skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Income inequality? As I wrote in a comment above, Income inequality is in some sense, a lot worse than wealth inequality. It means that the fruit of growth is divided in a way that the lower half gets a substantially lower cut. This means that wealth disparity can only grow.

Think of startups gradually removing stock options from their employees, until they are absolutely eliminated with no salary compensation. Shareholders and management will get all the big gains from the company growth. One could consider this reasonable if the separation of dividends corresponds to the value provided, but I'd argue that there is a difference in the value you create, and the ability to capture that value.
For a modest house you wouldn't have much more than 5 people on site at any given time.
It seems human nature complicates things. Perception of fairness trumps reason frequently [1].

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
I too, but with mainly US and Nordic customers -- my hourly starts at €250, last contract was above €500
I completely agree with the article.
Money Changes Everything - William Goetzmann; pub 2016: A history and exploration of money and finance and its centrality in building civilization. There is a great review of the book at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/books/review/money-changes...

Chess is My Life -Victor Korchnoi; pub 1977! (One reason I like reading biographies is for the fact that occasionally, they disabuse your mind of the notion that certain people secure success with ease)

How non-conformists move the world - Adam grant and Sheryl Sandberg; 2016: Explanatory title.

The well grounded Rubyist (I'm on Chapter 13 yay!)

Deep Work - Carl Newport 2015; because it rocks as a guide for increased personal effectiveness.

All recommended.
Note that it's not just a frozen fact, but a growing trend.

Those charts go up up up, meaning that things are going to get even worse for more people if all parameters stay the same.

This never ends well. Radical new ideas take hold in the minds of the frustrated lower classes and then everything explodes into revolutions, wars and rivers of blood.

The reason for the violence is the frustration morphed into hatred on one side and feeling of superiority and entitlement morphed into fear on the other side.

Nothing good can come out of clashing hatred against fear.

Some "skilled" politicians channel the feelings of frustration-on-the-verge of hatred towards other nations or social classes, like immigrants, political unions (EU), etc and that's why you have the populists gaining traction all over the world.

Technology was supposed to save us from this - yet it seems to have accelerated it.

The cherry on this cake is the fact that the biosphere and climate are collapsing, while the population is growing, so something's got to give first.

Interesting times ahead for sure.
This area is not exactly renowned for being a hard, mechanically measurable science, so you will get many different answers as to whether this is a problem at all or not.

The wisest suggestion I've gotten with regard to this is to not fall prey to instantaneous picture. It may even be impossible to have equality in a single slice of time. Rather than looking for single point inequality, look for how the population is moving through the income inequality over time.

Basically, are the same people always in the bottom, middle, and top? If so, that's probably a problem. What's the time any given person spends in the top? Bottom? Middle?

As long as you have continuous movement throughout and no one is stuck, you can at least know that there is some semblance of equality in opportunity even if not outcomes.
I don't like the colon too. Not in Python, not in Nim. It seems jarring to me, something someone fearful of programming might want!

Also, as Larry Wall said: everybody wants the colon, so it is an extremely useful symbol elsewhere! A shame to waste it.

That being said, this is by a long shot the most tasteful little language seen in a long time.
"Do you remember how much the Microsoft Visual Studio used to cost? I don't even know how much it costs today (the free version of the MS compilers come without the IDE)".
Actually VS Community is free with the IDE. This post is outdated.
Nothing stopping - yes, but I only talk about fasting, not about donating. And it's not only about muslims, it's about rites in any religion.
Leave won because of a variety of factors, including economics, racism/xenophobia, misinformation, youth apathy, belief that protest vote wouldn't win, so on and so forth. There isn't a single main reason it won, and it barely won anyway (and probably wouldn't have won if all voters showed)
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1. The most direct reason is economic growth. Rich people save more than the middle class who save more than the poor. When wealth shifts to the rich then there's less money spent.

2. Money becomes power. More power in the hands of fewer people is not good for a democracy.

I only speak for myself. I'm curious what the more idealistic among us will say. Keep in mind that income growth is a proxy. What really matters is wealth inequality. We just talk about the one that's easier to measure.
This is reason enough: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-leaves-...
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Because it runs the software I need to use on the only operating system that seems to run it and it does so with the fewest problems of any hardware I've tried. The price is almost line noise compared to the value produced using the equipment for me. (It's like wondering why use a $50 chisel when you can get one for $1.. if you're doing a lot of work with the chisel, just get the $50 one.)
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The hon. Gentleman is saying that he would rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich.

http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp...
IT would be hard to fight absolute poverty if the income of the bottom section never grows. You could theoretically tax higher and put welfare(or basic income?) but in practice that hasn't worked out very well, for both political and economic reasons.

Also, even if you give everyone a basic living with for example, basic income, income inequality is still a problem, because to get a bit more of what you want you have to sell more of what you do. This unavoidable causes tension, because labor , value and price can get distorted.

But not also that, because if you were to see that income inequality is a problem on how the value is captured, not created, this means that people with skills and capacity to create a lot of value are not getting rewarded for it, which is detrimental for all the members of society, except those that get the direct benefit of the value capture.
Punishment completely aside, as an employer I'd simply want nothing to do with these intern in the future. Protesting something like this is a good signal of their attitude/perspective.
Just my 2c, my experience has been the exact opposite in regards to subjective performance. You may want to try a fresh install and reformat, sounds like something is off. My coworker and I were issued the same model Mac, and he had issues and I don't. Reinstalled his OS and things are great for him now. But, to each their own; certainly not trying to say your opinion is invalid.
> one of the great things about the EU is that people can freely move inside it and work wherever they want.

That's true in principle but languages are an issue. In Nordic countries everyone will speak English but central Europe is different. You might get by with English but not everyone (or even most, depending on the country) will speak it.

Do you want to go through the trouble of learning another language from scratch? The culture will be completely different too.

Coming from Finland I've thought about moving somewhere else just for the experience as it would probably be interesting, but I don't really feel like learning another language when I already speak English.

I've also always wondered how difficult it would be to actually get a job, especially if you don't speak the local language. Maybe with a rockstar education and resumé it would be easy but what if you're "average" (at least on paper)? Having worked for well-known international companies would probably be beneficial.
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For me, it was that the ECJ could overrule the UK parliament, the implications were too grandiose for the meagre 9.7% (and decreasing ever since the 1970s) representation to represent. Simple as that.
Where do they work that still has a strict dress code?

Maybe I'm just in the tech industry bubble, but this seems extraordinarily strange for interns, who likely weren't external sales or consultants or one of the few holdovers where suits and sport coats are still a thing.
Why should they though? This is their monteization strategy and it seems to be working well for them. Why should they provide a platform free of charge for Spotify to make money off of? After all, they are only charging for Spotify customers that became paying subscribers through their platform (App Store). If Spotify advertised and captured a user outside of their platform they don't charge for those subs. How is this difficult to make sense of?
Quote from the summary of the article:

Consider 10 separate countries, cities, or other units
of equal size, with population 1000. Assume the wealth in
each unit follows a power law distribution, say a ParetoLomax,
all with the exact same parameters. Assume a
tail exponent of 1.1. The average Gini index as obtained
by direct measurement will be ≈ .71 per country. Now
aggregate them into a single country. The composite
Gini — as traditionally and currently measured — will
be ≈ .75, that is 6% higher – for the same sample.
This inconsistency implies not only that the Gini cannot
lend itself to comparisons between units of different size
but that intertemporal assessments are vitiated by the
population changes.
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I got a job recently that requires business formal dress code. It's was a little frustrating until I read somewhere that by wearing dress clothes your are allowing yourself to kind of be branded by the company and in that way I appreciated it because it allows me to partition my identity into work and nonwork. Part of me still thinks I'd be more productive and happier in my normal street clothes though.
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As the article says, it is significantly a matter of lock-free structures and not crossing the kernel/userland barrier. Also cache locality (combined with DirectIO which somebody else mentioned) is great.

With a userspace stack, you also get lots of tuning capability, which is not available with the kernel. One cool tunable is how long to busy-wait before sleeping for an interrupt.

This benchmark I posted on HN once shows how significant these effects are (using TCP loopback):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9027365
Unemployed spaniards almost certainly live a far better life than the majority of India. The underclass is the global poor, kept poor by nationalists who won't let them cross arbitrary lines.
I don't like the rules so I just won't follow them!

Wait, you're firing me!?!?!?
I really want to know what the field is and what the internship was.

Not sure why - maybe other HN commentators can help - but my attitude would not be the same if they were bankers, coders or meat packers.

Maybe because there are social expectations of what people wear for certain jobs.
Those who argue about the level of danger of that terrain should note one really important aspect: young children overheat really quickly in thelse environments. In these scenarios even if given water reserves, adults will outlive children (initially). There are plenty of tales in Death Valley about this. So with kids the risk is an entire level higher.
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The gap should be linked to rising poverty to be ciritical or very important.
However, lower incomes would mean that there are more consumers not able to afford products and services. So either they don't buy, subscribe or rent OR they will take a loan. I don't have to remind us about the consequences of a bursting bubble.
I don't propose socialism, but employees should be able to earn enough money to feed a family. It's strange if a business pays less to its employees and hopes to have a higher revenue even if other businesses following the business's example.
It depends, upon your definition of house and on what kind of technology you have access to to build your house with, whether it takes months or years or days or even more or even less than that. See this news [1] regarding the time issue.

So that's not the main big problem, the main problem is the cost of land. Today that has become a very big problem and the concentration of jobs in certain cities (parts) only has exacerbated the problem.

The rich people have already purchased huge swathes of lands in important cities/areas and this has created/added to the problem of inequality in a very important manner. This problem can be solved by taking away the excess land from the rich after allowing them to keep some minimum amount.
Another factor is population and its vast growth. The population and its growth should also be checked/controlled in a very big way.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/3d-printed-houses_n_5773...
The what you use thing is a fun one, I subconsciously equate people using Thinkpads as proper engineers over anything else including Mac books.

What makes this even funnier is I use a big 17" dell vostro (it had a better spec per price to Thinkpads).

Funny the biases we all carry.
> Income inequality in the Revolutionary era was the lowest ever[1].

> [1] If you don't count the Native Americans who were persecuted and slaughtered for their land.

Also [2] if you don't count the imported slaves who contributed much of the raw labor.
Ha I did this too! Those were wonderful days... can you imagine the playthrough requirements used to be as low as 4x!?!? Those were the days. :)
It goes something like: He's anti free-trade -> outsourcing stole your paycheck/politicians trying to screw you -> income inequality
They buy the best components, yet I still have to buy a charger every six months and it's my 3rd bluetooth keyboard that dies on me. Same for the iPhone headset.
Large layers of society unhappy and frustrated, become easy prey for radical ideas disseminated by populist politicians.

When this reaches a critical mass, it becomes less risky to take up arms and eliminate the oppressors in exchange for the promise of better life.

Ends in revolution and war.

The upper echelons of the revolutionary class become the new upper class, while the lower classes get the same or even worse of a deal dressed up in propaganda.

Adapted from "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" by Emmanuel Goldstein.
Well racism and xenophobia are often products of income inequality. Its what happens when you pair poor education with poor living standards. Your judgement becomes based on emotions that can be easily swayed by a political class ready to point the finger at anyone but themselves. Hitler's opportunity wasn't that germany was racist, but rather the brutal socioeconomic conditions of the weimar republic. One thing though makes way for the other.

The sad thing is that brexit wont do a single thing to diminish austerity. On the contrary its the people who voted out who will be affected the most.
I think you missed "used to cost" part.
I'm not an Apple hater, I use a MacBook Pro at work (funnily enough, either SSH remote linux server or running Linux VM through vagrant), for my personal machines I run 100% Linux. It is solid hardware, but I think the OS is becoming a hindrance to me as a developer. It seems like every iteration closes yet another door on the underlying UNIX base, making it harder and harder to get things working, Homebrew helps but seems like it needs more and more workarounds and often breaks with esoteric conflicts. Nowadays I just use OS X as a VM shell, so I might as well be using Windows. I don't use any Apple "apps", I never touch their cloud because of all the horror stories I've heard, and I fear in a couple of releases the OS is just going to be completely locked down so I'll have to move to Windows at work to get work done. The hardware is definitely the best in class, but the software is becoming unusable to me as a developer. I hope it means more linux usage but I'm not delusional and know that desktop linux is basically just a niche and probably always will be (which saddens me greatly). I think it's a shame Apple has taken this direction.
But rich people often save in the form of investments in companies, which leads to further growth.
In many places there are rules designed to make housing more expensive, such as requiring houses to be bigger than they need to be. Poor people living near you reduce the value of your house, so there's a strong incentive to make new housing less affordable.
because socialism

free people aren't equal. equal people aren't free.
It does make sense because what you're really paying for is the land the house sits on, at least in or near the major cities. It's a zero sum game because "God's not making any more land" (Tony Soprano). The obvious solution is to start new cities -- or radically expand smaller ones so they reach critical mass. That's why I'm closely following Sidewalk Labs and YC's New Cities.
I've got a wide gamut monitor, and I vehemently disagree. Banding issues are real, but in my experience minor inconveniences compared to the huge step forward in realism that wide gamut brings.

Part of it is probably the kind of content you care about: "artificial looking" UI such as e.g. typical desktop apps care least (imho) about gamut. But if they don't do subtle gradients, then you won't notice banding either. On the other hand, for photographic content, you really notice those new colors you just can't represent in sRGB. I would really regret having to give that up, and would tolerate even visibly annoying banding every day to if it means having pictures that actually look like real life, and not like muddy, lifeless copies.

But to be clear: I very rarely notice any banding whatsoever, and when I do it certainly seems to be due to the source not the processing. Perhaps it's an OS/driver thing, or perhaps it's because more pictures contain sufficient noise to act as poor mans dithering, but banding just doesn't seem to be a (meaningful) issue. I mean: it's visible if you have large area subtle gradients, but not to a huge degree nor and well... don't do that?

Most things I see are either entirely flat (no banding) or photographic (noisy enough that you won't easily see banding).

I agree that a deeper color space is about time, although I suspect that going 16-bit floating point is an overreaction for most scenarios. Floating point isn't free, and neither are all those extra bits. With a decently high gamma, you can probably get away with just 10bits per channel, which would conveniently keep a pixel within 32-bit for efficient packed processing. And in the odd case that you really want to spend more than 10bits on color detail, then even for HDR you really don't need floating point - due to gamma correction, 2 extra bits means 20-50 times more light - more than enough for any kind of hdr that's likely to be displayable any time soon (and really, even if we could make peaks of 30000 nits - does that sound like something you want to look at?)
>It seemed like an endless headache and never worked quite right

The E3000 is based on a Broadcom SoC without free drivers. That's always a bad sign for third party support. Basically you are limited to some ancient kernel which may or may not be running stable. I know the E3000 and DD-WRT on it is indeed a mess.

"Supported" with proprietary drivers often means nothing more than that it boots somehow. The same goes for the new Linksys models with "official" OpenWRT support. The wifi isn't stable at all.
> heard male number one mention an open arrest warrant as an attempt to reason with male number two that violence was not going to end well. Male number two repeatedly dismissed this

This is exactly what I was talking about in my post above.

The instinct or intuition to notice danger is totally different. Call it paranoia, call it introspection, it doesn't matter, it is there and it is real.

> this type of behavior sticks out terribly in a quiet neighborhood where most residents have families and go to sleep by 10pm. The likelihood of someone notifying authorities is probably greater

This is why the recent migration from MENA to Germany is going to go very wrong. Combining Germans, a people notoriously for being 'societal correct' with young men from MENA is perfectly calibrated to result in violence. There are no two ways about it.
Basically you can fire anyone when you want. If the cause is justified you pay 10 day for year worked, if it is not justified you pay 20
But aren't most job requirements in our field typically written like that?

For example I remember receiving calls from recruiters looking for devs with 5+ years of .NET experience when .NET was less than 5 months old.
How is this newsworthy? Some company (not named) fired some interns? Oh I see, this is an excuse to have yet another commentary about how millennials are so self-entitled.
Agreed. I think it's entirely possible that they cannot easily find the skill set they need at 200000€/yr and it's simply that the tech writer did a poor job of communicating the job requirements.
Oh wait, they bought Slashdot too? I thought that was still owned by Dice.
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> is Trump campaigning against income inequality?

You can't really answer the question "what are Trump's positions", because he contradicts himself all the time.

Trump has had the most inconsistent campaign I could ever imagine. You name a political position, and he's had it. He's been pro-choice, except he also wants to punish women who have had abortions. He's been pro-gay, except now he's not. He wants to stop getting into wars overseas, except he also says he wants to increase military funding and engagements. He's advocated single-payer healthcare, but he wants to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a "free-market insurance system".

The only thing that he's been pretty clear about the whole time is that he wants to "build a wall". (Though you could even argue he's been inconsistent on his immigration position in other ways).
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If you could afford the best computer in the world, a computer you would be working on most of your waking hours, why on earth wouldn't you get the best--an Apple MacBook Pro Retina.
I love these things. They were the basis for my first article in 2004. Its horrible to read now, but I had so much fun tinkering and researching and getting my first story as a tech journalist out to the readers.
>and as part of their WRT line is intended to support open source firmwares.

The wireless driver is crap, though. The last time I checked it wasn't recommended due to wireless problems.

https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/recommended_routers