'd say of the ones who do, the vast majority need to do it very, very rarely.

I get that when you do look at it from a nerdy hacker standpoint, WP can be mildly to profoundly annoying. I am writing a new theme for my site to do a few specific things and I'm finding it kind of infuriating work. But as far as full-featured, self-hostable tools go, WP is just about impossible to beat. (And on many hosts the installation is pretty close to one-click; even if you have to do it manually, there are fewer steps with WP than with almost any other major web software package out there. Anyone wondering how PHP can possibly be still so popular when its fractal wrongness is so well documented just has to look at how easy installing WP is compared to installing roughly any other non-PHP web app ever written.)

At any rate, the web isn't intrinsically any more difficult than it ever was: if you want to build a static web site, you still can, and you don't need any tools in 2016 that you wouldn't have had in 1996. The reason that hosted publishing solutions are so popular goes back to the difference between "nerd" and "non-nerd," I suspect: whatever else one can say about Medium, getting an article published through it and having it look good by modern design standards is really, really easy. I'd like to see more self-hosting blogging myself, but "just write your articles in your favorite plain text editor in Markdown, process them with Jekyll and push 'em up to your server of choice with rsync" is, for most of humanity, simply not an attractive alternative to "type into this WYSIWYG box and click Publish."
Obey at all costs!
Yes, except with ec2 and tons of other missing AWS services support.
Depends on a lot of factors. The main reason to do it is that Jekyll - and their ilk - are so damn easy nowadays. And you can push the whole thing to an AWS server in one command with s3website. For $0/m, unless you're a big deal. You can even get free SSL with CloudFlare. Or you can just use GitHub Pages and circumvent that whole process.

OTOH, if something like Medium weren't as bulky as it is and had more awesome CMS features like footnotes, I could totally understand somewhat-technical people sticking with them. It's less the self-hosting and -ownership that should be appealing, just how much easier it genuinely is to publish yourself for your own website compared to managing Medium.
Too bad he isn't around anymore to say that to the Apple Watch user interface.
If you click the Fork Me button in the top right you can contribute right now :)
Samsung (and Google, to a much lesser degree) are the only companies that make any profit on Android. Everyone else loses money on it, even if they have billions in revenue. "Lose money on every sale, but make it up in volume" isn't a viable business strategy, but that's where a lot of companies are at right now.
Chances are that land rents and goods prices would adjust to soak up the gains in wages. No guarantees there, though.
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That would imply homeless shelters give a shit about the homeless.
Probably not after tac, though I guess it depends on what you call fat margins. Rumors are google pays apple 75% for their search deal. My suspicion is google keep under 30% of mobile ad spend too.
Yep, that's me.
This. Current static site generators aren't good for non-engineers, but I'd be willing to bet that doesn't need to be the case. Every instance I've seen requires some sort of technical know-how, or integration with Dropbox/Drive/etc (which many non-technical/older people won't necessarily be familiar with).

Has anyone ever tried building a standalone desktop writing app that handles everything for you? I'm just imaging an app where I can buy a domain/hosting, give it my user creds if needed, and it automatically sets everything up for me in a clean interface without needing to know anything about servers/DNS/etc.
The great irony here is that the author tweets out to not post content on Medium.
You'll forgive me if my knowledge is a bit dated. I largely work on tools integration these days and don't do much in the way of framework development but aren't macros pretty much the defacto way of doing reflection/rtti. Actually, almost every mature framework I've worked with in the past used macros to markup class properties, register types, etc.
Nice, good luck with the launch!
Man-buns are lame, but beating the crap out of them seem a little extreme for sarcasm
>If the US government decide to do that....

And therein lies the rub. Apple can mount a better defense than the US prosecution can, by dint of their bottomless legal fund. Apple can also put forward a united front, whereas you would need to summon an unprecedented level of political will and bridge-building to simply prevent Congress from derailing the DOJ prosecution through infighting.
I would guess that the find my phone apps have greater than 99% accuracy. Just not 100%.

I'm disturbed by how anti-police HN is. Like even searching for a missing person is now some great abuse of power.
Understood, but if there is no market for their labor due to structural changes in the economy (automated taxis, automated check out, mechanized fruit picking) as well as a better educated domestic workforce (high school grads) now willing t work at $15/hr what jobs exactly would they be coming for?
> ...if it doesn't compile, you can't parse.

I have the same problem with CastXML. It's clang-based too. It can't parse my project because of few C++17 "auto" functions.

I'm looking for a GCC-based solution for now.
This forum thread might be of interest http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1961
Yes, but you picked an example which is extremely easy to understand, on multiple levels. The Basic DSL is trivial. The Scala implementation is short and simple (don't trust me, take a look, assuming you're passingly familiar with Scala!).

Is your argument against DSLs in general? You don't need to write them at all if you don't want to. In fact, most Scala devs don't write DSLs.

So is your argument "the Java devs I worked with were afraid of languages with unfamiliar syntaxes"? Um. It's hard to argue with that. I don't know what to say, other than "some of the Java devs I currently work with embrace and love Scala, and others don't". Maybe change jobs and go work with more open-minded people?
> But meeting the needs of customers is what I get paid to do. And customers don't want server-side rendered stuff. They hate losing their place when they add a row of data.

>So what are ya gonna do?

Both.

Do the initial render (well, HTML generation) server-side, and update the state client-side when the user performs an action (or receives an event from the server).

Use real, accessible URLs for links, and use pushState when updating client-side.
If you're interested in Clojure, the gist author (Zach Oakes) maintains a few cool projects [1]:

- play-clj, a Clojure game library

- Nightcode, an IDE for Clojure

- Nightweb, an anonymous P2P social network in Clojure

and (non-Clojure) - SolidOak, an IDE for Rust

Also, his "Making Games at Runtime with Clojure" talk [2] is great.

[1] https://github.com/oakes

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GzzFeS5cMc
Here's an easy one to conceptualize: A good friend of mine is a state hydrologist. He crawls over streams with a ladder-like platform and at increments lowers a depth gauge to eventually estimate the stream's volume flow rate. For a number of reasons (including wild weather conditions) the cross stream increment is known only to an inch or so, that's the uncertainty in X, the depth gauge reading has another uncertainty in Y. These are applied to a function where the slope, via Deming regression, gives him an estimate of the flow rate. By the bye, most lab thermometers i've dealt with have an accuracy of about 0.1°C
It would be for me, but like dikaiosune I've drunk the Rust koolaid almost fully by now.

But honestly, even if I hadn't it's be a selling point to me because it tells me that you're a place that isn't stuck writing everything in a single language but are willing to try new things are willing to use what seems to be the right tool for the job.
I wonder if there are any schools of economics that don't view demand and growth as critical. So what if demand is low? This is definitely an oversimplification, but I'm wondering, what if that means people are satisfied with what they have. Is there inherently anything wrong in that? If we create a self-sustaining economy that doesn't grow much (but still evolves) it doesn't seem like such a problem to me. Culturally, I think we just assume growth = good.

Instead of trying to increase demand to match supply, what if we decreased supply, like having a four hour workweek?
I think you can count yourself lucky if they bother knocking...
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I run hexo on a blog of almost 100 articles. Great platform btw. It takes about 20s to generate.

Here's my review of migrating to hexo http://www.primaryobjects.com/2015/12/15/a-tale-of-migrating...
Agreed. It sounds like the homeless shelters might need to do more to help people who have shift-work. It might not be ideal to work at night, but it certainly beats living on the street and begging IMHO.
I don't think it was nearly as clear back then that this is how things would play out. Sun still controlled its own destiny when Android was nascent and it's my understanding that while Sun wasn't exactly thrilled about them building on Apache Harmony / Dalvik, etc., they weren't going to sue them over it either. Motorola on the other hand was literally telling Google and Wall Street that they were ready to go nuclear on other Android ODMs if someone didn't make them an offer (because their actual operating business wasn't cutting it anymore)
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Leys see how that works out on counties with corruption endemic at low levels of enforcement.
Missing child...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exigent_circumstance

"An exigent circumstance, in the criminal procedure law of the United States, allows law enforcement, under certain circumstances, to enter a structure without a search warrant or, if they have a "knock and announce" warrant, without knocking and waiting for refusal."
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Reasonability breaks when the implementation requires technical knowledge to assess and has specific undisclosed issues in cases that matter.
Watch out for running `strings` on untrusted input!

See e.g. https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings...
We have succeeded as a civilization: we are providing far more than we could ask for.

Really? There is nothing you could improve in the human condition that would make life better?
That's probably not a fair description of the accuracy of the technology. Out of a random sample of 100 locations, how often would the technology yield the right house? I bet it's over 50%, which is definitely sufficient for probable cause.
And change of Congress in 1994.
The OP's one-size fits all approach is simply wrong.

Simply because it is correct for a subset of organizations does not make it true for all organizations as the OP implied.
I think Google thought that the software patent issue was going to go the other way, where some sort of unwritten agreement of "Let's not screw this up for everyone" would be reached. So the idea of paying $4B just for patents wasn't something that would have been done. AFAICT Google had a slim patent portfolio because Google didn't think software patents were the right thing to do, either ethically or from a business perspective. Nokia [1] pressed the button on the mutually assured destruction after the sale of Sun to Oracle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars

Disclaimer: My opinions, not necessarily my employers. I wasn't with the company at the time.
Is this really feasible in a globalized economy? If wages were constantly forced higher wouldn't companies simply offshore increasing amounts of their labor or headquarter in another country?
It just seems like an odd use case for rust. I can see how it would be attractive as an alternative to c++ or other systems language. But for shuffling data?

Also, since you mentioned PostgreSQL, if you can make the db handle json the shuffling part should be really trivial. Give node.js + pg-promise a spin for comparison.

But then again, I haven't used Rust for anything serious, so am happy to be wrong.
While the article certainly worded that portion poorly, there is a difference between monetary velocity of retained earnings parked in a mutual fund, and earnings plowed back into a business. In the former scenario, it takes a much longer time for the money to flow back into the purchase of goods and services. By reinvesting in the business, there is far less of a time lag for that to result in growth-generating economic activity.
This is a nice story, but total FUD.

Do you actually have evidence of any large amounts of harm this did to people?

This attitude is why people don't use vaccines. Fear. It overall hurts the population.
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So, get police to come out for X when you haven't done X. Then do X and police should ignore it cause last time they had evidence of X it turned out to be wrong?

Police should always investigate. They should have history of previous investigations, but that should not stop them from future investigations.
Seems to me like a smart way to get their feet wet in the industry before autonomous cars become available. Since the first few generations will likely cost in multi-100,000 dollar range, the car-sharing model makes a ton of sense.
> Looking at the Tiobe list for concreteness [...] At 17 (Groovy)

No need to consider whether Groovy follows the trend or not. Tiobe gives a history of all Top 20 languages as a graph, just click on the language name in the top 20 chart. Groovy's ( http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Groovy.html ) shows the most volatile movement in the rankings (e.g. it just rose from #82 to #17 in a mere 12 months), and Tiobe's comment "Scala might gain a permanent top 20 position soon" is probably a back-handed dig at the likely impermanence of Groovy's top 20 position. That language is being actively fiddled through the popularity rankings.
I guess we could actually test this empirically with a survey.
What? Google pays Apple $0 for ads on Android.
> and not run into a single problem?

I didn't say not a single problem: I said "its fine, nothing bad happens, it works". Of course there are issues, and bugs, some of them due to dependencies breaking, but nothing calamitous or actually bad, and nothing out of the ordinary compared to other stacks and tools imo.

Npm module churn can be annoying sure, but on the flip side its good to be getting incremental patch updates sometimes too. And with exact versions in package.json and shrinkwrap you can eliminate enough uncertainty that to all intents and purposes its really not a problem.

> dumped the entire Gulp ecosystem

Amen to that. Gulp plugin eco-system has been messed up for a year or more. We do all our frontend builds with npm scripts now, running the bare cli tools where possible, and reducing dependencies as much as possible (e.g. Gulp and all its plugins).
Has anything happened in Java to correct the fundamental issues raised in Steve Yegge's 2006 opus Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns[1]?

I last used Java two years ago, writing an Android app, and at the time I think Yegge's critique still stood. Not to mention the fact that it was a colossal amount of typing and boilerplate in order to do anything.

We're using Go at the current place, and I'm loving it. Android development in Go would be a sheer joy.

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
"... an account of the incident says it started when the automation computer steered the car incorrectly."
I haven't been in security very long, but this is the most egregious backdoor I've seen in a commercial product. It's not even accidental, by virtue of the patch, which took 7 months to actually get deployed, was purely aesthetic and left the backdoor fully in place. They had a chance after it was initially discovered, to claim "oops debug functionaly, totally a rogue dev ignoring our super strict rules" but they decided to go all in instead.

It's not surprising that the company has no comment, but I sure hope this destroys any confidence that AMX's (potential) customers might have had in their products.
Yeah. Maybe I'm having a stupid moment, but could someone ELI5 this to me?

> most homeless shelters close during the day and have strict curfews that don’t allow people to arrive in the night

I thought homeless shelters had some sort of semi-permanent living arrangement. Does this mean that they essentially drive everyone out during the day? Otherwise, how does it affect work on a night shift?
I just made this post about enabling beanstalk: https://medium.com/@arcdigital/enabling-ssl-via-aws-certific...
Probably just has a conservative Boehm-ish GC. Their website is a bit sparse on the GC details from what I can tell, but anything else would be rather surprising.
Everyone ends up disappointing is a bad characterization. I am surprised that a company as big as Amazon even bothers to hire homeless people. If the people prefer night shelter over night work they could perhaps stay in the shelter.

I think we must applaud Amazon for this brave move in first place and homeless people should be thankful to Amazon. Clearly these people have not seen 15 Indian students staying in 2 Bedroom apartment earning below minimum wage for part time work.
GM employee here. I have to say I'm impressed with where my company is headed.