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Ask HN: Best way to offer equity to someone joining early stage startup?
Background:
I have a startup I've invested a lot of time (and also money) into already, just about to go to beta and I have someone else who wants to join the team. They would be a valuable asset no doubt and bring skills I don't have.

I approached them originally about doing some work for me and me paying them for their time. After talking about the project they want to be involved long term, and they have offered to partner in exchange for a share of the company.

My concern is obviously how to make sure this is a priority project for them and that they only get the equity once they have 'earned' it so to speak.

I'm also concerned about just signing over X% out the gates and have been imagining some sort of agreement whereby they have a fixed amount available (let's say 5%) which they 'earn' over 5 years. e.g. 1% a year.

If we come to raise VC in the future (I guess crucially, in the first 5 years before they earned their full allocation) would this be an issue? I'd assume that the VC offer would want a certain % of the company, and then the remainder would be split between us two founders in the same ratio. e.g. 95/5

What's the best way to offer them equity then?

Is there any common setup for this kind of thing?

Any and all advice much appreciated.

Thanks HN :)
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It blows my mind that intelligent people could still be part of the CPUSA in the 50s. It's not like they could play the "well the USSR isn't _real_ communism!" card - for decades the CP had been a blatant Stalin worship cult, controlled and used by the Soviets. We are talking 25 years after the Holodomor was publicized in the West! How could they possibly rationalize this in their minds...

This guy wrote Fahrenheit 451 ffs, how could he square the ideas in that book with his support for that regime...
Ask HN: How can I contribute to a hardware startup as an intern?
I am working for a hardware startup, but what I feel is that my bosses aren't much focussed on me and other interns. I firmly believe I can contribute big to this firm. How to gain their trust and how to suport this startup that is having hard time?
Have a look at ReactOS, a free open source OS that is binary compatible to Windows (its what Linux is to Unix).

http://www.reactos.org
Absolutely put it on a resume.

If, on the off-chance, your interviewer is into MOOCs, this is a plus.

If not, there's also an off-chance they're curious 'what is this'?

And if not, then educate then on it. Done on personal time because of personal/professional interest.

No downside to MOOCs there. Perhaps that is the ace in the pack - that they should, by existence, become required (hence a ranking-up in push for certification by Coursera recently).
Were video ads also part of the same Solitaire you speak of?
If you want to see a well done business class, check out these classes from the University of Michigan (disclaimer-my wife was involved in the creation): https://www.coursera.org/specialization/valuation/45
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Not in the midwest, or many other parts of the country. Check Glassdoor for rough numbers. Salaries are reasonable, cost with overhead is questionable.

Long story short on all this, if you've never made hardware before and are going to make hardware, take the risk with other peoples money... if at all.
Doggerland[1] and Sundaland[2] were also above the sea at that point. I wonder if there were neolithic cities, the precursors to Uruk, that are lost beneath the sea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaland
This is from what I've heard. I use SO all the time but don't really post, so don't quote me on this.

The community can be fairly tough on people who are wrong or missing part of the answer. People who aren't extremely experienced sometimes feel scared that their answer may not be the best for whatever reason and feel a lot of heat. This is also true for "stupid" questions. If you ask a bad question on SO you can feel the heat as well.
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Are upvotes in a comment worth the same as upvotes of an answer?!
> Perl has much better facilities for working with unicode

Which facilities are those ?

> many other advanced facilities for parsing

Be curious to hear what those are, but note that Tcl is hilariously simple to extend and build up custom constructs to suit ones needs.
> It blows my mind that intelligent people could still be part of the CPUSA in the 50s.

The CPUSA is alive and well, and some intelligent people are probably members of it.

Do you long for the times of McCarthyism? This is your actual reaction to this? OK. :)
Which in of itself is pretty much an impossible goal, and in the meantime, it destroys a litany of use-cases that make computers useful to people.
Oops, URL should be: http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/08/how-linux-was-born...

If a mod can fix it...
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I hear you. I've been a Mac owner for over 19 years. I tried using Spotlight once a couple of weeks ago, and found it completely useless. The classic (pre-OS X) Mac OS had a great search feature, though it didn't use a content index.
> simple things like handwriting analysis and voice recognition

I honestly can't tell if you actually believe what you are saying, or are just making a really badly told joke.
US-Based native Spanish speaker here. Very important indeed, specially when asking someone their age :) Whenever the ñ is not available (foreign keyboards, mobile, etc...), a decent substitute is "anyo", which is phonetically equivalent and also happens to be the Ladino variant of the word.
> So, the cities that ban one time use bags, why not just legislate the use of paper bags.

At least the California ban that the plastic bag industry delayed for a referendum kinda-sorta did this (as to many of the local bans in California).

They ban single-use, no-fee bags.

They ban single-use, plastic bags, regardless of fee, for certain uses by certain retailers.

They permit single-use, paper bags with a minimum fee, for similar certain uses by the same certain retailers.

They permit reusable plastic, canvas, or other bags, with specified durability requirements, with a minimum fee when sold by the entities covered by the ban on single-use plastic and/or no-fee bags.
I've had great success with Blaze, despite the fact that it has received little publicity compared to alternatives like Eigen, Armadillo, etc. Blaze is consistently the leader of the pack in benchmarks, and even outperforms Intel MKL on the Xeon E5-2660 (the CPU for which the benchmark results are shown).
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"The only problem is that, unless you really do something outstanding to prove that you know the material, its not something you can put on an application/resume."

Which is why the Education industry is really the Accreditation industry.
Every single release, Apple tightens the restrictions and grandfathers in the existing things people use.

It's not "yet" -- it's now, with each release, and getting worse each time.
This seems like a nice idea, but many of the comments here are pointing to omissions that the people commenting feel could be serious.

I guess I see six kinds of potential difficulties:

① There are so many languages out there, including languages will millions of speakers who might eventually come across your thing. Maybe that's not an issue for tangible products that will be marketed to specific territories.

② There are so many slang terms out there; each individual language might well have thousands of terms that have a rude, sexual, or excretory meaning, or that are used as a slur against some group. Also, some languages have expletives that don't correspond to expletives in other languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity

③ People have pointed out that phonetic matching is hard when you're dealing with different languages' orthographies and phonologies, and you can have the problem of "the source language's intended pronunciation sounds like an offensive word in the other language", "the other language's likely pronunciation of the written term sounds like an offensive word in the other language", or even other combinations among highly multilingual populations. "Sounds like" is sometimes challenging to automate in software, for example because epenthesis of a vowel may not be enough to remove the association. (But I think Levenshtein edit distance between phonemic transcriptions can kind of sort of work.)

Also, the "MR2" example someone gave shows that understanding how people will pronounce something in different languages is complicated: you have to know that the number two in French is "deux" /dø/.

④ People might also perceive something as an offensive reference that isn't even familiar to people elsewhere, like a reference to an upsetting person, place, or event. Reportedly some people in India have named people and businesses after Adolf Hitler just because he was famous, for example. I bet it's easy to do this cross-culturally in general.

⑤ As people point out with the Chevy Nova story, there might be a reason why a product name would become the target of ridicule in a particular language even if it's not offensive. That's true even if it didn't literally happen to the Chevy Nova.

⑥ It might even turn out that the space of offensive references is so dense that there is nothing that isn't a near-homophone of something pretty offensive in some language.

Anyway, I think this project is really neat; I'm just reminded from people's comments that natural language is hard! There's scope to keep expanding this site, and I think there are also existing "cultural consultant" businesses that try to deal with these problems through human review (I wonder how many of them have consultants on contract from many widely varying cultures, which seems especially useful in the Internet era).
The hackers did the right thing. People using AM had it coming to them.
See , that's how you manage an open source project , you listen to your community , and yes people can have relevant suggestions. Angular JS became successful because of its pragmatism but also because it allowed more than 1000 people to contribute to its core, not because it was a "Google project" .

Everybody knows what other project i'm talking about.
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I guess the kicker is that there is no answer to my question yet!

Here's an example. I posted this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32051503/upgrader-process... .

Got the comment and it's solves my problem. Days later I got write a detailed response and answer my own question.
This looks really cool! I tried learning Haskell on the Mac a year or two ago. It was painful having to use command-line tools and text editors. I eventually hacked Xcode to do the syntax highlighting and to run the build commands for Haskell. But that breaks every time Xcode updates, etc. This looks like it solves that problem! Can't wait to try it out.

One thing I'd like to see is how well it works for calling into the OS, or at least calling into or being called from C/C++/Objective-C (and eventually Swift).
It's not snark. I'm very serious: you're omitting key details in your claims. Your prose suggests something as a fact, when in actuality, it's just your own personal valuation. It suits your claim to state things as if they were facts because it grants you authority. I'm calling you out on it.

> These are things that affect more than just me

You're moving the goal post. I don't disagree that the existence of plastic bags doesn't affect me or others. I'm contesting that their valuation level is some known fact that your prose suggests you're privy to.

> to not throw them out without a second thought.

Everyone I know (including myself) saves their plastic bags for reuse. I've been using the same plastic bag to bring my lunch to work since last November!
Something something head and shoulders pattern, don't you see it?
Reminds me of the olden days where it was actually true.
Actually, there's a lot of stuff in there that I'm going to find useful. The flexbox integration is great, and hopefully will lead to wider adoption of flexbox in general. Cards are something I've had to implement myself, and the core one looks much nicer.

Perhaps it's not going to be useful for you, but for me, I'm grateful for all the work put in by those involved in this open source project.
"Bite"... means "dick" in french...
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The currently-delayed-for-referendum (which will be part of the November 2016 general election ballot) statewide rule in California has specific durability requirements, including both objective measures of thickness, etc., and that reusable bags be designed for at least 125 uses for trips of a specified distance carrying a specified weight.

I think that rules like this are fairly common in rules providing for reusable bags and banning single-use ones.
Seriously? Col is too difficult to understand as an abbreviation for column?
You're software start-up probably won't make you money either. At least for hardware, people don't have so many free options. The barriers to entry are also higher. Someone won't be developing hardware after a 12 week online course. To me it looks like a great time to build hardware.

Kickstarter has really changed the game. These guys launched today, for example, and they'll probably be funded within 24 hours:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1152958674/the-sensel-m...
SO doesn't do anything to make this a better option really. I mean, you can always delete your answer if it goes negative. You can even get a badge for it. (http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/38/peer-pressure)

This is annoying for people answering the questions too: what should I do when I know the answer but it's already in the comments? Duplicate and rake the points for it? Leave it be and leave the question as unanswered?
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I believe that it's not intended to be used like that (promo codes are also limited to 100 per application version now).

Also, this would require the developer to find a way to charge people outside of the store. In that case, it's almost half way to setting up a full direct store with a direct version.

There is benefit to having a direct version (all our applications do) but many developers today don't want to set this all up. It's quite a lot of work and perhaps the developer is not interesting in spending time on that. Moreover, he might not even be sure if the app is successful enough to invest time into this work.
Thanks, this was exactly my point. I used to like doing these kinds of problems when I was a second year comp-sci student. I was also a C purist. But then I grew up and learned that there are far bigger problems in software development world than some puzzle or making 100 line programs as efficient as possible in C.

Now I think about usability, design, etc. of a system and wonder what the trade-offs are when choosing one design over another, not to mention time and cost trade-offs.

Isn't this what any respectable client submitting projects on Toptal should look for? I don't think I'd want a junior dev diving head first into my project without first understanding the requirements and presenting me with different trade-offs, etc. Unless ofcourse Toptal wants to be a platform for lazy college kids asking help on their assignments.

I know you understand these points, but I'm just adding this for future readers.
My grandma also mostly plays games and checks her email/Facebook, but she also occasionally has to search the web and has used Siri on her iPad, I don't think Cortana would be that big of a stretch to get her into (e.g. I've seen her use Siri semi-regularly to check the local weather).

To be frank, she would likely be better off with a Chromebook. But unfortunately she has a few games she plays which are Windows binaries (e.g. those $5 CDs containing "2500 card games").

Cortana is no more or no less accessible than Siri.
I would add a few additional things to consider when thinking about a hardware product (via retail). First, creating additional value for your entire supply chain is extremely important, and gives you a lot of leverage. The OP mentioned this indirectly via high demand products creating walk in value, but additional value also can include selling a higher value/higher margin product, or creating a product that is highly consumable and has a high churn rate (think 5 hr energy). Ultimately the retailer is trying to maximize the $/sq ft in their store, and doing the things mentioned above will certainly help with that. Also selling a product that drives accessory purchases will give you additional leverage. Think phones that push purchases of cases and screen covers. Also think of Apple and the huge amount of floor space their products take up in a Best Buy. They can do this because of the higher value their products offer to the retailer. In addition, the higher value product you sell, the lower margin your retailers can be willing to take in order to sell the product. Ultimately, the retailer has to make more money with your product than the other products he or she could be selling in the same space to justify selling your product. This line or reasoning goes for your suppliers as well, especially if you are working with a factory that is near or at at capacity.
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> There's an argument to be made that trying to tax undesirable behaviors is a form of corruption.

Perhaps; but it'd be more convincing if you actually made it.
The NSA doesn't get my email unless it gets a FISA warrant since I'm in the USA. Court records show they get about 3000 warrants a year. I'm pretty confident I'm not one of those.

The problem with google though, is that anything Google knows about me can be sought by the NSA with just one of those FISA warrants.

Google and Facebook are essentially NSA Reserve Branch.

The NSA also isn't charged with making criminal cases. There is a conspiracy theory about "parallel construction" but too much crime is totally unsolved for the NSA to be secretly feeding law enforcement data on a large scale.

I also wouldn't be so sure that Google or Facebook won't fuck with your life. Plenty of American companies have done extraordinarily evil things before. Then again so has the government.
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I had been looking forward to deploying Windows 10 as well as using the opportunity to update all of our hardware. Instead I find myself disappointed and, frankly, confused.

Why? Well, mainly because we do not have the time and cannot afford the risk of dealing with and navigating through a security and privacy gauntlet.

We need an operating system, not Facebook, running our systems. Before anyone suggests it's no big deal please consider the idea that, when it comes to an OS used in a business/professional context privacy must be a non-negotiable default.

If Windows 10 had a single "Private Mode" switch that turned off all data leaks and monitoring it would be fantastic.

Some might suggest it isn't a big deal because it is annonymized data. The fact that a question exists means we have a problem. It's that simple. And, yes, some of it is FUD.

Suggesting a change to another OS simply isn't reasonable. For one thing, in our case we have a number of engineering applications that will only run on Windows, and that is the case for many professional users.
I have been arguing for contact states for years. You should be able to set conditions like the old IM status messages - "away," "in a meeting,","family time,"etc - that limit your reachability and optionally notify people that you won't be notified of their messages (until a certain time, if scheduled).

This was (naively) my first iOS app attempt before I realized this is something that has to be done at the OS level. Please, Apple, "Do Not Disturb" was a step in the right direction. Finish the job.
Why limit it to an arrest?

Consider if you get into politics in some way?

Maybe you get a evening visitor telling you to either drop your ambitions, vote a certain way once in office, or in some other way dictate terms for not releasing something to the press.

Something that while not directly criminal, will be negative enough socially to make a mess of your life.
> Plus all the commercialisation you suggest would pretty much be the antithesis of what the event sets out to poke fun at.

Providing food and drink is commercialization?
Thanks for sharing this. I had known vaguely of this program, but the name had escaped me.

To clarify the problem: if Tempora grabs 100% of content and metadata from the pipe then hands it to the NSA while keeping a copy for itself, it's the same as the NSA harvesting the data itself.

This means that the NSA's hubbub about "we only collect metadata assuming you use our definitions for all terms" which has been previously proven false, is again conclusively proven false.
Yeah, I meant barbell squats. Dan Riley's school of thought is extremely 1980s/1990s and does not reflect the "state of the art" in terms of strength training. He advocates using machine based squats, which greatly decrease the training usefulness of the movements. This is because they both isolate the movement to one plane, and limit the number of muscles involved in the movement. A linebacker hitting another linebacker is essentially a back squat, and in real life this happens in multiple planes and with all of your muscles. There is no advantage to using a machine, and many disadvantages.

In one piece[1] Dan says things like "To minimize shearing forces on the knee, we ask our players to keep the knees over the ankles in the squatting position."

This demonstrates (along with many other idiotic things he says in that piece) a relatively massive misunderstanding of biomechanics and is kind of disgraceful to hear coming from someone who is a strength coach for people paid millions of dollars a year.

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Why not? How else would the next guy know not to apply for them? If I had known this before, I wouldn't have wasted my time with them in the first place.
My grandma had a saying for people like you- "they know the price of everything but the value of nothing."
I was hoping this article was going to highlight the emotional issues with responding instantly as opposed to the "lack of time" issue. I don't respond to most texts instantly, not because I'm driving or busy with my life, but because I just don't feel like responding right away. I am not sure why this is. I am not trying to be rude, and most of the time I feel bad about it and think that maybe I have communication issues, such as keeping in touch with people. But I am starting to realize that we shouldn't be expected to respond immediately "just because". We shouldn't have to be occupied to warrant not responding. Unfortunately, it is a stigma, and people will continue to get upset if they don't hear back within a matter of minutes. I wish someone would touch on this issue as I've never really seen it discussed.
Every event doesn't have to be about alcohol, you're right. But when I think art festival parodying Disney, I think alcohol.
I'd be curious to learn how VCs value hardware startups vs software considering this and all the other risks.