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Ask HN: Biggest SAASs/products that shut down after a Cease and Desist?
I'm familiar with a few examples in this area, all of which have to do with Craigslist.

What other profitable companies have had to shut down after months of work because they were deemed more parasitic than symbiotic by a third-party company they were scraping or interfacing with?

I'm looking for horror stories of big companies making money that got murdered by legal threats in order to convince a friend of mine that he has a bad idea and is investing in a very black-swan-prone business.
Of course there is massive corruption and waste at all levels of SF government. It is the inevitable outcome when a single party is permanently in power.
If you actually did research, you'd know that cities sending their homeless to SF is a complete myth. Here are some numbers from SF itself discounting it. https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San...
I sincerely hope you are not being serious.
http://isa-global-dialogue.net/indias-great-experiment-the-t...
A lot of people need to save and/or pay down debts more than they need more junk from Macy's.
We need Donald Trump to get rid of this waste, fraud, and abuse. Literally no other candidate has said this.
If you were building cheap homes, say at 120k a pop, you could build 2,000 such homes every year. The total homeless pop in SF is 6,000. In three years you could build 6,000 such homes in say Mississippi or some other middle of nowhere place where land is very cheap.
Why reward the paper (or its advertisers) for abusive practices?
Thanks for the other suggestions for vertical movement. I think /? and vim-vertical is all I need.
Surprising to see the RIAA wanting this. Presumably they'd be against having the feature to record from the FM radio, which a lot of these phones with FM radios do have.
All in all, its design is not that bad. It shares some slight similarity with Patterson's later RISC design ideas in that it is a very reduced, simple design with zero fancy instructions. Just like in RISC chips, anything beyond the very basics of math/boolean operations, and you have to write code because the chip does not have a 'custom instruction' for that. It also has a slight overlap in it's processing and memory fetches that can be viewed as a slight pipelining. Nothing impressive vs. an IBM 360/91 mainframe or any modern CPU with pipelining however.

As for a 2016 design in fewer transistors, that's unlikely. You need a certain number of transistors for each basic function, so there's a floor where if you want all the features of a 6502 (what little there were) you can't possibly do it without X transistors minimum.

But, what 2016's tech would bring is a 6502 that instead of being clocked at 1.5-2Mhz might be clocked instead at a couple Ghz. Performance wise such a chip would be nearly infinitely faster than an original 6502, but would pale in comparison to a modern Intel chip with all the extras (cache, instruction translation, out of order issue, branch predictor, etc.) included in those chips. The 6502 would also be quite acutely sensitive to the speed of memory, so the chip would not be able to run any faster than RAM could feed it data (it has only three user accessible 8-bit registers, and only one of those can be used for computations). It worked with 1970's tech because 1970's memory's were as fast as it was so it was not slowed down by a huge memory vs cpu speed differential. This lack of registers is where its design diverges with RISC tech. as detailed by Patterson.

What a modern 6502 design might do, however, is be extremely power efficient. A modern 2016 CMOS design clocked at 1970's speeds might use very little power. Whether it would beat ARM in that market is an unknown.

Its biggest limitation for a 2016 design that is true to the original is being only an 8-bit chip with only a 16-bit address bus. Having 64k of RAM max on one's CPU in 2016 is going to crimp what solutions it might be useful for vs. using an ARM chip for the same solution.
Accordion? Tabs? Are developers still using these things?
> Is there a term or measure for how much people have actually paid for the stock?

Cost basis. That's what the IRS will want to know when it comes time to sell.
He's said it alright, but realistically, what can he do about SF corruption?

Sic the FBI on the city I guess? Is local political corruption under their jurisdiction?
How many large companies are using plan 9 in production though?
I don't think you'd think I'd be acting very human if I'd spent any time being treated the way homeless people are treated.
Because no skeptics would be short when the crash came.
At this point we're edging into a semantic argument, but I would consider client-server architecture to be a type of distributed system. For the record, wikipedia lists "Client server architecture" on their page of distributed systems too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing#Architec...
Brilliant strategy. Maybe he will build a border around homeless people.
He may be factually incorrect, but what is "horrible" about it? If he were right, wouldn't it be wrong for cities to offload their homeless problem on SF? If that were going on, what would be so "horrible" about sending them back, and asking all cities to take their fair share of the burden?
Bit late replying to this, so I hope you see it, but as I noted elsewhere, the key here is something called a "reader macro". This is a mechanism by which you can control the behaviour of the Lisp reader (i.e., the READ function), and occurs before regular macroexpansion. I use [] to denote s-expressions in the embedded-language domain, and {} to introduce native syntax, which passes its contents through to an actual parser - which returns s-expressions. I can print the resulting forms in native syntax, embedded-s-expressions, or plain Lisp. It's a neat demonstration of the superficiality of syntax.

Perhaps another interesting observation is that what I'm building today is not actually what I originally set out to do, which was more limited in scope. Perhaps another weakness of CL is its tendency to seduce you into feature-creepism. :)
86 page document. Where in there does it say that? I did see that out of state homeless is down at 10% (still significant), but 30% were not in SF when they became homeless. That's high. I don't see anything discounting the bus tickets, however.

In fact, the city of SF sued Nevada for exactly this:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/11/2602391/san-franc...

Interesting report! Thanks for linking.
Sure. But music sharing didn't kill the industry then; there's little reason to believe it'll be the reason for its death now.

The problem is there is only so much profit to be had. The recording industry is not interested in trying to sell their own product digitally at a price consumers want. So instead, either a company is large enough and entrenched enough (like Google with Youtube) that that company is able to capture the profit, and the music industry complains, or the company is small enough that the music industry captures the profit, and the company goes under or operates at a loss (too many to name, but Spotify and Pandora both fall under this).

There may not be a good split, that sees both the recording company and the distributor seeing a profit, at the prices consumers are willing to pay, which if the case explains why they've fought tooth and nail against every form of digital distribution. But I don't see how the recording companies can stay afloat without it. It may be we'll have to see how music works without them.
That's not where the money goes. The money goes to responding to every drug addict with a stubbed toe with a giant firetruck and its crew, and then taking the aforementioned drug addict to SF General for the world's most expensive emergency room bath. A little bit of prevention here would be far cheaper.
This seems a pretty weak argument which boils down to "The Evil State will intrude on everyone's lives, not just those pesky/useless unemployed/sick/disabled/old people".

As far as I can see giving everyone a no-strings-attached payment is actually far less intrusive than the current system where you have to qualify in some way for help.

And everyone is already dependent on the state, for healthcare , education, roads, etc, and more directly, when it comes to tax breaks and so on, which are often quite specific and prescriptive.
Thanks, what an awesomely comprehensive response!
240m / 6000 = 40000.

That would make an interesting basic income experiment.
Several hundred years ago the same could be said for political power, and now most societies try to limit its concentration as well.

But it doesn't mean nobody goes into politics.
http://www.povertyinsights.org/2013/10/14/did-reagans-crazy-...
Maybe spending $240m is the cause?

Hear me out, I am not a heartless bastard.

The social services provided, combined with milder weather, make SF a better place to be homeless than other areas. Surely homeless people, just like the rest of us, are attracted to cities that serve them better.

If you built every homeless person a house I don't think there would be any less homeless on the streets of SF. Homeless in LA who desire a house would simply migrate to SF. A Greyhound bus ticket is not that expensive.

So until you find a solution to homelessness in the entire USA, or at least the Western USA, I can't see any one city solving the problem (as opposed to moving the problem to a different city).
There is a default one? Because I don't have any and can't find one for Cyanogenmod on my Galaxy Note 2. Samsung's rom had one but it refuses to install under Cyanogenmod.
Why? It's not like the SF homeless population all grew up here.... although in the 80s it did significantly increase once the institutions were shut down by Regan and they forced those without families into the streets. To me THAT is the terrible thing.
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Homelessness isn't caused by a lack of homes. These are people who have checked out of society; many of them are very mentally ill or addicted to drugs. Where I live in the Pacific Northwest there's also a tragically misguided subculture of people who choose to be homeless.
I think what it does is forward the signal as a GCM event which is then played in your browser. RPi itself doesn't play the sound in this case.

But yes, it's strongly in the Rube Goldberg territory.
Don't think this has anything to do with anything plan9 can do that Linux can't already.

The barriers to enabling the magic plan9 has are more along the lines of making it feasible for unprivileged users to mount and create namespaces themselves, which is complicated (afaik) largely by the way privilege escalation happens in unix systems.

This just looks like it prevents some information from leaking out about the host system from inside a cgroup by inspecting the /proc/PID/cgroup file.
Did you saw that weird thing, saying that CIA was responsible for Mandela's arrest? These people' creativity has no end....
The graph doesn't show revenue from FM or AM radio.

YouTube is comparable to radio. A place people discover and listen to music, which they later buy as downloads, CDs, vinyl, etc.

Much YouTube music views are of official videos that the artists and labels themselves upload.

If anything, the record industry should be paying YouTube more for exposure and marketing. It's time for the record companies to stop freeloading off YouTube and pay their fair share for their use of this important music marketing channel.
What's incorrect?

And why assume I'm a he?
Flexport is hiring a product manager to automate global logistics
Vietnamese bank foils $1m cyber heist
Disclose to the vendor, wait 90-180 days, write a nice blog post.

See http://www.devttys0.com/2015/04/hacking-the-d-link-dir-890l/ for one of my "favourites". I daren't push my $200 TP-Link too hard for fear of finding something like this.
So even worse that they get offloaded like trash by others. What did I say that was indicating otherwise?
This NYT article made me about whether people have a right to the preferred handling of their body after death. It's an interesting topic economically and philosophically.
The 6502 is still being produced in 2016, mostly not as an individual processor but as a core for various controllers in things like mice, keyboards, toys[1], monitors, and other electronics[2]

[1] http://hackaday.com/2013/05/24/tamagotchi-rom-dump-and-rever...

[2] http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/168867/how-to...
Homelessness isn't necessarily about not having homes, it's about being unable to hold on to one. There obviously are homeless people who have a work and their lives mostly in order but who just can't literally afford to rent but in general, homelessness is more of a symptom rather than the actual problem. The problems are social, medical, mental, addictions, abuse, and many others and they make these people deranged enough to prevent them from functioning fully in the society.
Anyone knows of a city that has successfully "solved" the homelessness problem?
did you try verbatim mode?
Why are credit card fraud and identity theft so feared?
Most often (always?), the bank/credit card company assumes the risk. The worst that will happen is you lose 1h of your time calling them.

My biggest problem with the internet today (like other people in this thread apparently) is that it's becoming quite hard to stay anonymous and having things tied to me is a risk I, most often than not, am not willing to take.
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in a way, yes, but those 3 transistors do not affect the simulation. the drains and sources are shorted together and tied to a random data line. the gates are grounded. they just sit there, doing nothing.
I try to make the best of a bad situation - the ambient noise was a far bigger problem for me in my current location.
Even when money is just sitting in the bank account it's not useless. The bank turns around and loans out and invests most of that money.
When I hear that something "works in theory," I understand that to mean "if you oversimplify a little, this would work well." "In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is."

But it's only valid if you oversimplify a little. Starting with "first, forget everything you know about human nature" goes too far.

I don't think of "works in theory" as shorthand for "doesn't have internal contradictions" or "sounds reasonable if you forget everything you know about human nature."
Yes, the EPS log (eat, poop, sleep). The first thing a Dr. will ask you if your baby is not feeling well is are there any changes in any of these.
There are non-smartContract program that run on blockchain. That is not what a smart contract is.
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Arrested by Undercover Officers After Trying to Sell His Laptop Online
RIAA may not be involved in this particular tilt.

Having radios everywhere is obviously always in the radio industry's best interests. Back in 2010 the music industry got involved because they were trying to wring extra performance rights fees out of radio, which the radio folks clearly were not interested in, but the proposed compromise was that music industry lobbyists would throw their weight behind the "radios everywhere" thing, and radio would presumably benefit enough from that to cover the new hefty performance fees.

The Performance Rights Act didn't go anywhere, looks like music industry tried again last year with the "Fair Play, Fair Pay" bill.
Interestingly, that someone is the company being funded (slock.it).
Specially developers who don't like dependencies, because they require preprocessors.

Not everyone can be as cool as you would like.
Don't have the same expectations for each company, depending on its unique opportunities.

Obviously exceptionally few companies will end up the size of Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. There is no scenario under which most companies need to bleed red ink to the tune of hundreds of millions in capital. Most companies also will never need to make audacious bets with hundreds of millions in capital, there's no outcome scenario for them in which that makes sense. If you happen to find a potential monster company, you don't worry so much about whether they're burning $40m+ per quarter - they get a larger reprieve than everyone else (Tesla is being given that exception in the public markets today for example; much like in the Amazon / Bezos case, investors want Musk to bet big and they buy into the long-term story).
If we don't pretend that macCarthysm is still the main US doctrine against LatAm, would you say the same? Venezuela, together with Brasil, Argentina and other lá countries, are in a atruggle of years with their National bourgeois financed by US elite.
Heh. The "enterprise" solution for this is something like DIGIPASS-ES [1], which is probably TOTP but just broken enough that you have to use their pretty terrible app instead of your existing apps.

1: https://www.vasco.com/images/DIGIPASS-for-Mobile-ES-201312-v...
Amusing... but this isn't the same kind of ambiguity as he intentionally made the negation have the wrong scope. The expected negation would be "It is not the case that half the Tories opposite are crooks".
No this is not crowdfunding over blockchains. This is just someone putting up an address to collect money and issuing homemade tokens.
Open source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi
stochastic calculus really hurt me. i did well for it, I TA'd for it, i look at it from time to time in my work, but I still find it very difficult. i don't think i'm much good at mathematics, i just try very hard and hope for the best.
Utah did, or so they claim: http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...
The best time to hire the very best is when the industry craters. Google and Facebook both rose from the ashes of 2 separate crashes and were able to hire unbelievable talent at a discount in part because the demand was so low.

The best time to create or join a startup is when the industry is broken. The best to invest is then too.
6809 is vastly underrated I think. It is super simple, but also has everything you need to program efficiently. I think if I were to introduce people to assembly langue programming first, I would pick that one. Especially being 8 bit with 16 bit addressing gives you a good segue into byte ordering.

6502 was my first (and only really significant) experience with assembly. It is so minimal as to be awkward at times, but as you say with the huge numbers of emulators and instructional materials around, it's hard to discount it.

Personally, I would skip x86 altogether unless you actually want to do x86 programming ;-). I've never looked at ARM, but your description makes me want to play with it. The added bonus is that it is still relevant today.
Context: This is a first step in allowing blob free development on the RaspberryPi.
No one has mentioned the antenna. Just because the silicon is there doesn't mean you'll get decent reception without an antenna, and a dipole at 100 MHz is 1.5 meters. Not trivial to put in a phone, unless they use the headphone wires. If they do enable it, then people will just complain of poor reception.
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"Efficient", as measured by what? It's a couple thousand gates or so, which is enough to do an 8 bit microcontroller that doesn't have to worry about having a protected mode and such. Also, there are not many registers, so the latch count is pretty small. As measured by die-area per delivered functionality, it does pretty well, and if you compare 6502 code with 6800 or 1802 code, it is pretty dense for the functionality that you get out of it. That said, I always had my complaints about the 6502, mainly lack of 16 bit index registers that could reach the entire memory space. That forced a coding idiom that relied on indirect addressing through page 0. 6800 had a 16 bit index register.

If you look at the instruction set, you can see that it is relatively horizontal and pretty straight forward to decode and implement with a simple sequencer.

Of course, it was implemented in NMOS like most of the contemporary microcontrollers, so it was a power hog by today's standards, but the transistor count per gate was lower. The 1802 was CMOS, but it was aimed at applications that required space-grade parts, so it was low power and had transistors the size of a cow turd in order to be more resistant to alpha-particle hits. It was also slow.

For comparison, at the time I was playing with 6502's as a hobby, I was at my day job a mainframe CPU logic designer working in 100K ECL -- I was working on a machine roughly equivalent to the Cray-1, and our gate count was roughly 250,000 gates.

The logic design for a CPU the size of a 6502 is really not too bad -- sort of the scale of a largish homework assignment as a semester final -- constructing something like it in a gate level simulator might be an interesting exercise for the motivated.
Oracle v Google won't change much, because the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit does not set copyright precedent. Details in earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377318
China reacts to Apple's massive Didi investment
It also has a native code compiler and a foreign function interface.
> may be

I see others claiming you are incorrect, but haven't been arsed to actually read their sources to see who is actually right.

Regardless, I see nothing "horrible" with what you've said.
I agree. Android architecture is a mess. Activity life cycling is actually impossible. There are certain actions the OS takes that will cause crashes no matter how well architected the app is.

My main quibble with Android is that since everything is tied to the activities it is impossible to build an MVC style app. You are better off using the NDK or an engine. Then you can build your software correctly.
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I think you find these incompatible simply due to the Valley's own particular brand of "audacity." What #2 predicts the end of are build-fast-and-break-things concept-startups that throw tons of energy, developer-wages, and hype into their product, for indefinite periods of time and with umpteen pivots, with no notion of what their eventual business model will be. "We'll figure out money later" has become a startup trope, and while its worked out for several big names (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) its not exactly a good idea.

There are other kinds of audacity, though! Elon Musk has his picture in the dictionary next to "audacious," but likely could have told you on day one how he hoped Tesla would wind up making money, and how he thought he could get there. And by all accounts he's running a tight ship- employees aren't treated lavishly, money isn't being spent where its not needed- all very standard, non-audacious stuff on the business side.

Much of this is of course that Tesla is making cars, not webpages or apps, and the latter categories are much more forgiving in terms of things like unit economics[1]. I think the point is, though, that investors are no longer going to be so happy about founders taking such flagrant advantage of that forgivingness.

[1] What even is a "unit of sale" for something like Facebook? An ad display? Does anyone calculate exactly what operating Facebook costs on a per-ad basis?
I've been looking to buy "Introduction to 64 Bit Assembly Programming for Linux and OS X: Third Edition - for Linux and OS X". It's an introduction to x84-64 assembly, which I thought makes sense for me to learn, because it is the architecture all my computers use.

You say x86 is not a good choice to learn, but this book purports to make assembly for this architecture accessible. If you stand by your opinion, are there even CPUs readily available that support the alternative architectures you mention?

Also, can anyone recommend this or any other book or learning resource?