skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iceland and Faroe Islands, as well.

Somewhat gruesome "traditionalist" hunting is practiced [1]: baby birds just out of the nest are scooped out of the water and have their heads torn off while still alive.
But the sad thing is, it can still be argued to be more humane and sustainable than factory chicken farming. And is probably far healthier, too.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LUv4sEyfcw
Right, my general point though being government agencies are going to shift more and more cost onto consumers/private organizations. CLEAR is a cbp thing, as I remember.
I read this book a while ago about the history of Jamaican Dancehall music. I highly recommend it. It goes into a ton of history both about music and politics in Jamaica from the 50's to present day and is an amazing read if such things interest you.

https://www.amazon.ca/Dancehall-Rise-Jamaican-Culture/dp/095...

Jamaican music in general is the perfect example of music theft giving rise to a whole new style of music. Ska music was created by Jamaican musicians trying to imitate swing and jazz music from America. From there it developed into rocksteady and reggae. At the time Jamaica had no copyright laws so songs were freely sampled and remixed back even back then. Most modern dancehall music still has it's roots in old baselines and melodies written back then. Because of the poverty in Jamaica, a lot of songs were remade and updated over and over again with different singers or musicians.

Hip hop was influenced by Jamaican dancehall brought over by people immigrating to new York and other cities from Jamaica. In the 80's dancehall tunes started sampling from hip hop tracks and a bunch of bands like Sublime took reggae songs and redid them. Every single one of Sublimes songs is a reimagining of either some some reggae, punk rock or old rock song. The downside to this is a lot of talented artists ended up dying broke despite having a bunch of hit songs. Producers who could afford equipment ended up owning the rights to a lot of the music and the artists tended not to be paid properly. Some of them eventually managed to get royalties if they became famous enough that big record companies took interest but for the most part they all lost money they should have been paid.

Now today there's dancehall and reggae festivals all over the world. Some of the biggest ones happen in Europe and Asia. Even Japan has a reggaeband dancehall subculture.

Reggae in general is a pretty cool, I don't want to say genre because there's so many different genres within reggae music, branch of music I guess. So much of it was made in so many different styles, sometimes dozens of different versions of the same song were produced. There's really a ton of music to discover.
The problem is that you don't have an equal comparison of what you get for that price and airlines have been doing this for a long time.

They used to refuse to show the price of the flight with tax and fuel until the government forced them to. Now they're trying to play the same game with seat assignments, your carry on, and checked bags.
Nothing is stopping you from downloading and installing software from a website on Android. There's an argument to be made that nobody actually does that, that shops can't afford not to publish in stores, and therefore it's not a real alternative, but then it would equally apply to Steam where a lot of people exclusively purchase games.
I don't know on recent iOS versions, but you could on previous versions with some security workarounds. If only GBA4iOS worked consistently...
It's necessary to distinguish between the raw output of the sequencing instrument and the actual genomic variables of interest here.

Adequate compression of the latter, with appropriate confidence estimates attached, is a solved problem for the most common applications, even when hundreds of thousands of samples are involved: the UK Biobank has released a dataset describing whole-genome variation for almost 500000 British people, and many research groups around the world are successfully analyzing this data today with freely available software running on commodity hardware.

It's the raw measurements that aren't compressing as well as we'd want today. But there are multiple other solutions to this problem besides better compression: we can become good enough at inferring the relevant genomic variables from the measurements that, once we've done so, we can discard the raw data (we don't do this today because the inference process is still very much a work in progress, so the option of running tomorrow's algorithms on today's measurements is too valuable); or measurement becomes cheap enough and biological sample storage stable enough that the measurement process can simply be repeated when necessary; or entirely different measurement process(es) are developed that yield adequate information without simultaneously generating so much nuisance data to preserve.
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Money is a part of the health of the ecosystem.
> Capital will put up with high taxes. It won't put up with those other things. And without capital generating surplus to bankroll social welfare programs, your system collapses.

Using "capital" here to mean "private capital" is confusing at best, considering we are discussing socialism in general -- where the _entire point_ is that capital tends to be owned publicly -- and the Nordics in particular, where a massive amount of capital is public.

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/08/19/nordic-gover...
Is this any different than the same non-story we've been reading since 2011?[1]

Don't want to give Apple their cut? Do what Amazon does, and don't sell through the App Store.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-kindle-2011-2
The guy has serious issues, I was shocked at how toxic he gets at the drop of a hat. I was browsing a discussion on the Haskell subreddit and he was incredibly nasty, literally zero good faith given or assumed of others. Technical opinions aside, I would never want him involved with a project I'm participating in. He fails the only rule I care about: don't be an asshole.
I'd say that writing in music tends to be pretty terrible across the board - with a few exceptions during each period.
Those aren't socialist countries. They don't even call themselves that. I feel like a country has to at least call itself socialist, for it to count.

A socialist country is one in which the means of production aren't privately owned. If most private businesses are illegal, that's socialism.

The Nordic countries aren't even attempting to ban private businesses, or claiming that as their goal.

The track record for countries that call themselves socialist is pretty grim, on the other hand.
Well, see once an app becomes more important than its platform, the platform has reasons to worry.

Recent exodus from apple app store over in app purchases began with Tencent strongarming Apple to let them run their own in app payments under a threat of them quitting.

It doesn't require one to be a brilliant thinker to ask "if Tencent was allowed to, why can't I?"
What's the difference between the Commons Clause and the GPL?

What's the difference between the Commons Clause and the creative commons "nc" (non-commercial) license?

I'm having trouble seeing how the Commons Clause is a threat to open source, while the GPL and Creative Commons are not.
I don't know if you have a "fair" argument here. Who needs that 30% more Apple or an independent app developer? Though the same could be said for Valve, at least it's the purpose of Valve where apple sells computing devices not software as their core enterprise.
> You can't release an executable that can run on iOS or Android without going through the App Stores.

You absolutely can release Android apps without going through any app store, and if you go through an app store, it doesn't have to be Google's. There are different pros and cons for Google's store, handset maker’s stores (e.g., Samsung has their own), other stores (e.g., Amazon's), and direct distribution of your own apps without a store.
Then there's the "developer tax" too - Apple squeezes money from the developers too for the "privilege" of even making an app (for public distribution) for the ios platform. And you need to buy a Mac too ...
That's because Android phones don't get updates
The talk about boids made me think this would go in a different direction.

Programmers and our employers exhibit flocking behavior. See how Ruby on Rails brought so many people to the Ruby language. How Python had a similar surge earlier in the 00s, and later with the explosion of use (numpy and similar) in data science applications. Additionally, things like Ruby on Rails helped make the web application commonplace. See JavaScript and AJAX for that as well.

Perl established an effective code repository (CPAN) that enabled their userbase to grow via a similar flocking mechanism. Go has no central repository but has an easy to use mechanism for adding dependencies based on git repositories. That ease of access to published modules allows people to adopt the technology once a peer (someone working in a similar domain) publishes something. And it encourages people to contribute back in some fashion (publish new modules or update the existing ones). In Perl's case you saw a lot of people from outside IT making use of it (the same is now true for Python with data science) because the heavy lifting was done and they could focus on gluing things together.

Exploiting this flocking behavior, then, becomes important to anyone wanting to push a new technology out. Even if it's the best thing and would produce the best software ever, it won't always succeed on its own merits.

(random thoughts, no real thesis here)
This could be a revolutionary innovation, just from the perspective of blood logistics. In a perfect world, we'd all stock up on just O-negative blood and use it everywhere but blood supplies are a scarce resource and we have to use what we have so getting all responders to only carry O-negative just won't scale. Imagine removing the tough question about what blood to use: do we use the precious O-negative or do we carry a bit of everything and first test the patient for what can work? By having a relatively plentiful universal supply, we could reduce the amount of carried blood, decrease spoilage and decrease the time it takes to get the patient the blood she/he needs. All these benefits would be massively beneficial in improving patient outcomes, decrease cost and streamline logistics, especially in the field where space is at a premium.

It's obviously early stage, but I'd absolutely love to see the Canadian Blood Service invest in lots of follow up studies to see how we can scale this technology.

Also, it's always great to see my alma mater on HN :)
these threads really make me miss the friend/foe system on slashdot. This thread highlights very well all the bigots, rigth wing political shills, that I would love to mark as foe and never have to read again when they are back to maskerading their ways on more technical subjects.
The crucial mistake was the firing of tens of thousands of employees of the state oil company, PDVSA. Eviscerating the state oil business in an economy that depends on oil exports is, um, bad. With half of their employees replaced by Chavez yes-men, PDVSA made poor strategic decisions that left them with (almost) no new oil wells when the ones they had been using ran dry. To be specific, money that should have been used to dig new oil wells was diverted to poverty-reduction initiatives by the central government. Venezuela today has the world's largest proven oil reserves (thanks to recent offshore discoveries) and yet ranks low by exports.
To add to the curiosity, how is Nordstrom doing anyway, compared to other mall-type retail? I'm wondering if this forward-thinking in tech is allowing them to successfully fight "new" ecommerce such as Amazon
Evolution of Android Security Updates
Automatic code formatting for partially-staged files in git
The undertone of your post seems to be that you can't possibly have authoritarian capitalism, which of course, is not true...
I think it should only be used to get back into your host country. When I'm travelling part of the nice thing of going there is to get a stamp in your passport.
> Or, if the argument is "it's government-run, but the aiprot pays for it," I don't know, it seems like it leaves open too wide a door for corruption.

I would assume there are various things in US that private companies are required to buy from government (e.g. licenses that might include inspections for things like drugs or x-ray devices) and I would at least hope that corruption isn't that rampart there.
30% seems a lot when BlueSnap/Avangate/FastSpring provide most of the same services for 6-8%.

Of course Apple would argue that they are connecting you to their customers. When there are a million apps in the store I'm not sure how true that is.
Has this guy been living under a rock for the last 10-15 years! The healthiest fats you can consume are saturated, they don't oxidize has quickly in your arteries and cause blockages. Instead he recommends "rapeseed" oil (Canola) -- that is PURE poison and the reason for so much heart disease. One simple rule to live by, don't fucking eat any type of vegetable oil!
> 'Bigotry'. noun : intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself.

Surely castigating the owner of Chick-fil-A for advocating his personal beliefs is the truest example of bigotry here.
>Thus capitalism is freedom.

Capitalism is absolutely compatible with slavery. If you eat seafood, you almost certainly have eaten food harvested by a slave.

Not to mention the numerous historical examples.
Valve takes 30% of direct sales through steam but allows developers to generate and sell separately steam keys where they get a 0% cut, as I understand it. For instance when you buy a game on humble bundle and get a steam key for it, valve makes nothing off that transaction.

Unless Apple and google start allowing sales outside their stores I don’t think steam is comparable.
Headline of article is much less certain:

Researchers at the University of B.C. think they may have found a way to transform a very common type of human blood — type-A — in the universally usable type-O negative.
Keep in mind that the price they charge doesn't really have anything to do with the actual infrastructure despite the costs. They're not selling infrastructure, they're selling access to an audience no different than really any other publisher.
Manufacturing Perspective on Tesla's Latest Troubles
And an unknown number of participants most likely self-reported incorrect information. People don't like admitting they didn't do something that was asked of them.

Self-reported data is shaky data at best and basing scientific results on it makes the science shaky at best.
And so how do you sell iOS apps or in-app content then?
The one thing in common about the mega-rich is that they are obsessed with money and/or success. Warren's family members often complained he didn't spend enough time with the family because he was in his den sifting accounting and finance material. Warren is in love with numbers.

The thing is the obsession trait doesn't necessarily scale. If you cloned a billion Gates', that would NOT give us a billion Microsofts. It's not a zero sum game, but pretty close to one. There's only so much room in any given niche.

Another thing, I've been using and following Microsoft for about 3 decades. They didn't do anything special or innovative in my opinion, at least not relative to their size. MS just did smart marketing, acquisitions, pricing, and packaging. MS mostly leveraged monopoly in one category to gain another category: not raw merit. If MS never existed, the world would be the same or even better off: more OS and office-software choice. I have a bit more respect for Steve Jobs: he spotted useful product configurations before any one else (with means). MS just copied/purchased trends after it was obvious they were catching on.
> Is it because 90% of Americans don't even have money left to invest after their cost of living?

It's because it doesn't take all that much to live on when you retire, and to have more money requires working longer. Especially, most retirees get big efficiencies from using tax-advantaged accounts, so you have less invested, but you get more out of it. Those accounts have contribution limits, so they don't scale up for the big investors.

I work on goal-based financial planning, and one of the key things people want is to retire sooner, which means saving less. If your financial plan was perfect, you'd drop dead with exactly the amount you want to bequest to heirs / charities in your portfolio and not a penny more.
That's good to know that there isn't pay-to-play (and http://www.blackhat.com/about.html confirms that). I assumed anything so corporate would be.
There's also an intelligence problem. Octopi, whales, dolphins are very smart animals. (Pigs too, but I try not to think about that.)
> I actually would probably be in support of having these costs passed on to airports

What I am confused by is that my international tickets already have several fees and taxes that go to the US government (not the airline or airport), amount to a fair bit per person, and in theory are to cover all this security and processing. Isn't this ~$20 per person enough?

I really wish they had big signs at "security" checks saying "You paid $8 for this".
But the government doesn't block itself. I'm sure the Chinese government can access the open Internet.
Again, regardless of my personal beliefs:

If I thought Chick-Fil-A shouldn't be supported for either their treatment of animals or for their anti-LGBTQ corporate giving, and wanted other people to stop supporting the business, I would focus on the latter in my messaging, because I suspect it would be more effective on the audience. Attempting to draw conclusions about which of their behaviors I personally think cause more suffering from this is not a good use of your time.
Edit: Confused Ulam and Szilard
David Zeevi on Personalized Nutrition Based on Your Gut Microbiome [Podcast]
There's also the added complication of the fact it's an ARM based device so in some cases you might run into compatability issues, or testing your container locally becomes problematic.

It's definitely getting better though
Key statements:

> Withers and his team previously developed enzymes that were capable of stipping away antigens, but this new kind is much more powerful and efficient.

> An enzyme-driven process was first discovered in 1982 and research has carried on ever since.

> “The (1982) enzyme was incredibly inefficient,” he said. This newly-discovered enzyme is “thousands” times better.

> “The other big key: our enzyme works on whole blood,” he said. Previous research only worked on blood that had been broken down into component parts. With this new process, blood taken straight from donors could be quickly converted into type-O negative, without much delay.

> “If it all works it will have a big practical advantage.”

Wow, I didn't even know this was even mostly possible since the 80s. As exciting as this is, I suppose it's worth waiting and seeing if this is the one that makes it to production.
In you put yourself into CCP mindset the support from an outside Muslim power may possibly fuel the perception of support for possible separatism and that perception may escalate the situation.

A wide international, non-exclusively-Muslim, based response, on pure human rights grounds would possibly be a good thing. Unfortunately nobody in the world right now is interested/capable/etc. to respond to religious/ethnic/etc. cleansings on pure human rights grounds (of course there are responses when it comes to economic interests when it can be covered by human rights interests)
Thanks for the elaborate response, now I much better understand what you're trying to say.

This is different from the examples you mention: there is no external software that creates the sandbox (whereas with Java and Flash you had to install those as plugins). It's really just Javascript as it is built into the browser. Any vulnerability in this "sandbox" is a vulnerability in the browser, not some 3rd party plugin.

Put differently, this pypy emulation is no different from the Javascript API that was in your browser already. This isn't a new plugin, just using Javascript to emulate Python through the Pypy interpreter.
Ah, gotcha. It's an old habit from my writing style.
If the app is a singular product that only exists on mobile, then fine you bake the Apple/Google tax into your price.

for content subscription businesses that are multi-platform its a bit of an absurd situation. You can't really charge 50% more on mobile platforms. Depending on where your user randomly decides to sign up your revenue and lifetime value of that user is suddenly 2/3rds of what it otherwise would be, despite costs being the same.
I just wanted to say how much I love Repl.it and use it all the time. I use it as a testing scratchpad mostly but I know it's much powerful than that. I appreciate its simplicity. Thanks for a great product!
But Apple's customer base is more valuable, which is why people still publish there despite the cost. Apple and Google aren't selling infrastructure, they're selling an audience.
I think that's looking at it from the wrong angle. If everyone could pass through as easily as you and I, we wouldn't have the problem of long queues at border control.
All discussions are political. The only question is whether or not the politics at hand affect you.

And to quote Chick-fil-a's CEO: "Jesus had a lot of things to say about people who work and live in the business community … Our work should be an act of worship. Our work should be our mission field." So he sees everything they do as political as well.
Animal agriculture is in general extremely wasteful and destructive, but it's conceptually vastly easier to stop hunting a few hundred whales by a few countries than to effectively tell everyone in the world they need to become vegetarian.
> Backpage wasn’t porn, which is known to be fake on many levels selling fantasy.

No, it was prostitution, which is, however, also well-known to be fake on many levels and selling fantasy.
When housing and healthcare are >50% of my expenses, how much more general does the increase have to be to be counted as “inflation”?
> It drives me nuts how much people talk about OSS when they need to at least mention the difference between FOSS and OSS.

Maybe because like you they find it hard to explain?

According to your linked resources, it appears that everything except the Common Clause is FOSS.

So, basically everything I've ever seen is FOSS.
Google Play and the Apple App Store are completely different beasts. Unless you jailbreak your iOS device, there is no way to install apps outside the App Store. On Android, you can install entirely separate stores, like the Amazon one, and several OSS-focused stores.
That depends on how large is your state. The GHC GC is normally fast, but gets slower the more objects you keep around. Lazyness can severely increase the number of such objects.

If your game has real time dynamics, it's not worth it. If it's some turn-based one without animation, it's not a problem.