skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, Read "venture deals" by Brad Feld

Then understand that what both of you should have done is 4 years vesting with 12-month cliff.

With that come to an agreement that since you did two years, you should keep only half of your equity (20%), freeing up the remaining 20% so Jim can acquire better talent.

Long version (Excerpt from a post I wrote):

"These are the legal concepts you can use to protect founders from each other, the company from the founders and founders from a hostile board.

Let's run an Example assuming I'll be your co-founder and the company will grant me 48,000 shares for each of the legal concepts (The number 48,000 was chosen to simply math but does not reflect typical number of shares per founder):

1. Cliff

• If founder stays less than 12 months, no equity.

Example: In this case I receive 0 of my 48,000 shares.

• After 12 months 25% of stock is instantly vested.

Example: In this case I receive 12,000 shares of my 48,000 shares.

2.Vesting

• After the cliff, founder vests 1/36th of granted stock each month.

Example: In this case I receive 1,000 shares a month, on top of my previously earned 12,000 shares after the cliff for a total of 48,000 shares over a total of four years. If I leave in month 24 my total number of shares is 24,000.

3. Acceleration Triggers

• Single trigger: all stock is vested upon change of control or sale of the company.

Example: Let's say Google buys our company in my month 24 of vesting, in order to prevent google from firing me right after the acquisition in order to stop my remaining 24,000 shares from vesting, all my shares accelerate are granted immediately, thus accelerating the vesting

• Double trigger: some stock is vested upon termination without just cause.

Example: This provides a dis-incentive from investors, the board, or a co-founder from firing me if I am not done vesting, in order to free up equity to hire a lot more other people, if I am fired and it's not due to committing a crime like fraud then I will earn some stock, normally 12 months, without having to remain at the company for 12 months."

Even longer version: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/startup-survival-guide-recrui...
> In fairness, Python is the first language the Nim team compares itself to in the first paragraph of their homepage.

Probably because most people are more familiar with Python than Ada and Modula (combined) ;)

I guess it depends on your previous experience. Some people will only see Python, others might think of Nim and its syntax as "Pascal for 21st century" (fun fact: the original Nim compiler was written in Pascal).
That would feel fair to me too :)
"I can still turn this boat around" -- my limited perspective here is if you're getting 'feedback' regarding your tone on emails, then maybe you are being warned that people don't want to steer the boat in the direction you want to.

Sounds like this is a team/environment where technical acumen isn't valued or incentivized. That is, you are in a place where technical acumen is not relevant to your success there. That's pretty common in my experience. I also wouldn't be so quick to say that's good or bad -- it just is. Instead, what you've got is a highly political environment I would guess. Here's a great quote I found on HN:

"There are basically three levers of power in any organization - relationship, expert, and role. In that order of importance. " — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20749147

The 'expert' lever has no power where you currently work. No one cares. (Except in terms of tribal knowledge, which you don't really have yet there).

In the grand scheme of things, it's just a job. Why pick battles that don't matter? Unless you're curing cancer or studying climate patterns, it most likely that whatever this company does simply does not matter at all. So, focus on your own career and do what's best for you, not the organization (which is good to do in general, regardless of the organization/mission). If you aren't facing undue stress, then you can stay and play the game (and try to practice resume-driven programming as well, to the extent you can). However, truly incompetent teams can be stressful due to the disorganizaton and firefighting become very draining; I don't know if that's what you're facing or not. Up to you if you want to stay or not, but be honest with yourself about what kind of place it is, rather than wishing it were something else.
>When I asked our teacher how children learn which case to use, her rather wonderful reply was that “it comes with mother’s milk”.

As a native speaker, I think the real answer is experience. You pick up most of the patterns simply by using the language. I think that's how most people learn English as well. English grammar rules are mostly a mystery to me and many of my peers from school. Estonian grammar is slightly less of a mystery, but that's because it is a mandatory subject even in high school (ages 16-19).

About the title:

"Kas sa sõid koogi (ära)?" - "Did you eat the (whole) cake?"

"Kas sa sõid kooki?" - "Did you eat cake?"

"Ära" in the first sentence has the meaning of "nothing left" or "gone". "Ära" doesn't have to be included, but in practice, it almost always is. It's similar with the abessive ("without") case. The example given in the article is "riik on ilma juhita". The word "ilma" means "without" and can be left out. The abessive case of "juhita" is enough - "riik on juhita" - but in practice "ilma" is often included.

All in all, people generally don't care too much if you get the grammar just right. Mostly right is good enough. Many native speakers even have problems with words such as "kelle-ga-gi" vs "kelle-gi-ga" (the first is correct: -gi/-ki is always at the end). Some grammar rules can even result in words that many native speakers will say are incorrect, eg "keni" - the partitive plural of "kena" (neat). People are simply more used to the -id/-sid partitive plural "kenasid".
If you ever use more than one session, I think you'll probably need to change that to `tmux attach -t main`
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Re Huawei's AI poetry generator: Don't model the poem, model the poet
> Once the courts venture into the political sphere and begin passing judgment on Parliament’s actions, legal analysts say, there is no going back.

The court explicitly did not pass judgement on an action of Parliament.

From page 3 of the summary (https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2019-0192-summar...)

> But it is quite clear that the prorogation is not a proceeding in Parliament. It takes place in the House of Lords chamber in the presence of members of both Houses, but it is not their decision. It is something which has been imposed upon them from outside. It is not something on which members can speak or vote. It is not the core or essential business of Parliament which the Bill of Rights protects. Quite the reverse: it brings that core or essential business to an end.

Instead it passed judgement on an action of the government which it has done for centuries.

From page 2 of the summary:

> The first question is whether the lawfulness of the Prime Minister’s advice to Her Majesty is justiciable. This Court holds that it is. The courts have exercised a supervisory jurisdiction over the lawfulness of acts of the Government for centuries. As long ago as 1611, the court held that “the King [who was then the government] hath no prerogative but that which the law of the land allows him”.
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Presumably Europe funds education better than we do, yet measles are as much a problem there as here.

It’s not education. Marin county, one of the best educated counties in the country with high tertiary education, have one of the highest proportions of anti-vaxxers.

Misinformation isn’t countered with education. It’s countered with counter propaganda -i.e. it’s not in a facts and figures type of way for you to make up your mind by attentively and discerningly studying data. No, it’s someone else offering ready to eat counter propaganda.
> Social media is like smoking. It takes a while to get addicted.

It only takes about a pack of cigarettes to get addicted; but it takes awhile to realize you're addicted.

I'd say the same thing is true with Facebook. It took me about a decade to realize I was addicted.
Its fair to say that whether it is in line with or 'breaks' the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement is disputed - the UK courts recently ruled that imposing a border on a no deal exit would not breach it, and what the UK is proposing is less than that.

The Republic of Ireland (or at least their political leadership) seem to interpret the agreement differently, and insist that the Good Friday Agreement means that all laws relating to trade or commerce must be exactly the same in both NI and the RoI (they cite some provisions on the 'all island economy' in support of this).

Equally the unionists believe that the May Withdrawal Agreement breaches the GFA for different reasons - because the GFA acknowledges UK sovereignty over NI and says that this shouldn't be changed without a border poll (which the unionists would likely win still).
Ok, this is the kind of tech I would like to see come up and mature in the coming ten-twenty years.

Having dozens of employees and four years of development period with VC money suggests that they have something more than just a POC.

With any great technology/innovation, the next obvious question always is, how can it be used at a mass scale, so that it gets accepted as just another part of a person's life. To put it another way, how can it be assimilated into the common services/products that we consume in our daily lives. Only then it will produce the value that it's makers were hoping for.

So what kind of void could this technology fill?

That depends on the vision of the creators and those who own it. I guess, if it was Apple that was buying this startup, we would see very different end usage of it.

If it was Google, we would see something absolutely different. If it was Amazon, who knows what they might use it for?

But since it is Facebook, we have to feel a bit apprehensive.

Because what is it that Facebook intends to do in long term? What is it's vision? Being one of the biggest tech companies in the World right now, it is of paramount importance that we know what do they intend to do with the tech they acquire?

And this tech could be revolutionary! It is the kind of stuff that we read in Sci-Fi. Hope they make something good/useful out of it.
Those things are just annoying. They are not even remotely the most dangerous tactics. See the discussion here [1] on Google Fi's advertisement for medium level tactics. Things like font sizes, colors, placement of text have already primed your mind to think 50 dollars. It will take a huge amount of rational thought to overturn the good gut feeling one has developed toward Google's offering based on the false 50 dollars statement.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21011175
Ask HN: Do you read HN while on holiday? Isn't it 'work'?
There's none, that's the thing (lesson learned).

It's just that Jim owns 60% and I own 40%, that's it
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I live and work in a Tier 3 city in India. I generally find it more comfortable and liveable in (though perhaps a little too slow and boring).

Anyway, one of things that I've reading about and slowly beginning to align with is the massiveness of the unorganised sector in the country. Lots of transactions and activity takes place in a way that the central government and planning agencies don't have direct visibility into.

To use a programming metaphor, it's a huge ball of legacy code with patches on top of patches on top of workarounds and special cases. Trying to systematically manipulate this is hard, to say the least. I'm not sure if the push to digital transactions, the demonetisation and other things will change this. I don't think it's likely but neverthless, it's an interesting thought exercise.

One interesting podcast that recently discussed this is https://www.thinkpragati.com/podcast/the-seen-and-the-unseen.... It specifically discusses GDP as a performance measure, what its limitations are and how those are relevant to India.
> Maybe brave hackers will reverse engineer bitstream generation

As far as I know, the bitstream for 15K/35K/50K Artix-7 is pretty much done, with Kintex-7 and Zynq devices being WIP [1]. I think there are gaps in support for the various hard blocks and PAR at higher layers of the toolchain, but the bitstream reverse engineering per se isn't a maybe-in-the-future thing.

[1] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjxray
Somewhat O/T, but a dispatcher here in Sonoma County, California was recently named "best in the country" for her disposition and quick thinking during the 2017 Tubbs Fire in which several of my neighbors perished.

Some of her ad hoc instructions included telling people to jump in a pool or pond. This saved numerous lives [1].

She is now literally rewriting the script for how dispatchers respond to wildfire emergencies [2]:

"Her boss, Aaron Abbott, said that on several occasions “KT gave life-saving instructions to citizens in situations that were so unique that no emergency fire dispatch protocols existed for them.”

1 - https://www.pressdemocrat.com/specialsections/rebuildnorthba...

2 - https://www.pressdemocrat.com/specialsections/rebuildnorthba...
We certainly could form a union, and I'm generally supportive of unions. But we've got it pretty good. We're doing interesting work and we get paid well for it. I can tell people I don't work more than 32 hours a week, and they're fine with it. The few that aren't, I can afford to ignore. I already have the negotiating power that unions should provide.

And if we don't like it, we can easily start our own business. More easily than the vast majority of other people.
I think the biggest issue is that most equate GC with Java/Smalltalk style, instead of GC Modula-3/C# style.
This demonstrates a fundamental structural flaw in parliamentary systems, whereby there is not an adequate separation of powers. The Executive should be independent. Without an independent Executive the government can't get things done. The UK know it wants to leave, but a group of hundreds of representatives are bound to disagree and prevent the nation from settling on and executing one course of conduct. A nation needs an executive to execute.
The access point I use is a UniFi AP-AC-Pro. You can create multiple wifi networks and map each one to a separate VLAN. I also use UniFi switches and a UniFi Security Gateway, but really any equivalent that supports VLANs will work.

I believe I also accomplished the same thing with an Asus router/AP running DD-WRT, but that was a long time ago.
Prime ministers are not elected by parliament. I appreciate the difference you are trying to highlight, but the current prime minister took this role without any form of election in parliament, and almost certainly no longer has the ability to command confidence.
To be fair a huge percentage of the language is already French words. Brits just stubbornly refuse to pronounce them “correctly”.
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Psychosomatic == real. If your heart rate increases when you are frightened, is that imaginary?

While some research shows changes in the brainstem, fMRI shows differences in blood flow in various parts of the brain associated with processing emotions. Right now we don't have a definitive answer as to what causes chronic pain. But we do know for certain that the parts of the brain dealing with pain are also involved in emotional processing.

It's actually very easy to demonstrate to yourself that pain can be psychosomatic. If you're riding your bike and imagine falling off, you will experience real pain. (At least, it happens for me, and I assume I'm not the only person who that happens to).

Here is an interesting fMRI study looking at the effects of pain processing in both fibromyalgia patients and healthy participants:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1016/j.ejpain.200...
Audio programming? And why is it frowned upon? If it is because of the Java-like GC freezes that is something you can ensure will not happen in Nim by turning on manual control and only running it when its suitable.
I agree. I decided to dramatically cut back on Facebook.

A few weeks after, I got a call from my mom asking why I wasn't going to a party at my sister's. Turns out my sister only sent out invites to her party via Facebook.
Boris doesn't hold a majority.
They could just be hedging their bets.
That doesn’t sounds like a fun experiment at all!
Palm oil particularly is a great example of misdirected policy - much of the clearing / planting was done a response to US biofuel demands:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/maga...
So... all of this was just a loud news cycle with no actual effect on anything other than "Parliament can continue doing what it does" ? (I actually can't tell, not trying to be a dick)
I'm not familiar with this method, but NAMD and CHARM are a great way to inspect biological systems at greater resolution than experimental methods can measure. There was really cool work on fibrinogen about a decade ago showing how it provides elasticity.

Reference: https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Highlights/?section=2008&highlight=2...
I read that and immediately thought of sleeping bags.

We used sleeping bags as blankets growing up because we were weird I guess.
Virtue signal much? How does RedHat's parent company, IBM, feel about all this?
Not as far as I'm aware, no.
Riemann Hypothesis and Random Walk
There's evidence that climate activism could be swaying public opinion in the US
Well thank you :) Meet up at FOSDEM and you can buy me a sandwich there!
I said exactly what I find abhorrent. He should not have addressed this topic at all.
> To be fair, the reason that the UK has not left the EU is because the Tory Eurosceptics refused to vote for Theresa May's deal. Not once, not twice, but three times.

If all the Eurosceptics had voted for May's deal, it still wouldn't have had the numbers to pass. I think its fairer to lay the blame on the opposition parties who voted against it largely to try to create chaos which they thought would lead them to an election they could win.
1. pyenv - for managing multiple python versions

2. pipenv (with PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT env var set) for managing project dependencies / venv

That's basically about it.
Yes, but if your grandmother rebuffs me, I’ll think, “what the hell?”
How is the size of population related to per-capita gdp?
Hmm, I had a different assumption: it was that animal shelter workers were more prone to suicidal tendencies. IIRC the data does suggest that veterinarians are, so it wouldn't have been unexpected to find a similar trend.
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https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/why-hasnt-brexit-happe...
I'd be very interested in some research backing up (2).
Not because I don't believe you (actually I very much do). More that I'm curious and want to find out more about this phenomena.
Same for us.

- Corrupted build? Reverse button for the rescue.

- SSL? They got you.

- Adding new apps in less than 1m?

and so on ...
“My Book Defending Free Speech Has Been Banned”
So very sad. How can this site be considered "cleaned" if there's still so much evidence of the spill below the surface?
I am always all in for some good old Facebook bashing, but even I must say that probably won't end this way.
I'm a long-time screen user, and I recently switched to tmux purely because it seems to handle high-color and unicode more cleanly than screen. I configured it to completely replicate my screen setup so that I didn't have to learn anything.
> They explicitly side-stepped the motive of why Johnson prorogued Parliament.

They did not. The part you quoting actually explains that this is the case. The court has to identify whether the justification is reasonable (if you followed the case in Scotland, the logic was exactly the same), and this means looking at motive (just to say, constitutional law in the UK does not work like the US...at all).

I did not imply that the EU should do anything. Again, this is a common misunderstanding of the govt's position. The point of their strategy isn't to force the EU into doing anything (although that is the effect). The point is to stop the delay (the effect on the economy has been huge).
I suspect it is the regimentation which is what truly killed them when combined with less rigid constraints on thought. There is still a substansial minority who would happily dedicate themselves to introspection and contemplation but they would prefer a space to follow their own guideance. Why bother with a life of thinking if the conclusions are already foregone?

The rigid scheduling is an artifact of agrarianism in a quad-seasoned climate and the calender as it becomes essential to have the time aligned. Likewise in the past not being a farmer itself was essentially a luxury - prison without slavery was only affordable if you had a hostage whose ransom was worth far more.

While before they may have been a refugee of sorts for those to devote themselves to study while being socially acceptable and self-supporting.

The time for reforms was a century or more ago during industrialization - if they would want survival over purity having known the peril coming. Now I suspect the options are either accept their demise as inevitable but take all latecomers, half-hearted reforms which likely will fail to stop the death spiral or a "Neomonastic" which fundamentally be an imitation of the past by the present out of its context or contains a glimmer of the spirit - such as a collective living of Catholics who may or may not have children, which pools funds to maintain a working class standard of lifestyle but may make more as a result of being composed of mainly college educated professionals such as doctors.

Theoretically there may be a Neomonastic sort of movement which emerges on its own in another sphere but if they didn't emerge on their own already why not?
The High Court ruled it non-justiciable as inherently political (a similar approach to the 'political question' doctrine in US federal courts).

The question the Supreme Court grappled with was whether the actual act of prorogation was a "proceeding in Parliament" or not. If it was, then the court can't overturn its effect despite the illegality they found in the earlier parts of the process (advice and Order-in-Council) as proceedings in Parliament are exempt from judicial scrutiny by the Act of Settlement 1688. They ruled that it wasn't (despite happening in Parliament) as prorogation is inherently an executive imposition from outside and therefore not a Parliamentary proceeding. Consequently they could rule the prorogation "void and of no effect" rather than merely making a declaration of unlawfulness or instructing the PM to have Parliament recalled.
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Yep, it does look scammy as hell. I got an email from Yahoo about this settlement about a week ago and at first I thought it was spam.

From: info@service.comms.yahoo.net

Subject: Yahoo Security Breach Proposed Settlement

If you had a Yahoo account anytime in 2012 through 2016,
a pending class action settlement may affect you.

A Class Action Settlement has been proposed in litigation against Yahoo! Inc. (“Yahoo”) and Aabaco Small Business, LLC (together, called “Defendants” in this notice), relating to data breaches (malicious actors got into system and personal data was taken) occurring in 2013 through 2016, as well as to data security intrusions (malicious actors got into system but no data appears to have been taken) occurring in early 2012 (collectively, the “Data Breaches”).

....
Well in this case they have made clear that WCF isn't going to be supported officially in dotnet core.

They are just being non-committal about gRPC being the successor. But I have seen Fowler poking around in the RSocket codebase recently, so who knows.