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Why? Im merely pointing out how the law works, and that if you want to win a legal dispute, do it when the opposing party has incentive (or better, a requirement) to quickly resolve the issue.

Not sure why pointing this out makes me not a good person to found a company with.

I have separated from a co-founder and I made damn sure we had an agreement in writing defining the terms of the separation. Didn't take much, no lawyers, just a one page agreement, three people each with a copy, all with signatures. All still good friends.
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Well, it'd need to cover dates, times with time zones, date times with time zones, times without time zones, date times without time zones. Seems better pegged to the data source without thinking it out clearly.
Great! Thanks for your hard work, and thanks for participating in the discussion. I've been looking forward to Copperhead's first release for awhile.
They did fail to identify the problem ....

But if there's any anger from screwed employees, it should be directed at the criminals who did the bullshit crime instead of the detectives who failed to identify the crime sooner, no?
The advantage of Vim is not faster but more abstract way to manipulate text. It build a language of text operation in higher level, which make you faster.
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I would say that it compromises between ML/Haskell-style FP and procedural. It doesn't have much to do with OO, bar trait objects, and the dot operator (which is almost entirely syntactic sugar).

It's a gateway drug to ML/Haskell-style FP because it eases you into expressive type systems, pattern matching, higher order functions, and pervasive use expressions over statements. Many people have told me that it was much easier to learn Haskell or Ocaml, etc. after learning Rust.
One difference is that you can implement a new trait for someone else's type.
"After Guillory engaged counsel, cross-defendants then precipitously filed and made public their lawsuit, accompanied by a public blog post by Cruise investor and Director Sam Altman that wrongly accuses Guillory of extortion and an attempt to disrupt General Motors (“GM) acquisition of Cruise."

This is why you don't speak publicly about a court case you're involved with. Now every single word Sam wrote will be put under the microscope and whether or not he "meant" something won't matter. All that will matter is what the jury believes he meant by it.
It's pretty common SV knowledge that ideas are a dime a dozen and team & execution are what really matters. However, this doesn't necessarily hold up in court. It'll be very interesting to see how this plays out. Especially considering sama's involvement.

Any idea when we'll get an update?
> After hearing the announcement, Guillory contacted Vogt to inquire about his share of the proceeds from the sale of Cruise to GM. Vogt responded that he was due nothing, but first offered $100,000, then $1 million, and then $1.5 million and acknowledgment that Guillory was a co-founder — but only if Guillory would immediately surrender his ownership rights.

> The second Director to contact Guillory, 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.

3 x $1.5 million = $4.5 million. Personally, I would have taken the money, but I think it must be incredibly hard to make such a decision under time pressure and without counsel. Still, you can retire on that money and basically be happy, and I would have chosen that over this shitstorm if I'd had the presence of mind.
Python just standardized a good bit of static typing! I haven't gotten around to playing with it though.
> That alone speaks volumes.

Move fast, break things.

I bet this is one thing that will be fixed for all future applications.
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The complaint says that Jeremy brought to the initial relationship his previous work on self-driving car technology, for which he received 50% equity. Kyle brought his capital, experience, and VC contacts, for which he received his 50% equity.

Now, maybe that's a lie, but taken on face value, it reads to me like there was exchange of value between the company and each founder.
It indicates your attitude towards how one should act.

Obviously, one should act in their own self interest and use the law to it's fullest extent, not consider the social consequences of being a dick.

Good luck sir.
the first photographed human, who was getting his shoe shined

Of course, it actually contains two humans -- the man getting his shoes shined, and the one doing the shining. Somehow it's always bothered me that the shoe-shiner hasn't gotten equal credit. Arguably, he was actually first, since it looks like he's a bit closer to the camera.
I just read both complains. This one is frankly ridiculous. The fact is that Kyle incorporated the company before he met Jeremy. And from Jeremy's complain, he is trying to build the case by saying he was more competent than Kyle. Yet why didn't he continue with the idea by himself if he was so competent?

The only proof he is using to say he was a co-founder is a YC application. This is I hope a non-binding document. I hope judge agrees that the only way to get equity in a company is if its granted in the form of shares. Jeremy was never granted any shares so he own's 0 shares.

He also acknowledges he did no provide any IP to the company. So if he didn't provide any IP and didn't receive any shares he should be entitled to 0.

I really hope Kyle wins and Jeremy is found guilty of tortorous interference and is obligated to pay for Kyle legal fees.
This is a flawed test. The primary focus of any evaluation of a political system ought to be, "how would the best and brightest do under this system?"

Think of innovators, such as Ivan Sutherland, Seymour Cray, John Carmack, or Palmer Luckey. You can quibble about exactly how much, but the fact is that each of them would be hurt to one degree or another by a scheme like this, which would leave them with fewer resources and less freedom to do what they do best. Now think of the same effect, but applied to every field, not just computer graphics (think medicine, energy, food production, etc.)

Before I continue, I should add that I don't consider everyone that happens to be wealthy today to be a true creator. Clearly, there are people that have amassed wealth the way Trump has done (via political pull.) But let's not lump people that have actually earned their wealth (and there are clearly some) with those that haven't.

Without Fritz Haber's nitrogen fixation powering 20th century agriculture, for instance, there's no way Earth's population could have hit 7 billion people. As a class, the people I'm talking about make it possible for the rest of the world to live. They already carry us in ways we can never repay: we get to live because of the innovations they come up with, and all they get back in some cases is money and/or fame. I think it's a moral outrage to propose a system that would cut them down in any degree.
That's not how I want the law to work. We should strive for better
Because you're waiting to maximize your leverage and make a play for yourself. That's a bad quality in a teammate.
I don't think the paper contradicts the second quote. It just points out that things got a lot more complex since.

"this again shows that getting software right is not easy."

Not easy, yes, but in my experience getting software right isn't too difficult. What seems impossibly hard is keeping software right, maintaining correctness in the presence of new requirements, compatibility constraints and just sheer caring about different things than we used to[1]. At some point I suspect you'd get a better design by rewriting things from scratch. But the way we do development makes rewriting stressful and error-prone, leading to the repeated arguments about whether rewriting is good or bad[2]. The question isn't whether rewriting is good or bad. Software is the most malleable medium known to man, and we should do all we can to embrace that essential malleability that is its primary characteristic and boon. The question is how not to mess up rewriting, how to keep our clay from gradually getting more and more brittle under the weight of added constraints.

(I work on this problem: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/7f5a95cdbe/Readme.md. It's been 31 days since I last got on my soapbox in this forum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11285529.)

[1] "The future is a disagreement with the past about what is important." http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/10/predicting-the-future.html

[2] Against rewrites: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html; https://steveblank.com/2011/01/25/startup-suicide-%E2%80%93-... https://basildoncoder.com/blog/pg-wodehouse-method-of-refact.... Pro-rewrite seems the minority position: http://brettweigl.tumblr.com/post/48385335083/what-can-produ... http://building.wanelo.com/2012/09/14/the-big-switch-how-we-... http://alicebob.cryptoland.net/why-i-rewrote-quivi-from-scra... (with many apologies). And yet we've seen several major rewrites: Netscape (for all Joel Spolsky's criticism above, would Firefox had been possible without the rewrite? Echoing Jeff Bezos's dictum, open source projects can afford to be misunderstood for a long time), Python 3 [edit: no, Python 3 was not a rewrite as I was corrected below], Perl 6, Angular 2. A more balanced viewpoint: https://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/04/02/surviving-leg....
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Hi,
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Please have a look at http://net-commander.com/screenshots and tell me what you think.

You can also download the alpha version for Ubuntu, Mac and Windows (it has still quit some bugs)

What's behind:

I am writing authoring software for experts since 2 decades and I wanted this time to make a tool which enables configuration tasks and automation of any networked device or service. In order to make this work like the new Excel for the new iOT and accessible to hobbiest or any person with minimal tech-skills, I followed the idea of providing a block based programming language which also can run any script in any language on the device. I hope being able to convert the block language via "pseudo" into popular languages like Javascript, C++, etc. Google's Blockly was a great inspiration for that.

Btw, another really big challenge (and very time consuming) is to write a web-based software which feels really snappy fast and works the way we know from older expert software (context menu, ribbons, main-menu, full keyboard support,...)

It is an Open-Source project and I hope somebody might like it here.

Your feedback is very welcome,
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if anything, i would say this make it a +1 to start a company with hodoof, atleast he has some sense of contractual/legal requirements imo... its not about being a dick, you and all parties should know what you getting into/not getting into make sure you have written contracts/agreements in place incase something changes
Well, I have a feeling we'll be seeing a change to the wording of the equity split question on the YC application...
The company left a liability floating around, which was a disgruntled co founder. Like a liability on your balance sheet.

And if you're the disgruntled co founder, this is your most opportune moment to extract maximum equity value for yourself.

What I don't understand is, if a company did this to another company, people are all like 'yeah, that's how the market works', but when a person does it to a person, they're all like 'you're heartless and not playing nice'. Why the hypocrisy?
Why did you pick this idea? I mean what's so different about yours compared to other job boards or even job apps like jobr?
Except that the heightened accountability is part of what causes this whole problem. Contractor bill rates are strictly regulated by non-technical proposal reviewers who live in fear not of a contractor not performing (what are you gonna do, contractors, amiright) but of OMB asking why they didn't select the firm with the slightly cheaper bill rates. The concept of the man-month is alive and well among government proposal reviewers.

Add to that all of the rules that require you to be an expert in government proposals (Google "8a", "BPA", and "USG far") and you're virtually guaranteed anyone who's good and wants to be paid what they're worth will roll out.
Yeah, it's like babysitting, but with better background checks and oversight.
Ok but obviously that isn't working. If you want top talent you have to pay top dollar, even if you are the government.
I'll echo what gp said to help make tau happen:

tau : the circumference (perimeter) of a circle.

(1/2)tau^2 : the area of a circle.

Beautiful. To go from one to the other, you integrate or take a derivative. Like gp said, there's no weird factor of two. Just the power rule in action.
"Some other go to symbol"
It is obvious I didn't use intellij and pycharm and stuff like that, but the ones I did use, kate, gedit, eclipse, notepad++ didn't let me drop into a function "With ease"
yeah you can use that feature in eclipse, but it isn't with ease, maybe it is because I am so biased for vscode. We'll never know, but the thing is I feel productive typing into vscode than I ever had with some other editor I tried.

Go ahead and downvote it, but after all every programmer worth his/her salt does realize that the choice of IDE/text editor is ultimately a personal opinion, so long as you as a person are comfortable using it, that is good for you, it does not make a tad bit of difference to anyone else in the world.
You are literally the first person on the internet I've ever seen to believe this. Everyone either doesn't know the concept at all, or knows it to be more or less exactly what open source people say it is. Its been well defined since my beginnings in the AOL cd era, pay per hour 28k modem days.

Its not just Foss people, its common knowledge among technical people.
Amen to that. I find it clumsy to require two finder windows open to move a file between them. Why not cut a file from one directory, open another directory, and paste it there? Ugh!
In this case there is a fiduciary duty from the investors (detectives in your metaphor) to make sure that the company is free from these kinds of things. So while they aren't to blame - they aren't really off the hook either - it's more of a sin of omission.

And yes, in many cases when detectives or investigators in law enforcement are lazy with their work and miss something obvious, they often pay for it with their jobs.
I feel like the best way to deal with this would be to group by subdomain if a domain has more than say 5 or 10 different subdomains submitted, but group by domain if there are less. That way "hosted" domains subdomains like *.blogspot.com get their own category, but domains controlled by a single entity are treated like a single category.
> This isn't just a default setting; they removed file-cutting from the OS.

They didn't remove anything. No version of Mac OS ever applied the cut-paste metaphor to the filesystem, going all the way back to 1984.

It's a Windows concept.
A lot of real-world projects turn off strict aliasing, such as the Linux kernel. It is just too difficult to think about every possible issue that could happen when doing a typecast. Autovectorization doesn't tend to work well anyway. In most cases where it truly matters, people use inline assembly... for example, in CRC calculations code, tight inner loops in math libraries, etc. If you really want autovectorization, "restrict" is a better solution which doesn't require breaking the world to implement.
Like a full web browser, for example?
Yes. This looks really bad on Cruise's part. Oy.
Docker runs natively on FreeBSD as of release 11 (which does require the new Linux 64-bit compatibility facility). It uses jails to achieve the same effect and in fact uses the very same images available on the default Docker hub. Also Docker has released beta engines for both Mac and Windows. So no, it's not a Linux monoculture even when considering only Docker.
If they do this, Czechia will be forever confused with Chechnya.
I don't think it's fair to blame all of the investors. The later investors were almost certainly misled, and not informed of this risk.

YC on the other hand was clearly informed that there was an individual who was considered a founder at some point in time. Despite knowledge of this risk, they invested and they facilitated follow-on financing. Now there's a big, dumb, expensive problem. YC dropped the ball, big-time.

The fact that Sam Altman is turning this into a public spectacle is further evidence that he knows YC fucked up badly, and probably doesn't have a legal case. The only reason to write what he wrote is if you're out of actual ammo.
Just a quick thank you for the free tier that App Engine offers. I use it to provide an educational app for my wife, who's a teacher, that she uses as part of her classes. It's nice to be able to provide that to her and her class, without hitting the bank (the school does that enough...). So, thank you.
One of the most impressive documentaries I've ever seen is "Chernobyl 3828"[1]. It is about the 3828 "liquidators" (cleanup crew) - euphemistically called the "bio robots" - that had to clean up the worst section of roof above the reactor. Maximum allowed dose was two minutes exposure to that section the roof.

It has some of the same footage as the sequence in your link to t=3430, but there is a key difference: Chernobyl 3828 is about the people. The psychology of the cleanup was complicated. Some people ran while others faced the danger and accepted a "red badge of courage" because if they didn't, someone else would have to go in their place.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDa8tR25dk
Yeah the brain is a privileged site, a fancy way of saying it's not like places that have ready bloodflow with very little to separate the organ. The blood brain barrier is a real problem in drug development, but it's not that surprising that there is in fact a way around it for the immune system. As the parent mentions, there's been lots of evidence stretching back years that the brain isn't totally isolated from the immune system. This paper (quite amazing and important work btw) just elaborates how that happens. The press release from the university is a little hyperbolic, but this is good and important work.
Why do you think services like sendgrid, mailgun etc exist? It's pretty common knowledge that if you need to send mission critical email, you should use a service specifically designed for that. Sending email programmatically directly from a web server has ALWAYS been a gray area.

At the VERY least you could have easily set up a gmail account and sent them from smtp. Choose the right tool for the job.
> It seems that the people who now own the company acknowledge that he was the cofounder but feel that "well he didn't do much, so he doesn't deserve his full shares".

And, this seems a specious argument if we're to take the assertions in the complaint at face value (that he was forced out). At the very least, he was deprived of his opportunity to continue to participate in the company.
There will be enough anger for everyone.
In addition to `git add -p`, there's also `git reset -p`, `git checkout -p`, and `git commit -p`!
So you basically agree with my second sentence, just with more mouth frothing?
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That's pretty crazy to me.
Conspicuously absent from this paragraph (and Sam's post) is any mention of the technology that Jeremy claims to have brought to the initial partnership from his previous work.

From this paragraph, it sounds like Jeremy could have been any dork off the street who can find some office space. The question then is why Kyle worked with Jeremy at all, and in particular, why he proposed to Ycombinator to found a self-driving car company with Jeremy as an equal partner.
Is anyone able to explain Figure 1? I don't understand what the levels are, and whether level 1 is the coarsest or the finest. The caption doesn't seem to make sense either way.. Also, Algorithm 1 is in terms of cpus, but the description mentions 'nodes' and 'cores'. Is a CPU a core or a node? Neither?
The way this works on Windows (I think) is that internally, "cut" means "copy file path to clipboard", and "paste" means "move file from old place to new place". Thus, if you want to cut and paste from "Downloads" to "Documents", then it doesn't matter how big the file is: you just change a couple of directory entries without ever changing the file. If you want to do this across file systems, it has to do a copy.
It's super rare that founder shares don't vest. YC would have advised it.
To you and everyone else attacking him, you're conflating his explanation with his personal character. That's not fair.
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I regularly use cut/paste to move files in Windows and Linux, not sure why the size is relevant.

Ctrl-a to select all files for example, ctrl-x to cut, alt-tab or navigate to a different directory and ctrl-v to paste.
I also expected something like this, but I'm gladly surprised that it is very uncommon. In most of the submissions the comments look legit.
Yes, also Apple vs HTC (they represented HTC)
You seem to have left out the r in both of those expressions.

Tou r. .5 tou r^2 .
I guess I don't see how this was so obvious.
Tell that to Eduardo Saverin and the Winklevoss twins.
Or Chocolatey ( https://chocolatey.org/ )
This makes me sick. Jeremy makes me sick. Despicable.
> "The ICIJ Panama Papers data is freely available..."

AFAIK, the raw Panama Papers database has not been made available online and is only restricted to ICIJ and its int'l media partners.
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Being aware of risk angles and protecting yourself is not the same thing as condoning exploitative behavior.

I'd want my cofounder to think through how somebody with legal leverage over our company would act. You should want that too.
"It seems that the people who now own the company acknowledge that he was the cofounder but feel that "well he didn't do much, so he doesn't deserve his full shares. The law doesn't work like that."

Exactly. The founding documents are controlling, unless later modified by a contract signed by the parties.
Not sure if we can actually prove in court that the man behind the nick is vogt himself.
C99 Techincal Corrigendum 3 clarifies that union-based type punning is valid by amending 6.5.2.3 with this footnote:

If the member used to access the contents of a union object is not the same as the member last used to store a value in the object, the appropriate part of the object representation of the value is reinterpreted as an object representation in the new type as described in 6.2.6 (a process sometimes called “type punning”). This might be a trap representation.

(copied from a comment on blog.regehr.org)

This is actually a really common area of misunderstanding. But ultimately, one of the main uses of unions is to provide multiple ways to access the same data.
Someone who isn't me should write an extension replacing paywalled study links with sci-hub links.
VC firms are sophisticated investors and are supposed to conduct due diligence on behalf of their L.P's. Part of what the big management fees they charge are supposed to go to is ensuring that each investment is legally sound - i.e. having their people verify the incorporation documents, cap table, etc.

So yes, the fact that this situation has become known at this terribly late stage reflects badly on all the investors in previous rounds.
What happens to ownership interests/claims that YC isn't aware of?