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Ask HN: Am I getting maneuvered out of my ownership?
So 3 years ago I co-founded a fintech startup to help a well connected local banking executive basically solve his own problem. He took 60% as the major financial backer, I kicked in some money + my design/PM skillset for 30%, his uncle took 5% as CFO and we hired a software architect who took 5% as part of his compensation.

We built a fairly solid MVP and are wrapping up a successful beta with our first client who will, once signed, open up the doors to a lot more most likely.

As we finalize our contract with them, the owner and his uncle have decided to form a new holding company that will license the software from the LLC I have ownership in with a new split of 70% owner, 10% for the other founding members.

I'm at a pretty big disadvantage here as having zero finance background, it was sold to me as our original LLC will hold all the assets and the new on will hold all the debt but, it just smells odd. I've seen this structure before in other startup I've worked at, but there was revenue and significant IP involved, here we have no revenue yet and basically are an online spreadsheet as a service MVP to an old school niche underserved by tech currently. Also once it looked like we're going to make some money on this, the CFO started trying to buy me out of some of my ownership which is why I think I'm concerned.

Am I overthinking things here and this is above board or is this off?
Yes, me too. This one did not gave it, though a button did skip. Un indicated.
You can tell how lopsided the discussion is here by how many people here think it's some sort of badge of honor that they're a "back-end guy" who barely even touches the client instead of feeling sheepish how far removed they are from the user experience and thus the concerns of how hard it is to build a good client and the tools that improve it.

A good example of this is how many "back-end guys" here think it's Javascript and web tech that are hard/annoying instead of all client tech due to the nature of building user-facing software that has to run on a 1,000,000 devices instead of sysops-facing software that runs on one server.

Be wary of anyone who just peddles downsides without acknowledging trade-offs. They don't have much experience (You can have 20+ years of dev experience while inexplicably avoiding this sort of realization). Right now there's someone in the top thread saying they literally don't know a single company that didn't regret using Angular/React. Oh bother. This sort of person just has to ask, but they don't because they prefer to cling on to their little sneering world view.

If someone seriously can't say why anyone could prefer React (or any other tech, like JS or PHP or jQuery) without a cynical disparaging trait like these people are just idiots, simply write this person off and seek more even-keeled opinions about the world.
Thanks! Our platform gives full control to the users, from setting up their product, to deciding which insurers to use, to running A/B tests with different pricing logics to optimize profitability. Think of us as the infrastructure/OS that helps the risk teams do their job better.

Boost/Sure are good services, but they don't provide the same level of transparency and control. They work more like agencies/outsourcing than insurance infrastructure
I considered this as well, although from my view I think it just shows how uncreative a lot of people in tech are. this type of messaging clearly works, or we wouldn't see it constantly.
In the same idea as what giantg2 said, I've had situations with work where the creative and engaging way to do things was at odds with what was good for the business. Business needed a toute de suite way to make money off my code, not for me to get enjoyment out of writing the software.
Of course! Holding Option and clicking on it gives you the older "Zoom" functionality too!
You didn't mention anything about how big tech is far left progressive. Yet most of what we've seen is at best ammoral behavior most of the time with some neoliberalism and pure immoral ruthless greed.

I believe you meant to say big tech is neoliberal. If so, I agree. I don't use neoliberal in a positive light. I think it's a net negative. Neoliberals are anything but progressive and in it to truly help society in my opinion. Probably the one common ground we can agree on.
I'd guess that most manufactured goods have a margin of a few percentage points.
There's a reason it's endemic and that's because people fall for it. Every few months there's an investigation by the government and some oil changer business gets fined for it. Dealers do it too but if your car is under warranty these days it tends to be less of an issue. Cars are more reliable now too. Out of warranty though, hold onto your hat!
They reference the war zone article, which contains the relevant quote but nothing in the vice article that I could find directly states that the experiment failed to confirm the effect. The text you quote certainly does not.

EDIT: I don't know what you mean about the "latest update". The original War Zone article was discussed here two days ago and it already contained the DoD quote, while the Vice article is dated yesterday. It's either very sloppy journalism or intentional clickbait.
Probably nothing immediately:

> Current shareholders of 23andMe will own 81% of the combined company

However, as a public company, whatever data policies are in place would be subject to change to the ever-shifting shareholders, so in the long-run who knows.
"We saw you're making money, therefore give us money, even tho we provide zero added value.”

This is just something you made up.

Apple’s justification was quite different.
There are nuances and some culture differences in young people from asian and US background e.g. The feminine males are a big part in the mass media such as pop culture (Jpop or Kpop) and anime. Never have the muscular characters dominated any genre (just check any main guy in Japanese/Korean productions). The frail ones are a stereotypical archetype. But I guess you're right about the older generation projecting ideals onto youths nowadays...
Crawling all subdomain.myshopify.com I’d expect
I enabled JavaScript because I thought the rest of the article needed to load, but it just ends abruptly.
Yes, they do slimy stuff, but nothing like the parent was describing. I've never heard of a maintenance place taking apart your engine without asking you first.
The opioid epidemic was started by over prescription of legal opioids. The war on drugs is an inhumane disaster. But the opioid issue is on the US health system.
> Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.

The actual article is: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/upshot/covid-testing-doct...
First of all, what I quoted was not to defend the argument that the Jews were slaves. I was responding to the claim that the Jews did not make bricks.

If you read the full chapter it is extremely clear the people refers to to the Hebrews. It also clearly says that they have to make the same number of bricks. Unless you are suggesting that they were making no bricks and they are supposed to continue to make zero bricks. If that is the case then they would not need to get any straw in the first place.

I am not sure if you are just misreading this or if you are just trolling.
"and the very limited Healthy SF coverage is basically the cheapest option, so most restaurants do that"

If someone works only a few hours per week, the 'Healthy SF' coverage can cost more than the minimum employer spend. So it's not always the cheapest option.
To increase the likelihood of getting a reliable car, is it best to buy a model that hasn't been updated in a year or two?
The person who bought delicious also runs pinboard.in
Looks like the link has expired. Do you have a new one?
> Assuming the underwater cable itself is 10 times as expensive as regular cable, its about $150 million for 9000 km.

Looking at what I can find, it looks like way more than 10 times the cost.

https://i.imgur.com/7Dm7EEp.jpg
“Microsoft bashing.”

Such a strange reason to give for locking a thread concerning these recent changes to Raspbian.
Only boneheaded libtards think that shutting down Parler was done for any other reason that for political one.
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No, the advice Purdue asked for bankrupted the company.

Just like how asking a programmer to build a garbage program doesn’t mean the programmer is trash, it just means the specs are.
Europe as a going United concern is headed towards a breakup. Germany’s demographics (and patience) will not not hold to support countries like Greece and Italy, which funded pensions instead of spending their bailouts responsibly. France will flourish, like it always does, because it’s more or less self sufficient and is strategically located and internally configured, but other countries like Spain will flounder due to internal conflicts. All of these will lead to a mixed to poor economic condition of slow growth and low to negative interest rates.
It's not a free market. The US health system is highly regulated, and most importantly, there is a huge tax incentive for health care to be paid for not by individuals but by employers who buy full coverage.
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Curious on the down votes, these are verifiable numbers and related deaths seems like a reasonable metric.
This is a story about a story. Readers sent her bills and she got a story about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/upshot/covid-testing-doct... <—-This is the actual story she wrote.
> Like almost every company in the world, its a normal company.

This in a thread about McKinsey settling for over half a billion dollars over its role in causing the opioid crisis, which is just one of the many, many arrows in McKinsey’s “aiding and abetting horrible shit” quiver. This was literally a conspiracy and a scheme. On just the basis of “harm caused” alone, McKinsey is far from a normal company.
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There was an article about this on HN. The perception of polarization is greater than reality. The overlap between republicans and democrats is pretty high. Most of them are only moderately against or in favor of migration.
Just as a reference, in Estonia COVID antibody test costs 13.21€ for the state (14.40€ if you are private person) and PCR test costs 51.81€ for the state (58€ private). This includes PE, sampling and analysis. Most tests are paid for by the state. You may want to take privately funded one if you have no symptoms and want to travel; or are returning from affected area and want to shorten the 10 day isolation requirement to 6 with two sequential negative tests.
Google invests a lot in TCP congestion control, mainly through BBR. I believe they do bulk transfers with centrally-scheduled fixed-rate UDP transmission. I also assume they have better control of buffers, loss, and queueing algo’s to prevent/control loss/drops.
They usually want their tech outcomes to be more like Netflix, but they don't want to have a tech-culture. So they bring in the consultants to implement "the digital transformation"!
The problem is people want short term investing strategies too. We don’t want to all be 65 to do something with our money.
remir says>"The idea of the mind as a sort of antenna wouldn't be controversial to me."<

It would be controversial unless proof was provided otherwise.

It would be extremely alarming b/c every spammer in existence would immediately resort to "brain spamming" as a way to short-circuit e-mail and our current relatively protective spam filters. We would have to begin wearing anti-spam helmets to save our sanity and our thoughts. Criminals would (effectively) shield themselves from prosecution by claiming that acts of crime were transmitted into their brain.

IIRC Philip K. Dick had something to say about all this.
The alt text is pertinent.

https://xkcd.com/1210/
The tests are actually free in the USA. The contention here is about how much these testing sites are charging insurers.
Slides with images and no text are a nightmare for non visual person like myself. I see text: I remember text. I see image: I remember exactly nothing.
The opioid crisis would have happened without the war on drugs. The fundamental driver of it is Oxycontin's dosing schedule, which was optimized for causing addiction. Marketing for Oxycontin is all about how it "lasts twelve hours", when it often doesn't. Doctors were trained and pressured to increase the prescribed dose when patients complained of pain in the hours before their next scheduled dose, rather than switching to something like an every-eight-hours schedule.

The end result is a medication profile with a pronounced sawtooth pattern. On a daily basis, patients get relief from pain, suffer waiting for their next dose through a few hours of agony, and then get relief again. If they try to fix this problem and complain of untreated pain, the doctor ups their dosage and makes the sawtooth even worse.

What the war on drugs does is add inflexibility and a criminal dimension to the newly-minted opioid addict's interaction with society. Run out because you accelerated your dosing schedule in order to avoid hours of daily agony? You're not allowed to refill early for any reason whatsoever, and it may get you a drug-seeking label that kicks you out of the official reason entirely.
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I don't think it's ridiculous, it's how things work in many companies. People use various methods and tricks trying to convince others or get what they want from them. Sometimes the CEO is hesitant and needs a push from the consultancy,sometimes it's power games and etc. Most businesses have these things, it's not unique,even though some people would like to believe it.
This is super-cool! I found "enough to transmit the entire digitized Library of Congress three times every second" to be a really weird comparison though - I'm used to text being really small and compressible, and I doubt many people have an intuitive grasp of how much One Scanned Library of Congress is. How many hour-long Netflix/YouTube episodes per second, on the other hand...
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Not yet. Yup will wait till I need it in retirement before selling them.
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You're right. Though, the tough US immigration laws ensure they only allow in the crem of the crop or the most dedicated illegal immigrants.
Innovators dilemma, it’s hard to be innovative as well as optimized.
Yes and because developers do not have time for the very few people who decided to disable javascript and not enable it when necessary.
Boomers tell zoomers to just stick to the fundamentals. Zoomers are tired of this crap.
What frequencies does it transmit/receive on?
I don't know what country specifically or how iPads are priced there, but just picking Germany at random the iPad's list price starts at 379€. Quite a deal they've got going...
Worth watching again!
Totally agree, this is cherry-picking.

I don't have an opinion on how useful McKinsey is, but I'll note that no one is pointing out that they also did a lot of work for Microsoft before their big turnaround.
This is a special behind-the-scenes article describing how the journalist did her work. If you read the article with JS turned on, you would see a link to the original article this is the backstory for: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/upshot/covid-testing-doct...

Published back in November.
It's not meant to be a joke, it's just the cyberspace equivalent of a private clubhouse for a group of tech people who live or went to college in Ann Arbor, MI. There are websites (and other services) hosted here, but it's not web hosting for the general public. You have to know someone to get an account here, and from what I can tell it's been mostly dormant for the last decade or longer.

I know and worked with several of the people on the users list. Great people, but I don't know why this is on the HN front page.
At >1000 the ordinary resources is consultants because person-centuries of experience is usually warranted at that scale. Consultants are also the best way to get in-house staff up to speed quickly because they will participate in specifying the system and learn what are the right questions to ask and important factors to consider. Good luck.
So I don't know much about ML; how much better would one expect ML (which I take in this context for 'deep neural network'?) approaches to be compared to a multinomial logistic regression, for applications like this? Is logistic regression old school and/or outdated now?
I'm pretty sure it's actually wrong usage, and should be replaced with "Locate" in this context.

"Localize" has various meanings, but in a physical location sense is to restrict something to a particular area, e.g. "We successfully localized the fire to the Johnson farm so no other farms were damaged.".

I can't see a definition that is equivalent to "locate" or "find".
For some it's a hobby/entertainment. My 401k is up 10% a year or whatever. My personal account is up 400% since March, but with a smaller starting value. It could go to zero and I'd be fine.
Is there a different behaviour in C?
You're confusing the reality with the trappings. That's... not the mark of an experienced developer.
I'll take any chance I can get to link to this wonderfully sprawling 1996 article from novelist Neal Stephenson about the laying and landing of transoceanic cables: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

Yes it's long, but it's so worth it!
The person I was responding to did not say image search and the tweet did not either.
Wow. Thanks for that comment -- there're so many counter intuitive things to learn about the humans and how they do things.

Whilst at the same time I'd suppose such extremely short-sighted selfish lords are at least a bit rare, also among the humans.
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The website is blocked by Malwarebytes. You may want to check what is causing it to do that.
More feasible would be transmitting neutrinos or some other signal that would not be blocked by the Earth.
I localized my cat to Japanese and now he says "nyan" instead of "meow".
Hell yeah, boomer strats FTW. Hedge against inflation and by appreciating assets and forget about it. If you want to get rich quick you're probably better off starting a software company or something, or getting lucky with startup RSUs.
As someone who worked with McKinsey consultants in a past life, this seems pretty spot on. The partner and one of their associates were sharp. The other associate mostly got arrogant. They were brought in around a new product line I was the product manager of. Yes, they spent lots of time interviewing us and basically validated what we told them.

That said, they presumably gave executive management some warm and fuzzies that we weren't smoking weed. Sure, they could have just taken our word for what we were telling them, but having a second pair of eyes is actually not a terrible thing. (And it's part of what I did for clients in a subsequent job.) They also gave our business planning people some complicated financial modeling spreadsheet which kept them busy and mostly out of our hair.)
It seems relatively easy to find references to the what the parent author is referring to:

elon: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1353564655088619520

chamath: https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1354947541863780365
So TX1 sends data headed for RX1, plus the TX2 signal phase-modulated to cancel out TX2 at RX1?

I don't know how much an aircraft shakes, but if I understand what you're saying then this is possibly even harder. You'd need to predict the positions in fractions of a wavelength, don't you? And atmospheric changes could possibly affect it too.

> If the plane is moving

In the air, they tend to. On the ground accurate positioning is less important to protect.
> ...run of the mill consultents.

You spelled consultants wrong :P

(Boring clarification: riffing off of your "spelled industry wrong!" bit. Not an actual attack.)

I definitely need to learn lucidity or awareness or whatever it is that you springboard off of to be able to read something like this and mentally *hangonaminute* though... I completely went along agreeing with everything, and while I still do after having paused and considered, this isn't the first time I've needed another comment to help with the initial "you're completely not noticing this subtlety here".
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And they are heated along the way!
Yes, negative interest rates are a jobs program for safe manufacturers.
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Thank you! The link should be changed, this article actually makes sense.
Another achievement of ML is the Support Vector Machine (SVM), and I'd say that it represents better the tradeoff between space and computation.

In fact, SVMs literally make that tradeoff by using the Kernel trick to save up on the computational costs of projecting to higher, possibly infinite dimensions. As we know, projecting up to higher dimensions can provide us with a 100% accuracy on the training data, but of course, that's overfitting and we use constrains/support vectors to regularize the learner.
> People are more likely to chime in if they hate it.

Or if they love it.

The silent majority will just see it as a tool fit for certain jobs and not for others and wonder what all the fuss is about.
The wealthy use this tactic to install their politicians. There aren't enough rich people to win elections on their own so they find easily manipulated groups to do their bidding. Stirring up the rabble with identity politics let's them mold governance in their favor. It creates a nice feedback loop of discontent when the puppets always enact policies that strengthen the ire of the base.
Yes it is, because you are defining free will to be the illusion of choice, and that is not the common understanding of what free will means. You are intentionally misleading people who will read your comments about "free will" as a justification to continue believing free will actually exists.
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Also, from the "help" page:

> When Yahoo sold del.icio.us to AVOS in 2010, there was a stipulation that users had to opt-in to have their data transferred. So if you have a really old (pre-2010) del.icio.us account, and you did not consent to this transfer at the time, then I do not have your data. It is sitting in a KGB datacenter somewhere, or wherever Yahoo! databases ended up.

That's a bummer. I think I created my account in 2005 or thereabouts, and I don't remember ever hearing about this opt-in, so I guess my data is well and truly gone. Still, props to Maciej for recovering as much as possible.
Great question. I pine for venues like The Dick Cavett show where space is given to dig into the broad scheme around an artist’s creativity. As an example, this little clip with Paul Simon explaining his Bach influence in Bridge Over Troubled Water, for example, takes time to set context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFt0cP-klQI

If you consider comedy a refined art as I do, Marc Maron gets into the pith with musicians, actors , writers and comedians as a rule. Another reply here makes the same point - podcasts seem to be the venue for this these days. I’d say creating space for the longer discussion is key.

Docs like this are diamonds in the rough though. Great post.