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> Still, it's a pain point that VSCode takes away. :-/

Interesting. May I ask why you use that particular smiley then? If VS Code works better for you, isn't that a good thing?

However, I would also be interested if there's more to this for you than the configuration. VS Code is the nicest editor I'm allowed to use at work (because it's a MS product, some companies are really paranoid when it comes to other software) - but I never really warmed up to it. It feels very clunky to me when compared with Sublime Text or Neovim. Also the Vim plugins for it really haven't impressed me so far.

Am I missing something, or is this a pure matter of taste?
> migrant workers who are allowed in to the country under significantly restricted rights

How is this anything other than a straightforward win/win trade? The country gets work done for cheaper than hiring locals; the migrant workers make more than they could in their home countries. Mistreatment is of course illegal and they are in general free to leave at any time. Exactly how is this bad, unless you are against trade itself?

> wealth runs deep between generations, and the society is significantly stratified

Like every other country on earth, you mean? Except there's no real old money, because the country was only founded in the 1960s.

> looking the other way on Singapore's fascist dictatorship

Now you're just talking nonsense. Yeah, the fascist dictatorship with the single best passport on earth, that millions of people move to for work. Uh-huh.

Your opinions are so wilfully and aggressively ignorant that I actually wonder if you're trolling.
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Here in Berlin we still have a lot of gas lamps (automatically operated) and they're really charming.

I definitely wouldn't want the city to replace them with LEDs.
They didn't mention any battery specifications. Chemistry, capacity, weight, nothing. Just a wistful "300km'.

That's a bad sign. Battery technology is the gating factor for electric planes and not even calling that out suggests they have not solved it.

Great design, great prototype, now give us the power consumption specs. Show me where that 300km is coming from.
On the subject of continuing to mine British coal, was it not simply more expensive than imported coal (or alternatives)? In the long-term, paying more than the market rate for someone's product just for the sake of keeping them in business, particularly for a fundamentally fungible commodity, doesn't seem like a good idea.
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You sort of have a small version in the Orchard Road stretch. You could conceivably live above ION Orchard, go to work in your Takashimaya office, eat at an ultra cheap Lucky Plaza eatery or blow $300 at Les Amis at Shaw Centre, shop and exercise in any of the buildings in between, and never be exposed to the outside whilst living quite a comfortable life. Same at Vivocity, Raffles Place, Suntec/Promenade/Esplanade...
Oh yes it is… to the extent that you get away with it, without consequences (in that light, getting banned is bad IF you can't also break that law and get away with it).

It's much like arbitrage, making money or gaining control of a market by exploiting weakness on the grandest scale possible. IF there are consequences for the behavior, then you've just illustrated one way to fail, perhaps on the same grand scale (see: Enron). If there are no consequences you're just doing another type of arbitrage and rather than being a poor business model you're an unmatchably superior business model that others must emulate or die.

Jury's out on whether Uber is the former or the latter. Until that's clear, the CEO will not resign or back off in the slightest, because they can't: it's a strategy of never backing down or admitting weakness in any sense, with the tone set from the top. If they can get powerful enough friends and never face consequences, they win. If they're more powerful than the law, they are the law.

We do see a tendency in modern trade agreements to hold entire countries responsible for injuring the profitability of large companies. In that light, Uber bans could be made illegal, under certain conditions, much like banning tobacco advertising can be made illegal.
> I haven't been out of work against my will, but I have been without pay against my will, so I can relate.

No you can't. The whole discussion here is around the impact of _not working_ on one's self-esteem, not the impact of not being paid. Unless you've spent considerable time with nothing productive to do, you really can't relate. You may have an image in your head that with all that spare time you'll complete your side projects or do that DIY project you've been putting off, but the reality is that you stay productive for a few weeks to a month and then sink into a rut.
And a suitable inversion tells you that both are almost the same :)
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I refer to what I already wrote. Nothing you say addresses my point. It only works for some.

> lots of businesses fit it pretty well.

Keyword: "businesses". If everybody follows that path, who is going to work at those businesses?

You completely failed to grasp my point. You keep looking at a niche and miss the big picture: I only works for a few!

Not to mention what it would mean if everybody could become a millionaire, never even mind how.
I really cannot agree with this post at all. HTTPS is not an option. Full stop. This post gives terrible advice and conflates two unrelated requirements.

Yes, speed is important but decouple these two points. Nobody would say, "Eating food might be a bad idea because food can make you fat."
the self-esteem value in work isn't necessarily just in the doing. It's knowing you're providing a service to society (and more importantly, your family and local community), that you're working as part of a team who support each other, the social aspects of shared experiences and probably many other reasons I can't think of right now. I can't imagine mining coal to be independently fun in the way that programming or design can be.
To make more money.
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Projectile is a great tool too. Along with helm and perspective modes, you can switch between projects with a few keystrokes. Since projectile looks for .git by default, you can have a window in each perspective dedicated to git if you so wish.

Updating code across multiple projects and committing is so easy and frictionless.
I guess it depends on your laptop. I dropped Macbook once (it was closed and there was a big scratch on case), but otherwise I'm very careful with it. I didn't drop my iPhone either. But when I owned old indestructible Nokia phone, I dropped it few times a week, just because I didn't really care. If I would own indestructible laptop, I might drop it as well sometimes. If I'm laying on bed with laptop and I want to sleep, I have to carefully position laptop on the floor. But I would happily threw it away, if I could, it would be so much easier.
This.

I've only spent a few hours in GDB so far (mainly because my working environment doesn't let me), but once you've tried it, it's astonishing how little comfort most IDEs actually give you when compared to it.

I had to remotely debug C/C++ code on a very obscure ARM platform. Normal IDEs didn't get me anywhere. There are GDB wrappers like Nemiver that worked, but still were very clunky.

But with GDB in TUI mode, I just had to SSH in. If I have to learn two or three commands to use it, so be it.

Every time I have to do any of that remote debugging dance with any Microsoft product, I still long back for my GDB terminal. :-/
Ha, true. And the hedge fund should make its trades public. "Sir, the vulnerabilties hedge fund just bought options on our stock.". "Fuck, which of our software is it?"
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Things have progressed quite a bit since 2008 fortunately. Vulnerability disclosures have become much more acceptable, and are handled in a much better way.

Lots more information about disclosure:

* https://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/Disclosure_tracking

* https://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2016/improving-cybersecurity-t...

* https://www.thegfce.com/initiatives/r/responsible-disclosure...
Such garbage.

ReactJs is a great way to write software. I'm far too time poor to waste my time on "being cool". I choose best of breed development tools that are well supported and allow me to be highly productive.

Only a fool would suggest that ReactJs is simply a hype trend like s new hairstyle.
"While it is not intended to be Chrome-only, no attempt has been made to avoid using facilities which are not yet implemented in other browsers. Safari (Mac, 7.0.4) is known to work functionally but with broken flexbox UI layout, and Firefox (29) doesn't work at all (WebSocket fails to connect). Currently, the client must have the same endianness and floating-point format as the server"

Isn't modern web technology great?
They are more in screensaver like auto-resolving maze and psychedelic stuff, but thanks for your answers !
If you're living above ION then I doubt you need to scrimp by eating at Lucky Plaza...

When I stay in jakarta it's a similar feeling. A common pattern is an "anchor" mall with apartments and office buildings adjacent and in theory you could just stay inside the complex the whole time. GI/PI and Senayan Square come to mind. You could just build a dome over SS (and being jakarta, i wish they would..)
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Doesn't this product defeat the entire purpose of a "juicer". What a total waste.
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With time the tools are getting better, and while rewriting existing projects is definitely a time sink, using new tools in greenfield projects is definitely beneficial.

Although it is true that microservices approach is flawed if it doesn't feet the organizational structure. But the same applies for the different new tools. Do the due diligence and figure out whether it fits before jumping straight into development.
If the aircraft is falling out of control there's no guarantee it will impact the ground with the undercarriage side down. Plus airbags would have to be huge and heavy to do any good.
How much energy does it take to mine tin and how available is it? I'd thought it was not all that common, but I might just be thinking of near-surface tin deposits near Mesopotamia.
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How do you know what is best of breed development?
Someone wants that ad money again huh?
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I've had an idea for a potential free solution that should be easy to implement if anyone has more time than me:

A one-click setup simple enough for non-technical users.

Instructions should be along these lines:

1. Sign up for AWS if you haven't already got an account

2. Generate a keypair and run our setup/load our template/whatever (I'm a bit hazy on AWS automation but I would imagine there's a fairly obvious way to do this. The new CodeStar thing looks like it might fit the bill)

3. Place this snippet of javascript in your page

The service would use Lambda and DynamoDB to to handle storing/serving the comments. Costs would be fairly minimal for low-traffic sites.

Rough guess is that this would be no more than a few days to a couple of weeks work for someone. Am I over-optimistic?

So either someone does this to scratch an itch or we fund it via Patreon/Kickstarter.
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Since most of the comments (and TFA) is about solitude, but more in nature, I want to chime in about solitude in an urban setting. For the 18 months I was a digital nomad (while waiting for a US visa to move back near my cofounders), About 6 months were spent in cities where I didn't know anyone when I arrived, and roughly about 3 months were spent in "city solitude", the first couple weeks in each new city I went to.

During this time I wouldn't really have any directed conversation with humans. I'd thank a store clerk, make an order at a cafe or restaurant, that's it. Mostly because I didn't know the local languages in some of these countries (Asia), but sometimes even where I did. I was incredibly lonely the first time it happened due to the former (language), but towards the end of my nomadism it meant something else. I began to seek that time, and use it to commune with the place, the city, and to think truly independently without disrupting my lifestyle. These are big bustling people-filled places I'm talking about -- Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Osaka, Bangkok. I can speak Japanese fluently, yet every other week I spent in Tokyo I'd avoid personal interactions, while still going out regularly for dinner, or a run, or to a cafe. You start to see the place as a friend, and understand it more.

Ironically, you begin to be able to understand humans better from this time not being a part of their society. It's stepping away from individuals (friends/family/coworkers/date) you focus on, and suddenly you can observe the humanity around you with an even emphasis. You can see which things they take for granted, how they prioritize life, what makes them tick. You see things, learn things, understand the guiding fabric of their society (and to some extent the global one) from a third-person perspective, which is very different from what I saw while an active part of it.

This same perspective also makes you feel a great deal of freedom from those social rules, yet acute awareness of them (much like with a friend, you don't have to deal with their lifestyle if you don't want to, you can look at their life more objectively than if they were your partner or family). You think about things, try things, plan things, make choices very differently than if you are being socially influenced directly by those around you. Being a foreigner/outsider in those places probably accentuated it, but likely is a prerequisite to feel that way in a city.

I really feel like it permanently changed the way I see the role of society, places, and my human relationships to be a completely different perspective.
Yes that was exactly my point. Barring major advances in battery technology, if you want to build a powered lift VTOL aircraft safe enough for civilian passengers with useful range and payload then you probably need to use a turbine engine. Batteries just aren't good enough yet.
So similar to how a maple seed glides?
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Aka "resume driven development". :)
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One difference in other languages is that the extra indirection will add overhead. You have to (at the very least) hop through an extra function call, and even that will become significant if you're writing an image kernel.

Julia can inline through all the `getindex!` functions so you get the same performance as with a hand-coded C or Fortran array.
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I agree. And I actually admire the way Singapore is economically honest in this way. By hiring migrant workers to, eg, build the new MRTs, it gets them done much cheaper - and provides thousands of workers with much better jobs than they could have got at home. That money goes straight back to their home countries, raising the wealth of both.

Compare to Australia, my own home country, where we could never countenance the ideas of "foreigners coming to take our jobs" - so infrastructure costs 5x as much and, more likely, simply never happens. It wouldn't surprise me if Singapore's what is it, 3 new MRT lines right now? costs the same or less as Sydney's 1 new line. And all the people we could have hired from the philippines or whereever are sitting in their slums unemployed. Who's racist again? Which is more ethical? Which is the better outcome?

It boggles my mind how people can be all for foreign labour being used to make things overseas, for example the computer they're typing their comment on, but suddenly against the idea when the labourers have to come here temporarily to make it. It's the same damn thing!
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Hi HN,

We're two founders from The Netherlands without virtually any money looking for a night to stay in or around Palo Alto from Monday to Tuesday this week. We have our interview on Tuesday. Maybe someone in the HN community who would like some visitors? We can cook something Dutch :)

Thanks a lot!

Ps we're a fintech startup, building the next gen bank. For anyone interested :)
MongoDB is shit. No need to use it.

What's important is really the distribution and caching layer, and Akamai has been offering that for a very long time for all the big internet companies.
The advantages of HTTPS significantly outweigh plain text transport. A couple second delay is nothing. Not convinced.
Fortunately the FAA is far less susceptible to such "talent". State and local governments have very little authority over aviation.
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Some of this is due to the immaturity of our industry. Even the most grizzled, experienced web developers typically have about 20-30 years experience. Most have fewer than 10. So we make mistakes out of immaturity and inexperience, rather like the junior blacksmith taking over the forge because there's no one else to do it.

Developers want to do new things, partly out of boredom, partly out of fear of becoming stale. Non-technical business managers have no idea of the consequences of "using Elixir instead of Java" or "Microservices instead of Monoliths" so they just nod and go along with it.

Eventually, developers get tired of having to pull all-nighters that could have been avoided by using more simple solutions. Then you have a bigger pool of 'experienced developers' who prioritise stability over fashion.

So the industry is becoming more stable and less hype-driven, but it will take a long time to get there. We need to learn lessons from other crafts and industries, like factory production and carpentry.
There is always the wandering circus, a rainshower raising flowers in the dessert. Wether the resulting bloom and dust leaves behind working affordable ecosystems- can be often determined by looking at similar situations previously down the line. Ask a old coder near you, what companys came to be from when he last saw thee - Enter Hype here -
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Yes. I see a way GitHub could turn the Issue feature into a more flexible service that explicitly allows this kind of use cases. However, as of now, there was no explicit wording that encourages creative use of Issues and its API.

While GitHub may keep silent now as there are not many people doing this, if in the future the "hacks" become more popular, we could see GitHub taking a stance on this.

I certainly hope GitHub can gives some explicit consent to these use cases, which could lead to an entire set of new services that GitHub can offer (like what Google is doing currently).
There seems to be this group of developers who love nothing more than to rubbish the design choices of other developers. As though they are in a better position to judge (a) what is risky or not and (b) what is suitable or not. And often those developers are those who haven't really done anything all that impressive and often lack broad experience.

The idea that React is not a suitable choice for front end development is ridiculous. It has a lot of mindshare, is popular and has a major backer. The idea that Microservices demands significant DevOps effort is ridiculous. You can literally just duplicate your Jenkins jobs. The idea that NoSQL has no use case is just laughable given how successful DataStax, Hortonworks, Cloudera, MongoDB etc are all doing. They all serve legitimate use cases at a price infinitely cheaper than Oracle or Teradata.

Before you criticise other developers: STOP. And ask yourself if you are genuinely in a better position to make their decisions for them.
No, its not the salary. Its the number of non-migrant visas quota for a year. 65000 for workers & 20000 for those with higher education from USA.
In terms of 3D SNES graphics, the few later games that did support 3D graphics (e.g. Starfox) had an "enhancement chip" built into the game cart that allowed for it. And by "enhancement" I mean the SuperFX chip basically ran the game and the SNES just provided power and A/V out.
Yeah, they are for sure. My point was the huge chunk close to 80% or more which goes to these out-sourcing companies.
I'd go one step further and would generate structured files with the comments, which are stored in an HTTP-enabled S3-bucket, so the website showing the comments can still rely solely on static resources for comment display and only requires AWS Lambda/DynamoDB for posting new ones.
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"staying with the herd" (i.e: use technologies that are in active use/high demand) helps recruiting and retention, as well as benefiting from the collective work of the community around a technology.

"The big rewrite" is usually a response to technical bankruptcy, which is when technical debt and interest is too high to be repaid.
Many points in this blog post are spot on, The moral of the story is: There is no perfect tech stack or architecture, only pros and cons. The sooner you learn this, the better you become at making decisions.
I think the article is misleading. British women still are the biggest coal burners that exist.
You would be amazed at the number of billionaires ambulating Singapore malls in Uniqlo T-shirts (bought on sale, naturally)... and how non-transparent and varied rent can be even in the same building: a flatshare I stayed in used to pay $4.5k/month whilst the American expat next door paid $9.5k/month for the exact same apartment!

That being said Lucky Plaza food is pretty bad, I only included it because of the underground walkway that theoretically "joins" it to the Orchard complex. Since it is technically my neighbourhood, I usually prefer going to ION's B4 food court or Wisma. But Lucky Plaza does have Iris, AFAIK the only true bespoke tailor in a building riddled with the "overnight Batam job for $200" types, so an ION resident could be coming over to check on his Loro Piana cashmere dinner jacket's progress.

I think Suntec is the one that shocked me the most when I first arrived, I got lost around the (now defunct) bowling place enough times to systematically use Google Maps until I learnt the corridors, because they don't meet at right angles. It's kind of amazing to have to think in 3D when you are used to navigating 2D streets...
A more technical term for that in NLP is "word embedding":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_embedding
This could work, but only if you could automate billing caps too. I imagine for a low-traffic blog this could easily fit within free-tier requirements, but you don't want to suddenly get a bill when a page gets HN'd or something. Ideally the service should just fail when it hits free-tier limits and you can use the local js to display "Comments unavailable due to high traffic" or whatever.

If any of this is not automatable it fails as an idea, because configuring AWS requires a colossal amount of effort from someone who hasn't already used it.