skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just want to mention that actual communism has never been implemented on any significant scale, the Soviet Union for example never reached communism, arguably never even really reached socialism.

Marx suggested that communism will only emerge after the failure of capitalism. Every single communist regime has ignored this idea.

While I agree that many countries who have followed communist ideas have done some horrible things, the same can be said for every other system, including the current system we have now.

Furthermore pure capitalism has never really been tried either, because it begins to fail and government intervention is needed very quickly.

Actual communism doesn't really mean dictatorship, I think we might see a comeback of ideas related to communism & command style economies in the future. Especially if we start implementing Strong AI to better manage resources and trade. I could see a future where free market may not exist in the form we have it now, instead there might be a system focused on harm reduction managed by various planning systems, better and more careful resource allocation, etc.

Let's not forget that communist ideas also allowed many countries to industrialize rather quickly.
>Whatever you think of arbitration agreements, it would make no sense to have one which terminated the moment you have a dispute.

The very fact that fraudulently "opening" a new account counts as a "dispute" for "arbitration" shows what a load of shit mandatory arbitration agreements are.
All economies are planned. There are none operating at global scale in the last century+ that have not been planned in myriad ways.
Look at counties that did not declare war against free markets. Look at mexico, look at Haiti, or some other Caribbean countries, most of them are doing much worse than Cuba. Communism/socialism disease did not harm China that much ether. Embargo is what hurt Cuba
> Only a US embargo. That leaves more than 80% of the rest of the world GDP to interact with.

That's a naive view. Do you really think the rest of the world can just straight up ignore the US's embargo and play nice with Cuba, while still staying on good terms with the US?
Some Europeans will always consider wine, truffles, etc. produced in the US as inferior and some Americans will believe it or adopt this opinion to seem more sophisticated but logic would have it that quality wine or mushrooms don't really care if they are European.
Almost by definition, there are aspects of work that you don't like. The trick is to find meaning in your work so that you have the strength to complete it.

The post seems to be suggesting that we should just eliminate all of the "least desirable" jobs, which is a fine idea as long as you realize that the next tier of jobs will then immediately become the "least desirable".
> Economists believe in full employment

This doesn't sound right. It's laypeople who tend to measure the economy by employment.

Economists tend to measure the economy by production.
> Rational analysis should not care of the source of information, but about its veracity.

You can mislead without lying. Veracity is not sufficient.
Kenapa kita bermimpi dan berapa lama kita mimpi?
I'd recommend reading the communist manifesto to understand the issue better.

Buying beer and sharing with friends week after week is a good example of capitalism, as the bar owner is profiting so much from you and your friends buying all this beer.

Communism (of the Marxist variety) would be you and your friends being allocated the same amount of beer by the state, which owns the beer (along with all goods), and deals out the same amount of beer to everyone, regardless of what they do (i.e. what would have corresponded to their class).

I suppose there is another kind of communism where you and your friends live on a commune and some grow hops and some grow barley and some are in charge of fermentation vats and all just relax and drink their beer after a long day. That is, until the tax man cometh...
It seems inevitable that this sort of thing soon will be mostly automated. After all, Trump fans aren't alone in wanting to read conspiratorial affirmations of their moronic beliefs. We'd all like that, at some level. If any particular search engine or similar aggregation platform actually succeeds in curbing fakenews (rather than loudly crowing about initial attempts to do so, as in the current case), that platform will see its own popularity decline. Nobody wants that, so this "problem" will remain "unsolved".
if your so tired of silicon valley you're free to leave. kinda sad how people just hear the word "communism" and can't think logically and start frothing at the mouth with anger and hate.
Oh definitely, the series started out amazing and slowly went downhill to being rather decent. I think that just shows us how hard this kind of writing is, even for really talented writers. It takes a lot of thought and time and cleverness and it's not something that can be just churned out regularly.
Mid 80ies (around 10yo), a Schneider CPC464 IIRC
Further they received significant aid from the USSR.
I suppose I agree. The US' embargo was probably quite tough on Cuba. But I don't think the state of the economy in Cuba can be entirely pinned on the embargo.
When you "log in with Google", you don't transmit your credentials to the service itself.

Unroll.me does something similiar.

It does allow the company to read your emails, apparently.
Ideas are worth nothing; the value is in the implementation
Is there that much rivalry? AFAIK Square is pretty solidly 'brick and mortar' while Stripe is APIs.
It's more like everything is owned by society, people do what they can based on their ability & all their needs are met.

The initial concept is very theoretical, there are many gaps left.
Any terms of service signed for that would prevent a customer from suing over additional fraudulent accounts would be almost certainly unconscionable.
Your link is broken for me, FYI. In any case:

> Judges in California and federal courts have ruled arbitration clauses signed by customers when they opened legitimate accounts prevent them from suing even over allegedly fraudulent accounts created without their knowledge.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-arbitratio...

Laws have been proposed to change this. Of course, given the election results, I highly doubt the bills, or the proposed CFPB rule you mention are going anywhere.
Could you add references? Not accusing any credibility, I'd just want to learn more details.
> the vast majority of the 'victims' were American soldiers, not Vietnamese.

That's straight up false. Between 3-4 millions Vietnamese suffered from it[1], and its devastating effects are still very relevant today. Concerning US soldiers, "By April 1993, the Department of Veterans Affairs had compensated only 486 victims, although it had received disability claims from 39,419 soldiers who had been exposed to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange#Effects_on_the_Vi...
Castro's poor judgement led directly to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Afterwards John F Kennedy estimated there was between a one-third and one-half chance that it would have escalated to nuclear war [1]. That seems like an underestimate considering that we now know some of the missiles were fully operational [2]

Yet today it's difficult for most people to appreciate the extreme threat and terror of nuclear weapons in the 1960's. Half of US voters think life was better then than now [3]. Really? To me, there's no level of job security that could possibly compensate for such a high chance of nuclear catastrophe.

[1] Reported in https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RKO6MS8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

[2] As described by Robert McNamara in 'The Fog of War'

[3] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/20/6-charts-tha...
encryptr is a good alternative. also i have used KeePass in the past
Actual communism tends to keep wealth fairly uniform.

Cuba's Gini coefficient is fairly low, at around 0.38 in 2000 [1], although the data quality might be poor. Most of Latin America is substantially less equal. The US's was around 0.4-0.45 during that time frame [2].

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-reform-inequality-idU...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
A wild thought just crossed my mind while reading this. Peer to peer online education platform.

Would be a good value add to a discussion board or a question answer community.

Might fly better than likes of coursers. The key is the community forms first.
Not really. I think most of the jobs are being lost because of the improvements in productivity. We need less people to do the same job, because we have a lot of machines and automation. So, even if there is more work to do (because there are more people on the Earth now than 100 years ago), there is relatively less "work per person" to do. I know this is not exact (lump of labor fallacy) but I think it explains a lot of what's happening right now.

The saddest thing, for me, is the effect on economy. Since the corporate earnings remain the same but the automation means that less workers get paid (and, when controlling for inflation, workers don't get paid much more, except in a few select industries), this means that the owners keep the rest, and this is why the gap between poor and rich people is widening so fast.
> Perhaps the scope of signing away your right to a class action will be better understood.
reply

This is not really a choice if you want to use a mobile phone or any tele-communications service. Same goes for employment contracts.
Like I said: Compared to Haiti, or Venezuela, or Panama, or Simbabwe, or Ruanda, they did pretty well. Depending on the point in time over the last 50 years and your position in society, even Mexico (Drug wars, now), Argentina (during the dictatorship), or Brasil (born into the wrong class, today) may not be clearly superior in every regard.

I've been to Cuba, and life there is somewhat boring, and the standard of living is obviously low. But it's not the kind of poverty you seen many other countries. No starving old people and children in the streets, also no gang violence ruling your block.

Streetlife in general seemed quite happy – old people playing chess, young girls playing soccer (in school uniforms, no less), groups of three or four neighbors fixing one of those old cars etc.

Now it sounds too much like glorification – I also listened to 6 hours of Castro's labor day sermon in 2003 and most people around me felt I was insane for attending it voluntarily – they only went because somebody, somewhere had to check their name of a list or they may get into trouble. That's a price I wouldn't be willing to pay.

I hope Cuba will find a way to preserve a bit of what made it bearable in its worst times.
> Judges in California and federal courts have ruled arbitration clauses signed by customers when they opened legitimate accounts prevent them from suing even over allegedly fraudulent accounts created without their knowledge.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-arbitratio...
From the adoption of printing by Europeans in the 15th century we began to be concerned primarily with access to printed material.

The right to read, and the right to publish were the central subject of our struggle for freedom of thought for most of the last half millennium.

The basic concern was for the right to read in private and to think and speak and act on the basis of a free and uncensored will.

The primary antagonist for freedom of thought in the beginning of our struggle was the Universal Catholic Church.

An institution directed at the control of thought in the European world, based around weekly surveillance of the conduct and thoughts of every human being. Based around the censorship of all reading material and in the end based upon the ability to predict and to punish unorthodox thought.

The tools available for thought control in early modern Europe were poor. Even by 20th’s century standards but they worked. And for hundreds of years, the struggle primarily centered around that increasingly important first mass manufactured article in Western culture: "the book" Whether you could print them, posses them, trafficking them read them, teach from them without the permission or control of an entity empowered to punish thought.

By the end of the 17th century censorship of written material in Europe had begun to break down first in the Netherlands then in the UK then afterwards in waves throughout the European world.

And the book became an article of subversive commerce and began eating away at the control of thought.

By the end of the 19th century, that struggle for the freedom of reading had begun to attack the substance of Christianity itself and European world trembled on the brink of the first great revolution of the mind it spoke of "liberté égalité fraternité" but actually it meant freedom to think differently.

The "Ancien Régime" begun to struggle against thinking and we moved into the next phase of the struggle for freedom of thought which presumed the possibility of unorthodox thinking and revolutionary acting.

And for 200 years we struggled with the consequences of those changes.

That was then and this is now. [...]

Everything we want everything we hope everything we’d like everything we wish we new about is in the search box and they own it.

We are reported everywhere all the time

In the 20th century you had to build Lubianca you had to torture people you had to threaten people you had to press people to inform on their friends I don’t need to talk about that in Berlin

https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-...
>That's more because of the embargo than anything Cubans did

I just have to ask, does communism require trading with capitalist nations to be successful? Because there are many nations under embargo by the US that are significantly more prosperous.

But clearly, when Marx was talking about a communist revolution he clearly meant that you should allow yourself to be exploited by your nearest capitalist neighbor.
> There's an alternate feedback loop. As more people drive electric cars, demand for oil drops and decreases the price of gasoline, making gasoline cars more economical.

A car payment is maybe $200/month. Car insurance is maybe $100/month. 12,000 miles/year at 30MPG and $2/gallon is $67/month.

~$1.20 of the $2/gallon is taxes, refining, distribution and marketing.

So if the market price of crude oil falls by 75%, its contribution to a gallon of gas goes from $.80 to $.20. That's $20/month difference, or ~5% of the cost of operating a car.

And that's assuming crude prices actually fall by that much, and that governments don't raise the fuel tax to make up revenue and/or fight climate change. It's not hard to imagine adding $.49/gallon to the gas tax.
comparatively they do better than most Latin American countries.

That explains why you see so many people from surrounding Latin America countries flocking to Cuba, right?
And the harm obesity is causing? Arguably just as bad.
> Very similar to Snaps, but it'll work with many distros instead of just Ubuntu.

Snaps run on a lot of distributions too:

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/06/14/universal-snap-packag...
We hope so, yes.
It would be a logical fallacy if coldtea actually made that claim. He did not. He simply pointed out that edblamey moral high ground is a fallacy in itself, when so many of those Western nations stand accused of worse.
I agree completely, this was an extremely important election with a lot of future implications and it, and really all elections, should be meticulously audited. I think there is a lot of pressure to come up with a quick result when the emphasis should be more on accuracy.
I was there last year. The proto-capitalism is happening right now. I was also there in Europe when the East-Block fell. It feels eerily similar.
It's not clear to me that anyone actually believes any of the sites mentioned. I mean, the business model only relies on people clicking the page and seeing ads, so in that vein, all the clickbait headlines we've ever seen on the MSM are pretty much the same.

Given what I've seen, the body of the article is probably superfluous. Just have a Markov chain regurgitate some utter nonsense and figure out how to generate viral headlines.

Worse, it's not like the MSM is immune to this, either. I mean, just look at this story: http://fortune.com/2016/11/25/russian-fake-news/

The story gets worse when you look at what was found on Glenn Greenwald's twitter: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/802247437289226240 "No-one I've spoken to listed as "allies" on their site had even heard of them before the WP piece."
> If you get to do it "the machines way", then you get this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPTwpLIpDWE

Those are some of the worst sandwiches I've ever seen – which confirms your point, I suppose.
Fixed the link above! Can I pester you with one more question? Is there anything in the law about good faith in contracts? Say, I sign a contract with a private school for my son's education. (Note, this is a ridiculous scenario) that includes binding arbitration. If I find that a teacher has been sexually abusing him and the administration tried to cover it up, would I be restricted from a lawsuit and only allowed binding arbitration?
Though I take your point and mostly agree, is there any reason this couldn't be done with a static boot binary entirely in RAM? Since the kernel is modular anyway, much of the special purpose cruft loaded by the initramfs could just be loaded and unloaded with a boot script of some kind right? I mean: it could all sit on the same filesystem without having a CPIO image on disk? Grub supports pretty much every filesystem already so loading this initial kernel image from the network or wherever could just start there.
Even more genius would have been to make himself a mod of the_donald, so every time they insulted him they broke the rule anyway...
This is impressive and the documentation is nice. But it would be nice to get the 30-second pitch -- is the rationale to push processing onto the client side? When I think of such effects, I would usually imagine them being on the server side, perhaps on a dedicated image processing server.
I'm actually quite surprised by the amount of people in this thread highlighting the nuances, the "50 shades of gray – elder statesmen edition" if you will.

There's a lot of positive things to be said about Castro. But your unqualified hymn isn't going to help your cause. Just the number of people making the rather dangerous journey to the US proves how misguided your comparisons are.
Exactly. It doesn't help that the biggest country in the international stage is doing everything it can to stop you from succeeding.
You seem to have a very wrong idea of what Marxism is, means, and argues. You also seem to have a deep-seated and emotional hatred for it. That's all well and good, but perhaps you should lay off discussing it. You keep getting all worked up here, which you perhaps would be able to avoid if you had a better understanding of what Marxism is, what it means, what it argues, what it predicts. You're continuing to behave in an insulting manner toward people, calling names, and making antagonistic, simplistic, blanket statements that evince no nuance of understanding.

For a concrete example, someone who is interested cannot really respond to you if they wanted to because you're firing in every direction with very little detail or explanation. How is anyone supposed to guess at what you consider to be the "benefits yielded by capitalism"? What socialism "of such a form" do you mean? Why do you seem blind to the many "dumb" parts of capitalism or liberal democracy? Do you study the various alternatives that have been discussed in the history of political science and theory? What specifically do you find dumb about Marxism, particularly as compared with its counterparts in other economic models and interpretations of human history?

On HN, you'll find emotional, knee-jerk reactions receive a swift, negative response. Especially when they're negative emotions, delivered with insults and anger. You can do much better than this, and you'll find interesting conversations coming your way.
> What if future management starts loving python so much they decide to do something malicious to other programming languages?

Well, why not figure it out then? Why solve a problem you haven't had yet? That seems to fall squarely under YAGNI.
Haiti on the bottom of economy freedom rating [1] and corruption rating [2].

Haiti has huge anti-free market red tape and rampant corruption.

It means that Haiti did declare a war against free markets.

Free market economy is possible only in country with strong property rights, rule of law with no corruption, and no red tape. All countries which adopted these principles are rich and have very high standard of living.

I think 99.999% of folks who like communism/socialism don't understand what free market capitalism IS.

[1] http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking

[2] http://www.transparency.org/cpi2015#results-table
Some of that is just because being an "anti-American dictator" entails not just disagreeing with America but making America-hate a topic you never shut up about. China has done pretty well and disagreed with America on lots of policy issues -- they just don't have the monomania that e.g. North Korea has.
> If there are people who call themselves communists and they create societies, then "communism" should be judged on that.

That's not how it works; some terrorists may call themselves muslims and even form "Islamic" societies, but I hope you'll agree that muslims and Islam shouldn't be judged on their actions. The same goes for Christianity.
Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied U.S., Dies at 90
> He put nuclear weapons 40 miles away from florida

And the US isn’t putting nukes into NATO states? Italy and Turkey already have had some before Cuba got some, so what’s next? Estonia?
Easiest thing would be to just use auto mode when connected to a car dashboard or car bt speaker and don't allow exit while traveling at high speed.
My aunt knew him pretty well. She runs a few hotels or resorts in Cuba (I'm quite estranged from that part of the family, so don't have many details), and had to cook for/host him on a regular basis.

I remember stories about how he, or Raul for that matter, would request to have sushi, even though she didn't have access to salmon, tuna nor eel. Even sushi rice was impossible to get by. The classic seaweed another hard to find item. These kind of crazy requests would usually come in a handful of hours, or less, before said meal was due to happen. Her job for many years was to pass off whatever she had access to as the real deal. Call it "tantrum trompe l'œil", if you will.

I remember being surprised when she said it was probably the most fulfilling position to be in as a chef, because of how challenging it was.
Sandboarding in Peru [video]
Perhaps they could also call for the manufacturers to "develop technology" to give every driver a pony, while they're at it. It's kind of infuriating to hear from someone who thinks you can just say "develop technology" and then anything will happen.
Breathing out through my nose works for me. Seems to quiet the sneezing "itch".

Breathing in through my nose intensifies it.
The software they use to draft these should be given support for a special tag that it will refuse to publish to prod an article containing.
Most jobs are honest and do people a service, you don't even need to look hard or anything.

If you want impact, and can write software, there's plenty of well-paid jobs for that in the US; Silicon Valley and elsewhere. That not only lets you contribute taxes instead of living off them, it also helps you be more productive, focused, and impactful.

Is teaching a bullshit job? Installing solar panels in people's roofs? Doing the accounting that keeps a hospital working? Cooking or waiting in a small restaurant where the firemen next door have lunch?
They are less isolated than you think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTno8D-b2E