hncommenter13

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   by hncommenter13 9y ago

   Hey, sorry to leave this here, but didn't see any contact info in your profile. Would love to chat with you about the dollar store industry, if you'd be so inclined. I'm particularly curious about Dollarama in Canada, if you&
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   by hncommenter13 10y ago

   Ask and you shall receive: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/well/eat/can-you-get-too-m...
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   by hncommenter13 10y ago

   Supposedly a big chunk of Alibaba's backend infrastructure runs on its custom-developed distributed datastore called Oceanbase, which is available on Github here[1] and here[2]. There are some presentations[3] and papers online (see li
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   by hncommenter13 13y ago

   This is kind of a bugaboo for me. I am continually surprised by the attitude that seems common in the tech industry that laws governing all other industries are misapplied or useless when it comes to tech. I get that the hacker culture is
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   by hncommenter13 13y ago

   I had the need to geocode 10s to 100s of thousands of US addresses weekly, with the ability to accept slightly-reduced accuracy vs. the parcel-level accuracy of Google Maps. I rewrote the geocommons geocoder in Java to speed up the loading
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   by hncommenter13 13y ago

   I'm building the app in Java, so I specifically looked for those. Almost all of them have REST built-in (or easily available via the stack at http://www.tinkerpop.com ), so the client could be language-agnostic. Look at h
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   by hncommenter13 13y ago

   I'm in the same boat. I've been looking at Neo4J, Titan, etc., as part of research for a new application I'm building. Our data set is fairly tiny (<<10M entities, almost certainly), but the information we're tra
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   by hncommenter13 13y ago

   This is correct in an M&A scenario, but usually not in an IPO. In an IPO, the most common treatment of preferred is to force-convert everyone who holds it to the equivalent amount of common stock, and such a term typically appears in l
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   by hncommenter13 13y ago

   It might be, depending on what else is on the page. Clause 4(d) of the Terms of Service[1] reads: "You agree not to use the Service for any of the following commercial uses unless you obtain YouTube's prior written approval: - th
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    This is what the USPS says, but it might not be the final answer. If the requester is in the 9th Circuit (one of AK, AZ, CA, GU, HI, ID, MP, MT, NV, OR, WA) and especially if the requester is in the Northern District of California (SF Bay
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    As of version 1.14, wget natively supports warc (including built-in gzip and cdx index file generation). http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_ou... This makes creating a browse-able mirror of a site in
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    Funny, I just spent some time this weekend creating a json API wrapper around the little-known Memento API that wayback offers. My idea was to make a bookmarklet that would show prior versions of the page the user was visiting. (The backe
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    I'm not sure where you're looking. Page 3, Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. Last 12 months ended 6/30/2013, $4.5B CFO, ($5.8B) CFI, $2.8B CFF. Without issuing debt, their net cash would have decreased. You are e
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    Point 1. Yes, low margin/cash-generative businesses exist, like grocery stores and well, pretty much all of hardline (and much softline) retail. AMZN has not yet generated much profit or much distributable cash flow, relative to thei
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    1. I'm not so sure about that. According to the most recent financial statement[1], AMZN hasn't generated much in the way of net cash from operations over the past 12 months. Worse yet, they're spending an amount in excess
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    Can you potentially point me to a reliable source for this type of number (or tell me how to calculate it myself, assuming I can get the zone file from Verisign)? I had similar issues with the data, and I tried emailing these guys to find o
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    Exactly this. I worked in investment banking in NY and SF before moving over to VC/growth equity (and now a hedge fund). Not only are bankers by definition terrible managers, but there's absolutely zero incentive for them to try
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    Hi, any chance you'd be willing to chat a bit about your experience and the PPV/CPV stuff you were seeing? I'm an investment analyst and I've been doing some research into that world, so I'd love to pick your brain
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    And for good reason. Otherwise the entire Foreign Corrupt Practices Act would be unenforceable, as the bribery takes place overseas. Similarly, one could evade US law on insider trading or criminal conspiracies simply by moving overseas.
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    As a public market investor, this sort of thing drives me batty. Many companies won't release an actual churn rate, but only a "dollar retention rate," as above. Yelp is one of them. While the dollar retention rate is certai
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    It was actually David Siegel, one of the first well-known web designers, who wrote about the Nine Act structure. I remember reading this sometime in the late 90s. Here is the archived version from 1996 : http://web.archive.org&
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    Would you mind sharing a bit about how the process to gain access to the root zone file works? I've seen the application form, but I'm curious how the whole thing goes from application to access. Any insights you can share? I&#x
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    Note that the FTC agrees with you and recently made an announcement[1] regarding the shading of the ad result box, among other requirements for search engines. The study the FTC cites[2] indicates that fully half of individuals didn't
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    Yes. As someone who was a (young) VC back then, I can tell you the dot-com euphoria continued during 1999. It peaked in March 2000, when the Nasdaq hit its all-time high. Shortly thereafter, the public consumer-oriented companies started
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    I do not believe this interpretation is correct. In a criminal proceeding in the US, a defendant--whether a citizen or not--has a right to counsel, as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution. As this is not a criminal pros
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see a WARN act filing by Zynga with the state of California for 2012 or 2013. http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN... My understanding is that WARN Act notices are required to be fil
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    I believe you are missing something. "During the first quarter of 2013, we recognized $67.9 million in ZEV sales, which contributed to our gross margin. ZEV credit revenue should decline in future quarters relative to our automotive sales a
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    Of that list, I'd say the Alibaba + RightMedia acquisitions were worth it. They're huge portions of the remaining value of the company. However, in general I agree with the post: Yahoo's corporate development group and its management teams
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    I'm afraid I don't. We never actually found out from AT&T how this happened or who was responsible--someone got in touch with the venue manager and the next thing we knew, a micro-cell showed up. I'm told one can rent them (it was a sm
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    by hncommenter13 13y ago

    I ran a mobile gaming conference for about 250 people in a major city back when AT&T was the only game in town for the iPhone (~2009). Without calling us or us reaching out to them, AT&T contacted the venue and installed a micro-ce