skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't mean China isn't correct. In fact, in terms of realpolitik they're obviously quite correct. Industrial/technological power = military power = security.
There are plenty of other motors on the landers, presumably the rovers haven't been telekinesing merrily over the marscape. The brushes would be a far lower duty-cycle item.

Depending on the brush design: something sufficient to clear the panels periodically (say, based on noted solar degradation and/or self-inspection photography) might work. Clearly, incidental wind has proven sufficient.

And there's a lot of engineering work on Earth which could go into testing out the design. As I said: it's just curious that this seems to have been left to chance. Though nobody really expected the rovers to run as long as they have.
The Games I Grew Up With
There's an alternate take on the xkcd panel with a more upbeat viewpoint. I looked for it briefly but couldn't find it.
no offense, I think that's effectively 'no'. :)

no one is running an X server on their production servers, perhaps unless somehow related to their actual purpose (screenshots, ui testing, etc.)
What We Still Don't Know: "Are We Real?"
That's the best argument against the name - that it actually causes the project itself to fail.

Good insight.
A rather intuitive question would be - would you use your own product?

I have been working on form building solutions since over a year. For the first 6 months or so, I made custom forms when I needed them. Lately, I've started using my own product, simply out of need. It's surprising how much you learn when you are a genuine consumer of your own product.
I thought humble loom is a name of some weird startup.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3969813/which-parallel-so...

And for good measure, http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=in-place-parallel-sortin...
The passing on Enercon's turbine designs to an American company was at least equally well publicized, and generated equally little outrage.
Localytics: http://www.localytics.com

We dogfood it all the way, so definitely every day for our own needs. We analyze the performance, event breakdown, engagement stats, funnels, and everything about our analytics dashboard within our own analytics dashboard. Traditionally we do analytics/marketing for the mobile space, but it works great for web as well.

We also have a couple of people on the mobile team who launched an iPhone app for tracking the Boston subway: http://proximitapp.com/. They of course use Localytics for their analytics and in-app and push marketing and gave us great feedback.

We've learned a ton from real-world use of our app in both contexts. Dogfooding really is invaluable for us.
I don't think it's a matter of an "HN/SV bubble." If they aren't aware of Cisco and IBM losing overseas revenue already, they soon will see it in their 401k results.

And there is no going back. The only alternative to accepting a "Five Eyes-only" export market is to do something other than what we had been doing.
Verizon refused to search for elderly disabled man because he had an unpaid bill
Yes, I was a Webmin user before beginning to work on it, and I continue to use it (and Virtualmin and Cloudmin) daily, fourteen years after I first installed it; it's been among my most consistently used tools, alongside vim, bash, Linux, Apache, Postfix, Perl, and Python (roughly in that order of usage) throughout all of that time. I don't use Usermin as much as I used to, now that there are vastly better webmail clients (GMail is damned hard to beat, though now that I'm taking encryption more seriously and there isn't a good client-side encryption option for GMail I'm back to using Thunderbird for most mail tasks)...but, we're working on fixing that problem, so might begin using it again as my daily mail client within the next six months to a year.
>France is actively and aggressively involved in industrial espionage against US companies.

Yeah, I already covered that: with 1/10 the resources to take advantage of it. And 1/100 the scale.

What's France and the US's GDP again? How many French companies compete in the same sector and at the same level as US multinationals? How much political pressure can France assert to a third country to take advantage of it for its own interests compared to the US?

There are only few French companies playing in the big leagues. And France is an old colonial power -- with some illusions of grandeur still and active secret agencies. It's not a representative of most European countries -- there's tens of European and EU countries with less than half the resources of France.
Do you honestly believe in what you are implying? Just because population grew - therefore people were happy in USSR?
I was born in Lithuania, a country which was occupied at that time and even though I don't remember much there's lots of people to tell the story. A story no one in their right mind would chose to live in.
Stop thinking you know anything about how we live and what we want because you're just being an ignorant idiot.
> don't have an internet connection at home, not even a cellular plan with data

What has worked great for me is apartment buildings with free wifi in the lobby. No internet in the apartment, but if you need to check email or look something up or whatever it's not a big deal to put on some shoes and go downstairs with a laptop. At the same time it's not comfortable enough to lounge around wasting time.
I built an app, that could download file's from websites (that were restricted by my college's proxy server), directly in my Dropbox. It served my own purpose, now it serves a lot more people also.

http://boxmydownloads.com
Note that `vagrant up` NEEDS to be run from an admin console for Level 2. The sample application is written in node, and npm wants to make symlinks on the mounted Windows filesystem, which is apparently a privileged operation.

It's a bit of a shame the test harness isn't Windows compatible; it's rather small, and it doesn't look like the fixes required would have been very difficult.
I've been dog-fooding on https://www.wisecashhq.com from the very start.

In retrospect, finding a product I would be able to truly benefit from was really a very good idea - I believe it really helps me daily to keep the level of persistence which is required to grow a product (both sales-wise and from a benefits/features point of view).
For fun, note that the same logic fail that produces "marriage will make you richer" also readily produces "marriage will turn you white", which oddly enough even the cargo-culters aren't willing to push. :)
Stuff for work? No. I develop, other people use. I have no need to do the things I write software for - nor do I want to.

My personal code projects? They're not products, they're tools: they get written to solve specific problems or to do specific tasks. Sometimes only once, usually a few times, then they are never touched again.
> There are plenty of other motors on the landers, presumably the rovers haven't been telekinesing merrily over the marscape. The brushes would be a far lower duty-cycle item.

But far more exposed, though. If not the motors themselves, then the mechanics of the wiper arm.
This is just a small sample of the OpenCL kernels available in the AMD SDK (it runs everywhere, at least it did last time I checked).

AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/AESEncryptDecrypt_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/BinarySearch_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/BinomialOption_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/BitonicSort_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/BlackScholesDP_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/BlackScholes_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/BoxFilterGL_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/BoxFilter_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/BufferBandwidth_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/ConstantBandwidth_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/DCT_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/DeviceFission_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/DwtHaar1D_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/EigenValue_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/FFT_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/FastWalshTransform_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/FloydWarshall_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/FluidSimulation2D_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/GaussianNoise_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/GlobalMemoryBandwidth_Kernels.cl
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86/HelloCL_Kernels.cl

I'd hook into OpenCL from the high level language of your choice. Look at

* http://mathema.tician.de/software/pyopencl/

* http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/easy-opencl-with-python/2...

Or JRuby or Jython with https://code.google.com/p/aparapi/ (still have to write your inner kernel in .java and send that to aparapi)

If you go the "whole-stack-in-c" route much of your time will be spent doing memory operations.
Indeed. We build utility-scale lithium-ion systems. A small one retails for a little over $500,000. Maybe a billionaire could use it as a super-duper backup generator?
I made a free version of 750words in french and I'm using it everyday, the press has already talked about the app ( www.3pages.fr )
I don't use the product I'm working on as the product isn't geared towards me. It's geared towards businesses with part time workers - https://whatsmyhours.com
Dogfooding is one of the goals behind our monthly hackdays -- even if you're an engineer working on our billing system, I want you to get a chance to use the product and demo your solution to a use case that you find interesting. ( http://www.pagerduty.com )

As silly as the end result is, you need a decent understanding of the product to integrate it with SnapChat ( http://blog.pagerduty.com/2013/10/pagerduty-can-wake-you-up-... )
looks like standard troll box blather to me
Well, that was a historical example of something that completely changed over a few decades.

You wan't fewer? Compared attitudes to seggregation in the 60s and 70s.
How and why for indie game designers
If you're a complete beginner in data parallel programming, and you're having trouble finding good intro material for OpenCL, it might almost be worthwhile to check out CUDA instead. In terms of the programming model, OpenCL and CUDA are identical - significant differences don't come about until you start optimizing for specific devices.

I learned CUDA first on my own, and then took an OpenCL class and found that the whole first section was completely redundant. There's also a pretty great wealth of CUDA material online and a few published books if that's your sort of thing.
>One thing I've noticed is that I'm really looking forward to springtime, so I can be outdoors more. I love weekend days when you're just ambling around all day, but it's not so pleasant when it's cold and wet...

A few years back, I'd have thought that an idle comment. I know I would have. I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here (which, if grant the rest of this poor sentence a charitable interpretation, you might find to be the point), but... it's almost like, in "returning to human form," (I suspect many fellow techies use similar phrases in their heads but not in public for fear of being labelled a Luddite) the withdrawal experience "is" re-learning how to do that human thing, only this time, fuck you, you have to do it "algebraically," like you gave yourself Aspergers but for everything. E.g., slightly younger me was too cool for smalltalk about nice weather; current me appreciates a quick, light conversation, appreciates the smiles, appreciates the sun in his face.
It sounds like you and I suffer from a similar problem. I've done many "idea extraction" calls inspired by Dane Maxwell and I always somehow end up with a few vague ideas that would mostly be competition to what already is used in the industry.
Not that this couldn't work of course, it just seems to me that those calls should result in knowledge about unsolved problems.
Maybe we should form a support group of sorts :-)
Ask HN: What do you think about our last HN Search update?
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Here is the ChangeLog:

- Added filters on item types (All/Story/Comment/Poll), filter on story by default

- Added filters by date (last 24 hours, past week, past month, forever), past week by default

- Replaced infinite scrolling by standard pagination

- Added an author filter via the author:USERNAME syntax in search bar. Can filter on one or multiple authors (OR between authors)

- UI was redesigned to improve readability

- Improved responsiveness for mobiles

- Removed highlight of stop words in text

- Relevancy: changed typo tolerance settings to be stricter (now tolerates one typo starting at 5 characters in a word and two typos starting at 9 characters in a word)

- Only last query word is interpreted as a prefix (all query words was prefix before)

There is one last item that we didn't implement as proposed: sorting by date. It will be for the next iteration. In the meantime, you can use date filtering.

Please continue to send feedback!
Yup, buying 3D printers and other niche products for less than MSRP is always a good thing.
Tech startups: The worst get rich quick scheme ever
My understanding is that web apps have some limitations that can be a show-stopper for scientific apps - for example, there's no way to gain an arbitrary access to file system (something that is easily doable with a signed applet), which can make bulk processing/import etc. impossible. That's the reason I recommended applets in the startup I work for.
How do you like your job and what do you do there more specifically? Love to hear more.
We use out product, JackDB[1], everyday both for analysis and to develop the product itself further. It's a database client entirely in your web browser and we use it to run queries to analyze stats, research database features, and just general querying.

If you have the luxury of working on a product you use yourself (anybody work on developer focused solutions probably falls in this category) then I highly recommend it. Daily use of a product shows you let's you really see what parts of our product are not quite "smooth".

Just don't go down that rabbit hole too far. The features you use and how you use them don't always align with everybody else. As an example, when we first got started with it, what we considered a "low barrier" for a new user to try it out was actually quite a leap. Seeing real users struggle with that let us solve it. In your own bubble you might not notice things like that.

[1]: http://www.jackdb.com/
I like my cookies to contain πr² chocolate chips.
The next-to-last sentence caught my eye:

"The automaker recently announced that import tariffs and transportation costs will push the price of its Model S in China to $121,000, or roughly 50 percent more than the plug-in sedan costs in the U.S."

We'll never hear it mentioned in American news, but we had import tariffs up until the 80s when we adopted supply-side economics as our ideology. We wonder why our manufacturing has all gone overseas, well there is actually a very simple explanation. Other countries still protect their manufacturing with tariffs while we don't. American workers can't compete with countries that have no minimum wage, no environmental protections, and few (if any) anti-corruption laws that are actually enforced. In fact if you go back far enough (and this might appeal to skeptics with a libertarian slant) tariffs were a primary form of taxation before income tax. I wish we could at least have an open debate about bringing some of them back, with projections and an honest analysis of what it would do for American industry. But with corporations seeking ever-lower costs by design, and politicians ramming through the TPP at top speed, I don't see it happening any time soon.
But it would be easy to make a long, long list of other works and of important people who were influenced by the Analects or by the New Testament. Or indeed, by most of the books on this list. A list of works and people influenced by Gurdjieff would not be very long. I would be curious to see his reasoning here, because without an explanation it brands the whole list as personal opinion.
People have babies for reasons which are not at all unique to this place or time, and will have them anyway.

People marry or don't marry for reasons which are also independent of governmental policy.
https://debitoor.com

Using it for invoicing for my side hustles. I would love to use it more as that probably would mean I was making more money :). In any case; seeing your own product through the eyes of the user is extremely beneficial and something I would recommend to anyone.
I think you've fairly accurately portrayed Stalman and the FSF. But, I don't care very much if Stalman wants x or y in the world. I'm less concerned with debating his intent in a literature review way than I am with choosing the licenses that lead to the best outcome for humanity in the future. The question shouldn't be what he wants, except to the extent that it inform the larger question of "what is good for society." So I don't see why you would think that my rubrik for what is best for society is off topic here.

"I have a right to own slaves" is a bad analogy, it doesn't mirror the kinds of trade offs we're discussing here. Slavery is not a case of balancing rights between two people, it is a case of one person's supposed right negating all rights in the other person. It's not very dissimilar from "I have the right to kill."
Because Apple is notoriously secretive and it still uses China for manufacturing. And because it hasn't brought any litigation against some Chinese for something like this.

So, even if they did lose something, it shouldn't have been much. Which means "making Tesla there == there go your trade secrets" is not necessarily correct.
I built a simple Android app CursRo (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appzine.cu...) which I use every day: It informs me about currency values of the that day.
Back in the day, we used to TEST configurations on a few machines before blowing them out to, you know, EVERYTHING!
See where you have been lately
I have no good evidence, only anecdotal. In all my discussions with family and friends none have ever come out in support of industrial espionage, and many have come out against it especially when they think of other countries doing it to us. No they may be hypocrites, but in general they understand spying for national security - i.e. understanding military capabilities, troop formations, political shifts, etc and make arguments for some level of support of those activities and understand that other nations would of course want to do that to us.
Exactly.

The idea that you should "eat your own dogfood" doesn't make a lot of sense if the product is (to draw from my personal experience) an x-ray machine, mechanical respirator, semiconductor metrology tool or electron microscope.
1. You're right, it doesn't fit your use-case. We'll implement a strict ordering in the next iteration.
Some, though not too many. The household income needed to be in the top-1% of households is $380k, which even two-programmer households typically don't hit, unless they win the options/acquisition lottery.
Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes
And the relevant XKCD comic https://xkcd.com/593/
http://sandsquid.com (electronic component purchasing)

I use at least once a week for the mass production of another project I'm working on. You simply can not compare the quality of insight you gain from using the product yourself (not mock usage, but real usage and that's an important distinction) to any other kind of external feedback. The biggest difference is when improving the UX, especially in terms of coherency.
I built a service that tracks new music releases because I got sick of missing things from the artists I was interested in (http://beathound.com - iTunes only for now) - it only emails you at most once a week, so I use it generally once a week.

As it has grown, it's been interesting to observe the parts of it that I work on a lot (the parts I use - I just today fixed a bug in something that I kept seeing in my weekly emails) vs. the parts that get neglected because I don't see them as often.
Do they oppose it when it is used against them? For instance when Americans hear:

A recent report to the US government, by aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman, describes Chinese economic espionage as comprising 'the single greatest threat to U.S. technology'

Do they simply say "Eh. Who cares?" If they do not like the PRC doing it, why should they like their government doing it? In a general sense I think its a pretty defensible claim to say that the majority of X country's citizens oppose industrial espionage. When you ask specifically if they oppose their own government (as opposed to agents of a company or the idea in general) the waters likely get a lot muddier due to nationalism and other factors.
Actually, it is also goes other way too.

In a stagnant company which is laying off people, probability that you will be laid off increases with seniority (and your salary). And decision to be laid off is completely outside your control: the entire project can be just closed. So if you are less risk-averse you better move to growing company from stagnant one.

But I would love to see some facts numbers behind this.
Yup.

I spend my days working on an ERP system. Apart from entering my weekly timesheet and the occasional expense claim, I don't use the system. If I wanted to enter payments and reconcile bank accounts, I would have become an accountant.
Ambiguous phrasing, sorry; the depth and nuance is (usually) a consequence of the volume of reporting that citizen journalism enables, not of any one report — though it can and does sometimes emerge from one insightful and fortuitously situated perspective.

It's, in a sense, a corollary of the ESR quip that, "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." (Yes, that was Eric Raymond, not Linus.) With enough independent, and independently motivated people documenting a given historical event, a deeper, more subtly textured view of that event becomes possible.
How they earn money? by advertisements?
>They can if they are introduced it correctly

Language doesn't work that way actually. Associations persist long past the point of it being "explained" in a different way. Associations are not logical, they're more emotional than anything. You may not experience it the same way because of english being your non-primary language, but the association is real to native speakers. I remember very clearly when I first learned of man pages (as a native speaker) the association with "male" was real and made the term awkward to me. After 15 years its just documentation now.
I was actually just thinking the same thing. This would make a great status page for a headless RaspberryPi.
So dishonesty. Wow.
Better to overengineer at a cost of an extra ten or twenty million and get many more years out of your rover than to underengineer, have the program fail, and have to face not only the failure to gather the data you wanted, but the political fallout from your failure as well.
That's good to know, might have to give that a shot next time. I've actively avoided doing it that way up until now since it's the standard recommendation not to. I just upgraded mine to 10.9.1 today from 10.8.5, by booting from a Unibeast USB stick - worked flawlessly.
Yes, I use BunkerApp [1] almost every day to track my time, to manage tasks and to invoice my clients.

[1]: https://www.bunkerapp.com/
$ man sar