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Quitting was probably reasonable -- especially if you're truly responsible for a large chunk of the code & you weren't included as a founder.

If you still have equity, you're not done yet. Depending upon the operating agreement, you could get a K1 in the mail with tax liability. The operating agreement should limit self-pay and should have the company keep in escrow expected pass-through taxes of the members.

Next time, you should have had a "reasonable" salary in addition to equity, logged as deferred compensation payable through a percentage of revenue. This way, if they make money, you get paid regardless of equity.

Next time, if deferred compensation and/or final equity isn't set, you should keep the intellectual property rights till there's some way to evaluate relative contributions.

Hope this helps.
I run a small blog network. There's basically no serious money to be made unless you're in the top percentile. From an advertiser's point of view, ad space inventory is growing faster than their products, so why shouldn't they keep on cutting rates?
Its not X years of experience in language Y, but rather rate your self from 1-10 on these 14 languages. They'll then pair you up with someone who knows the language you're working with well enough to understand the code in your interview. Also, I've always been told that for the people who rate themselves a 10 in a given language they'll occasionally pull out the big guns to interview (Gosling interviewing a Java developer?).
Show HN: Email Zone Parsing
I found surprisingly few tutorials / solutions to breaking up emails into zones online. (e.g. salutation ("Hi Dave,"), body ("I'm writing to you because...", Signature ("Cheers, Rob"), and Reply Text ("Original Message: Hi Rob, ...").

Our submission for anyone else interested in using or contributing:

https://github.com/Trindaz/EFZP
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Solution: block every 14th download. Problem solved.
Factor, Racket, and Lua all have ffi's that are very easy to use. I've never quite liked Lua's metaprogramming, though (macros are very useful when you're writing bindings.) and my least favourite Lua quirk would be the lack of integer types - both other languages have fairly sane (and performant!) numeric towers.

That said, I'd give a higher priority for the language in my browser to be safe: some kind of correctness guarantee would be nice. Or even, while we're at it, some kind of way to analyze the script and say "this script GETS from urls x,y, and posts data d to z"
"government will need to get warrants"

Yeah, sure it will. Just like it needs to obey the constitution. Or can't pass retroactive laws.

This idea is based on the premise that the USA still has a strong rule of law. It doesn't.
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Why would you care? Essentially when you boil it down to eesentials (ie what pays for your paycheck) Google is an advertising company with a terrible track record on human rights and privacy.
Not true - in general, the reason you can't push down car windows is because they're driven via a worm gear to increase the force exerted by the motor, but you can't back-drive a worm gear.
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That's cool, I have check out CMYK and a few other magazines and there's usually quite a bit from CCA in there. Good luck! I'm sure you'll create some really fun stuff.
Great points. What's more is that they pre-empt and sort of sidestep Google out of a big part of this too. People who criticize the high price paid for Skype should also think about their decision to invest in Facebook at a $15bn valuation early on - another bold move by Gates.
Pr(download is malicious)*Pr(block random download uniformly out of 14 downloads for each server, because timing 14 individual downloads across the entire Internet is ludicrous) = 1/196
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Who cares, in the long run, who won the most coins right now?

In the long run, people with a lot of coins tend to get even more coins. I don’t see why I should participate in an “open and secure currency” that benefits people who let their hardware run wild doing mathematical operations which, outside the currency system itself, are pointless. At least gold has some aesthetic and industrial value.
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I wish Google would sell their reference hardware to developers via their developer store. They are much more keen on giving the hardware to journalists than selling it to developers. And then they wonder why there are no apps? I have to answer support questions from the people who got that f...ing tablet for free during Google IO, but Google won't sell me one. How stupid is that?
Hey, sorry I just checked this thread. I just use Kannel! You can use Kannel with a GSM modem as a "fake SMSC" or you can get an SMPP connection to one of the many SMS aggregators worldwide that allow it. SMPP is generally faster than HTTP in terms of throughput, but in terms of functionality (for example, setting the sender id) most aggregators have comparable offerings in both SMPP and HTTP APIs.

One major difference I've found with SMPP vs. HTTP APIs is on the inbound side of things - ie. receiving messages on a virtual number. Some aggregators I've used don't pass the UDH (user data header) through in inbound requests so you can't stitch long inbound messages together (this is, in my opinion, the driving force behind Twitters much vaunted 140 character limit - if they'd had an SMPP connection with the UDH in-tact they wouldn't have had to restrict posts to "140 characters reserving 20 characters for the username).

Even with kannel, though, you still need to stitch long messages together manually. I posted my sample implementation for this in PHP to the Kannel lists a few years back:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.user/1664...

I've been using the same setup for years with no problems.
Poll: Did you apply to Rock Health?
Did you apply to Rock Health?

Did you apply to rock health - which is a YC clone focused on healthcare startups...
Applied, didn't get interview.
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What is Rock Health?
I am going to signup for 2 accounts and max out the airline miles on my credit cards every month... just kidding.

I actually did this in college when the federal government allowed people to buy savings bonds with a credit card. Unless they have really good controls, I can see some enterprising college kid pumping 250k through this service and showing off an Amex black card.
Of course leaving where you are won't fix what's wrong inside your own head, but likewise, no matter how hard you try to cleanse your mind, the stench next door will not disappear.
Did you use the dropbox api?
Specifically neither of your example posts demonstrates knowledge of the topic because you provide only a basic answer unsupported by relevant details, rationales or examples.

Whenever you believe that your comments contained insightful and relevant contributions to the discussion, consider the downvotes as a response to your choice of language, a lack of logical continuity, poor writing mechanics, or a general failure to make your point clearly and in keeping with the HN community's expectations.

In other words, consider downvotes of your good ideas as constructive feedback and edit your work to be consistent with community goals.
My take is he's uncomfortable with the deal and was likely not fully behind it.

Agreed it's distancing language but my guess is that he doesn't want to undercut Ballmer's authority.
I rarely speak up on this issue because I'm sure most everyone in these parts disagrees, but I do prosecution and I believe it's important to at least see the other side of the issue. I understand why people want warrants. But I believe people thing it's as easy as filling it out and walking in and getting it signed.

As it stands now, our courts are jammed up. Courts set 10-30 trials to start when there is only one courtroom available. People have to wait in line for hours to pay for traffic tickets. Yes, they have to wait to give the government money. Police officers wait in court to get warrants read and signed. They wait hours. Sometime they have to come back days later to be seen by a judge.

In short, for a warrant requirement to be workable, we need a lot more judges, courts, and police officers.

As it stands now, a warrant requirement will make it impractical to prosecute lower level offenses due to the time and resources it would take to get a warrant. For instance, stalking cases, restraining order violations (with electronic contact), criminal threats, etc. will go unprosecuted. That leaves a whole lot of crime victims with very little recourse.
One environment you might want to try is MHVLib http://www.makehackvoid.com/mhvlib - an efficiency oriented C++ library for AVR microcontrollers with a fair amount of out-of-the-box functionality.

(Disclaimer: it was developed by fellow Hackerspace co-founders, however I personally haven't used it for anything yet in my hobby projects. To date I've either used Arduino for its fall-off-a-log simplicity, or plain avr-libc for simple Teensy programs. The one time to date I have been pressed for performance I just included some inline AVR assembly code in my Arduino sketch. But I'm a microcontroller lightweight.)

I really want the ability to cheaply "mass produce" if necessary, but don't want to build everything myself

If you want to actually mass produce a finished product from a development board prototype (Arduino, Teensy, whatever) then you'll probably want to prototype first, then redesign your own board around an appropriate AVR chip and get the board fabbed (probably through a few iterations.) IMHO this means you can use pretty much any development board in the prototyping stage.
So far Microsoft has been making a lot of noises about mobile, but that alone won't change things. Their accomplishments in that area are lackluster and I don't expect them to be able to change the status quo. If they cannot force the carriers and handset makers to implement a reliable mechanism for phone software update distribution, how are they going to accomplish bigger things?
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Sheesh, any other Aussies tired of seeing cool shit like this and not being able to use it!?
It's called "entropy".
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A quick scan of the author's blog indicates some serious skill. Some good reading in there.

Wish I could justify having a hardware hacker at the office.
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If you have a programmers.stackexchange.com account, you might want to put a vote in here: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/47197/are-the...
I am curious why they call the variation "tiny." The mutation they describe is "the deletion of two genetic letters" — since genes are read in groups of three, a deletion of two letters results in a completely different protein after the site of the mutation (called a "frameshift" mutation because of this property). It seems as if they're trying to cast the result as somehow surprising, when it isn't (this aspect of it, at least).
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Really, this is not an article about quitting your job, nor about moving to paradise, nor getting paid to change the world.

It's an article about grit.
"The author is selling people on living his lifestyle, a lifestyle he gained by telling people how to live his lifestyle."

Oh, like Tim Ferris.
As far as I know, he has developed a network of websites (all outsourced) that filter the prospects (they have to go through a series of videos and tests or something along these lines), then those warm leads get in touch with one of his "leaders" which explains the program and so on. If they sign up for it, he has a new person in the downline, recruiting more people for him.

Could be untrue, though he's always traveling with his family all over the world and I know his income is at least $50k/mo
This attack was the first of many. Sony has done the one thing tech companies should never do. They've given people much smarter and more technically skilled than them a cause. I don't want to perpetuate the "basement dweller" stereotype, but the fact is that the people who took the PSN down spend all their spare time at their computer. This wasn't a simple attack. It wasn't just for lulz. The PSN outage was the opening battle of a war.
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Actually, I've met two people that won the lottery. Both were broke a few years after they won.

I've never been involved with an MLM, and I don't plan to either, but I think it can't be compared with winning the lottery.
Your efforts/connections/skills play a big part in being successful in an MLM.

EDIT: And by the way, after thinking about it, the same could be said for any environment in which you don't control the rules of the game, such as the app store. The odds are against you, and the one who benefits the most is Apple.
There is EMACS TOO!!! This is insane. I am going mad with happiness. I really really have tears in my eyes.
Yes totally for free. I just registered a domain on that site. It works.
When you buy apple related products to develop for their mobile platform you are buying the tool chain required to develop for that platform. This is very much different when compared to purchasing sofware for the servers for back end development and deployment. Its like you purchase the iOS toolchain(hardware and software) and sell the app to the user. The user purchases is own iPhone and runs that on it. You don't buy iPhones for the users do you?

As far as backend development is concerned. You have to buy the tool chain as well as the software(read OS, SQL Server, IIS etc etc) for the servers that your developed software runs on. Now the problem comes when you need scalability. Adding more servers to your stack means not just spending money on hardware but on the software stack as well.

So now it all boils down to buying real large and powerful servers since scaling out is not cheap. This has added risks like on issues like replication, back up etc etc.

No one wants to be caught up in this sort of a situation. Especially start ups.
I moved to Berkeley from Pittsburgh within the last year, and basically picked Berkeley over SF for the food, but...

the food in Pittsburgh really isn't that bad. I feel like you are judging all of Pittsburgh's food based on the popularity of certain grease laden places. But, Pittsburgh's food is really actually above average for a city of its size. It's above average in basically all aspects, except the weather. It's still not San Francisco, but, seriously, have you been to Cleveland or Buffalo? Exactly.

The Indian food in particular is about as good as any, especially at India Garden when it is half-off from 4PM-6PM (or 4:30PM - 6:30PM?) and so absurdly cheap that it is worth dealing with the surly servers. Taste of India is even better and doesn't have the mean servers.

Udipi Cafe in Monroeville is as good as any South Indian restaurant. http://www.yelp.com/biz/udipi-cafe-monroeville-2

Point Brugge in Point Breeze is great, and way cheaper than what you would pay for the same quality food in SF. Same with Legume. The Sharp Edge Beer Emporium has a beer list as good as any bar in the USA. Spice Island Tea House in Oakland is wonderful. Rose Tea Cafe in Squirrel Hill has really good authentic Taiwanese food (make sure to order the right things, Taiwanese Chunk Chicken and Beef with Hot Peppers is probably where to start).

Pittsburgh also has this absurdly good and cheap red sauce Italian place in Verona. Reservations are basically required as they are always full. http://veronavillageinn.myupsite.com/ I mean... Eggplant Parmigiana as good as any for $9.49 and it comes with soup and salad! It is absolutely my favourite restaurant in Pittsburgh but totally unknown to the college/young professional market.
It also supports keyboard navigation (which make writing code a bit faster than just point-and-click dropdown), but I'm totally with you. We'll definitely need to look into other input methods to speed things up as the user gets comfortable with the syntax.
As an Illinois resident, I wonder this myself.

My thoughts? Maybe you'd life-record in certain situations. For example, I do not believe representatives of businesses are required to be notified of recording while performing their official duties.
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In theatre, we have a maxim: "Take the note."

The rehearsal process is short, maybe a month max for straight plays. Once you get past the grind of blocking and memorization, the director doesn't have much time to shape and mold things to make the show fit their vision. Which means that actors have to swallow their insecurities (of which actors notoriously have many) and incorporate everything they're given. Fast. It's an exercise in feedback loops at break-neck speeds. And believe me, directors don't like giving the same note twice.

What I'm getting to here is that feedback has become a social event in theatre. I don't mean that there is pizza and noise makers, just that it's done as a group. Every night after a run through, the entire cast will sit down for however long it takes and go through the director's notes -- of which there will be many pages. Given the timeline, there is no time for debate. If you start a discussion with the director, you are wasting their time, as well as the time of all your cast members (who are on the clock). It doesn't matter if your feelings are hurt, or if you have some lame excuse -- at that moment, you're always wrong and the direct is always right. And the only thing going through everyone else's head is, "Take the note." There isn't a single actor in the world who wants to work with someone that can't take criticism.

The real rub is that all of these opinions are completely subjective, yet deeply personal. Because that's art. Ultimately, you just have to know your shit and be willing to think on your feet. In you're spare time, study what you're given and think about actual ways you can incorporate it. The big realization is that it's collaborative art. Everyone is working together and NEEDS to be willing to work towards the same goal. If you don't, you're the bad apple. Directors will simply stop casting you.

I don't know that any of this can be incorporated into the tech world. Maybe this is how we should do code reviews or design meetings. Or run startups. Heck if I know. But it's not something I've personally encountered in any other social groups so far.
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There aren't any easy answers with out first knowing the volume you'd potentially want to scale to and the end cost of the hardware. If you want to produce consumer devices there is the whole headache of molding etc.

I'd honestly focus on making something cool with arduino (think ruby) and then when you need to mass produce go create custom PCBs. (think C++)

The nice thing about the current environment is that kickstarter LOVES hardware projects, so you could quite likely crowdfund the scaling of your design.
The deal is that you can withdraw your labour at any time and seek work elsewhere, but you will probably give up earning opportunities in exchange.

Comparing "golden handcuffs" to slavery is a bit of a stretch.
Rock Health; http://rockhealth.com/

Is a new incubator which is modeled on YC, but is specifically focused on the healthcare startups. The healthcare market has a unique set of challenges and barriers to entry that can be more challenging than the consumer tech market.

As such - it helps that an incubator is trying to promote the YC-esque model in this vertical.

The application deadline was last friday, and interviews are happening soon.

They give $20K grant (e.g. no equity) and a mentorship panel to push startups to further success.
The house always wins; so the surest way to win is to be the house.

This is true of casinos, lotteries, MLM schemes and app stores.
Too much? Just trying to get these in before I went to bed (knowing of course that I won't be able to submit these in the next few days).
Interesting, I wonder if it's possible to extend this to Netduino.
Could HP make money licensing the OS to other mobile manufacturers?
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This is fascinating, thanks for sharing. Maybe the "take the note" equivalent in tech is the acceptance test in an iterative development model.

One question: In theatre, does it work the other way around too? That is, do actors also criticize the director?
The War on Terror, foolish and wrong-headed though it has been, can't be placed on the same footing of destructiveness as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Not by several orders of magnitude. And you have to come through Stalinism and the Holocaust en route to making that comparison, so let's keep things in perspective here.
By no means is 400,000 cells a "big dataset". I would put the dividing line somewhere near 2 million rows.
I agree with you 100% on that my friend :-)

That's why I don't blame anyone: casinos, lotteries, MLMs or app stores; anyone is free to join and play, is up to them if they want to.
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Absolute Bullshit.

here is why -- the first year is 'free' - but the regular fee of 18+ GBP shal apply after the first year.

They claim that 18+ GBP is 25% of the normal annual fee:

"Your first year is absolutely free. Afterwards, you can renew with Yola for only £18.82GBP (25% off the regular price). The Yola Bronze package includes the domain, hosting, styles, and support for one year."

So, that means the second year would cost you $30.59 -- if the 25% 'discount' expires after the second year, the fee is then $122.32

So, assuming you held this domain ~3 years: you are basically paying 50 / year.

Fuck this BS.

EDIT: my math is off, but even still - this is a ripoff
Back in the 1990s economists found that the major cause of improvements for the "Asian tigers" was due to increases in inputs -- that is, people and material were actually used for the first time. But productivity per person or unit of capital is actually quite poor and in the long run, this places a limit on that rapid growth.

We're already seeing work being outsourced from China to even cheaper countries as China's supply of labour becomes fully engaged.
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