skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woah there! You've basically just claimed that the laws of supply and demand don't have an impact in the labour market. That requires more evidence than finding a link between pay and intrinsic motivation/job security.

Nobody is going to turn down a flat wage hike - but the damage of government tax policy is it shrinks the window of "what the company will pay for" and "what the worker will work for". Now we can't measure this for sure, but theory tells us it is a very likely, if not practically certain, outcome. The issue is you won't see it, because companies will just not be offering some jobs because they experimented and couldn't offer them at a wage that interested workers.

As a bonus, raises are a bit of an illusion. There is a huge amount of new money entering the system from somewhere (see https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/20170406/, about 5% p.a. increase). Most wage rises in theory are to balance that out so that you have enough dollars to call on the same real resources for hours of your labour.
Finding my "State Architecture Patterns in React" article series on this excellent list of yours was a nice surprise. Thanks!
The Wall Street Journal did the initial, in depth reporting.
> Dammit, Raymond Chen is out of pocket for a refund on that guy's subscription.

?!? That sounded like a positive review from somebody who liked the article. He says it's neither amazingly interesting nor technical, but still good enough to bookmark.
We're nerds. I've met very few Lib dems who aren't nerds. And some of us are nerds about transport, and some of us are nerds about budgets, and so on. That is who we are above all else. We're ravenclaws. (With some hufflepuffs). We write long complex policies with painstaking research only to have the other parties nick them, and then say "well at least the clever thing I designed is happening even if I don't get the credit".

Now, one thing we did with the coalition was do exactly what we'd been saying before the election. It wasn't what the media reported, but it is what we said. Which was that we'd consider coalition with any party that got the most votes and the most seats. Which was the Tories.

Now, you should also remember that the Lib Dems have a shared history with both the conservative and labour parties. The SDP may be much more recent, but the flight of the libertarians in the 1920s and 30s (along with the telegraph newspaper) lost us what was an originally liberal idea: the market. Suddenly we were no longer the party of the market. And the Tories were a mixture of market purists, capitalists and moral conservatives (political theists). They've purged most of the moral conservatives now, and we're just left with the capitalists (the libertarians forgot all about the social conscience of Adam Smith without the rest of the Liberal party to remind them.)

Now, the Liberals who were left in the 40s and onwards were several things. Social liberal, internationalist, a little bit CND, etc. Radicals. Protestors.

Then we got this influx from Labour in the 80s, the right wing of the Labour Party, the SDP. Vince Cable. Shirley Williams. We grew up and became less of a protest party and more professional. We started winning by-elections and having more than 6 seats.

It is important to distinguish us from a European Liberal (centre-right) party. It is also important to remember that we're internationalists. And it is important to remember that we're not too different from a European Liberal party; we definitely believe in free trade across borders.

So, the European project is a part of British Liberalism which cuts across both internationalism and market freedoms. It's in the political DNA of nearly all Lib Dems.

Brexit is one of the few things we pretty much all agree on (that it's a terrible catastrophe).

I hope that helps you understand us a bit better.
"If I am so wrong, crazy and stupid, why do so very many people need to step up and inform me of my error?"

Because it is wrong?
>The discussion usually ends there :)

Personally don't think this should be a point of pride.
And from what I've heard (from friends who've tried it) has a much higher chance of being not fun at all.
That kind of accounting would drive up needed grants by at least 20%, or make it so that these NGOs wouldn't actually be able to do anything.
1. Could you two do a Reactiflux Q&A?

2. Are people on the Relay OSS team willing to answer StackOverflow-type questions on a certain time?

- I would want to be able to programmatically run relay-compiler. Every time I update my client-side code, webpack detects the change and then runs relay-compiler.

- And get help figure out some errors related to mutations I'm encountering. I wouldn't want to post these type of things as a GitHub issue because it could technically not be a bug.
Man, your post brings back memories. I have opened my account only five days after you. But the story of how I came to it is the same. Thanks for reminding me.
ESP8266 is a popular low-power WiFi chip, you can use it with a separate micro-controller but for many applications you don't need one. "ESP8266 consumes less than 12uA in sleep mode and less than 1.0mW (DTIM=3) or less than 0.5mW (DTIM=10) to stay connected to the access point." [0] Elsewhere it says it can wake-up and transmit within 2ms but I'd take that with a grain of salt.

I'm having trouble finding the same details about the MKRFOX1200 but for the transmitter "Low current consumption: 32.7mA during telegram transmit [...] Typical OFF mode current: 5nA." [1] The processor part is a SAMD21.

My guess is it's possible to get comparable idle/sleep power draw regardless of transmission method but WiFi will require more power to establish a connection and transmit the first byte.

[0] https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/ESP8266_Specificati...

[1] http://www.atmel.com/Images/Atmel-9372-Smart-RF-ATA8520_Data...
I would be very interested in the answer to this question. If it can surpass Flask in terms of simplicity in creating a simple REST API it would be a major milestone.
> I saw it from a reliable source

Yet you can't clarify where this source came from or provide any reference to it. This is worse than hearsay.
When you can look at the links you'll see what I mean.

To give a description of the problem in text...

Both charts are labeled "Deaths", but I'm going to describe one of them for you.

The time span from 1981 to 1999 goes like this:
1,968,365 - 1,998,559 - 2,033,124 - 2,068,679 - 2,091,359 - 2,105,024 - 2,163,984 - 2,161,764 - [1,637,394] - [2,656,721] - 2,180,115 - 2,226,027 - 2,282,854 - 2,284,363 - 2,317,918 - 2,321,933 - 2,330,759 - 2,359,088 - 2,386,995

And then 2000 is [2,979,442]

And then 2001 is 2,430,225

And so on. Every 10 years, and also in 1989, there is a fluctuation by 500,000 deaths from the expected number given the surrounding trends.

All of the numbers that are _not_ between [] above look like a smooth upward trend, yeah?
So WTF is happening in the three that have [] if the data isn't bogus? I say the data must be bogus.
> As commentary on someone who just took $10M of their own money and created availability of data that didn't exist before? Not as useful.

Hmmm ... the comment doesn't criticize or even mention Ballmer at all; it was only about the website. I don't think we should be granting some projects special status, above criticism, and we never have (with the possible exception of the exalted one, Elon Musk). For example, plenty of FLOSS developers have sacrificed far more than Ballmer - Theo de Raadt has given his entire career and put his entire reputation on the line, as one immediate example - and their projects are criticized all the time.

In fact, shielding the projects from criticism is a disservice to the project.

I'll say that one could read an undercurrent of jealously into it, but that is strictly between the lines and could easily be in the eye of the beholder.

> I really don't see how dandare's criticisms ... [are] at all helpful or relevant

That seems like an unhelpful stretch.
Yup. If you look on the Wikipedia article for the Wow event, it lasted for the entire observing window, so that implies it could have lasted longer before/after. Meanwhile FRBs are quite amazing because they are so quick. It's a lot of energy in a very small time, which leads people to consider compact objects as part of the origin (short burst leaves very small distance from the light travel time for the event to be coherent).
Probably a combination of Microsoft's exit from pc game development along with aircraft manufacturers realising they can charge for license fees, especially as the gap between hobbyist and professional flight sims narrowed (to the point that Lockheed sell MS Flight Simulator as a professional sim)
Both of which were influenced in their attitude towards losing by a little game known as Nethack [1].

Although I understand Souls doesn't have permadeath, therefore it's probably only half the fun of Nethack.

__________

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack
Practicing Ada's “Poetical Science”
I think a large part of the initial hype and optimism about Theranos was that its founder was female. People were excited to have a female Steve Jobs type figure, and saw her as an inspiration. I think those same people are now disappointed. But personally I haven't seen anyone blaming her femininity for this happening. There's certainly plenty of instances of men doing this. To the extent that her gender has any fault in this, its in creating an additional layer of premature hype/attention around her company.
OpenSnitch - GNU/Linux Port of Little Snitch
And you are totally wrong about that. This is the most exciting time to be a web developer since jQuery first came out. I promise it only looks that way from the outside.
Oh, and in addition to all the downvotes and the pile on, you needed to create a brand new account to join the pile on.

But, sure, I am just a vitriolic, hysterical woman who is oversensitive. I couldn't possibly have a valid point or concern.
Same with me. I build a startup and submitted the ideas for a couple of times but YC continued rejecting us. Even though the first time we got interview request but weren't selected. I pursued and raised funding in multiple rounds. So life continues. Now in 3 years, we dominate the car rental market in ride sharing. Keep building :)
I've always wondered what, if any, is the multi-generational benefit/penalty of mothers working full time in lieu of raising their own children.
The headline says "engineers", so they're probably not in a union no matter what location they occupy.
Ask HN: What questions do you ask yourself when estimating programming tasks?
I've been trying to learn how to estimate programming tasks. Now, I understand from talking with multiple people at multiple companies that estimation is an intuition-based process. However, it occurs to me that perhaps there are simply things that I simply forget to ask myself before asking my gut to come up with a number. What questions should a programmer ask before trying to judge how long a ticket will take?
Zuckberg is considered attractive?
Guys, do you get the invites to your mails or is there a way to see it within the hacker news?
Antibiotics are incredibly cheap to manufacture and easy to use which is a large part of their appeal.
I mostly agree, however it does seem to make some sense to dive deep into one ecosystem, instead of learning & keeping up with two. (Let's not pretend that Javascript is the only one advancing--Django of a few years ago is not compatible with Django of today, as one other example).

I have always used python/ruby on the backend, and I prefer them, but I recently worked on a couple of javascript backend projects, and I found one abhorrent and the other quite pleasant.

As could probably be expected, the practices used to develop the latter were just better. (These were even done by the same developers, in large part, and the differences were mainly lessons learned).

Anyway, if you're already working in a javascript-heavy front-end like React, it doesn't seem like such a stretch to use it on the backend, too.
So all the bad press Uber and AirBnB is getting is because they're male?
Funny that a site run by ex-Microsoft CEO doesn't use the MS stack:
https://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2fusafacts.org
You'll get the mail for both invitation as well as rejection.
You'll get an email
Show HN: Babel plugin for React components in HyperScript syntax
That's fine. But myself and a lot of other people get a lot of "serious programming" done using the approach.
aka, being a Flexitarian
Nope, Washington State Boeing engineers are 100% in a union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Professional_Engine...
http://www.speea.org/
If I say you are racist, and 10 people tell me I'm wrong and that nothing you said is racist, by your logic that means you are racist, because why else would so many people say I'm wrong? If I'm so wrong, crazy, and stupid I mean.
It is a fiction but the answer is not to throw your hands up and ignore the problem.
Social Security is perpetually misunderstood. It's working as designed.

Those surpluses that you're looking for were essentially just dumped on the federal balance sheet as non-marketable debt and spent on stuff like building aircraft carriers.

The "deficit" means that it's time to pay back those IOUs. It's pretty easily balance that -- you raise the threshold for payroll taxes and index it to inflation.

Flat tax is an awful, terrible idea. The reason that the 90% tax rates resulted in similar collection rates is that lots of things were deductible. All leases, most interest expenses. More people were essentially exempt from paying as well.
$5/month? My Youtube Red subscription is $9.99/month.
I have a friend who's a long-time engineer at Boeing (in Washington). He'd always complain that union rules were strict to the point of ludicrousness, eg. if he got a new desktop computer he was prohibited from plugging it in himself; he had to file a ticket and get it plugged in by a member of whatever union had staked a claim to that task.

Not really related to the article, but yeah, I can't imagine that level of union-driven bureaucracy is good for productivity.
Thanks. I see a (1) sign next to my user name in hacker news but can't see what that is since there is no link there.
I would love to find the person that doesn't think being "good looking" for the current standard is an advantage. Heck, Hollywood does a TV show about a person who is "Ugly" and even the ugly person is amazing looking.

Being taller is an advantage. Never mind the articles that crop up about people having plastic surgery to look younger so they have a better shot at being a CEO.
I don't mean to rag on him, but I don't think Zuckerberg is generally viewed as good looking. I also think you are likely misinterpreting PG's quote; I'm guessing he meant that he has a heuristic that anyone Zuck-like (vs. good looking) will be successful.
I think Snapchat was the company they were trying to emulate in that episode :D

Mike Judge's parodies are on point.
SpaceX to launch classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office
I find it to be an antipattern.

Lambda excels at taking in arbitrary amounts of long-running jobs and feeding you its output. For example: Upload a png image to convert it to jpg. Zip a directory of S3 objects. Etc.

Lambda gets very costly and inconvenient when you're just taking in requests you could handle by a couple of load-balanced web servers. The whole "running a whole website on Lambda" craze does not actually yield any benefit and is more complex, harder to play with than a simple ec2 instance (which, with a good setup, needs very little "server" management at all).

Also, API Gateway is just horribly inflexible imho.
I agree. There's a measurable relationship "bonus" to my life in happy relationships - having someone who double checks my logic, notices things I missed, works when I'm sick, etc. make things much smoother.
I believe many of the engineers are in the SPEEA:

http://www.speea.org/

"Since January 2016, Boeing has cut 1,332 engineering and technical jobs from its Washington workforce".

As a Washingtonian I am _so happy_ we gave Boeing 8.7 billion in tax breaks and incentives. They're taking that money and using it to maintain their work force elsewhere :/
That's your karma count. It has nothing to do with your YC application.
The peptide of interest has been named 'DRGN1' [1]. The actual full length DRG1 amino acid sequence of DRGN1 if you want to use it: PSKKTKPVKPKKVA

As a genetically encoded peptide it has a few advantages over the traditional small molecule antibiotics you might know about from being prescribed by your doctor:

- It retains anti-biotic effect on gram-negative (hard to attack because they have a secondary wall) bacteria.

- It's mechanism of action is less well understood, but because it's not obviously just a 'signal jammer' than a small molecule antibiotic, developing resistance to anti-microbial peptides seems more difficult than with small molecules.

- It has anti-biofilm properties as well as well as anti-biotic properties (biofilms are a royal pain in hospitals - think catheters...)

- Anti-microbial peptides also often have a strange effect where they activate wound healing in non-microbes (people), rather than just being an ineffectively diluted poison or entirely benign (the way most small molecule antibiotics are).

- My favorite though, because it is genetically encodable, the anti-microbial properties can be conferred to other genetically encoded tools/machines/proteins. If you fuse the amino acid sequence to another protein's sequence, the new fusion protein will likely also have anti-microbial properties.

Spider silk gloves could have this peptide woven into them - and the R&D cost to at least try it out is likely a few hundred bucks and a day or two of effort, CRISPR could deliver a sequence that produces this peptide, or a protein that contained this peptide. The peptide could be produced at commercial scale attached to another 'filler protein' to coat stents/catheters to prevent biofilm buildup - adding exactly zero production cost if such a filler protein is already being used. Or fused to a protein that other 'good' bacteria already produce to prevent biofilm formation where it shouldn't be. Because it can be encodedly produced by nearly all life, it can be introduced genetically as a one-time cost/effort, letting the organism then produce the antibiotic, rather than having to mass-produce the antibiotic in some chemical reaction.

[0] The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-017-0017-2

[1] DRG1: https://serotiny.bio/notes/proteins/drgn1/
This is how I ended my initial comment:

But, geez, I hate the idea that there is lava-like splash back spattering all other women in the world who are trying to be taken seriously.

Why is this such a terrible thing to express that so many people need to come down on me for feeling this way? If you were, say, a black guy concerned about some black guy getting enormous bad press and how that impacts blacks, would that merit this kind of dismissive pile on and massive downvoting?

And if it did, would you think it only proved your point that racism and bad press is a real concern?

And I apologize for aiming this at you. I am doing so because you seem to have the most evenhanded reply here so far. So it isn't intended to be ugly to you per se.
I disagree with your takeaway, but I agree with the point that much of the talk about Theranos is really about gender.

That company just doesn't get covered without people talking about how Elizabeth Holmes is, in fact, a woman, and how she tries to channel a Steve Jobs persona, and how it's not working.

If Travis Kaladick or whatever his name is were running the company, the narrative would be very different.

I don't know how or if there is splashback against women trying to be taken seriously. But if there is, I wish you the best.
I am not sure you get to claim any points for acknowledging your own moral failing. If anything, this kind of ethical "living in sin" is even worse than contortionist justification because you debase your own ethics, turning them into something that can be cast aside when convenient.

You have two options - change your morals (accept and embrace that your desire to lift weights outweighs your concern for other beings). Or change your behaviour (stop either lifting weights or eating meat).
what do smart contracts and block chain have to do with AR?
I'd read that three book series.
Anyone here applying as a single founder?
They'd probably need to conduct them in the regions where the "shotgun" part isn't a metaphor, like deep Appalachia or rural Missouri. I'm from Missouri and I promise, it's not always just a figure of speech.
Huh? Who is talking about monoculture? OP certainly isn't, and I don't think anyone else is seriously suggesting such a thing.

It's not unreasonable to expect that the ecosystem doesn't operate under an ever-expanding set of wrappers, frameworks, layers, and models, and it's certainly not unreasonable to expect that our tools don't suck.

The open standards you talk about ARE already a part of the ecosystem, and well-established: HTML, HTTP, DOM, and ECMAScript. The new JS library of the week is not a part of that.
Shouldn't everyone's pay be automatically increased via bonuses or equity grants when the company does well? Why should that only be limited to executives, when the workers are actually producing increased value?

You really call attention to the reality that execs can handle automatic penalties/rewards because their pay is so many multiples higher than employee pay. On the other hand, there's really no reason one couldn't reject that as nonsense, eliminate penalties altogether, place executive pay at a significantly lower multiplier, and then share rewards equitably among everyone.
I see, thank you for the thorough explanation. Also because my first guess would be to turn on an off the antena whenever I needed data, but after what you described I see that's not as straightforward and depending on the number of updates it may actually be better to leave it on for longer periods of time.
a guy calls himself a web designer and his one page app has left-right scroll. awesome.
Is fiber similar to what glimmer is to ember? Is it a big enough improvement to reconsider using react instead? (I was stoked on the glimmer stuff).
SV CEO Abhishek Gattani walks away after domestic violence and battery
I don't really understand what the benefit of it is.
Mind if i asked when you applied?
As someone who has worked on a truly large React project, I can assure you this is not true.

I cannot imagine the shitshow that project would be using jQuery to track the state.

Nearly as soon as you progress from 'backend rendering html' to single-page-app, it behooves you to use React.
This isn't union - this is just how huge corporations work. I worked for Verizon and they did the same thing - everything was locked down and you had to file a Remedy ticket to get anything done (ugh).
Sorry if this is a sidetrack but thinking about weird simulators reminded me of a "simulator" of sort that I ran into way back when. It involved getting individuals in a town to do various tasks by manipulating their vices and virtues.
Tangential, but there was a recent HN article (I think) (that for the life of me I cannot find a link to) that referenced a Microsoft DSL for describing finite state machines that was principally developed to implement MS's USB driver. Closest link I could find (which is not the correct one) is: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/model-based...
Do the invited get the mail before the rejected? Any idea about the sending order?
Congratulations! What is your startup called? are you guys in the market?
It is one of the most accessible talks for someone like me who doesn't even know anything about React.
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