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What a weird post. There's no reason whatsoever for a company like Soylent to get in the cash flow weeds like that. It has plenty of growth capital. With interest rates so low, "interest-free" loans are comparably less valuable. They should be spending almost all their energy on R&D and marketing. Not financial shenanigans.
83 lines of C code replaced with 95 lines of go of which 25 lines is C.
Ask HN: Has anyone on here built anything cool lately?
Sounds like a pretty good problem to me.
> Like adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, encrypting is a mathematical operation that transforms numbers into other numbers.

Compressing plutonium beyond its point of criticality is a chemical & physical operation that transforms matter into energy.

But building or possessing nuclear weapons is still illegal for civilians and most countries.

i.e. they will dismiss such objections by saying it's not the principle or fundamentals they're banning but the specific application
Even UEFI? Even no Windows when you first bought the computer?
It's probably stupid, but I'll admit I haven't looked at my cable bill for well over a year. I have paperless billing, it auto charges to my credit card, I see that the amount is the same every month, and that's it. If they include any messages with the bill, I never see them. If they sent me something via snail mail I'd probably read it, unless I mistakenly thought it was junk mail and threw it out without looking at it.
I donno, I thought I made a (rather far fetched) case for when it's actually physically cheaper / more efficient / beneficial to have DRM, for all parties involved. I.e. a case where we'd actually want to have DRM, I'm not sure how it relates to copyright by itself.

In the general case though, I'm also relatively strongly against DRM for everyday consumer goods, but mainly from an experience and cost efficiency perspective. Companies seem to spend large amounts of money on heavy DRM, and it seems to cause products to be inferior (persistent connectivity, etc).
Financial risks are as significant as technical and market risks for physical goods companies. Take a look at how companies like Amazon are run, and you will see that pricing, cost, and payment terms are very important.
When I was a kid I used to have one of these huge lenses (it was made of glass and made to make your 12” TV look like it was 30”). I used to use it to go around setting various things on fire when I was being bad and kill weeds in the lawn when I was being good. It was amazing how quickly it would work - a few seconds and the weed was dead.
The book "How Music Got Free" explores that dynamics. Steve Jobs had an idea for Apple Music to launch as a label, doing direct 50/50 split with an artist instead of opaque label contracts.

He'd call Doug Morris (ex-Universal, ex-Warner, ex-Sony) to get him to come onboard as a CEO of that label, but in Morris' view a label that could not cut upfront checks to young artists would not stay in business for long.

Any promising artists would then be schmoozed and seduced by the labels who can cut advance checks and offer real money in the pocket today instead of abstract fairer revenue split down the road. Any existing top artists already have some label relationship that is hard to get out of. What you're left with is a bunch of nobodies, kinda like the MP3.com back in the days.
Terrorism, anarchy, and general mischief all existed long before the Internet and will undoubtably outlive it.
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You meant ESL or UML?
From what domain does comcast.js originate? Does the injection still work if we block connections to the IP for that domain?
I don't think this is reflective of most consumers in the US. I have a family of four. I couldn't imagine the kids working on school work, watching Netflix, or gaming while I try to teach online all while on a WiFi router connected to DSL. While it may work for you, the fact of the matter is that it likely will not work for many, hence the reason Comcast can get away with this crap (well, that and the monopoly).
> The root of this problem is that there is no "control channel" (or whatever you want to call it) from an ISP to its customers.

If it's not important enough to send a note via certified mail, then it's damn well not important enough to MITM my HTTP sessions.
Being sued by Hollywood for a billion dollars and passing those costs on to their customers wouldn't be well-received either.
I was expecting more detail on how they found "the point where our product would deliver exceptional value relative to competing products" - that's always a tricky and important conversation, and I'd love a follow-up post on their process for doing so.

Instead, this was a great explanation on cash flow and the impact of pricing (and other, more significant, factors) on that cash flow. Which is probably even more valuable a discussion for growing businesses - it doesn't feel like it in the early days (when lack of clients will kill you) but in established companies it's often accelerated growth and unexpected cash flow hits that can kill a profitable business.
They probably only proxy port 80, so https would not be slowed.
It's not like labels pushed one another with sharp elbows in order to get into that financing round. Spotify needed licenses, they had very little cash, they did not have statutory rates like Pandora, so giving up equity upfront with a promise of later payments was the reasonable terms they've arrived at.
>> He'll happily throw in your zip code and credit card number into the mix, not realizing that those two features have super high entropy

You will be surprised: you can make significant gains by including the zip code - i've seen that happen in a competitive setting. Where you live probably contains some signal about your credit worthiness.

Having said that, of course it doesn't make sense to simply feed the raw zip code to the tree. An appropriate encoding (most people would use a one-hot encoding, though there exist better ones) of the zip code will be key to extracting signal in a robust way.

>> ... the tree will have serious overfitting issues

Isn't it an almost standard practise now to use an ensemble of trees, such as a random forest? Decision trees have long been known to be prone to overfitting.
Don't mean to be rude or troll but the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the title was :

Stop trying to make C++ happen, it's not going to happen.
isn't comcast owned by NBC?

that means they have a distinct corporate interest in protecting their IP (legitimate or not is another discussion).
Nice, down voted for someone not agreeing with me. I'd rather know what you though was wrong with what I wrote.

I've always wanted to know how things are done internally. Makes me a better programmer. What I said about all this extra conversion does to performance is correct, especially when scaling up.

And my choice to use UTF-8 internally is a valid way to do things. I make sure that what comes in from the outside world is UTF-8 (either by rejecting or converting) and then don't have to worry about it from that point on. The bulk of my code deals with outbound data so no need for me to do any encoding as it's already UTF-8.
Cox Communications also injects js to display downtime messages and data usage alerts when nearing the upper limits of their now enforced data caps. Their response to a FCC complaint was essentially "it's convenient for our users"
"via" is not an acronym.

Other than that your comment is exactly on point.
does the lower cost of living offset the cost of replacing electronics more often?
So be it. Saudi is a problem of their citizens, they should either fight up or suffer. Rest of the world does not owe them anything.
I think the FSF would consider this a distribution and require the backend to be released under the GPL.

https://www.drupal.org/node/173294

Er, actually it may be more complicated than that. You'll have to read the discussion.
I don't consider any single guy idiot. I've jsut seeing so many these "$10 phone" articles around, and people just seem to keep on talking about the "$10 phones" when it is not actualla a $10 phone. So the people are endorsing the hidden pricing involved with these packages. I think it is OK for companies to have these campaings, however I think it is stupid to endorse their tricks.
What is there to say? This is an incredibly obnoxious theft of attention. Comcast has perfected the art of harassing its customers with unwelcome noise for what must be marginal profit. I know someone with a Comcast cable box whose channel menu forces the viewer to pass over a banner advertisement after every fourth channel. This combined with the horrible rubbery buttons on the remote means that to browse through twenty channel titles takes perhaps as many seconds. Add to this "actionable" banner advertisements displayed over the content and seemingly endless commercial "breaks" and I find it essentially unusable. On top of it all, I understand that people pay over a thousand dollars a year for this service. Comcast's flagrant disregard for customer satisfaction, or even their basic human dignity, is a striking testament to the failure of regulators to ensure adequate competition in this space.
"In the piece, published back in August, they wrote about a murder near Chicago in which a father of six had been shot. At the scene, officers found two mobile phones. But they were passcode locked. Neither Google or Apple (the phones ran their software) could unlock the phones, and therefore the data was inaccessible.

"On behalf of crime victims the world over," the opinion piece read, "we are asking whether this encryption is truly worth the cost.""

Am I missing something here? Don't phones have SIM cards, IMEI numbers, serial numbers etc? Don't service providers keep records? Would they complain if a gun was found on the scene but the killer had not made the effort to engrave his name on it? Maybe they should spend their time doing investigations rather than writing editorials?
> In fact I am writing this comment with a small program.

Which small program is that?
Is there a reason to believe such case would have a chance of succeeding? I thought DMCA clearly protects the ISP as long as they forward the complaints to the offending customer?
I believe I, or anyone else for that matter, can do meet "your objective" standards 1. and 2. fairly easily (; you can help with clear points/texts and without cryptic acronyms). I mean there can be literally a billion 'fork' at will, which renders the whole thing meaningless.

I don't claim to know much of mormonism; however the conflicts in such notions as 'ultimate', 'objective' here are difficult to reconcile: mormonism conflicts with Vatican/pope with respect to the core of any religious thoughts, namely, the identity of God; hence it is quite strange to insist on a notion of non-conflicting ideas, which is both logically impossible and non-existent. If mormonism was not correcting some ideas, which necessarily implies that there are conflicts, why Mr. Smith bothered to bring mormonism in the first place? Isn't it redundant, as long as it is not claiming to fix something (=>conflict)?

And if you concede the possibility of other valid new prophets and religious claims possible in the future following this Mr. Smith, how can you even choose to use the word "ultimate"? You see the logical contradiction there is too glaring to work out, no?
Please make sure that the reasoning remains reasonably sound. Thanks and bye.
These guys forced their way into a house to rob a 7yr old at gunpoint for spare change you'd be surprised the idiocy of criminals http://blogs.vancouversun.com/tag/rouslan-erchov/

Lot's of burglary stats are manipulated too in order for police to not draw heat from the public http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE82818620120309
Hillary Clinton apparently used non secure hard disks to store confidential data and we are unable to prosecute here. US government launched a $1.7 trillion worth war on Iraq which we did not win and not a single person is held accountable. These scums in Washington and despicable beings.
One big difference is that I'm fully in control of what I post on HN, whereas "usage data" is far less well-defined. I can literally see every single byte that gets sent to HN, but "usage data" is so vague (and likely intentionally so) that it could mean just about anything you do with the product.

With respect to "exploit me", that was more in reference to not using an adblocker.
The point is to sell your shares at the highest price possible. Computers help you do that by reacting quickly to market information.

If someone sends a buy order to the exchange that quote is listed on for the same amount of shares, it will fill the entire order. What is happening here is that there are multiple exchanges and when the algo sees an order come in on one exchange it cancels orders on other exchanges quickly disseminating price information as liquidity evaporates at the current price.

The point of price is to disseminate information about the supply and demand of a good. When demand goes up price increases. The buyer is buying because he thinks the price will be higher in the future.

Both are motivated by profit, at a certain point the buyer will no longer be interested in buying at that price. The buyer obviously has a piece of information the algo doesn't and is equally trying to capitalize on the algos lack of knowledge of that information.

In the case in point the order was ~60% filled. The price the order was submitted at reflects the 'current' demand, not the demand after the order is submitted. It's pretty good to get a 60% fill when you are buying 83% of the currently available stock.
Until the phone is sent to a foreign country. We have had IMEI registration here in Australia for years and phones still get stolen.
Let's not forget extortion-like tactics employed by many trial lawyers - "here's a meritless claim, and it will be cheaper/easier to just pay the ransom to make me go away (only I will be very careful never to use that word)". I agree with Animats. While police seizures are worrisome, we have to put the risk into perspective.
> twenty other nations

Why not fifty-seven?
The article provides ample evidence to support your claims, given how many items on their list of things burned are people.
Haltec in Mountain View (not to be confused with Halted in Sunnyvale) used to have one on display; it was about a meter width I seem to recall. There was a sign on it: "Warning: Sets Fires Instantly".

(Haltec is gone now, but I seem to recall some serious lasers still available at Halted.)
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Thanks for the explanations. I don't buy them entirely, but I need to think about it more.

> Also, ideas in politics are interrelated. A big core value or strategic objective will pretty naturally lead to a bunch of other related ideas. You can view this as "buying into political beliefs wholesale" but it's a pretty natural thing to happen.

Ideas may be interrelated but it doesn't say anything about their validity. Whether it's natural or not, I still find it incredibly stupid. The focus on ideas seems wrong in itself. The usual discussions like whether Free Market or Government-Regulated Market are Better™ are pointless; we should be talking about whether a free-market solution or a top-down solution is better for a particular problem, like determining wages or building a power plant.

I mean, the level of absurdity of buying ideas wholesale is obvious to everyone in almost every single discipline besides politics. Static vs. dynamic typing, or Lisp vs. rest of the world, or why PHP sucks are fun topics to discuss, but when push comes to shove, everyone knows that they should use the best tool for the job and get the job done.

Imagine for a moment that we're tasked with writing a grep-like utility. If we were to run this project the way we run our countries, we'd have several opposing groups:

- C supporters arguing for C, because everything fast and big is written in C!

- Their little more progressive branch arguing for C++.

- Perl supporters, saying that C is wrong because it was used by the Sov^H^H^HMicrosoft to write Windows, therefore it is evil.

- Lisp supporters, saying that other languages are infringing on programmers' freedoms, and that the only rule should be the one of non-aggressive macro writing.

- Fortranaries arguing we should write in Fortran because in Good Old Days everything was great and was written in Fortran.

etc.

Ultimately, running a country is about solving problems - some of the most important problems we ever face. Why do we accept this insanity where it matters the most?
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> go-sct also provides the geoip package which is a packaged version of http://devdungeon.com/content/ip-geolocation-go
Incredibly astute observation. Housing does eat most people's income.
Side note: You can use

gps | where WorkingSet -gt 100MB

as well, which probably reads closer to your intent.
That was where I got mine, I asked at a TV repair shop if they had one, and they gave me two! Setting the asphalt on fire was entertaining. We built a simple frame for it out of frame components at the craft store to make it easier to point.

My goal was to build an aluminum can smelter. At the time I had this idea that I could crush a diet Dr. Pepper can with my hands (this I often do) and then slide it down into a crucible at the focal point of the lens, and have it melt and drip into a bucket of water below, creating aluminum bb's which would be much denser than even crushed cans. The problem however was that aluminum oxidizes before it melts, so in the ideal set up you really want it running in an oxygen free environment. Way more work than I wanted to invest.

Later I discovered induction heating (which you can do with a windmill, some magnets and a coil of wire around a piece of steel (or aluminum).
" If he can unilaterally declare a Worst Argument, then so can I. I declare the Worst Argument In The World to be this: "If we can apply an emotionally charged word to something, we must judge it exactly the same as a typical instance of that emotionally charged word."Well, it sounds dumb when you put it like that. Who even does that, anyway?"

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I'm pretty sure Starbucks, the merchant, would have to cover the costs not square as the processor. I used to work at MBNA and when there was fraud on an card the retailer was responsible.
It's not that they always don't carry it, and I should note that Walmart's online selection contains practically every product possible, and is not necessarily analogous to what you can find on the shelves at your local store (that's why I said go to your Walmart).

Even if a healthy alternative is on the shelves at your local Walmart, and it sometimes is, virtually all of the shoppers are going to come back with an unhealthy option thinking it's healthy. The one or maybe two items that are actually healthy (and by "actually healthy", I just mean real food; something you can make from a plant or animal without a chemist's involvement) have to be picked out from dozens of nearly-identical SKUs that are deceptively labeled.

Try this on someone who doesn't know you're going to try it on them: check the ingredients and values on someone's healthy food item that they got at a mainstream grocer (Target is almost the same as Walmart, they just have a more prominent nut section) and see how much sweetener was added to it. My health-conscious buddies usually find out that their premium "super-healthy" green band 100% whole grain wheat bread has added sugar.

I actually have bought real maple syrup at Walmart. It was tucked in the very top corner of the shelf and there were only three units stocked. By contrast, there was a whole section of thickened, dyed sugar water syrup on the wall, probably 25 SKUs. Again, the issue is not that it's hypothetically impossible, the issue is that 99.9% of the patrons, even those who are intentionally trying to buy a healthy option, are not going to be able to do it successfully. There's a reason for that, and that reason is that the grocer, the distributor, the manufacturer, and all the rest of the way up the supply chain, they don't want you to be able to buy healthier, because access to more filling, low calorie options means not only that you'll be healthier, but that ultimately you'll buy a lot less food.
There was an organized crew here that would snatch phones from people's hands and run off the subway as the doors closed. They just changed the IMEI and resold them and got away with this for almost 2yrs before getting caught
Yea, this is like what tivo did, it's allowable under the GPLv2
Email doesn't work because ISPs don't always have the customer's address

What ISPs don't provide an email account (usually something like username@isp-domain) with their service? I thought that was the standard way to do things, and it's what mine does to send me alerts about service outages and maintenance windows.
Man your last comment blows my mind. The idea that obesity is a disease people are afflicted by and is not, largely, a function of their eating choices, that widespread delusion (thankfully fading), is actually why obesity and diabetes are so widespread.

I personally know several obese people with diabetes who still regularly drink coke (not diet! 40g of sugar per can!) and their doctor has never told them to stop because they've been told it is genetics and their only option is to cut fat intake which does not work.

Everyone dies of something one day but the number of people in the US who die young of heart disease or suffer from diabetes is completely absurd and definitely (for the most part) avoidable.
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True, but this type of loan has been around a long time in the payments world. These are loans of last resort and the other processors haven't been able to make them into multi-billion dollar businesses so I'm a little skeptical that Square can do it.
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>Square readers are a fashion accessory for hip businesses

Disagree. This is not a consumer electronics market, its a business market.
Because people who trade stock prefer it that way.

You're free to setup a market that works in this way, and if consumers prefer it you'll make millions.

I'd hazard a guess because the point of markets is to disseminate information and the point of diplomacy is to keep information secret.

Seriously, look at it like this, this buyer is a big smart human with a big brain that talks to other humans and likely knows 'secret' information about the company, lets say it's Wal-Mart and he's ordered satelite photos, etc to gauge traffic and knows they are doing well. He has all that information and all the algo knows is 'BUY 20000 @ $4.53' the algo disseminates that information to all the other traders by cancelling its quotes.

The buyer pays a premium to gain 83% of the available stock on the market. It's like Mark Cuban and his Yahoo stock, if he dumped it all the day he got it the market would tank because there's more supply than anyone wants, so he wisely instructed his broker to sell over a longer period of time. The buyer could have chose to do this, or he could attempt to buy 83% of the available stock all at once in hopes no one noticed.
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The point is small software just does less; when you need to do more you either build large software or you put together a bunch of small software which is effectively, from a security standpoint, the same thing.

Small programs that don't do anything are secure but nobody cares.

And you've probably written software larger than Notepad; a very popular small Microsoft program.
You're lucky if they take cards at all in Manhattan, half the stores are cash only.
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