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I lived in Singapore for 2 years as an exchange student. The city does get credit for what it isn't.

The level of competence of local civil administrators is overstated. All Singaporean oldtimers I knew were quietly lambasting their incompetence, but what you can give them is that, while being really mediocre at that, they were doing their job, and did it consistently year after year.

This is shows how far an institute of civil administration can go by "simply having people who simply do their job." This is what I see less and less in Western countries.

Regarding cleanliness, clean for sure, but Shenzhen central districts are by far more "squeaky clean." :D

Regarding Singapore's economy - pale and waning away. The country has an own economy for sure, but it is no longer a global player.

Before China's accession to WTO, a double digit of GDP was coming just from stamping "made in Singapore" on Chinese goods and reexporting them. The day China acceded to WTO, was almost a national day of mourning there.

Since then, Singapore's economy made a U turn, and became a gigantic offshore heaven for Chinese money. They don't really have any other major source of wealth other than that now.

LKY don't deserve to get credit for his "genius" for simply turning a country into an offshore bank.
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On fee front, using Micro.blog is free if you host your own site. As the help document mentions (http://help.micro.blog/2018/pricing/), you can add your feeds from your external blogs and only use social aspect of Micro.blog.

I guess, though not right on front there, the ToS (http://help.micro.blog/2018/tos/) and Privacy policies (http://help.micro.blog/2018/privacy-policy/) are clearly drafted.
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I think it's alarming times. large companies want to monopolize the open source. I do not think that open days are waiting for good days in the future.
> and then you can still apply such techniques to whatever is left to squeeze out a bit more improvement

Yes, like "compressing/minifying/whatever else", which is the subject of this presentation.

What's next? Really, before minifying, you have to get a server to serve anything in the first place. And register a domain name. And, hmmm, well first you need to buy a computer and plug it in...
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Off topic question: that binary tree image on their site... wasn’t that an X screensaver?
Ask HN: Why there is no advisor on demand service?
Startups might need a different advisory board at the different stages. The current way to find, engage with advisors are very manual and sometimes the outcome is not good, especially when companies change direction etc. What if there is a board of director/advisor service startup can access tailored to their specific need and when they need it. Why no such service exists?
> It would be uniquely refreshing if Facebook would apply an overlay to every post that gave it a true/false and hate/love rating.

It would instantly be weaponized. Already, right-wing groups specialize in taking down antifa and LGBT pages on Facebook or Twitter by abusing the report feature. To make it worse, Facebook apparently automatically locks pages upon getting a high number of reports in a short timeframe.

You can bet that anything not from Fox News or Infowars would be flag-abused as "fake news" in an instant.
Apartments are sticky in the way grocery stores aren't. Moving to another place is expensive (in effort, money and social costs), and while the landlord can't just triple your price overnight and hope you stay, they can raise your rent in increments.
Blazor is (currently) using the mono .net interpreter compiled to WebAssembly. This seems to me more of a proof of concept than something you would really want to use.

With garbage collection support landing in WebAssembly we might see compilation of .net IL to WebAssembly, but that’s still out in the future.
Even just one poorly designed library can cause serious memory issues and trigger a ton of events. Usually it’s the marketing and ad people that throw around this “but they are async loaded”. That’s true, but doesn’t change the the fact that 40 trackers and their dependencies that come with it are slowing down and infringing on the users privacy. Let’s be real.
It’s not really, is it? I think the concept is great, but what’s really needed is ownership and self hosted blogs made easier than they are now.

+ a popular index.

I mean, a centralized blogging service that lets you customise your style sheet a little is basically just MySpace.
go find some friendly drug chemists with GC/MSes. they can do what you want, cheaper, tomorrow.
What makes Facebook stand out here to me is just how difficult they've made for people to do create isolated social networks on a personal level, at least in my experience. It is possible to limit your Facebook feed to friends and family and filter out people spewing garbage memes and obnoxious political points. However, I have not yet found a way to turn off Facebook's annoying habit of trying to "prioritize" posts in your news feed even if you do not want to. There seems to be no way to say "I want to see all of the posts in chronological order from a select group of friends". Even the "most recent" news feed order does not seem to work as advertised, often skewing stuff posted a couple of days ago towards the top.

I do have some family members on Facebook and in the past I would use Facebook to do things like share vacation photos, intended mainly for family members and close friends and the like. This now seems like an impossible task to do reliably -- there's no way I know that someone who hasn't seen my photos and want to will see it, from my perspective. So for me it's back to the ol' Smugmug and email. (I imagine there are other social networks that are able to work like I want, but most of my family isn't on it, and all of my family has email. This just works for me.)

Facebook does have "groups" which do work quite well as you mentioned, and Facebook works well from my perspective as an announcement / engagement platform for businesses and hobbies. Much of their core social network however seems broken to me personally.

(Regarding the parent linked article, I'm kind of curious where they are going to though and a better understanding of the reasons behind the shift. Most articles I've Googled don't seem to dive very deeply into these things beyond vague demographic musings like "Facebook isn't cool for teenagers" and mentioning Instagram and Snapchat as the replacement. The analysis level isn't even standard media depth to me, even more so than usual. If I look for articles on other things in relative decline where I do have a fair bit of insight -- like say NASCAR racing -- the general media articles actually seemed to (sometimes) make an effort to explain the often seem to make more efforts at explaining the declines, because the reasons are often multi-faceted. I have to believe that any Facebook decline is driven by a lot more details than "my parents are on Facebook".)
I have mixed feelings about this. My first reaction is one of horror, but the article does make a thoughtful case for retiring the apostrophe from most of its current duties.
Or you have to write portable software.
- Cape Town murder rates are higher than JHB (attributed partly to Cape Flats vs. Soweto, the latter which is a much better place to live now).

- JHB theft rates I think are higher than Cape Town.

There are some statistics about this, but generally they show that CT is worse than some people think and JHB slightly better than people think. At least, from your comment, we can infer that some people seem to have the CT-is-good-vs-JHB-is-bad impression.

Personally, I prefer not to flash about statistics. The only thing that I will say is that former township areas in JHB are improving compared to areas like Khayalitsha and the Cape Flats. I do think that culture wise, Cape Town has a lot going for it; in JHB, the only thing still needed is an Eiffel Tower. It is not an uglier city than Paris, but it is not (yet) a tourist destination.
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I'm getting mixed results from a quick Google search, so either containers have improved for DB use, or there's some specific way you have to use them (maybe both!)
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This is very timely for us as we will be in the Bay area during Dec and Jan.
However, I am not able to fill out or even see any forms. I live in China, so perhaps some js libraries from google etc are blocked?
Any alternate ways to register?
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> they're divorced from evidence and calcified

Democracies have never been about evidence, they are about making sure the "rulers" enjoy the support of the people and are strongly incentivised to listen to the concerns of said people. Democracies have a long and storied history of being arbitrary and unfair in defiance of evidence.

In light of that, I'd suggest interpreting political opinions as "I think this person understands what my problems are". When I mentally add that to the end of a political rant usually the rant moves from incomprehensible railing against reality to something rational, but disagreeable.
As a developer, I've always liked languages that stress maps/hashes/dictionaries/tables/associative-arrays as their man data structure.

Off topic, but I've always thought that JavaScript and JSON would have been a lot better without the relatively artificial distinction between objects and arrays. Now that there's object shorthand and destructuring, this will never happen, but it was a nice thought for a while.
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Did you guys get invited for the interview?
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But you did backup before update, didn’t you?
Rightly pointed out. Thanks Rick.

But do you think there is a likelihood of the new management influencing projects that RedHat should or shouldn't prioritize?

Essentially, the goals of open source organizations and for-profit businesses have diverged at least in one way: Open source tends to tinker, explore and take the long-term view just as you've pointed out 'they are the modern bell labs'. While businesses, on the other hand, are driven by growth and profit, often ruthlessly chasing them for their investors - evident from the quarterly earnings calls. Google is famous for dropping its products over time, even if they have a loyal user base simply because they don't make financial sense anymore. Is there a danger of this myopia rubbing on OS?

Businesses are great at extracting efficiencies. Do you feel open source could do with more of leaning down and setting of ambitious commercial goals?
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Can you elaborate on the notion of US case law, before the US existed? I don't mean this to be snarky, I assume this was intentional. Is this referring to cases prior to the US's founding, that the US then adopted as relevant legal precedent?
Just wanna plug Peter Thiel's book Zero to One as it's based around a similar question.
The ToS and Privacy Policies links you posted are nowhere to be seen on the front page, registration page, or indeed any page that is clickable on visiting the link.

Where's the about page? Whois just has tucows REDACTED FOR PRIVACY. Could you also link to an About page via HN instead of clearly posting on your own website?
HHMI is more about biology and Medicine then about telecom and computing.
Sure! Here's a direct link to the application form: https://swapspace.typeform.com/to/Bg59Xe

If that doesn't work, send me an email (it's in my hacker news profile).
How long will it take to replicate Lex Machina? :D
You might not need Boto 3
Verizon still operates a legacy CDMA network which iPhones are compatible with, no? Or are newer models now only compatible with their LTE network?
I'm pretty new, but I've found a few ways. Most useful to modern development is a package called Iceberg, which is a git interface...you can export your classes/code/etc, commit them, and pull them into different images. You get to choose what you export, so you can only export your code.

There's also Monticello which is similar, but uses different repository types than git.

You can also just "File out" a class or package, which exports it to the file system.
Can you add direct link to their startups website or app from their profile? Only name is there and many are having too generic name and its difficult to find their website/app.
You can do that on any blog! E.g. blogger.com
Every single VZW and Sprint phone sold in the US has a CDMA modem. They all support 1xRTT and EVDO.
You do not seem to be aware of just how bad poverty and inequality has gotten for everyone.

https://www.prb.org/us-inequality-poverty/

Yes, black Americans do have worse outcomes than white Americans.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/psmag.com/.amp/economics/four-f...

However, we should not be splitting hairs over who has it worse or bickering about how to make poor dumb white families pay for the injustices of systemic racism that they had no hand in creating or maintaining.

There are a lot of poor people in America and they all deserve our help. If we continue to pick and choose who we help based on what minority sub-group makes the most noise we will only accomplish division. If the top 1% can increase their wealth by 20%in a year then we can also improve schools, health care, and access to affordable financing for all poor people. Instead we get divisive platitudes that alienate poor whites and never actually help poor blacks.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/02/concen...

We should start by funding public schools equally by head count instead of from property taxes.

https://www.thenation.com/article/how-unequal-school-funding...

Then we should probably end the inane war on drugs, fix healthcare, free the slaves filling prisons that do not pose a danger to society, overturn CU, and build some affordable damn houses.
+1. Even my mom and dad use Signal. Like, use it. Not can use it. They use it.
There's no mention of whether applications will gracefully degrade if there's no threads support. What happens in that case? Or should developers have to check whether threads are enabled?
Late reply. But in Australia this is seen as 'okay' as generally the entry level job is to go the graduate role route which requires zero experience.
So what we're going to do is give you a space on the internet.
some sort of space that's all your own.
ispace?
ownspace?
mespace?
how about myspace.....
But owning property in your neighborhood my drive up your rents so you need to move.
We found it good enough to build internal apps. Better than our current JS setup because it’s far more productive.

It’ll make its way into .net core 3.0, so I think it’s more than just a poc.

It’s early of course and not very flexible, if you want to build something it wasn’t meant for, it breaks.
Only country in Asia? What? Japan, South Korea, Brunei, Hong Kong (in the latter, it can depend on the pipes in older buildings, but the water coming from the mains is definitely safe).
The short format also encouraged better structuring of arguments and discouraged long, hard to process paragraphs. Together with threading it's often using to fairly significant success.

I don't think a person who can't be bothered to structure their writing for twitter would do much better on a blog. There is a significant difference in legibility, but it's not a clear win; I know both people who process well-written Twitter threads better than the usual article, and people who have struggle with its visual layout.

In the end, I don't think a sweeping dismissal of the format is justified. The website's problems stem far more from excessively bad moderation, not the character limit.
Have you heard of Scuttlebutt? https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
How does EDSU compare?
your wix site takes very long to load for me
My personal guess is that they wanted to release the printed spec before they released the code. The spec has now been released, the 10.14 source has not, maybe apfs.kext will be in the 10.14 source drop.

(also, HFS+ and its fsck have always been open-source with OS X)
Sure, the exact same policies won't work. But even rural Japan is very clean compared to most of Europe, even, so there clearly are ways to sort it out
I recommend you a study on "social capital" by Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron titled The inheritors. I disagree with all of the conclusions they draw and the recommendations they make but the rest of their analytical work is brillant and insightful.

Sadly there doesn't seem to be an easily accessible english translation. If you read French you should go for it, as it is arguably one of its most important and underrated work.

I found this companion/introduction to Bourdieu's work but I cannot vouch for it: https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Power-Sociology-Pierre-Bourdi...
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You-know-what, I owe myself and everyone involved with that project a little more info:

I was the lead PM responsible for managing the implementation of the OpenStack on RedHat+IBM with Intel TXT being the premise of the implementation such that RH could go back and replicate into their own thing...

It was a nightmare project, but on no part, individually of RH, Intel or IBM or Mirantis...

Openstack just was NOT READY for production secure workloads.

The project was just a bunch of people trying to do their best with shitty tools...

But, openstack/shift/the-current-marketplace wouldnt be without the sacrifice of crap on the battlefield.

So, at the end of the day, just hope that all your failures are something that others can trample to make-the-world-a-better-place...
The reasoning I have heard for Samsung handsets shipping with Qualcomm chips in the US is the need to be compatible with legacy CDMA networks (which is the patent issue).

Flagship Samsung handsets everywhere except the US and China ship with Exynos SOC.
Nobody is stopping you from just using arrays for everything - remember they're also objects.

const a = [2,3,…]
a.prop = "hi"

Now whether that's actually something you should be doing is a different matter...
The brakes themselves are no better, you can save time by removing the input lag between the driver and the controls. There's 20 feet of braking saved by not having to move your foot from the floor to the pedal.

Also the car can signal it's intent to the steering, braking, and throttle instead of the car having to guess at what the driver is doing from their inputs. A car knowing it has to swerve around something can react sooner and differently than if it has to guess that it's swerving around something.
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Interestingly, you're always in these threads arguing forcefully that some feature that might improve user anonymity is bad or dismissible for nearly any reason. You both have a lot of time to spend commenting, as well as a rapid-response opinion that's consistently about slowing the rate of anonymity. Why is that exactly?
“The success of democracy is exactly the possibility to effect change without shouldering grave personal risks. Trying to reframe this accomplishment as ineffective, weak, or lazy runs the danger of provoking exactly the sort of dramatic, self-sacrificing gestures that have been in the news recently.“

Wow, that quote is breathtakingly beautiful...and it’s so relavent today. Many have this self righteous feverish belief that their side is good and the other evil. When we as a society begin taking for granted the benefits of democracy and start truly believing we can’t enact change, the number of nut jobs committing violence will absolutely increase. Tribalism today is insane, and our ability to enact change peaceful,h keeps the violence and the bad acting to an extreme minimum. It’s easy to get lost in the chaos.

Honestly, I’m completly blown away by that quote and I’m using it as a rebuttal when these topics come up.
Interestingly enough, I almost completely ignore the gamer side of reddit.(DotA being the exception)

To me, Reddit's the last bastion to find good conversation for people with many niche interests without going too crazy. (4chan is a bit too eccentric for my tastes)

I frequent the soccer, manga, headphones, metal, male fashion, thrifting, cooking and fitness subreddits.

No other forum let's me feel like a part of such a wide array of topics with discussion being the core focus. To be able to maintain anonymity while nuturing a community is incredibly hard, and Reddit had somehow managed it. The communities in Reddit are second to none. From meta jokes to entire sagas, Reddit in some ways reminded me of the times when I played Mmorpgs and joined guilds.

The removal of custom subreddit themes was where to me it started going wrong.
I didn't care what they did with the popular subreddits and r/all, as long as they left the niche subreddits alone. But no, they had to interfere.

Reddit's forced UI change is to me a symptom of a greater problem. The idea that a company never stops growing. Sometimes you hit gold and the best decision is to stick with it.

I don't think any website offers the product Reddit does, and allows easily migration for entire communities without compromises. Thus, if the current web landscape stays the same, Reddit isn't going anywhere. But, it took weeks for Digg to die once Reddit came alive, and the introduction of a well moderated website for discussion may be all it takes for the Reddit exodus.

It is no surprise, that I find myself on HN typing this comment. An HN clone may just be where Reddit refugees find their calling.
It does not convert high-level procedural code to FPGA gates. It's na DSL, and in fact you still have to think like a hardware designer/computer architect.
No. That is the link that does not load.
Also cannot see your email in your profile. Perhaps not enough karma on my side? I know I shouldnt have kicked that cute puppy!!!
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Sounds a lot like going back to the anonymous/pseudonymous usenet groups and forums that we had before 'social networking' became a buzzword.

Why use Twitter for such things, given its limitations? Why not use a blog, personal site, or forum where instead of just posting a link you can also write your thoughts about it, etc.? I get not wanting to bother with running a personal site or maintain a blog, but there are tons of hobby forums.

Personally, I never got the appeal of Twitter, and while I did enjoy early Facebook, since it jumped the shark I use it primarily as a long-term contact list for people that I don't talk to very often so that we'll still have a way to connect if one of us changes email addresses/phone numbers before the next time we talk.
This is the comment I came to this thread hoping to see.
Unfortunately not the biggest one though. I too have a old 2012 macbook pro with hdd. While it was flying under snow leopard it now grinds to a halt every time i open any app or document. Already ordered an ssd but still dreaming of downgrading it back to snow leopard.