skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, the insurance companies should care

I'm not sure they "should", at least from a financial standpoint. The ACA basically put a cap on insurance company profits, as a percentage. It's not phrased quite that way, but it's the upshot (look up "medical loss ratio"). This is the worst provision I know of in the ACA, because it sounds like a nice idea, but if you think it through, it actually disincentivizes insurance companies from doing what they can to lower costs.

It basically says that the maximum amount that insurance companies can keep is 20% of premiums (assuming no administrative cost or other overhead). Say the average cost per person is $4000 / year, so the average premium is $5000 / year; they're able to make a $1000 profit, or 20% of the premium. Now suppose the insurance company negotiates costs down to $3000 per year. Well, the maximum premium they can charge now is $3750, so they lose 25% of their profit. On the other hand, if they sit by and let costs skyrocket to $6000, they can raise premiums to $7500, and make $1500 in profit.

Now, of course insurance companies also compete on their premiums, so in theory, they still have some incentive to negotiate lower costs. But it seems like that must be seriously mitigated by the profit cap.

I'm not an expert on this by any means, so if someone who is wants to set me straight, I'd love to hear it. But I'm just very confused as to why this provision was thought to be a good idea.
I like the landing page! Its pretty clear.

But I myself would not spend $5/mo for this. I don't know that it solves that much of a problem for me? So, maybe just not in target audience.
Who says that O1 is single entry? I do not believe this to be the case.
I love how clear it's the headline. I see too many apps unable to explain what they do, instead you tell the user immediately.
Even the rest of the copy on the home page it's really well-written. Nice work.
> To expect web development to be a perfect monoculture is a failure

Except, it's already a monoculture of one language (JS) and one display algorithm (DOM) and everything is just compensating for that.

The "runtime" is not general enough.
VS Code's release record is impressive. And didn't it grow out of the Monaco browser-based editor? Microsoft probably wouldn't have funded the hypothetical C++ version.

That said, one of the Atom developers says using web technologies made development harder in many ways.[1] Very few solo developers can match a team with Microsoft's resources, and a monthly release schedule is more about discipline than anything else.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14142124
Voluntary reductions are through offers made to older employees for early retirement. It's a very common way of reducing staff, but it's usually done over a number of years (to reach the target).
Economist is correct that's why it "Triggers" so many people like you, just take a look at electronics industry, if you think that the jobs wont be shipped out to india/China/Canada or reduced due to automation you are living in fantasy land.

By improving portability of H-1B the government can make market fairer and less prone to misuse. Simply banning the visa will just lead to a rush of outsourcing/offshoring draining the economy of secondary benifits.
What bundle size range can we expect?

Many mobile users are on throttled connections, due to low data caps, and research has shown users stop loading a site usually after 1 second of loading time.

That means with a throttled connection, less than 8KiB overall CSS, JS and HTML can be transmitted, and with a 1Mbps connection, 128KiB can be transmitted.

How many minutes will users have to wait with React Fiber? And can it be improved in any way to get below a few seconds? Or will I have to continue to write vanilla JS to get responsive apps?
As opposed to voluntary separations. Many years ago the company I work for offered packages to qualified employees who wanted to leave. People who were already looking or just weren't very happy had the opportunity to pocket (IIRC) six months worth of pay after signing the standard promise not to sue.

Usually the way these things work is company management has a reduction goal, and if they meet it there aren't any layoffs. If they don't... well, voluntary becomes involuntary in some cases.
Cygwin (64bit) didn't work for me in the latest creators update (actually I think it broke even before that). Now I am trying things using WSL itself, so far it has been a productive move.

File permissions and security descriptors proved to be quite a hassle when removing Cygwin requiring multiple takeown and cacls hacks to remove some of the files.

On the flip side I saved some disk space too.
Are you sure your O1 is a single-entry? I have an O1 as well, for about 2 years now, and I have traveled out and in multiple times. Did you get the individual-associated O1 or one sponsored in the name of the employer (your startup)?

Edit: just noticed @seanmccann's comment. Dang that sucks. Apply for your EB1 asap! Under the O1, the requirements are pretty colinear, and you can skip the nationality queue that has an 8 year backlog for Chinese citizens on the EB2/3/etc.
Some accounts are dead on arrival due to previous posts. Though in digging through the comments of the account you reference, I can't find anything egregious, so I vouched for the comment.

Personally, I would like to see HN quit the juvenile, passive-aggressive shadow ban. If for no other reason than it seems it is buggy at times, and banning accounts that don't need it. But I don't make the rules.
The problem is startups would find it hard to hire since it's hard to value equity in a visa application.
You want stereotypes? OK, I'll give you stereotypes.

A single man in his 20s is a slacker. He works hard enough to not get fired, and not much past that. A married man of the same age works hard enough to try to get promoted so he gets paid more. Which is going to be more productive? (Yeah, I know, you say the married man has a lot more distractions - but the single guy is hitting Tinder every minute his boss's back is turned. That single guy is less distracted? I doubt it's an unambiguous win.)
Millennials need more dating apps
Very good example.

What goes through the sale function pipe is not the store and its size, it really does not matter for the meaning of sale were the sale happened. What matter for the sale is the cart. The cart might be more or less sofisticated because the size of the store, but is still a cart.

So the sale function is a pipe that eats a cart and spits out a receipt.

Or if you want to put it in another way, a sale is something that might happen to a cart over time. Functions are the clock on the system. In a functional system, times does not pass until a function is executed (does it sounds like lazy evaluation?)

In functional programming, we avoid duplication of code by appliying functions to the data so it spits what the next function needs. If you have a function sale that can eat a simple cart, but now you have a complex cart, one solution is to create a function that converts the complex cart into the simple one that the sale function needs; another way is to make the complex cart having the same data as the simpler cart. What you choose to do is proportional to how different the meaning of cart is, or maybe the cart remains the same. In general terms, this type of thinking tend to produce less lines of code needed per similar acomplishment.

So in OOP your are using objects to put together the store, while in FP your are descriving what happens in the store by connecting pipes betweem the different data. It is not about what can happen to the data, but what makes the data travel. It is not about what steps makes it work, but the fluidity of the data life span.
Uber putting unlicensed self-driven cars that run stop lights puts people in danger. Has Theranos falsified tests that people need to survive? I don't think so.

Maybe back up on that endangering people's lives, or--if I'm wrong about Theranos--at least place them as equals.

Does it matter that Mayer built a nursery? I can't see how that's not a total non sequitur.

Calling out latent sexism where people think they are being completely normal--because sexism is completely normalized in the tech community right now is exactly what I will keep doing.
Untrue in my jurisdiction and likely others. We have a limited range of circumstances in which the pilot in charge (or their delegates viz. cabin crew) may compel disembarkation. Drunkenness or presenting a safety risk are on that list. Overbooking is not.

So no, I won't "take it from a lawyer".
If you go to www.bustle.com or www.romper.com you get a JS app server side rendered by AWS Lambda and delivered through API Gateway (CDN in front of that). We do 50+ million unique visitors a month. Our team is super happy with the result and our AWS bill is smaller than it was on EC2. Cost was not a motivating factor for the switch but it is nice when the bill goes down.

It is most definitely ready. I gave a talk at Node Interactive last year that has some more detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4rvh_Iq6LE&index=2&list=PLf...
Companies sometimes offer people good deals to leave due to slowing business. If you opted into this you would have been voluntarily laid off. If enough people do it, then there are no involuntary layoffs.

Japan Airlines did something similar with early retirement a few years back and offered their employees the chance to retire early in order to cut costs.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We got it fist! ;-)
People might voluntarily take a buyout package.
reading is nice, though I would summarize this as "dont work all day" "use some time to work, some time for self improvement, etc"

In other words balanced life = more productive.
Looks like it will be a big help to RN. However, I can't confirm that it's a drop in replacement.

https://facebook.github.io/react/contributing/codebase-overv...
I did some analysis on the number of applications for H1B, E-3, and PERM to contrast outsourcing firms and other firms in terms of count and wages: http://ashwinikhare.in/tech-firms-guest-visa/

All this data is out there and is released by Department of Labor every year
LSD+THC is much worse. It's a common n00b fail. And really not much fun, in my opinion. THC rather pollutes the trip. But at least, you know that it's transient. Sometimes, though, it's helpful to have a friend around, who can remind you that you've just done some drugs.
It fetches from GitHub. The website was built in a weekend by our manager to make the task of a complete rewrite a little more fun for the team. Sorry it’s not perfect! ;-)
Does it the Frontend ecosystem has yet another new framework? Do we have to retire the old one and learn the new one all over again?
Never seen one myself but it's entirely possible for a business to solicit volunteers to be laid off [1] or take early retirement [2].

[1] e.g. http://www.nyguild.org/time-inc-news-details/items/spots-ill...

[2] e.g. http://www.wcpo.com/money/local-business-news/kroger-offers-...
Actually you can get pretty close to JSX with es6 template strings and no external transpiler dependency.

https://github.com/trueadm/t7
This looks great! I spotted a typo with the word "neccesary" a bit down the page, however.
Study shows high-salt diet decreases thirst, increases hunger
Cool, good luck! Also, not sure if this is by design or not, but the header bar (with the about and pricing links) doesn't show up until I've scrolled down past the main splash image. I'm on IE11 and Win10.
unemployment rate ... 2.5%. This study has 5.6% unemployment and under employment at 12.6%

http://www.epi.org/publication/class-of-2016/
Hi, I'm Lee from the GraphQL/Relay team

This technique of persisting the queries (and fragments) to the server at build time predates Relay - we've been using it on our iOS and Android apps since 2013.

At build time these clients submit their query strings to the server and get a small identifier in return which they can use at runtime to reference the whole query. This definitely means that old queries need to be kept around as long as the clients that use them are still active. Since iOS and Android apps seem to last forever, we're still getting traffic today from just about every version of our native apps we've ever shipped, even from 2012 and 2013. Because of this we decided to not bother with garbage collecting persisted queries, in terms of all the other data Facebook retains, persisted GraphQL queries is a grain of sand in a desert. However, with a bit more work, you could easily keep a hit counter per persisted query and go remove any persisted queries which had no recent hits.
"the FRBs were as blinding as flash grenades in a dark forest"

Just that much should be terrifying for anyone who's read The Three-Body Problem and its sequels.
Well, if you look at the front page, you'll also see:

High-performance garbage-collected language
Compiles to C, C++ or JavaScript
Produces dependency-free binaries
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and more

And of course, the "Features" button right under the text leads to https://nim-lang.org/features.html
Sure. And how much of a dent in revenue to the author would this lead to?

Keep in mind the context of this conversation is a conjecture that Sublime's nag screen led to purchases out of convenience for the users making those payments (who could've easily patched the binaries but didn't). Disagree with that premise if you want, but if so, clarify that you're doing that.
>In practice; we currently have a very UN-progressive system. Where the very wealthy get excessive tax breaks, and pay even less than the middle and upper-middle class (who are getting fucking murdered: at least that's my experience).

That's not really true. 99.9% of the tax system is progressive[1] and the middle (14% effective tax rate on 59k annual) and upper middle (17.5% on 95k) classes pay less than the highest quintile (27% on 260k). Even the top 1% (35% on 1,570k) pays fairly reasonably, although capital gains eats into that- it would be closer to 45% if it was taxed at the same rate.

The real problem is the .1%, the people who's annual income is in the hundreds of millions. These are athletes/actors and "businessmen" who are really just investors in their own company, and they form two distinct taxpayers. The athletes/actors pay rates ranging from 20% to 35%. The ultrarich businessmen are heavily clustered around 10-20%. So heavily that both groups together paid an average rate of 16.62%[2] in 2007. That's just... incredibly insane.

I think part of the opposition to fixing this problem comes from framing it as a middle class issue. It's not even a middle class + rich issue, it's an issue for even the extremely rich. It's not an "us vs. CEOs" issue. It's "everybody vs a subset of the richest thousand people". There isn't an income level above which you are the enemy, the enemy is all of the people who skirt by paying taxes. Long term capital gains taxes are too low and ultrarich tax loopholes are abused liberally.

[1]: see page 35 of this CBO report- https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-...

[2]: page 10 of this IRS report: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/07intop400.pdf
The issue is a non issue. For ages in planes, race cars, etc we have had fuel cells. A few types exist, from just adding more baffles and pickups with vapor locks, to fuel bags (no air to make it to pickup) or the more modern foam matrices that use capilary effect.
>Like all the other executive orders, it’s just words

The hypocrisy here is truly disgusting. One moment, executive orders are the end of the world. The next moment, they don't mean anything at all.

If a person can't see past this man's partisanship, then they are hopeless; when reason and logic are out the window, it's over.

For those who want evidence from the mouth of Chuck Schumer himself [1]:

>Schumer said that he called Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Saturday "to urge the administration to rescind these anti-American executive actions that will do absolutely nothing to improve our safety."

>"In fact, they will do the opposite. We have a long and proud tradition of accepting refugees who seek safety in the United States, after a long and thorough vetting process. That tradition should continue," he said.

>“These executive orders were mean-spirited and un-American in their origin, and implemented in a way that has caused chaos and confusion across the country. They will only serve to embolden and inspire those around the globe who would do us harm. They must be reversed, immediately," Schumer added.

It's like politicians aren't even pretending anymore. The thing that kills me is that people actually buy this stuff. Maybe Chuck is right about the executive order on immigration. Maybe he's right that executive orders do nothing at all. But he's definitely not right about both things.

1. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316711-schumer-ca...
Easiest solution is to inflation adjust min salary of $60,000 set back in 1989 and have the limit follow inflation. Lawmakers have this tendency to not build in inflation adjustments(eg: AMT tax limit,min wage) which causes lot issues down the road.
I like it, but "the money thing" and the content in that section is tacky.
Given that an incorrect map caused Windows 95 to be banned from the whole of India, it's understandable that BillG was worried about an incorrect border :)

Story here:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/01/how_microsoft_offen...
I understand what you're getting at and don't intend to be cruel. Unfortunately, huge employers don't flinch at leveraging natural human sympathies as a convenient way to beat down support of policies that might increase domestic labor's bargaining power. I intend to make a little fun, but not at H-1B workers. Only at journalistic shilling.

[edit - fixed grammar mistake which mangled intended meaning]
Oracle acquires ad measurement company Moat
Ninjadev – What Are You Syncing About?
I've never seen a cockroach in my whole life and never heard of anyone having problems with them. I only know about them from American movies and TV series (e.g. ALF).
Alerting stem cells to hurry up and heal
Yes, the notable one I know of ULA (United Launch Alliance) doing a bunch of volunteered lay offs where they went around asking their old timers to see if they would be willing to go into retirement.
On the one hand, you're right about using a brand name as shorthand for what that represents.

But you're missing a point that's true of the startup metaphor but not of the mercedes one: "uber for x" has been absolutely beaten to death as a low-effort startup pitch, to the point of being a useful counter-signal. Mercedes has no such baggage when it comes to judging the people saying the word.
New code certainly carries risks that old, known code doesn't. And yes, this does carry over towards OS scheduler territory.

That said, the early feedback from others in the React community is that the Fiber implementation is simpler overall and easier to work with than the "React Stack" implementation. Fiber is also explicitly built to support additional renderers on top of the core reconciler, while building renderers on the Stack implementation apparently required some levels of monkey-patching or reaching into internals.
To be clear this is irrelevant to React 16 which works in sync mode for compatibility. We'll share more about any changes when we start enabling the async mode in Facebook products and figure out the best migration strategy.
The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups
User-Made Patch Lets Owners of Next-Gen CPUs Install Updates on Windows 7 and 8.1
Yes. I have a cousin who was stationed on a ballistic missile sub; I keep meaning to ask him how much crockery they had left after that.
> a perfect demonstration of why the front-end development ecosystem is way out of control.

The answer to this is simple but horribly disappointing. In the military we describe this behavior as "justifying your existence". There are three separate causes to this problem.

First, solving valid problems is hard in any environment. Dicking around with tooling and configuration is easy. This includes frameworks, abstraction libraries, and so forth. Real problems are often tied to products, services, or end-user problems (opposed to these invented developer problems).

Second, writing open source software takes initiative and discipline. It is easier to have the energy for hard problems when people are telling you what to work on and you are getting paid. In this case failing to complete the hard problems bring retribution and eventually termination. When you are on your own or volunteering your time you have to really want it, which completely compounds the first point.

Third, there is a low barrier to entry to do front-end work. You can copy paste some code from the internet into your browser console and watch it do stuff. You don't need a compiler, special environment to get started, or any kind of fancy software. This problem is compounded in the legacy corporate world where web technologies are still viewed as inferior child's play for incompetent weak-minded children. After all real developers write ALL of their web related code in Java 6 (sarcasm).
I think part of the problem with getting rid of email is that it has proven itself flexible enough to handle a variety of communication needs, so to replace it, several tasks/apps need to work in combination. For example, an archived text messaging/IM handles part of it, possibly including identity, but something would also need to stand in for the long-format or large file transfer (like Dropbox, Google Docs, etc.).
Russian armored drones
But your company is smaller. I work for a company smaller still and the amount of dumb bureaucracy is even less than yours probably.

Also, culturally the aerospace industry is very rule and procedure heavy, for good reason.
Ignoring the TCS jibe, there have been several succesful startup founders that have initially held an H1.

http://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/startups/india...

I don't care enough to validate if everyone on that list held a H1 at some point, but they're all born in India and went on to start large companies in the US and were likely on a H1 at some point. And this list ignores people of all other nationalities and only limits itself to companies valuing > 1bn.
Perhaps they had watched a bit too much MST3K https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqrJOdWdJFo&feature=youtu.be... 416- Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Quite right. $60K in 1989 would be $117K in today's dollars by CPI. But CPI might be a little bit optimistic. I'd peg it to the rate of real estate inflation :)
Hey! I don't get the karma points?!
It is indeed effective, and interesting.

Whenever people talk about unionizing or professionalizing software development, I think things of this. Even if it ridiculous for both sides, it is indicative of a group of workers, and an employer, who have decided exactly what their job is (and is not), and what the rules and training pertaining to that job are.

Contrast with software development, which is a free-for-all - mainly for good, but the complete absence of standards or authorities doesn't always seem like a good thing. Just occasionally I find myself thinking that some baseline standards for, say, source control or testing would do everyone a world of good.
What's Your Learning Stack?
IIRC, even most (all?) software engineers working for Boeing in Washington State are required to join the union.

I worked for Boeing in Colorado on a major govt satellite program several years ago (non-union in CO of course), and when I received a WARN notice when our contract was ending I began looking around the company for other positions. All the SW Eng jobs I could find in the commercial aviation BU in Washington were listed as being "Union." Blech.

I ended up leaving the company after I figured out that Boeing's hiring and transfer policies meant it was easier to quit and apply for jobs as an external applicant, rather than applying as an internal candidate.