skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth mentioning, those numbers are for my test program which only read a single file, using my and his implementations. In addition, the file read was 20MB. lena.jpeg is 90K.
I think that was "$5 - $100,000", not "$5,000 - $100,000". Although "the majority below $10k" is an understatement.
Sure because TVs and cars are mass produced products. Housing, school and childcare are not.
Trying to find something definitive, and some of my details weren't accurate:

"The "smoking gun" in the whole thing was the copy of the original publication that Warner presented to the court. It has a smudged-out piece of text that they claimed no knowledge of. Someone found a copy of the book in a library, and the text wasn't smudged out. It was the original copyright information."

- https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/15/12/10/2156223/ha...

Oh, here we go, smoking gun:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150727/16042931768/happy...

(see images on the above).
Thank you, it was indeed what I meant.
I'm not a millennial but I do this as well. However, when I was millennial aged, I used debit cards almost exclusively and credit cards only rarely. Now I use credit cards exclusively, paying it off every month, and never use my debit card. The security, rewards, credit score, etc are far better with credit cards.
Waste Heat, Alien Megastructures and Tabbys Star – SETI Lecture by Jason Wright
I read an interesting article a while ago which as its tl;dr stated:

Mobile money transformed Kenya. Rural Kenyans prefer to pay more, but have Mpesa’s convenience (Mobile Money competitors are cheaper). Fees could reduce drastically, if Bitcoin is used. Safaricom sees Bitcoin as competition, but competition is good for the poor end user. Western news about Kenya can be misleading. Foreigners starting a business in East Africa tend to have a better chance of success if their model is not solely based on the local market.

http://www.coinscrum.com/2016/01/12/bitcoin-competitiveness-...
Ooops :(
One of many minor bugs, I suppose.
EasyDataAnalyzer
As my lawyer friend once told me: "Class action lawsuits are the lawyers' startup. You get one good one and you're set for life".
That's kind of a poor strategy. Open accounts, utilization, and average age of credit are the largest factors. Paying off a loan immediately may actually lower your score.
Citations please? I agree, but would like to have sources to back up my own observations.
Stop. This isn't civil or productive.
How about not taxing the shit out of the taxpayers?
Hah. This is why I hate all comparisons in percentages. You can't have 110% of something.

Or the old "give it 110%"... no I can only give 100%. Nothing more.
Oh well - not getting karma on HN isn't the worst thing that could've happend :)
the bash version might be technically faster, but i doubt it would be faster in any practical, meaningful way: most of the time spent in the script is waiting for input, or waiting for a command to return. that it need not depend on ruby is a perfectly valid argument though, and is in fact why i bothered redoing it in POSIX shell.

to do so however didn't just require a similar number of lines, it actually required 4 more (though to be fair, both scripts have comments and a fair bit of formatting, so it may not be a fair comparison. also it probably doesn't need stating, but i'm a bit of a hack, so my implementation maybe shouldn't be the reference point. but i digress)

in any event, i don't think atwood's law comes into play, given that a) this isn't in javascript and b) defunkt is a well known member of the ruby community who spends a lot of time working in ruby and probably wrote this to actually use it, as quickly as he could think of it. his choice of language here is perfectly reasonable in that context.

if you remain convinced that the only correct language for such a tool is bash/shell, i imagine OP certainly welcomes PRs; i know i do.
Poor defense against accusation of EEE?

Do we think Invoke-WebRequest is going to somehow become the new standard for curl functionality? Do we think Microsoft has any intention of that coming to fruition?

I imagine if they wanted curl for the sake of curl, they'd have included it (with attribution in some text file), and then parsed the results back into the object format preferred by PowerShell. Instead, it seems more like a stopgap to prevent people from having to totally rewrite their shell scripts to work in Windows as there was enough moaning over PowerShell at launch as yet another shell. Being completely incompatible with users potentially existing scripts? That'd be a big negative and honestly, a move the old Microsoft would've done without a doubt.

Personally, I'd prefer (and maybe it is this way, I don't use PowerShell) that if there is some type of text editor w/ Intellisense that if it saw a curl request it would give an error/warning (warning at the very least if you're going to do the alias thing) telling the user to read the Invoke-WebRequest API (and if it is something that they're currently mapping, offer replacing the curl statement with the IWR equivalent).

Seems the curl author's issue is primarily in that the alias created a situation where he receives false issue tickets (and don't get me wrong, that is terrible) due to the user thinking they're using curl when, in fact, they're not. And honestly, I could completely see where the user would be confused.

So back to the initial question, I don't see malice here. If they rewrote to include every piece of curl functionality and then went above that, then yeah, I'm with you. I do, however, see where someone screwed up royally (both in the initial shortsighted action and also in the headache it now creates for the PowerShell team in addressing w/o breaking for current users who knowingly/unknowingly are using the alias). I think that counts as stupidity.
That didn't work for me. The top result is still the WSJ URL; however, a few links lower, we can find another URL which does show the same full article:

http://newspot.me/n/03LT3uuT
I only use debit cards, because I can get withdraw money on any ATM with it without additional costs.
Well then perhaps the solution is to mass produce those things?

At the very least housing could be mass produced if there werent so many regulations getting in the way.
Millennial here.

Opened my first credit card, a Discover student card, at 18 whilst in college. My credit limit was something awful, $1000 if I recall correctly. But the credit impact was immense.

By charging a hundred bucks or two, and never carrying a balance, I already had a 4 year long positive credit history upon graduation. Fast forward a few years, and I was able to take out a mortgage at 25. The Credit Union that granted it explicitly stated that said length of responsible credit card membership was the deciding factor.

It doesn't take much to build a credit history while you're young, and even $50 or $100 per month in your student years is enough to get a serious leg up.
I'm a Millenial and I'm the same way. My wife and I pay for everything on our credit cards, then pay them off each month before interest accrues. We get the reward points with none of the drawbacks. We've been doing it for about a decade now.

The idea of using a credit card to spend money that I don't already have sitting in the bank is appalling to me. If I need more money than I have, I borrow it from somewhere else. I would rather sit down at the bank and ask for a small loan from them than use a credit card with an obscene interest rate.
Probably the rookie error where someone sees X = 3Y and says, "X is 200% more than Y, therefore Y is 200% less than X".

(It's an accurate enough approximation at small levels, like when X is 1% more than Y, but becomes misleading around 10% and downright funny over 100%.)
> I believe the term the credit card companies have for me is a "deadbeat".

Nope, they're still collecting interchange fees [1] from everyone you do business with. They're probably taking the same amount as your rewards, if not more.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee
> Ugh, come on, enough, Internet, enough with the over-sensationalization of everything. Is the author really that naive? Of course we planned a nuclear first strike against Russia. And China. And likely the entire Eastern Bloc

and Allies, since before the cold war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red

Basically, it appears the American's have had a plan to attack everybody from the moment they thought they were big enough to do so.
Its probably because they can use alternatives like Debit Cards and PayPal.

Also I am not sure if lower credit card debt means people don't have credit cards, or if they are just using them for transactions rather than accumulating debt.
An NDA would be reasonable if they had the option. Since he's legally entitled to the financials why would he agree to limit his rights for nothing in exchange?
Your design team *is* your product
Thank you. I assumed my instinct was correct, but fell-back on the assumption that I am simply misunderstanding something.
The most important technology in housing (the elevator) is mostly banned.
I think you're onto something though - look at this article with a skeptical eye and doesn't it begin to seem an awful lot like http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html ? It's that same old shitty mix of advertising and content, with the people purchasing PR services in this case being someone in the retail credit sector. Plausible enough to wonder about it, anyway. The suit is back and Millenials just aren't big enough awesome yay special winners to use our wonderful debt product. Yeah bullshit. Stick to your guns, Millenials, and never (or at least rarely) borrow to spend.
Microsoft Has Broken Millions of Webcams with Windows 10 Anniversary Update
Produce costs farmers much more money to grow on a per-acre basis, since they need so much more TLC. With produce, quality is everything to the farmers, and there are many more opportunities during the growing season to make changes that will improve the end result. We've all put bruised produce back on the shelf at the grocery store, and for every one of those pieces, there are several the didn't make the cut!
IPO-Bound Trivago Is Growing Fast Because of Its Massive Marketing Spend
>> Japan and EU are spending less only because they are under NATO (US) defense umbrella.

You forget the amount allies spend because of US forces. Canada in particular spends much on accommodating US demands and on systems to better integrate with US forces. Does anyone here think Canada would even consider spending money on the f-35 if the US wasn't first so committed?

(Fyi, as an example of the integration, about 1/3 of the people watching things inside Cheyenne mountain are Canadian.)
We on HN are lucky to live in a world where at 24 we are fighting 6 figure jobs offers but the rest of my millennial friends do not have that experience.

The median income for a 29yr old is $35k[0], which is barely enough to buy a house in B or C cities.

My grandfather came from mexico, worked at a factory and was able to raise 3 kids, buy a house, rental property, and lincolns for my grandma. Can anyone say the same thing about a lower middle class worker now?

[0]http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/the-aver...
With SolarCity Cuts, Elon Musk’s Magic May Be Wearing Thin
I'm also a millenial, and I do a similar thing. Maybe that's why they don't think we're "using"?
That was exactly the original point. The article is weasely in its cherry-picking of examples. The veneer of civility is very thin.
Two Players Don't See Each Other Standing in Same Spot in NO MAN'S SKY
He should refuse any NDA he doesn't get anything in exchange for. if the startup is already required to give him the financials then he's not getting anything "more" so would he agree to give up his rights?
I'll leave the MS politics out of my comment, and just summarize my suggestion [0] to handle this sort of thing. A module that has exported module members allowing you to opt-in to future breaking changes now could be added to PowerShell, similar to how Python has from future import [whatever]. So you could remove curl and wget aliases by adding Import-Module Future.RemoveAliases.Net.Http to your profile, or even opt-in to all future breaking changes by adding Import-Module Future to your profile. I wonder what Daniel would think of that idea.

[0]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901#issuecomm...
I guess that's significantly better than just de-orbiting the thing.

Wonder who would be interested in such a thing, google and spaceX are really the only two that come to mind, and I honestly can't come up with much of a reason for google to buy it.
I'm pretty sure we (the United States) have plans in place for an invasion of Canada. That doesn't mean Canada should be worried. It means our planners want to cover every scenario they can think of so that should the need arise, we have put some thought into how to handle that situation.
Tyler Cowen discusses precisely these issues in The Great Stagnation: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Stagnation-America-Low-Hanging-E..., which was published in 2010 or 2011 but is still excellent.
I just compared two cases. There are many more.
Thanks, seen the suggestions for creating a canonical script already, but like the suggestion of

1. describing the position early to not "waste time interviewing people who don't want the job."

2. ask a few trivial and easy questions first

Thanks!
In the early 1960s, the US could get away with a first strike. The inevitable Soviet retaliation would hurt, but it wouldn't wreck the country. The disparity between American nuclear forces able to strike the USSR and Soviet nuclear forces able to strike the US was completely ridiculous. MAD didn't really become a thing until the late 60s or early 70s. Europe would have been utterly devastated, but the US would have come out of it mostly intact.

There was a fairly lengthy period (a decade or so) where the USSR was threatened with complete annihilation and the only thing holding it back was the fear of losing European allies, and the general unwillingness of American leadership to kill tens or hundreds of millions of civilians. And we wonder why they were so paranoid about us....
Like said, I would not work for a company that demands me into an office regurlarly (more than once a week) as it is not needed.
Neat. Checked out your web site and really like your philosophy! I'm a solo consultant going into my tenth consecutive year. I too have found that >20 hours definitely throws off the balance. It's still a work in progress, but that 20 hour mark is about what consider my level of useful (high impact) hours.

I understand what you do for employees of your firm, but how do you apply your philosophy to yourself (and the other principals)? Client work is one thing, but there's plenty of non-client work too. Particularly in a small firm!
Hemingway said you should always finish for the day when you know what the next bit is
The problem with trying to mass produce homes... Most of us don't want to live in prefabricated boxes that have no character.
Lots of questions are used to probe for math and problem solving ability... but why would it be effective if it was the only question?
>I don't think anyone would call an algorithm that in theory can apply to lots of domains intelligent. You need a concrete implementation to demonstrate this

How will not applying the same technique/algorithm to lots of domains disqualify from being intelligent? RL and CNNs are being applied in many domains today. Is the complexity of the algorithm is what you're disagreeing with?

The human brain (if you strip out stuff that does not pertain to intelligence) can be seen as one super complex machine which can be encoded. We just don't know all the algorithm/code yet.

Very interesting how both your opinions differ. I had a similar discussion with someone on HN a while ago about this exact same thing. The discussion was very inferior to this one but you might be interested nevertheless I hope.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939866

The other opinion I was referring to was argonaut's.
It's likely that with the feature set growing, a version that uses a slightly more advanced language would be easier to maintain and have less "traps" than the bash version...
I understand the historical context and your argument. It doesn't explain why the US spends more in raw dollars than every other country combined.

It seems whenever I ask the question about spending the response I hear assumes the only other option is to spend next to nothing. Rather, I'm simply curious why it isn't even up for consideration to reduce spending to bring it into line with other countries, or even smaller cutbacks that would leave the US spending above all other nations. I've never ever heard that up for discussion by an American.
I don't think it will be the death of the search box. I don't want 10 people yelling into their voice-activated device while I'm trying to do research at the library.
Canon camera has been “hacked” and new startup created
That's funny. Their thesis is that luxuries are getting cheaper while necessities grow more expensive, but their chart of price deltas has a pair of severely outlying luxuries right at the top.
What kind of lazy comment is this that doesn't include James Hedges of the Prohibition Party, Rod Silva of the Nutrition Party, and Vermin Supreme -- the voice of the people who was frankly robbed at the Libertarian Convention just simply he didn't get enough votes.

Why must we always limit ourselves to the Big Four?
We already have a portion of our take home pay burned in front of us. Do you see that Medicare and Social Security deduction on your pay stub? Yeah......
The credit card companies still get paid on transaction fees, which is where your rewards come from. They collect $150 from the merchant and pass $75 on to you. They are arguably making just as much money on you as someone with low transaction volume (say $250/mo) but with a $3k-$5k balance @ 20% APR which is $50 to $80 in interest a month.
For a fascinating, fictional, but well researched look into what the Cuban crisis could have turned into if it had gone hot, check out the Cuban Missile War:

http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-cuban-miss...

It does a great job of illustrating just how uneven the two sides were at the time, and how unpleasant the potential consequences were.
Just to say it, it's not that millenials are just walking around with rolls of cash. Many use debit cards or other payment mechanisms (venmo, etc.). It's more the credit (unsecured lending with expected interest rate) aspect of the credit cards that they tend to shy from.
> I believe the term the credit card companies have for me is a "deadbeat".

No, the credit cards are making plenty of money off of you: probably on the order of $150 a month. From there it costs $.35 to bulk mail your bill, and $.25 to process your payment (including the cost of running the web site you pay it at). There is also your share of the advertising they do, and other overhead that I don't know how to place. Still their profit off of you is over $100/month!

I'm not entirely convinced that the person who maxes out their cards and pays interest is actually more profitable - a lot of them will end up defaulting in a few years and paying less than they actually put on the cards in interest. I can't be bothered to look up the numbers (if they are even available) to see if that is true or not.

Of course I made up the numbers above. They are ballpark (and somewhat variable), but they give you a picture of the truth: your are insanely profitable to them.
It amuses me when Americans make this claim as if it's a badge of honor. I wonder what would they think if, say, America subsidizes Denmark's public schools so that Danish kids would pay less for textbooks than American kids.
2a - Relativity. France is at 2.1%, US 3.3%. In other words the US is spending fifty seven per cent more than France. How is that "hardly disproportionate"?

What's that quote? "The US spends more on defense than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom we list as allies".
> * End of year spending binges on equipment no one wanted or needed to max out budgets, to justify the next budget year's sum

This seems pretty standard in any large corporation. The best times to ask for new "shit" is during the holiday season. Thanks corporate Santa! :/
Winning a large chess tournament with a significant cash prize would also matter to the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean that chess is not a game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immiseration_thesis
"... at 851GB ... 11Mbps 24 hours a day" I'm from Cuba and I can say that weekly package (el paquete) always contains files from previous weeks, so what's real new each week is up to 200 GB, those guy store all that information in a lot of common hard drives and distribute the package just coping from a portable hard drive to another one, that's the "cloud" for Cubans :(

this article should be named as 'The Cuban CDN and the Cuban cloud'
There's also a video of him doing this live: https://youtu.be/V-gbOGpDVXE
Hilarious coming from wapo. Considering they espouse the socialist agenda and money printing that has lead to this happening. "Give everyone free money" food gets expensive. "ahh!, food is getting too expensive, give everyone free money." food gets even more expensive. "Aah, healthcare is too expensive, give everyone free healthcare, especially since food is so high!" Food and healthcare get super expensive, until everyone needs government assistance to live and we all vote democrat. It would seem they aren't without a sense of irony.
I don't think I will have time to do a pair programming session, but I am thinking about discussing a work-sample or something like that.

Thanks for the STAR mention, haven't heard the term before.
Sadly directly funding basic research or even translational research is not nearly as popular politically as funding military research. Basic research is often deemed wasteful by the public.
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How do you get so much cashback? I've always poo-pooed credit card benefits because back of the envelope calculations always make them seem negligible (ie 1% cash back)
The Iraq war was a giant mistake and is still a giant mess. Yet isn't nearly as big it used to be.

For perspective, compare this to the giant mess of the WW2, which was the last time the question of the world domination was up for debate. We're talking about roughly two orders of magnitude in human life cost (tens of millions vs hundreds of thousands).
A simple rule for credit cards - pay full dues every month. And get all the benefits of a credit card.

Since millennials are already in debt (as the article suggests) and not having a regular income yet, credit cards will make it easier for them to buy beyond means - So it is better they delay owning credit cards. Whats wrong in that!
Deadbeats don't pay their bills; sound like you do.

Instead, you are a "transactor", vs. a "revolver", one who takes on the debt for more than the grace period.
I wouldn't go so far as "most of us". Having a home is a necessity; having a home with "character" is a luxury. Inexpensive housing needs to exist too.
Inflation: It’s a Wealth Redistribution Scheme
Mass producing homes would likely mean more density/taller apartment complexes, not prefab mobile homes. And the necessity part of housing is having a decent home you can afford, having one with outward 'character' is a nice-to-have.
>I think it's gotten worse.
I do somewhat agree, but i feel like that's more a statement about mental patients with a modem than the average level of toxicity.

Gamergate is a topic i want to avoid, because it could go on for days, but i will say this. Only a woman could publish a piece of shit game, and get so much great press "seemingly" by sleeping with a bunch of gaming journalists.
Only a Man would get so butthurt and release details of the former.

Can't we agree that they are both shitty people?