skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social Autopsy: Fight Cyberbullying With… More Cyberbullying
To any entrepreneur who reads this thread and suddenly develops the cold sweat-inducing thought that "Oh No...I do not have proper paper work with that departed ex-cofounder/ex-employee either!", please build the courage to talk to that person and have proper written agreement in place. Consult a lawyer if necessary (IANAL). That way, you would not be in the same situation as Cruise and Guillory.

I worked at a VC firm for about 3 years. By far the most difficult situation to mediate was co-founder disputes.
I'll give you a counterexample: Paul Ceglia[0]

He claimed to own 80% of Facebook after reaching a written agreement with Mark Zuckerberg and filed a lawsuit[1]. He managed to retain some very high profile law firms to pursuit the case on his behalf.

It was only discovered later, by his own representatives, that he had forged the evidence (he had hired Zuckerberg to do some work, but not on Facebook) and the case was dismissed[2].

Facebook went on to sue the lawfirms, Ceglia was charged with fraud and last anybody heard from him he escaped house detention awaiting sentencing and is now a fugitive[3].

The entire case is fascinating

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ceglia

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/20/technology/facebook_ownershi...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/30/technology/social/paul-cegli...

[3] http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202736579636/Where-in-the-...
Yes, I believe his joke/point is about the order of causation: The letter came first, and the name followed, rather than the letter being an abbreviation of the name.
The recent post about Candy Japan's attempt to combat credit card fraud gives a good sense of what fighting fraud and abuse is like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11431881

As an email service provider it's like that and more, since (1) once an abuser uses your service, they've gotten the benefit immediately and keep it even if their account is discovered as fraudulent later, e.g. stolen CC number & chargeback. (2) Abusive users can directly harm good users such as by harming the deliverability of the overall platform. It's not just bad debt, it's bad experience too. (3) Unlike Candy Japan where fraudsters mostly just wanted to check CC numbers and not actually buy product, email abusers really want to send emails (4) It can be hard to tell good and bad senders apart because some companies with an internet presence aren't email savvy and might make mistakes or might get hacked.

Spam filters are always tough because if you give someone transparency into which actions of theirs that you consider abuse, then they will quickly detect and route around your attempt to block them. (See Candy Japan article) It's pretty easy for a human to guess what might be the sign of their fraud and run a few experiments to see what gets flagged e.g. By comparison a machine learning system might be hard to outsmart, but then it's also challenging to explain and troubleshoot false positives. Hence what's effective is often a combination of machine-learned filters and heuristics along with manual overrides by human judgment.

All other things equal, new users are a lot more likely to engage in fraud than existing ones, and so tend to be under more suspicion. Aside from B2B fraud where companies take out lines of credit and then go bankrupt intentionally, it's uncommon for existing established customers to turn fraudulent - they're already vetted. (Consider: who is more likely to be fraudulent. The first time subscriber to Candy Japan, or a subscriber who has been using it for 12 months and is about to buy their 13th month?) It's not a great experience as a new user to be under suspicion, but if it's temporary and easily overridden by a human it can be a decent trade-off - the need to reach out acts a deterrent to spammers but does not deter legitimate users as much (speaking generally).
> Would Cruise have been accepted to Ycombinator at all if it had just been Kyle applying?

Yes, without a doubt. He's previously YC by way of Justin.tv / Socialcam / Twitch. If you're good enough to go through YC once and have a track record of success you're a shoe-in for your next venture.

Realistically Kyle would have been accepted to YC without any idea and he would have been wildly successful with Cruise even without YC.
Is there a good reason to back up raw disk images with block-level deduplication, rather than running file recovery to get filesets, and then doing file-level deduplication?

On the one hand, I can imagine "cryonically" preserving a disk image for a later, better filesystem recovery program to come around. (This "cryonic" approach would give even better results by preserving bit-level analogue flux recordings of the disk platters, rather than relying on the output of digital reads from the disk heads.)

On the other hand, the longer you leave these disk images as dead blobs of data, the more layers of legacy container+encoding formats you'll have to try to get your system emulating when you finally do want to pull the files off. One day your OS won't have drivers for reading e.g. FAT16, or zfs2, or ReiserFS2.11, nor will it be able to parse out the meaning of an MBR-partitioned disk. Reaching back through Linux kernel archives for something old enough to understand those things, will result in a kernel that won't boot your PC. You'll end up having to do something convoluted with qemu just to get your disk read.

Personally, I'd much rather throw out all the intermediate containers I can, as soon as I can: not just extracting files from the disk's filesystem, but further extracting files from any proprietary archive formats on the disk (using the extractor tools probably installed on the same disk), and even canonicalizing containers like AVI by remuxing them into modern extensible formats like MKV. The goal being to give a file-level deduplication process the best possible inputs to work with, most likely to match: not just for space-saving, but because reducing "junk duplicates" helps greatly in actually finding anything in all that mess, let alone organizing it.
You're either ascending, or you're declining as a city. Things don't remain frozen in time. People age, buildings age, new people are born, commerce brings people in, those are the dynamics.
Well, answer the other questions then.

Granting 50% of equity is a lot, and as an experienced entrepreneur, Kyle would know that. But he wrote it down as the plan. Why?

These are the sorts of questions a court will be asked to ponder.
In Poland we sometimes call them Pepiks - quite snappy (although the chechs might not like it :p)
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators
Back in the days before I learned about vim, Textmate was the choice for editing huge data files.

Didn't ever understand people who used it for the things Notepad++ could do back then though.
15 Test Automation Trends of 2016
Right, but the Finder does have Copy and Paste. Cmd-C and Cmd-V have worked in the Finder since the very first Mac. It's even in the edit menu.

I suppose they expect you to click and drag to move a file, rather than the slightly unintuitive Cut and Paste on entire files. There's no real physical analogy for a cut.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11501470 (except for the ones that only make sense here).
or SDLang
GiveDirectly to try giving some poor people a basic income for life
Disk is cheap in online storage services, so its "cheaper" in time to dump the image and pull out whatever you need in the future.

> One day your OS won't have drivers for reading e.g. FAT16, or zfs2, or ReiserFS2.11, nor will it be able to parse out the meaning of an MBR-partitioned disk.

Maybe in 10-20 years.
Yes, the lack of a built-in project switcher is a nuisance. I'd like to have a little dropdown at the top of the (left) sidebar with project names. A keyboard shortcut plus a bit of fuzzy matching drops down the list and picks a project and pop all the files in that project are loaded right where I left off. Maybe copy a few lines to the clipboard, maybe add a TODO: note to myself that just occurred to me while working on something else, then a quick keyboard shortcut and pop I'm back in the other project.

Switching between multi-file projects should be almost as easy as switching files within a project.
The article says "CHECK-ia".
Uber and Ola may shake hands and close a deal
> They really double downed on making the list feature a pain by autoplaying every movie upon selection. Now I can’t add or remove a movie without playing the beginning. Fortunately, I don’t have a data cap at home, but it still causes my receiver to switch audio modes, leading to annoying clicks and pops as it settles in. Not appreciated. My thumb was already on the OK button. If I really did want to watch the movie, pressing it twice isn’t so hard. In exchange for convenience nobody could possibly need, I’m forced to deal with aggravation I can’t avoid.

Boy isn't this annoying in Netflix too? I notice if you go to look at a show's information more closely (selecting it from the main screen), it automatically starts playing the first episode. I don't want that! I can manage that, really! Thank you!

I think we're hitting a critical mass of UX, where we're trying to dumbly pre-suppose behavior. There's ways to do this correctly (via machine learning), but blanketing behaviors for all users is just downright stupid.
SDLang have support for date formats.
> How fast does Go compile compared to Haskell? And, is that a fair comparison? If not, why not?

For this to be a fair comparison, you need to compare a Go LLVM compiler against an Haskell LLVM compiler, as possible example.

For this to be viable comparison one needs to compare similar toolchains.
This is not uncommon. The deal will have an escrow where money is held for a time period to protect against such claims.
My most used editors (Sublime Text and Notepad++) have this.
I think the weirdness is calling them "expensive"; nowadays you can buy a new one for $25 or so.
The main problem is not the bug itself, but the fact that it's not fixed for so many years.
The point is that a lot of us lose sight of the bias inherent here. Sometimes I get lost in how great HN is, especially compared to similar online communities.
Yes, I'm very well aware of all those symptoms.

Still can't compare it to PTSD.
"I don't see how you can predict workloads off of historical data"

... Think about that part, then:)
I completely agree with your recommendation on Mailgun. Using it for past 4 months, never had a problem with their service.
I think the majority of this (counter)claim is that Jeremy provided critical IP to the company as consideration for (promised) equity. That makes the issue more complicated, unless Cruise can prove that they threw out 100% of the intellectual property he brought in during his short tenure.
IIRC from the movie, it wasn't that it would burrow through to China, but that it would burrow to groundwater and then become a rocket propelled by steam.
This is absolutely nuts!

If this result is true, our Linux machines have been wasting 13-24% of our silicon and energy for years (that number is for "typical Linux workloads") because the scheduler fails to fulfill its most basic duty.

The quotes from Linus in the paper just twist the knife.
Shouldn't we keep our format specs simple and strict, and relegate aesthetic, and typo-correction stuff to the editor?

i.e. something with aspects of clang-format (which tries hard not to change the meaning of your code even if it's broken), and the aggressive autocorrection necessary to make typing on a touchscreen work?

I suppose there are converters from this to json, though, so maybe this is just a better specified way of converting keypresses from monkeys into something with well defined structure...
CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic started by UN peacekeepers
Hmm... A new idea for me, which probably will make someone here on HN rich:

Helpful bots that monitors your communication and suggests cultural jokes, to impress people?
So you're saying it's purpose in the comment was to accuse the officer of 'racism.'

That's silly.

What purpose is served by accusing the officer of racism in the comment? Is it some kind of weird virtue signalling, like "she's racist! but not me, I'm a good guy!"

Furthermore, if we agree that the subtext is the officer is being accused of racism, there is in fact no basis for that accusation. Noticing a facet of reality and verbalizing it, is emphatically not racism.

It might be 'racism' of the sort that everybody is desperately searching for in every nook and cranny to hang their ideologies on, but it's not actually racism.

(what I find confounding, is that from reading your comment, the officer hasn't just been accused, but in your mind seems to be fully guilty and worthy of condemnation, based on the evidence that she simply spoke what she had observed. so strange...)
Because YC accepted the application with the names of both founders and a 50/50 split. Vogt has not produced documentation that, at the time that YC accepted Cruise or shortly afterwards, that they formalized the fact that Vogt was sole founder.

A couple of years later, just as it is on the verge of sharing in a big payday, only now does YC take an interest in saying that Guillory is an extortionist who shouldn't get a co-founder's due. If you're someone who believes Guillory's side of the story -- that he was forced out -- then yes, you might see YC and Vogt conspiring against Guillory.
The list of things I wanted to learn in my life is halfway to the horizon now. I'm good.
It used to be that you bought a license. Now you rent one.
Interesting, so if the case hinges on the YC application as evidence of the equity split, then we also know that YC requires all founders to sign an employment agreement with their company and restricted stock purchase agreement, following a very standardized YC template, that would include a vesting schedule. Other requirements include an employee incentive pool and of course enough common shares for YC to purchase their portion.
Agreed. Anyone who's filled out a YC app answers the equity split question as though it's post-vesting.

No one answers the question like, "Our equity split is 0%, 0%. After a 1 year cliff we begin vesting 50% each over 3 years" because that's pedantic and you're supposed to keep the app simple. People just write "50/50". Almost every YC app has this problem.
I think there was post while ago which tried to predict property price raise based on number of new coffee shops.
#EMERGINGUS
> I have zero interest in letting this go

Then file a HIPAA complaint [1].

[1] http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/filing-a-complaint/index.html
VC funding mechanics and technical architecture don't have the wide human interest as medical scientist. Everybody has a body after all.

So a larger proportion of medical topic articles for non-doctors get written to be consumed by least common denominator readers. My impression is that there are fewer 'informed enthusiasts' and 'pro-sumers' on medical topics compared to, say, personal computing or photography.
But is it ethical?
You will probably get significantly more performance out of your cores for multi-threaded or multi-process applications if you stop using node, php, python, etc. and use something that's more performance oriented.
I love ST, but the hotkeys are so different between Windows and Mac and it drives me up the wall. I feel like I'm abroad in the UK and now fries are chips, chips are crisps, crackers are biscuits, Ctrl+H is Cmd+Shift+F, etc... It really gets in the way of my ability to work in my editor fluently, which is ultimately all a text editor is good for.
This is a documented API endpoint: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/ with quota.
Couldn't you just load them up in a VM anyway?
Google’s new ‘EID’ is an encryption layer for its Eddystone beacon platform
Introduction to Cells: A Better View Layer for Rails
You can see Guido’s 2006 talk about the project here for some history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDdgeISLUI
After reading the various viewpoints posted, here are my thoughts.

Jeremy sounds a bit greedy, and probably won't get 50% compensation, but probably will get a significant amount since it sounds like he wasn't dealt with fairly through the whole process if his claims hold up.

However, based on Sam Altman's actions as depicted, this makes me not to ever want to work for a YC company, and I've been approached by plenty at various stages (early to late). With an investor that wants to resolve things in bad faith, I cannot trust that I wouldn't ever potentially get screwed the same way, all because an investor believes "That person does not deserve compensation, so we'll operate shadily to make it end that way."

It makes all the talk about nice people and such from YC leaders sound as fake as the reputation of many tech industry people in the Bay Area is touted to be.
Not without begging the question. Because we could rephrase your sentiment as, "Are you seriously asking whether a co-founder of a billion dollar company should list some unknown engineer as his 50/50 co-founder on a YC application?" Most people would say, "Of course not", and yet it is currently undisputed that Guillory's name is listed as such.

And so no, the answer is not obvious.
I still have a disk image of the Mac Plus I used until I was 10, when I upgraded to a new Blueberry iBook. The Mac Plus experience can be recreated with Mini vMac, an emulator.

Files since 1999 are all still in a folder on my local drive. I've made an effort not to lose the photos and chat logs. My iTunes database dates back to 2002, and I'm disappointed that I lost my old SoundJam MP database that I used for 2 years before that.

Unfortunately, my archives continuously come under threat from forced upgrades. Upgrading iPhoto to the Photos app will lose a lot of metadata. The latest versions of iTunes removed USB sync for contacts & calendars, which really bothers me when I want to maintain my files without the cloud.

Many old documents are now unreadable (e.g. Clarisworks). I've realised that simplicity is essential for keeping long-term records. Keeping a copy as plain text is important for preservation. Just because "there's an app for that" today doesn't mean that 10 years from now, the app will still work. This is (especially) true for companies that should know better, such as budget tracking tools.

I recently went through my old records to compile a list of every rock concert I've been to, along with the location and price when possible. With heavy use of archive.org, my iCal, and my iPhoto library, I figured out all the dates, but it was a major effort. Most of them were in the last 10 years.

My dad still has his PhD thesis on a magnetic tape. Anybody who knows how to read that onto a PDP-8 should get in touch!
No comment from him trying to do a restore?
Bq Begins Shipping World’s First Ubuntu Tablet
What bubble? VCs spend $12B on startups in first quarter
Yep, more background here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9325796

(We're working around this soon though by moving away from native scrollbars, since it's very unlikely that Firefox will fix this anytime soon.)
It has me wondering if this has happen before with YC where someone has taken the money ..
On Netflix it depends on where you click. I think the info symbol is in the bottom right corner.
Compared to Vim's learning curve, the Wall from GoT is just a small speed bump. I have tried to learn vim for 10 years now and just cannot get past the initial stages.
The Next Big Thing for Web-Apps, Interactive Walkthroughs
Hacker News has its biases, but that does not mean it cannot serve hackers.
Vesting is absolutely not implied, expected, or required by the law. Regardless of common practice in YC companies or YC applications, vesting is not the automatic default mode in corporation law or contract law.

If there is evidence of an agreement (whether written or oral) between the parties to apply a vesting schedule, then that will override the default mode; otherwise the default mode (no vesting) prevails.
You can use Steam Big Picture on windows,pretty much turns your PC into a console (that doesnt suck)
And you can buy a Steam Link if you want to sit on a couch
Mixpanel introduces JQL
I think he is saying that GCE being less expensive than App Engine will fore people to migrate.
Node Facebook Messenger Platform adapter built with promises
Just wanted to bring libucl into the game in case you are exploring json-like syntax: https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl#improvements-to-the-json-...

In my eyes pretty much the perfect configuration library and syntax. Nginx-alike, number suffixes (1min, 2gb, ..), macros, variables, includes with priority, etc. Boom! Problem solved.
I don't disagree with anything you said.

I still hold however that if true it would lower my opinion of sama - not because he used an exploding offer, but because it would mean he set a bar he is only willing to meet when there's no disadvantage to him (everyone wants to apply to y-combinator) rather than because the bar is a worthwhile thing to aim for.

P.R. or not, he's on record as saying these types of offers are a poor way of treating people, ergo, if he used one, then by his own definition he is engaging in 'terrible behaviour'.

$4.5 million seems to me to be a very generous offer based on actual work performed, but I don't know how many people would consider 2 hours (as alleged in the complaint) to be sufficient time to assess an offer worth $4.5 million (and potentially much more).
These guys should pony up some consulting dollars to get the main guy to do his thing.

Also, I don't buy "NewSQL" without honest CAP discussions of tradeoffs.
In response to OOB questions:

No, it was a short string, not an image. If it was an image, I would have tried various mutations.

Because of this, I assumed at the time, and still do, that it's a simple digest instead of a context aware image description.

And it phoned "home" instead of alerting the user - even the institutional user.
i honestly can't tell if trolling or not.
What people want is for their neighbourhood to be better, while not in the process being driven from their homes to make room for wealthier people. Maybe it's naive or a pipe dream.
Thanks for mentioning this. I did test the restore flow (download from Nearline, decrypt, unlrzip, and verify), but didn't note it in the blog. It's critical to actually test the backups!

Edit: updated the post to mention this as well.
Even if he were forced out, do you honestly believe that someone who was fired after 1 month at a company is entitled to full 50% ownership in that company? Can you honestly not see how that claim, given its timing, is being construed as extortion?
"Funny" thing is, what the author fears already happened with the website "Racists Getting Fired": http://www.dailydot.com/technology/tumblr-racists-getting-fi...

The Tumblr-account-turned-agent-of-social change doxes people who post racist, homophobic, or otherwise bigoted remarks to their social media accounts. RGF then shares their personal information so that followers can contact said bigots' employers and get them fired...

In fact, that’s the exact tragedy that befell Brianna Rivera after her ex submitted a fabricated screenshot of her Facebook page peppered with racist remarks about Ferguson...

So yes, this Kickstarter is/was a spectacularly bad idea.
You don't have to load it in memory. The desired behavior can be accomplished with mv.
The anomaly of Barbarism: the brutality of Islamic terrorism has many precedents
No. The complaint is that Rust is not good at expressing numeric algorithms. The poster above asked about a Rust library like Eigen (C++) or Numpy (Python)... It doesn't matter - I suspect you would dismiss any criticism regardless.