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> Presidents Clinton and Bush both waived that part law

Part of the issue with Helms-Burton is that the retaliatory provisions include a private cause of action for any expatriates whose (former) property is impacted, so that it is impossible for the executive branch to control the application of the law.

> and Canada, Mexico, and the EU all don't recognize it.

Whether foreign countries recognize it has no impact on a anyone subject to it if they have assets that become subject to the jurisdiction of US courts.

> So I'm not sure it has had any real impact other than antagonizing US allies, and generating some private lawsuits.

Those private lawsuits are an additional risk, which is taken into account when firms decide whether or not to do business in or with Cuba -- and which are a negative factor in those decisions. Which illustrates how the embargo's impacts extend beyond just US-Cuba trade.
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So much this. I gave up on the load, it was painfully slow. Like I was back in the late 1990s modem days.
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It is, in the same way that MtGox's BTC was independent of Bitcoin towards the end. They keep their own ledger of balances.
Not to mention the billions of dollars literally surrounding them.
Didn't Russia recently have subs in Swedish waters covertly?

In the petro field, I would be most concerned about state actors at the moment who have a huge incentive to decrease supply to increase the price on the world market.
ownership != sovereign soil
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What is "enough" light?
I think that's better to link to, instead of the code itself.
You know, there was a time when Newsweek would have known the difference between Russian debt to Cuba and Cuban debt to Russia.
ChangeTip is a solution to the transaction volume problem. Tips happen off of the blockchain.
It's because we don't criminalize homelessness as aggressively as other major cities and the homeless population is concentrated near downtown where the SROs and social services are located. Keep in mind that it's generally not simply poverty but mental illness or a history of abuse/violence that separates the homeless here vs. the working poor in the favelas and slums of the third world.
He's obviously in pain here, selling business software on NT of all platforms.

The timing of this video is funny because soon after he went back to Apple to recapture the glory which is consumer electronics.
I suppose there needs to be a law protecting reviewers.
Sounds like the Enterprise Objects Framework was an ORM?

Yep! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Objects_Framework

Apparently it provided the basis for Core Data, too.
I actually built something similar a while back. Fun but hard to monetize. I got the idea from someone on HN who did it for surfing. Nice work. Well executed. 10 points if you can figure out how to do image analysis to determine visibility which is often a big issue on the costal ranges.
I read somewhere that WebObjects were in part the inspiration for JEE.

Somehow the OpenStep efforts got sidestep by making Oak into Java and everything else got ramped down.

I wonder how it would have been if Sun had kept with OpenStep instead.
"There is a limit to the amount of computation that can be done by a given amount of matter that only new physics could change. Given that limit, at best you would need every particle in our universe just to simulate an identical one. It's more likely that the best possible simulation would have significantly reduced fidelity and/or size with respect to its host universe, thus the inevitability component of the simulation argument falls apart."

Or, potentially, one would only need to simulate the minds of any observesers in the simulation, not every particle in the simulated universe.
especially when it's an outage for 5-11 hours (depending on the customer) as this one was.
- said no apple employee ever.
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A few weeks ago, I discovered private Slack groups for writers, engineers, artists — and almost every interest group you could imagine.

I thought about the significance of this discovery and why it was so shocking to me.

A few groups I have found:

1) A support group for startup CEO’s to talk about their struggles.

2) A private Slack group for the Bitcoin community.

3) A group for literature nerds who love talking about books.

I always thought of Slack as an enterprise product, and I never realized how many micro-communities like this exist.

If you're in a private Slack group, please add it to this list. I'm excited to see where the project goes!
>Marissa is rude and inconsiderate only to the people under her while she has been very polite and considerate to her superiors

Did you read the article? She routinely left people hanging that were often(in terms of social hierarchy) her equals or betters.

>Steve Jobs has never had superiors :)

Steve Jobs had superiors, he just pretended that he didn't. While things clearly worked out for him in the end, this attitude resulted in some hard lessons at different points in his career.
I would argue that a significant portion of that compensation is essentially a gamble that the company is going to blow up and become huge.

Sure, because many engineers don't ask "the tough questions" about what their equity actually means, or even how many shares there are. They gamble poorly, taking a $40,000 pay cut, and working long hours, for equity less than 0.1% of the company.

My attitude toward equity is that, unless you're a founder, you shouldn't let it change what salary you accept, how hard you work, or how you prioritize your career goals. If you want to work 70-hour weeks because it's helping your career, go ahead. But don't make sacrifices unless you're a founder. Otherwise, it's not going to be worth it. These days, founders and VCs don't offer equity at a level that would justify any attitude other than free agency.

That's the area where people do have leverage, because startups are cash flow constrained and can't afford huge salaries - but that doesn't mean you won't get rich (that's the line they sell us, anyway).

Of course, there are people who get rich on startup equity. It happens often enough to keep the myth alive. However, there are much better and surer ways to get rich. Valley engineers take it as an extremely fortunate windfall. VCs take it for granted. And honestly, I don't think there's much to recommend the VC-funded founder career over being a VC if you've got the connections for the latter. A founder is a mid-level product manager in what is the first postmodern corporate organization; but VCs are executives.

Silicon Valley is a fine place to spend your 20s while you figure out what you want to do with your life, but if you want to stay in that world for the rest of your career, the best way is to become a VC and be a real first-class citizen.

They're not that rare - there simply aren't enough founders to support the astronomical housing prices in the valley otherwise.

Software engineers aren't buying those houses. That's a mix of VCs, career executives in the startup world (who don't program and don't found, but get paradropped in, by their buddies in VC and private equity, to companies with executives) and house-rich natives and corrupt overseas officials.

Sure, there are a lot of rich people (managers, founders, VCs) in Silicon Valley. There are also a lot of programmers in Silicon Valley. The intersection between the two groups is very small. From Game of Thrones: "there are old sellswords and bold sellswords, but no old bold sellswords."

The Valley is constrained by the extreme NIMBYism and that, combined with price inelasticity and low interest rates, is what makes house prices so high.
> Mere awareness of a transaction is too much friction when you're talking about fractions of a cent. Counting half-pennies is just not worth my time (ironically, half a penny is in the same ballpark of current advertising rates).

Couldn't this be solved with some kind of automation? It would take some standardization but what if clicking the ubiquitous "like" button on a piece of content sent a configurable amount of btc to the content creator?
This may have been back when apple needed ie mac as web sites weren't working well on mac.

For a while sadly it really was the best web browser for mac.
So much so that IE for Mac shipped as the default web browser for Mac OS from 1998 onward until Safari was announced in 2003.
As the article states, these are unlikely to be enforceable nor successful in court.

There's very little that prevents you from filing any kind of civil suit you wish, although things might quickly go sour, particularly if the defendant appears and the court hears what this is all about.

A cross-complaint would be pretty prudent in these cases.
Besides availability like you mention, what parent is saying (I think) is that you may go an pirate a movie because it's just 1.5 hrs of entertainment and then you won't see it again, and maybe it wasn't even that good, so it's harder to fork over the money. But you'll stay with an ebook for a few days (and perhaps revisit afterwards) so you feel you get more value, so you are more ready to pay.
Prelude will be the world's first operational FLNG. It is somewhat longer and wider than Knock Nevis, but the fully-loaded displacement will be less. And Knock Nevis was a ship; Prelude is a floating platform that must be towed.

Pieter Schelte is a ship (under construction). It's shorter than Prelude and Nevis but, due to twin hulls, much wider and heavier when loaded (displacement is 900,000 metric tons).
Where was it built?

Oh yes, the south. Bastion of bemoaning government size while masters of government pork.

I'm just shocked it wasn't Texas.
Relations, of course, aren't based on morality, they're based on strategy. Otherwise the US wouldn't have allies like Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan.
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It's not the scarcity of the data that makes history subtle or interesting - after all, most periods and areas of study have a surfeit of data. Even when I was studying 17th century Russia, there were more primary source documents in the (terribly, horribly catalogued and organized) archives than I could possibly read in a lifetime.

The truly subtle bits come from the need to thoroughly understand the Sitz im Leben - as best you can, the surrounding context in which the source was produced and the purpose for which the source was produced. Without that, you just end up with anachronistic presentism.

In my opinion, the need to place oneself as deeply as possible in a completely foreign period and mindset before the interpretation of a new source can even begin is what makes historians excellent analytical thinkers - as well as extremely useful product managers and marketers.
I don't think anybody can predict Amazon's future. There still isn't enough competition. Once another brand can be recognized as equally trustworthy as Amazon is, maybe there will be a chance for it's demise. However, the Fire Phone fail will definitely not expedite that potential process
There's also the "Microsoft Loves Linux" campaign going on[1]. It's part of their new attempt to embrace the FOSS world and generally be more "open".

[1] https://twitter.com/jniccolai/status/524281997632745472
How should one go about 'training' that? Is it experience, or are there books etc? I'd love to dive into that.
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I use transient browser windows all the time. I try and group related things into tabs, but a page I just want open for a second usually gets a new window. It's easier than navigating the flat tab list.
When you actually work with especially embedded devices, you know that there's a big difference. Powerloss/SIGKILL must not corrupt/break your data/application. That is _not_ the same thing as for a network application for instance being nice and sending goodbye messages, cleaning up resources like closing fd's etc upon a SIGTERM.

So no you design for being robust and to handle SIGTERM if applicable. You can never know when you'll get killed, that's why your design have to be solid all the way through.
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How much energy would a tree expend producing light? Would that kill it? If not, what extra input (in terms of nutrients, care, etc) would it need? Would these trees cross-pollinate those not intended to glow? What environmental impact might that have outside cities?

Lots of questions.
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I would really like to know how cutting-edge this was at the time. It seems incredible to me how little has changed in how we make dynamic web applications.
I get the feeling that the embargo will last until Fidel reaches room temperature.

I do find it interesting that in recent years, Bacardi has been playing up its Cuban heritage. I suspect that they're itching to get back, but that whole issue of returning confiscated property stands in the way. Will Cuba end up with something like the Treuhandanstalt in post-reunification Germany?
History major turned software engineer here. I think history gives its students two key skills:

(1) You have to wade through a lot of complexity and nuance, try to find the signal in the noise, and then marshall some of that complexity to support your argument. After you've speedwalked through thousands of pages of archival documents and other scholars' arguments, it's comparatively easy to be thrown ~50 pages of framework or API documentation and quickly find what you need. (That's also why I'm excited that Common Core puts greater emphasis on reading non-fiction to learn skills, instead of every English class being about reading fiction for pleasure. It builds the same skills.)

(2) You get used to the feeling that you know only a tiny fraction of what there is to know about the world. That intellectual humility leads you to ask good questions, try empathizing with perspectives and ideas that may seem strange at first glance, and only make careful assertions that are supported by strong evidence.

And by no means do I think history is the only academic discipline teaching students these things. I just wish it got more respect!
I know that ideas are worthless. I have some thoughts how to start small. The good thing about the concept is that the business can really grow. The very best part is that it can very easily grow by the word of mouth. I think I'm going to build a small business plan and start working on the project itself.

As for the books. I read a lot of them. But, I came with the concept while I was reading "Zero to One" in a subway train. At one moment I got like a recovery of sight. BOOM! I closed the book without intending to open it again.
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Just a quick tip on that note: In win7+, Win+N opens the Nth application you have pinned to the taskbar, counting from the left.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing

Divers attaching charges to the hull would be another low-tech way to take a vessel like this down. Low tech mines would probably do a pretty good job too.
Terminal.app supports tabs, I'm not sure why tmux would be any better (well, tmux can do splits, but transient windows don't need splits).

The problem is if I create a tab, I want it to be at least somewhat related to the other tabs in the window. And even then, I usually use new windows for scratch terminals because I want to see multiple different terminals side-by-side. I could use a vertical tmux split except that shrinks the original terminal, and I want both the original and new terminal to be at their natural size.
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The thing is, most languages can be used for writing a Window manager.

But since the alternatives to C and C++ kind of faded away from mainstream and they are anyway the UNIX system languages, most developers seldom look for alternatives.

With Rust, Go, D, Haskell, OCaml, .NET Native/Mono AOT, Java AOT compilers, hopefully developers will eventually realize that not everything needs to be coded in C or C++.
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Don't several frameworks use jQuery?
Nice writeup. I hope that the engineer in question didn't get fired or anything. One of the challenges in SRE/Ops type organizations is to be responsible, take ownership, put in the extra time to fix things you break, but keep the nerve to push out changes. Once an ops team loses its willingness to push large changes, the infrastructure calcifies and you have a much bigger problem on your hand.
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At the end of the day every dynamic web application does the same thing: concatenate and send back strings.
Why not leave the night sky dark? It's like we have this 30,000 year old phobia that we can't ditch... there are no more tigers lurking in the darkness.
Well, junior developers are just that: junior. That definition can range from 'just finished a coding bootcamp' to '4 years of CS with a bunch of practical internships'. Depending where a developer is on that spectrum, they may behave very differently when given a problem and a bunch of time to solve it.

For example, they might not realise that they should be looking into the framework. They may be scared to ask stupid questions because they don't think they deserve the job in the first place. They got a bit of harsh feedback from someone who didn't take their level into account, and mentioned a whole bunch of things they'd never heard of before, and now they're running around in circles panicking. But not saying anything about it.

Obviously a lot of this boils down to "it depends on the person" and none of this may be true. But here are a few thoughts:

Take a step back and think about what the expectations are and whether those are communicated at all. Assign a specific senior developer as an active mentor, and coach them on how to give constructive feedback if they aren't very good at it (it's a growth opportunity for them). Suggest reading lists, talks, and examples of best practices - including stuff that makes working on a team smoother, like source control, etc. Pair program for the first week or two. Code reviews (as small as possible), design reviews, and even giving them less freedom at first so they get confident rather than overwhelmed. Check in frequently so you don't get a steaming pile that could hopefully have been avoided :)
> Bit of a shame it's dedicated to continuing our use of fossil fuels really.

Relative to baseline this probably consumes the least fossil fuels per tonne of any FF-powered transportation mechanism, so relative to baseline this vessel pushes our fuel usage closer to sustainability.
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Hi Everyone,
I'm showing my child for the first time. I've been working on intelligent gift search with my friend for about half a year. Basically you can think of askmegift.com as a 'akinator web genius for finding matched gifts'

We'd love your feedback. I waited to post it here untill everyone get their christmas gifts, so you don't think we are trying to sell.

if you saw anything you like or hate please let us know.

Adam
I know there is a PostgreSQL user group which seems affiliated in some way to that university.

https://postgresql.uci.cu/
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My parents and I left Cuba when I was a child and proceeded to live in various parts of the world before eventually settling in the US. I would like to go back and visit some relatives there at some point, and as a Cuban-born naturalized American citizen I know it is legal for me to do so even currently, but I was informed that I couldn't actually enter Cuba with only an American passport. The Cuban govt requires that I enter as a Cuban citizen, which means obtaining a Cuban passport that costs $200 to renew every 2 years [0]. I'm sure this is mostly just an easy way of extracting money, but I sure look forward to official diplomatic relations being established and hope some of these requirements change -- I don't feel very comfortable entering Cuba as a Cuban citizen and not knowing where my rights end or begin.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_passport
Eh, its fun. After pushing to 15k servers, everything else seems unimportant!
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We have C. Popinkins appear on the holidays. He has no effect on the children's behavior. It is more like where is Waldo? They like the story too.

The experience is a good yearly reminder to me just how differently my children perceive and understand the world than I do. At Christmas time, we and many other families make a special effort to bend the world a bit towards their way of thinking.

Magical.
>Who exactly are the "top government crackers"? //

I was saying that was the expectation, that one perceives that the government has the best people on the job, the brightest minds in the pen community. I'm open to that not being true but surely with their financial clout the US Gov has some such people at hand whether that be in the NSA/FBI or [other] armed forces?
It's what Flattr does - they've been around for much longer, and they have an embeddable button that you can use to tip pages.
I've used an xmonad clone for osx [0] for about a year now. It's a lot buggier than xmonad - mostly due to osx's terrible apis - but it gets the job done.

[0] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
Recent versions of Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst have made a pretty much xmonad-like experience on osx. There are a few quirks but I don't see me going back at this point.
If all of this is not enough to propel Americans into the streets in mass protests, perhaps the history of how the coddled Citigroup handles the money of its investors and shareholders will stir the pot.

The root of this problem is that banks -- especially large ones -- are rewarded for short-term gains made when "gambling with other people's money", while passing the fallout of risk and long-term losses on to the industry as a whole (and thus onto taxpayers). Entities that profit from turnover have an incentive to create hype, fear, and volatility -- anything that increases transaction volume. (Every time a bank writes a new loan, they get to tack on origination fees, and the associated broker gets a cut. Every time a house is bought or sold, realtors and their brokers get a cut)

Some economists should do a more in-depth study on the Principal-Agent problem in the broker-managed financial derivatives markets.
That article seems mostly seems worried about future projects. And I'm not sure what scientists you're talking about. Is it this line:

> 116 organizations have called for a moratorium on any release of synthetic organisms. The UN convention on Biological Diversity has urged countries to exercise precaution in any release of synthetic organisms to the environment.

Well if I click on the link I find a very interesting sentence:

> With synthetic biology, instead of swapping existing genes from one species to another (as in “ traditional” genetic engineering), scientists can write entirely new genetic code on a computer, "print" it out and then insert it into living organisms — or even try to create life from scratch.

Swapping a couple genes from one species to another sounds exactly like what they typically do to make a species glow.

And yet after that sentence they seem to change their definition of synthetic biology to include both those categories.

It tastes like doublespeak to me. "Companies are doing not just X but Y! Ban Y! (also we defined Y to include X)"
Luciferin isn't what makes jellyfish glow, that's GFP. GFP, at least, requires a specific light input to cause the glow (UV at a particular wavelength depending on the molecule). I don't know about Luciferin, though.
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