Ask HN: Do you go to work with a cold? - <AUTHOR>

<comment><USER2> If you mean, go into an office with others, no – not until symptoms have started to recede, 2-3 days after the realization "I've got a cold".

For as long as there are residual symptoms – nasal draining, coughing – I try to be extra vigilant about hand-washing and hand contact with shared surfaces.

</comment><comment><USER3> Don't go to work -- you'll get everyone there sick. Work at home and be more productive than you would have in the office and no one will hold it against you.</comment>


The SEC proposed rules for crowd investing Are they good for startups? - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/p/65d6ac7da3fc

<comment><USER2> One of the more pleasant surprises having read through the SEC's proposed rules is how much they make an effort to get feedback from the community. It's nice to see a little humility in government and encouraging that we can influence regulations for the better.</comment>


Sealion is shutting down - <AUTHOR> http://www.sealion.com <comment><AUTHOR> Just received the following message on login:

Dear Customer, This message serves as formal notification that Webyog, Inc. is discontinuing its Linux Server monitoring tool - SeaLion. We acknowledge the obligation to promptly inform our customers of the intent to exit products to enable our customers the ability to prepare for alternatives. We will be supporting SeaLion till Wednesday the 14th Dec'16 to allow for future planning by all our customers.

To ensure a smooth exit, we will be refunding the money you've paid for SeaLion beyond 1st Nov'16 (for both monthly and annual billing) and your account will be moved to an Unlimited free plan till Wednesday the 14th Dec'16. You will receive the refund in 5-7 business days.

Webyog, Inc appreciates and values our business relationship and looks forward to your continued interest in our products. While we regret any inconvenience this announcement may cause, we are eager to supply your future product requirements with our world-class quality product lines Regards, Shree Nair Product Manager Webyog, Inc.</comment>


Cheatography: Over 2,500 Free Cheat Sheets - <AUTHOR> https://www.cheatography.com/ <comment><USER2> This is awesome, thanks alot. I was looking for something like this.</comment>


Ask HN: What are the best open-source iOS MP3 players? - <AUTHOR> I'd like to know if anything ready-to-use is out there. <comment><USER2> For iOS Devs: [https://github.com/mobileplayer/mobileplayer- ios](https://github.com/mobileplayer/mobileplayer-ios)

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks. Will definitely take a loot at this stuff.</comment></comment>


Universal solution for breaking recursion loop  - <AUTHOR> http://paritoshwords.tumblr.com/post/27706484815/universal-solution-for-breaking-recursion-loop

<comment><USER2> Yes, just like in the textbooks -- count depth and bail.

> One of the biggest problem which developer are facing is breaking recursive > function.

Not really any kind of problem.

> It is very hard and tricky to impose limit on recursive loop.

It is very easy. Not tricky at all. An easier way than yours:

        recursive_function(n) {
          if(n < 5) {
            recursive_function(n+1);
          }
        }

<comment><AUTHOR> Problem is you have to worry and take special care of infinite loop of recursive function. And of course your solution is valid but not universal. Everytime you have to think of its minimal condition where it may not work. This solution gaureente that you simply put this condition and apply your logic, here you never meet infinite loop condition.

<comment><USER2> > Problem is you have to worry and take special care of infinite loop of > recursive function.

Not really. It's too easy to do right.

> And of course your solution is valid but not universal.

It is both valid and universal -- it doesn't require the static variable your method requires, which is a bad idea, and it doesn't require mutable variables, which are disallowed in functional languages.

> Everytime you have to think of its minimal condition where it may not work.

It always works. Always. It never fails. Never.

> This solution gaureente that you simply put this condition and apply your > logic, here you never meet infinite loop condition.

1\. A recursion is not a "loop", infinite or otherwise.

2\. Frankly, your solution is designed badly -- it requires a static variable, which prevents it from working in a case where this syntax is disallowed. It also requires the use of mutable variables, which are disallowed in functional languages.

Python:

        def recursive_function(n = 0):
          print '%sEntering recursion %d' % (' ' * n,n)
          if(n < 10):
            recursive_function(n+1)
          print '%sLeaving recursion %d' % (' ' * n,n)

        recursive_function()

Output:

        Entering recursion 0
         Entering recursion 1
          Entering recursion 2
           Entering recursion 3
            Entering recursion 4
             Entering recursion 5
              Entering recursion 6
               Entering recursion 7
                Entering recursion 8
                 Entering recursion 9
                  Entering recursion 10
                  Leaving recursion 10
                 Leaving recursion 9
                Leaving recursion 8
               Leaving recursion 7
              Leaving recursion 6
             Leaving recursion 5
            Leaving recursion 4
           Leaving recursion 3
          Leaving recursion 2
         Leaving recursion 1
        Leaving recursion 0</comment></comment></comment>


Untapped opportunity in personal finance. Where do I find a tech co-founder? - <AUTHOR>

Hey guys,
I specialize in biz dev and seeking a technical co-founder to build out this untapped market.
Thoughts?
Thanks! <comment><USER2> Takeaction,

Your username was created 1/2 hour ago. You have one submission and one comment, so I can't but guess that you might be fairly new.

If so, you might be unaware that you will be fighting an uphill battle. The gist of posts and comments I've seen hare are that great ideas are not the hard part, that there are lots of great ideas around, and implementation is the hard part.

I have seen several "I have this great idea hook me up with a programmer" posts and one "I am a great programmer hook me up with an idea" post. That one was a sarcastic joke.

<comment><USER3> Yep, big uphill battle. Theres a million of these posts and I don't see any effort to make you stand out. Saying you are "Biz dev + have a big idea" is really not going to cut it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> A little more about the idea would be helpful. What are you looking for?

<comment><AUTHOR> Hey, I'm looking for an experienced developer, designer to bring this idea to beta. The closest competitor would be mint.com but even then, they missed this target.

Are you a developer?

<comment><USER5> Vagueness will get you no where with this crowd. You may want to read the following: [http://www.humbledmba.com/please-please-please-stop- asking-h...](http://www.humbledmba.com/please-please-please-stop-asking-how- to-find) . My intention is not to be rude but I think you need to understand the context of what you are asking. You will not find what you are looking for here, nor are you attacking the problem with the right strategy, as such you are setting yourself up for failure.</comment></comment></comment>


Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - <AUTHOR> https://www.quantamagazine.org/cash-for-math-the-erdos-prizes-live-on-20170605/ <comment><USER2> More open problems in math with monetary rewards attached can be found here: [https://mathoverflow.net/questions/66084/open-problems- with-...](https://mathoverflow.net/questions/66084/open-problems-with- monetary-rewards)

</comment><comment><USER3> I've often thought about setting up a semi-automated "theorem bounty" site for formal proofs. Besides prizes for new or big discoveries, it'd also be a good way to fund formalizing e.g. undergraduate textbooks on Ring Theory.

<comment><USER4> There is (was? site doesn't seem to load for me..) a "bitcoins for formal proofs" site called Proof Market [https://slawekk.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/proof- market](https://slawekk.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/proof-market)

Theorems and proofs can be given in Coq or Agda format. If they pass the language's checker, bitcoins are dispensed.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Hopefully the remaining money is in an index fund and growing. Larger amounts of money could then be offered. At the very least it could keep pace with inflation.

Can donations be made?

<comment><USER6> From the article, I think the "remaining money" may be entirely notional. It talks about Ron Graham chipping in $5k to help cover a $10K bounty.

Besides, these days the money is mostly beside the point. It is like those Knuth reward checks, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check). In most cases, certainly the most recent $500 "happy ending" problem, the bragging rights are worth more than the money.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> Do any of the unsolved problems have any practical applications? Could solutions lead to other results?

<comment><USER8> One thing I've noticed is that some of the great problems, such as Fermat's Last Theorem, spawned entire fields of math, from which applications may have developed. It wouldn't shock me if some advances in cryptography were spinoffs of progress in pure math.

Then there's the prize for progress towards understanding the Navier-Stokes equation of fluid dynamics.

<comment><USER9> It would shock me if any significant advances in cryptography weren't progress in pure math.</comment></comment></comment>


XKCD tooltip is causing people to edit Wikipedia - <AUTHOR>

It seems that today's tooltip on XKCD (Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".) is causing people to edit Wikipedia articles - not for correctness - but to break the loop to "Philosophy".
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&action=history
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&action=historysubmit&diff=430824661&oldid=430824276
http://xkcd.com/903/ <comment><AUTHOR> Clickables:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&ac...](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&action=history)

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&ac...](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&action=historysubmit&diff=430824661&oldid=430824276)

<http://xkcd.com/903/>

</comment><comment><USER3> Now I just get a loop to quantity and mathematics.

It is still pretty cool that all articles can trace back to mathematics.

<comment><AUTHOR> Not all - there were a good handful of routes that were leading to Philosophy - then all of the sudden a coworker noted that Mathematics was looping - <USER2> checking the history I saw people are making edits. The possibility of edits being made to the Science chain as well as Language and Law related chains is possible - all to break this possible loop.</comment></comment>


Experiments with Making Convincing AI-Generated Fake News - <AUTHOR> https://minimaxir.com/2019/09/ctrl-fake-news/ <comment><USER2> Because the MSM needs help with their unconvincing fake news.</comment>


Offboarding Mailbox - <AUTHOR> http://www.mailboxapp.com/faq/ <comment><USER2> Such a shame - this has been my favorite iOS email client since it was launched.

I wish it was more popular to keep your software company small[1] and maximize your quality of life and the product you're building over financial and owning-the-universe goals[2].

You don't have to get acquired by Dropbox to know that you've made a really good piece of software.

1\. [http://www.startupbook.net](http://www.startupbook.net)

2\. [https://m.signalvnoise.com/reconsider-41adf356857f#.770ei8d5...](https://m.signalvnoise.com/reconsider-41adf356857f#.770ei8d50)</comment>


The Weight of Rain - <AUTHOR> http://style.org/visualized/ <comment><USER2> _If the only thing you're doing is coming up with a single number, then you're doing arithmetic, not visualization._ ... _And I think that the goal of visualization is not finding elaborate ways to encode information. I try to encode as little as possible._ ... _But to me this feels like imposing a design on the data, and drawing attention to the design more than the data._

The whole thing is great, I'm glad I stuck with it past the first few images to see where he's going. These bits stuck out though and his work is so often things I wish I had thought of.

<comment><USER3> It really is hard dealing with data and the amount of thought this guy has put into it and his approach is really excellent.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Everything else at style.org is equally amazing. Corum was, IIRC, a student of Tufte's.

Here's an especially great pair:

[http://style.org/unladenswallow/](http://style.org/unladenswallow/)

[http://style.org/strouhalflight/](http://style.org/strouhalflight/)

</comment><comment><USER5> One thing that surprised me was the statement about a sun that would soon engulf the nearby planet - and being so relatively large that the planet was 'more than half' in sunlight (~ the sun's disc shines 'around the corners').

But isn't that true on earth too (to a much smaller degree)? As long as the sun's radius is larger than the earth, then sunlight will fall simultaneously on more than a half of the earth's surface, no?

<comment><USER6> It is true for the Earth and Sun, yes, but the amount of overfill is small.

I don't know the apparent size of the star in question here -- ah, the paper ([http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.3943v1.pdf](http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.3943v1.pdf)) gives it: 46.5%. Compare that with the apparent size, or angular diameter, of the Sun as viewed from Earth: 2 degrees. About the size of your thumb at arm's length.

Your mileage may vary, but if I extend both my hands out, touch the thumbs together, and spread my thumbs and pinkies as wide as I can, that's roughly 20x wider than my thumb. Imagine _that_ as the Sun looming in your sky.

<comment><USER7> I believe the angular diameter of both sun and moon are roughly half a degree, not two degrees. You remembered the two correctly, but put two degrees in one sun instead of two suns in one degree. That's how our brains work, isn't it?

<comment><USER6> Thanks for that.

I managed to mis-read from Wikipedia: "The angular diameter of Earth's orbit around the Sun, from a distance of one parsec, is 2″ (two arcseconds)." Somewhat lower on the page we find: "The table shows that the angular diameter of Sun, when seen from Earth is approximately 32 arcminutes (1920 arcseconds or 0.53 degrees), as illustrated above."

So, if my initial estimate of "thumb at arm's length is the size of the Sun", then my "two hands spanned" is about 4x too small ... woah. Hold your arms out at a 45° angle. That's about the size of it.

That would be ... a _lot_ of star in the sky ...

I also should've trusted my first impression on the 0.5 degree as well. I believe I knew that. Hasty verification fouls memory.

<comment><USER8> Interesting that your first comment explicitly stated 46 degrees but then you somehow logiced yourself out of that.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Every so often, you follow a link that you'd thought not worth the click. Therein you discover just how wrong one can be.

</comment><comment><USER10> I wish I had more than one upvote to give to this talk. I was giddy half way through it and my jaw was hanging open by the end of it. What an inspiring look at the design process. I'm an interaction designer and this REALLY spoke to me.

</comment><comment><USER11> This is a great presentation on how to effectively communicate data and it is not just putting raw data on a slide. it takes time and major creativity to communicate. Read the presentation for another reason, a good example of a catchy, relevant intro tied to a closing.... something that makes us all better communicators.

</comment><comment><USER12> Process and presentation at the level of... poetry.

<comment><USER13> Yes, it also struck me that way.

As an offtopic aside, the Mars day/year slide ( [http://style.org/visualized/images/weightofrain_34.jpg](http://style.org/visualized/images/weightofrain_34.jpg) ) made me think we should really build a "second home" (or vacation house, or mountain cabin).

Perhaps mountain cabin is the appropriate metaphor. It's another 70 million km up the Sun's gravity well. If we take solar energy supply as a feasibility criterion, it's 43% of what we get on Earth. (Data courtesy of [http://idahoptv.org/ntti/nttilessons/lessons2000/lau1.html](http://idahoptv.org/ntti/nttilessons/lessons2000/lau1.html) )

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> I don't have a comment smart enough for HN to express how cool I think this is. I want to print it out and thumbtack it to my wall like I'm 14

</comment><comment><USER15> Fantastically interesting.

<comment><USER16> The best way to say that is by simply up-voting.

HN would become a much better place if the comments are more insightful and represent the perspective of the person commenting :)

<comment><USER15> Good grief. I'm at a loss for words. You have the audacity to call me out for failing to meet your expectation of _praise_!? Is the simple expression of my feelings not even worth _skimming over at the bottom of a page_?

If you want to make HN a better place, why not try to lead discussions? Certainly that would be a better technique than going around telling people that their silence would improve the community.

People have said a lot of things to me online, but I don't think I've ever felt as insulted as I do right now.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> I really like the layout of this talk. I hate when people just link to the powerpoint of a talk and expect everyone to follow along like they were there, with no narration.

</comment><comment><USER18> Although the graphics are excellent, the site's hijacking of the left and right arrow keys is not appreciated.</comment>


Open-source skills best hope for landing a good job - <AUTHOR> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/29/open_source_and_the_job_market/ <comment><USER2> The second-last paragraph makes a point I've seen touched on a few times but never fully developed: That the labor of software developers is an economic complement to code. When developers write code and release it for free, we are commoditizing our complements [1]. Operating systems, libraries, frameworks and the like increase the productivity of developers, so by making those widely available, the demand for developers is increased.

Calling open source a "labor movement" as the OP mentions is not far off, considering its effects on control of the means of production.

[1]<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html>

</comment><comment><USER3> Question to all those in a hiring position: when looking at a candidates' purported open-source credentials, how closely do you inspect the work? Enough to tell if the improvement was fluff? Or a rehash of other code? If it looks like said candidate has a lot of commits, how do you discern the ratio of quality commits?

<comment><USER4> There are often too many applicants to spend more than 5-10 minutes looking at any one person's resume and open source projects. I usually spend a few minutes on the resume looking for interesting projects or relevant work experience, and then a few minutes looking at an applicant's GitHub page (if it's provided).

Things I look at on a GitHub page:

\- # of projects that are not forks. The person might have done a lot of work on the forks, but it's too time-consuming to figure out what code is theirs and what code is pulled from someone else.

\- The nature of the projects. Are they mostly trivial ("My .bashrc file") or awesome ("In-memory distributed search engine with replication")?

\- Whether the person has good documentation skills. I look at a few sample commit messages, project README files, docs within a few random source files, etc.

\- Good coding skills: decent style, no red flags in terms of quality, well- polished code, decent error-handling, etc.

From my perspective, a bad job on open source projects is a red flag, a good job can really help you distinguish yourself, and anything else doesn't significantly help or hurt your application.

<comment><USER5> The Impact graph on the Stats & Graphs page gives a quick summary of recent major contributors to a repository. However, if you want to gauge the total contribution of a person across all projects, you have to check the impact graphs individually for each repository. Still no search for commits, it seems.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Personally, I'm always pleased to see an open source project on a candidate's resume (provided they contributed significantly to it, of course). It's always a good way to evaluate a candidate's skills outside of a technical interview.

<comment><AUTHOR> I am just curios, how you evaluate the "contributed significantly" especially if someone is contributing to documentation side of the project?

<comment><USER7> I would highly welcome a candidate who has proven clear documentation abilities.

<comment><USER6> As would I!

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment> daniel-warner-x The appeal of hiring someone who is actively involved with open source tech has less to do with heroic coding skills and more to do with identifying someone who is a curious, enthusiastic, and community-minded problem solver.

<comment><USER8> Exactly! If you have an open source (or any other!) portfolio, you're already ahead of 99% of the people I interview. Odds are that I won't actually look at your code. Instead I'll ask you technical questions during the interview about the project itself: architecture, design, problems you ran into and how you solved them. How you handle bug reports, etc.

Pretty much the same thing I do with other projects on a resume, but much more focused.

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> Is this the difference between US and UK market?

I remember reading something different for US:

[http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-06/tech/30250041...](http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-06/tech/30250041_1_microsoft- technology-microsoft-employees-microsoft-skills)

</comment><comment><USER10> Most open source applications would include "Windows" in the skillset, so the compariosn doesnt really hold. jQuery is crossplatform. They should have compared "python, php" to "c#, java".

</comment><comment><USER11> I don't see how this article demonstrated its claim in the least.</comment>


Yahoo RealEstate Launches Foreclosure Resource Center With RealityTrac - <AUTHOR> http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/05/yahoo-realestate-launches-foreclosure-resource-center-with-realitytrac/ <comment><USER2> Finally someone is going to try to put the late-night "get all the information you need to buy a forclosure home" informercials out of business.</comment>


Google's New "Panic Mode" Should Be Part of Every UI - <AUTHOR> https://www.fastcodesign.com/90132874/googles-new-panic-mode-should-be-part-of-every-ui <comment><USER2> Will be hard to know what to do in games... is the game itself causing panic, or is that just normal tapping for it?

</comment><comment><USER3> Irony: A full screen ad hijacked this article when I started to read it. Goodbye.

</comment><comment><USER4> preventing the source of panics would be better</comment>


Ask HN: Oculus rift the next big shift in GUI's? - <AUTHOR>

With the Oculus Rift dev kits shipping soon I was wondering what the HN community thinks about the possibility of having an OS built entirely around the thing?
I am just dreaming here but imagine the amount of screen real-estate you could have, maybe even a HUD that shows email notifications, IM's and current music track. You could essentially be the Architect from the Matrix, sitting in a room circled by screens :).
I know these ideas aren't new but do you see them becoming a possibility in the near future? <comment><USER2> There was an Oculus Rift tech demo at my company recently and although the device is undeniably exciting, it's worrying that nearly everyone who tried it experienced some degree of nausea.

<comment><AUTHOR> How recent was this? The reason I ask is that in one of the CES demos they said their old prototype demoed at E3 last year had motion lag due to the color switching lag in the LCD panels they used. Also the nausea may have been experienced because the user was walking around in a game where they don't actually move in real life. Do you think you would experience the same nausea if the simulation was of a desk you sit at with multiple monitors?

<comment><USER2> It was about 2 months ago.</comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: Which corporation form is the most international-startup-friendly - <AUTHOR>

For someone who is not residing in the US and working on a startup that receives payment internationally through bank/credit card, which corporate formation is the most suitable and flexible?
Of course by that it means,least administrative and tax filing possible. (Let also assume one is not desperate for VC money.) I have seen a lot of options like US LLC, BVI, even singapore and ireland ... Would someone with experience share some thoughts on this? Is there any no brainer choice? <comment><USER2> Corporations and their operating costs are probably about third on the list of important stuff to worry about.

First is having customers who want to pay you. 'Nuff said.

Second -- and this is where you should spend all of your time and not stop until you have it solved -- is the actual system for getting money all the way from your customer's pocket and into your bank account. Until you have that -- for realz, not a cheery pat on the head and "Yeah we can do that" don't spend any time thinking about corporations. Talk to payment processors and banks and don't stop until this is bulletproof.

What they tell you will decide what type of structure you create. If they say set up general partnerships in Burkina Faso and use the letter "K" in the name at least twice, you do that.

This is a variation on the "When Mama's happy, everybody is happy" advice. Mama is your credit card processor. Mama is your bank.

Third. Set up whatever they will work with. The cost differentials (and paperwork burden differentials) are trivial.

Disclosure. International tax lawyer. Have not set up general partnerships in Burkina Faso. Attempting to start helping the HN community with a new website at [http://freelancetax.com](http://freelancetax.com). Suggestions for where pain exists that I could solve -- very welcome.

</comment><comment><USER3> A LLC in the United Kingdom seems pretty easy to deal with, IMO.</comment>


Show HN: SocioLotto (app) Your chance to get your message broadcast to everyone - <AUTHOR> http://www.sociolotto.com

<comment><AUTHOR> Please help test out my new app and I'll add your username to the About page! Comments can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks for your help!</comment>


Show HN: NYTimes Obj-C API Client - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/dustineichler/NYTimes There's a decent level of refactoring happening already, but would love some feedback. Cheers!<p>https://github.com/dustineichler/NYTimes <comment><AUTHOR> Here's the link: <https://github.com/dustineichler/NYTimes>

There's a decent amount of refactoring happening already, but by all means leave some feedback.</comment>


Houseparty offers $1m reward for proof of sabotage - <AUTHOR> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52101421 <comment><USER2> I'm not sure this matters. It's a very strong gesture that they're highly confident their systems were not compromised, but the word is already out: "Houseparty has poor security and leaked your passwords"

It's kinda hard to come back from that, unless media print a correction with the same enthusiasm as the initial reports.

</comment><comment><USER3> Seems organic to me.

All tweets I found had legitimate accounts behind them.

A cynic might say Houseparty has offered the reward because they know they don't have to pay and for PR.

There wasn't much news media about it before the reward.

<comment><USER4> I had similar thoughts. I hadn't even heard of Houseparty until now.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> It's terrible that clickbait mass media is complicit in this smear campaign, repeating FUD claims without evidence or attempting investigation.

</comment><comment><USER6> direct link to the tweet: [https://twitter.com/houseparty/status/1244827034406121472](https://twitter.com/houseparty/status/1244827034406121472)</comment>


MIT files amicus brief concerning executive order restricting travel to US - <AUTHOR> http://news.mit.edu/2017/amicus-brief-executive-order-restricting-travel-us-0215 <comment><USER2> This brief is interesting because of the MIT president's personal engagement. Rafael Reif is a Venezuelan immigrant who has been moved to speak out against an immigration ban . Reif understands the immigration issues well as a Jew whose ancestors were refugees to Venezuela, and who has watched his home country disintegrate under Chavez.

<comment><USER3> What's happening in Venezuela is indeed saddening, and I say this as a Communist.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I applaud the move. Yet it is important to put all the cards on the table.

I can't help to be bothered by what could pass of hypocrisy at various levels. The article explains that 40% of MIT's grad students are "international". This means MIT's problem is a BUSINESS problem. At well over $50K per year per student the university-as-a-business (rather than an altruistic entity) is concerned about a drop in revenue should immigration policy change. Let's not pretend this is all about good intentions, pink unicorns and ice cream. This is a business fighting for their revenue sources. And they have every right --even the responsibility-- to do so. I respect that. No issues there so long as everyone is honest about it.

The other problem I have with all of these articles/arguments is this image being painted that the US would be dumb as a rock if it weren't for the influx of immigrants. I'm sorry, I don't buy that one bit. We already have great talent in this country. What we don't have is affordable schools (and books, etc.). A school like MIT (don't mean to focus on them, pick any school) can charge exorbitant tuition to foreign-born students and make millions. And the students pay for it. Not so with us-born students. Particularly given the state of the economy, unemployment, etc.

This idea that we better let-in hordes of immigrants for fear of not having businesses launched or any innovation is, well, repulsive. That would mean we are a wasteland of a country, and need to be rescued by immigrants, which clearly isn't the case.

This isn't to say immigration isn't good. I am not anti-immigrant at all. That would mean being against what allowed my own family to LEGALLY come to the US eons ago. No. My problem is with the fear-mongering that goes along with these arguments. It's dishonest and unnecessary.

It is OK to say we want immigrants because they are important to our continued cultural and economic growth. It's OK to say we want refugees because it is important to continue to define ourselves as a caring and socially conscious people. These things don't need to be embellished with "if we don't let immigrants in nobody is going to start companies, no jobs will be created and no innovation will be had". Sorry, immigrants don't have a monopoly on this. And they sure as heck don't have magical powers. We have lots of very capable and creating people already in the country. Let's don't diminish them to dumber-than-a-rock status.

As for MIT and other universities. They should be honest and say "we are going to lose a ton of money because we make a killing with foreign students". I can respect that. They are, after all, businesses.

On the other hand, if MIT had no foreign students and charged a LOT less for tuition it would be full of wonderful, capable, creative and eager-to- contribute US residents. The problem is very few can justify spending over $200K on a university education today. That's what these universities are trying to protect.

<comment><USER5> Most grad students do not pay full tuition, period. Many US students, and I would imagine those who get accepted to MIT most likely, qualify for NSF grants which cover the cost of graduate education. So your argument that MIT is acting as a "business to maximize its profit" is not very convincing.

I agree with you that some of the positions might be a bit extreme: the US is most certainly capable of producing highly qualified researchers, entrepreneurs etc.

Edit: One more point I would want to add is that currently, US universities, and the US itself, is seen as a very desirable place to live and do research. This might change if the country institutes a policy of (implicit) religious discrimination.

<comment><USER6> Most NSF grants and the like are for PhD students (the university still welcomes the funds they bring in, but they are a relatively small portion of income).

Universities make much more money off their Masters students, most of whom are international, and pay full tuition (or someone does for them).

<comment><USER7> * Universities make much more money off their Masters students, most of whom are international, and pay full tuition (or someone does for them).*

It's a scam.

The Ph.D. is the real graduate degree in US schools. If you get a MS, people who know the system expect that you flunked out in quals (it's the parting gift for those that couldn't handle the work). Terminal MS degrees at serious schools are just outright selling prestige to the naïve.

A MS from MIT or Stanfurd is much, much less prestigious than a BS degree from the same school and requires less academic rigor.

<comment><USER5> I'm sorry, but your understanding of Masters degrees seem to be dangerously misinformed. There is a wide spectrum of MS degrees offered by US universities, from leading-to-PhD to Professional-degree-for-Software-Devs. I agree there are some who "flunk out" their quals and leave with a Masters, but the selection process for a PhD is stringent enough that this is a very small minority of all MS degrees.

Personally, a research oriented MS degree allowed me to work closely with a researcher and contribute to that research leading to paper publications and a thesis. The goal of the program seems to have been to allow people to get a taste of doing research and then move on to a PhD program if they found that appealing.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Impeachment cannot happen quickly enough.

<comment><USER9> There aren't any grounds for impeachment, and even if there were you'd have to convince an awful lot of Republicans it's warranted.

 _And_... "President Pence".

<comment><USER10> two words: Gerald Ford.

<comment><USER9> Good luck with that.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> This is nice, but the thing that is going to hurt them massively here is standing issues. All of the harm to the plaintiffs in these cases is very attenuated compared to direct lawsuits from people affected.

The current 9th circuit one has a large chance of getting reversed on standing issues (en banc most likely), and honestly, probably should be.

Past that ,the real best hope is that folks like Thomas, et al will ask "remind me again why, if the constitution gives this power to congress, you believe it's okay for congress to give all of it to the executive branch"

But that seems unlikely. More likely roberts decides he doesn't want to be on the wrong side of history.

<comment><USER12> > remind me again why, if the constitution gives this power to congress, you > believe it's okay for congress to give all of it to the executive branch

Do you really want to hinge your case on Congress' ability to delegate power? I mean that COULD be a fun court case if you want to have it and make it a constitutional issue, because the whole executive branch, and the executive branches of every single state, would be ripped to shreds :D

1 million unemployed in the federal government, upwards of 15 million in the states!

but thats only possible if you believe the Supreme Court's rulings are based on a strict understanding of the constitution they are all reading, or if it is based on the past of least resistance. (its the latter)

the above argument has a thin chance of surviving in 2017

<comment><USER13> This case already happened, specifically in reference to immigration, 70 years ago: see Knauff v. Shaughnessy[0] (1950).

> The exclusion of aliens is a fundamental act of sovereignty. The right to do > so stems not alone from legislative power, but is inherent in the executive > power to control the foreign affairs of the nation. When Congress prescribes > a procedure concerning the admissibility of aliens, it is not dealing alone > with a legislative power. It is implementing an inherent executive power.

[0]: [https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/338/537/](https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/338/537/)

<comment><USER11> Yeah, i'm aware. But there's a lot of cases where the constitutional power has been handwaved into existence, and then snuffed out x years later. ;)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> I want to mention the fact the Elon Musk actually supports the Travel ban, but maybe because he has govt contracts with NASA, and wants more contracts and money. Sad to see him stoop to that level.

<comment><USER14> salty?

"Please read immigration order. Lmk specific amendments. Will seek advisory council consensus & present to President." [https://t.co/qLpbsP4lEk](https://t.co/qLpbsP4lEk)

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2017

you know what this sounds like.. "Where in the world does it say that it is un-constitutional, show me proof"

try to read between the lines..

now please send me into a downvote oblivion

<comment><USER15> Why read between the lines when you can just read? For example:

[https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/825502618680045568](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/825502618680045568)

[https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/827924171661377536](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/827924171661377536)

[https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/828280866451374085](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/828280866451374085)

He doesn't like it, but he thought that specific suggestions for changes would help to mitigate the damage.</comment></comment></comment>


New Multilingual eCommerce System - <AUTHOR>

With Smoolis you can easily build your own  store to sell products online. It requires no programming knowledge, can charge different rates of VAT and simulate shipping. All themes are free, modern and responsive. The focus is always multilingualism, each text element by the shop owner can be easily translated. You simply sign up, select your theme, add your products and you are ready to start accepting orders. Smoolis started as a side project in 2013 and was founded by three web professionals and designers from Zurich, Switzerland. Because of the missing multilingual function in all other popular e-commerce systems, Smoolis teamed up, with the aim to develop a new one that enables everyone to set up easily a multilingual online store in just a few clicks. www.smoolis.com <comment><USER2> The support link is with a target="_blank" (remove the target attribute)

The themes don't look attractive like the ones in the overview, perhaps you should use better looking screenshots for the themes page.

I'd appreciate a demo (screenshots look really nice though)

Seems a solid project, are you a startup?

</comment><comment><USER3> Which payment methods can people accept on their webshop?

</comment><comment><USER4> nice! at last we have a simply made multilingual online store system. congrats!

<comment><USER2> Offtopic:

You really shouldn't make accounts just to up your post :)</comment></comment>


A Swedish company has overtaken Tesla, already won Lidl as a customer - <AUTHOR> https://nordic.businessinsider.com/a-swedish-company-has-quietly-overtaken-tesla---and-already-won-lidl-as-a-customer--/ <comment><USER2> 200 self driving trucks on the roads of sweden in just two years time?

I seriously doubt that. Maybe the technology could be here but I doubt the legislature will be.</comment>


IPod. iPhone. iPad. Why Apple is Done Inventing New Devices. - <AUTHOR> http://www.cultofmac.com/108753/ipod-iphone-ipad-why-apple-is-done-inventing-new-devices-2/

<comment><USER2> Apple didn't invent the MP3 player, they just made it easier and more legal to use by not focusing on specs and by introducing iTunes. They didn't invent the smartphone either. Windows Mobile and Palm beat them by half a decade with phones that ran apps. In fact, iPhone didn't allow apps besides the built in ones for nearly a year. The App store and iTunes were the real innovations.</comment>


Ask HN: Mid-level developers, what does it take to qualify as Mid-level? - <AUTHOR> I'm currently in the interview process for a Mid-level position, but my experience situation is kind of different from most as I interned for several years while going to school to make enough to provide for my family. I've got 1.5 years professional experience after that at the same company. I was asked if I have have the skills of a Mid or maybe somewhere on the fence between Jr and Mid. My current salary requirement needs the pay of a Mid but I don't want to jump into something if it ultimately ends with being put on an improvement plan (that's what I was told would happen). Having no clue how I compare to other Mids, as I work only with Sr devs who know more than me. I told them that I would trust their assessment.
So if I am not up to par with Mid skills, what can I do to get there and be truly qualified? What is the difference between a Mid and a Jr?
The best way I can describe my current ability is that I've been able to recognize that I didn't know all that I thought I did and I try to approach problems and knowledge with no assumptions that I know but rather realize that I can give insight and discuss strategies but I'm not intelligent enough to frequently give the best approach to problems so I definitely discuss approaches and opinions with others to learn from them.
So maybe a better question might be what level are you at once you've discovered you're ignorance and you start to use that to your advantage to really learn stuff (but definitely not someone to write a non-erroneous book on programming topics)?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks! <comment><USER2> For eample:

Peter has been working as a developer for 4 years. Calvin has been working as a developer for 2 years.

Calvin earns the same money as Peter, why? It seems Peter didn't put in as much effort as Calvin did. Even more, Calvin learned what Peter knows, for half the amount Peter did.

You can see where I'm going with this. For me personally work experience does NOT matter.

What makes a junior developer? A junior developer knows enough to get things done. If there's a more complex task, there is a big chance he will require advice or help.

What makes a mid-level developer? A mid-level developer knows enough to get things done in a more sophisticated manner - compared to junior developers which use the same hammer for every nail, the mid-level developer utilizes different technologies for different purposes. He is not proficient, but he understands the need for different strategies.

I'm on the brink of becoming a mid-level developer. I used to tackle all of my problems with the tools I know, because I was unsure in my knowledge. Now I understand the difference. When given a more complex task, I will research what's the best way to do it, consult with senior developers and ultimately implement a solution. I'm not an expert so this is my opinion, but you sound like you are in the exact same shoes. A rising mid-level developer, but a mid- level developer non the less. Worked hard to get here as I'm sure you did. I heard this in a songs lyrics, but I use it as a motto in life - "I used to get what I'm given, now I only get what I'm worth".

<comment><AUTHOR> > junior developers which use the same hammer for every nail

This is what is weird about programming is that you only need to know a subset of things to build stuff so it gives a lot of Jr developers a false sense of know-how and confidence (I was like this for a long while). I think a willingness to own up to what you don't know and like you said "research what's the best way to do it, consult with senior developers" is a hard obstacle to get past. I wonder if this might make it hard for hiring managers to assess skill, jr devs are probably more likely to sell themselves as more than they are and mid devs might be more likely to admit what they don't know.

<comment><USER2> A thing every hiring manager should ask, at least for Software jobs, is for you to show him code you've written. The best way to understand if someone has spend two, three or five years doing this, is to read his code. In case the interviewer doesn't ask me for my code, I would do it anyway. There is always this piece of code you are particularly proud of. Perhaps creating 10 ways to achieve the same thing. Senior developers write clean, efficient code ( if they don't, they should ). Junior developers find a way and if it works, hey it works! Mid level developers write a piece of crap code, but they see it as such. They make the difference. Once the difference is maid, you can go and ask the senior developer. Or do some research. Or both. This became visible to me once I wasn't in the phase "Oh shit, I don't know how I'm going to do this."</comment></comment></comment>


The copyright cartel's plot to indoctrinate California kindergartens - <AUTHOR> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/29/copyright-cartel-indoctrinate-kindergartens

<comment><USER2> I know javajosh would agree, but seriously, is no one else extremely disturbed by the clear implications of this 'plot'?

So basically, a group of corporations can't get people to behave the way they want them to. So their idea is to literally influence the educational curriculum in the hopes that future generations will behave exactly the way they want them to.

This is probably just the tip of the iceberg on our already extremely broken education system. This is what we publicly know. For example, I wouldn't be surprised if oil companies are inserting into geology class that global warming is a hoax.

In much the same way we have separation of church and state, perhaps we should consider having a separation of corporation and state. The government's interest should solely rest with the electorate. Although we legally consider corporations people, they most certainly cannot vote and therefore they should have no influence whatsoever on government.

I know I am speaking from an idealist point of view, but the government's interests should never be aligned with corporations at the expense of the voting electorate. Which is exactly the problem with what the copyright cartel is doing.

<comment><USER3> How would we enforce a separation of corporation and the state? From what I know, the separation of the Church and the state is to stop the government from interfering with matters of the Church.

We don't even have a mechanism to restrict the Church from interfering with the state besides taking away a privilege of tax-exempt status. I am not restriction is a bad idea. I am just not sure how it is achievable.

<comment><USER4> "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"

This is a protection _from_ an official state religion. Lobbying for near- monopoly positions, favored status, and regulatory capture might be a sort of "establishment" of special corporate status over the people.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> From the Grade 1 lesson:

 _[Select two students who are outgoing and will be able to enjoy this activity. Send the students on a quick (30 seconds) errand before they start drawing. Example: "Please run this note to the library." When the students leave, tell the class you want them to all copy one of the pictures being drawn on the white board. Remind the class to copy the artwork without telling the volunteer artists.]_

What.

I personally think that teachers who can't/won't draft their own lesson plans need to be fired. I still can't get over the fact that American textbooks also come in teacher editions with the answers to exercises provided so that the teacher doesn't have to work them out.

The grade 5 materials are more reasonable, suggesting reliance on resources like creative commons or voluntary sharing, and using real-world examples of people who work in the arts not getting paid. These are just factual; a lot of indie movies only get made because the cast & crew workf or free in exchange for an ownership interest. As pointed out below though, they don't include any discussion of fair use or the notion that copyright should exist for limited times.

<comment><USER6> > I still can't get over the fact that American textbooks also come in teacher > editions with the answers to exercises provided so that the teacher doesn't > have to work them out.

Pointless busywork is pointless. If they can't find the answers, you're better off addressing the root cause, not driving anyone semi-skilled away from teaching. And just how many times have you graded 50 1st grade math tests, anyhow? Especially when they come up with a new edition every year.

Very sad when we should be able to do more in the way of open source textbooks (and exercise generators), but your gripe is not well-thought out and insulting to decent teachers, of whom I have known many.

<comment><USER5> It's neither pointless nor busywork. Being able to work the problem or know the material well enough to accurately assess the quality of students' homework submissions is a baseline requirement for effective teaching.

<comment><USER6> It's pointless because if you can't do it, you're not qualified to teach and it's busywork because doing 30 students' 30 first grade math problems takes a lot of time that can be better spent doing things that actually benefit the class.

It sounds like you've had bad teachers, for which I pity you. I had many good ones, as my mother was a teacher and my parents made sure we got a good education, both at home and at school. Perhaps you've only known people who were made to teach subjects they were unqualified to teach. That is sad, then, if you haven't known good teachers.

But that says more about you than teachers in general. You have something against teachers, as I've seen this axe ground before.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> I am going to flip this around... we _should_ be teaching children the basics of research, citation, fair use and permission at a young level.

By encouraging children to go off and research and create I hypothesis that they will naturally lean towards simple, creative commons and other "free" or "libre" licenses and start to actively seek these out in favour of more tightly controlled, restrictive, corporate licensing schemes.

Teaching them how to cite, what fair use is and how to ask seek permission from content authors gives them the tools to fight overly restrictive copyright laws - and hopefully, one day, abolish them in favour of sane, time bounded licenses

</comment><comment><USER8> This will probably work just about as well as D.A.R.E. did to convince Californians to not take drugs.

<comment><USER9> Don't Copy That Floppy

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> I'm actually impressed at how slanted the title is. Using the words "cartel" and "indoctrinate" hits on two major scare points and we don't even have to read a word of the article. Very tough for me to trust what they have to say since they didn't think the words themselves were convincing enough.

<comment><USER11> "Cartel" seems like a distortion to me, too, but "indoctrinate" seems like a perfectly valid label for the attempt to systematically teach small children to support a political stance. If you wouldn't call _that_ true indoctrination, what would qualify?

<comment><USER12> Respecting a widely acknowledged property right isn't a political stance. Nor is it indoctrination to teach kids to respect other peoples work.

<comment><USER11> Respecting a widely acknowledged property right _is_ a political stance when widely acknowledged exceptions to that right are left aside. There's also the controversial subtopic of draconian policing of violations of those rights in recent years.

Copyright is not a topic for small children. Adults are barely grown up enough to discuss it.

EDIT: Forgot to mention the also controversial subtopic of expiration and lack thereof.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> Comedy gold:

> _Artists are "graded" or valued by how many people buy their work._

> _We hope others will respect our work ... And we 'play fair' with their work > too._

No mention of Melchior Rietveldt, Patrick Robin, of course. And certainly nothing like Courtney Love Does The Math.

</comment><comment><USER14> Yes, it has angered me for many years - and has been a bitter regret my entire life - that my _public_ school basically _forced_ me to break the law for so many years, and never more egregiously than when I made my collages.

To all of the authors, photographers, and publishers of the many magazines and newspapers that I defaced and stole from: I am so, so sorry. I never realized that it was your work, your life blood, and your property that I was so recklessly and wantonly stealing from. My teachers never even mentioned the word "copyright" and I had no idea I had to ask your permission, individually. Of course, ignorance of the law is no excuse, even for a young child, and now I have to live with the shame and the guilt every day.

There are many ways that America's schoolchildren have wronged the members of the RIAA and the MPAA. But record companies and the movie industry aren't the only ones victimized by school children. Literally millions of school papers are written every year, containing billions of quotations and materials, some quoted at length, and virtually none of those papers asked the original creator for permission.

What have we become?

<comment><USER15> > What have we become?

A nation of thieves. Actually, seems we started that way.

<comment><USER16> I'm pretty sure that's Australia, right?

America started as land of religious zealots.

<comment><USER17> The people who were here thousands of years before Puritan nutcases started getting dumped here to get them away from the civilized people, would beg to disagree, if they hadn't mostly been genocided away. Thats probably what OP was referencing.

America started as a bunch of vaguely Asiatic foragers crossed over more or less in Alaska a couple thousand years ago. The noob bible thumpers arriving a couple centuries ago wiped out the first wave pretty effectively but they hardly "started it".

<comment><USER18> I'm pretty sure that "America" was being used to refer to the United States, not the entire New World or even the particular portion that the United States happens to sit on.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> We should be far more worried about religious indoctrination than this.

<comment><USER9> I'd love to see people stand up to Big Religion, but... how? Religion is institutionalized mental and physical child abuse and everybody seems a-okay with all of it.

<comment><USER20> > everybody seems a-okay with all of it.

Because it's not abuse.

Since when did it become socially acceptable to be bigoted in public? If you want to be intolerant at least keep your nastiness to yourself.

<comment><USER21> So telling little gay kids that they were born broken and are going to Hell isn't abuse?

Don't you dare say that it doesn't happen or that it doesn't matter. Don't you dare.

<comment><USER22> To me it seems like calling that the fault of "religion" seems roughly analogous to blaming the concept of "government" for the actions of a specific city or state/province government? (that is, either 1 or 2 levels below a national government , though I might have made a mistake with the analogy there)

Not all religions/versions of a religion are the same.

I acknowledge that an analogy is not always a particularly strong argument, but it was the first responce I thought of, and it seemed an acceptable responce to me.

Also, it might have made more sense to respond a few levels up, not sure what would have made the most sense to reply to.

<comment><USER21> It isn't a bad analogy. My counterargument is that local government policy can usually be changed a lot more easily than religious dogma, especially dogma surrounding who to demonize. Maintaining a strong notion of who is in the in- group and who is in the out-group seems to be an important mechanism in maintaining tribal cohesion.

My point is that religions seem prone to demonizing people as a quick and easy way to define themselves and maintain cohesion. Look at all the really nasty doctrinal splits through history.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> The doesn't seem HORRIBLE: although it may not be good that external companies are influencing the curriculum, an understanding of copyright seems like an idea that is understandable for the CSLA to want to teach in some regard.

<comment><AUTHOR> I agree that giving kids an _accurate_ understanding is important — the problem with these teaching materials is that they're being very selective in which parts of copyright law that they teach: According to the linked article, there's no mention of Fair Use provisions, which the record industry would much rather you didn't take advantage of, in the curriculum at all.

<comment><USER24> And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I blew my stack when my child was assigned this worksheet from the the RIAA's Music Rules! program as homework:

[http://www.music- rules.com/pdf/MusicRulesElemActivities.pdf](http://www.music- rules.com/pdf/MusicRulesElemActivities.pdf)

Part 2 is particularly egregious: _" Now find out if songlifting is a real problem in your community. Use this chart to interview family members and friends about where they get their music. Bring your findings back to class and combine them with those of your classmates."_

Really?!! You want our children to compile a list of family and friends (identified by age only, but still...) that you believe are breaking the law and hand it in as signed homework? I complained immediately about this not-so- subtle indoctrination and provided the teacher with a link to the EFF's more balanced and accurate Teaching Copyright site at [http://www.teachingcopyright.org/](http://www.teachingcopyright.org/).

 _Songlifting._ Give me a break...

<comment><USER25> I sense the approach of Mike Godwin on this one.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> I find this appropriate [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9_hWoGrxWg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9_hWoGrxWg)

</comment><comment><USER26> _Brave New World_ , anybody?

<comment><USER27> How exactly?

</comment></comment><comment><USER28> religious indoctrination? from the California teachers union? Now that is funny.</comment>


SoundCloud without the stupid CSS files - <AUTHOR> http://grobie.github.com/soundcloud2000/

<comment><AUTHOR> Created by two SoundCloud engineers over the weekend at Music Hack Day Stockholm. [https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day- stock...](https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day- stockholm-13/hacks/soundcloud2000)

</comment><comment><USER2> Nice to finally have something going the other direction; The recent SoundCloud redesign is a usability nightmare.

> SoundCloud: Mind if we keep playing music after this song with no indicator > of how to stop it or setting to prevent it from happening? Too bad!

<comment><USER3> I admit that the behavior is quite odd at first, but once you get used to it, it is really useful. It is the behavior you would expect in a desktop app — for example, you wouldn't want iTunes to stop playing when you select a playlist, would you?

<comment><USER4> He's not talking about playing a playlist. Usually, users create and manage playlists. Are you familiar?

<comment><USER3> I was using iTunes playlists as an example that switching to different parts of the UI does not interrupt playback.

<comment><USER5> But was the OP talking about that? It sounded like he was complaining that music continued to play from somewhere after the one song was linked to finished.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Great, I use debian, and the version of gnash I have (0.8.11~git.master21579-20120430-none) won't stream from soundcloud or e.g. rephlex. However gnash isn't so broken that it can't stream audio. For example the flash streamer on www.zippyshare.com works fine with gnash. I will give this command line tool a bash. At the moment am limited to downloading from soundcloud by this.

<comment><USER7> Cool to hear that there are real use cases for this hack. We currently depend on Apple's CoreAudio library, but we have some plans to switch to a more generic solution to support Debian/linux as well.

<comment><USER8> sick app bro i look cool sitting at my desk at work

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Thanks for open sourcing this. Could you please add your license details to the project, as I'm pretty keen to build a podcast player from it (assuming certain permissive licenses).

<comment><USER7> Sounds cool. I just added the License (MIT).

<comment><USER9> Thanks!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Excited to use this, but I don't have installation instructions...

<comment><USER7> Cool :) Please have a look at the README (<https://github.com/grobie/soundcloud2000#installation>).

And keep in mind that this is a hack version and still in alpha status. We'll add more features during the next days, including the ability to listen to something else than the hardcoded track list of Four Tet.

<comment><USER10> Awesome! Thanks for adding instructions.

You could do much worse than a hardcoded Four Tet tracklist, but I'm looking forward to listening to other stuff. :)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> My 'favorite' part of the SC redesign is how I can't scroll downward ... only the top of the page is visible. I've run across no other page on the web like that. Digg it.

</comment><comment><USER12> Reminiscent of something we made for SeatGeek: <https://github.com/seatgeek/sgcli>

</comment><comment><USER13> Is there a build for this that doesn't require CoreAudio?

I would love to run this on Linux - yet one more thing I can do straight from my terminal.

<comment><USER14> We're currently working on replacing CoreAudio with portaudio. Stay tuned!

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> haha, a terminal emulator that only works on an OS for people who hate terminals, known for its stylistic graphics appeal. Great job, irony driving hipsters!

<comment><USER15> I absolutely love the terminal in OSX and I'd guess that the majority of mac- using developers probably do too.</comment></comment>


The non-sleazy way to sell on forums - <AUTHOR> http://www.bootstrappingindependence.com/bootstrapping/the-non-sleezy-way-to-sell-on-forums/

<comment><USER2> Nice way to describe the feeling of try to sell in forums. I've heard the advice time and time again but most articles just talk about the task at a macro level rather than suggesting a step by step, build it up slowly approach.

I think much of the fear of taking it slowly is perhaps realising after 2 months that the 2 forums/groups you chose are the wrong ones and that you have to start over somewhere else.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks! There is definitely a chance you pick the wrong ones up front, but I think the knowledge you would gain in those two months to lead you to that conclusion is not time wasted, but likely time well spent :)</comment></comment>


After the Fall: Ten Years After the Crash - <AUTHOR> https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n13/john-lanchester/after-the-fall <comment><USER3> Interesting to see an article that recognises the role QE has played in driving inequality and disrupting political landscapes, but I wonder why Mr Lanchester doesn't consider the alternative policies that could have been enacted. i.e. if governments had focussed on spending money into the real economy instead, through infrastructure spending and real nation building projects - creating jobs, real (not paper) wealth and the platform for further economic growth - rather than spending funny money into existence supporting markets that blow up prices without any real addition of value.

<comment><USER4> > _if governments had focussed on spending money into the real economy > instead, through infrastructure spending and real nation building projects_

The Federal Reserve is an independent agency. It repeatedly implored Congress to increase fiscal spending. That didn't happen, so monetary policy had to attempt to compensate.

> _creating jobs_

At least in America, we did a good job of this. Ben Bernanke navigated us away from an alternate history in which the GFC was a second Great Depression. In New York, the Hudson Yards are coming up as one of the biggest public works project since the Great Depression. Things could have been better, but they could easily have been a lot, lot worse without QE.

<comment><USER5> We've done a pretty bad job at bringing back jobs. Labor force participation rate has fallen, while people are retiring later. Retirement/aging doesn't even help explain the drop. Especially since the younger generation has more than replaced the older one, and the older one isn't retiring at the same historic rate.

We're not in great shape, employment wise.

[https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000](https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000)

<comment><USER4> > _We 're not in great shape, employment wise_

Almost everyone who wants a job has one. And real wages have been rising for a decade. That's pretty good shape.

Labour force participation is a complicated question deeply intertwined with the opioid crisis, increased rates of college attendance, the mis-use of federal disability insurance and other factors. Quoting labour participation without reference to demographic shifts creating more retirees, moreover, mischaracterises the statistic. Demographically, there is no world in which 2018 LFP would have been higher than 2008.

<comment><USER6> Does your analysis account for quality of jobs available? I know a lot of overeducated/underemployed 30-40 year olds here in the Midwest.

<comment><USER4> > _Does your analysis account for quality of jobs available?_

I was responding to a claim that the government should have focussed on "creating jobs". In that context, the employment-unemployment line seemed most significant.

Real wages have been rising for a decade, so the central tendency for employed persons is better than it used to be (or than it was pre-crisis). There is still unemployment, particularly among the undereducated [1]. But from an average worker's perspective, it's one of the best economies we've seen in years.

[1] [https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat07.pdf](https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat07.pdf)

<comment><USER7> Have wages - cost of the same housing - cost of the same healthcare been rising?

From the worker's perspective, what you get paid is only half the story.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> hindsight is 20/20, but does anyone recall some of the ludicrous things we actually did to prop up some of our structurally too-big-to-fail institutions?

as an automotive mechanic the one institution during this crisis that stuck out in my mind was "cash for clunkers." Essentially the government subsidized ordinary americans to trade in whatever car they had so long as it got relatively poor gas mileage and wasnt more than 25 years old. This was a 3 billion dollar program designed largely to get anericans to start spending money on cars --any car-- by bribing them to destroy their own car.

Two studies basically declared the program a failure. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System)

But I have still a deep sense of chagrin when I remember mixing sandy batches of "engine disablement compound" and pouring them directly into a perfectly good truck or minivan. Sure, it might not win an award for climate change but these cheap cars and trucks could have gotten a single mother to and from the grocery store or school once or twice a week as needed. We intentionally destroyed them all. For those thinking the process was sane and simple, it wasnt. Doing this is loud, dirty, and throws a cloud of smoke you can see for a mile or more.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Sz5vtfanw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Sz5vtfanw)

We were even so desperate to fix the economy that the government basically started cutting people checks. The idea being they would spend the money on a shopping trip to the mall or something... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Stimulus_Act_of_2008](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Stimulus_Act_of_2008)

I spent my check on groceries when I got it, and put the rest into savings.

<comment><USER9> " _I spent my check on groceries when I got it, and put the rest into savings._ "

That is entirely appropriate. When the economy is depressed, we want people to both spend more and pay off any debts they might have, so your mix of spending and savings is just what the economy needed. The boost to consumption helps the economy get going again. And to the extent that people are paying off debts, their debts are moved on to the ledger of the government. Since the government pays a lower interest rate than private citizens, this reduces the overall burdens on the economy, and, again, helps the economy get going again. Both aspects of this help.

<comment><USER10> I think the point he is making is that he didn't "spend more".

He bought groceries, which he would have done any other week. If your economic stimulus bill is intended to help people buy groceries, then you ought to appropriately name it a economic relief bill.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> "...According to calculations that Zucman himself says are conservative, the missing money amounts to $8.7 trillion, a significant fraction of all planetary wealth. It is as if, when it comes to the question of paying their taxes, the rich have seceded from the rest of humanity." A sobering reality...especially when you consider the ultra rich design and run the political systems that define the tax bases and laws the rest of the world are organized under...

<comment><USER12> [http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/06/a-closer- loo...](http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/06/a-closer-look-at-who- does-and-doesnt-pay-u-s-income-tax/)

"A Pew Research Center analysis of IRS data from 2015, the most recent available, shows that taxpayers with incomes of $200,000 or more paid well over half (58.8%) of federal income taxes, though they accounted for only 4.5% of all returns filed (6.8% of all taxable returns)."

<comment><USER11> That report is parochial research of onshore tax payers who are in the US system. The vast majority of the elites wealth is parked offshore

<comment><USER13> I agree with this. Folks earning $200k-$500k are paying most of the taxes because they have little-to-no political influence, and they're easy scapegoats because most people make less than them. This is the glass ceiling of the US tax code.

<comment><USER12> [https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/10/18/rich-pay-fair- share-n...](https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/10/18/rich-pay-fair-share- numbers/)

"The top 1 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted annual gross income of $480,930 or higher, pay about 39 percent of federal income taxes. That means about 892,000 Americans are stuck with paying 39 percent of all federal taxes."

Another source about who is not paying any taxes, and who receives money from government - [https://nypost.com/2016/02/24/45-percent-of-americans-pay- no...](https://nypost.com/2016/02/24/45-percent-of-americans-pay-no-federal- income-tax/)

How much exactly should be top 1% be paying to no longer be blamed for not paying taxes?

<comment><USER14> This is a naive perspective, but, imagine someone has 10 million dollars banked, and earns 175,000 a year in dividends. S/he pay 26-35k in taxes (15-20%, cause I don't know tax code). Now, a couple has a combined income of 175,000 a year. They pay 40k in combined federal + FICA (used an income tax calculator). I think that 5-14k discrepancy is where the blame for "not paying taxes" comes from.

<comment><USER15> "... imagine someone has 10 million dollars banked, and earns 175,000 a year in dividends. S/he pay 26-35k in taxes ..."

I am imagining this and I immediately also imagine that quite a lot of income and/or capital gains taxes were paid during the accumulation phase of that $10M.

I suppose she could have inherited $10M tax free[1] but whoever bequeathed it to her then paid the taxes on it during the earning/accumulation phase.

My point is, comparing the present day taxes on dividends on a nest egg to the _income taxes_ someone else is paying is not a very useful comparison. _All else being equal_ it should not be interesting or provocative to see the income taxes exceed the nest egg taxes in an example like yours.

[1] Estate tax exemption in 2018 is $11M [http://www.wealthmanagement.com/estate- planning/2018-estate-...](http://www.wealthmanagement.com/estate- planning/2018-estate-gift-and-gst-tax-exemption-officially-published)

<comment><USER16> Dividends are income. It's farcical that they are not treated as such in the US tax code.

I believe the point is that in the example above, someone living off their nest egg, able to do nothing, are paying less in taxes than someone still in the workforce, earning.

This exacerbates the concerns over wealth inequality because those who have built wealth, can then grow their wealth at a lower tax rate than those stuck at the bottom of the income ladder.

<comment><USER12> dividends are treated almost the same way. at least from tax rate point. now - you can offset dividends by other losses, but you can do similarly if you have just W2 income and run side business losing money (with few caveats)

EDIT: Thanks JediWing - I have no clue why I thought dividends are taxed at the same level. Thank you correcting me.

<comment><USER16> Dividends are a flat 15% for earners under ~425k income, and a flat 20% for those over.

This means that a stock grant with a generous dividend is a loophole for high earners...in addition to simply adding complexity and magic thresholds to the tax code. It seems to me to be just bad policy.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> We use the words after the fall, but some EU countries like spain, Italy and Greece are still on the brink with massive youth unemployment

<comment> at-fates-hands It doesn't help there massive amounts of refugees flooding into those countries as well. I realize people are fleeing war and violence, but they're going to countries where there isn't any jobs, and the economic situation is dire.

It's the worst possible scenario. They're leaving their home countries with nothing and arriving with an even bleaker future ahead of them.

<comment><USER18> There aren't, though. Immigration has dropped a lot in 2016, and again in 2017. Mediterranean crosses more than halved from 2016 to 2017. Last year, the EU only granted protection to 540k persons, in an EU with over 500M inhabitants.

<comment> at-fates-hands Not according to the articles I've been reading:

25.03.2018:

[https://www.dw.com/en/on-the-edge-of-the-eu-refugee-flows- fl...](https://www.dw.com/en/on-the-edge-of-the-eu-refugee-flows-flood-the- evros-river/a-43068842)

 _It 's not clear how many make it across. But last year alone, officials from Frontex, the EU's border agency, said they intercepted 5,500 illegal crossings, a whopping 80 percent rise compared to the previous year._

 _During that same period, Turkish authorities told the United Nations they had intercepted nearly 21,000 people, more than triple the number reported the previous year._

29.9.2017:

[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/29/surge-in- migra...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/29/surge-in-migration-to- greece-fuels-misery-in-refugee-camps)

 _The number of people arriving, across land and sea borders, has more than doubled since the beginning of the summer. Authorities estimate arrivals are now at their highest level since March 2016, with over 200 men, women and children being registered every day._

 _"We're living the days of 2015," said Pantelis Dimitriou from Iliaktida, a local NGO on Lesbos operating accommodation and support centres for the newly arrived. "The flows have become huge. From around 50 to 60 in early July they are now at more than 200 every day._

2.7.2017:

[https://gulfnews.com/news/europe/italy/italy-overwhelmed- by-...](https://gulfnews.com/news/europe/italy/italy-overwhelmed-by-flood-of- immigrants-1.2051986)

 _But it is also a reflection of Italy's years on the migration front lines with little help from the rest of Europe. More than 82,000 people have arrived in Italy this year, a 20 per cent increase over the same period last year, according to the United Nations refugee agency._

 _Under current EU rules, asylum seekers are supposed to apply for protection in the first EU country that they enter. At the height of the refugee crisis in late 2015, EU leaders set up a quota system to try to distribute some of the refugees from the main arrival nations of Greece and Italy, but it has barely gotten off the ground._

 _The influx has strained Italian infrastructure — and the goodwill of Italian voters._

<comment><USER18> You're seeing peaks and overestimating. For example, in the first report Frontex talked about a 80% increase, but that was just about those 3 months. Look at their full year report:

 _" Frontex reported on Tuesday that the number of people illegally crossing into the European Union had fallen by 60 percent in 2017 compared to the previous year. "_

[http://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7683/eu-agency- frontex-r...](http://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7683/eu-agency-frontex- reports-drop-in-illegal-border-crossings)

That second link is also about a short period where they were seeing a lot of people per day, but that has nothing to do with the total numbers on a year basis.

Yes, the start of 2017 was high, yet the total was much lower.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> The ten-year anniversary is a good moment to look at the Case-Schiller index today and compare it to the peak of the bubble in 2006.

[https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA)

I think there will be some _great_ deals in real estate by 2021.

<comment><USER20> Maybe, but it's hard to predict. I don't think real estate prices are going to crash unless mortgage delinquency rates go up dramatically, which hasn't started yet: [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRSFRMACBS](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRSFRMACBS)

At least not nationally, maybe in some metro areas it has. Mortgage lending standards have started to loosen though, but I think it'd take a while for that to have a substantial effect. Housing prices tend to increase because good land is scarce in most places people want to live.

<comment><USER6> My wife and I have been looking to purchase a house, and it's amazing how many people tell us "it's a terrible time to buy. Don't do it".

That's fine advice, as far as it goes, but what would we be wait for - <USER2> crash? This chart does suggest that prices are inflated, but what do I do with that information? Wait for a downturn in two years? Ten?

<comment><USER21> The best advice I can give you is to not buy more house than you need (too expensive will run the risk of negative equity). But also make sure what you get will meet your needs for at least a decade or so. And watch out for potentially high property taxes.

One guy I worked with had an issue where his family outgrew the house he bought, but he couldn't get enough out of it for a down payment on a bigger place (even though the bigger house was cheaper than what he bought his small 2-bedroom for). So you don't want to get into this situation either.

Another situation that just happened to someone else I work with, she bought a house that she thought was reasonable. However her property taxes took a bit of a jump (the previous owner had lower taxes due to some senior discount). And it will be a few more years before she gets enough equity in it that can be used towards another house.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER22> This writing is brilliant.

A follow up: [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the- bir...](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a- new-american-aristocracy/559130/)

And another one: [https://www.dawn.com/news/1417420/a-new-upper- class](https://www.dawn.com/news/1417420/a-new-upper-class)

<comment><USER23> The LRB always _always_ has great writing. I've subscribed for 2 years now, and have never regretted it at all.

<comment><USER24> If you guys like this I highly recommend the University of Cambridge politics department analysis of current affairs.

[https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/](https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER25> "What if the governments of the developed world turned to their electorates and explicitly said this was the deal? The pitch might go something like this: we're living in a competitive global system, there are billions of desperately poor people in the world, and in order for their standards of living to improve, ours will have to decline in relative terms."

This is a guaranteed losing platform

<comment><USER26> It's also preposterous. Wealth isn't a zero-sum game. Compared to our ancestors in, say, 1000 BC, the vast majority of humanity is far, far, wealthier while the few who are arguably no better off are not worse off either. That's all wealth we've created.

We can talk about whether it's a good or moral idea to transfer wealth, but let's not pretend like that's the only way to deal with poverty.

<comment><USER27> > Wealth isn't a zero-sum game

I keep seeing people say this but is there not a finite amount of wealth in the world at any given time?

There are also the finite land and natural resources required for wealth creation.

<comment><USER25> There's also human ingenuity, technology, and gov't stability which are multipliers on those finite land/natural resources. Skyscrapers increase real estate/land for example, courts protect property rights enabling one to invest capital in venture X.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER28> Watching what happened in the UK it appeared we were making a lot of poor decisions on the hoof. In particular pushing Lloyds into buying HBOS didn't work out so well.

I often wonder what would have happened if we hadn't bailed out the banks.

<comment><USER29> Well, the UK government seemed to genuinely believe that had they not bailed them out that we might have been in a pretty bad situation: looting, troops on the streets etc.

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk- politics-24184728](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24184728)

However, with the benefit of some hindsight - I do wonder if these stories were just a _bit_ exaggerated for political reasons.

Also, if the implosion of the payment system is an existential threat to a country then why haven't done anything to ensure that this couldn't happen again? Yanis Varoufakis mentions in one of his books that he proposed a alternate government controlled payment system that could be used if Greek banks stopped functioning - why don't we have something like that prepared to fall back on in a future crisis?

<comment> grey-area They have in the UK at least - UK Banks have been forced to ringfence core retail banking, so that other arms could be allowed to fail, but customer banking be unaffected:

[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ring-fencing- info...](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ring-fencing- information/ring-fencing-information)

Similar to Glass Steagall from 1933 in the US, which was watered down over decades and eventually repealed when we reached the end of history in 1999:

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall_legislation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall_legislation)

Unfortunately it appears history is probably going to repeat in more ways than just cycles of crisis and financial regulation. I expect trade war and then global war in the next decade - we've reached around 1935 by my estimation.

<comment><USER29> Thanks - I'd never heard of that - pretty surprised that a Conservative government implemented anything like that. having said that, maybe that's why it has been kept relatively quiet?

<comment><USER30> There was a time when the "conservative" party was genuine, reasonable, and attempted compromise.

<comment><USER29> In the 1970s or before?

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER31> Very interesting article! I agree and have felt the tremors the author mentions throughout my own work in a related field.

The last decade has taught me that corporations matter more than nations, at this point. In the case of corporate capitalism, governments act like special interest groups protecting the corporations that fund their lifestyles.

To that end, if a major bank like RBS were to go belly up and now be beyond the ability of the U.K. to save, what are the chances we see a "national merger" where a country offers to absorb the losses in the banking system in exchange for absorbing the entire nation (population, economy and all)?

This sounds extreme, but it's effectively what happened in the feudal era. Wealthy nobles would support whichever king had the resources to protect them. Only thing I'm doing is replacing "wealthy nobles" with "corporations" — which are essentially "jointly owned" among the entire "nobility" (I.e. the capital class in the West).

Ultimately I think we will avoid World War III because the corporations don't want it; and they control enough of the global logistics supply chain to prevent it. So a peaceful way to transition failed governments and financial systems back to prosperity will be needed if we want to avoid a repeat of the Weimar Republic.

<comment><USER32> _Ultimately I think we will avoid World War III because the corporations don't want it;_

..today, it should have ended with.

Tomorrow, as they say, is a whole new ball game and it's certainly hard to predict what our sociopathic corporate masters will want for us then.

I agree with your premise, however. Killing your customers is usually considered "bad business" and is to be avoided most times.

However, given certain political and economic conditions, I do believe corporations could easily be convinced to give the go ahead to War.

</comment></comment><comment><USER33> Here's a discussion with the author, if anyone's interested:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFIa_szx_U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFIa_szx_U)

</comment><comment><USER34> " _A crackdown on international evasion is difficult because it requires international co-ordination, but common sense tells us this would be by no means impossible. Effective legal instruments to prevent offshore tax evasion are incredibly simple and could be enacted overnight, as the United States has just shown with its crackdown on oligarchs linked to Putin's regime. All you have to do is make it illegal for banks to enact transactions with territories that don't comply with rules on tax transparency._ "

Like Switzerland?

</comment><comment><USER34> " _From a sociological point of view, the crisis exacerbated faultlines running through contemporary societies, faultlines of city and country, old and young, cosmopolitan and nationalist, insider and outsider. As a direct result we have seen a sharp rise in populism across the developed world and a marked collapse in support for established parties, in particular those of the centre-left._ "

Weirdly, the "winners"[1] of the populism have been rural, older, nationalist, and very much insider[2]. Think of both Trump and Brexit supporters. I'm not entirely sure, but these don't seem to have been the people hurt the most by the economic crash. The whole situation has an incredibly strong disconnect between what's actually going on and the facade or veneer of what they think about it. Ideology trumps reality?

[1] I'm using "winner" because I can't think of anything better, but the "victory" is Pyrrhic. Not only are they shooting themselves in the foot, even if they weren't they would not have a good end game.

[2] Yes, the rhetoric is about outsiders, clearing the swamp and that sort of thing. But those are the most inside outsiders I've ever seen.

<comment><USER35> A really bizarre data that I saw during US elections, was that during pooling (before actual elections) the map of Trump voters, was almost identical to the map of places with high death rates.

Also largest trump voter demographic, as the media currently keep harping all the time as "racist whites males", is the only demographic in US with rising death rates.

I don't know why certain US demographics started since 2008 to die at such speed, suicides for example rising unusually fast, and "gun crime" when you actually split homocides and suicides, also show ludicrous numbers of suicides (while gun homicides are less than with other weaponry, like knives and bats).

So whatever happened, it affected a certain demographic epically bad...

And when someone propose to be a saviour, no matter how much you hate that person, you will vote for it... When people have literally nothing to lose and next "step" in their life, is death, anything else is better.

EDIT: tried to find original source, failed, but found this article instead... still make the same point: [http://www.businessinsider.com/maps-counties- where-opioid-de...](http://www.businessinsider.com/maps-counties-where-opioid- deaths-are-high-trump-2016-crisis-2017-10)

</comment></comment><comment><USER36> I read this piece last week and I liked it a lot. Anyone read his book?

</comment><comment><USER37> [https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSD/YyPhfM9s-Revised- Bi...](https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSD/YyPhfM9s-Revised-Bitcoin- Stance-Overall-Bitcoin-s-last-gasp-for-air-12K/)</comment>


In Search of Hess' Triangle (2014) - <AUTHOR> https://chriswhong.com/open-data/in-search-of-hess-triangle-part-1/ <comment><USER2> 'The lot is marked "VORHES", though some articles call it "Voorhees" or "Voorhis"'

I think this might be a derivation of the Dutch word "voorhuis" ([https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/voorhuis](https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/voorhuis)). The transliteration is "front house" (as in front office, portal, hall) and usually denotes a street level entrance to a larger complex. Given that New York had a lot of immigration from the Netherlands (heck, it was called New Amsterdam for a while) I think this might make sense.

</comment><comment><USER3> This is so much the HN I love! :) sticking it to the man, people figuring it out so many years later and me reading from the other side of world about the definace of David Hess (however small it may be)

<comment><USER4> HN 'sticking it to the man' like how mods purged the open letter critical of Google's authoritarian Dragonfly project? The thread that should be on the front page right now, with more upvotes than all other front page threads combined?

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18542830](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18542830)

<comment><USER3> I meant David Hess, not HN per se - but yes there is definitely a pro some- silicon-valley bias on HN.

edit: corrected typo

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Having spent a lot of time immersed in NYC property configurations recently, we can use the calculated sqft of 7.3 and look up the zoning on NYC ZoLa (zone C4-5) gives a commercial floor-area-ratio of 3.4. This means a building serving commercial tenants could be built with a grand total of about 24.8 sq ft. With standard set-backs, you're looking at about 5 floors but the top ones would be tight at around 3 sqft each.

</comment><comment><USER6> Given that presumably it includes a space down to a certain depth..

could one now confidently refer to it as a Hessoid?

<comment><USER7> Hesoid is greek poet: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod) :)</comment></comment>


No Miranda rights for now for bombing suspect - <AUTHOR> http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/no-miranda-rights-for-now-for-bombing-suspect-90362.html

<comment><USER2> >Ctrl+F link >cannot find 'Aaron' or 'schwartz'

way to pad out your clicks.

<comment><USER3> Can you please explain the relevance of your comment? I'm missing what you're trying to say.

<comment><USER4> the hn title has been changed. it contained Aaron Schwartz when submitted.</comment></comment></comment>