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Ask HN: How to sell e-commerce private label business?
We grew a particular niche brand selling mostly on Amazon (via FBA) and for 2019 I am trying to decide maybe I want to sell it. It makes about $400k with revenue of around $1m (did not finish year-end books yet) and takes me part-time to run it without touching stock or shipping much myself.(I have a full-time job on top of it)

What avenue I should approach to get an idea if it is sellable and for how much? The typical response I see online is 1x - 2x multiplier, which doesn't make much sense to me (I'll just keep increasing sales, and perhaps quit my full-time job then).

Also, what is a typical process of talking with prospective buyers? I want to protect data, and at the same time I want to give enough information to prove it is viable and relatively easy to run (comparing to a brick and mortar store for example)

What kind of lawyer I should be looking for to prepare a sale contract to make sure I will not be screwed?

How such transactions are structured typically? (i.e. people pay all in cash, or obtain financing from a bank, or always require seller financing, etc)

What are the tax implications of such a transaction and what I should be looking for?

Any thoughts, experience, and ideas are really appreciated.
A bit shorter python version:

for x in range(1, 101):
out = ""
if x % 3 == 0:
out += "Fizz"
if x % 5 == 0:
out += "Buzz"

print(out or x)
It's probably worth it to go there and bank money for a while on the most efficient CoL situation you can manage (and especially to get Stanford on your resume).

With the caveat that the above is definitely the rational thing to do, I will note that I chose not to do it because I couldn't live in that region. Doesn't quite jive with my personality or what I wanted in life or out of my career.

So I accepted a haircut on what I could do monetarily, lived elsewhere, and orchestrated a much more unorthodox career progression. I felt okay with doing that because I'm more or less unconcerned with finding opportunities or generating sufficient wealth in the long run, so maximizing life satisfaction while I'm still young became the priority. From what you wrote, I feel like you're probably in a very similar situation.

You're likely to get a lot of people endorsing SF, so I'll play devil's advocate and list some things that are imo better in NYC and/or LA (Santa Monica) than in SF:

(1) Dating and relationships. The gender ratios are more favorable for men in both LA and NYC, and it's just easier in general in my experience.

(2) Culture and nightlife. Vastly superior in both LA and NYC.

(3) For LA specifically: the weather and proximity to the beach. The other nice thing about LA is that you don't give up on the outdoors advantage of being in California either (Norcal is admittedly great too). NYC is a lot worse for both weather and options for adventuring in nature.

(4) For Santa Monica specifically: extremely relaxed atmosphere and an emphasis on wellbeing and just plain enjoying life. This has influenced me personally for the better. YMMV.

(5) Diversity of people. The Bay Area has definitely become a lot more homogeneous in a way that I find troubling. But by contrast there are some who can't suffer people who think or behave very differently or even irrationally (for example some person enmeshed in Hollywood or in high finance), whereas I feel invigorated by meeting people who are very different from myself, even if I believe they're flawed. YMMV.

(6) Availability of technical talent. It's useful to be in a market of talented people with fewer options in case you ever feel like you want to try to build something on your own.

(7) Cost of living. Slight advantages to be had in NYC or LA, depending on how well you optimize. However, the Bay almost always wins on questions of net income. You can pull some very juicy comp packages in NYC and LA too, and get very close to a wash, if you know how to play the market.

(8) Entrepreneurial opportunity. You're more likely to come across an interesting corner of the world that hasn't been tapped by technologists outside of the Bay Area.

(9) Demand for your capabilities. Tech talent is rarer/sparser outside of the Bay Area and you're consequently a more coveted asset. This goes well beyond career leverage. It's easier to find serendipitous opportunities to meet, help, and even join in something outside the Bay Area partly for this reason.

I'm going to reiterate that the above is my opinion. I'm sure a lot of people would disagree with me on much of what I said.
I hope you're carrying your passport in a foreign country.

Not possible everywhere. In some places, the hotel holds on to your passport.
I am thinking about building an app using Neo4j.

I built a prototype with Postgres but there were bottle necks in the IO and querying. Did some research and it turns Neo4j might be better suited.

The app is a beer recommendation system using data scraped from Beer Advocate. It makes recommendations based on the location of the user and beers that the user enters in.

Why a graph database might be suitable for this is that there are no null relationships with Neo4j. In my limited understanding, this means that full table scans don't need to occur for making recommendations based on location.

Supposedly cosine simularity and other recommendation algorithms are built in, so looking forward to using that.
My IPv4 ping times to Google and Facebook are 2.6 milliseconds. I suspect any HE tunnel is going to be worse than that (in a statistically significant sense). I don't know that latency would necessarily be perceptible the majority of the time, but I strongly suspect outliers would be worse and more frequent.

Also, I doubt HE's ipv6 tunnel is going to carry anything close to 1Gbps for me for free ;-).
For example, when I debug the compiler, I'll often need the AST printed. Printing out standard containers doesn't do that. And sometimes I need the AST printed in different ways.
You're moving the goalposts, which is not forbidden but is causing you to get downvoted as people discount your sincerity.
GM was in a pretty bad spot for a long time. The car I had was in the junkyard by 80k miles, and it was well taken care of. I ended up in a same year Honda that never had a single malfunction in 120k + miles.
Probably not a good idea to damage property in protest. Maybe build something cheap and portable that should prevent them from moving. If they do move through the obstacle anyway, you've demonstrate how unsafe they can be.
Only fix needed to "unbreak" Social Security:

Remove the income cap limit. ( https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/10/what-is-the-2018-m...)

All income over $128K is does not have a social security tax on it.

Remove the cap and there will be no problem.
Yeah, I remember interviewing just after the merger when they opened the Cork office. I was 17, flew to Ireland, and the guy who was supposed to interview me face to face had taken a late lunch, so I got interviewed in about 5 minutes by someone who was clearly not interested, and it then took them 6 months to get back to me.

Nice one, good job guys.
I wonder if they're taking and storing stereoscopic photos of my face when I go thru customs.

At Customs, probably not. At Immigration, absolutely.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/hart-homeland-security...
>At an institution falling under Title IX a dorm is not entirely analogous to an apartment. There are in fact "special rules" that apply

I believe the point is to question whether they should fall under the jurisdiction of Title IX.

IMO, if college is about entering adulthood, then we should teach and expect these people to use the same systems that adults outside of college use for dealing with legal interpersonal matters.
Tesla's autopilot is just a lane assist, and similar features can be found on Honda's, Cadillacs, etc. From the videos I've seen, sure some people use them in neighbourhoods/suburbs, but it doesn't seem as useful. People who abuse them on freeways have been run into barriers and trucks before.

It's no where near the level of autonomy the Waymo cars are suppose to have. I can understand why people are upset considering how conservative the cars have to be; and the seemingly weird actions they often take. They don't seem to monitor other cars' turn signals nor do they really have a way to communicate to other vehicles at intersections like humans can with hands or facial expressions.
It's interesting how they list problems with gas mileage and fire safety in the previous model, and they conclude that a redesign is needed to correct the flaws, and then proceed to start off with adding features like replaceable cargo area, additional doors and airbags.

I stopped watching when they recommended integrating tablets as something that should increase longevity.
You know, Teslas. Marketed to rich tech geeks resulting in a computer that also happens to be a car.
I don't know if this is the answer, but "just block them" isn't a solution.

I've had someone call my work and try to get me fired, I've had someone make dozens of accounts on various social media platforms to harass me, and even when I blocked them they would post my personal information and make up lies about things I've done, and because I blocked them I had no idea, and then more people would believe the harasser because I didn't respond to it, and would pile on.

Filing a police report for some of the more threatening messages didn't do anything, as the police basically told me there wasn't going to be anything they could do.

Locking or whitelisting accounts like GitHub wasn't really an option as I work with it and I maintained a semi-popular project that I wasn't willing to just delete, but it came close.

In the end the harasser gave up eventually, and I was lucky that my job didn't believe them, but it was a pretty shitty time in my life that had me really worried that these lies would stick around my name forever and I wouldn't be able to escape them in the future.
Women aren't inherently better than men.

Those women doctors are better at their jobs as individuals, and not because of the sex they were born with.
I think a lot of people do law degrees as a not-quite-sure-what-else-to-do professional degree, so they then go into very diverse things afterwards.
When 256 colors was good enough...
Wow, there's a good Youtube comment in that thread:

I remember meeting Mr. Newland in BC back in 2007 where he explained that this was made in the last minutes for his final project in animation school. He ran out of time helping his fellow classmates with their projects and had nothing to make. That's why this has no colour. It had to be 1 minute 30 seconds long so he lengthened the movie with text and nail movement. Thinking nothing of it, he passed his class, and this was submitted and won an animation award.
Waymo has governmental OK to operate, just as Delta has FAA approval to operate. AZ governor is trying to make Arizona a leader in the space.

If his constituents disagree with their collective civilization’s decision, they should take their words to him, not their rocks and knives to mete out vigilante justice.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2018/10/...

Disclaimer: I’m not particularly bullish on self-driving cars in general; I just happen to more strongly believe in laws.
I have never paid for banking in my life. I lived for thirty years in England and then moved to Norway where I have been for 32 years and have had accounts with several different banks. The only charges I have ever had to pay are in Norway where I have to pay an annual fee for a credit card from my bank (I have several other credit cards that cost me nothing).

As far as I know this is normal in the UK and Scandinavia, not sure about the rest of Europe though.

So how do US banks justify USD 15 a month?
I will never do consulting again for a former employee unless I get paid upfront. A previous employer "adjusted" an incredibly reasonable bill. Then two months later their nginx server goes down and he calls me in a panic. I required them to deliver the check before I even took a look at it. Out of spite I charged him a near egregious amount because of that. On the plus side the office manager had a grin on her face, she forced the owner to pay the full amount of the previous bill. She thought it was incredibly underhanded.
Someone spray-painted my wife’s Tesla while she was sitting at a stop light and ran away before she could believe it was happening. In a nice part of Silicon Valley. It happens.

The original Luddites didn’t hate all technology, just the tech (powered looms) that was putting them out of work. I suspect that’s behind every attack on technology.
Bill Gates walks into a bar. The mean net worth of bar patrons is > $1,000,000,000.
Why is it people think being "honest and transparent" means being rude and mean? Tact is also a useful skill.
Hard to do that when everyone runs everything in the cloud. That's a very tough market to crack into.
People who lose their jobs to the new technology can be hired as guards to protect the technology from Luddites. Or as insurance adjusters.
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I wonder how much money it costs Apple to handle subscription payments/cancellations for Netflix and other streaming services. I prefer to handle subscription through Apple because cancelling such services is never difficult. I don’t know how it is on other countries but cancelling services in the U.S. can be a hellish experience.

Personally, I’d be willing to pay the “Apple Tax” on top of a subscription services’ cost for the peace of mind that comes from knowing that cancelling is easy. What a pain it will be when all the other subscription services stop paying the “Apple Tax”. I hope Apple comes up with a solution. Clearly their current cut is too much.
> working around labor in a way that concentrates wealth

Labor used to wash our clothes. Then washing machines came along and now there are technicians of washing machines. The technicians are much fewer than the amount required to wash clothes by hand and they likely get paid a lot more. So washing machines usurp labor and concentrate wealth.

Are you against washing machines as well?
(But only if you want to bash your head against the wall with an epic misunderstanding of how digital signals work.)
As someone who is working on a project trying to visualize person ->company relations, I went trough GraphDb (that's the name of the product) that uses SPARQL and then migrated to neo4j, I prefer ne4js Cypher language over SPARQL for graphs. From what I've found SPARQL cannot do "find all related entities from starting entity X with depth n"

Also I prefer projects that have web UI for queries and visualization
Don't know why I'm down voted. Did I miss anything? I thought I'd read about some good news but then it just showed how bad it really is...
Let's hope we can speed up considerably.
Cool! I had always thought they were direct drive, it makes sense to go that route. But then I started noticing gearboxes in various videos to the point where i switched my thinking.
>I just did a search for "Just So stories," only to discover that the anti-evolutionists have latched onto that term!

Well, that is my point. They are not evolutionary theories. Despite this being ultra downvoted, my pointing out the use of the term "just-so stories" is incorrect here seems to clearly be something you are even realizing while in the same breath disagreeing.
I'm not making your point for you, I just don't agree with you on what the actual problem is.

Programmers don't disagree that we could be using better approaches. The question is not why they don't exist, because they do exist. The question is why we don't or can't use them currently.

Most of the time, the reason is purely cultural, either due to management or legacy. I'd love to use Purescript and Haskell at my job, but I cannot. I don't get to make that choice. A new Elm transpiler won't solve a cultural problem.
That's not the victim card. Since when is alluding to unknown personal issues the victim card?
Have you tried cutting down on experience? With age discrimination in hiring you might be better off including 7 years as opposed to 10. Just my two cents.
They basically are:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/truck-o...

Except that they're opting for more passive agressive tactics as I'm sure that attacking a Tesla while someone is in it or the owner is near by would result in an immediate police report and charges pressed.
They do have Visa/MasterCard (and at some fancy places, AmEx). I was just in Shanghai in October and used both a Visa and a MasterCard at multiple establishments.
> If engineering is acting like a disorganized, isolated group in the company, it's often (in my experience) because management has created structures that keep them feeling isolated and without a sense of ownership/belonging.

OP here.

This is an extremely interesting insight.

Now that I think about it, engineers were indeed isolated for a long time, because PO and UX people were the ones doing all the talking with stakeholders and users "because this is the way it is supposed to be done".

This is probably both the reason they're actively isolating themselves and the reason the morale is low.

Thank you.
I have a theory that we are very intuitive of people who have leverage or influence over us for example a boss who can hire or fire. We have to be very conscious of that person whereas that person doesn't have to bother reading us.
> Watches

printf

> breakpoints

if (condition) assert(0);

then I use the debugger to tell me how it got there.

> performance/profiling

I use a separate tool for profiling:

https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html#switch-profile

It's built in to the DMC++ and DMD compilers.

Sometimes I mess up the code a bit filling it up with debug code, but when I finally fix it it's git to the rescue.

I can be old fashioned when it comes to IDEs, but git really is a marvelous, paradigm-changing advance.
The problems that are well suited to graph databases are the ones where you tried them on a more practical technology first add compared performance and maintenance costs.
Top 10% of tax payers =/= top 10% of wealthiest people.

If you know how taxes work, and know how multinationals do taxes, you know enough.
Show HN: Issa challenge - Challenges you can incorporate into your day in 2019
I think a closer analogy would be if Delta was developing an experimental plane that was not certified for commercial use and they got permission to operate it over a residential area.

Technically correct but you'd understand if people who lived under the flight path might have some concerns, even more so if they weren't involved and/or asked as a part of the operational endorsement.
I think pride plays its part here. People want to prove that they could indeed cope without the person. I think there is also the point where people think, "we are going to have to learn this stuff one day, it may as well be now".

In some key-person areas long notice periods (3months, for instance) are the norm. However this is never going to be the most productive 3 months of anyone's life! Serving 3 months notice becomes very dull by the end...
One effectively has to be a hero in terms of self-regulation, long term planning, and hustle. And never get hit with family crisis, disability, local economic depression, etc.
Isn't TESS kind of built to do the same thing? Wide field analysis? Presumably it's looking for dimming rather than relative motion, but that seems more like a software issue than a hardware one?
Even in that case, the lightbulb serving that purpose is naturally ignored, as its been heavily overused and tends to draw no more meaning than the slide “and the solution follows...”; at which point, it offers no more value than the text itself/an emoji, and still fails the task of the author’s goal for images
I was really surprised at how dev.to drove traffic. I've never used the site before, does anyone have any experience with it / any good communities to get started with?
Great article! I did not understand the part with kernels before, so I appreciate the simplified explanation. The interactive demo on https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/ is really cool.
Considering I don't subscribe to such a simplistic philosophy that can't be the driving point of my questioning at all, your response makes no sense. Furthermore such a philosophy does not originate in Star Trek, SV is more individualistic and self-centered than most of the world (and I don't even live there anyway nor have any desire to), and life having value does not imply that all lives are the same value or that you can't perform addition on the values.
Cities shouldn't be designed for cars. If anything, it should be the other way around.

Additionally, the idea of living directly in a city to be a luxury really destroys the justification of a "city" in the first place, in my opinion. The whole idea of suburbs throughout human history was the luxury of not being in a city, but thanks to that mentality + the Baby Boom, modern cities are now glorified business parks.
Most people don't come to HN.
How is your anecdote at all pertinent?
Do you ever fire engineers for being bad at their job? Or for being divisive and spreading a bad attitude?

I'm wondering if that doesn't happen at your org. And if not, that'd be a big negative impact on morale.
falsify
Hi. Why are you looking for your “first programming job” with your different background and mature resume? You are at great disadvantage against tons of CS naturals in the usual recruiting and interview routine. Also, your programmers network thinks you are good enough which is encouraging, so why do they not refer you internally or through their own network? Ask them for sincere feedback, they are not helping you enough. Happy New Year and good luck!
It is actually a criminal offense to call for the violent overthrow of the US government. This was added to the law by the Smith Act, although it has since been found unconstitutional in part. A small number of Nazis were convicted thereunder, and a rather larger (~10x) number of communists and anarchists.

On the other hand, I'm not aware of any laws in the US criminalizing threats of genocide and so on, which is kind of a problem because we have numerous historical examples of such rhetoric being normalized and then actualized when some (as yet undetermined) threshold conditions are met, and once that train leaves the station it's a one-way trip. Defenders of such rhetoric should think twice about whether they really wish to snatch up this monkey's paw.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act
I used to build/program embedded systems (around a 6800 uP). I'd debug using an oscilloscope, sometimes an LED attached to a pin, sometimes connecting the pin to a speaker (!). There wasn't enough EPROM space for a printf. And besides, the turnaround time for erasing/blowing an EPROM was just too long.

Essentially you just get good at staring at the code and running gedanken experiments till you figure it out.
I'm all for creating cities where there are no cars, it's a big long term interest of mine to live in such a city.

But I don't like the phrasing 'crusades against cars', because it makes it seem like cars are the bad guys. Cars are an incredibly important underpinning of society today, and we should remember that as we innovate certain parts of society to function better without them.

We definitely want cars, and we definitely like cars. But we also like city centers that don't have cars, because it seems like that part of society functions better without them.
> the FFV is a more fuel efficient vehicle, operating on a combination of unleaded gas and ethanol

Gasahol is not "more fuel efficient". It is a corn lobby subsidy that delivers less MPG than straight gas due to the lower energy density.