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> Lesson: You can achieve a lot with just a few people and a little money

... if your rent/insurance etc. is magically paid for you by a fairy for the whole duration of your startup's early stage. Easy! If you don't get the lesson, read it again: You can achieve a lot with just a few people and a little money.

People seem to dismiss this factor too easily and assume that anyone can become an entrepreneur the moment they decide to become an entrepreneur. No, it's not that easy for the majority of people.
Discussion on a similar article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18208954 (65 comments)
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Nope, I was reading an article: The Milky Way Could Be Spreading Life From Star to Star -> https://www.universetoday.com/140223/the-milky-way-could-be-...
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"it doesn’t quite have the same punch to me"

I think one reason for that could be that the Wakanda city in Black Panther looks and feels like a city dressed in cultural heritage or a theme park, with regular "western looking" high tech insides. Look at the lab for instance. Your generic villain/Star Trek/Super Hero/Industrial lab. The whole city looks very Star Trek, very bland. I don't dislike it, but it's been done in countless STTNG episodes.

I think a depiction of an African sci-fi where the tech and the soft is reversed, would be very interesting.

In Wakanda you have cultural theme park on the outside, hard tech on the inside.

I'd rather see the opposite - hard generic tech on the outside, commandeered by a creamy, cultural inside.

Background:

Maybe the African continent was mostly spared in some kind of cataclysmic event, now some African countries are super rich from trading food and skilled labor (management and security detail mostly?) to the rest of the world for tech and tech know how in return. Refugees line its border and only people with strong know how and good teaching skills are let in.

The opening scene could get some inspiration from Chappy and District 9, but with an even stronger emphasis on tech as super advanced but casual - make the connection as well to advanced tech and magic. Skip the step where people stop believing in magic.
It's generally grown in South American rain forests, I would imagine they don't use irrigation, so the water requirement is irrelevant.
There’s “prior art” and “prior art (as defined by patent law)”. They are not the same, in much the way “map” doesn’t mean the same thing to programmers and non-programmers.
Since this amount of money lost isn't outrageous to the Air Force, what was keeping them from moving the planes we paid for, and spending the ~billion dollars on us and our pursuit of happiness, liberty, and life?
The military leadership in belgium also commented that it had to be a very unlucky combination of circumstances, but they didn’t want to say more without further investigation.
Maybe a stupid question, but how comes they cannot just obstruct the front sensors for faceid to fail?
From the article: "The F-22s left behind could not fly for either mechanical or safety reasons, said a spokeswoman, who also said all the hangars on base were damaged."
Sorry the title of the article is in-kernel file system. Did I miss something?
Well, completely different game in Europe, even if you live frugally. Not even close. Some of you Bay Area guys are really condescending
Having spent the last two months the in Italy it’s really sad to see what it is like. Some parts are beautiful but other parts are filthy and feel thirdworld like. I don’t understand how the worlds 10th largest economy is so dirty in such a poor state
The whole article sounds insane from my perspective.
If Google keeps acqui-hiring these kinds of people, it's going to turn into a mad house eventually. No wonder Google is starting to have issues about being out-of-touch now.
So we didn't budget for maintenance?
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Harsh. I've seen this happen many times and on every occasion it's been taken light-heartedly/no offence/whatever. I think you were incredibly unlucky.
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So detailed they sounded suspicious to some: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuspiciouslySpec...
If only they could have just flown somewhere else!
Personally I wouldn't be surprised if there was a backdoor of some sort in the firmware or deniable known vulnerabilities to exploit but just a spy chip seems too Hollywood and symbolic given other approaches - adding a 'parasite' to corrupt it when they can just integrate it such that a very expensive and detailed analysis would be needed to find it.
> Less extreme inflation relative to economic growth could boost relative competitiveness of labor costs is their own slight advantage but even that would call for a decline in standard of living as a corollary.

The question is do you focus on the "real" economy or the spreadsheet? If you are able to devalue and take the increase of import costs and generate competitive advantage by adding more value at a lower cost then the possibility is that your real economy will grow. More activity will create more actual wealth, which will help your fiscal position and restore standards of living over time. There are a lot of dependencies there, but there is a possible out.

On the other hand you can do what happened in Greece, stand behind the currency, slash spending. The problem is that this cuts the real economy without improving competitiveness. The Greek solution (and IMF standard) is to liberalise, sell assets and introduce more market activity into controlled sectors. The problem with this is that you have to actually do it and not just talk (Greece largely hasn't) and also while sometimes it has worked it seems that the precondition for it working has to be that the sectors in question are healthy and straining at the leash... which is not the case in crisis economies in general.
My only issue with Mastodon is that it does not solve the issue of authenticity - you can't verify that a post sent by a user was not forged or modified by one of the servers in the federation. This is where public key crypto could help.
From the article: ““One of them was scheduled to leave but GABed [ground aborted] after an issue prior to taxi. The other three were jets that couldn't be spun up in time to fly.” Two had been cannibalized for parts, he said, and the others had “issues that couldn't be fixed. They were in hangars that [they] are usually put in according to hurricane plans.””
These are not difficult political questions. The US through NATO are forcing Belgium to buy F35s, and that'll be that. Out of all the jets allegedly in the running, only F35s can be used to drop US nukes. The very same US nukes which have been sitting around in Belgium for decades. The worst best kept secret in the country. No politician is willing/allowed to go on record about this, so they all pretend other jets are beinv considered.
Roughly three weeks. Honestly their communication could've been clearer and let me know my options versus me having to kind of prod a bit.

Also it's not _just_ his practice, as he's got many other technicians that he trains to do this level of high quality repairs.
Wow, that's actually correct according to wikipedia

In FY 2017, the Congressional Budget Office reported spending of $590 billion for defense, about 15% of the federal budget.[1] For the FY 2019 president Donald Trump proposed an increase to the military to $681.1 billion. [2]
The EU is not working for people as it worked for peace and banks. There is nothing shameful in that, the process is difficult and has so many enemies within and outside Europe. Italy often acts as a politics lab, let’s see what happens in May 2019 with the general European election in the EU.
- geopolitical tensions

- natural catastrophes
The idea of the project is to give user something light, something that could cover a set of basic needs when you develop a web-service (Like rest-framework, basic DI-framework, web-client, connection management, object-mapping etc...) and make it highly customizable at the same time.

So when you need to kickoff something from scratch you don't need to do anything more than a git clone starter-project and start coding.
And when it comes time for additional requirements you cant easily substitute ex. any SSL backend, any http-client, add http compression etc...
And oat++ provides interfaces to configure there things.

See more:
Example how to create web-service with swagger-uI and auto-documented endpoints
https://medium.com/oatpp/c-oatpp-web-service-with-swagger-ui...
The mac keyboards have a nearly hermetic seal on the backside, the backlight is backed with plastic and rubber and soft-glued to the backside of the keyboard tray.

If you do spill on a mac, flip it upside down asap and power it off asap. Then remove the back panel and disconnect the battery. The keyboard might be lost, but the rest of the computer is usually fine.
Does that $1b replacement cost include the cost of restarting the f22 assembly line?
Why would you ever opt to go thru Lua in this case?
I think it depends a lot on the environment in which you work. I worked tech support at a large university and we had a lot of autonomy to when it came to troubleshooting and solving problems. It was also a very heterogeneous environment with a wide variety of users which meant we got all kinds of problems to solve. On the whole, I loved that job.

On the other hand I've had friends that worked tech support for a large telecoms company and that was all scripts and zero autonomy. That job sounded like pure hell.
There's many billions more dollars where that came from.
I think Italy’s issues are more to do with its government and corruption than the EU. The EU seems to be working for a lot of the other countries just fine economically.
Increasing tension between countries that reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses and developing countries that immediately undo the reduction with growth.

Growing immigration as a result of flooding and draught.
Oh that Select. Yawn.
But, but ... the action hero scenario then? Strafing enemy while taxiing to the runway?!
We should kick them, an all other questionable economies, out of the Euro, to tbe frank.
Small fires are a good thing. It usually makes the system prepare for the big ones.

The big problem in hyper-connected systems is feedback loops.
Bump was such a silly idea. It's a miracle that they were able to get so many users. It's one of those ideas that sounds good at first glance but after thinking about it for a couple of minutes, you understand that it's actually a very bad idea. Maybe it picked up because of all the YC hype.

I don't see how the act of physically bumping phones together to share content adds any value at all.

It's disturbing that the founder would then go on and write an article about the whole experience. This represents everything that's wrong with startup accelerators.
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The title is funny but oh man, why trolling so hard.
He's still mostly right about academia - over half the projects in your list are by Google. The best many universities can offer in the area of CS is to be a training school for the places where the real work is done.

I hear lots of anecdotes from colleagues about academic research conferences in certain areas like "big data" where people are excitedly talking about "new" things that industry did years ago, but didn't publish in an academic journal. And then there's the people claiming they're doing "big data" because there's slightly over a million rows in their MySQL database.
Despite the shortcomings of the EU, national politicians are also using the EU for shifting the blame of their own failings. In the longer term, this undermines trust in the EU and gives rise to populism.

That’s not to say that people who vote populist don’t have a point. It’s hard to understand why companies are making billions in profits, while people are scrambling to make ends meet.
I find it sad that European airforces buy so many US planes.
this is no surprise, i imagine university would have been a breeze if i hadnt had to also work full time to cover my living costs, it doesnt matter how intelligent you are when you barely have the time or energy to do the work to an acceptable standard let alone to an exceptional one
The train of easy hackable throw away game-engine-networkcode continuous. (Remember the Division debacle?) Well, a industry that treats its employees like this is always going to be a cesspool of incompetence.
Interesting is the reaction here - the externalisation of the cost of security incompetence.
This here is the deterrent law model sneaking in, basically a industry shirking responsibilities - like building cheat safe game code by lobbying to make exploits of that lousy network architecture a crime. The result is fable, untested infrastructure.
Criminal behavior by organized crime beeing rampant until finally the cost to fix is demanded by the state via regulation.

Never going to happen in this throwaway industry though.
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So we budgeted for maintenance, but no one cared to fix the planes we paid for? ...costing us ~$1billion
The idea explained in a computer animated video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWChhdIgT6Q&gl=BE
Italy, che!
> Then when a user visits a site, P3P will compare what personal information the user is willing to release, and what information the server wants to get – if the two do not match, P3P will inform the user and ask if he/she is willing to proceed to the site, and risk giving up more personal information.[4] As an example, a user may store in the browser preferences that information about their browsing habits should not be collected. If the policy of a Website states that a cookie is used for this purpose, the browser automatically rejects the cookie.

This sounds ideal, or at bare minimum, vastly superior to preferences boxes which take 10+ seconds or more of JavaScript to load, and impede access to content, (and sometimes don't load properly and never go away).
The European Union works reasonably well, the problem is with the Euro.

Not currency union can work properly without a fiscal union.
Yes, there are more people willing to pay $10 than people willing to pay $50. But, how many people willing to pay $50 would prefer to pay $10 and will switch once the option arises?
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Three men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
Kind of a funny book.
This is the reason people are hopeful of cryptocurrencies which essentially is digital cash.
Small fires, yes. Small fires all together as OP describes may be the problem.
"[..] and also while sometimes it has worked [..]"

Can you give us some examples where this IMF standad solution has worked?
The EU is overgrown from mild benevolent rules unifying member countries on similar traits to a massive body of law and power that nobody knows.

I used to be quite against Brexit but after seeing on of the videos on the EU I am now skeptical. There are 3 big voting bodies: EU Council, EU Parliament, and EU comission. The majority of people don't know the difference and nobody knows the people in there. In the last decade they started micro-managing everything in the EU. Think of gdpr and the new copyright rules. It's starting to resemble a big authoritarian state.

Also they apply uniformly the same strategy for countries like Germany/Austria/Netherlands and Greece/Portugal/Italy when they are in very different situations. The former are quite happy with the arrangement, the latter are trapped in a death spiral.
For *BSD - https://bsd.network/

BTW, maybe exists something like to the "Awesome-Mastodon-Instances" for IT? BSD have instance, Ruby have instance, but how about Python, Linux, Computer Graphics, Game Development and so on. :-)
Two F16s were damaged, although it's not clear from the article if the other one is also a write-off.
Doesn’t SHAREit help with transferring between iOS, android and even PCs.
Agreed. I taught myself basic echo location several months back after reading about Daniel Kish and being curious.

It doesn't need any external equipment to get the basics. To start out simply, just close your eyes in a (very) dark room and get the hang of the different sounds when a wall is close in front of you (couple inches) vs not.

Once you can clearly detect that difference, start extending from there. It definitely works ok.
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> fires canon and blows up F16

Though why the Belgian Air Force fired a minor cleric for this incident goes unanswered.
It's interesting to note that, regardless of actual origin of life, a significant exchange might have been occurring (or is still occurring) between Solar System bodies (judging by how we found a number of Martian meteorites on Earth). So if we find life elsewhere in the Solar System, it might be quite compatible.

The idea is mentioned in Kim Stanley Robinson's "2312", where simple organisms exist in Enceladus's ocean, and some people inject them for fun (with neutral or mildly beneficial effects).
It sure is silly to buy an expensive military plane if one cannot produce all parts including the engines domestically... how is hauling spares from across the Atlantic going to work in a hot situation?
couldn't make it through as he says "right?" at the end of every sentence
Look at it this way - climate change is making the job of keeping a functional military harder and harder - something that may help focus minds as much as IPCC reports.
Your line of commenting here is unreasonable and does a disservice to any valid criticism of military spending.

Planes cannot be fixed instantly. I would hope that is obvious.

This was a powerful storm that did a huge amount of damage to more than just these planes. You could take a more generous and broad view of the events and ask if saving these planes would have been worth the opportunity cost to other resources that would have then been left in the storm's path.
The EU lured all the Mediterranean countries with sudden cheap credit and currency stability. But they didn't think of the consequences. Too cheap credit brings inefficiency and breeds corruption.

There was a reason those countries had bad rates before joining. And most of the causes of those issues were swept under the rug. Now who is going to pay for the consequences?
Probably more likely: Override sensor malfunction while in the air.

Kinda sucks if your multi million plane gets shot down because it couldn't fire a missile because of a 50 Euro sensor malfunction...
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I'm stating the following since I've seen you appeal to your work history and say "trust me, I've been in this for a long time" far too many times to give you a pass here.
There are plenty of tptacek posts on HN, where it is crystal clear to anyone with similar years in the domain as yours that you're either entirely wrong or deliberately misleading. You need to make a proper argument if you want to convince me.

There were computers, telecommunications, dial-up modems, X.25 and private networks in the 90s but the degree of cohesion, sublimation and intra-connectivity wasn't anywhere close to what we have today. Consequently, the actor domain looked very different and concepts such as cyberwarfare weren't even in the public eye. Morris worm vs NotPetya. Sure, barrier to entry was very low compared to now. But, as Dan Geer has repeatedly shown, risk has grown tremendously even if the field has gotten a lot harder. You don't think that completely disproves you?
What I'm saying is we should analyze if those problems will fuel a feedback loop or not.
It's common practice to use a small number of planes as spare part source to keep a larger group flying while you wait for spares to be delivered. Better 3 planes with lots of bits missing than 10 with one piece broken each.
Why do ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name (FJCVTZS)?
These planes require many man hours of maintenance for each flight hour. So it isn't unusual for them to be in a state where maintenance isn't complete.
When meeting someone at at an event or conference, what is the best way to exchange details? Does one need a business card, or do we just give a Twitter/Facebook id, or a email address or phone number etc?
Not irrelevant, just not tracked. In a Bayesian sense, we're using water, but we don't know how much.
But what problem would that solve?

Of course it's easy to say "It's their own fault, let them stew in their misery", but that doesn't enhance stability.

The EU isn't about making everybody rich, but it is about preventing poverty to such a degree that people en masse would start to panic vote for the first strongman who promises to fix everything.

If your solution is the same as the anti-EU politicians from a country ("We should revert to sovereign currency so we can print our way to wealth") it's likely not the best solution for the long term interest of the bloc.
> ”There are 3 big voting bodies: EU Council, EU Parliament, and EU comission. The majority of people don't know the difference and nobody knows the people in there.”

As a pro-Brexit argument, this seems weak. I think most people can’t explain the difference between the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the Cabinet either.

The EU structure really isn’t that complex when you remember that its power is granted by the member states, so the highest authority is an oversight body consisting of each country’s elected governments — that’s the EU council. The Commission is the executive branch and the Parliament is legislative. That’s it.
Not many countries are capable of building their own fighter jets. Many use hand-me-downs from the US or Russia. Some more 'favoured' partners can buy them outright, but terms & conditions apply...

There are rumours about US intervention/approval being required when loading the F35 computer with mission details..
A theory that can never be tested is as much a religion as any.
The most recent launch was August 2018, https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/missions/nexo-ii/

> The Nexø rocket class is a technology demonstrator in advance of building the significantly bigger Spica rocket that will take our astronaut to space ... The rocket flew in a perfect line up to app. 6500 m, where the nosecone was discarded, and the ballute did its job: Stabilising the rocket, and then deploying the main parachute that carried the rocket down to a gentle splashdown in the sea. The rocket was quickly recovered as planned – and even the nosecone was found. This splash cannot be underestimated: It was the first time we had a rocket land in a parachute, and that with a speed so low that an astronaut would have survived the impact. Also, the DPR system proved to be as successful as we hoped. This system, that uses a helium tank to maintain a constant pressure in the fuel og oxidizer tanks, paves the way for a rocket that can fly an astronaut all the way to space without the need for extremely complicated turbopumps. In other words: The Nexø I and II has done their job as concept demonstrators for the systems that now can be scaled up to the much bigger, manrated Spica rocket class.
And yet people still manage to accidentally shoot themselves when cleaning their firearms.

Usually it's a series of failures that lead to such an incident, rather than one single critical failure. Failsafes aren't failproofs.
I really love the statement from the colonel in charge of the base; it's clear, concise, and conveys his message perfectly.

> Wing Command Col. Brian Laidlaw said in a statement Friday the base was "better than yesterday, and that is how it is going to continue to be. We will continue to persevere."

I like it so much that I really just want to make it a motto to live by: "things are better than yesterday and that is how I will continue to make them."