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What I was saying with the "destroyed" was something like a reverse stock split. (Your proportional ownership stays the same, but your number of shares reduce.) The idea I was communicating that the number of shares itself is not a meaningful judge of anything unless you understand what those shares represent.

If covenants are not in place, you could also "destroy" the proportional ownership of shares by diluting down to a negligible value.

I guess what I'm saying is that people should always be sure they can trust management, ask for a cap table and probably consult a lawyer.
Correct as in "as the original poster intended", not as in "as the spec specifies".
What a great analysis!
It's the title of the article not the poster's editorial...
This idea of explaining complicated things using only the most common words is horseshit. I don't know if that is exactly what this article was trying to do, but it's very annoying, and makes it even harder to understand.

The first example I saw of this was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_8gx-XHJo -- and I found it very frustrating to listen to.
Particularly since NSURLConnection is deprecated in the current SDK. NSURLSession has been available since IOS 7.

While NSURLSession does support resumable downloads, it isn't able to resume uploads.

The needNewBodyStream: delegate is the closest thing, and that is called when first uploading from an NSInoutStream or when a transmission error occurs for an idempotent request, or an auth challenge occurs when some of the stream has been sent. (Streams cannot be rewound.)

Background NSURLSessions can take a file reference to upload, and ideally will perform the upload "at a good time", hopefully while charging and connected to a stable network. (But it won't resume an upload, just retry if possible.)

Disclaimer: I'm "involved", but not speaking for any parties involved. Mostly because I don't get invited to those sorts of parties.
It's certainly a discussion worth having. See for example, the 530 comments at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10312938
I'm curious of what the general consensus is if we made it [pun] more apples to apples by comparing current state Nexus 5x/6p @ Android 6.x vs iPhone 6s @ iOS 9.x? Android, today, seems to be riddled with the legacy a la Microsoft - wherein XP is still at large, seemingly a similar problem with Android 3/4/5 still in use...

But is the cutting edge comparison really that much more skewed in Apple's favor?

I'd say that prior to the improvement on patch cycles as of recent in Android - iOS had an edge, but - outside of the walled garden I'm still very curious on the quality between the two with specific regard to the SDLC and resulting output.
Thanks, I know what Wahhabism is. Yes, the Saudis who support ISIS are wealthy. Do they represent the majority of Muslims?
Pretty easily. With an efficient data representation, the entire stock market could fit in L3 cache.
How would it get clicks on the internet without mentioning IoT?
It probably slips their mind. This is the author's copy of a conference paper. The conference version is dated by virtue of being a part of that conference's proceedings: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi12/osdi12...
Least squares and regularization
Can someone explain why this is $700? Its not responsive, looks awful, and is slow as shit.
http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
Amazon does this all of the time. They set the terms for what can be sold on their website. If the vendors can't agree to those terms, then they can't sell on the website. This is what happened with the recent e-books debate. However, you only hear about the high-profile cases. AWS really doesn't have much to do with those decisions, so I'm not seeing the argument this article is making.
All that analysis and they still failed to figure out their product is $0.43 too expensive (per bottle).
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Move to Toronto, pay is better than Europe and moving to the US from there is a step away.
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I'm sorry, "no"? "No" to which part?

That ISIS uses modern propaganda techniques?

To the article I linked?

To the assertion that holy texts need interpretation?

That there is a doctrinal dispute between factions of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, therefore showing there can be no single interpretation?

All of it?

You're so hell-bent in replying "wrong" and "no" to every post you disagree with, it's really hard to understand what you actually mean, beyond "here are some horrible passages from the Quran".
When I last looked at them in depth, they wanted to create meal replacement shakes so busy professionals didn't have to waste mental output thinking about food. Did they pivot?

Edit: I can't reply for some reason, but I applaud them if solving world hunger is their goal. I think they should have changed their marketing, though. Their original marketing seemed very niche.
Everything is proprietary to some extent, all big box stores have their own internal brands, and exclusivity deals for certain brands and products.
Should Walmart start selling Costco brands and vice versa?
Neither Google nor Apple allow apps that circumvent their own app stores on their markets.
With ApplePay there is very little chance that you'll have any other competing payment service (e.g. Google Pay, or PayPal if they'll want to go through the NFC route) that won't be using Wallet/ApplePay.
If we are completely fair Google's policy towards Amazon came kinda first, Google doesn't allow the play store and services to be installed on devices which have their own app market app, this is the reason why Amazon's android Kindles didn't come with the play store (and before some one mentioned Galaxy Apps, Samsung doesn't charge money so it doesn't violates Google's policies).
I didn't see that, but maybe the "stop working" part could be commented out in a branch.
Why can't those be the same thing? It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to use the capital generated by the prices you can charge for a luxury good to fund the R&D necessary to bring the costs of their method low enough that it could be a significant and affordable improvement to low-income families' nutrition.
Market makers put lots of quotes (orders) out on the various exchanges hoping to buy low and sell high, collecting the spread between the two. These days spreads are very small so market makers have to rely on automated quoting in order to make a profit. A side effect of this is that when markets are moving quickly the algorithms tend to take a conservative approach so the firm doesn't end up extremely long or short in a position. So when someone comes in and tries to buy up all the open orders at once they'll cancel their orders on other exchanges that haven't been executed yet so they can reprice to reflect the increased demand. The phantom liquidity really isn't much of a mystery when you look at it this way.
I use VS primarily but use code a couple times a day for "quick edits" (mainly to web.Config files and the like)

I'm not properly coding in it yet.
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How easy was the transition to EU? Are visa-required jobs advertised upfront.

I thought EU was way worse on Indians[regarding IT jobs]
Square is also subsidizing massive numbers of small transactions, something that is much more difficult to compete with (who wants to compete with someone willing to lose huge sums of money?).
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I'm sorry to hear this is such a painful experience for you. Perhaps some of us are just so accustomed to moving around that the depth of friendship you seek is a foreign concept. Some of this is just an aspect of modern society -- we lack strong ties to our place of birth and we don't all share similar values.

The only concrete advice I can provide is to try finding a romantic partner. You would be less lonely, any sexual frustration you're experiencing would be relieved, and you may develop friendships through your significant other. In many cases, finding such a partner would be easier than happening upon a person who is looking for the kind of friendship you seek. Dating is common, setting out to develop friendships not so much.
30-35% margins are exceptional in this type of business.
Python 3 is great, but that doesn't matter.

The ecosystem is rotting for 2 reasons.

First, there's no easy way for library developers to maintain a codebase that supports both 2/3 development in parallel. Yes, it's easy to use a 2to3/3to2 tool but unlike transpilers in Javascript the output code may still require fine-tuning after the tranform.

This could be solved by adding preprocessor support to python (ie for conditional loading of code) but GvR is adamantly against this approach use to the way many devs write unmaintainable code in c via the preprocessor.

I actually published an OSS project called pypreprocessor that was supposed to solve this issue. It works to add preprocessor conditionals to code but won't work with both 2/3 code in the same file because there's no hook to inline code before lexer runs and throws syntax errors.

Second, package management in python still sucks. Do you use distutils, distutils2, setup.py, etc? There's no single standardized approach that everybody agrees on and each tool follows a unique approach or needs to be supported because of legacy code.

Unlike the Ruby, Javascript ecosystem where package management and publishing is relatively straightforward/easy, it's an absolute PITA to publish packages to PYPI.

Back in 2011, the answer was. Just wait 5 years for everybody to adapt their libraries to support Python 3. 5 years later, nothing has changed. The existing libraries don't want to piss off users by dropping Python2 support and maintaining two separate branches of the code in parallel sucks. So, since most everybody that uses python in production still relies on Python2, Python2 is still the default.

The library ecosystem makes the platform. The tooling sucks so library devs don't want to make the switch.

Until there is a major cultural shift python devs have 2 options. Use a better version of the language without the support of a mature library ecosystem, or use an outdated version of the language with a rich ecosystem.
At a $40M valuation, Khosla got 25% of the company at that time. They have $10m/$.22 shares or ~45M shares of the 182M shares you mention. They're netting $945M (sale)-$10M(invested)=~$409M.

Between Series A and IPO they had roughly 40% of their stake wiped out through dilution. (45M/182M=25%-> 45M/300M=15%) The dilution happened because, during that time Square issued 118M shares to investors in trade for the investor money. The company valuation at each round was determined by: Investment/shares issuedTotal shares outstanding after transaction.
Your answer to her numerous, valid complaints about the police's lack of transparency and show of force is for her to decrease the percentage of crime committed by people that look like her?

That is, you believe a more effective article would have read, "Fellow minority women: please stop committing a disproportionate amount of crime. In light of your changes, my neighbor will not call the police the next time he sees me outside my apartment with a locksmith. Even if he does, at least the police the will respond more moderately and transparently."

I'm not trying to be inflammatory. I'm trying to illustrate that your suggestion does not address her concerns about police transparency and overreaction. Try not to dig your heels in. Consider that in this case you may have focused on the wrong thing.
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My biggest fear for genetic engineering isn't the making of super soldiers via increases in strength, intelligence, and beauty. It's breeding well-behaved children. I think most parents want well-behaved children that listen to their parents. I also believe that many times society has leapt forward because of revolutions spurred on by deviants and trouble makers who were probably not model kids.
>Sure, but now you've added a router, consistent hash or the like, to the picture

not necessarily. If the HFT companies are using some sort of secret internal API (very possible as they like to shave milliseconds off their execution time), it's possible that they are talking directly to relevant server, bypassing any loadbalancers or routers.
CVE-2015-7496: Credit to my cat for finding this
(From TFA)... "Given the scale of farming today, treating weeds chemically is really the only practical way for humans to keep them under control"

That's not true. Cultivators have been used for a long time to keep weeds under control. Chemicals have simply become more convenient for many. This pdf explains a lot about cultivators and is a great read for anyone interested in the topic of weed control.

http://www.sare.org/content/download/29730/413972/file/Steel...
The problem with you argument is that 8-bit MCU's are a rounding error.

The Cortex A series cores are around 2mmx2mm. The Cortex M series are something like .2mmx.2mm. It looks like my 10mmx10mm comment was way off.

So, let's assume that the 8-bit MCU's are .1mmx.1mm. That's probably WAY too big, but let's start somewhere. That means that you can fit 7,000,000 on a wafer. For roughly 3,500 wafers for the entire, worldwide capacity of embedded MCU's.

The entire, worldwide, annual market for MCU's is 3,500 silicon wafers per year. That's the same number of wafer starts that a big fab has IN A WEEK.

And that was 2008. http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1169357

Modern fabs can pump out a million a week:
electroiq.com/blog/2014/01/tsmc-samsung-and-micron-top-list-of-ic-industry-capacity-leaders/

This is why everybody wants to produce bigger chips like SOC's and why Intel will never switch to ARM until it's about to go under. If your chip is too small, you can't move enough to fill your fab even if you give them away free.
>How would it even be possible to enforce it?

Mass surveillance + "if we cant understand your data and isn't in one of the prescribed formats then you are a criminal and can be charged on that fact alone."
I hope Disney will be more forthcoming on this issue than Lucas.

But one has to wonder why he wouldn't give congress an original edition. Maybe they're lost?
I have a quick question about this - there is exactly one business in my area that has actually switched over to chipped cards, and that's Home Depot. Everyone else goes "lol we don't do that, use the magnetic swipe like a normal person" when I try it. I thought that the adoption date was in October, and seeing as how everyone has the machines already... what the hell is going on?
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That's true for every type of business, the risk that is coming from such order is too big for any sensible company to take.
Many businesses limit order sizes for this specific reason, and in many cases will have even stricter limits as well as invoicing terms for new B2B customers.
We've seen this quite recently with GT Adv. Technologies going bankrupt when their deal with Apple pretty much took their entire pipeline.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/17677/20141011/gt-advanced...
Is this offensive to trans people? Too far?
As usual, arguments depending on an arbitrary ordering or arbitrary negation are nonsensical:

"Is mass surveillance useless? Unless you can prove it, it's obviously useful. See Russell's teapot."

(Russell's teapot doesn't apply anyway, because the thing to prove is falsifiable: governments /could/ release information about thwarted attacks, in case there are any.)
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> Please don't assume that because something is easy for you that it must therefore be easy for everyone

But I didn't say changing my sleep cycle has been easy, and I didn't even say I've managed to do it by my selves. Or that I even would have healthy sleep habits at this moment. But depending on mental health, diet, exercise, employment vs studies. These things have made me have all sorts of sleeping habits, and my personal belief is that these outer circumstances has had much greater impact on my sleep then anything in my genes. And that's why don't like this idea of morning and night persons as it only enhances thee feeling that you can not change your ways.
I'm having a difficult time parsing your grammar, so I'm not sure what you are trying to explain.

> This will cause "labor abandonment" and put more pressure on the economy.

There is no evidence that companies are having trouble finding workers outside of Silicon Valley. Precisely the opposite, they are laying off people.

Companies don't fire a person who suddenly has a green card. That person voluntarily leaves for a better job.
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The S-1 contains a table with number of options granted as well as strike price on various dates since June 20, 2014. Some other data can be determined from the option grants for executives. Here's a rough list:

Date Strike ($)
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July 25, 2012 2.73
May 31, 2013 2.90
August 27, 2013 3.33
February 27, 2014 7.25
June 20, 2014 8.23
August 16, 2014 9.11
December 17, 2014 10.06
March 20, 2015 11.28
May 14, 2015 13.09
June 17, 2015 13.94
July 9, 2015 14.81
August 11, 2015 15.25
September 16, 2015 15.39
Perhaps you could explain how the statement "All software is large" "furthers the conversation"? How am I supposed to respond to that?

You think that false statement is a respectable "response" to a comment on the benefits of small software?

Small software exists both in the past (when memory and storage were more limited) and in the present. The very idea of small programs is a foundational one in the field of computing.

"All software is large" is not a "view" that is in agreement with reality. As such, it is distorted.

I am using small software every day. In fact I am writing this comment with a small program. When I write software, it is small, at least relative to anything from Microsoft.

I am too dumb to write large software.
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Understood. However, I think the commenter might have been making the point that we expect a certain degree of variability in personality traits, and that classifying such a large percentage of the population as having a disorder where the diagnostic criteria are somewhat vague makes him or her skeptical about the existence of the disorder. A person might also reasonably argue that hyperactivity and a broad attention span are advantageous in certain environments, just not the environments where we tend to educate children. Contrast this with myopia and colorblindness, where the diagnosis and disadvantages in every environment are unequivocal. I don't claim this myself, I just wanted to clarify a possible point of difference.
Apple, Google, and Amazon are all playing the same game. They each simply have different strengths.
Eh, no, it sounds more like a middleman scheme...
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As an undergrad interested in machine learning, what areas of math specifically should I be focusing on?
Merchants can continue to accept mag stripe transactions but they do so at their own risk. Failing to switch to EMV by the switchover date in October means that any fraud that occurs via a non-EMV transaction is now the merchant's liability. Instead of credit card companies and banks eating the losses from fraud, the individual merchant eats it now.
I was aware of this definition, and I have sympathy for those who are frustrated with some of their personality traits. Nevertheless, I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that this frustration could arise because of circumstance, rather than as the result of some "organic" problem with the person. The idea is that it's more of a mismatch between the person and his or her environment, rather than a problem with one or the other.
But in reality, cost-sensitive customers will purchase the powder which is quite a good value at $1.54 for 400 nutritious calories.
I don't entirely disagree with you, but how do you explain that the former director of the NSA is seemingly fully engaged in explaining and justifying their activities? It would appear that they do have at least some incentive, no?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michael+hayden
Some pretty big advantages: They are voting blocs that are long lived enough for reputation to work. It makes representatives much easier to follow and predict (for media and citizens). They become much more efficient in wielding power and less vulnerable to divide-and-conquer adversaries.

Relatively few people can keep track of what a handful of parties did in the last couple of years, imagine how short the public memory would be if it was single representatives.

<cue comments suggesting technological solutions>

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.
There's an interesting set of incentives at play. The October deadline was actually a shift in liability - now businesses still using swipe transactions will become liable for any losses due to fraudulent transactions, while the card companies will continue to be liable for chipped ones.

Beyond that I don't know too much - maybe the price of the hardware is such that it makes sense to risk it for a little while before buying a chip-capable machine (do people lease them?). The part I really don't understand is that there are businesses with chipped terminals that still insist on you swiping, I can't work out why they'd want that at all.
I don't think the numbers support this. Mechanical disk latency is ~10ms while datacenter network latency is <100us, so the network contributes 1% extra latency. NVMe over fabrics is worse off because the flash latency is only ~100us and the network adds ~10us, but that's still nowhere near 20x.
As one of those loyal Reader users, I have since switched to Inoreader via Feedly. For me, there is no single view that works for everything, really -- and the nice thing about a proper feed reader is that you can have a customized display per feed group.

My articles are normally either in list or magazine views, and only graphically-heavy feed groups (like comics or photos) are in card view.
A Safari zero day was just sold to governments (Nov 2nd). But yeah continue to assert otherwise if that makes you feel better. I am sure you have some explanation for that and all the previous jailbreaks for iOS and how they show iOS security being extraordinary! Android phones with botnets? Yeah you can believe that so hard it will make it a fact soon!

/jeez why do I bother with Apple fanboys?
I am not sure how this can be implemented effectively in a globalized world! Lets say we take John McCain's advice and corporations give america a back door to read encrypted data, what would other countries do? Would they make laws forcing corporations to give back-doors on the encrypted data as well? Eventually, one of these countries could sell that information to unscrupulous hackers?

Also, such a mechanism will only catch unwitting gmail like app using terrorists (assuming google co-operates with USA). I would guess vast majority of terrorists will still encrypt the data themselves without relying on underlying app to do so?
If somebody steals my phone, I can report it stolen and none of the major carriers in the US will allow its IMEI to register on their networks. This effectively renders it useless to anyone who buys it.
This thread is awesome. For someone sitting afar and looking to invest in Square, the information on this thread is sufficient enough for me to dig deeper on specific points. I wish Wall St analysts did something open like this, rather than just publish some 'post facto' report.