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Ask HN: Rewarding someone with SAFE-style equity
I'm running a pre-series A startup, and we have taken investment using Y-combinator SAFEs (discount, no cap).

A friend of mine, who doesn't have the financial resources to invest himself, has gone over and above in helping us, awake at odd hours of the night, demoing our technology to friends of his in the VC world. This has been done on the basis of friendship, without any expectation of a return.

One of those demos he did has materialized into a large investment, and to show my gratitude, I would like to give my friend some equity in the company, as a percentage of the money the VC invested.

To use round math, assume the VC invested $1m. I'd like to give him 1%, i.e. 10K, as an investment in the company, on the same terms. Think of it as a referral fee.

What's the correct legal way to handle this? Ideally, one that doesn't involve lawyers and lots of customized paperwork.

I don't want to part with cash right now, and would prefer to give him equity, so he feels invested in our success. The Y-Combinator SAFE document captures the essence of how I'd like to consider the 10K, but doesn't feel suitable as-is, because it's written with the assumption that money is changing hands.

I'd appreciate any advice and links to forms, etc.
I'd love condorcet, and I'd prefer it to IRV, but I've only ever seen IRV when it comes to real proposals on ballots and implementations in governments.

I don't have access to TFA, but it's using IRV, right?
I used Hugo some years ago[1] and my memory of it was mostly negative in terms of usability. I revisited it again this year for another project and it drove me so mad that I ended up switching to Zola[2].

My issue with Hugo was that it just wasn't reliable with what was in the cache so I could never trust whether what I saw was actually the state of the site and causing me to push a broken state to the remote server. Hugo is great if it works but I found it a nightmare to deal with when it doesn't.

There are countless options in Hugo (yes I understand it's powerful but I rather it just had half the option and they work as advertised), some of which at times are contradictory so searching for solutions took me ages. I have no affiliation with the zola project and am not even big on Rust. Zola just worked for me and seems a lot less "hacky" than hugo thanks to the Tera templating system.

The Author of Zola writes on his github:

> [hugo] personally drives me insane, to the point of writing my own template engine and static site generator.

a sentiment that I share very much.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180714043311/https://iotdarwin...

[2] https://github.com/getzola/zola

[3] https://github.com/getzola/after-dark
Facebook has always done everything it can to make the Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulus of the world happy.
Looks very useful!
If the alternative to boycotts is actual use of force, I’ll take the boycotts every time.
I am often astonished there are any fossils at all.
The problem isn't systematic coercion of choice, it's widespread popular biases and a general lack of knowledge. If you are interested in improving democratic outcomes, you need to understand the individuals you're encouraging to vote.
When should I use XMPP and and RPC ?
What exactly could the federal government do about it? Force the states to nominate electors by some other process? Toss out the states votes? I’m not concern trolling I honestly can’t come up with a response that doesn’t seem like a disaster.
I agree. I get the impression that he formalized several problems and provided a solution to them, e.g. the Dining Philosophers Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem

I think he is actually underrated. I'd have liked to be introduced to his proof notations during some formal courses on my CS formation, which was never mentioned.
I have not used GraphQL in practice so I can't directly compare them.

What I can say is that in terms of flexibility, protobufs by nature provide us with forward and backward compatibility. We can easily add new fields and eventually deprecate old ones, evolving the API similarly to GraphQL.

Apparently, gRPC also has some introspection capabilities like GraphQL (since again you have a clear protobuf schema) but I have never used them in my clients, and perhaps they are not as baked into the system as in GraphQL.
correct. There 10000 times error: there is actually ~0.011 fatalities per million miles (not ~110)
When to Expect Election Results in Every State
Say you're china, where part of your country is 3rd world, part industrialized. Say all your competitors are 1st world countries reliant on technology. You already censor the internet, if you could 'survive and thrive' without satellite/space tech, while other countries couldn't (or would have a hard time), wouldn't you be the winner if you could simply knock out space satellites by creating a Kessler effect? You move the countries tech back space-wise and communications wise, but you make it easier to win wars/battles on land potentially and expand your territory, or at the least cripple adversaries like the U.S. or Russia.
Annoyingly people seem to rob them out of other equipment destroying it in the process.
Hey HN,

I've been working on a Chrome extension to visualize trends right inside Google search.

It's pretty simple: a trend chart is added for each term that you search so you can see at a glance if it's trendy or not.

You can check if the term is trendy in different countries.

In addition, you can check more details on the trend by going to our main site.

It's a beta but it works, so all feedback is welcome!
Thanks,
Mike
What comes after? Revolution or reclusion, I opted for reclusion as I don't have the stomach for the violence required to revolt.

Sounds to me like You might have gotten your fill of political outrage and are feeling just a little disenfranchised with the whole system.

There is no rule that says You need to continue struggling and fighting within the game set out before You. It is just a bit more difficult for You to opt out given your current location.

I moved away from the BS almost 3 years ago and it was the best decision I ever made, now is an even better time to do it. With the acceptance of remote working you can move anywhere in the US and still earn a decent income.

I know it is hard to leave a city you fell in love with but honestly the city I lived in wasn't the same city anymore. Sort of like an abusive relationship, while you're in it You can't see how bad it is, only after leaving do You wonder how You could have stayed so long.

Between the parasitic rich and parasitic lazy You are being sucked dry, my advise?

In the words of the late John Prine:

Blow up your TV, Throw away your paper.
Go to the country, build you a home.
Plant a little garden.....
Check out https://monitoro.xyz

(demo video here https://youtu.be/mY82F8GMSo0)

We basically allow you to create your own custom triggers based on any change happening on a website, with value presence, absence, increase/decrease detection (deltas) etc.. and we’re compatible with both Zapier and IFTTT (and custom webhooks if you want)

disclaimer, I’m the founder
You can enable reflection API (but must compile your server with it) - e.g. it exposes some well known end-point, which when asked can return you back the other end-points available (services), and then asking each end-point service can return each method - and then for each method - what it takes (assuming as "proto") and returns, also what kind is (one shot, bidi, etc.)

So not the same as GraphQL, as you are not asking about resources/objects, but rather inspecting what can be called and how.
So... it might be interesting for those, who are developing some educational apps, or calculators, or rendering LaTeX, or want to parse from a string for whatever reason. It's free and open source.

There're solvers (not only polynomial, you may play it for example here https://dotnetfiddle.net/ifm7cG), differentiation, integration, limits, simplification, latex, parsing, boolean algebra, sets... maybe something I've missed.
When I played Baba is You, solving a puzzle didn't feel like fixing a problem. It felt more like the instant you finally get a joke, or come up with a good punchline yourself. The mechanics of the puzzle game combine in surprising and entertaining ways, and the puzzle designer sets up the situation to force you to experience the same thing they felt when they found that combination.

Not every puzzle game has mechanics that combine in such surprising and entertaining ways so consistently, but I think this feeling is what most of them are going for.
Wolves are definitely NOT a big problem for bovine cattle.

Cows with calfs can join together and be defensive and pretty letal also if upset. If there is a bull protecting the whole herd wolves had nothing to do.

Wolves are a problem for sheep and goats, but will be need to be really desperate for attacking a group of healthy cows. The races of cows able to pass months alone in the mountain are perfectly able to hold their ground against a wolf.
The only situation where what you say is true is if enough of Hilary's supporters give both Bernie and Trump the same preference number. This is reflected in RCV by not putting a second and third choice. Remember that only the first round takes into account scoring. Runoff only uses relative preference which works out the same as RCV.

Also it took me way too long to understand this which makes this seem to me to be a bad system. I've never struggled to understand how a voting system works before and I've used, STV, MMPR, PR, RCV, and FPT.

I honestly think proportional representation in a Parliamentary system is way better than any of these complicated system. It's simple to understand, I vote for who I want, and it doesn't end up with the stupid situation of an Executive who can't command support of a Legislative.
Maybe there is something I don't get, but N ^ 1/5 looks polynomial to me. Even quite small polynome power!
They'll probably find the trash first.
Pennsylvania has been dubbed the most important swing-state for this election by multiple outlets. Here's Nate Silver's take on PA's result timing.

> It’ll be slow going. Although around half of Pennsylvanians are expected to vote absentee, those ballots can’t start being processed until 7 a.m. on Nov. 3. Simply put, that’s not enough time for many counties to count them all before the day is over. (For example, Bucks County plans to count ballots 24 hours a day and still doesn’t expect to be done until the end of the week.) Some places aren’t even going to try; Cumberland and Erie counties, for instance, say they won’t count absentee ballots until they’re done with Election Day votes, which could be as late as Wednesday morning. And even counties that manage to count all the ballots in their possession on election night will have to wait until Nov. 6 — the deadline for most mail ballots to arrive — to consider their results complete. Overall, election officials estimate that “the overwhelming majority” of votes will be counted by Friday. That said, don’t rule out an even longer wait. During the June primary, about half of counties were still counting a week after the election. No matter what, we’ll definitely know the outcome by Nov. 23 — the deadline for counties to stop counting.
Food Waste Apps: Reinforcing Food Waste or Fighting It?
This is great. The one thing that is a little unsatisfying with a lot of examples of Q-learning is that the environment is fixed. The utility functions are owned by the square, not the agent (i.e. not a function of any local awareness).

For instance, you couldn't drop the agent into a different environment with the same rules (avoid red squares, find the green one) and expect it to do anything.

Obviously you can change this with a different representation of your state space, but that's a completely different problem, and much harder.

Is there any interesting work you could point to in that space? My expertise is in statistics in general, not really Q-learning or reinforcement learning.
Well, if you're a 'democratic fundamentalist', and think that more voting is better, no matter the consequences, then sure, you're right. On the other hand, I think voting is an instrument whose value depends on its results, and that it can be misused.
Huge fan of Hugo here. My personal site (https://ado.xyz) runs on Hugo and I've deployed a number of others.

For purely static sites, there is nothing better than Hugo imo. Next.js comes in at a close second, and is really handy when you need more than just a static site, but man I can't say enough good things about Hugo.
The severity scale used in the paper is backwards. Their S0 means "no injury expected" and their S3 means "possible critical injuries expected". Google's Issue Tracker [1] uses the opposite scale [2].

[1] https://issuetracker.google.com/

[2] https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/concepts/issues
Hugo is amazing and I hope that it gets a huge amount of contributors to help improve it—but I wish they would take a couple development cycles to focus on basic functionality like SSL support in the server (for testing PWAs locally on your network), adding a tidy function (has a minify, why not tidy?), and building logic to use directories and files as titles automatically (as well as fixing the weird _index.md requirement) for nested directories.
As someone who adored the old Sierra games as a kid (the _Quest ones, mostly), as well as LucasArts ones (Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones), can anyone recommend great modern games in the same vein? And maybe iOS ones? I'd love games of those style and quality to be my 7-year-old's daughter's first experience with video games.
Hence the comments on adding a lot more stuff.

I know it's not Quantopian right now but quantopian also started with a simple backtester which they then expanded quite well. I figured if there's enough interest, I'll just add on top of that idea and create something similar where you can backtest both with code and with just the UI.
Someone did this a few years ago but I can’t find the link. It would pass in a double blind test but I suspect if someone realised it was a DSP then it would instantly be unpopular.

Most of the tube sound actually comes from the terrible performance and lack of linearity of the tubes.
My grandparents did some (mostly subsistence) livestock farming when I was a tiny kid. Donkeys are extremely territorial, and snap into this fit of pissed off rage when an intruder threatens their territory or what they identify as 'their' herd. Usually a well-acclimated herd will understand the donkey as their protector. If being ran down by this raging anger-beast doesn't spook a predator enough, a donkey will stomp it bad enough to bring new meaning to the phrase 'ass-kicking'. I've never seen a pasture-mated donkey scared by much of anything other than loud noise, they're brave and loyal to a fault.

Great Pyrenees dogs are amazing defenders as well. I've seen those put the brakes on some prowling coyotes and put a chase on them so hard that they defy physics to get over a fence. Exceptionally friendly to humans, and other dogs, outside their pastures. One of the good boys used to visit for pets and treats. :)
Apple warns of ‘material’ risk from App Store legal challenges
I'll have a look at the link and see if we can add more.
I would consider removing the reference to Django. Rust frameworks are great and make an excellent alternative to flask/sinatra/express, but they are nowhere close to as full-featured as Django/Rails/Laravel. Those frameworks are a whole other class of thing which I hope the Rust ecosystem will eventually aspire to, but it's not there yet.
Why was Sierra called "On-Line" if none of their games were online games?
The thing that shocked me about US electoral college is that the votes themselves aren’t proportional.

Some states like Nebraska have vote per congressional district, but big states like Texas, California, Washington, Florida are all or nothing.

A republican in Washington has almost no impact on final outcome since its been blue for eons. Vice versa for democrat in Texas.

The way we count votes in US is not a true democracy. It’s a very weird counting game. In addition every state has its quirk of when and how they count votes (esp mail in votes).

We really need to evaluate our election process.
If you want to read up on Cendant and the fraud that was this [0] is a good story on the subject. This covers CUC and HFS (Hospitality Franchise Services) and shows how that merge uncovered the dirty accounting at CUC

[0]https://www.econcrises.org/2016/11/29/cendant-corporation/
And what may I ask is the argument you allude to?
Are they actually being human-introduced, or are they migrating south from Canada? It's not exactly shocking that migrating wolves would appear in the northern half first.

Google seems to indicate they are simply migrating.
If you look at the photo of Curie using any divergent colormap, you get roughly the same effect. The problem is that the colormap is divergent and replaces white with a dark color, not anything intrinsic to jet. If you map this image with BWR or roma you end up with similarly unappealing results.

IMO roma is actually the worst of the bunch, despite being the most 'scientific.' Whoever decided that deep, saturated blue and dull brown-red are equally distinct from beige needs to reevalute their model of color perception.
If the author is here, could you please link to kde.org in the post? I read this post and had to type it on the browser address bar to check it out.

Also, has the entire kde.org website migrated to Hugo or is it only the Announcements section? The RSS feed linked in the post is for the announcements section alone. More clarity on this in this blog post would be good.
The reason to write one is to record what you learn, to further embed it into your brain. Why post it? Whoever posted it found it interesting.

I had not seen the others so this is an intro to awk for me. But in general if something has made it to the front page of HN it was interesting enough for enough people to put it there.
So do I now. Thanks.
It seems to me that people overlook the benefit FSD brings to people with busy or long commutes. I like being able to relax and only focus on _intervening_ when there is a lot of traffic on my 45 minutes commute from work. I don’t get home fatigue from the driving. Instead, I spend time doing the things I want to do, like play with my kids or work on my projects. To me it is worth the investment.
I'm not sure what your definition of 'extremist' is. If either major party is getting close to 50% of the votes, it must be quite mainstream. I don't have to like it, and I may in fact find it abhorrent, but that has nothing to do with extremism.
I was doing a quick search and believed someone else's representation of the case. But let's look at the case.

A woman in question has a reasonably common belief that offends you and I think is not in accord with the facts. She is open about her belief, but also has apparently made an attempt to be polite in personal interactions with others. (See paragraph 41 for example.)

Despite the ruling coming down against her, I read this and think that she has a right to have and express that opinion. That when we suppress the expression of opinions like this, they don't go away. Instead they become stronger.

Some of her opinions I agree with, and some not.

Here is an example where I disagree. I don't think that female only spaces should exclude transwomen. I also don't think that my opinion on that should matter because such spaces should exclude me. However based on the fact that most women do not agree with her, they such spaces will include them. Hooray. She is free to make her own space that excludes though, and anyone who wants can join her. That's called free association.

Here is an example where I agree with her. People born male have a significant biological advantage in many sports. This is historically the reason why we separated men and women for sports such as tennis and running. As a result, trans and intersex women have a significant advantage in the same sports. See Caster Semenya for a famous example. I do not think it is at all unreasonable to ban people who retain that advantage from participating as women in such sports.

Now let's compare her belief to one that is more obviously protected.

I'm an atheist and believe in science. I have worked with fundamentalist Christians who honestly believe that the world is 6000 years old, and that I'm going to Hell. And have told me such in as many words. As you can guess, I didn't enjoy it. But we were able to maintain cordial relations in the workplace, and I wouldn't ask them to be fired for expressing an opinion that they honestly held. Despite my opinions about their opinion.

As I said, I'm for free speech. Whether or not people agree with me, or I with them.
> KDE.org now uses the Hugo.

But in the footer there is "Powered by Jekyll with Type Theme". Hm...
I can see this being a big thing for China or N. Korea who already don't communicate much outside their country and are more protectionist and have parts of the country that are 3rd world. I mean, what do they have to lose? Not a whole lot, they already censor tons, and I'm sure they'd have redundancies in place on earth to replace tech they'd lose in a space war. While whoever they attack, will not be as prepared for those losses.

If a country could control space -- as in destroy all satellites that they don't sanction, or require 'taxes' for satellites, could be hugely profitable endeavor as well for the country. Space itself is a resource.
> There is one thing that is worse than FPTP: The Top-Two Primary. A bunch of candidates run, if no one gets 50% then the top two vote-getters face off in a second round with no other options allowed.

Well, that is just plain two round system, it is pretty common and definitely better than FPTP. The bizzare outcome you describe may also happen with FPTP, you just need one candidate from party A and several candidates from party B. The solution is same as in FPTP system - each party endorses just one candidate.
How does debugging work in Deepnote vs Jupyter?
I've been wanting for quite some time to build a device with a camera that could recognize my cat on the counter and turn on a servo that would release a jet of compressed air. It looks like I could actually use this for that.
But "they" can make more money if they sell a better product than their competitors for the same price.

There's no monopoly on dishwashers and other appliances. People simply choose to save money and go with cheaper items, or they can't afford ones that come with a 10 year warranty. Or maybe they don't exist. I know miele products exist, but not everyone wants to spring for Miele or Speed Queen washers or other higher quality builds that offer longer warranties.

I know I'd rather save $1,000 or more, invest it, and take my chances with an appliance from Costco since I can get it with a 4 year warranty anyway. If it breaks after 4 years, I'll get a new one. Over the past 10 years, I haven't experienced any appliances breaking.
New social media platform, Lighf, looking forward to welcoming its future users
Most people that are sick stop drinking. This polluted the early studies on alcohol safety.

More recent studies have pointed in the direction of “no safe quantity of alcohol”.
1) bigger wins is a rule bullies use

2) roads were there for pedestrians long before cars were invented - they got taken from us for cars
5Gbps Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
It makes sense in our system because it allows individuals to vote for the candidate they like the most rather than against the one they dislike the most.

Unfortunately, RCV only fixes that assuming that you have more than two candidates on the ballot.

This time there were 4 or 5 candidates for president in Maine, so I voted for the 4 I liked. Felt good, but honestly, the largely two-party system prevented many great candidates from being on the ticket.
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