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Ask HN: Fair terms for CTO position in funded startup?
As a freelancer I've architected & built the technology behind a client's startup, which is currently in beta, and is valued at $2M, based solely on investment. They've made me an offer to come on as CTO; I'm unsure of how good the terms are. Can other CTOs (perhaps anonymously) post what terms they joined the company with?

1) The position would be a "co-founder" CTO; however, it would not have a board vote. The funders are splitting votes between them 50/50.

2) The base salary is $150k, which is in the bottom 10% of CTO salaries across all company sizes in the region (according to salary.com). The salary rises to $225k once the company is making $500k in profit. However, there's no sales/marketing budget, as they want to grow organically. I'm earning $120/hr contracting for them; I have new clients lining up willing to pay $150/hr.

3) Equity is 7.5%, with 50% vesting immediately, and the remaining 50% vesting over 4 years, with no cliff. Forward vesting (in the event of a sale) is 50%. The company is an LLC, so the equity represents a profit share. It is dilutable, as are all positions (including current funders).

4) Severance "without cause" (cause includes fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, etc) is 6 months pay, plus 100% vesting.

5) Benefits are OK. 3 weeks vacation, 2% 401k match (plus 4% at 50%).

Is this a decent deal or should I hold out for more? Finding a replacement for me given the complexity of the product would be tough. I've started negotiations, but there's no "give" currently, except for the agreement that we'd research to see what is common.
I agree that Paxos is much simpler than many people apparently think. It certainly didn't help that the original paper is almost completely useless for learning Paxos.

I highly recommend that anyone interesting in learning Paxos study this pseudo code from MIT's distributed systems class; it was the single thing that helped me understand Paxos most:

http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2015/notes/paxos-code.html
I was also thinking of lattice in Cryptanalysis but I guess this is a book about Cryptography not Crypta
I wrote the above in response to the GP position that they have "heard no extreme positions [from Trump]." I swear I didn't edit the page to include this:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/extreme#Antonyms
Crash IDs? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozillacrashreporter or email at HN username at mozilla dot com
"greater work ethic" meaning "performs well in this system of labor relations". It is a circular moral judgment.

There will always be people who want more, work more, work harder, strive harder, and are more ambitious. That has nothing at all to do with "this system of labor relations".

The government you have distrust for is the thing that keeps everything from breaking down.

Feh... I mistrust the government because they're the main reason things are so broken now. The only "government" I want is self-government and whatever voluntary associations people form that don't claim a right to use force for any cause other than defense.
Exactly.

I assume OP was going for the James Bond feel, but it is M.
Do you mean Forrest Mims "Getting Started in Electronics" or Make Magazine's intro book "Make: Electronics"?
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I don't think that has ever happened to me. There can be stuff like caching or hot reloads working/not working in your favour but if the bug is fixed, it's fixed.
we have created similar app which we open sourced at www.github.com/diacode/holidays we have pretty nice ui and slack integration, check it out
I've no insight about Amazon's process with insurance, but being with Covered California we lose our insurance about twice per year due to "glitches" in the system. Each time we find out months later when a claim gets declined and thus requires hours spent on the phone, going through various levels of support.

It wouldn't surprise me at all that the entire health insurance infrastructure in the country is glitchy to the core, but who knows.
Two of the open source drivers (radeonsi and nvc0) support OpenGL 4.1 now (though only if you've got a bleeding edge build of Mesa, built against bleeding edge LLVM). This is obviously still pretty far behind, but at least it's caught up to OS X.

The performance of radeonsi isn't terrible (though that's partly because the proprietary AMD driver sets the bar kind of low), though still generally slower than the proprietary one. There are some experimental instruction scheduling changes in an LLVM branch that appear to give better performance than the proprietary drivers for at least some benchmarks.

On the Nvidia side it's pretty much proprietary or bust though. Featurewise it tends to be in good shape (at least in comparison to the other open source drivers anyway), but there's no support for changing the GPU clock so performance is terrible.
I'm not sure about that. As far as I know European social democracies micromanage too much.

One thing none of these countries seem to get is that complex regulations and micromanagement are more expensive than taxation. These things have huge unintended costs, largely in time and in preventing innovation.

If we had free health care and basic income, who cares about at-will employment? If I lose my job, I'll just move on. You don't need all those regulations if you apply a "fairness correction" after the fact.
What I find weirdest about the whole thing is the data wasn't sold back to Ashley Madison. The hacker(s) could have leaked 10 or 20 juicy names then probably cleared $10 million dollars or better. It would have been a bargain to Ashley Madison at that price.
He could have not posted the twitter handle but a hash instead?

echo "The Twitter handle Brian Krebs anonymized in this blog post is..." | sha256sum

There you go, you can prove it to anyone at any point in time.
Ah, sorry. Even the article I linked is potentially stale. Things seem to be moving quickly. The "near majority" statement was based on unconfirmed reports that another large pool has hopped onboard: https://twitter.com/mkomaransky/status/636534235508178945
YC filters applicants for dedicated founders who will not give up easily. It is amazing what can be accomplished by manic perseverance.
Can we also ask, HOW did they hack Ashley Madison?
Supermarket butchers have mail gloves. I worked in a store as a kid and watched coworkers put on mail gloves then cut meat. There's probably more supermarket butchers than SCA members and the wear and tear must be tremendous compared to SCA meetings.

If the labor cost is lower that would be a win, but also the weight of the gloves must be pretty high and tiring over time (which is why illegally they mostly spent their time on the shelf instead of on hands, although they would occasionally wear them). So if 3d printing could be lighter...
I second those wishes, but thats feasibly impossible without vast auditing resources. DB backups, logging, and the general "archive-first" nature of the modern web essentially prevents this from happening.....even if service providers wanted to give this opportunity to its users...and most do not.
Or we could just stop wasting water on Factory Agriculture of Animals.

http://www.cowspiracy.com/infographic/
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I hadn't considered that, but it's an interesting point. That said, all the standard moralizing accompanying this is so gross.
Good for Lavardain and the appellate court.
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How about the East Asian Tigers? Or maybe Britain and the Anglosphere? I don't think they necessarily all micromanage at the same level as the Euros do.
I keep reading that seed investment firms consider it "good" if 4 out of every 10 startups they fund turn out to be something of value. Over time this is showing to be true.
Why is this a bad thing designers must be "guilty of"? Most websites are built around providing some sort of commercial service / product, so the number 1 goal of design is to get out of the way of the user paying money and receiving service. If the design was radically different website to website for no other reason than artistic-special-snowflakia, then as a designer you're putting on extra cognitive load onto your users and forcing them to think about things that ultimately don't matter to either you or them.

Literally everything from cars (colorful sells with engine in front and some seats in the middle, brake is left of the accelerator) to desktops (mother board, 4 RAM slots, 1 CPU slot, USB slots, etc.) to stores (carts out front, role of checkout stands next, isle separated by content after) benefits tremendously from standardization, and are what makes modern life even remotely livable.
The cure for cancer and the solution to climate change announced on HN on the same day! ;)
Google Pulls Plug on Vulnerability Exploiting App
First, that's not any claim of mine, so please be nice.

Second, my point was that FOIA doesn't bring as much transparency as you might hope.

Third, the question of accountability is two-fold: to whom and to what extent? Governments and companies are accountable to different groups and to different degrees. But just as the government of Brunei is not accountable to a randomly selected American, a company of which you are neither customer nor shareholder is not accountable to you. Given that companies rely more on consent that governments, the degree of accountability to shareholders is perhaps greater.

Thus I submit that measuring accountability purely in degrees is... incomplete.
The narrative must be served at all costs. Do not oppose the narrative.
"Over decades, the (maybe at most semi-true) idea that products bought at Aldi or Lidl will provide high value despite their low price"

I hate to be defending Aldi's rep (or the allegedly faux idea), but as a regular shopper in Germany'S four major chains (Edeka, Rewe,Lidl, Aldi), I must insist: Aldi/Lidl ARE providing a good price-to-value ratio for customers :-)

Of course, with the organic & premium chains popping up the last decade(s) you can get better quality. But those high-quality shops are making up just a small share of the market [1].

Their competitors (REWE/EDEKA) will offer you a wide range of [lets say Beans], ALDI/LIDL will offer you just one. But while that one usually has the quality of the competitor's most expensive version it comes with the price-tag of the competitor's cheapest.

[1] http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/4916/umfrage/m...
WDBJ Shooting
For all the intents and purposes, I agree with you re your evaluation of Angry Birds. AB is definitely not on par with Star Wars. Heck, it's not even on equal footing with Super Mario or Pac Man but I am inclined to have a different take on AB merchandise or paraphernalia in general. I think that certain items in that may have collectible qualities and could fetch a good amount of cash some 30 - 50 years down the road from now when they will be sold for future generations who would appreciate the nostalgic appeal of these items derived from this once successful game from late 2000s.
http://digg.com/2015/ashley-madison-hack

Not a complete answer, but:

"MOTHERBOARD: How did you hack Avid Life Media? Was it hard?

The Impact Team: We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack, then got in and found nothing to bypass.

MOTHERBOARD: What was their security like?

The Impact Team: Bad. Nobody was watching. No security. Only thing was segmented network. You could use Pass1234 from the internet to VPN to root on all servers."
As it is for Windows people: it's an IoC container from Microsoft (and now "community supported").
How do you evaluate new technologies?
For the same reason I don't go around and post an article how "watty" did $x. It doesn't matter if this is a pseudonym and what kind of avatar you use.

If watty might be implicated in something illegal I should go talk to the police and not publicly witch hunt your handle, no?
I've never gone through YC but I have had a few interactions with Qasar. He is a very intelligent man and in my few interactions he has given me great insight into my own personal projects.
This is also a fantastic resource: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
ProtonMail on Mr. Robot
Very interesting. I wonder how they will monetize this, or if it will simply be to get more people in the Prime ecosystem.
It's M! http://www.wired.com/2015/08/how-facebook-m-works/
That doesn't sound right; it was something specifically to do with the type system, someone who was directly talking with Ambrose in depth, someone whose libraries I'd used, and who purely switched to Haskell. And someone influential enough that (rightly or wrongly) led me to follow suit (based on just a gut feeling and appeal-to-authority, and far less true investigation).
It's unfortunately only for Visual Studio but Microsoft created an extension called "Developer Assistant" which does precisely that using code from MSDN, StackOverflow, GitHub, and also local sources. They boast "over 21 million code samples".

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/onecode/p/devassistant.aspx

Sadly they also appear to be keeping it closed source.
Not always, sometimes they use MongoDB.
That is a pretty poor TLDR.

First, that was just from an offhand remark by one of the researchers.

Second, no evidence is cited to support the claim that these foods aid brain health. The study did not test them.

Third, what the researcher said was that they are a better bet than supplements for aiding brain and heart health, not that they are better. They are a better bet because the study showed that supplements are ineffective in these areas, so natural sources are a better bet because they have not been shown to be ineffective.
From the abstract: «I show that in order for the information that they [generalizations] carry to be available to cognition, perceptual representations must be isomorphic with respect to the constituent structure of the properties that they represent. Isomorphism therefore plays an important role in the information theorist’s account of perceptual representation, even though it plays no role in determining content.»
I had my hopes up, Expecting Q from star trek.
ObjectiveFS does all the coordination among the clients through S3, so there is no extra coordination service needed. This is why we are really happy that Amazon recently moved the S3 us-east-1 region to read-after-write consistency (like all their other regions).

We do write bundling before sending data to S3 so lots of small files would be packed together and stored in a single S3 object. This also helps reduce the number of object store operations.

You are absolutely right that frequent sync will necessarily create many small objects, which is why small objects will be combined into bigger ones (this compaction is done in the background). Sync latency is of course bounded by the S3 PUT time, since fsync(2) can only return after your data has been safely stored in S3.

It is a really interesting design problem. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
So California is 75 times richer than Vermont?
Vermont might be a terrible place to live... it's even poorer than the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
My impression is that Zu is actually an author researching a real life cyber crime novel.
"It can purchase items, get gifts delivered to your loved ones, book restaurants, travel arrangements, appointments and way more"

So it can spend my money in behalf of me?
this whole nyt article has turned into a fucking witch hunt. what exactly is amazon NOT doing to address these issues? why should it be any business of yours on how they address the issues since you aren't involved (proverbial you, maybe you do work there)? the way things are going it makes absolutely no sense for amazon to post anything about the situation because whatever is said will be torn to shreds and people will demand more information.

what exactly would you expect them to do to address the situation? I dont see people who currently work at amazon complaining. some say thats because they're scared to which could be true or maybe it's just that the people who are giving these stories happened to have a lot of things fall into place at just the wrong time to make it seem malicious. no one in these stories post about what they did to demonstrate that they were performing well or not, only that other things were happening in their life then they got bad performance reviews. you know what? thats actually a common thing, major life events happen and your work performance starts to become poor. why not ask how long a company should continue paying an employee who's performing poorly? it's something that I have never seen an answer to by anyone or any company. on top of that what if someone had been doing poorly for a good amount of time, then just before review time comes up when they're going to get a bad review, they announce that they are pregnant or sick. what should a company do then?

as I said in the beginning, this whole thing has turned into a witch hunt and nobody cares to ask any of the questions that matter and allow any one or company to build off of.
(Or were you talking about the "." as used in OO, compared with the "->" as used in Clojure? If so, disregard this comment...)

I'm afraid I was :)
Managed by an Artificial General Intelligence.
I've been keeping track of Google Fi since it was released.

I'm hoping the new Nexus 5 (both LG and Huawei versions) is compatible with Google Fi, although I did call the Fi support number (and talked to a real human) and she said they haven't heard anything about support for the Nexus 5.

Here's hoping.
It never occurred to me to go to the potty while shopping for groceries. But you're right: I've never seen a restroom sign in an Aldi or Lidl.
Even the so called "good" software patents have a lot of the same elements as this bad patent. The problem is, most people aren't going to bother to read the claims of those patents and try to understand what the concepts claimed really are.

I have been involved with several patent suits (on both litigant side and defendant side) and as an engineer, I have to admit that there has never been a time when I haven't read the statement of the problem the patent says its going to solve, and not thought of the solution myself, way before the patent presents the same solution. In other words, every single litigated software patent I've been asked to review has been BLATANTLY obvious. And I'm no genius. I've talked to other engineers and they've all said the same thing. I just explain a problem domain, and they usually give a solution that comes under the claims of the litigated patent.

This is not to say that there aren't non-obvious software patents. Its just that those never seem to get litigated, because they aren't some obvious concept sitting at the nexus of a well-trodden path the industry is following.

I can't describe or link the specific patents I've been involved with, for obvious reasons, but the stuff I'm talking about sounds like things as follows:

"Receiving at a server a data packet, the data packet comprising a user identification number and a merchant identification number

retrieving a record in a database referenced by the user identification number

determining if the record in the database contains an authorization entry corresponding to the merchant identification number

responsive to the record in the database containing an authorization entry corresponding to the merchant identification number, transmitting a second data packet, containing an authorization token, to a server operated by a merchant."

I am not lying to you. This is how stupid each of these patents have been. Sometimes even worse.

Nobody not involved in these litigations understands how bad it is. And this is coming from someone who has made at least enough money to buy several luxury cars, providing consulting services to this particular legal industry. In other words, I have a financial interest in things remaining this fucked up. And I'm still telling you, its really fucked up.
Travel to northern Canada (North West Territories, Nunavut) before the planet warms up too much. See the northern lights, go kayaking, go on wildlife tours (polar bears!, narwhales!), etc. I know someone who lucked out on a tour and ended up being the only person in the tour. Flights are incredibly expensive so it would use up some of your money. Donate the left over money to charity :)
Sanders could beat Trump in the general. But then again just about anybody beats Trump in the general, and Clinton has had a long time to work on her ground game for the primary. I don't see her losing the primary unless someone really, truly radical appears.

The problem is that Sanders has a message that resonates with a lot of disaffected white male progressives. If you dig deeper, you can see he's not really great on issues of race or gender. Sanders has some momentum, but I think Clinton has a marginally better message on race and gender.

From where I sit, there's still room for a real progressive to show up - someone who can talk about the economic reforms Sanders is pushing, and also sit down for real with the #blacklivesmatter activists about police reform. Someone who could pull both off could beat both Clinton and Sanders to the democratic nomination, maybe. Still time yet, but I'm not holding my breath.

All that said, Clinton possesses a ton of resources for fighting for the primaries in all the important states, and it's hard to ignore that unless her favorables slip underwater, even if a really exciting candidate does throw their hat into the ring.
PX.com Sells for More Than $1M
Check out the US DOE budget [1]. For fusion energy alone they spent ~$400 million per year for the last several years. In addition they spent ~$1.3b on nuclear physics and high energy physics. From my experience as an undergrad lab assistant I can tell you that many of the funded physics experiments are indirectly related to fusion research because they study the byproducts of our best understood fusion reactor, the sun.

[1] http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/04/f0/Highlights.pdf

edit: clarity
I don't think this is the case at all. In 17 years, I have never seen the company let it get to trial.

Most recent example is Ellen Pao -> CEO Reddit.
Yeah, well if you engage in a promise with someone that you're going to be in a monogamous relationship -- let's be real, that's what marriage is for the vast majority -- you're a prick if you attempt to break that commitment, and again, that's what being on AM is about.

Pretending otherwise is delusional, and having morals isn't a bad thing.

Is doxxing always unethical?
Like a couple of others pointed out, I don't think the piece is essentially about a health insurance screw up. I think it's about how bad the relationship between Amazon and its women is.
I really underestimated the amount of applications that you guys received. I was thinking maybe a few hundred, like 800 or 900, at the most, but 6500? I was way off.

I was wondering though, if the Fellowship program showed great results and you guys decide to continue it, how much equity would you ask for? Have you thought that far ahead yet?
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Better now than later, but still this is a very challenging year - and the lack of water makes it more challenging.

Hopefully you're volunteering! If not (and you want to) here's the sign up form: www.dnr.wa.gov/WildfireVolunteer