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Ask HN: Co-founder split, company not yet incorporated
Me and 3 others were working on a hardware/software idea in the music domain. One of the co-founders decided to split because of the following reasons :

1. Did not feel that equity should be split equally.
2. His personal vision did not align with what was good for the company(he said this himself).
3. He had issues with me "calling shots". We've known each other for more than a decade. This has nothing to do with the decisions that were taken, but more of a first among equals conundrum.

We were in the middle of incorporating a Pvt Ltd. So I am not legally protected.
The other 2 co-founders have decided to move on. They are finding this financially taxing and want to pursue higher studies.
Everyone except me is fresh out of college, I have one years experience (at a startup where we crowdfunded open source hardware).

My Contrib
Software (API, smartwatch app, etc.) as well as building the website (static).
Inputs on the hardware design from my end, but no commits to the repo.
Outreach :Setting up meetings with investors, bringing technical mentors onboard

I have spent roughly 50% of total expense.

The co-founder who has decided to split wants to work on the idea by himself and wants the other 3 of us out. He has said he is willing to compensate us for our expenses, and pay some remuneration for the effort put in.

1. How do I get a clean break from this ? This is more in an emotional context than anything else. I've documented and shared quite a few ideas about this particular project, and I feel quite close to it.
2. How should I calculate my remuneration after expenses ? Should this be calculated based on my salary at previous employer or something similar ?
3. Assuming I continue to work on this idea alone or with some of the other co-founders, what are the legal hassles involved ? Who gets to own what ? Is it even worth the effort, considering the fact that investors are wary about such a history.
There are things that can be done within exams to counter those issues. For instance, the exams I set are heavily scaled. There may be 200 points available to be earned across 15 short essay questions. The raw scores generally fall between 45-90, which I then scale to set an acceptable average. So you can bomb or even skip questions and still be top of the class.

Not much can be done if a student is sick on the day, but I would argue that multiple tests on multiple days only increases the likelihood of sickness during at least one test.
> Do you currently report how much cash is in the bank and your corresponding runway to your employees?

The startup I work for does, and other startups provide this level of transparency as well. It's not hard, unless you're incompetent at communication and finance (but you shouldn't, right? because you're a founder/co-founder/leadership who has peoples' financial lives in your hands, because this isn't a game for people who need to make rent/mortgage payments every month).

"We have X in the bank, this is our runway, we have this many more months to be profitable or raise another round."
This is anecdotal, but when I was his age and getting into the "real" tech world (and getting my work recognized), I really disliked my age being made a big deal. A big influence on my own view (and I think many others in this community) of being a "hacker" was Steven Levy's "Hacker Ethic", which specifically said:

"Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, sex, or position"

While it is great that we recognize good work like this, bringing up his age in the title is focusing on a pretty irrelevant metric when we should focus on good work, no mater who makes it.
I _never_ eat breakfast and I'm fat.
The standard of proof was preponderance of evidence, meaning that Pao failed to prove that P(KP is biased) > P(KP is not biased), or, alternatively, that the jury found that P(KP is not biased) >= P(KP is biased).
So Daala will be fused with Thor like happened with CELT and SILK to create Opus? Does it make sense technically, or they are radically different?
Well, CoralineAda with that whole Opal thing for one. I guess I was unclear, I didn't mean outsiders as in people who don't contribute to open source as much as outsiders who don't contribute to specific projects coming into those projects and trying to impose a COC. Perhaps I'm overreacting.
Can anyone explain what the value-add of this product is?

If it's increasing memory sizes, we already have virtual memory.

If it's about increasing IO speeds to NVM, we already have NVMe.

Those configurations are more widely-supported and cheaper, so why would anyone rely on this product?
You are possibly correct, but I have no insights into this company, hence I cannot come to conclusion as to what they have or should have. The situation may just be more complicated and complex than the spreadsheet theory.
I am not saying I would not. I would have probably acted 180 degrees differently, but that does not mean she did not make the best decision for everyone involved.
Crowdbooster (YC S10) Is Hiring a PR Hacker
Who we are

We’re a San Francisco-based startup funded by renowned investors including Y Combinator, Stanford StartX, SV Angel, Charles River Ventures, Steven Chen and Esther Dyson. The product we have in the market can be found at http://crowdbooster.com/— our clients consist of thousands of world-class brands, agencies, non-profits and celebrities. We are launching our second venture not ready for the public eye just yet, but if you’re interested after reading the descriptions below, give us a shout!

We're looking for...

PR Hacker (Full-Time)

Crowdbooster is looking for someone to join us full-time to work on a new project (not public on the website).

You must be:
- Experienced with public relations and looking to bring a fresh take to an industry that really needs it. You previously were a journalist or worked in PR, communications or media relations, whether in-house, as a consultant, or at an agency.
- A confident and fast writer/storyteller.
- A savvy communicator who can conduct 20-minute interviews with contacts from every industry and come away with a deep understanding of their story. You are comfortable working with clients regardless of whether they are developing consumer-facing mobile apps, selling enterprise software or conducting biotech research.
- A voracious consumer of media. You naturally know what reporters look for in stories and which current events a company can take advantage of (see this: https://medium.com/backchannel/how-the-tech-press-forces-a-n...).
- Creative enough to come up with surprising angles to get a client media coverage.
- An organized and systematic thinker. You will define and drive our product and technology development as you find the bottlenecks and breaking points in the process.
- Adaptable and forward-thinking because what you do at the company now will be very different three months from now. - - You must be comfortable with the ground shifting underneath you.
- Someone who enjoys fighting for the little guys.

How to apply...

Please email prhacker@crowdbooster.com with the following information:

1) What you consider to be your relevant resume information (links to your online footprint, your Linkedin, your resume, etc.).
2) Work samples like press releases, articles written, press pitches and interviews conducted.
3) A few sentences about how you think the PR industry could be improved.
A couple of thoughts:

It's worth noting that both of the breakfasts in the study were high in high-glycemic carbohydrates. It would be interesting to see if the result holds when eating something like eggs and bacon for breakfast.

Second, since most people fast overnight, you get the double whammy of low insulin (making fat cells more willing to give up stored energy) and a caloric deficit in the morning. It seems plausible that extending the period of time when that is the case would result in fat loss.

I've personally had pretty good luck (~34.5" to ~32.5" waist measurement over a couple of weeks) with eliminating most carbohydrates between about 5PM and 10AM.
I'd prefer my eyes over my ears and voice. Just imagine a train car full of people talking to their phones.
I'm unclear. I use bound Leuchtturm1917 books for note taking these days, and I used to use moleskine. I have a number of others, including a Rhodia and white lines. I am not aware of Rhodia selling what I would call an engineer's pad. Graph paper, yes. Engineer's pad, no. Can you cite a link?
Is Thor based on similar principles to Daala (i.e. like lapped transforms) to make it useful for merging?

And unrelated question, what will be the name of the merged codec? I hope it won't remain as NetVC, as that name is awful.
so you pay 100$-200$ for what you also get at the urgent care for ~2x-3x less...i'm trying, but i just don't get it - are they playing to the paranoid parent with a baby? People who want an hour wait at home instead of the possible 2 hour wait as a walk-in at the office? I really don't understand where a thriving market would exist.

> see in-home care as a way to reduce unnecessary ERs visits and readmissions

Sure. But so does regular check-ups/physicals. In other news water is wet.

Instead of partnering with hospitals, partner with webMD - if someone is on there and embarrassed/unsure they may schedule a discrete inhome visit rather than having to explain to the nurse why they need to see the doctor. I'm sure there's loads of money in amazon-esque single click service there.
In an interview with Ryan Carson, he mentioned that he eats something as soon as he gets up to kick off his body's metabolism.

This seems logical, but like all nutrition-related things, there's an obvious counter argument, and no good science to tell you which is correct.
FSU CS grad here. FSU offers a BA in CS. Basically it allows you to substitute a minor of your choosing for some of the more academic CS courses (theory of computation, algorithms II) and pure science courses (Stats II, 3 semesters of physics/bio/chem, Discrete II etc).

I minored in business but then transitioned to double majoring in CS and MIS. MIS was more focused on teaching you how to build systems.

My take is if you want to work for one of the big firms tackling problems at scale, then you need the CS and math rigor to get in the door. If you're OK building websites or mobile apps, then most of that CS knowledge is going to go to waste.

For me, machine learning has been the catalyst for getting deeper into math and science. I decided that I'm more interested in ML/AI than building business systems, so I'm going deeper into CS/Calculus/Linear Algebra on my own and I really enjoy it.
Maybe we should just accept that the point when you start planning to go on a killing spree is the point where society ceases to have any obligation for your well-being.
Make the magic go away
I though Algorithmia launched years ago?
Uh, so is this going to be able to host the massive database used to store the training data/model for some really large deep neural network or latent variable model? Because it seems that's most of what the "algorithms" on this service would be - just some application of machine learning.

No one is going to call this in order to run something like depth first search.
Very interesting point about vaccinations.

I went looking for more numbers and found this: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/02/young-adults...

It's quite counterintuitive to me that, according to these numbers, education level doesn't seem to affect views om vaccination at all.
Two smartphone brands are creeping up on Samsung and Xiaomi in China
1. Sign an agreement and designate one party the right to work on the idea while others aren't allowed to anymore.

2. Not at all, you shouldn't treat this as an experience working for an employer. You took the risk and the risk is not getting paid for what you're worth.

3. If the company ever gets big, you can very well bet that ghosts will come out of the shadows and turn your world into a living nightmare. Just look at every successful company that didn't end things on a clean note (Snapchat, Facebook).

My suggestion is to move on and accept your losses. Everyone is too emotionally invested and in the end, only one party should have the right to continue working on the idea to avoid any confrontations. Anyone who doesn't have the right on the idea anymore can be fairly compensated but agree to a non-compete. So what amount of compensation is fair you might say? The easiest way is to value the company at a certain amount and then multiply that by your equity percentage. And good luck! I've seen my fair share of co-founder disputes and problems. They're nasty to deal with but the benefit to experiencing it is learning to choose your co-founders more wisely in the future. Simply being friends who just happen to be in the right place at the right time doesn't cut it in the long run.
The advice that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is, as I recall, based on similar junk science. They looked at lots of kids, recorded how often they ate breakfast, then looked at how well they did in school.

The kids who ate breakfast did better in school. Yay, breakfast is good for you.

Or, possibly, the correlation between eating breakfast and doing well in school has another explanation. One possible explanation of the correlation is that kids who don't eat breakfast are poor, and the poor statistically dont do as well in school due to other factors.
"So drop the microtests."

I disagree. Tests are part of the learning process.

The problem is when expectation is 90%+. When that happens, there's no margin to differentiate between minor mistakes and actual misunderstandings -- the signal is lost in the noise.

A good test will amplify the signal and attenuate the noise.
"you can use abstractions but keep them transparent"

Wouldn't it defeat the purpose of abstraction?
Instructables: Wireless Electricity Transmission
Sure, but it's impressive nonetheless. A 14 year old kid is building an operating system. What was I doing at 14? I was not building operating systems, thats for sure.
I don't know. It is a silly term.

However I would be willing to bet you are using a bootloader and a kernel written by people who are comfortable with assembly language. Call them real programmers or something else.
...at the expense of people who are moderately good at both.
This is true but the assumption of Gaussian noise carries with it the assumption that the model is correct.

Most models are not correct which is why particle filters perform much better than people expect.
How Quantum Randomness Saves Relativity
I'm not arrogant enough to claim to be an expert, but I have had a decent number of experiences for someone my age. I grew up in a small family-owned sandwich shop (which failed in 06 after 20 years). I worked for multiple mid-sized game development studios before I moved to SF to work for a post-series A 13 person YC startup that I watched grow to 50 people. I spent some time at BitTorrent, which has had its
share of financing and staffing fluctuations over the years.

I've been a part of a number of companies as they've succeeded and failed, and I've learned the difference between doing so gracefully or incompetently.
At the end of the day it will always be calories in vs. calories out.

My personal experience is that I try to only eat 1 meal per day. Intermittent fasting is nothing new, and when I combine it with a low carb diet, it is extremely effective for me. I went from ~300 down to 225 in a matter of 4-5 months.

As long as I am busy, I hardly notice any hunger during the day now that I am used to the schedule and the 1 meal makes it much harder to over eat. 2000 calories is extremely hard to take in all at once, so it basically puts you at quite a deficit just due to the logistics of eating that quantity of food in a small window of time.
Jesus this is one of the most contrived "Like Airbnb[or Uber], but for XYZ" similes I've seen in awhile...

> Algorithms are common, but also difficult to create. Aspiring entrepreneurs can take an eight-week crash course and learn how to program an app, but writing algorithms is a specialized skill. Algorithms are usually taught in higher-level computer science classes, and require a strong mathematical background...

Good algorithms can be hard to create, but anyone can create a algorithm, as it's just a recipe of mechanical steps. Anyone can create a "recipe" (of the cooking variety) for that matter.

Looking at Algorithmia's site, it basically looks like an eLance for writing things like scraper scripts, with the additional service of running it on their servers. Could be useful if their servers aren't EC2 and you need to run something that makes requests to a site that has blocked EC2.
Kala: A Modern Job Scheduler (written in Go)
>This isn't necessarily a problem. As a society, we've decided that we like having amateur capital in the markets more than we want the improved efficiency of allowing use of inside information. It's a tradeoff, and while both options have their merits, society has chosen one way.

I would imagine that information imbalance increases make a market less efficient, not more efficient.
I think you are absolutely correct. It is the price/performance of creating these "interactive specs" that will determine whether this idea is any good.

From what I have seen (I looked a bit at the what people are doing in UAVs, autonomous vehicles and so on - see e.g. http://blog.foretellix.com/2015/07/03/my-impressions-from-th...), I think a lot can be done to improve both price and performance.

In other words, I think it is possible to invent new tools / methodologies to make simulation (especially high-level simulation) easier, and especially to get a lot more out of it, at all stages of design / verification / maintenance.
That's my bad- I didn't look closely enough and now I cannot edit.

I resubmitted it with an appropriate title here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10046164
The Reality of Color Is Perception: An argument for a new definition of color
Hi, it seems we missed correcting this page. It takes months not weeks to release updates to CE.
The releases after 3.0.1 (3.0.2 and others) are maintenance releases with bug fixes. 3.1 is a recent release and it does contain features. We would normally push a community edition version or 3.1 in several months after the release but we are close to pushing out 4.0 and that incorporates 3.1 enhancements and more. I am expecting that we will get a 4.0 community edition out that will supersede the 3.1 release and will deliver these features to you soon.
Can anyone explain what the bug was?
How were you able to acquire this source? Is there a public database of some sort?
Financial startups reimagine banking, but security still paramount
We use these in the nuclear data community. Measurements of interaction probabilities between neutrons and nuclides are really complex and uncertain, especially for a few reactions like inelastic scattering. Kalman filters help tie the nuclear models and experiments together.
This is incredibly naive. Please don't try to pass off blanket financial advice to others without knowing specifics or having any context on their situation. Different people have different risk profiles.

Also much of the logic in this post just doesn't make sense to be honest.
Machine teaching' holds the power to illuminate human learning
There's a difference between something you are (race, age, sexual orientation, gender) and something you choose to do (donate to a political organization, become a cop). It's very different to discriminate against someone for something they can't control vs. something they can.
You're neglecting opportunity cost in your analysis. Otherwise, I more or less agree.
Can you find this study? Many studies are dodgy, but I am incredulous the study was this much dodgy. How can the study observing grade not controlling for socioeconomic status ever pass the review?
Losing weight comes down to a pyramid. The bottom of the pyramid is a calorie deficit. It's simple science and fact that eating less calories than your maintenance calories (basal metabolic rate) will cause you to lose weight. Once you tackle that, you can move up the pyramid and fine tune to maximize the weight loss by incorporating tactics such as meal timing, quality of ingredients, types of food eaten, or different macronutrient percentages. But without the bottom of the pyramid, there can't be anything on top.
In our digital world, are young people losing the ability to read emotions?
Google is absolutely nothing like Berkshire Hathaway.

While people make the monopoly/conglomerate/holding company analogy, they forget an important difference.

Berkshire Hathaways' talent and specialty lies in identifying sound-money businesses that are undervalued, and then making appropriate financial and management changes to bring them at or above their book value.

Google, and Alphabet on the other hand is in the business of making highly asymmetric bets on the future. The majority of their gains will come from few investments.

Probabilistically they're in two entirely different domains.
> It's just a shame that with Intel ME the Libreboot/Coreboot devs have given up on Intel machines. I'm very interested in the Purism Librem laptop but I have low hopes. Maybe the future will be ARM.

This isn't true. Libreboot is the fork that only works with completely free platforms, which the newer Intel chipsets make impossible. Coreboot is still very much committed to supporting new Intel chipsets, although the mainboard availability of course depends on what developers have time and interest for.

Google Chromebooks all ship with Coreboot, so they're fully supported and a great choice if you're trying to make the most free usable computer you can get. They can all run Linux, and some of them even Windows with a little more effort. They also have ARM-based ones, some of which are completely blob-free.

Also, if you're putting your hopes on Pursim this may be of interested to you: http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/08/09/the-truth-about-pu...
What do you eat and when do you eat it?
How about a ton of exam opportunities that are entirely optional and are just for preparation, giving you time to understand the material with checks from the teacher, followed by two tests at the end, with the greater of the two scores being the one that decides your grade?
Firstly you should talk to a lawyer, and avoid getting legal advice online.

A good lawyer (and not all lawyers are good) will know the right questions to ask you. A good lawyer might also suggest a strategy that's in your best interests. Although beware of lawyers who look to sue right away and rack up hours. Make sure the lawyers also knows something about tech.

Although there is one thing lawyers have told me time and time again: You can not copyright an idea. Also I'll add that while a good idea is essential to a startup, it's all about execution, execution and execution.

Last thoughts: Write down every lesson from this and move on. I would say one key lesson is that before any money is spent in a business it must be incorporated (doesn't matter if it's a startup or not).
Why does that diver have a gun?

NYPD detective John Drzal looks like an idiot carrying a AR-15, without any apparent waterproofing, while wearing flippers and a dry suit. He is also using scuba, not a rebreather, so any potential target will see/hear him coming miles away.

And is that a scope on that rifle?

What possible scenario would require a police officer to carry an automatic weapon while scuba diving? Really. What job is he going to do? Hostage rescue, underwater? Or is he going to run out of the water rambo-style to arrest underage drinkers at the beach ... with a scuba tank on his back ... in flippers.
It doesn't matter if you're not doing a calorie deficit.
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