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In Search of Hess’ Triangle (2014)

53 points by hardmath123 8y ago

basicplus2 8y ago
Given that presumably it includes a space down to a certain depth.. could one now confidently refer to it as a Hessoid?
- vackosar 8y ago
  Hesoid is greek poet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod :)
- coldcode 8y ago
  Hess's Triangle sounds like something that should be applied to a math problem or proof or geometric construction. Make the name of Hess live forever.
tshanmu 8y ago
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)
- wallace_f 8y ago
  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
  - tshanmu 8y ago
    I meant David Hess, not HN per se - but yes there is definitely a pro some-silicon-valley bias on HN. edit: corrected typo
anon1253 8y ago
'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.
millisecond 8y ago
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.

53 points by hardmath123 8y ago

basicplus2 8y ago

Given that presumably it includes a space down to a certain depth.. could one now confidently refer to it as a Hessoid?

vackosar 8y ago
Hesoid is greek poet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod :)
coldcode 8y ago
Hess's Triangle sounds like something that should be applied to a math problem or proof or geometric construction. Make the name of Hess live forever.

tshanmu 8y ago

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)

wallace_f 8y ago
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
- tshanmu 8y ago
  I meant David Hess, not HN per se - but yes there is definitely a pro some-silicon-valley bias on HN. edit: corrected typo

anon1253 8y ago

'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.

millisecond 8y ago

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.