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Deflation is not an issue if accompanied by growth in TFP. It's acknowledged that the period from 1874-1896 was one such event. As for banking panics, they were always particularly bad in the United States because of geographic limitations, specific bondholding requirements and other restrictions.

Theory of the firm has many variants. Coasian, Alchian, evolutionary, etc. Again, what type of neoclassicism? What is neoliberalism, anyway? [1] It's used as a snarl term rather than a particular set of ideological convictions. I've seen it used to describe various forms of economic liberalism, but also more esoteric Foucaltian analyses.

The Golden Age of Capitalism was still a time of imperialism (Truman Doctrine in effect), one of seven times less regulation than today (as measured by size of the Federal Register) and all sorts of other statuses that are nowadays attributed as being unique to neoliberalism. There was no sudden "jump" in the 1970s, it's been an ongoing process since mercantilism.

[1] http://folk.uio.no/daget/neoliberalism.pdf
Your business in this case is the website. I've personally built affiliate-based infosites that yielded significant income off CPS (what you're calling a one-off commission here) for 3+ years, and that's nothing compared to the really successful examples of the genre - www.smartpassiveincome.com, for example, uses exactly this model and has generated $40k+ per month for a good half-decade or so.

It's a fairly standard model for monetising a website - essentially the next stage up from monetising via an RTB platform like Adwords, in that you put a bit more work in choosing and testing appropriate offers, but (should) end up with higher CPMs as a result.

Also, revshare is entirely possible with a lot of affiliate deals, and even if it's not offered "out of the box", it's possible to negotiate it if you want to. There are pros and cons to that approach - it's definitely not a straightforward "revshare is better" equation.

If the OP has expertise with system administration and Minecraft hosting, plus the copywriting, customer support and sales ability, starting a second business in Minecraft hosting to monetise the site is also a valid potential option, but it'll eat a lot more time that OP may not have, and has its own failure modes that just running a leadgen business doesn't.
Most of the uses of it that I've seen have taken this approach with a listener on a thread using a different connection.
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I'm surprised by the small warts in the Rust code. In this line:

let fname = &*env::args().nth(1).unwrap_or("/usr/share/dict/words".into());

Neither the &* not the .into() add much to the meaning for me as a reader. Why are they necessary for the compiler?

Why is there an .unwrap() on writeln! ? To force a panic if the write failed?
That wouldn't surprise me at all - a lot of wartime photos are "staged" or "recreated":

http://militaryhistorynow.com/2015/09/25/famous-fakes-10-cel...

The article even says "this wasn't staged" - making the question of authenticity very obvious. Still, even if some of these were staged it's still a fascinating set of pictures.
I suppose that some people believe all lobbying is bad.
A few days after it passed, I complained about the abuses to liberty in the Patriot Act to an older, and very-wise friend. He talked about a sociological pendulum as well, and predicted those over-reaches of power would be righted in time. Given how often and completely he has been right, before, I started watching and waiting. Except, I've been waiting for fifteen years now, and that pendulum seems to only be going further away from liberty, privacy, and (real) security.

I'm not sure, but I'm starting to think that we've reached a point where sociological constructs that would have flamed out, even just 20 years ago, can be sustained, because the people in power to sustain them now have an echo chamber where the message never quite falls below the point of being lost. It's almost as if improvements in communication have now backfired in raising the noise above the signal.

I hope you turn out to be right. As a white, male, heterosexual programmer who's reached his late 40's, I don't need any extra pressure working against me in my career prospects. I'm already starting to hate the H1-B visa program, but that's a rant for another post.
OK, really blunt question for the OP - what exactly does this do?

It looks like a visual web design editor a la Bootstrap Studio et al, but you mention it's specifically for templates.

I'm a little confused, and the landing page tells me very little about what it's for.
So, don't just learn to code, learn to solve problems? Well, duh.

Maybe that's not such an obvious point. I'm learning Javascript and php strictly to build new things. Solving problems and streamlining processes for other people was never a motivation in learning.
> Hard to be unequal if you're pretty much without wealthy people.

Clearly you haven't visited places like India, where in many cases the low economic status and illiteracy of the poorest are used to make the wealthy even wealthier.
Not OP, but I think the "let the nerds build" quote may have referred to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10238132
British workplace safety rules essentially prevent use of laptops for any sustained use. (These rules apply to employees working from home, adhering to them is a barrier to allowing working from home.)

"when using a laptop without additional equipment (laptop stand, full sized keyboard and mouse), it is advisable that its use is restricted to spells of 30-40 minutes with significant task breaks between

"A laptop should not be used where a standard DSE [Display Screen Equipment] workstation set up can be reasonably provided" [1]

If you can't buy a monitor you could get a laptop stand ("Bräda") from Ikea, to improve the angle of the display [2]. Or make one.

I don't know of any alternative to a separate keyboard and mouse.

[1] http://www.bradford.gov.uk/hands/documents/New%20Ways%20of%2...

[2] http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/categories/departments/wor...
Ask HN: Should an RSA public exponent be prime?
I've done some research and found conflicting answers.. should an RSA public exponent (used in GPG etc) be prime? Is there a security risk in using non-prime numbers?
Yeah, Vietnamese had no Hollywood to force their point of view onto the global society.

I lived in Hanoi for two years, and been attending a local climbing club. A friend of mine, an American climber, once shared his thoughts on the war, and the way Vietnamese don't hate modern Americans despite having a war veteran in every family - it was a bit of surprise to him.

I think what he did not realize is that the US lost the war, and retrieved the forces, and Vietnamese are really proud of that, and it's very different to, for example, modern situation in the Arabic world, where the US just can't get enough of it.
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>I am talking about things being repeated over and over again, far more than just a couple of times.

Actually, no, you specifically said "once".

But that's OK, this appears to be an emotional issue for you.
This kind of racist "gender politics", along with a level of self-hatred and loathing for certain classes of people is a wider problem with GitHub employees and has been manifesting for a while, for example: https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/pull/17

https://twitter.com/rachelmyers/status/629981737121021953 (also see some of her late Tweets about this very thread)

https://twitter.com/agelender/status/629080326736773120 https://twitter.com/agelender/status/573560084837498880

I think it started around the time they threw out their "meritocracy rug" back in early 2014 or somewhat before: http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug
I had never heard of this before (but then again I'm not from the US). It immediately reminded me of the "Dolchstoßlegende" though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
Absolutely!

The only exception to that rule, which I feel is worth mentioning, is the infamous two-sided marketplace or network-dependent business.

In both cases market leaders have clear lock-in and it's very hard to compete with them without a huge pile of money.

But obviously the StatusPage idea discussed here doesn't have that problem.
How does it compare to libcaca?
Oh man, those Maple Story ads they used to run...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfi_tazQbLo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0hHM7GwdS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKB8PO0ZQVY
I'm not convinced computer science curriculums are teaching even "CS-folks" to code; I have observed people come to university already knowing how to code, or possessing whatever it is that allows them to code.
I grew up making starvraft maps and warcraft 3 maps. Allowed me to believe in myself and grow a thick skin
I'm sure this is a perfectly fine screen recorder (though it's worth mentioning QuickTime Player has such a feature built-in), but I'm not sure why you'd want to record YouTube videos this way. Wouldn't it be much easier to simply download the actual video file using one of the many tools that are available?
This is basically the messaging system from Dark Souls in real life, right?

Very cool.
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On my Macbook Pro, the rust version seems consistently faster (20% or so) than the c++ version compiled with clang.
Actually, the computational theory of mind is well regarded in modern cognitive science: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind
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I observe that programmers must be understood: If they can program, they can make the computer do what they want, at least some of the time.

If they are good at programming, they will do this quickly, and in a way that the computer does not have to do any (or many) unnecessary steps.

However I also observe a programmer must understand: If they can program, they can understand the computer, at least in some circumstances and at some level.

If they are good at programming, they will also be good at understanding others.

I believe mathematics teaches people to understand by helping them recognise when they do not yet understand.

To know when you have convinced someone, and yourself have been convinced, is clearly not exclusive to mathematics: Writers, artists, lawyers and lobbyists, all specifically develop these two kinds of understanding, and it is this line of thinking I am currently exploring.
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Sure, sure, but I don't know, personally it feels sloppy. Renaming namespaces to shorten them feels ok, as is importing specific names. Bringing in the whole shazam gives the impression that the person who was writing didn't really care very much.

But again, personal opinion - it can definitely be used in some contexts (just be consistent in your project!).
Parallel is of course very important. But if serial speed isn't in the same range, go parallel will be the same perf crutch as the Python folks who say drop to native. Rust programs shouldn't be parallel to beat a single threaded C++ program.
> Specifically, now every caller to this function has to pass in a mode value, even if the file exists, even if they don’t really care and are happy with a default file mode.

Wouldn't this be solved by allowing for optional arguments (which go doesn't seem to support)? Also, why not just _explicitly_ set the file mode, even if the file still exists (as otherwise it would fail anyways)?
I draw the line at "my species come first". So if someone cares more about other species than about humans that's unethical to me.
I suspect that the "microservices" craze will soon have reach a "MongoDB moment". Where everyone has gotten burned from jumped in too quickly and blindly, and the pendulum swings back in the opposite direction.

However, right now microservices are blowing up. The new greenfield project that I'm working on right now started out a year ago as a monolith with one repo. It now has microservice components scattered across several DOZEN repos, with dev teams finding excuses to refactor into smaller and smaller granularity each month.
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Why do you put "lost" and "wars" in quotation marks?

It seems to imply that because of the higher body count, we should consider the US the winner?
walterbell makes a good point I hadn't thought of though: from a board of directors point of view, this may be a positive piece that encourages investors.
Some interesting electronics examples I found on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbSmrjmP85Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0zHiVw-c7k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4eHgnLFk9k
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They used `into()` because it's the shortest. The more idiomatic options are all of the other ones: String::from, .to_string(), and .to_owned() (Strings implement a lot of generic interfaces.)

The &* converts a String to a &str. I would have done it in the match rather than here, personally.

> Why are they necessary for the compiler?

Rust does not heap allocate things automatically nor convert types automatically. This is the side effect: you can see exactly how much allocation is going on, and know exactly how stuff is being converted.

(We do have a very small and very specific set of conversions that will happen, they don't here, though.)

> Why is there an .unwrap() on writeln! ? To force a panic if the write failed?

Yes. The compiler will warn you that you're ignoring the errors on the write, and panicking is one way of handling it.
I just remembered it was mostly inline asm, like http://sh1.webring.com/people/gu/um_3792/demos.html

ps: here is the description in pseudo code (4 lines near bottom) http://pascal.sources.ru/demo/otfire.htm

tl;dr: it's a very approximative diffusion process.
That's exactly what they did.

The real process was drinking whiskey and smoking pot (ala Mad Men). Then came the search for a board room palatable process to reach the same design.
You have a really strange way of deciding who won a war. Most people would consider those "vague political goals" the whole point of going to war, and the people killed undesirable casualties. But if USA really did go to war just for the sake of killing people, I guess they have indeed been pretty victorious. Much like Germans in WW2. I mean, they might have failed to accomplish whatever vague political goals Hitler had in mind, but they definitely killed a lot more people than they lost.
The rest of your comment is interesting, but this...

>>Vietnamese had no Hollywood to force their point of view onto the global society

Sort of implies that Hollywood was reinforcing some view that the US won in Vietnam, or that the reasons for the war were noble, or?

I can't think of any Hollywood produced Vietnam centric movies that follow that sort of theme.
http://javascriptweekly.com/

http://nodeweekly.com/

http://rubyweekly.com/

I like how they post the weekly newsletter on the website. I'm not subscribed, but I read it every week. It's a nice way to stay up to date of some technologies I use daily.
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To be fair, whilst I can see the case for arguing that the Gulf War and other MENA victories were pretty hollow from a strategic point of view, and intervention in the Balkans was too late to prevent genocide, I can't see how US intervention in (eg) Panama or Grenada can be classed as anything other than a strategic victory. Just because US involvement was unpopular with the UN doesn't mean they didn't achieve what they wanted in the short and long term at relatively little cost.
>Rust programs shouldn't be parallel to beat a single threaded C++ program.

I don't write code in either language, but as an outsider my impression is that rust was created to make programming for parallel execution, easier.

If that's the case, why are we comparing a use case c++ is optimized for against a use case rust isn't optimized for?
I don't believe the majority believe we won in Vietnam. I certainly don't.

There are definitely some who believe 'were forced to declare defeat by Congress'. I have heard a Vietnam Vet say the military won the war, but the government forced them to pull out.

Here's a video explaining that thesis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqYGHZCJwk - which places the blame squarely on the Democratic Party for the US losing the war. You'll see that some in the comments also believe this to be true.

FWIW, 'Prager University' gives an American conservative perspective, and was set up to 'combat liberal bias and teach Judeo-Christian values'.
We're still glorifying war? Even on HN?
I view these as prototyping tools for management.

Although personally I think Sketch is even easier to use for complex workflows.
Yes, but that's not a law; it's a contract term that is probably valid in most of the world.
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All you have to do to refute your claim upthread is open that document, click "Find" in your browser menu, and type the word "rape".

I think you may have misread my comment; maybe you're trying to argue that the High Court decision doesn't include witness testimony? If you look carefully at what I wrote, I didn't claim that it did.
Who exactly are you reffering to when you talk about "white people"? Anglo-Saxons/Saxons? Franks/Gauls? Celts? Slavs? Greco-Romans? Nordic people?

You're talking and generalizing an awful lot of people.
Still lambda dont have vpc support. That means if you want update a database row from lambda function in you ec2 machine then the db port should be open to public. So we are waiting for vpc support.
Like almost everybody else here, I've been meaning to get more exercise. I got a couple of exercise apps on my phone. I have an app to track my daily progress and one that tries to keep me accountable. I've bought shoes and clothes. I bought a rack, a barbell, 280 lbs of plates, a bunch of dumbbells, and a bench. I installed a pullup bar in my house. I bought a standup paddleboard and a new bicycle. I've done everything except actually exercise.

Your post has motivated me to actually stop preparing and start working. Thank you.
Lobbying of the DC public has a role, but should not be mistaken for journalism.
We do want Rust to be excellent at parallel execution, but that does not mean that we don't pay attention to single-threaded performance either. The way that we make paralell/concurrent code better has no negative impact on single-threaded performance. In fact, sometimes you can use more efficient data structures when you know that you're not using multiple threads, like Arc<T> and Rc<T> for example.
I read this thing and it really becomes clear how the private equity firm 3G is able to buy these old consumer products companies like Budweiser and Heinz and fire half the company and cut all sorts of other expenses and have it not adversely affect the sales. The amount of waste and overspending at these companies on autopilot that generate a lot of cash flow anyway must be astonishing.
>>There are definitely some who believe 'were forced to declare defeat by Congress'.

Sure, and the video you linked to is a great example of that. "Some who believe", though, is a far cry from the "majority of Americans"

Edit: Not saying you made that leap..more for the parents of this comment.
I was hoping for a much more in depth post after reading the title. It doesn't really go into much detail past an anecdote.
How is coding an essential life skill?

Most consumer items - including computers - don't have the interfaces you need for useful beginner-level coding.

Experts can always pull the cover off something and get inside, but consumer products - including web sites - make that very difficult for non-experts.
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Strokes are the leading cause of death in my family.

Grandfathered into "real" testing at 23andMe, I was unsurprised to learn that I have 2.9x the average risk of developing a venous throboembalism (VTE): deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE).

I'm only in my late 30s, but I have embarked on a number of lifestyle changes, mostly in the habit category. I use a standing desk at home. I'm sensitive about things like extended sitting, leg-crossing, not moving during flights flights. I use http://breaktimeapp.com when working to remind me to get up for a couple of minutes every 30 minutes.

It's more or less built into the way I behave, which I hope to help as I get older and the risk really accelerates.
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I think well designed C++ can maintain parity, especially with async() using http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread.

The problem is more that Rust is going to be automatic in your security more often, while C++ would require more thorough review.

But the code in this article is micro-optimized, and overlooks the common trend of micro-optimization in C++ often leading you into the twilight zone of unexpected undocumented behavior and "luck" when getting desired results rather than granularity well defined syntax. You basically compare the two with artful precision which means you do not get to notice the very common trend of what is safe Rust is often unsafe C++ in the default design.
Ask HN: How to understand economics
I've recently been trying to understand economics, but I have very little grasp of the general ideas.

I've come across this:
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Economics.ipynb

Why this simulations here are far from reality, they notebook does a very good job of explaining an idea using a simple model. Are there similar approaches for other economic ideas?

I'm aware that understanding the economy as a whole is well beyond the grasp of simple models like this, but I'm curious just how far it is possible to get using simple models.

Most economic text books I've looked at either take a too wordy approach to descriptions, or a far too detailed mathematical approach.
One of the big gaps in programming education is the relative lack of material on how to find, comprehend, and use code written by others. Most "Learn language X" references assume the programmer is starting from scratch. Yet as I explore programming farther I'm increasingly understanding the value of learning about applications, libraries, and frameworks written by others. To use human language education as an analogy, syntax, reserve words, and grammar are the equivalent of grade school topics in programming. We need more high school style tutorials that survey, critique, and teach the style of code written by top programmers.
Could not find either of Stevie Ray Vaughn's appearances. '82 and '84. A glitch, or just embarrassed to air the crowd booing him?
Casting doubt here is pointless and detracts from the discussion. If the bar for discussion on hacker news is the same as for a peer reviewed paper no one will ever be able to say anything of use here.
The US never had a full war on their home territory in recent history (even including both world wars).

The closest anyone's been able to point out to me are Pearl Harbor (which -- though striking -- was just a single attack) and some practically uninhabited islands Japan took over for a while.

The last time foreign soldiers invaded the US proper was when Canada marched into Washington.
That's really fascinating – I looked up the reference, and your recollection is on point. C. californici was in fact driven extinct, possibly due to fumigation of the last few condors.

Better to call this the nth intentional pest elimination, then.
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I've always thought that something like this could be really cool; I'll be following with interest.

I will say that your website is fairly hard to read. The high contrast and squashed text (and maybe font?) are quite hard on the eyes, at least for me.