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Exactly. And this is a 'problem' they'll never again face, because now the clock is ticking.

Of course, it's been replaced with the 'problem' of selling incremental Model 3s as the effective price goes up quarter by quarter in the near term, but the issue has ALWAYS been whether they'll be able to sustain demand and sales as the vehicle goes through pent-up demand and then has to rely on incremental sales, year after year after year (or until they start dumping huge amounts of cash into ramping the NEXT car).

That said, I'm VERY impressed with our new 3; more so than I expected, and I suspect others will be similarly delighted and new sales will follow. Their next challenge will be ramping maintenance/service of the rapidly expanding installed base.
Honda released their plug in Honda Clarity, but it only has a range of 89 miles.

Oh, c'mon, you're going to use a car I can't even find a price on for comparison? Honda wants a zip code to determine if I'm even privileged enough to buy one.

Compare to a Chevy Bolt, as the sibling commenter mentions. The range might come up slightly short, but then go compare the price tags (and for bonus points, when you can get one). If Chevy wanted to bump the price, I think they could easily match Tesla's range.
We are about a year away from the Byton Electric Car here in the good 'ol USA - way better than any Tesla:

https://www.byton.com
On the contrary, Reddit back then had much less moderation. What if it came out that a prominent CEO was a user of /r/jailbait or a similarly toxic subreddit? That person's life would be destroyed.
Tesla only sold 104 Roadstars in 2011. Now they are on track to sell 250,000 Model S, X, and 3 combined in 2018. The scale of Tesla's accomplishment is truly under appreciated. It becomes even more impressive when you realize that this is an electric car, sold by Tesla owned stores, supported by over a thousand Superchargers. Amazing !!
Tiananmen was much bigger and differs in many ways. The scales are not comparable.

Yet Kent State is a simple counter example to the grandparent’s claim that political protestors are not massacred in the US.

I’m not sure how much more clear I can be.
> Why don't any other car companies offer a 'standard' mid size or compact sedan that's fully electric?

Given that Ford is largely abandoning sedans, it would seem that they're not particularly popular anymore. The Leaf and Bolt aren't all that weird looking for hatchbacks. Original Leaf had some weird-ish features (like the headlights), but mostly had a similar profile to the Nissan Versa hatchback. The new 2018 model is very ordinary looking. The Chevy Bolt has a pretty similar shape to the Chevy Spark.

It's not a very sexy shape, but it's a practical one.
==Instead, a bunch of MBAs want to rule the world by focusing on growth at all costs==

How does Paul Graham explicitly stating "Startup = Growth" fit into this box?

Remind me where Mark Zuckerberg got his MBA.
But I think you're missing that Apple's encryption model protects user data from hostile servers (Secure Enclave). Google's encryption model... does not.
Supercharger network, OTA updates, superior driver assist system, superior warranty.

I’d wait for a Model 3 instead of buying a Bolt off the lot. Range isn’t everything.
You shouldn't need to "Learn Excel" if you are a programmer. You use Excel or Google Sheets or Emacs' "Simple Emacs Spreadsheet" (SES) or whatever tool to do things you need to do, and learn whatever features you need as you go.

I personally use Google Sheets for:
- Impromptu project planning and release tracking in small teams
- Creating test plans for release testing

And not much else as I can do most other things using other tools. If you want to pivot data and do data analysis, yeah you can use a spreadsheet. Or you can use python.

I wouldn't go out of my way to learn the deep depths of excel when you could take time to learn sed or awk or columnar and multi-cursor editing in emacs or other tools that, beyond tasks that can be accomplished in excel, will help you in a wider variety of tasks.

But by all means I would be using excel for simple spreadsheet things. It's not a tool I'd go out of my way to spend time on learning excel as a programmer without a task infront of me as being a curious technically apt programmer means it's quite intuitive and fast to learn whatever I need to accomplish things in excel as I go.

Learn emacs, learn colemac, learn awk, learn clojure, learn pandas. I don't think you need to learn excel beyond basic spreadsheet functionality.
Is horror the most disrespected genre?
> profit is more important than humanity

What is humanity? Is humanity the ability to feed your children, to have shelter, to benefit from medicines, to possess the capability of generosity, to hope to leave a higher standard of living to your descendants?

Those correspond to the creation of wealth, yes?
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That’s significantly smaller than a gass tank. Picture 3+ 5 gallon water containers as they hold 15+ gallons. You are also removing the engine and exhaust system. Look just look at a muffler some time they are huge.

Go a little further and remove the axle and giant transmission and suddenly you have a lot of space under a car.
Have any of the maintainers used Next.js? What was your opinion? What does Fusion.js do differently/better?
Something no one really talks about is the difficulty of just charging an electric car for anyone who isn't a homeowner. That's a nontrivial question -- and possibly a dealbreaker -- for millions of apartment dwellers.
> Finland has a ... very homogeneous population

I don't know this to be true or false, but is there any evidence of it? And is there any evidence that it has an effect on educational effectiveness? I wouldn't expect an effect; people learn to read, write and do math in K-12 all over the world.
People keep saying that Perl 6 is too late, but they don't say that about other new languages.

I mean nobody says the same about Julia, which has been in development for the better part of a decade.

The only way it could be too late is if it doesn't do anything better than a single other language. By that I mean if there is a language that does everything that Perl 6 does, and does it just as well.

Even if all it does is bring a collection of useful features that haven't already been collected together into a single language, then it isn't too late.

It could also create a new design of an existing feature that goes on to influence the design in future languages. That would also make it so that it isn't too late. (I think that in the future we may be able say that about Perl 6 grammars.)

I think the real reason people keep saying that about Perl 6 is that they want it to be true. We can only really make that determination years from now when we have perspective.
Can report from the trenches of a major software consulting firm: putting a sharp engineer who's even reasonably good at communicating in front of the C-suite is 5-20x more effective than using someone with an MBA.
Yes, but it's also selling to a somewhat-rabid list of reservation holders against a BMW 3 series that is around 3 or 4 years into its model cycle, a not-as-attractive-as-previous-generation C class that's 2+ years into its model cycle... these things are never apples to apples but its particularly bad when you have a backlog of people champing at the bit to buy your car.

And all for a $7500+ discount over 'true' MSRP which will begin to evaporate over the coming months (which was one reason we jumped on the 3 when we did, rather than waiting).
It's almost impossible to pay attention to the article's content when it's constantly distracting you with huge animated gifs.
> How is it that you can afford your contractors charging you more, because they are wasting their time doing something they aren't good at, but you can't afford hiring someone who is good at that task?

Because a contractor has way less paperwork than I have to deal with for each employee - at least in my country. We're also free to set our own terms instead of the lawfully required ones, and generally, contractors in IT want that. I'm even doing the contractor paperwork for some of my contractors as it's very easy - I can basically generate it automatically; definitely not the case with employees. An employee also costs way more money (that goes to the government).

> Do you also pay your employees to wash the windows, and vaccum the office

Irrelevant argumentative foul. No paperwork is eliminated doing that and no other advantage is gained doing that, so of course I'm not doing it.
What the Luddites Really Fought Against (2011)
SICP has a well deserved spot in the "basically a bible for engineers" category. I remember hearing about from a podcast in 2012 (I can't remember which one, sadly), and immediately fell in love with the free copy from MIT's website.

I was pretty excited when I found a physical copy at a thrift store for two dollars. Even though I had already read it, I like having it on my shelf to prominently display.

It's not a trivial read, but I feel like it's complicated enough to make you think, but not frustrate.
Is one person really going to take you out of course if you are doing something you want? In that case you have to figure out what you really want. Getting in shape people criticising gave the added fuel to succeed and storm ahead
Uhh. One side saying "kids shouldn't take six figures of debt to go to the college we've collectively insisted they need to go to" and the other saying "blood and soil, Jews will not replace us" are not the same thing, yo.
Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are
Hum... I'm wondering if the police could trace a motorboat path, at least partially, studying the dislodged sediment, If you scan the bottom and find a fresh groove you could try to build a vector at least. If the trace is missing in some shallower canals, maybe they could refine the search.
> Having 5+ children when you have no resources... this is the true elephant in the room.

What makes you say that's an actual problem that has a significant impact on American education?
I'm kinda curious why so many people think that Linear Algebra Done Right is an introductory book for beginners who have math anxiety. Don't get me wrong, the book is great and I enjoyed working it through. It was a magical experience when I saw how simple it was to prove some seemingly hard theorems by just linking the right definitions and theorems. That said, the book does require certain level of math maturity as it achieves its elegance by staying at certain level of abstraction and its style is quite formal, so much so that a person who can use this book as its first linear algebra textbook shouldn't have math anxiety at all.
You should look out for the original Italian Job as well (if you haven't seen it). The mini driving is great (when the mini was in its heydey, winning rallies, left foot braking...)
Author of the post (and the engineer who did the work) here.

There are ways to do non-blocking disk I/O in *nix (aio/io_submit in linux) but all of which requires you to have an open file descriptor first. Does NT allow you to open a file in an async fashion?
Awesome. I had a really difficult time with math in HS, and never pursued it at all in college, so even though I'm a programmer my math skills are barely at a high school level.

I'd love to get into ML but the math keeps me at bay.
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> It probably goes without saying that the loans would have a higher interest rate

I remember in the '90s all the fuss about "microcredit" in developing countries. Maybe it's time to have something like that in "developed" countries too?
Tangential question: why do people prefer sedans over hatchbacks?

Hatchbacks seem a lot more practical than sedans with no obvious downside. I can see people preferring the looks of one or the other, but neither is objectively prettier.
Many great products never get brought to market because of "lack of scale."

The second renaissance of this unicorn investment bullshit will be micro-services run by small teams that bootstrap and market there way into profitability instead of asking millionaires to sign them blank checks hoping they will be the next SNAP.
Did not think of this. Big insight...

How did you get to this train of thought if I may ask? :)
Creating a key generator to reset a Hikvision IP camera's admin password
After hours trading jumped from $300.81 to ~$320. That could change again before morning, but the markets look set to smile on this update. :-)
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> since they did just start selling a lot of cars, the runway calculation is now moot

These runway calculations are only moot once Tesla is cash flow positive.
> De-Googled Android is possible but it isn't a great experience

All I need from Google is the push notifications, so microG provides a great experience for me…
> We should try to relate and understand why the Chinese people have taken their route.

The people have not taken this route. The people were mowed down in the thousands during a peaceful protest in Tienamen Square.

> undermine their freedom to choose

They never had the freedom to choose in the first place.
AdGuard Pro for iOS will be discontinued due to Apple's policy
GitLab is working on a tool just for data teams
> it seems likely that they'd uglify it somewhat and withhold the better design for a more expensive vehicle

Source? Many flashy design elements are expensive to fabricate.
TLDR: iOS is a compulsory ad delivery platform.
Once they have 'm they can copy it very well several times and then catapult their profits!
>Yeah, they can know I bought shoes so they would show me shoe ads for the next three months.

You might be surprised. Some people buy far more shoes than they need. Be it for fashion or simply the love of shopping, I wouldn't be surprised at all if targeting shoe ads at recent shoppers actually made sense.

>No it's not. There's a lot of private things in one's past than can be dug up and (ab)used.

I'm speaking strictly in terms of their business model and services. That's where live data is essential. Fear of potential blackmail seems pretty far removed from that context.
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Change that to "the commercial internet" then - not talking about the DARPA/Usenet/early www universe, but rather anything post 96-97 or so. It's either ecommerce or advertising ever since then.
Tesla has the ability to make "normal"-looking cars because the brand itself signals the owner is environmentally-conscious. The "traditional" automakers could probably get away with the same thing if they had exclusively-electric sub-brands (GM should bring back Saturn as an EV-exclusive brand, IMO).
IDN homograph attack discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14130241

Another "fun" thing about IDN is that there are two incompatible versions:

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/
Interesting. This page (scroll down) claims that particular ad appeared in Life Magazine in 1951: http://mentalfloss.com/article/73588/14-vintage-ads-featurin.... I'd guess they were mislead by an updated copyright mark on a reprint. What made you sure the date was wrong?
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

- Dijkstra
> Because the prospect of forcibly separating kids from their parents based on the decisions of aloof and poorly managed bureaucrats is a political and ethical nightmare.

That's not at all what was being suggested.
AGPL – what you can do and what you can't
Even at MIT a lot of people struggled with it because they threw so much at you so quickly, and it's since been replaced with a Python-based intro course.
Hyundai makes something similar to an electric Honda Civic, the Hyundai Ioniq Electric: https://www.hyundaiusa.com/ioniq-electric/index.aspx

It's "affordable" at $30k, but it has 1/2 the range of the Model 3 at around 130 miles, which I think tells you a lot. This technology is still at a price point where you need to make significant trade-offs between range and price. A new Honda Civic is something like $20k by comparison, and without the range anxiety.

Still, I see a lot more of the these Hyundai Ioniqs here in Amsterdam after they were released, particularly as workhorse vehicles like local taxis. Part of that's government incentives to use electric vehicles, European customers having lower range requirements, and that gas is still practically given away for free in the US compared to what it costs in the EU.
SEMRush is my go-to. Ahrefs is also great.
I really enjoyed this page's UI on a mobile device.
Hatchbacks cost more
But Typescript is a language on its own. It claims to be a superset of JavaScript, but includes JS features that aren’t even certain to end up in JS (decorators). And their import system... Whereas Flow is proper JS. It’s just so... nice!
The men were described as 'non-Nordic'

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl6K-ZalOGC/?hl=sv&taken-by=surv...

In 2012 a 19-year old Somali migrant was invited to live in the Swedish royal palace. He proceeded to steal $120,000 worth of jewellery, selling pieces to drug dealers.

http://www.thecourtjeweller.com/2018/02/princess-christinas-...
Thought you were emphasizing a lot of your text, until I realized you just have two \*nix in your comment but didn't escape the asterisk!
I was exaggerating to make a point, obviously. I'm saying there are some clear problems with the idea that crime is OK as long as it's entertaining enough.
Show HN: Gpython is a python interpreter written in go “batteries not included”
Even in bad shape they are still valuable, intrinsicly.
The town I'm at is infested with so-called "bandit signs" advertising "Soandso buys houses. Soandso pays cash." with a phone number to call.

It strikes me as odd that there's little to no enforcement of not only the signs but of the extremely shady business practices therein.
>"And, obviously, you've never taken a Beazley course before. "

Could you elaborate on this point? I am not familiar with this individual or their classes. Is there something special?
It's equally wrong from the moral standpoint to operate in China under CPC as in EU under the Right to be Forgotten and the likes (censorship is censorship). But I'm not sure if avoiding these two markets altogether is a practical strategy given the rise of Chinese tech competitors. It's sad but I think the short period of history during which free speech was celebrated is coming to an end.
I believe this is in reference to employees quitting over the company's participation in the development of artificially intelligent weapons.
gpython is an overly ambitious project to port/re-implement cpython in go. I've been meaning to release it for a long time but I've never felt it was finished.

The project kind of ground to a halt with the difficulty of porting all those C modules.

It still isn't finished but I'm sending it out there anyway as it might be of interest to others!
And, you know, the part where the high-volume part of the market doesn't make any money.
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