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Finally, back to sanity of great old-school products, like Informix, by dropping Java (the whole scam) for C++14 and by paying attention to details of an underlying OS (again).

Same trend, by the way, is in Android development.
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I'm not familiar with any of the people involved and haven't read the pleadings. That said:

* The lawsuit may make it more difficult for Shred Video to raise funding, but the linked writeup and YC's blog post don't exactly show Smule in a positive light. The "if we're wrong, we'll win" quote from Smule is telling. I'd want a very good explanation of this mess before entering into a partnership with Smule.

* Smule is warning that any employees using company property on company time to build their own startups exposes them to legal liability. This is a perfectly reasonable position. (Note I'm not saying that Shred's founders did that, only that Smule's point is correct as far as it goes.)

* California law in particular is more startup- and founder-friendly than most and makes some elements of employment contracts unenforceable as a matter of public policy. It likely doesn't apply here, but it does mean if you build and sell, say, drones in your spare time while working a California pharmaceutical company, that employer wouldn't have an IP claim (even if the employment agreement was broad).

* Shred's founders should have made a clean break and not retained any hardware or access to code after they left. That's what I did when I quit my job at a large publicly traded company last year to found https://recent.io -- I returned the work laptop on my last day and haven't done any work for them since. But this is hindsight, I know!
The classic case involves the mouthwash Listerine. The guy who invented it kept it as a trade secret (no patent). He formed a contract with a manufacturer that said, in short, that they would pay him money for each bottle sold using the formula. They all thought this would go on forever. But then the secret got out and others started selling products using the same formula. Since there was no tradesecret anymore the manufacture argued the contract was void. It wasn't.

"But that does not mean that one who acquires a secret formula or a trade secret through a valid and binding contract is then enabled to escape from an obligation to which he bound himself simply because the secret is discovered by a third party or by the general public."

Warner-Lambert v. Reynolds 178 F. Supp. 655 (1959)
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/17...

Now this is tradesecret, not copyright, and an old case, but the principal remains. Contracts can be drafted between parties that go beyond the rights created by IP law. Any attorney worth his wage learned of this quirk of contract law during school and should have drafted any licensing agreements to accommodate ... but just maybe they didn't.
It is a lower court judgment. It is not final, meaning Warner can (and probably will) appeal to a circuit court. Until all the appeals run out, the judgment is not final. Once the judgment is final (because Warner does not appeal or because they lose all appeals), it will have preclusive effect nationwide.
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I know it's problematic for a number of reasons, but I'd sort of love to see YC throw their weight behind this -- e.g. "if you've worked at Smule beyond 23 Sept 2015, you are ineligible for consideration in any future YC rounds".

It always baffles me how much power goes unused in Silicon Valley, but I suppose most of that restraint is due to personal relationships between the VCs/founders.
Right you are, I should have been more specific for the US readers of my comment. General Practitioner's are not nearly as well-compensated by insurance as specialists, and GP's are the primary care main point of contact for most Americans. Thanks for pointing out the need for the clarification.
Yes. And if you have an agreement that makes no mention of the patent, that just says "I will give you money every time I sell a product" then you may still have to shell out long after the patent has expired. Everyone is free to draft contracts between parties going well beyond the limits of IP law.
I'd heard this was going to be a Google office. Oh well.

I wonder how much "not driving over the fucking bridge" is worth to people. Uber salaries tend to be pretty good (partially to make up for the stock being so high), and they have a great team, plus are clearly on a rocket ship trajectory, and are easy to explain as a product to anyone.

Offering $150-250k cash, great overall packages, AND being able to buy or rent at almost-reasonable (i.e. 2011-2012 SF) levels is going to make them a really annoying competitor in hiring. Oakland for city people, the less-used Fremont to Oakland BART for the other people, or driving from places like Moraga for more rural people.
Facebook free zones are just ad supported ISPs, like NetZero of years ago. Until they actually block non-FB content, it is just grousing about gratis, not libre.
Start at the Wikipedia entry for concierge medicine, branch out from the references there, especially references in the Controversy section.
Still amazing they start out at 16GB and charge so much for upgrades when you can get a 128GB flash drive for $30 on amazon.
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Looks like the VC's are spearheading the move to Oakland. Chamath Palihapitaya from Social + Capital is planning a developers village apartment complex in Oakland with the goal of luring more Midwest coders to the West coast.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/17/chamath-palihapitaya-on-ins...
More People in Fewer Cars
We just had a presidential debate hosted by CNN, so we are getting close.
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You can via contract. If I invent a new super-viagra, I can ask a drug company to pay me 1$ for each pill they sell in perpetuity. That contractual obligation could survive the patent expiring and maybe a drug company would take that deal in exchange for them being the first on the market.
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I commute daily into SF.

- The evening train I take (the 5:14 out of SF) is habitually late; we run into (not literally) the train ahead of us between Palo Alto and Mountain View; that train is habitually late too (it's the cause of the 5:14's problems; we usually hit PA on time, but the train in front of us is still in Mountain View when we should be arriving. i.e., the train ahead is arriving at our arrival time)

- it has definitely gotten worse since I started riding. I recently asked a conductor what the load was: that particular train was 100% oversubscribed: for every butt in a seat, there was another standing. Frankly, the car's AC doesn't seem to be able to keep pace with the summer heat, either. If there's a Giants game … well, it's worse. When the Giants parade happened, the line was out the station, snaked through a ton of stanchions, and then stretched more than a block down the road.

- rarely, I've seen passengers denied boarding due to load; but I see this much more regularly with bikers. I don't know if CalTrain takes this into account in its statistics. (I don't think I've ever seen some of those folks counted, especially outside SF.)

- they got some additional cars, but half-ish of them seem to still be sitting in SF. No idea if they're just not ready yet, or what… (also, the cars feel like a blast from the past when you walk into it, compared to the CalTrain ones. They look the same, but yellower… it's surreal.)

I've wondered if they wouldn't fair better if they had an additional (third) track all the way from SF to SJ. Trains could then pass, which I think might let you add more trains to the system. (Given how we're always stuck behind a train, I feel like the two-tracks are at capacity, train-wise, and you can only add so many cars before you exceed the platform length.) Not sure there's enough room all the way for an additional track, though, so this is probably a crazy idea. I wonder if it wouldn't really help with accidents though. (The first quarter of this year, for example, was hell… it was heartbreaking.)

Also,

> The annual Caltrain passes cost companies either $15,120 or $180 per user—whichever is greater.

Is that $180 figure correct? CalTrain charges my route $2,148 annually for a pass, and I'm not even going the full SF to SJ distance. (Granted, that's the low figure, so you need the ridership to get it… but still! It's a 91% quantity discount, if you get enough people.) (SF to SJ is $2,784 annually.)
The best part is that the iPhone A* series is power limited, to about 5 watts max.

They could easily double performance with a real power budget, by increasing clock frequency, bus speeds, cache sizes, etc. They don't even need to mess with the cores.

The A9 cores could easily beat Xeons if they were ever given a server implementation.
What election outcome do you imagine is going to make this better?
tl;dr: no

You may have cells from a twin e.g. produce two blood types. But nothing like another whole person.
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One big reason I despise Microsoft's operating system licensing. The other big thing I despise is activation.
Given that, this is a non-party issue. Plenty of blue and red on the good and bad sides. You primary-out the offenders and don't worry about party. The issue matters.
If you don't like it go ahead use Linux, kill you business ;)
The Azure team responsible for the Local Git implementation needs to read this fantastic article.

I've been putting up with 10-minute deploys due to precisely this issue of counting objects. It's slow because we don't use Local Git as our source-of-record repository (because commits initiate a deployment step), so every deploy involves a clean fetch into a new tmpdir.

At least now I know why our deploys are getting slower and slower.
Intel today announced SPDK (DPDK for storage), which provides IO operations in userspace.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10263200
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yes, you could get a URL and give it to somebody. Every time that person accesses it though, there'd be a charge (unless you're within our free parameters). If I understand correctly...
As someone who used to do the "reverse commute" from SF to Oakland for a couple years, I'd add that it's pretty attractive for SF residents who like a slightly less crazy pace as well. I mean, you can actually go places for lunch and get in, and not pay $14 for a sandwich. And going the opposite direction of traffic (or taking the opposite BART) sure beats sitting on the 101.

But most people I worked with were definitely in the boat you describe - East Bay dwellers who really, really didn't want to deal with trying to fight their way into SF. And who can blame them? I think this is a great move for Oakland and Uber.
How big do you have to be to lease hardware?
Happy to clear that up. We don't count hobby farms as they aren't our typical users. We are focusing on the ~280k row crop farms in the US of which over 90k have started using FarmLogs. Most of our customers have between 600 and 10k acres of land each.
The gentrification of Oakland is now well and truly under-way after the great job gentrification did in San Francisco displacing thousands of people from their homes.
Tech titles dominate shortlist for FT business book of the year
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10260311
Its Occams Razor. There's never any point in a diagnosis other than the most common problem that shares your symptoms. Nobody is doing much to weigh the risks of false positive/negative vs each diagnosis' life-threatening properties. Even if they did, they'd have to measure life in dollars (the cost of tests etc) which is a losing game no matter how you play.
I think the list of the ones not complicit acquiescent with some government somewhere would be shorter.

On a sidenote, I think this kind of thinking has the potential to stray into a purist and idealist kind of dead-end exercise in frustration.
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Sadly Rust does little to deal with these higher-level bugs. We give you tools to deal with them (tracking taint with PhantomData), but it's not clear to me that anyone's bothering to actually do that.

e.g. crates.io does no such tracking, but it also just punts the problem completely to our postgres bindings and making sure to build queries separately from their args (and the postgres arg injection does escaping, presumably). But this is no static or novel guarantee. It's just Alex being a great developer and reviewing all the patches.

I wouldn't be floored if crates.io was exploitable.

Actually I know it is; [I've exploited it](https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/176).

Rust solves many interesting problems, but it is no panacea for program correctness!
I told my girlfriend about my startup and had the best response ever
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Yes, they do, they are frequently rude, self-entitled, racist clueless idiots. And you can downvote me all day for that, I have karma to burn.
Very nice.

Broadly speaking, this is the correct style of architecture for a database engine on modern hardware. It is vastly more efficient in terms of throughput than the more traditional architectures common in open source. It also lends itself to elegant, compact implementations. I've been using similar architectures for several years now.

While I have not benchmarked their particular implementation, my first-hand experience is that these types of implementations are always at least 10x faster on the same hardware than a nominally equivalent open source database engine, so the performance claim is completely believable. One of my longstanding criticisms of open source data infrastructure has always been the very poor operational efficiency at a basic architectural level; many closed source companies have made a good business arbitraging the gross efficiency differences.
Right, but assuming Windows isn't dumb enough to accept a remotely downloaded version that's older than the one it already has locally, the effect would be the same as if the attacker just prevented you from receiving new updates. And HTTPS wouldn't make it any harder for them to do that.
This is going to go very, very poorly for Uber.
Let's build more housing in Oakland. Way more space than in SF. And unfortunately Oakland is not building as much as it should https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/want-to-know-why-the-bay-ar...
It's true that you could train a typical ML model to do this, but depending what your pictures look like, the easiest solution may be to use Image Feature Detection and Matching from OpenCV:

http://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.org/en/latest/py_t...
What is needed is a small sized amplifier box using thunderbolt 3.

If something could be built around an AMD Radeon R9 Nano, then it would be a serious force to be reckoned with.
Plus, you can take the ferry over. That's a sweet commute.
Actually, in US copyright law, it is possible for works to effectively lose their copyright. One of the elements of fair use (note: most jurisdictions do not have a fair use defense, so this only applies to the US) is that some things can become so important to the public interest that any reproduction is effectively fair use. The most notable use of this claim is the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination.
Not only is the tech achievement amazing, and something that will save countless man hours it's incredibly written to boot.

Amazing work.
AMD Radeon R9 Nano was specifically designed for this [1]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9621/the-amd-radeon-r9-nano-re...
>a digital payment system

Existing cryptocurrencies already perform this function well. If that's the sole claimed advantage of Taler, it's a step backwards.
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Just a quick correction on point 3, lest someone get too confident they're in the clear: the law about employees owning their own inventions is the default in California, but you can sign an employment contract that signs away those rights. (IANAL, by the way.) Also relevant to HN readers: a lot of those protections are moot if you're acqui-hired: the CA-specific protections about noncompete being unenforceable does not apply if you were an equity holder during an acquisition. Just an FYI.

Also, the default is narrowly defined: if you do it entirely on your own time, with your own equipment, and without using any ideas etc from your employer, you're in the clear.

Maybe most importantly, you're only "clear" in theory; in practice you're 'fine' for exactly as long as your (ex-)employer doesn't decide to sue you.

Also, keep this in mind when it comes to lawyers and lawsuits: they produce a huge, huge amount of uncertainty. We'd like to think of the legal system in this country as a process that consistently produces just outcomes; in practice it's noisy and biased against small operations. You can be 100% morally in the right, and even 100% legally in the right, and still have a bad outcome. Specifically: I've been told at length that getting 'damages' when you're sued without cause -- that is, having your legal bills paid by the frivolous party -- is an extremely high bar to clear.

Furthermore, lawsuits and appeals can drag on for months and years (particularly absent any binding arbitration clauses). Does it do your startup any good to get your money back 18 months later? Probably not, and if you die along the way they win by default.

That last point is what Smule's CEO seems to be counting on when he says 'we win if we're wrong'.
And I guess I'm just saying, he's correct. He's not right, he's definitely wrong, but he's correct.
Just my (morbid) two cents.
> Is that $180 figure correct? CalTrain charges my route $2,148 annually for a pass, and I'm not even going the full SF to SJ distance. (Granted, that's the low figure, so you need the ridership to get it… but still! It's a 91% quantity discount, if you get enough people.)

Yup, when I still commuted via Caltrain I was pretty jealous of my friends who had this sweet deal: http://www.caltrain.com/Fares/tickettypes/GO_Pass.html
But it's "the city"!
will this be the next docker in the nosql database?
I live in Oakland (10m walk from the new Uber office, but 3m from a 580 onramp), and my office is basically at AT&T Park. The commute has gotten markedly worse over the past 15 months. :( And it's not even a particularly bad east bay to sf commute; I know people who drive from Moraga.

Last year, my 95th percentile commute at 10am was 35 minutes door to door, and the median was about 25-30. This year, the 95th is more like 45, and the median is more like 35 at that time. To arrive at 9am, it's dramatically worse -- basically an hour 95th, and sometimes up to 90m (once or twice a year), and the median is about 45m (BART is 50m door to door, but is absurdly crowded at that time, and I'm uncomfortable walking around with a laptop bag at 5-7pm in Oakland after 2 people got their laptops stolen in front of me in one week).

I usually try to go in really late and wfh in the mornings so it's 20-25m, but it's still usually 30-40m on the way back at 7-8pm. If I have to be in at 9am, I have to leave at 7:45 to be comfortably on time with high confidence. And the traffic basically starts between 0530 and 0600, so being early is almost impossible; it's full-bad around 0630-0700.
What options did I miss?

What kind of load does that app you host on digital ocean have?

Edit: I'm not at all suggesting that isn't possible to self host a meteor app, I am saying that I don't know what the "beaten path" is for other companies/apps/products that have self hosted a meteor app to a significant scale.
A lot of web pages I view in Safari on Mac OS X will ask permission to send me notifications (the first time I visit them).
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I probably should have stated it more precisely, but that's more or less my point. China has made some impressive changes in the last few decades, with a lot more people having access to energy and the lifestyle improvements that it brings.

Without the ability to utilize energy, the China's population would be a lot further off from the 1.2B target. We still see this in some regions, as the one-child policy is harder to enforce the further you get from the metropolitan areas.

It's still a huge country with a lot of variation, of course, and I'm generalizing a lot.
I saw teo people shot not far from here, the windows of Obama's campaign HQ smashed in with hammers down the street, and a homeless man crap on the steps of city hall in broad daylight. Welcome to Oakland Uber.
Any idea where I can find such commits?
Thank you all!
The broken internal-to-SF and internal-to-Oakland transit systems make that a bit complex, I think. I guess if you biked?
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Eh, I'd compare the case of Eich to the case of Lindsey Stone.

I think the issue there is how the internet has taken mob justice to the next level, not political correctness; it's a phenomena of both sides of the political spectrum.

It's kind of a scary problem, because we've all done something that offends someone, and what makes the difference between something offensive you've done that nobody cares about and something offensive you've done that makes you the five-minute hate for half the world looks a lot like random chance to me. This sort of thing could happen, really, to any of us at any time.
I guess it'll smell just like SF then.
A lot of people who really love it, and some people who dislike that their satellite-based rainfall gauge is just an estimate? Am I missing something here? Seems more positive then just "mixed reviews" would imply to me.
The hippies are starting to die of old age, anyway.

San Francisco is a city defined by successive invasions.
And the renters (like me) will complain that the city (well, the permitting process they approve) is only promoting units for the financially relatively better off and is not subsidizing enough low rent units. So they scuttle low income housing to spite middle income housing.
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How is this addressing the "same product - different price" issue?

(by the way, I'm using Linux myself on a Lenovo laptop that was sold without OS, was awesome, better hardware than the corresponding Windows lineup at the time)
On point #3, I think we're talking about two different things. You mentioned "noncompete" agreements, which is an important topic but unrelated.

What I was talking about is intellectual property assignment clauses. Excerpt:

Under California law, an employee cannot be required to assign any of his or her rights in an invention he or she develops “entirely on his or her own time without using the employer’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information” unless:
when the invention was conceived or “reduced to practice” (actually created or a patent application filed) it related to the employer’s business or actual or “demonstrably anticipated” research or development, or
the invention resulted from any work performed by the employee for the employer (California Labor Code, § 2870) http://www.intellectualpropertylawfirms.com/resources/intell...

Unfortunately you are correct about the Smule CEO being correct (assuming he was quoted accurately).