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Apply HN: The ParaWing – Parasailing Meets Hang Gliding and Jetpacks
Problem:
Personal flight progress has been limited, and is a field ripe for further disruption.

Solution:
An innovative wing design patent employed to create a personal flight unit.

Overview:
The ParaWing is fundamentally a combination between Parasailing and Hang Gliding concepts. What sets the ParaWing apart from normal approaches is that the wing design is based on a researched avenue to increase performance using specific characteristics. The basic idea of having a ‘tow vehicle’ like a pickup truck in which to mount a base is the platform by which testing of the flight unit can be done using progressively more realistic simulations.

Having the ParaWing tow-flight concept is a test-bed to prove that the wing design and math will work. What isn’t immediately clear is if the creation will enable adding powered flight. The short-term goal is to reach a prototype for wind-tunnel/real-world testing, and the long-term goal is to get the unit functional in tow-flight and iterate power sources to be able to disconnect and aviate akin to Yves Rossy, aka “Jetman.”

At first I’m not exactly sure of the market potential – or liabilities. What I am sure about is that this idea offers a path to a future where personal flight is actually viable. It took a lot of effort and risk to get aviation where it is today, and I want to be on the forefront of what tomorrow might bring.

My background in aviation is something I’ve been around my entire life. I’ve studied technological advancements in hardware, software, and materials like composites with relentless passion. Once this idea came to me, I knew it’d be headline material. Now, I want to get selected in this process to bring it into reality. It’s 2016, and we should have jetpacks by now!

The following graphic from 2012 gets the spirit on paper as I originally conceived it: http://imgur.com/TalG2BL

Thanks for your time reviewing and I look forward to discussing this project!
even outside of America some folks prefer decimetres over centimetres!

? Isn't a decimetre a metric measurement?
Exactly. If the 50/50 split is on paper, and signed by both parties, then Kyle is basically fucked. It literally doesn't matter of Jeremy "wrote any code" or whatever during his short time working with Kyle.
This is extremely promising. Makes you wonder if we ought not go further and implement a machine learning-based scheduler that studies and anticipates workloads and schedules accordingly so as to help jobs complete as quickly as possible.
Technically, UTC isn't a time zone.
I don't think anyone's arguing about who deserves what, but more about the legal strength.

Loads of people own huge stakes in companies without doing things with them (see most public stocks), that doesn't mean they lose ownership of them.

Sucks but that's how the private ownership cookie crumbles.
I agree it carries that implication, and I think it's right.

Very little is added to the discussion of curbing gang crime by bringing race into the picture. What are the specifically Black solutions to gang behaviour? What are the Hispanic ones?

On the other hand, the culture of racism and intolerance such discussions engender has real and measurable downsides. Cf. every discussion of police interactions by minorities.
haha, this seems like total bullshit.

there's no WAY an experienced founder like kyle would have given 50% of the company away, especially without a vesting schedule.
You can search basic information without paying.

Just searching for Cruise Automation reveals Incorporation date as 24/09/2013
The complaint suggests that he was asked to make up his mind really quickly without extended discussion with a lawyer.

"Altman, also said he was authorized to negotiate on
Cruise’s behalf and offered Guillory triple the amount of Vogt’s previous offer, but only if Guillory would agree to sign a formal settlement agreement that same day. Cruise’s attorneys then sent Guillory a lengthy settlement demand and Altman told him he could have only two hours to propose any changes. When Guillory told Altman he would not be able to meet that deadline because he needed to review the proposed terms of the agreement with legal counsel, Altman told Guillory he should fire his lawyer if he had already retained one, and offered to send him a list of lawyers to consult. Guillory could not comply with Cruise’s unreasonable deadline, and as a result, it passed on Friday, April 8, 2016."
Corporations are modern city-states. Why would they give up control of their infrastructure to the bufoons in city council?
People have already tested plugging a second camera in to achieve roomscale. It works.

> Today, people seem to prefer the Vive when balancing the pros and cons of each system

Yeah, unless they prefer playing seated games like Lucky's Tale, Chronos, Eve : Valkyrie, Project CARS.

You're welcome to personally prefer Vive, but you're incorrectly ignoring the fact that the Oculus Rift is better in several areas that are important enough to some people to change which system they prefer.
I'm surprised at the reactions. Are parents really that cavalier about putting their kids in some random person's car and entrusting them to some random person's driving habits?
Or it means you should always get everything in writing no matter what side you're on. A simple statement regarding how the shares vest would have prevented this.
If he doesn't have the money to pay the attorney out of pocket, he is then most likely going to pay them with a big % of his "winnings", if he does succeed. In which case, the attorneys would fight tooth and nail to get as much as they could "for their client."
I can't find any evidence they were submitted upstream at any juncture.

Moreover, since (several of) the patches seem to rip out a bunch of logic in favor of very simple logic, they would probably be contentious without broad testing and probably a runtime option to configure the behavior.
Since Kyle was the "sole director" does Jeremy's signature even need to be there?

Edit: tense
Apple is in too. http://www.nojitter.com/post/240171589/apple-jumps-on-the-we...
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Spam filtering is not a perfect science, and we’re constantly tweaking things -- with our customers in mind. This issue should be limited to new applications where the trust signal might be a bit lower. Thus existing apps / customers shouldn’t be experiencing issues (which was also highlighted by a few within this thread). If this isn’t the case email me: cramsdale@google.com. For those asking, “hey, why am I being penalized for being a new customer?” See my previous comment about spam filtering not being a perfect science. Then email me.

We’re here and we want to help.

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To have a valid contract you need consideration: you can't get 50% for doing nothing, you have to put up something in exchange (money, skill, resources, etc).

edit: (I'm not saying anything as to whether Jeremy did so).
> for many apps

That's the app developer's fault. They thought they were being smart by saying "oh, if you're in en_GB, lets give you Yelp.co.uk by default". And yeah, sure, that works for most users.

On the other hand, I don't think its fair to fault app developers for that, since there isn't otherwise a way to query the OS for "what country is this user in?" without asking for (and getting) full-precision location access.
JSON5 looks really good. I'm not sure about this one part though, from a point of view of simplicity and interoperability when deserializing the data:

> Numbers can include Infinity, -Infinity, NaN, and -NaN.
This is a great write-up. Easily one of the most interesting posts I've seen on this subject, since Aphyr's last post.

Also nice to see things like:

> We noticed that the Jepsen test code didn’t actually check for negative balances, contradicting what has been previously written about it, so we fixed that.
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No doubt, and the connection is building abstractions and pushing/popping between layers of thought
any source?
I can assure it's quite real. What else would you like to know?
Yes, and I'm guessing gp was suggesting that I might want my units in dm rather than cm.
the facts show there is no vesting schedule, i haven't seen anything that contradicts this yet.

Sam alludes to it in his blogpost...
It sounds like Jeremy wasn't at the company long enough to get that sorted out. I am curious why he left so soon though.
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As of a few days ago, website can not be viewed in China.
It's the math.

It's a hell of a lot cheaper to convince people to buy a house out in the 'burbs than to pay wages (and lease office space!) in a dense urban area.

Once you've got a company building a reliable product for a reliable market, it doesn't make much economic sense to stay in an urban area unless you have to for business reasons.
It looks like this whole case rests on whether Jeremy can actually produce any document that shows a 50/50 split. This can be the corporate charter, or it can be some sort of paper with both their signatures. IANAL, but even the YC application alone may be sufficient if it indeed does say they're joint owners.

As a side note, Sam Altman's recent blog post [1] vilifying Jeremy really rubbed me the wrong way. Sam is hardly a neutral player in this, and his post really felt like an attempt to ruin Jeremy's reputation in Silicon Valley. Sam really should have kept his mouth shut here, because depending on how this case plays out, it may be his own reputation that may be endangered.

[1]http://blog.samaltman.com/cruise
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One thing I would love to see if I was an investor looking at this idea is a whole bunch of back of calculations. Do you have calculations using estimates of potential drag, thrust and lift that show that this idea might be viable? What if a simple calculation might show that this idea will never fly (pun intended) without all the testing? I know you won't be able to get a definitive answer, but it would be nice to have something to show that it wouldn't require enormous technological advances to make it work.
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The quotes in the paper are interesting:
"Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there’s only one of me.”
Linus Torvalds, 2007

And another, which highlights why there might be many more unearthed bugs, and would probably go unnoticed.
"I suspect that making the scheduler use per-CPU
queues together with some inter-CPU load balancing
logic is probably trivial . Patches already exist, and I
don’t feel that people can screw up the few hundred lines
too badly"

Looking at the bigger picture in general, this again shows that getting software right is not easy. Now and then you still hear about the bugs popping up in the code which is very core to an OS. One I can recall is a decade old TCP bug which Google fixed last year[1].

[1] http://bitsup.blogspot.sg/2015/09/thanks-google-tcp-team-for...
IANAL but it seems plausible they could argue that the 50% was for the original concept and all the work he had done on it up to that point. Or are they really arguing that they threw all that away and started with nothing after he left? I agree with those saying that ideas don't make a company, but startup companies don't suddenly become worth a billion real dollars to GM without ideas. If what GM is buying is largely IP, and that IP is largely based on the departed co-founder's ideas, then his claims seem reasonable to me.

Edit: reading further I guess they are arguing that none of his IP is in what GM is buying. So I guess that will be the real point of contention.
I don't think this is true. Unless said contract specifically says that your 50% of the share is contingent upon a list of explicitly spelled out contributions, you would actually be entitled to the 50% even if you did nothing.
> it's so incredibly outlandish to hear someone claim that they brought in a business plan and some ideas, and that ideas alone should represent an equal percentage ownership to someone who actually worked on building a business for multiple years.

I really don't understand your view here. If the value of the business plan didn't merit equal percentage, that should've been made clear at the onset. At the time, according to Jeremy's complaint it was valued at 50% of the company:

... Vogt agreed that Guillory should be a co-founder and 50% equity owner of Cruise.

If the business plan and some ideas didn't merit 50% ownership, Vogt shouldn't have agreed that Guillery should be a 50% equity owner of Cruise. Simple as that.
Sorry, I guess we're misunderstanding each other. I was simply quoting the commenter who said, precisely, that in the realm of apologetics, believers "all are extremely biased by their beliefs".

Anyway, I merely intended it as a friendly jab. :)
To me "tOr" will always mean "The Onion Router" because that's what it is. No matter how the "toR" people want me to spell their programs name
What about support for VS Code?
even if this were the case ( i'm sure it isn't) , there would be a vesting schedule which jeremy wouldn't have completed.
How the UK's Boots went rogue
I would say most likely. No doubt would it be requested during trial and they would both know what's on it so saying something untrue about it would be profoundly stupid. In my opinion anyway.
I went without my smartphone for 7 days
I don't think one month of work should be worth 50% of the company, but it looks like he did actually do work. And he never got compensated for it.
Thanks for the suggestion. I ordered the book from Amazon.
Why machine learning? The paper says that the need to handle the complexities of modern hardware made it so that the scheduler failed to do its fundamental job.

Machine learning sounds like it would add even more complexity but perhaps I just fail to see why machine learning is a good idea here. I don't see how you can predict workloads based off historical data and if you're going to try to predict workloads based off binaries, the overhead would likely outweigh any benefits you would get.

I'll admit I am no expert in machine learning but I have a hard time understanding why you would look at this problem and think machine learning is the solution.
The complaint says he was ousted by Vogt unilaterally.
Presumably because equity is also for the work done?
Homosexuals are not an ethnic group.
Isn't there an API to find out why a message was SPAM filtered ?

Or are you afraid that "rogue" applications will use it to produce messages that are SPAM but yet not trigger the SPAM filter ?
It's worth noting that it's long been known that the brain was connected. Antibodies in the brain have long been known, as has the inflammatory nature of some diseases like Alzheimer's.

What has not been known is the mechanism: the dogma was that the blood brain barrier would prevent immune involvement. With the discovery of this new system, that dogma remains true as explained by this impressive discovery of a special access network for the immune system.
The most interesting thing to me is that Cruise went through YC, several funding rounds and most of a massive public acquisition - apparently before anyone did enough due diligence to find out about this being even a potential problem (if the claimant has any grounds - which it seems there are at least some amount) and heading it off at the pass.

That alone speaks volumes.
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This was supposedly in place before the vesting schedule. Vesting is designed to limit, not give, shares to owners. So if he never signed anything and was part of the company when it formed and it was agreed that it was a 50/50 split I don't believe that vesting would matter for his position at all.
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You are technically misusing the word random, and that is the crux of the matter.
The server had 5x the population of a reatil Vanilla realm. Those were capped at 2,500 but Nostalrius regularly peaked near 13,000 concurrent players.

Their second server was also reaching ~5,000 players at the time they were shut down.
True, I'm wondering what Vogt's response would be. I'm also curious why Kyle would want Jeremy gone after a month.
And in space (as in spacecraft). To get GMT, I set my city to Reykjavik.
Assumptions aren't contract law. If someone says you own 50% of the company with them, even if you do nothing, you own 50%.
It seems like KEKER & VAN NEST LLP is Jeremy's law firm. They represented Google in copyright infringement vs Oracle.
Do I read this correctly?
Oh, they should. Or preferably they should let you choose that specifically. I was responding towards the idea that they should include all variations when suggesting, not just what they see as your local variation.
From the article: ‘“There’s a below-ground community of mycorrhizal fungi invisibly interconnecting an above-ground plant community,” explains Christina Kaiser. She’s not kidding about the large amounts. Klein’s team estimated that in a patch of forest the size of a rugby field, the trees trade around 280 kilograms of carbon every year.’
Ownership as stated in a Y Combinator application 100% of the time implies there is also a vesting agreement.

I've filled out my own (successful) YC application which stated that I owned 50% of my company. My own equity was still subject to a vesting agreement requiring that I continue to be employed at the company.

A proposed (or even stated) equity split doesn't grant outright ownership. It would be impossible to raise investment from any professional Series A/B investor (anything involving a priced round) without founder and employee vesting, typically on a 4 year vesting schedule with a 1 year cliff at the very least.
Looking through their other posts, I don't think so.
That's damning if true, and paints YC and sama in a very poor light.
Agreed, this is a massive fuck-up by everyone involved (Altman, Cruise Board of Directors, Spark Capital, etc). Even if the claim has no merit it should have been dealt with long ago, before the company got to this stage. Now all the employees might get screwed as a result.
It would work fine on OS X if that operating system actually had equivalent control group or namespace functionality. OS X / Darwin lack these features, hence the boot2docker VM.
> Any non-blacklisted IP could proxy to a blacklisted IP

There always are ways to defeat any security; the goal is to make it more difficult and costly for the attacker, and blacklists do that.

> whitelisting just means you have to jump through hoops just to get your work done, which users will //always// do.

I agree that's true for most end-users, but the HN crowd and other power users could make good use of it.
Very fair point, and I'm rather paranoid in revealing the academic sources which justify the excitement regarding the design patent idea. BUT! I can affirmatively state that the research I've compiled as part of the development file includes numerous calculations regarding lift, stall characteristics, and how to actually implement it. It's been used in some industrial applications before that can be cited, but not in this avenue (yet) which is appealing from my perspective. Basically, we know this works, but we don't know this works in this application.
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a vesting schedule is standard and would not have been overlooked by someone who founded 2 companies w/ successful exits.

here's a direct quote from sam's post (http://blog.samaltman.com/cruise) : "Even if Jeremy had signed a stock agreement, he wouldn’t have reached the standard 1-year cliff for founders to vest any equity."
I imagine that things that seemed insignificant in the HN application may prove now to be quite problematic. I'd guess that founders might feel inclined to nominate a 50/50 split, assuming that anything else could be a red flag for YC's judgement?
Clearly for money laundering.
My point was merely that a contract isn't valid without consideration, which may exist in this case.

In any event, breach of contract isn't the only claim being made.
> Ownership as stated in a Y Combinator application 100% of the time implies there is also a vesting agreement.

An ownership agreement doesn't require vesting, unless one was agreed to. An implication is worthless.

> A proposed (or even stated) equity split doesn't grant outright ownership.

In a YC boilerplate stock vesting agreement, perhaps. Doesn't apply to contract law as a whole.

EDIT:

> It would be impossible to raise investment from any professional Series A/B investor (anything involving a priced round) without founder and employee vesting, typically on a 4 year vesting schedule with a 1 year cliff at the very least.

You can raise investment from someone if they never know of an outstanding ownership claim until an event occurs.
We're working on it. :)
This looks cool, but their characterization of YAML is disingenuous

YAML expresses structure through whitespace. Significant
whitespace is a common source of mistakes that we
shouldn't have to deal with.

since every code editor ever used will take care of this for you.
The majority of things I find convenient came from capitalism. The majority of things I value were already there and have been for quite a long time.