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Ask HN: Am I getting hosed by a CEO?
I've been working for a startup for about 7 months now for free. I was on board at the first day, with the other founders, and before any execution on ideas had begun. By most yardsticks, this would make me a founder. I'm a technical one (engineer), and yet I'm treated as an employee, with 3% equity, and stock that vests over 3 years. Just to get this, I had to push pretty hard and negotiate with the CEO and COO.

I've gone back recently to try to change the equity share I get, as I understand that most founders on board when I was typically receive anywhere from 10 to 30%. The CEO tells me that I'm the only one with any kind of agreement, and that makes me far better off (?!). Apparently, no one else has anything in writing. When I ask the CEO about this, he not only seems to hint that people will be very tied to the company (executives will have a 6 year vesting schedule...what?), but he seems to think that if anyone gets any equity now, it will turn off investors. He wants to maintain majority control in the company so no investors can come along and "steal" it from him, AND he wants to set aside a monstrous chunk of equity for these investors. He hints that employees will get some "down the road", but that this is an effective way to get investment. He tells me I'm too "9 to 5" security focused (which, honestly, I do tend to be. I'm working at a full time "real" job while doing this near full time).

He keeps telling me that I need to trust him and that he'll reward people down the road based on their performance.

I'm all for tying incentives to actual performance, but this is just so loosely defined.

Am I being overly rigid not trusting this guy while proving my worth? The more I read, the more it seems this is a bogus deal. Is there any merit to this idea that having employees with equity will turn off investors?

Does this make any kind of sense, or am I completely a chump?

Thanks
Longer chains still get you heavy fuel oils, tars, etc.

...and eventually that results in simple plastics like polyethylene, which is basically a very long chain hydrocarbon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene
Ask HN: So Marissa failed to revive Yahoo what would YOU have done different?
If you were the CEO what would you have done to revive the grand old dame of the Internet?
Somewhat off-topic:

Fellow longtime Gentoo and recent Alpine user here. I haven't encountered undue conflict burden from configuration file updates. Some projects do churn whitespace etc, in configuration defaults files, which is unfortunate but not specific to any distro.

If an application supports a conf.d style override, I use that, containing only settings which differ from default.

Is there something inherent about Alpine packaging that handles local config differently?
The CFTC can eat one. Seriously, there's not a goddamn thing they will be able to do about DACs. Better call a hearing.
And Riak
>The other reply [1] nails the real point: No one at Oracle is complaining.

Canonical hasn't shipped their distro with the ZFS kernel module yet. My impression of Oracle is that they let their lawsuits do the talking.

>You also ignore the binary kernel object point: Nvidia's drivers are completely proprietary and closed source. How is that in any way less of a violation?

AFAIK NVidia's drivers are not a default part of any distribution (including Ubuntu from Canonical) and has to be enabled/installed explicitly by the end user, meanwhile Canonical said they were going to make the ZFS kernel module part of their default distribution.
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Small world! You were at Virginia then, right? I'm glad you enjoyed my comments! I still feel like I haven't totally left the field yet since I just graduated in December and I've been working on finishing up a few projects in my spare time.
It's still very possible to hire Clojure developers, people know about it and are willing to learn, it's got a good reputation, and so on.
nope. and the homepage clearly says it is sponsored by "memset", whoever they are.
I might be wrong, but my understanding is that HIPAA privacy rules only apply to healthcare providers like hospitals and their employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_a...
That smart contract was written by a person and they should realize that there might be legal repercussions in the US at least. I have a great interest in this space (I started a failed cryptocurrency options exchange myself) and I hope that it blossoms.

I would like to see regular puts and calls instead of binary options, the latter is ill-suited for hedging and really just a speculative instrument.
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Is this a taste of hellfire?
It's funny to realize that a DAC can go on existing even after its creators may have been charged or imprisoned for breaking a law or regulation. I don't agree with the CFTC but I acknowledge their power.
Erlang does has static analysis though, through Dialyzer.

http://erlang.org/doc/man/dialyzer.html
Yes. Smart companies come up with rituals that recreate this. Customer Service calls are a great example because they have big benefits above and beyond just team building. Engineers and execs who intuitively understand customers are invaluable.
What's funny is in the article they are saying "many of the Bitcoin payment service providers, are bound by their agreements to Visa and MasterCard", in reality though you don't need a payment provider to send bitcoin to anyone and to top that off - the use case we're looking at here which is "donations" is perfectly fitted for bitcoin, you just provide your address on your site for ppl to send coin to and you're done.

Where bitcoin payment providers come into play is when a company is taking bitcoin as a method of payment for their goods and services which is not the case here.
Sorry, but Vivaldi feels like Chrome. Opera still feels like Opera. Dont believe me? just open both browsers. Spam the Ctrl-T (new tab) key for a while. See the difference? Only one browser remains responsive.This is not some weird/random test case - the whole UI widgetry seems extremely fluid and ultra-responsive in a way no desktop app is.

I still use Opera, and super-apprehensive about this new development. It's still fantastic - the rendering engine change actually benefited Opera, in that it removed so many of the rendering glitches in Opera 12. Some options were lost, but it's still very configurable. I respect Hakum and the team that's still there, but not sure if they'll stick around. It will be a shame if we lose one of the best desktop apps on the planet to spyware/bloatware.
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I'm going to go with the actual author of the licence (Danese), and not just because she authored it but because the idea that Sun management, seeing themselves struggle against Linux, would allow Linux to use their prized ZFS and DTrace, and thus offer even less reason to choose Solaris over Linux is simply insane from any kind of business point.

And not even now do we have anyone arguing here that CDDL is not GPL-incompatible, people accept that and Linus refuses to merge any CDDL code in to mainline, what is being discussed here is if ZFS counts as a derivative (and thus has to be GPL compatible) when it runs as a kernel module in Linux kernel space.
gitlab IS a ruby on rails app

Why wouldn't a ruby on rails solution be right for a ruby on rails app?
I don't believe you need to extensively train the voice database. Most don't require any training to start. Don't think expensive microphones either. Maybe you should just read some of the links already posted.
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and Elixir
I agree that it is always difficult to know where to draw the moral line in cases like this, but if the Saud’s decide to sell Aramco then it will be because they are desperate for money. Anyone buying shares will only increase the price and hence the amount of money going towards propping up what is a totally corrupt theocracy. The sooner the House of Saud is forced by lack of cash to join the 21st century the better.
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If all you're doing is Android programming Kotlin is probably a better choice at this time. If you're a Java programmer, Kotlin is probably a better choice. If you're already a Swift programmer...

Also, let's see how both languages gain traction in the next 3-5 years.
Almost all the successful non-Google ad networks and exchanges are written in Erlang, Goldman Sachs HFT platform is written in Erlang, several massive scale game platform backends are written in Erlang, several international "national net" banking switches are written in Erlang, a huge chunk of the global land-line and mobile telco switching infrastructure is written in Erlang, Heroku's control plane is written in Erlang, GitHub's RPC backplane is written in Erlang, Amazon SimpleDB is written in Erlang, Bet365's high-scale betting platform is written in Erlang, Pinterest is migrating services to Elixir (rooted in Erlang).

There's a ton of stuff written in Erlang out there. A lot of really core infrastructure services that have to just run and run and run.

It's not particularly trendy, but it gets shit done, and it does so with a quiet dignity. :-)
That's not a fair characterization of Swift's runtime. Swift is similar to C++ in that it compiles down a lot of stuff so it doesn't need to make runtime decisions.

Swift could theoretically be as fast or faster than C/C++, but C/C++ have decades compiler optimizations that are going to be hard to beat. I say Swift has the potential to be faster because of the pointer aliasing problems of C/C++, which Swift can potentially optimize (like why Fortran still can beat C).

But your question about runtimes and performance are kind of a red herring. High performance means utilizing the underlying hardware well. A lot of the popular modern languages were designed for convenience over speed and were designed in an era of ever-increasing single processor CPU speeds. Very few languages map to how hardware actually works so they give up speed. Few mainstream languages automatically vectorize _well_ and _reliably_ to automatically exploit SIMD (C/C++ don't really do this...we generally have to write the intrinsics ourselves if we care). Few mainstream languages do a good job exploiting the multiple cores/CPUs available to us (don't say threads...they are pretty poor. This is one interesting feature of Go). Cache locality is now extremely important to high performance and most languages don't let us really control this. (C/C++ give us some say on our memory layouts.)
As someone who works in the ad industry - by far the best way to get people to click on ads is to have better ads that are more relevant and interesting and correct for that person (and which tracking plays a supporting role).

In this case, they serve as a very efficient market to connect people with the goods and services they want/need which only helps the greater economy and benefits everyone.
Agreed. Auto looks like a useless bit of syntatic sugar, but it can make working with the standard library (and its impenetrable iterator classes) a whole lot simpler. On top of that, boost has some nice features that make easy-but-annoying tasks like walking a file system and parsing program options easy.

If your last exposure to C++ featured nothing but raw pointers, you should really give it a second look.
And then he went and released Java under the GPL.
No language is for everyone. Trying to make such a language guarantees it will fail.
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Yes. One system I've heard that works is a 5 point system.

1 - You decide without my input

2 - You decide with my input

3 - Joint decision equal input

4 - I decide with your input

5 - I decide without your input

Most good decisions are Type 2 or 4, though sometimes they need to be others. (Compliance, etc.) Then one can say, "This is a type 4 decision - I need to hear you out, but it's on me."
"Lisp doesn't exist" is also kind of wrong but with conviction, or at least debatable. Lisp was standardized in 1994 as ANSI Common Lisp, and there are a handful of other Lisp-like languages.

And pure languages aren't useless. Not being able to do I/O can be good for many purposes. Pure Haskell is still able to model computations involving I/O, which are then executed by a trusted external runtime. There are benefits to disallowing arbitrary effects, which is also why several new languages take purity even further and disallow infinite recursion.
I'd have to say that another reason Lisp hasn't taken off is because hygienic macros are a pain to write.....
Make the website minimalist. Change the colors, focus on journalism. Compete with Huffington Post and AOL.
Neutrons are electrically neutral but they still interact electromagnetically (they're composed of charged quarks). They have a magnetic moment, for instance [1]. So they wouldn't be dark the way "dark matter" appears (heh) to be.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_magnetic_moment
Thanks, you have reminded me some huge IT companies that can also be related with this case! Amazon and the other IT infrastructure companies. Why are they missing or remain silent? Does it implies anything?
The NIH syndrome by established Linux developers definitely slowed down Linux's adoption of these technologies. However, the inability of Sun's marketing to promulgate how awesome its technologies were to the next generation of developers slowed down adoption even further. In my case, information about how awesome ZFS is did not reach me until about 5 years ago (I started contributing to the Linux port soon afterward) while information about how awesome DTrace is did not reach me until about 2 or 3 years ago.

I was barely even aware that a company called Sun existed until about 8.5 years ago when I was given access to a shell account on Solaris 9 at my university for a class on C at age 18. At the time, there was nothing to tell me that ZFS and DTrace even existed, much less how awesome they are. Back then, I had spent my entire life stuck in the desolate wasteland that is Windows computing with a tiny bit of LAMP sprinkled into my life that I had used to play webmaster of a Pokemon fan site between ages 10 and 15. Years later, I realized that I really disliked writing PHP.

Maybe things would have been different if Sun had tried fighting Microsoft for the PC market, but the knowledge that anything better out there existed just did not make it to me. I did not learn about Sun's technologies until I started actively looking for good technologies in their respective categories. I found out not long after my searches began, but it would have been nice had there been a bit more advertising.

These days, I cannot imagine going back to computing without ZFS and while I do not quite have DTrace available to me yet, when I finally do, I imagine that I will feel the same about DTrace too.
I find it interesting that the SFConservancy argues 'Oracle has a magic wand to make this all go away' by re-licensing ZFS but completely ignores that just as much they could re-license the kernel under a CDDL compatible license. Given that Linux (in the broader sense) is asking for something it'd sound more reasonable for them to accomodate the other parties demands.

What they do is like saying "Hey I want to buy your house, what you don't want to sell it? How about you make it cheaper then so I can afford it!"
JRuby has always been promising... for the last 10 years ;)
Clojure encourages me to program in the REPL, because there is no other way to know what is going on in such a semantically crazy language, other than trial and error.

And the state of the Clojure REPL is as mutable and imperative as it gets, as my paste showed.
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Do you have references for the claim about telco switching?
>This case is so unprecedented that there's a chance the precedent here will effectively create a law.

This case is actually super with precedent, if you ignore the digital nature of things. Apple has keys to a safe (digital signage key for iOS updates), FBI has warrant to search safe, court orders keys to safe. Fourth amendment doesn't apply because Apple can't incriminate themselves by giving signage keys.

There is the whole "asking Apple to write the OS changes and sign it", instead of just "Asking Apple for the signing keys." I would call this a compromise ruling to avoid having Apple have to give the actual for real skeleton key.

Asking a judge to not force Apple to surrender the digital signage keys requires more subtle arguments about burden. Asking for any ruling on encryption itself is asking a court to legislate from the bench
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Okay, but are there any in-production file systems implementing that (or any other BFT consensus protocol)?
The sad thing might be that lack of cash forces them to join the 14th century, not the 21st.
The only thing I can think of is WebRTC. Google WebRTC and screen sharing.
Dark matter isn't made of protons, neutrons, or anything as pedestrian as that. It's a sort of "placeholder name" for an effect seen in situations like the collision of galaxies, where there seems to be more gravitational attraction between the two of them than there should be given the matter observed in them. It's as if they had a whole bunch more mass to them, but for some reason that mass is interacting gravitationally, and not in any other way or through any other forces. Scientists can model this by assuming that this type of gravitational-only matter is real, calling it "dark matter", because we don't have a better sense of what it really is.

The stuff made in this experiment, on the other hand, has more to do with what you find in something like a neutron star—clumps of neutrons (which are regular, non-dark matter) packed closely together—albeit in an extremely small scale compared to the star.
I am going to hack on this and see how it works, but first glance looks cool.

The image (really confusingly) illustrates the searchflow model:

Broweser ==> Google

Goolge ==> Results

results ===> Hacker news or another aggregator

aggregator ===> your fav. sub community (because gooigle discovery sucks)

subreddit helps you find links you want

in those links you find information

==============================

that is what a manual crawl feels like, and how many people use the web.
People who care what other people think about the programming languages they use write essays like this.

The rest of us just shut up and hack some Lisp.
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Looks like an un-finished draft article? I'm only seeing headers for each section. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/ZjBchfo.png

(chromium, linux)
Hey Eric, I'm a Canadian living in the Greater Toronto Area who used PadMapper to find his last 2 places, including the one I am sitting in now.

Sad to see that Zumper isn't open to those outside the USA, hopefully that will change. I showed PadMapper to a number of friends and they loved it. Let us take advantage of this new platform too!
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Fuel cells:

1. Run silently or near silently. They're generating electricity via redox reactions, not combusting.

2. Have effectively no moving parts. Again, no noise or vibration.

3. Product electricity directly. For powering electronics, this means no secondary generation required.

4. Utilise extremely expensive catalysts. The reason you don't see fuel-cell automobiles (excluding very small numbers of test vehicles) is that the engines cost, literally, on the order of $1 million, as opposed to a few hundred for a typical ICE. This price premium has proven difficult to overcome.

5. Operate better delivering fairly steady-state power, from what I understand. A tremendous benefit of ICEs is that they can scale output in a second or few seconds, with very little throttle lag. Yes, straight-up electric motors are even better at this, but straight-up batteries tend to not store much power.

A fuel cell is essentially a battery whose electrolytes you fill rather than recharge or replace. This offers the advantages of fuel-based systems (high energy capacity) and batteries (direct electrical output). Unfortunately, it introduces the disadvantages of fuel cells (cost, power delivery profile).
I have no idea why I would ever want "related pages".

I am not waiting in line with my girlfriends and searching for Britney Spears Songs. Related pages do nothing for me.

They are bad results.
There aren't any known arrangements of neutrons that are stable without protons. Solo neutrons don't exist for longer than 10-20 minutes before decaying into protons and I doubt these tetraneutrons exist for longer than a few seconds unless they're moving at relativistic speeds (and even then, for not much longer). Unless there is something drastically different going on in the interstellar medium, neutrons as dark matter is extremely unlikely.
I can read just fine. The website uses Fira Sans font, maybe there's an issue with that, check your browser's console.
With all efforts to preserve endangered languages, there's an implicit assumption that they should be preserved in the heads of human beings. What value does this language and being able to write it have? I've heard people say "preserves the culture", but is there any concrete value to it? Does it help feed people or entertain people, or anything that English wouldn't do just as well?
Yep. I regret not having studied more chemistry in college. It's only started coming into context for me recently.
For clarification, in a deduction system, an axiom is a proposition that is true just because. Similarly, an axiom schema is a predicate, such that substituting its free variables with closed terms yields a proposition that is true just because.

Now, I repeat, how exactly is Lisp “just axioms”? What are the axioms in question? The mathematical ignorance of some of Lisp's proponents never ceases to amaze me.
Mandrill was a commodity service much like electricity or water which people relied on it just working.

If the service was not making enough money then raise the price to whatever you need to and either grandfather in old customers or give very long lead times so your customers have the time to transition away if they wish.

This is such an obvious way to go that I think there must be something very dysfunctional within the leadership of Mailchimp. Did nobody there foresee what was the likely outcome of this move and advise against it? Did they talk to any of their customers before making this change?
Interesting article. However, what the author fails to realize is that Twitter shouldn't be banning users in the first place-- that's not their job. Their job is to provide a service that people can use to communicate; policing content on the site should not be a technology company's job. If you dislike what someone says, simply unfollow them, and they will disappear from your sight. It's as simple as that-- out of the billions of people in the world, there are definitely going to be millions of people that hate you simply because of your race, beliefs, or country. Simply do not follow these people if you don't want to see "abuse".

Just because people are offended by what conservatives may say does not mean that freedom of speech should be limited. "I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" and all that. We, as programmers and computer scientists (and some web developers) need to stop deciding or worrying about what people are and aren't allowed to say-- and that goes for Twitter, too.
There are a few fast startup JVMs out there that will run Clojure code.
The ACLU would make much better use of your money.
I'm just going to leave this here:

http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/im2gps/