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They don't have 40%, they have 0% and will get to 10% in 1 month. Then have to accrue 1% for the next 36 months after that.

Wasting 3 years is not worth the time. The Op should eject and focus on building something else or the same thing with a new co-founder.
I will say something immoral to many: Leave him, walk out, and build a business in the same niche with contacts and know-how you already have.

There’s one advantage of this: You can start from scratch, build it faster, and better without starting with a baggage. And, have fun doing it. I’ve done this, and couldn’t be happier.

Business I left is nonexistent anymore.
He has a lot to lose:

* The 3% he's been offered, which while paltry compared to the 40% he had if things had gone better is still not a small amount of equity to hold in a successful company.

* Many thousands of dollars in legal fees.

* Many months of effort and stress.

People on message boards have weird ideas of what does and doesn't constitute lawful termination. Hiring in the US (I'm assuming this is the US, because there was a $100k investor) is at-will, most especially so in companies documented carefully enough to have 4/1 vesting. There is likely no such thing as a "bad faith" termination; there is only termination authorized by contracts establishing who manages the company, and termination that isn't.

Again, by all means, pay a small amount of money to get a competent lawyer to verify that's the case. Everybody on this thread will likely say "go ahead and fight" if it turns out this person can't be fired, so you can just stick a pin in that thought and we can continue to discuss the more realistic scenario.

Threatening to sue: also often a bad idea! If it's not credible, and everyone knows you don't have the resources to litigate, and that even if you did it would be economically irrational to do so, then the threat does the opposite of gain you leverage; meanwhile, threats can trigger other legal problems for you. Advice I'm pretty confident in giving: don't trust a message board post that tells you to threaten legal action.
I'm not sure it's worthwhile to debate whether Rust or D is better.

On @live, I'm not sure Walter is going in the right direction, but I think some of your arguments aren't the strongest. I have no issue with the incremental use of @live. People who use D know the difference between @system/@trusted/@safe and @live (esp. when @live is actually shipped and there is adequate documentation). The relevant question @live supporters could make is if @system/@trusted with @live is safer than without it. I think your point about D not having a memory model might be fairer, I'm not really in the position to judge it. Your final point is a bit weaker. Walter could easily argue that the idea is to move towards incorporating these features from Rust. Of course Rust is going to be further ahead on this. @live is also not thoroughly documented and there's a lot left to be determined.

I think on @live I've been most convinced by skeptics that something like a new type qualifier or storage class is better. This storage class would basically enforce the equivalent of Rust's borrow checker (as in @live) and only allow one mutable or unlimited const references but not both. Users can also apply it incrementally, but is a bit more significant of a change than @live.
I think your skepticism is well-placed. If this were a "30 day creative programming" course, I wonder what the HN reaction would be. My guess is that it would be: just pick a project and go for it, you don't need a class to start learning. Maybe atoms inspire more trepidation than bits though.
Essentially, when I read someone say "I don't know why anyone trusts journalists anymore", I triage the comment into the alt-right and/or nihilist folder.

I know why we trust journalists. Because a number of them, though imperfect, do fantastic work reporting on the events of the world. Anyway. No big deal. I tend to see this sentiment bubbling up here, and it concerns me.
For sure. I still prefer tinkering with my Arduino to my Raspberry Pi, because the electronics side of things is way easier.
Its financial asset inflation, not consumer product inflation.
Yeah, but each share is valued at a fraction of a cent. The company will have to cut a check for a few dollars. (Happy to explain more if you’re interested!)
The premise is based on a social contract.

It's based on consenting and supporting a shared set of morals, values, and fundamental ideas that define how a nation is organized, and which rights and obligations its citizens have and are bound to. This is formally enshrined in a constitution.

Why support such a framework? Because you trust that it will provide affordances towards personal security, liberty, well being, happiness,... and so on.

Such a framework only works if enough people back it. This is what requires collective trust. You trust that your neighbours support the same basic principles and are willing to back and defend them when push comes to shove.

Democracies tend to fall apart when people stop supporting these basic principles, and start distrusting others. This typically tends to happen in times of crisis when the foundational principles no longer are perceived as adhered to by other members of society.

That perception can be real or false. Real as in an economic crisis causing millions to lose their home without receiving relief from the state they back. False as in being goaded or manipulated into believing that those foundational principles no longer are adhered to by large fractions of society. The latter typically happens by playing at strong emotions, and ignorance.

A good example is how populists leverage polarization. You define an out-group, you attack that out-group and you describe them as not adhering to the foundational principles that govern the state. The twist is to use rhetoric that gradually shifts the goal posts that define those foundational principles. Each step of the way, you keep building and retaining consent as you refine your ideas. Down the line, populists win when they succeed in transforming that consent into legitimate authority.

> Whatever democracy we have depends on how well organized the general population

Any democratic society is self organizing. This creates a paradox, then.

That is, it organizes itself by popular vote. And this includes, paradoxically, the potential to organize itself towards disbanding the very principles that govern it's democratic organization.

This is why a lawful democracy can only survive if enough people are willing to band together and keep defending its very ideas and notions. Regardless of their present personal predicament.
You're projecting.
“and constantly making and breaking promises;”

Same happened to the native Americans in the US.
Why Decision Tree algorithm is NOT affected by feature magnitude
The box has a lot of text on it to indicate it's a fake product. I wonder if it mentions the microphone.

The project bugs me a bit, as it's designed to find the 3% of people (IIRC from Rober's report) willing to steal and open an obvious fake package -- dumb kids, or mentally ill, or desperate and stupid.

Also, he's famous, so he's risking retaliation bombs.
I don't think this is going to happen. Hotwire-like technologies have existed for a long time with turbo-links, adoption is low and it's very unpractical to work with compared to a split backend api + frontend (framework or not as you prefer).
Fear not citizen! I am protecting you from yourself for the price of a small fee. You should be glad I'm here to rubber stamp your investment decisions!
> and have a boundary from the environment

This is not self evident. Maybe this is the news?

I am not sure, what are you saying?
Yeah also fiber are smaller and can help sometimes.. and have no length issues like copper
" Some had very impressive careers, but when you realize that first opportunity was only because of a parental connection, suddenly it seems a bit hollow."

Frankly, that sounds depressing. Seen like that, people who were born to wealthy parents have no way to prove their own quality. They will always be suspected to be just lucky and riding the easy wave.

"then you can simply not fuck up"

There is nothing simple about that. I consider myself fairly smart and I fucked up royally several times in my life. It did not destroy me, I was able to put the pieces together, but none of the decisions seemed bad at that time, either to me or to people I consulted it with. There is a lot of traps out there.
The funny thing about this is that it isn't even good advice in the chest-puffing status-seeking model in which its proposed, because a big controversy with a former founder might mostly just makes you someone reasonable people might not want to work with.
Only the travel from Spain to America was a considerable risk, compound that with a vast uncharted territory full of bizarre empires and only certain kind of people were willing to take the odds.

Of course not everyone was the same, but they were the exception. If you want to read something more positive and inspiring look for Cabeza de Vaca or Bartolome de las Casas for example. They tried to improve indigenous people's rights, or at least enforce the existing law, which gave them some protection but was ignored.
This looks like my list with a few minor changes. The ipad pro + a board solution just isn't functional enough to justify rolling out to a team for me, at least if you don't have other functions for that tablet. Same with the fancy graphic tablets.
Interesting. Say more? Thanks!
I came here to post this but you beat me to it

I attended CodeMesh in London few years ago and there I've come to know about this book.

His panel was really good, I didn't imagine Shannon made a trumpet that could spit fire just because it was fun (if I remember correctly he made it to entertain his children)!

the video can be found here

https://dev.tube/video/elwKUJg4-Ko
The problem is trust. What would you do if e.g. Google closed your account?
Something like easy to install on prem X speaking standard API with pluggable 2FA could be a winner.
> They never rushed and never seemed stressed, but if there was work to do they were on it until the work was 100% done. And when there wasn't work to do, they were perfectly chill.

That only works because their job is perfectly defined. The scope is finite and always in sight. I'm not quite convinced this would work for creative work or a project that's somewhat open-ended in features and/or scope.

To give an example of this: I can do this type of no-bullshit relentless work when I exercise in a gym. 1.5hrs of a strict routine with a fixed number of reps. And a hard stop after that.

Never found the same type of ability for deep work.
> How come today, for home use, WiFi seems to exceed the price/performance of hard-wired?

Only if you read the advertised speeds instead of measuring.

Also wired networking has the benefit of not using a shared medium, so all wired clients get full capacity each, vs wireless where all clients share the bandwidth.

Wired is so much better for almost any task I throw at it, by a magnitude at least, so the only units in my house left to wireless are phones, tablets and non-work laptops.
How so?

I believe the British authors who spoke of their “duty to enlighten savages” and similar — they seemed incredibly honest in their racism. They viewed it as a genuinely noble pursuit of building a better mankind through enlightened empire. They were certainly more honest than the US baizuo, who were called lying foxes by Malcolm X.

Beyond that, honesty is probably the highest priority for a general: he has staff to be crafty, tactical, and brave. What he needs is the ability to coordinate that staff effectively, which can only be done when problems are honestly communicated.

This is true even at more junior levels: the officer is out in the field with you, but let’s be honest... he’s probably not point on kicking down doors. Even at that level, he needs direct and honest communication from door kickers so he can coordinate the operation, re-assign people during fire fights, and co-ordinate with base staff, like status updates and requests for backup.
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Console and phone take were probably very separated on the org chart. That matters a lot in huge companies although it looks mental from the outside.
Welcome to Athens, Thucydides.
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The only likely outcome for Big Government to tame Big corps is a full blown anti-utopian autocracy. Do u really think it will solve the problem of mass surveillance and etc?
Same. And I'm still amazed that people loved JS so much they put it on the SERVER too! And now node/npm is everywhere.
I've had clauses like that too, as part of M&A, but haven't seen them in company formation docs. This seems like a thing you can discover quickly and relatively inexpensively.
No as in I tried melee gamecube vs melee emulated and the responsiveness gap was enough to make it not enjoyable.
As if the title didn't tell you everything you needed to know.
will we find another way to find new customers, especially for new businesses?
The real value is for an engineering expert (with a makerspace) to use Rober's class as a curriculum. I don't think it'll be great for an individual student.
As SteveNuts said, you're too focused on the infraction. It's the lying part that's the problem because it shows lack of judgement. Which really just means it's something that can be used to blackmail you later.

No one cares if you like porn or had a DUI when you were younger, unless you're lying about it.
Why did I know it was going to be an Indian guy telling this story? This one happens to be somewhat true, but frequently they are of the style "and then everyone clapped, and the professor kissed my feet"

Does anyone know why these kinds of stories are so popular for Indians? About 20% of Quora is filled with them.
This is very bad advice.

OP definitely should not do anything that might give the impression that they are abandoning their duties or, worse yet, actively sabotaging the company. That would be a dream come true for the other person’s lawyers.

If the OP wants to keep his equity, he needs to continue fulfilling his duties and demonstrate that he is, in fact, still working for the company.

Please don’t follow petty HN comment section advice like this. Not only is it unprofessional, but it can quickly turn into self-sabotage. Play it clean and don’t give the other side ammo to use against you in court.
PopcornTime definitely has a commercially significant purpose, even if it’s free: it provides unrestricted access to large amounts of copyrighted material that has undisputed commercial value.
Has anyone seen a visual tree of life that starts before life on earth?

Or in other words, say at some point we discover aliens in a distance galaxy. Would we be cousins? Are there visualizations that show what that kind of family tree would look like?

I am a neophyte in this area but I'm sure there's a lot of good research out there.
If you are in the States, You can probably find a Toto distributor that will sell you a Japanese toilet. https://www.totousa.com/find-a-showroom

Also probably depending on region but the Costco by me has Toto washlet seat replacements for standard toilets. around $300.
The people I learned this from were professional YouTube people who have high quality lighting - it was the software.
Soon it will be even more Google-free, with Huawei's own Hongmeng/HarmonyOS. They just released a beta of version 2.0: https://www.huaweiupdate.com/harmonyos-2-0-to-support-androi...
> Kim Dotcom is a great example for how much protection is already enjoyed by copyright holders.

That was downloads. Commercial download piracy did indeed already have a lot of serious legal penalties. Commercial streaming piracy did not.
Is anyone else weary of dystopian sci-fi?

I'd love to see a setting where technology has made the world a practical utopia, and people generally don't have to be wary of each other. It would be tricky to introduce interesting conflict and challenges into such a setting, yes.

There are some anime/manga like that, for example Aria [0], which is basically Venice on Mars and the main characters are aspiring gondoliers, with the story centered on their training or daily life etc.

But you could have a utopian human society and have the conflict come from an alien species or some kind of cosmic cataclysm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aria_(manga)
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Totally agree, I just think it's unintuitive how the actual literal product is often the least important part of the process.
> The CEO got on the line. Loving the initiative, he told Richard to prepare a presentation, and he set a meeting in 2 weeks time.

So he didn't really just walk in like the title implies. Still it's a remarkable journey. It invokes a certain nostalgia about a past where anyone could move up through the social/corporate ladder and if that is still the case. Personally, I wonder if that time really ever existed or if these are 1/million changes of luck.
>Those banks, being private enterprise, are owned largely by the same class that owns everything else. If you own shares of the S&P 500 you own pieces of about ~two dozen banks. These are largely the banks that get treasury money which they then loan out at rates often fixed by the federal reserve in exchange for basically free money.

Do you have a source for this? It sounds like you might be refering to the discount window? My understanding is that banks rarely borrow money from the discount window. It is really to prevent a large scale liquidity crisis.

From what I understand the Fed has been printing money to make large scale asset purchases. They are essentially buying US bonds to keep the benchmark rate low. This means that the benchmark for interest rates stays low. More recently they have started taking on corporate bonds and equities.
I LOL-ed.
You can also easily run an ARP spoofing attack, and not just to sniff but also to manipulate. Done that quite often back in my school time, oh the glorious days when web traffic was mostly plain HTTP.

There were entire command lists going around specifying what exactly one needed to replace, say, the logo of an online newspaper with a picture of a dong.
Are they? Some primates have better working memory than we do, for example. Of course we would never confuse another species for a human, but I also think we would not confuse a domestic house cat for anything else despite them coming in many shapes, sizes and colors, so I assume you mean something more profound than just that we look visually different.
I haven't seen that research but I find the idea fascinating. Where can I read more about this?
This victim complex of the right is hilarious.
IIUC:

OP is set to own roughly 40% in 4yrs -- 10% at the end of the 1st year (i.e the "cliff"), and the rest of the 30% across the remaining 3 years (probably more often than once a year). the "reverse vesting" means that everytime OP vests, OP's cofounder has the right to buy off the newly vested shares. this means that OP would get money but lose ownership if their cofounder chose to bought off the shares.

OP has been working 11 months so far and is approaching the 1 year cliff (so set to own 10%), so now their cofounder wants OP to leave the company and take only 3% ownership, and is threatening to leave and abandon the company risking any value at all. Presumably, cofounder also has the right to fire OP though OP hasn't stated anything about this.
> 10Gbit network adapters [...] are a lot more expensive than 1Gbit chipsets.

You're not kidding! I'm working on updating a lot of my network to 10 GbE, and it's kind of insane how you can get by with super-cheap hardware, cabling, connectors, etc. for 1 Gbps and everything works fine... but when you go to 2.5 or 5 Gbps, prices increase a bit (and the need for better cables with more shielding arises).

When you hit 10 Gbps, there's a lot more expense on every layer, especially the chips/cards that you connect to your computers.

The difference is something like $5-10 for 1 Gbps devices, vs $150+ for 10 Gbps devices (in many cases... there are exceptions).
>What is up next?

This is a really tough question to answer because it depends on who's asking the question. On a forum like HN you'll find that these questions are often asked anywhere from the context of a small-scale startup ("I built a platform to predict stock signals "before the crowds know". What's next?") to mid-scale ("I want to build a deep-learning powered engine to clone people's voice") to real high level stuff (Autonomous vehicles).

What's the common trend in those 3 cases? They identified a need for a service using Deep Learning/Trend Analysis, but that's just one subset of a field. Fortunately for you, if you frequent HN enough you'll have no trouble figuring out the cross-section of (what you're good at) X (what's hot right now).

Off-topic but that small scale example got instantly flagged on HN while I was still figuring out what OP's company was about
The downside here is what happens after trust is broken... You end up working for another 12 months at the company pro-bono, then get canned 1 month before your next cliff vesting.

I would take 10% for the first year of service and walk with it, not expecting anything. The angel put in 100K for 10%, and you worked for a year for 10%. very simple.
I don't know. I freely admit to being in this camp, but the ads that I get on the Internet (when I do get them) are so irrelevant that I'm almost never tempted to click on them.

But I'm also from a society that's traditionally been far less consumeristic than the West. (Although we're slowly getting there, yay!) I'm often dumbfounded when I read anecdotes on here and other forums about the stupid shit Americans buy. Not casting a value judgment or anything, just reporting how it feels from over here.
I have to imagine that everyone who says this only tried a cheap lens with a teeny aperture. The narrow depth of field of a good camera+lens combo looks vastly different from a consumer webcam, and survives compression (easily, in fact, since the low frequency data in the background gets quantized less brutally than the high-frequency data of your face). In fact, I think that’s the primary visual cue for the “pro” look. Your GX8 is MFT, so you'd need a pretty wide lens (at least f/2, ideally f/1.4) to appreciate this.
The fact that one has to point out that they exist at all, is indicative of how popular or significant they are on that platform.
He has to differentiate himself from the posters, because he's too good-looking and laid-back-looking for people to not prejudge him before seeing his impressive engineering talent.
While that is an interesting fact about the evolution of ribosomes, no kind of ribosome could have ever appeared, except after the process of RNA replication was already a perfected process.

Otherwise the first ribosome would have disappeared soon after it was first assembled, without leaving any descendants.

The first ribosome was probably made only of RNA, as there were no other ribosomes to assemble the ribosomal proteins, so it is not surprising that at some point some of the ribosomal RNA segments were replaced by proteins transcripted also from some ribosomal RNA segments, if that happened to improve the ribosome structure.
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Hi! Yes, attempting to create an account with my email results in an error telling me to contact support.

Support told me my provider isn't supported. I guess back to cloud9 it is.

P.S I also followed up via email.