skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all totally besides the point. The suit argued that there was a verbal agreement on three equal shares and that the plaintiff was cut out of the deal when the other two co-founders went and created a new company split 60/40 between them.

I may be mis-interpreting all this but if that's true then that alone would likely be enough to give him a very credible claim.

You receive equity because you have agreed to receive that equity in return for something, whatever that something is. If after that the other party breaks that agreement in some way then you can sue them for breach of contract. If the agreement is only verbal then it will be an uphill battle but in these days of email, text messages and skype an awful lot of that stuff is logged to the point where it could be used to support the existence or non-existence of such a verbal agreement.

So whether to you he's 'not even close to being a co-founder' is not important, what mattered is that they apparently agreed that he was a co-founder and would get an equal share in the to be formed company.
Yes, but Minecraft is not a lego - you do not need to buy newer sets. You buy it once and you own infinity of it. The only reason to buy another Minecraft is when new incompatible hardware becomes the norm.
> We've had high penetration of contactless in Australia for a long while now

The problem with credit card payments in Australia is that many merchants charge an additional fee for using it, so I often end up paying cash anyway. This is stupid -- the payment processing fee is a cost of doing business, and should not be passed on to customers (or should be built into the pricing of the products).
My understanding is that this operates on basically the same principle as RSA SecureID. You have an unlimited-use token stored in a dedicated chip, that for all practical purposes is impossible to access, short of, let's say, a scanning electron microscope.

That chip, with its unlimited-use token then generates one-time tokens which are sent over the payment network.

In theory the chip could issue an arbitrary number of tokens if criminals got ahold of it. But in practice, it stores a little bit of the data it needs to make a token in the neighboring TouchID chip, which operates on essentially the same principle (stores fingerprint data and missing payment data in secure hardware location, only lets it out if fingerprint sensor looks good).

To summarize you have to steal both the phone (or both chips anyway) plus the fingerprint information so the chips are useful. But wait, you say--I did steal the fingerprint data! The user left fingerprints on the back of the phone!

Well, you've got me there. But hopefully by the time your very sophisticated gang of gloved thieves has bagged and dusted your phone for prints, you've made your way to iCloud.com and revoked the phone's forever-time token, so all future one-time tokens will be considered invalid.

Keep in mind, the standard being replaced here is one where you carry all your payment information around in your pocket in plaintext. This scheme is a massive improvement on that. There's an old saying that seems relevant here: I don't have to outrun the bear, I have to outrun you. There's tremendous amount of value in being marginally safer than the next guy.
Uber are free to operate without their drivers passing the knowledge if Uber choses to compete against taxis

Did you mean 'chooses to compete against minicabs'?
The security is a little more complicated than that. There are dozens of in-application checks and controls which try to guarantee that you're who you say you are, that you're authorized to make the payment, that you have funds and that the amount to pay is within certain limits. Naturally, a stolen card could be used once or twice. But never for very high amounts and never very many times: the card will request PIN and then the thief is stuffed.

And yeah, like Australia, contactless has been growing in Europe for the last few years. It's just starting in the US and these devices will help to trigger uptake (IMO).
The certificate is free, but does require you to register an account at Apple.
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Who consistently can't find major landmarks; I have occasionally opted for an Uber in Bangkok when I want a taxi that's going to be hassle free. Back from the airport, too, as when I get off a long flight, I don't want to be arguing about whether I'm going to get on the meter or not.
I don't think it has anything to do with Java. If it were written in Haskell and had the same success, they would be interested as well.
> chips don't wear off

The chips may not, but the contact surfaces corrode. Then, when you're facing a slightly aged payment terminal with also corroded contacts, your card gets rejected no matter what you do.

So from my view, NFC in phone has two things going for it: it can be toggled on and off, effectively preventing drive-by cardjacking; and it is better protected from elements.

The fact that I have other personal reservations about contactless payments is different matter altogether.
Secure Element API
If you're looking for more scholarly engagements with Adorno and the Frankfurt school, try radical philosophy -
http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/?s=adorno (disclaimer: I work for radical philosophy)
The most significant conceptual difference is that in rudder sub-nets are tied to hosts. So containers on different hosts will always be on different sub-nets. By contrast, in weave containers belonging to the same application reside in the same sub-net, regardless of what host they are running on. In other words, weave makes the network topology fit the application topology, not the other way round.
There's no such thing as 'the' iPhone anymore
How? Is the hacker going to buy a plane ticket, fly to my home and plug his laptop into my network?
>> Now all that stands in the way is shared memory.

Also a legacy language people are forced to use.
They didn't need Swift for real world examples.

F#, Scala, OCaml, Haskell, Clojure already have uses at big financial corporations and bio-informatics.

However, Swift is another great way for spreading the ML gospel to mainstream developers, specially if it slowly takes Objective-C's place in Apple's heart.
Investors in general have limited say in what the founders arrange amongst themselves. For all we know the settlement was reached after pressure from investors or maybe the exact opposite happened.

I'm an investor in a small company (< 50 employees) that went through a very rough time in the beginning because of co-founder issues and it got resolved mostly because of investors working hard to save the company from going under.

You could cynically conclude that that was done to protect our investment (and that might even be the right conclusion).

What founders have been up to is not always immediately clear when you invest, sometimes the proverbial skeleton in the cupboard can be hidden quite well. I make a living digging such stuff up so I was fairly well prepared but the degree to which these things can blow up still surprised me.
No it doesn't. "In terms of automatic failover, it is currently not part of the core project".
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Good comments so far, specially those touching on skill-set rust and interviewer bias. I'd like to offer a different perspective, not because is better but because is another uncorrelated factor.

Maybe more seasoned people struggling to find work are looking for jobs as if they were young?

As a single data point, I have 10 years of (paid) experience and a graduate degree. When I was about 30 I struggled a lot to find any IT related position. Part of it had to do with me doing the same thing as all the fresh crop of B.A.s were doing at the same time: send resumes, apply to jobs online, contact my alumni association, etc.

The thing is that I was competing in a market where I was seen as past the pull date: overqualified and too expensive for entry level positions, but still not mature enough for management.

Fast forward 8 years and I am doing much better. One thing I accidentally discovered is that there is a lot of weight in having a list of colleagues that know you, trust you, and are willing/able to let you know of career opportunities that are not heavily publicized. I have been in both sides of that kind of relationship and it is a win-win.

So, maybe some people struggling may benefit from being a little more social? Or maybe their own network is very isolated (all work at the same place) so they all enter times of need at the same time and are not able to help each other out?
Interesting, the password associated to a secondary Gmail account of mine turned out to be not for Gmail login but for a Friendster.com account from years back that used it as user ID.
Gah I hate it when people delete comments and then repost them elsewhere in the thread.

I wrote a longish answer to your comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8295469
That’s only the PC version, not including console versions, their online service (they rent servers), merchandise and Mojang’s other games (which aren’t very successful at all).

We do know their revenue and profit for 2013. Revenue was $322M, profit was $128M. (http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/20/5531046/minecraft-mojang-pr...)

I think the large difference between revenue and profit is mostly down to licensing fees that Mojang has to pay to Notch. At any rate, it seems unlikely to me that a 40 person company could cost nearly $200M to run per year, especially since I really struggle to come up with any significant costs besides just labour (and even if every employee costs half a million per year that’s still only $20M). But I obviously don’t actually know this for sure.
To clarify one thing: it's not like VS with its own proprietary compiler and build system. You choose what c, c++ compiler (eg gcc, g++), debugger (gdb), copy of cmake etc to use. Projects are built from a CMakeLists.txt you maintain.

Anyone with cmake (and know how to use it) can build your source.

Haven't messed with it much so I don't know yet what ways it DOES lock you in. There's probably something.. (other than needing to use cmake)

edit: By all that I mean, you can use the versions of SFML compiled for whatever compiler you plan to use it with.
To be honest, I'm pretty tired of the "You can do a lot without hitting the scaling problems.".

I hear it all the time. Of course, if you don't have a scaling problem you don't. But when you have, you need a solution to it.
This was already posted on Monday.
> I'd say the way failover/HA is done at Heroku is straightforward.

> It took some time to figure out because it required breaking some orthodoxy

If it's hard to figure out, it does not sounds too straight forward.
Consider the difference between income and profit. For the present value calculation, you would need to use the profit, not the revenue. (After all, once you take the payout, you don't have any expenses.)
the moral of the story is avoid modes whenever possible

We try to avoid using global state (and state in general) in software engineering for this exact same reason. Humans just aren't good at keeping track of more than a few things at once, even if they are the ones who designed the system in the first place.
> - it gets stolen more often because it has intrisic value ( and a big one for the iphone)

Not really, if you can't activate it.

- if it gets stolen, how are you going to call your bank to disable it ?

You'll go to icloud.com and deactivate it yourself.
The taxi driver monopoly doesn't just affect other transport providers. It affects regular drivers, too, who are not permitted to use roads as fully.

I used to drive on this road each day, on the way home from work: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-15537747

Occasionally a taxi would zoom past, able to save 15-20 minutes vs. my own journey time, by skipping the heavy traffic.
Links wrong. Go to:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/participate-in-the-internet-slowd...
You're right, of course, but if young and stupid entrepreneurs say something like "We'll split the company evenly between us" and any semblance of work happens then there will eventually come a day when they'd told that the law does not treat that statement as a code comment. Triply so if they are just smart enough to cut themselves and memorialize their agreement on paper.
Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Marcuse, Habermas etc. are definitely not "postmodern." (Said, on the other hand, often is considered po-mo.) Even if they were, you shouldn't simply dismiss them as "garbage."
I'd argue that modal behavior isn't a bad thing so long as those modes are very clearly distinguished.

It doesn't hurt if they're encountered frequently enough that the user / operator has a clear sense of their distinction.

vi/vim is a modal editor. There are two ways of interacting with it: "insert" mode, and "normal" (command) mode. In one, you're editing your document, in the other you're operating on it. While frustrating for new users, with experience using modes becomes transparent, as they're switched in and out of all the time. Though the visual distinction of modes isn't always clear.

In a non-programming context, most sailboats have two primary operating modes: under sail, and under power. Here, the contexts are evident from a large number of cues in the environment, and how the boat is skippered is evident from these cues.

Other tools have many modes of operation -- the various apps on a smartphone/tablet effective change the mode of the device. Is it a phone? A music player? A messaging tool? A web browser? The "mode" is specified by the application. Usually visual cues of the display indicate which specific mode is operative.
"Macintosh introduced the mouse." from the official liveblog:

http://www.apple.com/live/2014-sept-event/2cd7d38c-f769-4fc4...
Even then, as I recall iTunes was widely bashed? Its UI was obviously Apple UI on Windows, ignoring all Windows UI guidelines.
During the keynote stream they retweeted someone saying the iPhone 6 Plus would render games at a higher resolution than next-gen consoles!
When the EAP is done and CLion is declared stable, it will indeed turn up as an IntelliJ plugin
Boeing also uses a classic control column rather than a side-stick, emulating physical controls even though the actual mechanism is largely fly-by-wire.
http://www.amazon.com/Set-Phasers-Stun-Design-Technology/dp/... has many stories about user interfaces, bugs and their occasional lethality.
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Personally I would love to receive something like that message.

I consider (And share in my CV) my stackoverflow, github, and linkedin are good representation of what I can do as a professional and thus I am careful with what I share on those.
Meetup might be a stretching it a bit if you also use it for hobbies and you don't like sharing those on your CV.

This guy has done his homework, and has checked a lot of sources to make sure YOU fit the position before contacting you, that takes time and that time is his company's money. So frankly I would take it as a sign of a company that really gives a lot of F*cks about who works for them.

Again depending on how you use Meetup he might have overstepped a bit. For example mentioning your facebook, google+ or others might have been too much for me too.
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Is it more likely thinking of use-cases for the device instead of the other way around? With new technology, some people make out that they cannot possibly live without it and give a list of scenarios where they would use it, but in reality do they really have those scenarios particularly when the novelty of a new material device has worn off?
Why do I have to buy a watch for my fitness, I can arm-band my iphone and have all the details.
This is the general grammatical term for that sort of construct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apposition The "For" bit does seem somewhat unique to this style of headline, and I don't know the name (or if there even is a name) for that as a whole.
I found my email there, but the first two letters are of a password that I have never used with gmail (it is a disposable password i use for uniportant sites)
> 2) London taxis are meant to take you wherever you want to go but when I lived there they would often flout this rule.

Regulation works if people report the offenders.
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Why can't a small investor spread their investments? Isn't that what index funds are for?
The wording in the video for the watch (narrated by Jony Ive) is full of strange phrases (I paraphrase): "the controls are vital"; "the watch is essentially..... (pause)...... a mini computer" (just like SIM cards then!)
"The strap is infinitely adjustable" - that one made me chuckle, as it was referring to a strap that folds back on itself with a magnetic clasp. Of course, it isn't infinitely adjustable, as the strap isn't infinitely long.....

Interesting device though. Looks interesting.
AFAIK, NYC cabbies just have to do a 6 hour driving course, no knowledge of city geography required. (http://on.nyc.gov/WHwxgi)

Which is why there are 6x as many complaints-per-taxi about NYC taxis vs London taxis:

http://learntheknowledge.co.uk/learning-the-knowledge-infogr...

(and almost no complaints about London cabbies not knowing their way around!)
Maybe out of topic, but I'm curious what happened to your app and how did it do in that one year.
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Your point (3) is a little off; the congestion charge might be preventing a really large number of private cars from driving within the toll zone. If there are enough private cars, they can cause more congestion overall even though they individually make small contributions.
The standard definition of "featurephone" is not having the ability to install apps. Like the original iPhone, which intended you to use web apps apart from those built in.

As you say, others had app stores first. If Android had launched without the ability to install apps then some Apple blogs would still be talking about how it was fundemantally not designed for the current smartphone era and would never be as good as the iPhone, as they currently do based on misinterpretation of whether touchscreens were intended to be supported from the start.
I was going to link to the mandatory reading of Joel Spolsky's canonical answer on splitting shares in startups between founders and beyond. But as Stack Exchange's policy of shuttering less popular subsites that is now lost in its original form :( It was originally here http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s... Is there a good reproduction elsewhere?
But I never leave my phone behind anywhere and the way the watches work is quite brilliant in that they interface with your phone. They do everything you can do on your phone but at a glance, that's the whole point of them. They are small, easily accessible and harness the power of a larger device.

I fear that you might be representing too small a fragment of the market to get your desired product.
It may be pertinent to what we do and affect our lives and may have limited social importance in our social circles, but they are really first-world issues. People getting incensed or stressed about a new gadget does really pale into insignificance compared to the slaughter of people in wars around the world and the ongoing poverty around the world. Perhaps the social circles we frequent need to be less shallow if they are obsessed with gadgets?

I think the thing that many commenters miss is their perspective, and it is a sad missing factor. It also makes these discussions appear trivial and very petty; look at old Slashdot archives discussing new products and it is pretty sad.

Just a thought. Keep me in the loop with your knitting board.... :-)
Black cabs get some advantages. In return they have to provide extra services that other taxis do not.

If Uber wants the advantages that Black cabs get they need to provide all the services a Black cab provides - in this example all black cabs can take a wheelchair. Thus, if Uber wNts the same advantages granted to Black cabs they need to have a fully wheelchair accessible fleet. If Uber is unwilling to provide that they are free to compete with regular licensed taxis without getting the advantages provided to black cabs.
It's very silly of you to advertise this if you don't want to increase demand there, too.
Vispy dev here. Mayavi/VTK are mature, very powerful and feature-complete. Vispy is not even close to offer the same amount of functionality. But eventually, we hope it will.

The low-level OpenGL interfaces in Vispy are now relatively solid, and are the foundations of higher-level, more abstract graphical interfaces we are currently developing (similar to VTK and Mayavi). Our goal is to let scientists easily create fast interactive visualizations in 2D and 3D without any knowledge of OpenGL.

Here is a very early example of these higher-level interfaces: http://vispy.org/examples/basics/scene/surface_plot.html
We also have started to work on an OpenGL backend for matplotlib.

Finally, a few remarks:

* Vispy focuses on performance and big datasets (with tens of millions of points or more) with minimal memory footprint (using NumPy)

* Vispy is pure Python and depends just on NumPy, basically. VTK is a heavy C++ library, sometimes complicated to install.
Didn't wxWidgets have dynamic layout before Qt? Also, didn't Gtk 1 rely on sizers too?
I've once made a simple demo about gravitational lensing. http://codepen.io/cihadturhan/full/lqDdo/
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"Introduced" is a subjective word. The Alto had a mouse, but I don't think it was used outside PARC. It doesn't seem too far from the truth to say that the Macintosh introduced the mouse to the world.
> but I guess the moral of the story is avoid modes whenever possible.

Not a story for Vim aficionados.
I think you're overestimating the technology which is available today. These watches, while not my taste, are an incredible feat of engineering.
> And their is mention of actually how a watch is accurate with time, something 3 other companies didn't do.

I don't understand what you mean here. Do you imply other smartwatches drift a lot? That sounds hard to believe.
My gmail(and aws and dropbox and digital ocean and github and zoho and ...) TFA uses a TOTP app, not my phone number. (and works just fine on my iPad - which doesn't really have a phone number - at least not one I know or worry about...)

Also, according to the three biggest telcos where I live:

"SMS is not designed to be a secure communications channel and should not be used by banks for electronic funds transfer authentication," ( http://www.itnews.com.au/News/322194,telcos-declare-sms-unsa... )
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That's a real pity. It sours their other statements and makes them untrustworthy if even just one false statement is made.
Scala/Clojure have been used pretty much everywhere.

Especially with the move towards microservices and reactive architectures.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130806090830/http://answers.ons...
Thats a very different mechanism.
Google or Apple maps could easily suggest you "avoid this route when primary schools out" because they have average traffic speed data and can see that around those areas at those times traffic moves slowly. They don't have to know the underlying cause to be effective.
Those drivers aren't using the software to charge people, and that's where regulation gets involved.

Just as grocers have calibrated scales to weigh items for charging cab drivers have calibrated meters which prevent tampering and ensure known pricing.
Uh, no, I'm pretty sure that's a bug. Unless you literally want to consider inaccurate tracking a feature.