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Ask HN: CEO starting new co. using current employees. Conflict of interest?
I spent several years working for a YC-backed company (call them Company A). A few years back, I took another job, left Company A and exercised my employee equity options.

A few months ago, I heard from some other former employees of Company A that the founder/CEO of Company A (call him Bob) was quietly starting a new company, Company B, in order to jettison the cap table and investors of Company A. I didn't believe them at the time, and I didn't ask around about it.

About a week ago, I received an email from an former employee about a new podcast about Company B, which is hosted by Bob. I watched the first episode on YouTube, which is clearly filmed in the offices of Company A, and his two regular co-hosts are also long-time employees of Company A. Bob begins the podcast by thanking "the folks at Company A for letting us use their office space today", as if he's not associated with Company A at all (even though he's still publicly the CEO of Company A). Throughout the duration of the podcast, all three hosts refer to themselves as employees of Company B.

On LinkedIn, the two co-hosts list themselves as employees of both Company A and Company B, but Bob still only lists himself as founder/CEO of Company A. One of the co-hosts lists themselves as a founder of Company B on AngelList.

Assuming nothing nefarious is going on here, why would Bob start a new company using Company A employees and Company A office space that he's clearly wanting to keep separate from Company A? If he's not doing it to distance himself from Company A shareholders, then what possible reason could he be doing it for? How is this not a conflict of interest?
I have mixed reactions to pieces like this. It's very salient to me because I fit the stereotype being discussed. At 43, I did my first triathlon and am, I suppose, training to do more (the season for them is basically over where I live, so I can't really do more this year).

The problem with the idea of the midlife "crisis" is that it's more a period of change and not all crisis. And it's somewhat, but not all, about mortality. At that age, in your 40s, you've often had enough time to establish a career, and for many, realize it's not what you thought it would be. It has nothing to do with mortality; if you started your career earlier or later, you'd be reaching that point earlier or later. Also, you've reached a point of wisdom to realize, yes, exercise is good, maintaining your health is good, all these articles you've been reading about it for years are right, and so forth and so on. You might have a new family, which changes things at any age. And finally, speaking of kids, I do think there's something about the 40s being the new 20s, the 60s being the new 40s, and so forth. I could go on and on about many things that cause change, but don't have anything to do with death or even old age.

If you knew me, for example it would be clear that I am in fact in crisis in many ways, and have been in recent years, in the ways that the author suggests. But that's not what motivated me to do a triathlon. It has nothing to do with some need to prove myself or anything like that. It was all about being prodded by friends to join them, and it was something I had always been interested in. I've always been a little athletic. It could have happened in my 20s or 30s but didn't. Why my 40s? I'm not sure. I guess I've just reached a point where there are many things like triathlon I've been wanting to do for years, and am now getting around to it. When you reach that age there are things that accumulate like that.

I think midlife change is very real, and often comes as a crisis, but I think that focusing on the mortality issues that do arise is really missing many, if not most, of the other factors involved.

In the case of athleticism, it stigmatizes exercising and wellness. So you're doing a triathlon or a marathon in your 40s? Now this is a bad thing? Can those of us in our 40s get a break? It's another form of ageism in many regards.
But they could do the equivalent of the amazon market place given their expertise in logistics.
I've always been perplexed by the massive salary rift between Europe and SV.
> Otherwise, look out the window

Sadly I am too naive at reading the atmosphere to determine what the weather will be like five days from now. I have to rely on people with supercomputers for that.

I like Weather Underground's approach; their app is free-with-ad but if you run a weather station and contribute to their network then you can disable the ads for free. Flightradar 24 has a similar business model.
Only the default style has this; switching styles is literally one click.
I'd imagine having the full .NET framework is the main draw in addition to all the F# visualization and data analysis libraries and type providers.
I don't understand the need for a built in REPL. Why not just use the interpreter in a terminal window?
As seen in his recent startup school talk and some past ones https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Peter%20Reinhardt&sort=byPopul...

It's actually quite a funny story in the businessinsider article -

feedback tool for lectures. Students surfed the web rather than use

similar for software

pg: "'So, just to be clear, you've spent half a million dollars and have nothing to show for it?'"

new idea - data analytics tool.

>Reinhardt said. "I said, 'That's literally the worst idea I've ever heard of — it's 100 lines of code and open source. You can't build a business from this."

>In 18 days, we had 70 companies sign up.

Now $100m + company.
In 1999 I was working for a web search company and one of the things we really wanted to do was to make search personalized. Eventually we started talking about what years later became known as "filter bubbles". It would be bad if people were constantly fed stuff from the same information universe, right?

In retrospect, it didn't get all that much of our attention in terms of work done. Sure, we got very obvious (and measurable) feedback mechanisms and we did spend considerable amounts of time countering the aspects that more directly affected percieved quality of the product. But in terms of what it means, we figured "we have time to deal with it later".

Just figuring out how to do this inside a few milliseconds per query was more than enough of a challenge in the near term. Since then (and probably before then) I'm sure thousands of teams have had roughly the same experience. You know that there are going to be problems ahead, but you build it anyway because if you don't someone else will. Your paycheck depends on it.

When you implement software that anticipates the preferred path a human likes to take through content you end up amplifying what tendencies are present in the person. This is "harmless" in the sense that you are not imposing some editorial direction. You can't be criticized for imposing your opinion or notions of good/bad, right/wrong etc. However the results appear to be polarizing in that they allow people to navigate to certain maxima.

The really hard problem here is how you counter this effectively without imposing your view. I think there's interesting work to be done in that area.
That's an interesting point but I don't think it explains why music as a whole is going where it's going: from melodies and harmonies towards a more general art of sound. After all DAWs are created to accommodate the need, not the other way around. One of the reasons why it's happening may be that harmonies are pretty much exhausted and most of music in this sense is just a reiteration of the past. Apart from some innovation in jazz and progressive rock music, both being in stagnation (i.e. practically dead), nothing else is new in terms of melodies and harmonies.
Lactose intolerance is something that develops as you age, but being able to digest lactose is a critical ability for childhood survival. Dairy is perfectly fine for children, even for most of the children who will develop lactose intolerance later in life.
That's probably the other half of where things will go. General purpose computers eking out minor performance gains, and niche applications continuing to move toward more and more specialized and single-purpose hardware.
> It likely is a collaborative filtering method. You get served what people "similar to you" have watched most. Similarity is based on your watching behavior. If you watched 1,2,5,6,7 and someone else 1,2,6,7,8. You will be recommended 8 as well.

Yeah, similarity of “preference” is approximated, in any recommender system, by this or some similar analysis of behavior with respect to content.
Exactly! Every time you double your growth rate it also approximately doubles the Price / Revenue ratio.

20% growth will yield a 2-3x ratio. 40% growth 4-6x, and by 80% growth you’re looking at a valuation of 8-12x ARR.
There's an even bigger rift between startup valuations. Less investment, less value created or employee, lower salaries.

To be fair, Europe and the more able governments are making up some of the gap through grant money. Although this leads to a cottage industry of funneling government money into others pockets, whether it be through companies that help you apply for the grants or just bullshit startups that aren't properly vetted.
Cool, I didn't realize that.

The FAQ I quote-translated could have mentioned that, instead of saying "there is no way".
Whilst this is a very interesting read, I'm not sure that the statement that "this pushes back cheese-making by 4,000 years" is correct.

https://www.nature.com/news/art-of-cheese-making-is-7-500-ye...

This nature article from 2012 makes an almost identical claim.
> I think we may se massive core count with lower clocked frequency chips as die shrink will be come too expensive.

Only for applications whose workload can be parallelised. Many applications remain single-threaded, and until a parallel version is developed for all these applications, single thread speeds will matter.
The author seems confused:

> Sperm passage up the female tract is more like an extremely challenging military obstacle course than a standard sprint-style swimming race. Sperm numbers are progressively whittled down as they migrate up the female tract, so that less than one in a million from the original ejaculate will surround the egg at the time of fertilisation. Any sperm with physical abnormalities are progressively eliminated along the way, but survivors surrounding the egg are a random sample of intact sperm.

> The entrenched idea that ‘the best sperm wins’ has elicited various suggestions that some kind of selection occurs, but it is difficult to imagine how this could possibly happen. The DNA in a sperm head is tightly bound and virtually crystalline, so how could its properties be detected from outside?
$75,000 a year with benefits no college needed. Employers still can’t fill jobs
Because our systems are already optimized in a hundred different terrifying ways.

There is a review posted around here of the book 'seeing like a state' that talks about how the modern world is not optimized for human needs, but the needs of the state to collect tax. It makes many good arguments on why it is the case.
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Show HN: YouTube-dl kivy (YouTube-dl with User Interface and android port)
>"1. Excessive industry lobbying power;"

Google has long cultivated a substantial lobbying effort in Washington. In fact it outspent any other single private company in it's lobbying in 2017. [1]

>"2. Anti-competitive exclusivity agreements;"

There's no such thing at either the municipal level, state level or otherwise. Exclusivity agreements for carriers don't exist.

>"3. The ability to stall rollouts indefinitely in the absence of “one touch make ready” policies;"

Telephone poles which were an issue in the Austin rollout are not an issue in many(most?) US cities where there are no telephone poles and cable vaults and ducting are underground and not owned by the incumbents.

>"4. Required cooperation with and permission from governments who feel less pressured to move quickly once their residents have at least one incumbent provider;"

Is there any evidence of this? Politician love to take credit for innovations and improvements that they had very little to do with.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/01/23...
Since when do businesses hate copyright protection again? The only service providers upset by this are the ones that won't be able to copy paste maps from other sources anymore.
If anyone is interested in taking these explorations further, Crowd AI has a long running music generation with AI challenge. Input to the black box you design is a single MIDI sample. And output is a generated MIDI file that extends and "riffs" on that initial piece. Win condition is based simply on which piece sounds better to the judges ;)

https://www.crowdai.org/challenges/ai-generated-music-challe...

Also check out the recent work from Google's Magenta team. Their MusicVAE seeks to model not just the instrument, but the expressiveness of the musician. With "style" emerging from the MIDI representation alone.

Latent Loops Beta

https://teampieshop.github.io/latent-loops/
I’m a little puzzled by the over-engineering. Wouldn’t fixing the road be much cheaper and benefit more people?

Don’t get me wrong: lowering the cost of active suspension is a wonderful idea, and will have a ton of benefit, but…
> Does the average American born after 1990 have more house or a better retirement plan than their parents?

No, but their parents had longer to save. The average person born in 1990 has a higher average real wage than their parents did. Given the novelty of college debt, it’s difficult to say much more, but mean statistics point to a wealthier American population at all levels today than any time before. The issue is the rich have gotten richer faster, not that the poor are getting poorer.
Are you ready for Hacktoberfest?
Everyone will work around then. They want you to see copyright error tiles.
Yeah it is such a big offence to expect to be paid for our work.
Great Bezos quote:
“I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two — because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. … [I]n our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that’s going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection. It’s impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, ‘Jeff I love Amazon; I just wish the prices were a little higher,’ [or] ‘I love Amazon; I just wish you’d deliver a little more slowly.’
They just need to do fulfillment as a service. It would be a huge business.
I am speaking about when Tk mattered, around 2000's.
> They haven't even made it so that a reload blacks out other tiles.

Reload blocks different tiles.
could submarine power cables in the Medeterranian sea be thinner since the water keeps the cable cool?
I wonder if the results you would get from an EEG in these cases are different from those of a healthy person. If not, it should be possible for them to communicate using e.g. morse code through EEG.
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> The average person born in 1990 has a higher average real wage than their parents did

Mean, yes, median, less so.

> but mean statistics point to a wealthier American population at all levels today than any time before.

“mean statistics” don't tell you anything about “at all levels”, and are misleading because of the increasing top-heaviness of the distribution.
that's called a memory leak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak

I've seen happening in Go multiple times when people forget to close the response body after making a http request.
When I asked a Swede why salaries in Stockholm are comparatively low even by german standards (mostly because cost of living is higher in scandinavia while salaries are similar) he told me that it might have to do with the fact that in Sweden people are not supposed to rack up huge savings because they will be taken care of by the state when they retire to be able to still live comfortably. Basically you just need to earn what you need to live comfortably unlike in the US where you have to do a lot not to be poor when you reach retirement.
The guy was not in tech and also a generation older than me, so i am not sure if it's fully true, but i was surprised by the low salaries in relation to the cost of living.
They'd need some digital infrastructure and open online marketplace, map or index, and use local shops as repositories for goods. For this to work they need some kind of automated delivery, like drones, or eTaxi/Uber passengers who take on delivery jobs.

Let's say you take an Uber from your friends house to your home, or you shedule your electronic car to "accept packages", and some shop owner drops you a package along the way that you deliver to a neighbor of yours.

You need a good system to make this work, so that shop owners (real world repository maintainers) and traffic participants are on the same map. Of couse would you take a a package if the friction is low enough, or you're stopped by a traffic light anyway and/or get some compensation for it.

Cars as investment (putting the car to work), instead of a constant cost factor for private ownership would be a game changer for private consumers. This might be possible soon with more automation in the infrastructure in place.
Also I think sort has a -u flag.
You have to normalise by purchasing power and take the quality of life into account. My 60k salary in Poland gives me similar quality of life like 100k in Denmark and 140k in SF.
Helvetica (film)
> Mean, yes, median, less so

Median quite so [1]. Every class of American is getting richer, just not as fast as the ultra-rich.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N/
getting pregnant or remaining pregnant is a choice. it’s not a disease you just contract without choice. why should an employer be forced to pay for your decision?
I read this article. The title of the article is a stretch. You don't need college to earn that 75k, but you're going to need 5+ years of experience in a trade to get there.
You posted this on here 7 times?
Maybe rsync could also work well for you?
Yes you most definitely are misrepresenting the conservatives. None of it has to do with family values or anything other than the lack of understand on the left as to why your employer should not be forced to pay for everything you do or want to do.
> Lactose intolerance is something that develops as you age

Not necessarily. There are many kids these days that are diagnosed as lactose intolerant because we know about it:

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/3/1279
I think he got the point just fine. She was willing to compromise because half a baby is a dead baby. She would compromise on whether or not the baby was in her possesion but she could not compromise on the state of the baby.

It is better to lose the whole war than to lose what you value the most. Losing could mean many things,not just loss of possession.
Can you provide a specific example(s) of a side sacrificing a deeper issue in order to win, in recent history? I'm having trouble coming up with examples.
It's too bad the MQL query engine wasn't also released. In combination with graphd, it was a really nice system to use.
Hey, why not just stop all development? WEP was fine. IE6 was fine. I'm sure you still run Windows XP too.
Maybe it’s because those average employees are, well average? if you’re worth a damn in your field you most definitely can define the terms of your employment or find a company that will let you
Not exactly true - every service will have to implement a copyright checking mechanism, which is a huge technical outlay likely to require linking in with a bigger company - which will further cement existing businesses.

Also, just about companies always being keen on furthering copyright, Disney seemed fine about it when they created steamboat Willie, Cinderella, snow white, etc, all based on prior art.
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> in Sweden people are not supposed to rack up huge savings because they will be taken care of by the state when they retire to still live comfortably

This applies only to native Swedes. As a foreigner, even EU national, it's trivial to end up overboard of the social security net. Beware of tollerating low compensation fed by the "we'll hold your back" cliche. The same situation in Germany.
But SF in general is such a unique case because of the huge tech market and high cost of living. 70-80k EUR in Berlin get you as far as 150k USD in SF i would imagine.
Also very different cultures and socioeconomics in terms of taxes, state welfare etc. It's just hard to compare.
But when I see that tech salaries in expensive European cities like London/Stockholm aren't really much better than in Berlin, I am a bit perplexed too to be honest.
Most of it has to come down to demand and supply in the end.
I find myself using Amazon so rarely now that it probably makes sense to drop Prime. It used to be the first and only place to look for something - I knew they would have it and it would be cheaper than anywhere else. Then it used to be that it might not always be cheapest, but it would be close, and at least it would be easy to find and delivered quickly. Now it seems like there is so much crap to sort through, half the time what I'm looking for isn't there, and if it is, it's probably overpriced or a counterfeit. Maybe I'm just an outlier.
>Not perfect is understatement They are horrible.

They would be much less horrible if every time one watched videos, they would rate them in a way, instead of assuming that "watching"="interest".

> And youtube rules also motivate providers to churn out a lot of content regularly (leading to quick to produce crap) and punish those who take their time to think or research before they talk.

That's not just Youtube: about all media is driven by what's "new" and "hyped" rather than what is deep and well thought about.
"These results offer a perspective on a question that is becoming more and more important for brands: can taking a clear stand in favor of core values be a winning strategy, even when that stand is opposed by a segment of the public as well as the president?

Just measuring reactions on social media would argue against this — with the hashtag #boycottNike trending on Twitter. However, social furor and engagement from those active online and overall sentiment of those actually viewing the ad may not be correlated based on Swayable’s research. Instead, this research suggests that the furor is limited to a few specific groups."

Without demographic breakdowns, one could suggest anything.
Seems pretty clear to me: https://www.qt.io/download

Most of it is licensed under LGPLv3, some under GPLv3, and there are commercial licenses available for almost all of it.
U.S. Judge Authorizes Seizure of Venezuela’s Citgo
noteworthy: he discovered a lot of these backdoors by studying the patent filings (slide 10, 15 & 21): https://i.blackhat.com/us-18/Thu-August-9/us-18-Domas-God-Mo... ... this was some seriously great reconnaissance work :-D
The overwhelming majority of hospitals in the US are either state owned or non-profit.