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> I've also had a "useless" "co-founder" try and hold onto equity that didn't vest, after he left and contributed little.

What I am about write is blasphemy in this community, but needs to be said.

Contributions to a startup are not quantifiable. There are truism that float around the startup community like, "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything." these are helpful motivation tools but they create a black and white world, in a universe that is multi-dimensional.

When someone has an idea and someone else executes and the guy with the idea wants his "fair share" or in less extreme cases, like leaving before shares vest, there is this belief that one side is entitled to all equity and the other side didn't contribute anything.

In truth, the other side sees things differently, and that doesn't make one side right and the other wrong. It is never that black and white and general ideas like, "execution is everything" are great as general ideas but don't translate to every situation and each case needs to be evaluated independently.

If someone contributed to a startup and the other side has a different opinion about the value of that contribution. This is what the courts are for. Their job is to help decide, in this specific instance the value of that contribution was and how it relates to the nature of the agreement made between the parties.

Truism are not legal arguments and it's a mistake to assume that situations about contribution levels can be settled with them. Both sides believe they are in the right and are being wronged by the other party.

There are two ways to proceed from there. You can dig your heels in the ground on your position and try to pay to make the problem go away...Or you can accept that the other side also has a leg to stand on... try to understand their position and come to terms that leaves no one happy, but everyone satisified. Thats what compromise is about.

I think the startup community and this post is evidence of it believes that what they know is above the law.

This is a simple case of a dispute about money. Pretending it is about good guys and bad guys is being dishonest to yourself and others.

Edit: spelling
I lived in PGH for 5 years and, unfortunately, I think he's right that there is a huge amount of racism in the area. It definitely wasn't most people I knew, but among people that grew up in the area it's definitely a thing.

Pittsburgh is one of the least diverse metro areas in the country (http://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2015/0...) and it really is eye opening how segregated the city is when you live anywhere else. I discussed this with most transplants I knew there and they agreed. I think the effect of this was pretty apparent for my entire time there.

This makes me super sad, because I absolutely love PGH and am a huge booster of it. The lack of diversity was far and away the biggest draw back of living there for me.
I think this is just a coincidence. There's probably co-incident timings that cause his duck motion to happen at the same time as the punch.
In addition to redux-saga (https://github.com/yelouafi/redux-saga) which others have mentioned, redux-loop (https://github.com/raisemarketplace/redux-loop) is another interesting "declarative" approach to sequencing operations that uses promises. I'm not using either (yet), but I wrote up my notes on the differences between them and the thunk middleware approach recently (https://blog.boldlisting.com/connecting-redux-to-your-api-ea...). One aspect of these discussions that I find is lost or at least very implicit is the notion of storing metadata about the status of async operations as well as their result is elided together, but there's reason to make mindful choices about whether or not to do that.

BTW, the "Ignoring Async Responses" section here is a useful pattern, even if you're not working on browser developer tools ;). I've been working on a web app and have a polling timeout that I cancel on logout. Not quite the same, but logout triggers a reset of all the state obtained while authenticated, but the timeout ids are also in the store and canceled before being cleared.
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Offtopic, but you where hiring some time ago right, front end devs? Still are? Or did I get confused?
Just to be clear, I'm referring to detritus as the primary source of nutrition for living organisms.

Learn more about detritus here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detritus
I'd much rather see a music notation where harmony is first-class, rather than an emergent phenomenon.

More lead sheet, less orchestral score.
The Vim emulation plugin that ships with Intellij IDEA is absolutely awful. I used it for about 30 minutes, then uninstalled it in frustration. Certain commands just didn't work right, and some didn't work at all. There was also no indication whatsoever of what mode you were in, so you just had to keep track of it in your head. The experience was not pleasant at all. I'd rather have no Vim emulation than poor emulation (same reason I ditched spacemacs after an hour or so).
> I just find it odd that WSJ seems to get access to government documents, internal information, and competitor benchmarks over and over again.

Umm, what's odd? FOIA? Perseverance in reporting? High quality investigative journalism from someone (John Carreyrou) with a track record?
There's a... presumption that this is difficult and that all these disparate services and fragments of identity are distinct and separated. This stunt demonstrates that this is not true. It violates some basic assumptions.
Why Would You Click That?
This explains it pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout
I tried http://www.mitsuku.com/, it was interesting. It was able to do some math and respond to some general knowledge questions. It knows that a car is heavier than a book, or that fire is not wet, but water is. It can handle simple contextual questions based on past lines. Still a lot to go.
Very cool! Any progress on Windows support?
Nobody wins in a court case. If Sam uses PR to put enough attention on what has occurred to settle it that's a legitimate tool. The other side doesn't have that tool but they can come here and post their side of it. As these posts show, plenty of folks here are willing to play Devil's Advocate. I'd love to see the other side - i.e. was there a demand letter and was it sent- and to whom?

I can tell you- the ONLY thing that I can think of that would trouble me is if we find out the guy never even had a lawyer. Then it would appear to be an over reaction. It's not clear exactly what actions the other side has taken (or not done).

But on the face of it- nothing wrong with using PR to settle this. It could also get sympathy from GM and they just get creative around using an escrow to just close without settling any of this.
Flying over, flying through... Minor detail.
Still would be nice if the software could go "shit I'm about to get into an accident" and deploy air bags etc. that much faster. Plus now that I'm thinking about it, most accidents probably occur with some option that, had it been utilized, would've prevented the incident. Imagine the insane accident-avoiding swerve maneuvers a software program could potentially pull off.
vi works fine on my BSD machine.
I applied a technique for quickly finding exact k nearest neighbors or nearest neighbors in a specific hamming distance using research[0] which includes a library + source code. The largest dataset that I tested was 10M 256 bit codes but the technique scales well with larger datasets. You can look at the performance figures I achieved in my paper at [1].
[0] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~norouzi/research/mih/
[1] https://github.com/putterson/undergrad-thesis/raw/master/mai...
Technically something can't call itself Unix(tm) without vi(1) [0][1]

[0] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/vi.html
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification
The most important think I learned when I got it is how to recognize it.

Burnout is really hard to understand when it happens to you. The best symptom I can give is that you become less productive - work never flows anymore, you always have to force yourself into it, all the time, not just at the start/end of a day. It did not feel like exhaustion for me, but like a steady state of helplessness.

And if you get this, don't compensate by pushing yourself harder into work (what I did). You'll just make it worse.
I don't think we are very good barometers for what kind of people we are. This is why having a confidant/BFF is so important.
I'm more surprised that people are surprised. You provide images to the public with your name and face connected to even more personal data.

Why are you surprised that this data can then be used by a third, or even a fourth party?
Could you publish an online demo, even a gif if you don't want to host one? You're probably missing out on quite a few users who are too lazy to clone and install, just to bookmark for later use.
Actually, their ToS says they can do whatever the hell they want with it:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/c...
This is true for a single car, but self driving cars are introducing something that did not happen before. Imagine majority of cars are self driving cars and they all malfunctions due to bug in software update.
Not a fan of the lack of volume controls
For me it was college.
> It's not quite possible to write a car that avoids ALL accidents because a car has a speed and a turning radius and breaks only work so fast.

It's not possible to have a self-driving car avoid all accidents, but one can presumably get pretty close. The realtime data from sensors give you enough information about the car itself, its surroundings and other objects around it to continuously compute a safety envelope - a subspace of the phase space of controllable parameters (like input, steering) within which the car can stop safely - and then make one of the goals to aggressively steer the car to remain in that envelope. This approach should be able to automagically handle things like safe driving distances or pedestrians suddenly running into the street.

Of course there will be a lot of details to account for when implementing this software, but it's important to realize that we have enough computing power to let the car continuously have every possible backup plan for almost any contingency in its electronic brain.
VueFire – Firebase meets Vue.js
It happens at the same time you need to throw a punch in order to land it on the boss, not at the same time the boss is about to throw a punch. It's not periodic, so the idea that the displayed behavior is mere coincidence is implausible at best.
I think it feels wrong because for all of human history a person could take for granted a degree of anonymity while among strangers, and more and more that seems to be no longer the case.

Forever, if someone recognized you, chances are you recognized them. People were either within some extended social circle or they were not, and this social circle was face-to-face. Now, we have something of an arms race going on with respect to anonymity, or the lack thereof. Maybe someone will scan me and identify me. What's my recourse? Either I go about in disguise, or I scan everyone around me in order to equalize things.

How could all this not feel strange or wrong? Based on the norms of 10,000 years of human society, it's either a-social or downright anti-social.
Or the jeep: https://blog.kaspersky.com/blackhat-jeep-cherokee-hack-expla...

Auto mfgs seem to be about 20-30 years behind when it comes to computers. Not really surprising that Tesla is whomping them on this front, given how SV people are scrambling to work there. You don't see that with the Big 3 or really any other car mfg.
The right way to excercise your conscience and be an example for others. Thank you for sharing this, I hadn't seen it.
Nice idea and the demo video looks great. But trying to replace typed syntax with a drag and drop GUI is going to be an up hill battle if you're trying to convert existing programmers. And from the demo video, it doesn't look like something a new programmer could pick up easily. So who is your target audience?
I can't believe he made a public statement either. If you want a baseless lawsuit to go away quickly, you do not give the opposition ammunition (which is what this public statement is). The lawsuit sounds like bullshit to me but I can see this statement costing Cruise a lot of money.
The question was not about regulation - of course you can tell anyone to do whatever nonoptimal bullshit you want if you have power over them.

I'm asking what gives anyone the ability to make a correct judgment about tools and productivity?
I agree my knowledge of JavaScript is lacking, I just (wrongly) assumed arrays would act similarly to other languages.

Obviously it's too late to change JavaScript now, but Iwould be interested to know why it would have been complicated to do this differently originally, and why it would be countintuitive? Is there anything I can read about this kind of thing?
If a fuel injection system were to fail via fried component or even a short would trip a fuse and cause it to fail safe by cutting fuel and shutting off the car. Fuel Throttle cables however have definitely become stuck in their sheathing in the WOT position. Happened to my dad on the highway in a 1992 Rodeo Isuzu.
It looks like I need to learn what the text objects are. I learned vi about 20 years ago, and I've been using vim like vi ever since.
10 to 12 lakhs should be minimum i guess
This is one of the cool features people have discussed for the past 20 years for wearable computers. I was hoping it would come to fruition with Google glass until Google got all weird about facial recognition on glass (and subsequently glass as a whole).

On one side it is creepy, on the other it would be nice to have your digital assistant suitably remind you the name of the person who is walking towards you and recognizes you but you cannot remember who they are. A quick summary of who they are and perhaps a summary of your last interaction whispered in your ear could be handy. Or even a couple of relevant recent headlines about their company, etc.

Of course creepy side is pointing at random stranger on street and instantly having their digital dossier overlaid on their face.
I think it's stupid too, but every job posting lists required years of experience.
great thread on this very idea of content junk food: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11475367 and http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/10/twitter-ev-will...
I'm definitely the target market for this.

I spend so much time on my Kindle that I'd be willing to invest a few hundred in upgrading from my PaperWhite just to have a slightly better UX. Having buttons again to change pages is what I'm most excited about. Plus I've always wanted faster page turns, which is always increasing with each new release.

I didn't get excited for the Voyage since it seemed so much like PaperWhites.

Knowing I spend each night and hours on weekends holding and interacting with the device makes the price point for a 'pro'-style version reasonable.
Tried it with three different pictures, one from clker.com (http://www.clker.com/cliparts/0/3/f/0/1194984730712928848mag...) mistaken for a lamp-post, and two from unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/2Ts5HnA67k8 and https://unsplash.com/photos/iIg4F2IWbTM). In the latter two it tells me that it cannot recognise anything. So for me, it isn't there yet....
Thanks. I can see the logic, but don't see that mechanism leading to anything that resembles a bubble in the normal sense of the word.
This isn't unique to the US. Very few countries allows you to have the government pay your bills. Even known "welfare" countries aren't even going to put up with that without requiring you to cut substantial costs. So if you got kids, mortgage, partner you're pretty much stuck for.
You could say that Vim is an (implementation of) vi, but vi is not Vim.

(Not that this is an important issue.)

Edit: also, vi is not dead:
www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/vi
I will disagree with the other commenter and say that this is more plausible for the aircraft than for the cars. Modern jetliners and military aircraft (scarrier yet) are purely fly-by-wire - there aren't cables running between the yokes and the control surfaces like in a Piper Cub, and if there were, no pilot would be strong enough to move them.

Yes, the autopilots can be turned off, but that's just a button, probably a button on the autopilot itself. Depending where the infection happens, the actual position of the yoke could be entirely ignored by the software. Or the motor controllers for the control surfaces themselves could be driving the plane, though I don't know how they could coordinate their actions and get feedback from an IMU.

Perhaps the pilots could rip out components and cut cables fast enough to prevent the plane from reaching its destination, and maybe they could tear out the affected component and limp back to a runway with what remains, but it's an entirely feasible movie plot.

But should we actually worry about either? No. The software sourcing, deployment and updating protocols at the various manufacturers of aircraft are certain to be secure. Right?
Wow, I took the complete opposite from this post. YCombinator is acting extremely unprofessionally here by trashing someone someone publicly because he dared to sue one of their companies. This sort of bullying behavior is a huge red flag and I would be hesitant to get involved with a firm who would engage in it.
Most founders would LOVE an investor help defend in a situation like this. Typically founders are left charging off into battle countless times with little but moral support. "yeah you go fight that battle for us- thanks and let us know how it goes".

Good for Sam for actually at least attempting to help and take a few of the arrows for the founder/ CEO. Sam is actually taking a bit of risk doing this legally and PR wise and while I'm not saying his approach is perfect (he already edited a few lines) - It took a lot of balls to wade in here, I rarely see investors do so- and I think it will help settle the case faster which is really good for both sides.
If you are introducing a new product into an existing market with well established competitors you need to be able to demonstrate to investors why your offering is at least 10x better than any other offering for the person making the purchasing decision.

Specifically with databases people are very wary of new databases because of the issue of data corruption or loss. It is not only a market where there is so much choice that it is hard to know which database to choose, but it is one where the customer is very conservative. This is a very tough market to crack.
It's Hollywood, name one movie where the villain did not disable the manual override. That's villainy 101.
In particular your last sentence could come from me. :-)
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Hypnotoad is not a "person on a surf board in a skate park."
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Investor argues in favor of preserving his investment. That's about as much weight as I care to give his arguments.

Also, as an aside, is it really a "merger"? I see it as an acquisition--one company buying the other out.
I actually think C++ is a very good choice in 2016 for the following reasons.

1. C++ is the only high-level language that is vendor supported across Linux, OSX, iOS, Windows, Windows Phone, and Android. React Native is aiming for cross-platform, using a cross-platform non-proprietary language would seem to be a better match. Along the same lines, there is less risk of vendor lock-in with C++ than with C#

2. While raw performance may be less of an issue, with mobile lightweight devices where use is limited by how long the battery lasts - performance per watt becomes an issue. Having a higher performance language can result in using less power and thus a better user experience.

3. Modern C++14 is much better in terms of memory safety and ease of use. The main issue with C++14 vs C# is that C# has better libraries, not with intrinsic usability of the language.

4. The issues with code execution and data corruption are significantly mitigated by the fact that you are targeting basically a sandboxed application. In addition, it is interesting to note that most desktop Win32 applications that people use on a daily basis are probably written in C++, and they have far more permissions than a universal windows app.
I think their point is that any connection that LE makes to example.com in order to verify ownership will be insecure and thus vulnerable to MITM.

Not a problem specific to LE, but to any DV cert.
Comparing the risk of a live update to a system lives depend on to the risk of some Google services going down is irrational.

At some point, delaying the deployment of updates system wide would cause more, not less risks.
While I agree with your first sentence, I think you're ignoring the fact that when media get wind of a case like this, it's almost only the irrational opinions of masses that matter. In western democracies, politics - and thus policies - is driven by pandering to the population (and bribes^Wlobbying).
From the original reddit post, highest comment and highest reply:

>> Isn't one of the timing cues a camera flash? I forget for which boxer.

> Yup! a camera flash is for the first time you fight Bald Bull. The developer leaked that easter egg and said there was more, that's when I noticed this one.

Apparently there's a pattern of there being visual cues put in by the developers.
The military pays as much, if not more, for contracts and products as the private sector would pay to acquire the companies involved.
Not to sound too negative, but I kind of feel like the timing of this story is suspect. It seems to be on the heels of numerous articles [1][2][3] from Pixar talking about their new character, which is an octopus, escaping and rescuing Dory the fish.

FWIW, I am a huge fan of cephalopods and have a large octopus tattoo enshrining my admiration for the animal. They certainly are highly intelligent, so the story isn't impossible.

[1] http://zap2it.com/2016/04/finding-dory-director-hank-septopu...

[2] http://www.awn.com/animationworld/ultimate-sidekick-finally-...

[3] http://article.wn.com/view/2016/04/07/8216finding_dory_8217s...
I think what gburt is trying to say is that the timings for the head-bob and the boss's vulnerability are probably driven by the same RNG results, and thus are coincidental rather than intentional. This doesn't imply that they don't always align 100%, only that the developers may not have put purposeful thought into their coincidental timings.