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This is a very good article and quite an eye opener. As an internet/web "user" for twenty years or so I'm familiar with the existence of "moderation", but had only vague awareness of what moderators endured in that role. Reminiscent of traumatized 911 operators, it would be unsurprising that a subset of moderators develop PTSD-like symptoms related to that experience. Workers' comments quoted in the article lead me to speculate that there are significant mental health epidemiological questions re: current and former moderators.

An effective automated approaches will provide a big advantage in narrowing down the "judgement space" that must decided by humans. To the extent that's possible, the key benefit provided is reducing the exposure of moderators to stressful situations as the article describes, and indeed that's a very helpful development.

As the article points out the whole domain of moderation practices is a minefield. But now I wonder if there isn't also a risk of automated review making classification errors re: user behavior. Plausibly automated systems can be tuned finely enough to avoid serious errors, and support human oversight to catch and more easily resolve edge cases. Automated moderation systems will need to have such qualities in order to be able to reduce human burden as intended.
I wonder if they are discouraged by the experience of Con Kolivas[1] who proposed an alternative scheduler back in 2007. (Apparently he is still maintaining his "-ck" fork of the linux kernel[2]!)

I only mention this as a historical case that has remained in my memory. Maybe Linus is willing to revisit the issue, I don't follow LKML.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas

[2] http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/2015/12/bfs-467-linux-43-ck3.htm...
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Has anyone pulled the $20 worth of filings from Delaware on file number 5403771? Seems stupid for everyone to do it.
>except in US and maybe some EU countries, the price to build a Skylake system is higher than the speed benefit it gives compared to Haswell (usually at most 10%, frequently less...).

Honestly, even in the US I don't think it's worth it. I thought about upgrading from my Haswell i5 and the benchmarks are actually lower on a single core. Unless you truly need the Hyperthreading there's no point in upgrading.
Which really makes one wonder how many errors they made in the analysis.
Honestly, I think this whole story is a case of Kyle and Sama making a serious misstep in how they treated a fellow human being.
It's clear Jeremy was involved and contributed in some capacity. If we ignored the legal for a minute, he is arguably entitled to at least a discussion about the cap table and some sort of payoff.
However, Kyle telling him he gets nothing and than offering him $100k of his own money is both very insulting and very telling. It is a low ball offer starting a negotiation.

It all went downhill from there. It was no longer about money, now it became about justice, and from a justice perspective Jeremy deserves some credit, acknowledgment and respect for his contribution.

Just read Jeremy's complaint and you see he mentions the rewriting of history and the lack of mention of him in the press coverage, etc...

Ronald Reagan had a plague on his desk that read, "Man can achieve anything so long as he doesnt mind who takes the credit."

If Kyle would have shown some respect to Jeremy, this problem would have went away for a couple million.

I don't blame sama, he started with a preconceived notion of charlatans coming out of the woodwork and was also biased to one side. His anger is the most telling sign of all. It is anger at not respecting Jeremy initially, leading to digging a massive hole.

Walking away from this story, I want to side with Jeremy. If we lived in a meritocracy, I am inclined to believe he is not really entitled to much more than an honorable mention as the brains that started it all...but this was mishandled in such a way that any judge would WANT TO SIDE WITH THE LITTLE GUY, and the YC application and video is enough basis to let them find in Jeremy's favor...even though we all know he doesn't deserve it all.

I think an apology, and public acknowledgement of Jeremy's contribution to the direction and strategy would go a long way in settling this dispute...that and a few million dollars.
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> Wait until you have maximium leverage and then play your legal cards.

From the other version of events, in how Guillory presents it, there were no cards to play - he just assumed the entire time that he had a stake and when the acquisition came he got in touch to figure out how to collect his share.

I know it seems absurd that someone can sit back and not do any further work and expect to collect as much as the other co-founder, but it is a valid legal argument.

The onus was on the company to set out a legally sound and defensible separation.
I do use vi, it is amazing, but if I want to develop a large web app then I'd rather use vscode and use vi when I am in the geek mode and don't have to manage a lot of files. Thanks for the tip :)
Read your post many years ago and looks like you made it! Congrats! I had the same dream and I got my first Dev job too!
I think this really hits the nail on the head. "The later investors" here really include everyone except for YC, insofar as investors have heretofor been able to take the YC stamp on a company as certification that these sort of issues have been worked out. I think the end result of this is that you'll see a market correction against YC companies as VC's find they have to put in extra due diligence they didn't have to before. Altman raising attention to this issue may act as a catalyst.
Yes, -p is a magic flag :)
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In typical US government fashion, the answer to this is to make all major industries worse at cyber security.
I'm just wondering what startup you're a founder of that didn't have founder vesting?
It's not that python 3 took a long time to release. It's that it consciously broke compatibilities with pyton 2, and library authors took a long time to port their library to python 3, so a lot of people writing python didn't even bother looking at it.
If free open source meant the same as open source, then wouldn't they be called "oss people" and not "foss people"?

I've heard the term "published source" used when trying hard not to step in this particular pile.
I'm just a lowly performance obsessed dev who uses things like node, php, python, etc. I run very high traffic applications and spend a lot of time buying and building my own servers to try to eek out every ounce of performance.

So can someone who knows about linux kernel internals explain the impact of this research? I read the abstract and some of the paper and it sounds very promising - like we may get significantly more performance out of our cores for multi-threaded or multi-process applications.
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If someone uses public money to erase your words isn't that cenorship?
This is wrong. Both the original suit and counter-complaint directly reference the fact that Kyle founded the company before meeting/engaging with Jeremy.
It looks like the "Group Imbalance" and "Overload on Wakeup" bugs could be noticeable on a 2-node system under the right conditions. So could the "Missing Scheduling Domains" bug, but only if you are offlining / onlining CPUs.

None of them should affect a 1-node system, and the "Scheduling Group Construction" bug requires a multi-level node hierarchy.
Most people don't seem to know this, but you basically can cut and paste in the Finder.

First copy the files you want, then move them instead of pasting (Command-Option-V). This gives you the same behavior without the confusion/danger of the files being lost in limbo between cutting and pasting, which I think is honestly better UX design.
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And similarly I don't think YC would offer $4.5M if they knew they were (completely) in the right.
I would say this work is incredibly important. Like you said, the blood-brain barrier is a significant obstacle in pharmaceutical research. One thing pharma companies are very good at is producing antibody based drugs and their derivatives. By conjugation of molecules to the antibodies that are accepted through this pathway, essentially hitching a ride in the process, the blood-brain barrier could essentially be eliminated in drug development. Delivery method is one of the most important and difficult aspects of drug development. Characterization of this process is definitely a breakthrough.
No. The old way to change it was in product.json - the product configuration, which got rewritten on every update. The new way to do it is in user settings, which don't get modified.
Nice. I'd like an "uncolor" button. It's not very useful, but I'd like to see again how the map I have draw is colored.
i think the interesting thing about the oceanographers is that they say that if you are in the water, that means you're not in a bubble, it's only the air and some other gases that might be in a bubble.

the question is how much have you interacted with what's normal in America based on population numbers, not how much you've interacted with diverse groups.

also note their target audience. it's a pbs website. it's so far deep inside the bubble it probably couldn't get out if it worked on a factory floor for a year
It's just hard to get the filesystem entries for the file back. rm doesn't specifically wipe, you're right, but the filesystem entries are deleted, which means you basically have to grep the disk for bits of the file you want with known contents.
Yeah, Android pushes memory safety quite hard. Most code in the ecosystem is written in memory safe languages (Java and friends). That still leaves the entire kernel and lots of performance critical or legacy code. Languages like Rust could reduce the amount of memory unsafe code on the platform but there's still going to be a lot left over even it's mostly contained in a language runtime and the low-level libraries.

Despite Android's usage of Java, most vulnerabilities are memory corruption bugs. It makes sense to focus on those since it's low-hanging fruit. High-level security/privacy changes involve much more subjective changes and usually have a perceptible impact on users. Hardening the base system is invisible, and that's a good thing.

Android already does an amazing job at the access control level via very locked down SELinux policies. There's a lot of work to do there, but it involves making changes that are going to make some Android developers/users unhappy. For example, `hidepid=2` made it into Android N from CopperheadOS and there's going to be fallout from that: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=205565. I think Google will end up shipping it, but it's not a sure thing.
In the countercomplaint, Jeremy says that he and Kyle first met in the beginning of October 2013.

Elsewhere in this thread, someone found that the company was incorporated in September 2013.

So a possible timeline is that Kyle creates the company with himself as the sole owner first, and goes looking for a technical partner. He finds Jeremy, they talk, they hit it off, and they decide to apply to YC together, and Kyle offers to split the existing company 50/50. But they don't put anything in writing, so on paper the company is still 100% owned by Kyle. Things go sour between them, and Jeremy leaves/is kicked out without the ownership of the company ever changing on paper. And then things move on, other people are brought into the company, shares and vesting schedules are formalized, and the whole thing is forgotten/buried. Until now.
I would imagine that this is supposed to help support their argument for conversion, that Kyle was inclined to use Jeremy's IP contributions in part because Kyle was otherwise incapable of practically accomplishing the company's goals.

It does seem harshly written, but the same could be said of the complaint and sama's post.
"what everyone hates about urban change and gentrification – first come the creatives and their coffee shops, then the young professionals, then the luxury high-rises and corporate chains that push out original residents"

I personally have no problem with it. And if we're talking about crappy and dangerous neighborhoods that are becoming upscale - I love it.

If anything I think it's the sort of process that benefits majority of population while extracting a cost on a minority. If we look at total effect, it's certainly net positive.
I think that people are completely misinterpreting the article and the retraction in this thread, whether willingly or not.

I don't think anyone is seriously questioning the fact that some people have more aptitude or intelligence than others. That's pretty commonly accepted fact. However, the general belief is that intelligence follows a roughly Gaussian (bell curve) distribution, and that it's roughly continuous. Mechanistically, one can imagine that intelligence is a convolution of genetic and other factors that are so thoroughly mixed that there are no discrete steps.

The theory behind a two-humped camel model of aptitude or intelligence would then be that some magic x-factor is so significant that it splits the underlying distribution in two, into the "cans" and the "can nots".

While the existence of such an x-factor would be a really interesting finding, it wouldn't change the underlying fact that some people have more innate ability to program than others, just like some people have more innate ability to be doctors or lawyers or concert pianists than others. It would just tend to make that difference much starker.

What it also wouldn't change is the fact that innate ability doesn't always correlate to success in a given career, or in life. Many other factors other than innate ability, such as drive and ability to collaborate with others, affect whether someone is going to be successful at their job. Also, people can learn. Even someone who doesn't have innate talent can become very skilled, if they work really hard at it.

So, even if the study were valid, which it's not, the finding itself is more of an academic interest than an excuse to start treating coding job interviews as a "sword in the stone" test of whether you've got "it" or not.
Maybe not on Android but on GNU/Linux on something other than x86/x86_64 sure.
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> the "China Syndrome" hypothesis

Having seen the movie, suspect that a lot of people saw what they wanted to see, and not what the movie actually said. I'm fairly certain the comment about the core melting "all the way to China" was a joke/hyperbole.
The two are not mutually exclusive!
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This is exactly the right question. It's clear that Jeremy is not and has never been a formal shareholder in Cruise.

The question is whether having explored (and subsequently abandoned) a potential co-founder relationship constitutes sufficient basis for an equity claim.
right; almost all our systems are 1 node. And I'm already debugging some NUMA stuff for our 2 node systems.
> As someone who uses Visual Studio for everything...

This is a classical hammer/nail example. Big red sign to me.
I'm a long time Visual Studio user, and that what you are saying is exactly the problem I see in MS-based developer circles.

Visual Studio is not appropriate for everything. As a matter of fact I don't use it at all for SPA development anymore, but just for server side stuff.

However, to give you few arguments:

1. VS Code and Sublime work on Linux/OSX/Windows and I do work on all three of those. Having the same tool is a great gain here.

2. Editing capabilities of VSCode and Sublime are definitely superior to Visual Studio, to the point that I find myself copying pieces of code from Visual Studio to Sublime, editing it and pasting back to Visual Studio.

3. Speed is not comparable. Visual Studio has become a bloated beast. Sometimes it takes a minute to start it, and then you enjoy busy freeze times whenever you push it just a bit harder than it likes.

All in all, I find my self being much more productive when not using Visual Studio for anything except pure .NET development.
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well basically virtually anything other than JSON that's actually designed to be configuration would be better for configuration. There's dozens of them. that is the problem: JSON parsers and generators are ubiquitous in the way that no single configuration format is. Right now, I can just use json in any language and get data between any language and any other language. If I use it for config I get the advantage of even being able to config across multiple languages that might be getting used in a single system if I have to. No proper configuration format has that level of mindshare and interoperation.
>Probably because your replies have an undercurrent of condescension in them.

I think I know better than you do what I mean with I've written, thanks.

You DO like long commutes and you DON'T like being near neighbors. Why not own it?
How did you come to the conclusion that cups are racists?
There is a well-defined solution to this problem: The Public Suffix List.

https://publicsuffix.org/

blogspot.com is in it. github.com is not, but github.io (where Github Pages are hosted) is. I would guess this is what HN uses.

That said, it of course can't help with e.g. categorizing github repo links by user, since those are by path rather than subdomain. Ah well.
Why?

It's pretty obvious to me that they pushed him. First he was pushed out from the company and then they tried to push him out of the bigger deal with $100,000.

All Internet outcry in the last few days about this is also pretty indicative. They used their influence to portray Guillory as a bad character all in "we are angels" and he's a freeloader way. Which of course considering Guillory previous work in the field is suspicious. He certainly contributed at the beginning and probably that contribution was very, very important for the company. Otherwise they wouldn't go all the way to $4.5 million.

The interesting point you make about "presence of mind". Exactly. No one in this case has the presence of mind. It reeks of anger and revenge. I feel the same way so I am rooting for the small guy here.
Hacker News is a bit of a misnomer. It doesn't, nor has it ever, served hackers. This is a site for the startup kids, and you either love it or hate it, but you gotta accept it for what it is.
Ah, I see, so Python 3 only took a couple of years, about the same as any minor release: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_rele...
This is very similar to PG's most recent essay about making Pittsburgh a startup hub: http://paulgraham.com/pgh.html
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I got an offer with a contract. It got cancelled two days before the start date. For a permanent position and a visa.

Def. happens... mainly with unprofessional start ups
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If you had a partner who left after a month - then do a financing right thereafter with vesting schedules and the like it's easy to assume that those same schedules apply to everyone. If it were to be caught- it would have been at the Series A but it sounds like so much time passed and his involvement was so short people just forgot about the guy.

If Jeremy never said a word about it since it would never come up. If I owned 50% of a company and it did a financing- I'd certainly inquire about my shares. Sounds like he never even did that.

Kyle probably feels like shit I am sure- it's a sickening case to read but to be honest I could see it going down exactly like that.
Ummmm... well, in California, anyway, anybody that works with kids needs to be fingerprinted and pass a Livescan and keep it current. My daughter's 80yo violin teacher has to keep her Livescan up to date, FFS. Now, how many Uber drivers have ever even heard of Livescan, much less have submitted to one? And jumping through all the hoops required to do activity sign-out, that is a bunch of paperwork, too. So the safety and security part of the equation is what makes it different from Uber. The regulatory landscape for a kid-oriented service is totally different.

But there are long-standing competitors like Kid's Kab, etc. Mostly they are a scheduled service, like to/from gym every Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00PM or something, not a ride-on-demand like Uber.
I'm not really sure what the problem is with that. I feel like the broader infosec situation is bad enough that having them debate encryption would be like arguing over what lock to put on your cardboard door.
When i was kid, i used to watch a lot of cartoon network channels and used to by CAR toys and open them to see inside how its made.

maybe let them play with stuff like how its make to discover themself then later they become good logical analyst.