skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/rwss/docs/2010/fullreport.pdf

Ugh. Don't post things that you haven't read as if they proved your point. You'll find that the word "capitalism" is used 3 times in that PDF. Let's grab those paragraphs, shall we?

"Privatization has been a major part of Mongolia’s transition to capitalism. Its move to a market economy has been accompanied by increases in poverty and income inequality. More than 10 years after it began its transition, Mongolia remains one of the poorest countries in the world."

This being an example cutout within the following quote:

"After reviewing the distributional impact of privatization activities involving utilities in a wide range of developing economies, principally in Africa and Latin America, Bayliss (2002) concluded that privatization had demonstrably harmed the poor, either through loss of employment and income, or through exclusion from, or reduced access to, basic services, as the result of private firms’ principal concern with profits, prices and costs. At the same time, weak governance and regulatory capacity in many developing countries led to poor control of market abuses by private utility companies."

The next two usages of the word capitalism is in the bibliography:

"de Soto, Hernando (2000). The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. New York: Basic Books."

"Robbins, Richard H. (1999). Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, chap. 5 (“The problem of population growth”), pp. 147-178."

I'm not sure how the second citation feels about capitalism, but the first one certainly isn't positive.

So no, your link doesn't say much about capitalism, and what it does say is that capitalism is not pulling people out of poverty; on the contrary, it sounds like that document thinks capitalism is causing some poverty.
Ah, but what if the owner wants their phone to be disregarded, and this is their way of baiting the NSA to do so? Now the NSA has no choice but to keep monitoring the phone, because of this possibility!
Wondering on the same thing, anything PG working on to ease this?
A net of 1.4% on a gross of 50% spells 'creative accounting'.
Those things are still lower in the hierarchy.
Url changed from http://gizmodo.com/sound-waves-could-power-the-hard-drives-o..., which points to this.
Hopefully they can now concentrate on fixing the huge Mac bug that causes my mouse to jump across the screen when your screen is being fluxed:
https://justgetflux.com/forum/topic/77/jumping-mouse/11
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> Even assuming that the money your spending is being put to good use (and there is at least some evidence that makes people skeptical)

This is a legitimate criticism of NGOs, but it's also one of the ways in which capitalism is counterproductive to reducing poverty. Many of the cases in which aid spending is misused result from corporate interests determining where the money is spent instead of the people who need aid. An ongoing example of this is the milk lobby pushing for milk in food drops in areas where nearly everyone is genetically lactose-intolerant, or water aid going to buy Coca Cola's bottled water instead of building sustainable water utilities and infrastructure. One of the reasons I left the NGO I worked at was that I felt they didn't do a good job of decoupling the aid programs they supported from corporate interests.

> where do you think the money you're obtaining comes from?

Governments, who in turn get it from taxpayers. The exact system that free market capitalists rail against. And if capitalist corporations didn't evade taxes so deftly, maybe I'd have obtained more. Certainly democratic-socialist governments give more aid per-capita than more capitalistic ones.

Instead of asking leading questions as if they proved your point, why don't you try actually making an argument? Yes, much of the revenue I've obtained is indirectly generated within a capitalist system. But if you want to argue that capitalism produces more aid than the alternatives would, that's ridiculous.
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This is a nice overview, but needs some editing as I guess this is not the author's first language (but still written better than I could in my second language). The meat of it is there, but I think it needs a once-over from either a native speaker or someone more fluent.

I think there's some content still to be added here:

> Then we remove some layers. then further remove somethings, but now the results are too pool. more explains, and the results table.

> After compiled library for smart platform, the last thing is call C-API in the target language (Jave/Swift).

"After the library is compiled for the smart platform, the last thing to do is call the C API from the target language (Java/Swift)".

On the actual topic, I really like the ability now to take powerful recognition frameworks and put them onto "small" devices. Great work.
Thank you for your feedback, now i am working on it to solve the problem
Nothing groundbreaking, but good analysis rarely is.

I'd be interested to see the relationship between comment karma and age of post though - do earlier comments always get more attention?
Gist Plus
Did those software support user content such as comments? Also, from my understanding, this project relies on flat files and not a db. So you could essentially eliminate the need for any http requests.
HN Karma functions much like the odometer on a car.

Use the car more frequently and for longer distances and the odometer will advance more rapidly.
According to the current leaderboard:

11.	jgrahamc	55788

In comparison:

100.	DiabloD3	18551

:<
I hoped that it might be affordable like the TK1 dev board. But the card sized one is 300$/1k and the dev board 600$... 300$ for students.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9779/nvidia-announces-jetson-t...
Would you recommend reading it? This review claims it's too rambling and confused to make it worthwhile[0].

[0] http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/book-review-de...
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More specifically, THIS voltmeter, which is a little bit "under-spec'ed", to say the least: Radio Shack (22-223) https://www.google.de/search?q=radio-shack+22-223&tbm=isch It's set to the 10V-AC range. I'd expect a VC backed company to invest in a little more elaborate measurement equipment than that.

On the other hand, given a a good RMS meter operated in a frequency range where it's spec'ed to work and a known circuit impedance will give you a very good measurement of the power: P=Vrms²/R. And analog meters make for rather pretty demos, to be honest.
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Overall I love the Steam Machines idea. I have many games in my library and I can't wait to play them in the living room with my friends.
I think that what Valve got wrong was just two topics:

- There is no game compatibility information. When I buy a console game, I know that the game will be compatible with my system. There is no such guaranty with Steam games. I would like to see a simplified benchmark tailored to pre-made Steam Machines so that consumers can understand how well they'll play their AAA games.

- They lost momentum with the SteamOS platform, and many developers are now skeptical of porting their games to Linux. The Steam Machines were supposed to be launched one year ago and with them their Linux platform. Some developers took a big investment to port their games to Linux and fight around subpar OpenGL drivers. When they were done there was no Steam Machines and they were met with a Linux userbase of just 1%. Now, I believe, we'll only see more Linux launches once the developers trust the Steam Machines as an established gaming platform.

Edit: formatting
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Quoted ad nauseam on HN but always fitting: It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair#Quotes
There's nothing to do with carnival or beaches, the headline doesn't make much sense, but yes there's cybercrime!
How do you mean that? I'm not sure.
> I also wonder what other things they may have locked down on the laptop itself to try to stymie key exfiltration?

The private keys are in the HSM, a separate device (according to the article, connected by an Ethernet cable). The laptop doesn't have access to them.

The main risk I can imagine would be a compromised laptop signing a different KSR which has extra keys, and saving it in a hidden area of the USB key, while pretending to sign the original KSR (and presenting the hashes of the original KSR to the operators).
Twitter faces local computer server demand by Russia
What's the difference between Kemal and https://github.com/manastech/frank ?
TomTom to Supply Map, Traffic Data to Uber Drivers Globally
Thanks for playing: New Linux ransomware decrypted, pwns itself
that'll make NSA so happy. keep on!
Doesn't the laptop boot from the DVD drive? If it's already busy being used for the operating system, it can't be used for input/output.
A hundred people are looking at this like "ok."

"How did I succeed? I just followed the rules."

First hand, everyone sees that as bullshit. I like your contributions to this community. Don't be ashamed to say, "cuz I'm awesome like that."
I don't recall Cody going into a number of rooms, photographing their contents and sharing those photographs with the authorities.
I'm sure you'll see a market in 3rd-party carrier boards & packages with the X1 module on it.

Love the fact that it's got a proper x4 PCIe slot on the dev kit.

Hopefully someone will sell the modules with a MOQ of less than 1k though!!
This actually led to a really good course author having an issue with them over this. (Alan Richardson who hosted a very good technical testing course and a good selenium/webdriver course).

I believe he still has those courses but he intially opted out of their discount program. A course he sold for $200 would have been sold for far less which undermined his own brand but also didn't give him a fair shot at earning from it, especially since he was helpful in responding to any questions I had.

I was lucky and took the course when it was $200, it shortly after went up to $300 due to changes in revenue sharing based around coupon codes. This also meant he stopped offering for free a really helpful free course on technical testing.

(The source of this information is through course announcements made at the time, I can publish them in full here.)

This post from udemy to instructors is interesting reading: https://blog.udemy.com/announcement/

One benefit of the udemy over the pluralsight model is that years later I still have access to the course and can revisit it, without paying an on-going subscription.

Pluralsight overall seems to have better content, at least from a software developer perspective.
And yet my FirefoxOS phone is still stuck on 1.3, because Alcatel apparently could not be arsed to support their "flagship" FxOS phone for a mere six months.

Can we get an open-source mobile OS that is not fragmented to the point of uselessness?
<IANAL> The defense strategy doesn't make sense to me... Could this case be used to just this end? To shake Sixth Amendement and lay some ground work for terrorism case in future? Could it be that this is arranged between defendent and state attorney? </IANAL>
Ask HN: What can you with a lot of karma on HN
Since there is a interesting thread on HN about how people get karma.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10552122

It would interesting to see what is this karma used for?
Town emerges after 30 years underwater
You'd be amazed how powerful compound interest is.
In principle there's no reason why they couldn't or shouln't. In practice, however, this leads to a non-trivial increase in the signal-to-noise ratio in academic journals.
I didn't know about the CTE optimization fence. I was starting to use CTEs but I'll have to work around them. Thank you.
Could Trump actually deport every single illegal immigrant?
Not really the point though. The point is that you're essentially volunteering for surveillance and by doing so saying that the arbitrary safe-guard implemented by the NSA still doesn't make them morally justified to do so, or something to that effect.
> Originally, I thought of this idea as applied to college admissions. Harvard likes to talk about how it could assemble a few sets of qualified students each year, and has to choose one. At that point, it's distinctly not obvious that the process they use to choose between similarly qualified candidates is any good; some actual randomness could have some benefits.

The only problem is that there's no sign that elite universities have any intention of choosing students on merit, or through any system which is blind to factors other than merit (plus pure chance). Harvard's selection system seems to be very good at its actual intended purpose: it's more like casting Glee than making a strict assessment of merit. But for the rare university which both has a large oversupply of very good applicants and actually wishes to operate admissions on merit then yes, randomness is the answer.

Another place that it would seem to make sense to apply randomness is in performance-related pay.
"An amusing point is that some moves really would require zero bits – this happens when there is only one legal move in the position, there’s no need to store anything at all in that case."

What if a player decides to resign before making that move?
You're correct that doubling income is not the same as improving quality of life, but I don't think stress and mental illness are particularly good examples of this.

A better example might be African countries where increased income has not led to better access to healthcare, but has instead fed a growing market for fake HIV/AIDS medications.
Do you have other finished projects in your portfolio? Or is the Nanodegree the only thing you have?

If it's the latter then I am not surprised, since you can't really get a job based on just one finished course, it's best to showcase what you've learned by building stuff and putting it on github or alike.
> I mentioned to them I appreciate end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp

Oh Boy. WhatsApp is very much the opposite of proper end-to-end encryption.
Okay, so this tremendously complicated and secure ceremony is performed to essentially sign a "Verisign is allowed to do whatever they deem appropriate to the root of DNS in the next six months" certificate.

This is really just security theatre, as all the power is delegated to Verisign, and it is almost impossible to detect Zone Signing Key abuse.
This silly signing ceremony shows the fragility of a centralized trust model. If bitcoin/blockchain succeeds this hopefully will be relegated to the history books.
With Uber, technically it's rasier that provides t&l services, Uber is just a software company and rasier is the sketch shell company to take the fall if tshtf
wordhippo.com has related words, other forms, opposite meanings and rhymes.. It's quite cool.
>Psychology is not a science.

False.

> Psychologists are not taught statistics in their curriculum.

False.

> You can read any two psychology "textbooks" and get two differing opinions about how to address the same issues...

Mind-bogglingly false; you have no idea what you're talking about.

I suspect you're either confusing psychology with psychoanalysis, or you're confusing experimental psychology with clinical psychology, as it's true that the DSM-IV had a serious disgnostic reliability problem (not sure what the sate of the DSM-V is).

In any case, understand that the term "psychology" encompases such research as this: http://cavlab.net/?lang=en

Non-social psychology (e.g. perception, attention, psychophysics, etc) has indeed become a pretty hard science.
Who are the most annoying airplane passengers?
Not sure if this is what yo are looking for, but as a non native speaker, when I am not sure which word is appropriate in given context I will search the whole phrase. If it appears on obscure message boards then it is probably not what I the right word in the context, if it appears in ft.com then it is good to go. The quotation marks in the search are essential.
It's not exclusively an applied science. Not in the least.
This could be simply answered with a single answer that applies to any community - just post whatever panders to the average community member if you care about irrelevant counter in your profile.
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> I had gotten the impression that the firmware vulnerabilities of USB flash drives had proven to be inherent, unavoidable, and utterly devastating

My understanding is that it requires cooperation from the kernel. USB itself does not automatically allow DMA, but a driver can instruct the host controller to handle packets via DMA.

So if you blacklist all device types (input devices) except the SD card and the driver for that card does not need DMA then everything should be fine because they check the signature of the key signing request. I assume they transfer it to local storage first before signing it so that a potentially malicious storage device can't pull a switcheroo.

Long story short:

- they need a USB/udev firewall
- whitelist devices that don't allow DMA through their drivers
- verify the data *after* transferring it from USB.
I use a couple of thesaurus apps I have on my phone. If I'm in a hurry, I just google "[word] thesaurus".

Wordnik (https://www.wordnik.com/) is also a good resource to check how a word is used. Note that I'm not a native English speaker, hence these resources are super useful for me.
Pretty much yeah, I look for common synonyms and related words.
quite obvious but i do use this a lot: http://thesaurus.com
Is it possible to OAuth on GitHub from the static site, have a nice form there that creates a pull request on this repo, then travis validates it?

Makes up for Wiki, comments, user login, …
I think you might want to look at a thesaurus.

http://www.thesaurus.com/
How to use APIs to monetize in the IoT
API dos and don'ts and how API-enabled business models affect the IoT.
So true...

But I have to admit, the problems I mentioned only occur about once a month and only cost a few hours to fix and we have over 100 dependencies.

If we wouldn't use so much third party stuff we would probably end up fixing this every few months, which is okay-ish.
I usually use www.thesaurus.com/browse/word
I've always heard Lincoln Labs referred to as "MIT Lincoln Labs" for people not in the know.

Similarly, while SEI does not seem to fall under CMU proper, its very close relation may besmirch the institution.
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But we are already at that point. Yesterday my significant other was riding the train when some police officers came and asked here and everyone else aboard to show their ID cards for identification checking.

She complied. Then she picked up her phone to text me what was going on but refrained herself at the last second. An officer was behind her back and she thought : « I don't want to be seen as suspect by using the phone while police officers are going on with their operation. ». She looked at the phone's clock instead.

I am pretty sure the officers were there to find some refugees. November 11th is WW1 Armistice day where we live which is a bit symbolic.
Am I the only person on HN who just thinks this is terrible, terrible brand positioning? I feel like I've been sucked into a weird alternate reality where everything is topsy-turvy. I mean, have you seen the ads that usually run on porn sites?!

Sure, maybe they've got a high clickthrough, but I wonder how many people have just filed away eat24 in their mind with adultfriendfinder and fuckbook. I feel like it's one of the biggest credibility hits that an internet company could take, especially one that's going to quickly need your payment info.

I also feel like this blog post is going to turn up in a very, very uncomfortable way if anyone sues for hostile workplace.
i've gotten results by searching with many words to describe my intention into google

basically type the definition of the word you want, and google can find the actual word you're looking for.
Add another optical drive. The USB they've already got would probably be OK, as an optical disc is more "inert" than a USB flash drive.

Or, you could probably copy the OS from the initial DVD to a ramdisk, allowing to insert a new disc to load data from.
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http://english.stackexchange.com/

Also Google define:test will give synonyms for test

E.g.

test1
test/Submit
noun
noun: test; plural noun: tests
1.
a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something, especially before it is taken into widespread use.
"no sparking was visible during the tests"
synonyms:	trial, experiment, test case, case study, pilot study, trial run, tryout, dry run; More
This is a problem I would like to see solved. I'm very often in situation where I have a word on my tongue but can't remember exactly what it is. I usually end up googling but sometimes it's not enough. It's hard to google on abstract things like this.
One of the things I like about HN is that there really doesn't appear to be an "average community member" - a lot of opinionated knowledgeable people who have differing views.

[It would be fun to try and come of a set of user stereotypes for HN - but there would be quite a few...]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10551210 looks related.
Misused JX patterns
This is the same shell game being played by the MMJ guys in SF right now. They open up dispensaries to get supply then a technology company to aggregate demand.
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Why does this get down-voted?

Within the EU? True. But who has left money in this hyperfragemented market? Many different languages, regulations, power supplies.

It is easier for Germans and Italians to sell to Americans than to each other (at least B2C).
> However, things get really rough when cities happened

When did "cities happen"? Rome had more than a million residents about 2,000 years ago. Cities like Athens and Alexandria had over 100,000 residents centuries before that. I think I understand the point you're making, that anonymity within a community is easier to achieve when the community is large, but that's not the only anonymity available.

Before cities, we already had anonymity due to fleeting associations (e.g. nomadic groups, traveling merchants), due to separated communities (e.g. soldiers did not know each others' past, their homes would not have known their actions), or due to migration (e.g. leaving one community and joining another).

Those forms of anonymity have mostly disappeared, not because "cities happened", but because of better administration. So far, our administrative capability has always been limited by the amount of effort it required. What has changed with the Internet is that we now leave a (digital) papertrail of almost everything we do, so there is no longer an effort-based limit on the amount of records we can preserve.

That to me is what makes Cerf's comment unpalatable (I hadn't encountered it before): to pretend that "we've never had anonymity" is foolish at best, and manipulative at worst. Given his current employer, I'm more inclined towards the latter.

Another poster already commented that "what we now call privacy, used to be called freedom and liberty". I think that's a very good one-liner, but it's not really accurate: privacy is a requisite for freedom and liberty, but it's not the same thing. This is probably the first time (since the StaSi) that that requisite has come under so much attack, which is probably why it's receiving so much more attention than before.
I'll go to a translate tool, enter the word in my native language, and look at all the possible translations