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> I truly wonder why people don't just write a basic ledger

You have to have consensus to trust it, is why. If everyone monitors their box, they can see system output and usage. If everyone logs these observations as "work" and the commit it to the ledger, others can take the data and analyze it for usage to verify you are using/transmitting what your meter says it's doing.
Technically Soyuz can return a small amount of cargo, but it is extremely weight and volume limited. I couldn't find a precise figure, but it looks like it can return at most 50kg or so of cargo, in addition to crew.

Dragon can return about 2500kg in total (though it is quite volume limited), and has special facilities such as cargo racks that can support, for example, a powered freezer to hold scientific samples requiring such facilities.

None of the other operational vehicles -- Progress, Cygnus or HTV -- have any cargo return capability.

So the quote is correct in two respects: firstly, Soyuz isn't generally considered a "cargo vehicle"; and if you expand that definition, Soyuz can only carry an extremely small amount of a limited subset of possible return cargo that does not include the most interesting payloads such as frozen biological samples.

When the Commercial Crew vehicles become operational in the next couple of years they will also provide some cargo return capability, but that isn't their primary purpose and will be fairly limited under most circumstances.

The second round of the Commercial Cargo program -- CRS2 -- has selected Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser in addition to Dragon and Cygnus. Dream Chaser is a spaceplane that will provide substantial cargo return capability by landing on a runway. This will subject the payload to lower g-forces than Dragon and allow for a very short interval between leaving the station and cargo offloading and processing on the ground. Such capabilites will be extremely useful for returning delicate and time-sensitive experiments.

So, until Dream Chaser becomes operational, almost all cargo return capability will be provided by Dragon; and right now, the cargo that is returned not on Dragon is on the order of a rounding error.
I would love to be in your position.

My deepest, most honest urging to you is to NOT do what you are contemplating.

Just keep doing what you are doing for as long as you can and take the cash out and put it into stable investments for your retirement. By a nice house and car, have holidays, take care of your family. Use this to complete the task of gaining financial independence for the rest of your life. When that is well and truly done then sure, treat your business as something potentially disposable and turn it into a "company" - but even then I would not advise that.

I have done the company thing and always regretted not keeping it one-man-small and just milking all the cash out.

You are sitting on an incredibly valuable thing to you personally. Don't blow it by spending all the good cash on making a company.

The whole point of being in business is to make money for YOU. You have succeeded, you are past the finish line of my ultimate goal. Do not employ even a single person.

The fact that you are inexperienced in running a company emphasizes my point tenfold.
There's always a certain amount of faith involved in future-predicting. Show me a sure-fire way to predict the future in any better way, and I'll take that and make billions with it.
I don't see a problem. They don't claim to be a one-stop integrated security scanner for all your website needs. I'd be happy if they explicitly included something like a link to OWASP with "get more detailed info here". But I don't think they're misrepresenting the service.
If a business journalist or economist writes about robots it's usually breathlessly optimistic, technologically illiterate, wrong and usually sneaks in a whinge about unions and entitled workers.

This article isn't an exception.
I am a solo founder as well, and can attest to this fact. I raised from billionaires Tim Draper and Marc Benioff of Salesforce for an Open Source database http://gun.js.org/ (like Firebase).

Been trying to write up a blog post on my experience over the last 2 years, and will hopefully post it. Hit me up if anybody has any questions though.
But you should have known it if you watched the entire movie (which includes the credits).

If you're concerned, after-credit scenes are a good way to force people to sit through the end credits. Then the defense "I left earlier and thus didn't read that" becomes "I was talking to my friend while that disclaimer was on screen and thus didn't read it".
We live in the age of design
I had experience with a similar work environment, though I drew a different conclusion:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/08/business-til...
I am using this technique to lazy load and unload videos on my site[1]. Since there are many videos that autoplay on scroll, some mechanism is needed to stop loading a video that has been scrolled over.

I am using onScreen which I found more efficient than alternative solutions.

[1] http://rybakov.com/blog/

[2] https://github.com/silvestreh/onScreen
> If you DON'T trust your CEO, then your startup is also failing

Yes!
We underestimate how stigmatized these 8 gentlemen were for leaving their employer.

They were literally labeled "traitors" by their peers.

Their technical contributions are equaled by their company culture contributions.

It was "okay" to take an idea, open up a small start-up next door, and attempt to innovate faster than the parent companies.

And this concept is really core to the spirit and DNA of Silicon Valley today.
> Intellectual property is nothing but a racket.

It's easy to diregard IP when you don't own any, but if IP didn't exist the big, bad, evil corporations could steal ideas from people with no recourse. In fact, that's exactly what happened with Robert Kearns[0]. He invented the intermittent windshield wiper and attempted to license it to motor companies. They told him no and later implemented intermittent wipers themselves.

Sure, you can disregard it as "why does Kearns need to own that idea?" But if it werent for Kearns, we probably wouldn't have intermittenent wipers nowadays. Also, if companies could just steal ideas from other people instead of investing in R&D, why wouldn't they?

Sure, IP can be abused, but like the majority of laws, was created with good intentions. Killing IP instead of closing loopholes that allow abuse is attacking the problem, not the cause. Without getting too political, that's the problem the left has with guns and the right has with encryption.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kearns
It wasn't running as any sort of persistent service, if that's what you mean. It just ran during deployments to check output of old & new firewall generation methods for equivalence.

Something like what you describe was implemented in an Azure system called SecGuru, which is sort of a generalized version of firewall comparison to check security rule enforcement. Here is the whitepaper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Still beats most radio media or TV 'news' for attempting to be accurate!
The web experience on iOS is fundamentally broken. What's the point of even mentioning that anymore?
Why some manufacturers are returning to the U.S
This! I rememebr back in 00' we were always talking with friends about creating such map (school, neighbourhood, etc.) because it seemed funny to play on such map. Unfortunately nobody was skilled enough to make such map...
What incentive do people have to share?
$1 billion? That's an awfully high cut off since there aren't any cryptocurrencies in general that meet that requirement besides bitcoin.
> But I'm interested in a more fact-oriented discussion (you probably don't think those are specific, detailed facts).

I like facts as much at the next guy, but good, actionable, agenda-free facts are actually pretty hard to come by. So many times I've read a convincing article painting things a certain way, and then later seeing one convincingly saying that the previous article was full of misinformation.

You don't get out of the need for good, experience-based intuitive analysis just by looking at facts. And facts won't prevent you from being horribly wrong.

> Plenty of protectionism in all major parties these days, enough to sink this advantage, at least.

Protectionism is fighting a tide, it doesn't actually possess the capability to reverse decades of progress on globalization. Only to accelerate or decelerate it. It's now market forces that make the biggest difference, not political ones. Politics was never bigger than the market anyway, which is why market-friendly policies are better for people in the long run.
searching right now from germany: scihub has sci-hub.cc as first result, the wikipedia article second (wikipedia has the link ofc). The search term sci-hub has sci-hub.io as first result (which is down) and wikipedia as second result.

DDG features the real sci-hub (with various domains, including onion proxies), wikipedia, sci-hub.org and sci-hub.com equally prominently depending on the exact search term.
The US offshored so much of its manufacturing, I have to wonder if there is sufficient critical mass of knowledge, people, infrastructure, etc. left to effectively automate. Or if American firms will instead buy solutions from Chinese automation companies, and the US ends up ceding the large-scale (or even decentralized distributed-scale) automated manufacturing future to China as well. This could leave the US performing very high-end manufacturing requiring lots of labor input, but what happens when what the Chinese firms learned with automation in the lower-end manufacturing is used to encroach on this high-end?

Bunnie Huang pointed out the very ecosystem of lots of manufacturers in close physical proximity to each in China other enables them to try different ideas, failing fast and cheaply (the dual SIM feature came out of such freewheeling experimentation). Can the US automate if it has gaps in its own manufacturing capabilities having let it atrophy for so many decades, or are US business leaders assuming a future where they are always purchasing "lower-end" manufactured parts from the next China (and if they are, how are they ensuring those "lower-end" manufacturers don't climb up the value ladder and take their market from them)?
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Thanks. I'm glad to hear Apcera is branching out and that you're excited to work there.
One moral justification is that the ability to own and profit from intellectual property gives people a powerful incentive to create and share new things.

You seem to be making a statement from first principles: ownership of ideas is absurd. Which, of course, it is. But on the same level of abstraction, who can own land or water or sky? No one.

But of course, to "own" these things is an abstraction for a contract created by the societies we're born into, about what you're permitted to do and what happens to people who break the contract. And in that sense, the argument needs to be about what costs and benefits to society, collectively and individually, come with that contract.
`git send-email` may work well, but it's an extremely niche way to send email and therefore it puts a huge barrier in the way of contributing to a project for the first time: is my "From" address correct, have I got SMTP configured correctly, etc etc. I just sent a patch to an open source project and attached it as a file using Google's mail client because as you say pasting it an email is a silly thing to do. But it ended up with some sort of non-text MIME encoding and therefore wasn't visible in HTML mailing list web pages, and I had to send a follow-up with it pasted into the email. So now there's a mess, and which one is the point of truth? I just want to contribute a patch, I don't want to think about low-level implementation details of email.

The discussion you link to seems to be mostly a rant against using the Gihub UI to create commits. What the overwhelming majority of good software engineering teams do nowadays is create commits locally and then use some tool to provide a review interface for a branch (e.g. Gitlab, Github or the stuff used internally at bigger companies).

Incidentally Linus links to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.kernel/w957vpu... which indicates that apparently Linux kernel development uses the "published branch" workflow, in addition to (?) the "email patches" workflow.
It's an interesting hypothesis, but it presumes all engineering for manufacturing is done in China, which is usually not the case. It was my impression most manufacturing in China is "offshored" by American firms. I have no idea what the actual stats are though, so it'd be tough to say one way or another.
Copyright law is ridiculous and needs to be reformed immediately.

We should give up the battle with Disney. They have billions of dollars to throw at politicians and lobbyists to ensure the Mouse never goes out of copyright (even though they treat it more as a trademark, and couldn't care less whether people watch the original steamboat willy cartoons on youtube.)

But scientific research is different. Nonfiction work in general is different. Why should vastly different categories of works, with different values to society, economics, etc, be treated the same by copyright law?

I propose we vastly decrease the restrictions of copyright on at least nonfiction works. Make them enter the public domain sooner, make it more difficult to register for copyright, perhaps require renewal half way through to prove the work is still economical, etc.

It's just obscene that the vast majority of humanity's knowledge is locked away behind copyright ridiculousness. Journals charge obscene prices to access papers, which were often funded with public money. Works sit behind copyright barriers long after the author's death and they fall out of print.

The internet could be much greater than it is. I mean sure there is a ton of content on the internet already, and wikipedia has been fantastic and collecting the world's knowledge. But there is so much stuff that only exists in books and papers, that should be publicly accessible.

See also the science section on Public Domain Day: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2015/pre-1976 and https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2016/pre-1976
"My friend", my wife served 8 years in the military and did two tours in Iraq and my grandfather served as a quartermaster. You are obviously extrapolating from no data when you say I have no exposure to the Army. I certainly have more experience with the Army than you have with the prison system.

But you, "friend", keep talking about the experience in a modern volunteer army.

What is your experience in a conscripted army? What is your experience in an army containing people whose choice is "jail or military"? From your history, your grandparents recently passed away, which means you no older than 50. The US became an all volunteer army in 1973, so if you, a non-American, served as a Combat Engineer in the US military then you at best heard things second-hand.

You are right, it isn't conscription, but the difference is mighty small. If you are conscripted, you go into the military or you can choose to go jail. If you are in front of a judge, you go to prison or you can choose to join the military. The difference is almost only the time you might serve in jail. (Conscientious objectors have another option.)

The US military flat out says they don't people who are forced to choose between the military or jail. Why do you think the military is so strongly against what you think would be so useful? (Hint: https://www.army.mil/article/106813/ )

Do you believe in equal justice under the law? If so, what of those who cannot join the military, perhaps because they don't have a high school degree, or are too short, or handicapped, or don't meet some other military requirement? Or those who are pacifists or another type of C.O.? According to you, they'll become criminals as they have no other option than prison. Sucks to be them!

Regarding the treatment in jails, I again point to my earlier statement, "By that I mean a sane prison, like what Norway has, with the goal of rehabilitation, and not the inhumane US prisons designed to punish." Do you think Norwegian jails are a place where people learn to be criminals?

Ahh, but looking at your comment history I see you think the Norwegian penal system is morally corrupt, not punitive enough, and you think execution can be a form of justice. It seems you would rather have a penal system which breeds criminals than one which does its best to rehabilitate, though knowing there will be some failures.

I notice you didn't answer my question about what you meant by "back in the day" and patriotism. Since you are not an American, which country and patriotism are you referring to?
Is the Bible sold as non-fiction? Seems like many of the same logical points apply.
I agree with this, but what else would perform the coordination?
I agree with you 100% from a publisher's point of view.
Which is also one of the ways paul graham according to his faq, suggests one learn to program. Win win.
> "Vision without execution is hallucination" - Thomas Edison

I like this one better:

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -- Henry David Thoreau

Both quotes are getting at pretty much the same point, I think, but the Thoreau quote is kinder, and more encouraging.
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This might be somewhat off-topic but do we really always have to conduct a study first before we can acknowledge and solve a problem that is obvious if you have any common sense?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12371892 and marked it off-topic.
It's not a strawman, it was and is the main argument used, and that's exactly because it's the most meritorious. In fact, I've never seen the argument about protecting the publishers (ie, themselves). For example, from RIAA's website:

Music theft happens everywhere, and it’s important for fans to help look out for illegal activity that damages the creative freedom of the artists you love. If you see pirated music—either online or in person—let us know here so we can better protect artists from illegal music sales.
Sony has been doing it for a while for the Z-range. In fact, they even provided N Preview images for the Z3, as the first and only non-Nexus.

The Xperia Z has a fully functional (all hardware, no major issues) Android 4.4 build a week after the 4.4 sources were released. It was the first non-Nexus with a working KitKat. Sony provided the right stuff on GitHub and their devices are very easy to develop for.
I think we generally agree in the outcome we want, just disagree on how to get there.

I'm not proposing doing nothing. I'm stating making targeted efforts to go after this specific case is a silly waste of effort (at best - at worst it's placebo) is all. I would rather see that effort go towards actually reforming the system that allows monopolies to form when they don't make (open) market sense.

Otherwise I do think we agree - the end result is Mylan can't charge $600 Epipen.
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What? It's not adjusted for inflation unless they say it is, obviously. They didn't say whether the figure was in US or Singapore dollars, either, and for the same reason.
California has special standards for gasoline and fuel efficiency under a special exemption to the Clean Air Act granted to California and only California.
These kinds of comments are not OK on Hacker News. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh... Fins not Finns. The story makes more sense now.
The cat-and-mouse story of implementing anti-spam for Mail.Ru email service
At least we'd get rid of the silly and fragile "domain ownership verification", which is often email based and therefore dependent on DNS MX record security - or in the case of ACME/LetsEncrypt usually DNS A records for HTTP, which is a totally ridiculous exercise since the registrar already knows you are the owner of the domain.
@joshka, add a 2013 tag
Back in the bad old days of Linux, you could easily damage your monitor with the wrong xorg.conf settings.

Back when a certain kind of line printer was commonplace (has a circulating ribbon with the typeface repeated, and n hammers in a line going across the entire width) programmers could sabotage the printer by printing the pattern on the ribbon. This would cause all of the hammers to fire at once, which the machine wasn't designed to withstand.

I've also heard of monitors being broken by having the speaker output the resonant frequency of the glass cover. However, I can't vouch for this one.
Do you have a source for that? I have had a couple of classes on environmental law. My general understanding is states can raise the bar on federal expectations, but not lower the bar.

Thanks.
You have Juncker backwards. He was saying internal EU borders are a bad idea.

Rejecting all borders is a tenable ethical claim - indeed it's hard to justify why states should exist in most ethical frameworks that value human equality - but Juncker didn't go there.

But yes, Britain sabotaged the EU, including its having a joined-up defense and border strategy. Indeed, you might expect the departure of the most Eurosceptic nation to strengthen the EU.
They're using a different system called "proof of stake".

In proof of work, the more work you put in solving hashes the more chance you have of writing the next block of transactions into the block chain (and thereby receiving a reward).

The idea is that if there are more honest miners(people who perform this computation) vs attackers, then the honest miners will always have solved more and harder to compute hashes then the attackers, so any long enough string of blocks the attackers put forth will not have as much work put into them as a corresponding string of blocks by honest miners.

But this is why its energy inefficient, because people compete to put more work in solving hashes, which has no real useful purpose but takes a lot of electricity.

In proof of stake, the greater amount of in-block chain currency you own gives you a greater chance of writing into the block chain and receiving a reward. So it eliminates the work bit, and hence the gobs of electricity people put into it.

There have been various theoretical attacks against proof of stake, and several technological improvements to it to thwart possible attacks. To date, though, no one has been able to successfully attack any major proof of stake currency.

So to answer your question, the energy necessary to run a proof of stake currency is negligible in comparison to a proof of work currency, such as bitcoin.
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Thanks for your inputs.
Nice House. Check.
Nice Car. Check.
Happily Married. Check.

Just keep doing what you are doing for as long as you can and take the cash out.

I am quite a super ambitious guy and I don't wish to keep all my eggs-in-one basket. Though am doing good for several years but we can never be sure of things when technology changes so abruptly. I feel if I am able to expand, I can multiply my finances and the value that I can give back to society many folds.

I sincerely thank you for putting in your time to answer my question but my original question remains :).
ftupid fhithead.

It's a Futurama (Suturama?) joke that I absolutely love.
I would tack onto this argument that, in the case of scientific research, the assignment of research intellectual property to journal publishers is a backwards and inappropriate use of intellectual property anyway.
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