skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mall bookstores have sought to do just that over the last few years. They have slashed their stock of actual books and instead have focused on shelving things of more visual appeal: vinyl records, imported Japanese sets and other bric-a-brac, cute Kikkerland products, etc.

In spite of developing that stock that looks nice, I don’t think it is enough to keep those stores afloat. People might walk in and look at that stuff, they might use the store as a “leisure” opportunity, but they don’t necessarily buy much. After all, a lot of those vinyl records and Kikkerland stuff is available online for much cheaper. Even if visitors do make a purchase from the brick-and-mortar shop, are enough of them doing it to pay the high rents on mall spaces?

One large non-mall bookstore in my town went the route of moving away from selling purely books towards highlighting more attractive items. When even this was not enough to actually make money, they stayed afloat by turning a whole floor of the shop into a membership-based coworking space. Mall bookstores don’t have that luxury, again due to very constrained space.
California, for one.
Few people have set up that feature from what I’ve seen.
Yes, would love to see much more analysis on this data state by state. Which states have the lowest rates of police misconduct? And is it an indicator of better training and accountability, or more corruption with practices that sweep misconduct under the rug?
Thousands take to Hong Kong streets to protest new extradition laws
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I mean, I read the script (Tools -> Script Editor) and there's nothing weird, besides if you make copy to your own drive I guess its fine
I said basically exactly this yesterday in a comment on a story and got down voted.

This place is jacked up. Even hackers don't think right anymore.
Where are affordable homes anymore in any big city in the world now? A good apartment in Delhi, India, is 4-6 times the annual income of a high income DINK couple with salaries in excess of $40-50k each (a big amount in India)

I can't think of a single major economic center that has affordable housing now.
"A good pilot starts his right engine first"

It would at least have been nice to say why that is though. My guess: because the support people outside expect that one first?
The reason I think they're effectively equivalent is say I have an IOT device that it's command and control is on example.com.

When using NTP and having stolen a certificate in the IOT devices trust store for example.com. I spoof the time and then I can spoof example.com because the devices clock is now in the validity time for the stolen certificate.

When using server time over TLS and having stolen a certificate, the device on cold boot (Or all the time depending on how well written it's implemented) will connect to the server ignoring the validity time, and again get it's clock set to a time that matches the certificate.

Either of these methods require compromising the private key for the cert. Basically the weakness is using time to limit the window for a compromised cert is a lot harder on IOT devices which routinely don't maintain their clocks.

Now, if the TLS based time service was running under a different cert, it might change the surface area a bit. Since the cert for the TLS based time service would also need to be breached, along with the example.com certificate (2 certs in theory should be harder to breach, but it depends on the org and how they leaked the secret in the first place).

This also depends on the IOT device manufacturer not signing a certificate for 25 years that will basically never expire regardless of the time (which I've seen).
Not for anything substantial plus there are plenty of solar and (all wind) that doesn't sit on someone's roof.
> I see no reason why humanity must crowd trample each other in tiny metropolitan areas when there are so many affordable -- and likely more beautiful -- places to live in.

This is an incredibly disingenuous argument. You use "must" as if the opposing side is the one forcing people to live a certain way, but it's actually your side that pushes for strong regulations limiting population density even when people do want to live in a big city.

Nobody's suggesting banning living in rural areas or small towns. But regulations as they currently exist work to push people from living in big metros where the good jobs are. That's not the market, that's incumbents using government power to dictate lifestyles for their neighbors and potential immigrants.
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I mean, with some Stripe implementations, for example, you are trusting the merchant not to store the CC # before sending it to Stripe for tokenization, whereas w/ PayPal your CC # is only ever entered on PayPal.com.

I say this as a person who hates PayPal.
As a pedestriab I've been nearly hit by a cyclist way more often than nearly hit by a car. Running red lights on a bike in a city is very dangerous to people crossing the street.
Crossrail blames software ‘bugs’ for possible two-year delay
Right. I think they will fail if they don't transition to a democratic system. What an amazing country it would become if that happens.
An individual millennial != millenials. One is a irrelevent single data point from which no genratiles may be stated. The other, an aggregate providing probalities of traits. And thus basis for generalities.
Surely there's a middle ground?

I'm almost certainly not the person my co-workers would choose to be friends with or go out of their way to have present when not at work. I'm totally cool with that. The feeling is mutual.

But I'm also fairly certain that (while even our best friends always have some habits we find irritating) for the most part they find me pleasant enough to be around and interact with.

It matters to me that my colleagues find me pleasant and easy to work with, friendly, and not grating. It doesn't matter much to me whether they particularly like me as a person as long as our interpersonal relationship is good enough to effectively facilitate our professional relationship.

On the other hand, if I find you frustrating to work with on a professional level, it doesn't matter how pleasant you are to have a beer with. I'm going to resent you and wish we didn't have to work together.
This is one facet of what my talk is going to be about: https://ccc2019cfp.busyconf.com/activities/5c3a57314808fac10...

I was accepted for a presentation "SigInt for the Masses;Building and Using a Signals Intelligence Platform for Less than $150"

I already have the device built, and so does someone else on the west coast!

My repo is here, which includes 3d printables (that I designed and printed), Bill of Materials, and bash standup scripts from current Raspbian. https://gitlab.com/crankylinuxuser/siginttablet

What does it look like? https://imgur.com/a/rImW7av

With the nrf mousejack / gr-nordic: https://twitter.com/CrankyLinuxUser/status/11188788307463086...

If you look through my scripts, I compile both gr-gsm and gr-lte, along with https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher.git as referenced in the project. The signals I can work with/attack/listen are as follows:

tx: 100KHz-1.5GHz
rx: 20MHz-1.7GHz
duplex: 802.11abgn
duplex: nRF24LU1 (nearly all non-BT wireless keyboards and mice)
indeed. i dont think its wise to dismiss the corporate aversion to 'heroes'. while its certainly possible to make an outsized contribution without getting burned out or devaluing other contributors, thats often not what happens.
> I dont need access to every book. I want to know what the best books are.

Reading is such a personal thing that the “best books” for you are probably not the best books for other people. When tastes are so disparate, when the cultural space has fragmented so greatly, then a shop cannot succeed by stocking just a certain set of books. They need an ability to sell to everyone of whatever taste, and online bookshops have an advantage there that malls don’t.
Several UK rail projects have been badly hit problems with software.
The difference being that fox was never marginalized, it's always been mainstream.
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Man, you will know. Trust me. But in general:

"Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them."

Steve Martin
Thousands of Japanese centenarians may have died decades ago (2010)
Isn't that assuming that you buy your domain from OVH:
https://www.ovh.co.uk/domains/start10m_hosting_offer.xml
Not as out of place as popular media would have you believe. Ancient civilizations had analog computers, automatons, steam engines etc the Romans were responsible for destroying most of it, they were only interested in weapons tech, set us back at least two thousand years.

Further reading: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/14162.html
Free speech improves the human condition. Therefore, by your own argument, the authorities have the moral obligation to forcibly censor your own anti-free speech comments.
Even in smaller cities, Japanese urban design usually makes for much higher levels of density than for equivalent population US cities.
> and you were singling out philosophy

No, I wasn't. You made claims about philosophy and I uttered my doubts because they didn't match my personal experience at all. You then decided to tell me how bad STEM was, which I hadn't even mention.

> you have a severe misconception that none of these “bullshit majors” are useful

That's not what I said. They might very well be useful, my point is that we should let the market decide whether they are. Vague statements about some loss of culture or a descent into dystopian nightmares if we don't finance them just isn't that - it's fear mongering to push something through without giving those a vote that are supposed to pay for it.

> “torture people” is bringing your argument to absurity

You should've taken a few philosophy classes, especially logic. Using extremes and hypothetical situations is what you do to test an argument/claim. If you present a claim and I present to you an example that makes your claim fall short, there's no "well, exceptions prove the rule", that's not how logic works.

> You’re basically arguing that individuality is a bad thing now.

Somewhat, sure. I don't like the kind of individuality that wants all the freedom but puts the responsibility (that is: footing the bill) on other people. Either say "I want to be free, and I will suffer the consequences of my decisions" or enjoy the protection of the collective at the cost of having to also submit to the collective's rules & needs, and limit your freedom. If you want the collective to pay for what you study & work in, choose something that the collective needs and it will gladly pay for it.
It depends on the aircraft. It started out as SOP, but after a while it became expected practice. A few airframes require the right to be started first, either because the left doesn't have an electric starter or because various power devices are attached to the right but not the left, common in multiengine helicopters.

Passengers and crew traditionally enter from doors on the left of an aircraft. So in many situations the right engine is kept running while the left is shutdown to accommodate passenger entry. You wouldn't start left, then right, only to shutdown left to board pax.

As for safety, one would never start an engine if it would be unsafe to start a different engine. You wouldn't start the right while someone was working around the left. A single crossed wire or slip of the finger is too high a risk to take.
The message of the Wild Duck is sort of unpopular. If we could somehow stage the play on HN, it'd probably get massively downvoted :-)
Those 700k trips are operating at a loss, so the numbers are not representative of the effect of gig economy.
As ever, Matt Levine comes in handy here: "The law doesn’t say that any time you trade on material nonpublic information it’s illegal. The law, to oversimplify a complicated area, makes it illegal to trade on material nonpublic information that you obtained in violation of a duty to someone" [0]

Unless Ms. Wong was cracking into companies and stealing pre-release versions of their apps, or had received them on promise of confidentiality, it's hard to see how this would reasonably class as insider trading. As to the market manipulation angle, even if she were trading on the information she uncovered, would this be materially different to short sellers publishing their research on a company to push the stock down?

IANAL

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-13/you-ha...
Alright I found the link. OVH’s 10MB plan only has 1 GB of monthly bandwidth while 1MB’s is unmetered (fair use - don’t abuse). OVH’s 10MB plan doesn’t give you access to a database while 1MB gives you access to a secure NoSQL database. In closing they have more storage but they make up for that by taking away some core functionality that 1MB offers. https://www.ovh.co.uk/domains/start10m_hosting_offer.xml
AAFU: I’m not as smart as everyone said I was
I'm unconvinced that most cities are all that generous, with one glaring exception: pensions.

Even when they are generous, for current spending (money raised and spent in the same year) it doesn't seem like a long-term problem, because they can cut back later. There's even a sense in which spare capacity in good times makes it easier to find low-priority items to cut back on. If everything is already high-priority, what do you do?

But where the cost is locked in, far in the future, and variable, city governments are clearly not good at planning ahead. I'm in favor of generous retirement benefits, but using a 401k-like plan where all costs to the city are up front. Most newer businesses moved to that long ago.
> The point isn’t that these jobs didn’t exist or were replaced 1:1, the point is that there is a super steep demand curve in these services so a drop in price by 10% means 10x demand at that reduced price, which means the number of drivers now is much much more tha. It used to be to satisfy those orders

Let me go out on a limb and say: who gives a shit that there’s now more demand? This is not a good thing, demand for Uber is often replacing demand for public transit and bringing with it additional congestion[1], pollution, and waste in the classical “broken window” style. This is economic growth for the sake of itself - not towards any kind long term prosperity for the human race.

[1] https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/curcp_16/147/
Is it common for an intern to get such an impactful project?
I think most would expect to just have a remote Git repo where you can push your site to. That would then do a checkout on the web server automatically.
That's good.

I realised things were not good between me and my SO one day at the beach. I was there alone, kitesurfing. When I got out of the sea I met a guy and we chatted for a while, shooting the shit, having a laugh, poking fun at each others home made hydrofoil kiteboards.

Then his wife pulled up in her car and ran down the beach to kiss him. All excited. She forgot to close her car door.

My SO doesn't look at me like that. I think for my SO it isn't 'hell yes' I think she settled for 'this will do'
That exists: look for 'trusted path'. It was a feature of compartmented mode workstation (CMW) operating systems like Trusted Solaris and lives on in the requirement to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to call up the Windows login prompt. In Trusted Solaris (TSOL) it was a dedicated area of the screen—along the bottom—where no user mode process was allowed to write; the OS displayed a special symbol there (sort of like the padlock in a web browser) when the user was interacting directly with the OS. Some CMW systems even implemented that functionality in hardware, electronically compositing windows from different physical frame buffers to the video display. Ctrl-Alt-Del is actually in hardware, too (or it used to be); the keyboard interface on the first IBM PC detected that specific key combination and toggled the reset line on the CPU (or maybe it was an interrupt; I forget). Every subsequent PC-compatible machine, to this day, has the same functionality built in to the hardware, on the A20 reset line. It's mostly vestigial today.
That’s an argument for controlling tax rate increases for one home owner, it’s not a great argument for why people should be able to pass on their tax rates to their children.

The cumulative effect of prop 13 has been to create a landed aristocracy in California cities who have millions of dollars in real estate and pay almost nothing on it purely because of who their parents were. This situation is even worse when the real estate is rentable, and the owners can collect 2019 rent and pay 1970 tax rates.
IETF working group - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ntp-network-time...
Y92.253 - Opera House as the Place of Occurrence of the External Cause

Operas are so painful to watch there's even a medical code for it.
Why? These drivers often show no remorse for their actions, as I stated. I don't doubt I'd be a victim of a hit-and-run if any of those drivers actually did cause a collision.

I've seen arguments that people are "different" when driving, so perhaps they're a jerk when behind the wheel but a normal person otherwise. I haven't seen any clear evidence for this but it would indicate that the emotional impact would be different.
Also of interest, Moche electroplating.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a...

http://resources.conservation-us.org/osg-postprints/postprin...

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Moche
As a pilot who flies "modern" aircraft, this didn't feel much different than the training & procedures we use today.

I wonder if future spacecraft pilots will be saying the same thing in 75 years when "old SpaceX training videos" surface, or if everything will be automated by then and pilots will have gone the way of lighthouse keepers.
This is a genuine problem across a variety of platforms, not just IoT. There really is no great way to "solve" for trust when one party might have extremely stale information. Awareness of this problem is surprisingly poor.

> In the next blog post of this series we want to introduce a new secure network time protocol based on blockchain technology and show how even the smallest devices can establish completely secure connections.

This is a pretty disappointing way to end the article. Most "solutions" end up being some form of obfuscation, I'd guess this is too.
A tiny minority of teenagers have credit cards. Like maybe 10%.
If you think that "why" someone contributes is meaningful, I'm curious how you think that professional projects (whatever that means) and whatever arbitrary metric is being used to encourage incentive would give a different result.
It's not like the world is running out of space anytime soon.
For non-accelerating masses, or more precisely within an inertial reference frame
> An expectation of unconditional love is often abusive. It often boils down to expecting slavery and servitude from another person.

I agree. I realized this, when my wife told me she would love me unconditionally, and I later pressed her to fulfill that oath in the midst of me behaving unreasonably towards her. That's not love, that's subjection.

What she meant by unconditional love is that she'd love me even if I'm sick and poor, and I'd rather she'd love me then than when I'm being a tyrant.
“Promote developers who demonstrate management skills instead of top notch development skills.”

Instead of? No, that would just make developers think that software skills aren’t valued at all.

There should be multiple equally-prestigious paths so that there is some way to publicly recognize star developers without turning them into managers.
It’s feudal because there are a number of people who own land and can extract an unusually high level of revenue from it purely because of who their parents were. That someone can own inherited land, collect rent, and pay a mere pittance in property tax purely because of who their parents were is as close to an aristocracy as we get in America.

It was never a requirement of feudalism that a land owner had 100% control over their land. Most feudal lords had a greater lord that expected tribute and support during war. In this metaphor land owners would be the lesser lords, not the king.
The key word is "tried". No one, alone or in a group, is "trying" to "kill" the American Mall.
One of my biggest pet peeves about the current labor market is how my healthcare and retirement planning is so tightly coupled to my employer. Can we create a system where you're beholden to your employer for these things but I'm not? I prefer the gig economy.
Not in USA, not in soley their name. People under 18 are not bound by contracts.

I also got CC before 18. We are anomalies, issuer mistakes, not the norm.

Although I wonder how many parents give kids a card on one of their accounts?
The service itself is really cool and lines up nicely with the likes of Netlify and Github pages. I have two concerns though:

1) This doesn't seem to be connected to any major company, so how are you going to handle abuse of the service? With 'free hosting' offerings like this often comes a wave of abuse and malicious actors, so dealing with them is going to take significant resources.

2) How are you planning to monetize the service? Even though most sites hosted wont exceed a few kb, hosting fees will quickly add up, and unless you are using a cheap bare metal server you will likely face significant monthly bills.

These concerns aside, the service looks really awesome for most personal blog use cases, so congratulations to a successful launch!
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Something doesn’t add up. 20% vacancy in Wakayama but foreigners can’t buy houses - https://realestate.co.jp/en/forsale/wakayama
Free-market fanatics see this all as a good thing

I'm not a free-market fanatic. I'm just someone trying to survive under circumstances where the world makes that unnecessarily difficult.

Gig work has been an effective antidote to otherwise impossible problems.

I wish I had a better life. I don't. Your attitude and assumptions are part of the problem for people like me.

The economy you are championing is one that primarily works for cis het white males. Women, people of color and other minorities were typically marginalized.
Nowhere am I arguing that cyclists running red lights is acceptable or excusable. My argument is that drivers speeding is often seen as acceptable, but cyclists running red lights is not, and I'm trying to highlight the asymmetry in the effects.

> Contrast this to speeding. Speed limits by law should be set to the 85th percentile speed, based on the evidence backed notion that drivers will predominantly pick a speed which is safe based on the road conditions, and that it’s most safe when drivers are all proceeding at the same speed.

The 85th percentile rule is meant for highways to my knowledge, not every road. Edit: Here's a criticism of the 85th percentile rule: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/25/speed-kills-so...
Agreed on the point the PLA is increasingly reorganising along professional military model lines.

However, the PLA possesses at its core the General Political Department allows the PLA the ability to conduct warfare well outside the scope of the US military(Title 10) versus CIA(Title 50).

And PLA doctrine includes the Three Warfares:

Public opinion
Psychological
Legal

While the US is focused on lethality.

Lethality doesn’t enhance your country’s integrated network effects.

Just my $0.02!
There's nothing like this even though it seems like there is. Great job.