skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So is cutting someone out of a company. My point is that this probably became an emotional issue. If that's the case, it's not hard to see how someone would wait for an opportune moment to assert ownership.

But, since we don't really know all the facts, if this was a mutual parting of ways, then I agree that it's a terrible thing to do.

The bottom line is we really don't know what happened. I can at least see how a reasonable person could walk this path if they feel they've been maligned.
That's the downside. It's certainly a real one and exactly why a lawyer would have advised him not to say anything. But there were also upsides, or at least potential upsides. Both in this specific case and influencing those involved current and future yc companies.

The reason general counsels make much less than CEOs is that it's a heck of a lot easier to always point out the risks than to weigh them against the rewards.
Came here to see if anyone else noticed that and what people made of it. That was the real revelation in this story.

If nothing else, if you followed that one tutorial on running a Tor hidden service using Docker, maybe stop doing that now.
From the YC application video alone, there seems to be a major point of contention about what Jeremy actually contributed. In the video they are talking about specific plans involving commodity hardware, that they devised a way to constrain the engineering problem to make it feasible, and that they had co-developed a business plan to get it to market quickly.

That's all just plainly in the YC application video.

That doesn't seem compatible with what Sam Altman says, so either the video does not depict Jeremy's contributions up to that point in time, or else Sam is incorrect and has omitted many contributions from Jeremy. Those contributions may or may not justify Jeremy's claim, but they certainly complicate the issue and present a very legitimate position for Jeremy to at least make the claim.

Jeremy's claim may ultimately not be considered or may not be upheld, but either way the degree to which Altman seems to think it should be categorically ignored does not seem to match the facts regarding the initial formation of Cruise at all.
For simpler projects, Elastic Beanstalk is also a pretty good option. It integrates nicely with auto-scaling, and any CI system can tie into the AWS CLI to dump a zip on S3, and then call Beanstalk "update-environment" to load that code onto an environment for a full CD pipeline.

If you have a more polygot stack, or rely on other non-node systems like RabbitMQ or whatever, standardizing on Docker containers is a no brainer though.
Sublime has a built-in Vim mode called "Vintage," I think, but there's a package[1] on GitHub which I've heard is better.

[1]: https://github.com/guillermooo/Vintageous
oh geez...if only you knew why the new COO from Uber was fired you would not be promoting this company that clearly did not do a reference check.
> Wait until you have maximium leverage and then play your legal cards.

The Art of War highly recommends this approach:

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend
Nature vs. Human [BJ Photography]
> Yet why didn't he continue with the idea by himself if he was so competent?

The complaint clearly explains this. He just got married and needed a job to pay the bills.

I really hope you just missed this.It would be a shame if you are one of the few entitled folks who doesn't understand the real struggle most people feel to support themselves and their family. The type of person who thinks everyone has the same opportunities you do. I really hope you just missed that line in the complaint.
Oh, you'd be surprised.

Given that the plaintiff has turned down multi-million settlement offers, and given that there's two quite reputable law firms working for the plaintiff who aren't in the habit of taking no-hoper cases, what's more likely - that the case is 'total bullshit', or that something actually was missed and overlooked in the early days that's now going to cost the company dearly?

If they initially agreed to a 50-50 split and then never nailed down the vesting paperwork or resolved the ownership issue after the plaintiff's departure - well, that's unfortunate, but that's on them.
Great service. Sad to see it go. I used it every week.

For people asking, another difference between Shuddle and Uber (as I understand Uber) is that you could schedule your Shuddle rides in advance, and be confident a driver would come at the appointed time.
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.

That's not how it works. If you and I decide to start a company and you give me a verbal agreement that it's a 50/50 split, then it's pretty strong evidence of the ownership of the company unless some other document supersedes it.

From what I can tell so, no such document exists.
I really wish HN wouldn't fall for these cookie cutter press release strategies that catch people on buzzy, sciency vaportalk. eg "They'll have to rewrite the textbooks", pffft.

If this was VC funding mechanics or technical architecture articles, this kind of stuff wouldn't fly. So why are these self-promoting research articles the exception?
You'd think, but Uber and Lyft aren't doing it.
> The only reason to write what he wrote is if you're out of actual ammo.

This is really astute. In my experience, more often than not, when someone becomes angry at someone else, deep down they are really angry at themselves for letting something happen.
Investors do not have a fiduciary duty to the employees. Members of the board of directors (which all investors presumably are not) have a fiduciary duty to the stockholders (which many employees presumably are not).
The gut (many say is ~70% of our immune system) is strongly linked to our psychological health. So, I don't see this as a surprise. The next question is what strains of bacteria tend to effect what in certain people? I don't think this will be answered quickly nor easily. The gut is crazy complicated.
Assuming Jeremy's story is true, then by the time he exercised that strategy he'd already by forced out by his co-founder and was no longer a "teammate".

I don't think it's fair to judge the ethics of a person by how nicely they respond to being screwed over.
Every update reseted the file.
Looks cool.

There's so many theming tools for Bootstrap that I'm not sure if this is a good biz?
> The only proof he is using to say he was a co-founder is a YC application.

Which, according to Jeremy's complaint, claims that the application was submitted by Kyle and repeatedly described Jeremy as a co-founder and their equity arrangement.

> 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.

That's not how it works, but that aside, this complaint claims that Jeremy provided "self-driving car concepts, technology, intellectual property, and expertise". I don't understand your statement about "he did [not] provide any IP to the company".
Ok but one would think that some enterprising lawyer at GM or Ycombinator or on retainer to Sam Altman, investor, would think to do this, right?

Without looking at the incorporation documents on file, I'm sure they don't say that Jeremy gets 50% of the stock. If they did, there wouldn't be a lawsuit. It would be cut and dry.

I think what Jeremy is arguing is that he and Kyle had an agreement in the early days before paperwork, and that that agreement was not properly documented when the paperwork was written up. This is an extremely difficult thing to prove, and Kyle and his investors will no doubt lean heavily on the actual paperwork to sway the court.
Good, good. I was getting worried there. :)
Why is the author so quick to assume that everyone sees gentrification as something bad? There's been vocal opposition to it, but it doesn't mean that everybody feels that way.
Or so they can say "oh, we're not buzzfeed, we do long-form writing".
Yeah I'm with you. Developers should have no problem dealing with whitespace and the result is you get a easier to read format.

Although admittedly I haven't had to work with YAML a lot but I have liked it when i've touched it.
This is a good thing. It means there is a 1:1 mapping between numbers in JSON5 and IEEE floats.
Does every update still resets those settings? (like with beta)
The ideal time to get a legal dispute resolved is immediately prior to an IPO or acquisition event because these events tend to require that the company has no outstanding legal disputes.

I find it funny that people seem uncomfortable with facts like this. It's not emotional or bad behaviour, it's simply the rules. Everyone has to work within the law and the rules and it turns out that the law and the rules provide an ideal time for resolving such disputes - pre IPO or pre acquisition.

I'd be pretty uncomfortable with a senior manager or CEO who didn;t understand things like that - it means either that they will get caught out, or will not know how to win when the time comes to win.
As I suspected, the data is an older ICIJ leak - the "Offshore Leaks" database.

https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/
I don't think this is an "ill-considered comment" at all.

Daniel J. Bernstein made the same comment in his slides about "the slow death of the optimizing compiler"[ https://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slides-djb-20150416-a4.pdf ]. Basically, a lot of programs are I/O bound. Those that aren't are often dominated by a tiny amount of super-hot spots that can be optimized by hand via assembly language. Most code is "freezing cold" -- it's hardly worth optimizing. C compilers are giving up safety and getting very little in return, except shiny new compiler benchmarks.
I have an Android Priv and it has the option for "English (Canada)" under "language & input", as well as "English (Canada)" for both keyboard inputs. The spell checker is set to "Use system language".

Android version 5.1.1
The landing page is very confusing.

I highly recommend taking a close look at apps like mulesoft and zapier to benchmark your landing page copy.

It sounds exciting, but I got confused as I viewed the page.

Godspeed.
> 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

This is a filter bubble that startup founders need to snap out of...in the real world, two people can agree to anything, and general startup best practices dont dictate or say anything about the past, they can just guide you in the future.

That startup advice about how to split equity is sound advice and it is arguably outlandish to not follow it...but that in no way shape or form makes it the reality of what actually happened. People agree to all sorts of things all the time.
I just wanted to jump in here and add that trig never made sense to me until I read your "Intuitive Trigonometry" page. I was well in to calculus and (even after getting an A in my college trig class) suddenly realized that I didn't have even the slightest idea what a sine, cosine, or tangent actually was. Some googleing led me to your page and it suddenly made sense!
The complaint has two major theories:

1) There was an actual agreement between Guillory and Vogt that they would be a 50% owners. The YC application is a memorialization of the fact that this agreement existed.

2) Even if there wasn't an actual agreement, Cruise is using IP that Guillory developed.

The relevance of the YC application is this: Oral contracts are in general perfectly valid, unless they apply to a specific situation that requires a writing. A YC application listing the parties as 50-50 co-owners is at least strong evidence that an oral contract exists with those terms. It's reasonable to infer that if people have a writing proposing to do X, then they actually did X or have already agreed to do X.

While a vesting schedule might be typical, it's not going to be implied into existence unless there is some evidence the parties intended for there to be a vesting schedule. For similar reasons, questions of how much Guillory actually contributed will be relevant to (2) but not (1). A 50-50 joint venture is like marriage. Come the divorce, the assets will be split 50-50, even if one party earned all the money. The law won't come in and try to value peoples' contributions after the fact. That would be impractical. The law trusts that people say what they mean and mean what they say.

This case will turn on whether Vogt has any evidence to counteract the inference that may be made from the YC application. It will also turn on legal issues such as whether a writing, not just an oral contract, is required for the sort of arrangement Vogt and Guillory allegedly made, and if what's in the YC application is a sufficient writing to meet that requirement. IIRC stock issuance requires a signed writing in Delaware so that could be a stumbling block depending on how the agreement is framed.
Same here. What does "self proclaimed MIT dropout" means?

Is he trying to imply that Vogt never attended MIT and is making himself look cool that he dropped out?
How much time there spending on what. You can even calculate the ROI of time investments.
Well, I mean, presumably a lawyer associated with the case who was interested in proving it could depose Mr. Vogt and ask him under oath if he posted that comment.
Long time App Engine user here. If you're sending email as part of your app, I'd recommend using Mailgun (or similar services). You can set up DKIM, inbound routes, etc, and generally have more control over how your mail is processed. I never got the impression App Engine really wanted to be in the email delivery business, so if that's important to you, there are tools that are focused on that (and free up to a monthly quota). My $0.02.
Damn, this was lodged in 2012!

This seems like a complete no-brainer.
TL;DR: Demand
I'd file a complaint with their bosses. Your privacy is important. If the tech staff won't take HIPAA seriously, their bosses better or they'll lose their job. Don't let this go, please, be proactive.
I would use MMS APIs to make this a convenient reality.

I think your app in its current form has the wrong form factor.
In the cruise Cross complaint it says that they entered together to Cruise as a joint venture. In this joint venture they put code, algorithms, etc. Is it posible to say that newer algorithm, code, etc or even other responsibilities not mentioned from Vogt, are not part of the joint venture?. The idea of this it would be to contain the % of ownership of the joint venture. Or is this their plan all along?
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It does this check when you connect to a new network and it repeats every so often to make sure the connection still works. It's how Android notifies you if there's a network connection but no internet access.

It's not a browser making the request so there's not much information in these requests. It's just a GET request with an unused result. It only checks to see if it succeeds. Every Android device does this, so it barely leaks any information. If it was changed to a CopperheadOS-specific URL, it would actually be leaking more information to networks.

I don't think there are other connections to Google in the base system but that doesn't extend to the user-facing apps like Chromium. I know for a fact that it doesn't make any other connections in normal usage, but there are a lot of edge cases.

We could make the internet access checks optional, but what about update checks? Those are leaking strictly more information (a phone connecting to builds.copperhead.co runs CopperheadOS and that can be seen without access to the HTTPS data) and it tells us which device is being used since it has to ask for the available updates. We don't really know how many people use CopperheadOS, but it would be possible to make a solid estimate from the update checks. Most people won't change the default of 1 check per day, so the number of checks per day in total is the approximate number of users, and the server has the IPs they connected from. It doesn't log anything itself but CloudFlare could.

F-Droid also does updates checks itself, so any F-Droid repositories that are enabled end up with similar information.

I am not really sure how this could be improved. You can use Tor... but in some ways that makes the situation worse.

An option to disable the internet access checks is possible, but I don't know what it would really accomplish. I don't want to make changes without a clear threat model in mind. So I'm not inclined to touch stuff like the internet connectivity check unless there are clear benefits rather than it just feeling right to people.
I think you can fire people without it making you a bad founder. At least, I hope so.
What?
I am new here. I am sad to hear of targeted drone strikes. Innocent people die. Kids? Is this real? Is this the world we live in? What? Can code help us? Can we do better?
According to Jeremy, he gave him. an exploding offer, tried to get him to fire his counsel. Then he wrote a public blog post, upvoted here, and read by pretty much anyone in Silicon Valley about how slimy and unreasonable this Jeremy guy is (when he clearly has a vested interest in how this plays out). Nope, I don't think we'll see a 'middle ground' anytime soon, Sam is clearly playing on one team. That's fine. He picked his team. But I still think a public blog was a wrong decision from all perspectives: legal, strategic, and moral. And it will for sure be brought up in court as an underhanded tactic.
"Every month, a new batch of startups – led by top students and graduates - is ranked by a community of students, professors and alumni from the best schools in the world (as well as investors)." - I see this as the core problem.

Tetlock Study and a huge mound of evidence suggest the crowdsourced authority isn't a good way to gauge founder DNA.
Sure, but he went in person. If he was smart, he wouldnt do that for unknown partners that might be cops.
With the final irony probably being that the acquiring company may lose its taste for the acquisition given the dispute, meaning they are just fighting over who gets half of the ashes of a bonfire of money.
There is another explanation that is simpler. The gut is also lined up with nerve cells. They form the enteric nervous system, containing more neurons than the spinal cord. It's also called the second brain. Its function is to assist digestion by analyzing the food we eat and triggering reflexes. More than 90% of the body's serotonin lies in the gut, as well as about 50% of the body's dopamine.

So, that is why there is a strong link between the brain and the gut, and it explains why we feel so strongly our emotions in the gut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system
Look at all these companies. There's 20+ companies working on this problem.

HumanAPI

GetMedal

BloomAPI

UsePrime

RecordCollect

ZweenaHealth

Doctrly

Carebox

GorillaBox

NuskiHealth

PicnicHealth

If you need my help, feel free to reach out.
Article doesnt mention the gut or bacteria.
If the details of moderation rules were public,
companies would be facing additional labor costs
dealing with posters pushing hard on the edges of those rules.

At some level, users can choose from a variety of forums
with different moderation methods, or none, and companies can try
to fit their moderation policies and practices to their users' expectations.

All of that develops in a cross between evolution and arms race,
with lots of moving targets - global variation, changing social mores, changing technology, the latest taboos and moral panics.

Exposing the details of how the sausage is made would help
the people who want to put pebbles (or worse) in the sausage
more than it would help the makers or consumers. If one
finds the sausage too bland, there is likely a spicier one
just a few clicks away. Or one could grind one's own sausage
and compete!
Ok ok, the actual truth is that there is no such thing as "functional languages". Rust is a good demonstration that languages that offer the ability to statically prevent bullshit are the best---and does so with a familiar syntax, familiar mutation, etc so as not to trip people's buttons.

There is no such thing as OO either, and trait objects are not super common in idiomatic Rust anyways.
The issue is (assuming what Jeremy says is true) that he was forced out after 1 month with no say in the matter, no agreement & no buyout of stock.

So while 1 month probably shouldn't be worth 50% of the company, you also can't just decide that you don't want your co-founder to have a stake in your company any more, and push them out.

At the end of that 1 month, they had both done equal work (about a month's worth) and had equal share (50% each). It sounds like (according to Jeremy's story) he still owns that because no one agreed to a formal change in ownership.
Ah, you beat me to it :).
Well, what exactly are the "founding documents" in this case?
This will make you laugh..

The President just formed a commission to make Americans safe in cyberspace [1]

His Press Secretary says "Issues related to encryption will not be considered by the commission" [2]

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/04/13/announcing-presid...

[2] https://youtu.be/FCx2uJWfyao?t=1h4m20s
rm -RF didn't destroy this guy's business; failure to maintain and adhere to an adequate backup policy did.
Why the Last Words of Anne Boleyn Remain a Mystery
Python 3 does not belong on the list of rewritten projects. Python 3 was not a rewrite. It just introduced major breaking changes in the API.
Not precisely equivalent, but I was involved in a startup where 3 of us split the shares without any vesting agreement in the paperwork.

Fast forward 18 months, one of my co-founders was fed up and decided to quit. He claimed (correctly) he was entitled to his 33.3% regardless of future work or any other factors. Of course he would be diluted if there were investments or option grants, but his position was the split represented the full value of our contributions at the start date. After all, he argued, we were paying ourselves salaries for the work we did, so that was our compensation -- the equity was simply an investment that may or may not pay off some day.

In the end, we paid him a lot of hard-earned cash to buy back most of his stock over a period of years -- enough for him to live very comfortably without working, while we sweated our asses off to make something of the venture. Probably stupid of us, even though in the end the company went public and the stock was quite valuable for a while.

Moral of the story: get the paperwork right or pay the consequences.

BTW, quitting co-founder wrote up the founding documents...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8994651

Also interesting because it makes reference to the earliest prototype.
At least in latest iOS, UTC is an option in the World Clock tab. It's also an option for system time zone.
All I ask of a language (other things are nice but not required) is no "runtime type errors" and no data races. Haskell, Rust, OCaml give me these things.

[Slightly more formally, the first can be rephrased as "no omnipresent non-obvious partiality excluding that from non-termination".]
The article could have quoted you and cut two-thirds of its length.
If they took this on contingency, that's an interesting social signal.
But there are no founding documents.
Kyle Vogt said: "This is false."

Talk to your lawyer before posting on social media.
With 70% of your immune system being the gut...it's implied.

Decent source: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/17811/is-70-of-...
I'm pretty sure "people from Castro" does not constitute an ethnicity.