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Ask HN: Stock options as a contractor?
Hey there,

I guy I once co-founded a company with (which we firesold for a big of profit) has approached me to help with a new startup he is doing, but instead of self bootstrapping like we did last time, he's got some solid venture capital lined up. Under no circumstances do I ever want to work as an employee for this guy again, however he wants me more in a consulting role to make sure the correct technologies are used from the get-go and some quick prototypes (something I'm good at at this domain).

As the backing seems solid, I'm pretty positive I can get a good rate on the consulting, but as this guy also seems to have an ass full of horseshoes, I'm wondering if consultants/contractors are ever offered options in a fresh startup? I'm just trying to flesh out my knowledge before we finalize my rate.

Thanks.
This is pretty damned cool, and it looks like there is a lot of thought out content backing it....I thought I'd look at it and move on, but I've been playing it for awhile
You got through the speech?
Weirdly enough that article mentions Dyche as the skipper and she's only listed as "a woman named Evi". AFAIK she's the shipowner and has plenty of experience as captain as well as being the most well known person on board(1), but I guess either the reporter didn't do their research or the authorities only mentioned Dyche.

(1) Beyond her general profile in CS and administration a quick google check shows 136,000 hits for her name and 13,000 for "David Dyche", almost all of which appear to be someone else.
That is why it is always college students who take the chances; (see student protests of the 1960s and the Tiananmen Square protests in the late 1980s), like all young people they think they are immortal and they don't have any tangible and valuable assets yet like a job or a spouse.
It's a common enough optimization for JS engines in some form.

In particular, if the closure only reads the variable and nothing can write it, it's way cheaper in terms of performance to just create a separate lexical environment for the closure that contains the things it reads so that you don't have to keep walking up the scope chain on bareword lookups in the closure.

The fact that things then end up not referenced and can be gced is just a side-effect of the primary goal of the optimization: faster access to variables in a closure.
Note that the TL;DR may well be V8-specific; other engines optimize closures differently and may not have the same action-at-a-distance interaction between closures.

But the real killer is that you can't tell which closures will keep what alive unless you assume that every closure keeps everything it closes over (even if it doesn't use it) alive. Nothing in the ES spec requires them not to...
Except for the fact that being on the no-fly list means you can't even enter US airspace regardless of your origin and destination and many (most?) flights from Canada still pass through US airspace. Same thing with most Mexican flights to Europe.

Here are some eye-opening stories:

http://papersplease.org/wp/2011/02/16/british-man-marooned-i...

http://papersplease.org/wp/2011/05/25/us-intervenes-to-block...

http://papersplease.org/wp/2011/07/25/mexico-barcelona-fligh...

http://papersplease.org/wp/2009/05/16/air-france-passenger-d...

http://papersplease.org/wp/2010/06/07/another-paris-mexico-f...
I would be interested to hear how his statements support your claim bout NSA/GCHQ because I see only a very thin connection.
OK, where are those elementary school teachers who care about tau then?
Thanks very much!

I know next to nothing about Windows Command and python. Tried to apply your method and "path-to-py27" is not recognised.

Does it mean that i should put the path to the Python 27 program directory? in what form exactly (on my computer, it is at C:\Python27.

Or does it just mean the path to the directory where the app is already?

I tried without C:\path-to-py27, just typing "reader_archive\reader_archive.py --output-directory C:\mystuff" and got the following response: "Traceback (most recent call last:)
File "C:\mihaip-readerisdead
set PYTHON_HOME=C:\mihaip-readerisdead\reader_archive\reader_archive.py, line 12, in <module>
import base.api
ImportError: No module named base.api

Any idea?
> Inference : ClojureCLR seems to be dead :(

For at least a few years now.

I remember watching a Hickey talk where I think I recall him saying it was even before 2011, but the exact name escapes me at the moment. However, I was able to find this snippet from 2011:

Fogus: Clojure was once in parallel development on both the JVM and the CLR, why did you eventually decide to focus in on the former?

Hickey: I got tired of doing everything twice, and wanted instead to do twice as much.

http://codequarterly.com/2011/rich-hickey/
Game developers should learn that Amish people exist, at which point they're aware that all computer-related things will have people who choose to not them. They'll also learn that it's not a big deal.
The article is just awash in good points.
Some of the points will really hit hard:
"This is still America. Cash!"
(from the movie 'Seabiscuit').

Long ago Google was getting more revenue
from outside the US than inside; so,
the article outlines in effect how Google
is in line to take a torpedo in 1/2 + of
their revenue.

If my start up works, then I, too, will
have international users. Chuck Schumer,
listen up: We're talking $ for NY.

Here's what I think will happen:

(1) Nearly
all politicians will run for cover and
keep their heads down, issue cliches and
platitudes, and do nothing important.

(2) Legal cases are and will be brought.
E.g., apparently Google is bringing a case.
By now there have to be a lot of people
with 'standing' to bring cases -- how
about 130 million or so Verizon
customers?
A standard claim of those cases will be
violation of at least the Fourth
Amendment.

(3) The cases will make it to the
SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the US)
which will accept some of the more
important cases.

(4) Whatever opinions the SCOTUS
hands down, bet your last penny that
the SCOTUS will, as a no-brainer,
have
the Constitution and the Fourth
Amendment come out 100%
iron-clad whole. For the NSA
behavior, the FISA 'court',
the 'Patriot Act', expendable!

Then all the politicians can
come out of hiding and blame
the SCOTUS and otherwise
philosophize,
posture, pontificate, genuflect,
etc.

But it does help that a lot
of ordinary citizens, at HN,
The Atlantic, EFF, ACLU,
etc. agree with the OP.

It also helps that little
Ecuador just told the big,
bad, mean US to take their
NSA and stuff it up their
wherever and, besides,
stuff the 'trade agreement',
and, besides, here's $24 million
apparently the US needs to
educate its citizens on the
Constitution.

I'm a fully loyal US citizen,
but I do remember

"Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

So, I've got "freedom of speech".

And I don't
have to agree with
some of the worst of W, Cheney,
Obama, Hillary, or, now,
the guy, what's his name,
you know, the one supported
by H. J. Heinz and its 57
varieties, our current
Secretary of State,
the little hyperflexible
invertebrate
John Kerry,
and to think I voted for that
twit for president.

Thank you, thank you, thank you
SCOTUS, the Constitution,
and the founding fathers.
Now we learn again how much
we need you!

Jihaders, expect no comfort,
and you will have none. The
NSA people were never the brightest
bulbs on the tree, and we don't
need their new work since 9/11
to defend the US.
Yes, having a lot or large feeds was buggy. That's been fixed just now.
you need a torch
I put my computer on youtube's google io talk whenever I can't get to sleep. It sures put me to sleep fast. :-)

If Michael Jackson just knew that......
On Python for the Indian college goer
Hey, I wrote this article for my college's student website, to explain why you should learn Python and some elements about Python that are interesting from programming languages point of view. Check it out and let me know what you think.
RedHack hacker group erased all population's debts
Photography changes and democratizes visual expression
"I thought I had two types of backups, MySQL dumps and snapshots of the VPS the MySQL server ran on. It turned out that those were both stored on the same hardware."

Can I advise anyone reading that who can't immediately say "I'm 100% sure that's not a problem for me." to go and check ASAP.

Just a few weeks ago, a bunch of my clients on a not-to-be-named hosting provider all got notice of brief scheduled downtime while new server hardware was to be installed in the racks. Long story short: They chose to use the downtime to power down and move both Dell SAN boxes across the aisle ("to make the wiring neater")- neither of them successfully powered back up (with ~72hr of fingerpointing before Dell admitted no data was going to be recovered). Turns out hosting company had been storing all VPS snapshots _and_ daily filesystem/database backups on those two SANs. ~150 websites ended up being restored from weekly backups (which, of course, were 6 days old - or almost 8 days by the time the "waiting round on Dell to recover the SAN data" plug was pulled).

It's hard to tell if we were lied to, mis-lead, or just allowed to make untrue assumptions, but we were certainly not expecting both the dailies and the VPS snapshots to all vanish with the same hardware failure... (It's unclear so far whether just one of the two SANs failing would have been quite so spectacularly bad... Fortunately these were almost all sub $30/month hosting accounts, so nobody was _too_ precious about their downtime or weeks worth of missing updates)
This article made my day.

The standardization/normalization of the web -- specifically, PageRank, Wikipedia, Facebook, and what's now totally recombinant "web design" -- has ruined the frontier aspect necessary for actual innovation.
after reading all these comments, i like you guys
Top reasons for trolling include boredom and amusement
I played this to completion a week ago. It can feel a little tedious st times, but this is usually because I missed something, and is ultimately well written at all stages. Keep with it and you won't be disappointed!
Will google pull out of US now? :-)

Can't fight big government. China or US, really doens't matter.
> really requires patience with learning its difficult and inconsistent UI.

Definitely an understatement. I tried, and I failed. I desperately wanted to play the game, and I don't care if it's all extended ASCII characters, but when building similar-purpose buildings have entirely different key bindings, and when the steps required to place items varies widely on their purpose...

DF isn't a single-player game. It's a two-player game, and the game itself is an antagonist.
In this and candy box you're not really supposed to pay attention to the window for the first couple minutes. There is literally nothing to do.

Then later once you're maybe 10 minutes in you can switch away for extended times if you want to wait for the continuous income, no need to press buttons, no 'intermittent rewards'.

It could be changed but it's not actually depending on any kind of psychological tricks. The delays are just a minor throttle at the start.

Edit: Actually, to be precise, you only have to stoke the fire once. It's just a deliberately paced cutscene. No psychology there.
Hackwriters.com - Chattanooga Friendship - Roy Valenzuela
This isn't Reddit. If you can't have intelligent, thoughtful discussion. Go away and never comment.

You added literally nothing to this conversation.
Former AppFog Employees Raise $145K for Factor.io, Automating Code Deployments
HIPAA for Hackers
>Yes but in considerations of legality, courts have often held that what is put into law is the intention of the law makers and not simply a set of words.

I would love to see that applied to the Patriot Act: It's well known that the large majority of Congress didn't read it before passing it, so their intent was clearly to pass generic anti-terrorism legislation rather than any of the unknown-to-them specific text of USA PATRIOT. And, of course, without any specific text you would expect the law to be found unconstitutionally vague.

That should also have the gleeful side effect of setting the precedent that members of Congress have to read and understand legislation before passing it or the law in question is unconstitutional.
Show HN: Cornelius, beautiful Cohort Charts in one line of javascript
> it basically means that the NSA
is in a position to blackmail any citizen of any country
that enters into a position of power in that country.

Tactical creeping barrages and strategic `ground-zero megaton' leaked bombshells: upon corporate competitive peers, to foreign and domestic press, other rivals, without attribution who leaked it, where false flag ops becomes trivial with no attribution. This is very dangerous allowing invisibly owning anyone of sufficient value or manipulative interest.

Imagine the chaos if rival states all had NSA's panopticon power and were determined to use it.
I strongly disagree. Gnosis is being ridiculous here in complaining that something interactive needs code, but it's equally ridiculous for non-interactive pages to need javascript. I've seen pages with the entire content in the html, set to invisible, that needed javascript to turn the text black. That is shameful web development. It shouldn't take 10 billion clock cycles to make the page appear. Html, css, javascript, they each have their own jobs, and it's valid to complain when someone does it wrong.

But again, it's only valid to complain about/mock javascript on non-interactive pages like blogs.
If a startup is giving away equity to consultants, then it's equity not worth having. Conversely, if you are a consultant and you are impressed with a startup sufficiently enough that you want their equity, they will probably not give it to you.
They updated there terms of service. Adult is strictly not allowed... as are many of the same lines of industry that are forbidden on Stripe and other payment processors.

Source:https://simplify.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/1173592-h...
DHS Report: Energy Sector Now a Bigger Target for Cyber Attackers
An ass full of horseshoes? What does that mean?

Finalize your rate first at market. Then, if you want to take his horseshoes, you'll have a cash value for them at least.
Then how I put TWO blank lines? To separate a set of lists?
Bravo sir, you know your stuff! You understood me perfectly.
Was Cheney right about Obama?
I don't know if that's necessary here. How is someone supposed to get to this page without knowing it's a game? And if someone that turned off javascript doesn't expect that a game might need code, well, I'll have more fun laughing as the door hits them on the way out than I would having 0.1% more traffic.

(I would agree with you if there is some significant flow of visitors that don't already know it's a game, but not until then.)
Warning: while the first part of the game works fine in a touch-based interface, a later section requires a keyboard. You'll be annoyingly unable to proceed on a touchscreen.
Nevermind, seems to be working fine now! Just have to wait till it finishes downloading.
Yes, you should publish their name and migrate your domains immediately. It matters for at least two different reasons - only one of which you can protect against.

Firstly, it means that password can't be considered "secure". You can at least partially mitigate that by ensuring you don't use that password anywhere else (which you _should_ be doing anyway), that means a breach of that password only affects your account with that registrar - and if they've been breached you should consider all data they hold exposed anyway.

Secondly - and I think this is _very_ important - domain registrars need to be held to the very highest levels of security, because anyone who can manipulate your domain can receive your email, and that pretty much makes things "game over" for anything that lets you use password reset emails.
How do you avoid the beasts that keep killing your guests?
Employ iPhone App Developer to Get Best iPhone Applications
Perhaps "Embark" should be "Explore"? I thought I would leave my town forever. Didn't leave until I'd maxed out every property of armor etc.
When to quit a startup? - A request for advice
Anyone know how they program these?.. something like QCL? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_programming
is this just some js and jquery or there is more behind it? browser db? angular js? I am not familiar with those technologies so I can't be sure I can recognize them, so please just answer...
Launching A Startup? Make A Clean Legal Break From Your Employer First
Seattle debuts new Maker edition of Startup Weekend tonight
This Guy Says He Can Fly an Electric Plane 3500 Miles Across the Atlantic
The new science of memes
I love how you can learn many things from Hacker News comments. Thank you very much sir.
Copy the folder named 'base' to c:\python27\lib folder. That did the trick for me.

After that, you should be able to just run "reader_archive\reader_archive.py --output-directory C:\mystuff"
World's Roundest Object - How to Define the Kilogram [video]
Regardless of what answers you may get here, stick to some of the good principle in life that will keep you happy:

1. Do what you love.

2. You are never too old to learn new things

3. Keep working till you keep ticking.

4. Save money for "retirement"

5. Have a family

6. Be more social

7. Give

8. Stay hungry Stay foolish

9. Meditate

10. Eat Good Food.
It save by itself. So you can close the window and walk away if you'd like. Just don't clear your cookies.
These are all excellent, that wiki page is surprisingly easy to understand. Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_Distri...
The machine solves QUBO problem. You program in the Q_ij and a set of X's is returned as answer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_unconstrained_binary_...
Show HN: Write an AI bot to solve Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
It doesn't run "programs" like a Turing or von Neumann machine does; it's not even a universal quantum computer. It solves certain specific instances of an optimization problem which, in the general case, is NP-hard.
the fact that the movie made a splash within the security community for "saying too much" helps to give credence, as well.

Yeah, it's a movie, but the people who were upset about it being released were people in authority.

With Hollywood's ties to the US Government, it was probably a fake attempt to get their buddys' movie to sell better...

who knows. theories abound.
> since they will surely differ from Go a little bit, due to the functional emphasis on Clojure

Very interested in this. The trivial Go examples seem much more channel as side effect.

While I still need to wrap my head around the differences (and thanks for the explanation) one quick take away is how much easier it would be to write the higher order operations with core.async channels versus observables.
I'm a very lazy (oops) language implementer. Every time but one when I've implemented closures, I took the quick approach of just copying the entire frame to the heap.

The other time, I was able to do more data flow analysis, but it also resulted in a bunch of annoying fiddly bugs and took more maintenance.

I'm not suggesting the v8 team took the 'easy way' out, but doing the deep introspection is hard, and in an environment such as a browser, I can see trading a pathological case such as this for what must be 1,000,000,000 inappropriate aggressive gc bugs.

(See the recent discussion over RubyMotion for examples of the opposite problem: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5949072)
Not totally sure, but I believe it's mostly a matter of keeping the fire going
IIRC the components of "air duster" are heavier than air (they settle in the bottom of the lungs and are hard to exhale) while also a trigger of cardiac issues. I wouldn't want to inhale the uncombusted gas!
Don't worry about it. Actually, you get meat & fur from that event, so it's not terrible.
Lead Ruby on Rails Engineer
This is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE

For those not initiated, OpenDoc was a multimedia document format developed by Apple before Steve Jobs came back to Apple, which was when he violently killed OpenDoc.
I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here’s why.
Hasta la (Alta) Vista: Yahoo pulls the plug on services you forgot existed
Glad to see that Yahoo isn't shutting down Pipes yet. I still run a lot of data through that system.
I think we're getting way off topic, but anyway:

1. It's my understanding of the present state of affairs in most countries. Apart from religious law, it is rare for criminal statutes to include a clause like "No person shall murder another." People do tend to interpret "Murderers shall be put in prison" as "Thou shalt not murder", but IMO the latter is an assumption behind the law, not its content. All the lawmakers already assume that murder is wrong. The law's job is to decide how to discourage murders, what to do when murder happens, etc.

2. The set of objective moral imperatives that exist at all times and places, and their application in particular circumstances, should exhaust the set of all the moral imperatives that we are ever obliged to obey. By "all times and place" I mean "even in times and places where the state does not exist", because that's the condition in which humans lived for the majority of their existence on Earth. So I don't think it even makes sense for there to be a moral imperative that only exists in certain circumstances (e.g. the state) unless it is an application of an all-times-and-places moral imperative. But I cannot seem to find an all-times-and-places moral imperative that could be applied in such a way as to justify obedience to the laws of a state just because they are the laws of a state.

3. Bad example. What makes you think it is morally permissible to steal something just because the owner had obtained it immorally? (Two wrongs don't make a right, etc.)
I was one of the 1.3 million JEE aspirants this year. But I didn't join coaching classes.
I believe that we study for acquiring knowledge rather than creating strategies for cracking exams which involves cramming thousands of formulas and shortcuts.These coaching institutes provide the poorest of study materials and low quality education.I prefer to study from internet.Most of the students waste there 2 years in preparing for JEE.
I don't know why government encourage coaching institutes by asking questions that we are not taught at schools.Moreover, many of the IIT grads prefer to teach in coaching institute rather than going in industry and research.

I am immensely interested in computer science. I studied it a fair bit throughout the two years. I made an image editor as my project. But this backfired me as I couldn't devote my time to JEE preparations.I couldn't crack JEE Advanced.

JEE arises in students a feeling of competitiveness which prevails in them even when they are in colleges.
Do you still think that this trade of coaching institutes is fair and that students should participate in this rat race?
Father proposes deal for Snowden's voluntary return
To anyone else trying Candy Box, a few hints to get started:

- Wait until you have 60 candies (new options appear)

- Click the cowboy hat 4 times

- Buy the wooden sword