skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find anything that says gas stations or any business is required to provide bathrooms to people who aren't paying them. All I can search is that restrooms must be public (which I take to mean as not just for employees):

https://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/rpt/2006-R-0739.htm

But at least in Florida it seems they can be restricted to paying customers:

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/25446355/good-question-restaurant...
Sorry, but Wells Fargo isn't evil anymore. I saw their ad that says they're sorry and they're gonna behave now. All good!
Linux on the desktop would have succeeded with a stable driver API. Having hardware with closed source drivers supported could have being a walk in the park for OEMs. Bad 3D, wireless, etc. support is what killed Linux. OEMs would have probably made more and better drivers if they didn't have to make changes to them every few months or go through the effort of releasing and mainlining the source.
> For example this article talks about the situation in the New York. Where there are... 20 public toilets. And they're owned... by the French.

That's not what the article says. It says nothing about the total number of public toilets except that it is small and locals have mapped them out.

The 20 is a specific batch of pay street toilets that were delivered and planned for installation, but only four of which were actually fully installed, one was pending hookups, and the other 15 are still in warehouse.

And they are apparently owned by the city (not the French) but operated by a French contractor.

More to the point, the article notes that New York is unusual in its lack of public toilets, not typical of the US.
http://archive.is/bGmKh
Good list but missing Polychain Capital which is pretty legit.
From my consumer's perspective, the most annoying part is when a company provides a service I like, they look like they could be reasonably profitable for an investment of x but not for 10x, and then they suddenly raise to 10x or more. It's inevitable then that they will eventually ruin the existing service in search (usually futile) for some mythical product/market fit that was somehow projected be appropriately profitable for that 10x investment.

It's particularly irritating with paid services, where all of a sudden paying customers turn from highly valued into a legacy nuisance.
Touch ID login is super convenient, and remapping Caps Lock as a tactile Esc key has made for a much more pleasant vim experience. That's it.
They would stand in the way of every layoff and changes they don't like, that's their mandate, unions are just another entity fighting for the status quo and another hoop a company needs to jump through.

If the costs for major expenditures were lower people will have more resources to climb the socioeconomic ladder, and we won't need to decrease the dynamism of the labor market and saddle corporations with more obligations to achieve that.

Oh and companies shouldn't pay for employee healthcare, that's a WW2 relic that only benefits health insurers by keeping costs high.
I love the intent. I often have the sense that decisionmaking at big corporations manifests a well-functioning prefrontal cortex and no limbic system -- i.e., somewhere on the socipathy/psycopathy spectrum.

It's interesting to note that some of the most successful corporations have already moved in this direction on a voluntary basis. Regardless of whether or how this particular initiative is received by Congress and the Courts, any big corporation that wants to grow long-term will have to move in this direction. In that sense, this is not necessarily a competition-friendly proposal.

On the other hand, it's the whippersnappers that are growing fast by cutting corners that are likely to be hurt the worst. Personally, I prefer to live in a world of socially-responsible for-profit goliaths with Schumpeterian competition from startups over a world of free-for-all, dog-eat-dog competition in which bad values drive out the good.

Lots of things to like about this proposal.
I thought we were talking about public toilets, as in run by the city.

Otherwise what's this discussion about? Do people think restaurants and shops in Europe don't have toilets as well?
being funded shows that people believe in the potential of your startup so much that they put money on your success.

it's also really not obvious how, for so many different types of companies, you would scale up without being funded
Wat.

The cons listed on "Separate U2F token for backup" doesn't make any sense (except the last point, I'm looking at you, twitter). They assume that you have your primary u2f token on your keychain and backup token at home or in a safe. That's nonsense. You should have one nano u2f token in every laptop's usb port, then another one on your keychain (and probably another one at home or somewhere). And there's no primary/backup. Every u2f token should be treated the same.
Do you have any citation that claims that startups spend 50% of their money on real estate?
Is that a problem with the file input button, or with every other button on your website?

The file input button does seem to be a barely remembered feature by browser builders. It's weirdly specific, doesn't work the same way on phones, and probably only hangs around because there isn't a decent alternative.
I'm french, I live near Paris and very often walk in Paris for various reasons (shopping, etc)

The BIG problem is that the automated public (and free, which was not the case before) toilets are NOT numerous enough (400 only according to the article, what a joke!), you have to _search_ for them, even in the very popular -and touristic- areas where I usually roam. But the other, and far worse, problem is that they are SLOOOOOOOOOW!!!! Obviously only one person can use the toilet at a time, then when they exit, the toilet auto-cleans itself, which takes FOREVER, and I mean a good couple of minutes, maybe more. Imagine a line of ten people in front of you (it happens)... You'll have a 30 minutes wait, if not more!

I won't insist on the fact that after the auto-cleaning the toilets are still (understandably) wet on the floor and the toilet seat, which is not the most pleasant thing. But I agree that it's not an easy thing to do. I will also pass quickly on the fact that sometimes you find used needles (left by drug addicts) in the hand washing bowl...

In some of the most touristic places (remember that France is the most visited country in the world, and Paris draws an incredible number of visitors, especially during the holidays), you can see ONE or TWO toilets, and that's it, for thousands of people! That's a total joke.

As for those new urinals, who would want to use those? I don't want to pee in front of everybody, thank you! There are plenty of possible more secluded spots.

The idea of adding more toilets is one thing, and more efficient (and less cumbersome) models compared to the current ones would be a VERY welcome idea, but this solution is in my opinion not well studied. Plus it does not help women (~50% of the public) who also need to use toilets...

And it would also be good if toilets were available in the subway! That's where I've seen the most people take "wild pees" (usually again a wall in the stations), it's the WORST place, it's disgusting.
What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes (2017)
I don't think anyone argues that it's impossible for the government to do something people want. A better question is if they do manage to produce a desired result, is it worth the cost?
Connecting Container Subnets Across Hosts with BGP
I skipped Vista, however my XP drivers were fully supported on the upgrade to 7.
I didn't mean to suggest that foreign speculation was without blame.

I just wanted to make it clear that that isn't the only, or even biggest, culprit in the current housing crisis.
Remember flat html? Remember servers that would generate pages? Remember when CSS preprocessors didn't peg the CPU for 50ms?

Maybe we should investigate this ancient tech of the old ones.
Self-Concept and Lowered Expectations
Biotech investment has been accelerating significantly over the past year.

A few years ago, you’d see a handful of rounds over $100M. There have been several in the past couple of months.

And you make a good point about Asian investments in biotech. The Hong Kong exchange had its first biotech IPO and there have been several big rounds in Asian as well!
Good point. I can't think of a situation where I've seen a public toilet that exists for it's own sake. But I can think of many situations where toilets are part of otherwise publicly owned facilities - like mass transit depots, visitor centers, highway rest stops, etc. So I guess the supply of public toilets becomes a function of the amount of general public facilities in the area. Which is to say that your experience will vary depending on your context - probably just rural vs. urban.
The problem there is the slide show. Converting a series of slides to a page in traditional vertical scrolling format works just fine. Overriding the back button behavior is just expecting a second wrong to make a right.

(Ironically, these days I'm relieved when I see a presentation is posted as a PDF: https://people.apache.org/~xli/presentations/history_Intel_C.... I'd much rather load a PDF than deal with all the shitty and insane ways people have figured out how to show presentations in HTML. Cough SlideShare: https://www.slideshare.net/garyachy/dpdk-44585840)
If a company is violating OSHA, report the violation. If OSHA isn't strong enough, get it fixed.

If you want a company not to do something, pass a law that prohibits that thing. The law is wonderful. In theory, lawmaking happens in the open, according to well-known rules, and everyone gets a say. It's not perfect, but nothing is.

What internal corporate activists want is the power beyond the law. They want to make stuff up whenever it suits them, behind closed doors, and without accountability to the public. And they want this power because they want to compel companies to do things that are deeply unpopular, things that would never make it through the lawmaking process.

These people are using the language of democracy to undermine democracy.
The chemical in question is glyphosphate, which is quite controversial. Regulatory agencies have argued that it's generally safe as an herbicide but the jury here has decided otherwise.

The fact that Monsanto (roundup maker) is incredibly unpopular doesn't help their case either...
the Hurd-verse lives! Richard Stallman is a clean-shaven, foulmouthed autocrat, and Linus is composing folk songs about joining hands with Intel and Nvidia!
Basically, yes. There are some pictures in the original PNAS article.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/08/13/1805062115
That is correct.

European business culture also contributes in some small part, so given enough growth it would have eventually been a problem anyways, but it was exacerbated by importing tens of thousands of primitive terrorists.
Reminds me of this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-...

The big tech companies seem to be following the same abusive behavior as monopolies in other industries that preceded them.
Actually the best businesses are those that can scale using no funding. Or employees. And a sole founder who does everything by sheer force of will. /s
Is that all?

One could save money by living in Manhattan and flying to San Francisco for work. If time zones and transit were unrealistically fast and permitted such an exercise.
Yep - was going to say just about the same thing - they've simply rolled out an old idea that had been developed in the 1830s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pissoir
Just another real symptom of a supposedly booming economy.
For something like a slideshow, I think you could have it both ways - default to a scroll view that shows all of the slides at once, and make it so clicking a slide shows the slide on a single page that is deep-linkable. The user could then navigate forward and backward between each individual slide page if they so desire.

I suppose it's all a matter of trying to do what will best match user expectations. Or just whatever will make them happiest. Maybe call it the principle of least annoyance.

Of course, if you make an ad supported slideshow app, maybe you want to show one slide per page to get more ad impressions. I suppose that would be the principle of maximum revenue, along with its corollary (from the user's perspective): the principle of maximum indignation.
>>A public individual cannot be held responsible for the actions of their followers

Which is why politics is such a dangerous minefield to traverse. Sure you are never going to have absolute of anything, but certain ideologies are inherently violent in nature. And sooner or later some lunatic will do bad things in your name.

Free speech only means you are allowed to say things, it doesn't mean you get immunity from the consequences of your speech.
> It's going to salaries, and it's going to marketing. And that's why it's risky.

Risky to who though? S&M salaries are expendable. If you can achieve 90% gross margins, you can basically flip the switch, turn S&M off, and you're profitable.

> Overfunding is a real thing

Overfunding has only real two business-centric downsides: undue dilution and chaotic operations.

As they say though, revenue solves everything.
Do something about it then.
QAnon and Pinterest Is Just the Beginning
My guess is somebody over-engineered a "make anything into a link" helper function and then decided it was easier to just use it everywhere, rather than preferring <a> tags in the 90% of cases where it would make more sense.

How do screen readers handle these script-based links? I don't mind it from a "I have working eyes and arms" perspective, but I imagine it's kind of a pain for assisted vision?
This isn't specific to software: The grass is always greener on the other side.
How would someone reporting on shanty towns be able to cover the breadth and depth of an entire field of economics in a way that is not merely biased propaganda?
Suspects confess to crimes they didn’t commit – here’s why
I think the implication is that it's captured via salaries paying high rent.
Bitslicing, an Introduction – Data Orthogonalization for Cryptography
Peter Thiel

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/peter-thiel-vast-majority-cap...
The article is talking about Paris, so you'd have to compare it to access to bathrooms in places like NYC or SF, where most businesses do restrict access to customers. I think Starbucks changed it recently so anyone can use their restroom, but that makes me not want to use their restrooms.
It seems like a quick fix to get halfway to where they want to be. Now they need to solve for the other half
> Taiwan is not "China" for reasonable and informed definitions of China.

Taiwan is literally the Republic of China. The leadership is descended from the same people who overcame the Japanese. Pretending the Communist Party has a monopoly on the word 'China' is uninformed and unreasonable.

Off topic, a better compromise would have been Hong Kong, inside the PRC with some degree of democracy, though less than originally promised in 1997.
Even worse, the way they had security set up was that herded everybody into corrals after frisking them. No re-entry into your pen was permitted.

There were portapotties stationed up and down the strip...outside of the corrals. If you dared to use them, you were done for the night-- you couldn't get back into your pen unless you evaded the cops and hopped a fence.
Text-only version:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=638512558

Archived copy (with photo):

https://archive.is/Ycjrc
1. It is banning non-residents. You can be a national from any other country and still buy a house if you live there.

2. Watered down by interest groups: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-economy-housin...
This is how I feel about Slack and Trello...
This is compensating for the fact that font sizes dropped through the floor for years. I recall being told years ago that 16pt font was the desire, but actually most sites were using a LOT of 12 pt (or equivalently close). I even recall reading that, actually, 16pt is not necessarily large enough for easy comprehension of the average reader.

In the past decade designers/PMs have started to figure out that users don't read, so they aren't trying to wedge as much text in. Though I'm no fan of some iOS interface, I credit Apple with getting the concept of legible text into mainstream design thought.

As far as Medium et al goes - I think the idea there is not so much the font size as not wanting to show you more than 2-3 paragraphs, lest you get a "wall of text" opinion and not read any of it.
Please don't use allcaps for emphasis, regardless of how strongly you feel. It's basically online yelling. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Also, rant tropes like "it's truly sickening" aren't a good fit here, and fall under what the site guidelines refer to as name-calling. The idea on HN is to make a substantive point thoughtfully, which sometimes requires waiting until the heat of the moment subsides a bit.
Please don't take HN threads on tedious ideological tangents. This is pretty much the most generic, least substantive move you could make.

Also, if you continue to use HN primarily for ideological battle, including with multiple accounts, we're going to end up banning you. This kind of thing threatens HN's survival as a place for thoughtful, curiosity-driven conversation.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766342 and marked it off-topic.
Same here. It's interesting how that distinction is often non existent.
What it proves is that if you look at a representative crowd of a 1,000 people who do have skin in the game, you will find 1 person who is working class.

That one worker? If stock prices go up he will end up perhaps 1 more month's worth of retirement savings. Meanwhile his wages are being held down and the value he creates with his labor is being spent on stock buybacks and executive pay, the benefits of which go overwhelmingly to the other 999 people.

And yes, the stat includes pension plans.

So sure, the one guy has skin in the game. His wages have been held down, and in exchange he gets a fistful of coupons that entitle him to a few bucks for every million given to capital owners.
I did this myself for 3 months.

Saved about $4k doing so.

You start to appreciate simpler things and realize how cluttered your life was before
i've had a similar intuition and remember also reading somewhere that eventually your underlying data structure will shine through into the user interface, and if it doesn't make sense the whole application feels off.

I've first had this intuition when working with d3, where the visualization becomes trivial if your data is in the right shape.

Workflowy is another example of an app where there is a minimal disparity between data structure and interface.

Does anybody have other examples of apps or games that share this deep integration of structure and interaction?
Exposure leads to traffic leads which leads to sales is the main reason for why it is mutually beneficial usually. You stop in a place you usually wouldn't bother with just for the restroom and start to be familiar with it and remember it.

Take another extreme - allowing people in only if they will definitely buy something in the store. It reduces shoplifting and traffic that doesn't buy anything! Except that would drastically reduce sales from lack of people who haven't already decided in addition to being put off by it. The "buy something" policies strike me as similarly pennywise and pound foolish.
They offer some kind of website hosting? I can't tell because the entire logrocket.com domain is blocked by "Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list" which I have enabled through uBlock Origin. Not sure if I turned on that list or if it's on by default. Either way, the only other site I've ever get that full domain block warning on is Facebook. I'm guessing they're up to some equally nefarious tracking tactics.
Well, an experienced outsider validated you, so you know you created something cool. And you have leeway to do what needs to be done.

Going public is also raising money--among other things.
> This is a recognition that the Chinese world is a rising superpower

To be fair this has been known since the early 90's maybe even late 80's
> Umm, yes?

No. You don't need to get sent to a blood lab to be charged for, and convicted of a DUI. A roadside sobriety test of dubious accuracy, with a narrative report that may be full of half-truths and flat-out lies is sufficient evidence.

Before portable breathalyzers became as common as they are today, failing to walk the line and touch your nose was sufficient to convict someone.

That's the bar for convicting someone of a serious crime. Surely, we don't need to jump through all these hoops to ticket someone for a loud bike exhaust.
Democracy is great at reducing corruption, but it's bad at finding the most qualified person for the job. That's why we don't vote for very technical positions in government (e.g. Director of the FBI, Supreme Court Justices, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, etc). If it made business sense to let workers vote, more companies would allow them to do so.
First google result already says different: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/market-size.htm...

I woud assume it's not a term like "revenue" but more a general word. It's also not smart for your own analysis to assume a single value for it. If you write a business case for instance, it's quite smart to summarize how you size the market for your product/service as well.
Seems like a pretty easy cost/benefit analysis to me:

I can either spend thousands of dollars worth of my time on updating the driver, or I can pay someone else thousands of dollars to do it. Or I can spend a fraction of that on a new video card.

Seems like the only solution for Vista users is the only solution I'd ever have gone with, anyway.
I've been doing this internet thing for nearly 25 years now. I'm not ignorant of all the things I can do on the "modern" internet or browsers. I'm not waiting around passively for someone to deliver experiences I want--I build software, ffs.

I made a simple statement about what I wish browsers did by default. That means no extensions. That means that--unless I'm going to fork a browser to build it myself--building yet another extension to do these things in a sea of extensions that do these things still doesn't change what I wish browsers offered by default. You're now the 3rd person who has appeared to misunderstand the intent of my comment(s).
I worked for a startup with a well liked paid product built through iteration (test prep product). Then it was dropped on the ground and discontinued cause they raised a hundred million and now needed to build the founders vision, a free consumer project designed and built for years without showing it to potential users. Didn’t work out. So I’ve seen that happen.
Ask HN: Need More MOOC on Discrete Math
Mit's videos are good but no solution to pset or exams. Makes it tough to self learn.

Other than one in coursera, are there any MOOCs with lecutre videos and pset/exam with solutions?
Thank you everyone for your help!
Are there any numbers from areas with expensive housing that detail foreign investment as a % of total housing purchases? Would be an illuminating stat.
Cause it's linux only?

>>>

4.1.1 Thread Creation

DTHREADS replaces the pthread_create() function with the
clone system call provided by Linux. ...
Programming themed Stranger Things parody
That's not a null result, but a negative result. A null result is a result that tells you nothing new (by definition). At least, according to the parlance in this thread.
Sure, but if you've raised $10mm it means that someone has the expectation/hope that you'll be able to make much more than $10mm in the future.