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Really? Deploy location technology inside a car just to enforce a "driver mode"? A market that consistently rejects tech to enforce speed limits isn't going to accept technology to limit app use in cars. All it will take is one story of someone trapped inside a crashed/stuck car being unable to call for help, or unable to text for help, and nobody will dare to so disable phones.

I cannot wait to see that tech also be deployed to enforce "airplane mode 2.0" so a voice can break in to my music to inform me about the latest skymall deals.
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Here's a possible starting point:

It's crucial to remember that Castro silenced all who disagreed with him. He condemned an entire nation to poverty! His most notable achievement with regards to Africa was sending soldiers to extend the life of wars.

It's stripped of the insults to those that disagree with you and complaints of down voting. In my experience users on HN will down vote tone more often than they will down vote disagreement.

I agree it doesn't have the punch of your original post. I don't have much experience writing emotionally charged comments, though I'm sure there are ways of doing that without resorting to insults.

It sounds like you may have some personal stories to share. These would definitely add to the power of your comment, if you chose to include them.
Ou dear. The looses in Syria a minimal.

By the way, the losses of the US in the Vietnam war were minimal too. They lost 60.000 People. In the 10 years or what, I assume they lost more people in traffic accidents and suicides. Just to put numbers a little bit into perspective.
Source? In a town I grew up in kids walked as far as 2 blocks to school.
This has already happened there has been a huge decline in available donor organs due to reduced road fatalities, especially the kind that still leave organs viable for harvesting.
I agree it's concerning, but there are some articles that are blatantly 100% pure fiction, presented as fact.

Sure they definitely shouldn't be deleted, but news readers probably do want the role of 'editor' returned to filter out the most obvious noise.
He had the dubious honour of being the least awful communist dictator. I hope Cuba can move forward now that it's free from his shadow.
If "clean coal" is the right term for coal that is not as toxic in one of the steps of using it, then we may call "good hitman" to the ones who don't kill children nor woman; or we may call "positive genocide" the massive killing of only convicted criminals.
"Cuba has been under embargos for decades. "

Cuba has been embargoed only by the USA.

Cuba can buy absolutely anything it needs - even American products - simply by going through any one of a myriad of interlocutors: Mexico, Canada, Jamaica, Venezuela.

There is absolutely no forgiving Fidel's cruel dictatorship.
It would be nice if a usenet newsgroup like comp.lang.golang existed and all posts made to the golang subreddit could be reposted there.

Then, IMO, deleting the golang subreddit would be a non-issue. The newsgroup doesn't have to be moderated and, if one wants moderation, they can do it via the newsreader program.
>with a superpower fixated on killing you (and ruining you economy) next door

Look at how awful the quality of life in Cuba is today. Look at its people's lack of basic freedoms. Look at its awful economy. The US tried to save Cuba from itself.
I think it's fair to say that there are high scale websites built using any stack, mostly using more than one technology.

I was just being ironic in my previous comment.
> basic Cuban freedoms (like supporting parties other than the one in power)

To be fair in the US there are also attacks for supporting political parties. Yes it's a different degree of extremism entirely.

For example the terrorist/riot/civil activist group (whatever you want to call them) By Any Means Necessary violently attacked white nationalist parties (they claim they're not white nationalists, but media says they are, I don't know anything about them beyond that) at rallies without legal consequence. No I'm not defending white nationalists, I'm defending right to assembly. What I'm saying is that if that's your argument for why Cuba is terrible then it's not consistent unless you are making the same argument about America as well. If you just happen to agree that they're a "bad party," so you it's OK here, not there, that's exactly what authoritarian government is.
I just have to ask, at what point does praise becomes uncivil? Is it when you praise Fidel who has stifled freedom of speech and condemned his people to a life of economic stagnation? What about Chavez who has condemned his people to starvation? Or is it praising Kim Jong Un? Or is it praising Hitler? Or is it praising Stalin? Or is it praising the KKK?

There is only 1 ideology responsible for killing more than 100 million people in the existence of human civilization. Try considering that for a second.

We will likely not understand what Fidel has done to the Cuban people for a few more decades but I will take the role of oracle and tell you. 100 years from now Cuba will still be poor and it will still be an inexpensive tourist destination for rich white people from Canada and Europe.
Truck drivers are allowed to drive 8 hours without breaks. I suspect most of them do.
"The western view of Castro is painted with decades of terrible propaganda."

+ Fidel does not allow his people to leave, with the threat of punishment.

+ Fidel does not allow democracy

+ He does not allow any real internet access

+ Fidel puts political dissidents in jail

+ Fidel's private Army own's 85% of the economy

+ Cuban's live in relative poverty

+ Only the US 'embargos' Cuba, they are free to trade with 167 other nations in the world - and even buy American products from wherever they want - just not America.

This is not 'propaganda'.
Yeah, but you don't want to run an ensemble of 10 RNNs on your phone, or in the cloud for that matter, when you got billions of queries. It's too expensive.

In practice the ensemble model is compactly transferred into a single network. In order to do that, they train a new network to copy the outputs of the ensemble, exploiting "dark knowledge".

Recurrent Neural Network Training with Dark Knowledge Transfer - https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04630v5
>But I tell you what, I'd rather have a shit job as an option rather than no job as an option.

That's always the case with any kind of blackmail.
Considering economic sanctions and political isolation in the region, it actually appears they're not doing too bad actually, eh?

With economics and politics, the story is always more complicated than it appears, and science can't save us, so we should be hesitant to form strong opinions. I'm just supporting open-minded thinking, not saying I agree with everything Castro/Cuba (I don't).
> The 'entertainment sector' was not even a part of the economy 100 years ago. Now it's a big chunk.

Computer sector is younger and bigger. What is your point?

> There are tons and tons of jobs that can't be done by computers.

Not really, less and less all the time. Automation has been a trend since Industrial age. It is now expanding into knowledge work. Translation, copywriting, all sorts of analysis & prediction, navigation/driving (for fun look up how many truck driver jobs that will be automated in 10-20 years). IBM Watson isn't just a research project lark, IBM is developing a product to automate thinking and reasoning. Google all over it too.

> Think of how big sports are. That was all 'unpaid amateur' stuff before.

Do you believe there is more than an insignificant fraction of people employed by "sports"? btw there use to be people compiling stats, doing betting. They have been replaced by machines.

> unskilled labour has been getting more expensive, not less.

unskilled is misnomer, its un-automatable labour. Humans can't compete with machines. And more and more activities are being automated. Even labour such as medical, legal and acting.
Except we've redefined what "the level at which a human can subsist on". Go 50, 100 or 200 years back and look at the kind of life most citizens lived. It was far below what even a person without a job today has - and a person without a job has an incredible amount of free leisure time compared to the 18 hour days that were common even 100 years ago.

The simple fact is that welfare and minimum wages have removed many jobs from the economy, and those jobs that were removed kept the economy at full employment. There's no real change aside from us effectively banning some jobs. Remove the ban, remove welfare, and we'd have full employment again. Is that a good thing to do? Probably not, but it's an important point to understand that the author completely left out of his essay. You're not going to find a good solution if you don't even stop to consider how we got here.
You shouldn't have to stop charging your phone to be able to use it in the car, especially when GPS sucks battery something fierce.
I don't see how a leader that 'cares about his people' would not allow them to leave their island prison, not have democracy, not have access to the internet, not trade with one another.

I don't think he cared about them in any way. He had a totalitarian view of how they should be, and he forced that upon them.
> When you buy a beer for your friends at a bar and maybe next week they buy a round, that's communism. Communism is a central part of western society.

Communism is when you and your friends go to a bar and there is no beer, because there was not enough grain produced on command of the central planning committee 4 years ago. Now you and your friends are upset and complain about it, so you get arrested and locked up without trial because you are betraying communist ideals.
That's why the US sanctioned Cuba.
Every time I read a comment like that, I remember that history is written by the winners.
Let's take a gander at the federal arbitration act:
"A written provision in any maritime transaction or a contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce to settle by arbitration a controversy ...
shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract."

Want to guess what grounds exist at law and equity for the revocation of a contract?
:)

Note also the now-common practice of requiring individual arbitration is not well-tested in court either. The FAA pretty clearly preempts court class actions when there are mandatory arbitration provisions. However, it is silent, and it's purpose unrelated, to whether that arbitration is individual or class arbitration. It seems likely to me that a state could reasonably say forcing individual arbitration was against their public policy, and not have that pre-empted by the FAA.
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I am not making a value judgement on what they did - nor am I excusing it.

This is a legal argument about venue - where and how the case should be heard. Getting angry at Well's Fargo might feel good, but in the end its pointless. Understanding the law itself does have practical use going forward. Perhaps the scope of signing away your right to a class action will be better understood.
Or further..
Why I think Open Source software will eat the Industrial SCADA (2015)
Uber rival Grab’s first CFO is leaving the company after just seven months
Agreed. Not throwing away food presumably means needing to preserve it and donate it to a food kitchen (or similar) right?

If that's the case, what are the resources required to: preserve the food before donation; deliver the food to the donation point; cleaning up food that spoiled before it can be donated?

Maybe they did a study on that and showed that the costs were really low -- a small fraction of the profit margin. In that case it might not be as bad, but I doubt such a study was done.
>Paving over it with simplistic thinking "Castro was evil and wrong" does a great deal of violence to the truth.

I honestly agree.

I just think it is ridiculous to claim that Castro was "a great leader" when Cuba has fared very poorly under Castro in almost every respect. I felt obliged to point this out.
Growing up in a northern US state Cuba and the US policies affecting it always seemed remote. Besides studying the facts in school I never gave the Cuban Revolution, Cuba, or Castor much thought until I played "Cuba Libre: Castro's Insurgency (1957-1958)" this summer.

Reading the historical/design notes in the player's guide and watching events unfold while playing as M26 brought history to life in a very visceral way. I spent the week after playing obsessively reading about modern Cuban history.

http://www.gmtgames.com/p-497-cuba-libre-reprint-edition.asp...

Cuba Libre is part of a game series on COunter-INsurgencies (COIN). "Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection" covers the American Revolution using the same system.

http://www.gmtgames.com/p-582-liberty-or-death-the-american-...
> Kay: Total Recall, you know Total Recall, somebody said, if you like road accidents, you'll love this picture. And the, that kind of stuff, you know, where you have, you know, five people you have to kill every 30 seconds or so is very easy to set up in virtual reality. I'm sure that a large percentage of the population will enjoy it.

Now there's grand theft auto serie and others.
Technology saves humanity in Interstellar, so there's that.
Like how US saved Haiti and Libya and Iraq, right?
US embargo means a lot, not just unable to buy stuff easily. Let's not pretend that US was not the world cop. The embargo definitely has negative impact on Cuba economy.
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Then I can't use phone on the bus or the train...
This is why I love learning and writing in multiple programming languages. The abstractions and advantages in each language push me to search out the best in whatever language I'm working in at the time, rather than being limited by the common paradigms in that language.
I once had a conversation with an HR manager in our Manhattan office, she was upset that the office cleared out at 5pm and how we didnt have a "banker's hour culture." I just nodded but knew the problem -- we had an underclass of workers, mostly H1Bs, on a tight HR-policy driven rate card, most making 2/3 or 1/2 that other workers were making. They made ends meet by living in outer New Jersey and commuting 2hrs each way. They jetted out quickly to catch the 5:35pm train out to NJ before express trains stopped. I'm sure the more we paid them the closer they could live to the office and the longer they would work. In NYC, homes and rents go down as distance to Manhattan increase.

I knew this as a fairly senior manager. Many people dont realize the stark differences in pay across different classes of workers. Getting up at 3am to fix a problem doesnt work for someone who needs to then get up at 5am to commute into work. It needs more thought and I did just that -- we had workers rotate night batch schedules and gave them Work-From-Home days or late-come-in-days during on-call periods. Even some of these things require thought -- allowing someone to come in late does'nt help if they live so far away that express/local train schedules dont make it feasible to come in mid-day...the commute ends up being as long as the half-day.

Sorry for the ramble, TLDR: be mindful of people's situations and things they dont control. Not everyone has it as good as you do. HR can save a dollar here but it comes out of productivity figures. Don't expect "banker's hours" but forget "banker's pay."

ASIDE: Several years later, the HR group got absorbed into the executive offices in posh rural Connecticut, where few low-level workers could afford to live locally. Low-level workers were required to visit the head office 2x/wk. The same exact HR manager then complained (in earshot) of how her commute was close to 3hrs each way and how she planned to sneak out at 4:30pm because she couldn't take it anymore.
Sounds like http://www.whywork.org/
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These are important lessons, and very well expressed--better than I could say it. I just want to add that I wish more of us felt this way. Everyone community online I find it seems the emotional knee-jerk reaction is very prevalent in the way we think about politics, and I don't see the maturity expressed in this comment very often.
Sure, communism might be a bad idea, but why is it so unforgivable? specially when is not your country?

And it's not like nobody got locked up in the 50s without a hint of a trial just for the suspicion of being 'communist' and betraying the capitalistic ideals.
I'm with you up until "the US tried to save Cuba from itself". Castro was an awful dictator but the US embargo not only didn't save Cuba from itself, it made things worse for ordinary Cuban citizens. I wouldn't be proud of it.
Can you name a single leader of any stripe anywhere, in the last 50 years, whose results exceeded their intentions? Isn't it the very definition of a politician that they over-promise and under-deliver?
Coupling this with the app's removal of the "While Using" location access option, given their history, it's hard to imagine Uber won't try to do something nefarious to violate their users' privacy in the worst way.
if your problem is ok with the asymmetry of KLD
>However, the man has committed grievous crimes

Way less crimes than those who accuse him. Never sprayed Vietnamese with Agent Orange or napalms for one, never dropped nuclear bombs on civilians, never supported Pinochet et co, doesn't have 25% of the world's incarcerated in just 4% of the global population, and lots of other things besides.

>keeps 'his people' in abject poverty

A 40+ years embargo has something to do with that too...

>More than 85% of the economy is in the control of the military - his private Army.

It's in control of the state, which is how things are supposed to work in communist countries. Not necessarily worse than having it in the hands of corporations...
You could argue then that only few need to go past grade 4 :).

I think that Uni develops character, opens horizons, builds esteem and competence in some areas, helps people organize their ideas, 'think bigger' , expose them to all sorts of ideas and disciplines they may have never heard of.

People are sometimes smug about 'MBAs'. I was an Eng. - and never took an Econ course in my life. My MBA was mind-altering (granted I also did it overseas and that provided some other kind of exposure).

Uni is usually worth it if the kids try to get something out of it.
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Why the false dichotomy? Can't someone designate a certain amount of time of their day to work, and focus on other things in the remaining hours?

I love writing software, but that does not mean I don't love other things. Years ago I lived and breathed software. That's not the case anymore. I'd much rather help my daughter with her homework than read about the latest uber nifty JavaScript transpiler that will change my life and make everything awesome with unicorns and whatnot.

Our field churns the same ideas over and over. After a few years things get old really fast.

But there's what I said in another comment in this thread: I love writing reliable, correct, secure, well-documented software. Focus on those and my passion comes out. But come 5-ish o'clock and you bet I'm leaving the office to pick up my daughter from school and spend some time talking with her about her day and what she learned and whatnot. And then my wife will come home, we'll have dinner and we'll spend some time talking about our days and watching TV. Without those things I might as well not have a life.

I don't like it when there's an expectation that I'll be available to work 24/7. I don't want people expecting me to be on social media promoting my work or things related to it. I'll disappoint anyone who expected me to think of work as my life's mission or anything like that (unless I'm using my skills to help find a cure to a serious disease, or realistically help solving the problem of poverty in the world - that would change the game).

I have a number of interests in my life that are completely unrelated to work. Those are the things that I live for. Working is a means to bring in some cash that enables me to enjoy other things in life.
honest question: is that a good measure? that puts them far ahead of india and similar to china.
At the very least. I am old enough to remember when he said he wanted a computer on every desktop. It was an insane thing to say. 40,000 millionaires didn't try to accomplish that.
Is it not currently the case that there are redundancy tests (i.e. overconstraint tests / unit tests) on election results already? Would a manual miscount of a vote have a near-nil chance of getting caught?

If so, I totally agree we need to have samples of all elections verified to at least get bounds on error rates.
So what's your position on US people responsible for Pinochet?(just to name 1 of so many examples), if we are going to start mentioning crimes, I think Fidel Castro and his brother are pretty down on the list of people that we should be worrying about.
Those things aren't mutually exclusive. I've worked with plenty amazing people who enjoy their job at which they write fabulous code and then go home at regular hours and spend many hours on their personal projects or just playing around with new, interesting technology. Unless you own part of the company you work for that's probably the smarter thing to do.

What I find concerning are people who write mediocre code 9 to 5 but don't do anything to improve their skills on their own time.
> The capsicum diff [to tr] required the following ...

This is a slightly out of date example. We've since added simplifying wrappers for stdio.

The current equivalent of if pledge("stdio", ...) / err is:

if (caph_limit_stdio() < 0 || (cap_enter() < 0 && errno != ENOSYS))
err();

Some examples: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8307

> a "work or die" usage model

This is an option (or will shortly become an option) in capsicum.
I sense good intentions from you. Thank you for that. Let me try to explain.

If you're curious about the philosophy here, have a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

The decisive difference between HN and other sites is that here, it almost doesn't matter what you believe, so long as you express your beliefs in a thoughtful and constructive way. You can still challenge beliefs you disagree with. But if you're looking to express outrage or if you're showing up to do ideological battle, you should be aware that it won't be tolerated here.

Please understand, HN has been around for about a decade. The community is the sole distinction between here and other sites. And as soon as the community consists of people commenting in anger rather than in thoughtful critique, the more thoughtful people will move elsewhere. We have to make it a priority to defend ourselves from that outcome.

Try to have the spirit of being among trusted friends, searching for the truth in a topic. It's not easy, especially when someone says something controversial. But HN is all about good conversation. That doesn't mean you have to be nice, but it means you have to be thoughtful and substantive. It's almost always better to say nothing than to convey anger.
“I find apologising for not having cleaned is easier than cleaning.”
>- Cuban economy, Cuban quality of life

Both are way better than most Latin American countries that US has meddled with and have friendly terms with. And they would be even better if it wasn't for the embargo and the whole cold war play against Cuba.

>- basic Cuban freedoms (like supporting parties other than the one in power)

Like being able to support two parties that alternate in power, like you are free to do in the US?