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You are not wrong. Although Kay described what he thought of as the essential feature(s) of OO in slightly different ways, "messaging" was usually in there.

> Smalltalk is not only NOT its syntax or the class
library, it is not even about classes. I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea.

> The big idea is "messaging"

--http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-...

> I thought of objects being like biological cells and/or individual computers on a network, only able to communicate with messages...

> OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things.

--http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...

(I wasn't sure what he meant by "extreme late-binding", but Wikipedia says:

> Late binding, dynamic binding[1], or dynamic linkage[2] is a computer programming mechanism in which the method being called upon an object or the function being called with arguments is looked up by name at runtime.

--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_binding

That makes sense to me as part of transforming 'method calling' into 'message passing' -- the 'method name' you are sending isn't actually fixed to a particular implementation that will receive it, until it is sent. Rubyists may be familiar with this, as ruby indeed implements methods as 'message passing', just like this.)
I know sim racing is somewhat of a niche industry but the demand for high end VR is absolutely there:

NoVRNoBuy was pretty much the only regular comment you would see when Codemaster's was hyping Dirt Rally 2.0

So much so that this is the changelog from Assetto Corsa's latest release:

Assetto Corsa Competizione - Early Access v0.2
- Fixed "No VR no buy"
... [1]

There are about 100 threads on Dirt Rally 2.0 echoing the same [2]

This is a community that spends $500 on a steering wheel and $500-$1000 pedals are always out of stock [3][4]

That doesn't even include the $1000 direct drive wheels [5][6] or the handbrakes, shifters, triple mount displays, and $500-1000 dollar rigs [7] I won't even get into the motion rigs...

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/games/805550/announcements/detail...

[2] https://steamcommunity.com/app/690790/discussions/0/17354661...

[3] https://heusinkveld.com/heusinkveld-march-stock-update/?v=75...

[4] https://www.protosimtech.com/

[5] https://www.fanatec.com/us-en/wheel-bases/podium-wheel-base-...

[6] https://augurysimulations.com/products/

[7] https://sim-lab.eu/product/p1-chassis/
Not sure I would use Bloomberg as an example of high-quality journalism after their handling of “The Big Hack”.
It's not too surprising that sales are bad, the V1 hardware is pretty terrible in various ways, and the cost all in is ~$1400 for a PC system (cheaper for PlayStation but not that cheap). At least management at Facebook and Valve have been very clear that their expectations for V1 were not high.

If you look at tablet PCs, Microsoft didn't capture much market share with early $1000+ systems with non-touch based software, but there was still room for the iPad to come in at a lower price and be a successful product.

I think the difference between a (not-terrible) mobile system like the Quest at $400 and existing PC based systems is at least as stark. BTW I didn't hear of anyone getting motion sick, but neither of the Quest demos had any artificial movement, and people weren't using it for hours.

Of course there still needs to be content with some sort of appeal. That's pretty subjective. I liked the tennis demo I had, the lack of a cable made quite a big difference and the lenses aren't nearly as fussy to get a clear picture. I'm not a big gamer but I like being active IRL and playing table tennis etc. I don't know how big a market that is. But I could see myself buying one at $400, not as a developer, if it had a variety of that sort of stuff. None of the other systems I've tried get remotely close to that, in terms cost/inconvenience for what you get.

I'm also curious about movie watching. I wouldn't use existing systems for it, but a higher-res mobile system with better lenses (and hopefully a native Netflix app)? I'm very curious to see if it's a practical thing yet. People watch lots of shows on their phone, it doesn't seem unthinkable that VR could have some appeal for that.

If they have decent content, I think they will probably move more units than VR systems have to date. But to think about the Wii again, even though it was successful as a device it still didn't end up having a major long-term impact...

I don't think just the numbers matter in early stage hardware while there are still extreme qualitative differences. You see companies that focused on cardboard/GearVR based on that sort of reasoning, even though that had an even less likely future as a platform than fully-tracked systems. The Palm Treo wasn't a mass market product, but that hardly doomed smartphones.
Article 13 is terrible not because it’s terrible for start-ups, it’s terrible because it’s terrible for people.

I’m pretty close to the rough-end of GDPR in my current job, but it represents real benefits for millions of people. If you asked them what’s a reasonable way to treat their data, I believe the GDPR is close-ish to what a lot of Europeans would want. Or, at least a shift in the right direction.

Article 13 on the other hand is what you get if you ask rights-holders groups what they want, and poses a direct threat to freedom of expression for millions of Europeans.
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Could you please not post unsubstantive comments like this to Hacker News? We're trying for better than that here. And fortunately, most of your comments are much better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are a bunch of events before they actually ship. They gave a bunch of them out at this past year's re:Invent, so I guess only those people who got them can participate until then.
Memory safety requires garbage collection. A system with explicit frees can never be safe.
I've been suggesting "null-improbable". I'd be happier still if people stopped dichotomizing on this concept, though.
Regen braking isn’t 100% efficient, and if your route is going uphill a long time one way and then downhill all the way back it’s less helpful.
It’s silly o’clock here (unable to sleep) and the following is just going off the top of my head, apologises if I mess it up.

Don’t believe so as during the first round trip in http1 (wasn’t this “fixed” in http2? Silly o’clock, can’t remember, anyways) the client and the server are just working out which cyphers to use.

If you are trying to pull data from the same domain, you have already set up a connection you can reuse saving the need to repeat the need for the first round trip on your next connection to the server. So you are only really losing that first round trip on the first connection. So even if you were pinging another domain regularly as long as you are using a server configured to keep the connection alive for long enough you are not really going to save much any time then just doing it the standard way.

I guess (never tried) you could create your own raw socket connection with say webasm but Browsers do here hardest to keep you away from the raw socket level and I believe they also do even in webasm. (just thinking out loud...)

Then smuggle in your value based on the the cyphers you are requesting the client to pick from. But at which point you might as well just be using plain old un-encrypted socket connections.

EDIT: If you are just trying to send metadata along with a xhr response then you can just send custom headers along with the response and read them with getAllResponseHeaders(), just remember to set the Access-Control-Expose-Headers header too include the custom headers you want to expose to JS.

If you are trying to push data from the client to the server I guess you could do it via DNS. Make a request to http(s)://uuid.part1.thisisamessage.example.com and http(s)://uuid.part2.sentoverdns.example.com and on your dns server record the requests, resemble the parts and you have your data. You could bitbang data back to the client by having the dns reply with a server or not. It would be slow as hell (as your making a dns request and opening up a connection for each bit) but it could be done but unless you are trying to be sneaky (and it’s not that sneaky at all) it’s not worth the hassle over just opening up a “full fat” connection and reusing that connection. (Again just unable to sleep thinking out loud...)
That's easy: comments like break the site guidelines and are bad for HN.

I don't want to pick on floren personally, though. That account has a fine posting history and seems as concerned about comment quality as you are (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19039487). The problem is rather that most bad-for-HN comments are unintentional, at least once you scrape out the bottom of the barrel.

As for HN's reputation vis-à-vis Reddit, I think that's been pretty stable for years now.
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I see now, "low standards of perfection" is almost an ironic statement since "standard" describes a minimum requirement and perfection can never be achieved, only pursued.

I agree that only wanting to do "good-enough" is an attitude problem. My own motivation comes from the assumption that someone is always watching. The idea is to never put a memory into someones mind of you wasting time and resources. Regardless of your own reputation, it is far more risky for someone to see this attitude and find it acceptable to replicate it. Then the attitude can spread like wildfire (until it hits a group of people with solid principles).
Also: https://nodesk.co/remote-companies/ and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TLJSlNxCbwRNxy14Toe1...
But evolution is a result, there is no inherent design to it. I doubt you could apply Gall's Law to evolution, maybe just the first sentence?
VR is already selling quite strongly to firms who use it for various kinds of training. One good indication of this is the strong market of backpack PCs https://www.roadtovr.com/vr-backpack-pc-at-a-glance/ despite the face that the backpack PC seems to have almost no adoption among home VR users. It also underlines the fact that current workplace VR users aren't particularly price-sensitive. It futher seems unlikely that they're usually all that bothered about sensor setup, though maybe some value or would value the wide play area that markerless inside-out tracking affords.
> It's how likely the result is to occur by chance if the null hypothesis is true. A positive result can occur for lots of other reasons even if the null hypothesis is true, and the p-value doesn't tell you anything about how likely you are to get a certain result if the null hypothesis is true (or false).

I don’t think your comment makes sense.

Given a parametric model and a particular value of the parameter (i.e. the null hypothesis) one can calculate the sampling distribution of the data.

Therefore under the null hypothesis the model gives a well-defined probability distribution for the data and you can tell how likely you are to get a certain result.

There is no room for “other reasons”.
You mean the people who looked at many existing systems and built a replacement which solved many long-running nuisances while also being much easier to use?

I think about these reflexive hate affirmations every time I replace many hundreds of lines of buggy, hard to extend or troubleshoot SysV init script with 10 lines of systemd unit which provides significant operational and reliability improvements. There’s a good reason why most distributions switched, and why most experienced admins appreciate not having to deal with certain hassles ever again.
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Apple's 30% cut on most things already seemed offensively high, 50% just seems utterly crazy.
I find it hard to believe that even rms would compare Free Software to human slavery, but would be interested if you have a source.
I think Vive now has the enthusiast market wrapped up nicely, so I can understand why Occulus might want to target a low end market. Especially as it might prove to be larger. But it's really still early days for VR, much higher specs required than a typical mid range consumer PC, so it's hard to say where things will ultimately land.
The problem is the mandatory part. Even the standard education is in large part optional for both students and parents. Its a gross violation and overstepping of fundamental liberties to have grown up free to turn around and point at our descendants to then say they must be forced to serve.

The Vietnam Draft will go down in history as a gross human rights violation of a generation of young adult men. That war was a proxy battle of world powers to send their young to die to line the pockets of their militaries and their contractors all in the name of ideological and economic conquest paid in blood.

In contrast, the WW2 draft is vindicated in how influential US support was in turning the tide on both fronts. US involvement invariably saved millions of lives and helped stop tyrannical genocide across Europe, Asia, and Africa. Violating the liberty of your citizens for that kind of end is probably righteous, but don't let the widows and parents bearing the flags of their fallen sons hear I said that - they died in large part to save the citizens of other nations, not for their own.

I strongly support a public works program that anyone can enroll in for a contracted number of years. Anyone lost entering adulthood should have something to fall back on that can help them contribute to society - and we sure as hell need it in the US, the infrastructure is crumbling disastrously and the country is massive and can use a substantial amount of hard labor maintenance. It is just that none of the financial incentives are there, or regulations are perverse enough to skew away private capital from fixing many of these issues. Regardless of why, we can see a ton of work we would like done, but don't have the money to afford ourselves, individually, or even as small businesses, but can accomplish collectively and publicly with something like a revitalized civilian corp of engineers.
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counterpoint: journalism is obsolete. At least from the standpoint of newspapers. Good writing is superfluous. The content and information that I'm really after is available in more condensed format through aggregators, reactions on discussion forums and summaries. Most people prefer not to read a long article. Just give me the TLDR, the chart, the stock price, the name, the temperature etc...
Writing from a Carbon X1 6th gen right now. Ubuntu 18.04 stock, no tweaking required, all worked no problem. The best laptop I ever had.

Previously owned a 4th gen. 16.04, minor tweaking, also excellent laptop. Pricey, but the best you can get.
> Self-driving cars (SDC) ultimately trade one class of problems that result in death (human-attention deficit) for another class of growing issues (sensor malfunctions/incapabilities, software defects).

One big difference between those classes is what you can do after an accident. With both, you can investigate why it happened and then make recommended changes to prevent it or reduce its chances in the future.

But with driver attention problems, such as drunk driving or driving while texting, it is easy for those recommendations to be ignored. We've been telling people not to drive drunk, not to text while driving, and so on for probably a century in the case of drunk driving, and for as long as texting has existed for texting...and people still do them frequently.

With a software defect, it is a lot easier to make sure that the fix actually gets deployed. Make it part of the annual registration renewal for cars that all safety updates have been applied to their self-driving systems.
Yeah and the auto dealer industry is notoriously deceptive too. Telsa told us they'd be different. Well they're not selling cars through dealers, that much is true, but it seems clear the deception is still in force.
There is also "Remote (Must live in America)"
It's been interesting times for religious people for the last 400 years or so. Doesn't seem to faze them.
This law was strongly pushed by the "Axel Springer" company. This company is so evil that there are even browser extensions to just block their websites (see Axel Springer Blocker in chrome extension store)
Given that systems can contain other systems as it is, I don't see what this concept adds that people who work with complex systems (for example climate modelling) wouldn't be dealing with anyway?
> "Sure, the fine print says "always pay attention","

In fact the not-so-fine print in the user manual says to keep your hands on the wheels, but the promotional material tells a different story, as does Musk when he takes his hands off the wheel on national television.
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» I'm confused why WSJ, of all publications, is jumping on board here. A look at their subscription page shows me that the cheapest option is $15 a month. This Apple News subscription product is going to be $10 a month and Apple is taking 50% of that.

» I get the argument that Apple News will expose you to a much larger audience, but that level of revenue cut is... significant. Why wouldn't I cancel my WSJ subscription and sign up with Apple?

You should absolutely cancel your WSJ subscription and sign up with Apple. I agree 50% cut is a little steep but I am worried Apple might not have enough clout. What's to stop WSJ from spinning off (for example) new media into a separate entity therefore allow Apple news access to only a subset of its offerings? Does Apple have enough power to call a spade a spade?
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Maybe WSJ would only allow this on iPads and iPhones, and they think their higher paying normal users also want access on desktop devices? Maybe WSJ got something crazy like a 10 year exclusive without NYT or Washington Post in the service?

Still seems crazy... Apple seems to need the WSJ more than the WSJ would need Apple for this service. WSJ is a marquee name and content producer that millions of people are willing to pay for. WSJ is profitable and seems to do just fine in print and digital distribution.

While the $10 price point may be the correct one for all parties involved (a value price point expands scale without expanding cost) - the 50% cut seems wild.
Additionally the WSJ iPad app is gorgeous.
But where is the benefit if you aren't misleading them for your own profit and ideologies? /s
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>Netflix deliver large video streams
$12.99/month

>Apple News host a bunch of text and some images
$10.00

Is it fair?
the idea is cool but the insane restrictions on how you make the software is terrible. is there anything like this that is more open? also, i was surprised at how bad the best ones were. is there something making this more difficult that i may be missing?
I wonder if you might like "Burgled-Batteries" [0], which gives you access to Python objects from Common Lisp. I have not tried it myself, and it does not yet support CLOS integration, but it looks pretty interesting.

[0] https://www.cliki.net/burgled-batteries
Worth noting that after the first year, that $15/mo turns into $40/mo (which is when I cancelled my subscription).
Excellent description
My point (poorly made) is that there is a difference between blame and responsibility. "Blame" is answering the question "who screwed up"; "responsibility" is answering the question "who is going to make this better".

The original tweet-stream post was making the argument that the software (and so naturally the software people) did nothing wrong and thus was not to blame, but also made the argument that since everything else was wrong ("not my fault!") that there was nothing the software people could have done to make it better, i.e., they have no responsibility.
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If you're experiencing this on iOS, it's probably because of some anti-tracking "improvements" that Apple released with iOS 11. This feature unfortunately makes it so the WSJ subscriber cookie is forgotten very frequently.

I ran into this problem with an app [1] I built, which has a partnership with the WSJ and gives free guest access to their content. When iOS 11 came out, we got lots of support emails from people wondering why they had to log in with their guest pass all the time. In my experience, it happens at least once a day. Our users put up with this because we give them free access to the WSJ, but I can't imagine putting up with this as a paying customer.

1: http://www.readacrosstheaisle.com
The kind of people who like living in dorms should then live in dorms (many reproduce dorm-like conditions after school anyway by sharing a house with other tenants) and the people who don't would rather not be compelled at a societal level to do it "because its so much fun for some of us".

I had a year of rooming in college with a perfectly fine guy but I wouldn't ever want to do that ever again and got nothing particularly memorable out of it. I guess it did teach me that I desperately need privacy and personal space? Too bad I already learned that any time I went on vacation and spent too long in a day walking around a mall or theme park.
As a former Next Issue/Texture user I really hope they’re going to do a better job with the UX. I really loved the idea of an unlimited magazine subscription but the execution just wasn’t there.
It worked out really well for him. You've heard of him thousands of years later. Thousands of years from now persons will continue to discuss him and you and all of us'll likely be forgotten.
So far Tesla automation seems to handle edge cases. I have never rear ended or side swiped anyone, getting into such an accident or avoiding one is an edge case for me. Useful but not really automation.

For it to even have a chance during lane keeping of doing something only a sleeping or suicidal driver would do? It's utter bullshit. It's less safe than a human.

Autonomous driving is overhyped vaporware. Autonomous airplanes would be easier than cars, and we still are no where near that.
Former newspaper industry employee here... This is a mistake by the WSJ. They would be better served by reducing their ridiculous digital subscription fees and skipping Apple's extortionate gatekeeping "service".

The newspaper industry was founded on (although nobody really understood it until the invention of the internet) being the intermediary between consumers and companies. In 2019 the business has changed to content provision. But these old line companies (and who is older line than Apple and the WSJ?) can't help but try to discover intermediary points of control.

Pah.
Which year? I bought mine in 2017 and can honestly say it’s the best laptop I’ve ever owned (though to be fair, it’s almost always plugged in - battery life started around 7 hours, and is now around 5)
I'll give you one example: families with kids. I've known HOAs to try to pretty much straight up ban children; forbid them from playing outdoors, forbid riding bikes, forbid swingsets, trampolines, even sandboxes. Often couched in bullshit language about "protecting" the kids.

Also dog owners. I know an HOA board that was, for a time, populated by fervent dog haters. They enacted a rule that forbid dogs from all streets and sidewalks. You could only walk your dog between your house and the next to the common grassy area behind. There's been some turnover in the board, but the rule is still in effect AFAIK.