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Even in democracies, we're forced to do what our govt tells us to do, or not do. Soft drugs and alcohol are the perfect example of someone's opinion forced down our throats. the fact that some drugs are harness but illegal while others are harmful but legal.

Americans couldn't travel to Cuba. During the cold war, USSR. Americans couldn't freely express socialist ideas never mind communist ones. This in a democracy. I don't really see a big difference. The peculiarities of Cuba can be understood in its geopolitical context.
The former chief officer for revelation of Stasi information and still current president had exactly nothing to say about the Snowden leaks, a tapped Merkel phone, and new surveillance laws.

It's just one guy but it shows how privacy is handled by politicians. Expect only little and still be prepared to be disappointed.
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I don't know, as I said, "I would expect they've chosen that option, they have a brand to protect." They have a brand so good in this domain they've be absolutely insane to commingle.

But, no, we can't tell if a vendor commingles, we can only infer it in special cases like Anker as manyxcxi noted, or pick out vendors with high ratings and otherwise cross our fingers.

It's a colossal mess, and nowadays, if I'm not buying used books (where I go with < 95% rating and Very Good quality), I find a BS detector honed for decades, literally about 4 and half, is the single most useful tool in navigating their swamps. Which for me confirms they indeed have big problems, and that's not even counting their search engine, which as others have noted is bad; for me, by far the worst I regularly use, and like others I often use Google's instead.

All this implies to me that if AWS wasn't such a money machine, Amazon's stock holders ought to be very nervous. The company really need to get serious about these problems.
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Both are true though. Many humans have butchered fellow humans. Hitler wasn't uniquely evil in human history, but a part of a long-running tradition
Video, audio. Complex binary formats that require high performance programming where often security has taken a back seat.
Good thing you had those labels handy, you might have had to think.
When you are an island, you HAVE to trade, you can be capitalist, communist or even monarchist, at some point you need goods from other places.
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The US has far more sins on its hand than Castro. Its not even a contest. There are over 59 self serving armed interventions in other countries since 1950 the last being Iraq, Syria, Libya and that's not counting stirring up 'revolution' that usually leads to US friendly despots in place.

This is destruction and devastation of tens of millions of lives. Libya was one of the most advanced countries in Africa, now its a basketcase. That's millions of lives in disarray setback for generations. Who takes responsibility for this? If these are not crimes against humanity what is?

We have got used to a fraudulent narrative supported by 'our' media where we can judge and think the worst of others and not examine our own devious actions. But if we want to judge and get self righteous about Castro we must first hold our own government to account to have an iota of credibility.

Since there is zero interest in prosecuting or even reining in the warmongers this persistent kneejerk rush to the moral highground is a sinister posturing by people who know exactly what this country has been doing and are out to defraud the world.
The Sino Indian war is more complicated than that,

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/It-wasnt-China-but-...
HN loves remote working - so think of this as 'contrarian' to test out the limits:

>They’ve successfully worked remotely before, or they’ve run their own business (do they have what it takes to motivate themselves to work solo?)

I believe this is a true. I've seen some people excel at distributed work, and some absolutely suck. It takes maturity, it's very suited to some roles and some people.

But, as it's suited to experienced employees it limits the opportunity for inexperienced ones. Consequently, diversity is limited and it's not good for growing new professionals. This leaves teams over-balanced with senior people and creates a problem for developing people, particularly when an organisation is larger than a handful of hackers.

It can be done, but it's tougher than the buzz suggests and there are real trade-offs!
> Plus you wouldn't get cool features like being able to conditionally execute every instruction.

You would be very close if it were ARM :)

My wild guess is that the developer wisely chose to sidestep imbalance towards parts of his public and any possible IP issues on the IS. Plus if he writes this kind of games he probably had fun writing his own IS.
Right after the USA acknowledges ALL of their crimes against humanity, which are far more and spread much more wider.

No cuban children sleeps in the streets tonight. You can't say that about northamerican children.
That is absolutely a flaw, but I don't think it kills the analogy. If you look at other attempts at building some kind of social credits system, e.g. karma or points on sites like Reddit, you'll notice that people often benefit from a similar kind of feedback loop and get outsize rewards.

The point is that rather than trying to follow NIH syndrome and building a new system from scratch, repeating all the same mistakes, perhaps one could try to fix the existing system?

Otherwise, the parallel social credits system will most likely either remain a parallel system with social stigma attached to it, or it will end up having the same problems as the already existing social credits system (i.e. money).
Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader of revolution, dies at 90
This is really odd because Germans are really skittish about this - more so than any other Western nation.

The Stasi is in living memory for millions of them.
> can't remember anybody doing anything out of order. they get "thrown out" as soon as they even only say sth critical of the political mainstream - see mr. wulf.

Wulff resigned because he fucked up big time (even if not in a way relevant for criminal law). Of course many others also fucked up big time during the Wulff affair.

Btw. when did he say "something critical of the political mainstream" that makes you think he has been forced out of office?
Regarding point number 2, it should be noted that this only applies for non mono-spaced fonts. If you were using a mono-spaced font, then each character glyph uses the same physical canvas width as all others.
> … how do you prove the citizen has agreed to you storing their information?

By having participated in an actual business transaction, which usually leaves an (electronic) paper trail.

Take note that simply visiting a website can not be interpreted as a business transaction. If anything this is accounted for as browsing the displays of a street vendor.
The electoral college is not some new information the media wasn't aware of, so it doesn't make sense to say it explains their story about how she couldn't lose.
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> we're forced to do what someone
> tells us to do

That is the case in almost all non-ananarchic societies.

You are confusing a lack of suffrage for effective slavery.
How does UBI solve any psychological needs at all?
Right wing concerns over recent acts of Islamic terror.

Leftwing concerns over gains of right wing populists, and citizens publishing things on social media which could potentially be described as 'hate speech'.

Both tough issues.
Even with apt's format, distros have different packaging philosophy. Arch doesn't split doc, headers and binaries IIUC.

I wonder if there would be a way to harmonize things cleanly from source.
In Japan, dealers install a kill switch for the navi blocker and wink at you when they deliver the car. Everyone drives with live tv on the dash in full view of the driver and fully interactive touch screen navi.
"First they came for the Socialists..."

Hitler was right-wing.
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I'd guess not since unbound does its own recursion. DNSSEC doesn't play well with nxdomain trickery so customers gets unhappy and that's something even shady ISPs avoid.
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I once spent 2 months in Cuba, about 12 years ago as a musician. We lived and rehearsed in Havana for a month with mostly a local band, and spent another month touring the country, big and small cities.

The level of poverty I saw as someone from the Nordics was new to me, and while things like hospital visits were free (even for me as a tourist), people really had so little money, to the point it drastically affected the kind of food they could buy. And indeed many types of food wasn't even available in the peso shops, or was rationed.

At the same time, there was very little crime, and it was generally quite safe, probably due to a large police force, and lack gangs or organised crime. The people were fantastic, so warm and hospitable even they had so little.

There was inequality too, some very nice houses in the rich parts of Havana reserved for members of the political/military elite while a lot of people live in extremely run down conditions, and bizarre things like taxi drivers who get paid in dollars and receive dollar tips easily making 20-40x more per month than doctors.

I understand that part of the reason the country has been struggling is the long US embargo, but I can't help feeling part of it is due to bad governance too. When I arrived I had a rose-tinted picture of Cuban communism like many tourists, but it shocked me when I asked some of the band memebers what would be needed to make things better, they said "The best thing would be if Fidel died".

Now that has happened, I wonder what the way forward will look like - if they will be able to retain the best parts of the socialist ideals and start growing the economy responsibly, or if it will turn into a land grab with the majority being left in poverty.
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Many many words are better than "evil". How about "autocratic" or "dictatorial" or "power-hungry" or "delusional". Or perhaps a phrase like "ruthlessly uncompromising". All of them convey much more actual information and still have your judgemental tone.

For what its worth, I think "evil" is a word that shouldn't be used outside of storybooks. It is a binary word that is far too overgeneralised to the point it is meaningless to ascribe. It doesn't serve any persuasive or descriptive purpose.
Linking C++ is painful anywhere, this from the point of view of someone that likes the language since 1993.

Modules might finally solve it, but it will a Python3 like story until they get integrated across major compilers, libraries and frameworks.
I feel like this is a submarine for gastric bypass surgery. I've noticed that in the UK there seems to be a lot more push for these through documentaries (US has them too).

I was able to lose a lot of weight on a whole foods plant based diet. Its a permanent change. With the SAD diet being the dominant form of nutrition - very few people can maintain a healthy weight (25%).
The answer: communal work. Academic research, science, your own projects! UBIs for nothing would only work for certain people. We should ask them to commit to, and then supervise them in projects. That'll be the future, not fuck work, but love the work that you're doing, because you chose it after all!

The author referred to some interesting concepts of lack of work that we can draw conclusions from: the Aristocrat era (on which there was a decay of this class, for excess of leisure IMO)

We still need to have a purpose in life, we should help people find more about their purpose and help them achieve it. UBIs can and should be complemented with bonuses for achievements. This way we can take back the work hard and get good results kind of balance. Difference will be: you can choose whatever you do, it doesn't need to give money directly (just imagine what that could do for scientific research)
> Dictators that prosecute and murder their opponents,

Sorry, this is not a discriminative feature of dictators, non-dictators also prosecute and murder their opponents. (e.g. see any government involved in a war)

The difference is that you feel like they are right to do it.
It's important to call out evil acts, but 'evil' is also a label that categorizes people. Labels and categories can be a deterrent to critical thinking.

This is dangerous when genuinely evil people apply the label 'evil' to people they wish to persecute.
Fidel Castro was an inspiration for much of the world.

He demonstrated that it is possible to survive without compromising with the hegemon.
Today, most Cuban ex-pats around the world are celebrating his death.

Liberal Arts students across the Western World are saddened.

To me that's funny.
So basically an egg of Columbus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

And even in computer science you have that kind of inequality of difficulty of problem and solution: NP is the class of problems in which solutions can be checked if they are correct in polinomial time.
What's notable about Castro's conduct during the missile crisis is that whilst it was actually Khrushchev that made the decision about locating the missiles in Cuba as an arguably proportionate response to America's own missile locations, it was Castro's private correspondence that urged Khrushchev to be prepared to actually use them.

(Khrushchev, not known as one of the Cold War's more pacifistic figures, responded that he found Castro's suggestion quite disturbing)
> Communism is a very vicious ideology which leaves no room for any type of dissent.

Looks like you have no idea what communism really is.
This varies based on employer. The company Im working for (GoCardless in the U.K.) doesn't have this problem, but I've seen companies that do.
Fidel Castro survived at least eight assassination plots by the CIA
Or, as another comment awesomely suggests, we'll have drive-safe modes that apps can support, boosting both the ergonomy (it's annoying on an iPad that the large screen only displays a tiny 24px icon to switch tracks) and the driving safety.

It's all because we, app developers, haven't made things great yet, but sure it's a strong incentive for Apple to up their game.
I think this is confusing to outsiders, because English media reports these as hate speech, whereas hate speech actually refers to something else in Germany. In Germany these incidents are Volksverhetzung (~demagoguery). The bar for "achieving" it is set quite high:

> Wer in einer Weise, die geeignet ist, den öffentlichen Frieden zu stören,

Who does one of the following in a way apt to disturb/destroy public peace/harmony

> (1) gegen eine nationale, rassische, religiöse oder durch ihre ethnische Herkunft bestimmte Gruppe, gegen Teile der Bevölkerung oder gegen einen Einzelnen wegen seiner Zugehörigkeit zu einer vorbezeichneten Gruppe oder zu einem Teil der Bevölkerung zum Hass aufstachelt, zu Gewalt- oder Willkürmaßnahmen auffordert oder

agitate against national/racial/religious or ethnic group, or against parts of the public or against private persons due to their belonging to a recognized group / part of the public, in order to incite hate or violence.

> (2) die Menschenwürde anderer dadurch angreift, dass er eine vorbezeichnete Gruppe, Teile der Bevölkerung oder einen Einzelnen wegen seiner Zugehörigkeit zu einer vorbezeichneten Gruppe oder zu einem Teil der Bevölkerung beschimpft, böswillig verächtlich macht oder verleumdet,

attacking the human dignity of <the same blob of text as above> or defames or libels.

In other words, to be sentenced for Volksverhetzung the court actually has to prove that you intentionally wanted to incite violence/hate against a defined group of people / person, while intentionally also fulfilling the first condition.

A bit like murder in Germany it is a crime of disposition (killing w/o disposition is Totschlag - or one of the more specific "XY with deadly outcome" crimes - not Mord), unlike murder it is not punishable in absence of disposition.
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Worth reading now in the light of the recent election that was rich in villains, riveting storylines on a background of a society (aka. the idiots, Feds, Washington, Establishment) is broken beyond repair.
> throwing a test spec over the wall to your development team may result in them writing code that passes the test but isn't necessarily ideal for production.

This is also known as Goodhart's law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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>The writing system that he invented was a syllabary, not an alphabet like the people he'd been observing or a logographic system like some other Native American languages.

For some reason, the alphabet seems to be extremely difficult to invent. IIRC it only happened once, with the Jews laying down the foundations and then the Greeks actually taking it all the way with vowels (I shudder to think what the world would look like if the Bronze Age collapse hadn't wiped out literacy in Greece). OTOH syllabaries/logographic systems have been invented independently a _lot_ of times all over the world.
Ok, ok.

Especially for locking his people in a prison island - an act which can't remotely be defended as 'in the interest of the people or socialism' or any progressive cause ...

Fidel - borderline evil.

Somewhat nuanced.

Definitely bad.

Not as bad a Hitler.

There you go.
Who is it you're talking about?
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Yes, there is research showing that long commutes are associated with depression. Don't have the reference anymore but it shouldn't be difficult to find on Google Scholar.
> In my country we still get vegetables with dangerous amounts of pesticides.

What country is that? I get the impression you have not traveled much in poor places because "dangerous levels of pesticides" is definitely a first-world problem.
You can create a candidate list of titles for those books that do get linked then check for those titles in the body of each comment - not too computationally expensive and embarrassingly parallel.
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With this alternate list having more books listed, it gives me (totally unscientifically) the sense that it represents the general style or ethos of Hacker News little better
I'm not sure the market sellers choose low-value land next to the railway line to locate their stalls to enjoy the thrill of passing trains.
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Why are cubans in miami celebrating his death? Are they misguided minorities that should follow the example of armchair politicians in privledged countries?
> Realizing that anxiety isn't who you are, but more like a disturbance that will pass

This is the right attitude during an anxiety attack, because while it is happening there isn't much you can do but to remind yourself that it's going to pass. However, my personal experience is that anxiety is not a random infliction but something that can have very concrete causes that need to be worked on. Identifying these causes can be a long process, though. In many cases anxieties arise when we have deeply rooted unhealthy habits that seem so much part of our lives that it doesn't even occur to us that they could possibly be changed. OP writes that his wife had to commute four hours a day which in itself will affect mental well-being but which may also point to career issues. Fixing that was apparently part of the solution.
> I don't consider sleeping rough reasonable

Well, when you put it like that, I'm sure the homeless would understand. Why not go and tell them to their faces? I'm sure they've never considered any alternative options at all.
Apple is pretty open that they plan to use Swift to replace C and Objective-C on their stack.

https://developer.apple.com/swift/

"Swift is a successor to both the C and Objective-C languages."

Of course this is something that will not happen overnight and the language is still has some corners to fine tune.

Objective-C improved a lot since the NeXT days, but the C part is still there, regardless of the safety improvements it got on top.

Also since Swift has been announced, the only language improvements Objective-C got were related to improving the interoperability between both languages.

So I imagine some devs that are passionate about Objective-C might not like the day Objective-C joins Carbon and MPW.

I surely did not like when that hapenned to Object Pascal, Mac Common Lisp or Dylan.
It is, more than anything, an advice to CNN e MSM that enough is enough. Nobody respects them more than what they give us.
I think they learned to be very, very wary of call to demonize any group. I think that's a reasonable lesson.
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That's not entirely true. President Elect Trump himself spent the greater part of a month prior to the election claiming repeatedly that the election was "absolutely" rigged and, if you remember, predicated his unconditional acceptance of the results on his victory. People of a conspiratorial bent were already primed by his muddying of the waters so it shouldn't be a surprise that his own upset victory would be met with challenge.

Not to mention that this entire election cycle was one where bad actors from all directions took advantage of the poor discernment of the American electorate to the point where truth, innuendo, dubious claims and outright lies were given equal weight in the decision making process of many. Informational chaos has now been proven to be a winning strategy (and not just because Trump won) so why wouldn't that carry on post-election?
For point 1 I would use "reduce":

lines.reduce((longest, line) => (longest.length > line.length) ? longest : line, "")

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...

EDIT: sorry, initial code returned length, not line itself
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>Fidel - borderline evil

The point isn't to quibble about the label. It's to refrain from leaping straight to applying labels. The pleas you're seeing for a calmer and broader conversation are not attempts to exculpate Castro.
Regarding 1: I think the sorting approach is actually really nice in this case. Clearly it's not as efficient as a simple loop, but it's safer and more readable. Explicit looping and mutation can introduce nasty bugs which this kind of declarative approach can't.
> today's children will die sooner than their parents

Citations please?

> and earn less than their grand parents

What does that have to do with being healthier and living longer?
Real ISAs are too complex. SIO assumes one cycle for all instructions, and discards binary, among other affordances. This makes the game more accessible. Also, the instruction set is optimized so that you can't do too much in a single instruction, so as to keep the space constraints meaningful.

Now, if you were talking about the DCPU-16, I'd agree.
This returns the length, not the line itself.

Edit: `lines.reduce((line, line_) => line_.length > line.length ? line_ : line, '')`
You'd think they would be a bit more effective given their reputation. Also I'm not sure assassination is the way to go.
The popular vote is meaningless. Everybody knew the system. There is no incentive to vote in states-not-perceived-as-swing-states. It's not clear from this election who would have one a straight up popular vote.
Also: The voting system America has is an important step to protect minority groups, that is, small population states. Maybe the winner-takes-all in the states has to be modified.
Me too. Also a friend of mine installed TIS-100 just last night and started working on beating my scores, so I need to take care of that too!
Joachim Gauck, the current president of Germany.