skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the intent is never to pay at the moment the loan is made, then it's fair to consider that fraudulent. But a loan isn't a guarantee - that's impossible. But situations unfortunately change. You can wait for default, but if you truly believe that the load has gone bad, it may well be better for both parties to renegotiate. If at that point you don't intent to pay the full original loan back (or as lender don't expect to receive all of the principal plus interest), that just means you're not delusional.

Back in the specific case of Greece, I think it may well be that the loan was taken in bad faith. But even though previous Greek governments committed fraud that doesn't mean anyone's better off now kidding themselves about the chances they'll pay.

Frankly, I'd argue that official lender's are already effectively forgiving loans by subsidizing indirectly via unreasonably good loan terms. No commercial entity would have given loans like the IMF and ECB have; they're worth far more than greece is paying. The question is then whether you're better off pretending that you are lending X principle at terms Y, or bookkeep that as the equivalent lending some fraction of X at fair-market terms Z. Even if greece can keep to the letter of the current deals, that's equivalent to having probably the majority of its debt forgiven, and the rest generating fair market returns.

It's just politics as to why that's not publically admitted - northern European voters might go bannanas. The downside is that the current situation might contribute to European instability, because southern Europe (and especially Greece) really believes they're paying all that unsustainable debt, when in fact, they aren't not really, not even today.
Because most other hardware of similar grade is sold via B2B channels.
> 'Asian' is a whole casket of different fruits

White isn't?

Edit:
""White" refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa. It includes people who indicated their race(s) as "White" or reported entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Arab, Moroccan or Caucasian."

"many of the ethnic groups classified as white by the U.S. Census, such as Jewish-Americans, Arab-Americans, and Hispanics or Latinos"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Americans
The Florentine Renaissance and Black Rock City
They do, but rarely via consumer channels.

The internals of macbook pros can be found in B2B offerings from HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Samsung, etc etc etc...
File 17 is glimpse into still-secret 28 pages about 9/11
What's wrong with English equity?
India is counted as Asian:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/11/the-challeng...
If you go to the source video, he has updated its title to say "update: I am NOT getting sued".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7N254MTA4Q
IIRC Microsoft IIS got pwned really hard because of a bug in that driver…
But you actually get cool place to work, meet people and maybe even make friends.

Might not be for everyone, but sometimes money is not everything. Personal interaction can be strong motivator.

We are in the same building as MobileJazz and both of our offices have a big terrace and BBQ which we put to fair use!
The last company I worked for was a horror story from hell.

On my interview day, the manager of said company passed me in the hallway without stopping to acknowledge me, because he had to go out on a personal errand; this despite the fact that I had an appointment and was expected. When he returned and after my interview with him, he took me over to the owner who hired me immediately without reading my three page resume( "too long") at a less than competitive wage ("because the other guy ho you'll be working with is earning that amount.")

The work environment was filthy, the staff were insubordinate and the manger had a system wherein his favorites ratted on other workers.At the onset, I was cheated of one weeks wages due to an accounting quirk peculiar to the company. Everyone there was actively looking for other jobs. Pay was often late.... I could go on.

I stayed on for far too long because I needed the money.When do you think I should have quit?

The signs are always there.
Can GoFundMe fund my college degree?
https://www.gofundme.com/csdegree

I have a job, and have scraped together some financial security, but there is still a deficit between my earnings and tuition. Is GoFundMe a good platform to solve this?
I cannot recommend strongly enough using Docker for Mac. It provides any form of environment of which you can think, all while running at native performance. For now, we're just using it for development. Postgres on Mac has subtle differences to Postgres on Linux.
If articles about religion cannot be properly discussed (which necessitates accepting negative opinions on the topic), they shouldn't be allowed to be posted.
Maybe the Surface Book? I haven't used it enough to be sure.
Homelessness and what its like
Well, yeah, I guess. When context switches are the problem, you either move the application into the kernel space (which is what unikernels do) or move the network stack into the userspace (which is what netmap, etc. do)
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11944858
Lodash methods handle things like String#match which returns array/null.

More for avoiding guard scaffolding than for undefined behavior.
Exactly, most Asians ended up in USA due to their education levels indeed. If a random group of Asians are imported the result will be more realistic.
Not that I believe a word of this propaganda puff piece, but apparently Obama is "up so late he barely gets five hours of sleep a night". No wonder he is such an awful president. Did he decide to extra-judicially kill an American citizen because he was a bit too short on sleep?

EDIT: Lots of down votes, but I'm really not concerned about the tone of my comment on a non-technical, vapid article like this. Obama is a war criminal, just as Bush before him was. I don't think what I posted above is breaking any HN guidelines, but even if it is, I'm not going to censor myself on this topic.
Well, this is purely a PR piece, what did you expect. ;)
That's true, but what percent or android phones bought every year our carrier specific models? I'm guessing it's a very high percentage. So for the average user things are restricted by the carrier.
Dlib homepage: http://dlib.net/
I agree with the parts that say "bullshit".
When you only allow the already-successful or already-high-IQ people into the selection pool, don't be surprised when you find that your pull is full of successful high-IQ people. This is called selection bias: the Asians in this study have already been filtered by the immigration process while the white people have not, so it's not a random sampling.
Asian immigrants are the top earners because they come from the top talent pool in their home countries.

If you are in India or China, you can not just board a plane to US. The best way to immigrate to US is to perform well in STEM education, then go to US for higher studies. Since it is difficult for them to get a US visa, most of the people who are able to go through the whole process are usually the top performers who work very hard.
Arcade games simply rotated the (raster) tube 90 degrees. They were still scanned on the long axis.
> From software developers and mathematical modelers to geriatric nurses and care workers, a mismatch in qualifications means companies are struggling to fill posts, even though the unemployment rate at 20.4 percent is the second-highest in Europe.

This is the result of years of malinvestiment in human capital. The Austrian Theory of Business Cycles explain.
At the same time, I bet there are a lot of Spaniards getting majors on philosophy and other weed-smoking specialties.
Is there a way to change the dates on the comments to the date they were recorded? It would be fun to see these as "comment made 240 years ago"
In Portugal, Social Security taxation for a full-time employee is 11%.

42000€ per year gross salary lands you in the 28.5% income tax.

A yearly gross salary of 42000€ is about +/- 1800€ salary/month.
> The hardware is "best-in-class"? I keep hearing this, but the specs and personal experiences just don't match up with it.

Whose hardware do you consider best-in-class currently?
I think you can talk of things being hard or easy in absolute terms. I mean, to delve fully into the most intricate details of anything is hard, whether it be programming, painting, music etc. But you can't say that, for example, music is hard. Anyone can pick up a guitar, strum 2 or 3 chords and sing along. But writing a symphony is very very hard and requires not only talent but many years of study. The same things applies for coding. Anyone can write a couple of cute programs in Python, so coding isn't necessarily "hard". Programming at a more advanced level certainly is, though.
It's a catch 22

1 - Spanish Universities not in tune with the market reality, pouring out thousands of unemployed people into the market...

2 - Graduates living in a bubble... 99% not wanting to move their asses and thinking that the academic degree is all they need. Get a crappy job or move to another country. Let others create the jobs...

3 - Zero entrepreneurial spirit and risk aversion, making starting up a remote to non-existing option. Blame it on the executives of your crappy company, and obviously, the government...

4 - Gov not having a clue about scientific research, innovation and entrepreneurship, with policies that fail to build a proper ecosystem for startups, and also fail to connect academic and industry worlds (I.e: Silicon Valley <-> Stanford).

5 - Back to 1
Being asked to wear business clothes is "being treated like dirt?" I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or perhaps I'm missing something.
The first one there is derived from a definition of a circle: x^2 + y^2 = c. Most of the rest use an arctangent. Only the last one is not obviously related to a circle.

We are in 3 dimensions but we use higher dimensional math all the time, so I don't know why a 1D creature would be so constrained.
It would be interesting to see the geographic distribution of Asian population in US. I assume that there aren't that many people of Asian descent in US and I'd expect they're mostly located in big cities. That would certainly affect the median income.
I was hoping so! I figured maybe that would break the date system, too.

Anyone know how?
Brazilian Portuguese sounds different than Portuguese in PT; I like the sound of Brazilian. To me Portuguese from PT sounds more like something from eastern europa. Matter of taste ofcourse but I have heard that statement a lot from clients since we have offices in PT.
Based on my experience, a common problem is the ability to translate logic into code. It's not uncommon to see an algorithm not being able implemented correctly due to poor logic.

Other obvious issue is the choice of underlying data types and structures. Constructs specific to the programming language in question follow.

Yes, coding is NOT simple. However, I feel that it has become relatively (although only slightly) easier than it was perhaps a decade back. With numerous open source projects in almost every programming language out there, one can learn a lot by studying those. Of course, this wouldn't apply to a beginner.
60Ghz radio, 2-3 foot range.

Soli's sensors can detect motion at a range of about two to three feet, Schwesig says, so any device you use within that range stands to benefit.

http://mashable.com/2015/05/30/google-project-soli-analysis/...
> 'Asian' is a whole casket of different fruits

Black isn't?

Latin isn't?

Women isn't?
See my other comment in the GP post. There are a bunch of Asian men who make little or no money (usually under the table) in the US. They're not counting them because they don't report taxes or just out of convenience.
Perhaps you interned at the wrong places, but every internship I've had not only paid me well, but also taught me more real-world skills than I learned during my four-year degree. The world is not black and white; just because some companies use interns as cheap labor doesn't mean that's always the case.
Not to get into a discussion regarding what constitutes a "Release" for any specific project, whether it's tagging, pushing, announcing[0], updating documentation, creating release notes, publish a release blog post and so on.

A final build of 1.3 was tagged with an accompanying changelog and announcement post. I found it weird that it had no more ceremony, nor any prior submission on hn, and as it had been announced through the kubernetes-announce mailing list for 17 hours, I figured its existence would be interesting to the community, so I submitted it in good faith.

In any case, kudos to everybody working on it and congratulations on the release, whether it's this week or the next.

[0]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-announce/...
Games company Paradox Interactive raises $11.8M from the crowd
Makes me feel a bit better about my late nights. I'm also a night person, usually work after the rest of the family has gone to bed. Sometimes I feel guilty - I know my wife would like me to go to bed with her, I know I'd like it better if I was able to function better at 6:30 am.

I guess there are a bunch of people like me out there. Wish I could do it in the White House, though. Sweet study :)
"That IS a problem."

To be a bit of a devil's advocate here: Why is that a problem as well?

Assuming that despite their wages "shrinking", they are still leading decent, normal lives then what about that is bad? Perhaps their labour in the greater context isn't worth all that much to others and that doesn't fit in to our world-view? Or are we simply expecting that their "status" or "wealth" should be increasing along with the economy?
Hum, Some people still think that they are made of gold?
> This is not just a shallow thing for personal showing-off: in its general application (ie. not just in laptops), how you look and what you use can have quite an impact on your opportunities and connections.

Yes, being a follower can have a quite an impact on your life. So can being a leader.

> But they fail to see where those cheaper products fail for someone who can pay for something pricier.

I can pay for something pricier (and I do), but I never bring my Macbook Pro to meetings because it just sucks in comparison. I always bring my Surface Pro because it's a way better machine in every way. It kills the MBP in ergonoics (has a touch screen, multi-touch, mag-safe, illumited keyboard, etc), it's nice and sturdy (and I throw it around), light, thin and awesome battery life.

> plus, they were the first to introduce hi-dpi screens, at least mass market

That's not a reason people are buying Macbook Pros. More people were buying MBPs before that, when the highest resolution was a paltry 1440x900 (which really sucked compared to most PC screens at 1920x1080).

None of the technical details or build qualities that you mentioned matters one bit. Most people buying Apple products are doing so because of Apple's brilliant marketing and the social status that now comes along with owning an Apple product.

It's all about marketing. Like you said yourself, people don't care about technical details and they underutilize their machines...so how could it possibly be about the tech?
No, in the long run they can't, because if they do the very concept of "employer" falls to anarchosyndicalism.
She has always been a manufactured character, including those YouTube comments.
I don't think automatic completion is ever going to be a good substitute for solid text input. If your text input solution always requires it, I for one am not buying. That said, I'm hopeful for a gesture-based text input system that doesn't require any crutches.
I think it's a big problem because the lion's share of income inequality (at the very top) is caused by tax dodging, and has very little to with differing abilities, risk taking abilities, hard work, luck respect for Adam Smith's invisible hand, or even hustle.
> interns' labor has minimal value (sometimes none)

I find it very hard to believe they are doing nothing of value whatsoever. Really hard

Not paying interns seems to be a USA thing though.

As an intern I worked with C software, both in Linux and Windows, of course I had less experience and needed "more" supervision, but it was far from worthless. My code ended up in actual products sold by the company. And yes, I was paid for it.

See how much Google pays their interns.
I'm really surprised how many people in the comment section of this article defend the facist acts of this company. As if controlling how you dress is not a big deal, it's actually a very big deal. "Welcome to the real world kid", indicating this is somewhat a childish behaviour. Well if this is the real world it needs to be told that this is not acceptable.

So I'm a programmer and a transvestite meaning that yes I like to wear what is considered to be women's clothing. Basically I just like to wear whatever I like and makes me feel comfortable whether it was designed to be used by men or women. Most days I'm lazy in the morning so I put on very casual clothing but I decided that every Monday I would wear something extreme so I wear dresses, colourful skirts, stockings, whatever. I wanted to do this because of two reasons. First off Mondays can be very grey and boring. People return from their weekend holiday and generally feel a bit depressed having to start this weekly routine again. The other reason and the most important one is that we are to be accepted whatever we choose to wear. If a person cannot accept what I wear it's really their problem not mine. The company I work for is very flexible and open minded about these sort of things but if anyone would tell me to stop doing this I would quit immediately, no questions asked.

The company that you work for does not own you. Your boss is not your parent why should he/she get to limit your freedom of expression by telling you what to wear? Especially if you do not have to deal with customers (of course I understand that companies can have rules when their employees are facing customers that's a totally different story).

I don't know how your jobs are but I feel in mine I generally contribute a lot of time, effort and talent to it. A progress made in something I contribute to does not just happen because the company planned it. I can accept that I stay on the same wages while people higher in the hierarchy benefit greatly from something I achieved. That's just how companies work and I get paid well, I'm not complaining. However I will never accept someone trying to have affect on my appearance, not even as an intern. Sure interns have to prove that they are fit for the job but that goes for the work they provide, has nothing to do with what they wear.

And this has nothing to do with millennials or how they are self entitled. This is about basic human rights of all generations. Companies get 9 hours of our daily lives they shouldn't also get to choose what's in our wardrobe.
There are two primary reasons for this, in my mind. The first is that income inequality trivially produces wealth inequality. We measure income instead because direct measures of wealth inequality can be misleading.

If we define wealth as abstracted resources available, this seems obviously problematic: it reduces the size of the coalition needed to make decisions for society. To pick a crazy example, there are two ways for someone to prohibit serving falafel in their city. They can either get enough voters together to prohibit that (difficult for obvious reasons). Alternatively, they can get enough wealth together to buy or bribe all of the restaurants (or suppliers, or commercial property, etc).

Naturally, we're nowhere close to my crazy example, but there are smaller examples of this effect that we're starting to see. Try going down to the store and buying a Blu-Ray player that doesn't encrypt its HDMI output. You can't, even though the majority of people who care one way or the other would like one.

The other problem is that it's rather detrimental to the narrative that one's income is purely the result of the work one puts in. It's hard to explain rising income inequality if that is true. Are rich people systematically working harder (and poor people systematically working less hard) than they used to? That's implausible on its face, so what's causing the inequality to increase?

There are some plausible explanations for this, which still work within the narrative that income results from work. Occam's Razor would seem to point in other directions, though.
Five companies considered buying LinkedIn
"[...]you can at least know that there is some semblance of equality in opportunity even if not outcomes."

Judging from the way people go about discussing these sorts of topics, I would say that outcome is a more widely-used "determinant" of fairness than opportunity. Outcomes are always seen as proxies for opportunity (or lack of it).
It's pretty well established that East Asians have significantly higher average IQs than Europeans. High IQ predicts low crime rate. Ashkenazi Jews and high-caste Indians are other examples of demographics with much higher IQs on average and also lower crime rate and higher average income. Selective immigration accounts for some of this but is not the whole story.
Keep this up and the villains on Lifetime will be Asian men instead of white men.
You deliberately ignored the words "in real terms".
Also happened for VMS and AS/400. Further, recall that Transmeta invented HW JIT for x86 to run it on power-efficient, non-x86 corr. Finally, Loongson is doing x86 emulation on top of MIPS multicore.

So, there's plenty precedent that your scenario could've played out. Don't forget alternative, though, where Centaur/VIA could just receive a gigantic shift in business their way. Or AMD just keeps accelerating x86. Actually, AMD64 seems inevitable in this scenario.
The reason why income inequality doesn't matter when compared to wealth inequality is this:

If you're a high-income earner in a big city and you want to buy a house/apartment, you're going to have to take on massive debt and you will end up paying double what a wealthy person would pay for the same house/apartment (due to interests).

In effect, prices on the housing market are not determined by income-earners; they are determined by wealth-owners.

To buy a house (or anything which is in limited supply), income-earners are forced to compete with wealth-owners; and wealth owners can afford to drive market prices way up - This is in part because wealth owners, on average, do not value money as much as income-earners do. Also, as mentioned above, they don't have to factor in interest rates when making purchasing decisions.
This is exciting. I need to update my Django Kubernetes tutorial (https://harishnarayanan.org/writing/kubernetes-django/) with some new constructs that simplify things.