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> Worse, google won't even autocomplete the word "currency" after you type "chattel" and a search for "chattel currency", with quotes, returns fuck all other than stuff about this article.

It actually returns quite a lot of things other than this article, though much of it is chaff (things where you have something like "... chattel. Currency, ..."). Quite a lot of it, though, is sites unrelated to this article using it as a reference to non-legal-tender currency, most of which appear to be goldbug conspiracy theorist sites [1].

Though a couple of them [2], the use happens to reference the use of humans as "chattel currency", so I guess that's the closest thing to actual support to the "chattel currency" = "slavery" meme that is being peddled upthread. But even these uses actually are using "chattel currency" precisely as a something which is not legal tender used as a medium of exchange.

[1] http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1472757/pg1 http://401k-retirement-plan.com/982/bob-chapman-the-financia... http://boards.fool.com/us-debt-default-27483004.aspx?sort=wh... http://www.bust-video.info/v/yt:HKFSOjx9pAg/1
[2] http://www.politics.ie/forum/economy/171930-emergency-powers... http://www.qbn.com/topics/406933/1404054/
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In 2006, I entered a web design class in a local private school. We "learned" to design websites in Dreamweaver, using tables for the layout. I remember once, the teacher told us that, in order to achieve a particular layout, we had to delete the doctype. It didn't strike me as stupid or even wrong. I was still very new to the web world back then.

We then had a single accessibility class with a guest teacher. He taught us accessibility guidelines, about the necessity to seperate content and design, and eventually told us about CSS Zen Garden to showcase how it was possible to achieve multiple layouts with a single content page. My friend and I looked at each other and had that silent "Waou" look.

This revelation led me to buy a book about CSS, and got me my first job. If it wasn't for CSSZG, I wouldn't have enjoyed web design as much as I did and turned it into my job for 4 years. And I'm sure this simple project has enlightened thousands of other web designers as well.
Game developers carry rings too... two around their eyes due to crunching :)
Can you show me some example legal documents that use the phrase "chattel currency" with the meaning you ascribe to it?
I don't mean physically being in the right place at the right time. I mean that you happen to be interested in and start a company at the right point in history, where a confluence of technological and societal factors enable you to be that one-in-a-billion person like Jobs or the Zuck. Just running around talking to people isn't going to make you Jobs or the Zuck. It's necessary, but definitely not sufficient.

Of course, that's not to say that you can't be a moderately successful entrepreneur if you "hustle" enough. Just don't expect to have books written and movies made about you. I know plenty of people who have started ventures in important niches and have found moderate success. There's absolutely nothing to be ashamed of if you exit for $10 or 20 million after a couple of years of hard work. But, going in, you have to be aware of the fact that you're almost definitely not going to end up a multi-billionaire.
Wow, wish I had access to this when I was in school; this is orders of magnitude more effective than going door to door selling gift wrap.
That's a pretty common argument especially when Steam sales come around. People will buy everything at a steal then possibly never play them. I think the idea behind it is, what's the risk/reward? If I buy it and never play it, I'm out $5. If I don't buy it and it haunts me so much that I buy it after the sale, I'm out $35. How much is $5 worth to you? It might be the difference between impulse buy or putting some thought into it.

I know I buy into Humble Bundles if there's even one game I like (or have heard I will like) that's packaged into it. It's worth the price of admission. Having the other games is a safety net of sorts. If they're in my collection, I can play them anytime I want (even if that day may never come).

Helping indie devs is just a side effect ;)
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Indeed! I just wanted to be clear and not over promise anything. If you're interested in make input components that talk with Two.js I recommend taking a peak at /src/shape.js and /src/vector.js this is where the bindings are created. I believe that this form of binding allows for a lot of creativity when it comes to visualizing positions.
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The bus routes are indeed IMO the most interesting bits of the data.

The trick with San Francisco is that because of the buckshot nature of public housing developments in the city, poor areas as mixed in surprisingly evenly with wealthy areas. This creates a lot of negative effects for residents - the expensive and trendy Hayes Valley for example, is right next door to an extremely high-crime area, the Western Addition. Keep going a bit further and you hit the Fillmore, which is again a wealthy, trendy area.

SF does this at micro-scale. In a given neighborhood there can be extremely good blocks that are directly next to extremely bad blocks. It's not hard to walk 300 feet and end up in a completely different-seeming universe.

One thing that's interesting to note is that SF buses stop very often, so the highs and lows aren't really spread across a large geographic distance, they are often separate only by a block or two. The "cliffs" in the graph really are that steep when you project it onto a map.
They do. It might not be direct or even obvious, but when you make a tool that a person relies on, people a harmed when it fails (or perhaps even works). Our death tolls might be small, but it is naive to believe that any product does not have a price in blood. It is our responsibility to understand it, and to make sure the benefit is worth it.
The underlying reason I think most DSGE models are absolute hogwash is that they do economics backwards. Economics is supposed to test theories against data. Instead, in the world of calibration in macroeconomic models, the creator of the model is now testing data against theory by tuning parameters to values they think are good. It is completely backwards.

While I appreciate the attempt to make macroeconomics more computational, I believe DSGE goes about it in the wrong direction. In an ideal world, I'd like to see models like the Leontief Input/Output model come back to fruition. In Leontief's model (which is often given as an example in many undergrad linear algebra classes), the economy is divided into many sectors. Data is organized on each sector to estimate its influence on other sectors. In an age where data is so vast, I just don't understand how one can decide that building deeper macro theories is a good idea. We need better empirical models, not better theoretical models (we have enough of those).
I agreed with tocomment that it was a biased sampling not in the sense that planetary systems happen to be this way in the region we are looking at, but in the sense that planetary systems seem to be this way when we look at things from THIS set of instrumentation and methodology.

IOW, I disagree with NPR's claim that "Our Very Normal Solar System Isn't Normal Anymore". Addendum: It may indeed be abnormal. But we don't have data to conclude that yet, or even to suspect it.
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Sometimes, you just aren't having a perfect view on what you are doing, and what you should be doing.

It is OK if you are sometimes not sure about something, or if you find that you have focused on the wrong thing. It doesn't follow that you should find a different job.

It does mean that you are capable of self reflection. It probably means that you are learning.
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I agree with most of your assessment but how is a 2.5% charge for a (forced) conversion reasonable?

I live in Europe and get hit with the 2.5% conversion fee every time I receive USD (on top of the ~3.6% "cross border transaction" fee). I have a USD PayPal account and a USD denominated bank account but PayPal refuses to send the money to a USD bank account unless you are US based. They insist on converting it to EUR simply to get the extra 2.5% as far as I can tell.
"Unusual is a subjective term" -- absolutely. I don't want to go back and forth on this one either.

Listen carefully to the video. She says "It could only be as common as 10-20%". Just before saying that, she pauses and looks upward, to formulate the sentence correctly. The 10-20% number is an upper bound, not a direct estimate.

You have to give her credit for communicating the idea carefully. The difficulty of doing this in real time is extreme. And if you do it wrong, you really get taken to task by your colleagues.
Housing debt won't drag your total assets down unless you happened to buy a house that's now underwater. The usual situation is for the difference of house value and mortgage amount to be significantly positive.

Income and wealth aren't the same thing, but they are highly correlated.
or https://github.com/component/emitter if you wanted to get real modular and release the library as smaller Components.
Looks like I submitted too late to catch this live, however, he'll still be answering questions on his profile throughout the month. http://www.levoleague.com/warrenbuffett
Haha, thank you sir. That's what we were going for :). I had to sell magazine subscriptions and it suuuuuuuuuuucked. The funny thing is that kids are still using those tactics TODAY.
What do you think about theories like Vilayanur Ramachandran's that some words exist because they are sort of onomatopoeic?

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lecture4.shtml)
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I seem to have a similar issue. I have to set 10 or so alarms to wake up for class in the morning. I feel very sorry for my poor roommate, but I don't know any other way to wake up. Luckily, I'll have my own room next year.

In fact, when I'm on break I tend to gravitate to a very weird sleep schedule where I stay up until about 7am and sleep until 3-5pm.

It seems to stem from the fact that when I go to bed at night around 11pm/midnight, I'm never tired. I just seem to be pulled toward staying up late and sleeping throughout the day. This used to keep me from getting much sleep at all, and it was drastically affecting my day to day mood and life. Melatonin has become a life-saver in this respect, but I worry about if it has any side effects or if I depend on it too much. It does allow me to be tired and fall asleep when I want to, which is WAY nicer than the alternative. I used to just lie in bed for hours before falling asleep. I wasn't on my phone or reading or doing anything productive with this time. I was just agonizingly waiting to get some sleep.
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> It's a bit of a shame that most demos now are only focusing on webkit/blink browsers... Please guys, think of folks like me who use the best browser in term of Freedom ;)

Chrome here, wasn't displaying.

Edit: At home now, tried with Firefox, that works.
In the last part of the article, there's a mention of the Adria Richards fiasco:

“There is another side to this story,” he wrote on a hacking site, saying it was barely one lame sexual joke. “She gave me no warning, she smiled while she snapped the pic and sealed my fate,” he complained.

The "hacking site" that's linked to? HN. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681
There's an important difference between mild steel (which is basically pure iron) and wrought iron (which has slag inclusions); the slag inclusions in the latter actually make for significant rust resistance.
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So, if you are a M.S. CS graduate. Which PhD program would it be best? I guess somebody with good software skills should be useful in many places.
What is normal in the context of the universe? What is context in the context of the universe?
I wish our school did this, I feel I missed out on a cool ritual.

Can't wear rings on grounds of you don't wear jewelry in a workshop :)

Me and my significant other cast and etched pendants for each other though. :)
PhD in economics here from a top 15 uni, completed a couple of years ago. No regrets, even though I realized, after a few years, that I would probably not enjoy a career as an economist (in academia or policy). I successfully 'converted' into data science. Most of my cohort found jobs they love. Some, though, had to settle for post-docs (sometimes for terrible pay) and are still in academic limbo.

There is always the question of the opportunity cost, of the road not taken. What would I have done of those 5/6 years? Perhaps I would have learned more, perhaps not. Many PhD students who end up outside of academia may have made better use of those years. I think the bottomline is, for every PhD, that you should only start it if you are passionate about the field and would like to work as a researcher (in academia or, say, IMF / World Bank). That may no longer be the case at the end of the PhD, but it probably should be at the start.
No connections. Got rejected once. Accepted second time.
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Maybe... What are doing with your SPDY server? I had no problems with parallel GET requests, but there was no way to do parallel XHR file uploads, which works pretty well without SPDY.
The secret here is to go to the Grimaldi's in Manhattan (20th and 6th). I have been there many times and have never once stood in line. Whatever the delta is between the Brooklyn location and the Manhattan location, it surely isn't 30 minutes of standing around.
This comment may get a significant number of downvotes, but here I go. I think there has been an increasing number of these types of posts on HN -- especially in the past couple of years (for some reason). Having a good attitude when faced with rejection is great. I'm not a fatalist in the sense that I would encourage anyone to jump off a bridge if they get rejected by YC.

HOWEVER, it's important to understand the role that rejection plays. And it's also important to understand the baggage that rejection carries with it. Sort of blowing off rejection - to me - seems utterly stupid. Especially if it's something you want. The point of founding a start-up is to be successful (whether that's an exit strategy, positive growth, getting into YC, etc. is irrelevant). Failure/rejection loses all of its beneficial characteristics if all you do is blow it off ("oh it's just another notch"). You need to ask yourself:

1. Why did I fail?

2. What can I do to not fail again?

In some cases (1) will simply be bad luck. Consider an athlete that slips and tears his achilles or consider me asking a pretty girl out that happens to have a boyfriend. Oh well -- that's just bad luck. However, if the athlete in question failed to train hard or I made a bad joke that completely irked a girl I'm interested in, that's something completely different. I truly believe that the start-up world is, in many ways, a lottery. By that I mean that not only do you need to be in tip-top shape, but you also need to get pretty damn lucky to end up like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.

Blowing off failure prevents any positive improvements (hey maybe I should've trained harder, maybe that was a bad joke, etc.) and encourages a kind of isolated entrepreneurship where you think you know best and you're convinced you're doing your best (even though you may not be).

Also, lets face it: failure sucks. Being rejected by a cute girl/guy sucks. Not being accepted into YC sucks. Not getting into your school of choice sucks. I think that downplaying the suckiness of these events is not the way to go. Instead, figure out how to get what you want next time. It's a careful balancing act. On one hand, you don't want to be a fatalist that gives up after the first failure; but on the other, you don't want to be a hard-headed and obnoxious positivist that doesn't acknowledge failure when it's staring them in the face.
If you have a preferred candidate for a role and that candidate isn't being vetted by exactly the same process as the rest of the candidates, you're obligated to disclosure something to that effect. You might not come right out and say "you should know, we have a preferred candidate", but you need to say something.
The conclusions are based on the idea that higher speeds create external costs to third parties which aren't required to be internalized by the driver, making the driver more likely to choose a higher speed than would otherwise be optimal.

Which means the conclusion is wrong. The solution is not to have a lower speed limit, it's to require the internalization of externalized costs: Impose a fuel tax that accounts for the full cost of the pollution created to society. Require drivers whose speed has caused a collision to pay higher insurance premiums. Then drivers will have to weigh the cost to others in their decisions and the identified problem goes away.
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>The 55 MPH speed limit was enforced by congress to reduce the consumption of fuel (gasoline). It has nothing to do with safety.

The second sentence doesn't follow from the first. I guarantee there were congress-critters for whom the safety justification tipped their vote.
Is this a repost? I thought Obama was President now.
Played through it on Xbox 360 when it first came and I had a lot of fun with it. A lot of people criticized double fine for throwing in RTS elements that weren't present in the demo, but I thought it was pretty fun all around.
People's sleep cycles are just different, even if it's not fashionable to acknowledge that. They differ with the person and they differ with the personal situation at the time. This notion that there is The One True Sleep Pattern and that everybody should adhere to it is not tenable in my opinion. It's a strategy that sells books on how to become "normal", nothing else.

I'm a night person, I viscerally hate mornings, and when I can I "oversleep" until 10 or even 11 in the morning. I go to bed when I'm tired, I usually sleep well and wake up rested in the morning. Sometimes I get tired during the day and when I can I respond to that by napping for a little while. In the absence of outside disruption, this works fine. I feel great and productive. On average I sleep 7-8 hours total, sometimes more, sometimes less. It's still possible to do a standard 7-to-5 workday, but after a while of doing that I simply become less productive and I start hating my day.

I've been told, directly and indirectly through "sleep experts" in the media, that my natural pattern is unhealthy and I must take steps to align myself with the same standardized day that is working so well for everybody else. Waking up feeling like you just got steamrolled, traffic jams, morning grumpiness, and being in the office before the boss arrives. Fuck that.
>Income and wealth aren't the same thing, but they are highly correlated.

No they are not.

According to the US Treasury:

"These low realized rates of return call into serious question the use of realized income from capital as part of any measure of well-being or ability-to-pay. For owners of capital, economic income may have little relationship to realized income, and rates of realization may vary according to the assets they
hold."

According to the Federal Reserve:

"...very wealthy people try quite hard to minimize their income."

[1] http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/tax-analy...

[2] http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/files/wealthin...
Back when we were evaluating API frameworks earlier in the year, this is where TastyPie was: http://toastdriven.com/blog/2013/feb/05/committers-needed-ta...

It's still not clear how the project will do without its original maintainer going forward. I don't bring this up as damning evidence against TastyPie, but it is something to consider. Some projects achieve that critical mass where life continues after the original maintainer steps out, but enough time hasn't elapsed to see how it will play out in this case.
This looks very good and is an informational article. Thanks for posting it!
Don't get an economics PhD. As some have pointed out, a lot of the "status quo economics" is just hand-wavy nonsense, and there might not be much demand for that stuff five years from now.
Small online retailers call Internet sales tax a 'nightmare'
I played the demo on XBox 360 and I thought it was pretty fun. It's a bit cheesy but a basic, fun hack and slash. It's especially good if you like Jack Black.
I don't really see the problem with that. The only problem I have is with people who do this and go around pretending that their numbers are neutral and speaking for themselves. From my standpoint Econ & Finance are social sciences where "reality" is always complexer than just the numbers.
Is this median personal income, or median household income? The page doesn't make that clear.
Are you by any chance a restaurant owner? If you are not, please go and canvass the restaurant's in your area and tell them your viewpoint. They would love you, you might even be able to do some lobbying for them.
"If I have to change my viewpoint, or choose not to express it, because someone finds it upsetting, then that is not freedom of speech."

I don't think you really understand that "freedom of speech" refers to the actions of the government. It has nothing to do with what private citizens do in response to what you say. The first amendment doesn't protect you from blowback and it's not supposed to. Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism.

However if you consider freedom of speech an issue between citizens, wouldn't the right to bear arms be the greatest enemy of freedom of speech? Seems like "an armed society is a polite society" is a recipe for a society where nobody speaks their mind for fear of losing their life...
That is what I meant by "fuck all". Aside from standard background search noise, the phrase "chattel currency" is virtually unused.

I am guessing, as suggested by others, that he actually said "shadow". Still loaded language (bitcoin is hardly shadow; the blockchain is public..) but it makes far more sense in the context.
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Great way to level the playing field for kids!
This clearly sounds like a massive barrier to entry to new ecommerce companies to me. It makes me wonder if Amazon et al. are at least partly motivated by the desire to stifle competition here.

I'm also pretty sure this would affect SaaS companies, not just ecommerce - sales taxes apply to services as well as products. For example I'm in Texas, and pay 8.25% sales tax to my hosting provider, who also happens to be here.
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There are people on the Bayshore Express line living below the poverty line. Wow.
So that your ~/.profile loading doesn't hang when your network does. Nothing more frustrating then wanting to get something done quickly in the shell and having it stall.
So, who has the one ring to rule them all?