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Yes, I love the sound they make and there is something very cool about controlling an analog display with software. I would love to make one, but this seems beyond my DIY skillset. I wish you could buy them for a reasonable price, but I couldn't find anything less than 3K (Vestaboard).

I live in Cincinnati. I don't think gentrification is responsible for the opioid epidemic. I would blame the increase in the supply of opioids and structural changes to the economy. Plenty of places without gentrification (rural Indiana) are being hit even harder.

I'd also disagree that moving back would exacerbate the problem. A higher tax base would help the city to better combat the problem. You could also donate to non-profits or volunteer.

Very cool. I am currently learning Chinese and have found it hard to find movie/tv shows that include the pinyin subtitles. This is so much better with the color coding, formatting and dual translations. Thanks for putting in all the work and sharing.

I'm also learning Mandarin and was wondering if this was possible (for a different show) just the other week! Thanks for the article, will be looking forward to Part 2 and 3. Also, is there an easy way to extract all the frames with unique subtitles?

I just got one of these exact same emails. It may not be illegal in the U.S., but it makes me extremely dislike the company using the tactic.

I checked and it appears there isn't really a loophole. Direct primary care providers are able to combine their offering with insurance and offer it on the ACA exchange, but they are subject to the same requirements of any other insurer. And none seem to be doing this yet:

From http://www.dpcare.org/specialties:

"H.R. 3590 recognizes DPC and allows DPC Medical Homes to offer coverage in health insurance exchanges in combination with a wraparound insurance policy provided by a qualified health plan (QHP). Working together, the two must satisfy all other essential health benefits requirements under H.R.3590. DPC practices provide all primary care in a monthly fee arrangement. The QHP is used for hospitalization, specialty care and other more costly services. The first DPC offering paired with a QHP in the healthcare marketplace went live in the Washington state exchange in January 2015. There are no DPC practices operating in the federally facilitated exchanges yet."

The Baumol Effect, in case you didn't know, is the tendency of wage increases that come from increases in productivity to "spill over" into jobs where there have been no productivity increases. In other words, it's trickle-down economics under a fancier name.

Mr. Garret gets the definition of the Baumol Effect more or less right, but then mislabels it as trickle down economics and proceeds to attack that. Here is an example of the Baumol Effect:

As improving technology makes computer scientists more productive they will receive higher salaries in the business world. Meanwhile, computer scientist teachers in academia may not see similar productive gains (they still can only teach X number of students a semester). Nonetheless, universities must increase computer scientist teacher pay to prevent them from leaving academia for the business world.

In the context of PG's essay, he is saying that high pay for entrepreneurs forces companies to pay competitive salaries:

anyone who could get rich by creating wealth on their own account will have to be paid enough to prevent them from doing it.

If Mr. Garret, or others, disagree with this assertion they should attack it directly. Personally, the logic and direct incentives at work seem self evident to me.

There was a recent Planet Money episode about a company that will shop around for medical care for you and give you a cut of the money that the insurance company saves:

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/09/447098694/why-most-people-don-...

The annual deductible in this study is $3,750. So, as long as a patient hasn't spent over $3,750, they have the incentive to reduce costs. You are correct, after a patient hits their deductible they have no incentive to reduce costs.

Our site offers form processing that will work with any html form.

The form builder itself is specifically for creating Bootstrap-compatible HTML forms.

Thanks for the comment. .form-horizontal is currently possible via Settings -> Label Orientation -> Horizontal. I can see how you missed it. It's a challenge to try to make the UI intuitive. I do still need to add .form-inline at some point.

Thanks for the feedback. Will look into the font chooser. EDIT: Font chooser should be working now.

Yes, to have us process the form you need to POST to our server and add the formden.js to the page. The JavaScript is there to repopulate the form and show validation errors if the POST is rejected.

I created this tool to make it easy to create Bootstrap Form HTML. Drag and drop form fields, preview the results, or copy the HTML code. It is built using Django and crispy forms. The forms you create can (but don't have to) be processed using my start-up's form processing service (in free beta).

I'd love to get some feedback!

Thanks for your feedback! The forms were built to be mobile-friendly and the iframe should resize to the page width. Something's going wrong at http://contactmetrics.com/contact/ I'll look into it!

Just moved into public beta and would love to get some feedback from HN. I built the product because I kept getting customer support requests (for another product) that were super vague. This tool tells me what pages the customer visited before contacting me so I have some context for their message. I also added form A/B testing and message sentiment analysis to help with site optimization and SEO.

Actually, a monopoly should remove problems like these. If Amazon is the only firm, it will bear all the costs if fewer good books come out in the future. Therefore, it has an incentive to create an ecosystem that maximizes it's long term profit.

For example, think about fishing. If there are lots of fishing boats they will tend to overfish. They can't leave fish in the ocean to reproduce because other boats will catch them. If there is just one boat (or all boats are owned by the same company) it will take out the optimal number of fish so that the fishery remains healthy and pays the highest dividends in the future.

This post contains some strong arguments for the benefits of prediction markets. Since Intrade was shut down due to legal reasons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrade

it seems like the market is wide open for a decentralized alternative.

I believe patio11's point is that the opportunity cost of a domain name is the same regardless of which currency you use to buy it. If you use Bitcoins, you have less Bitcoins. If you use dollars, you have less dollars to convert into Bitcoins if you think they will appreciate. Your net position in Bitcoins need not be affected by your choice of currency for this particular transaction.

A typical (sealed-bid) auction has the exact same problem. I value the business at X, but know that I can bid less than X, probably still win, and keep more surplus.

To give bidders the incentive to bid their true value, you need a Vickrey auction where the winner only has to pay the next highest bid. But, this is suboptimal if there isn't a lot of liquidity. Also, you won't have the credibility to do this if you are auctioning off your own business (you have an incentive to lie about the next highest bid).

Here is great video by Cambridge Ideas about the risk of dying from various activities (measured in micromorts):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1PtQ67urG4

The professor's conclusion is that one of the biggest risks is being too cautious.

I also second selling it for $250 and using something other than Codecanyon. I'd recommend using Fastspring (customer, no other affiliation) since it has no monthly fee and takes a lot smaller cut than Codecanyon.

You are right. Whether buyers, sellers, or eBay pay the tax is a function of the price sensitivity (elasticity) of the varying group. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence This is a little different from the standard model because eBay is a third party.

Are you operating yet? (hard to tell from your facebook page) I'm in Cincinnati and would give you a try.

Hiring decisions are made at the margin though. Even strong companies stop hiring when the additional cost of an additional worker is less than the additional value to the business.

That article is not talking about the multiplier effect. It is talking about consumers consumption smoothing...buying automobiles after the minimum wage goes up because there has been a permanent increase in their income. From the article: "Our estimates are silent about the aggregate effects of a minimum wage hike."

I've read a lot of the econ literature in this area, and have never seen a defense of the minimum wage on the basis of multiplier effects. Too few people are working at the minimum wage. And, the minimum wage is too blunt of a instrument to try to counteract business cycles.

The main argument against the minimum wage is that it may increase unemployment for unskilled workers. However, recent empirical work suggests that the minimum wage is currently low enough in the U.S. that raising it has quite a small effect on unemployment. Therefore, some economists feel the redistribution effects are worth a small cost in efficiency. Here is a survey of prominent economists on the effects of raising the minimum wage to $9:

http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-re...

Many economists would argue that increasing the EITC would be a better way to help the poor.

You have sentimental feelings towards bikes shops and feel good about paying full price. I can understand that. But, I don't see why you should criticize leak for not having the same feelings. Lots of people work hard and make less than you do (many car dealers included). It's not the consumers job to worry about whether the other side is making enough profit. Businesses can take care of themselves. Sometimes they won't sell at a low price because they don't want to set a precedent for negotiating. But, often times, it's profit-enhancing to price discriminate a bit and charging the rich guy full price while throwing in some free accessories for the frugal guy. There is not need to guilt trip the frugal guy about it.

Economics is scientific in nature. It is just hard to model and predict the behavior of humans. That doesn't mean that economics can't tell us anything conclusive.

Even though capital expenditures are tax deductible, the returns from capital expenditure are being taxed at a higher rate. This makes consumption relatively more attractive to shareholders which is bad for economic growth. It's not about the money available to invest, it's about the incentives to invest that money.

There is little empirical support that predatory pricing happens. The criticism section of the Wikipedia article makes some strong arguments in this vein. The support section contains 3 "citation needed"'s.

It should be noted that [some] hotel doors with electronic key cards also have physical key holes (as a backup) that are hidden, but are still susceptible to being picked.

This just supports your point that hotel doors are not 100% secure for anyone who really wants to get through.

Edit: Replaced all with some. The doors at the hotels I worked had backup physical keys in case the battery failed. It's cool that Onity locks can be powered externally if the battery fails. Thanks for the correction.