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Hi, OP here. Thank you for your comment. I'm baffled by how many wonderful people have shared their POV & experience.

I don't believe my employees would know what to do. I've spoken to them before, and gotten very little value from it. They don't have much of a business acumen.

It goes without saying that the broker is doing what's in his interest. But I've found this particular broker to be very truthful, upfront.

He believes we could get $700k, upfront cash and the rest ($100-200k) an earn out.

Of the 700k, I'd get $560-600k upfront after paying back investors (10%) and broker (10%).

At this point, I'm really paralyzed on how to move forward.

I'd LOVE to be able to fix the business, but my worry is I'd have to redo the product from ground up (we have a wonderful codebase that we rewrote a few months ago), in a way where we essentially put out a completely different product.

^^ That is one of the reasons I thought about selling – If I have to build a new product to fix churn, I might aswell sell, and do it from 0, given the risk at hand.
We have the same word in Dutch, 'vakidioot', roughly pronounced as 'fuckidiot'.
We will rescind it immediately for you :-)
As a smoker who tries really hard to be conscious of those around him, I can definitely relate to the cold weather thing! I can notice it on myself even, and it drives me nuts. I have no idea what causes it, but I am quite glad that Saskatchewan is thawing out and I have another 6 months before the double-bad-smell comes back.
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That was completely unconvincing. Sending people to the moon was a mistake. Totally a job for robots.
The most popular taxi cheat is to the take the long way around. Meters don't help you there. Also, meters don't show you the full trip price before you commit.

Uber could perhaps fiddle around with map data, but the history would have to show the correct origin and destination, or it would be noticed. It's trivially easy, and free, to audit against Google maps.

I don't trust Uber to be ethical, but cheating in this space would just be corporate suicide...they would easily be caught.
My understanding is that there isn't really a scientific consensus that "it'll destroy the world". But there is a consensus that "human activity is causing global warming" - yet this is something that a significant minority of people do not believe.
So, we don't consider efficiency gains and other improvements as being successful new developments?
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You need to reevaluate your definition of that idiom.
I guess it depends on how you set them up. In the UK you'll find self-checkout scanners in nearly every supermarket that contain scales. Stealing with those isn't easier than just stealing in the first way. You can't just "forget" to scan an item.

Scanning while you shop, however, doesn't really seem to work. Tesco tried that and basically stopped it again. You either need to check really often (high staff costs) or will have losses.
Amazon on Roku has a terrible UI. It can't suggest content well, it doesn't make it obvious what you've already watched, the descriptions are useless dribble which is surprising when Amazon owns IMDB. You watch a single kung-fu movie and your action movie suggestions get overwhelmed with kung-fu flicks. The separation between Prime and Amazon Video is easy once figured out in the app, but for casual users its a frustrating experience when the video they thought was included with prime is not.
This. Python's stength as a language IMO comes from it's ability to interface with more efficient code. You can write the meat of your library at near C levels of efficiency, and have python treat it like a "black box" essentially. That seems to be how NN code works often as well.
> we only use it for serial input.

Consciously. Unconsciously, your mind is always looking for threats - big movements - in the periphery of your view. It's a co-processor which runs through a lot of data in order to direct your conscious mind.

> Perhaps it would require too much energy

I think that the problem of energy could be overcome. I think that instead of getting too hot, it would simply produce too much waste, and since the waste evacuation system for your brain only really operates when you sleep (at least, last I heard), this would be the main limiting factor.
>> How is this not a first amendment violation?

That is a key question. But how is it not outside interference in an election? OTOH, what if a candidate did some bad things in another state and someone just wanted to let you know? But the main thing is to eliminate corporate interference, and the notion of first amendment rights being applicable to corporations is long story. If we revoke the notion of corporate personhood that would help quite a bit.

I agree with your concern, but I hope you can see the value in trying to find a workable solution along these lines.

EDIT: changed "reasonable solution" to "workable solution" because we don't want politics involved finding "compromise".
FB User Growth Outlook: Strikingly, close to half of all of the new users will be adults 65 and older. > http://www.investopedia.com/news/report-facebook-user-growth...
Morgan Stanley. They open sourced it ~15 years ago at aplusdev.org. The project was led by Arthur Whitney, who went on to become Mr KDB.
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There is no technical skill that will prepare you for 10 years.
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Certainly a risk. This is one of those areas where watching the latest tech development is worthwhile, as it's moving rapidly.

I got a laser-only procedure done about 5 years ago now, and it's been the best decision of my life. I had halos for about 6-12mo, but I also had minor halos before the surgery too - so I really haven't noticed much of a difference.

One thing you should either really really do, or really really don't do (I still can't decide) is walk the Vegas strip at night the day after surgery like I did. You will have major halos/starbursts at that point, and it's the closest to a random private laser show as I've ever gotten in life. I suppose drugs may be less risky and cheaper though...
It's easy to distinguish technology from magic. If it works, it's technology.
"It's a great companion for both the consumption and production of all types of entertainment, from videos to video games, design and even coding !"

The most uncharitable view of all of this?

I presume it's a very convenient method to keep the dirty unemployed masses placid. Free weed and videogames. Yay.
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It's apparently an active area of research, so there are _some_ clues. More research will be done and then, hopefully, we will know a bit more. Just like in the 80s climate change itself was on shaky ground and now it is well researched and we know the facts.
The only rule is against asking people to upvote you. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Letting people know that your link is on HN is not against the rules. Hackernews-button didn't get any comments from mods. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5782081 Neither did hn-button. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5782081 (PG did say he was afraid this kind of thing would have negative effects, but that was 5 years ago and no rule change since. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934178 )
OP here. I've considered this "passive income" approach, and perhaps am in this right now – I haven't been doing much work on the business, just collecting checks.

I often wonder what the value/problem of the upfront cash would be. I feel like I could do big things – but I just can't get over the fact that I wouldn't know what to do with $600-750k in cash, to produce more cash.
https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-Square-pay-for-square-com

Edited to add disclosure: I work for Square, but I don't know the details of our agreement with Square Enix, and I don't know what I'd be allowed to say about it if I did. :-)
With the prevalence of VMs (virtual machines), I don't think it's a stretch to call physical computers "machines". Granted, I usually hear the term "computer" or "box" used instead. Besides that moot point, I completely agree with you.
I was replying to the person who needs new glasses because of unstable vision and strictly from a financial perspective.

I know it's common for adults to change vision but usually once a year is a frequency more seen in children and teens. At least from my experience talking to people and being in an ophthalmologist chair since infancy. I was a frequent flyer at the ophthalmologist's office as a child (once a month was common for a while) and I had lots of questions.

EDIT: I haven't actually heard a lot about the elderly so I don't know their typical frequency of vision change. The only data point I have is a 60 year old I knew who got LASIK and was back in glasses in about 2 years.

On an unrelated note, I went to the same ophthalmologist for 20 years and it was eerie how it never changed. The ophthalmologist always looked the same, he always had the same staff and they looked the same, and the office didn't change. After a while it was like stepping into a time machine when I went there.
Unfortunately they're going to have to do a lot of establishing to change the associations with that name, now. Short of Kalanick being struck by a freak bolt of lightning, that seems unlikely to happen. Far from it, a place that toxic is going to keep bleeding over time.
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I also recommend the "Ghost in the Shell" anime movie and TV series. Lots of discussion about the impact of a connected society, and what it means to be human when your body is a machine.
And "a lot" here is 20 customers. For any decent shop they'd probably need to track at least 50, rather 100 during busy hours. Not sure if they can fix that within a few weeks.
do companies squat their names in other countries, or they use the same international trademark and add extra words if the name is taken?
The actual code is in these directories: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/
Right, and then you miss out on important work dealings and decision-making, you're seen as "not a team player", you're passed over for promotions, etc. Staying out of all work "team-building" events eventually looks really bad for you and will work against you.
Thanks for the idea. I'm already doing this – my burn rate is $6k for my team of 3 (support, sales, dev).
I always found that quote incredibly pointless. If you just want to do something because it's hard, there's lots of options, the cheapest is to turn up the difficulty on a game.

Don't waste tax payer money sending humans to the moon for no scientific purpose - leave that to the machines. Hard things can be wasteful too, just because something is hard doesn't make it valuable.
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EPA has a website describing the mid and long term effects of climate change in N America. With plenty of citations a dedicated student or teacher could follow up on. Very accessible, and did not include "will destroy the world".

Incidentally, your critique also applies to literally most science, including very good and obviously successful science.

Can you really prove to your students that Intel doesn't have magic pixie dust it uses to speed up its processors? Probably not without expensive equipment your classroom cannot afford.

And can you reproduce the LHC experiments? Of course not.

edit: Here's the EPA website: https://www.epa.gov/climate-change-science/future-climate-ch... There are 5 references, all larger reports which themselves link into the actual literature.

The National Climate Assessment in particular is presented in the form of a slick website with hundreds of citations into the literature for curious readers: http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report

The information is there, in extremely digestible form, and at the top of google search results. Naturally, reproducing the results of literally hundreds of cited papers is going to take you a while, but in most cases, there's nothing actually stopping you...

And here's a list of climate models, some of which you can download. The others have links to contact info: http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2009/06/getting-the-source-c...

It's also worth noting that scientists are usually fairly transparent about when they're guessing WRT effects of climate change and when they're pretty certain. The near-term stuff (~hundred years) is largely guess work based on simulations -- we can't do much better. The most certain prediction is that weather will become harder to predict. The longer-term stuff (~hundreds to thousands of years) is much more well-understood because there're historical records relating GHG levels to climate.
First place: Xcode

Second place: Driveway chalk with a water hose

Third place: Android Studio
Does every NY Times article mention President Trump?
Interesting. Maybe it's not so much that Costco hates money, they just love their customers more. It's possible, and apparently works.
How about "statistical inference"? This is not an uncommon term for ML techniques in the statistical community.
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With so much noise online, there's definately a strong argument to be made for local newspapers like this, great job guys!
Immortality doesn't exist in nature for any complex organism. Geneticists can prevent certain diseases caused by a small number of genes but that doesn't enhance human capabilities beyond the current baseline. AGI researchers might eventually succeed in understanding the human mind well enough to build an equivalent machine but there's no evidence to suggest that such a device will be smarter (or more rational or less insane) than humans. For all we know, current humans could represent the maximum intelligence possible due to undiscovered fundamental physical limits. A human level AGI would still be a huge step forward but it won't bring about a Singularity (geek rapture) as the transhumanists seem to expect.

All of these are far from being engineering problems yet. We're still solidly in the basic science phase.
I have heard Portugal's legalization system is also a huge success.
Indeed, it would be around $600k after paying back investors and such.

Even if I did net the $600k (3x my current annual salary), I wonder if I could use it to recreate something I have right now (a biz that produces $200k/year for me w/ little effort)
>> "Looks like Square.com redirects now to Squareup.com but the owners are still that Japanese company. Maybe Square has an agreement with them and maybe they will buy Square.com domain name."
> Really, the only issue seems to be a loss of status (not goods and services) by some rich white westerners.

You're saying there have been literally no negative effects from globalization? That unemployment in the rust belt has had no effect on standard of living?
Surprised they didn't just buy iZettle, who own both the market and the mindshare for these types of devices in Europe.
Again, this is not a good example of why the javascript ecosystem is worse / java is better.

> But that’s the point. That’s all just code. Just normal code. Not additional command line utilities.

First, Maven does not come standard with java. Second, in a previous reply, I mentioned that if you are not comfortable with the latest and greatest, then stick to the current standard. There is nothing wrong with that, and you can be productive. If transpilers and babel seems too scary to you, which given you mention maven and gradle I assume not, then don't use them, use polyfil, which is just like that retrolambda you linked. Most all of ES6's features are sugar anyways.

Your intimate knowledge of tools and frameworks for the Java ecosystem will not equal another. What's a plugin? Ohhh you mean OSGI? No? Oh well I am lost.

What is gradle? Oh it's a new build tool? Well sorry I only know ant, and my coworker uses sbt. He's hipster like that.

> The problem of "good defaults" was never even considered in the JS world, it seems.

touché for java.
How much was it in Toronto ? I was quoted $5k+ in the South Bay area.
I wonder how they'll compete. My sandwich man at work, and street vendors at the market all have iZettle now. Perhaps square will take less of a cut?
Both actually.

E.g. Corona is called Coronita in Spain and Puma used to be Dasslerpuma, too.
Well, sometimes, you're a big fan of a movie and really want to see it. I was really into World War Z so I went and saw it when it came out in theaters, the first night. Other times your friends all want to go see Star Wars together, or some other friends and I went to see John Wick 2 the night it came out.

Sure, for the most part I don't care about going to the theater, most movies suck anyway. But socializing is a thing and watching a movie on the couch just doesn't compare to being in a dark theater with the screen filling your entire field of view and feeling the rumble from the speakers.
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Cool, more competition in this space is likely good.

I worked on a similar unit at a lower pricepoint back in 2014.

Unfortunately that was for London 'unicorn' Powa, and we all know how that went...
RTFA - Data is actually being deleted, along with citations.
Does Square have RFID chip (read/write) capability?
I clicked around until I found something that looked like it might play a video and saw this: http://animation.filmarchives.jp/works/play/44396

The animator's pure joy of creation is there in the opening scene. It's different from the way digital animation produces something cool.
They're not even tamper resistant to clickers, which add additional pulses to the output of the tachometer the meter relies on to calculate fares.
Of course, but the feedback has always been completely different, depending on the size of the business/customer. It'd range from "price is too high" (value) to "you don't do X" (x being a all-in-one suite, as our market often bundles products together) to "not what we were looking for"
If a rootless container process runs as the root user and can't be switched, is it considered to be "root" as far as the kernel is concerned? As in, does it have access to root-only kernel features (like the root keychain)?
Hey Michael, been a fan since reading 'Legacy Code'.

Do you believe that refactoring a large APL codebase would be inherently easier than something like, a large legacy C++ codebase?

What is the relative complexity of comparing, say 1000 lines of APL to 10K lines of C++?

I remember reading an interview between Arthur Whitney and Bryan Cantrill where they mentioned something about recognizing idioms in the dense code much more easily in K than in something like C because it took so many less characters. Do you see any sort of refactoring advantage to that?

I've also recently seen work on the Co-dfns compiler in APL where the author mentioned that APL allowed him to easily refactor compared to traditional codebase, and looking at the github library, there is something like 3 million edited lines over the span of several years in a codebase this is a few thousand lines of code. I find this fascinating because my hope is to eventually start a small software business and I think reducing complexity in the number one priority in order to make it sustainable in the small (the goal isn't to have a team of 50 developers).

Thoughts?
> That Japanese company

That Japanese company is Square Enix (formerly Square, before the merger with Enix), makers of the Final Fantasy games. I'd imagine the US Square must have paid a fairly non-trivial amount for whatever deal was made.
seriously - you are talking like 1 or two pulls for most users and not every day. ugh..
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Those people who want to ditch pi in favor of 2pi should read this article to learn why they're wrong.
So now it is left wing web sites pushing dubious health claims? Whatever happened to newsmax?
Huh, that's an absolutely brilliant way of describing it. I actually have an example of EXACTLY THAT challenge and solution.

My screenwriting goes in spurts. 7-10 pages a day for a few days, then rest for a day or two, maybe a week. I hit a wall in the screenplay I was basing on Enron + Robin Hood. Just around the Act I to Act II turn.

After two weeks, I got a print out of the last 10 pages, a pen and some highlighters for color coding, and figure out what was wrong. A couple sections in the wrong places. A dangling paragraph or thought. One afternoon, about 2 hours, and then it all felt right again. Went back to the routine and got it wrapped up.
Nope. (A casual glance through their front page finds several articles that do not.)
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iZettle raises $63M more at a $500M valuation; company has raised about $235 million in funding to date.

Guessing they've had offers, but not good enough to make them sell and they're still able to raise capital.

Square's market cap is currently $6.51B and here's there balance sheet:
https://markets.ft.com/data/equities/tearsheet/financials?s=...
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What's the market demand for Scala like?
Because software has bugs, filesystem software has data corruption bugs, and two years of development with only a couple of months of serious real-world testing is tiny for something like that.

What other filesystems have gone from zero to being the only supported option on their platform in such a short time? ZFS took almost five years. HFS+ was supported in parallel with HFS for a long time.

"And why they'd be more than with the frequent new features and changes that Apple made/retrofitted to HFS over the years? Because they've started from scratch?"

Once again I have to wonder: have you written software before? Of course a brand new from-scratch effort will be buggier than something with a long history.
Computers asking their own insightful questions is a clearer indication of their intelligence than the answers they give to human generated questions.
Until science has an effective solution for male pattern baldness I think the idea that we're going to be able to cheat death is premature. (...and please don't troll me and say Propecia or Rogaine, I used both and I'm still bald)
Decrying the evils of law school is not necessarily saying that law schools are evil.
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1. The experience.

2. Not everyone has a nice entertainment system in their home, if your TV isn't good or the sound isn't good or you got a DVD instead of Blu Ray or you had to stream but have crappy internet (etc).

3. If you don't control the TV you have to watch whatever is on (parents/teens fighting over the the only TV). Maybe less common now but not everyone has multiple TVs.

4. It forces me to carve out the time to watch/finish the movie because I don't get to just pause it and get distracted.

I go if I want to see the movie badly (and only on a specific day when they reduce ticket prices). I also like the gigantic screen and loud noise. I don't usually remember a movie by the time it's out of the cinema and so never remember to watch it later.
I think this is one of the reasons Econ as a field has stagnated. (THIs is v hard to defend but bear with me). People have no reason to share / peer review their findings. It is extremely advantageous to share no, or bad advice. Hence why you get the 2007/08 housing bubble, as hundreds of econ professors peddle COMPLETELY false economic theory and results based analysis.

In fact, many still are. Not much has changed in the field of economics. How data science isn't a mandatory requirement for such a data driven field just shows to me how immature the field is.
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