Definitely not. There is a possibility that it will sour your relationship with your boss (why take the risk?). Best to quietly find another job and resign in the appropriate manner and move on.
> I'm not sure a "show HN" section would have the same overall value for the community.
Last I heard HN was a community of people who build things. A separate "Show HN" section would allow you know... people to show what they are building. Extend this further, the homepage should be defaulted to "Show HN" and all the rest put onto "other" pages!
I think a third party can aggregate these and that would be enough. Personally, I like that HN is a single page to visit (more or less) with occasional ShowHN items appearing, I like seeing them, but would be less likely to visit a separate section......if they appeared in both I guess that would be ok.
I agree, especially that the "Ask HN" section is more valuable. However, the people who post "Show HN" posts will appear in Ask HN, making it cluttered. I'm essentially asking for a bit more organization.
This is what I would try to reach space: I would make a rope ladder system with poles extending at intervals to hold hydrogen balloons. I would space the balloons in a way that they won't affect other balloons or the ladder if they explode.
Contrary to what Red Bull would have you believe, balloons aren't a very effective means of reaching space. A balloon got Felix Baumgartner about 24 miles up, but the cable would have to go out beyond 22,000 miles.
Well you can't just fly 22,000km of cable into space with a rocket, and then drop it down. Using balloons to cover the first few km could save a bunch.
Also, there's a rather large difference between a multi-billion dollar internationally supported scientific operation, and a few million dollar marketing stunt.
If you can make a few hundred meters long carbon nano tube (which we can't right now), what's stopping you from making a balloon with a circumference of a few km, and how much cable could you lift up how high with that?
Since gravity decreases quadratically, the first miles are the ones that count.
Gravity does decrease quadratically, but the origin is the center of the earth, not the cable's anchor. The earth's diameter is over 12000 km, so gravity would not decrease significantly over the 10s of kilometers the balloons supported.
The cable has to be "anchored" beyond the point of geostationary orbit in order for it to pull itself taut and keep itself in orbit, else its own weight would cause it to simply fall back to Earth. Anything less than that would be an extremely tall building, and subject to the same limitations therein.
Not sure what you mean. I'm mainly watching 2 Youtube channels for a refresher right now (CrashCourse and Periodic videos). I find it captivating like programming or startups. In fact, if it wasn't for the expensive cost of chemicals, lab equipment etc I bet a chemistry startup would be much more exciting then a web startup. :-)
What "boatload of fucked up shit" are you referring to? Why do so many negative comments pop up about him all the time? Either I'm missing something or it's just ultra-liberals complaining about the conservatism in the country.
