skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed German politicians have been consistently ignoring their voters' mandate for the last two decades:

The SPD (originally the worker's party) has destroyed the welfare state, the CDU (center right) lets in millions of refugees, and the Green party (originally anti war) goes to war.

It will be interesting what happens in the next federal elections. In the Berlin state elections the "ultra right" AfD had 12%.

The reason is of course that they also represent positions that originally were part of regular conservative agenda.

After the state elections Merkel suddenly started to (pretended to?) listen to some voter concerns.

Apparently in Germany politicians only react if protest parties approach 20% results.
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>The pleas you're seeing for a calmer and broader conversation are not attempts to exculpate Castro.

Those of us who have been directly affected by Castro's actions feel that justice was never made, his legacy is not something we want celebrated or glorified.

Yes, it was not all black but the black/white ratio of Castros's regime is more 80/20 than 50/50.
Yes I was stunned to see how much low level and seemingly unnecessary labour there when visited Tokyo.

There are people literally inviting you to escalators in the airport. An empty train station would have half a dozen attendants. Road repair, in the middle of the night, 6 people directing foot traffic, with only two (us) pedestrians in sight.

This was surprising against the stereotype of machine-based Japanese efficiency. I assume it's some half employment, half social support programme going on.
Has anyone noticed that "blockchain" has become the new "rewrite"? Except that I've never seen anyone rely on a conspiracy theory to argue for a rewrite.
Well, it's weird to call the foreign policy decisions of bordering nations "naturally arising". They are quite obviously very different consequences compared to pollution or traffic jams following heavy car subsidies.
I always love it when people explain these different speedrun and glitch techniques, especially ones that allow arbitrary code .execution. Thanks for sharing.
Stealth airplanes. Coronary artery stents. Genetically modified foods. The proof of Fermat's last theorem. Much cheaper solar panels. Fracking for oil and gas. Gem quality synthetic diamonds. No doubt various medicines, medical procedures, prosthetics, but I'm not a medical expert. GPS. Much cheaper titanium. Carbon fiber. CDs. DVDs. 14 nm line width lithography. The astounding progress in hard disk drive density and price. WiFi. Cable modems. The Hubble telescope. Gravitational wave detection. The Higgs boson detection. High temperature superconductivity. The scanning tunneling electron microscope. The cameras in smartphones. Color inkjet printers. Color laser printers. LEDs. Hypersonic ram jets.
That blog, unbelievable.

"Here is how blogs make money: Join this multi level snowball marketing system, like I did, and sell to the next sucker down below.

Btw. I'm broke now."
If the bots could pass a Turing Test, fair enough, yes, that would be appealing. Something of a high bar though.
Atlas Shrugged is among my favorite books, but definitely nothing applicable to people building a business.

Well, it does give you a number of "don't do this!" or "watch out for this sort of person" or developments lessons, and the bit on laws for a society at our level of "development" is priceless:

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age of beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one 'makes' them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted-and you create a nation of law-breakers and then you cash in on the guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

But, yeah, little positive that'll tell you what to do, the "invent a much better mousetrap" and, ahem, connect up with a market that needs it would seem to be a lesson is so obvious it hardly needs to be taught. But it does, as the author emphasizes, and there are many many books now that are really focusing on that.
>us who have been directly affected by Castro's actions

Do you believe this puts you into a position of objective analysis?
This will definitely come in handy, great way to use jq interactively.

It also builds and works fine on Windows, so I opened a PR with instructions for that.

https://github.com/wellsjo/JSON-Splora/pull/4
Let's focus this subthread on the meta note left in the article and was published.
I am of the same opinion, always go for correctness before performance, efficiency can be tuned later if it's even needed.
You're spot on.

I worked on a farm from 12-17. Not an option for a non-Mexican for the last 15 years or so.
Cmon - don't call this a project. It is a single function. However, I like how OP realized that vanilla js was the correct choice for a simple job.
> I have and the worst sink estate in London i nothing like as bad as Havana

You really haven't bruv.
Right, the US planned to exterminate Germans via immigrants. And by the US, you mean one loony guy named Hooton. And by planned, you mean he mentioned it as a possible idea.
>Classifying call center drones (of which I was once one) as 'knowledge workers', and then using them to discuss how hard knowledge workers have it, is beyond disingenuous.

Disingenuous because it doesn't align with how you have chosen define "knowledge worker"? Because as far as I'm concerned a knowledge worker is a person who's knowledge is their main tool. "White collar" is another common title. Call center drones definitely qualify under either of these definitions. I mean, a point of the piece is that there's a misinterpretation about how glamorous the "knowledge worker" title is. The fact that you work a cushy, high-paying job doesn't refute that.
Yet most of the remote jobs pay very little compared to non-remote jobs in the US, or either try to cheat you on benefits, or hours, or require you to relocate after a few months.

I've tried to find a decent remote job for about 8 months and the whole search has completely turned me off the idea. I used to believe that remote would be the future, but it seems like remote jobs are what mediocre startups with insufficient funding try to use as an excuse to underpay you. I've pretty much seen it all: jobs that are listed as remote, but when you interview, the first question is "When can you relocate?"; jobs that pay $60,000 per year (without taxes or benefits) for a Software Architect role; and the last straw--jobs offering a decent rate but saying they can only pay you for 25 hours a week (hmm, how does a Sw Eng switch their mind off at the 5th hour every day as opposed to at the 8th?)

Of course, everybody requires rock stars (at least Google-level engineers, preferably with CS degrees from Stanford or MIT) and who have experience with remote work, and can manage teams, overcommunicate, are a culture fit, and most importantly are willing to work for $60,000 a year with no benefits and no vacation.

Remote has a long way to go.
Kids shouldn't be working minimum wage jobs at all. They should be in school, instead. We shouldn't give low-skilled labor jobs to Americans, since that's economically inefficient.

The better option would be to just let migrants take these low-skill jobs.
That's a really interesting proposal, and one of the few I've heard that actually could improve on a UBI in some ways.

The obvious leak point - who would determine what was "worthy" work? If someone said "my project right now is to watch all of The Wire", would that be OK? Would it differ if it was "all of CSI Miami"? What about if it was "All of MIT's lectures on machine learning"?
This fake news phenomena is simply the natural progression. Media has always been caught between the need for speed and the need for quality, with each outlet at any moment falling somewhere on the spectrum between those two goals. Too much of one extreme usually spelled the disaster for the outlet, either because it became too elitist, or if became too ridiculous. And starting a new media outlet represented significant effort and cost, and the distribution channels (print, TV, radio) were relatively expensive.

In the era when the media channels themselves are extremely cheap (i.e. the Internet), the extremes are not as dangerous as they used to be, and risking going to extremes became much more valuable. However, with the cost of channels gone, the cost of quality becomes a much more significant burden, and optimising for speed became much easier, at the cost of quality. Add on top of that the willingness of various groups to pay for the costs of such media (optimised for speed as opposed to quality), it is clear where such abundance comes from.

Note: By "media quality" I mean an amalgamate of different elements like topics covered, quality of writing/reporting, production quality, amount of research etc.
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You assume available jobs are located near where teenagers live? In many cases the jobs are located in remote areas with small populations (most agricultural work).

Also, I want mine and your teenagers to be studying and preparing for their futures. These are jobs with limited upside, for the most part.
The ban is only 'artificial' if you believe free and open borders should be the default state of the world. This hasn't been true globally since World War I.
If you want to implement a minimum income, there are more efficient ways to do it. You can pass a minimum wage that applies to everyone. You can go further and create a universal basic income policy. You can try to guarantee a minimum wage using immigration law, but that is going to have some big side effects and is not going to be accurate at all.

Are you proposing a $100,000 per year minimum wage across all professions?
You and I must be living on different planets.

Did you just say Africa is more or less peaceful and has experienced an economic boom?
You've identified part of the negative. Now what are the positive aspects? Cheaper buildings and labor for US companies, which improves their competitiveness against international competition, increased agricultural exports, cheaper services for American citizens.

You haven't even attempted to estimate the value of any of these things. You've just cherry picked one number. Your conclusion may or may not be accurate, but without trying to analyze both the costs and benefits, your way of arguing doesn't contribute much.
>within reason

I think the concern is about what is "within reason".
On hacker news? Celebrating left.
Hard to argue. However, he could have just short circuited the entire post and linked to http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html
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These jobs aren't located near where Mexicans live either - they are actually on the wrong side of a heavily policed border in an entirely different country.
There is still civil war in Libya, it barely gets any mentioning so I don't know how much less the killings are.

Furthermore, non-intervention only meant no actual American troops in Syria, not staying out of the conflict: the US has funded, armed and trained much of the opposition from the start of the conflict, and US made and supplied anti-tank weapons are prominent in the rebels ability to counter the armoured forces of the Syrian army.
Economies that attracts and integrates (domestic or foreign, the difference will blur) individuals which work or study hard will prevail. Countries that falls under the hands of extremism will collapse or be forced back into open societies.
Artificial protection of economies are a fraudulent propositions from demagogues and doomed to further digging the economy down into extremism.
The government should support citizens through change friction, but by enabling rather than addictive entitlements.
But which politician can sell foot work, instead of sugar? Find a common external enemy, blame them rather than the rigged markets and systems.
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Don't Lower Corporate Taxes, Abolish Them
No need to mutate/slice/sort anything

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Actually, the liquidity providers who are filling orders passed from your broker will give you a better price than the market NBBO (or your limit) by a couple tenths of a cent. You can google it to read more. It's generally called "price improvement". The main reason they do this is to capture order flow so they can use that knowledge in their own trading.
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> but the economic and societal destruction of communism is in its own category

The Human Development Index puts Cuba at position 40, despite the huge economic disadvantage of the embargo.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#2015_H...
>It may more or less boil down to lots of movies and television shows being set in New York

Movies and TV shows are filmed in NY because it's a world class, iconic city. It didn't become that because of media.
No. And I'm not against objective analysis, however by humanizing such individuals in the name of "objectiveness" you are disregarding the suffering of a lot of people.
Brexit, Trump, 86% popularity of Putin, mass media, TV shows, Javascript - what other evidences are needed?
People are "programmed" by culture. It wasn't so many generations ago when people with similar genes as me (a Scandinavian) did organized clan warfare with slavery, murder, plunder and everything else we see as bad in today's Western world. But the people then were "loving fathers and sons" too, of course. Attitudes to things you/we deplore are trivially cultural.

Your argument as a whole was a bit funny...

You use personal arguments about someone else as thinking in black and white -- then define people with different backgrounds as good or bad, according to our local cultural definitions.
Counting Castro's Victims (2005)
University is not for everybody (as the massive debt crisis shows)

There's (much less) illegal immigration to Canada, but lower wage positions are filled with TFW visas

Now, the lower-tier jobs are being replaced with automation. In several Nordic countries (and even in Canada), there's fewer people doing the "cashier" role, they scan or get you the products, but you pay to a machine (either with cash or card)
What exactly is wrong with this particular comment?)
It's a little rich of the Russian representative to claim that, given that Russia has just withdrawn from the International Criminal Court.

For what it's worth, Human Rights Watch's report about Cuba is also pretty damning:

> The Cuban government continues to repress dissent and discourage public criticism. It now relies less on long-term prison sentences to punish its critics, but short-term arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders, independent journalists, and others have increased dramatically in recent years. Other repressive tactics employed by the government include beatings, public acts of shaming, and the termination of employment.

As is Amnesty International's:

> Despite increasingly open diplomatic relations, severe restrictions on freedoms of expression, association and movement continued. Thousands of cases of harassment of government critics and arbitrary arrests and detentions were reported.

And Reporters Sans Frontieres rank Cuba 171 out of 180 countries in the world for Press Freedom.
Why is that do you think? If you pay them a fee and they aren't pushing investment products you'd think they'd be more realistic...
How much value you provide determines the upper bound of your salary. Supply of people willing and able to do the work determines the lower bound.
Citizens in the US voted for Jim Crow and it was only overturned via non-democratic means. Were these laws moral at the time?

To take a modern example, will Maharashtra's proposed law against Biharis driving autos be moral if it has popular support? (Background: Marathi nationalists have - this year - proposed Jim Crow type laws against non Marathis driving taxis/auto rickshaws.)
If Nate Silver's analysis is correct, it suggests strongly that electronic ballots are not for white, educated people.

That's a problem in itself, isn't it? What are the reasons for this demographic difference in how the election is conducted?
Cuba does very well on the human development index. Among the top ten in the Americas and top fifty in the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
I found Castro's Cuba a very interesting place, primarily because of its independence from American direct influence (and yes, I realise that Cuba has longed been defined by America's influence on it, even in opposing it).

American culture has had a huge effect on the world. To attend an island off the coast of Florida and find it more or less free of that cultural influence was fascinating. Fascinating in that they were even just able to do it.

I didn't see an island prison there. Which is not to whitewash anything. However, I was free to go anywhere I wanted and did. People I met were kind, welcoming and seemed, to my eyes and ears, content.

The view of Fidel as a tyrant is not the view one finds as they travel the world. Neither is he viewed as a saint. He is viewed as someone who achieved something incredible, with all that entails, good and bad.
My country is definitely not a first world country...

>"dangerous levels of pesticides" is definitely a first-world problem

Wow. You seem to have no idea of what you are talking about.
I really wonder about his criticism of The Innovator’s Dilemma. I'll certainly admit it applies to only a subset of startups, and it probably introduced the now totally ludicrous disruption meme, but the lesson with examples of companies that used inferior but cheaper technology to find and/or create whole new markets is certainly useful, and using your "disruptive" technology to eventually eat the lunch of the incumbents gives you something to eventually shoot for. All of which I think we seldom see in people who propose to "disrupt" something.

The lessons about how incumbents are constitutionally unable to complete against this also, if sufficiently true, ought to help tamp down some the rampant paranoia I've seen so much of in startups.
When were you in Cuba?
Meh. Most phones I've seen have manuals with CYA disclaimers like that - essentially saying "it sorta kinda works, but don't sue us if anything happens: see, we told you right here it's not fit for any use." This is an artifact of overlawyering, not a technical limitation.
I have personally found stripe's support to be very responsive. Have only asked a few questions about limits and APIs, so maybe my qs were easy, but haven't had any issues with the support they've provided, and we dont do anywhere near the volume you cite.
Here's an example where it's broken: https://i.imgur.com/ugVBCJL.png
I've used Evernote web clipper.

Also these http://superuser.com/questions/14403/how-can-i-download-an-e...
I'm not sure I'd count that source as valid after reading what they wrote in /brazil. The text has the same opinion as the media they rate as "partially free". They're defending the side that won without really understanding what happened there. I wonder how better the analysis on Cuba could be.
> font size boost if the phone is moving faster than 10 mph

I'm sure people using public transit would be absolutely thrilled!
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I just got a notification from Revolut: my card will become inactive in about 24 hours because of compliance problems with their issuing partner. Apparently, Revolut was not allowed to issue cards outside of Europe (I'm a resident of Switzerland), but they did it anyway. Fortunately, I'm not travelling or relying on Revolut only: I guess some people are going to spend the weekend trying to figure out how to pay the hotel they're staying in. In finance, trust is of utmost importance and - regrettably - Revolut does not deserve any. Failing to comply with regulations and the hastily way they are handling the consequences of their choices - with no regards for their clients - gives the impression of having to do with a bunch of amateurs, and I do not entrust my money to amateurs.
> When trying to rollout a SAAS app in Germany that ties individuals to the time to track workflow and time they spent on individual tasks, it was pushed back on because it was "illegal".

I doubt that this was the real reason, project and time management software with the same functionality is widespread. There is likely more to this. (I'm not saying you're not truthful, just that I don't think this was really the reason why it was pushed back by those that did).

It could be, for example, that the application due to it's SaaS nature did not fully comply with some regulations regarding safe harbour. These might have required the SaaS to be hosted in specific countries. Or management decided otherwise, or any other reason.
Should they be legal or illegal migrants?
You seriously argue that there is no difference between a democracy and a dictatorship.

A trivial counter example -- if you causally dismissed your government as a Cuban in Cuba online, what happens?

(Since Cuba has a really, really strict control of the Internet last I looked, it is of course a bit of an academic question...)

Edit: This comment is really jumping up and down in votes... :-)
> So no, nobody is coming for you in a free society that is not marxist

Then we can tell the people disappeared in militar dictatorships in the Latin countries in the 50s-70s than they were prosecuted by marxist governments.

School of the Americas was marxist, was not?
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> All this could be partially prevented by hardware switches for each sensor.

A few easy hacks for best-effort protection without destroying your hardware are a piece of tape over the camera and setting your sound input to something quiet, like Soundflower in macOS or one of these for Windows or Linux: http://alternativeto.net/software/soundflower/
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I thought it was something lost in translation, or just a mistake. But it turns out there actually is an accompanying directive "for the police and criminal justice sector" (Directive (EU) 2016/680).
Yes; HRC lost because she ran a bad campaign, not because the voting machines were hacked.
Yes. I don't disagree with a single word of that. I took jknoefpler's comment as an invitation to reflect on the fact that Castro, and even H----r, are members of the same species as us, and what that might say about the human condition. Nothing pleasant, surely, but part of the truth of what we are. And this might be a better conversation to have than comforting ourselves by distancing ourselves from these people with unthinking use of labels like "evil".

I could be wrong. There may well be people in this thread actually trying to justify or minimize Castro's actions. In any case, it doesn't look like there's much prospect for a good conversation in this thread at this point. We're still waiting for the solution for how to have good conversations about touchy topics in anonymous internet forums!