Boeing Crashes Highlight the High Costs of Cheap Government - <AUTHOR> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/boeing-737-max-crashes-highlight-the-high-costs-of-cheap-government.html <comment><USER2> Throwing money at government just to make it expensive won't fix this kind of problem.

What if a bigger, fatter, better funded FAA is still in cahoots with Boeing?

<comment><USER3> I grant the existence of some who seek to make government less expensive for the sole sake of it being less expensive. (Existence proof: Grover Norquist, who wants to drown it in a bathtub.) Who are these mythical creatures who want it to be more expensive without providing more/better services?

<comment><USER2> Pretty much every governmental bureaucrat.

<comment><USER3> People say that a lot, but without really thinking it through. There are 2.79M civil servants, each of which can be pejoratively referred to as a "bureaucrat" if that is your wont, and pretty much every one of them wants government services to become more expensive solely for expense's sake?

That doesn't even pass the smell test.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Many people don't realize that as much as we like to complain about big government and wasteful spending, the private sector is just as bad, or worse in some cases.

</comment><comment><USER5> >It is true that the F.A.A.'s current delegation rules have been around for more than a decade — and that America's commercial airlines have assembled an enviable safety record over that period. But the available evidence also suggests that America's refusal to adequately fund the F.A.A. allowed corporations to gain inordinate influence over a public-sector function — and many people died as a result.

This is classic motivated reasoning. The authors know that the US Airline safety profile over that time is stellar. Knowing they can't base their claim on the actual statistical safety record, thy resort to using a comparison with vague words such as 'suggests' and 'inordinate' and emotionally charged phrases: such as 'corporations to gain inordinate influence' and 'many people died.'

They are hoping that your emotional brain will overlook the lack of argument of real quantitative evidence and jump on the emotional bits of the argument.

This is similar to how anti-immigration groups will seize on a high profile crime committed by an immigrant and use that to say that immigration should be stopped/cut back without discussing if immigrants are actually more likely to commit violent crimes than natives.

<comment><USER6> You could argue that the current record is simply a legacy of previous high quality government regulation and oversights. And that the 737-MAX is the first article of the new regime.

Another good example of that is the defective Bay Bridge replacement between Treasure Island and Oakland. That bridge is going to fail during the next earthquake because of design flaws that the oversight agency didn't have the manpower to spot. CALTRANS after three decades of Republican lead budget cuts doesn't have the ability to safely oversee projects of that size anymore.

<comment><USER7>
      CALTRANS after three decades of Republican lead budget cuts doesn't have the ability to safely oversee...

Republicans have been in the _minority in both houses_ and had absolutely no power in the CA legislature appropriations process for _over two decades_. For much of that time, the Democrats had _supermajorities_.

The new Bay Bridge debacle falls squarely on the Browns.

<comment><USER6> Guess who doesn't know how government appropriations work.

<comment><USER8> No guessing necessary.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Seems like in the U.S. the pilots are properly trained and are capable of handling the difference in the new vs old aircraft.

Other countries aren't fairing so well. Is this a failing of the U.S. Government's FAA? No.

I have a good friend who was a Naval aviator and did crash investigations for the Navy, his ordered list for causes of aviation crashes. The top 3 causes he believes are responsible for 99.9% of all crashes.

1\. Pilot error due to fatigue (Which the U.S. has made strides to drastically reduce) 2\. Pilot error not due to fatigue 3\. Pilot lack of training 4\. Plane failure (hardware, software, mechanical, etc)

<comment><USER10> >Seems like in the U.S. the pilots are properly trained and are capable of handling the difference in the new vs old aircraft.Other countries aren't fairing so well.

What specific difference training did U.S. pilots receive that foreign pilots did not? How are pilots in other countries improperly trained? What is the evidence either 737 MAX crash had anything to do with training? If better training can mitigate flawed design, should that absolve any portion of manufacturer liability for any discovered flawed design?

In a proper investigation, all bias must be removed, and that includes statistical likelihood of prior causes of crashes.

<comment><USER11> > What specific difference training did U.S. pilots receive that foreign > pilots did not?

Well, they all have far more than 200 hours of flight time, for one. Even the copilots.

> What is the evidence either 737 MAX crash had anything to do with training?

The fact that the problem was displayed to the pilots (trim severely out of norm) and they didn't follow the correction procedures properly. Though that might not be "training" as much as "competence".

> If better training can mitigate flawed design, should that absolve any > portion of manufacturer liability for any discovered flawed design?

 _Really_ depends on the flaw.

<comment><USER10> The pilots of Lion Air 610 had in excess of 5000 hours. Flight experience doesn't answer the question I asked either. The assertion was made that U.S. pilots received difference training (NG vs MAX). What difference training?

You assume without evidence the problem manifests like runaway trim. And then proceed to assume without evidence the incompetency of two pilots. And yet you refuse to assume the incompetency of the automation, which didn't mere fail, it countermanded with lethal force the 100% correct control inputs of the pilots. The idea they have to assert their sanity by flipping two switches, is about as ridiculous as automation not having to assert its sanity when it, by design, trusts a single point of failure one upping that by trusting it while it's failing and one upping that to extreme by taking action on it without any regard to other input sources including the pilots themselves. It's beyond obscene to me.

I have personally trained private pilots with competency at identifying failed gauges, knowing which one to disregard, and estimating the missing values by inference from the remaining gauges. And this is in sub-200 hour pilots. The skill required for the instrument rating exceeds this particular automation in the AOA failure case by quite a lot. And the skill required for commercial and ATP ratings is even greater than that by quite a lot. Meanwhile MCAS upset from judgement of a single sensor induced such an unusual attitude it became unrecoverable.

So the assumption of incompetency by pilots, while cutting automation all kinds of slack is to me 180 degrees backwards.

<comment><USER11> I think I misread difference training as _different_ training there, my apologies. And the Ethiopian Air copilot had ~200 total hours, thus the comment.

> You assume without evidence the problem manifests like runaway trim. And > then proceed to assume without evidence the incompetency of two pilots. And > yet you refuse to assume the incompetency of the automation, which didn't > mere fail, it countermanded with lethal force the 100% correct control > inputs of the pilots. The idea they have to assert their sanity by flipping > two switches, is about as ridiculous as automation not having to assert its > sanity when it, by design, trusts a single point of failure one upping that > by trusting it while it's failing and one upping that to extreme by taking > action on it without any regard to other input sources including the pilots > themselves. It's beyond obscene to me.

I didn't say that it manifests like runaway trim. I said that it manifests as "severely outside the norm trim", which it most certainly does. Unless you're saying that full nose down trim is normal? As for "asserting incompetence without evidence", they're certainly less competent than pilot #3 on the Lion Air flight the night before. (since, you know, that guy realized what was going on and how to resolve it)

As for the automation being incompetent, yep you're right! It is! But airplane crashes don't happen for one reason - not commercial flights at least. They happen when a sequence of failures occurs, just like here. Boeing failed to consider the worst case behavior of MCAS, Lion Air maintenance fucked up, and the Lion Air pilots weren't able to diagnose the failure that morning. (The failure pipeline of the Ethiopian crash is still to be determined) As for why Boeing failed there... It's at least partly because the automatic trim controls weren't considered a safety critical part, since they had multiply redundant backups. It's just that the backups were "turn off electronic trim" and "grab the trim wheel and hold it in place", both of which require pilot action. (Allowing stuff like this to get grandfathered in is arguably a hole in the FAA's systems)

> I have personally trained private pilots with competency at identifying > failed gauges, knowing which one to disregard, and estimating the missing > values by inference from the remaining gauges. And this is in sub-200 hour > pilots. The skill required for the instrument rating exceeds this particular > automation in the AOA failure case by quite a lot. And the skill required > for commercial and ATP ratings is even greater than that by quite a lot. > Meanwhile MCAS upset from judgement of a single sensor induced such an > unusual attitude it became unrecoverable.

Well then why was the issue so difficult for the pilots to diagnose here? There's a gauge for trim, and I'd hope it would be looked at when trying to figure out why you have to keep pulling back on the yoke so hard.

<comment><USER12> I am not a pilot. But based on my understanding the activation of nose down due to MCAS doesn't present itself like the standard runaway trim that pilots are trained on.

Trained Behaviour:

\- In case of continuous trim

\- perform yoke jerk to disable the automatic trim (per previous 737 models)

\- turn off electronic trim

\- grab the trim wheel and hold it in place

\</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment></comment><comment>---

MCAS Behaviour:

\- On nose down event, pilots pitch the flight up, adjust trim

\- Which disables MCAS for 5 seconds

\- No continuous trim event manifests

\</comment><comment></comment><comment>---

From what I've read on some pilot forums, Boeing made a few errors:

\- Removed "Yoke Jerk"

\- The 5 second delay removed the continuous trim conditions

\- Didn't sufficient train pilots on this condition i.e. intermittent automatic trim

\- Pilots did not see the behavior that they were trained for in the few seconds between each nose down event

<comment><USER11> > From what I've read on some pilot forums, Boeing made a few errors:

I'll agree with #2-4, but #1 was the entire point of MCAS - to reduce the response of the aircraft to pulling back on the yoke in high AOA situations. Disabling MCAS when pulling back on the yoke would thus make the aircraft less safe, and cause it to (rightly) fail certification.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> Well as the saying goes, "You get what you pay for"

</comment><comment><USER14> There is only one way to fix this problem folks. Privatize the FAA, deregulate airplane manufacture, and use the money saved to give the rich a tax cut. The rich will then trickle down on the planes to save us from these software issues.

<comment><USER15> actually you are right</comment></comment>


Tesla, an Uncomfortable Wake-Up Call for Germany. All Hands on Deck - <AUTHOR> https://cleantechnica.com/2018/09/25/tesla-an-uncomfortable-wake-up-call-for-germany-all-hands-on-deck/ <comment><USER2> This is a great, realistic look at the impact of Teslas on the German car manufacturers. For once it's not all about how tesla is a sham, not of interest to buyers, etc. It's worth a read if you have interest in this area.</comment>


Visualizing Commodore 64 memory in real-time... - <AUTHOR> http://icu64.blogspot.com/2009/09/first-public-release-of-icu64frodo.html I started seriously hacking with my first Commodore 64, so this video brought me some really huge grins. Really gorgeous app for visualization. <comment><USER2> This is an awesome-looking tool. Similarly to other commenters, I had a DOS program when I was young called Game Wizard or something like that would compare memory states looking for values that changed or stayed the same, as some games tried to obscure their lives counter with addition and multiplication. Having the colored activity visualization would've made things even easier.

It would be cool to have something like this that works for modern native software, visualizing malloc()d/free()d blocks (or garbage collector behavior), etc., almost like a realtime Valgrind.

</comment><comment><USER3> Very impressive!

I once had the ability to find infinite lives, and other cheats, in Commodore 64 games using just the Action Replay cartridge's machine code monitor. I'm not as hot at it as I used to be, though.

One important function is to be able to hop off up the CPU address stack to find more important functions higher up (so you're in a "Print a letter" subroutine, called by a "Print a word" subroutine). This isn't in ICU yet.

<comment><USER4> I spent a summer disassembling the code for Bolo on the Apple ][e, giving myself infinite lives or invulnerability, dissolving the maze edges and wandering around in general memory until I segfaulted the machine, disabling the enemy tanks by forbidding them from turning left - it was fantastic! I had printed the entire dump on green bar to do it.

Remember green bar?

I'll bet that printout is still at my Mom's in the attic somewhere.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Some previous discussion and a related blog post at <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=793130></comment>


Show HN: Hierarchical Filtering on Elasticsearch - <AUTHOR> http://demo.searchkit.co/taxonomy <comment><AUTHOR> Im co-author of Searchkit (www.searchkit.co). This Hierarchical filtering demo uses Elasticsearch aggregations on nested documents with our Hierarchical filter component.

For more info see [http://docs.searchkit.co/stable/docs/components/navigation/h...](http://docs.searchkit.co/stable/docs/components/navigation/hierarchical- refinement-filter.html)

and

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search- aggregations-bucket-nested-aggregation.html)

</comment><comment><USER2> Related: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10832207](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10832207)</comment>


YouTube - Moonwalk One, ca. 1970 - <AUTHOR> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70bFsUdepyA&feature=player_embedded#! <comment><AUTHOR> listening to the women that sewed the suits worn by the astronaut, I can't help but think of the virtues that made this accomplishment possible.</comment>


Ask HN: Does anyone know of a good primer on (oo) software design? - <AUTHOR>

Hi HN,<p>I've been programming for quite some time now, and like to think I'm pretty decent at it, but of late I find myself having trouble with creating classes, it's not that I can't break a problem down into classes/methods, it's that the result doesn't seem...elegant at all, and I often have trouble finding clean ways to express interfaces for the groups of functionality I need. Does anyone know of a good set of principles on the subject? Am I just being OCD? <comment><USER2> It is quite likely that you're hitting the boundaries of what straightforward class-based OO alone can do to help you structure the program. Design patterns help if you don't know about them, but even better is to look at a wider range of concepts(examples: functional programming, logic programming, message passing, formalized finite state, and my current subject of interest, relational data structures) and attempt to mix some aspects of them into your code.

If computer science is at heart a mathematical subject, then mathematics informs us that the best way to make a solution more elegant is to restate the problem in a more suitable form.

</comment><comment><USER3> Maybe the problem you've struck is that of the limitations of OO itself. Objects and methods only work up to a point. You often also need to implement behaviors/processes/algorithms. In a multi-paradigm language, such as Python, you'd implement the objects with their behaviors using OOP paradigm and then tie it all together using FP paradigm.

Lots more details: <http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_visionP.html></comment>


The 40% Rule (2015) - <AUTHOR> http://avc.com/2015/02/the-40-rule/ <comment><USER2> Previous discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029722](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029722)

</comment><comment><USER3> Arms waving so hard I can feel the breeze from here, across months of time.

Anyone have some actual data points?

<comment><USER4> This is more like the 70-20-10 rule -- not so much numbers that you've calculated based on careful observation of any particular business, but rather a nice set of round numbers to aim for.

I've heard of this rule before, although when I heard it it was the "45% rule". Close enough.</comment></comment>


Using AWS Athena and QuickSight for ALB-ELB Access Logs Analysis - <AUTHOR> https://blog.zoph.me/cloud/Athena-ALB-ELB-Analysis/ <comment><USER2> Running that single query to find HTTP 200 responses on 250GB of data cost you $1.25. Athena is great, but not particularly cost effective.</comment>


Ask HN : What side project are you working on? - <AUTHOR> Time flies! It's that time of the month again for HN'ers to share what they are working on. We've had some awesome projects shared in the previous threads.<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9891487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9696274 <comment><USER2> A crossover between Google docs with OneNote:

\- vector graphics/drawings created by freehand / writing [http://write- live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934](http://write- live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934)

\- handles more complex drawings: (give it time to load) [http://write- live.com/d/7fce10bb-bc39-43d4-a7f1-6bd0d60b9550](http://write- live.com/d/7fce10bb-bc39-43d4-a7f1-6bd0d60b9550) [http://write- live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e](http://write- live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e)

\- unlimited* levels of zoom [http://docs.write- live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...](http://docs.write- live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=3483c3de-b329-4af1-97d7-2d7f27d96ad1)

\- Drawings are stored in the cloud, and can be accessed by multiple devices simultaneously: co-drawing, draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web [http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab](http://write- live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab)

<comment><USER3> Looks great! Installed it and will check it out later!

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Cross platform, open-source app for parenting. Initial plans are mostly for logging events: sleep tracking (manual entry), eating times, audio playback (for ambient noise and shushing), and diaper changes. No ads, no centralized servers, no trackers, no cruft. Parents will be able to import/export their data to sync between devices.

Admittedly, I have not done a ton of research into the different apps on the market, but there are a lot of crappy apps. From what I have seen though, there are plenty with annoying advertisements, absurd permission requests, steep prices for little functionality, and apps with an agenda. There is an app that plays a sound file on loop for 30 minutes and prompts you to purchase for indefinite looping for $3.99. There is literally no other functionality, and they want $3.99. Devs gotta eat, but that's ridiculous.

</comment><comment><USER5> Two things:

1\. A better wiki, especially for personal use or for small teams. I find wikis are really difficult to keep organized over time, so I'm making it "self-organize" using a few simple heuristics to define structure and relevance.

2\. A podcast in which I interview local business leaders. I don't live in a big city, and the tech scene here is not very mature, but there is a lot to learn from brick-and-mortar folks and this is a neat way for me to meet them.

If anyone is curious about either, please don't hesitate to contact me! (Email in profile.)

</comment><comment><USER6> Working on this at the moment: [http://pimpanalytics.ga/](http://pimpanalytics.ga/) Make your Google Analytics stand out with Pimp Analytics. Put any 7 letter isogram in the input boxes below and create your own custom GA snippet. From Wikipedia's article on isograms: "An isogram (also known as a 'nonpattern word') is a logological term for a word or phrase without a repeating letter". Enter non-repeating alphabet [a-z] letters. Note: uppercase letters will be automatically transformed to lowercase. Note: Entering numbers will break your code as per the JS syntax. Inspired by this blogpost:

[http://blog.higg.im/2015/03/17/tinkering-with-the-google- ana...](http://blog.higg.im/2015/03/17/tinkering-with-the-google-analytics-js- snippet-a-lesson-in-isograms/)

I even dogfood the service in the source code:

    	 (function (m,a,c,k,i,n,g) {
         m['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = i;
         m[i] = m[i] || function () {
             (m[i].q = m[i].q || []).push(arguments)
         }, m[i].l = 1 * new Date();
         n = a.createElement(c),
         g = a.getElementsByTagName(c)[0];
         n.async = 1;
         n.src = k;
         g.parentNode.insertBefore(n, g)
         })(window, document, 'script', '//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js', 'ga');
         ga('create', 'UA-66070213-3', 'auto');
         ga('send', 'pageview');

Check it: [http://pimpanalytics.ga/](http://pimpanalytics.ga/)

</comment><comment><USER7> I'm working on a receipt-saving service for small businesses/freelancers: [https://receiptron.com/](https://receiptron.com/)

The goal is to make it the easiest way to save receipts. No app to install, no complicated expense report forms to fill out, just take a picture of the receipt with your phone camera, email it to our specially-trained robots, and it gets saved and sorted for you for later.

<comment><USER8> This is absolutely brilliant! I might sign up just for my own personal use. That said, when I was a contractor, I would've paid double that for a service like this--if this works as well as it claims, the amount of time saved during tax season would more than justify $100 a year.

Edit: Never mind, I thought this worked using OCR. It's still a cool service, but I wrote this comment under that assumption, so unfortunately I'm a little less excited about it.

<comment><USER7> It's still early days. Do me a favour? Let me know: if it worked via OCR, what important information would you want it to pull out? And if I do get that in there, would you want me to let you know?

<comment><USER8> Yeah, that's totally fair, I just got overly excited.

Even just the total would be awesome. I don't mind entering metadata manually, and looking through a picture of the receipt for each line item if I need to do that, but I've love it to automatically capture the total so I can see those at a glance without manually inputting them. Maybe the date, too, but that's less important if I can just take the photo as soon as I get the receipt. (Getting the vendor would be doubly awesome, but I know that would be nearly impossible, so I wouldn't ever expect that.)

I wrote a web app to do this for myself when I was contracting, but I had to manually enter the vendor, total amount, and date for each receipt, which got really tedious. (The process wasn't fast enough that I would do it on the move, so I saved up receipts and did them in batches, which took a lot of time.) I'd love to just be able to take a picture and enter some metadata (probably just vendor and category) and have at least the total be pulled from the receipt, and the date either pulled or defaulted to today's date.

Yes, please let me know if you ever implement OCR! And feel free to contact me directly in general. My email is email@example.com. In the meantime, I'm going to give this a try as-is. Thank you!

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> A suite[1] of open source tools for organizational knowledge sharing / collaboration / communication that includes:

1\. Quoddy[2] - An Enterprise Social Network that uses Semantic Web technology to automatically detect entities in content, and enhance the content and show related content. And much, much more. It's an ESN that is really meant to integrate with other enterprise applications and business events, as opposed to being a simple "facebook clone" dropped inside an organization. We just added OpenMeetings integration so you get audio/video chat and whiteboarding as well.

2\. Neddick[3] - Think "Reddit for the Enterprise", but with a lot of features that aren't in Reddit.

3\. Some other stuff, but those two are where the bulk of the focus is right now. :-)

[1]: [http://fogbeam.github.io/Fogcutter](http://fogbeam.github.io/Fogcutter)

[2]: [http://fogbeam.github.io/Quoddy](http://fogbeam.github.io/Quoddy)

[3]: [http://fogbeam.github.io/Neddick](http://fogbeam.github.io/Neddick)

</comment><comment><USER10> I'm starting a web app that would function as a private space. Something like a combination of the facebook wall where you can post stuff that you want to remember, a journal, notes, to-do's, calorie counter plus some more stuff. It will be modular so you can add the stuff that you want to use and remove those that you don't use.

</comment><comment><USER11> I was pretty far into building a platform for investors to buy portfolio insurance, then I read about Vest this morning([http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/18/hardware-demo- day/](http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/18/hardware-demo-day/)). It sucks to see I'm not the first, but their website reveals the idea still has a long way to go before normal investors adopt it. Most investors don't feel qualified to pick stocks for their own portfolio, so how will they know what type of insurance they need? What happens when this idea scales and option prices become far more expensive as a result? Option liquidity(or lack thereof) is the reason portfolio insurance in the 80's turned to futures for protection. It's a good idea, but I suspect it will take a few iterations :)

</comment><comment><USER12> I do a few.

Tech related:

[http://www.freecodecamp.com/](http://www.freecodecamp.com/) Because I never felt that comfortable with web development. The interface is super easy to use and I can't wait to start helping non-profits.

Non tech related: Write. I write and I write and I write. I have so much to say and I want to say it in the best way possible.

Also draw. I don't draw as much as I should because I am so bad at it. But sometimes things with terrible art can still take off so it keeps me going. example: [https://twitter.com/KeLuKeLuGames/status/553404094958694400/...](https://twitter.com/KeLuKeLuGames/status/553404094958694400/photo/1)

<comment><USER13> I love your idea for Free Code Camp. I love it so much that I did the same thing a few years ago.

Unfortunately, after approaching and talking to dozens of nonprofits, we gave up. The Boards of NPOs tend to be highly egotistical, highly possessive morons. I can't tell you how many times we weren't allowed to fix an awful website because it had been a Board member's pet project done by one of their friends or relatives. Or, in many cases, the Managing Director just wouldn't give up control.

I hope you have better luck. I've now worked with two industries I'll never work with again -- restaurants and nonprofits.

<comment><USER12> Wait, did you do freecodecamp.com or a similar idea on your own? The camp sets me up with the nonprofits.

[http://www.freecodecamp.com/nonprofits/directory](http://www.freecodecamp.com/nonprofits/directory)

<comment><USER13> Similar idea on my own. My understand was that you started Free Code Camp.

When we actually did projects, they would accept the work, semi-cooperate, and then bury the finished product because the Board wouldn't approve it.

Even if we didn't have someone hovering over the project, trying to micromanage it, we always ended up with a committee-based feedback system. No matter what we did, _someone_ would hate _some_ part of it and demand it be changed.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I am using this site Hamburger Menu as a sort of browser 'acid test' and trying to get it displaying correctly on as many devices as I can. It turned out to be hard getting this to display in different browsers. I tried using a polyfill for the emoji like Twemoji and Emojify, but they break under different conditions. The site is more or less a browser acid test right now and a learning experience if anything. I will be importing what I learned about this site into future projects for sure. It originally started out as a bit of fun, but mushroomed a bit as more time was allocated to it. [https://www.hamburgermenu.xyz/](https://www.hamburgermenu.xyz/)

</comment><comment><USER14> Still working on the same uninteresting projects.

Working on making Space Invaders in C++/SDL. Since the last thread i've added vector motion (with terrible "physics"), sound, gotten enemy fire to work and a basic game state running. Currently i'm working on string rendering and UI so I can have buttons, then the first game state transitions (title screen to play screen.)

Also, a threaded forum which is turning out to be an anonymous Hacker News clone in PHP: [https://imgur.com/Yojr7Dv](https://imgur.com/Yojr7Dv) (I'm not actually calling it Slacker News though, I just thought it was funny.)

</comment><comment><USER15> [http://www.botwiki.org](http://www.botwiki.org) \-- an open-source collection of tutorials, articles, datasets and other resources for creating useful/interesting/artistic online bots.

</comment><comment><USER16> Meal Planning Recommendations - suggests what you should eat this week.

The second stage will be to pre-order the food from a Supermarket API, so all the food will already be in your house.

If I can figure out how to make an app that actually cooks my food, I'm done :)

</comment><comment><USER17> I have recently built an app which exposes a web interface through which you can add youtube songs. And the app will play them from the queue.

The context is that we have a big hall room and we wanted to play songs from anywhere in the house without being connected to the speaker. Of course, we decided against buying a bluetooth speaker and create something of our own !

Check out the source here -[https://github.com/agnivade/youremote](https://github.com/agnivade/youremote). Its built with React + material design UI + golang.

</comment><comment><USER18> A democratically run publication with no central ownership, built on Ethereum.

Members can propose an album, article or gallery based on a theme/description. Anyone can fund that proposed release, and should if they like the idea and want to see people participate. Any member can submit content to a proposed release. Members can vote on which submissions are the best. Once a deadline is reached, the highest voted content is published. All funds are distributed to the winning content creators. Ownership tokens are created and distributed to all participants.

</comment><comment><USER19> I've been working on a news aggregator since last year that pulls news articles and photos from major news sources, determines which stories are related, and sorts them in a timeline fashion. That allows you to go back and see what the top news stories were on any day in the past, or even month in the past.

[http://tracket.com](http://tracket.com)

[http://tracket.com/2015/01](http://tracket.com/2015/01) (Top stories in January 2015)

</comment><comment><USER20> A SaaS to make sending (transactional) emails from your (web)app easier. It handles wysiwyg editing, styling, testing across clients, online viewing, attachments, translations and much more for you.

No need to do this in code anymore :)

I just put the landing page online (still needs a bit of work): [https://attraction.email](https://attraction.email)

I actually have too much functionality planned - so much is possible once you have a dedicated app for this stuff, I need to scope it down for version 1.

<comment><USER21> intro-bg.png is 12.8 Mb. killing the browser and taking time to load.

<comment><USER20> Oops, thanks for pointing that out. Should be fixed in a minute.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER22> [http://www.Tinykernel.com](http://www.Tinykernel.com) a platform that connects (new) programmers together to work on toy projects. The reason I am working on this is because I see post like "I want to build something, but don't know where to start" all the time. Currently, I am still trying to pinpoint the core features of the site so any feedback is welcome. I am probably going to release something within 3 weeks.

<comment><USER23> Looks interesting, and I'll definitely keep an eye on it. However as feedback I prefer it if webpages (especially aimed at devs) work at least to some degree without JavaScript , currently I get a blank page until I enable JavaScript.

How do you plan on solving the "showing of your work" part, linking to github or some more generic solution not depending on a specific service?

</comment></comment><comment><USER24> A few months ago I launched an email newsletter that features one fantastic piece of journalism each day: [http://readthisthing.com/](http://readthisthing.com/)

I just launched it for fun, and have had fun working on it. The list has grown to more than 5000 subscribers, which is pretty cool.

Not totally sure what I plan to do with it, but I really enjoy working on it and have found lots of people who like it, so that's good enough for now. :)

<comment><USER25> I'd love to subscribe but I'm using a screen reader so can't get past your captcha!

</comment></comment><comment><USER26> Working on Recurvoice, a recurring invoicing system for freelancers: [https://www.recurvoice.com](https://www.recurvoice.com)

</comment><comment><USER27> SixBets Predictor - [https://sixbets.co.uk](https://sixbets.co.uk)

Trying to make a profitable predictor for the English Premier league. Currently, the predictor is profitable on the whole season, but not on the weekly basis.

I've train it on data from the 1992/1993 to 2011/2012 season, and tested it on the 2012/2013, 2013/2014, and 2014/2015 season. In tests, it shows profitability from 4.12 to 8.40%.

</comment><comment><USER28> I'm working on the inverse of Yelp, appropriately called Pley. Instead of a public service where users rate local companies, it's a private service where local companies rate their users. The only ones who would be allowed access are the owners and workers of service oriented companies.

It's meant to be a joke and to have something of mine I can actually throw up on github, but I plan on making it actually work anyway, just out of curiosity.

<comment><USER29> I thought of a similar idea, which you can feel free to take if you want to make the pivot. I thought a rating system for employees would be great. If an interviewer or agency or previous job has had a great or had experience with an employee, they can leave a rating for future employers whom may be interested in the same employee. Very similar to Amazons system. After all, we are all products to them. It can be linked to LinkedIn as well.

</comment></comment><comment><USER30> I'm making a bent wood bike basket with integrated elastic straps [http://bentbasket.com](http://bentbasket.com)

<comment><USER31> I was thinking about getting a new bike, this might be the first accessory that I buy for it. I like the simplistic yet versatile design. Something that I can actually use and looks nice.

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> Toolkit for high-productivity web-development in Go language [1]. Inspired by the concepts of Revel Framework but is implemented in a form of small independent utilities (and relies on `go generate`). Key aspects: No runtime reflection, type safety, compatibility with the standard library, 100% customizability.

[1]: [https://github.com/anonx/sunplate](https://github.com/anonx/sunplate)

</comment><comment><USER33> If you've ever used elasticsearch and needed monitoring and alerting for your cluster without the overhead of running tools in the cluster itself, you'll realize there's not many options. So came up with the idea to separate monitoring and alerting for elasticsearch clusters to create Pulse. Close to launch. [https://www.espulse.com/](https://www.espulse.com/)

</comment><comment><USER34> I've been working on an app for reading email newsletters - [http://mlist.io/](http://mlist.io/). When you sign up you choose a username that you use as an email address (email@example.com) when subscribing to newsletters.

Part of the project is creating is also list of high quality newsletters across a wide range of topics. Feel free to provide any newsletter suggestions!

<comment><USER24> I love Mlist! Keep up the great work.

<comment><USER34> Thanks awwstn! :) you too!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER35> I've been building a program that plays Yahoo! Fantasy sports. [http://fantasybots.com](http://fantasybots.com). It updates your roster every morning in case you forget or have too many teams to keep track of. Also great when you only care about the draft party and don't want the grind of actually coaching. Currently looking for beta testers!

<comment><USER36> Coincidentally, I have been roped into an office fantasy sports pool that starts next week, which I have no time to manage. I would love to be your beta tester!

Can it manage the draft and trades as well?

<comment><USER35> Yahoo's draft tools and auto-drafting is really great so I haven't messed with that. I'm working on trade stuff but it's not ready for beta testing yet.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER37> Working on a Chrome app for Asana, just so my tasks are accessible with a global keyboard shortcut, and I can see them all the time (and access them offline as well).

[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/asana-task- viewer/...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/asana-task- viewer/aoglcoelnbfanjaejfdhfffojngfibjg)

</comment><comment><USER38> Hipment: Streamlined shipping for Big Cartel ([http://hipment.com](http://hipment.com))

SERP Scan: SEO Rank tracker. Trying to get Heroku alpha users. ([https://serpscan.com](https://serpscan.com))

Eddie Pendergrass: Record label. ([http://eddiependergrass.com](http://eddiependergrass.com))

</comment><comment><USER39> Socialite - For keeping track of contacts: [https://socialite.ooo/](https://socialite.ooo/)

The idea is that for each contact you can connect them to events and connect those events to locations. This way you can pivot off any piece of information about an acquaintance (where you met, when you met, etc.) to recall the details you know about them.

</comment><comment><USER40> A twitter bot for HN, but stories are delayed for 24 hours and then must meet a score threshold. I use it to catch up on news after a few days away from the internet. Bot is hosted on Google within the free quota! I plan to post the source to github eventually...

[https://twitter.com/icymihn](https://twitter.com/icymihn)

<comment><USER41> You might find this interesting too: [https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome- hacker-news](https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news). I wrote [http://serializer.io/](http://serializer.io/) specifically for this purpose. I have 10 as a points limit.

</comment></comment><comment> the-dude I am working on my espresso PID controller ( [https://mecoffee.nl](https://mecoffee.nl) ), which is actually a Bluetooth Arduino-like for the 120V/240V, 1-2kW realm.

To pay the bills I play barista once in while ( [http://caffe- mobile.nl](http://caffe-mobile.nl) )

</comment><comment><USER42> Working on a camera app for iOS that allows you to easily switch between manual and automatic control of exposure, focus, shutter speed, and ISO:

[http://kickstandapps.com/prime/](http://kickstandapps.com/prime/)

I'm looking for beta testers, so if you're interested, sign up on the website.

</comment><comment><USER23> I'm working on a exchange rate tracker, currently for Swedes working in Norway. Basically the idea is to setup alerts on favorable rates and deliver them via mail.

[https://svenskpeng.nu/](https://svenskpeng.nu/) (in Swedish) if it catches on I'll extend it to other currencies.

<comment><USER43> What is your data source? Does the exchange rate vary a lot across the sources?

<comment><USER23> Currently I am using [http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/index...](http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/index.en.html)

And there is some degree of variation between different sources, for example this is the NOKSEK exchange rate from yahoo.

[http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from...](http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20yahoo.finance.xchange%20where%20pair%20in%20%28%22NOKSEK%22%29&env=store://datatables.org/alltableswithkeys)

And since the variations between sources is limited I believe that getting a rough idea of the rate (which differs from bank to bank as well) Is beneficial especially in currencies like NOKSEK where the difference can vary between 0-10%

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER44> Hypervault ([https://hypervault.github.io/](https://hypervault.github.io/)) - a complete file encrytion web app contained in a single HTML file (so it runs totally client-side). It outputs a "locked vault" \- the encrypted file data embedded in a copy of itself.

</comment><comment><USER45> i just started [http://www.projecttalk.io](http://www.projecttalk.io)

it's messageboards for github projects.

mainly because a lot of projects use live chat (gitter, slack), which i think isn't always the best solution (time zones, discoverability of past discussions, ...).

</comment><comment><USER46> PodcastParty – [https://podcast.party/](https://podcast.party/)

It's a cloud-based podcast aggregator with a focus on discovery and social aspects (e.g. seeing what your friends are listening to, commenting on podcast episodes, sharing clips, etc.).

</comment><comment><USER47> Working on some new features for a trivia game I released a couple of weeks ago: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.versuslabs...](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.versuslabs.duoquiz)

</comment><comment><USER41> I've recently updated [http://serializer.io/](http://serializer.io/), a newsreader project of mine from earlier in the year. Trying to settle on something new now though - currently thinking threejs and or electron.

</comment><comment><USER48> I'm writing a quick frontend to search the AM leak database. And sticking some ads on it. /s

<comment><USER49> I was wondering how long it would take for one of those to crop up. Make sure you put a few ads for AM on the site for the irony.

</comment></comment><comment><USER50> I'm making virtual complications for smartwatches:

[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=thewatcher.ch....](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=thewatcher.ch.twin_balance_classic)

</comment><comment><USER51> Something like Netflix, but for your home

[https://github.com/qq99/muvee](https://github.com/qq99/muvee)

\- rails, open source

\- find & torrent movies and tv shows

\- organize your media and enrich files with art, descriptions, ratings

\- controls your Hue lights to match playback

</comment><comment><USER52> Interactive tutorials to teach people things like SQL ([http://sqlbolt.com](http://sqlbolt.com)) and Regular Expressions ([http://regexone.com](http://regexone.com))!

</comment><comment><USER53> I have some iOS apps around and I'm working on some new... Most stupid one: [https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id928383455](https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id928383455)

</comment><comment><USER54> Working on Nuggets ([http://www.nuggetsapp.com/](http://www.nuggetsapp.com/)): personal knowledge management to record, remember and share everything you learn. in 200 characters or less

</comment><comment><USER55> [http://mpiannucci.com/hackwinds](http://mpiannucci.com/hackwinds)

Small live surf condition application specifically for Rhode Island. Made/work on both iOS and Android versions in my free time.

</comment><comment><USER56> GridLayout, a flexbox-alternative CSS grid with support for older browsers. Needs a small script for IE support.

[https://github.com/ghinda/gridlayout](https://github.com/ghinda/gridlayout)

</comment><comment><USER57> [https://rebrickable.com](https://rebrickable.com) \- A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

<comment><USER58> this is brilliant. are you interested in doing the exact same thing for food in a refrigerator? I believe the market is larger and the potential impact is greater. Just to make it clear:

ingredients:recipes::legos:designs

it would be silly to track things inside a refrigerator, but we could track purchases on receipts, and then calculate the amount over time using some smart-decay-rate. Cant assume it's gonna be easy to be able to live query the contents of someone fridge in real time - but can do estimations. Then people could add their recipes to a central server, and well, you've pretty much coded everything after that if I get your gist.

email me: firstname.lastname@example.com

<comment><USER57> I have no interest in food, so no :)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER59> Dropshare

[http://getdropsha.re](http://getdropsha.re)

</comment><comment><USER60> An attempt to build structural lisp editor (ClojureScript in this case): [https://github.com/darwin/plastic](https://github.com/darwin/plastic)

</comment><comment><USER61> I'm building a REST API for project gutenburg book info, using flask. I haven't picked a backend database, but it's only ~50,000 records, so I don't know that it will matter hugely.

</comment><comment><USER62> I recently started working on a web application that allows you to search through git commit messages. I plan to turn it into a SaaS once it's more polished. Maybe $5 a month or so, nothing crazy.

</comment><comment><USER63> A todo list with dependencies, using webcola ([http://marvl.infotech.monash.edu/webcola/](http://marvl.infotech.monash.edu/webcola/)).

</comment><comment><USER64> A high performance database-as-a-service platform that provides NoSQL and SQL access. [http://www.amisalabs.com/](http://www.amisalabs.com/)

<comment><USER65> JackDB already does this?

<comment><USER64> JackDB from what I see does not store your data. They provide a browser based tool to connect to your SQL databases. Amisalabs platform on the other hand is a DBaaS where you can store any kind of data and run any kind of queries.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER66> [https://stashit.pw/](https://stashit.pw/)

Stash It is a simple bookmarking tool. Find something interesting on the web? Stash It and come back to it later.

<comment><USER67> So Pocket? I'm confused?

<comment><USER66> Kinda, but more features on the way that will separate us more.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER68> I've been messing around with Groomy, a dog grooming salon management application. It still has a ways to go.

[http://groomy.io/](http://groomy.io/)

</comment><comment><USER69> [http://hasgluten.com](http://hasgluten.com) (database of gluten-free ingredients in 5 languages) and its successor, not released yet.

<comment><USER31> I like the idea but my biggest problem isn't ingredients, it's eating out. Having this available on my phone when looking for a place to eat would be a real time saver.

<comment><USER69> You can save it on your home screen and... voilà :) We spent quite some time making it usable on mobile too.

If you really really want an app, you can get the code [http://github.com/hasgluten/hasgluten](http://github.com/hasgluten/hasgluten) and plug it in Cordova/PhoneGap.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER70> Working on [https://www.birdly.co](https://www.birdly.co) \-- Lets you create a poster from a twitter account and the avatar.

</comment><comment><USER71> Working on providing contextual information to whatever you do online: [https://cueb.io/](https://cueb.io/)

</comment><comment><USER67> Working on a website to connect enthusiastic fans of TV shows, books and music to each other for fun, exciting conversations. Without all the creeps

</comment><comment><USER72> I worked on javelinbrowser.com, but it's now lay to waste due to the focus I have to put into my startup.

Anyone wanna take it over? Send me a mail.

<comment><USER29> Looks great! Very elegant design. Probably the thing I liked most was the reading mode, that was a really good idea.

</comment></comment><comment><USER73> [https://signupforms.com](https://signupforms.com) \- event registration/management

</comment><comment><USER19> Cohort analysis for your Stripe account - [https://cohorts.co](https://cohorts.co)

</comment><comment><USER74> I'm building a social network for scuba divers, mixed with some stackoverflow concepts (upvoting posted dive spots).

<comment><AUTHOR> for building a community type, you can check out [http://hellobox.co](http://hellobox.co)

</comment></comment><comment><USER75> Food loss tracking app for personal use. Put in perishable groceries and it alerts you when things are about to go bad.

</comment><comment><USER76> h4ck1t

[http://www.h4ck1t.com](http://www.h4ck1t.com)

a multiplayer strategy hacking game

</comment><comment><USER77> Immersive sci-fi teambuilding experience - like Disneyland's star tours but for hours.

</comment><comment><USER78> Freelance actuarial consulting - email me at the address in my profile if interested.

</comment><comment><USER65> [http://focusr.co](http://focusr.co)

</comment><comment><USER79> Working on a JavaScript Metroidvania using Phaser.</comment>


Understanding pointers - <AUTHOR> https://drewdevault.com/2016/05/28/Understanding-pointers.html <comment><USER2> When I first started programming in C, I had such a hard time understanding pointers. Even more so pointers to pointers, arrays of pointers to arrays, and so on. Then one day it just clicked. Now days I look back and don't understand why I had such a hard time with it.

If you're new to C, and you're struggling with pointers, don't worry. Chances are it'll just click on day for you too.</comment>


All the Dumb Things RIM's CEOs Said While Apple and Android Ate Their Lunch - <AUTHOR> http://www.businessinsider.com/rim-ceo-quotes-2011-9?op=1 <comment><USER2> I'm not sure it is dumb if a company spokesman says something in favor of his companies current situation.

If you are famous for your hardware keyboard then of course you say anything that favors hardware keyboards.

If you just released a computer with 640kb RAM, then of course you say that this is enough for everybody.

Steve Jobs famously said the kindle would flop because "people don't read anymore"

</comment><comment><USER3> All of my Android phones, but the Ascend Mate I use now, had a hardware keyboard. It's just was nicer to type and didn't obscure the screen. So I can understand the statements about touchscreen-keyboards.</comment>


Ask HN: How can we make big tech companies become accountable? - <AUTHOR> Feel like I've been seeing more examples of small businesses being screwed over by big tech companies.
Besides these stories getting some traction, I feel that much doesn't come out of it, and often the "BigTechCo" doesn't even comment on the matter.
How will change happen? Are there organizations fighting this? <comment><USER2> I feel that one problem is that transparency and independent oversight is not wanted by government or by businesses.

A public requirement for more transparent business practices may result from populations wanting to fight climate change. It's currently easy to release some data about emission reduction and how green a company is, when it's an estimation that nobody can reproduce (because access to the majority of the source data is privileged).

Regulatory punishment isn't realistic, because the companies involved are just massive and crucial for nations to even exist (e.g. petro-industry giants). Thus, only foreign companies get regulatory punishment.

The only lever here is a company not being able to do business without conforming to a certain base level of transparency. We already have nascent forms of transparency requirements in terms of non-proliferation of defense knowledge or equipment, some environmental laws and worker's rights requirements (e.g. child labor iirc).

But it will have to go much further in order for companies to be held to higher standards, to a degree that business intelligence is almost nonexistant and every customer can retrace the logistics chain of what they're consuming.

And that's sadly utopian, since any smaller company that publishes what contracts it has with which company (and is legally able to, due to new regulation) will not get new contracts, as long as there is competition that keeps silent.

</comment><comment><USER3> What are some examples?

If you're referring to app platforms I think the answer is simple: Don't build a business on another company's platform if they have a terrible reputation and a history of screwing businesses like yours.

The other thing to consider with platforms is incentives. Platforms where your company doesn't improve their bottom line won't care about screwing you. So Shopify and their partners have mutual interests (both increasing shop's profits), but Google doesn't with its plugins and browser extensions. Facebook apps didn't make Facebook more money so they had no problem getting rid of them and destroying businesses.</comment>


Show HN: Tetris using KineticJS - <AUTHOR> http://cortexture.net/tetris/

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi HN- I wrote this several months back just for fun, trying to emulate the gameplay of the 1989 Gameboy version as much as possible (with the exception of instant drop and the ghost block). Enjoy!

</comment><comment><USER2> Really fun to play. Just a quick add; maybe everything could be a little smaller. Great work, congratulations.</comment>


WebNinja Tutorial: Asynchronous For Loops - <AUTHOR> http://blog.chaoscollective.org/post/40284901138/webninja-tutorial-asynchronous-for-loops <comment><USER2> I'd like to see the next step, in which each iteration can run in parallel with each other iteration. The way this is done, the loop as a whole can run in parallel with unrelated code, but each iteration is only scheduled when the previous one runs. You could imagine requesting a different network resource on each iteration; in such a case the truly parallel loop would typically take much less time than this sequential-iteration loop. Someday soon, languages will make this very straightforward.</comment>


Ask YC: Looking for a new UI designer/programmer (YouIntern.com) (NYC) - <AUTHOR>

Stop me if you've heard this one before.
We've got a product and we think it's good (www.YouIntern.com). It's been live for five months or and has received very positive responses from its two core customer bases and from industry press. We've got a growing user base and a team member who is an exceedingly savvy marketer.
But we're seeking a keen, creative, Wusthof-sharp mind to re-build our user interface and be our lead programmer/designer. (And before you go off thinking I'm smarter than you because I know who Wusthof is, don't bother. He's a knifemaker).
If you're up late, like me, you might have that restless edge that pushes people. Young, ambitious people. PSD's (http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/04/10/bear-stearns-and-psd-spirit). People who want to work with other bright people, driven people, working late hours on something they want to see become wonderful.
People who live in NYC and want to meet up for a drink some night. Those kind of people. Shoot me an email and we'll chat about the project: twelvedigits [at] gmail [dot] com
If you're not in NYC and still interested, send me a note please and we'll have a chat. <comment><AUTHOR> Sure. More than anything, we're looking for a developer. We can pull graphic design from elsewhere, plus we're a few steps along that process, given we more want to modify our design now. But my hope is that someone is looking for a project and wants to spearhead developmental changes on the site, and join on with some very motivated thinkers.

<comment><USER2> You should be looking for both a programmer and a UI designer, since both are shit without the other.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> You should specify if you're looking for a graphic designer, HTML coder or a software developer. "Programmer/designer" doesn't mean anything.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> Thanks for the replies.

We're definitely looking for a programmer.

If anyone wants to grab a beer in the city, give me a shout.

</comment><comment><USER4> While programmers keep UI in mind, a UI designer and a programmer are two very different things...</comment>


DspGuru - <AUTHOR> http://www.dspguru.com <comment><USER2> DSPGuru.com is an excellent resource.

If you want to learn more Digital Signal Processing, go and check out the website I've been running for a few years where I collect _all_ the free online courses, introduction videos, FAQs and textbooks on DSP that you can use to teach yourself:

[http://DIYDSP.com](http://DIYDSP.com)

Yes, I make passive income via Amazon click-throughs. The focus of my website is on music instruments, btw.

<comment><USER3> That's awesome, music instruments are the primary reason I want to learn DSP. Thanks for setting this up and keep earning your passive income :)

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I spent a few hours on sunday casually reading this:

[http://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines- signals/index.h...](http://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines- signals/index.html)

Which was an enjoyable primer if you are interested in DSP.

<comment><USER5> I'd be interested to see if the OP is more math oriented than Circles, Sines, and Signals. CSS admits it's pretty strictly conceptual, and didn't give a ton of resources on getting a more mathematical foundation of the DSP principles explained.

<comment><USER2> Hiya, I posted my main website elsewhere in this thread, but this link in particular:

[http://diydsp.com/livesite/pages/home#DSP_Theory](http://diydsp.com/livesite/pages/home#DSP_Theory)

contains links to documents Gilbert Strange and Rick Lyons. These two are much more math-intensive than many of the other introductions.

And if you want to go whole hog, check out the free online lectures:

[http://diydsp.com/livesite/pages/home#Free_Online_Lectures](http://diydsp.com/livesite/pages/home#Free_Online_Lectures)

<comment><USER6> Might want to add the textbooks available at [http://www.fourierandwavelets.org/](http://www.fourierandwavelets.org/).

I really like the first, "Foundations of Signal Processing", as a linear algebra centered treatment of the topic.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Good stuff. A bit more accessible than this free online textbook:

[http://www.dspguide.com/](http://www.dspguide.com/)

<comment><USER8> +1 for dspguide.com. It really made what had been an opaque subject for me very approachable.

<comment><USER2> Yes, there are two great things about it:

1\. It's free in PDF by chapter or you can buy it.

2\. It has every example in BASIC. Now, BASIC obviously stinks, right? The idea isn't to use the code from the book, but the fact that it's in BASIC means it's been so simplified that you can follow it step-by-step and quickly implement it in your language of choice.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> DSP is the reason I could transition from electrical engineering to machine learning - it's funny how fundamentals pay off.

</comment><comment><USER10> For anyone interested in DSP, the Coursera DSP class is superbly well done: [https://www.coursera.org/course/dsp](https://www.coursera.org/course/dsp)

</comment><comment><USER11> This is great! I've always wanted to learn more about Signals Processing.

</comment><comment><USER12> This looks like a great resource! I have been using complex2real[1] for years, but this looks like another great link. Thanks.

[1] [http://complextoreal.com/tutorials/#.VlXqyMr88xU](http://complextoreal.com/tutorials/#.VlXqyMr88xU)

</comment><comment><USER13> sometimes the HN zeitgeist has deep resonances with stuff I'm working on. This is yet another example.</comment>


Why Is the Stock Market Booming? - <AUTHOR> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/upshot/virus-stock-market-booming.html <comment><USER2> The subhead gives the entire answer:

 _Investors are betting that powerful interventions from Washington will protect the long-term profitability of major companies._

Which means that the market is 100% detached from the overall economy, economic outlooks, and company earnings.. again.

<comment><USER3> What makes this worse is that it isn't even necessary.

Allowing companies (even ones that are large and considered important like airlines) to "fail" just means that they'd have to go through bankruptcy proceedings and that the owners would lose some money - it doesn't mean that their operations will shutter, or that the planes will suddenly disappear, or that everyone in those companies will suddenly be out of work.

There are many examples of how this works - a recent one being PG&E in California, who filed for bankruptcy last year. Our electricity is still running and the linemen are still working.

<comment> j-walker Isn't the counter-point to this the stock price of PG&E? Look at its performance over the last 5 years, it's down to ~$11 from ~$50.

If the the whole market looked like this in the next year, people's 401k accounts would probably be demolished.

<comment><USER4> Just optimizing for 401ks is going about it wrong. $500b from the stimulus went to corporations, which indirectly boosts stock prices, which indirectly boosts 401ks. (unless the market still crashes). It's essentially trickle-down economics. If we wanted to improve individual's retirement savings then it would more effective to just divert more of that $500b to social security.

<comment><USER5> The stimulus packages seem more focused on ensuring that asset prices remain inflated. The idea that the average person will see any major impact from the S&P500 dropping to 2000 points is laughable.

How many people do you know that truly had their lives ruined by the 2008 crash? Allowing the markets to find a bottom and recover creates opportunities for social mobility.

The people who don't want asset prices to drop are rich people. They are the ones who own the assets.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I thinks it's just way too much liquidity sloshing around. I'm guessing we're going to see a more volatility in prices in future. A tip in any direction of an asset class will cause money sloshing into it and out again at the first sign of trouble.

That's just a guess. I think the text book answer of equivalent of this is just hyperinflation (except that's when the money starts flowing into real price of goods and services)

<comment><USER7> I think you're right. What we've been seeing for the past 10+ years with wages and real-world earnings staying about the same isn't some weird effect on salaries. It's rapidly dropping goods prices (which everyone's been asking about - why aren't prices of basic goods dropping?) due to globalisation, automation and economies of scale, combined with hyperinflation.

<comment><USER8> There's been some discussion that wages haven't actually been flat at all, just take home earnings. The difference is theorized to have been siphoned off by rapidly increasing health insurance premiums [1].

[1] [http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/health-care-costs-under- job-...](http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/health-care-costs-under-job-based- plans-have-grown-rapidly-while-wages-remained-flat/)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> I've read so much amateur and professional analysis on what's happening. The one common thing I realized is it's all entirely speculative and offers little to no empiricism (stats aren't empirical evidence, they're an explanation of data).

Absolutely no one knows what's happening right now. There are many explanations that are attempting to rationalize the behavior of the markets but the reality is the system has gotten so complex and there are so many derivative financial instruments and institutions who make their living off of some type of market manipulation that what we are likely witnessing is a confounding of different mechanisms all occurring at once.

The one absolutely conclusive thing you can gather from all of this is the prices of stocks have been and will likely continue to be detached from fundamentals for the foreseeable future.

My guess is that a future economist will gain their fame studying what is happening right now and creating a new theory out of it.

</comment><comment><USER10> 1\. These large 20%+ rallies are always common in bear markets.

2\. The Fed has committed all told nearly 10 trillion dollars, maybe more.

3\. Very little macro data has been released. Market is pricing in a V-shaped recovery which isn't out of the question if we can open up in May.

Having said all of this, I think we head lower as the health crisis turns into a really bad recession. There may not be jobs for these workers to go back to.

<comment><USER11> >Market is pricing in a V-shaped recovery which isn't out of the question if we can open up in May.

Market was due for a fall, this was just what kicked it into gear. I doubt it'll be V shaped. I also doubt that you'll be opened back up in May. I don't see Italy opening up any time soon, and New State alone looks like it'll be worse than Italy.

<comment><USER12> I'm not sure what you mean by "alone" here. New York is by far the worst hit area of the US; many states are doing no worse than Denmark or Austria, which are going to start opening up next week.

<comment><USER11> Denmark completely shut its borders. Austria has made everyone wear masks, and have been shutdown for a long time. US states like Mississippi are still arguing that everyone should be essential. There are at 11 states with double the number of confirmed cases as Denmark, and I don't see any of them actually slowing down currently. They're all experiencing 4 times more daily cases than Denmark.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> It seems insane to me that the market is now higher than it was at the end of 2018, given that entire sections of our economy are closed, default risk for almost every business is up, and unemployment claims are making new record highs.

In 2018 the fed was reducing their balance sheet - which seems to be the most important driver to equity prices rather than fundamentals.

<comment><USER14> Not to me markets are a 10+ year term investment, in 10 years this will be a memory and things will be back on track

<comment><USER15> Yep. 2008 was the time to get in cheap. This is the same thing.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> There is a bigger picture here: there is undeniably a crisis but it's an external factor as far as the economy is concerned. Fact of the matter is, plenty of big businesses are doing better than ever: everything online is exploding, online shopping, payments, entertainments, online education as well as delivery services.

And a more specific example(for the sake of illustration), so are many grocery stores: I have 3 small grocery shops around me in a quiet and residential area and they can take a breath. Even after the toilet paper crisis ended, every time I look out the window I see at least 5 vans unloading. And we are talking really tiny shops: the combined are of all 3 combined would probably not cover an area of 100 square meters. With that you have large production lines, warehouses, transportation companies and logistics fully operational and have probably reached their maximum capacity.

While tourism, air travel, restaurants(those that don't deliver food) and pubs, public events, concerts, all all of those will suffer for years to come, others will flourish.

And with all that, I'd argue that a lot of new markets will appear.

I'm well aware it's too soon to tell for certain but that's what seems very plausible to me.

<comment><USER17> While I agree with some of your points re: online companies doing well, I don't see how you can take anecdata about local grocery stores and extrapolate it to the rest of the economy. Also, don't forget that _16 million_ (that's 5%!) Americans are unemployed right now. Can you imagine the damage that's going to do to businesses across the country?

If that isn't a sign that a recession is coming, I don't know what is.

<comment><USER16> The US is a very different beast altogether. I'm a bit far away from there but as a spectator, I'd say the US had the absolutely __WORST__ reaction to this situation. Given that about 40 to 45% of all confirmed covid19 cases are in the US suggests that to put it mildly. As a matter of fact, most of the world's reaction was nothing short of appalling. But there are exceptions to the rule: as an eastern European myself, most of the countries in Europe, east of Germany have managed to contain the situation really well. It might have something to do with considerable experiences with crisis(of different nature in all 1 billion instances over the past 100 years), but let's hope that's been to our benefit for once. Again - only time will tell

I never said average Joe won't be affected by this. What I am saying is that the big players will still be big once this is over but there will be new players as well. Also China will likely lose ground in the global production lines, and companies will likely look at alternatives, even if they have to make a compromise with scale and price. Investors like safe bets and what the current situation has taught is is that China isn't a safe option. We knew that already but the nets around the foxconn factories are a bit... Out of sight, out of mind.

16 million is a horrific number and I sincerely hope they pull through without paying a heavy price. But put your mind in a different mindset - 16 million is an incredible amount of manpower. For the 16 million - that's a tragedy but for the people with deep pockets - that's a once in a lifetime opportunity if they play their cards well. And I'm more than certain that many out there will.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> A properly functioning stock market is predicting the next ~15 years of companies' profits by weighing the prior ~15 years of companies' profits combined with their current growth. Even a 12 month period of $0 profits should decrease the NPV of a firm's future earnings by 10%, not 50%.

As scary as the next 12 months appear to be, we will eventually return to a new normal, just as we did in 2010, 2004, 1990, etc.

<comment><USER19> Why 15 years?

<comment><USER20> And how could anyone predict a company 15 years out?

We have a real hard time with 1 year out.

<comment><USER18> Agreed. But you make a forecast in which you calculate an "expected outcome".

<comment><USER20> A forecast that has nothing to do with reality is garbage.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> A lot of people will say that earnings expectations are higher than the current price projected and they bought. I think it is more likely that after the first up day, a lot of people saw that they could have made $4 / share (hypothetically) and started buying.

Personally, I am waiting to see what 1Q earnings are and what 2Q projections look like for a few names I like.

My 401k hasn't changed through all of this, just any spare change I have for my fidelity account.

Even fertility, dermatology and orthopedic doctors are all closed still.

</comment><comment><USER22> Would this be the same market which completely ignored the epidemic in the Far East and the obvious implications of its trajectory, until the morning after the weekend it hit Italy?

</comment><comment><USER23> One word: inflation. The government is turning on the printing presses and while investors expect _real_ returns to take a hit, they expect _nominal_ returns to do fine. In an inflationary environment, assets like equities will outperform.

</comment><comment><USER24> My thought is that the majority of the markets rely on high frequency trading algorithms, which base their models off historical data. Given this is unprecedented times, the models are going haywire because nothing fits.

</comment><comment><USER25> The authorities have essentially said they aren't going to let businesses fail. Even though that's what limited liability is for, but I digress.

So if there's a much lower chance of failure, prices for equities can be higher. Corporate bonds too.

But I'm not so sure this bounce will last. There's a fair chance this is some sort of short squeeze dynamic. Longer term we'll see what the damage to the economy actually is, whether people simply go back to how it was or things have actually changed.

</comment><comment><USER26> This chart is why [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL)

</comment><comment><USER27> I'm probably wrong about this and I'll probably get told so and downvoted to hell, but to throw my $.02 in to the mix

I think the fundamental issue is that the stock market doesn't reflect reality at all anymore. Which isn't a novel point, a bunch of other commenters are saying the same thing. I think the only thing I have to add is that a small army of forex bots, automated buybacks, and zombie index funds has made it so that the stock market is programmed to never not boom. A market that reflects reality would be governed by supply and demand, not by seeing a ticker go up or a graph go up and to the right. But that's what investors want, so that's what all these mechanical interventions are optimized to do.

So why is the stock market booming? Because that's what it was programmed to do.

(Yes, yes, cite my sources, but it's a Friday and I'm lazy)

</comment><comment><USER28> Welcome to the new America where the debt is public but the profit is private

</comment><comment><USER29> My brief analysis tells me that there will be some grinding down in Q2 with a negative peak in Q3. While the virus seems to be "managed", the consequences of millions of people dropping out of the workforce in the first world is not that pronounced. We will see bank failures and maybe dozens of cascades, all leading to the point where someone has to stand up and swallow it.

Solid states go into deep debt today, previously failed states will chew on it for the decade to come.

</comment><comment><USER30> Stock is a bet on the company until the end of time, and 30 years from now, nobody will remember the Great Pandemic of 2020. Even if we imagine a worst case worse than the predictions, things will probably be fine for the economy. If 10% of the human race dies tomorrow, that just means everyone else needs to do 10% more work; a 40 hour workweek becomes a 44 hour workweek.

(Obviously if sucks if you or your loved ones die. But the economy doesn't care.)

<comment><USER31> this doesn't make any sense. by that logic, why do recessions simply not exist since in 30+ years we'll probably have overcome whatever current problem we're facing now

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> The 'Greater Fool Theory' seems to be the main one. No matter how silly it is to buy something that is overpriced, it's practically certain that a 'greater fool' will come along and buy it from you. You profit.

[https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-greater-fool- theory.htm...](https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-greater-fool- theory.htm#didyouknowout)

</comment><comment><USER33> Stock market already took its hit. Most real wealth is in private markets: residential real estate, private equity, and bonds. Bonds are being bailed out by the fed. Residential real estate and private equity will take some time to deflate. Then the rent collectors in residential real estate (state property taxes) will take their hit...

</comment><comment><USER34> [http://archive.is/oWxNu](http://archive.is/oWxNu)

</comment><comment><USER35> Where does all the money go if not in stocks?

The government is pretty preoccupied with the current stock market, for better or for worse. If they are unable to fix the the economy and appease shareholders, the thinking might be that we have bigger problems with the value of the dollars themselves.

</comment><comment><USER36> Bull trap.

</comment><comment><USER37> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwvZql6RToE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwvZql6RToE)

</comment><comment><USER38> Not yet booming, mealy recovering.

<comment><USER39> It's almost the same as where it was Jan 2019. Business is nowhere near as good as it was in Jan 2019, so clearly there is a discrepancy.

</comment></comment><comment><USER40> Everything you need to know about the wisdom of the stock market can be easily discerned from this single, simple fact: They believed Donald Trump when he claimed Saudi Arabia and Russia would cooperate to raise oil prices. They did not.

</comment><comment><USER41> Because the market is rigged. The idea that it's a free market is ridiculously dumb.

</comment><comment><USER42> It's interesting to note that gold has significantly outperformed S&P500 over the last 5 years (and so has Bitcoin and many other 0-yield assets).

If we were to redraw stock charts using gold as the x axis (instead of $ USD), we would realize that company stocks have in fact all been dropping for the last 5 years.

The US dollar is not so different from the Venezuelan bolivar, it's also inflating and making the stock market appear to grow... But it's not the value of the stock which is growing, it's the value of the dollar which is shrinking (and so are all other fiat currencies which are pegged to it).</comment>


Most Doctors Are Ill-Equipped to Deal with the Opioid Epidemic - <AUTHOR> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/health/addiction-medical-schools-treatment.html <comment><USER2> Moving from Canada to the US was a shock - in Canada, prescribing opioids was rare - but you could get codeine painkillers over the counter, but that was when things got really bad.... here, simple dental procedures were met with Percocets and Oxycontin...

The basic difference seems to be in Canada, you're a patient while in the US, you're a customer... and the docs don't want their customers to be in pain. That appears to be changing.

<comment><USER3> > _The basic difference seems to be in Canada_

Maybe some other difference?

How is it you and the rest of Canada (not to mention Europe) aren't opioid junkies in a national "epidemic" when you can buy 100 codeine tablets for $10 in any grocery? Meanwhile, in Russia, with bans, it's an epidemic, while in Ukraine, even Russian-speaking Ukraine, this is readily available with no epidemic.

Something about personal responsibility instead of "someone made me do it" litigiousness? Or more related to healthcare as a basic right? US versus Canada suggests these, but Russia vs. Ukraine suggests may be something else. Nanny state vs. "sheeple"?

No answers, just find it interesting relaxed restriction seems to moderate so- called epidemics without catastrophic societal breakdown.

<comment><USER4> I wouldn't blame personal responsibility, but rather better laws allowing for folks to heal added with a bit of the "healthcare is a right" sort of thing.

When I had gall bladder surgery living in the US (my home country), I was told to take 7-10 days off work then have lifting restrictions for a bit. My boss would only allow for the lesser time because it was "my weekend" to work, and I had to work that sunday for a bit.

I most definitely wasn't ready to go back. I didnt' need the opiods the couple days before as it was merely uncomfortable, but being active made things hurt. I didn't lift, but was merely active. I needed pills that night.

On the other hand, I live in Norway now. If I am feeling sick, I can stay home from work for 3 days without going to the doctor and without losing my job. I'm pretty sure I could have stayed home the time necessary after surgery. Mothers have paid time off after having a child (amount depends on how long one takes, but it can be 100%).

Policies like these mean that people can actually heal. Other policies also mean folks aren't as stressed (especially when they are poor).

That's my reasoning for the rates being lower in some places than others, anyway.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> This opinion piece in the New Yorker about an American woman in Germany should give some a new perspective on the topic:

[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery- ge...](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-germany- vicodin.html)

</comment><comment><USER6> Typical bashing of physicians in line with most NYT articles or stories general themes such as:

a) They get paid to much

b) They don't do their jobs as well as they should

c) Health care is to damn expensive

d) They should magically know what they have not been taught to do.

e) They are stupid, we, writers are smart. The public thinks it is smart so let's reinforce this point of view to sell our stories.

f) We expect 100% from them and when they make a mistake we will write an article to point out the outliers.

g) We will cut the time they get to spend with patients and give them loads of paperwork and still expect them to perform to out liking.

</comment><comment><USER7> How should I feel about doctors not able to treat a side-effect (addiction) of drugs that they are prescribing in record numbers?

</comment><comment><USER8> Treating addiction as a disease in it's own right seems like a good place to start. If the drug seeking, dishonesty, etc, are symptoms of an underlying disease, wouldn't it be best to treat the cause rather than fiddling with the symptoms? What would such a treatment plan look like, I wonder?

<comment><USER9> If addiction = a disease then doctors not prescribing opiods at every turn = doctors learning to wash their hands.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> A very important factor for helping people with addiction is considering its context. Gabor Maté says in _In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts_ [0] that nearly 100% of his most-hopeless addict-patients had experienced some sort of adverse childhood experience.

When I met the friend who completed my education about addiction, I thought, "this woman is high as a kite." She latched on to me like a life preserver. I didn't know anything about hard drugs, and just observed and listened for the first two months -- adopted, older adopted sister was angry and picked on her, etc etc. After three months I decided that she didn't like her drug world very much, and began to encourage her to sober up. She resisted at first, then she came around. She likes me more than the drugs.

[0] [https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1583944206](https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1583944206)

I want to draw attention to the bit in this article about anxiety:

      The first patient, Brooke Anglin, 28, had
      had a rough ride. During a turbulent
      relationship when she was sagged down by
      depression and severe anxiety, she soothed
      herself with opioids. After the birth of
      her second child, she lost both her job as
      a supermarket cake decorator and custody
      of her two children. Under Dr. Wlasiuk's
      care, she gradually weaned herself off the
      opioids.

      [...]

      Ms. Anglin whispered, "I want my kids back."

      Dr. Wlasiuk grasped Ms. Anglin's hands.
      "I am amazed by your strength," she said.
      "I want to treat your anxiety until things
      settle down. What are your thoughts?"

      They agreed on temporary anti-anxiety
      medication. Dr. Wlasiuk also taught her
      breathing exercises.

"Anti-anxiety medication" is probably code for benzodiazepines. This class of drugs is remarkably effective in the short-term, but rapidly worsens the patient's anxiety. "Ms. Anglin's" anxiety is caused by stress. She needs a social worker to help her get stabilized and get her kids back, not a benzo.

The best use of the medical profession's stature would be to advocate for mostly removing addiction from the domain of criminal justice, or at least for advocating for removal of "incarceration" from the list of reasonable things to do to an addict. Cages don't help with the emotional problems at the root of addiction.

A HN comment [1] recently reminded me of "problem solving courts" [2]. Maybe a good intermediary step would be to require that all "drug" cases be treated as problems to be solved, rather than excuses to throw people away for long periods of time.

[1] [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17965398](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17965398)

[2] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem- solving_courts_in_the_...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem- solving_courts_in_the_United_States)</comment>


Elon Musk going to sell all physical possessions - <AUTHOR> https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239554148724737 <comment><USER2> Narcissist guy losing his mind publicly.

Where have I seen this before?

</comment><comment><USER3> This almost certainly due to his wife:

[https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/07/1...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/07/16/meet- grimes-artist-responsible-2019-s-craziest-instagram-post/1747570001/)

Musk has shown a history of not being the most stable w/ his wives .

</comment><comment><USER4> Counterpoint: Elon Musk is just on a slightly nutty twitter rant

<comment><USER5> Too much herb ???.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> A midlife or extensional crises ... he needs help.

</comment><comment><USER6> His girlfriend is pregnant and expecting in a few days, he is probably just freaking out because of this.

<comment><USER7> Or Corona has made him see that possessions don't bring happiness

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> And join a monastery? Not the way to bet imho.

</comment><comment><USER9> And move to mars.</comment>


Mossad "pastes" a message for Anonymous - <AUTHOR> http://pastebin.com/pVmAZqWY

<comment><USER2> Yyyyeah, I'm going to call BS on this one. GPS and web cam in every computer, operating independently? That's just for starters.

</comment><comment><USER3> If the Mossad, MI6, NSA, TIARA etc etc know so dad gum much, why don't they KILL ALL THE SPAMMERS!?!?!??

Spammers do far more day-to-day damage than the 50 or 60 "terrorists" they named in that humorous piece of persiflage.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> do you think it may be believable? it looks quite a bit exaggerated in my opinion..

<comment><USER4> There are a few things that strike me about it, which would lead me to believe that it is fake. The first is, if the intelligence agencies are using the techniques as outlined in this document, then they would not give up their methods. You never reveal your hand, there is no advantage in doing so. Explaining to someone how you are going to catch them, in detail is universally not a good idea.

The second observation is that if it is real, then it would signify that the intelligence community has nothing and is playing a game of scare tactics by publishing something like this, in an attempt to scare off a formidable advisory. This document would be the internet equivalent of the old I know karate and my hands have to be registered as lethal weapons, so don't mess with me.

Finally, the most plausible to me, is this was contrived by a fellow hacker as a way to shake the cage, it would be the hacker equivalent of a false flag event. In which a hacker acting outside the community is generating misinformation to rally the troops. Given that it is the Mossad that is the supposed author it could also be an individual with a sympathetic view of the Palestinian situation. They could be a Palestinian activist a hacker or a combination of the two. To me this seems like the most plausible explanation for the document. This quote: _They don't realize that these "globalist corporatist" are the worst of all Psychopaths and will come after them._ is a dead giveaway that the person writing it is not part of a governmental organization, but rather views large organizations as suspect.

On a tangential note, I do like the quote below from the document. If the governments where really tracking people as outlined in the document it would be completely logical to want to attack such overbearing entities. That level of surveillance and monitoring would make most logical and more importantly rational people call for a revolution and the destruction of such a surveillance state. Fortunately, I think the piece is fake and poorly done at that.

 _It is not possible for the young to operate on logic, they operate on emotion. Emotion "moves" them. They MUST "feel" something. Now, the "man" they attack, is in fact deserving of it at times._</comment></comment>