skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The explanation in that paragraph is not necessarily incorrect, just confusing because it talks about voltage "in" wires and isn't clear about what two terminals are being referenced.

It is true that the voltage between live and neutral changes sign, so neutral is sometimes 170V above live. But neutral is almost always at ground, and live goes to -170V relative to ground.

That last paragraph though seems wrong, so OP may have been confused himself when writing.
My understanding from a long time ago was that the formats were actually competitive if you consider computation requirements. Size of the data was larger, but not by so much that it was scary.

There a good modern comparison of the formats?
I'd be careful drawing definitive conclusions about the success of a product that shipped last week, then using them to drive larger generalizations about what "many people" think, and after setting up the strawmen, knock them down with arguments about market share in unrelated products.

It's okay to criticize flaws in a product, even if this modern-day golden examplar of a vertically integrated company can leverage its integration to move a ton of product.
*with that said, Amazon does work on a lot of really revolutionary stuff that I definitely wouldn’t be able to work on in 90% of other companies. Really enjoyed my internship there.
I thought this was an interesting read regarding a number of different points/ideas.

Netflix is like the upside down of TV is an interesting idea.

Netflix takes things people already like and doubles down on them, and that's the whole business model.

So, then, the main question the author ends up with: "Can Netflix ever do anything truly original in the way HBO does?"

TLDR: It’s hard to be groundbreaking when your whole purpose is to take people where they’ve already been.
You can keep the trade secret until the patent application is published.
every 11 days?

The crying Earth, the weeping shores!
Problem is the sound quality is getting mixed reviews and the assistant gets poor.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/head-head-apple-homepod-reall...
A home sound test of the Apple HomePod - Yahoo Finance

http://www.techradar.com/news/google-home-max-tops-apple-hom...
Google Home Max tops Apple HomePod for audio, says Consumer Reports
One of my favourites: All you need to know about whiteboard markers[1].

[1] https://medium.com/graphicfacilitation/all-you-need-to-know-...
China's Dystopian Tech Could Be Contagious
I agree with most of your arguments. But using single examples like Telegram in this case is not suited for arguing about the general validity of this rule.

If I were lazy, I could say that every cryptographic system is custom to the creators, hence the general rule is wrong.

Most often using established cryptographic systems might be the right thing, but it is not always. I'm all for putting big warning signs on the idea of custom cryptography, but I do oppose strict rules against them, for they have use-cases. One could argue that those who have these rare use-cases and needed capabilities do know that custom cryptography can be used and what the dangers and caveats are. I prefer to stay with the full truth upfront.
isn't this like Ethereum programming on a private blockchain?
ITER and the drawbacks of fusion energy
Software patents shouldn't exist to begin with.
Ground is literally the ground. The Earth makes a good return path. The hot wire is going positive and negative relative to the land you stand on.
> I consider friendship to be an endorsement of the other person.

That's odd. May I ask how old you are, and what culture/country you're from?
ITER is a showcase  for the drawbacks of fusion energy
Have you looked into things like Synapse.ai ? They are building exactly what you're talking about in terms of data/AI/ML/currency/ownership.

Here is their founder giving a presentation about it at the Decentralized AI Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMgVsbHu98

It ties together things like the "Who owns the future" book by Jaron Lanier and AI/Bots/APIs for new economies.
Most digital TV broadcasts use MPEG-2, don't they?
If the FBI, CIA and NSA say I shouldn't use Huawei phones then I guess maybe that means I should :)
Is working for a crypto, ICO, or even DAICO launched in a different country legal? Is launching one legal?

I've skimmed the SEC documents Reg A, Reg S, Reg D, Reg CF they are all nonsensical when it comes to raising capital with crypto.
So this is what The Hulk's pants are made of!
This is the exact reason why we recently changed our price structure. Now the price of a resource increases with the size of the plan. Now discounts won't hurt so much.
Email is your electronic memory
I'm not sure what rumors you've heard but what's not a rumor is that Intel is releasing CPUs with integrated AMD GPUs: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12207/intel-with-radeon-rx-ve...

That suggests Intel isn't going to be competitive in the graphics space in the near future
It's very breathable! The knit in an of itself is breathable, but our fibers are also naturally cool to the touch, and are ultra light (they float on water), making them more comfortable for day to day wear than regular pantyhose.
Compensation is a vector, not a scalar.

GS employees almost cannot be fired, government-employee unions protect their members from not the private sector but from the government, they get better than ACA health care, and their retirement is guaranteed by an entity that can print all the money it wants.
I like customized ads. All my life I hated advertising. It was really weird when I started my own business and started to get postcards for things related to my business and I found myself actually enjoying them. Furthermore, I don't get the aversion to tracking cookies. I just don't see a likely downside to it, though I've heard theoretical ones like what if the U.S. becomes a communist dictatorship some day.

That said, my targeted ads online still haven't nailed it. Half the time they're for something I just bought. Like, I just bought a watch on Amazon, so now on Facebook I see ads for watches for three weeks. Too late. (Of course the example is fake. Nobody buys watches anymore.) Anyway, half the time they're too late, the other half they're just too off the mark. For example, I'm thinking of moving. So I research apartments in that city. So Facebook shows me ads for apartments for the city I'm still in.

The best ads for me have been the ones based on AdSense -- that is, the text of the page that I'm on. I'm reading an article about how to use a hammer, and at the bottom is an ad for a hammer. No tracking cookies required, and yet a better match.
I think that would be true if the demand for programmers weren’t also increasing exponentially
I was taken with the "piper" line. "Piper at the gates of dawn" is the hubristic, irrational emotional response to ICOs and the glory days gone past into a sunset.

The piper in "the 51st highlanders bid farewell to sicily" is a piper whose seen stuff you can't believe, and can't wait to get on the boat and head somewhere else. Alas, to fight, but you can't have it both ways.

I notice you elided over the 'hedgerow in your bustle' moment. Probably wise. Like the south sea bubble, some things are just emphatically un-knowable. Who even knew there was a market for garden-decorated bottom pads?
House moves toward eliminating agency tasked to prevent voting machine hacking
Right, that is correct. To understand how that works, you have to realize that there is no such thing as an "absolute voltage", only the voltage difference between two wires.

In a breaker box, one wire (white) gets tied to ground, and the other wire (black or red) goes between +170 (relative to ground) and -170 (relative to ground). The black and red wires are 180 degrees out of phase, so when the black wire is at +170, the red wire is at -170. This gives a 340V peak difference between the black and red wires, which averages to 240V. You get your normal 120V outlet power between the hot legs and ground/neutral, and you get your 240V dryer & water heater power between the two hot legs themselves.

So, in a normal outlet, we can safely say that one wire is "more positive" than another, and that this flip-flops through time. When we look at voltages relative to ground, though, one wire stays put at 0V while the other goes between +170 and -170. It's just a question of where you put your reference frame.
Can a mono speaker be considered an audiophile device?
TDFX shareholders got screwed when they were "acquired" by nVidia. I suppose that was a good thing, it made be skeptical of crummy companies during the dot com days.
Ask HN: Modern subscriptions for installed apps?
I've been looking into how to structure a subscription-based payments platform for a plugin that I'm building (in C#, in case this is useful), but all information nowadays is centered around SaaS.

There have been discussions in HN about on premises B2B software and their differences (and advantages) over subscriptions; but nothing about how to manage yearly billing, subscription management, etc. a la chargebee.com, and I can't seem to find material that is not focused on building the whole thing yourself from scratch.

Does anyone here have an application / plugin / etc. that is locally installed in the client machine, and for which a license needs to be purchased and installed? If so, have you programmed everything from scratch, or are you using some specific commercial service to outsource all that complexity?
This comment is highly understating the power of social media micro-targeting by dubbing it as buying a few ads on FB and running twitterbots. I would request you to check out the Ted talk by Zeynep Tufekci (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI) to get a sense of how effective social media campaigns can be.
Nice pattern! You could throw in a HPA to automatically scale deployments to zero that aren't in use.
I believe in contracts and I doubt there ever was a contract. This seems like someone thought that these walls will be forever theirs, though it was just a matter of a lenient landlord not caring too much about what was going on.

And because the landlord wasn't a dick in the first place, but was a nice guy who let them use the walls he owned to display their art for free to a giant audience, he now owes them $6.5 million!! These people have probably never made $6.5 million between them.
Or a horizontal pod autoscalar that can scale down to 0 replicas perhaps?
Nuanced but convoluted realpolitik on a Kissinger level.
A portion of the risk. PBGC pays out at a significant discount.
Labels like rockstar, guru and ninja are labels we don't need. We need competent generalists and competent specialists who can work in teams as well as work alone and can communicate with those who are part of the team or part of the management and user bases.

When a person takes on for themselves labels like rockstar, guru, ninja, etc. I don't doubt that they can write code, but I certainly doubt that they can write code that fulfils the needs of those who will be using it.

Labels likes these are a detriment to the profession. If we want businesses to take note and consider those in the IT profession to be anything more than ignored, we need to lift our game a long way.

What is IT known for (in the general sense), games, social media, search engines and lots of crappy software that users have to fight to get anything done.

Yet we have people and companies that produce great software that fulfils the needs of those who use it in a way that is not detrimental to those users.

It's coming up to forty years that I have been involved with the industry and I hear complaints every day from users who are frustrated by the inconsistencies in the software they are using, whether it be social media, business software, games, etc.

In general, as an industry, we are far too arrogant about our own self-importance and what we develop. Whether it be the likes of Apple, Oracle, IBM, Google, etc, the industry has forgotten that they only exist as long as people will tolerate the bull dust that is thrown at them by these companies. We are always looking for the "next big thing", yet many of the actual needs that we could be filling are not being done. We like flashy and not substance.
Now Shopify Merchants can accept Ethereum and Litecoin on their stores
Who cares about the "interests of a country"? People care about themselves, family, friends, and charity cases.
Child Screams for Most of 8-Hour Long Flight
I guess that's a valid point, but it's worth asking whether transparency is really a core value of Chinese political culture, the way it ostensibly is to ours. That doesn't make Chinese culture necessarily better or worse, ceteris paribus, but it would definitely influence the kinds of things a government-sponsored cultural agency would demonstrate.

I think my point is just: we might be asking for a lot from something as straightforward as a Chinese cultural agency.
All three of these orgs have done questionable things to their own citizens - some in recent history - however, they're what Americans have. Not trusting them when they're being so ridiculously direct seems unwise. If I had to choose my lesser evil, I'll go with my government's agencies over the word of a foreign government. I don't think China is fundamentally evil, but I do think that it's viciously competitive and very organized. So for now, I'll take the warnings at face value and avoid Huawei phones.
I was able to break the impasse and build trust by getting PO to agree to architectural deliverables in a sprint. He was skeptical but with some sort of defined behavior for acceptance he was OK with it.

Saying "ima go build a framework for this, back in a couple months" is usually a non-starter.

Also from reading this thread I am still convinced that you cannot jam process down people's throats and there is no single solution. What you can do is create a tone deaf hated ass-backwards process that make people quit the company.
Maybe it's a budget-saving measure. Keeps the TLA's from having to buy all of our information from Facebook and Google.
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16380133

The neutral side is connected to the ground. (Literally - they stick a metal pole in the ground.)

The 3rd wire, is also attached to the ground, and in the electrical box the two wires are attached together.

Anyway, that's why it's neutral - because it's attached to the ground, so it's at the same potential as you.
> I realize that the proper solution is to terminate my account and never attempt to log back in

I disagree with this point. Service providers, of any flavour, whether paid, or free†, should be regulated to only use your contact details for actions you have pre-approved.

† free - conditions apply, nothing is free
This argument has strong extra-territorial qualities because they forced the "five eyes" compatriots in AU and NZ to drop Huawei as core technology in domestic and international fibre deployment.

But, there is this other quality. The in-senate presentation mainly focussed on the governance structures behind Huawei. The government is cross because ex PLA members are vested and its not a transparent company structure.

I think the FBI/CIA/NSA reports are deeply troubling for their lack of specificity, in a context of international trade I am not drawn to entirely believe them.

Remember, this is the nexus of people who alleged sound reasons to go to war in Iraq which turned out to be flawed. Sometimes rumour is conflated with fact.

I know people who work in Huawei. I do not believe they are people of bad intent.
That's nothing, I remember the need for 4, a 2D card, two Voodoo 2s in SLI and a dedicated hardware DVD decoder card :-)

The picture quality was terrible with multiple pass through analog VGA cables...
It's news because it's all allegations with no evidence. Tfa says there are several hundred thousand Chinese students in the US. Not a single one has been shown to be a Chinese operative.
I think they need to work on improving Siri before they can even enter the Echo/Home competitive ring. The other virtual assistants are leaps and bounds ahead of Siri.
UK has 240v for everything which may explain the insulation. Has been the standard about as long as I can remember - so back to the 70s.

Someone put a lot of thought into the design. Ground at top to prevent accidents like you show. Ground pin is longer. Insulation covers enough of the pins that live and neutral disconnect before conductor is exposed from socket. Both will be fully disconnected before earth disconnects.
Using the 6 hex digits of the git commit hash for color is genius. I really like this pattern!
How deep does the rabbit hole go... The Atlantic runs an expose on WaPo's China Daily advertorials, meanwhile The Atlantic runs Scientology advertorial

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/the-sci...
* different company

* not flamethrowers

* manufactured by a third party

sorry, I know you are joking, but I couldn't help myself.
This is not what you said in the other post. You are confusing people, and you should edit it.
Why would it fail today? If I can't serve an asset then my whole server is down.

If you are an e-commerce site serving hundreds of images worldwide then CDNs make a tonne of sense.

If you just have a simple site or SaaS getting decent traffic, why add a failure point by including your choosen JS with a CDN. No one batts an eyelid when you add ten images to the homepage but somehow a single, much smaller JS file is too much extra load. It doesn't stand up to reason.
Any reason to believe the same wouldn't go for OnePlus?
One more thing, is there somewhere I can look up the street rules of graffiti artists? Perhaps the trial judge wasn't working directly off of those, but then shouldn't there be rules, perhaps not coded on paper, that exist?
It isn’t a mono speaker.
Yeah, as a developer in the area with under 5 years of professional experience I am already at the top end of that range. I did no job hopping, do not work for a company that is particularly well known for high pay and did not graduate from a school with a very well known CS program. I have also heard from former co-workers with similar levels of experience who have moved on to other companies that they are making similar amounts.

It is above average for the area (across all levels of experience, for a very experienced developer it probably isn't), but it is not very far above average, so I would expect someone capable of handling such a massive and critical project to be making significantly more.
Why do I care precisely who is manipulating me?
It’s worth making a few notes:

1. ITER is a political beast, not a practical one.

2. These are problems with D-T fusion, not all fusion, although...

3. Aneutronic fusion isn’t even on the remote horizon. Fusion has incredible potential, but probably not for anyone alive today.
Yes, because that's what I am going to do when/if I build a time machine.
I laughed so hard at the Local Optima example video
I would agree that 1.5 hour test is a happy medium. I'd prefer 2 hours.
I'm inclined to agree with you, but why?
Map based searches are good, but one step further would be to allow the user to geofence the locations they are looking for. When I search for locations on Google, I get a map view that spans from Brooklyn across Manhattan and into New Jersey and the results tend to be scattered across those areas when all I want is Manhattan, including areas somewhat outside of the current view.
I wonder if this will affect the existence of the Raspberry Pi's binary blob ? I remember Liz Upton saying "[MPEG2 licensing] is a reason we have to keep the blob, unfortunately, or we’d be sued into a smoking hole in the ground by the MPEG LA" on this page: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/a-birthday-present-from-bro...

Also does it mean that the Raspberry Fundation could provide the MPEG2 hardware decoder license key for free ? (currently: http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/)
You should try Qumulo: https://qumulo.com/evaluate/download/

Fast, scalable and comes with tons of file enterprise features... And you don't have to get performance by putting storing more data (aka fill in your cluster with garbage data that you pay for!)
https://www.homedepot.com/p/100055784 for example
> There is no such rule in general.

Actually, the general rule is, "Do not roll your own crypto."

> It depends on your attack model and what you are trying to achieve.

It depends on so much more than those two items, which is why people are told, "don't roll your own crypto."

There is almost a 1to1 relationship between looking at homemade crypto and finding severe vulnerabilities such as oracles, input reuse, incorrect encryption modes for the purpose of use, use of broken crypto, and a million other gotchas that most people don't know they need to know.
> "
This argument would hold more weight if the government was saying not to use any non-US phone"

There's not even such a thing as a "US phone" though, is there? Even phones manufactured by US companies like Apple are made in China with Chinese/Taiwanese sourced parts. Google always outsources its Nexus/Pixel devices to third parties like LG and Motorola. Speaking of Motorola, they are now owned by Chinese manufacturer Lenovo, which has also been in hot water lately over spyware and rootkits in their laptops.

I'm of two minds about the announcement. On the one hand, Huawei and ZTE have both been caught installing backdoors and spyware on their devices in the past[1]. On the other hand, the US three letter agencies have a vested interest in US citizens carrying around easily monitored and tracked devices, and they easily find ways around Constitutional protections against spying within their own borders.

I honestly don't know who to believe in this situation.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/4025254/new-phone-who-dis-huawei...
I agree with your general sentiment too.

The only reason I took issue was because of the adjective "general".

I still think the rule is "generally" true, but people shouldn't be dogmatic about it when they need to find a special solution for a special problem.

The reality is most problems that require cryptography are not that special and there really is no good reason to roll your own crypto. I think in this particular case this is even more true because people's real money is on the line.
This isn't a new controversy, for what it's worth. For example:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/29/chicago-facul...

One way to summarize: colleges accept Chinese-sponsored Confucius Institutes as a way of bolstering Chinese language programs, which are valuable in the marketplace. But if you let China fund your Chinese language programs, the instructors you end up with will to some extent suppress discussion of politically-sensitive topics. And, of course, college staff probably also see this as a labor dispute: colleges that accept CI-sponsorship are in a sense outsourcing the work of professors.
Maybe they are, if so that is good as it encourages original work. Remember the search engine is setup to give the best results for humans so giving humans original content will always be ranked higher than non-original content (text, images, videos, etc.).
how about ask for proof? let it be debated by elected people first? seems like secret agencies are running things there... if you want to achieve your goal just scream "national security"; nice system.
This is more algorithm than software isn’t it? and I suspect MPEG2 has had hardware implementations since day one - so I’m not sure it’s that clear cut. And frankly, at the time it was state of the art and I imagine requires significant investment.
The patent duration is far too long though.
Government employees tend to be highly risk averse. This was the insight behind the founding of GEICO, the Government Employees Insurance Company, which used to write policies for public employees only.