skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And to those who cheer the advent of capitalism in Cuba as a 'freer society', consider that now there's the form of proto-capitalism that existed in Eastern Europe and the former soviet countries after the fall of the wall.

It's the time when society divides into economic winners and losers, and the wealth gap will increase - sometimes dramatically. So yay innovation and (somewhat more) freedom, but woe social tensions.
From the NPR article:

Dr. Jay Fishman, associate director of [Boston's Mass General] transplant center, says an organ from someone who used drugs is not necessarily risky and may even be healthier than other options.

"You have to remember that as awful as this outbreak is, these are younger people who are dying, often with needles in their arms, and many of them were first-time drug users," Fishman says. "They weren't all addicts."
You have been repeatedly breaking the site guidelines in this thread. Please comment civilly. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>They actually have to pass a new law before 2018. There's a EU directive, and the way these work is that they require the member states to pass laws implementing them ...

Assuming you're referring to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), it is in fact a regulation as opposed to a directive. The difference being that directives have to be implemented at the member state level, but regulations do not. Regulations are effective union-wide once they come into force.
Shenzhen I/O is indeed amazing. Most Zachtronics games are at least great.
Marc Andreessen: “We Are Biased Toward People Who Never Give Up.”
Nah, the Cuban revolution is dead. Get ready for A. Further integrations with the capitalist US or B. Fall of the Cuban economy because they are definitely not getting support from venezuela which propped up their economy in the first place.
It's not okay to do what they, Wells Fargo, have done(deceive) period.

Full accounting of moral behavior includes an absolute prohibition on selling with an intend to deceive via an asymmetry of information, since risk can be epistemic/subjective related to ignorance of outcomes that the counterparty already knows about, then they sold you a product/service/contract with an intend to offload risk on you, which is strictly immoral period.

Absolute prohibition on parasitism via exchanges made via an asymmetry of information and they cannot prevent restitution because you agreed to not sue for something else.

What a bunch of nonsense.
How am I going to comment civilly? This is a dictator and there are people praising him here! WTF. This might be easy for you to comment on when you didn't lose your entire life because of this man but people have.
I agree. It's absolutely insane to side with Castro. Even if you agree with his political philosophy, there is overwhelming objective evidence of how awful it is:

- Cuban economy

- Cuban quality of life

- basic Cuban freedoms (like supporting parties other than the one in power)
I think the parents point is that we have seen in some places (Netherlands?) that a dramatic increase in organ donors happened when they switched from opt-in to opt-out.
1. At least in 1993, the official exchange rate was 6:1 but there were people standing outside the banks that would exchange it at 10:1. They were called the Yellow Cow Government.

2. They haven't been to China in a while, so they can't give an up-to-date black market rate. But a lot of economic indicators(property, bitcoin, etc.) show that people are willing to pay at least 20:1(conservatively).

3. Futures have to be traded in China. Otherwise they would absolutely buy large quantities of futures at the 7.44:1 price quoted here. There's political risk that the government might not enforce a futures contract if the currency gets too bad.

4. George Soros has already tried to pull a Soros on the Yuan, but it's harder when the government actively fights you.

5. At the current exchange rate, China is planning to print enough money to buy the US in a year, and the entire world in 2 years. So that exchange rate can't hold forever.

6. They reiterated that being labeled as a currency manipulator would be very bad for China, and there would be a huge surge in demand for the black market.

7. If you're caught smuggling USD into China, it's a pretty serious crime and they'll confiscate all of your USD. So the higher exchange rate has risk built into it.

8. You've been able to exchange $50k/person/year for a while, but they're starting to crack down on it. You need forms and approval for even $1000.

9. Since they're no longer in China, they wouldn't exchange at the 20:1 rate any more. But they'd happily bet against RNMB if you're selling futures at anywhere near 7.44:1 for December 2019. I'm planning to call a broker to ask about it, since I can't reconcile their pessimism with the fact that Yuan futures do seem at a glance to be traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which is a non-Chinese entity. Depending on what they say, you could probably earn a decent commission if you could refer a non-Chinese bank or something willing to deal with these guys.
Why is it 'unforgivable' to be communist?
The western view of Castro is painted with decades of terrible propaganda. The Cuban people have been placed in their situation, not primarily by the Soviets or Castro, but by the American Hegemony and its unending empire across the globe.

Many central and south American heads of state have tried to stand up to that empire, and many have died in plane crashes. Hugh Chavez, demonized in American media, put pieces of the bill of rights on all food packaging, stood up for the poor and was opposed by the rich. Those people help him survive a military coupé. I would not be surprised if in 40 years, declassified documented revealed that coupé was US led.

For those who think that's crazy tin foil hat, remember that the US did cause the September 11th 1973 uprising in Chile, which led to the deaths of 11,000 civilians.

In a few hundred years when this era is not covered in the relentless nationalism that paints our view of the world, people will discover how much of our modern world was controlled by so very few.
Your attitude is not appropriate or welcome in this community.
I think these are two different things.

Social anxiety where being around other people makes you anxious is very different from anxiety where you are just worried all the time.

I say this because you are obviously talking about a completely different condition than the woman in this article.
> What do you mean by decades?

The US money supply has been increasing fairly steadily since WW II.

> The US has been borrowing money but that hardly translates to printing it.

The US has indeed been borrowing money. But it has also been printing it.

> I can definitely see how quantitative easing essentially translates to printing a couple of trillion to buy outstanding debt but that has already stopped.

QE is just the latest round of printing money. (More precisely three rounds, since there was QE1, QE2, and QE3.)

> By unavoidable I meant that if you hold currency, you are subject to it.

Only if the supply of currency increases. Why is that unavoidable?

> I meant labor scarcity not in the exonomic sense but in the sense of literally running out of people to allocate. I think it's clear that if businesses have to compete for a dwindling pool of workers prices will inevitably rise.

No, it's not clear at all. What is clear is that the price of labor (wages and salaries) will increase relative to the price of capital (e.g., interest rates). But that does not mean price levels in general will rise. That depends on how well businesses can substitute capital for labor. In the age of automation, that is usually "pretty well".
Don't forgot what makes a story is conflict: man against others, man against himself, and man against nature.
Fidel's brother Raul is in power. He is 85, but I don't have reason to believe much will change in Cuba if Raul dies as well.
Feed me grapes?
Cancer is not the best example here. Cancer, like anxiety or depression, is not a single disease, it's cluster of symptoms that can have a multitude of different causes.

You can tell when it's bad enough, like if there are visible tumors, but try to get 3 doctors to correctly diagnose whether a cancer is completely gone after treatment.

On the other hand, I guarantee 3 out of 3 doctors will diagnose my panic disorder as panic disorder.

I have recurrent tonsillitis, clearly a physical disease, yet 3 doctors couldn't figure out the cause.

When it comes to disease things are almost always murky, whether it's "physical" or "mental".
> you can't argue that his political philosophy works either---just look at Cuba today.

As someone who studied the subject formally, don't place maximum weight on the success and failures of the (statistically insignificant) rise and fall of modern nation states. This is a very far cry from a controlled experiment to begin with, anyways.

Don't read into that too much. I'm not saying mainstream economics doesn't have compelling arguments to make about the elegant effectiveness of free (properly regulated) markets. I'm just trying to be fair: it's a far cry from a scientific fact, which it seems like not just this comment, but a lot of us in the west (even mainstream academic economics) sell the idea as.
Because of the incredible harm to humanity done at the hands of communists over just the past 100 years alone
Tell me, would you give up your citizenship to live as a Cuban currently does? I thought so.
It never made sense to me that "contribution to society" would be measured by money earned

Think of it this way. I am willing to give you money, if you make a significant positive contribution to my life. I am willing to participate in a collective to scheme to give you money, if what you do helps people in a way I can appreciate.

It's certainly a distorted signal, but better than no signal at all.
It's possible to comment civilly on difficult topics. It just requires that you choose to.

HN is a place to gratify one's intellectual curiosity. Part of the fabric of the community is that we engage in a civil, substantive way. There are various topics that don't always make that easy, but it's important that we try.
After depositing the $428 she can borrow often and without interest in the future. Bankrolling Zidisha / the fund. And on this transaction only to her disadvantage. She's leveraging her shops supplies while she had the money!

However she still pays a 5% fee (in this case, for a 3 month loan, 21.5% annual). Obviously the fee is interest as well.

The lender gets no return, but a tax deductibility.

It's a clever way of building a massive fund.

My problem with most P2P (micro-)lending is that its risk management is often lacking and that interest rates do not adequately reflect risks. A zero percent nominal rate is bogus for a Nairobi shop owner. And 20+% fees excessive, especially when someone has to pay $400+ to get in.
I'm not going to get into details but if you take major economic facts about Cuba before the revolution and after it the balance is clear. http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/CUB comparatively they do better than most Latin American countries. It's a shame that their leaders weren't more pragmatic and allowed more civil liberties but then again, they always lived under an embargo and a permanent terror campaign from the CIA.
Feeling anxious sometimes and suffering from anxiety attacks are different things. Most people (I assume) don't suffer from anxiety attacks like described here. The people who do get anxiety attacks would like it to stop.
I for one don't feel sad, I feel good about that. I loved the movie "Good Will Hunting" and that's the message I got from it: the pursuit of the personal happiness trumps petting your mind to work for the greater good. Let's imagine, just as you said, that these brilliant mind did work towards the new advances and new products. We would get the new generation of smartphones one year sooner, and we'd be so moch richer for that, I guess. But if that comes at the expense of these people being one epsilon less happy than they currently are, that's not a trade off we as a society should be willing to make.
Wasting time in such contrived approaches that ultimately gain you nothing is part of what Alan Kay talks about.

Programmers have the devious hobby of tackling complexity of their own doing. It isn't praiseworthy, or something to be proud about.
Cuba has been under embargos for decades. You can't blame the current situation on Castro alone. That's like saying the reason your pizza shop was burned to the ground was because you paid protection money to the wrong mafia, and it was the other one that really controlled your neighbourhood.
intentions < results in my book
I'd be VERY concerned that this is a phishing scam. Of the permissions it requires for Google auth is to read your emails.
I don't want to work with you if you're a nine-to-fiver either. I'm not saying there's anything inherently wrong with you for feeling this way but I don't want to work with people who don't love what they do.

Edit: to clarify, by nine-to-fiver I mean someone who is just punching the clock in order to make a living but does not care much about what they are doing. I don't really care what hours you work if you're really into it when you do.
It was clear that the author of Death Note spent a tremendous amount of time thinking about the first few volumes before they published anything. It started densely packed with cleverness, but Naomi Penber was the last fancy trick for quite a while, presumably because they could not continue to invest so much time in each page. There was nothing as intricate and clever as Yagumi Light's hidden desk compartment from that point until, perhaps, the finale.
Okay, I won't put too much weight on objective facts.

I guess that destroys my argument that there hasn't been a single successful planned economy in history so far.
> Why doesn't all of that work turn into jobs?

Because the market that is supposed to match workers with jobs is highly inefficient. There are a number of possible causes of this, but I think a major one is regulation, which greatly increases the cost of hiring a worker. Any market with large transaction costs is going to be inefficient. That's one of those "economics 101" things that many people tend to forget.
Would have saved a lot more if they had never use coal tho.
Inside a Fake News Sausage Factory: ‘This Is All About Income’
There are some indications that coffee's effect on anxiety depends on specific genetic pre-disposition:

http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v33/n12/full/npp200817a.ht...

So not everybody will benefit from reducing caffeine intake. I think for most people, moderate caffein intake will actually have a positive effect on mood.
It's slightly tricky. The files are hosted on S3 but have some interesting referer and key restrictions. You can see the webm and mp4 URLs in the source but can't download them naively. But if you open Chrome's console and look at the Network tab you can right-click on something like a css file and choose "Copy as CURL". This produces a commandline spooge that has all the necessary stuff.

Paste that into a text file and replace the css URL with the URL of the video. Then add " > kay.video.mp4" to the end to pipe to a file, and paste it all into a Terminal window. Voila. The file is 577978075 bytes long.
That statement was comparing capsicum being applied to programs that were also pledged in around 2 lines of code. A few of the programs on the wiki as examples of capsicum applications originated from OpenBSD so they were primed and ready to go. Even those best cases are much more involved than pledge.

To use the example of the unix tr utility, the change to use pledge required the standard two line diff.

if (pledge("stdio", NULL) == -1)
err(1, "pledge");

tr.c was the one of the earliest programs pledged (back when it was called tame). The original diff was a one liner before they start doing the "pledge or error out".

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144070638327053

+	tame(TAME_STDIO, NULL);

The capsicum diff required the following

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7928
https://reviews.freebsd.org/file/data/4exxbzvuc3dayrvdj6qe/P...

+	cap_rights_t rights;
+	unsigned long cmd;

(...)

+	cap_rights_init(&rights, CAP_FSTAT, CAP_IOCTL, CAP_READ);
+	if (cap_rights_limit(STDIN_FILENO, &rights) < 0 && errno != ENOSYS)
+	err(1, "unable to limit rights for stdin");
+	cap_rights_init(&rights, CAP_FSTAT, CAP_IOCTL, CAP_WRITE);
+	if (cap_rights_limit(STDOUT_FILENO, &rights) < 0 && errno != ENOSYS)
+	err(1, "unable to limit rights for stdout");
+	if (cap_rights_limit(STDERR_FILENO, &rights) < 0 && errno != ENOSYS)
+	err(1, "unable to limit rights for stderr");
+
+	/* Required for isatty(3). */
+	cmd = TIOCGETA;
+	if (cap_ioctls_limit(STDIN_FILENO, &cmd, 1) < 0 && errno != ENOSYS)
+	err(1, "unable to limit ioctls for stdin");
+	if (cap_ioctls_limit(STDOUT_FILENO, &cmd, 1) < 0 && errno != ENOSYS)
+	err(1, "unable to limit ioctls for stdout");
+	if (cap_ioctls_limit(STDERR_FILENO, &cmd, 1) < 0 && errno != ENOSYS)
+	err(1, "unable to limit ioctls for stderr");
+
+	if (cap_enter() < 0 && errno != ENOSYS)
+	err(1, "unable to enter capability mode");

No one would dispute that capsicum is more capable but is significantly more complex. Pledge trades finer control over capabilities for the ability to have a "work or die" usage model. Capsicum requires that you be aware of all the potential failure cases and account for them.
What I love the most about this is that journalists write obituaries long before a significant figure actually dies to get on top of it ASAP.
Per capita GDP for Cuba is $6,789

Mexico $9,909
Guatamala $3,666
Honduras $2,495

I'd say Cuba is in the mix GDP-wise.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD
> That work requires government initiative and investment.

No, it doesn't. It requires initiative and investment, but there's no reason why those things have to come from the government.

> Many of the depressed areas keep voting for politicians who are convinced government doesn't work and they are determined to prove it.

Many other depressed areas keep voting for politicians who are convinced government can work--but they are unable to prove it.
Hell yeah it immediately was a clear timesaver for my business. I've never paid for a software faster. I develop on Linux, Mac, and Windows and it really is incredible on all three. Sublime Text really understands the UX of its target audience, which is rare, and inspiring. Good UX should be regardless of platform.
I wonder if Raul (since he seems a bit more relaxed) will hold general elections or stay in power till he too passes (which doesn't seem that far since he's only 4 years younger than his brother )
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.

China, the USSA and Cuba were never communism. They varied between heavy socialism (also a pinical of all high income countries: roads, trains, parks, police, fire, airports) and fascism.

A lot of people who just go on about communists, today, in 2016, seemed to have not learned that much of what we learned about the communists was mostly propaganda; same way the US creates enemies out of "terrorists" today.
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.

The US didn't cause this. They tried to stop it.
This is a disturbing position.

I don't doubt that his doctors may have helped you.

However, the man has committed grievous crimes, keeps 'his people' in abject poverty, on an 'island prison'. More than 85% of the economy is in the control of the military - his private Army.

"Up until today, Cuba still sends significant numbers of doctors to remote African areas and provide expensive medical procedures for free."

This is false and misleading. They do not provide it for free - they are paid by international agencies and it is one of the few real 'exports' that Cuba has.

Most perniciously - the money that is supposed to go to the doctors mostly goes to the military junta - while the doctors themselves receive very little.

Moreover - the Cuban doctors abroad are prisoners. They are held with the threat of violence or internment of their families back home. If they try to escape or leave - they go to prison:

http://www.cubanet.org/htdocs/CNews/y00/jun00/06e4.htm

Those doctors that 'helped you' get 5% of their 'salary' - while 95% goes to their captors.

Praise the doctors, not Fidel.

I find it abhorrent that such statements could be made about a cruel dictator, who has done 'some possibly good things' in the name of his legacy, whilst at the same time tormenting millions.

It's sad that people should hold such a tyrant in such esteem - because not only are those medical programs are paid for mostly by 'evil Western Nations' - aid to African nations is overwhelmingly from 'Western nations' (at least in terms of direct/indirect aid - of course China is a huge economic investor).

Let us not make a totem of this man without being cognizant of all the things he has done.
That he was a dictator is uncontroversial. The word 'evil' in this context is probably meaningless. Cuba's trajectory through world history under Castro is in turns tragic, heroic, idealistic, and cynical.

The comment you are replying to is embracing that complexity. Paving over it with simplistic thinking "Castro was evil and wrong" does a great deal of violence to the truth.

I am no fan of the shape Fidel Castro's Cuba took, but I think it is more important that we learn from the mistakes of the revolution (which are not a simple matter of being 'evil' or 'wrong') than that we demonize them.

In general, we should learn from history or be doomed to repeat it.
That's right! Fidel was the first world leader to support Nelson Mandela's fight for liberty and Cuba was the first country in the Americas that Mandela visited after his liberation.
From above:

Consumer Financial Services Agreements: As of May 5th, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a rule that would prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses in financial services agreements that limit access to class action lawsuits. Once formalized, this rule would apply to all contracts, including those already signed. Although such a rule would not necessarily prohibit mandatory arbitration for single-plaintiff claims, arbitration clauses that do not specifically exclude class action lawsuits from their reach may be invalid regardless.[1]

Consumer Contracts: Although generally upheld, mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts are non-binding when there is evidence of fraud. The Theranos lawsuits have recently brought this reality back to the attention of corporate lawyers. Because Theranos and Walgreens face accusations of widespread fraud, otherwise enforceable arbitration clauses are thrown out, allowing for class-action claims regardless. It’s important to note that these cases demonstrate that the fraud must merely be investigated, not conclusively proven, for the courts to now invalidate arbitration clauses.[1]

I think it's safe to say the alleged fraud in this case is under investigation.

Edit: Link fixed!

[1]: https://www.priorilegal.com/blog/the-limits-of-mandatory-arb...
i strongly disagree with your thesis that a 1-2 hour long driving capacity sized-battery is optimal. If you have an electric car, being able to not constantly worry about whether you can drive home is far more important than the cost of recharging. its so cheap it almost doesn't matter, like $10 for an 85kwh tesla. not worrying about running out of power is the big value.