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Definitely talk to a lawyer, one who knows about startups.
NOTE: the lawyers for your startups represent the company, so don't talk to them - find your own lawyer.

Other than that, AFAIK what you mention is not typical. Option pool should not be created by "taking" options from employees, but rather by issuing new shares which dilutes everyone equally. You should bring it up and ask that they create the option pool by issuing new shares which will at least indicate to them that you know what you're talking about and perhaps reduce their inclination to screw you.

Also, what was your vesting schedule? If it was four years, you should have already vested 3.75%, which you can exercise anytime. If they take 4% of the remaining, you're left with just 2.25% to vest over next 2.5 years, which is just wrong.

Also: before you begin negotiation, do understand your BATNA - Best alternate to a negotiated agreement. In other words, what will you do/can do if there is no mutual agreement. This will tell you if you're overall in a strong position or weak. This will include any advice you get from the lawyers, your employee agreement, etc.
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Where are you from? Why did you apply for a B visa instead of taking a tourist visa (or visa waiver)?
Are your options on paper? Lawyer is a good idea, and even if you have any informal documentation like emails you should be in decent shape, but having this hard on paper is the only way to be sure. In the absence of an anti-dilution clause, the wording of however you acquired your 10% will help to define the intent and whether you can actually resist the dilution.

If you feel there is a lot of potential in the stock, don't skimp on legal fees. I was involved in a bit of a complicated shares (not option) situation and $1500+USD was certainly worth it in the end.
Something smells here... The drug is taken in a short period of time, and cures the disease, thus killing the existing business model of selling treatment for a very prolonged period of time. Since this means lost revenue from the old treatment, the new drug, the cure, gets priced high enough to somewhat compensate? or, (economics - as exact as spitting into the wind) priced just high enough to still be cheaper than the old, long term option, regardless of costs of development (which are presumably lower)?
> I'm not a programmer

and

> Your industry needs a huge cultural overhaul

aka, "I don't have your perspective but let me tell you why you're all wrong"
I want a 100% open source solution (hardware + software).

The OS itself should have a flexible permissions system for applications - why would an app need access to all my photo's or text messages for example while they only need a specific item?

Interface should be as simple as possible.
Up-vote a story, then find them under "Saved stories" on your profile page.
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Which based on the blog author and the HN username, is himself.
I wouldn't exactly call a Tinder auto-liker a social experiment, no offense
As others have said, the rational thing to do would be pro-rata dilution.

Your real problem though is why didn't they ask for that in the first place. It looks like they want to squeeze you out and you should have a transparent discussion about that first.
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On the other hand, it is standard advice in the venture-backed startup world to NEVER give an anti-dilution clause - I've heard the words "never give an anti-dilution clause to anyone unless they're God, and even then he'd better be giving you a term sheet worth its weight in gold." Unless you were aware of such a clause, it's unlikely that it's in there. At the end of the day, without a clause like that, the parties with the controlling stake in a company can issue shares to whomever they want - I'm assuming that they're issuing shares to themselves and not to you in order to implement this options-pool extension, and not literally taking away your (vested) common stock - now THAT would be illegal. My understanding is that there are some SEC regulations that prevent them from just distributing shares to a few people, but these are hard to enforce, and you'd need to basically sue your cofounders without a guarantee of success (e.g. what Savarin tried to do at Facebook).
Have you, you know, TALKED TO THE REST of the founders? I don't think they are out to get you and in the process distract the startup or get terrible press.

Seems people here are talking about lawyering up too fast, without knowing whether a proportional dilution has even been discussed.
What's the proper response to those handful of restaurants that scam tourists who fail to read the menu charging outrageous prices? If only there were some online site I could find out of a business is a rip off before I patronize it.
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Fantastic Article.

Three weeks ago I hit absolute rock bottom with exhaustion from working hard for the last 2 years (I worked out I've been working 70-80 hour weeks since Dev 2010 with 8 days off in 4 years).

I resolved to get my life sorted out, I cut back work hours drastically, started riding my bike more and went to the Doctors to get help with sleeping tablets and pain management (the last 3 months I've been waiting for a double wisdom extraction) and stopped trying to carry the world and it's problems on my shoulders.

Later that week I found in a fairly horrible way that my partner of 7 years had cheated on me and I threw her out.

I stuck with the resolution I'd made to keep changing my life.

Now I'm sat at work taking a break after writing some really nice code to handle a problem that had stumped me for a month, I'll pack up for the day in a couple of hours then I'm going home to have a shower and going out on my bike for a 45 mile ride then home, netflix documentary and sleep.

In the last month I nearly destroyed my business, my health and my wellbeing as well as losing a long term relationship and I'm happier today than I have been in 4 years.

I have off moments but I just remember how bad I felt when I was sat at 2am watching the moon wishing everything would end and that they will pass in time.

The anxiety attacks have just about gone completely and meditation seems to control the ones that I do get.

I've also realised that none of this stuff business, relationship or whatever is worth sacrificing my own long term happiness over, I was miserable for 4 years, no more.
I don't see the value over using something like Venmo or square cash.
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A more accurate analogy: you read the menu and notice in the fine print at the bottom that they will charge your credit card an extra $25 if you post a bad review of your meal.

So you get on Yelp and post a review warning others of the practice. Doesn't that seem like a legitimate use of a review site?

Technically, yes, you didn't utilize the service, but that doesn't mean you have no qualifications to comment on the business's bad policies.

"I drove to the repair shop, they insulted me with ethnic slur, and I got mad and drove away." Would this not be a legitimate and useful review?
Oh to be young again...
It does seem obvious to me, but i'm aware it's subjective. Between the two, I suppose paragraphs are more explicit.
I agree with others here, talk to a lawyer. You've worked hard with shit money and 10% equity in the hopes of cashing in your hard work later.
> I think the US is a good example since most pharmaceutical R&D is done in the US. Also, the NIH has a pretty beefy budget. For other countries, the cost of running their on pharma companies would be much more burdensome.

Much R&D may be billed back to the US, or at least billed in USD, but I'd suggest it's been quite some years since even a sizeable minority of actual R&D work has been done within the borders of the US.

Quoting Ben Goldacre in "Bad Pharma" (2012)

"In the past, only 15 per cent of clinical trials were conducted outside the USA. Now it’s more than half. The average rate of growth in the number of trials in India is 20 per cent a year, in China 47 per cent, in Argentina 27 per cent, and so on, simply because they are better at attracting CRO business, at lower cost. At the same time, trials in the US are falling by 6 per cent a year (and in the UK by 10 per cent a year). As a result of these trends, many trials are now being conducted in developing countries, where regulatory oversight is poorer, as is the normal standard of clinical care."

* CRO = Clinical Research Organisation. Precisely as disarmingly harmless as it sounds.

> To answer your first point, you're saying that the cost of R&D would still be born by the end-user (patient). What's the benefit then if it's not saving money?

I wasn't suggesting that money won't be saved.

To the contrary - the cost of R&D is a relatively small component of the current pharma mechanism. Once you eradicate the need to (expensively) mislead and befuddle regulators, medicos, patients, there's a lot more to spend on actual R&D.

> If you think a gov't run company would not pull some of the same stuff the private ones do, I'd have you take a look at some of the corruption that goes on at public companies. A gov't run company might not be for-profit, but someone there has budgets and revenue numbers to meet. The motive to cut corners doesn't disappear when it's run by the gov't.

Rest assured my idealistic interpretation of this impossible world precludes this kind of corruption. :)

> And why shouldn't a pharma company have a sales and marketing budget? Do you think your doctor has time to sit down and analyze all of the clinical trial data? Getting in front of a doctor and touting the benefits of your drug sounds like a good thing to me. Sure, some sales reps use slimy tactics, but overall educating physicians doesn't sound like a bad thing.

Oh my. I'd strongly recommend you spend a few hours to read through Goldacre, B.'s book (ref above). The idea that the pharma industry is 'helping' doctors in their on-going education is ... worrisome, at best.

(Hint: overall .. it's a horrendously bad arrangement for everyone involved apart from the shareholders in the relevant big pharma org)
And now think of how much high definition video, CCTV, and other forms of recordings already exist.. and then think about running large collections of pre-existing video through such algorithms, along with the best speech-to-text in the business. You could have a whole new Wikileaks on your hands :-)
Good point.

From an analysis of parallel UN documents, it seems that character counts are about 10% higher in Spanish/French/Russian than English. The same documents are translated to Chinese with about 1/4 the total characters.

My instinct is that character count is a pretty good approximation of size for European languages, but a big adjustment would need to be made for some Asian languages where a character is more like a syllable in european languages.

http://www.uncorpora.org/Rafalovitch_Dale_MT_Summit_2009.pdf
Local coffee shop owner here in town echoed that to me last year. The teens hanging out rarely buy anything. Adults 'hanging out' are often working (or studying) and are far more spendy(?). He counted me in that 'spendy' lot, but I'd rarely spend more than a couple bucks every hour ($4 coffee, then a few hours later a coke, banana or $2 tea). So... the 'non-spenders' really are not spending (I feel like a cheapskate half the time I was there).
A few things come to mind:

Price: For example at some places I might recommend there's a "per hour" charge. Examples: The Workshop Cafe in SF is $2 a hour. The Epicenter Cafe in SF gives you passwords that are only valid for 1-2 hours depending on what you buy. The Terminal in Tokyo is $3 per half/hour or $22 max for the whole day but if you buy a $20 yearly membership it's $12 max for the day. They include unlimited soft drinks (soda, coffee, tea).

I didn't see how I would list that stuff on your site.

Another is I'd like to be able to vote or rate, comment. Maybe like Yelp? I just got to LA, one place that was recommended was "Paper or Plastik Cafe" but I didn't find it very friendly to working. At least half the cafe is marked as "No notebooks allowed" and the area where they are allowed is very dark and uninviting. Maybe it used to be more friendly to workers which is why it was recommended a couple of years ago but I wouldn't recommend it now.
> I believe the best advice for you is to find a lawyer in the state where the company is incorporated and hire them.

The value of this advice depends on the value of the options; but I agree. You need a lawyer to represent your interests separately from the company. It sounds like there are a few different stakeholders here: OP, the other employee shareholders, and the investors. If there are other employees who are being similarly diluted, maybe try to join up with them.

The biggest reason for this is that retaining a lawyer allows you to remove yourself from the situation and continue to be effective in your job. Let your lawyer have the nasty arguments and keep yourself out of it.
Strike price might be really really cheap, though, if he got options before they had funding.

It's a little harder for them to screw you out of ownership than out of unexercised options. But just a little.
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But which one? Can't read TFA as it's blocked here.
Wow, you've really earned your 30 roubles today.

So, let's start debunking your li... er, myths.

> West instigating a coup against democratically elected president of Ukraine and installing a pro-Western, pro-NATO regime

You're ly... wrong. There was no 'west instigation' and government was elected by Ukrainian people, not by 'West'.

>West has methodically sabotaged all Russian actions to find peaceful solutions to the crisis in Eastern Ukraine

Tell me about these actions? Sending mercenaries and military equipment to Ukraine? Shelling Ukrainian forces across the border? Spreading lies about Ukraine on state TV?

What other 'peaceful solutions' did I forgot? Oh, violating WTO principles by initiating a little trade war with Ukraine? More peaceful, than sending tanks to Ukraine, I must agree with that.

> after we have left our military bases in Eastern Germany in exchange of the failed promise of NATO non-expansion

You're wrong. There was no such promise, and there was no 'exchange'.

> The main powerhouse of the uprising was the city of Sevastopol, which was home for Russian military bases for hundreds of years.

Do you understand how silly it sounds? Cuba was Spanish military base for hundred of years, do you think they mad enough to take it back on a such false premise?

>The residents of the city have in 20+ years never been allowed to have democratic elections of the mayor, because all Ukrainian governments felt that they would elect pro-Russian mayor. Instead, for 20+ years, they got mayors appointed from Kiev, some anti-Russian.

So, in your beloved Russia, governors was not elected for 10 years, so you will blame Putin?

> Crimea has de facto not been under the coup government control even before the Russian actions and was lost by Ukraine before it was gained by Russia.

You're wrong again. Using Latin will not bring more credibility to this statement.

> But it is the Western Ukraine that has invaded Eastern Ukraine (with the help of US), not the other way around.

This is so good fantasy, you can try to sell it as a movie script.
I'm not even sure that I need to debunk this particular myth.

> This is the core point. This is why the people of Eastern Ukraine have the moral high ground in their fight. This is why Russia is not an aggressor.

So you're trying to tell us, that if false statements are propagated in the russian media, then you could hide the facts of Russian mercenaries fighting against Ukrainian forces, Russian tanks and APCs flow across border and FSB/KGB crooks in Ukraine in charge of terrorists?

Do you honestly believe this could be hidden just because it was not shown on kremlin TV?

> The coup government has also been waging war against the population of Crimea [2], "it's own population".

Really? This is considered a 'war' right now?

Ok, in this case Russia is waging war against Ukraine right now, by cutting it's gas supply.

> And it also doesn't allow for every citizen from Crimea to freely enter Ukraine, some of them are sent back home

Yes. It's called 'customs', are you aware what this means?
> Generally getting smooshed from behind is a low-likelihood event.

Doesn't this directly contradict the numbers given in the original linked post (40% of accidents)?

Edit: there's some discussion about this on[1]. Although, even a 20% number seems very relevant, and not a low-likelihood event.

[1] http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/07/hands-on-backtracker-rada...
I can not sign up for the life of me. I get my login link, follow it, and I'm not logged in.
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Am I the only one who isn't getting any audio from the video at all? I tried in two different browsers, downloaded the video with youtube-dl and tried to play it with mpv, everything to no avail, it's just a video with no sound.
Seeing pirated material for a platform or another means the popularity grows or at the very least, demand grows. In any case, piracy is not a negative thing and is often used to test a product before forking out money for it. Often I have had to download a pirated copy of a game because the legally bought client doesn't work due to DRM.
Will developers shy away from Linux because piracy happens there? Why don't they shy away from windows, osx, xbox, ps4? Just as much piracy there, infact much more still.
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Just put up SwarmSports.com back to the way it was before I ripped it down as a search tool for sports news stories. Pictures are back, the title needs adjusted as it should say something like "SwarmSports: Sports News Aggregation Tool" or something like that.

Enjoy!
To punish addicts by denying them health care is extremely cruel and unfair. There is no basis for denying care because of your irrational hatred.
What does the phrase "spam follower" even mean? Where relationships are reciprocal (e.g., where "follower" also means, at least by default, "invited sender" -- as in the case with Facebook friends) I guess its somewhat meaningful, but where following someone's output is independent of your output being sent to them, how can a "follower" be "spam"?
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth

Start here:

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/threaded-code.html
This is when taxes can be used for good. Obviously these things are too cheap.
If I understand the articles correctly, these are not Wikipedia entries that were translated from English into Swedish. These are entries created for the Swedish Wikipedia from original source material written in Swedish. The article mentions plans for creating articles for authors that do not have entries in the English Wikipedia. This means that the Swedish Wikipedia has a large number of entries on topics that do not have entries in the English Wikipedia. And will have even more in the future.
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Assume positive intent. They might not be out to fuck you -- they might just not have thought about it from your perspective.

Let them know that you think it's unfair because you're diluting much more than them proportionately.

Help them understand that you're in this for the long run (even if you're not sure, founders want to hear that: stability in senior team is something they value) and you want to be incentivised. Many founders tend towards underestimation of problems and overestimation of their own abilities, and they may interpret seed money as an opportunity to replace you. You were a guy who joined when they didn't have access to the hiring market. Now they have money they will have a bit more access.
Hmmm, looks like I did log in, but the header UI didn't change. I went to https://workfrom.co/worker and it showed my account as logged in.

Aggressive caching issue maybe?
One of the team members here, there's definitely a lot of work needed to improve the general speech recognition capabilities behind it. We also were mostly excited about the idea that over time as that technology improves this type of service automatically improves as well.

Thanks for the feedback!
you might find this an interesting spin

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/04/working-...
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Well, in that case @iancarroll didn't read the post. What he claims I don't understand is exactly what the post says.
Without an anti-dilution clause, early investors can be stomped all over by later investors.

NB: I'm not disagreeing with your arguments for why anti-dilution clauses are bad. But minority shareholders are otherwise relying on the trust from the board, which has every incentive to screw them over, so it's a no-win situation.
> 2 non technical founders, a half baked product with no revenue at all, built with a freelancer.

> Fast forward to today, we got seed funding

ugh.
Please talk to the founders. It is very possible that they believe this is fair. Calm yourself, let go of resentment, and make an appeal to them. Don't approach thinking they are trying to screw you over.
IIRC, the algorithm used by the ocaml implementation is guaranteed to be close to linear time as long as you dont have this sort of nested polymorphic lets.
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The people you talk about, those who will eventually fail more than succeed because of hardcore vast competition, should instead look for the rest of the world first and only then to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley might seem over supplied as you say, but the rest of the world is just waiting for great ideas, nice solutions etc with its wallet full of foreign money. So no, I don't think there's an over supply of tech products and services. What we currently have, in my opinion, is an over supply of few-years-old-companies-trying-to-hit-a-homerun in a crowded business place (the US).
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I just wrote up a post describing this idea in Haskell http://tel.github.io/2014/08/04/codata_diagonalization/
aka, "I don't have your perspective, so here's an outsider's point of view." Don't be so confrontational about it. OP wasn't confrontational, merely pointing out what seems to be a terrifying part of your culture from the outside. The fact that avoiding burnout is a regular topic on HN is very telling.

You don't honestly believe that burnout is a natural part of working, do you?
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Yeah, and we can replace capitalism with a more efficient centrally-planned economy. In theory.
> extremely short turnaround time

Come on, please. Sonatype had HTTPS intentionally only for Nexus/Artifactory/… users since at least 2007.
When a chart is harder to interpret than a simple table with the same information, you know something went wrong. Or at least you should.
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"If you exercise your rights to freedom of speech and post anything other than a stellar review, we are going to penalize you, to improve our business reputation online instead of finding out why there are negative reviews in the first place."
Super cool, are you open to non-tech, non-business speakers?
There are over 80m people living in Germany which is already more than 78m, and this is totally ignoring German speakers in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Poland. I don't know how they came to those numbers.
Great idea! I like how you'll email me about upcoming opportunities.

I just wish I could add my zip code and get opportunities within a fixed range of my address.
This is interesting. I'll generate some stats on the average time https://wakatime.com users program each day.