Kurosawa's Japan Revisited - <AUTHOR> http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/12/30/kurosawa-japan-revisited/ <comment><USER2> Watch Ikiru. Be enlightened.

[http://www.hulu.com/watch/215850](http://www.hulu.com/watch/215850)

<comment><USER3> > Sorry, currently our video library can only be watched from within the > United States

Fuck you then. I'll go to the pirate bay and find one. Oh that domain name's gone now? I'll try another. Oh look 3 results. What about demonoid? 39 results.

<comment><USER4> You can purchase it from the Criterion Collection: [https://www.criterion.com/films/353-ikiru](https://www.criterion.com/films/353-ikiru)

Not only did they restore it, there are extras like a commentary track, documentaries on Kurosawa and Ikiru itself, and some writings. Yeah the streaming wasn't as convenient as one would like but we should support the Criterion Collection, which goes all out for its films and restores unappreciated masterpieces. It's a much better experience than watching a horrible compressed-to-hell encode by YIFY with inaudible audio.

<comment><USER3> 1 - That's not available for immediate download. 2 - It is a DRMed-to-hell Bluray. 3 - I don't have a fantastic Full HD display (or 4K according to that link) upon which to show the glorious remastered work. So I think I will get a "a horrible compressed-to-hell encode by YIFY with inaudible audio". But to be honest I have no idea what shit you've been downloading but I was thoroughly impressed YIFY's work.

From this new link's help pages:

> 20\. Are Criterion's Blu-ray discs region-encoded?

> Yes. Criterion is licensed to sell most of its editions only in North > America.

> 4\. Can my order be shipped outside the United States?

> We only ship our DVDs in the United States and to Canada.

Fuck them again and fuck you specifically, cooper12.

I would try Amazon but my first 3 points still stand for them.

<comment><USER4> It's a shame that distributors haven't made it easier to purchase the film in your area but you have to realize that behind-the-scenes rights deals have many involved parties each taking their own risks and these restrictions are usually the result of that. I don't understand your fixation on piracy though, if you read the article I would hope that you'd see that this was a valuable work by a very well-respected director that is worth buying, especially for the things I mentioned, but I guess not. It's not like shipping takes that long these days or that waiting a few days would make you not want to watch it. I agree that DRM is bad. While a nice screen helps, it's not required, but you will get a much better experience from a Bluray restoration.

As for our friend YIFY, do you wonder what kind of "magic" they do to fit feature-length films into 700MB? Most importantly they completely starve the bitrate so nothing looks as good as it could. Then they use a whole variety of filters to change the film from how it originally looked so it will compress better like denoising or color changes. Not to mention other atrocities such as changing the aspect ratio, downscaling, low bitrate audio, or even cutting out parts like intros and credits. You're only impressed with it because you haven't seen what you're missing.

And thanks for the personal attack, In the future I'll make sure not to write well-meaning comments to someone who had trouble with a specific method of watching something. Excuse me, I gotta get back to sending cease-and-desists letters and meeting my shill quota for the day.

<comment><USER3> The internet is a global market. The old industries would like to keep that for themselves by denying buyer the possibility of buying something from another region. They are free to shop around to keep their costs low but the instant we do that we are criminal sum. Back to the point. What incentive does me buying the film give to Kurosawa to make more films? The alleged point of copyright. I find it hard to believe that he will make some more because I, or anyone else in this thread, bought one. He's dead! Of course if I take the copyright industry's line I would be literally reaching into his grave and taking the money out of his pocket. I have no idea whether his films are any good. I don't like many Hollywood productions of the same era. Perhaps being Japanese his films will be better.

Let me get this straight. YIFY isn't allowed to filter video but Criteron are? Also I'm not surprised you've got a bad impression of ripped video if you're still downloading 1CD files. Don't try and 1-up me on the topic of video encoding. I have never seen YIFY cut credits. I will admit that there is one time where I have seen them make a mistake. Wreck-It Ralph: the audio on the credits cuts out a few minutes before the end.

You shouldn't have posted a link to a shit website that doesn't ship internationally if you didn't want to be insulted.

<comment><USER5> I love YIFY as well as buying Criteron. My advice is don't bother with Kurosawa, I think Wreck-It Ralph is probably more your speed. Just an well- meaning, honest guess.

<comment><USER3> :) I'm not sure whether I should feel insulted or not.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Every time I watch Ikiru, the scene with the piano where the protagonist sings "Life is Brief" in a low voice always tears at my heartstrings. He sings it with such conviction that everyone stops their festivities just for a second to hear the desperate song from an old man. One thing that's intriguing is that the author chose to move to Japan over some kind of idealization whereas he felt that New York City was a dead end. One would think you could be much more effective in an established area rather than a country known for its xenophobia, but I won't judge.

<comment><USER6> > known for it's xenophobia

Broad brushes like these are usually dangerous to paint with. Japan has it's xenophobic streaks but is also one of the most cosmopolitan cultures around. For similar reasons, lines like the following in the article piqued my annoyance as well:

 _how very un-Japanese it seemed: in the broadness of its satire, in the zaniness of its switches from one genre to another, in the almost violent simplicity of its message and story_

Author's certainly entitled to his own reaction but I don't find these traits uncommon in Japanese cinema (and literature). I'm not contesting the whole 'Kurosawa is the least Japanese of Japanese directors' trope but that reputation was largely earned for his later career. Imho Kurosawa in the 50's was as Japanese as anyone, and that's especially true with _Ikiru_ , a film that fits perfectly alongside the better contemporary efforts from directors like Kinoshita and Ichikawa.

<comment><USER4> I apologize, you're right that repeating stereotypes can be more harmful than useful. I don't blame the author completely for that, it was really just their personal perspective on the film as compared to their baseline experience of Japan. I'll certainly have to check out Kurosawa's earlier filmography around the 50s. (I've only seen Rashomon in that period)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> One of my best directors, all his movies are timeless.

</comment><comment><USER8> Great article, thanks for sharing it.</comment>


Flaw crippling millions of crypto keys is worse than first disclosed - <AUTHOR> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/flaw-crippling-millions-of-crypto-keys-is-worse-than-first-disclosed/ <comment><USER2> The vulnerability is CVE-2017-15361 and is described in depth in [https://crocs.fi.muni.cz/_media/public/papers/nemec_roca_ccs...](https://crocs.fi.muni.cz/_media/public/papers/nemec_roca_ccs17_preprint.pdf) . An implementation of RSA by Infineon Technologies AG did key-generation incorrectly; rather than select two random large primes, it selected two large primes with a particular structure, enabling the resulting public key to be factored. This weakness is not present in other implementations of RSA, such as OpenSSL. The vulnerable key-generation code is used in the Estonian eID system, TPMs, and by Yubikey 4.

<comment><USER3> Thanks for the paper. It only mentions testing 1024 - 2048 bit keys. Does this also impact anything using > 2048 bit keys?

<comment><USER4> Yes, but it takes longer to break them. Don't wait, revoke your keys and replace hardware or generate in software. It only affects RSA though so if you used ECC you're safe.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> This is not especially good reporting from Dan Goodin. You're better off going to his primary sources, the most important of which is Dan Bernstein's blog:

[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20171105-infineon.html](http://blog.cr.yp.to/20171105-infineon.html)

Really, all he's saying is:

* Estonia is expediting the replacement of their ID cards. They probably should have done that earlier.

* More Estonian ID cards are vulnerable than were previously known. But so many were known to be vulnerable in the first place that ROCA already represented a grave problem.

* Dan Bernstein and Tanja Lange were, unsurprisingly, able to outdo the exploit implementation that the original ROCA team came up with. Someone else will get a faster implementation. The vulnerability was only recently published; Bernstein and Lange got their competing attack by re-discovering it from clues from the partial "teaser" discovery. There's been no serious competition for exploits and probably won't be.

All the ROCA exploits we know of place broken Infineon keys in the category of "breakable by with a 5-figure budget". That was the case both before and after Bernstein's post. Obviously, you can't use RSA keys that are 5-figures away from being factorized. Someone may get the budget down to 4 figures, but if you're still using a vulnerable key by that point, you've got bigger problems.

The most irritating thing about this reporting is the angle Goodin chose: "flaw more serious than anticipated". No, even given just the teaser details, ROCA was known (and widely acknowledged) to be a game-over problem. And not just for Estonia: everyone using a Y4 key to protect a VPN or SSH connection also needs to have their keys recalled, so the security nerds were pretty alert to the problem.

The better angle for the story is "partial disclosure doesn't work". Disclose or don't disclose. Don't create an easter egg hunt by releasing a teaser disclosure. Nobody working in crypto or software security was too surprised that Bernstein and Lange were able to reproduce the attack from clues (there were a _lot_ of clues). They're right when they say in their blog post that others have probably figured out this exploit before the ROCA team (especially since it was sort of teased from an earlier paper). Which leaves the question of why the ROCA authors bothered to withhold publication after announcing the flaw.

</comment><comment><USER6> I found the blog post [1] by Dan Bernstein and Tanja Lange to be an interesting read, since it is written from the perspective of someone in the process of trying to reverse engineer the vulnerability, rather than the Nemec et al. [2] paper written from the perspective from someone who has already found the vulnerability. (Although the tone is a bit peculiar.)

1: [http://blog.cr.yp.to/20171105-infineon.html](http://blog.cr.yp.to/20171105-infineon.html)

2: [https://crocs.fi.muni.cz/_media/public/papers/nemec_roca_ccs...](https://crocs.fi.muni.cz/_media/public/papers/nemec_roca_ccs17_preprint.pdf)

</comment><comment><USER7> You have to dig through to the original report article to find out what the flaw is.

"The flaw resides in the Infineon-developed RSA Library version v1.02.013, specifically within an algorithm it implements for RSA primes generation."

"The flaw affects only keys generated with the RSA algorithm, and then only when they were generated on a smartcard or other embedded device that uses the Infineon library."

"All told, the researchers estimate that Infineon's faulty library may have generated tens of millions of RSA keys in the five or so years it has been commercially available."

[https://arstechnica.com/information- technology/2017/10/crypt...](https://arstechnica.com/information- technology/2017/10/crypto-failure-cripples-millions-of-high-security- keys-750k-estonian-ids/)

</comment><comment><USER8> To be clear (as lots of stories talk about 'canceling' the Estonian ID cards), I was able to update my e-Resident card in minutes: [https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/927581940483575813](https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/927581940483575813)

<comment><USER9> To contrast your single positive account with a single negative account, my brother has been unable to update his Estonian e-Resident card because the system only works reliably on Windows. He has to wait to re-activate until the next time he goes to Estonia.

He has used the system from the outset and describes it as dated. It was built for a pre-mobile era and does not have a full-featured ecosystem for mobile devices.

<comment><USER10> Mine updated OK on OS X. While I have fellow e-residents here...

\- Is there a trick to getting "Load picture" (my own photo) to work? All I've ever gotten is "invalid response," and this is on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

\- Supposedly new Estonian IDs use ECC rather than RSA, but some articles seem to be confusing whether the once-vulnerable-but-now-regenerated IDs use ECC as well. I don't think that's possible, as the smart-card hardware doesn't appear to support it. Does an ECC key require new hardware for pre-November 2017 cards?

\- For those of you who have been following Estonian ID technology for a while, why didn't they use regular OpenPGP cards that would enable cardholders to use ordinary PGP/GPG clients? Did the Estonian standard predate the OpenPGP standard? Or were there technical reasons the Estonian government needed something else?

<comment><USER8> > Is there a trick to getting "Load picture" (my own photo) to work? All I've > ever gotten is "invalid response," and this is on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

No idea. It doesn't work for me either.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> "use fast graphics cards, which have the potential to shave the average cost of factorizing a vulnerable 2048-bit key to $2,000."

Anyone has estimated the impact of this on crypto currency or crypto wallet system?

It would be interesting to see how many if any of the public keys use n crypto currency systems are potentially impacted by this type of hack.

<comment><USER12> Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies use elliptic-curve cryptography (in particular, ECDSA) instead of RSA. So this flaw is not applicable to Bitcoin. (One reason for Bitcoin using ECDSA instead of RSA is that ECDSA keys are significantly smaller than RSA keys for the same security level.)

In addition, in Bitcoin, the ECDSA public key for unspent transaction outputs is not itself stored in the blockchain; only the SHA256 hash of the key is stored. If the same private key isn't reused (and reuse is discouraged for privacy reasons), an attacker wouldn't have access to the public key.

<comment><USER13> Recently many bitcoin transactions are P2SH (addresses starting with 3) and it that case the address is not directly linked to any public key at all (1-addresses are hashes of ECDSA public keys, 3-addresses are hashes of arbitrary bytecode which validates the signature and is supplied together with the signature)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> > they estimated it would cost an attacker renting time on a commercial cloud > service an average of $38 and 25 minutes to break a vulnerable 1024-bit key > and $20,000 and nine days for a 2048-bit key

Can someone explain why a 2048-bit key isn't 2^1024 times as costly to break?

<comment><USER15> I don't know the answer, but since the vulnerability is because there is some structure in the chosen primes, you don't need to check all possibilities between 2^1024 and 2^2048. Only a known subset (i.e. a subset which is likely related to the 20,000/38 ratio)

</comment></comment><comment><USER16> Question: Once they knew there was a problem, and assuming they realized attackers could have already developed faster attacks or could start developing faster attacks at anytime, why did the company and the authors agree to delay publishing the paper?

</comment><comment><USER17> > Ars is also aware of unconfirmed reports of a Western European country that > also issues affected ID cards.

Any educated guesses?

<comment><USER13> Infineon seems to be popular supplier for smartcard ID cards over whole EU, with Estonia and Slovakia being special in that most of the issued ID cards actually have the chip (it's optional and not especially useful in most of EU). I would hazard to guess that said country is Luxembourg, Belgium or Germany (in this order of probability) as these countries also have somewhat large penetration of state-issued smart cards.

<comment><USER18> Some batches of German ID cards use Infineon chips (I don't know which version as only some seem to be affected). A chip is built into all IDs issues since 2010 but it's disabled or at least unused on almost all cards. Not sure they actually do key generation on the card which seems to be the affected thing.

<comment><USER13> What I meant by penetration is the percentage of people who actually have the chip activated and use it for something useful.

In Czech Republic chip ID is optional and you have to pay (~20EUR) for the chip itself. As it does not have any meaningful purpose that is legal (loading your own certificate onto the card is technically possible but explicitly outlawed) even the local authorities issuing IDs will advise you that you don't want chip ID.

In contrast to that in the above mentioned countries I've seen state issued smartcards (regardless of whether they are EU-wide ID or just additional smartcard) used for useful purposes (eg. to submit VAT returns online, which is something that in .cz you can do with any PKCS#11 token of you choosing or by using state-run OAuth-ish ID provider)

I cannot provide any citation for that, but I believe that the EU regulations related to digital signatures require that the private key to not be available to the state, which implies either on-card generation or same process as is used by commercial CAs (which is the case in .cz, where you can choose from three or so CAs which are at least notionally commercial entities)

<comment><USER18> Basically nobody in Germany uses the chip for identification. I once opened a bank account with it just for the novelty but even the one use should put me into a very small group of active users. Even most government agencies don't offer to use your card.

Actually signing is performed differently and since this summer they switched to a cloud signing process where you don't have access to your key. You cannot get a certificate for a key on the card anymore. Not that anyone actually used that feature.

<comment><USER13> I mentioned Germany because I've seen Luxembourg-style smartcard authentication as one of posdibilities for submitting german VAT returns online when I cared about such things few years ago and the application involved in that looked mostly the same as Luxembourgh and Belgian one (Oracle Forms, similar UI...)

Edit: otherwise you confirm my suspicion that essentially nobody uses the chip on ID cards outside of Estonia (Slovakia is mentioned due to their recent massive rollout of chip IDs inspired by Estonia, but I assume that actual usefullnes is nil)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> wow... no comments? I'm not a crypto guy, but I am very curious why is it that this vulnerability does not apply to other services used here in the US. could anyone explain this?

<comment><USER20> Infineon RSA Key Generation Issue | [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15481334](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15481334) (2017Oct:238points,87comments)

Return of Coppersmith's Attack [ROCA]: Vulnerable RSA Generation | [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15482441](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15482441) (2017Oct:142points,22comments)

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> Do we know if this is intentional or not? Because this is probably the kind of thing NSA would love to implement.

<comment><USER5> No, it's the opposite of the kind of thing NSA "loves to implement". The only reason this bug took so long to find is that it's a hardware/firmware bug, and you have to take the time to survey hardware RSA key generation to find it. Despite that fact, a bunch of grad students found it. Once you know the broken shortcut Infineon uses to generate primes, working out the exploit is itself academic. See, for instance, the name of the attack (ROCA) and what it stands for.

The NSA wants cryptographic vulnerabilities that are cryptographically "NOBUS". Dual_EC was a useful backdoor (if surprisingly clunky) because even if you understand the weakness, you can't take advantage of it without having custody of a private key.

<comment><USER22> >> The NSA wants cryptographic vulnerabilities that are cryptographically "NOBUS".

That depends on who is going to use the vulnerable system and for what purpose.

<comment><USER5> How? In what situation does NSA ever benefit from a vulnerability that its adversaries can exploit?

<comment><USER23> plausible deniability. Or honey pots - first compromise a 3rd party target, then wait for your adversary to think they broke in. Either trace them back or plant false data.

<comment><USER5> How does a NOBUS vulnerability cost them plausible deniability? To prove it's their vulnerability, you have to know the private key that matches a public key.

If you're setting up a honeypot, why would you use an extremely complex cryptographic vulnerability? There's tens of thousands of straightforward software vulnerabilities that allow you to set up honeypots.

These don't sound like plausible reasons for NSA to effectively allow its own assets to be compromised needlessly.

<comment><USER23> _> How does a NOBUS vulnerability cost them plausible deniability? To prove it's their vulnerability, you have to know the private key that matches a public key._

Of course not. If the public key came from the intelligence community and is a possible vector for attack, then a successful attack implicates them as the likely holders of the private key. BTW, "plausibility" doesn't imply "proof".

 _> If you're setting up a honeypot, why would you use an extremely complex cryptographic vulnerability?_

Because of it's complexity, the honey pot is less suspicious to your adversary. If you compromise a 3rd party, then install a straightforward vulnerability, that raises flags. But letting your adversary compromise the system using the same vulnerability as you is perfectly natural.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> This article focuses on Estonian ID cards, but presumably this affects the symmetric encryption of Bitcoin wallets as well, correct?

If the crypto can be broken for ~1000$, as mentioned, that seems like a serious problem...

<comment><USER2> No, it doesn't. This is a vulnerability in a particular implementation of RSA. Bitcoin doesn't use RSA at all, let alone that particular implementation of it.</comment></comment>


Ask HN: Help us validate our idea in 5 minutes. A short poll - <AUTHOR> Hi guys,
If you own or work in a team that shares a lot of digital content, then I'd love to pick your brain.
Think marketing/sales/documentation documents.
I've created a TypeForm to try and help validate our SaaS idea.
It's a very short poll that only takes 5 minutes to complete: https://smbownerpoll.typeform.com/to/qyAyJi
Thanks in advance! <comment><USER2> Tried to fill out form several questions gave me fits How many employees I put in 135 and for some reason the form would not let me leave or Submit Is your company currently using any of these products? There is no NONE, so I just put in DropBox, because i use it, eventhough the Company expressly FORBIDS it's use</comment>


Why some things are darker when wet (1988) - <AUTHOR> https://fermatslibrary.com/s/why-some-things-are-darker-when-wet <comment><USER2> Summary: The absorbing surface gains its lightness or darkness from the fraction of light rays that are absorbed when they hit it. When present the liquid surface reflects a certain fraction of exiting light rays back down to the material, giving them multiple chances of being absorbed (one chance for every time they are reflected back down). Chances are involved because the material's surface is rough, reflecting the light that is not absorbed back out in random directions, some of which strike the back of the fluid-air interface in a way that sends them back down to the material.

<comment><USER3> So this means that a damp fabric should appear darker than the same fabric when dry, _but_ if you and the fabric are both completely submerged in water, then the darkening effect should go away and the fabric will appear as light as if it was dry, since there is no water surface on the fabric itself?

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> This is interesting as I deal with this quite often while painting and it causes a few annoyances here and there as the true color is the dry color. When experimenting with finishes, matte vs glossy I noticed how drastically the color changes. When applying a glossy finish the color changes to its wet version as the matte does the opposite. I intuitively concluded that it's got to do with the last layer on the surface and how light is reflected by it.

</comment><comment><USER5> Oil also makes paper transparent. Here is why:

[http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/why-does-grease-make- paper-...](http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/why-does-grease-make-paper- translucent-2014-4)

<comment><USER6> There is a Simpsons' episode where Bart eats such a fat donut that scratching it against the kitchen wall releases daylight through it

<comment><USER7> The scene: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MEj9f8PXY&t=1m28s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MEj9f8PXY&t=1m28s) Episode (Season 7, 1995): [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King- Size_Homer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King-Size_Homer)

Homer declines a Krusty Burger, whereupon Bart rubs it on the restaurant wall, turning the wall transparent with the sheer amount of oil in the burger. This convinces Homer to eat it (as he's on a mission to gain weight to get on disability and work from home), and causes a bird to fly straight into the newly transparent patch of wall.

<comment><USER6> Thank you, my memory did not betray that much ;)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> This paper is referenced by the following more recent paper about actually simulating the effect: [http://graphics.cs.yale.edu/site/sites/files/Wet.pdf](http://graphics.cs.yale.edu/site/sites/files/Wet.pdf)

</comment><comment><USER9> This is a question I asked my parents as a child, when I noticed that the driveway would change colors after pouring water onto it. I really wish my parents had known such things. It could have easily stoked my interest in physics.

<comment><USER10> Lately, because of a car situation, I've been watching car mechanic videos online. There's some old videos, like 1937 old, made by Chevrolet, that explain really well how different mechanics of a car work. One explains a transmission starting from levers[1], how they work to give mechanical advantage, and how gears are basically spinning levers. I ended up feeling like I could make a basic transmission if I only knew how to make metal pieces in the shapes I want. From there I've been looking at people disassembling automatic transmission and explaining the different parts. I gotta say, learning how these machines work mechanical advantage to something so convenient has really raised my interest in physics and mechanical engineering.

I don't remember simple machines[2] being something so interesting back in physics class. I don't blame the teacher, 'cause she was always enthusiastic about physics. I wonder why this is more interesting now than then. It's probably just that, now that I'm older, I can understand complex applications of those fundamentals being taught at school.

[1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLtS4VUcvQ&t=26s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLtS4VUcvQ&t=26s)

[2] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine)

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> Can a fabric be engineered that doesn't get darker when wet?

One example is retroreflective fabric, which reflects light back where it came from and therefore shouldn't be affected by internal reflection of a water layer. But retroreflective fabric looks weird.

One idea is a dark material with lots of little pits, each with a white bottom. Any light reflected by the white bottom and not hitting the walls of the pit should be perpendicular enough to the surface that there won't be internal reflection. The overall albedo should be insensitive to wetness.

It could revolutionize clothing for people who sweat too much.

<comment><AUTHOR> I know there's research being done on fibres deliberately engineered to change colour depending on pH levels to counterbalance the darkness.

For the sweat problem you could have a retroreflective layer on the inside of the fabric :)</comment></comment>


California Looks to Pass Rudimentary IoT Security Legislation - <AUTHOR> https://www.securitynow.com/author.asp?section_id=706&doc_id=746172& <comment><USER2> It's a must, as now we're on a digital age, almost everything is connected nobody can stop the advancement of technology last thing we can do is to regulate or put law that put a limit on it in a way that it cannot compromised someone in the long run.</comment>


What It's Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride - <AUTHOR> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/what-its-like-to-get-doxed-for-taking-a-bike-ride.html <comment><USER2> Not too long ago it seemed like doxing was considered taboo, but it's made a resurgence and I don't see many folks shunning the practice. Hopefully the right to privacy can return to being a value we hold as a society again.

<comment><USER3> > Not too long ago it seemed like doxing was considered taboo

The same thing could be said of "wardriving", a way of traveling around and associating AP names with locations. Now it is a practiced by apple, google and others to enhance their location services among other things.

Doxing is similar. For example google attempts to match online and offline activity with an actual person.

So... last year's taboo is this year's business model.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Unfortunately, this has become a weird pattern on twitter. Someone asks for help to identify someone, people put up suspects, and the mob decides if one person said they did it, they must have done it.

Twitter is, literally, a cesspool of mob outrage, where people feel empowered to ruin people's lives as long as they believe you did something wrong.

And it seems twitter doesn't care. I mean, doxing is supposed to be against the terms of service, so why wasn't that person perma-banned? Why weren't the people sending this person hate banned or at least given a short ban? Maybe some were, but this is a pattern that happens on twitter, obvious threats and other banable offences go ignored.

I know this can happen on other networks, but something about twitter has lead to it being the most vile of the social media sites. My guess is that it's not because of any ill intent, but just that they are wholly incompetent.

</comment><comment><USER5> "To his surprise, the app that he used to record his regular rides ... shared that information publicly, not just with his network of friends and followers. Someone had located a record of his ride on the path on June 2..."

This makes it sound like the app (Strava) leaked his private info. It can very well be one of his followers leaked it?

<comment><USER6> Strava also shows daily rank for the segment to public. That can be someone rides the same segment and checks the segement for the day.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> Interesting it doesn't appear to name the biking app that lead to the disclosure... I suppose it's not hard to guess. I'd bet the public activity feeds will vanish entirely from most apps within the next few years.

<comment><USER8> It doesn't name, but it provides a link. Apparently the service is Strava: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strava](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strava)</comment></comment>


Is France's AZERTY keyboard heading for the scrapheap? - <AUTHOR> http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-eu-35365604 <comment><USER2> Good riddance! But we've yet to see what they come up with as a replacement. Besides, I'm not sure a different keyboard will help with people laziness and spelling deficiencies.

Personally, I'm perfectly fine with my qwerty keyboard, and it doesn't prevent me from typing specific French letters "é, è, ç, à, É ...". It's actually very easy to type these letters on a mac keyboard. Apple did a good job on this.

"option - e e = é" "option ` - a = à"... I don't know how to type "oeuf" or "oeil" though.

<comment><USER3> I use emacs for input. My browser is xombrero, and with ctrl + i, I can switch to emacs for editing current input. There, I've created an input method with postfix maps, which allows me to input most european languages plus turkish. If I wanted to type « liberté, égalité, fraternité », I'd type:

      liberte/, e/galite/, fraternite/

Very easy, and invaluably useful. And I can switch to other input methods like greek, hebrew and arabic, etc.

<comment><USER4> Cool, would you mind sharing your set up?

<comment><USER5> XCompose would also work for this.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> To those that understand it to mean that AZERTY is dying, it is not. In fact, it is very hard to buy a non-AZERTY laptop in France. It is unlikely to ever go away.

I personally would prefer (and do use) a QWERTY with compose key shortcuts. It is obviously easier to write code, but I find writing French also easier that way. Not only do we get the obvious (compose + ' = é, compose + ^ = ê, compose + ` = è), but we also get common non-keyboard characters (compose + C + o = ©, compose + - + > = →, compose + = + e = €, guess how to do ₤ and ¥).

<comment><USER7> Which one is the compose key? Sitting on mac with American English QWERTY?

<comment><USER6> The compose key is a concept, not a physical key :)

If your operating system supports it, you can bind any key to the compose key, such as the right alt key.

Here's a link to several options to get software support: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Software_support](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Software_support).

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> I think a lot of Europeans suffer over their keyboard layouts. I am Norwegian and a software developer. I hate Norwegian keyboard layout. It makes programming so much more awkward because the {}, [] and ; symbols used a lot in programming are not easily accessible.

There is also a kind of tyranny in how computer companies deal with language. It is next to impossible to get an english layout Apple keyboard in Norway. Also Apple, and I pretty sure MS does the same treat language as a totally binary thing. Like either you write only english or only german, norwegian, french or whatever.

For the non english speakers among us, especially those from small countries like Norway we mix in a lot of english in our writing. But spell checking software isn't really designed to handle that.

<comment><USER2> > It is next to impossible to get an english layout Apple keyboard in Norway.

I'm surprised. Each time I ordered a laptop on the Apple Store, there was the option to choose the keyboard layout.

> For the non english speakers among us, especially those from small countries > like Norway we mix in a lot of english in our writing. But spell checking > software isn't really designed to handle that.

(Sorry to contradict you :)) But again, I found Mac OS to be very good at guessing the language I'm using in a text input field. I could type French now and it would be able to correct it! maybe it's not as polished for Norvergian.

The only think I miss is the ability to lookup the definition of a French or Spanish word. By default, it only looks up english definitions when you click on words (if somebody knows how to achieve this, i'm interested!).

> I think a lot of Europeans suffer over their keyboard layouts.

Actually, I'm pretty fine with the AZERTY keyboard, even for programming. What I dislike is that I have to use both. My computer have qwerty keyboards, but sometimes I have to use French keyboard on other people's computers...

<comment><USER9> > The only think I miss is the ability to lookup the definition of a French or > Spanish word. By default, it only looks up english definitions when you > click on words (if somebody knows how to achieve this, i'm interested!).

Go to preferences in the Dictionary application.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Not french, but german.

I just recently switched to the neo2 keyboard layout.

The hardest thing is unlearning quertz (almost like querty)

[http://www.neo-layout.org/](http://www.neo-layout.org/)

It is highly optimized for the home row on the german vocabulary. Support for Programming is also very good.

It has 6 different layers • Lowercase • Uppercase • Special Characters (Braces etc.) • Navigation and Numbers • Greek Alphabet (same layout as normal Characters, ιαεοσ) • Mathematical signs Σℕℝ∂

But I rarely use layer 5 and 6.

I think layer 3,4 and 6 could be a good fit for every keyboard layout.

<comment><USER11> I live in Zurich and have been thinking of switching.. If you don't mind, I have a couple questions:

How did you handle learning it given so many layers? Stickers seem like trouble..

Do you find it better or worse for dealing with use of occasional accents/etc from a 3rd latin language, (i.e. French) than a more traditional compose key route?

Thanks!

<comment><USER12> Hi, I've been using Neo2 for a couple of years now, so maybe I can help you with these.

Don't use stickers! You should touch-type neo from the beginning, so avoid looking at the keyboard. I had a print-out next to me for the first couple of weeks.

You also don't need to memorize all the layers from the start. I use layers 5 and 6 _very very rarely_ , and for the Greek letters you can mostly guess (α is on a, β on b, ε on e, σ on s, etc). I still don't know everything on layers 5 and 6 (where's the ℵ again?...). Start with the letters and punctuation (layers 1&2 plus bits of 3) and just type a lot of text for a week, maybe picking up things on layer 3 as you go. It'll be painfully slow at first and your fingers might feel strangely exhausted (I never learned touch typing with QWERTZ) but you'll get faster soon :)

It took me two to three weeks to get to a level where typing wasn't a total point and another couple of weeks to exceed my old typing speed. The most helpful thing was to jump right in and never switch back to QWERTZ -- total immersion. I was a student at the time so I could take that luxury, but if you have a job you might not have that luxury. I have no idea how to best go about learning Neo if you still need to be able to type quickly while learning.

I rarely use Layer 4, I should probably learn that, but with a TrackPoint navigation is very easy without leaving the home row.

Occasional accents are no problem at all, Neo has combining diacritics (dead keys) so it's similar to a compose approach (i.e. you press ` then e to get è, or ° a to get å). Very easy. They're all on the key left of backspace, the one below it, and the one left of 1.

<comment><USER11> Cool, thanks! I'll do a little practice and then jump in to immersion at the start of my next vacation then. I just tried a little using an onscreen keyboard as a cheat, and it doesn't really feel all that different from learning chorded keyboard.

At least for me, I the sense of physical fatigue is about the stress of dealing with the higher degrees of freedom on a regular keyboard together with the location memory task. But needing a chorded keyboard seems like a bridge to far in a work environment.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> Just make them get the spanish QWERTY. It has all possible accents (even for german). The only exceptions for characters would be for words like "soeur", or "oeil".

<comment><USER14> Œœ is not part of the French keyboard layout either

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> > The culture ministry has commissioned Paris-based consultancy AFNOR to draw > up a list of recommendations by the summer.

Yeah, as usual some minister gave money to business owned by a friend or family member for useless study. A french classic. And of course, impossible to know how much this study cost the tax payers ... I don't believe this kind of matter should be a priority of the culture ministry.

<comment><USER16> AFNOR is France's International Organization for Standardization (ISO) member body. They're also a non-profit. There is some cronyism in France but I'm not so sure it's the case here.

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> Having grown up on that keyboard, I can say that I sincerely hope so. Adieu!

</comment><comment><USER18> And once again, the "standard to rule them all" dream * insert relevant xkcd strip here * , finding a keyboard layout that would allow easy typing in French and all France's languages (Breton, Basque, etc) and dialects (Catalan, Provençal, etc). Impossible task to bring both easy typing and support for all of those.

It seems to me that it's a problem (or bunch of problems) that already has a solution(s). I'm right now using a QWERTY layout under Linux. I can code and type English directly, use the compose key to type in French, German and Breton and use a keyboard input (currently fcitx) to type in Chinese. Add to this the fact that you can easily input complex signs that you wouldn't find on keyboards like µ or €. And all this is actually pretty easy to use. I'm sure there are equivalents in Microsoft and MacOS. Why look further?

</comment><comment><USER19> >Most people think that ignoring an accent on a capital letter is acceptable

Of course it is! In Poland its perfectly reasonable to ignore all "weird" polish characters. Ą ą Ć ć Ę ę Ł ł Ń ń Ó ó Ś ś Ź ź Ż ż? hell no. I started using computers in ~90, never ever in my life configured local keyboard variant.

>commissioned Paris-based consultancy AFNOR to draw up a list of recommendations by the summer

brilliant, nothing like one more standard to ignore!

offtopic: BBC Video volume slider goes to 11 (haha), but is too quiet even at full volume :(. BBC should have people/systems responsible for this type of stuff, its not rocket science to normalize volume :/. You can always lower volume on the client if its too loud, but there are no easy ways of making very quiet stuff louder (other than passing it thru sound editor).

</comment><comment><USER20> I hope the replacement will be programmer-friendly. I still remap my French keyboards in QWERTY because I never got accustomed to hunt for programming characters on AZERTY keyboards.

I don't know how useful it would be to get programmers and IT pros on-board, in order to help adoption.

<comment><USER21> The article mentions Bepo as an alternative.

[http://ccm.net/faq/32759-bepo-a-keyboard-layout-optimized- fo...](http://ccm.net/faq/32759-bepo-a-keyboard-layout-optimized-for-the- french-language) says it is optimized for "typing French and programming languages".

Looking at the layout, it seems all programming punctuation is accessible via either Shift or AltGr, so only one modifier. [http://static.commentcamarche.net/www.commentcamarche.net/pi...](http://static.commentcamarche.net/www.commentcamarche.net/pictures/C0JF2SqY- carte-bepo-complete.png)

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> I've dropped AZERTY more than 10 years ago. Nowadays I use QWERTY with "US, international with dead keys" as keyboard layout. It works much better than AZERTY. You don't need to remember where all the accented letters are on the keyboard. You just compose them logically with the `'", characters. It pretty much allows for composing any French (accent) German (umlaut) diacritical. The only difficulty is typing a ç. You need to switch on the third level, assign it to a dead key (such as ALT) and then you can compose it as alt+C. The "third level" does not work out-of-the-box.

<comment><USER14> In the default US International Çç is AltGr + ,

Also if you are on Windows you can use Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) which is a free tool to develop keyboard layouts.

</comment></comment><comment><USER23> In Belgium, even in the Dutch speaking part of the country AZERTY is used. It's not that common to find QWERTY keyboards in stores.

Since I'm a software developer I've switched to US layout some years ago and never looked back.

<comment><USER14> But you can go to Netherlands to buy one.

Luckily the company I work for provides QWERTY and AZERTY laptops to its employees.

</comment></comment><comment><USER24> Too bad most laptops I can find online in Europe are QWERTZ. The only store I found that delivers abroad and has some decent notebooks is amazon.co.uk but I'd prefer something in euro.

<comment><USER25> QWERTZ is a German layout. Try Dutch stores.

<comment><USER24> On the contrary I'm looking for QUERTY from German stores.

<comment><USER25> And I'm explaining you why that is difficult and what the alternative is.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> QWERTY is maybe more efficient (for english), but it is not as efficient as it could be. Unfortunately more efficient keyboard layouts are hard to establish.

<comment><USER27> It isn't so hard to establish. Colemak and its variants are clearly among the most efficient out there, and there are plenty of metrics one can use to judge, such as finger travel distance, alternating distribution of right and left hand use, and concentration of the most commonly used characters on the home row.

The problem is mainly that it isn't default, which can make it annoying unless you don't mind buying native colemak keyboards.

Changing your caps lock key to a backspace provides most of the finger travel benefits of colemak with much less annoyance.

<comment><USER28> While its not default you can get it very easily on Linux and its ready on OSX, just need to pick it. No idea about Windows. For pair programming I use keyboard with hardware Colemak, my pp partner can use whatever that way ;)

<comment><USER27> Yes, but now what happens when you need to use someone else's computer? It just makes life a little bit more annoying. De facto standards tend to be very important, so much so that the optimality of that standard is less important than the existence of a standard.

I happen to use colemak, but I recognize it was not a rational decision.

<comment><USER28> Perhaps I was not clean enough. When I use sb else computer for a longer time I bring my hardware Colemack keyboard with me. If its just a minute or two, I use my now lame touch typing qwerty skills, I'm much slower then Colemack but still faster then most of 'normal' people.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER29> The article refers to quotation marks as "inverted commas", I've never heard that before.

<comment><USER30> I think that is the usual English (as opposed to American) terminology. See, for example, [http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/36944#eid8715028](http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/36944#eid8715028) .

</comment></comment><comment><USER31> Blank Keycaps is the way.</comment>


It's not that London is too big, but that other large UK cities are too small - <AUTHOR> http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2017/06/09/its-not-that-london-is-too-big-but-that-other-large-uk-cities-are-too-small/?utm_content=buffer44588&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer <comment><USER2> As someone who lives in the UK, visiting London is like visiting a different country. Sometime's I'm amazed just how 'better' everything looks and is. You can clearly see that this is where all the money is funneled into. It even has it's own subway covering the whole city! Where is this sort of commitment to anywhere else in the UK? All that really happens is all the money is poured into London, it then slowly expands, and as HS2 is proving, to the detriment of everyone else.

<comment><USER3> Nonsense. London is a net taxpayer for the UK [1], hence the periodical discussion of establishing an independent city state (which will not happen IMO). Instead of being jealous of London, the rest of the UK would be better off realising that London competes with other global cities and that the success of London benefits UK (but sadly instead they voted for Brexit) [1] [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/23/uk- budget-d...](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/23/uk-budget- deficit-grows-to-more-than-10bn-as-people-spend-less)

<comment><USER4> And what rents does that tax-paying capacity derive from? Extracted from whom?

<comment><USER5> Global trade? Production? Tourism?

<comment><USER6> More like farming, harvesting of other natural resources and electricity generation, long-distance transport infrastructure, warehousing, and actual housing for many of the people who commute into London every day to provide vital labour but can't afford to live there.

London makes a lot of money because it's dominated by high-return service industries, most famously the financial sector based in the City. It includes relatively little in the way of production, manufacturing and storage, which don't scale as well but are obviously essential to everything else being possible.

<comment><USER7> Farming? Are you mad? It contributes as little as 0.5% of the country's GDP. What other natural resources are being "harvested" to enrich London so much?

The _vast_ majority of London commuters live in Greater London, so its housing is largely provided for by itself. Even if you assumed _every human being_ in the "commuter belt" travelled to London daily, the GLA would still account for ~73% of the population, and this is plainly an absurd assumption.

While London may not contribute as much manufacturing, it still manages ~6% of the UK's manufacturing output. At the same time, just _retail_ in London produces almost as much for the economy as rUK manufacturing.

Your whole thesis is laughable. You seem to be upset that the poorer parts of the nation can trade with London to provide it goods and services. Should you not be upset at the farming, storage and transportation rUK "harvests" from abroad? This dwarfs London's "harvesting" of rUK.

London itself has nothing to do with profits from this trade being unequally distributed. Westminster, sure, but London? No.

<comment><USER6> _Farming? Are you mad? It contributes as little as 0.5% of the country 's GDP._

Not everything is about GDP. You belittle farming, but without food to eat, Londoners would not be generating a lot of economic output at all.

The original point here was that London generates disproportionate tax revenues, but only because it is home to more scalable service industries and relies on the less lucrative but essential supplies and infrastructure from elsewhere.

 _What other natural resources are being "harvested" to enrich London so much?_

Almost none of the UK's electricity supply originates within London, even if we take that to mean Greater London.

London also has no major sources for fuels.

 _Your whole thesis is laughable. You seem to be upset_

Why would I be upset about anything? I only commented that London is able to generate disproportionate tax returns because it's service-based and relies on the rest of the UK for support. That's not a "thesis", it's a simple economic fact, and everything I've mentioned in support it of is readily verifiable for the price of a Google search.

<comment><USER7> _and relies on the less lucrative but essential supplies and infrastructure from elsewhere_

As does rUK, with rWorld. As do most UK cities with rUK. Similarly with farming; London _and rUK_ can (and do) fulfil a significant quantity of their demand from abroad; it is possible to fulfil more.

I do not belittle farming, but trading for food does not equal "extracting rents" as the OP you were responding to requested, and nor does farming constitute a huge industry rUK is somehow being defrauded of the profits for.

 _Almost none of the UK 's electricity supply originates within London_

Energy production is not a natural resource. The only "rUK" resource we input is Gas, but it's not clear how much of rUK can claim to be losing out here. Most of rUK would not be the natural "owners" of this resource, and - again - it is traded on the open market, so can be fulfilled from elsewhere.

 _Why would I be upset_

To rephrase/reconsider: you seem to somehow confuse trade with rent extraction, unless you simply did not read the OP's point of contention you were contributing to.

If this were to be true, rUK would be one of the world's worst perpetuators of this form of wrong, given its greater dependency on rWorld in exactly the manners you describe.

<comment><USER6> We just seem to be quibbling over how we interpreted the points other posters were trying to make about prioritisation for London and rents now, which I don't think is going to get us anywhere, so perhaps we should just agree to disagree on this one.

<comment><USER8> no, what eh was saying (correctly) is that even if it's true that London need to import the things you listed from other countries it would not make a big difference in his prosperity. For example it's laughable that you mentioned farming, as UK heavily relay on imports already and the sector constitutes only 0.5% of the GDP. So basically London would be better off without the rest of the UK

<comment><USER6> Let's be clear about a little factual detail first: the UK is 76% self- sufficient at producing home-grown food (DEFRA, March 2016). While we also import a significant amount of food, and this is useful for both variety and the security of the food supply, the majority of what most of us eat most of the time was grown in the UK.

But even if you can give that up and you have enough supply to import all your food from elsewhere in the world, how are those imports going to get into London? There's limited spare capacity for freight ports on the Thames. Even if you could finish the London Gateway -- which isn't actually in London anyway, and you probably couldn't build anything like it further in -- and significantly expand its capacity from what is currently planned, you'd still need the warehousing and logistics to go with it, and then you'd need all the staff to build and maintain and operate all of this, and then the supporting infrastructure and services to go with those staff. That's an awful lot of new space and new relatively low-paid workers to fit into your hypothetical newly- independent London, just to make up for not having land-based supply of food and drink.

So again, as I have said repeatedly, London is only disproportionately strong economically because it is primarily based on high-margin service industries and relies on the rest of the UK to supply much of the low-margin infrastructure it needs for the basic operation of a city that size. You can argue over whether that beneficial financial arrangement is literally rent- seeking, but certainly the economic effect is similar: London currently benefits disproportionately from the UK's public spending and government- supported infrastructure, but that spending and infrastructure development is only possible because of what is also going on elsewhere in the UK.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> All I've heard about London from fellow expats is: 1) it's laughably expensive, and it forces you to spend a big part of your salary just for a room in a cramped apartment unless you want to live hours away from your office, 2) it's a hellhole full of scum.

<comment><USER10> Ok, I know I might be relatively lucky, but just to provide a different anecdote: I spend 34% of my take-home income to live in a big studio in a leafy neighbourhood with Edwardian houses, 35 minutes from work door to door taking the tube, next to 2 parks. I'm pretty happy. Like all big cities London has better and worse neighbourhoods and the experience you get living in them varies greatly.

<comment><USER11> 34% to live in a studio sounds ludicrous to someone paying 25% to live in a townhouse (in a smaller city in the south).

<comment><USER12> Yes... Perhaps it's because so much other housing is so expensive in London, relatively many other properties can look like a bargain

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> The outlook of London (and the rest of the U.K.) will likely change dramatically as the hard Brexit looms closer. A major advantage London had was access to the 500M large European labour market - which will close with Brexit, making London less competitive and attractive to Europeans than before.

<comment><USER10> We know very little about what the Brexit agreement will look like. As long as high paying jobs exist, nothing stops highly skilled European people from continuing to get them, even if that involves a bit more bureaucracy.

<comment><USER14> The problem is highly skilled Europeans can also get those jobs elsewhere. Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin, Munich, Stockholm, Copenhagen, etc.

And if somebody is willing to suffer through bureaucracy and be humiliated in that process, for a city that has an insanely high cost of living, then why would people go to London instead of San Francisco or New York?

The problem with leaving the EU is that the EU provides competitive advantages and opportunities that are now going to be gone.

Plus that referendum is signaling to me, an European, that I'm not wanted there. Oh and I'm also a Romanian and we've been used as scapegoats in the UK's anti-immigration campaign. Don't think that I'm going to forget that easily.

<comment><USER15> >>> Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin, Munich, Stockholm, Copenhagen, etc.

All cities that have another language than English, and don't have a quarter of the jobs in London.

>>> San Francisco or New York?

It's impossible to get VISA to live and work in the USA, for an European. Americans don't seem to realize how closed their country is.

<comment><USER16> You do realise Dublin is in Ireland and they speak English natively.

Also, one can easily live in Berlin with just English (as long as you don't need to interact with government too much)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> Here's my take as a Mancunian, now living in London, whose career also took in trying to help the Manchester tech scene in various forms.

Some years ago I was involved in various projects to help make Manchester and the wider North West "the Silicon Valley of Europe". Yorkshire had similar programs. No doubt Germany, Italy, Estonia, Spain, they all have very same-ish intentions. The deal is they all go to the European Development Fund, say "Hey, look at this impoverished area, give us some money and we'll do things to lift them out of the doldrums!", and each programme has limited success.

Over five years ago I was offered a job in London and moved. It worked out for the best. I realised quite quickly the London market was prepared to pay me quite well in comparison to the Manchester market.

I went back to Manchester after a few months and met with directors, founders and entrepreneurs and explained how they could make Manchester the Silicon Valley of Europe without any EDF funding or major programmes. The solution was quite simple:

Pay the best rates in Europe.

They looked aghast as I explained: if you want the best companies, you have to have the best people and processes as well as the best ideas. To attract them, you have to compete with the best salaries. Sure, you can hire "good enough", but then you must realise you are going to get "good enough" people, and that might be the difference between a lifestyle business and running a unicorn.

Either way, the differential between Manchester and London was too high. I was a CTO of a company paying graduates what Manchester firms were prepared to pay Senior Developers. In fact, I actually saw one firm advertise for a CTO at a rate that I would be hard pushed to recruit for in London as a junior developer role.

The directors explained to me this was unthinkable: their business model relied on the cheaper costs of doing business in Manchester, that they provided a cost-effective solution to what they perceived as the "London madness". I told them to watch and wait and see: London would continue to leap ahead, Manchester would flounder, and they would all see the problem ahead of them.

I even told other developers they should move. "Too expensive" they told me. OK, the rents are high, it's true. But I can earn 2x-3x as much as I can in Manchester down here, and my food, entertainment and other ancillary costs are no more than 1.5x-2x what they would be in Manchester: in real terms as a percentage of income, living costs in London are actually lower. And in one interesting case - heating bills - the temperatures being 1C-2C warmer down here meant that my bills were literally pound-for-pound cheaper.

Everybody told me I was wrong, that the cheaper economies of Manchester led to higher living standards, to better companies, to companies more likely to last than the "silliness" of London.

We're five years on. The data suggests that I was right, everybody I spoke to in Manchester was mistaken, and London continued to outgrow and eat everything in sight. Until last June and the Brexit referendum, where the non- Metropolitan majority decided to shoot the economy in the foot in resentment of the Metropolitan-elite's successes.

There is much we need to do to prepare for the future, but I sense the answer remains the same:

Pay. People. More. Money.

It has consistently worked in every territory it has been tried in, in part because in the past the local circumstances allowed for high incomes due to the unique proposition of the area. We're now working in a global industry where people can work anywhere.

If you want to catch up to California, steal their people by paying them at least the same salaries. If you want to catch up to London, do the same.

<comment><USER18> >If you want to catch up to California, steal their people by paying them at least the same salaries. If you want to catch up to London, do the same.

Salary is probably the prime component that people use in their interpretation of quality of life. It's a raw number so you can make trivial comparisons. But you can probably steal people away from London and the Bay Area if you offer a better QoL across the board.

Manchester can never do this because of the shitty weather. Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Côte d'Azur are probably the only places in Europe suited to take over.

<comment><USER17> Manchester weather is better than you'd think, and within an hour you can be in the Lake District, Snowdonia, Pennines/Yorkshire Dales or Peak District depending on which direction you head.

Yes, it's not as sunny as Barcelona. But it's not the torrential hole that most people imagine. It actually rains more in the Bay Area, particularly in San Francisco as a total rainfall, it's just that in Manchester the number of days it rains are higher.

<comment><USER18> It's not just the rain and the spit that just hangs in the air. It's also the depressing overcast skies.

[http://www.manchester.climatemps.com/precipitation.php](http://www.manchester.climatemps.com/precipitation.php) [http://www.san-francisco.climatemps.com/precipitation.php](http://www.san- francisco.climatemps.com/precipitation.php)

Hours of sun vs cloud for Manchester is a big deal. In the winter you only have 8 hour of possible light and the ~90% of it is covered by clouds.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> As a developer in London I take issue with "skilled workers who would be paid relatively well wherever they live".

Yes, I could do python contracting outside of London, but there aren't nearly as many.

Most of them pay less and would need to take ones further away (so need a car).

While I like London, I would love to move out but there isn't enough well paid work for my skillset to justify it.

<comment><USER20> I'm a US citizen freelance developer living in the UK (not London) and freelance is the only way I can justify living here. It seems like tech jobs in the UK (and EU generally) pay almost half as much as in the US, so by taking a job here I'd be leaving money on the table. From what I can see, the tech jobs all pay £45k on the high end, whereas similar roles in the US would be $110-120k. I haven't done all the calculations of differences in living costs / etc, but it seems like a stark difference in pay.

What is your experience with this apparent discrepancy?

<comment><USER21> I've heard this magical number of 45k for software engineers a lot since I came to London. I'm on 60k, without being overly specialised and not working for the financial industry either. Most of the jobs that are being sent to me by recruiters say 60k-80k so I really don't know where these 45k jobs are? I'd really like to know. Having said that, being Swiss, the salaries in London still make me angry. At home I'll get 90k-100k (GBP) and taxes in Zurich are half of what they are in London. All things considered I made twice as much as here. On the plus side you get to live in a pretty cool city which is nice while you are still young and don't have any responsibilities.

<comment><USER22> Really? You think you can "easily" get 90-100k and also pay less taxes than in the UK? Sounds exciting. Can you point me to those jobs?

( I'm seriously asking, want to know where to go after I leave the UK )

Also, look at contracting in the UK. Tax is less than 20%, and day rates can go pretty high if you learn how and where to look.

<comment><USER21> If you have a degree and 3+ years of experience, you'll find a lot of these. Just check on Glassdoor, it lists the average as 90k GBP. From the top of my head the following should pay above average

Finance: UBS, Credit Suisse, Swiss Re

Consulting/Services providers: Deloite, IPT, TI&M, Even Accenture pays decent if you have a few years of experience, Stemford Consultants (that's more contracting though, but pay is certainly more than 100k)

Tech: Google, Microsoft, Swisscom, Avaloq (the last two are arguably not tech :p)

My problem with contracting is that it's often not too interesting and I also really appreciate a good social work environment. If I can have both, I'm in.

<comment><USER23> Out of interest, what makes you think UBS is above average? I interviewed there recently and the emphasis was "our benefits are remote working and life work balance" \- which is HR speak for low salary (though I do appreciate both).

<comment><USER21> I really don't like UBS, but my friends there all make +/\- 120k CHF (might be that my conception is wrong though and that is average). In addition to that they get to "buy" up to two weeks of vacation which means they can go away for 7 weeks a year (plus whatever overtime they can compensate).

<comment><USER23> To be clear, I meant UBS in London - I assume you're referring to UBS Zurich. It's quite common for Zurich offices to have a +20% cost of living adjustment vs London, so that figure equates about 80k GBP adjusted which is about in line with what most IB perm devs will make.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> I guess it's same with Paris in France, Buenos Aires in Argentina and Moscow in Russia. With notable exceptions of Germany and Italy to lesser extent.

Of course you would want people and jobs to be spread more fairly, but it's just not what happens in a post-industrial market economy.

</comment><comment><USER25> The claim that public transport investment is relatively even across the UK doesn't seem right. Anecdotally it has always seemed that London has had a lot more investment in infrastructure, and figures from the IPPR think-tank say that the spend is about £1,500 greater per capita in London compared to the rest of the country.

Is there any evidence to backup this claim within the article or have I misinterpreted?

<comment><USER26> The IPPR figures come from a limited dataset, most of the difference is down to Crossrail (£15bn over 10 years), but for instance Network Rail has a £3bn a year infrastructure budget, Highways England another £3bn, plus the other strategic road authorities in other parts of the UK, the local authorities that manage all local roads, most of that spending is not covered.</comment></comment>


A Vegan Sued Burger King over Its 'Impossible Whopper' - <AUTHOR> https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-24/why-vegan-s-impossible-whopper-lawsuit-vs-burger-king-matters <comment><USER2> I'm going to assume that it's true.

And I'm also going to say: If Burger King is forced to get a separate stove(or whatever it's called in the industrial-sized context they're in) just for that 1 burger, they will cancel that burger.

That's my prediction. Because it's too much of an up-front cost.

I'm very glad that this burger has entered the chain and is getting both the vegan/vegetarian community, as well as regular meat-eating people, like myself, in on it.

If people who eat meat start choosing this over a regular burger, it's a win. If this drives previously non-existing traffic to burger king, all of which uses this one product, it's a win.

This is about changing the industry at large. About creating big orders and showing the industry that this is worth investing in. And eventually: normalizing it.

We can solve the problem of the not-yet-vaporized grease particles later.

I'm not saying we should ignore it. I'm saying it's not a current priority. But it will be later.

I've tried the burger, and I liked it, I'll definitely pick it again.

<comment><USER3> I agree. I'm as vegan as I can be and still be a digital nomad but this seems like the lesser of two evils to me. I'd rather see this product stay on the market and introduce more people to the idea of eating less or even no meat.

I understand why some vegans are put off by the idea of eating something cooked on the same grill as actual meat but I think we need pragmatism more than anything right now.

<comment><USER4> > I understand why some vegans are put off by the idea of eating something > cooked on the same grill as actual meat

I genuinely have never met a vegan who would be bothered by this, and I know quite a few. If there were still bits of meat on the grill it could still be kind of gross if they came off on the burger I guess, but most would have no problem with it. This strikes me as an extremely rare case, and I don't see any obvious grounds for a lawsuit.

<comment><USER3> I stopped eating meat long enough ago that I've lost the taste for it and I'm aware of how dirty factory farms and industrial slaughterhouses are so this does gross me out a bit. Would it bother you to eat food that was cooked on a grill that was also used to barbecue dogs? That's how some vegans feel about this.

But like I said I think getting some meat alternatives in front of the general public is important enough that I'll live with it.

<comment><USER5> So you are saying you would go to a restaurant that barbecues dogs, provided the dogs were barbecued on a different grill?

Surely anyone who thinks meat is _that_ bad would never step foot in a restaurant that cooks meat in the first place, regardless of grills?

<comment><USER6> If you're surrounded by a culture that eats dog with every meal you might not have a choice?

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> I am vegan and in general very aware how mainstream society marginalizes vegan choices, but this strikes me as both frivolous and damaging to the vegan cause more broadly.

It's a Burger King for god's sake - what do you expect? If you want the mainstream to embrace your values you don't want to damage the chances of increasing acceptance just because the ad copy wasn't a 100% accurate.

<comment><USER8> > mainstream society marginalizes vegan choices

Do you encounter this sort of thing outside of the internet? I've certainly seen online trolls mock vegans, etc but I haven't witnessed it IRL.

At work for example, we always make sure we go to places which accomodate those on Vegan diets.

> If you want the mainstream to embrace your values you don't want to damage > the chances of increasing acceptance

Is this what Vegans want though? For the Vegans I know, they don't try to get us to embrace vegan values, they simply stick to their diets quietly.

<comment><USER9> You pointed out a way that vegan people are marginalized in your own comment, when you mentioned needing to seek out places that can accommodate vegan diets. The fact that many restaurants don't have menu items suitable for vegan means that vegan are indeed marginalized, even if you're kind to you coworkers and try to compensate for it.

<comment><USER10> They aren't marginalised as people, they're marginalised because the world does not have to adjust to people's arbitrary diet restrictions.

If I decided that I only wanted to eat blue M&Ms and took offense at getting a packet with them mixed with the other colours (sorry, cross contaminated), it would be unreasonable to expect the manufacturer to make blue only packs to suit me, or to expect shops to start stocking them.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> This would be an interesting way for the meat lobby to try to kill the Impossible Whopper.

If you have to also purchase separate capital equipment to cook the food, then it will kill the product. (Microwaves have residue just like stove tops).

<comment><USER12> Even the hot dog stand near me (UK) has separate equipment to cook vegetarian hot dogs. I don't think it's a big deal, that's just one of the obligations of selling food to the public, to honestly label things.

<comment><USER11> Surface area real estate cost $, additional air handling HVAC for fumes, etc. This isn't just an extra hot dog.

<comment><USER12> Yet restaurants in UK (including burger king) do sell food labeled as vegetarian or vegan, and UK commercial kitchens are definitely smaller on average than in the US. So either enforcement is lax or compliance is just not a big deal.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> This seems like something Burger King can be fixed just by mandating a separate broiler in the franchise agreement, showing off the change, and then neglecting enforcement until someone complains, at which point Burger King can blame the franchisee

<comment><USER14> This does raise the question, what is the motivation for these vegans? Is it eliminating animal suffering, reducing global warming as farming is a major polluter, or are they actually just disgusted by animal products in general? As the article hints at, this claim only really makes sense if a sizeable section of the US is completely opposed to animal by-products independent of any ethical, moral or scientific component, just by innate disgust of eating anything that came from an animal. And I do believe the last category to be very fringe and small, and this would also mean being opposed to a large number of medical treatments. Personally, I don't think their claim holds any weight, unintentional cross contamination with beef isn't something the average vegan would find justifiably outrageous in a restaurant that also serves beef, and as far as allergies go anyone that has allergies should be asking around for cross contamination in a restaurant that specializes in what they are allergic from.

<comment><USER15> The case was raised by an individual plaintiff, but in general vegans have a variety of different reasons not to want to encourage farming of animals.

Some of those include discomfort with eating animals and their byproducts, as you mention -- for others, it's based on a desire to encourage more sustainable environmentally-friendly food options.

For some subset of the spectrum mentioned, cross-contamination is an important issue - and for the rest, it may be acceptable under some circumstances, but there's no downside to removal of contamination, so they'd likely support it given the choice.

<comment><USER16> I visited a strictly vegan Indian restaurant once, there was a huge kerfuffle that night because some diners had brought a baby in and was spoon feeding the child baby food from a jar that was not vegan. This wasn't the issue... the issue was that the spoon was the restaurants spoon. Their religious convictions deemed that spoon now "violated". They threw the family out and made them pay for the cutlery as well.

If they'd used their own cutlery there would not have anywhere near as much animosity.

I see this sort of behavior as irrational. But I dont live these peoples lives and dont believe what they believe.

I just liked their food :-P

<comment><USER17> Why in the world did the family pay for the spoon? I mean I might have offered if someone had politely informed me about what I'd done. But I'm certainly not going to of it's a demand.

<comment><USER16> their religious convictions stated that they could no longer use the cutlery. they had to dispose of it.

ie, could never be cleaned enough to be "vegan" again...

bloody bonkers really.

 __Edit, yes it was metal...

<comment><USER18> I wonder if they were Jain vegetarians. The strictest Jains don't even eat root vegetables like onions or potatoes.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_vegetarianism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_vegetarianism)

<comment><USER19> Or maybe "level 5 vegans", they won't eat anything that casts a shadow.

<comment><USER20> Aren't those called "breatarians"? People living on air and sunlight.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> Expecting vegan orthodoxy in a Burger King is strange. If they're cooked even in the same room your vegan Impossible Burger almost certainly covered in tiny grease droplets from the real meat burgers. No vent hood is perfect.

</comment><comment><USER22> I remember reading about vegetarians mitigating this very concern years ago when Burger King put out its first veggie burger.

In 2002, the company already had a response for this situation. "'The Burger King VeggieBurger is not positioned to be a vegetarian or vegan burger. It was designed to be a meatless alternative.' These were the words VIP heard when we called Burger King headquarters in Miami, Florida."

2005: "The VIP tasters sampled the original BK Veggie Burger that was warmed slightly in the microwave to avoid contamination by the animal products cooked on the grill."

2002: "Vegetarians who order the BK VEGGIE should specify that they want it cooked away from the Whoppers. To make certain, they should request it be microwaved."

Source: [https://www.vegparadise.com/news15.html](https://www.vegparadise.com/news15.html)

<comment><USER23> I also recalled hearing exactly this. In fact, in my recollection Burger King had a vegetarian burger option for some time before dropping it due to complaints of it being prepared on the same grill as the meat patties. Meanwhile McDonald's also offers vegetarian options which apparently aren't prepared separately to avoid cross-contamination. Only their options seem to vary quite a bit by region, so maybe they've just cleverly avoided the scrutiny that comes with a global marketing offensive like this.

</comment></comment><comment><USER24> It's been three decades since I worked at Burger King but I remember the broiler being a really big piece of machinery upon which the rest of the kitchen workflow revolved. It might be possible to design something that segregates different types of patties but there certainly will be retrofit costs and likely some kitchens where many other fixtures must be relocated or replaced to accommodate the larger broiler. Which isn't to say they should be able to advertise a vegan burger if they're going to let it get contaminated with animal products. It's just not a simple fix, which might lead to Burger King deciding it's not worth the effort.

<comment><USER25> When we buy products at the grocery store we can look at the package and after the ingredients list it says "this product may contain traces of this or traces of that", or "this product was made in a factory that also process this or that".

This is very common for traces of nuts and fish. I imagine all vegetarians have this routine for products they haven't bought before. Some vegans/vegetarians care about it a lot, some don't. Both are acceptable stances in my opinion. It's all about transparency.

We also all know insects were likely crushed while harvesting plants and cereals we eat, and probably ended up in our food. But you do develop a certain disgust at the idea that a dead mammal/bird/fish was processed along with your food, so it makes the food less enjoyable. In this case, you would likely simply not go to Burger King, just like you wouldn't buy the pre- processed food that has traces amount of whatever you don't want to sponsor.

</comment></comment><comment><USER26> I'm a vegetarian, and there are only two foods that I miss eating: burgers and sushi. I tried the Impossible Whopper and it was better than I remember the regular Whopper tasting. Offering it could be a really powerful force in pushing the food industry away from meat. I think Burger King is helping the cause enormously by offering it, and I'd be sad if its efforts were blocked by a frivolous lawsuit.

</comment><comment><USER27> Do Burger King not have disclaimers for this? I've seen small print before in the UK about "Apple sticks" (no prizes for guessing what McDonald's product they compete with) being fried in the same oil as fish.

<comment><USER28> The website does today: For guests looking for a meat-free option, a non- broiler method of preparation is available upon request.

No idea if it was there a few days ago. No idea if it exists on the menu in stores.

<comment><USER27> I think I read that on their website in the past, but I'm not sure.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER29> In Australia I noticed it was in the promotional material that the patty is cooked with meat and that there is some other vegetable patty for people who find this a problem. I guess there are different audiences for the product. The meat is murder fanatics and the people who are looking for more sustainable meat alternatives.

<comment><USER30> I was going to ask about this. They already have a veggie burger here which (to my knowledge) isn't cooked with the meat patties. Why would you cook an otherwise-meat-free burger with the meat patties?

<comment><USER31> IIRC, the veggie paddies are fried.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER32> What are the damages? Are they out money because of this? Did they get sick?

</comment><comment><USER33> I couldn't help but notice this on the Burger King website in the page for the impossible whopper:

" *For guests looking for a meat-free option, a non-broiler method of preparation is available upon request.. "

So looks like that's their answer.

</comment><comment><USER34> I'm married to a Vegetarian, if we have a BBQ I'll just stick some tinfoil does the centre and use one side for Veg one side for meat. The little tinfoil barrier prevents any meat juices spitting onto the vegetables. It doesn't seem to me like it'd be that difficult to have a small divider and ensure a 1-burger-width space for the impossible burger is retained if necessary. Can anyone explain why that wouldn't solve the problem cheaply?

<comment><USER35> Do you flip the meat with a separate spatula or use the same one? Just asking.

</comment></comment><comment><USER33> I'd been thinking about this for several years, but now I'm even more convinced: somebody will develop an all-vegetarian quick serve restaurant at national scale soon.

<comment><USER36> Veggie Grill is all-vegan, tastes fantastic, and already has locations in 5 states!

</comment></comment><comment><USER37> The standard impossible whopper has mayo, so it's not vegan by default.

I hope this fella loses.</comment>


Ask HN: How to write a good executive summary? - <AUTHOR> We are writing an executive summary for an angel round.
1. What are some good practices one should follow?
2. Good examples of early days summaries from successful companies?
3. Articles from notable people on the matter?
P.S. I know that usually it's done at a later stage, but I feel like it would make it easier to warm up angels that we can't meet in person. <comment><USER2> In general, the purpose is to get a meeting. So it needs to be short and exciting.

You very likely have little in the way of financials that's exciting. But, you (hopefully) have exciting points in one or more of the following: 1) user traction 2) Significantly better user experience / solving pain point in a large market - like dropbox doing a demo of their product for YC. And the more disruptive it is, the more proof you'll need that it's true 3) social proof

And then it all comes together in a concise story. You don't need anything more than that.

So let's say you have come up with a low-calorie bacon-alternative that's just as tasty. It could go like this:

"We have developed a low-calorie bacon that tastes like the real thing. It's made from a blend of plant materials, and in blind taste tests against bacon, 93% of respondents were unable to tell a difference. We even did a taste test on Oprah and she was unable to tell the difference.

Since appearing on Oprah a few weeks ago, we've sold 5,000 boxes through our website, but we're quickly falling behind demand and are seeking the right partner to grow with. We'd like to set up a meeting with you because of X & Y - are you free next Tuesday at noon?"

Who wouldn't take a meeting with that story?

So that's ideal hyperbolic case. But the closer you can get to that, and the more exciting you can make it, the better you'll be.

Note that in the above, I didn't explain why low-calorie bacon that tastes like real thing is amazing - it's self explanatory for lay person. But if your product satisfies a less obvious demand, it'd be helpful to include that.

<comment><AUTHOR> From my understanding, the executive summary is usually 3-5 pages long and gives a fair understanding of what the company is. Is it not?

In our particular case, we need it for an investor in Europe that we cannot meet in person. So it should give away most of the details. At best, we'll have a call with him.

Yours seems to server a purpose of well polished email pitch that could be forwarded along with an introduction.

Another point is startup's stage. In our case it's angel round. Even though, we have a lot of technical progress and talking to users with mockups on hand, we cannot yet brag about traction or physical unit sales.

P.S. Thanks a lot for the answer!

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Keep it really high level and use the same language as the audience.

If you can fit everything on one page, do it. If not, put the most important material on the first few pages.

Since it's an angel round, you'll want to focus on your team, market size and opportunity, and especially traction. Depending on who you're speaking with, traction could mean different things to different people. But you will definitely to show that there's a hint of interest from the market.

Talking to users is great but are they committed to buying? An investor is looking to put money in and get more money out in the most blunt case. You could also sell them on the idea and make them believe in your dream. But at the end of the day, you're also trying to build a business and in business, you have to make money to survive. (Although, these days, I feel like that's not true. Seems like you can keep selling to the next fool who believes)

Good luck!

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> There is a good example from YouTube, but it's not exactly it. [https://www.scribd.com/doc/214802896/Botha-on- YouTube](https://www.scribd.com/doc/214802896/Botha-on-YouTube)</comment>


New Steps Towards A Real Invisibility Cloak - <AUTHOR>

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-05/new-steps-towards-real-invisibility-cloak <comment><USER2> Clickable: [http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-05/new-steps- towa...](http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-05/new-steps-towards-real- invisibility-cloak)</comment>


Show HN: Math Art Snapchat AR Lens - <AUTHOR> https://www.snapchat.com/unlock/?type=SNAPCODE&uuid=04094836871A404181546D8D52B68C05&metadata=01 <comment><AUTHOR> Creator here! Some of the mathematical surfaces you see are Enneper, Klein, and Trifold Surfaces. Models developed in Blender and Lens Studio.

Please share and let me know what you all think!

<comment><USER2> Thanks a lot for sharing. I personally don't use Snapchat but I would love to see what this is about.

Can you post some screenshots or a video?

<comment><AUTHOR> Ya, here is a link of a video here: [https://s3.amazonaws.com/andrewmendez.me/files/MathARt.mp4](https://s3.amazonaws.com/andrewmendez.me/files/MathARt.mp4)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> New to snapchat, how does one see the QR code, I've opened snapchat and put my camera near code but doesn't do anything.

<comment><USER4> You need to tap and hold on the screen over the code.

<comment><USER5> Another snapchat idiot; I've installed it. How do I use it?

edit: nevermind, figured it out, same procedure. I hate Snapchat.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> That's really cool. I'm not so versed in Snapchat or the direction the app is moving .. but it seems that they're looking to establish themselves in mixed / augmented reality. Is that true?

<comment><AUTHOR> I believe so, Lens Studio and Facebook AR Studio now enable a way to share and distribute AR content on a very large scale (100+million users). Developers had made plenty of AR apps and submitted to the app store, but the process has been very laborious and its hard to get people to download and view. Now you can create content and easily distribute, so its very exciting

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> So how does the whole lens studio thing work? I just read on the sc site that you have to scan a code, but I just clicked the link and it loaded it right in app.

<comment><AUTHOR> To my knowledge, you create your 2D/3D content, and you use lens studio to arrange your studio and add small scripts for users interacting with the content. To me its like a small version of unity. The big use for Lens Studio is to publish your lens, which you can distribute to a large audience.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> Nice! Needs more figures. Minimal surfaces, Sierpinski's gasket, Klein bottle or a Möbius strip tease.

</comment><comment><USER9> Sorry. not getting the concept of the Math Art filter. Is it suppose to do something other than turn around? Genuinely want to know.

<comment><AUTHOR> All you can do is tap to change the different surfaces, and the models stick in the real world so you can walk around to change your perspective. You can reposition the surface by dragging, pinch-zoom to change scale, and two fingers to rotate.</comment></comment>


Reddit router scam - <AUTHOR> https://blog.hackster.io/the-reddit-router-scam-9aaf42f349e <comment><AUTHOR> Wow! Plus they get you bank details as step one! This is genius, EVIL genious, but still genius.</comment>


A marketing cooperative: Advertise to founders and businesses for free - Max-20 https://inboxfounders.com/ <comment><AUTHOR> Hey man, those testimonials aren't real but come with the template. You should really take those off, not a good look.</comment>


Developing Mental Models of Entrepreneurship - <AUTHOR> http://nikibeth.com/2009/03/06/are-you-an-entrepreneur/

<comment><USER2> There seems to be a disconnect between the questions being asked and the survey - the blog post linked asks specifically entrepreneurs to answer the survey, but the survey does not seem specific to entrepreneurs. Rather, it seems to map the perception of entrepreneurs amongst the general population.

If you have such a questionare, but seed it with answers only from a specific group of people, your result will be wrong. It's like asking - do you think pandas are cute, and then only inviting 3 year old girls to answer the survey.

<comment><AUTHOR> This actually depends on your population of interest. I want to know what entrepreneurs think because they are experts in the field. If 3 year old girls have the best idea about pandas, then that is who you should ask.

The same questions about entrepreneurs could be asked of a general population of people, but this is more likely to be drawn from a stereotype or heuristic rather than actual experience.

If I went into the design of the study that will follow from this survey, then the reason why I picked entrepreneurs as my sample might be more clear.</comment></comment>


The overblown frequency vs. cost efficiency trade-off - <AUTHOR> http://yosefk.com/blog/the-overblown-frequency-vs-cost-efficiency-trade-off.html <comment><USER2> > the cost in energy is directly proportionate to the clock frequency

Approximately true at lower frequencies, less accurate at higher frequencies. Voltage must increase to reduce the transition times, at higher frequencies. You can see this in any spec sheet.

[http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34766/how-does- po...](http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34766/how-does-power- consumption-vary-with-the-processor-frequency-in-a-typical-comput)

</comment><comment><USER3> The human brain is probably the most efficient computational device ever and it runs orders of magnitude slower than modern electronic devices.</comment>


How to Master the Front-End Development - <AUTHOR> https://livecodestream.dev/post/2020-06-29-how-to-master-the-front-end-development/ <comment><USER2> I like the point in code reviews, usually I feel bad when someone says I did something wrong. It's always awkward.

<comment><AUTHOR> It's actually a normal feeling z many people I know have been there, myself included.

It's important to have confidence and trust that whomever is reviewing your code does it because wants to help, and not to criticize you.

Both sides are learning and getting better, is not about proving you were wrong, is about writing better software.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Interesting points.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks</comment></comment>