skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time pagers had hit huge in the consumer market, and Motorola was making a mint selling them. Motorola had also developed the first practical wireless modem and was trying to market a sort of super-pager using the modem to enable two-way comms and longer messages than a pager allowed. But it was literally the size and shape of a brick and marketing wasn't going anywhere.

Motorola bet on GM as a way to extend their pager winning streak with a more consumer-friendly device and more savvy marketing. The Motorola Envoy team was given the mission of miniaturizing the modem enough to fit in a smaller, more attractive package.

They largely succeeded, but the shipping delays also allowed growth of miniature cell phones to take hold, and Motorola saw their future there more than with extensions to the pager paradigm. That contributed to Motorola's loss of interest in marketing the Envoy.
If WhatsApp decided to move to payments, it is the closest analog.
I think it should be possible to write an adapter to use existing Express middleware. I haven't tried, but it's on my TODO list.
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According to Wikipedia, Velodyne radars have a range of about 120m. If ASC managed to get 200M that is hella impressive. I did hear that their tech has some gotcha's keeping it from series production but it's not really clear to me what is _really_ happening. I do think if they manage to launch this at an acceptable price range it's going to be a big thing.
Node.js – v10.8.0
Money laundering, ransomware, election meddling.
Looks awesome and love the focus on plugins. I also like some of the choices made, Redux, React Router, Security, etc. but going with Flow??

Our company has standardized on Typescript, it has practically "won". Unfortunately for me, introducing Flow would get shot down.
Note that Norvig's and Graham's reviews are 12 days apart in the year 2000.

Also, (2000) should be added to the title.
I'm a Unity developer. I'm well aware of what the ECS/Jobs/Burst architecture brings. I still disagree with your assertion. Note the fact that this data oriented pivot occurs NOW with Unity. It's managed to do pretty well up to this point despite NOT having that feature. Using GC didn't stop it becoming wildly successful.
Former TouchBistro director of PMM cosigning on this exact approach being useful and used by us at the time.
Restaurant owners, indeed!

The funny thing is, the jobs in company kitchens are better for the workers. At my company, the kitchen staff is vocal about heavily preferring to work in our office versus in a restaurant: The pay is way better (like, double). They get good health insurance. They work in a nice place. They don't get their hours cut because the owner failed to attract clientele. Et cetera.

I think this idea is fundamentally anti-labor, unless those pushing it are also demanding better pay and benefits for service industry workers.
One of the design constraint comes from the size of batteries. This is the battery for a Toyota Camry hybrid, a car with very limited electric range : https://images.hgmsites.net/med/toyota-camry-hybrid-battery-... Imagine the size required for Prius batteries or other electric cars! They just didn't come up one day with the idea of selling ugly cars
Freebsd have had kqueue for the longest time. Unfortunately Linux didn't adopt it for political reasons and osx did a half port and dropped disk io support.
If you're going to go down that line of reasoning you are going to find out that no company is trustworthy, especially those at the top.

Microsoft is much easier to deal with now vs the 90s precisely because they are no longer the top dog and know they have to compete with the FAANG companies for many of their offerings
None at all. What's great about SICP is that it starts from pretty much first principles and builds everything gradually on top of them. Things like managing state etc are presented as a very natural progression.
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Sure, but it is analogous to what investors are valuing it with regards to their stock for.
Like I said, spoiled by github. I need to get back into IRC. Never felt comfortable on mailing lists.

I want everything included except my local LAN. I can probably do something stupid to generate a config that works (i.e., such that I manually include 0.0.0.0/8, 1.0.0.0/8, ... etc excluding 192.168.0.0/16) or do something smart outside of wg/wg-quick, but I lack the expertise.
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It looks like getaddrinfo does have that ability, but I could not tell if gethostbyname supports it.
The Model 3 is being categorised as a mid-size sedan by pretty much everyone.

What is misleading is neglecting some other premium mid size sedans from the market [1] such as the Acura TLX and the Inifinit Q50. On top of that the premium mid size sedan market is only about 3% (by volume) of the total US auto industry so 50% market share in that category is still only 1.5% of the total market.

[1] http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-analysis-q4-2017-premiu...
That was all part of the official story. It was "only" about 8 years ago so it is available online as well as on HN.

"A new approach to China"

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048800

"A new approach to China: an update"

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-china...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1211090

"China condemns decision by Google to lift censorship"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8582233.stm
Yes, HN is not exactly subtle about it. But there's not much I can do
China surpassing the US as an economic powerhouse doesn't imply poverty or the inability to have viable companies there. What a silly dichotomy.
"demand from users to connect with businesses via WhatsApp"

In South America it's HUGE. The insurance company I used to work for even started underwriting over WhatsApp, and it was all user-driven. In countries like Brazil or my own Uruguay, there's no SMS, only WhatsApp (carrier's faults that were greedy and wanted to keep charging per SMS).
Not at all. It was written as an introductory text for freshman computer science students with no prior exposure to programming (much less a Lisp or Lisp-like language).

Just keep in mind that the students in question were at MIT. :-)

The book gets very deep (note some of the things that Paul Graham says in his review, and note who is saying those things). Be prepared to expend a lot of challenging brainwork to get through it, but nope, it doesn't rely on previous knowledge of Scheme. One of the many nice features of Scheme (and lispy languages in general) is there isn't a lot of syntax and so on to learn in the first place.

(procedure argument1 argument2...argumentn) is pretty much it.
In Python’s object system? How so?
Hypothesis: some "mild facts" are legally considered "harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive." These two things can both be true, but if they are, companies might still be obligated to minimize a harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive workplace.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/16/17021714/james-damore-goo...
I think it’s fair to say the iPad is still relatively weak (relative to the phenomenal success of the iPhone, anyway). Unit sales have been flat for a while and revenue is down 5%.
You don't need an MBA to sell something, even when the target customer is an enterprise.
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> If you are a large enterprise organization, and your customers are other companies, not everybody will have a company e-mail (especially for smaller independent shops), but everybody will have a cell phone.

Conversely, email is cheaper than cell phones. Few of my staff have company provided phones, but they all have company provided email addresses.
It is up there in the rules. I'm sure I've read it in the past and probably forgot about it. Now that I've been hit by it I'll remember.

But I see your point for sure. HN is heavily moderated and I've watched good discussions simply go away. I've come to accept that as just being par the course for HN.

Maybe the right forum would be GlassDoor?
Impositioned into printable booklets, if that’s your thing :)

https://github.com/pepaslabs/SICPChapterBooklets/releases
Firstly in terms of market and brand perception Apple absolutely leads on privacy. That’s not really credibly contestable.

Next even if the source was published there’s no way to know of the published source is what is in the phones they sell. This is just as true of an AOSP or any open source phone unless you literally audit the source and compile the whole stack from source yourself.

However at least we have Apple on record and accountable, and it seems like their actual commercial interests align with their stated policies. Going with them seems like a reasonable risk to take, especially considering how poor we know for a fact most of their competition is in this regard.
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Well, there's opportunistic nonblocking IO which you can do on your event loop with readaheads (assuming you know your access patterns) and then RWF_NOWAIT and fall back to a thread pool when that fails. Of course that only helps if you're reading from a file into a userspace buffer. If you want to sendfile that doesn't help.
This simply isn't true - the Chevrolet Bolt has an EPA-estimate 238 mile range, with many reviewers getting close to 300. Pretty much what you get in a base Model 3. What's more you can actually walk into a dealership and buy a Bolt today, good luck trying that with a Model 3. It also costs almost 15 grand less than the cheapest Model 3 Tesla is currently shipping, given they still don't have a release date for the mythical 35k mass market version.

Batteries are increasingly just a commodity, and will become more so as the rest of the industry ramps up electric car production.
Today one can buy electric and/or hybrid cars from Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes, VW, Volvo, Audi, and even Jaguar. They are not going to stop making gas guzzlers, but they are steadily increasing their commitment to electric cars.

If electric cars take over the mass market, most of them will be made by established carmakers who know how to crank out millions of cars per year and have thousands of dealerships across the country. I'm sure they will be grateful to Tesla for proving the concept, but the traditional automakers won't have much trouble ramping up production once they know the market is there.

By the way, I would love to have an electric car but I don't have anywhere to charge it because I live in an apartment without a garage. Charging it at work is not realistic for me -- we have some charging spots, but it's really difficult to get one because so many of my coworkers also want to use them. There are millions of customers like me who need the charging infrastructure to improve before electric car ownership becomes practical, and we are going to keep giving our money to the traditional automakers.
I can't take my eyes off the rotating 3d code gif and am wondering how something like that was made.
The Model 3 is up against the 3 Series and the C-Class.
I personally would stop using WhatsApp if they charged a subscription for it. I don't use it to talk to a few people. It would be ridiculous to pay money to keep using it. For me at least.
That sounds like a viable solution to the trust issue. They don't need to respond to the requests, just see copies they can be sure are real requests.
Beautifully told anecdote about the Lisa. His reaction in denying her the Porsche seems to me to be about telling her she has to earn such trinkets. But who knows.
Nobody said anything about shills. You can be anti-US and pro-China without being a shill.
Proprietary system make it vastly easier to screw/control consumers.

I recall once owning a Verizon phone where you had to both buy it outright and pay $10 per month to use the gps. Only partners were allowed to make apps so it was impossible for someone to just turn around and make a mapping app for less money.

You can just not provide updates to drivers ensuring that people are stuck buying new devices to use a newer OS.

You can make it increasingly hard to get official parts/services by using non standard parts and controlling access to such.

I don't think its some much an opinion as pretty obvious.
In theory, yes.

We just drove our Model 3 home 13 days ago. IF you want an electric car, nothing else on the market has the compelling mix of features that the 3 has, IMO.

I'm a big BMW fan, and they keep promising that they'll be selling normal electric cars Real Soon Like Now, but frankly, most automaker efforts are either 'weird' electrics like the i3 or Leaf or Bolt (which have their own range or fast charging network issues), or PROMISES to bolt electric motors to existing cars like the 3 series. It's great that they think that will magically result in an electric car, but it doesn't resolve the fast charging network issues, I've seen no real promises of charging network investments, UI that makes it easy to find said chargers, etc. Maybe it's in the works, I don't know, but the fact that they're not even publicizing whatever efforts they're making mean that they're not making a splash in the market; they're not trying hard enough.

The 3 feels like a substantially different rethink of the car; it's on when I touch the door handle (or sooner, if I start the A/C via the app). Other automakers seem lost in the "take a car, remove the gas engine, replace with electric motors, and BAM, electric car!" mindset.
==This fact, combined with Finland's well-known social safety nets leads to the obvious conclusion that you would be hard pressed to find living conditions like those in the slums of Akron/Cleveland in Finland.==

Isn't it possible that Finland's well-known social safety net is at least partially responsible for the lower poverty, income inequality and violent crime rates?
Literally all of your comments in this thread are on Indians, India, or Hindus. You've commented multiple times on "the damaging impact this might have on India down the line", but pay no heed to the subject of this whole topic: the immediate damaging effects on Chinese citizens.

As an Indian myself, I'm completely baffled by your tangents and you choosing to actively ignore the main issue at hand. This is not an issue because it might hurt India. This is an issue because it will hurt Chinese citizens.
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Actor Model of Computation (2010) [pdf]
I've used the definition that persuasion is when you try to change a person's mind whatever the reason, even lying to get a change of mind.

Justification is when you change a persons mind by giving a reason for why they ought to believe what you're telling them. A listener can analyze the reasons you gave and see if they accept the assumptions and conclusion, or in other words, is your justification sound?

Manipulators often persuade, but would be happy with a justification too. Ultimately they want to change your mind. Someone who is giving a justification tend to be more open to seeing a fault in their own logic or justification.
I was reading their GAAP metrics for six months, as presented on their Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. (For the three months ending 30 June 2018, operations burned $129 million and CAPEX was $609 million.)

I saw the numbers in the narrative and am curious what costs they're including (or revenue items they're bringing forward) for these non-GAAP measures. Generally speaking, absent explanation, I default to GAAP.
It indeed feels exactly like that, yes. And, obviously, you've never taken a Beazley course before. :-)
The Model 3's shipping though are essentially luxury models though, correct? Not the cheap one that would compete with a Camry, Accord, Malibu, all of which can be had for around 20k.
Well, except that 1000$ invested a couple years ago in a standard SP500 ETF would give you a ~1350$ payout today [1].

So basically, you are paying ~350$ of opportunity cost to take that decision.

[1] April 2016 (deposit date) VOO price was ~190$. Today it is 258$.
Well that depends on how fast you think they're selling cars right now or in the near future. And how much money they make on each model. Just guess, basically.
Access to metaclasses. Whenever I watch a python metaclass talk I can't help but thinking 'welcome to CLOS guys'
Most of the ugliness in electric vehicles is not in their bulk/shape, but in the unnecessary and ugly flairs that manufacturers put all over them. Just freaking remove that crap.

As for batteries, why can't they just make it wider and flatter and put it at the bottom, like tesla?
Highly paid contractors == peasants

Hmm...
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AFAIK You can hide your online status/last seen for the price of not being able to see other people's
> What's the point of writing content for things no one knows they're looking for?

None. The linked article explains their extensive keyword research to make sure people are indeed looking for these things.
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gethostbyname() is obsolete. And no, it doesn't support IDN.
The article says they're different: that manipulation degrades the other's decision making process while persuasion does not.

You seem to disagree, which is fine. But your argument above to the article's "they're different" amounts to "no they're not". More words, of course, but just a "no".
If you tried reading SICP in the past but it didn't quite click, you might want to try watching the lectures as you read it: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB63C06FAF154F047
This is a very anglocentric view of the internet.

Most of the problems with the full unicode set can be sidestepped by a combination of UAX #31[1], NFKC[2], ignoring ligatures and digraphs[3], and following UTR #39[4].

Cyrillic apple.com is one of the few cases where it is still problematic and extra UI feedback would be needed.

[1]: http://unicode.org/reports/tr31/

[2]: http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/

[3]: https://www.unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html

[4]: http://unicode.org/reports/tr39/tr39-1.html
The plot gets waay better like this. Now if they only donated a significant part of the proceeds to some cool charity. They's be the robin hoods of modern day.

side note: I'm not a fan of the endless protection of private property of the super rich, that is paid for in taxes that come disproportionaly more from the not-super-rich.
> You absolutely cannot compare Northern Europe with inner-city black America.

Bad schools are throughout the United States, especially in poor areas, of which predominantly African-American regions make up only one part.

Also, while the parent's claim is a common excuse for inaction and lack of funding, I have yet to see any basis for it. While every case is different, we can all learn from others.
http://vator.tv/news/2017-01-13-how-does-line-make-money

That seems to indicate that 22% of Line's revenue was from stickers, which was lower than the highest section: advertising. Those are 2017 numbers, and I'd suspect that advertising makes up an even bigger section now.
> changes in capital structure such as CAPEX

Hmm, so capital structure typically refers to the big elements liability side of a business. Equity versus debt, bank loans versus bonds--that sort of thing. When one purchases capital equipment (e.g. a factor), that counts as CAPEX. I will admit that this nomenclature could be less confusing.