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Hi ,

First find out your company's worth not just by the investment,
1. go by your time & Effort & convert that into your investment amount,
2. if you market it successfully assume it is successful. Identify the worth in terms of money

As you have mentioned that 20% for employees , that's good at least you have decided already.

In your situation , for the employee irrespective of part time or full time , determine the effort & work accomplished equivalent in the market. Based on that provide the equity for the resource.
Usually Sales commissions are ranging from 2% to 15% as commission from the revenue generated out of that deal.
Fix a base salary which is something like 50k if it is full time. And add the additional commissions of what ever the percentage you decide.

If you can't provide the base salary then think about provide equivalent equity in percentage terms with the condition of being with the company for at least 2-4 years.

Be aware that when you want to grow big , you need to go for real investors. You need to provide them big junk of equity.
This is what I do. But feel free to contact me if you have some more guidance.

Thanks,
Srini Centhala,
srini@absolut-e.com

My Blog http://Srinicenthala.blogspot.com
Linked In : http://www.linkedin.com/in/srinicenthala
My Company : www.absolut-e.com
Thank you, that is a better version of what I said.
by the way,

why do you limit the number of feeds in a free account to ten while apparently an user without an account could create an unlimited number of feeds ?
A few dozen companies? So not generally relevant to 99.999% of all startups then?
When my wife and I went there from Italy, we had a rule where we always split entrees at restaurants - otherwise we got way too much food.
Disastrous advertising?
50% successful, but a total disaster.
The original Secret of Monkey Island had a system called "insult swordfighting". One combatant would taunt the other ("you fight like a dairy farmer!"); if the recipient came up with a good response ("how appropriate. You fight like a cow"), they would take a turn. If not, they would get pushed back. Get pushed far enough back and you lose.

That's what VBProgrammer was referencing. During the Dashing Swordsman sequence in OOTS, Rich recieved a lot of fan mail for referencing MI, but said he'd never heard of it before.
For as much as HN'ers like to complain about day jobs and their stupid managers, I'd just like to point out that this is one of the least professional job postings I've ever seen.

Let the downvotes begin! :)
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I've lost 40 pounds by kicking the carbohydrates out of my diet.

You lost weight, by removing calories from your diet.

I'm losing weight more slowly than low-calorie allows,

So you are less hungry when you don't calorie restrict as much.

PS: Doing callorie ristriction dieting without reducing nutrition is hard, however meat contains most nutrients your body needs which impacts hunger. So, comparing a study that controwls for nutrition with your perconal habits is probably a mistake.
I think textbooks might be like software. You don't build from scratch because you are throwing out the hard won debugging that has gone into it. Here is Joel Spolsky on this topic:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

The problem is that a lot of the 'bugs' are artifacts of the political sensitivities of various target market. The textbook business is only a reflection of the nauseating educational system and the disservice it does to our children.
Practically all of the Adobe apps are scriptable with "ExtendScript", which is Javascript with a few added things. There's lots of tedium that could be automated, and it wouldn't take a whole lot of time to do it.
If you spent time building it, why would you be ashamed of promoting it? I mean, don't spam me with it every time you post here, but if you're proud of it, let the world know.
This is really cool - congrats. I'd really like to see google-trend-like features but on much shorter time scales. Even a weekly-zeitgeist tied to news stories instead of having to wait for the end of year.
There's also the Pkunk from the Star Control II video game. They recharge their spacecraft by shouting insults at their enemies to drain "emotional energy."

http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Pkunk
Just out of curiosity, how is your cholesterol?
I feel exactly the same way and I've lived in the US all my life. I often take home enough to have a complete meal the next day. I don't really know why restaurants serve such gigantic proportions... I guess there are enough people that eat it all to make it worthwhile.
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at least he isn't asking for Gurus, Ninjas, Rock Stars, Zen Masters, or Superstars,
A 'nerd' shoots for the stars, and NASA comes knocking
Another point I think many reviewers are losing is that the screen is NOT a standard screen. It's meant to not strain your eyes, and that (to me) contains value in itself. To say "you could buy a notebook for that price" is not quite a valid argument.
Not you, but a post further up the tree made the claim that differences in performance between white and black kids only started appearing in the sixties.
Yeah. Soon I can imagine a time when we could talk to each other online in real time. Like twitter but without a delay. But maybe that's a couple of years off.
Try eating more often but eating less. You aren't so hungry and you get to look forward to a meal every 2 or 3 hours rather than 5. Plus, it's better for your metabolism.
Writing one's own index already seems to be a lot more work than simply setting up MySQL. I get your point, I just have a hard time imagining what could be simpler. Perhaps writing to a sequential file without an index. Although even then I would worry about the capabilities of the file system, which I suppose MySQL would abstract away from me.
Sadly, I think it comes down to simple economics.

The marginal costs to a restaurant of a small amount of additional food on your plate is minimal. The downsides aren't that great either...assuming the price to the customer of a bit of extra food is the same, the people who want extra food will be happy, and those that don't just don't have to eat it.

Now ask that same restaurant to start serving smaller portions, in comparison with their competition. They haven't really cut too much in costs, but suddenly they're the guys with wimpy portion sizes, while the restaurant next door serves up a full, satisfying meal.

I think we're just seeing the result of a market that's catering to the unfortunate preferences of us, the consumers.
>(Attenborough, by the way, must rank as one of the greatest contemporary Britains...)

True, it's almost unfair to compare any documentary to his documentaries :-) His books are also great, check out 'The Private Life of Plants'.
Why is this being down voted?

This is the same guy that put up this very job posting - he's just describing what the company does!
I think the saying "Those who are most qualified to lead are the least likely to want to do it" (I can't find who said this, but wikiquote has a good collection of stuff on "leadership") applies. I've seen some terrible leaders (bosses, managers, coaches) get frustrated because the the person who falls into the leadership is followed and the designated "leader" isn't. And then there are groups who don't have a natural leader and who are completely ineffective because the person who is the leader is only doing it to be a role that appears to be carry some power.
Either people made a mistake or possibly they agree with yef's sentiment above and are taking it out on this comment since they can't downvote the actual submission.
I think these kinds of posts are a bit deceptive:

"You can keep your day job. Just two months of nights and weekends. Then launch it. Maybe it’s not perfect yet. But get it out there."

I mean I'm all for releasing early and often, but it actually does take a lot of work to make a good application. From the Tapbots guys themselves:

"We are going to write simple but incredibly polished applications that are created specifically for the iPhone/Touch devices. Two guys, lot’s of passion and a lot of hard work..."

How do you reconcile this? These guys want to spend a lot of up-front time building polished apps whereas the 37signals guys are saying get something out there even if it's not perfect. Seems like a contradiction to me.
I see your study, and raise you another one: http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/03/04/is.one.diet.good...

Although both plans were equal in calories, half the group followed a moderate-protein diet (40% carbohydrates, 30% protein, 30% fat) while the other followed a diet based on USDA's food-guide pyramid (55% carbohydrates, 15% protein, 15% fat).

...

Although the amount of weight lost in both groups was similar, at 4 months participants in the protein group had lost 22 percent more body fat than members of the food-pyramid group. At 12 months, the moderate-protein dieters had lost 38 percent more body fat.

...

Average weight loss for the protein group was 23 percent higher than the food-pyramid group, with 31 percent of "completers" in the protein group losing more of than 10 percent of their initial body weight versus 21 percent of the food-pyramid group.
Yeah, restaurants/grocery stores definitely compete more on quantity than quality, at least for some things, in the US, than in "Europe" (meaning that corner of Europe that I'm familiar with), where people will discriminate amongst products and buy the better ones.
A system with balance, focus, and stamina might be interesting. You could simulate different fighting styles using these quantities. (For example, one style could emphasize stamina -- it would greatly impact the opponent's stamina, but at great cost to your own balance.)
Yeah, but I find that unless I'm vigilant, my portion sizes creep up just a little every few times I eat the same meal (if I'm fixing it myself). Eating more often while eating less seems likely to eventually end up with me eating normal-sized meals 5-6 times a day. :)

One of the major benefits to prepared meals (like frozen dinners) is that you can't add "just a little" more because you feel hungrier today.
A little suggestions: the people who knew him personaly could start putting factual information that they have easier access to: his real name, exact birth and death date, where he was born, where he studied, where he lived, someone famous in his family.

Other facts that would help: when his pages were published for the first time, who helped with hosting, when he decided to change cracking content for searching stuff, etc.

He gave some talks at conferences and knew some famous people. Who, when, where? The family can assist with references. Don't forget to keep searching Google: people that knew him could be writing right now something that could be accepted as a reference.

And don't be confrontational with wikipedists! They seem to be taking a constructive approach.
Almost the only reason you'd need to use R. I cringe when professors ask their students to use non-free software when equivalent or better free alternative exist.
Disclaimer: I'm based in Bloomington, IN and met the sproutbox founders a few times.

In the first dotcom crash, I worked for an incubator that had a similar approach: providing talents and services to 'idea people' while running our own project. It was a complete failure and closed in less than a year. Our own project failed to bring any revenue, and the other projects we started lacked any sort of commitment from the 'idea people'. We also had a short runway and an oversized team which prevented us from adapting to changing circumstances.

There are a couple things that makes me much more optimistic about Sproutbox chances. First, their team is much more talented that ours ever was. They could (and did) just build their own apps and be very successful.

Secondly, they focus on revenue-generating businesses. They may not start the next twitter or youtube, but that makes them much more likely to be around long enough to get your idea off to a good start.
Funny, the caption of the picture is "Webserver CPU...anyone guess what the drop is from? (Flickr Staff, don't answer :) )"

Is this supposed to be obvious? Otherwise, how did you know?
Let me add to your post. The edge cool technology can give you only counts if the markets perceive it.
For the most recent trends you can check out the hot topics. We also want to do news updates regularly - follow @scoopler and you'll get updates soon!
Unrelated, but why is calorie still used for food and not kilojoule? I kind of like the whole SI-unit comparison advantage, for geek values.
Just wanted to say thanks for your effort, as a +Fravia semi-fan
Sounds like he is talking about a specific cloud, rather than clouds in general.
BTW, "lang" == german for "long"
This paper covers a lot of the basics in addition to the complex stuff I don't understand yet. I'll definitely be keeping it saved as a general R reference as I do more work in R.
okay, it's here:
http://twitya.com/

I am proud of it, traffic hasn't really climbed even after spikes from being linked elsewhere, like on a TC comment, so I'm thinking it's more of a very niche site.

It avg's only about 50 uniques a day.
So for starters, if by "macroscopic" you mean a object that has a finite size (as opposed to point objects), then the problem is underspecified, because you didn't give a model of the finite size objects' behavior under the action of external forces (the model typically used in classical mechanics is that of a rigid body, which means we assume a bunch of points which act on one another with forces necessary to keep the distances between points constant; but it cannot be used for relativistic systems.)

If we're talking about points, then the problem cannot be solved in classical electrodynamics because the classical electrodynamics doesn't address the issue of a charge interacting with its own field (for example, an accelerating charged particle emits radiation which slows it down, so called Bremsstrahlung; this phenomenon is not fully tractable withing the framework of classical electrodynamics; it is solved in quantum electrodynamics, to the extent that anything is.)
I've previously said

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=555734

that I admire Hacker News participants who can grapple with factual statements, regardless of who made them. It doesn't really interest me who said something, if what was said might be true and is worth considering. As robg, the original submitter of this thread points out, the submitted article cites the research work of a researcher whose political opinions may be very different from the columnist who wrote the submitted article.
Just before summer has the highest spike (other than New Years) in weight topics: http://www.google.com/trends?q=weight+loss&ctab=0&ge...
Yes Google is pretty fast for newly published static content. However, it's difficult to use for events happening right now. From the feedback we've got, people like real-time results because its engaging and effortless, a little like watching TV.
Look at the other 2 lines of the caption.
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I also believe in accumulating goodwill (or debt, if you prefer :-)

If a graphic designer helps me 10 times with a 1-hour task, eventually I owe them a full day, correct? Which makes it easier for me as a programmer to contribute something meaningful to them.

The trick is to keep the right balance so that you don't get into a huge amount of debt with no way to repay it (sounds familiar?).

Also, there are many other things that you can help a graphic designer with. Good will includes introducing that person to opportunities that you are aware of, etc. Just like the poster did in his blog: that's free publicity, that may (or may not) generate some business for the graphic designer.

Call it karma. Help out if you can, don't expect an immediate barter. But in the long run, we all win.
I was pleasantly surprised. Triglycerides went down and HDL went up after about two months on the diet -- the ratio improved immensely. Total cholesterol was up a bit, but I had expected that. I'm going to get my cholesterol checked again in a year or so.
of course. i wasn't certain from context that you were running it against an non-primary key.
New Math, at least if you are talking about the version espoused by the 1989 NCTM

The preferred term for that would be "reform math," and "new math" is best reserved for the kind of math instruction I had in school in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

But, no, Alex, reform math is not universally regarded as best practice. I'm a member of NCTM (by virtue of winning the Mathematical Association of America's Edith May Sliffe award for middle school mathematics coaching) and I am appalled at the approach NCTM takes to curriculum reform. Much better math instruction can be found in Taiwan (I read Chinese, and I own the textbooks), the urban parts of China, Japan (I have seen translated textbooks), and Singapore (I USE the Singapore textbooks to teach my own children, and their approach to coach the children whose performance helped me win my coaching award).

The United States could do better in math by setting aside "reform math," and it could definitely do better in reading by setting aside "whole language" reading instruction. I think the author you cite sincerely believes what he wrote, and I like what he writes about some other subjects, but I think he is sincerely wrong about the overall effect of "whole language" reading instruction and "reform math" math instruction.
My personal experience with this bears it out; an HFCS soda will be consumed quickly (and I feel unsatisfied) but a sugar one is better to sip through, and I get a better sense of its impact as well.
You sound critical. Is black culture in America a success? The basic approach to reverse a bad culture is to take its saplings and replant them. Academics don't like this for one reason or another, maybe it seems too easy, but hey, crazy thing, reacculturation works.
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Why don't you try submitting it directly to HN, Digg, Reddit, <whatever>? If you have an interesting tool, I'm sure people will upvote. In fact, proggit loves homegrown projects.
How patronizing: "He goes to school dances (but not clubs) and has never had a girlfriend. Asked if his new science stardom might help land one, he replies: I haven't thought about that."

When will society ask the new starlets and Oscar winners how often they help out in the community or go to the library/museum/gallery when there isn't a gala on, or if they have ever written an academic paper which contributes anything to society?
All right. My point is that even with the most recent changes in the United States (I live in the state with the very first charter school law, and with the very first public school open enrollment law), there is still much more power to shop for schools in the Netherlands than in any part of the United States, and has been for a century.
Since there are a lot of people on this site thinking about this issue and I'm just a lowly FW programmer I'd like to ask: does anyone think we're benefitting from NYT, AP, Reuters, etc. providing their content on line while their revenue stream is rapidly drying up? There's plenty of good community produced free content available but I for one would be willing to pay for the equivalent of old-style journalism at some point. I think Murdoch might just be looking ahead to that day, he's not stupid.

There's an excellent magazine called "Cook's Illustrated". It's printed in two colors, no advertisements, no celebrities and it's pretty thin but people are willing to pay for it. I'd love to see a Cook's Illustrated model emerge as a small subset of the web. It won't need much bandwidth and it'll have lower latency because it won't have dancing teeth whiteners all over the place.
In defense of 'release early and often', the 'often' part is more difficult (from what I understand) on the iPhone. Each update must go through the approval process. That takes time -- time during which you are getting no feedback about the updates you've made. "Release early and often" is a lot easier when you're talking about a web app on server that you control.

I do agree that the 37s post seems contradictory in light of that.
Wrong.

As ISPs get overwhelmed with video traffic, they will upgrade their infrastructure and come up with new strategies to deliver video content to users.
Losing 150 lbs in about a year is roughly 2.88 lbs per week which translates into roughly a 1440 calorie deficit per day. That's huge and someone who is on a 500 calorie deficit per day will have a much different experience than you.

Perhaps the degree of your calorie restriction was necessary to lose the amount of weight you did in the amount of time you wanted (and that's a really impressive accomplishment regardless of what happened after), but I think many people will find that just by adjusting their portions so they're not consuming an unnecessary.

Put into the broad context of this thread, do you think that consumption of carbohydrates specifically as compared to proteins has gone up substantially in the US since 1970 and has not in other countries?

While we're throwing around anecdotal evidence, I've been on a diet of trying to maintain a 500ish calorie deficit per day since October. I do this through a combination of portion control and exercise, including weightlifting to make sure my muscle mass stays up. I am definitely stronger than I was at the start and I have lost 25 lbs (I started out 55 lbs overweight). That's much, much slower progress than you, but as long as I stagger meals properly throughout the day, I don't have any prolonged period of hunger.
Why don't you read Taubes' book?

Let me count up my "low-calorie" eating from yesterday.

1 whole chicken, baked: about 2000 calories.
1/2 pound of 83% lean ground beef, grilled, with 3oz cheese: about 800 calories
Chocolate Mousse (made from 100% cacao chocolate + heavy cream + splenda): 500 or so calories, mostly from 1/2 cup of heavy cream
3 hard boiled eggs: 200 calories

Total: 3500 calories

Oh yeah, I'm living the "low-calorie" life. Thanks for pointing that out to me.
Is it just me or did NatGeo start doing this in recent years?
As a kid I remember nature documentaries which were very much like a video zoology lesson. But over the years things drifted farther and farther into entertainment.

Is there a way out of this? Can we do something with the long tail, where there's different edits of a show and you sell the different versions to different audiences?

Entertainment for the masses, education for the rest of us.
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Extending this interesting question, what research process should a person engage in to independently check the answers that the start-up company gives to the questions?
I know what you mean, I caught myself doing that at first. What I do now is make sure the meals I have are very high protein and I eat a little more slowly. After a week or so I find myself getting satisfied by the smaller meals.
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