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> They are doing this on the basis of his political stance.

They are doing this because he directly funded initiatives that withhold equal rights from them and treat them as less than human. You can hold views, even as CEOs, I don't agree with. Hell, you could donate to the anti-funds of almost anything I believe, as long as it is an equal battlefield. But civil rights aren't about ideology, they are literally whether or not you recognize other humans as being humans and deserving the same rights as you.
Do you have some criteria for "unjustly" getting marked as spam? Is that criteria objective, in that I can look at some app and decide that app is not spam without asking you if it's your app?

If you don't, I can't possibly see how anyone could implement this service.
To be fair, most companies going public lately have been unprofitable. Yes, not true historically; but the desire for savings yield/strategy funds that will buy no matter what/success of flipping ipos has lowered the bar. And the P/S metrics .. well, Box would be stupid _not_ to ipo right now. I expect they'll play the same trick as others and sell a small percentage of the fully diluted share count to create a sellers market for the shares, and target a 50-100 multiple on revenue. When the market gets used to their price they can file a secondary.

edit: I should clarify again based on sibling/nephew comments... I think it's too far off topic to go into this in depth, but clearly running at a loss is expected and appropriate for companies at a certain stage of their growth profile. Even big companies (like Amazon, like someone noted) can do this if they prefer to invest in pursuing large enough growth opportunities out of cash flow vs selling debt or shares. Regardless, the revenue growth has to show up at some point, and spending in sales has to show ROI.
3 problems with it:

- how the heck do you pronounce this?

- where's the source, Luke?

- where's the app for feature-phones?
Still, what has that to do with personal beliefs? If he's a professional he will know to keep his personal beliefs out of his work. And if his beliefs interfere with his Mozilla's work, then I would agree on boycotting him and Mozilla. Until then, that's a private personal opinion which I absolutely don't care about.
> In the light of that, a government that is set on increasing religiosity (particularly of a 'non-european' religion) and is having internal troubles because of that issue, isn't particularly looked on as a valued EU partner.

Well, that's clearly part of it, but the release of the tapes appears to be a gift from the Gulen movement, who don't appear to be much more appealing than the current crop of corrupt islamists, or the previous crop of corrupt nationalists.

> The EU's fears are looking forward, not looking back.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. If you're saying that racism and fear of difference play a major role in pushing Turkey away, sure. Though it should also be clear that Turkey is doing itself no favour with the current ban. I hope you're not trying to say that a religious, socially conservative government with a hand in the till should be the future of Europe.

Personally, I'd be in favour of deep political reforms in the European governance mechanisms before further enlargement in any direction. The notion of economic advantages has been pushed forward so much that it has resulted in the weird, undemocratic system we have now, and as a result each new crisis is an opportunity to demonstrate the lack of political unity of the member states.
"I see it that they've either 1) exhausted venture money, aren't an acquisition target, and see the public offering as funding of last resort because they're nowhere close to being profitable or 2) they see this as very close to a market top and are rushing to take the company public before the music stops. I don't like either very much."

They (Box) just raised ($100MM, Dec/13) a month or two before this was filed. The market, however, is very ripe[1] and the IPO marketers are likely advising them to take it public. The Last round is basically a mezz round ($2B valuation) and if they flip this thing for 1.5x to 2.0x in 6 months those guys are going to be happy. The cash burn on the P&L is $14/month and $350MM would last 24 months, enough to inflect if its a real biz. Closer to inflection, a Secondary raise will generate liquidity for the remaining insiders. Given the uncertainty with the FED's propping up of QE, its not a bad idea if you are the #N player to not wait (risk of backwash/turbulence if the others take all investor appetite), given that its a two-stage exit for most IPOs these days.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/101425809
Ok. I wish you can believe me when I say that there is still an uneducated and "religion over logic" minded people in Turkey and our governments use these people.

But on the other hand, there is a great crowd who understands the need of educated people and logical responses to these matters.

I just find it hypocritical to blame all the people of a country without any detailed knowledge but with only common phrases (which is possibly mined from a biased relative). This is a common phrase for a Turkish people and I find it difficult to believe all the people who told this phrase to have been researched the subject from varied sources.

At least I wish, more educated people who only talks when they know something for sure or open to suggestions to write here(hackernews) at these sensitive topics. Not the overheard people, just to avoid misinformation.
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They're discriminating against him on the basis of his political stance, trying to start up a witch hunt or mob against him, and trying to disenfranchise him of his employment.

They're bigots, pure and simple, and so is everyone who defends them.
You're responding to a guy who previously posted "How does being called a faggot hurt someone who is, in fact, a faggot?" [1].

Don't feed the troll.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6939266
Maybe it's not mobbing, but piling up on the side of the overwhelming majority has really little added value.
Well, crossover is extremely powerfull and makes genetic algorithms very genereic. You are right that it's probably overkill for most problems we solve with computers, but only because we solve very simple problems nowadays.

Anyway, my experience with automatic programming is completely oposite to yours, and in line with comicjk. I've always had better results with GA than with hill climbing* or simulated annealing. I have the same experience for resource scheduling. Of course, your experience will vary a lot depending on the data you want to fit/schedule.

Also, nothing is stopping you from including hill climbing as a kind of mutation...

* Last time I used it, I didn't even have a well behaved gradient to climb, it was zero at a huge number of places, and I knew it beforehand. Automatic programming applies to all kinds of crazy domains.
It will if this IPO is an epic fail, which it looks like it may be...
It means pigs will fly before Firefox supports alternative languages like Dart or Typescript, since JavaScript is his baby. I'd be surprised if asm.js even continues to be supported, he's argued so strenuously against the idea of javascript as assembly, even though there are now almost 100 other languages that compile to javascript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... and Google, Microsoft, and Facebook (hack) are all sticking to languages that use types.
Everybody has justifications for their bigotry. Talk to a KKK wizard sometime. I'm sure he has a compelling backstory, too. Doesn't change the fact that it's still bigotry.
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Yes, they are fashions. Some of them may be good, some may be bad, but they are fashions. It is conceivable that if we find a planet with alien life, there will be calls for colonizaton, for instance. And it could be a good thing.

Let's play an intellectual game. Is it possible to imagine a sensible reason for Eich to hold the view he and others hold? If you are unable to imagine such a reason, it is because you are misunderstanding that position.

The Principle of Charity [1] says you should assume your ideological opponents' beliefs must make sense from their perspective. If you can’t even conceive of a position you oppose being tempting to someone, you don’t understand it and are probably missing something. You might be missing a strong argument that the position is correct. Or you might just be missing something totally out of left field.

I propose most people in this thread -- and indeed in the San Francisco-based startup culture -- do not understand the position Eich holds. And it does not hold to the Principle of Charity, choosing instead to ostracize and boycott and demonize with ugly labels.

Perhaps a fair way to approach this debate would be, "Assuming Eich does not hate gay people, why would he be opposed to redefining marriage?"

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
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What's the legality of this operation in terms of your base of operation and location of customers you are serving? Did you guys have to get a MSB license or similar oversight? Or do you think this falls into an unregulated area?

Edit: I also wanted to add, are you serving as counterparty to any customer transactions (for providing liquidity) or are you working with any sort of market makers?
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I was going to write a response disagreeing based on the assumption that, like any normal exchange, Derivabit would fully intermediate the trade. But after reading the guide, I realize you are correct! They explicitly say the maximum you could ever recover on your put option is the 20% margin.

In my opinion this is extremely misleading and to call such a contract a "put" and hide the real definition in a FAQ is straightforwardly wrong.
Ah, missed that one. Thanks for the prompt; I should have recognized the trollishness earlier.
I've actually been working on something quite similar and will be launching soon. Good luck to OP.
I'm in a similar position in the sense, but because the turn around on our experiments can be super fast. Instead of using a Chi-square p-value type test, or even a Bayesian implementation (like Beta: alpha = 5, beta = 100), that survival analysis gives the profile of the difference.

I'm in a similar position because we did choose to pollute our code base with inline experiments (which we shut down and remove). However, ideally I want these experiments to "run" forever once the winner is installed. This is because I can always compare it back to the survival curve of the 'control' group in the experiment (and test group) to make sure it's behaving as expected.

So my problem is, how do I escape from inline and yet continue to record everything afterwards?

Been thinking a lot about it.
> A better analogy would be whether a Muslim bakery could be forced to produce communion wafers.

No, it is a terrible analogy: a muslim bakery wouldn't usually produce communion wafers. The bakery in question did usually produce wedding cakes[0], and refused to provide a usual service on grounds of sexual orientation (the bakery had no problem providing a wedding cake for a pair of dogs when asked).

> In my view, this issue is complex only because the position of the business owners in question is being elided.

The business owners repeatedly made their position clear: they had a strict policy against selling wedding cakes to same-sex couples based on their "reading of the Word of God." Their position is illegal in Colorado.

[0] and wedding cakes were available for sampling
That could definitely save on transaction fees, but my observation is that customers want their spending money in their most liquid account possible, which for many is their bank account.

Even something ubiquitous like PayPal isn't usually available at retail locations.
Why did it fall on your shoulders and not the CTO / tech team? How did they let you go in a few days? They called a board meeting immediately after to fire you?
http://noscript.net/

I'm okay with that.
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Hello,

I am thinking of developing a mobile app/game that is inspired from scenes from a couple of hit movies! e.g. a couple of hit scenes from Home Alone and maybe Baby's Day Out !

There will be no scenes from the actual movie but maybe the "thief" character be "inspired" by the thief from Home Alone ! (kind of like you have to stop the thieves from entering the house or a palace)

Will this be considered a parody and fair use or can be it a copyright violation? I will be consulting an attorney but wanted to see if anyone here has some knowledge or ideas? I tried searching but couldnd find anything !!

(Also if you know and can recommend an attorney in the Bay Area, i will appreciate it)
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This is just way TOO much Check this out.
Perhaps I didn't make my point clear, but what I meant by a converter cable involved converting Lightning signals to USB signals within the cable itself (i.e. there's a microprocessor within the cable that converts the signals from one form to another).

The closest we have to this right now is the Lightning to USB Camera Adapter, which has a fair number of limitations, but I see no reason that a more general device couldn't be made:
http://www.imore.com/playing-around-apple-lightning-usb-came...
It's well known that government incentives tip the scale in favor of some more marriages. It's the reason the incentives were created in the first place, obviously! But if you can't follow that line of reasoning, you're welcome to read papers that are tangentially related and prove the the point of how strongly influenced by economics/finances marriages are:

http://www.nber.org/c7282.pdf
http://www.nber.org/chapters/c3683
http://www.nber.org/papers/w7510

It's also what my Public Economics professor said back in the day in college... and he was a smart dude.

Also, you're ignoring most of the argument - it's not just about the tax incentive - it's about all of the incentives that government licensed marriage creates. Re-read my prior comments throughout this whole discussion if you don't know what I mean.
If marriage is a form of personal expression, it shouldn't be regulated by the government. That's a very understandable position.
Just today there was this programme on Radio4 about co-working spaces in London. It was relevant, even if not an exact answer to your questions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03yn66h
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If only there was a storage platform / offsite backup platform that just gave you a plain old unix filesystem to do whatever you wanted with.

If only...
Hahahahahahahaha.

No.
Yeah, but I don't have bus stop locations memorized (except around campus), and the most efficient route depends on exactly when you're traveling. Having Google figure this out for me is really convenient.
Can't help feeling the site is a bit more about the authors than helping the customer
So then I understand you do agree that a company should ask you your personal beliefs, religion, sexual orientation, and check which donations to which causes you made before hiring you? Because that's what you're implying here.
"losing $107 million on only $6 million in revenues"

Is this what the 2000 bubble was?
I'm running a small SaaS business. I'm curious to hear what steps you took to reduce your vulnerability. Could you please share so others can take the same steps?
The important part of my comment was "actively fund[ing] and promot[ing] laws". I have no major problem with the argument that the state should be out of marriages entirely. That seems fully reasonable (at least to the extent I've thought about it).

My problem is that no one is actually trying to remove government from all marriages, as this argument would seem to imply. This argument is only used to defend removing gay rights, as with Prop 8.
It's possible to work with these sample sizes using survival analysis, but I doubt Bayes would find the difference even with a really well initialized prior. I don't think that traditional significance testing is the answer here, those require even larger sample sizes (b/c you're not limiting the space of the estimate). It's all about limiting the domain-space. You know conversion rates are never over 10% on your homepage, why would you not exclude that to give your statistical work more power? That's at least how I think about it.
I believe that "Consequences" here meant, "People finding out you are a homophobe".
Custom android ROMs would be pretty cool for everybody.
There are already cars today with adaptive cruise control and lane correction. On a highway, the car essentially drives itself. I imagine that with 10 or 20 years of incremental improvements we'll see something that's very close to a completely self driving car.
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How much does that leave for the avg. employee, many who probably took pay cuts for the promise that their equity would be worth millions?
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pg disabled it site wide.
Thanks, would love to see your app when it's ready!
Not much of a counterargument there.
I just noticed that they don't actually provide an order book or any sort of bid-ask spread information. That makes price discovery extremely challenging, and makes this even more difficult for providers of liquidity (traders, dealers, etc.). Charitably, I assume this is coming and they haven't had time to implement it yet.
Sales & marketing for enterprise software is still the largest expense item for most enterprise software companies.

Even though more software is self-serve and provides zero-day value, the biggest enterprise customers still need the Sales & Marketing machine, from front-loading marketing which generate leads for sales people/sales engineers to customer success, etc.

For the longest time, the guys driving the best cars coming out of Oracle's parking lot were the sales people. That's changing, but not as quickly as we expect.

As a point of comparison:

Box
R&D: 37% of revenue
S&M: 138% of revenue

Salesforce (based on last SEC filing)
R&D: 15% of revenue
S&M: 53% of revenue

Oracle (based on last SEC filing)
R&D: 14% of revenue
S&M: 21% of revenue

Interesting exception is Workday (based on last SEC filing)
R&D: 39% of revenue
S&M: 42% of revenue

This is still a winner-take-all business because a typical enterprise customer is still 2-3 years at the minimum (depends on the product; ERP tends to be much stickier). Box is encouraged to spend expensive investor capital to focus on growth (and in the process, limit their tax exposure).

I think it'll be interesting as Dropbox moves more towards the enterprise how much of the typical "enterprise sales" playbook would they adopt?
But that Google Pricing cut was certainly a bad timing for Box.
Have you ever seen the Simpsons episode where Homer becomes a truck driver and it turns out that the trucks already drive themselves?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Homerdrive
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> And in the 5% of cases where the computer is waaay wrong, you will find outcomes get worse, not better.

The problem is that doctors actually get it wrong more than this.

There is a reason why even a checklist improves the care that doctors give:
http://www.angina.com/safety-issues/checklists-reminders-doc...
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But how long will it take to get a LTV that is going that high, meanwhile cloud storage costs across the board have a downward price tendency?

Or, could Box raise prices significantly enough on some customers to lessen their losses without sending too many customers to competitors?
Exactly. This is why it's important to isolate experiments. Ideally you want what is like a horse stall on your main funnel. Make that stall just 10% of the total funnel so drastic experiments don't hit too many users.

I've worked from Optimizely-style, which is Chi-square / Fisherian, to Bayesian to survival. Each time my req. sample sizes generally came down an order of magnitude (having started at 200,000). That's for conversion rates between 2-6%.
Stop using gcj as native Java compiler in tests, use RoboVM instead, or any other aot compiler for Java.

gcj is dead.
"When Loudcloud first filed to go public 164 days earlier, it was valued at $1.15 billion, in spite of losing $107 million on only $6 million in revenues in the three quarters ended Oct. 31."

> Full context is useful.

== $1B+ val vs. $10MM LTM rev = 100x rev multiple.
The order book is at https://derivabit.com/order_book. You can drill down into specific contracts for more details.

There is also a summarized version built into the trade form.
In the United States, the tradition of marriage excluded interracial marriage until rather recently as well. Just because something is a tradition doesn't mean it morally right.
How quickly everyone seems to have forgotten the lessons of Groupon.
of course, i'm 100% with you. if i were box i'd be wanting to ipo on a hot market to avoid dilution/raise as much cash as possible. this is a good move for box. all i'm saying is that this isn't (imho) a good investment for ipo investors.
Exactly. A big risk to pay for avoiding inline code. Although I do hate our own inline code (even though it's removed diligently when not used).
Yes, I got that you were "posting two diametrically opposing viewpoints", but that doesn't mean that you should get a pass on misrepresenting the example you gave for one of your opposing viewpoints since it was in error and not the viewpoint of the party you attributed it to. I didn't look up George Soros's view on the issue to find out if your example's mention represented his belief or not.

Making larger points doesn't give one license to misrepresent the view of people in such a contentious issue. I'm sure if someone attributed that belief to you as part of a larger point, you would feel a bit slighted.

> Have the downvotes proven my point?

I cannot down vote you, and I don't know what the down voters found about your post that lead them to take their action. Perhaps they will comment also.
Many people who oppose gay marriage simply have a deep-seated attachment to the word "marriage" and do not actually harbor ill will toward gays or wish to deprive them of any benefits.

I personally am all for gay marriage, but I have many friends and family members who fall into the group I'm talking about here. They don't want to see gay people put out at all; they just aren't ready to strip the word "marriage" of the religious associations it holds for them.
I'm trying to use testling and I'm uncomfortable with the fact that there aren't prices anywhere. If you click on "pay for private repos" you end up on a page where each link is broken ("quick start" contains "beep boop" and "support" has "article not found"). Discouraging :-/
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