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Private property does not include personal property, as Marxists understand it. The Marxian definition of private property is essentially capital.
> since it was written on the gates of Auschwitz

That's why I used it
I wasn't aware that there was something wrong with the old compilers. Reading the page, I'm still not aware of the motivations behind this.

What does this compiler do better/different than clang or gcc?
Nope, not that I have seen.
> FWIW: YC probably earns more than even the biggest automated trading businesses.

is that true? bigger than renaissance technologies?
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>> My impression was then when America tried to force other countries to participate in the embargo they told them to shove it.

Your impression is wrong.

An example knock-on effect relevant to HN is that as a UK company, we couldn't sell windows software to Cuba because things like windows run-time libraries would be covered by the US export embargo. In theory, they wouldn't even have a legal copy of any US operating system.

I'm sure there were similar knock-on effects across all industries that had US products, suppliers or connections in their business.
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It has to do with backwards compatibility in syntax if they had been smart enough to introduce in python3 they could have done it without the f.
Russia still has not regained the standard of living that existed during the USSR.
I'm not sure how that book is particularly related to Hacker News, so I am not seeing it getting that much traction.
How will it work for all those millions of people in European cities who have car, but park it on tbe street because Thor house has no garage?
Cuba is not a dictatorship. It's a democracy with extremely localized control.
We can write about anything that would be interesting to hackers, preserving the environment is generally a topic we respond well to.
> He believed in freedom

> I detest the hypocrisy I see in many (not all) western commentators.

A counterexample: this photo was taken in NYC after the most recent US presidential election:

http://i.imgur.com/DcVbqAm.jpg

It's a picture of someone standing in front of Trump Tower holding a sign that says "You're not my president. Fuck you."

Can you imagine someone getting away with that in Castro's Cuba?
Shenzhen I/O is an improved TIS-100. The story is much more worked on, and also has the solitaire aame extra (it's fantastic).

Also, to some extent, Shenzhen I/O = TIS-100 + SpaceChem
I live in London. What garage would that be? Most houses don't have one.
> He has executed thousands, has imprisoned thousands more, and has totally ruined a country that was once the most prosperous in Latin America.

In Africa Fidel Castro also took part in one of the most murderous civil wars in the continent, the Angolan civil war, and fought to establish the continent's worse dictator and cleptocracy, José Eduardo dos Santos and his MPLA cronies.
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That's not true at all. Companies that do any business with Cuba are not allowed to do business with American companies/individuals.
Yes, it's a very strong flavor and obviously you could not like it. Not everything is for everyone.
It's also difficult to use ("cook") right and it's perishable, so probably the taste of white truffle here in Italy on top of handmade fresh tagliatelle...
All this anger against 'fake' news reminded of a book I started reading years ago but never finished because I wanted to spend more time reading news.

https://www.amazon.com/How-News-Makes-Dumb-Information/dp/08...

Basically, news (as defined in our modern era) makes us stupid. And I happen to agree...
> New York Times articles which tell us that it's not our fault, that it's genetics, leptin, metabolism, aging, etc. are exceedingly popular but for most of the population these are just excuses.

The science explains why some people have to work so hard to be thin, while others like myself can eat whatever I want whenever I want and still remain rail-thin.

If I can eat 3k calories a day and be skinny, while someone else needs to drop to 1500 calories to not be fat, it seems the height of unfairness to blame that person for being in that situation.
Extensive discussion at top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886
> Looking at the next-island neighbors in Haiti, or any number of comparable African countries, it seems the Cubans got the better deal.

Why didn't you compared Cuba before the coup, and after Fidel Castro established his dictatorship?

Comparing Cuba to one of the lowest developed nations on earth, particularly while ignoring the other half of the island (Dominican republic) is a tad disingenuous.
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One advantage is designers having more control to art direct content that's managed by the client (eg make all the images higher contrast and sepia). Sure it can be done on the backend - but that's more out of reach for designers than css. Css also has the advantage of being animatable.
The one word I'd like to quibble with here is "comparable".

Cuba was twice as rich as Haiti (see graph at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Cuba#/media/File:GD... for example) even before the revolution and had a lot more social capital. Yes, there was a good bit of inequality. Yes, the Batista regime was not great in all sorts of ways. But I expect Cuba would have been better off than Haiti even without the revolution happening.

What African countries are you thinking of that you consider comparable to Cuba in 1958?

Fully agreed on your last paragraph, though.
Anyone have a link to the story that doesn't send you to a nag page if you have javascript turned off?
You seem to be assuming that the NHTSA has no idea how feasible such technology is, and so may be asking for something that is very hard or even impossible.

That's a quite questionable assumption. They almost certainly talked to automobile and smartphone industry experts while developing these guidelines, and know that there are several fairly easy ways to do what they are asking for.
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Not directly related to viruses, but here's a study that shows that gut bacteria from thin people will make mice thinner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/health/gut-bacteria-from-t...

There are a lot of knobs that control metabolism, and scientists are only starting to figure it out.
This may be true, but the cost of oil would have to drop below the cost of electricity.

According to this article, gasoline would have to be very cheap in order to compete with the cost of electricity. At one point the marginal difference probably doesn't matter.
I'd learn how to update that AI to work instead of me :)
Considering the chip isn't out yet this story should be taken with a grain of salt.
If a policy is never widely adopted, despite promotion by activists, it is the activists who have failed, not the policy.

I am not sure whether encouraging more personal 'responsibility' or ownership would help with these issues, but it seems like western societies have been decreasing their support of these ideas since the 60s.
I think it's pretty obvious there we need to be curbside charging infrastructure.
You are ignorant of the reality of Cuban society. People have been able to leave Cuba freely since 1980. Cuba is a participatory democracy, with essentially every adult being involved. Internet access was not really a priority with the USSR collapsing and the recovery from that, but it is being quickly broadened. Only those who actively attempt to undermine the Cuban democracy are imprisoned, but people are free to vote for liberal candidates and a minority does. The average Cuban has a better standard of living than the average Oklahoman or Mississippian. Finally, the embargo is not just a ban on trading with Cuba; it's a ban on doing business with anyone who does business with Cuba. That effectively restricts 99% of multinationals from trading with Cuba.
From 550 to 15000[1], there's no official number.

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba#Political...)
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That was my first thought as well -- it is nice to push compute resources to the client side but the image just exists in memory (as opposed to a transformation process on the server side which takes image inputs and image outputs and can remotely cache the output image.) The other good thing about the server side is super-easy and super-fast pushes to social services, backups, auto-persisted change history, etc.
I'm also not a "fan" of Castro and don't identify with socialist politics, but comparing Cuba before Castro and after Castro wouldn't be fair. Pre-Castro there was a lot of foreign investment, post-Castro there was an embargo.

You can argue whether that's something that can be blamed on him, but if we were to give him the benefit of the doubt I wouldn't call that a fair comparison.

For example, there was a story posted on HN long ago about a Soviet dissident who had his life ruined because he was known to be a dissident. They didn't imprison him and torture him, they just got him fired, made sure he couldn't find any but the most menial work, discredited him, etc. Would we say that it was his fault for adopting a pro-Western position? That it was "his policies" that ruined his life, family? Or that an external force opposed to his views and more powerful than him punished him for his views?
> Like how US saved Haiti and Libya and Iraq, right?

Libya was a NATO intervention that was pushed and led by France, specifically Sarkozy's government.
I hope AMD make a comeback. It is all I have ever owned (currently running a Phenom x6), but was contemplating going to Intel.

That being said, it sounds like these are AMD benchmarks so be wary...
Surprised "mythical man month" didn't make the list. I feel like that book gets quoted around here frequently.
If you create a dummy calendar, you can move the event into it and then delete the calendar as a whole, which doesn't send responses to the originator.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/technology/personaltech...
Is Typeform broken for you?
https://twitter.com/harrychen/status/802432368103407617

I was being redirected to a random page; tried to log out and back in, then I couldn't log in; still couldn't login after resetting password.

What's this?
On one hand, I'd go farther. I like apt, but I wish that distros would use the same packaging system and same package format

I agree however that's rather off topic. This is not about harmonising between Linux distributions. The fact that other distros did it is merely used as an argument to show it's possible and without any major issues for anyone involved.

Having variety in paths, although it's basically security via obscurity like using non-standard ports, is still an additional level of security.

No, it isn't. The way you find binaries (when paths aren't hard coded) is by looking through the $PATH environment variable. Both /usr/bin and /bin are part of that on any Linux distro so there is no obscurity or any kind of security gained from this. Though the advantage of having everything in /usr/bin is that /usr can be mounted read-only meaning an attacker will have a much harder time modifying the binaries initially (unless they can do some local privilege escalation and remount the partition).

And think of all of the existing config/repackaging scripts/etc. that will fail.

They won't. Even those with hardcoded paths to things in /bin won't be affected since usrmerge will provide the symlinks for those binaries. And anything properly written will be searching for binaries through $PATH and be equally unaffected. There's a few crucial tools that will likely need to be updated to be aware of this change but the Debian project will take care of those.
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> As an African, I'd say the world has lost one of the most influential leaders of the past century.

What do you have to say, as an African, to Fidel Castro's role in the Angolan civil war, and in establishing Angola's dictatorship?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_intervention_in_Angola
My score is 6 (4).
I have 6 and read most of 4 of those.
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At the national assembly the sad news is stated: "Fidel Castro has passed away. However, his legacy lives on!"

The old man in the back of the audience, marcoperaza, sighs and says, "Alas! If only it were the other way around..."
What's wrong with rooting stock Android? I've done it multiple times to my Nexus, works fine. Nowadays it's just a matter of plugging the device and clicking a few buttons on a GUI.

Of course, there are devices which aren't as open as the Nexuses. But that's not a lack of openness by the OS.
Effectively communicating the thought processes of characters seems to be much more prevalent among Japanese writers of popular media. I suspect this is at least in part because American writers in industries like Hollywood look down on their audiences or are encouraged to simplify and remove nuances by marketers, where Japanese writers tend to trust their audiences to handle much more.

Where Japanese writers suffer is, not unlike the American TV show writer, in the business incentive to drag a series out for as long as possible to milk the most money out of it. Anyone would run out of material under those circumstances. The best serializations are those smaller ones that either planned the arc of the story from the beginning, or never pretended to have one in the first place.
There is some more information available here: https://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/weblog/2015/mulle_objc_a_ne...
If it was done inside a canvas it would be possible to save it. The effects would not be as simple to create though.
You can switch on the Reader View Mode in Firefox to avoid the nag.
I think what you're suggesting is create the scene based on multiple shots and removing the people? Or just using different scenery shots? Is that correct.

It's actually quite interesting and I think you are correct that you could create a 360 environment from a trove of clips which is 'good enough' to pass.

I do wonder about how the story line unfolds in 360. A film was made with cuts so you didn't have to move around. What happens when an actor on your left is speaking to an actor on your right, or behind you. Do you miss out on bits because you were not looking where the director thought you would? do you feel more or less realism? It's an interesting proposition.
By red-tape I mean anti-market/anti-business laws. I was born in Uzbekistan, I know how system works in such countries. You can't do business there without making bribes. Countries like Uzbekistan intentionally create such laws which is impossible to follow and stay in business. Red tape decrease competition, increase favouritism which leads to pro-government monopolies which keep control over big chunk of market.

Free markets do require very strong laws but these laws should be:

1) In favour of strong property rights;

2) Equally friendly to new enterprises/small business/big business;

3) Lean, not over-complicated;

Basically role of the government is to keep highly competitive economic enthronement without favouritism.
I found this lib while searching for a PNG compression module and loved the "outside the box" thinking behind the idea!
Very interesting! I'm wondering if it's possible to use these effects to modify images on the client side before uploading it to the server?
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Taxes are written in the law, and I'm not obligated to work a job by law.

So your argument is solely a moral one. Jobs are mostly a first served problem or the result of privilege: education, network, etc.
That's one of the odd things about the situation. Lots of unemployed people, lots of things needed, no way to match the two.
I suspect it is limiting some "Big Data" and outsourcing use cases and lobbyists have been busy.

Also there was a big blowup on so called "selectors" which were filter parameters given by the NSA to the German secret service. These selectors siphoned off private data to a foreign (US) goverment and when the story leaked people were interested to know what was handed out. The NSA of course is interested in keeping those secret. The new law would make this easier.
Thoughts on the False News Problem
I taught myself to code - I wouldn't say that kind of education is in short supply.
HN is nice indeed, but the awesome work would be more effective with less HN ;)

I have been thinking for a long time about opening a webshop for "pre-verified cards" that would come with an open source SDK and as much docs as possible. Maybe that would help (but would still only ship to "western world").
> "I think 99.999% of folks who like communism/socialism don't understand what free market capitalism IS."

It's hard to build a free market when you have an embargo and a huge pressure from the outside world
Dear Downvoter,

I'm not sure whether it requires more concentration, but it may very well be that like you know, some people read well and it's nothing for them to read a book a day. And other people this is a big deal. I mean it's a struggle, and what's likely is going on is that most people never learn to read very well. And so, the amount of concentration they have to put into the mechanics is what's defeats them with the amount of material that has to be read.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041287
Once more unto the breach…

Looks like we're about to have the same voting/election discussion we've had at least 6 times over the past month or so (most recently a day ago). If anyone's interested in reading what's already been discussed, here are links to the previous threads:

"Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voting Machine"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13032199

"American Elections Will Be Hacked" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12921967

"Maryland will audit all votes cast in general election" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12885396

"Cylance Discloses Voting Machine Vulnerability" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12883356

"In Pennsylvania, Claims of a Rigged Election May Be Impossible to Disprove" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12790247

"Votes could be counted as fractions instead of as whole numbers" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12841178
Thanks for the info! I hadn't considered some of those aspects of the connection process.
I don't know the details of how expensive it is, or how secure, but Dutch cities are installing charging stations on the street curb. Typically one unit can charge two cars. To charge, plug in your cable, enter payments details and the car will be charged.
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> They've been isolated for like half a century; they've had more than enough time to implement whatever form of government they want. It's clear that Castro's communism doesn't work.

If that wasn't obvious by itself, a brief glimpse at Venezuela and what Chavez/Maduro's regime has accomplished should dispel any remaining doubt.
> people without the basic necessities of life than ever before...

I think this is a bubble. Because where I live, the IT sector has a big influence. Kids straight out of college were making 10 times more money than their parents were making. But they also spend like there is no tomorrow. This spending causes this wealth to be distributed so everyone grow a bit more richer.

But this is not sustainable. People are paying huge sum of money for mortgage and credit card bills every month/year. In other words, these people cannot live three months straight without a heafty pay check. The worse part is that, they are not skilled at all, even after years of employment..

>They are due mainly to better nutrition and hygiene, vaccines, and antibiotics.

Better nutrition? What provides better nutrition now than the past years? In my country we still get vegetables with dangerous amounts of pesticides. People are starting to have diabetics and choelesrtrol/blood pressure issue in the early thrities. But they won't rollover and die, thanks to perpetual healthcare and medication, I mean, for those who can afford.

People everywhere are hooked to antibiotics. "Sneeze? Oh my god, I am having an infection. Let me just gobble down this antibiotics that my doctor prescribed me last time". "Headache? let me just take this new wonder pill for headaches". Yes. People are overstuffed with medicines. You are deluded if you think otherwise.

>To be clear, I was joking about the Pokemon.

Thank god.
I don't really see the point of these TIS-100 style games that use made-up instruction sets. Wouldn't it be more interesting if the game used a real instruction set (e.g. AVR, x86)? Then we could be learning something useful while playing, and make use of the results.
How does it "beat" Intel, with just frequency and cache size numbers? Seems like marketing material and nothing, yet, to see here.
> Bunnie Huang who is working on a project like this

I don't know of this or any other such projects. Any such project needs to be on HN on a regular basis.
Cuba is basically an autarky, for all intents and purposes, so they're not going anywhere on that front, and I think Diaz-Canel will help to steer Cuba away from liberalism/revisionism. But I've been wrong before.
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The second book ("The Four Steps to the Epiphany") has a score of 31 links, yet the HN search can only find 21 comments. Why the discrepancy?
More into audio myself, just started listening to https://chatwithtraders.com/podcast/ -- so far it tends to be less technical, but that may change with their new Quantopian series (such as episode Q1 from Nov 21). Would be interested in other podcasts/audiobooks, not sure what's out there. I enjoyed listening to https://mobile.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Reminiscences-of-... but there are few modern relevant audiobooks.
> does communism require trading with capitalist nations to be successful?

You keep on going back to this. No, they don't. But an island nation does. It's ridiculously hard to produce literally all the things your country needs when it's 100x smaller than the US, and it's even harder when you have no land borders. Trading with other nations becomes ridiculously important at that point.
I wasn't talking about the os, as I personally liked it. The company however had a windows based phone.
I have had the opportunity to work with Groovy quite a bit and I will share a few of my thoughts on things that work well with the language and things that are a bit questionable.

Works well:

Extensible type checking. Groovy can do quite a bit of things with type checking and you can turn it into "pretty much Java" if you need to and even take it a step further and enforce even stricter typing than Java with relative ease

Closures. The Groovy built in closures are quite extensive and allow you to build some really beautifully expressive pieces of code that would be 5 to 10 times longer in Java. The implementation lends itself well to a functional approach.

Questionable:

Not defining a variable with a type or the def keyword creates a variable in the global scope, just like JavaScript. This creates problems, as you can imagine. One of the more infamous bugs we ran into was when someone had named a variable "id" in the global scope of a script and the identifier of its parent, the script runner, was modified. Brought the whole runner down.

Groovy doesn't respect privacy. You can literally declare something as private variable in a Java or Groovy class and Groovy will happily access it with no qualms. The only thing that private helps you for is preventing the variable from showing up in a decent IDE's autocomplete alongside your getters and setters