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Despite the lack of content in the article, this post seems have to attracted a few comments. Before everyone comes in here with explanations of "oh it is because Asians work harder, are smarter, and have better culture" argument - thus not only further propagating the harmful model minority stereotype but also implying that certain other races aren't as smart or don't have 'good' culture - I'd like to propose it is simply because of socioeconomic status and selection effect.

Your adult income levels is heavily correlated to the socioeconomic status of the family you grew up in. Asian Americans have the highest average family income out of any major immigrant groups because Asia is a huge place with many wealthy and educated citizens who then decide to immigrate over to America. The selection effect comes from the fact that the people who do immigrate from Asia are usually either wealthy or well educated or both, because the lack of these factors prevent poorer families from doing so. These families then have higher than average socioeconomic status and their children go on to become well educated and get better paying jobs (1). As for why Asian Men are specifically higher earning, we still live in a non post gender world. For an example of institutionalized sexism in tech I would recommend this recent documentary that just came out (2). As a last point, income isn't everything. Asian Americans, though facing less severe issues than other minority groups in America, still have to deal with everyday issues such as the model minority stereotype or with being perceived as the perpetual foreigner.

(1) Education and Immigration - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0745648320. This is a great read about how basically everything people associate with immigrants comes down to socioeconomic status.

(2) http://www.codedocumentary.com/ - Documentary about females and minorities or lack thereof in tech.
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It also has to do with economic policy. If labour income is taxed at 50% and capital gains at 25%, then investment income will obviously grow faster, because 1) capital gains taxes can be deferred until a stock is liquidated, and 2) they're taxed lower. An investor making $10,000 will keep $7,500 vs an employee, who will keep $5,000. Add to that the massive QE programs over the last few years, where some investors have easily tripled / quadrupled (or more) their capital, and it's easy to see how this is happening.
Ruby can be used the same way as perl when building commandline tools that use repl and regex. ($~,$1,$2, etc.)

You can also add new methods to classes and you can override callbacks such as method_missing to respond to method calls at runtime.

You also have a choice between lazy and non-lazy versions of map/reduce/select.

You also have a rust interface to create gems that run native code.

You also get an extensible build tool called rake.

You also get RoR5 if you enjoy that kind of thing.
On one hand you have dubious practices. On the other hand you have political football / back-stabbing.

My point is that I believe the public interest is best served by a balance between "the public knows how this business was conducted" vs "any rival who wants my job can dig through everything I've done to find some dirt of me."

Politicians, functionaries, and executive staff are people too. And I think HN can be a bit schizophrenic decrying "people in government are so ineffectual and unwilling to take risks" while simultaneously designing a purity litmus test where only the most boring, unadventurous apparatchiks are able to keep their jobs.
"...the stock market is, for the large part, a zero sum game, unless an IPO is made."

An IPO takes some money out of the market, to the pre-IPO investors in the company, but a much bigger impact is made by dividends.

Here's a thought experiment for you: A company, A[1], IPO's. It's investors take some cash, the rest goes into A. A is a fantastic success and eventually grows to be the largest company in the world, market-capitalization-wise. Then, like all things mortal, it begins to slide into obsolescence, obscurity, and eventually bankruptcy and dissolution. Throughout its lifetime, following the best advice of economists[2], it never pays a dividend.

Anyone investing in A's stock is playing a quintessential zero-sum game: they're betting A will go up before it goes down permanently.

[1] No offense to Agilent.

[2] The goofy "double taxation" argument. The "it's no longer a growth company" argument (causing an immediate collapse in A's stock price). Etc.
Thank you. So obvious.
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> Even if your statement were true (that you can pour money into something and magically achieve growth that is beneficial for both parties - I'd really like to see statistics on this or any sort of source really)

It feels like your calling the idea of economy in general a zero sum game. Can you elaborate?
No. Association fallacy is a in b, a in c therefore b = c.

My argument is a -> b, a -> c, c is false therefore a must be false, and the argument for b is also flawed.
The question should then be, what would you consider a decent life? The definition of that is different for everyone.
Oh please, spare the HN crowd of your anti-Catalan obsessions. Or, on second thought, please continue to educate the community on the anti-Catalan sentiment that is unfortunately so common throughout Spain.

> If you don't speak Catalan and live in Cataluña you just will never finish the middle school.

Or you will learn Catalan which is kinda the fucking point of education? Boo-hoo, Catalonians want kids to learn Catalan if they are going to live in Catalonia! By the way Spanish is mandatory too, why won't you find a problem with that?

> Or if you want to work for the administration you will be ostracised
> Is just that is trendy to ask for this.

Try getting a job in the public administration in Spain without speaking Spanish, in France without speaking French, in Italy without speaking Italian, in the UK without speaking English... see the pattern? Should we give up our right to address our public administration in our own language just to please non-Catalan Spaniards?

> because you are "an subhuman stubborn charnego"

Your comment depicts the Catalonian society as overtly xenophobic. This is an extremely offensive and unfair characterization of Catalonian society as millions of native Spanish speakers living here can certify. You are either completely misinformed about Catalonia, or spreading lies deliberately (both being extremely common within Spain).

Fortunately support for independence is growing fast. Hopefully once we are independent we won't have to endure this sort of bs anymore.
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Why don't we just use the Hanlon's razor?

> Oracle's overall revenue was down, largely because of its shrinking "on premises" software sales

> So how did Oracle increase profit on revenue that shrank overall by about 1 percent? The company slashed the operating cost of performing software updates, license support, developing and supporting new hardware, and services—in other words, through layoffs

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/oracle...

So top management is in "cut all the corners, don't care about the future, we need our bonuses now" mode, that's it.
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So you claim the problem is not inequality, then. So why are we talking about inequality instead of this income drop? If you want to argue inequality is a problem by itself, your argument must apply to my hypothetical also.

Also, I'd love to see evidence of an income drop (not to be confused with a wage drop, since wages are only a shrinking fraction of income).
I'll just leave this here: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...
That might be what has happened in much of the western world. On a worldwide scale, things look much better though.
Why?

There's nothing wrong with an investigative journalism-memoir hybrid. The only reason to remove the memoir-ish aspects of her books is because some don't find the genre respectable or prestigious regardless of a book's merit.
IIRC, The UC system has changed its admissions policies in a way that reduces the proportion of admissions based on the metrics that Asians do most well on:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30393117/ns/us_news-life/t/asian-a...

A few decades ago, UC schools were investigated for allegedly being biased against Asians in admissions:

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-18/news/mn-452_1_uc-berk...
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Few business, but gradually more and more. The decisions that Google, Monsanto, MSNBC, Fox News, Dow, or even Walmart make are starting to have more impact than US government decisions.

And I absolutely agree with your comment, but per my comment below, I think 100% transparency carries its own risks in making government less effective.

If the UN and large bureaucratic organizations have taught us anything it's that position jockeying gets ruthless when promotions are a zero sum game because of no organizational growth.
Disney owns ESPN. Notice this was done by Disney and NOT ESPN. This is another shot across the bow of other sports networks given how much BAM already controls of digital rights - and cord cutting is rolling along...
"Apple is loathe to use customer data to deliver targeted advertising or personalized recommendations..."

...is false. They are loathe to allow anyone else access to it, and sold ads as many exchanges (like Facebook) do - not sharing user info, but promising they can target the demographic you want with precision.

And just to drive home the point, they will still be using targeted data when they start showing App Store ads in iOS 10. If you think there is no targeting there, you're hiding your head in the sand.

My theory goes like this - Apple gets to still advertise, lose its full iAd sales team, has a captive audience and ad platform and so can set pricing however they want, use native (better) ads instead of banner (worse and dying) ads, and so on.
We (Google) are :-)

Otherwise, there's a list at http://kubernetes.io/community/, including: New York Times, eBay, Wikimedia Foundation, Box, Soundcloud, Viacom, and Goldman Sachs, to name a few.
If you want break it down further Indian American's are the highest earning group in America. Probably because so Indian American especially 2nd generation one are doctors, dentists, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
Dress codes are mandated uniforms. Why should I pay to wear my company's uniform?

If company wants me to dress a certain way, they can pay. Either buy the clothes or pay me more.

Otherwise its just shifting their expenses on to their own employees (and interns).

I've been working on a new model for employer / employee relations appropriate for the 3rd millennium that I'd like to share here:

Employers pay employees, not the reverse.

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I'm sorry, but I've never heard this. Can you provide a source? IQ as a test has been criticized for cultural bias:

http://wilderdom.com/personality/intelligenceCulturalBias.ht...

http://www.theneuroethicsblog.com/2013/09/intelligence-testi...

Additionally, the very measure of IQ is based around the performance of the mean (where 100 is legged as standard)

How can groups be measured across race with a culturally biased test and NOT have the validity of the measure questioned?

I've got a lot of trouble believing there are any real studies that would make such a claim as you've made.
The website requires that you provide it with an email address before you can hear the music it "composes". The result sounds to me like rather generic EDM style music, which I'm not interested in.
Do you have sources for any of this? And they'd need to be pretty high quality sources too since there are cultural biases at play here which could skew results.
What about Russians, do you consider them asian? The thing is, short of ridiculously complicated, formalized definitions of all races, sub-races, and combinations you're going to have weirdness and misunderstandings. To most people, asian means China/Japan, and/or the accompanying facial-features that are predominant in those areas.

Are all people from Africa black? No, of course not. Are all people from America/Europe white? No, of course not.

So then, why do you want to define the "race" Asian using geography? When all others are based on skin-color/culture/identiy, for lack of a better way of simply-defining it.

At this point, I'm half-expecting someone to correct me about my definition/description of races. Or perhaps be told about some sort of already-formalized, government-endorsed definition of one of the races above that I got wrong.
Exactly this. It's simply selection bias. There is no filter for earning a citizenship at birth, but there is one when you immigrate.

So in America (or any nation) you will end up with a relatively average (native born) population, with disparities in earnings accounted for by the relative economic strength by historical accident of the racial/gender groups, who themselves are effectively in competition with the top 1% of foreign countries (since those are the only ones given the opportunity to migrate).

Thus you have the results seen above.
> They do glue RAM to make laptops smaller. They glue batteries for the same reason.

Oh yes, because glue takes up so much less space than a screw.

> They try to get rid of fans because they are mechanical thing that can break, sucks dusts and use energy.

That's like a car manufacturer saying that exhaust pipes clog up too often, so let's just pump the smog into the passenger cabin instead.
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Legal standing and economic accomplishment go hand in hand. Always did.

To quote Anacharsis from 25 centuries before: "[your laws] are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth."

Or to quote Anatole France from last century: "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

Same goes for economic accomplishments of one's family and the opportunities their offspring get in life: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate

You might not want people to be exactly equal economically, but you don't want huge discrepancies either for those reasons.

But of course the right, and especially in the US, has a naive child-like view of a world of equal opportunity were individual work and merit make all the difference. One might as well believe in magic fairies...
Hmm. That's unusual situation. I've seen descriptions that sound similar in B data validation. For now, I'll just make a note of this comment to bring up when I next bump into formal methodists that might have answers.
Your comment is hilarious, in itself. Actually, you're hilarious.
> Their priority is not profit, but public service. Since this reduces the availability of their programming, it is a disservice to the public that supports them through taxes, regardless of how much richer they are now.

Public service can be defined many ways. Is it better to have less programming that is available on Netflix and Hulu or more programming that is available on Amazon? Amazon Prime has very wide reach, this may actually increase the number of kids with streaming access. If it did increase the number would you be for the move?
> If the casino loses, why on earth would they comp him anything beyond the first couple of times he turns up?

Because there are inefficiencies in how the casinos comp players just as there are inefficiencies in the games themselves?

Example from another industry:

In the 1990s, I flew cross country many times and racked up 5000 air miles round trip each time. Every 15 round trips, I'd cash in my air miles for a free international flight. The airlines loved me as walking ATM and were rewarding a big spender like me. Makes sense?

But guess what: All of my flight were the absolute cheapest economy class flights I could get. I had the luxury of booking my flights well in advance, and I'd tolerate bad connections to get the lowest price. A business class passenger would have paid 10 times what I paid, yet he and I would both get the same 5000 air miles.

The airlines certainly knew how much I had paid. Why were they rewarding me the same amount as the far more profitable business class passenger? As far as know, it is an inefficiency in the system (which seems to have been corrected by the airline industry in recent years).
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>"that "Asian" lumps together too many really distinct groups"

So does white/caucasian, and probably all the other race "colors" as well. I.e. They lump together many different geographically-isolated/defined peoples and cultures into one singular entity for simplicity. And then we're led to believe statistics that are somehow indicative of something regarding that "race".
As someone with a few very wealthy friends, this is not always true. It does however help to close a deal faster than someone who wants to purchase the same property using a mortgage.

1. Interest rates matter, because if they're low, they'll usually invest their money elsewhere / pay the interest / pocket the difference. They'll often do a deal "cash" (meaning, without debt) and refinance later.

2. Using debt to offset taxes matters too.
As others have pointed out, Asians in America benefit from a sort of selection bias, if you're looking at East Asians whose families immigrated as doctors/academics/etc. Other Asian groups don't benefit as much, AFAIK. My own family came over as war refugees, which is a sort of survivor bias but not the same...it took me awhile to figure out why none of us kids were particularly great at school growing up.
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They are, but tires play a big part in being able to handle terrain as well. And typical tires on a 2wd Tacoma aren't usually that rugged.
On the other hand, if a court found them to have violated their own policy of not reducing rights without notification then they could get heavily fined.
Something I would really like to see in modern operating systems is the ability to do TCP like UDP, i.e. you bind a socket and then send and receive TCP packets (everything after the ports in the TCP header) as datagrams.

The problem that solves is this. Right now if you don't want to use the OS TCP implementation your choices are a) raw sockets or tun/tap or kernel drivers or something equally heavy-handed that all require privileges, or b) encapsulate in UDP.

Which makes "encapsulate in UDP" a great choice until you see this:

$ cat /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_established
432000
$ cat /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_udp_timeout_stream
180

The reason for that is because UDP is connectionless. With TCP a long timeout is reasonable because the state can be discarded before that when the middlebox sees the connection close.

So if you need long-lived sessions, UDP requires you to send a lot of keepalives. But "TCP as datagrams" would let you actually look like TCP to the middlebox and get the long timeout and the ability to notify it when you're done, without requiring CAP_NET_ADMIN or similar from the OS.
And sadly it seems like half of the titles these days are linkbait. And this article is from the Washington Post! We aren't even talking about nautilus or one of those sites.
> Maybe the penetrating radar apparatus is much heavier and so more costly to launch?

Radar is power intensive. As a commercial operator, you this weigh launch cost, recharge time, and resolution. I've seen implementations where an hour of charge bursts to minutes of capture.
> You can't, even though the majority of people who care one way or the other would like one.

The number of people who care is very small, though, which makes it economically inefficient to manufacture. While a machine could be manufactured with the feature as an add-on, that defeats the purpose of the feature in the first place.
Could you redo the classic study where you just replay the same performance to every interviewer but change up the name to be strongly associated with either gender? It's been widely replicated but still cool to see redone in a modern setting.
Could someone who knows a little more about physics please explain why physicists seem to fundamentally expect that there exists an upper bound on the number of types of particles in the universe?
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It's sad that books and blog posts on this topic needs to be written.
Duh, that's a nice list of references. I'll try to get trough the documentations and tutorial. It seems to solve a lot of troubles when we (normal people) have to deal when deploying docker container (in aws for example). Among others service discovery and health of nodes.
If "just look around" is how you've reached a conclusion, then you need a lesson in human biases.
It goes up in real terms since salaries are not going up with the cost of living.