skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, the medicine they prescribe once a recession occurs, namely allowing the money supply to contract and letting many businesses fail, is not only inhumane but less effective at encouraging recovery than the Keynesian approach.

I think this is a pretty fair criticism of Austrian solutions. But like telling a drug addict that he must get clean, there is no way out of it other than to get clean. Some drug addicts can quit cold turkey (which is what Austrians recommend), others need to switch to a different less addictive drug (like Methadone etc) until they get completely clean.

I believe (and has been my belief for past few years) that Cryptocurrencies will play a major role this recession, acting as 'methadone'.

How? I will explain it from two different point of views:

- Krugman-Keynesians: Recessions are caused by liquidity crunch and liquidity must be pumped into the market by the fed and the govt in order to clear the market. Govt should also absorb excess unemployment by hiring people and shut down those programs when the market recovers and private sector can absorb the labor. These Keynesians are also great fan of artificially created liquidity (to get out of the liquidity trap) by Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op [1], Alternative currencies issued by various cities during the Great Depression [2].

My claim is that in the next recession in the 'liquidity crunch', people will find it easier to switch to Cryptocurrencies and tokens, perhaps even issuing it themselves on local level. Bitcoin has a problem with having a fixed money supply, but at least the first switch from Fiat to crypto would happen without issues, but for the next to next recession, bitcoin would represent the same liquidity trap as fiat does, in fact worse. Due to this, many people will dump the dollar, but it also would ease up the liquidity crunch of the dollar economy. Therefore bitcoin and fiat economies being headlocked in a duel, until people decide to come back to the dollar again.

- Austrians: The single most important thing which needs to happen (and generally does not happen in recessions) is that the real wages must move downwards (fast enough). Govts try to solve a recession by pumping more credit and money into the markets, esp to keep people employed and wages up, but it doesn't really happen. Eventually some real wages move down enough and some inflation of the assets which starts a new bubble causes the market to 'recover'.

My claim is that in the next recession people will switch to more inflation-proof cryptocurrencies for salary but for a 'lower real wage' (potentially because they will either perceive crypto to be better medium or it would be the only expanding economy or/because dollar is losing value compared to crypto). This allows markets to get cleared faster and recovery to happen. But more of this effect results in an avalanche effect with people fleeing from dollar jobs to bitcoin based jobs and faster clearing of the markets.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_Co-op

2. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/history/europes-economic-...
> If you want to get hired, you need to know the tools in fashion now.

I think it's an unfair over-generalization. There are quite a few places that started building their tech a fair number of years ago, and have accumulated quite a legacy that needs to be maintained. They would probably want someone with decent knowledge of those dated technologies. The question is, given the choice, would you, personally, want to work on a legacy system, or would you rather prefer to work with something new and shiny. I think the answer will overwhelmingly be the latter. I personally am sure I would pick new and shiny, because it is generally much more pleasant and satisfying to work with than old technologies.
For your first question: I don't know, but I speculate the majority is hedging.

Second: I get my data from CQG, but you can also get the same feeds from IB. The specific exchange you need for VIX is "CBOE"(http://www.cboe.com/vix). ampfutures.com is a broker that offers this, but there are many(possibly better) others that offer it as well.

Third: Historical data for the depth isn't available from any broker I have used. That said - I'm a retail guy, and there may be options for institutional traders that I'm unaware of. As a retail guy you can buy this data though, just not from a broker. IQFeed offers it(6mo back for market data, and 6mo for 1-tick resolution data) - but it's expensive. The last quote they gave me was $1350/month for CME and CBOE tick-by-tick resolution with 10 levels of depth.
Not sure if your comment is satire or not. Thanks anyway, though.
Hungarians Fume as Statue of Former Leader Is Downgraded
6 mph... yeah. About that. People in the US don't really go the speed limit even in a 25mph zone so I don't know how well that will work. The only time I see people generally going the speed limit is in areas with speed tracking cameras.
You're right, sorry about that. Won't happen again. Not satire.
The only way to make a profit in a privately controller economy is to show people that your things / services are so useful that they are willing to give you money for them.

As a concrete example, for the last few years I have been donating to several fanfiction authors through Patreon because I want to encourage them to write more.
Thanks. Been a great year. CrossFit helped me overcome depression, and a lot of things. Probably some with focus too... Also more confidence. Can't wait to recap my progress next Year... hoping to be < 300.
Ha. "Early bird" is somebody who arrives before 11?
It seems to be mostly about math, with the only mention of array indexing being that 0 looks nicer. "starting with 0, however, gives the nicer range 0 ≤ i < N. So let us let our ordinals start at zero"

This doesn't seem to be much of an argument so I'm not even sure what to address.
> you can’t deny facebook might run into some problems if the governments of each country they are working with aren’t exactly pushing for what facebook thinks are some of the most forward thinking morals like individual freedom of speech or lgbtq rights or gender equality.

At that point, they have to decide if operating in a country that demands this sort of thing is morally acceptable or not.
Show HN: Go-t, an easy to use command-line client for Twitter written in Go
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:22...

Probably on it's way back from NZ to Europe?
Eh, the two ruling parties have cleverly worked things out so that they never have to actually implement any of the policies they claim to support. They can always just blame the other party for making their policies impossible. Both parties benefit from this system.

Look at Obamacare. A lot of Democrats will say that this was a genuine attempt to move toward single-payer, a public option, etc. and that they simply had to make compromises to get what they got passed (a change that undoubtedly helps many people but does so with a regressive tax, and certainly doesn’t simplify anything).
"In this particular case, the notion that Medicare works at all (let alone well) is a point that about half the country will not concede because it’s one of many a shibboleth that keeps the “sides” at each other’s throats. "

One half will throw a fit no matter what gets done. It would be interesting if Trump suddenly announced support for single payer Medicare for all. Republicans would think it's the best thing ever and Democrats would suddenly be against it...

Way too much blind ideology in this country. Before I came here I thought the US is a pragmatic country that gets things done but now I see that leadership can't even agree on a shared perception of reality. When you talk to right wingers or left wingers you don't even recognize that they are in the same country.
> PHP shipbreaking yard

Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

> PHP — in full Peace Happiness Prosperity

I really cannot tell if this is an expression of extreme cynicism or starry-eyed idealism.
WW2, 3 Japanese planes mistook Yorktown for their own carrier and tried to land
The people that own insurance companies would become less wealthy. The industries (the 6 companies that own the majority of the media industry https://www.morriscreative.com/6-corporations-control-90-of-... ) that rely on the revenue from all the insurance ads would suffer. There's a decent amount of jobs created by all the inefficiency. Overall it's a boost to the US economy, but at the cost of immense suffering from those who are most vulnerable.
I know this has to do with health insurance, but I feel the same with auto insurance as well. It still feels like burning money. For example, I've been paying about $120/month for car insurance since I was 18, give or take. Never been in an accident. That's about $14k I've given to an insurance company for literally doing nothing.
NYC Street View 1940 – New Tax Images Released
I don't think the op actually talks about games, but about interactive stories. In my mind, a game needs a challenge, the story is almost secondary. Take the Fallout games, the stories are there, but without battling the monsters, you don't get anywhere (yes, I know you can not battle the monsters, there is still a level of skill required to reach the various stages of the story). If you look at a game like Orwell, there is almost no skill involved and, in the end, you can't really win. You can't replay the game and get better at it. Probably this was the reason why Mass Effect 3 didn't have that many stelar reviews, 'cause in the end, it didn't matter what you did.

There is a place for these interactive stories, but hey are not video games.
I don't understand why this is happening. The article attempts to come up with explanations, but I find them hard to believe. Although (most) roads are free to use, we pay for travel in gas, car upkeep, and—perhaps most importantly—time. All of which can be quite costly!

I live in upper Manhattan and have an unlimited-ride metrocard. But I would much rather go shopping at the store that's a five minute walk away than one that requires 30 minutes on the subway, even though the latter offers many more options. I increasingly order products online instead of doing either.

To where are people driving that makes these longer trips worth their while?
It's almost a religious issue in the US, sort of like gun ownership.
> I can't even recall the last time I broke up a hockey or streetball game driving through neighborhoods.

Because you weren't driving through such a "pedestrianized zone" :)
The Faster Growth of Larger, Less Crowded Locations
911 is used for a lot more than reporting crimes, e.g. fires, accidents, and sudden serious health problems.
It's worth noting that the modern US usage of the term 'socialized medicine' was invented, amplified and promoted by a pr firm for the for-profit medical insurance industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialized_medicine#History_of...
You have to purchase food.
Wholeheartedly concur with this. As a career programmer of 25 years, using most modern languages including python in both personal and professional work.

This reminds me of how academia used to promote Pascal in schools when the community and industry had clearly embraced C and then C++ as the dominant compiled language.
If you're doing Linear Algebra, you're kind of in a C++ sweet-spot, I think.

In particular, you can always debug a tiny version of whatever problem you're trying to solve, so you don't really care that much about non-optimized performance, and a lot of times you're willing to eat a long compile time if it means you squeeze out that last couple percent. Conversely, you care a lot about cache micro-optimizations and talking to GPUs and stuff like that, and generally you want to be just banging on some piece of memory you got from the OS, all things that non-C++ languages make extraordinarily painful.

Even Fortran, which the haters were trying to push as "just better" than C++ for linear algebra has really disappointed me.
I've written some rather large python apps with Django and Flask. I'd never voluntarily choose it again over
Elixir/Phoenix. (Only if there was heavy numerical processing or something of the sort where a library like Pandas would be necessary.)

Working with Elixir/Phoenix is a far superior experience in nearly every way for web/api IMO.
Was this 10G DWDM gear? Any idea who’s equipment and what root cause was? I’m just curious because I used to work for a vendor that supplied DWDM gear to Centurylink and wonder if this is equipment I designed. 10G DWDM is pretty robust so must have been a pretty massive failure, line amplifier, fiber cut, software upgrade, or something.
>Javascript

I’ve been working in Node for a few years now, on a project that suffers a lot of warts from adopting Node early and not benefitting from the wisdom of the group.

Something I didn’t know about myself as a full stack developer is that I work on UI because I like human factors, and I work on backend because I like solving architectural or data problems and sometimes I’m just tired of writing Javascript.

Trying to homogenize everything at work removes a vey important pressure relief valve, both for individuals and team dynamics.

I figured this out about a year ago and if not for major life events I’d be out there somewhere writing Elixir or Rust or Scala code.

ES6 and beyond has some things worth experiencing so I’m focusing on that as much as I can. Just a few more months and I can pivot outta here.
I am a full stack developer using python for everything but what's in my HTML pages. And I'd replace that javascript with python as soon as it would be viable. Javascript is fine for what it is, but the idea of it as a universal language is gross.
I haven't encountered any context in which it would add value (i.e. you can't just figure out yourself where it will go out of scope and delete at that point, which also makes the code clearer), and all other things equal, using it hides the semantically relevant type (the interesting part of a unique_ptr<A> is the A, not the unique_ptr!) and makes code and error messages harder to read.
Brings me back to the days of hopping from download manager to download manager when one added undesired features, or stopped working.

I recall using flashget. Which I liked if I recall because you could have multiple connections download the same url. Which got around per connection qos. And showed you nice tiles of progress. Also supported resume, was great for the old days of slow connections :)
I find this so strange and confusing. A healthy society is a productive society that pays taxes.

I'm also from Belgium, and this feels so retarded. And what's even stranger is that some people in America even support this system. Wtf?
This is a specific case of induced demand: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Induced_demand
> Zapcc challenges the notion that the compiler should exit after compiling each file and start over with the next one.

this idea has been floating for a long time :

ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/summit/2003/GCC%20Compile%20Server.pdf

and

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/IncrementalCompiler

sadly, it seems that modules has put these approaches on hold, even though I am pretty sure that modules won't solve the problem.
It's a bit ironic that those of us who grew up in actual communism understand the difference between government-planned healthcare and government-funded healthcare better than Americans. Even as the communist regime was being torn apart, I don't remember anyone wanting to take down the health system. It's still chronically underfunded and many people also purchase third-party health insurance in order to have access to better facilities, but the rates never reach even within an order of magnitude of USA's.
https://www.quora.com/In-WW2-was-there-any-case-of-a-naval-a...
No need to look across the railroad tracks. In this thread right here there are people who declined transportation to the hospital because of price concerns!
In America driving at 6 km/h (3.7mph) in a parking lot would induce road rage in other drivers. Trying to make roads with a 6 km/h speed limit would be political suicide for any politician that recommended it.
Asking me to install the app on every page after I have said no. I deliberately avoid reddit links on my phone now.
In my city they're removing roads left, right, and centre, and using the argument that this will reduce congestion, which admittedly is really bad here. However what's actually happened is people in the suburbans like myself who don't have to good public transportation into the city have effectively become isolated from the city hub. There is really no good way for me to get into the city at rush hour anymore unless I want to spend 2 hours in traffic there and back. There has been minimal investment in public transportation as an alternative, and there has been no attempt to more evenly distribute commercial activity throughout the city.

The problem always seemed to me to be less about road capacity, and more about city density and poor planning. I think we need to rethink the central urban hub model for cities. I suspect small hubs throughout the city would dramatically reduce congestion. We face similar scalability problems in tech. Typically if you have too much traffic going to your server you won't upgrade the server, but spin up more nodes. We distribute the traffic instead of spending larges amounts of money on infrastructure to send it all to a single node.

And another problem of this is that it causes feedback loops. I'm now in a position where I either have to continue to find working outside my city or relocate closer to the city centre contributing more to the urbanisation and population density problem.

With the right government incentives I see no reason why we could reestablish the city centre as a consumer hub. A place for shopping and leisure, etc. Then outside the city centre we could have tech hubs, financial hubs, industrial hubs, etc, all with good (perhaps even free) transportation between them. The time and money this would save seems like a no brainer to me. But then again, I don't really know anything. Perhaps there is a good reason to continue densely packing people into small 2-3 mile radiuses, where space is so limited most people can't afford a car, a decent size home, or even a decent sized office to work out of.
Close your shell and open it (or run fish again). You’re probably still in the original fish 2.7 that had previously launched. fish --version should show 3.0.0 (edit: yeah, that’s not going to work).
"Keith and Diana Buchanan of North Carolina gave up their expensive health insurance this year, and bought a Bowflex exercise machine. Keith said he got into the best shape of his life: “A lot of it is a result of knowing that we’re going to have to take care of our own health a little better,” he said." Unfortunately, being in shape doesn't prevent so many health conditions.
The northeast US is more dense than Europe.
This works fine for some issues but if you have an accident or something like cancer you are still f...ed. Also, surgeries have a certain risk of complication. Unless you have the time and money to fly back and forth during that period the US system will still happily bankrupt you if that happens.
Distractions. I am text-oriented and easily distracted,
so any auto-playing animation, video, audio, pop-out,
or basically anything that moves on the display and
causes distraction annoys me.

Static images and graphics are fine, and user-triggered
movement is fine, but the all-dancing, all-singing,
in-your-face sites can please take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut.

TBH, I even find distracting text annoying - Stack Overflow's
"Hot Network Questions" is a good example. I'm looking
at the details of how to parse version N of format X,
and it is not at all helpful when my eye catches:
"If a dwarf barbarian wears heavy armor how fast do they move?"
(actual HNQ question, no offense intended to the querent, dwarves, barbarians, etc.)
Trivial entertainment generally sells better than serious explorations of an important theme, regardless of the medium. Six of the ten top-grossing movies in 2018 were adaptations of superhero comics; several Oscar-nominated movies have barely recouped their costs.
> Perl, Mojolicious, Vue

That's a lovely stack you got there. I'm a Perl guy (sometimes) myself, and I hated all the bloat of the JavaScript tooling. I recently found Vue and I fell in love with how light-weight it is.
"Fun" fact: when Jeff Gordon was in his NASCAR heyday, his car had a very colorful livery and his team was called the "Rainbow Warriors." This was when his main rival was Dale Earnhardt. Back then, the traditional NASCAR fans preferred the understated black car, car company sponsor, and "tough guy" image of Dale Earnhardt. Jeff Gordon decided to play up the opposite image, doing hugely colorful liveries, shaved his mustache to look more babyfaced, and embracing the outsider vibe. During the time they overlapped, Jeff Gordon was far more successful than Dale Earnhardt, much to the consternation of traditional fans.

The secret the whole time was the Dale and Jeff were not only friends, but Dale was Jeff's mentor.
Almost like combining Siek’s gradual types with parametric polymorphism: you can search for “gradual parametricity” and find a number of papers on the topic.
I'd still want to know his opinions. With great knowledge comes great power, and thus responsibility.
I wouldn't expect competition among insurance companies to lower prices by very much. Insurance companies are already constrained by law as to how much profit they can make and there is only so much overhead you can remove.

In terms of competition, the real problem is the artificially low numbers of health care workers and facilities. The Drs are limited by the low number of medical schools, etc and the number of facilities are limited by requiring Certificates of Need, etc.

First remove these barriers to entry and require transparent pricing. Then... maybe competition would result in lower prices.
My European point of view is that on many social issues America is primitive, not only healthcare. I didn't realize it before I lived there. Although some people would argue that it's a feature and not a bug, in the sense that Americans pay lower taxes and are free not to spend on healthcare if they don't want too.
> It would be interesting if Trump suddenly announced support for single payer Medicare for all. Republicans would think it's the best thing ever and Democrats would suddenly be against it...

I think you’ve got this wrong. I think that in most cases partisanship and hero worship is a lot stronger than support for specific policies. I think you’d find that people wouldn’t change their stated views on single-payer, they’d just reframe the situation so that they can continue to love/hate Trump and blame the other side for everything they don’t like.

Look at bump stocks. I know staunch Trump supporters who have bump stocks and strongly oppose almost any form of gun control. Does Trump’s bump stock ban make them like Trump a little less? Perhaps. But it certainly doesn’t change their political affiliation in any measurable way.

Same goes for those who oppose Trump. I’m sure they agree that the bump stock ban is nice, but do you think they’re suddenly “coming around” on Trump? I doubt it.
Show HN: Short-list of recommended tools, frameworks/languages
The canard design is unstable, which is why the first flight was of such short duration.

Curtiss put canards on his racing airplanes, because he copied the Wrights. On one race, the pilot hit a fence and damaged the canard. He cut off the wreckage and rejoined the race. He then told Curtiss that the airplane flew better and faster without the canard. Curtiss immediately pulled them off of his other airplanes.
I've always wondered why there isn't a local version of 911. Like 811 connects you to the local police department. Because no one knows the local number. Besides, what if you are traveling? That would also free up the load on 911 operators.
Good luck porting your Python code into other environments in case you need to.