skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an alternative opinion (espoused by some in medical research community and author Gary Taubes) describing the situation as simple and straigtforward - islanders developed obesity (and diabetes, and gout, and heart disease) after gaining access to sugar in various forms, including soft drinks. Remove sugar and its substitutes from the equation, and high obesity rates disappear.

Blaming "modern" lifestyle rarely makes sense in global context - it's not as if in countries with low obesity rates one has to hunt and gather their food.
I am removing Uber app from my phone forever. I guess HR did not do a great job there.
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I'm going to look into it. I was shocked to see that Susan was a research assistant at UP until 2015 and now has a book out about production microservices. That's some carrier trajectory in two years.
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Let's talk when you've saved 6 million lives, thanks
They're trying to build the best language for the next 20 years and sometimes you can only see what works/doesn't work once you build it.

C++ taught us what happens when you let cruft creep in, so I can see it from. their point of view, however I can also see the developer frustration.

It should be much better with the Swift 4 transition.
> tempted by the idea

Hearing from people who want to talk about their ailments is probably at the bottom of the wishlist for most here.
Maybe brushing your teeth in the same room as where your toilet is?
> It makes very little economic sense.

Well, if all the capital is in the hands of few, then the economy itself might start to make very little sense :)
But Uber does.
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That's an interesting angle that I had not considered. That money is such a weird thing from another viewpoint as well, it means that Uber doesn't have to perform at all for the next decade or so, they can basically wait out all of their competition. It removes every incentive to actually perform which might be just what it takes to kill them.
WTO gets a lot of flack for that, but they exist to provide international trade and that requires removing local obstacles, and each obstacle will have some good reason behind it.

Countries are free to join the WTO, if they don't feel the package is worth it, they are free to opt out. What they can't do is get it piece-meal.
It's not only Bill who has this opinion but it's also a proposal at the European Parliament[1]. If there are fewer workers to tax, where is the government going to collect taxes to afford UBI or other welfare programs? Increase corporate tax rates, real estate taxes, let people fend for themselves?

In one view, robots are a regressive tax on the non-professionals.

[1]http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/22/technology/europe-robots-tax...
The mistakes mentioned include those made in mature projects maintained by good people.

We all make mistakes; and it's oftenworthwhile to review what we take for granted that we know.
Sure. Being able to say a positive thing about Jane does not diminish the positive thing that I say about Susan.
Surely there must be a way to have things appear 'instantly' without needing to have it generated dynamically..
> HR serves to protect the company, you have to think in HR's shoes. If the complainant goes away and finds another job the problem is solved.

While it's true HR is there for protect the company it's false to say that if a complainant just "goes away" that the problem is solved. HR also has to ensure the company keeps a good culture, avoids lawsuits and stays a great place to work for the majority to ensure talent is not only attracted but kept.

Thinking about ignoring or making complaints just go away isn't protecting the company. It's literally harming the company and its employees.
I'm sure Andrey would be willing to give you the source code, or even just straight out GPL/BSD license it to everyone if you paid enough. So you see, it still comes back to the problem that you aren't willing to pay what is requested.
Uber can afford to subsidize your ride for the next 10 years or so. That doesn't mean it's long term viable, it just means that they're pumping money from one pot to another until the first one is empty and won't be refilled.

They've raised over $10B...
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How much should each copy of Windows be taxed?
I wouldn't qualify her as an industry veteran. This is not how things would have played out at a lot of the risk-adverse companies I have worked for. I'm sure it does at some places and it's no surprise to hear this about Uber TBH. Being just a couple years out of college, I'm not sure why you would expect her to understand all the shity ways the world can work.
I read nothing about options in the article, did she mention those somewhere else?
I read it as "outside of your work" and also "outside of your personal life". Which is even more perplexing.

What a strange company all around.
I normally find Gates to be pretty sensible but I fail to see how this is a good idea. Isn't impossible to avoid that by extension any machine must be taxed because robots are after all machines? Otherwise, who is to say which 5-axis milling machine is a robot and which isn't?

Why not just tax the things we have always taxed (income, profits, purchases, wealth, pollution, ..) and do so in a way that lets everyone enjoy any wealth created by robot automation? That's what we did last time (industrialization).

If all labor is replaced by robots that must be a good thing. Solving the redistribution of wealth and work is the easy problem here.
lol, no one has time to check for duplicates lol
> WTO gets a lot of flack for that, but they exist to provide international trade and that requires removing local obstacles, and each obstacle will have some good reason behind it.

In this case a good reason, but I can just as equally imagine that (eg) some subsidy or tariff is there primarily to protect a powerful voting bloc, or friends of whichever government put the rule in place.
This could lead to genuine consequences, perhaps more than a lawsuit.

Anyway, we shouldn't even be talking about what she is doing, how about the evil actions of Uber?
You're conflating two different things: 1) whether a sovereign nation has health under its own jurisdiction, and 2) whether a sovereign nation should ban food, given it has the power.
That 50-70% is a loss leader for Uber. Did you read the post of their financials? They are hemorrhaging money.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver...
There were Linux distros that could upgrade across releases twenty(!) years ago. There is so much opportunity in infrastructure right now, so it strikes me as weird that CoreOS took a bunch of VC money to go off on an extended Linux-From-Scratch-Adventure.
no, absurd is quitting.
> Imagine if our (USA) govt allowed us to buy gas (fuel, petrol) with lead in it, ignoring the long term impact of lead in the environment.

Lead has a quantifiable effect that directly infringes on the rights of others -- eating junk food does not. You cannot say that my choice to get fat infringes on anyone's freedoms more than you are infringing on my freedom by preventing me from eating what I choose. It's not a characteristic of a free society. Pure democracy is mob rule. We might as well ban gay marriage, too, because there are more people who don't like it and claim it infringes on their rights than there are people who want to get gay marriages (see how that can be twisted the other way?)
The one comment that literally matches "this is unbelievable" isn't saying it literally.
No, no, it's leadership that sets the culture. HR is merely the arm of the leadership.
If not for the administration constantly talking about it since, most people wouldn't even know there was ever a discussion about it. Which is why the administration keeps talking about it.
Turns out it's slightly more complicated with that: it's possible to track direct interactions with online content and advertising, but it's not entirely clear that that's all that useful, and it may well be harmful.

The Register had some recent bits on this ("what part of advertising is wasted? All of it" is my recollection of the headline), and I've been kicking around this topic for a while.
> Thought experiment: How often do we tell young girls "Don't be so bossy" as compared to how often we say that to young boys?

I think a more enlightening question is:

Are parents/teachers etc being overly unfair towards girls than they would be towards boys for the same bossy behaviour?

I'd argue no. If anything it is the opposite. Only different language is used.
Or report the incident to your state labour commission.
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I didn't either, but I mean, that's a very typical reason for people leaving near 1 year after a startup. And I'm almost certain Uber is offering some kind of equity package to engineers.
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I wish I shared your optimism that HR practices had anything to do with IPO pricing...
This is pretty cool, but it seems like it doesn't store data for multiple visits. Say I land via Google yesterday, come back today via HN, then sign up. I'd like to know all that.
but FM radio consumes less power.
Or we could get rid of anti-discrimination laws and allow airlines to charge based on weight/have assigned seating types. But I imagine that wouldn't go over very well with the people who want to ban junk food.
Nicely done! If you don't mind, I added it to my awesome-resty list (https://github.com/bungle/awesome-resty).
It was the start of the fulfillment of his campaign promise for a Muslim ban. Nobody was fooled about what it was for or why.
Suing would be a great idea but you're ignoring the downsides of a lawsuit. Uber has a lot of money, they could effectively drag it out for a very long time. Even worse, most of her proof is likely on some Uber computers / servers which could go "mysteriously" missing in which case she could be made out to be a liar through a court loss thus possibly making it harder to join another company because she's "that girl".

Even if they can get it rushed through the count payment takes forever by which time she would likely owe a lot of money to a lawyer.

Ideally she would sue, win quickly if the allegations are true, and move on. But when does that ever happen?
> before using it to claim anything

Also read the backgrounders :)

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/why-measure-toy-benc...

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus...

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/for-programming-lang...
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In countries that provide publicly-funded healthcare you are arguably directly effecting other people's lives by the cost of the medical treatments you'll end up needing if you are obese - these treatments will be funded out of the taxpayer's pocket, when that money could be going to better schooling, infrastructure, or some other use.
Most modern compact cars get 1000 km (or even more) on a single tank, so if you don't drive all that much, you don't need to visit gas stations more often than it's just wise to, to check tyre pressures and clean the gunk of your wind shield (this time of the year is pretty bad when it comes to mud flying on the streets).

The difference is, a compact traditional car sells for 15 k€ new, while Leaf goes for 40 k€. Even with European fuel prices, the difference is going to buy you plenty of power juice to drive around – and can get you to your cabin at the neck of the woods without having to stop for a charge if you so wish.
I'm willing to take a discount on cabs for ten years. That it's not sustainable does not make it not a net positive to me. (I don't think any of my money is in that $10BB they raised.)
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I wish Susan a lot of success at Stripe. Just ordered her book and deleted the Uber app.
Then that's the point that should be made, not some vague innuendo about an aspect of entrepreneurism in general.
HR's job is to ensure that conflict gets resolved internally so it stays an HR problem and doesn't escalate to a legal or PR problem. HR has failed miserably in this instance, regardless of whose side you think they should be on.
Anecdotally speaking, I've noticed that Uber has become a dirty word among my friends. For example, someone using Uber will generally just say that they're calling a car rather than naming the service. Lyft doesn't have the same stigma. It should be concerning to management that the company's ethos is repelling customers.

Edit: Management should be far more concerned that Uber is allegedly an environment that systematically enables sexual harassment and discrimination against women.
It makes sense if taxes go towards UBI, free education, free healthcare etc. Not sure how else to get money from the <1% to pay for the \d0% that cannot get a job even if they try. In the end if might not make sense if money makes no sense but that will take while.
In discussions of "fake news" and the like: pursuit of circulation by advertising-supported mass-market "penny-press" papers saw the running of outrageous hoaxes to pump up advertising reach. This story from 1835 and the New York Sun.

The penny press are contrasted with the far more professional "six cent" papers which sought an up-market readership.
Link in parenthesis got broken: https://raesene.github.io/blog/2016/10/08/Kubernetes-From-Co...
I agree; HR is very much a part of how that culture shapes when bad apples are discovered.
How strong is the anti check cashing movement?
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How do you handle clients updating the site? Because in my experience, people don't want to learn markdown.
The simplest thing to consider is what kind of revenue will be collected as far fewer people earn income and, as a consequence, purchase fewer goods and services. These things require jobs and income.
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FYI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System

GFS (now colossus) is not mounted as a legacy volume, but instead is accessed via a userspace library.
Yesterday. I made a YouTube video explaining why this is a bad idea.

https://youtu.be/SyvqY7h3pck

It's one minute and explains why the productivity of robots is already accounted for in our current income tax system.

Cliffs:
Bob has a job in which he adds $50,000 worth of productivity and therefore has a salary of approximately $50,000.
Let's say there is a 10% tax, therefore tax revenue is $5,000.

Now let's say that robots help him out.
With the robots' assistance, Bob now adds $150,000 worth of productivity and therefore earns approximately $150,000.
Since taxes are 10%, tax revenue is $15,000.

Robots added $100,000 worth of productivity and therefore taxes increased by ($100,000 * 10% =) $10,000.

As you can see the productivity of the robots was taxed without having to levy a tax on robots. This is because robots are capital -- not consumers.
Is it the best tool in the world? No. Is it the only actual tool to communicate bugs and enhancement requests to Apple? Almost. We've all used issue tracking software to add to backlog ("Open a Jira and I'll take a look when I have time"). Doesn't mean it's not being looked at.
Thanks for the substantive reply;)

In almost all cases where I need to do a find/replace there are typically no more than 4-5 references that need to be updated. And I think a better way to phrase my behavior is I search, inspect the code to make sure that my change won't introduce a bug or some unintended consequence, and then replace. This may be slower, but in the grand scheme of things it barely registers on my overall productivity and if it saves even one bug from getting introduced into the code than the extra time spent probably pays for itself. If I need to update more than just a handful of references, than Sublime has a perfectly functional find/replace tool, but I have only ever really needed it maybe 3-4 times in the last few years.

To get back to the question at hand. How long does it take you to formulate these series of commands in your example? Because to me it feels like it would take longer to come up with a correct set of commands for your example than it would be to just search and replace 'by hand'. Of course if you are updating 100's of references than spending some extra time to formulate your solution makes sense, but in your example, you limited your search ~1000 loc, so presumably you are only updating a few lines, maybe a dozen at most? I understand that vim is powerful tool, but it seems to solve problems that I don't have (or that I don't consider to be problems), and I am genuinely curious as to the sort of problems and types of code bases that vim aficionados work on.
This will never, not in a million years, get through the European Parliament. We can't even agree on unifying the tax base.

And there is no point for one country to introduce this, because production will then just be shifted to other EU countries.

If they're not going to unify the tax base, we might as well throw in the towel and disband the EU. The existing problems are still there, and you need more unification for the project to succeed. At the same time, most countries don't want this.. so, where does this leave us?
Nuclear waste is something which needs to be dealt with over the course of multiple human lifetimes. I don't think creating something like that is responsible.
Parent didn't say Docker, fwiw.
Freedom of speech means free to speak, not free of consequences. That was never my argument. A threat of violence is an attack, and I should expect defensive consequences. Stating the opinion that the Holocaust never happened is not an attack. Nobody is hurt by this, unless people judge it to be a valid idea and act accordingly. But freedom of speech also means to trust people to deem such an idea preposterous. There are instances in history where this didn't work out, but the general tendency indicates it to be a good protocol. The alternative is to forbid certain ideas or opinions to be perpetuated. However, who can assure you that the power to ban certain ideas and opinions will not be used for malicious intent in the future? So, yes, free speech can only be a binary condition.
Or maybe she has endured sexist bullshit for her entire career, and she is used to having to brush some of it off in order to follow her chosen career path.
> If only few people buy healthy food, supermarkets have no incentive to offer it at all.

Then how come most grocery stores have healthy food?

If it truly was a minority group that wanted to eat healthy food, what right do they have to force the majority to buy what they want to make it more economical? Although the premise is flawed, because the real reason 'healthy food' is expensive is because the foods considered healthy inherently cannot use many methods that increase yield like pesticides. And then some go so far as to claim GMO's are unhealthy/cannot be organic, further driving up the prices of foods that get to wear the healthy food labels. Increasing demand for healthy food would make it more expensive, certainly in the short term.
>The human capital freed from innovative technology can be utilized some where else. That free time can be used to invent new things or focus on some other problems that make our lives better.

This sounds great in principle, but when it comes to paying the bills, the average person does not have the ability to make money doing this. I personally think universal income makes more sense from an economic standpoint. However Gates' solution is likely easier to achieve political and also solves the loss of purpose than many people feel when unemployed.
Most of the comments say that this is unreasonable or that it makes little economic sense. But let's take the case of tariffs. An heterodox economist will tell you that every country should eliminate all their tariffs, because it is "pareto optimal" (you are not making anyone worse-off). Well, now we know that that is not true. The rust-belt is a clear example of this.

Automatization is similar. Technological progress is needed, but it has short and medium term negative side effects. For example, during some periods of the Industrial Revolution wages declined (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-16/industria...). A tax can be a good way to compensate for the negative externalities of automatization.
The [WTO] said in a statement that it would allow a 300 percent import duty on turkey tail imports and a domestic prohibition on sales during the transition period to allow the country to “develop and implement a nationwide program promoting healthier diet and lifestyle choices.”

Reminds me of the planet Norstrilia in Cordwainer Smith's fiction, which exports an astronomically precious immortality drug, yet maintains its archaic culture (resembling Australian ranchers with a British cultural inheritance) with import taxes of over 20000000%.
To some degree... my Uncle sued Fedex, his employer at the time, for unsafe working conditions about 10 years ago after being injured on the job. I'd actually call his lawsuit frivolous but he received a very large sum of money from it. About 5 years ago I used an attorney to communicate with my previous employer about a contract they had broken by not paying the agreed severance compensation.

Im not sure why in this situation you would not consult with an attorney to explore your legal options? Consulting with an attorney and at least initially engaging in a legal discourse with your previous employer is really not that expensive and many times if you have a viable case the legal costs are paid only by a successful settlement. Im not sure what she has to lose here besides seeing if she can get a lawyer to take it on contingency and time documenting the damages.

My honest guess is that IF she has documentation, having an attorney engage Uber would just result in some form of settlement to not have it go into court.
> In other words, I currently don't see an actual benefit of k8s over even docker-compose

Do you currently have more than one server? It sounds like you don't.
It could be less tax than humans to incentivise the 'new world economy' but someone needs to pay for those that cannot work.
Thanks Susan for writing this.

We should send this link to Uber recruiters every time they approach us.
The other thread said they have Intel too.
This is correct. It's a "public github" as in it's on *.github.com with access to all employees of the consulting company regardless of the background check (That's the whole idea of them moving to their github repo)
"delete this" was obsolete around 20 years ago. It was considered valid C++ in the very early days, but that was a long time ago.
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I'm not sure that this is the whole story - rather, the risk of CFCs was so obvious that nobody could convincingly argue against it. To this day, going outside in Tasmania burns you noticeably faster than anywhere else in the world.

Global warming, on the other hand, is a slow death by a thousand cuts. Extreme weather events grow more frequent, fishing becomes less productive, desertification takes more land, the sea rises a little higher, and so on - and the endgame is more complicated and less understandable, too. It's easier to ignore.