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The city I live in now only has 2 traditional style malls left. When I moved here numerous years ago it had 7 malls, all of which were accessible by bus. That is a major change and there has been no new malls built. The buildings just stand there like relics of a time gone past. Retail and restaurants have moved into existing strip malls that had space available due to businesses folding. Back where I grew up it is the same story.

I miss the tradition malls because some had unique and good food places. As well as arcades, movie theaters, and places to hang out. Malls that are thriving do so because there is enough population around to support the businesses and they have new stores coming in to fill out the empty spaces.
I have used the REPL in all those languages except for Erlang. Trust me. Nothing compares to Common Lisp's Slime. Not all REPLs are equal.
No way I'd trust an OS like that.
I think the malls in LA and Southern California in general have done a good job in reinventing themselves as destinations rather than merely shopping centers. Especially for teens. Downtown Disney is a good example.

A lot of those outdoor destinations even seem centered around a movie theater now, which one might predict is also on the decline - though every time I've visited these places, they seem pretty packed. (At least, on weekends.)
"What he is describing is better termed as "dynamic"."

The author of this essay is a woman.
Yes I think you nailed it. "I don't suck at this and can't improve at it because it's a male thing and I'm a male"
A 49 kg (108 lbs) bicycle -- yeah, I don't think I want to pedal that. That thing is an electric motorcycle, with pedals if you get desperate. It might be workable if you live someplace very flat.
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If it's actually a conditioned response, from experiencing a lot of unwanted attention from men over time, treating it as a 'brain stem' reaction will only prevent society from resolving the problem.

Women will forever be afraid of men, and men will forever be cast as bad.
Anonymity vs. Real Identity
I think this cuts both ways, I find women have a poor understanding of the dynamics's of men's relationships.
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Thankfully we have another, wiser tech giant to push back against the bad advice of Thiel and Altucher, who seem to think that what happened to them - effectively, winning the lottery, even if they are talented - ought to happen to everybody.
Sort of. “Merit” is more a measure of those groups’ definitions of success. Calling it a meritocracy overly simplifies the circumstances for that success, often reinforcing the power relationships.
Doesn't have to be a big city. Imagine if a small town center had stores and restaurants now!

I think parking can be dealt with in a city center.

I like winter :-p I know not everyone does, though.
> if you perceive the meaning of the words slightly differently based on the skin color of the speaker, it's textbook racism.

What textbook would that be? My dictionary defines racism as:

1. the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

2. prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

This does not suggest to me that it is racist to acknowledge that a shared history (of oppression, in this case) may have an influence on the language of a people.
> Actually, the fact that the other female employees felt secure and relaxed enough that they were hola-hooping in the office suggests otherwise.

No it doesn't, really. There can still be a problem, even if it's easier to ignore it than to cause a fuss and risk your career.

> It's also not necessarily an unhealthy/toxic environment

Absolutely agree - but if, when you add a female developer, there is hostility towards her that appears to be motivated in part by her gender, then one should revise one's opinion of the "healthiness" of that environment.

Obviously this is one person's account and, absent a response from GitHub, it will stay that way. Nevertheless, I'm sorry that she felt victimised, and I think her account is a useful vantage point from which to discuss issues of "cultural fit" in all-male teams.
You're avoiding what I think is the better point, the first one. Her mistreatment by an estranged wife of a founder, in and of itself, doesn't constitute sexism. If her problems with this were ignored because she was a female, that would be sexism. But I didn't see any evidence of that presented and to me it seems more likely they were ignored quite simply because it was the wife of an important person at the company and HR was ineffective at resolving the situation.

Overall the article focuses very little on sexism and more on this really bizarre and inappropriate relationship with the Founder's wife. The section about someone reverting her commits because of being rejection might be a better example, but I don't really even see that as being gender specific either. If a women was rejected by a male coworker and she started reverting commits is that sexism? Jealousy isn't really gender specific and targeted at someone because they are a man or a women. Finally there were some vague mentions of pull request comments that might be sexist, but it's hard to judge without being able to see the comments and she really didn't expand into what about them were sexist.

Overall what I see is a very strange story about incompetence and inappropriate behavior, but very little talk about sexism except in a few random places and at the very end with the hula hoop story. I feel like there is a lot more to this story that has really been told.
I think it could be anything making sense (the default for a german company could be german for instance) as long as switching away is smooth and discoverable. People not familiar with the english alphabet for instance could be lost in the site, getting overwhelmed by the unknow information, even if they know the word "english" or "language". For people like in that case, the page could be in french it wouldn't make much difference.

As a visual marker for language switching I imagined having a flag, but looking at the replies, that seems non optimal.

The best behavior could be a popup shown only to users who's accepted languages don't match the current language, and keep the choice in a cookie perhaps ?
That's by design though. There isn't a reason your town (or a close one) center can't have stores in it.
I too don't think this is accurate. What Intel and Microsoft have done is contributed marketing support dollars which, from a pure business analysis point, might be considered part of the cost of the system but it isn't what you or I would consider subsidizing the hardware. In marketing support programs Microsoft pays for a television advertisement for your product (very expensive) which points out how great it is because uses Microsoft Windows. Similarly with the Intel inside advertisements.
As opposed to the DMV, the post office, the ER waiting room and other paragons of bureaucracy?
Yes, husbands need to keep their wives in line gasp AND wives need to keep their husbands in line.

If you form a life partnership with someone being able to steer them around icebergs is 1. Good for them, 2. Good for you and optionally 3. Good for your offspring (and mutual assets). If you can't trust your partner to do this for you, and you for them, its not a good partershaft.
Am I over-inferring from one piece of info, or does this writing represent an entire branch of early feminism which lost the struggle for the heart of the movement and was driven out by worse ideas?
If anyone's having trouble reading... https://www.readability.com/articles/vot5qmk3
> You may view their activities or two lesbians as making a 'show'

Well, he did set up this weird hypothetical as taking place in the break room
>The complexity here is not in the functionality. It's in the design and implementation.

I'd love to hear some proposals for simplifying the implementation.

>What makes it require >16,000 instructions every time through the loop?

Mostly USB library stuff, I think. Been a while since I profiled it.

>I do mean a continuous one...

Can you further explain this paragraph? I don't know what you mean by "unused positions in the key matrix".

>You can do the crossover configuration entirely in software

Like I said: I'd have no implement the protocol from scratch, in software. The hardware UART does not support this functionality.

>How would you do this with the current design?

You can splice a TRRS cable or buy a TRRS splitter. The new version of the board actually has a dual-jack USB-A connector to make daisy-chaining even easier.

Again, not sure what you mean by "unused key position in the matrix".

>Because I2C was defined with different assumptions in mind.

Which were?
> I think it would be possible for BitDNS to be a completely separate network and separate block chain, yet share CPU power with Bitcoin

Pardon my very beginner questions, does anyone know how this technically works and can explain it in more detail (or point to a good resource)?

My understanding was new information either needed to be implemented directly into the Bitcoin block chain, or a completely new one had to be created.

How could you still share CPU resources but have two different networks?

Would this mean a 51% attack against one would have no affect on the other?
The BitBucket issue tracker is clunky garbage by comparison, and its general UI doesn’t feel as well thought out. GitHub as a tool is really great.

That said, company values matter.
Is 20% time still a thing or did it die with Google Labs?
Wow, that's pretty impressive. I take it you are in the Seattle area then, with that Windows 8 screen on your laptop? That's what mine defaulted to and I'm in the area.
You know, you're right. I updated the amazon app on my iphone and was able to airplay in decent quality.

The complaint I have is that I'm a secondary member on the prime account. (wife is #1 in many ways... prime account is one of them.) I don't get the option to play any of the 'prime' stuff being a secondary member.
Erlang has Distel, which is a pretty powerful SLIME like mode: https://github.com/massemanet/distel (and written by Luke Gorrie, the same guy who wrote SLIME).

I haven't used either Distel or SLIME extensively enough to say if it's comparable, but it looks fairly similar.
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"Red tape isn't always a straitjacket. Sometimes it's a crash harness."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408600
Let's assume that the debate was legitimate, doesn't that still put us one "replace all" away from fixing the problem?

I don't understand how these guys were "deadlocked" for weeks.
yeah, translated error messages are a pain to google. sometimes we can get away we error codes.

(I'm using mono on a mac, and I'm not really doing important stuff).
Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a “structureless” group.

Even anonymous developed small groups within vying for power as inner cabals. Also structureless groups are still subject to evaporative cooling, if not more so.

This has profound implications for things like open source projects, language communities, and startup communities.
No need to fear. I have a recent Thinkpad (T530) and it boots ArchLinux painlessly from USB or internal 32gig ssd. Also boots into windows8 from the main 120gig ssd if necessary. It's UEFI with secureboot disabled.
I think it's inappropriate to stare at anyone for long, whether male or female. It's normally not considered polite and a bit weird, so I don't get what the issue is?

I get it, you find someone attractive and you want to gawk at them, cool. I learned to control that impulse when when I was hitting puberty. Seriously, there really isn't an excuse and it's inappropriate in most situations.
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SIL is just one of many open source licenses, and they said 'free', not 'open-source'.

I think it's on the front page because many people may be interested in modern type trends and at the very least this is an excellent collection of ideas to look at. If you want to download one for free you can too!
When I was a wee lad, my Grandmother used to spend days with me while my parents were working, and after say, a morning in the park, we'd go to the mall and get lunch at the restaurant in JC Penney's.

It was run by a gentleman of Greek descent, whom my Grandmother knew, as she seemed to know everyone, and served brunch, lunch, dinner, like any other small cafe. I would routinely get a hot dog, served on toasted white bread. It was tremendous.

I miss those days, and the subsequent teen years of the nineties spent mall-ratting with my friends, hitting the record store, book store, the arcade (don't get me started on the demise of the video game arcade) people-watching...

Times change, and I assume, so will these structures, whether it be to fade into irrelevance or transform into something vibrant and communal again.
It's not "sick". It's that it's rife with problems. I don't think companies should ban dating but I think it's very wise for them to be wary of it happening and educate their employees, before they start, to imagine what happens if that person becomes their boss or subordinate or breaks up with them and they have to see them everyday at work and work together. And/or starts dating someone else. Or is their superior and has the ability to influence their career with their decisions etc. Or how it feels to be on the same team as two lovebirds.
Hardware problem often means driver problem.

When you have Hyper-V installed, you have to be exceptionally careful about what drivers you have installed. I've even seen a Bluetooth driver bluescreen the management OS when Hyper-V was enabled.

This is just the nature of hypervisors. Most drivers are only tested on an OS that's running directly against the hardware. Run them through a hypervisor, and their behavior becomes unpredictable.

Ultimately, Hyper-V is a hypervisor, and it competes against ESX -- not VMWare Workstation. That's why it's best run on workstation-class or server-class hardware. Basically, situations where the hardware vendor might actually keep the drivers up-to-date. On consumer-level hardware, it's a crapshoot.
If the two primates are bonobos, the usual result is sex.
OpenFirmware, such as the various implementations on http://www.openbios.org/ always comes with a Forth prompt.

I was part of the team that wrote the original Open Source implementation (under GPL terms) named OpenBIOS. The project now also hosts all kinds of other implementations that were later published under BSD terms by their owners (and had 10+ years of market experience under their belt at that time).

When FORTH started out, one of its differentiators was its live environment: you could test one step (part of an algorithm or similar) at the prompt, then define a "word" (= function) that implements it using the statements you tried, repeat until you finished your program using the words you defined earlier.
Mass transit is OK for commuters who can tolerate the homeless-shelter-on-wheels aspect of it, but not good for shoppers, since it limits your per-trip purchases to what you can carry.
Horvath mentioned on Twitter they supported her coming forward about her experience:

nrrrdcore: I'm thrilled to be joining a new team in just
a few weeks and they completely support me coming forward.

https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/444881221865054208
"Secondlife is a great system to browse information in 3D - some people are saying this would be the new Internet one day. The problem is: it is centralized."

No, the problem is text (amongst many other media) has only disadvantage in 3D. Second life has many more problems than centralization... Most people don't care about such matters and notice SL has basically zero impact on the world right now.
I've never been anywhere where this sort of behavior happened. If management can't nip things like that in the bud, they aren't doing their jobs.
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The malls around me are doing just fine. My friends and I find them to be a fine place to go occasionally. I've always found them to be a nice place to be around. I don't really get the complaints about them in this thread.
That law of headlines thing applies here.
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This is great. Where can I find other practical "manage the managers" advice like this?
Airbnb provides various means of "verification". You can verify a telephone number, an ID, Facebook profile (and even see how many friends the person has). Airbnb also provides references by friends and reviews by Airbnb members. Example:http://imgur.com/yQaSBdO Some of these verifications are optional, and as far as I know only a number, email and sometimes an ID are compulsory. The fundamental issue at hand is whether the OP is at fault for being too naive, not checking for proper verifications and simply choosing to trust the renter based on the info he/she provided. Personally, I don't think Airbnb is at fault. (did the OP even bother to talk to the renter over the phone?). I personally love using Airbnb and will continue to use it. What is continually a worry for me is is the lack of common sense people have when renting out their homes to complete strangers. What would have been the difference if this person was simply running an illegal bed & breakfast in his apartment and this happened? I feel sorry for the OP, but if you just choose to trust "strangers" and not take proper precautions and then expect Airbnb to have all the blame, then you're just kinda of a moron.
Why not overload the already-defined * * ? Matrix multiplication is used much more than matrix exponentation (which can be delegated to methods), and * * is already right associative.
Why the downvotes other than blatant partisanship? This comment doesn't dispute the idea that Apple maps is worse, and it's well documented that Google and Apple couldn't come to terms.
> A bit strong

no, actually, it was just right.

taking people to the print-set dialog when they have
_clicked_a_link_ is not just confusing, it's unsettling.

especially when -- as is common here on hacker news --
someone has opened several different tabs and thus has
no idea which caused this totally unexpected situation.

"unsettling" is quite deserving of the "awful" label.

(perhaps that word has an emotional connotation to you.
but i'm using it the same way that i would describe, say,
a "saturday night live" skit that was worse than usual.)

the "improvement" you have made is thus good... but...

...the current state is still unnecessarily confusing...
clickers are shown a "jquery - new wave javascript" page.
which is most definitely _not_ what they clicked to see.

you have a perfectly good home-page explaining the service,
and how we can use it quite easily, with a button to click
to summon up a canned example if we want that. excellent!

_that_ is where the h.n. link should go -- your home page.

welcome people at the front door, and _then_ give the tour.

don't just dump people into the middle of your canned demo,
when some of them (certainly those who opened multiple tabs)
will not even know exactly how they arrived there, or why.

it would have been a little bit better if your demo content
was an explanatory page about gitprint itself. but even then,
linking to the home-page is still a much smarter strategy...

maybe you'll think this is "strong" too.

it's not. i'm just telling you like it is.

i don't have any emotion invested. this is dispassionate.

i don't even care if you heed what i say or not.

it's no skin off my nose. i'm just trying to help you.

remember, i was the _only_ person who commented on this
when you posted it last week. "good idea", i posted...

so instead of getting criticized this week, you _should_
have said "thank you", and then implemented my suggestion.

there's still time...

-bowerbird
It's been posted as an item before but I don't think it hung around long. It's definitely been referred to (and linked) in many threads where the idea of 'no-management' or flat structures crops up. e.g threads on Valve.

The irony is that it puts into words what many people have already experienced (in some sense) via high-school. Although it's long, I tend to point people at this story if they're having an anti-management rant with me during a discussion.
That just redirects me to the original site.

The "zap colors" bookmarklet is helpful here: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
Yes. They were a horrible substitute for public spaces anyway. Now the malls aren't the only alternative to teenagers wandering the streets engaging in aimless vandalism; they can stare into screens 12 hours a day, yet still shop and gossip (and engage in aimless vandalism.) Also, Amazon.com doesn't have to pay taxes, because Internet, so that's accelerating the decline of all physical retail. Malls weren't doing great before Amazon - deadmalls is nearly a dead site, it's been around so long.

The only good places for malls are cute little cities that attract a lot of small town tourists, and places with a lot of people too old to understand the internet but rich enough to not have to work.
Sometimes people complain about comments getting downvoted out of disagreement, even though they contribute to the discussion. But I am far more bothered by the inverse problem: comments that get upvoted out of shallow agreement even though they serve no purpose, focusing on some negligibly relevant detail in a haughty way. These comments make it harder to participate in the conversation for fear of people latching on to completely irrelevant details and drowning out the message.

In short: Upvotes correlate with good comments, but they also correlate with certain types of poisonous comment.

As to continuing tangents, I would have been quite happy to see both of our comments dug into invisible gray together. But even if that fails I'm happy to provide a bright warning against being reactionary, and to hope that any wasted space is meta at worst.
A woman's take on GitHub: it's structural sexism.
> The founder accused Horvath for bringing love affair into the company because she was/is dating an employee. The founder has a good point: try to avoid dating someone working with you. It's a beautiful story; but you can cause all sorts of mess.

That's between the two people. Period. If they become problem employees, then they are problem employees, not two people who date. The problem behavior that happens on the clock is HR's only legitimate concern.

Prohibiting dating is like firing women who get pregnant.

Counter example, where I work there are so many married or dating couples within the company that it's almost a thing.
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What happened is more of a change in cultural expectations that malls and their stale corporate overlords did not and were not able to adapt to. There is no reason that malls could not have been revamped and renovated to adjust, but I think that ship has sailed. People have given up on those areas where malls are located, which makes the extensive capital investments necessary to make any such changes even more impossible now than when they should have been made.
https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ also open source
Ooh! The media! We're supposed to blindly trust their reporting even though they get wrong everything we know about personally, right?

Clarification from Julie Ann Horvath describing everything TechCrunch misrepresented in 3... 2... 1...

(The real situation may be better or worse. TechCrunch may have left out info that helps or damns GitHub. But you're naive if you think a journalist would report on a story like this accurately.)
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