skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Malls were dying long before Amazon and the reason was big box stores, not Amazon. Also most malls pre-2000 or so were barely giving lip service to the community aspect of malls. It was all about shopping and that's it.

Many malls are being successfully revived now specifically because they have meaningfully invested in making them community spaces (stages with daily performances, play areas for kids, even larger and better food courts, chess/checker boards and playing areas, etc) which is something that Amazon can never compete against (unless they get into malls of course).

You see a similar thing with "old mainstreet USA" which for many years people lamented were disappearing because of big box stores and white flight (many many cities in the southeast) which now are vibrant and booming because they invested, again, in community and human experience by widening sidewalks, subsidising new theaters, restaurants and bars, adding cheap or free downtown parking - it all worked! Cities like Winston-Salem, NC (the one I'm most familiar with) that were wastelands in the early 2000's but are amazing places to hang out (and shop!) now.

Anyway, I disagree that it is all about utility. Malls competing head to head with Amazon just on shopping are doomed because what else in that equation are you even offering except utility and savings? But the idea that utility necessarily trumps (twitch) community doesn't jibe with my understanding of the facts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18248230
Or: Amazon is going to heavily recruit former-DoD and government workers, luring them from low pay rates to high paying jobs. Reduce hiring friction: you don't need to convince them to uproot their families to move. They already live in the area, hell, their commute doesn't even change.

Are you more likely to award contracts to AWS if you work at the DoD knowing that in two years you can move over and suddenly quintuple your salary?
There was an old study that made the rounds, which I cannot find at the moment, that corporation headquarter moves overwhelming move towards the CEO's home. They do lots of studies and analysis and claims of doing what's best for the company, but in the end the primary driving force is the convenience of a single person (and everyone who reports to that person weighting and biasing to favor the desired outcome).
My point is that all the deplatforming that Germany does - which is extreme for a democracy - was still not enough to actually prevent parties like AfD. Everybody knows what they stand for, but in a free society, you can't imprison people for wink-wink-nudge-nudge. For political censorship to be actually effective, it must be much more oppressive - of the kind seen in authoritarian countries. But then, of course, if you implement it, you end up living in one. And if you don't, then what's there is just security theater.
Northern VA sucks. Come east to MD its a million times better.
No kitchen? What?
Game live streaming at a reasonable latency.
The richest man on Earth can buy any number of houses wherever Amazon builds an office.
Ah, that's right. I see a lot of Quanta articles floating around too. Do they offer a paid service, or anything? Or do they make anything available in ePub formats?
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China putting some muslims, that may have been radicalizing, in camps to study Chinese history seems a lot better than the alternatives we employed in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
> You can talk in hand-wavey (sic.) sound bites about civil liberties

I'm not waving any hands. I'm firmly advocating self-filtering over authoritarian censorship as a means of regulating community content platforms. I am also explaining that I believe my stance is in tune with our guiding political principles in the US because it is the option that does not systemically promote oppression.

> that's not the world we've chosen to create,

What? It is exactly the world we intended to create in the US (you might have missed my caveat, and I noticed your spelling of favor). I'm referencing political philosophy from the federalist papers and from the prior art they're somewhat inspired by. Many of the people who founded the US were religiously oppressed and sought to create exactly a world that would prevent such oppression from manifesting again. It's where the whole separation of church and state comes from.

> and it's hard to understand how you can earnestly compare racism and homosexuality.

I'm not sure I follow. I'm not comparing homosexuality and racism. Where did I do that? But since you mention it, it actually sounds like you might not be aware of the extent to which homosexuals have historically been persecuted, experienced oppression, and had their liberties and even lives taken from them.

> Are violent racists oppressed when they're not permitted to deny the rights of minorities

Violent racists are jailed when they commit acts of violence. They could claim the mere existence of some class is oppressive and not allowing them to eradicate it infringes upon their rights. It's unlikely that strategy would get them anywhere because the right to genocide is not a universally understood and acknowledged human right (in the US, anyway).

Nobody is ever allowed to deny rights that we the people have agreed to defend--it's illegal because it's oppressive--that's the point. We are all supposed to enjoy the liberties we've agreed are core to our constitution, not just those of us who are "right". Saying, "Blacks aren't people" or, "Kill the Jews" does not deprive members of the respective class (or anyone) of their person-hood, or their liberty so we tolerate it even though it's stupid.

> Perhaps when you're philosophising (sic.) in comments on the internet about civil liberties they're the same but in the real world they are not.

I guess the internet isn't real life? If so, why do you care so much about de-platforming and censoring toxic minority views on internet community platforms? Anyway, I do not believe the ends justify the means. I do not support oppression or removal of civil liberties so that we can gosh darn it eradicate those pesky racists. To do so would required us to declare them sub-human (by constitutional definition) and strip them of their liberties and remove them from our communities. "Let's round up all the racists and get rid of them..." That sounds a little -ist or -azi for my tastes.

As to your last paragraph, anyone who thinks xbone is better than PS4 probably isn't human so they never had a chance anyway (;
> Full stack enginner has experience and implements features across all these technologies.

I guess most of the 90s and early 00s web devs were full stack then, including setting up the servers ("dev ops" I guess).
I some countries is still a challenge to forbid use of plastic bags on supermarkets and plastic straws. We just keep throwing this disposable stuff out like crazy.
Montreal Winters are much worse than Toronto's and Vancouver's.
Wouldn't this still be useful information as a diagnostic tool? If someone is on a screen for 7 hours a day, it's twice as likely they're depressed. That seems worth disseminating.
I wonder how much the locals are giving away to make this happen?
> If they wanted a quiet neighbourhood they could move to a smaller town or further out from the city centre, but I don't think they do.

Well, I did move out to a smaller town, pretty much as far away from the regional megapolis as I could while still being within reach of its metro area. But it seems that demand for "moving out" is such that it turns small towns into big towns pretty quickly, which kinda defeats the purpose. I'm not opposed to paying higher property taxes to keep the neighborhood low-density, but it's not like we even get that option.
I honestly think that a lot of people in the US think it's more important that their party wins than having fair elections. So I don't expect a big push coming from the people who are responsible for these purchases.
TIL what reverse open is; nifty.
A family-owned voting machine company’s main incentive is to sell voting machines. A PE firm might be able to hedge themselves into vast upsides from particular election outcomes — much larger amounts of money than the sale of voting machines — and then affect the outcome.
I’m really hoping Amazon can be the force that helps crush WMATA resistance to reform. All hail Bezos.
Oh, Guest mode, that makes everything OK then. lol
> Let me start off by conceding that you're more knowledgable and experienced than me (which you inferred from my post and attempt at designing a language anyway) and I am in no way trying to challenge that.

Self-humiliation never helped anyone to get more experience. I am not trying to look knowledgable. I'm scared of yet another determined person making a programming language.

> There should (ideally at least) be only one way of doing async functions. I know that I plan to have lambda functions in my language. You might say that I contradict my own example. I am yet to think of a way to counter having two ways of approaching async.

Sometimes you subtly change the way the programming language works by introducting several magical words to it. For example, you can add `throw` and `try...catch` to get very similar language, but now jumping from a point of error towards its handler doesn't require you to change all the functions that are between them. Likely there are `async` and `await` that let you pause and resume code execution threads. Such subtle changes are easily implemented through monads, but in current implementations burden of required knowledge is way too big.

> I did give this thought but implying the type doesn't make it obvious that the variable cannot store other types. What are your thoughts on this?

There is a nice property of programming languages: a language having principal types. This means that every expression in the language can have one and only one most general type. OOP languages don't have this property, so they lose type inference. If you have `class A extends B` and want to do `B x = new A`, you have to write both types anyway. I'd recommend avoiding OOP at all cost, and take a look at O'Caml, row polymorphism and MLsub type system.

> Am I misinterpreting what you're saying?

What's the type of `println`? Isn't it `println(string): void`? If so, how did it get `int` (or whatever type you assign to integer literals) argument without a type checking error?
> Not array, but list.

First, nobody needs lists in 2018. Lists is a horrible data structure with most operations having bad asymptotic complexity. There are usages in algorithms (skip lists etc), but end-user code just never uses lists. Some pure functional programming languages have a set of compiler passes (that work only for pure functional languages) that allows to work with "lists" but in the end they get abolished from binary. That's not about your programming language.

The magical syntax I'm talking about is just that it has all these `[]` and `[...]` in type. Why can't you make it a generic, like, `array<int>` or `array[int]`?

> The latter is the splicing syntax—shorthand for running a for loop over elements 2 through 4 (exclusive).

Why do you have to use magic syntax, when you could have just made a function with 2 arguments? I mean, Haskell implements `enumFromTo` function and `[a..b]` sugar for it, but your `array[a..b]` is neither first-class (what do you do if you want to make a pointer to this function?) nor short.

> The plan is to make it that way because of how the visual representation of repeated exponents in math works. Your thoughts?

Either that, or just make it non-associative (a ^ b ^ c will be a syntax error then).
Privacy-sensitive communication MUST be transport encrypted, if not end-to-end. What are the plans here and how soon will it be implemented?
You mean security updates?
> Is there any reason I should avoid having too many keywords?

Yes, a lot of the reasons. Not only users might want to use those words for something else, and not only you make your parser bigger, but you also make a language description bigger. "Operators" are just functions written between their arguments. Just let users define functions that are written between arguments. Of prior art you might look at mixfix notation, or something as simple as Haskell's backquotes.

> I get what you're suggesting. Probably not today at this very moment.

Actually the point was not to implement `finally` at all. It's just a sloppy language design of Java that made it a thing.

> I was thinking they would use star values`

Take a look on C++ and its variadic templates, or heterogenous lists in Scala or Haskell. Variant is never ever an option (unless you're creating a Basic).

> Those things are hazardous to people's lives.

Do realize that bad programming languages are hazardous to people's lives too! Every stupid mistake you make in language design leads to millions of hours wasted by programmers, and even more if the language design bug persists in runtime of resulting programs. The lost time is computed in _lifetimes_. In a proper society this would be a criminal offence equivalent to murder, and yes, I'm serious on this.

> trying something is the best way of learning

Trying is a great thing, but publishing on github and announcing in one of the biggest newsfeeds for programmers is a different thing, don't you think?
For federal loans, which are the overwhelming majority of student loans the REPAYE plan allows borrowers to pay 10% of their income after 150% of the federal poverty line for their household size.

As a worked example a single person making $35,000 a year will owe $140/month regardless of total federal debt. After 20 years the remaining balance is forgiven (though the forgiven amount is taxable income).

There are certainly situations where ends can simply not be met, but in general it is not a good idea to default on those loans.
I know some Tucsonans that might be interested.
The monorail corridor is developed with plenty of shops and apartments. The main issue is that the road under it is so wide and unpleasant to cross, as well as slightly dangerous due to the fact that it divides a one-way road in half. But this isn't really that bad: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.614548,-122.3406401,3a,60y,1...

If Fifth were two-way I would have a lot less of an issue with the monorail, though it would be nice if they added a stop in the vicinity of Denny Way.
Yeah, that sounds really fluffy and sweet until you realise there's a huge barrier for entry: you won't easily have ROI since you need to invest in infrastructure. Heck, you won't even have the wireless 4G licenses. There's only so many.

There are 4 major mobile telcos in The Netherlands. #3 wants to merge with #4 (Tele2) so we may end up with a triopoly [1], and #3 may then use the cheap LTE/4G license which #4 got for a cheap price.

For wired, if you're lucky you can pick fiber. Otherwise you're stuck with cable or DSL from the duopolists [2], if they even both provide decent network at your location, that is. All the others are merely resellers who don't own the actual network(s).

It isn't much different in the rest of Europe. What is different is that there's more opponents of net neutrality, and obviously a duopoly is better than a monopoly, and a triopoly is better than a duopoly or monopoly. However it is far from an ideal situation; it isn't a healthy market. Who'd have thought if you sold entire infrastructures to companies (the cable infrastructure were owned by the local governments before, and the telephone network by the government as well) or if you sell a limited amount of licenses.

[1] KPN, Ziggo (VodafoneZiggo joint venture), T-Mobile.

[2] KPN, Vodafone (VodafoneZiggo joint venture).
Some of it is genuinely useful: a 50 year old Sunbeam Mixmaster is going to need some maintenance but will last another few decades if taken care of vs the crap built with plastic gears these days.

I think these antique malls spring up as much as anything from people who valuing these items collecting them. At some point you wake up and realize unless you're going to open a museum you don't actually need 10 examples of whatever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem

>The species problem is the set of questions that arises when biologists attempt to define what a species is. Such a definition is called a species concept; there are at least 26 recognized species concepts
That's what I am thinking too.
Are you sure? Have you ever seriously tried to buy a good piano?

I have, and I couldn’t find any cheap ones (i.e. cheaper than a very good digital piano).

The ones that look cheap in the small ads are generally in poor condition. The vintage ones in good condition are expensive, and new ones are expensive.
Yes, i guess there is little doubt that capsicum is the superior (compared to seccomp) capabilities framework, but if it's not used outside of FreeBSD's base, (e.g. ssh, bhyve, etc.) then it is indeed a shame.
Why? It's much, much more comfortable once you get used to it.
Did you read much about the production of that documentary, or any of the reviews? It is not well-regarded, its creator isn't a journalist, and it was funded (on Kickstarter) in large part by MRA activists.

From the Village Voice review (which is not charitable), and remember the context that her doc opens with an exploration of "rape culture":

I feel comfortable calling her “propagandist” because of my own “research” (ie. “reading the top search results”). Here’s something Elam wrote on A Voice for Men in 2010: “Should I be called to sit on a jury for a rape trial, I vow publicly to vote not guilty, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that the charges are true.” What excuse would any serious documentarian have for not asking Elam to explain that?
WMATA is swimming in money. The problem is the WMATA union. But maybe Amazon can help with that too.
Boeing HQ has nothing much to do with production, however, whereas I assume Amazon's HQ2 to have a lot of R&D in addition to its executive suite.
Even tough you've very eloquently made you point, would you care to elaborate? What of my argument is -- to quote you -- 'B.S.'?
I dunno what average consumer means. Here in Australia almost everybody on train have an iPhone not older that 1 gen back. Some minority has flagship Samsung’s. Some of the geeky people have top notch(no pun intended) pixels or one plus, all flagships, but this is really a minority from my anecdotal experience. Most of the regular people that I see use some version of an iPhone. Apple Stores are being packed compared to the Samsung store across the street. The price is not a problem I think. People just buy it on two year contracts or loans and being just fine with it.
Using mailcow for hosting your own mail server is a awesome and smooth experience
Sandstorm is great but apps really don't get updated anymore sadly. The founders also now have day jobs with CF, so probably don't get oodles of time to work on it.

Cloudron I've heard is excellent, completely dockerizes and automates everything with a slick webui, has lots of apps, however I just am unwilling to pay $15 a month for it.

Will likely roll my own apps/services with Rancher/haproxy/LE (or traefik as the reverse proxy/SSL term) on my sufficiently beefy Netcup rootserver KVM instance (at 8G should handle everything I want to do, but will likely use up most of it's resources which is fine).
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DC hardly needs any help to give federal employees higher COL, it's already more expensive than Seattle, and is about as expensive as Brooklyn, NYC: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/region_rankings.jsp?ti...
Soooo, how about we try it? There existed no proof PoW was even possible, and then Bitcoin tried it and here we are today.
It's been culturally significant since 1939 and still is. There are still packed shows there almost every night. Music is one of the few places Seattle really has culture.

>Founded in 1939,[4] the Showbox has hosted a diverse offering of music over the decades. From the Jazz Age to the Grunge Era, the ballroom has featured shows by Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters and the Ramones — as well as local artists such as burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee, and grunge bands Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, TAD and Screaming Trees.[5]

>Other acts to perform at The Showbox have included Al Jolson, Mae West, Nat King Cole, Jimmy Durante and Dizzy Gillespie, The Police, XTC, X, Blondie, Gang of Four, Iggy Pop, Devo, Dead Kennedys and Jerry Cantrell.[7][8] More recent performers include The Weeknd, Snoop Dogg, Dave Matthews, Kanye West, Lorde, Robbie Williams, Modest Mouse, Death Cab For Cutie, Public Enemy, PJ Harvey, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Daft Punk, Kasabian, Old 97's, Elliott Smith, Peter Murphy, Guided By Voices, Built To Spill, Billy Idol, David Bazan, Bebel Gilberto, Cat Power, Spiritualized, Sleater-Kinney, Minus the Bear, Coldplay, Bright Eyes, The Roots, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Dita Von Teese, Maroon 5, The Shins, The Melvins, My Morning Jacket, LL Cool J, DJ Shadow, Scissor Sisters, TV On The Radio, Ke$ha, Kimbra, Marina and the Diamonds, B-52's, Lady Gaga, Ice Cube, Paul Simon, Macklemore, JoJo, (Kpop group) A.C.E and many more.[9][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Showbox
From what I know, Android app has to run a background service to listen for GSM notifications so if you kill it - no notifications for you. Am I being wrong, has it changed? My last android dev experience is about 5 years old.
Given how wealthy that area already is I'm guessing not as much as other places would have been willing to give us (i.e. IIRC New Jersey and Chicago were offering some of the bigger tax incentives). It would be more because Bezos wants those gov't contracts badly than anything VA was offering.
Or a person who expresses their depression in an obvious way, like spending 7 hours a day in front of a screen, might be more likely to be noticed and helped toward a diagnosis.
Every time someone posts something about OpenBSD, there is someone who will post how hardware support is a problem.

Maybe, not everything is supported, but on ThinkPad, almost all (if not all) hardware is supported, yes (lots of developers use these machines). However, I've run OpenBSD on very cheap laptops also, with the only thing unsupported usually being the wifi. This is easily solvable by buying a cheap/supported USB dongle for $10 or less.

OTOH, I've tried the most common Linux distro on a ThinkPad last week, and I couldn't even install because of the installer crashing (no, before anyone asks, the integrity was checked and it was OK).
Regarding your new model of acceptance of how Bitcoin is going to be, that would make Bitcoin nothing less than a meme-coin. Which of course can work, just look a Dogecoin. However, it's kind of sad if that happens.
I thought article would be about the sorts of books read by the sort of people who read the Chronicle, and sure enough it was. And that was fine with me. If I wanted the sort of list a different sort of group would produce, I would go somewhere else.

As to evidence these are the most influential books in their fields, I assume they spend a lot of time reading what other people in their field say they were influence by, and so I trust they know what they are talking about.

Or is it perhaps your belief that social science and humanities professors should not be allowed to talk about such things?
Maybe we remember different things. The way I remember it, the early internet had plenty of horrible stuff and the sky didn't fall. I think silencing people (legally or otherwise) doesn't help reduce murder rate or anything. It just silences people.
How do you define pretty big?

This report[1] suggests less that 2,000 sq-ft on average for most of the Bay Area sold in the past 12 months. Based on median lot size for detached home sales (0.25 acre in Diablo Valley being the largest by a huge margin; 2,500 sq-ft lots in SF), most are certainly multi-story units.

In summary: less than 2,000 sq-ft, appreciably less than 0.25 acre lot, multi-story.

[1] https://www.bayareamarketreports.com/trend/bay-area-market-s...