skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, the amount of poor people in the US seems higher than I ever remember.

I knew it was bad years before the Internet, but people didn't talk about it. So much success (financial) has been due to daddy's money. I saw it in college, and it's been so apparant for as long as I remember. If you came from a wealthy family, you needed to proactively blow it. I grew up with some absolute idiots, who's family picked up the pieces after every bad move. Gavin Nuesome was one of those guys. If not for that family, he would be homeless by now. Along with the guy who's father invented the plastic dental pick.

When this bubble bursts, it will be ugly. There are too many laws, and there will be a whole generation of people very vulnerable. I wish were could be more proactive. In a year, or so, certain enclaves of California will have thousands of new homeless individuals, and it's basically illegial to not have a shelter in the USA.

Besides making homeless illegial, I would like to increase the homestead exemption to what Texas has, basically no one can touch your home in a bankruptcy. Counties shouldn't be able to lien properties for back taxes as quickly as they can now. I could go on forever, but stuff like taking a nap in the park should be questioned--ever. Police/local municipalities have been given too many laws to harass us with. Guys should be on prison for fishing without a license. Yea, I'm as liberal as they come, and love animals, but oppression is wrong. Fines/fees need to be tied to income----period.

As to these market downturns, I have noticed the downturn rears its head Only after the middle income retail investor has put their money in. It should be a Economic law. It might be the only trend I can count on?

There's almost a psychology to it. The talking heads talk about how much they made on whatever stock. Investors, even investors whom have been burned, think about getting back in. They wait for years. They finally jump in in times like this, and only when the market has all the the retail investors does it blow. The real old money guys seem to know when to pull out, or short the market. The amout of Insider Trading has always been astoundingly high. Every wealthy person I have know took that advice, and made money. And yes, every wealthy person I have known has been a hypocrite.

Real growth has been stagnant for years. The unemployment rate doesn't feel right. That "Able Bodied, but can't find work" number just gets higher. Tech is eliminating so many jobs. Local governments have ticketed/fined/fee'd us blindly. Insurance lobbies have raped us for the last twenty years. It's all kinda depressing.

It's all great if you're in the Party, but I have a feeling we are all about to be hobbled/humbled very soon.

I hope we don't turn into Mexico, where you can't take a walk without worrying.
OP didn't claim Friedman was an Austrian, merely a monetarist.
But we say wages are "stagnant" when really "wages continue to shrink" would be more accurate.
Google "Austrian business cycle theory" for lots of material on the idea that boom & bust is caused by over/under-investment as a result of monetary policy distorting the "price of money" by manipulating interest rates. I haven't looked too deeply into whether it's a useful or explanatory theory, but that is what they believe.
But that has been happening for years during this cycle, investors willing to pay a premium for future earnings, Tesla, Amazon, the list could go on. On the other side companies with good earnings are still underpriced because people are pricing in other things. I see that as a good thing, people are being rational and not sticking to numbers. If the banks thought they were undervalued they'd be taking huge positions in those securities, not exposing them to the world.

The only really bit in this article was a shitty attempt at explaining the "economic cycle". Saying the "Downturn Is Coming" because we might be a peak was less helpful than explaining what the cycle is, what it means to be at this point and what that might mean to do about it. Saying the "Downturn Is Coming" to me says, "shit guys, sell all your securities right now". It is plain sensationalism.

To reiterate, I don't see much substance in this article and I expect a lot more from someone claiming the "Downturn Is Coming". If anyone can get their hands on a copy of Gloom Boom Doom [1] by Marc Faber and you see what quality analysis looks like of the current economic cycle. I believe his August edition goes into it but I don't have my copies to confirm.

[1] www.gloomboomdoom.com
IIRC I read somewhere on the internet (so it must be true!) that modern US destroyers/cruisers have a limited amount of (carbon fiber, IIRC) armor around a few critical places such as the command center. Not enough to protect against a direct hit, more to prevent shrapnel or spalling from killing the personnel there.
> If you think something's supposed to hurt, you're less likely to notice if you're doing it wrong. That about sums up my experience of graduate school.

http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
> Just noticed that this lives under bus1 github organization; does that imply that eventually it will be using bus1?

That is something we intend to explore. The idea would be to let bus1 be used under the hood by dbus libraries to do peer-to-peer communication where possible (circumventing the broker) but still stay compatible to the D-Bus semantics.

> Btw, whats happening at bus1, haven't heard about it lately?

We spent half a year working on dbus-broker ;)
Read the actual rationale behind dbus by the author before you make such comments on his sanity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8648995

Dbus solves problems that the IPC methods you discussed do not. If there were a better solution, it would probably have been adopted by now.
Totally subjective, but no treeview of chapters to organize work, no buy ;-)
A bug?
> But before then you are simply wasting your time.

I disagree. You seem to be discounting the learning aspect. Building an institutional knowledge base of the pile of systems that make up a car is a large task by itself. Different shops approach it differently. One may obsessively reverse engineer the competition, another might tinker with longtime designs.

I fully expect the managers in question saw the spherical wheels as something with maybe a 2% chance of becoming a reality, if that. The point at that stage is not to take a particular design to market, it is to explore the problem space, develop expertise, and work out what strategy to pursue.

From this article, it sounds like they figured out the strategy.
That's a fair expectation and can be filtered out: you can roughly expect 1 plate to match multiple set of tires. When the same set of tires (or 3 or them) get matched to a different license plate, that can be flagged as suspicious.
The author proposes using data structures that use hashing without even mentioning the necessity of having a hash function and immutable data for the hashed objects, because in their case they were basically just using strings.

It isn't always that easy.
By creating a project that is entirely focused on rigid enforcement of political views, what you will actually do is only attract the people who are in it for the politics, not the code.
The only thing I see happening is that it will last for a time, then Ayo will be left in the dust and unmaintained will node.js will move along just fine.
He wasn't "building on" Austrian school either. I think you're being pedantic, that sentence seems relatively clear to me.
The point about chasing links in articles is interesting to me. One of my favorite activities is loading articles up in Pocket for all-but-offline reading and Pocket's Listen feature, which uses Android's text-to-speech (?), to listen to articles.

The point about articles being written differently according to whether the author expects that the article will be read offline or not interests me, though, especially if a decent amount of background/context provision is outsourced via providing a link to documents that cover such material.
My name is 00000000 AKA death to your algorithm :) (or: hope you hash it first)
Welcome to life. Be glad you get to work full-time in tech in your teens instead of retail, service or hospitality like many others.

Your quality of life will likely improve when you're old enough to enjoy the autonomy and independence having an income gives you which you can't fully realize as a minor (assuming you're 16-17 or your blog post makes 0 sense to me).

Make friends the same age who have a similar lifestyle to you (working, not fully absorbed in school).
Electric cars stick with the sedan/truck model for the same reason non-electric cars do: it is what people actually want. 90% of the time a car/truck only carries one person to/from work with nothing else. However that other 10% means the single occupant car will not work.

I have a car that gets 40mpg, and a truck that gets 18mpg. After you account for the extra insurance, license, taxes, and maintenance on my car, I'd be money ahead getting rid of the car and just driving my truck for everything even though times when I need a truck and a car will not do account for maybe 2% of my driving. Note that my car and truck a both paid for, if I'm making payments on both the math is even more lopsided toward not having a car.

People keep pointing out that I can rent a truck when I need on. However this is something is is true in theory, but not practice. It is actually hard to find someplace that will rent you a truck that allows you to use it. Want to take your rental truck off road - not allowed. Want to tow a trailer - most don't allow that. Want to put a sheet of plywood in the back - most don't allow that soft of damage. (though in this case the store probably has the best price and will allow it)
> "Native C/C++ API for high-performance audio"

This is good to hear. But, this makes me wonder about Android's ability to prevent people from pirating apps. Due to the nature of Android, I've never wrote an app that wasn't free.

On iOS, there are a number of audio apps that do quite well. I'd be hard pressed to port an app to Android, if taking the apk was as easy as it's always been.
In my opinion "spending vs. savings" is not the best way to put it. It would be better phrased as "debt vs. savings", or maybe even "growth vs. stability". I don't think even an Austrian School economist would argue that spending doesn't drive an economy -- that's what an economy is -- but rather that spending driven by debt is problematic. The argument is that more debt in an economy creates inflation by definition and destabilizes the market. They will cite countries that have less debt (among businesses and individuals) tend to have more stable economies and higher exports. Of course, this is partially because they are selling to countries with higher debt, so I don't think it's as simple as either.

EDIT: Also important to point out that Austrian school economics are against manipulation of monetary policy. They argue that interest rates, credit and savings ought to be driven by market factors rather than the government. It's not so much "debt is bad", but rather "artificially driving up debt by manipulating monetary policy is bad".
Slightly off-topic, but I'd like to recommend the Silo Series also by the author of this blog post. They're perhaps not life-altering in content, but enjoyable sci-fi reads, nonetheless.
A giant hack that works and already out on the streets.

I think commaai has a very bright future.
But that's just for Federal R&D spending.

Worldbank and the OECD paint a much less bleak picture:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GB.XPD.RSDV.GD.ZS?locati...

https://data.oecd.org/rd/gross-domestic-spending-on-r-d.htm

These data sets include all forms of R&D spending, not just federally funded ones:

"Gross domestic spending on R&D is defined as the total expenditure (current and capital) on R&D carried out by all resident companies, research institutes, university and government laboratories, etc., in a country"
I use hckrnews too. You can set it to show everything, but its more of a nice CSS skin for the main site.

This one seems to do a bit more, and changes things more dramatically. I don't think the subgroups of HN that like hckrnews would overlap much with the one that would like this site. Its much more visual.
I've had this thought recently, that staged debate is not necessarily a great way to settle disputes. It mostly relies on the skill of the participants to think critically on the fly or their anticipation of the opponents questions and their practiced retort.

Effective discussion or debate should take place over time such that each participant has time to logically organize their thoughts or gather more evidence/ evaluate the evidence presented by the opponent.

"Ambushing" average people on the street in their sweats headed to a math test isn't exactly fair. To be honest, it isn't much different than what your typical atheist purports to oppose. I have found that people are typically against faith based religion because it's pushed on youth by families and takes advantage of their malleable mind.

You should probably allow for people to be in the correct state of mind for these discussions, not take advantage of their unpreparedness. This video makes it seem like he can only engage these people when he clearly has the upper hand.
This quote from one of their issues is pretty much all you need to know about this:
"I'd be open to re-merging if and when the problems plaguing Node.js are resolved. Problematic people removed; ..." (1)

This isn't another io.js, it's some stupid political bullshit. Their issues read like a comment chain on Tumblr.

1) https://github.com/ayojs/ayo/issues/4
The discussion was going badly for the political enforcers, thus the post was swiftly flagged and removed. Expect this one to go the same way, because they really don't have a good case here.
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That is, of course, at least partially true.

However, in the OSX analogy above, Apple had a very good platform (NeXTSTEP) that had been commercially available and proven in real-world use for ~a decade before they started modifying it to become OSX. There is no similarly mature self-driving car platform for them to be working from, and we can be sure of that.
hasenj mentioned[1] this link in the earlier discussion: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918

I think it is very relevant.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15079209
… and yet, oddly, most of the distribution maintainers who reviewed them picked systemd. That doesn't mean it's perfect but it does suggest this conversation would be far more productive if you reviewed the historical discussions to see the reasoning behind those decisions.
> There does not exist a single, one-size-fits-all, valid-for-all-use-cases approach to concurrent programming.

And in CL there does not exist a common platform to efficiently build better abstractions in CL. TBF, this is only marginally worse than many other popular languages. Still, it's undeniably worse.
> Like many others - I dropped Cordova and Ionic in favor of React-Native.

Few years ago PhoneGap apps were really slow and ugly. So I built native Android app. This year I started building hybrid Ionic 3 app because it has to work on Android and iOS. It works good enough on Nexus 5 (Snapdragon 800). The biggest problem is 4-5 seconds startup time. Stencil and component lazy loading should greatly reduce that startup time (to 1-2 seconds I hope).
right, forgot to change the header.

Sure, it's more complicated than $("#form").submit(). But it's close enough that other considerations become more important (e.g. do I want a page reload, do I have to populate the form first etc)
That's how Tales games work too (at least Tales of Berseria, I'm guessing the others follow).
This is one of the biggest points that I have seen taught in driver training courses and repeated throughout my life. Most of the events people refer to as car accidents are crashes/collisions.
I'm a "product marketer", and this was difficult for me to understand. I don't know what this is for (after reading your opening comment), and I can't figure out what should I be doing. If you receive similar feedback from other marketers, maybe consider making it easier to understand?
Bike lock developed that makes thieves immediately vomit (2016)
They ALL comes from governmental mechanism and spending.
A young person who has heavily invested in an activity throughout their youth discovering that the activity is no longer pleasant and enjoyable when performed at some higher level is actually and exactly what burnout looks like.

Burnout is realizing that "this thing that once energized me, now makes me unhappy." It's not the same as the apathy of just going to a job to pay for a data plan. Or the same as a bad job which was bad the first day.
Electric vs ICE trainers won't have much in the way of differences. The main procedural differences will be engine start (just follow the checklist) and low power conditions where carb heat is required (becoming slightly less common now that fuel injection is available and relatively cheap). The most common trainer is the C172 which is high wing and therefore doesn't need an electric fuel pump or tank switching so that's about it.
Why would you remove all the context, and then publish all this drama, clearly blaming the guy, and making him look horrible?

Isn't that against your own CoC?
Scrivener's organization UI is wonderful.

I wonder if there could be a one-thing-well app made for just handling that and relegating longer-form writing to the user's word processor of choice.
Place your bets, will Ayo actually diverge more than the CoC and README?

When will people stop being so wound up and have some decent arguments about code instead of how to be a nice person in public. Also love how the SJW attributes this to "all the horrible shit that men in tech get to get away with" rather than someone being an asshole (which I can't even see btw because all evidence seems to have been removed.)
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Hayek, Friedman and Keynes provide a good starting point for three main strains of modern economic thought.

While Friedman is often portrayed as a 'synthesis' or mid-point between the philosophies of Keynes or Hayek on a linear plot, I found him to be closer to Hayek philosophically.
(Wearing my jobbing-novelist hat here ...)

He kinda lost me at the idea of navigating a WIP using page thumbnails on the left. (a) That's so 1988 (Clive Sinclair, I'm thinking of you and your Pipedream here), and (b) the page is not the appropriate document element for navigation — scenes can be as short as a sentence or almost as long as a chapter, and scenes are how I structure prose fiction. Indeed, a manuscript page bears no real relationship to a published paper book page, or an ebook equivalent.

Finally, as functional requirements go this is, shall we say, less than ideal: but let's not go there.
> Buy some combination of MSCI World and something for "emerging markets" and you're halfway there.

During the last crisis (2007-2011) the stock indexes fell almost in unison around the world (including MSCI World). Had you "diversified" into it in February 2008 (just as Bear Sterns was imploding) you wouldn't have made your money back until 2013-2014 (I took the data from here: http://www.stockq.org/index_en/MS001.php). Correlation can hit you pretty damn hard. But there were active investors who made lots of money during that same time-frame.

Later edit: Plus, switching from a ETF focused on US stocks to one focused on MSCI World (let's say) looks like active investing to me, i.e. you have to take an action based on what you think the future will bring (in this case you think MSCI World will be more stable than US stocks). I was responding more to the OP when he was saying about how he/she would like to put his/her money in an ETF and forget about it.
Well Node.js already has a CoC accompanied with various institutions such as "The Node.js Foundation Technical Steering Comittee"[0]. It's just that some aren't happy with how the comittee has voted. The claim that Code of Conducts lead to higher contributions gets repeated all the time, yet no one has ever shown any supporting evidence AFAIK.

[0] https://github.com/nodejs/TSC
This seems a bit disingenuous - you definitely still use a smartphone, you just claim to not directly own one. You essentially said this:

> My wife has a smart phone which is great for when [I want to use a smartphone].

If you don't want to carry a smartphone around that's totally fine, but you definitely still use one. I carry a smartphone myself and only use internet-aware 'smartphone' features like maps, yelp and uber when I need to. I don't use social networks.
Witch hunt. People who aren't busy coding get involved in this junk.
This is purely political. There's zero technical motivation.
It's not. It's a symbol of what is wrong with its opponents in SF, who are committed to opposing any change that doesn't benefit them directly.

Mario, a San Francisco user of the bike-share program, who has a discounted membership because he qualifies for food stamps, said he was perplexed by the backlash. “It’s the cheapest transportation option we have,” said the 29-year-old, who works as an administrative assistant and asked not to use his full name, because he feared backlash from anti-gentrification activists.
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To me it's sad how meta Node.js community is, even worse is with five minutes browsing on the tablet I can't even find out exactly what this nasty person said or did. I suspect this is another hypersensitive SJW act. It started with the legend Crockford being banned from NodeConf for saying dog-balls. Grow up ffs!
There seems to be a lot of anecdotes about mushrooms helping people get out of a rut. I am glad this is being studied and hope we find some sort of good findings. Too many people suffer from depression.
And at the same time, lots of (anec?)data coming out that LEDs have adverse health effects
Treadmill desk until you can afford to be idle rich and not strapped into a SlaveStation 40-80hrs a week.
That was my take as well. It's like seeing code with the same constant inlined in multiple places rather than centralized:

// Use some inlined string as a magic code value:
doStuff("Some Magic Code");

...

// Later on same inlined string:
doOtherStuff("Some Magic Code");

versus:

// Define it once:
const GOOD_NAME_FOR_MAGIC_CODE = "Some Magic Code";

// Use it:
doStuff(GOOD_NAME_FOR_MAGIC_CODE);

...

// Use it somewhere else:
doOtherStuff(GOOD_NAME_FOR_MAGIC_CODE);

If that triggers an "ah-ha!" moment for you then you've likely got bigger problems.
Yes, this is key. "Assholes" don't give constructive feedback and try to make things better. They drop "witty" one-liners, hot takes, and move along to posture for a new audience or ruin someone else's day.

Of course, delivering bad news is hard. Most people are awful at it. Most people don't really want it. They want a pat on the head and get told their work is near-perfect.

I advise on a few startups and mentor at Techstars Austin. When a company asks me to watch their pitch, I ask them: "Do you want honest feedback no matter what or just a thumbs up? I'm happy to do the first but I won't do the second."

The relationships that come through honest, constructive collaboration are the best part of mentoring.
Starting in the United States from 1800, it seems there's one great financial 'panic' in 1857, and not another until 1910, shortly before the FED Reserve took control and started the fiatization and debasement of the currency. So about 50 years between crises.

It seems that the business or boom bust cycles is a relatively new phenomenon and it might just be related to the way the federal reserve handles the money.

Anyone feel free to correct or add info here as im not an authority on historical economics in the united states, but i have always found that the instillation of the federal reserve to be an 'epoch' of sorts for the US economically.