skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

This. That post was a huge red flag and after reading the claim it's very clear why he posted it.
And I think you can demand the compensation you believe is legally due without being considered a greedy selfish asshole.
Thanks for addressing my concerns.

EDIT:

Those are all excellent points. Where there are tradeoffs, perhaps you could put some settings in your security slider UI.

An optional software firewall that requires outgoing connections to be whitelisted would be great for my purposes, but everyone knows how painful those can be.

Regarding connections, I've come across the following potential issues; I haven't looked into them but they give me the impression that locking down Android's network activity is too complex even for technical users, and that only a carefully secured OS will solve the problem (a big reason I've looked forward to Copperhead):

* Some connections are made during bootup so an effective firewall somehow has to load early, or at least first in the network stack.

* The address of the DNS server, Google's, is hard-coded in an in-kernel DNS resolver. Among other issues, it makes it hard to choose a different DNS server or to identify the application doing the lookup.

* Some other kernel connection activity is hard to stop even with a firewall [1][2]

> I don't want to make changes without a clear threat model in mind.

Confidentiality is part of security, and exploits of confidentiality by businesses are almost certainly the most common security exploits.

People tend to overlook them because usually they are technically legal and currently they are a sort of technological norm -- though remember that lead and asbestos were once norms. Certainly users should have the option; they should control their data.

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[1] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?s=12c116f17804f...

[2] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?s=a5c6cb3da0cb6...
I agree with you, but remember that Jeremy turned down the 4.5 before having a chance to consult with his lawyer. So he must have believed he had a significant chance of winning at that point, and his lawyer must now believe there is some chance of winning or he wouldn't take the case, but we don't know that the lawyer would have advised turning down the 4.5.
Ah, thanks for the correction.

But why did Python 3 take so long to release, then?
...On closer inspection, it seems this thing is yet to come out. And even on their most recent video, it still has a fair amount of lag.
Sure there is. When reality is racist, so are facts.
Which is why I am inclined to believe Jeremy really believes he is in the right in this case. If I thought I was entitled to hundreds of millions and someone offered me $100k, I would be so offended I would see out the suit to the end even if it got me nothing. The very idea that they went 10x on that offer, than 50% up and than 3x would just embolden me to realize they are really trying to screw me...
5 health insurance mistakes you should avoid
Not so bizarre unfortunately. The hibakusha, the survivors of the nuclear bombings in Japan, still suffer discrimination, as do their children. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibakusha#Discrimination
Nerve cells? Sure. But...probiotics play a major role in anxiety/depression and other psych issues. There isn't a ton of research but it's fairly clear that the bacteria in the gut contribute to a person's psych well-being.

Various sources: https://www.google.com/#q=probiotics+psychological+effects+s...
It was a bit long winded.
> I think the atmosphere is quite cozy, and love taking my own stuff to work on

I can remember a time (1980's and earlier) when the modern version of the coffee shop didn't exist.

The nearest equivalent was a bar: Dimly lit, filled with smoke, loud annoying music, aggressive people, and a waiter coming around every 10 minutes to ask/demand if you want another drink. If you dared bring in some papers or a book to read, you'd get dirty looks, rude comments, or worse.

Thank god for the modern coffee shop and the shift in attitude.
This is why sama should have stfu and not said anything. There are two sides to every story and the argument presented is compelling, so it's up to a judge and/or jury to sort this out. Of course sama has a dog in this race, which makes it even dumber that he commented at all. I hope he learns from this.
My laptop is armv7 linux, and not being able to run rustc on it has been annoying. Well, I did find some binary of some old version somewhere, but it's of limited usefulness since it's old, and it didn't come with cargo, which also wants to bootstrap itself from a native binary. The last time I tried it, I couldn't even cross-compile an ARM rustc from x86_64, because the build scripts wanted to run the binary they were building. This is literally the only reason I've been using C and not Rust (which would have been a much more suitable language) for my latest project.

EDIT: Huh. I guess they do have binaries for arm linux now, at least for nightly and beta versions, as of literally two days ago.
The founding documents explicitly list Kyle as the sole founder and shareholder of Cruise. If what you state is true then Jeremy's claim is entirely baseless.

This counter-complaint conveniently breezes past that fact, and moves directly on to allusions of a verbal contract, as memorialized in the YC app.
I suspect large corporations are no strangers to these lawsuits and if they really wanted the IP, they wouldn't be scared off by debacle...although they would likely double down on any due diligence they planned.
> Z, for Zulu

I think it might be the other way around.
I mean do you really believe the background checking was much better than Uber's? What exactly do you think was actually different? Seems like optics to me.

What if Uber gave you the option of a female driver/highly rated tenured driver/female tenured driver?

Just curious what'd make you actually feel better about leaving your kids in a stranger's car.
> As a matter of fact, it doesn't.

Actually it does. I just opened one C# file and got that prompt to install C# extension, after which everything was back to normal.
FYI for any readers, rayiner is an accomplished appellate lawyer.
Apply HN: due diligence as a service
I am an amateur J-er, but I can't stop jumping back to it and implementing something quick or re-implementing something I've done in another language. I am always surprised by how quick it is to prototype. I want to learn more how to use Qt to add GUIs to my projects, since unfortunately, only old-timers like myself like command lines. It doesn't get any buzz unless it has a nicely-designed GUI. Have you checked out JD? You can get an evaluation, non-commercial key to play with it. It should complement your kdb+/q background.
Analyzing the Panama Papers with Neo4j
As an anecdote on the flip side, I've been building Middleman sites for a while now and can't remember ever having an issue with whitespace in the front matter or local data.
Grammars people! If you don't provide it / promote it, I assume your "nice simple thing" is neither obvious nor thought-through. Sorry.

Help me with my list of trendy things that took or are taking way to long to get a grammar: docopt, semver...
I think one of the failures is that UX is designed by people who are comfortable with the abstract, we (usually) know about what is happening in the background, and can figure how action A leads to result B, but most people are just not good at this stuff. For them, the UX has to be way more concrete, since they just do not have a clear picture of what is going on.

This also leads to some tech anxiety, an example of which was an acquaintance not long ago being unable to save a missed call into her contacts list on a Samsung/Android and worried that she was somehow too dumb to use the (very costly) "smartphone". Just a huge collective failure of the "smartest" people around to account for other people who are very different.
My logic is simple.

There is qualification round, round 1a/1b/1c, round 2, round 3, onsite finals.

Advancing to round 1 won't impress anyone because qualification round is easy.

In order to advance to round 2 you have to be top 1000 which is pretty difficult but achievable.

Advancing to round 3 is very difficult, I think it's way beyond interview level.
I'm familiar with due diligence processes. They're why I believe the later stage VCs are likely the victims of fraud on the part of Cruise's D&Os. All of those investors would've demanded a clean separation agreement if they had any information regarding the co-founder.
> I would use it at work if I could turn off the phone home feature.

You can: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...
Given that the company had been incorporated prior to the YC application, there are two possibilities: The original incorporation paperwork shows a 50:50 split or it contradicts the YC application. In the latter case, assuming that one party handled incorporation but made the other believe it said something different, wouldn't that constitute fraud?

Of course, it's also possible that they discussed resolving the equity when they split but never put it into writing...
Here's an internet-of-things device that will be a tempting target for hackers
In the context of 80/20 rule, they're pretty comparable.
American Vehicle Sales
his comment is #2 on google when searching 'uber coo fired' and its only been 20min. so 2 takeaways:

1. google is damn impressive

2. he is probably just trying to stir shit
If you've convinced people that fingerprints prove a person was there and voted, then you have additional weight for your fraud.
>> small government dogma

I think a bigger military, bigger IRS, bigger police departments, bigger spy agencies, bigger BLM, bigger reserve banks will be a more toxic combination where the only winners are the rich.

So no, you don't get to dismiss "small government" as dogma.

People ought to be allowed to maintain their own livelihoods and not interfered with by government, through excessive taxation going to the military, confiscation of cash while travelling, confiscation of real estate property by being the premise of a crime, be spied on, have their cows taken, have their bank deposits "bailed in" - even if there is widespread automation reducing the number of jobs.

People who cannot afford goods and services in the automation economy will be able to serve each other. And then they will always be employed this way.

I have no position on welfare in this future, as I have not seen it yet.
Show HN: A Dumber version of Kite
I like it :-) But I agree, social buttons should be removed or at least moved to page like /about.
I can't see how there is any possible explanation of the agreed upon facts that doesn't paint Kyle as making a horrible mistake with respect to ownership rights.

He submitted a YC application that listed them as co-founders, and has no paperwork showing the Jeremy gave up his share (whatever it might have been).

So, the only explanation I can come up with is that " An experienced & successful entrepreneur" took on "an unknown cofounder" without proper paperwork.

That's a pretty surprising set of circumstances, but it seems pretty clear that it happened.
When you raise a Series A or later funding there normally is an extensive amount of due diligence done before the deal is closed. Sometimes you pay for it, sometimes the VC pays for it, but it happens.

Before that point spending extensive time or money on due diligence is probably a waste. By all means keep accurate documentation of what is going on and follow best practices, but if there are a few minor issues it probably doesn't matter and will get cleaned up later if your business is doing well enough (note: this situation is obviously not a minor issue).
Why not simply open a real terminal next to your editor and enjoy full featured terminal instead of some crippled in-editor experience?
What if they stop working with you and buy out your worthless stake?
Unfortunately the authors are using AMD machines which behave differently than most others because pairs of cores are conjoined into "modules" that share resources. In AMD processors, a cpu is a core. In almost all other processors, a cpu is a SMT thread (aka Hyperthread).

In figure 1 the levels/shades represent distance from node/socket 1, darker being closer. So node 1 is distance 0 from itself, two other nodes are distance 1, and one node is distance 2.
The 1980s? I know a few coffee shops that are still like that.
Microsoft Sues U.S. Government for Consumers 4th Amendment Rights
How does a company that has made $1.5M revenue and is growing 50% in the last 6 months go out of business? Raise too much money? Inaccurate business plan? Wishful thinking about future funding to provide economies of scale? Lack of due diligance by investors?

Not trying to be confrontational or rude, just genuinely curious.
I propose the name for 50% equity: DDaS Attack!
Why Is Gentrification Such a Bad Word?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/gentrifi...
Their flag is awesome. It's a fractal.
What good is a house if you can't get to it?
It's one thing to hear your lawyer's counsel and then decide to do it anyway, because the potential reward is worth the risk.

It's another thing to rush something through before your lawyer has a chance to provide counsel--which is essentially what Sam Altman claims he did, in his post.

CEOs make more than GCs, but they employ GCs for a reason.
So is "planned equity" "equity"?
> it doesn't need to special-case errors at the language level

Could you explain this? A lack of explanation makes it seem flippant and is probably why your comment is greyed out.
I've worked scheduling bugs in other kernels before (Linux is not an outlier here). The key metric we keep an eye on is run queue latency, to detect when threads are waiting longer than one would expect. And there's many ways to measure it; my most recent is runqlat from bcc/BPF tools, which shows it as a histogram. eg:

# ./runqlat
Tracing run queue latency... Hit Ctrl-C to end.
^C
usecs : count distribution
0 -> 1 : 233 |*********** |
2 -> 3 : 742 |************************************ |
4 -> 7 : 203 |********** |
8 -> 15 : 173 |******** |
16 -> 31 : 24 |* |
32 -> 63 : 0 | |
64 -> 127 : 30 |* |
128 -> 255 : 6 | |
256 -> 511 : 3 | |
512 -> 1023 : 5 | |
1024 -> 2047 : 27 |* |
2048 -> 4095 : 30 |* |
4096 -> 8191 : 20 | |
8192 -> 16383 : 29 |* |
16384 -> 32767 : 809 |****************************************|
32768 -> 65535 : 64 |*** |

I'll also use metrics that sum it by thread to estimate speed up (which helps quantify the issue), and do sanity tests.

Note that this isolates one issue -- wait time in the scheduler -- whereas NUMA and scheduling also effects memory placement, so the runtime of applications can become slower with longer latency memory I/O from accessing remote memory. I like to measure and isolate that separately (PMCs).

So I haven't generally seen such severe scheduling issues on our 1 or 2 node Linux systems. Although they are testing on 8 node, which may exacerbate the issue. Whatever the bugs are, though, I'll be happy to see them fixed, and may help encourage people to upgrade to newer Linux kernels (which come with other benefits, like BPF).
1. 99.9% of tech workers in SF have 1 degree of separation from an Uber employee or is one.
2. any one of those people would tell you the same thing.
This is trivial, but my favorite part of your post is the use of "a writing" as an expression.
The most interesting thing about the elephant's foot was that it disproved the "China Syndrome" hypothesis. That hypothesis of course was that an uncontrolled meltdown would simply melt down through to China (not that it could really go past the core :-) However, what the elephant's foot showed was that the melted core would diffuse into the material as it was melting, eventually it loses enough mass that it goes subcritical, re-freezes and that's that.

That is why pretty much every western reactor has a reservoir of sand under the containment vehicle, if the worst of the worst happens, it melts into the sand which becomes glass.
Can we cure cancer/diabetes by stimulating brain?
I hereby name you my co-founder. 50/50. I shall now go find a buyer.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis

The idea is that a small amount of radiation spread over time is survivable. So in sum total he may have had more than anyone else. (I won't include anyone who instantly died in hiroshima.)
For me, these are not tradeoff-able. An employer either satisfies all of them adequately, or else it's not really an employer but just a thing wasting my time that I quit from.

I think you might be missing that you have a total compensation and any costs to the company comes out of your salary. You could get lucky and the cost of the company providing you training and new skills is less than its value to you, but this normally doesn’t happen.

Think about it another way - if you lose a day a week of productive work because of training that means your employer is paying you for 5 days and only getting 4 days of work from you. This reduces your value to the company and hence how much they are willing to pay you. All things being equal you can choose to take a job at lower pay with more training or higher pay with less company provided training.
Don't you hate it when you Google for an answer to your problem, find a promising StackExchange post, and it's your question you asked a few days ago and there are still no answers?
It's the same reason bike theft is so high. High liquidity and high value.
It is generic. IETF's RFCs are only one example.
> Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.﻿

And now you can't roundtrip the comments if for some reason your JSON parser needs to change something.
> 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.

Between this incident and pg's "startups must be allowed to break the law whenever they want or else civilization might collapse" essay a few months ago, it's getting hard to take anything the higher-ups at YC say seriously.
A couple reactions after reading the cross complaint:

First. In a game of legal posturing sometimes a good writer can make a great deal of difference. Jermey’s lawyers are fairly good writes and they weave quite a huge story. I think as I said in original comments there is almost no way this case gets dismissed on summary judgement. That’s unfortunate because it means no easy way out.

Second. Man Jeremy is pretty dismissive of Kyle’s background and it’s downright nasty. “two successful startups” and not related to autos. Well, does Jermey have any successful startups at all? It’s not a small thing and someone unpleasant to read if you are in the startup world or have spent much time actually trying to build a business to see lawyers talking smack about a guy whose done pretty well.

Lastly, it’s a fine piece of writing but I still go back to what the hell did Jermey do for one month that would entitle him to anything. I think you have to go back to what is the convention in the industry which is a typical vesting schedule applies and that’s a risky in any startup.

I also have to say poor Kyle must feel terrible. I’m honestly kinda sick to my stomach reading the complaints. Startups are tough thing and 2.5 years vs 1 month in a big difference in blood sweat and tears no matter how much Jermey put in. It strains any reasonable amount of credulity that if Jeremy felt this way – he’d never mention it until now. I believe under the law that does weaken his case quite a bit. I forget the legal concept but in some cases when you don't speak up- it minimizes your right to speak up later.

It's deceptive to not speak up and let someone else continue building something under the mistaken belief they owned it- when you beleived you owned half. I think that's the part that has a lot of people taking Kyle's side- imagine if you built something for 2.5 years and you thought you owned all of it- and someone else believed the whole time they owned half?

There is an inherent unfairness to that and the law does recognize that.

My best advice for Kyle would be figure out a way to close the GM deal without settling as these guys are in for a fight. Get everyone else paid, close the deal and let the lawyers handle it as even reading their very well written prose- I don’t think there is a case here for Jeremy and given all the drama in the nice prose I think their lawyers know that too and it’s just a well worded shakedown.

But yeah- really a sickening read. A lot of my opinion is based on the assumption Jeremey never said a thing about this until after the huge sale. If that's the case, quote sun tzu all ya want but it's still slimey and I think against some basic precepts of US corporate law.
Doesn't sound like a company was established. And it sounds like he was around for about a month.
I think he's implying that Vogt took pride in not finishing his education, which is an implication that Cruise would've never made it had Guillory not agreed to collaborate with him.
Using 'watch' 'curl' (refresh every minute)

watch --color -n60 'curl -q http://wttr.in/london'
Right, Britian uses GMT a portion of the year, and then switches to BST (British Summer Time) during the summer. BST is GMT+1. Android uses GMT and when summer comes around, Android's representation of GMT becomes GMT+1.
But a bunch types you do expect to work can: Slices, maps and channels.

var m map[string]bool
m["foo"] = 1 // Nil, panic

var a []string
a[0] = "x" // Nil, panic

var c chan int
<-c // Blocks forever

This violates the principle of least surprise. Go has a nicely defined concept of "zero value" (for example, ints are 0 and strings are empty) until you get to these.

The most surprising nil wart, however, is this ugly monster:

package main

import "log"

type Foo interface {
Bar()
}
type Baz struct{}

func (b Baz) Bar() {}

func main() {
var a *Baz = nil
var b Foo = a
fmt.Print(b == nil) // Prints false!
}

This happens is because interfaces are indirections. They are implemented as a pointer to a struct containing a type and a pointer to the real value. The interface value can be nil, but so can the internal pointer. They are different things.

I think supporting nils today is unforgivable, but the last one is just mind-boggling. There's no excuse.
Yes but the article is talking about the immune system within the brain.