skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trick isn't whether these brands can access China, it's in what manner. Western brands sell very well in China, who gets the proceeds is the issue.

The big European luxury goods brands are doing a wild business in China. [1][2][3][4]

If you want to make a lot of money on China as a foreigner, you want to be selling a luxury brand product rather than offering a local service (eg fast food chain). That might be an iPhone or a Gucci bag or a Mercedes. Owning certain intellectual property, such as characters, can be equally lucrative (eg Marvel and Mickey Mouse). Nike and Jordan Brand have done a great business in China.

KFC in China for example, isn't controlled by Yum Brands US. It's controlled by Yum China, minority owned by Yum US. McDonald's has a small sliver of its own business in China.

Disney only owns 43% of its big new $5.5b park in Shanghai, the most popular park in China. Wang Jianlin had touted that he'd personally chase Disney from China, and that his parks would dominate instead. Disney really had no choice but to acquiesce and partner up. They'll make a lot of money from it and they had to cede control to do that.

Tesla is building a factory in China for the same reason everyone else has, there is no great alternative. You have to give local Chinese partners their big cut, or else.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/l-oreal-g...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-20/hermes-ex...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-24/lvmh-shin...

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/luxury-ba...
Have you documented any of this or written on your home automation endeavors? I'm looking to "Tony Stark" my house up a bit (i.e. voice control, some touch enabled panes in the kitchen/office) but want a bit more control than something purpose built, off-the-shelf while also being a bit more insulated than Alexa or Echo. The NUC has been on my radar as a device that I may go with as the brains of the operation, and I'm just curious to read what design and implementation patterns others have taken.
Plasma compatibility goes in reverse (AB is universal).

And there are lots of other less important blood factors. In most situations the donor blood is cross matched with the patient's blood, to directly test compatibility.

https://www.healthline.com/health/blood-typing-and-crossmatc...
Well, that and both Doom/Quake have native ports and open source implementations that beat the pants off the original windows binaries.
Guys, just need to say that this article is not mine!
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You can use Haskell to do the things Elm does (and more, like deploying to mobile). Checkout reflex and obelisk:

http://docs.reflex-frp.org/en/latest/
https://github.com/obsidiansystems/obelisk
Now many people have no money and are scraping by, and many(!) people are extremely bad with money, even fairly middle class people who cannot commit to saving anything and would rather the BMW, but...

> 10% own 84%

sounds more like simple power law. "A small wealthy % owns most of the X" is true for, well, almost everything. So when you ponder:

> Is it because 90% of Americans don't even have money left to invest after their cost of living?

The answer is "probably not." Because even if every american invested exactly 5% of their income in the stock market, or 50% of their income, you'd still expect to see ~10% own 84% of all stock. The 10% just have really high incomes/previous savings from incomes, etc.

In fact just ponder for a laugh, imagine if the 10% [richest people] only owned like... 15% of the stock market, or owned only like 15% of all real estate, etc. If that were true, you should be really worried about that thing as an investment!

Bitcoin might actually be the rare case where the top 10% don't actually own a huge share of a big valuable thing.

> Otherwise, where are people investing, if not the stock market?

The bottom 90% own most of the lotto tickets. The top 10% eschew these! The top 10% prefer index/hedge funds, which are basically lotto tickets with great odds and a totally lame ROI.

There is probably lots of value in convincing people to invest in the index fund lotto instead of the lotto lotto, but even if you did, about 10% would still own about 84% of all stock.
70% of,the retail price is extraordinary in any market for physical goods, where they pass through layers of resellers, distributors and wholesalers, each taking their clip. Meanwhile there is no other cost of goods sold.
Yes Apple take a lot, but the deal developers get, simply because of the lack of other parties, is superb.
For example, Apple makes it trivial to sell to every country, whereas for physical goods, or even for online goods, it is very difficult and ex-endive to understand pricing, language, tax and other compliance - even if you could get permission to sell there.
But yes it is well over-time for the removal of practices that have lowered out trust in the ecosystem - in particular iap systems targeted at whales, and pseudo gambling.
One of the comments on the article had me searching for irony. "Do the cops think burners are using illicit substances?"

Probably? Because many are?

NOTE - this doesn't advocate for pre-emptive search and seizure in anyway, but trying to claim Burning Man is entirely "straight edge" with a straight face is ... implausible.
I don't agree with you that Apple or Google are monopolies. I also don't see that what they're doing is anti-competitive.

I expect that will be a pretty controversial opinion, but I'm just being honest.
Here's the paper that the article is talking about: http://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-34715-001.pdf
I think you're confusing Ulam with Szilard. I'm not sure Szilard even comes up in Indiscrete Thoughts
It's almost like being down the street from 2+ major technology companies might have rubbed off on them...
It's actually quite surprising how un-integrated US government agencies and systems are.
This was posted in a devops-related slack not too long ago and caused quite a stir over CFA's lack of, uh, diversity. I know it's technically off-topic and frowned upon here, but I believe the fact that they make their beliefs such a big part of the company that it deserves to be pointed out.
Steam has been sliding rapidly into hell for years. So much crap/asset flips.
Ideally profits should be incentives for a good service. Instead the profits are a result of the lack of competition because it‘s impossible in iOS‘ case and virtually impossible in Android’s case to compete.
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> future number one market

That's highly unlikely given the current state, as US consumer is is about 1/3 of the world's household consumption https://www.selectusa.gov/largest-market, and is growing 3% this quarter. China has alot of debt problems, and will suffer heavily in a trade war. About 45% of Chinese GDP is in 'investment', where probably half is waste (continued state investments into expensive-to-maintain, rarely used rails, bridge, and buildings). Whereas for a developed country like US, it's about 20% investment (70% in consumption).

Population wise, US is augmented by steady immigration and will increase to 400 million in 2040, 500 million in 2100. China hit its peak in birthing in 1970s, and has been experiencing a steady decline since, projected to hit max 1.4 billion people in 2030 and then go to around 1 billion or below in 2100. US average income is still 7 times the Chinese average income.

IMO, China's hit its peak already in 2008 and is in decline, whereas US has recovered from 2008 and is rising
They've been doing this for several years at least (employees taking orders of people in line). I think since before the iPad was released.
Thanks for the excellent link. Quite a good read. From the article: [In order to prevent flamewars on Hacker News, articles with "too many" comments will get heavily penalized as "controversial"....] Ok, that isn't exactly even a slightly sophisticated method that could be extended to decide some comments are "high quality". In theory if you wanted to implement article ranking you need a method that ranks articles based on comment quality. Without a automated method you are really just using humans to do the ranking.
Please don't post grandiose national or ideological rhetoric to HN. It's at best flamebait and at worse trolling. Substantive discussion needs more thought than this.
Have you actually found any new apps to download through Apple's new News style storefront? Just a cursory ping around my office has resulted in only 1 person installing an app through it.

It's quite frankly an obnoxious, Apple has to control everything, replacement for all of the other various startups who were creating marketing channels for developers to reach new users.
pretty sure the ads are just a joke to not eat hamburgers, but to eat chicken whether it be nuggets or sandwiches or whatever which is essentially the menu for Chick-fil-A.
This article ignores that Apple nor Google charge a tax on ad revenue in apps, leading to the perverse outcome we have where there is an inexorable pressure to monetize via ads even in paid apps.

I really would really like to see the tax lowered, but expanded to include all advertising revenue, with the idea that the "power to tax is the power to kill".

Small apps will rebel forcefully and understandably from this idea, but I don't think it will really harm them in the long run.

Unfortunately, the idea is fundamentally flawed and couldn't work with regard to apps that run their own ad network like Facebook, Amazon or maybe Netflix eventually. Those companies probably don't currently track revenue on any basis that would allow allocation in any way suitable for application of such a tax.

But if Apple had done this originally, I think we would be in a very different world app-wise. And a better one.
> I doubt there is 100% secure device,

you might want to read up on EAL certification. Yes, there is no 100% secure device, but "secure" is about resistance to attack and an actual secure element is very resistant, as well as tamper evident.

u2f-zero could be hacked in 10s flat if you prep ahead of time.

> if an attacker has gained physical access to the primary token ... they don't need to hack it in any way

but they need long term access. with this device, short term access is enough to learn the key and then i can get access at a time of my choosing. i can also learn the counter value and you won't notice that i have gained access.
Uighurs aren't Arab, so who cares? The new silk road money is more important.
The limitation that Apple imposes whereby people can't really sideload or download elsewhere is even more problematic.

The 30% tax is one thing - but grey, inconclusive, inconsistent and possibly nefarious decisions made as to 'what can stay and what cannot' in the AppStore is even worse.

It's tantamount to a kind of politico/economic censorship in the name of security.
It's not a definition, it's pointing out that someone was being pedantic about the meaning of "locked" and "encrypted" when Apple employees can seemingly read your encrypted iCloud date. They wanted to be "technical", but nobody was talking about technicalities. They were talking about security. iCloud data seems to be locked, encrypted and insecure! One of those words is not like the other
Money is fungible. I would be very surprised if Apple didn't regard revenue from the App Store as partially due to their investment in the iPhone.
"Go Unlimited" is subject to near-constant Network Management (corp-speak for "severe throttling").
"Beyond Unlimited" reserves this for after 22GB of data in a bill cycle; "Above Unlimited", after 75GB.
So, yes, unlimited data; but no, not unlimited access to anything resembling "high speed".
I'd assume it's because then a pathogen could just make itself look like a red blood cell to dodge the immune system.
You're stating that as though it's an argument, but I honestly don't follow the point you're trying to make. Under the rent-seeking analogy, yes, Apple built a vast and lucrative apartment complex. Are you saying it's unreasonable to charge a high fee to allow someone to solicit to the people living in that complex on the property it owns and developed?

I get the sense we're not going to be able to come to an understanding here. Based on the way you used that terminology we likely have an axiomatic disagreement.
There are 2 separate issues here:

1. The existence of the Commons Clause.
2. The application of the Commons Clause to software that previously was not subject to it.

To the original author: How would your view be different if a company released a new product or module that was Commons Clause-licensed from day 1? Would that still be a threat to open source? (What if the alternative to it being Commons Clause-licensed was that it wouldn't exist at all?)
I’ve implemented this.

TLDR: orm’s + large transactions resulted in a lot of unexpected complexity.

At some point you get really big transactions because one write triggers five process managers which all trigger more writes and so on and so on. Performance was not a problem but I was surprised by the complexity of these big transactions in combination with an orm.

I dont have a concrete example but over the course of two years we have encountered multiple bugs that took days to solve. Theres one of these bugs that we fixed without identifying the root cause until this day.
The problem is that when people debate whether socialist countries are bound to fail, everybody has their own definition of socialism.

From what I've seen, many people who believe the "danger" of socialism are also quite convinced that the US is in the danger of slipping into socialism. Why that doesn't happen in Sweden is left as exercise.
This is extremely wrong. The official mood in China seems to be swinging ethno-nationalist, which is a recipe for human rights violations in any country, let alone one with limited juridical recourse and free speech. I don't think China will look back at this in a generation and think, we did the right thing.
That’s why I love HN, you start reading a post along with the comments and you see nice links like this one that take you down another (similar) road ;-)
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They're just doing the open core model, with a tweak on the licensing of their proprietary add-ons to exclude cloud providers. I don't have a big problem with that, so long as there's a clear delineation between the open source and proprietary offerings.

The only thing they're doing "differently" is the deceptive messaging. For this, I blame the Commons Clause initiative.

Redis Labs could take these same actions under a non-deceptive name and the response of the Open Source community would be vastly different.
I was at Demo Day, and couldn't disagree more.

If you actually believe that, go ahead and pick the ten companies you think are worth something, and I'll take the "unpromising" part of the batch. We can put a five year bet into longbets that the top ten companies of my group will outperform your ten companies, as scored by either exit value or value of last round raised.

Picking winners is hard, and most great companies today looked dramatically different when they were first getting started.
Ah yes. sum(range()) in Python vs for(i=1...) in js was much closer, about 20% quicker in javascript.
Poor people don't fly on planes, man.
I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.

> All a license can do is grant you rights you wouldn’t otherwise have because of copyright law, right?

No, it can absolutely restrict your rights. A license is a contract, and other contracts can also restrict your rights in exchange for other legal goods (see e.g. NDAs, or non-compete clauses in employment contracts).
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No, justifying price based on cost is usually valid because of real competitive pressures in the world. Very few things deviate too far from underlying costs. Apple is a rare special case that has a lot of market power and brand premium.

Retail stores take on massive working capital and inventory costs. Of course their 'cut' is going to be higher, and it will be the same in every other retail chain because of the similar underlying economics.

If 'digital app stores' were commoditized, then the 30% would be more like 3% due to the nature of competition.
If every app I downloaded were several to several 10s of gigabytes of data, I might be more inclined to cut them some slack. 30% on a 5MB download is pretty tough to justify. The cost of storing and transferring that file is a rounding error.
Url changed from https://git.github.io/rev_news/2018/08/22/edition-42/, which points to this.
Their food court is amazing. You can have steamed salmon and a Spicy Chicken sandwich at the same time. Also free to your family.
I found that potassium gives me anxiety and panic attacks. I noticed this after drinking an electrolyte drink, and also eventually traced it back to fish and to chicken broth, both of which are high in potassium.

I now eat a low-potassium diet, which fixed the problem.

My potassium levels are normal. My doctors have never heard of this effect. I can't explain this, I just know it works for me, and I have some confidence from looking back at my food logs that it's not a placebo effect.
Not sure you can say they are willing to pay it, considering the alternative is not being able to provide the application to iOS/Android users.
I'm Taiwanese, and I would have second and third thought about applying to YC, given the relationship Sam wants to have with Chinese government.

I would imagine that muslims, people from Hong Kong and Tibet, Japan, Vietnam, people that would prefer democracies over authoritarian governments, libertarians, techies that treasure freedom on the net, would hesitate and would not apply to YC for moral reasons.
Oh, I probably sounded identical to a certain common pattern. Don't read too much into it. :)

I don't think they're anti-competitive. But they are monopolies.

http://gsl.mit.edu/media/programs/south-africa-summer-2015/m...

https://i.imgur.com/ooJmwsg.png
Most Muslim aren't Arab. Only like 20% of Muslims are Arab.
(I made this)

I mostly did this because I wanted to see just how minimal you can make a site that sells something these days.

If I make any actual $ from it I'll update in here :-)
Ok, we can squeeze a "may" into the title above.
I get asked to do more of a "write-up" a lot, but it's hard to figure out how to format or frame it. I have a fairly large pile of opinions about how one should go about doing this, but it's hard to concisely organize my thoughts on it into a coherent write-up.

The code is here: https://github.com/ocdtrekkie/HAController but I don't know if I'd really recommend others use it. The main perk to me is that it's designed around what I want and use (I tried a lot of alternative options before rolling my own), so unless you also really like Visual Basic code and have a brain ordered bizarrely similarly to mine, you may want to start somewhere else.

I'd love to chat about what I've learned along the way or what ideas you have (because I might borrow them!), if you want to chat elsewhere hit me up at inbox (at) jacobweisz (dot) com
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> I spent almost 3 hours in line at JFK, with an European passport. That is actually one of the main reasons why I probably won't come back anytime soon.

Right, we've established that queues for people traveling on foreign passports are longer and more frustrating than queues for people traveling with the local passports. That's the problem this article is talking about: queues for people traveling with foreign passports.
It's too late to do anything about climate change. right?
This is from the guy who ranted confusedly and misleadingly about Signal a couple of weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17723973). And now with this post he's spreading misinformation about Redis (see antirez's correction at http://antirez.com/news/120).

I don't know enough about Commons Clause to have an opinion about it. But I don't think the author here understands it fully either. Clearly he didn't do due diligence before trashing antirez, so I don't really trust that he has the facts on the legalities here either.
Just buy up the land and pay property taxes on it.
Lots of people bat many eyes as well as organize against and boycott goods from those places. Saying that human rights are 'nothing more than a tool from the west to impose their will' is wrong on its face. Sure they can be used an excuse for intervention, but human rights have been a goal starting within the west itself (e.g. the struggle for racial equality in the US).
That rarely works in reality.

Lots of instances will all burst at the same time, for example when someone has thousands of T3 instances and then dumps a bunch of work into a work scheduling system, or when debians cron kicks in at exactly midnight.

I'd much rather Amazon say "You have X% guaranteed CPU, and up to Y% extra cpu you can use on a best effort basis" I'd like to see the same for memory and disk too.

For those who need fixed performance, there should be a setting to disable that best effort extra bit.
> Other than inventing the modern phone

IBM Simon, 1992.

Applr popularised, they didn't invent. Ironically given the target of their 1984 ad.
Is that a lack of competition in the actual legal sense of the word? I don't actually know the answer, but my perception is that it's probably not.

Apple does not restrict the ability of another browser to be installed (like Chrome) nor another music service (like Spotify) nor another video service (Amazon). It does charge a high fee for purchases through the App Store platform, but I think reasonable people can disagree about whether or not that's actually anticompetitive.

I think it's incorrect to compare Apple'a high fees to other things that are not app stores, like payment processors. It might be the case that we need more than two mobile operating systems in the market this way Apple and Google have a competitive incentive to reduce their fees. But I think it's fair to mandate a high fee to do things on your operating system if end users and developers will accept it. So far most developers accept it.
There needs to be some kind of class-action or power play movement otherwise - like all the top vendors removing their apps at the same time for a while. No one entity is powerful enough to stand up to them alone. It may take some kind of non-market intervention like legislation which is unlikely to happen in America and I'm not sure that's the fairest avenue either.

Though it may not seem like it - this is related to 'network neutrality' - it's about monopoly/control of one area that's used to monopolize control an adjacent market.

Apple and Google don't want Verizon to charge based on content ... so that Apple and Google can monopolize the entire experience for themselves!

Antitrust is not a new idea, and it's foggy but it may come into play here. It'd be one thing for companies to use their OS control to try to dominate other parts of the experience, but a 'bridge too far' to limit choice. Apple literally wants a 30% cut of the entire digital universe on their platform. This requirement and the limitation that people can't install apps 'not approved' by Apple I think should be addressed by legislation.
having one large solution causes a ton of issues. Even if you have multiple solutions in one repo, that means everytime you deploy, you have to deploy the whole thing. Rolling back becomes more difficult and one team can break the build and it effects other teams.
EC told Google that income from PlayStore should be enough for them to make money on Android.

Edit: EC == European Commission
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