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The Linux OS, even in 1993, was a combination of Linux kernel plus GNU userland tools and compiler plus X11 plus assorted goodies from the BSD world.

Developed, at least the first bit of time, on Minix, a Unix-like operating system that a university professor wrote as a teaching tool and gave away under a shared source license.

Linux' use of GPL was better than the shared-source license of Minix because you could distribute patched Linux kernels but had to distribute Minix improvements as patches to the original distribution. Linux' use of GPL was also what led everyone to contribute back to Linux while BSD derivatives were silently used to bootstrap software (including MacOSX) that never contributed back.

Linux also shows two properties that make up successful open source: there's an "inside" (kernel-land) and an "outside", and everyone profits if the inside-OSS part is made better and better while having minor kernel improvements is not a huge differentiator for most companies.

Contrast with the Redis addons by Redislabs: they want the ecosystem aspect of open source - people contributing back patches. But they also want to be the only ones to gain a livelihood from their code (which is their right as creators of the software but not conducive to the growth of an ecosystem). And they want their license to be treated as Apache-License-related, which is the part that smells of make-believe and dishonesty. But observe the part of having an ecosystem of different software parts (here: Redis and RedisLabs' extensions) that have an inside and an outside, as well as an ecosystem of developers/users who can make and share improvements to the software.
There's a lot to unpack here:

* With the reservation numbers, sure, there are a large number of people who put down a refundable $1,000 for a $35K car with a $7,500 tax credit, but what is currently available is a $50K car with a rapidly expiring tax credit. I wouldn't call that proof of demand of the current product.

* Can they raise money? If they can, why haven't they? There's no MBA1 who would ever recommend leaving a company in the cash position they currently are in. Also, you seem to be under the assumption that billions of dollars exist that can just immediately appear. That's not how the capital markets work. Money raises take many months of effort to materialize.

* Also, as this article states the 8,000 cars a week metric might not be the best to focus on. Especially as a company that personally owns all the warranty liability for their cars, if 8,000 cars are being produced by cutting corners, that's not really the positive sign you would expect.
The most successful engineers I know don't have a degree. One is an engineering lead at Netflix, two of them started their own companies after spending about five years working for other big names.
There's some full-circle irony in Apple and Google complaining about taxes being too high and using ways to avoid them, then they get served with the same tactics by companies in their ecosystems. Without passing judgement, it's just one of those classical examples of "what goes around comes around".
Valve has several big competitors in the PC market. Several hugely successful games are not available on Steam.

I'm not sure it's possible to create a hugely successful iPhone app that isn't on the App Store. Apple has a monopoly and is using it to squeeze excessive fees from developers.
Yes, it's a terrible human rights disaster but that doesn't make the Chinese government a dictatorship. Running internment camps or Jim Crow didn't make the USA a dictatorship, either. Bad deeds don't change the definition of your form of government.

Dictatorship is about an individual. The chinese government has not been since Mao.

All non-western-democratic governments are not the same. They're not all some giant grab-bag of interchangeable scare words about communism, fascism, dictatorship.

Norway's a socialist state. Do they belong in your bucket too?
Ask HN: Do you live a Free Software only life?
Sometimes I consider the thought of moving towards free software only. But then I worry about the worse UI/UX that free software usually provides.

Are there any of you who have recently made the switch to Free Software? What was your experience? Do you miss anything from the non-free software world?
Steam shouldn't charge 30% either. And more and more games are having publishers, which often take %40+. It's harsh.
The one thing that I learned being a Venezuelan is that things can always get worse. It is easy to thing that there is a bottom for how bad things can go, but clearly that was just hopeful thinking.

The situation is a thousand times worse than when I left 6 years ago, an I would certainly consider what they are living now as a total collapse of society, yet I'm also sure that it could get even worse.
But habitat destruction happens from farming cotton and coffee and sugar as well... So wouldn't it make more sense to pinpoint the issue (habitat destruction/species extinction) rather than cast a wide net over all meat eating?
Cloud providers are not "giving away or selling" the software, they are running it, which isn't covered under that section.

You're probably looking for #6:

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research. ... or in this case, "offering Redis with extension X as a Service"
That's a very valid question and from their documents, it looks like they define journalist as someone who does it professionally as a career:

"The term "resident foreign journalists" means career journalists who are dispatched by foreign media organizations to be stationed in China for a period of not less than six months for news coverage and reporting."

http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/ywzn/mtyw/press_1/t944225.h...
I'll have you know that I sequenced and compressed both my parents' DNA at a very young age, although the process was about 50% lossy.
You are right; if you're going to radically change a license by adding a free-for-noncommercial-use type clause, you should change the name, and don't maintain even the slightest insinuations that it's related to the original license. Textually it may be, but legally it's a completely different beast.
Perhaps Kakoune? It's discussed here: http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html#_improving_o...
It's difficult to estimate what value the described systems add to a location, but in the grand scheme of a location's expenses, even $600/mo is a drop in the bucket. Align those contracts with the lease on the building itself - no more problems!
I think this point can't be emphasized enough. I read somewhere that Apple wouldn't want to go back to those days when some applications were more important than their platform, and when they were at the mercy of Adobe or Microsoft to continue providing software for the Mac. If an app becomes bigger than the platform, the platform loses it's strong lock in, and becomes dependent on the application. Like WeChat has become a platform in itself, and in China basically is the de facto platform a phone must support to be usable.
Did you RTFA? Did they say anything about collecting customer data? Why the heck did you bring this up, even?
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Epyc 7610 - $4800

Xeon Platinum 8180M - $16999 to $17999

Still 275% more expensive...
What's interesting to think about is how, in the lead up to the dotcom bubble/bust, I would think execs at tons of traditional retail/brick and mortar/consumer brands would have probably been like shit shit and then put more IT-focused organizational architecture components in place, which probably lead to many interesting technical solutions to many of the problems they faced (if they did it the right way). It would be cool to see different branching that lead to different technical solutions for common problems.

Unfortunately, as this was before the OSS boom that came later, we probably will never see these solutions out in the open.
Amazon does it all of the time. You pay for content by going on Amazon.com and you view the content via an app.
> You don't actually go through a passport check ...

It is also a big improvement. In the Jason Bourne book (published 1980), almost the entire first half of the book is him getting from Portugal to Switzerland, and all the shenanigans required. (No passport etc).

In the film (2002), they showed a high speed train for about 2 seconds!
Its called pre-clearance, and it's available in Canada, Carribbean, Ireland and UAE. [1] Despite preclearance, the host country still has legal jurisdiction.

It allows flights to operate between a foreign country and a non-international U.S. airport.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_border_precleara...
As someone with experience in animal farming (through family and friends), the whale issue seriously does confuse me. The way commercial meat farming is done is outright fucking disgusting. It's one of the biggest environmental issues of our era.

Endangered species should be protected, absolutely. But if we're going to rag on countries for fishing un-endangered whales, it's very much hypocritical.

"The IUCN Red List labels the common minke whale as Least Concern.[30] The Antarctic minke whale is listed as Data deficient.[31]

COSEWIC puts both species in the Not At Risk category [1]. NatureServe lists them as G5 which means the species is secure on global range [2]."

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minke_whale)

For reference, I try eat as little meat in life as I can in general, and when I do eat it, I try to as ethical as possible. I'm not perfect, but I'm always trying to be better. I try not to judge other cultures on their eating habits though, when we're systematically destroying the planet so our cheeseburgers can be $1.
The idea that saturated fat is bad for you is a complete joke and it's frankly embarrassing that so many smart people are still duped by it. Human beings have been hunting and eating animals (mostly ruminants, which are predominantly GASP saturated fat) for hundreds of thousands of years, if not longer. Yet the rates we see heart disease, cancer, diabetes (so-called diseases of civilization) have never been more prevalent than in recent years. Doesn't that suggest the cause is something other than unjustly vilified saturated fat?
> You're missing the point. What prevents them from doing exactly what I suggested? Regulation.

You may be the one missing the point. What prevents ordinary people from taking trash to the dump for $1? Regulation.

> If it costs two dollars to dispose of the waste safely, or one dollar to drop it in the river, the market's response is to drop it in the river. That's just free market economics. Tragedy of the commons is an actual thing.

And if it costs one dollar to dispose of the waste safely but incumbents can charge two dollars if they get a law passed to impede competition, the market's response is to get a law passed to impede competition. That's just "free" market economics. Collective action problems are a real thing.

> The economic term for this is externalizing costs. The market, on its own, is strongly motivated to externalize costs whenever possible.

It's also motivated to internalize benefits, which organizations do through the mechanism of regulatory capture. And those regulations exist to enable businesses to steal from the rest of us.
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It would be a fair assumption for something like RSA, and the vendor side of Black Hat looks a bit like RSA.
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The 30% cut would have been reasonable after all this time if the platforms were doing anything useful with the money.

Instead, we got:

- Store APIs that to this day are stupidly complex to get right in all cases, making you wonder why it’s so hard

- No support for very common, decades-old pricing schemes like “free demo, then buy” (except through convoluted means)

- Stagnant app store designs (esp. Mac, for YEARS)

- Absolutely terrible search

- Stupid same-apps-on-list-every-week “categories”

- A strong preference to reward obvious overpriced scams/gambling games, etc. instead of rewarding development of apps that are hard
"App Store fees got you down? Meanwhile at Epic, they lowered their take on the Unreal Marketplace from 30% to 12% and retroactively paid back years of fees.

"Epic said this is due to the success of Fortnite. If only Apple and Google had successful products to rely on for income."

— https://twitter.com/agilethumbs/status/1029804861477412865
Commons Clause software isn't just "source available"; you can modify it and redistribute it, such that the regular FOSS workflow of "fork on GitHub and create a PR" is legal.

You just can't deploy your fork (or the original code) in a private service without paying for a license for that code.
That's all fine and dandy, but then so many Americans turn around and call universal healthcare socialism, never mind that it's implemented in pretty much every West European Country that are decidedly non-socialist according to your criterion.

You can't use "socialism" to mean "Venezuela, and only Venezuela (well, maybe Cuba)" and then "anything that gives more power to the US federal government". Choose one. (I'm not saying you do, but so many people do.)
Luckily you can run macOS in VirtualBox, KVM, Qemu, ESXi, etc.
I hate to be a downer but that impossible burger tasted like fried flaxseed to me. Nothing meaty about it at all.

I think the best route for global veganism will be vat-grown meat. I haven't had a chance to taste any but it seems the most logical route - why grow the animal when you can just grow the muscle tissue? After the process is made efficient it should be cheaper for ranchers, better for the environment, no animals have to die, tastes the same... Win/win/win/win
I wonder what the entropy (bits per second) is.
Three thoughts.

There is a certain irony at play here, given both Apple and Google's own fights with tax authorities in many jurisdictions (eg the double Irish and the EU, Australian complaints about tax avoidance, agreements about their use of shell companies in the Cayman Islands or other tax havens, etc.).

I have always wondered what the real cost is to both Google and Apple in running their App Stores? The 30% figure has been a constant - with a few exceptions like the in-app subscriptions after 1 year on iOS down to 15% - for 10 years now but what are the actual revenue vs cost figures involved in running these [billing] stores? What would be a fairer cut... 10%? 15%? 17.8% in large economies and 22.6% in smaller countries (as semi-random numbers), etc.

Currency fluctuations are also important. Apple more so than Google, also seem to make quite some revenue from pegging their prices against the USD and only updating these once or twice a year - and generally only at very favourable forex conversions in Apple's favour. An unintended side effect here is that many non-USA consumers are subsidising USA consumers purchases of both Apple and Google products (because the USD is the benchmark price). Given the reliance on China as the hardware manufacturer, maybe the Yuan would be 'fairer' in many instances? (It won't happen of course due to how Cupertino and Mountain View centric both companies, and by extension, how pro-USA many of their pricing decisions are).
You should probably not rely on Google's fairly crappy dictionary definitions.
> You're mixing up Open Source and Free Software, those two are not the same.

There is an ideological difference between the movements, but very little practical definitions between the OSI Open Source definition and the FSF Free Software definition. Yes, they are worded differently, but in practice they are virtually identical (I don't think a single license has been reviewed by both entities with a different conclusion.)
> Was Obama pushing policy by instituting regulation?

Yes.

> Was the FCC pushing policy by repealing it?

Yes.

> Welcome to government.

There's no problem with either Obama's executive or Trump's executive pushing their respective policies. People elected Obama, people got Obama's policies. People elected Trump next, people got Trump's policies. That's how it should work. The problem is when people are unhappy with Trump's policies and try to use courts to declare that only one side of the issue is legal and another is illegal. That's not how policymaking should work.

> It's all about pushing policy, any way you can.

Not in a proper government. In a proper government, courts should not be for pushing policy. If you want your policy, convince people to elect you and then enact the policy. Otherwise there would be no stable government possible - the Republicans would appoint their judges which would block every decision of Democrats, and Democrats would appoint their judges which would block every decision of Republicans, and it will always be about which team wins and never about getting anything good done. We're almost there anyway, but it's not a good thing, and there's no reason to make it even worse. Even if that means sometimes your team doesn't win.

> Politics is the art of doing anything you possibly can to advance your agenda

Why not murder your political opponents then (say you could get away with it at least long enough for the policy to be enacted?) Why not fake mass casualty terrorist attacks in the name of your opponents? Why there should be any rules at all? I think you'd agree there's some place where we'd like to draw the line. I'd want the line to be at using legislature for lawmaking and courts for enforcing laws.
The modern marvel that are credit cards or debit cards run at low single digit percentages. And they are getting a ton of margin out of those; so much that in the EU, they capped fees at 0.3%.

And those transaction fees actually pay for something, like customer protection, SLAs (not a shitty status site) and no, the credit card company doesn't add unskippable ads on top of the checkout process or advertise a scam clone version of what you are trying to buy to you.

You tell me if the app store fees provide 100x as much.
Minke whale population is super sustainable. They're cows of the sea.
It's nice that the green name is there for easy screening, but eventually, that goes away. HN is still small enough that this kind of spam is easy to detect, but it may not always be that way. Botting/this type of spam on reddit has gotten increasingly sophisticated over the years, and some of the things the people implementing that stuff have learned there would work pretty well on HN too.
> A socialist country is one in which the means of production aren't privately owned. If most private businesses are illegal, that's socialism.

By that account Venezuela was certainly not a socialist country.
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I'm in Atlanta and have had a few discussions with people at Chik-fil-A (CFA) about joining on of their teams. I have a good friend that just moved from Intel to CFA working on business analytics. It seems like a really great place to work. And yes, whenever I mention to someone that I might be working on machine learning problems at CFA I always get a puzzled look in return. :)
There seems to be confusion in this thread on what exactly is stored.

The human genome is about 3.25 billion bases, or about 6.5 billion bases if you determine both copies of each chromosome. This corresponds to 13 billion bits or about 1.5 Gigabytes, and storing this would be no problem at all, even if there would be a lot of genomes sequenced.

However, the way human genomes are sequenced is different: The genome is fragmented in random pieces of around 500 basepairs long. Illumina sequencing machines typically read 300 basepairs of these fragments with a ~1% error rate.

To be able to determine the entire genome, these reads are mapped to a reference genome, and differences with the reference genome are marked as mutations. However, to distinguish real mutations from random read errors, and to make sure that mutations can be confidently called for regions that where fewer reads mapped a lower coverage through random variation, a ~30x coverage of the genome is needed.

If you want to store the raw sequencing data and not just the called results, a single genome does not require 1.5 GB of storage, but now requires 45 GB storage. It gets even worse when you consider samples from tumours, where biologically relevant mutations are often found in only a subset of cells. To discover these mutations, a coverage of 100x is often recommend, leading to 150 GB of storage for a single genome.
The problem is it's clearly a monopoly (or duopoly). How did they settle on 30%? Why did Apple and Google come to the same 30% number - is that a coincidence? They could easily provide the same service for less than 1/3 of the cost, but the percent never budges because it doesn't have to. There's zero competitive pressure. In fact they could move it up to 60% if they want to with nothing stopping them. Some people have managed to build a business on these app stores but in my opinion they should only be leveraged as part of an existing independent business, otherwise you're building a business on quicksand.
You can also try to have a popular video stream that isn’t on YouTube....
No other sources I can find on this mention the rhesus factor; I suspect that's a mistake in the article.
Cabal newbuild is quite nice.

For newbs stack is fine. But I genuinely question any serious code base that needs stack. Genuine cabal hell hasn’t existed since around 2010. And the mini purgatory that some people call hell is impossivle with cabal new build.

My perspective is perhaps biased, but I also am comaintainer of widely used libraries used literally everywhere plus I’ve done commercial and recreation and research flavors haskell dev for over a decade, currently at a fortune 10ish sized company.

Though zooming out: these days I tell learners they should try everything out, and revisit various tools as their mastery grows.

For industrial / large prjects that want pinned deps, I’ve seen folks happy with the mafia build tool or even going full nix for end to end os level reproducible build and config.

My main issue with workflows like those centered around stack is that I’ve seen a lot of folks just not think about library versions and deps as part of their library/application foot print. And this has various consequences in how they engineer and upgrade their own libraries and applications.
I wish I could upvote this twice. That was well put.
Of course neither of those things is actually bigotry. This "oh I'm suffering" crap is disgusting. If we actually cared about suffering our freely elected government wouldn't be causing so much of it.
Exactly. This used to be quite common, see for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception
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No it doesn't.

Maybe in the little thought experiment you're trying to conduct it does, but not in the real world. There are plenty of other variables at play.

X knows that if they need trucks and Ys are in use, then people die and they'll get blamed. They know that local trucks will respond faster so fewer people die.

In one off emergency situations in the real world, people actually help each other. We're not just a bunch of ideal game theory pieces in some amaeteur economist thought experiment.
I enjoyed reading this post, but came away with more questions.

They talk about providing a service for developers to deploy stuff easily, but I'm wondering how that works in practise.

I've very little experience with Kubernetes, the author mentions they run 'mini' kubernetes clusters at each restaurant. Does that mean they have to deploy software/container updates to each restaurant one by one? Or is it abstracted above that level, where they can see ALL of the restaurants as one "big" cluster?
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