skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, in a case like there where you have founders at odds so early on, your company is basically on life support and probably dead already.

You have very little to lose by digging in and waiting for your co-founder to fold. If your co-founder has done this at this point of the business where the stakes are so low, they will absolutely try to screw you out of the 3% through other nefarious means.

It sucks that a single founder can tank a promising startup, but that's how it goes (unless you've already got a shotgun clause or equivalent in your shareholder agreements).
I thought that's what involving a lawyer in these kinds of negotiations is supposed to do?

That requires having the bucks in the bank to pay for a lawyer. If fourtydegrees is young with a thin wallet, I don't think lawyers were involved.
Code 128 has a mode where it can encode 2 digits for every code. It's probably related to that somehow.
I still don’t understand, actually. What’s 3D about that? What are the paper-cup-like things under the avatars?
You say grades are disconnected from learning without provided any evidence (or even an anecdote for an example).

I'm not saying you're wrong but some supporting evidence would be good as this wasn't my experience in undergrad and isn't my experience now.
I never cared for C++. If C had a real string type it would've been so much better.
But in the case of ETHE, it's the ETF dropping, not the cryptocurrency (ETH) itself. The same logic would apply to the reverse situation. If tether (USD stablecoin) crashes, you wouldn't say the USD was crashing.
US is 23rd worldwide for internet speed, UK 31st, according to user speed tests
>The last time this happened

It's just the last time they were caught en masse.

Otherwise, I'm pretty sure that this has happened time and again...
The idea of a "User Guide" sounds nice for a small team or company, as the author mentions. I would caution against the approach for anything larger.

In my experience, well-behaved colleagues will be considerate of my preferences. If I would prefer they change in some way, it's easy enough to have a quick conversation about how _they_ prefer to be contacted/scheduled and then, in turn, communicate my preferences as well. I'm sure they would read and follow my user guide, but I'd rather take the opportunity to spend a few minutes of facetime to build the relationship.

For poorly-behaved colleagues, I can't imagine them reading a user guide like this. If they don't care for my preferences, why would they spend time reading my user guide? They have already established that they are less considerate of my preferences. In that case, I've had success giving them a firm but very polite "no".
Good thing there is TOR.
Self-driving RVs have been a killer dream of mine for a while now. I hate driving, but if a robot were doing it and I could hang out as if in a train, that would be awesome.

The idea of your home being a container and the autodriver being a rented service just makes it better.
I would propose structuring the buyout in the form of convertible debt instead of a cash buyout. You give up your equity today, but the LLC gives your a convertible note to cover your valuation conditional on some future funding event.

Set a specific valuation target, at which point the note will pay in cash equivalent to a certain percent of the company's equity. That defers the issue of liquidity until if/when the company gets sufficient funding. But it gets you out of the equity today, particularly with regards to voting shares. Which is probably what your co-founder cares about the most.
I didn't say that you were wrong, or dismiss your viewpoints. I'm pointing out that there is a broader debate here, which has value but is misunderstood by many. Freedom of speech as a philosophical concept spans wider than its codification in law, and probably requires adaption or extension in response to changing circumstances.

The "twitter mob" argument was really an ancillary point to show where one ends up if enough unpopular opinions are silenced. But it's interesting in itself. I don't think a participant in public debate in the 1700s would have reason to fear a crowd of tens of thousands stapling angry and occasionally violent rebuttals to their front door.

Okay, calling someone a fucking moron is protected speech. It would be problematic to censor it. But there is a problem if a crowd screams at someone who has valid (if controversial) points, if this happens to such a degree that they will self-censor or withdraw from the debate entirely, perhaps (rightfully) fearing for their livelihoods and personal safety. My example was a concrete instance of this.

Solution? Hell if I know. There's certainly a problem; a situation that has negative consequences. There's something to the viewpoint that cancelling someone is approaching an act of violence, where it affects a person's ability to earn a living and survive. But this is obviously not the last or only important point in such a debate. It's something that should be discussed widely.
1. Add comments that explain why. This might be a technical reason (like, this query is structured in this weird way to convince Postgres to optimize it correctly) or business reasons (e.g. users outside the US sometimes put the street number at the end of the first line of the address)

2. Keep each method at a single level of abstraction. Don't mix high-level business logic like send_email() with low-level logic like constructing a SQL query.

3. Break out separate functions just to give a block of logic a name. This results in more context when reading the code, shorter functions, and better stack traces.

4. Don't work too hard to avoid duplication. A little duplication when two codepaths do something similar is much better than having a weird abstraction that exists just for the sake of deduplicating a few lines. (But do work hard to make sure that there is a single source of truth for important values and decisions!)

5. Prefer many functions to a few, configurable functions. When you have a function with, say, 5 boolean options, that's 2^5 = 32 cases you need to support. In reality, the function might only be actually called 6 or 7 different ways, so you don't actually need all those combinations. Having more functions that do one thing makes it much easier to tell what a particular piece of code is actually doing.

6. Start by explaining what needs to be done as though you are telling another person, and then transform that into code. It tends to result in more readable code than starting by explaining it to a machine.
Straw man?

And yes not the largest by headcount but widely considered the most powerful military in the world.
> > Second chances here are what result in subpar military officers.

[...]

> I would defer to the head of this institution to arrive at an appropriate decision.

Blind faith in institutions here (and anywhere) is what enables mass institutional failure. Whether it's producing subpart military officers and the all the negative consequences that has, or the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, or a slide toward tyranny in representative political institutions.
Yeah a co-worker with a Surface Book (not sure the exact model) has by-far the best video quality I've seen on work calls. In general, I actually find built-in laptop cams to look much better than the typical external webcam. They're still not great, but entry-level external webcams are just atrocious.
Menu completion is even better if you haven't tried it!
57,000 year-old wolf puppy found frozen in Yukon permafrost
We're the leader, wait for us...
> Correlation does not equal causation.

Yeah but if somebody is shot and you are found with a smoking gun right around the corner, you need to have a pretty good, and also testable explanation.
You've described every service provider on Earth, and that's not a justification for them to avoid transparency in pricing or billing.
Could you privately find a potential buyer for your 40%?
Then tease that info and magically they may prefer to buy you out and suddenly find a way to do so...
part of my job is to monitor tor and find people from using it, easier than you'd think.. so i wouldn't bankshot on that alone
How Our Family Used SMS / WiFi Picture Frames to Connect During Remote Holidays
> Yes, but this is a choice.

When _some_ make this choice to be at the top, _all_ must make this choice to be at the top. At that point it's a roulette of who will dare take the most drugs and live to win.

> I see no reason why not to give them all the opportunities.

Some are way more harmful than others, and we should take that into account.

EDIT:

> I know but since it looks like the gender is becoming a mater of choice, I do not know how this will be deal with.

Apart from some radical groups thinking so, gender is not really becoming a choice.
But what will be the new Reddit, is the question.
From the article:

"The law will not sweep in normal practices by online service providers, good faith business disputes, noncommercial activities, or in any way impact individuals who access pirated streams or unwittingly stream unauthorized copies of copyrighted works. Individuals who might use pirate streaming services will not be affected."
SupertuxKart today is hugely improved graphically, on par on WiiU graphics (not bad for a childish racer), and with netplay support.

Also, Minetest with the Dreamworld MOD lacks nothing from Minecraft.
I don't think the number of users has as much to do with partitioning a system as the variety of required tasks does.
A flexible and powerful stream processing library for Go
Except then people would be lying to themselves. It really, really isn’t both sides to the same extent.
Getting Kubernetes up and running isn't really the issue anymore, that's pretty easy to do. The tricky part is long term maintenance and storage.

I'm not really sure what people expect gain from these kinds of article, they're great as notes, but it's not something I'd use as a starting point for installing a production Kubernetes cluster.

The initial setup of a Kubernetes cluster is something most HN readers could do in half a day or so. Learning to manage a cluster, that's tricky. Even if you resort to tools like Rancher or similar, you're still in deep waters.

Also why would people assume that there's any difference in installing Kubernetes on an operating system running on physical hardware vs. on virtual machines?
> For cinema for instance a loooot of the money that serves into making movies come directly from taxpayer money

I don't quite get your point either. Are you implying you would like ownership to be transfered from your tax money to whatever is created afterward with that money?

Would you feel entitled to ask for reports of how your neighbor spends his unemployment grant, because that's partly paid with your tax money?
The real, real reason you can't buy good webcams is because the market isn't a meritocracy. Make the best webcam in existence and there just isn't a robust, or honest, review community to let it shine.

Instead there are a billion "here's a list of things that we can get affiliate dollars for from Amazon, and we'll pretend we reviewed them" listings.

This problem has hit a lot of markets. Without a financial support for capable, credible, honest reviewers, the backbone of an industry falls apart. It becomes all about gimmicks.

So if you want a webcam the real options now are an SLR (many of them support that use) or even a video camera. In those markets there remains an extreme qualitative review system, so that new Nikon, Canon or Sony SLR or video camera had to shine.
Will this apply to YouTube, the largest service profiting off illegally streaming copyrighted content?
> > The last time this happened

> It's just the last time they were caught en masse.

Yeah that's what happened here, so that's exactly what “the last time this happened” means.

When you develop a system that can successfully impose consequences for behavior without detecting it, let us know.
"Last year, one study reported that digital video piracy costs the U.S. economy $29.2 billion a year."
Well, I'd say that it in fact saves $30 billion a year. People can use it to buy more important stuff - such as food.
This title is misleading:

>The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act would apply only to commercial, for-profit streaming piracy services. The law will not sweep in normal practices by online service providers, good faith business disputes, noncommercial activities, or in any way impact individuals who access pirated streams or unwittingly stream unauthorized copies of copyrighted works. Individuals who might use pirate streaming services will not be affected.

This affects platforms, not users. Illegal streaming will not be a felony. Creating a for-profit platform with intent to do illegal streaming will be.
I had a crazy thought while reading the comments here.

The strength of plastic is also its weakness. They are one and the same. People talk a lot about replacing/removing plastic use. What if instead of trying to get rid of its weakness, thus removing its benefit, we make it even stronger. More durable, less shed, more like metal. Thus less micropastics.

Short term, this seems like a win without apparent downside. Long term, technology plus policy will eventually solve the recycling problem.

Although I don't have anything technical to back it up. Just pointing out the direction of thinking.
Your co-founder likely has no ability to just kick you out. What do the documents you signed say? Is there an operating agreement?

Who brought in the investor? Who has that relationship? If you're friendly with them, you could ask for advice or feedback. Do you have business mentors near you who can help you navigate this?
For those of us not familiar with the US legal system. What are the implications?
You should not have a popup asking for my email.
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

When did you go to university? As I went a couple years ago and cheating was universal to the point that you could ask random classmates for the answers to quizzes you had not done yet and the frosh leaders collaborated to give the year below them all the answers. We had a massive drive of answers maintained by the student society.

Academic integrity was an absurd pretense. Except for a few niche programs like political science and history, it just did not exist.

Not arguing that this is a good thing, just that higher education in general is not all that reliable.
Workplace bullying case against FSFE, Matthias Kirschner
Even if they don’t read (software) documentation at first, it’s good to have something to point them to when a question or issue comes up. After that happens a couple of times, some may even learn that consulting the documentation is a useful thing to do.
Why does your partner not want to continue working with you? Are your views on how to continue opposite? I understand how you see this as unfair but it also doesn’t make sense if he/she builds the product alone and owe you 40% for 12 months of work
Looks like a great idea!

But, I'm curious how fresh air is pumped into the tunnels?

I'm guessing that there might be some sort of mechanism for this?

Maybe pressurized air pipes and/or ducts/fans at regular intervals, and/or some other form of ventilation system?

Observation: For future underground tunnel systems, if only electric vehicles are permitted to enter, then there might not be as hard a requirement for an apropriate ventilation system as there would be for fossil-fuel vehicles...
From what I've gathered from reading other articles before this one, the weather can get pretty choppy at times and when that happens those islands become cut off. So it might not be a case of tunnels being less expensive but rather tunnels being more reliable.
Suppose I did have some bucks in the bank and did get a lawyer - how would they help? So far my co-founder has been pretty unreasonable with regards to compromising and/or negotiaton.

The investor so far has also been very neutral and I think will remain so.
Web 2 Oligarchs Cast a Long Shadow. But Web 3 Can Help
Yes!

One of the greatest failures of current science education is weaving knowledge integration. We're doing a bit better than Feynman's description of then Brasil, with grad students having memorized an encyclopedia of science factoids, but utterly unable to reason with them. But even now, ask first-tier astronomy grad students "a 5-year old asks, What color is the Sun ball?" and "What color is sunlight?", and it's usual to get a wrong answer to the first, and not uncommon to get a correct answer to the second, sometimes followed a "<pause> that doesn't make sense, does it?", as two incompatible factoids seemingly collide for the first time since Kindergarten. And first-tier physical-sciences grad students' grasp of color can get really wonky. And then there's everyone else. So we're maybe doing better than Feynman's Brasil, but the available room for improvement is not small.

Anyway, interdisciplinary richly-interconnected sandbox/playground play seems it might help?

And I've seen little like that. Years ago, there was a computer game (name escapes me), loaded with a big database of objects. So users, IIRC, could request almost arbitrary "I want to wield a <thing>, while riding a <thing>". IIRC, riding dinosaurs was popular. So imagine using that to informally teach about the world. "I'm sorry, your giant ant collapsed upon creation, unable to support it's L^3-scaled body on L^2-scaled leg thickness. Give it elephant legs instead?"

> A virtual learning environment

And it needn't be entirely virtual. Witness projective sandboxes.[1] I recently saw a talk by Cynthia Breazeal, where a furry robot, mounted on a desk next to a tablet with integrated apps, provides peer mentoring and emotional support. So even if developing visual systems constrain the use of AR glasses to "a shallow-3D virtual screen", we might still leverage mixed reality.

[1] https://arsandbox.ucdavis.edu/
Since you have a 1-year cliff and have only been there 11 months, sounds like as of today you have 0% equity. So the immediate question may be whether your co-founder can fire you.

In 1 month, you've vested 25% of your grant, or 10% of the company. So I would try to get to that mark to strengthen your negotiating position. Any references to 40% are red herrings at this point.

Unless there's a specific buyback clause in your stakeholder agreement, they're under no obligation to buy you out at any time. (They may have the right to do so. That's not uncommon.)

Of course, you're under no obligation to resign, either. So this is a negotiation.

So the way I see it, you have a few options:

1. You take your 10% and leave. You "don't want any equity", but better something you don't want than nothing.

2. You agree to a buyback, potentially at a discount to FMV. If you don't know what FMV is, it's hard to negotiate one way or another. It's v. likely not $1M. Sounds like this is a no-go.

2B. You agree to a non-cash buyback, e.g., in IP. You spent 11 months building the tech: what if you took that with you?

3. You flip the script and buy your co-founder out.

In any case, your relationship is over. You might walk away with nothing.
Can you please get a different job?
If the United States’ populace elects its officials, why do the representatives act against the populace’s wishes?

Is this typical of all governments with elected representation? Are they solving different organizational problems that most people are not aware of? I am curious how such a system arises, maintains itself, and is resilient to change.
Google hit with 2 new antitrust lawsuits from 4 private publishers
Also, QR codes don’t work too well with damaged or faded paper. Think receipts. 1D barcodes work much better there as there’s redundancy in the second direction. Basically, QR codes do have the advantage in the density department, but are more complicated (relatively) to parse and more susceptible to damage. Tradeoffs that depend on your situation.
Can someone explain this? What is illegal streaming? Streaming copyrighted content?

Isn't that already illegal?
If it really were 40 percent of nothing, the other party wouldn't want it so bad ;-)
As a "math guy" I was more than once put into the uncomfortable position of being asked to help with problems on calculus take-home exams. Given the utter mathematical cluelessness I've observed in the average American college student, even at top schools, I wouldn't be surprised if cheating on math exams has always been rampant. For every busted incident there are probably a hundred or a thousand more that went undetected.
It's a common misconception that piracy is a loss of business. It's nothing more than an overestimation in profits.

How can companies say they lose profit when the only realistic way I see for that is someone getting a refund and spending it on a competitor?
Felons often cannot vote, cannot get jobs working with children, have difficulty finding housing, etc.
Many laws have been written appearing to be one thing, while being enforced for another purpose entirely.

Some commenters may be concerned more with potential for abuses justified under law, rather than the specific use case the law appears to have in mind.
Lol, do you legitimately think that people in say China or Russia believe that?
I read on a post somewhere that if you replace "the economy" with "rich people yatch money" a lot of headlines make more sense.

"Last year, one study reported that digital video piracy costs the U.S. rich people yatch money $29.2 billion a year."
What's wrong with the trackpad? I was considering a T15...