skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had done this the Right Way from the beginning you would have had a vesting agreement that specified what would happen in a case like this. A typical vesting agreement would have vested your stock over a 48-month period, so after 18 months you would have vested 33% x 18/48 = 12.375%. So 10% is not unreasonable.

However: having 10% of the company owned by a non-particiapting founder is a big red flag for many investors, and would be a significant obstacle to the company's success. So you might want to consider settling for significantly less than 10% simply because you may end up making more money in the long run. 10% of zero is still zero. If I were setting up a company today I would have a back-loaded vesting schedule: 10% the first year, 20% the second, 30% the third year and 40% the fourth year. On this schedule, your share at 18 months would have been 4.95%. If I were you, I would offer to take that.

If you're raising $500k for 25% of the company, that means you think that the company is worth $1.5M now (because the company now plus the $500k would be worth $2M). So your share on a flat vesting schedule is about $180k, on the back-loaded schedule it would be about $74k. If you want to cash out you should offer to sell for significantly less than those numbers because you want everyone to think they've gotten a good deal. You never know when you'll want to do business with someone again in the future. A reputation for being reasonable is worth a lot more than $180k.

You need to decide what you're doing before you approach investors because you need to achieve clarity on what you're selling them: is this a company with three founders, or a company with two founders and one ex-founder (and is the ex-founder willing to sell and if so for how much)?
Whoa! Awesome.
This potentially resonates with me. Blue light is a problem for me and most others I work with, but we can't use f.lux due to the color alterations (graphic designer). Are your lenses completely clear?
currently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14354911
It wasn't a contradiction. I said "we" in my question.
For developers, the takeaway is to use memory safe programming languages.
clearly there are things that are inappropriate for a 5 year old to watch. Your points about Puritanism would be much more amenable without your second paragraph. Do you really doubt that subjecting a chikd to nonstop violent porn would result in some psychological adverse effects? To take extreme example.

I overall agree with your sentiment on Puritanism. But let's not go to the other extreme.
> Apple was effectively forced into setting up domestic manufacturing in order to launch Indian retail stores, as India laws state that companies wanting a retail presence must source at least 30% of their goods locally.

In comparison to China, it doesn't seem India offers significant incentives to setup manufacturing except tapping into a huge market. What India has started doing right in last few years, China has been doing for more than two decades with no signs of slowing down. If you need a hint about the scale of China's manufacturing capabilities, you should read about the Fidget Spinner Gold Rush [1]. Production literally shot up overnight to cope up with the burgeoning demand. It's impossible to imagine this ever happening in India.

[1]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/fidget-spinner-wh...
you might've won the genetic lottery. it's hard to imagine though that you haven't been able to find anything on the adverse health effects of sugar.
> because that can encourage more people to use public transit

you don't really want more people in Tokyo metro, at least not in peak hours
Could one describe machine learning as "combine enough bad statistical tests that the cries of 'it seems to work' from managers drown out all the 'it's wrong' cries from the statisticians"
Congratulations, you just reinvented the train.
Oh sorry, I meant the intelligence community's disdain for Russia. I realize our ethical high ground is probably like, one stair higher than Russia at best.
While this may not be the appropriate forum for what you shared, I am deeply saddened to hear what you have struggled through. No one deserves that kind of abuse. And the severity of that pain would make forgiveness or empathy difficult for anyone. I am glad you desire to care for your self and your family, and I hope you experience success in those areas as you continue to heal and grow.
Yeah. This is where something like Final[1] would be super helpful.

1. https://getfinal.com
Despite their posturing, how can we trust Microsoft (and other companies like it) ? Windows is a black box. How do we know that there are no backdoors/spying routines to please some governments ? How can we trust that it behaves ethically with all the data it collects ? We only have their word for it.
I mean, this is the case with every "life time" plan. Valid until the company goes bankrupt or has financial issues or changes it mind.

Once there were life time "all you can fly" airplane passes for US$ 100k.
And the rate of random mutation varies, influenced by evolution. Eukaryotes even have two sets of DNA, mitochondrial and regular, with very different mutation rates. The complexity of biology, I think, is greatly underestimated by most.
People constantly act outside of their best interests. Holding a door open for a few seconds longer for someone you don't know is not a selfish habit.

So yea, people do some things in their own best interest, but the norms are hardly 100% in either direction. Yet, somehow companies are expected to be ruthlessly selfish in all areas.
related article, https://media.pragprog.com/articles/mar_02_archeology.pdf
Not a lot unfortunately :(. Cornell Tech organizes a two week trip to the Technion where we interact with various departments, students, and the Israeli startup scene, but they always ask for feedback on how we would like to interact with Technion better.

Also, I've seen some students from Cornell Tech do research internship at the Technion and several Technion appointed professors are lecturers at Cornell Tech.

It would be great to hear any suggestions you have on how you and other students at the Technion would want to collaborate/interact and I can pass it along to the dean of the school. Cornell Tech is really great about listening to the feedback of the students!
Don't forget how they allow themselves to trade stocks based on their foreknowledge of legislation that will directly impact specific businesses or industries.
Academia? The author is a journalist.
And that machine could serve all the traffic they need and also pay full time dev op guy if needed still for fraction of the cost of the cloud
Hi bm1362

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You do, but part of that license is validating it works and it's not cheap. It's part of the reason why thunderbolt cables are so expensive compared to their alternatives.
Lightweight Robust Framework for Workload Scheduling in Clouds
How I crafted a real estate agent for myself with Python and CALLR
Not saying the US presidents are innocent by any means, but as far as I know they haven't been suspected of killing American journalists or political opponents.

Propaganda or not, anti-Putin Russians have a bit of a track record of untimely death.
Performance Improvement of HDFS Using Cauchy Coding Approach
http://www.ijrat.org/downloads/MOMENTUM17/MOMENTUM17-10.pdf
I know that some public universities have this conflict, in terms of wanting to serve their mission of helping in-state students, but also needing more money to do so (ie foreign students can never be in-state, so they always pay full tuition). It's a bad bind because of decreasing state funds spent on universities. My friends and I often talk about how many public universities get so little from their respective states that they are essentially private universities but are still constrained by their state legislatures. In contrast, private universities don't have as strong an incentive to accept more foreign students.

Anyways, that's a digression.

The short answer is that we are keeping standards very high for admissions for this program. Also, having been in academia for many years, I can easily say that there are lots of brilliant people from all over the world.
Not to mention that (like other Musk projects) scalability is a huge issue.

What's the throughput of cars on electric sleds through tunnels?

Crickets...
> everyone rave about FastMail in the other thread

There's a lack of critical commentary about FastMail in general. In my case, it's because I don't want to come off as being overly negative/contrarian, and I'm pretty terrible about leaving reviews for products and services, despite the fact that I rely heavily on reviews and making purchasing decisions.

I was a subscriber to FastMail for years and recently (last month) switched away. One of the main selling points you hear about FastMail is that, unlike the stories you hear about people getting locked out of Gmail and other Google services with no support line, then ostensibly support is part of the package you get from FastMail since you're actually a paying customer. Over ~4 years with FastMail, I filed two tickets, and I walked away both times feeling gross after nasty encounters with FastMail employees. (Honestly, quietly closing the tickets would have been better than the responses they left.) So I made a decision to walk away permanently by not renewing.

FastMail comes off as really well regarded in HN-like communities, but I can only help feeling like it's from those who set up an account years ago, had no problem sending and receiving mail, and have only ever coasted like that since, without ever interacting with the support that everyone feels warm and fuzzy about paying for but never using. The other thing is that there's a dearth of competition for FastMail, especially in the age of webmail, so they don't have to be good, all they have to do is exist.

I'm on Runbox now, which has a less sexy interface if you're using webmail rather than IMAP, but it turns out to be slightly cheaper for my use case, and I can attest that, based on my experience during migration from FastMail, at least the Runbox staff don't come off as jerks.
It's a social norm that we don't sit 5 year olds down in front of a YouPorn stream. Nobody waits for some peer reviewed study before making that decision - it's simply just not done. It's considered weird, perverse, crass, inappropriate.

If you feel that norm needs to change, and that children should in fact watch hardcore pornography without anyone batting an eye, you may certainly work towards those changes. But you should expect resistance because that norm is powerful.
Don't mean to be pedantic, but the word is pedant (a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning), not pendant (a piece of jewellery that hangs from a chain worn round the neck).
These are some of my favorite sorts of threads on HN. Love thinking about this sort of thing for any future endeavours.
> IMO, the movies and games industries have much better, more objective rating systems.

Honestly, the music industry is way better than the movie industry. The MPAA rating system is a literal censorship board, complete with an actual member of the clergy serving in an advisory role on all appeals. But if you don't get your film rated, it's almost impossible to distribute it to anyone but the very small independent movie theaters.

The MPAA results in an immensely chilling effect, which influences the movies people produce in the first place.

Contrast that with music, where the distribution mechanisms are much more varied than for film, and there's nothing preventing people from releasing music with incredibly explicit lyrics, as long as they don't expect the uncensored versions to be played on the radio - a medium which, while still popular, is by no means thr primary distribution channel anymore.
Use your printer as a display
K-mw-modes: an algorithm for clustering categorical object data [pdf]
Should be fine I think providing there are no circumstances where Google can decide to ignore the limit (don't have much experience with their cloud stuff).
Beautiful story. That's all I can say.
Relatively new developer here- does anybody have any advice for someone who eventually wants to migrate a web app from Firebase to a custom server if I start to see good traction on the project? I was initially drawn to Firebase because I could iterate quickly, but now I'm not so sure if I should continue with them.
They should have tried playing it backwards at 33rpm.
Had anyone actually tried something like this and had success? https://blog.feathersjs.com/using-feathersjs-as-an-open-sour...
> I agree with Snowden's goals, but unfortunately I think he was somewhat naive in his disclosure approach.

My understanding is that Snowden intended to flee to South America but was forced to end up in Russia by the Obama administration, likely due to a rapid analysis of the options and the clear PR benefits of the "Russian side" stuff you describe.

The information leaked by Snowden revealed a lot of illegal activity being done by the US government as well as a lot of dishonesty about it. It revealed that Obama is at least as far to the right on surveillance as George W. Bush was, and that a system had been built that put all data collection systems used by the most notorious and corrupt regimes of history to shame.

That is the story. Focusing on Snowden's personality, his motivations, etc., is a distraction from the newsworthy content that should inspire corrective action (and likely criminal prosecution of many officials) via the democratic process.

> You can't disclose a country's national secrets without getting involved in realpolitik

I think this is true, but what we're seeing is that when you mess with the US Government you end up with a big-budget PR team driving the public perception of your actions and defaming your character.

In a sense, it's realpolitik, but in a sinister, preservation of power at all costs sort of way.

The US briefly had an adversarial moment in democracy during the social upheaval of the 1970s, but at present the asymmetry between entrenched power and the average person is larger than ever before.

The biggest cultural accomplishments the entrenched interests have achieved are (in my opinion) the idea that a major party can use the hashtag #resist with a straight face, and the utter demolition of the American left and culture of actual dissent.
Sounds like your timing is going to cover this, but if your co-founders know you are leaving then have an obligation to disclose that to potential investors. If I were them, I'd want this settled with you and out of the way before fundraising even started. "Hi, we just took your $500k and one of the founders is leaving. Yeah, we knew but didn't tell you." is not a place anyone wants to be.

Forget what's contractually agreed upon and forget what's fair. The cap table affects the company's ability to raise money. That is a reason that founding shares should always include a vesting schedule or expiring "right of repurchase" so that premature departure of a founder does not result in a strange looking cap table.

It's reasonable for investors to say: "Who is this guy who owns X% and what value are they delivering?"

You'll have been there 18 months: 18/48 = 3/8 = .375. .375 * 33 ~= 12.

Your owning 12% is explicable. "He was early, he delivered stuff, that's his initial equity proportional to the time he was in the boat."

Best wishes with it.
Parallel processing optimization strategy based on MapReduce
I assume the writer of the article will be imprisoned... /s
To be fair, this is often not a tractable situation for parents. The child behaves in a manner that the parents don't know how to address (which doesn't surprise me with the kind of materials available out there). Most parents can't deal with a kid that expresses violent intent toward other kids, regardless of what's the accurate diagnosis in that situation. Various attempts to address the situation didn't work. What then?

I was reading the other day about a situation that was far simpler. The child just screamed constantly nonstop for a year and neither a therapist nor a pediatrician was able to provide anything useful.

When the system doesn't work, people are going to take matters in their own hands, however problematic that may be. This is not a bad thing.
Dirty hack: update the app to make a request per 10 minutes, instead of a request per minute.

Costs goes down 10 fold. Problem solved!
For like 75% of things, yes — that substitution is completely apt. But there's some evidence that Putin pushes things a bit further that doesn't seem to be borne purely of propaganda.
> Photography / cinematography have historically proven to move people enough to take action [...] Zoos only provides a little more than a photography.

I disagree with the latter sentence. I think that seeing something in person -- whether an animal or a landscape -- is very different to seeing a photograph or video. That's why it's so different to travel somewhere to see something in person.
High Performance Analytics with SAP HANA Virtual Models [pdf]
For a API service with a few thousand occasional users, you can probably get away with a $5/Month VM at Linode.
Oregon. But we just loosened the rules a teny tiny bit, so if it's after hours, in a rural area you can do it yourself:

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2015/12/29/driver...
A performance spectrum for parallel computational frameworks that solve PDEs
Thanks for the clarification and the link.
For anyone evaluating services, before you invest too much time, know that Protonmail offers webmail only, if that's an important detail for you.
I think the article could have been clearer but it sounds like they described the recommended treatments in the previous paragraphs. None of them worked and the child did not "outgrow" her condition as predicted by everyone that they saw. Considering they have seven other children that are not particularly troublesome, the most common diagnosis that it was the parenting to blame might drive the most reasonable parent to seek other options, especially after the horror movie-esque “I want to kill all of you.” and "Four months later, Samantha tried to strangle her baby brother, who was just two months old." Someone might consider it reasonable for the safety of the other children to give up at that point but they continued to seek treatment options.
> And there have been times in the last millennium when the median would have reflected high infant mortality

Sure. During the peak of the Spanish flu, median probably would have been 18 years old or even worse, given infant mortality was close to 50%.

I found some numbers:

* the US had 200.000 deaths (7.7%) for unintentional injury + suicide + homicide

* the "years of potential life lost" are estimated to be 35 on average for unintentional injury + suicide + homicide, or 7 million man years.

* the life expectancy in the US in 2015 was 78.8 years

Putting things together, the life expectancy for people who don't die from unintentional injury + suicide + homicide is 81.5 (78.8 + 35 * 0.077).

I couldn't find data for median age at death in the US. But in LA county in 2012 the median age at death for men was 74 years and 82 years for women, while life expectancy was 79.0 and 83.7 respectively. So median age at death is actually _lower_ than average.

That's actually not surprising if you think about it. If most people die old, there are many people that live even a few years longer than the average. These easily offset the fewer people who die of violent death when computing the average. The US has 5 million people over 85, which account for several tens of millions of man years of "life gained".

Sources:

* https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/fatal.html

* http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/dca/data/documents/mortalit...

* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bOUTEt_...
Pardon my ignorance, but what does this have to do with the article?
It's a silly label and it shouldn't be there, but come on, you sound like you're speaking directly from 1990.

It's been done and over for almost 30 years. Whatever damage it did to the music industry and the culture, we've fully realized by now.

Laws that force fast food restaurants to put calories on fast food menus are annoying too, but we'll survive and I'll still get my burgers and fries.
It's worth mentioning that the smallest city with a rapid transit system (2 metro lines, 28 stations) has a population of only 135,629.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lausanne
Good theoretical point!

If this was about serious money, that's how my lawyer would argue it.

But for $15 I'm not going to try that in a small claims court in the UK say. I've been there once and the judge was one of the most condescending, pompous dimwits that I'd ever encountered.
You could take a look at Parse - it is a backend as a service that Facebook open sourced that still gets active development http://parseplatform.org/
> Facebook, LinkedIn etc. have the same playbook when they play fast and loose with the privacy rules with respect to spamming contact lists. Any penalty is tiny compared with the gain.

Not even close to the same thing. Apple agreed to a contract to provide unlimited support. Facebook/LinkedIn privacy policies explicitly state they can change them with notice, and they do.
Holy crap, dude, I make $35k a year and my life is fine. What on earth were you spending money on (10 years ago!) that you were miserable spending 60,000 dollars a year?
Thanks for taking the time to reply to me and not just down-voting. I'm actually learning what your point of view on the story is.
Show HN: Log Periodic – .bash_history, htop, and tail -f for the cloud
Scaling Up Your Startup: Tips for Fast-Growth Companies
To those that don't want to read the email that was linked here, here are links to FastMail help that talk about their discontinuation of the Member and Guest plans:

https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/member.html

https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/guest.html

Of course it sucks if you use this plan, but I think that giving nearly 6 months of notice after allowing you to use a plan for nearly 8 years after it was discontinued is generous. I think what they're offering, which is 50% off any upgrades and a credit equal to the amount they originally paid ($15) is a good gesture as well, and in the thread it seems they would be okay with refunding the $15 to those that aren't okay with this.
Is it survivorship bias? ML attempts that fail are cancelled and never heard from again, those that succeed are publicized.

The same approach works with pig entrails: a bunch of people make predictions, the ones that fail go away, the ones that happen to succeed a few times "must work".

Or in stock market terms, "past performance is no guarantee of future results."
Hi HN!

When you run your programs on remote servers, especially ones you can't SSH into, there usually isn't much visibility into what's happening. Also, when your system is comprised of many separate servers, it can be hard to track what is happening across your system as a whole. Lastly, keeping a record of important tasks often means post-processing a bunch of log files in different formats.

Log Periodic is a protocol, a command-line tool, and a web interface I've been experimenting with to assist with the above problems. You're welcome to sign-up and play around, just please don't hit my servers too hard. :)

I've also made a ~10 minute YouTube screencast that shows how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIXLDodABVE

I very much appreciate any comments you have.

Thanks!

- Doug
thanks! Will keep these things in mind!