skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmmm, only if the investors were US based and potential acquirers were US based. If investment is from UK investors then they are selling parts of their company (shares/equity) in the UK - even if the consumer market (ie where they sell they product) is US based the value of the company is still routed in the UK market.

One thing I've learnt over the past few years is that valuations between the US and UK investors seems very different, even in software and so especially in hardware since the product and companies are not as scalable.

I'd push for co founder status as others are suggesting with 10-15% stake and 16.8k salary rising to 35-40k, OR 26k rising to 44k with 2% stake, can you get a shorter lock in for the equity? Also, make sure they are aware of the new pension regulations coming in - many start up founders are trying to ignore that.
Don't pay to much for significant part of your product and your business.

I think you find the right programmer in Pakistan, they will be really excited to work for you and make so much money ;-)

Sorry, but for this conditions your really think you find a "good" developer for mission critical things? (yes they exists, but thats a needle in a haystack)
I wonder how they manage when flying at night. Do those birds that are more capable night-flyers have superior magnetic senses?
The whole event was filmed. I'd expect an edited version will be made available.
Actual masonry is much more expensive in labor terms than throwing up some stud walls and slapping some drywall on top.
I love this story. It has made me wonder if you couldn't use a similar technique on a larger scale: could you write device drivers for hardware this way?
One of the comments on the NY Times was this:

"Apple does not force iOS updates on its users. However, it does notify you as soon as an update is available"

Alas, that's something of a lie! OK, something of a falsehood for polite society. In fact, Apple downloads its iOS installer update to your device--and that can take up over 3gb of space! You have no choice in that.

And, if you are not careful, you can inadvertently click a button in iTunes that updates the OS.

No, the reality is that Apple is forcing through its updates; making it all too easy for people to reflexively click yes on the update; and eating up precious space on 16gb devices (well, 14 gb).
Bring the red one down, then stack the dark blue in front, and push with light blue to the left.
Telescope puzzle
as opposed to country's where the authorities are hopeless? would you really want to live in a failed state?
Also one of the most useful.

Funny thing though - Google could easily blow all those Endomondo et al. "share my running" apps out of the water by just allowing to publicly share a time-delimited subset of your location history...
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I'd like to point out that 99percentinvisible is an amazing podcast and everybody should listen to it.
I'm assuming that you are a potential candidate for the position. A few thoughts:

- Evaluate an opportunity or offer by comparing it to the other opportunities you have or could generate

- There is always room for negotiation (http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/)

- If I'm offering to pay you in my company's shares, instead of cash, then don't take my word for the value of those shares. Do your own valuation, and factor in any lack of liquidity. If you can't define a minimum value for those shares, then you can consider them as being worth zero.

- An oral agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on

- If you will be co-founder #3, then make sure you know what co-founders #1 and #2 are bringing to the table. Otherwise, why are you giving them 92% of the company? (100%-6%-2%)

Based on the information you have provided, I can't see a compelling case to even consider the offer. If you said you were excited about some aspect of the product, or the people, or something else, then that could go some way toward mitigating the otherwise poor economics of the deal.
More data than you could possibly want, if your browser can cope with it, is published here: http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm
I read the $3-4m as what they're hoping the idea might be worth, one day. I.e. wishful thinking, and irrelevant.

Likewise the $500k. Does that depend on a successful funding round? Because if it does, it's a long way from being a sure thing.

You're being low-balled on salary and on equity. This doesn't set a good precedent for your future relationship.

A competent, trustworthy founder team would do neither.

I'd either pass or suggest they pay the market rate for the same level of equity. If they can't afford the market rate - or can't afford it yet - that's Not Your Problem.

Of course there's the risk they have something really special. But I'd guess if it's really special, funding will be easier to find and there should be no need to make you take on a financial risk just to work there.

Don't forget the Joel Spolsky Company Operating system. He has a solid string of successes, and I don't think he'd operate like this.
That is indeed the exact opposite of what i'm trying to achieve with my idea. 50% is a lot!!

Pricewise, i have no idea how e-reader technology will evolve. It must indeed be very cheap to produce. On the other hand, you still have people that buy new records over mp3's in the iTunes store...
> A co-worker of mine, ex-Navy, said in the 1970s there were parts of the ship where officers wouldn't go alone, for fear of being attacked.

>

Apparently they had a real reason to fear attacks. At least 230 American officers was killed by their own troops in the Vietnam War, maybe many more. It become so common that it is even a word for it: "Fragging". Interesting read at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging .
As someone who wasn't a huge fan of working with UI I have to say over the past decade it's become arguably the most important part of most apps. It's a bit outdated but reading "Don't Make Me Think" http://amzn.to/1o3XMYy helped me a lot but I don't know of any other good books for programmers on UI/UX
Same version and OS. 64 bit but I doubt that would change anything. Strange. Doesn't work with touchpad either
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A quick google shows you'd be making less than legal minimum wage. For skilled labor. You're not going to be flipping burgers here.

Equity? Hah! During a goldrush sell shovels. Don't go looking for gold yourself.
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You do not need to be charged of a crime to have property taken from you under civil asset forfeiture. It's possible to contest the forfeiture in court but that requires an expensive legal battle in a place you might not live (many of these occur on the highway), against a government with far more time and resources.

The money, at least a large cut of it, goes to the municipality that siezed the property. In some small towns this is abused to fund their city government.
No, this is not a fair offer. You should get more equity (founder level, 25%?), or the post should be part time (1 day a week).
Two comments:

-- there's nothing as permanent as a temporary tax

-- the government will just spend that much more; I'm not even sure that a constitutional balanced budget amendment will help, because it is sure to have some exception for emergencies, at which point there will of course be a perpetual emergency.
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Why are you assuming that? I think it's the company asking.
I like the game and that it teaches you the rules as you play without needing any explicit instructions. I thought some of the comments between levels were annoying. Also the little flag in the corner indicating you're over the correct target could be a little easier to see at a glance.

Just curious, how do you design these levels? Work backwards from the solution?

edit: I'm a little further in, and I'm starting to think the annoying comment thing is on purpose...
I would only use the e-ink technology. All other features wont be necessary. So really the most simple version of an e-reader will do.
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In that case, the deal makes no sense. Just do the math:

Market salary (40k) less salary offered (16.8k) = 23.2k per year

Stock vesting in year 1: 0.5%

For the stock to make up for the salary discount, the company has to be worth at least 23.2k/0.5% = 4.64 million

If _you_ value the company at more than that, and are happy with the level of risk, then you might consider it.

Do the math. Think about your alternatives. Get everything in writing. Make sure you understand the contract and the tax implications before signing.
The offer is terrible. Wouldn't take it unless you're a kid with no prior experience looking to break into the industry.
A very promising start and I'm very much in favor of the "randomly click to learn" approach to teaching the game rules. Can do without the comments between levels though.
Breaking it down by the numbers was useful. Thanks. This offer is indeed before tax, etc.

What would you expect in terms of "excellent working conditions"? As this is remote work, the value of a "startup atmosphere" doesn't exist. IMO, the problem being solved is more on the coordination, perhaps infrastructure spectrum, than a specific hard technical problem.

WRT remote work expenses, this hasn't been mentioned, but certainly something to bring up!
Istanbul is massively massively spread out, and because of that loses many of the economic benefits that non traditional cities have. You really can't have your cake and eat it too here...
Because the OP referred to 'the company' in the third person:

"The company estimates they're worth $3-4m"
> none of the real stuff

It's really good to know how things works underneath, but insisting that constantly messing with low-level details is "real" programming (and implying high-level details aren't "real") is weird. Both aspects - high and low-level - are important.

Beginners are taught high-level languages because it's easy to start with - one could create something useful without learning lots of things. If they care about their craft, eventually they will learn all the gory details of the stack underneath down to bare metal - an occasions (bugs, weird behaviors or just curiosity) where, say, Python programmer is invited to go and peek under the hood of their interpreter or libc or kernel or even hardware happens every now and then.

Unless all that pythonista's doing is bashing some boring CRUDs with Django. Then, a knowledge of low-level stuff seems almost unnecessary. But, hey, someone has to do that kind of programming, too.
Stupid bad guys. Smart ones already assumed the NSA was poring through everything.
Aside from the fact that Google doesn't have much choice WRT to DMCA and it's the US government fault, there's this funny thing about ChillingEffect that it doesn't really censor that much.

For instance, let me search for "Edge of Tomorrow full movie". At the bottom of the page I can see that some results were removed due to DMCA request. There's a link to the complaint:

http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=1802711

Voilà! All the "censored" links enumerated right there (many of them working).
"Revelations" is not emotional, it's a form of "reveal".

"After PRISM Revelations" simply means "After PRISM was revealed", since it was hidden from the public before. So, Snowden revealed the existence and scope of PRISM to the group of people whose search behavior this study is analyzing (the general public).

Not an emotional word and, overall, not bad writing in the study.
As written, do NOT take this offer.

At such a low salary, you're a founder, not an employee, and deserve to be treated like one.

When you take a deal like this (low salary, low equity, because the founders have a track record of raising money) you are paying for connections. How connected are they? So far, they've only done something you could do (join an accelerator, and crowd-fund). I don't think you should sell your labor at a discount for their "connections".

(I'm going to convert these numbers into dollars, just because it's easier to use one currency.) You're making $2,375 per month, or $28,500 per year. That won't even cover rent in a major city.

Let's do the math. I'm going to compute a fair equity slice for you. An intermediate-to-senior level developer (7 years experience) is worth at least $100,000 per year. (Bay Area: $150k, New York, Seattle: $135k, Austin: $125k, Midwest: $110k.) That's about £58,000. Now, I get that startups often pay less, but you need to know what you're worth in order to figure out how much equity you should get.

If you're worth $100k (and you're worth at least that, if you're intermediate-to-senior level) and making $28.5k, you're putting $71.5k per year into the business. Let me add a few things to consider. First, you're not getting the typical big-company benefits (in the US: 401k matching, conference attendance, health insurance) which are probably worth $15k a year in addition. Second, raises are rare in startups. When things are going well, the equity appreciation is the raise (even if that enrichment is illiquid) and when things are going badly, it's not a time to ask for things. So, if you stay for 4 years, you're forgoing four years of raises. That's another $60k or so ($10k in year 2, $20k in year 3, $30k in year 4). Third, there's more risk in a startup. People are fired more quickly, and while traditional corporations tend to call it a layoff and pay severance unless you do something illegal, startups fire people without severance all the time. I'd price that risk at $10k per year.

All-in, the total opportunity cost is $446,000 over four years. That is, in effect, what you'd be paying (one could argue for lending, but at zero interest) to work there.

Now, what is the business worth? It might be worth $4 million to VCs, who get some measure of control of the company. Unlike you, VCs are nearly impossible to fire. They also have a lot of capital to invest; their job is to do exactly that. The company is worth less to you. Also, all you have to justify the $4 million claim (which is where the company will be valued if it is funded) is the founders' statement. I'm going to put the startup's value (including the work you'll put into it) at $2.5 million. That's generous. If the founders aren't connected, it's less than that.

With those numbers, you're putting $446k into a startup around $2.5 million, and argue for 17.8 percent. Even that, I think, is low.
The shift happened when Europeans came to the new world and saw it as 'carte blanche' to invent cities, top down, in their image. The Europeans had wanted to do that for a long time in Europe, but had lived with cities that had grown organically. Paris is a great example because they literally dug up half the city to remake it in a grid, after seeing cities in the Americas with similar structures. The trend continued (and maybe even continues) in South America: take a look at Brasilia, which may be the epitome of the type of city the OP detests.
I wish they'd split up the revenue percentage by app category...
I agree with all of what you say, particularly with the last paragraph (I strongly believe that road/parking subsidies/legality has stopped a lot of good development and encouraged bad development to the great detriment of cities).

Dense single family housing is great too - I wish it was more common. Apartment living can be great for families too, where there is good public space around it - there are many people with a mental block against it though.

One of the great difficulties is that people can usually either easily afford a house or will struggle to afford one. The former live in grand houses. The latter in whatever is cheapest. Whilst terrace houses may have good amenity and also be space efficient, they are the choice of neither the rich nor the poor for this reason.

The thresholds thing is more difficult. Transit depends on type but more often fails for lack of pre-planning ("oh wait. we have to build a tunnel now. If only we'd reserved some land for this earlier"). Restaurants/corner-stores are great but whats shown in the linked examples is proper centres which terrace houses won't generally support (within 5 mins walk). Its worth also noting that some existing centres can support a store (where the shop owner owns it already and it just ticks over) where it wouldn't be something you'd build commercially nowadays (where developers would want a modern commercial rent, rather than just ticking over, for better or worse).
Why don't we launch the nuclear waste into deep space? Seems like that would avoid the burial problem described here, and since space is mostly, well, empty space, wouldn't inflict much harm to other bodies.
I love this kind of games. Reminds me of good ol' Sokoban.

Where are the mobile versions? I'd like to play it in my iPad.

Kudos.
Cool concept, not a fan of the pointless commentary after the premise was clear (took two seconds to figure out).
This wasn't approved by anyone in particular. SSRN is a preprint archive, like arXiv.org, where anyone can upload their work. Some of the work published there has also published in peer-reviewed venues, some hasn't. This particular paper hasn't been; the 2nd author's CV lists it as one of four "work-in-progress" drafts she currently has circulating for comments, before presumably revising it, and submitting it to a journal sometime in the future.
64 bit as well, MBP Retina 2013.
Does it actually matter what the motive is? If Apple is making older devices slower as a side effect of something else, (and not informing the users who choose to update) is that really any better? And how can you ever prove they aren't aware of the effect and choose to do it anyways to sell more new devices?
UK rates for National Minimum Wage: https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

Year 2013 (current rate

21 and over £6.31

18 to 20 £5.03

Under 18 £3.72

Apprentice* £2.68

£6.31 * 40 (hours per week) = £252.40

£252.40 * 52 (weeks per year) = £13124.80

So OP would be making a little bit over minimum wage rates.
Ads are on purpose too but they're still rather annoying ;)
Level 15 drives me nuts
got it <:)
I really like the idea and design. I also made a game [1] about squares some time ago.

[1] : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swap-boxes/id753811885?mt=8
Of course. As well as there will still be some that are even more stupid so we can have nice statistics about how successful the new tools are.
Your last line is puzzling to me. Is civil asset forfeiture a set of laws designed to systematically discriminate against a particular demographic group for the benefit of the more powerful demographic group? Jim Crow was a set of laws passed by white southerners to segregate and disenfranchise black southerners, in order to establish a privileged position for their demographic group in society. Who are the white and black southerners, respectively, in your analogy?
to @rtpg's point though. The kilogram (until it ceases being tied to that object) would weigh a less on the moon. You could still call that a "kilogram" but there'd be an easy argument that on the moon a kilogram would have to be much more to weigh the same.
What Snowden did, or more specifically what the faceless, unaccountable and un-nameable NSA directors did was what George Orwell was trying to capture in his famous novel.

The notion of thoughtcrime and crimethink being the punishable event in the minds of the people. Where people are afraid to research something because of the perception that the secret unaccountable police will come take you away if you give the idea too much thought. And there is nothing you or anyone can do about it because the entity doing the enforcing is completely hidden. Even asking for the names of the directors and writing about what they've done is crimethink. Thinking about or asking for the document describing which thoughts are crimethink is also crimethink.

But perhaps I'm looking at this the wrong way, maybe a utopian civilization would consider thoughts of evil, thoughts of crime and intentions to harm others as a justifiably punishable event. If your neighbor is thinking about how to make a bomb, or how to kill someone, or how to commit suicide, or how to defraud and deceive others, wouldn't it be better if the secret police put a stop to it there?

We could live in a post-crime society. Where everyone is un-corruptable and all humans treat each other as lovingly as we treat our own bodies. The problem with this is that the secret police only enforce the rules of the rulers, which has a thicker script for the lower classes than the upper classes.
2% of 4 million is 80k, or 20k/year for the four years of vesting.

You need rock-solid faith that this company will grow quickly to a large multiple of its current (possibly quite inflated) valuation to even break even.

I'd take it as a red flag that they're being stingy, those 2% is nothing when they can't pay a full market salary plus benefits from day one. They're not going to build a high growth company if they're being penny wise and pound foolish.

If you really believe in the company, demand co-founder equity, 15-20%. If they're unwilling to part with that, how much do they really want the company to succeed, and how crucial is the software software engineer to that success?
Good riddance, I guess? I believe there isn't any shortage of good PDF viewers for GNU/Linux.
The terrifying uncertainty of our high-tech future
Thanks for the Wikipedia link. There are many intersting cases I haven't heard about. But my general impression is that Google is not giving in to censorship requests easily and try to go around them in any way possible. See the DMCA "censored results" that are available one click away at ChillingEffects.

As for "Right to be forgotten", I'm happy to see they're fighting it in whatever way they can.

I'm not saying Google is crystal clear. I just don't see obvious signs of malice that is often attributed to it by people here.
Yeah, not exactly sad about this one. PDF being an open spec, the closed source acrobat reader is completely irrelevant to the Linux world (if not entirely harmful to newcomers to linux who go and find the only PDF reader they ever knew about).
With cookies disabled, it tells me I have an "old and rusty" browser. How odd.

(FF 31 on OSX, why do you ask?)
How about "how the Snowden relevations changed the behaviour with online porn"?

Because I'm considering leaving all that behind. Some creepy organisation going all peeping tom on me? No thanks.

Sure this has been researched as well?
Simple and engaging. Nice graphics engine.
Hm, I thought it said it was in the multi-million degree temperature range. I guess you can still have near-vacuum atoms at a pretty high temperature.
Great game. Was it inspired by the telescope game that was on the Dyson (vacuum cleaner) website a few years ago? Seems to be gone from the dyson site now, but I've linked to a copy in a separate submission [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8092648
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Take a look at the average violent criminal. The stupid ones are just as dangerous as the smart ones, and there's a lot more of them.