skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know about velocity of money, right?

Yes, and the most common definition of "the size of the economy" is GDP, which is, as I understand it, linearly related to the velocity of money. That's another way of saying what I was saying, that economic growth due to spending on consumption is linear.

Most arguments that I have read on it claim that most dollars spent by rich people are spent on investment

I'm not sure that's quite what they claim. They certainly claim that rich people spend more on investment than poor people, and as you point out, that makes sense because they can afford to and poor people can't. But that's not the same as saying that most of what rich people spend is spent on investment.

Spending on expensive houses, cars, private jets, yachts, traveling around the world, personal assistants, etc., etc., is all consumption, not investment. As far as I can tell, that's what most of rich people's spending is. The ones that make the news, like Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, seem to me to be the exceptions. But I would love to see hard data if there is any.

why would "helicopter money" be worse than the current policy of printing money and giving it to banks who don't want to lend it out to any investment?

I agree that "helicopter money" wouldn't be any worse than giving money to banks that don't lend it out; in fact, economically speaking, "helicopter money" might actually be better, since the money would actually get spent. However, both of them are short-term solutions, like giving a nitroglycerine pill to someone having a heart attack. Neither of them fix any underlying chronic problems.

please supply a link to an article about how "exponential" innovation is more important than monetary velocity

I haven't seen my statement about growth due to spending on investment being exponential phrased in exactly that way, but investment being equivalent to compound interest, which grows exponentially, is a commonplace among economists.

As for "velocity of money", try this article by Henry Hazlitt:

http://mises.org/daily/2916

Two key points, from the summary at the end of the article:

"Velocity of circulation is a result, not a cause. It is commonly a passive resultant of changes in people's relative valuations of money and goods."

"V is never an independent factor on the side of money, because the transfer of goods must speed up, other things being equal, to an equal amount. It is just as valid to think of the velocity of circulation of money being caused by what happens on the side of goods as by what happens on the side of money."

In other words, trying to "help the economy" by trying to speed up the velocity of money is getting things backwards.
The twitter handle on your book's site should really be a link. For better UX ;)
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Some more insightful discussion on reddit.com/r/neuro/15jlxg

... read the abstract of this a while back, and it was bilateral ablation of the nucleus accumbens, if memory serves. The nucleus accumbens, of course, is not the "pleasure center" by any definition. It does not exclusively deal with pleasure, and pleasure is not only the product of the nucleus accumbens. As I'm sure many will know, the nucleus accumbens deals with lots of processes such as motivation, reward and both "positive" and "negative" emotion. It is pretty brutal, of course, and naturally this article was primarily concerned with the ethics of the procedure...
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Your first difficulty is also my concern / question. Are there still no IDE that can do those animations? I know that there will be in the future. But I hope it will happen soon.
FYI this is from Jan. 1997. I remember reading it in one of those "Best Sports/Nature/Science Writing" anthologies back in school...a great piece, obviously if I still recall it 15 years later
For the Netherlands it seems straightforward (though I didn't have to get one):
http://www.dbhnederland.nl/nieuws/16/d-u-n-s-nummer-voor-app...

Just call DBH, give them your company registration number, and they'll give you a DUNS number, or so it seems.
would be nice to have a warning message there... unless all the work was done and no client waiting for results, and there is no will to carry on the site by the new owner

no news because maybe a competitor wiping it out? ;)
Even if you hadn't already sold, and even if you werent still in growth mode, you still want the users. Who's to say they aren't monetizable?
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I'd probably actually break it into TimeSpan arithmetic for the sake of clarity and the fact that it won't require comments or so many brackets:

var accumulator = new TimeSpan();
accumulator.Add(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(currentTimeOfDayInMinutes));
accumulator.Add(TimeSpan.FromDays(dayOfTheWeek));
// ... etc - can't be bothered to do the rest...
var nextAlertDate = currentDate.Add(accumulator);

No magic numbers, no arithmetic and clear to anyone who understands the TimeSpan class (which is the all powerful lord of the fourth dimension in .Net).

Oh and I work on a 1280x800 screen on an old ThinkPad T61. If the function doesn't fit on that, I'm concerned :)
Oh so just like in San Francisco :-)
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I always thought that in the US as well, having a bike is cool. We even have "bike to work" day once a year. Not sure if i will call that a status symbol but definitely cool and hip.
Evidence, please!
I tried signing up for a company account too and it was so bad I gave up. I already had a DUNS number (I never applied for one, I just searched the D&B website, found my company, and they emailed it to me). The problem was that D&B had my company registered in the wrong country. After I changed it with them Apple's country information information was still incorrect. After a couple of months trying to get it sorted, even speaking with Apple via email, I gave up and registered an individual account instead. I figured it might be easier to upgrade from individual to company (although I haven't tried yet).
Worse than lying, a huge number of people aren't even aware of their weaknesses, which is probably a big red flag. People shouldn't think they are self-reflective if the only reflection they do is to bask in their own awesomeness.
I'm not sure this would help you with raising VC or angel money, in fact it would probably hurt you. All VCs are looking to invest in the next Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. They believe, probably more than they should, in the cult of personality school of investing. If anything you'd probably want to act toward them as if you did it all yourself.
In comment section someone suggested using that on sex offenders... Nice, get wrongly accused of rape (might not happen where you live, but where I live it's common way to get money from a man) and be lobotomised. Some other commenter suggests to find anger spot in brain and fix that... I suggest beter surgery- lets behead every morron suggesting such crap.
It's a very significant milestone. He created value for customers from a basic idea and managed to sell the entire thing to some other guy.

It's a great little story to get you funding. Ignore the 3.5k (which isn't horrible imo) the entire story is worth way more from a career building POV.
It's not your typical adsense pump and dump either this is miniature startup entrepreneurship. I'm not a VC guy but a story like this would get my "yeah invest in that dude" senses tingling.
Man, this somewhat distresses me. It is so incredibly easy to add basic automation... write down by hand, really? (Although I really like the custom thank you videos for your first customers - nice touch).

Great story though, I'm glad you cashed out, i guess i just feel that twinge of pain at the fact you could have kept it going for hardly more work, but i understand entirely where you're coming from - so props to you !
Oh I see what you mean, you're concerned about the first bytes to the browser being faulty. Well, that 2% error rate is spread out across the total of requests, the likelihood of a user getting a 500 on his first hit should be significantly less then 2%. (but it does seem like it will still be way too high)

Very valid point saurik, thanks for pointing out the extent of the problem. It is a dilemma. Seems kind of silly to have an instance just for the first hit to go through reliably for visitors, goddamit Amazon.

Edit: Wait a minute, maybe this could be solved with custom error pages which I think they support. :P
We "spike" stuff i.e. do a quick sanity check before we commit to something. A pattern will become apparent there and then if there is one. Sometimes this spike is re-factored into the product or is scrapped and rethought. Multiple eyes see every design - that is more important than anything.

You can't quantify over-engineering until it is done unfortunately.
Merlin Mann: Who Moved My Brain?
I think this is looking for an iPad app too. Each section could be a low cost in-app purchase. Add a preview for each section -- perhaps an article or two from each section, for free.
Hm, actually I may have misread somewhat. By "spending" do you mean government spending? If so, then you're right, I shouldn't have focused on spending.

Instead the problem is that you're also assuming that everyone's incomes stay the same, so you can just recompute the government's revenue by applying the new tax rates to the same income figures as before. That would give you a much higher revenue figure.

But that won't happen: instead rich people will find ways to decrease their taxable income, so that the revenue increase you're calculating won't actually materialize.

Check out this article:

http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/29/the-remarkably-stable-amou...

It shows that government revenue as a percentage of GDP has been remarkably stable over large changes in tax rates.
Although:

Some Youtube networks (eg: Maker, Machinima, Curse) do pay based on view count, but they're much more likely to be on top of fake views.
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>> If you intend to sell our photos, we actually have no problem

I don't think that's true. Anyone I saw that left always made it clear they didn't want Instagram selling their photos and that was their reason for leaving.
I would answer all three of these very, very differently.

I would spin my work history to fit whatever (true) narrative I am telling about my life at the moment. Currently that narrative is how much my family responsibilities impact my ability to work.

I see the greatest weakness question as a negotiating opportunity for me to present whatever I most want to be accommodated on. Currently that would be my family responsibilities, though normally it is how important it is for my ability to focus and be sane that I have some social time.

The conflict question I would immediately respond to with the time that I wound up being the person that both a very competent lead developer and some grumpy sysadmins would talk to. In the end, even though what they were doing was not what I was supposed to be doing, I was appointed by my manager to be the official go between between them. Not exactly fun, and not something I want to repeat, but the story reflects well on me.
> the _just_ solution, which is increasing the taxation on the rich and creating a climate of fairer wealth distribution.

how is that a more _just_ solution? it is _a_ solution, but whether it is just or not is an opinion, and many would offer a different one.

I m not saying that i don't want an unequal society. whether you tax the rich more or not, an unequal society exists not because there are rich people, but because there are people who can't escape the traps that they either born into, or fell into. When the rich see that they are unfairly taxed, they would and will want to leave. And these are not just the top hat wearing, cigar smoking people - they are hard working professionals, who managed to secure some money, so they can live comfortably.
Really enjoyed this article. Back to the drawing board is great advice
There are already proposals to castrate (chemically or even surgically) sex offenders. It was not all that long ago that lobotomy was common practice, and it was applied to prisoners.
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Thanks, likewise. Been meaning to try out some grain stuff, now I have an excuse.
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In Denmark where I grew up we all grew up using bikes just like in China.

A lot of guys are also now spending ridiculous amount of money on hand made bikes just like the wealthy Chinese in the article.

The interesting thing is that for women the fashion has been more towards going for old wrecks also known as grandma bikes. See http://www.copenhagencyclechic.com
The scariest line is the one that says that if the patent office fails to respond in a fixed time, the patent is automatically granted.

The golden question is how deferential US courts will be to a valid US patent with international precedent. Hopefully not at all because these patents are going to be complete crap.
What do you have against harmony? Why do you hate America?
My exact thought as I read the article. It has worked for me many times. These questions are there for people who don't know how to be an interviewer - or worse, when the interviewer is a cog in an HR wheel and has to pass the answers back to someone who has never met you. A good interviewer (it is definitely something you can be bad at) can tell more about you from conversation than questions like these.

The best interviews are with the team you are interviewing to be part of, and are highly conversational. Skills can be taught, and bullshit can be seen through. Speaking of technical interviews, it's easy to tell if you are regurgitating a textbook or actually demonstration comprehension. But the most important thing to come from these interviews is whether or not you will work well with the team, and questions like "what is your biggest weakness" doesn't say anything about that.
What's amazing to me is Eskimos lived without fire.
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>You should try it on Chrome

And people ask me why I keep calling Chrome the new Internet Explorer.
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Sorry, I come off sounding as a cynic from the start. But I have liked the quality and content of Dan's previous posts, and this is not anything personal. With that said - Really? I could find you hundreds of others doing this same exact thing and I wouldn't find that as a reason to qualify them to get my "yeah invest in that dude" senses tingling. I think I see this from a different viewpoint because from my years on hn it seems as most of the readers are blind to the other side of the startup world - the one where people focus on building products for 1) money or 2) flip. There's a whole ecosystem out there full of these small, medium, large, business that are bought and sold everyday.
I don't think you are correct. There are some deeply poor regions of the US that have been that way for 100 years.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_povert...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081031102640.ht...
Between states it ranges from 5% to 20%. Between countries in Europe it ranges from 10% to 20%. I'm sure the figures aren't directly comparable, but it at least suggests that there's a similar level of economic diversity.
The '# views' may be a cosmetic metric. At least at MySpace it was. So when we caught someone trying to inflate views, we ignored the issue. This is because the processes used to measure the impact of media was based on a different set of metrics. Those processes were extremely scrutinized.
Found an update on the toddler who froze in 1994: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/02/20/...
MTA releases limited app for RealTime subway tracking
He wa compliant with DMCA requests and even gave content owners direct access to delete copyrighted files. The purpose of the DMCA is to remove liability from hosts like MegaUpload.
Why is harmonization so important for patents and utterly laughable for health care?
Interesting that in several cases, attackers on political-related sites do not attempt to shut down the site, instead they attempt to use the site to begin surveillance on people who visit those sites.

This fingerprint is a classic indicator of an intelligence operation. Their goal is more information collection. It's not just a bunch of nationalistic hackers out to make a political point.

We are in some weird kind of low-level cyber warfare in the world. The games the criminals used to play are now being played by all the larger national governments.
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I was looking to move my Drupal site to Jekyll but quickly got bored. I therefore moved the site to Sinatra and now Rails, yes it's slower than jekyll and the rails site is slower than the sinatra one but more fun.
This is an excellent read indeed.
Facebook was scared, Instagram had a hockey stick growth and Twitter tried to buy it. It was a defensive move.

If Instagrams growth is stopped now, who profits from it? Do users get back to Facebook or other services?
Not very surprising. When I think of connections, I rarely think of Linkedin. I don't know what sucks about it, but something surely does :)
As I said there are some very entrepreneurial people in Denmark. It's just the majority of people will have ambivalent relationship to it. Meaning that while they might say the idea sounds cool, they will be strict about leaving early from work to pick up the kids, worry more about what courses the company can sponsor and getting their 7 weeks of vacation in than what they personally can do to make sure it's successful.

The entrepreneurial (and geeky) Danish people are extremely hard working though.
Combined with the ability to set headers to permit AJAX requests to another site, it would be possible to host a webapp on S3 and have the "live" portion be a JSON API only.
Just to tie this back to the tech industry and why relying on GPS only can be dangerous

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kim
sounds like the methods used in a clockwork orange
>The real problem was being 'sneaky as fuck'.

Isn't this the problem with every business today? Listen if you want my continued business, do me good service in an honest way. I'll be a customer for life if you do.

If you lie to me once in an organized way, you'll never see me again. If some salesperson lies, I'll report it to management because I obviously like your business if I'm using it -- but if you do nothing -- or ignore me -- I'm gone. Forever. No matter what you do I'm not coming back at this point.

If you're selling oxygen, I'm not breathing it anymore if you do this.
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That's a good argument.

Would a wealth tax be less economically distorting than a capital gains tax, at least with respect to encouraging people to exchange assets in an economically efficient way?
> I think most dollars spent by both poor people and rich people are spent on consumption, not investment.

Not at all. Poor people expend on consumption. Rich people spend far more on investment and savings. Yeah, Paul Allen might have a 10G$ superyacht, but he's worth 14.8T$, the majority in securities, bonds and so on, I presume.

> Growth caused by dollars spent on consumption is linear [...] Growth caused by dollars spent on investment and innovation is exponential [...]

Well, you implicitly assume there that this investment would mean that demand would increase. That is, you assume Say's Law holds true. But you are not being fair here. Symmetry in your argument would require that growth by demand should also be "exponential", as any increase in demand would the same effect in investment that any increase in investment has in demand. So both would be positive-feedback loops, to the exact same degree. Say's Law says it is.

Second, this is the classical economic framework, which doesn't work. You need to factor in savings and debt, and then Say's Law breaks; demand doesn't equal investment anymore, and you need a Keynesian, IS-LM framework. Now, what I understand is that, while a failure of aggregate demand is a positive-feedback loop ( less demand -> less investment -> less income -> less demand ... ), the mechanism of debt makes a failure of aggregate investment be nothing at all: less investment -> more debt -> more investment -> more income -> more demand -> more investment ... Well, actually you have debt now, which can be easily be a problem. But my cursory, layman's understanding is that it's a much less severe problem, since d(GDP)/dt > 0 now.
And if you live in a "obscure" country were they don't accept online payments you have to send them a Fax with all your credit card information... yeah, a fax! Even Amazon and Paypal accept online payments with my cc. I guess I am lucky they didn't ask for a telegram. So much for one of the biggest companies in the world.
There is no information on how patients were selected for this treatment, which does weigh in on the ethics and possibly the technical merits (assume the numbers aren't fudged) of even studying this.

If the patient pool was drawn from consistent relapsers who failed to respond to conventional treatment, then this could be significant.

If they just applied this procedure nilly-willy on first timers... then yeah, this is pretty bad.

We can draw -some- parallels with various procedures designed to fight obesity. Obviously screwing around with the brain is on a whole different level from screwing around with your GI tract, but the purpose is the same - to physically change your body to change your urges.

In fact, given the research raising the probability that the nervous system supporting the GI tract has non-trivial effects on our mental states, the two types of procedures may be closer than expected - though once again, obviously acting on completely different degrees on magnitude in respect to effect on your mind/being.
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A fax? Is that not breaking a data protection law?
Edge: http://html.adobe.com/edge

A5: http://www.a5-animator.com

Hippo: http://hippostudios.co.uk

Sencha Animator: http://www.sencha.com/products/animator

Motion Composer: http://www.aquafadas.com/en/motioncomposer

Mac Only:

Purple: http://www.purpleanimator.com

Tumult Hype: http://tumult.com/hype

Online/Cloud Based Tools:

Mugeda: https://www.mugeda.com

Blysk: http://bly.sk
Here's another tip: if you use a full stop at the end of your first sentences, don't forget to add one to the end of your last. Otherwise you'll remind me of Perl where semicolons are required to separate statements, but you may leave off the semicolon after the last statement.
<3. One thing can never help anyone, so I'm glad Hackety was able to get you going enough to transition to something else, that's it's explicit goal right now.
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