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Ask HN: How do you handle divorce as a startup owner?
Without making this a "woe is me" tear jerker, the short story is that my over-a-decade marriage is ending, in the state of Massachusetts.

I have a successful company I started almost 10 years ago with a partner and have a very good salary. MA's divorce and alimony laws are pretty straight forward (if arguably unfair in many circumstances...), and I will end up paying ~32.5% of the delta of our incomes for ~8 years as alimony. In addition to that, we split all current assets 50/50.

That includes my shares of the company. We have a recent valuation done which indicates some significant value. If I got another valuation done for this divorce i could probably present data that would push that down, however she could also get her own done and I'm sure push the value up, so we've agreed to the existing valuation (for now). MA doesn't allow for the normal "discounts" for divorce (lack of control, and lack of marketability) so in theory I owe her 50% of the theoretical value of my shares. I don't have that kind of money, and I have no way to actually turn my shares into cash. So it seems like I'm going to end up owing her a large amount of money.

If she "lets" me pay that amount off, interest free, over the term of the alimony (8 years), then I will be working my usual high stress 50-60 hours/week keeping my company going, and my wife will end up with approximately 2x the money I do, for the next 8 years. I would also be legally prohibited from just quitting and working as a mechanic (or some other lower stress lower paying job).

I don't think I can do that (mentally/emotionally/morally).

Has anyone been through anything similar or have any advice? My (very highly respected and expensive) attorney unfortunately feels that the MA law is super simple and I'm basically just screwed. Looking for alternatives that aren't awful.

Help?
Teams can, but often they just call things Agile, but don't really implement it.

Honestly it is hard for me to understand or explain that, except by lack of education and understanding.

People need to understand what they are doing, how they are going to go about doing that and where they will get work, how it will be tracked etc.

Once you have those basic things in place, things just flow. Majority organizations, consultancies etc, they just do hand-waving and nothing more.
To be clear, I'm perfectly happy(?) to help give her a solid foundation to start the new life she feels she needs. I want her to be able to be successful and feel fulfilled, etc... However, I'm losing almost everything I've built up as my "life" (house, marriage, dog, 1/2 our friends, my best friend/wife, will likely have to move somewhere with a much lower cost of living, etc...), and it feels like I'm also losing my freedom or ability to build a new life for the next 8 years (unable to quit, working 60 hours a week and taking home a fraction of what I'm earning, etc...).
They can't:

We have discovered that there is virtually no chance that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would register the mark "open source"; the mark is too descriptive. Ironically, we were partly a victim of our own success in bringing the `open source' concept into the mainstream.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/06/17/0213251/esr-on-the-...
Elektra 0.8.19 Release
Poor example. The government produced a coin and then ordered all of them melted down but 2. When 20 showed up, it is clear they were stolen and the government claimed their property. As a tax payer, I think this is a good idea.
OK, I replied to the issue with the links. :)
Its funny, whenever somebody makes a libertarian argument, somebody throws 'libertarian utopia' back. I don't believe in utopia, a libertarian system would not be perfect, misery and suffering will not be eliminated. Not everything you buy will be perfectly labeled. No libertarian I have ever met in my hole live believes the market/legal based system is perfect, just that it usually outperforms a regulatory system

> Or his incentive is to run a fly by night operation that shuts down before it can be sued.

So what, you manufacture 10 bottles of creme and then vanish into the shadows?

Companies have a huge intensive to stay, establish partnerships, branding, funding and so on.

Also, I think the idea of legal person has gone to far. Im not against the idea of big cooperations but the legal system has clearly gone to far into the direction of none accountability (something that was actually often the case in common law legal systems).

> Their replacement for the evil gubmint is a host of other bureaucracies (giant consumer groups, a bunch of non-profits doing testing, insurance for everything, etc.) that presumably will have many of the same pathologies as the gubmint.

I have nothing against big organisations per se. That has never been my criticism of regulatory agencies.

The groups have much more intensive to actually provide value because they relay on people to be their costumer. Also, you have pluralism, different groups have different demands.

I honestly only care if stuff is not poisonous, and Im happy to pay for the lowest level of testing. I however don't really care if the meat is actually beef, Im fine with horse as long as it is tasty.

Other people, like vegans are willing to pay way more for exact information.

How about a suggestion that can make both of use happy? We keep the FDA, they do everything the do now, only that other products can still be sold, but they need to have a reasonably BIG label on it, that they are not FDA approved. We put a tiny tax on all products actually approved by the FDA to fund the FDA.

This way we the people who care about the FDA fund it. If you are not happy with that, how about we fund 50% of the FDA that way and the other 50% threw taxes? How about if its still fully tax funded?

Would that not make everybody at least reasonably happy?

Historically such system usually prove that the state is not needed, and rather then excepting that the state monopolises it.
Neural nets! Is there anything they can't do?
Genalyte raises $36M for one-drop blood test
FWIW, the only time I've seen charge-only USB cables is when they are permanently attached to a charging brick.
Stanford Researchers Find Students Have Trouble Judging Information Online
There is no electronic format that is easily accessible.
My ethics class was basically "how to get away with unethical behaviour without getting in trouble." Perhaps most of them teach actual ethics?
Many of the bigger, well paying companies like FB, GOOG, LNKD, etc. have C++ backends
Insure This Business? Startups Face Challenges
The difference between ideals and reality is that in the real world, the "as long as it doesn't harm someone else" part flies out of the window. If you can't enforce good behaviour through some mechanism, it takes a single bad actor to start behaving badly to either dominate everyone or force them to misbehave in order to keep up.

Ideal libertarianism is like ideal communism and - like every other ideal concept - works perfectly in theory, falls flat on its face in reality.
Here are my caveats:

1. The keyboard. Not the Touch Bar; the rest of the keyboard. There isn't much travel and I'm afraid it will aggravate my RSI. I've tried pressing the keys more gently, but sometimes I'm too gentle and miss keystrokes. Pressing the right side of the caps lock key is unreliable even when I press it fairly firmly. And the right shift key has gotten stuck once already. I'll give it some more time to see if things improve, but RSI is a deal-breaker. I'm considering returning the laptop.

2. The battery life. It's nowhere near 10 hours when I'm doing development. I haven't been keeping close track but I'd say less than 5 and less than previous generations. I think they used a processor which is more efficient at idle and took away a lot of battery to make it thinner. It's maybe not more efficient when working, so the battery life is reduced if you use the processor more heavily than they've anticipated.

3. The Touch Bar. I'm sure I can make it work, but I would prefer to have a physical escape key for vim, especially given that the caps lock key is questionable too so that may be out as a substitute.

4. That going from 1 TiB of storage to 2 TiB of storage would cost another $800, and the SSD is not even replaceable later. I don't want to spend that much, so I have 1 TiB that I'm already close to with photos likely to push it over. I really wouldn't mind having a 512 MiB SSD and a 2 TiB hard drive, but that's not an option. It wouldn't be as much of a problem if Apple Photos (or some other inexpensive product) had good support for auto-selecting part of the library to have on the SSD as a cache of full storage on a network/external/cloud drive. (I.e., one library that I could open up and add stuff to while disconnected, view some recent / starred / non-hidden photos while disconnected.)

5. 16 GiB of RAM rather than 32 GiB and not expandable. I gather this lost a three-way battle with battery life and thickness/weight.

Most of these (#1, #2, #4, #5) are the negative consequences of Apple's anorexia.

Having only USB-C ports isn't a problem for me. Losing MagSafe makes me a little sad—it has saved laptops for me—but I like the idea of being able to plug in just one cable to do everything. Those docks don't actually exist yet, but they will soon. In the meantime, I have the included power adapter, a USB-C to DisplayPort cable, and a portable USB-C to three-port USB-A + gigabit Ethernet hub. It'll do.
IMHO, if the courts are being used to break the strike they should also be used to arbitrate the dispute and make the resolution binding. Make it dangerous to try to use the government to prosecute your own labor relations problem because they could find in favor of the unions and force you to honor time off promises or raise pay or whatever it is the union is striking over. And of course if the union is the one being unreasonable then we have today's situation where the workers are told to get back to work and the Union is told to pound sand.
Seems like goose jerky would be a good idea.
I don't doubt at all that Scala is 'industrial grade tech' and is theoretically capable of supporting even banks.

But it's not going to go mainstream because the alternatives are far more accessible.

The examples you mentioned are relative small. You know what's
big? Walmart. WellsFargo. Honeywell. Novartis.

I don't think 'it will be a while' before Scala gets into those shops, I think it will be 'never' unless there is a change to how Scala is presented. As of 2016, it's still a little academic and cliquish.

Though I predict some things will change and it might gain popularity.
Do you have a plan for finding customers? If you have worked in the sales part of the company and the recruiting part you have a chance. assuming you know what it takes to get new customers.
I second this, I'd just appreciate better integration with apt - I'm already using this method to update my linux machines anyways
If you or your friends get sick, don't eat the same berries.
It's a word that represents a series of digits. "Otto" represents 8, tredici represents 13, etc
You mean like Sentry? That's been around for ages.
Neophyte to all this. What is a browser password store? Do you mean never letting Chrome (or whatever) save a password?
Two main issues combined to cause the NPM problems: NPM didn't cache 404 responses, so they were much more expensive than normal fetches, and VS Code issued way too many requests which resulted in 404s.

Both have been addressed -- NPM handles 404s better now, and VS Code will no longer request packages which don't exist (by downloading the registry package once). Either fix would have be sufficient, but having both is better.
Ambiguity, yes it has none.

About obscurity, how many GHC extensions were required to make it accept this code? (Is GADT enough?) And by the way, this is in the interface, while the C++ example is in the implementation.

Besides, that's Haskell code that happens in practice. This is one I've just looked at, if I did some research I would certainly come up with more egregious code (maybe even mine). This one probably isn't even problematic (it's hard to say from the interface), but in general, mixing those extensions does lead to some very interesting problems from time to time.

Haskell has the same excessive complexity problem that C++ suffers. I do think this is the right thing to do right now. But I can't imagine it not looking as dated in 4 decades as C++ is now.
Why are you replying with this to me? I'm not saying anything contradictory to any of that.
> Or his incentive is to run a fly by night operation that shuts down before it can be sued.

Case in point: try to sue anyone in Shenzhen for anything. Good luck finding who to sue first. And they build pretty much all our electronics.
The question is intentionally generic as I am trying to find out what most folks would do if they were starting with something fresh. Your comment reminded me I needed to narrow the focus a bit. I edited the question to add an assumption that this is a Web API.
The project author and Facebook legal appear not to be in sync. The license does not grant the right to distribute the software as-is (a fork) or publicly with modifications, but the CONTRIBUTING.md file asks potential contributors to do both of these things:

> We actively welcome your pull requests. Fork the repo and create your branch from master.
Ask HN: What's best open source analytics package used with django
It's probably the cable, if they use a data cable it will limit it to 500ma, but if they get a usb power only cable I bet it will supply more. You're right its probably working as designed.
It's terrible that the FDA is interfering with free association between these gigantic conglomerates and consumers. It's a sin.
Yep, that's why for a lot of things like that, I try to buy it in bulk from Costco or someplace online.
This is why tabs are doing badly.

Really think it's a dumb move to sue people for putting out tabs, but there you go .
I think the era of amendments has passed. Very unlikely we see a new one anytime soon.

Amendment XXVI, 18-year-olds can vote, ratified in 1972. Amendment XXVII, left over from 1789, relates to Congressional pay increases, ratified in 1992.

I didn't even know about the last one (I assume I can trust Wikipedia about it)? Which means the last "real" amendment was 44 years ago. None of the currently unratified amendments seem at all close to reaching the required number of ratification votes.
>> They are punishing the person who lost at musical chairs or am I missing something?

There was an amnesty window leading up to this. Until Sept 2016, all black money could have been deposited in bank accounts in India, no questions asked, taxed at usual income rates.

The people suffering now are the ones who took the Indian Tax system for granted.

>> How does this prevent it from happening again with the new notes? Tax system is still broken.

Fear of losing more than half your net-worth again.
> At some stage on the guitar your left hand (assuming right-handed player) has to start doing some really unnatural and difficult things for you to be able to play anything interesting.

I always wondered why the guitar is hold in a way so that the left hand is the one that does the complicated movements.
Hard to get past the capitalist propaganda in the article and introduction. Maybe if the essay were hosted on a more neutral site.

I say this because when the article is hyping up the "timelessness" of this essay, I know that there is political motivation behind it, rather than some kind of (more nearly) objective opinion on it.
Dokku + Swarm actually isn't too hard (at least old swarm). I wrote a prototype in ~10 lines of code changes this past summer.

As far as shipping logs, I feel as though thats the responsibility of the underlying container environment, and so I'd probably have something that is based on setting docker options for containers (or an interface to do that for whatever scheduler you are using).
Yes. If you want to see how vulnerable you are to this sort of attack, Nirsoft ships a good tool called WebBrowserPassView:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/web_browser_password.html

Be aware, this may be detected as malware or a "hacking tool" by your AV for obvious reasons.
I think its more like 30; look at the picture with the full stuff sacks. those are at least 7L stuff sacks, there are two of them, and theres room for 2 more of the same size. I backpack with a 32 liter and the interior volume looks comparable.
> I can buy an american made guitar and tube amp from the late 60s for under 500$ that blows away anything under 3k made today

I call BS.
+1 for Pepe.
I'd be willing to send the team a couple pizza's for their work on this... It's my favorite product to ever come out of MS.
> That's actually what government is for. Y

Im happy that you believe this. I however don't. So where does that leave us?

> You pay it money, and if you have a good government it includes a branch to make sure consumers aren't ripped off/poisoned/injured/killed/etc.

I pay the money because I don't really have the option to only pay for the government I like.

If you feel that way how about a tax on all products that are FDA approved that pay for the FDA. Other products can be sold with a stamp on it, not FDA approved.

> Some governments, like the EU, are actually quite good at this.

I would disagree.

> A government can only be taken over from the inside - often by those who pretend to support libertarian ideals, but in practice simply want to operate at various levels of criminality without challenge or oversight.

> But a government can never be taken over completely. There are always people who believe that market forces are a naive and unworkable ideology, and are willing to work against their excesses. They have a natural role in government regulation, but no natural role in markets.

I don't really understand your point.

Its defiantly not libertarians or people who claim libertarian ideals who create, run and push for more of these regulatory agencies.
"Nobody ever gets fired for contracting IBM."
> Consumers are being informed right now. A scandal can kill a company or a private inspector in a way that it can't kill a corporate oligarchy or bad regulation.

I'm not convinced. Scandals don't scale. How many scandals per year do people actually have the attention and outrage to push through into action? 10? 100?

It's my opinion that we need regulation to set the ground rules of our interactions with companies, which will always ALWAYS be tempted to deceive us. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't spent 2 minutes in any corporate marketing department.
i think this is moreso the flaw with a hybrid libertarian system where, for some things we can trust the government, but in others, we can't. this is usually pretty obvious but it's incredibly ambiguous when it comes to things we ingest. there's piles of regulations, but few deal with the integrity of the product vs its claims (see homeopathy...).

if we were in the libertarian ideal, we would scoff at the fact that we hadn't chosen a brand vetted by the consumer product testing lab that we're obviously already subscribed to.

and practically directly contradicting you claim is the fact that a private entity is what unveiled this mishap, no government involvement. ,
When any of that happens it's a nationwide scandal and huge recalls are in order. That alone should tell you the system works quite well at making those situations very rare. Imagine what would happen without it.
They seem to have some sort of system where good quality is produced even if nobody can sue them. Otherwise other nations wouldn't buy all their electronics.
When government isn't involved a "dysfunctional" organization will sell you air and tell you its medicine because there's no regulator checking him.

Its like people are aching to be poisoned and die
IRS attempts to obtain a copy of every U.S. Coinbase Bitcoin customer
>ABX says this is a minor contractual dispute, so they should be forced back to work

The problem with our free market system is we don't have one.

When a company wishes to cut wages or slash benefits, free market.

When the workers decide they don't want to work under certain conditions anymore, get a judge involved.
Also on materialistic. Worked fine on Nexus 6P
The Tech Industry Can – and Should – Lead in the Trump Era
Market & tech trend analysis would be nice. I think that YC already covers interviews with industry leaders pretty well.
How is backing up an argument and explaining limitations when questioned "fervor"?

I might as well accuse you of being obsessed with calling me obsessed because you bothered to reply.

When did we reach the point as a society where actually elaborating on a point and responding to someone is "fervor" and "obsession"?
The issue people are (rightly, imo) pointing out is that forking without modifications—say, to remain locked to a particular commit for whatever reasons one may have—appears to directly violate the terms of the custom license (which itself appears to directly violate the terms of Github's TOS.
The age of stock photos is at an end. It's time for marketers to make a change
It's a "make my bubble smaller" button. I don't think it would solve any problems.
Is C++ really better specified? Some languages use "the implementation is the spec" and that's bad, sure (though I'd argue it's less bad than "programs that worked on previous versions of the compiler will contain memory safety vulnerabilities on newer versions of the compiler", which is the end result of C++'s approach to undefined behaviour). But compare to e.g. Java, which has a (shorter!) spec with multiple implementations, including a well-specified memory model in the presence of threads (which weren't even specified at all by C++ until recently), and more importantly actually defines behaviour rather than specifying very carefully the wide range of conditions in which the compiler is permitted to arbitrarily break your code.
"Mr. Díaz is a U.S.-trained retired colonel, and he indeed tried to overthrow Mr. Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, by participating in a short-lived coup in 2002. Mr. Díaz, who had been deputy security chief to the businessman who briefly took power in the ill-fated overthrow, said his conspiring days are over." - from later in the article. Not your average Home Depot employee.
Im in agreement... im saying if someone has been using it for years... and it works for them, they might not care whats in it...
The enterprise sales process isn't what it used to be. Before, you had to get an audience with the CIO (or whoever controlled the department budget) to have a chance.

The shift has been that employees and individual teams now have a lot of say in what tools they use -- sometimes without the higher-ups knowing about it until it's seen a good amount of adoption amongst internal teams. SaaS with instant access and 0 deploy times makes this possible.

Another shift is that employees will now carry their championed products with them from one company to another. In an area like Silicon Valley where job hopping is common, the social/word-of-mouth effects on enterprise software is significant.

Slack has already been mentioned and is a prime example of both.

With our own "enterprise" product, we're seeing the same -- adoption from teams and employees that eventually can become something more. But, this can only happen if you're resonating with some group of users that love your product.
I don't think it's going to emerge without significant effort to make it happen. I think most of the 'intelligence' we desire will be attainable without sentience. Sentience itself will require a lot of specific research directed at the goal. It's certainly a risk though.
lol yeah, corporations are constantly shut down when they betray consumer trust. The Chicago stockyards went belly-up when "The Jungle" came out.