skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tech industry has one of the lowest barriers to entry ever seen

Why does no one tell the millenials then? If I wasn't already in tech before college, I would have no idea that it was a good career move (Computer Science is a very small department). Where do you get information to make a good decision?
Something I've read a lot of places but is hard to track down--apparently there was one incident where a German communist actually defected to the USSR, warned them that Germany was preparing to invade, and was literally executed for spreading disinformation. He also disappeared to his dacha and reportedly seemed to have an emotional breakdown when the invasion did happen.

The fact that Stalin tried to play this off to Churchill doesn't really refute anything. You don't become a legendary dictator and erect statues and portraits of yourself everywhere without being a little prideful.
> Your self-interested conservative personal responsibility do it yourself policies bankrupted the economy

This is a vicious slander.

I mean, clearly the student loan education bubble, Freddie and Fannie-backed mortgage bubble, and the Social Security ponzi scheme were based on policies of "personal responsibility" and "do it yourself."

As a successful person who is most likely in the same generation as you, I'm looking forward to potentially trying to move to a country where I can take personal responsibility---rather than having people like you claw away whatever I earn to spend on more boondoggles.

It is clear that I am no longer welcome in most of the Western world, but just a piece of meat to be taken advantage of.
Apologies for the self-admitted low quality of this response, but this is a fantastic response.
Scientists develop largest quantum 'circuit board'
I use Airmail, but man, I have never encountered a buggier app.

Every release breaks introduces a new little bug; when you report it, they advise you to use the newest beta, which is okay for a while, but then there is a new bug, a new beta, more bugs... I have a long list of tickets reported, often about really trivial things that escaped their QA. To make things worse, the developers are Italian, and they English is extremely poor, almost non-existent.

I keep waiting for a proper replacement for Sparrow. Airmail is decent, but I can't in good conscience recommend it to anyone.
Honestly, Vladivostok or Moscow? I know which one I would defend if I were the leader of Russia.
Hellо, I am a compiler.
Or you have just one number that has a broker that gets you the best rate with the fastest, or most appropriate response time.

When it's less busy, the more affordable companies do most of the work - when it's busier, the more expensive ones fill in the service gap.
Things are inherently different with and for the Millennials:

http://www.pewresearch.org/millennials/

http://cew.georgetown.edu/failuretolaunch/

I particularly appreciate the data from PEW as it allows for contrast vs. Gen X / Boomers at the same age / place.
I was thinking a few more menu items in the otherwise unchanged top row of HN - not making categories to file stuff into. There's ask and jobs, the rest could be up to each individual user, without having any effect on anyone else.

Reddit doesn't allow one to fold away particular threads, or favourite others - for me there is a difference between upvoting something and filing it away for later reference/response... oh, and maybe also a link showing just the new comments of all the discussions you favourited. While I'm dreaming, even let us give our own tags to discussion threads.
> Life is hard. Be harder.

And if you can't, sorry kids. Guess you were just too weak.

(There's a name for this philosophy, by the way. Perhaps as a hard competitor in this post-industrial knowledge economy, you already know it.)

Look, a strong work ethic and resourcefulness are great personal advice. Once you start talking about an entire generation (particularly the younger one) as we are in this article, we're well out of the realm of personal advice, though, and likely enough heading into Cicero-times-are-bad territory that maybe -- just maybe -- it's worth also examining some systemic issues and talking about how we can help each other.

Or if that's a little too kumbaya for you, cultivate the future demand and labor pool.
This is entirely anecdotal but "Amy" could very well be my sister-in-law. Yes, she's 30. Her previous two boyfriends had the same first name and the current guy she's seeing also has the same first name. I don't think that's coincidental. I think partly my mother-in-law is to blame because of helicopter parenting and always leans on my wife (the older sister) to serve as an emotional support.
PyPy is an implementation. I guess you could call it manually to output C code (then it would sit next to Shedskin), but it isn't normally used that way.

I think there should be bounties for getting certain paths through the transpiler graph working.
Could this be the problem rising from US having a increased reliance on Allopathic System of Medicine?

In India, Allopathic System exist together with other 4 big system, namely Unani (Old Greek), Chinese, Ayurveda & Homeopath.

Yes, all practitioners have to register themselves to a certain extent with the medical board of India, but the system is not as highly centralized, and is more like professionals working mostly as practitioners, instead of hired workforce.

This can be ironically put as something similar to free market, since the prices are being defined by market forces.

The war over Polio, which India as per WHO has won, would not have been possible if polio vaccine drops were made free, and also their administration, for all people, including upper class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_Polio

What I'm sure about is this that if I were to travel to US, to get hurt, and get such a bill, I would go bankrupt over night.

3000$ you can buy Tata Nano!

Also, its worth mentioning, that there is a creed of medical practitioners called "Pehelwaans" (word meaning=wrestler), which is one of the most autonomous individuals around. A stitch for comparison costs around 1$ from them. They appeared out of the sportpersons treating themselves in medieval India, and then making that into community business.

In simple words, compare Pehelwaans with Calculator, very few functions, cheap yet effective in daily life. Both PCs and Calculator exist in real world, same way, Allopathy has been adapted by people for serious stuff, while traditional fields stay prevalent for simple stuff.

Practically speaking, just google how India has become a medical tourism destination, and people from both lower income groups like in Africa, as well as from higher income group from US are coming here.

As of right now, in terms of skill of doctors, US still has the upper hand by far for rare diseases, and everything out of the ordinary. Which is good in one way, but seriously, I'm very disturbed by the fact that 500$ for a few stitches!

heck I could buy a high end phone for that much!
> The first step is paying $30k for the .com (maybe make the marketing materials first).

Isn't paying 30k for a "brand" piece the last step? You know, after making 30k with the business (or multiples of that?)

It seems really bad business strategy to vomit 30k on a domain name before you even get started in a business (and I love branding).
You should see what he's hacking these days.
Google Joins a Heavyweight Competition in Cloud Computing
"you have to compete for everything you want and need to live." I think I'm a special creature. This really depresses me. Do you think this is the ideal situation? I don't understand why this is currently the case. In my opinion there is more than enough to go around, and the majority of our daily problems are caused by other humans.
I would assume because the sales team has told them they already have a 'best of breed' solution in 'your vertical market'. Oracle then bills the client for them to write ('customise') said solution, then adds it their product portfolio.
If you want a .com and have 2k to burn? Possibly.

If you've already generated 2k+ in revenue - it's probably a more definitive "yes."

Really depends on the property. If it's a single word - you're looking at multiples of that. If you're looking for a made-up word version, you might be able to get it for closer to 1-5k.
We withdrew all the troops. Sure, we have drones flying around killing people now, but as long as no photogenic white soldiers get killed or captured the news cycle won't notice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Lynch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O'Grady
Everything old is new again! We could have rival ambulance gangs battling to take custody of an unconscious patient, just like the New York fire crews of the 1800s. [1]

[1] http://jason-cochran.com/blog/when-gangs-of-thugs-put-out-yo...
Would you mind if I emailed you a few questions about some of the things you've outlined? I'm working on something that could help with some of the issues you mention (it's not a competitor w/ this product). Feel free to shoot me a line at wjg9393@gmail.com.
What's wrong with contempt for authority? Is there a more appropriate target for contempt? As for lacking respect for elders, why do they deserve respect? I certainly should not have listened to my elders when I was younger. They did me no favors, and it took decades for me to stop listening to them. Now that I'm old enough to be one of them, I must say that I am supremely unimpressed.
I go back and forth because I usually prefer to post on topics I like to write about, which means I've often written about them elsewhere. I try to write posts that get votes, implying the community values them, so I try to make posts that stand on their own without clicking the links but get more depth with clicking. If the material is relevant I could still leave it out, copy it, or link to it. I'll use your feedback as a data point suggesting reducing the links. I'm a fan of constructive criticism, though it feels funny doing it publicly like this.
I would never install this in this format. I'm not going to POST my bash history!

I'd prefer a model where you download a definition file (if it needs to be "updated" at the start frequently)
I think people keep forgetting that Bezos has a longer planning horizon than most people. "... won't realistically arrive in the real world for another four or five years, which in realspeak means they're a decade or more away." Sure, Amazon used this as an opportunity for an image boost, sales boost ... but what else does this move also do?

Reminds me a bit of: http://xkcd.com/1287/

People who want to be ornery will find reasons to act ornery.
Time to start sacrificing credit ratings and default like fuck all on these bullshit bills.

I'll run the gauntlet. I'll take the devil's mark as a freeloader. Hunt me to the ends of the earth, credit machine. You'll never catch me on my motorcycle.
There a literally millions of open positions in the US economy, and millions of upper-middle class liberal-college educated jobless millennials who can't be bothered to master these STEM fields to qualify. They all want to be an aid worker & save the world or something, or to be paid for playing a banjo. The only reason half of the people even get jobs is better qualified, harder working foreigners are kept out of the United States with immigration barriers. Dear whiny millennial: It's going to get much worse.
On the other hand, today you can start a business in your bedroom, collaborate with people all over the world to develop a product, and instantly reach a world market with your product, all for pretty much $0.
Missed the joke?
In past times, people were too tough for suicide, clearly.
Man I hate it when HN makes me feel like a grizzled veteran of the technology industry, since I'm barely 30, but I suppose having ever worked with a legacy system qualifies me to comment here:

Some challenges with "Just use REST/JSON and then Bob's your uncle:"

1) You will probably not have the source code of the system you are integrating with, which is likely a mainframe system written in COBOL.

2) The engineers who built that system are retired or dead.

3) The company which they worked for is no longer operating / was sold 15 years ago to IBM and then reverse merged into a different unit 7 years ago / lost all of its records in a fire / etc.

4) Your sole documentation is the dogeared paper copy describing file formats for their sole input method, CSV files, which was current as of its publication date, before you were born.

5) Your sole documentation incorporates by reference four other documents which, ahem, yeah.

6) You have a working test suite which accurately models the production system in all respects. It is the production system. Please do not run the equivalent of Accounts.all.delete when cleaning up from your test runs. (The system won't stop you from trying to do that. No, really.)

7) Praise God, there is actually a bridge between the mainframe system and the Internet, so at least you don't have to reverse engineer wire protocols. It was coded in 1996 by IBM's crack team of integration engineers. This will give you an excellent opportunity to brush up on your Java 3.4.1. It speaks REST/JSON, as long as as you spell REST/JSON "XML". Good news, though: your time spent learning the CSV file format won't be wasted, since the XML is just a straight mapping to it. Except for the four bugs in the mapping, which are dutifully recorded in a database in Hyderabad whose existence will be exposed to you 8 months into the project.

Welcome to legacy integration! We hope you enjoy your stay.
Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?
I collect records. I rarely buy anything blindly by name or label; I like to discover new stuff by listening to it first. I usually do this by spending hours in grimy bins with a record player but I also found that sometimes Ebay sellers post sound clips of their records. Specifically, what I noticed is that sellers are more inclined to make the effort of posting a sound clip if the record is rare -- i.e. you can't find a clip elsewhere -- and the record sounds really interesting. It helps them make a sale.

So I made an Ebay API spider that gets all the sound clips and record release data. It's been running like a dream since 2007 and I currently have 89,830 sound clips of rare records (probably some dupes in there). I used to watch the feed all the time but I kept finding really cool records and was spending a lot of money! I got busy. I had a good test suite so anytime there was a Unicode error or some bug I patched it pretty quick.

I steadily accumulated a pretty amazing collection of sound clips seeded by these search terms: soul, funk, reggae, ska, country, breaks, disco, psych, afrobeat, jazz, rocksteady, garage, indie, library (as in library music), new wave, electronic, brazilian, and boogie.

I made a frontend for listening to clips all Ajaxy-like and got it working on mobile phones and major browsers. I was sort of happy with it but ran into some database bottlenecks and got busy again so I never launched it. It was too slow to be usable.

What should I do? I don't really have time or money to finish it out but I'd like people to use it to discover music. Since the clips are short and will link to music for purchase, either MP3 (if it exists) or original vinyl on Ebay/Discogs, there shouldn't be any copyright problems. It's fair use to promote music for sale with a clip.

You can comment here or reach me by email: kumar.mcmillan@gmail.com
Answer to Mobile Strategy and Performance Could Simply be... ESI
I was discussing this topic with my uncle recently. To paraphrase, while hopefully not destroying his argument, he speculates that the youth of today struggle to grow up because previous generations have taken away the outlets youth have to "go wild".

All the stupid things he did as a kid are now illegal, and while some segment of the youth population will continue to do those stupid things despite the law, many others will feel the need to refrain, causing pent-up energy, for lack of a better description. Until you get that out of your system, it is difficult to move on to the next stages of life.

From anecdotal observations of the people in my life, it does make a lot of sense to me. The recurring theme I hear is when people are ready to settle down is that they have grown tired of the youthful lifestyle. That is something that only happens after you have experienced it.
Similar situation here, my only problem is that while I am able to (barely) sustain myself, depression and similar issues are continuing to stymie what attempts I can make to better my situation. I honestly don't know what I think these days, other than that something needs to change, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm not as much of the problem as I like to tell myself.
This strikes me as an odd time to release the platform. My impression is that most companies avoid major infrastructure changes during the holiday season to maintain uptime for the surge in revenue. Even for B2B companies, it is the final month of the quarter. I would think that early January would be the best time launch and promote a new service that requires major infrastructure changes by clients.
> Well, didn't all of these "inventions" happen in THE SAME generation?

Your definition of generation is 3-5 times longer than the usual definitions.

Addressing approximate timeframe of commercialization:

> the train

1812. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamanca_(locomotive)

> the telegraph

1837, +25 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooke_and_Wheatstone_telegraph

> the telephone

Bell/Gray was 1876, commercialization by 1878. +40 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone

> the radio

Mid-to-late 1890s. 1895-1877=18 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_radio
Amazon EC2 vs Google CE - Fight.
> "Most things"? Haven't we just learned that if you make a smart phone that looks like a smart phone (rounded rectangle, button below screen) you can (and will) be sued?

Only if you sell in the markets where such patents matter. Note how Jolla is conspicuously absent from the US.
This is conjecture and hyperbole on your part. The economy has grown substantially and rather consistently over the past 40 years (except for manufacturing).

It seems silly, but I feel compelled to remind today's youth that we all stand on the shoulders of giants. Also, none of us know as much as we think we do.
As a Canadian, I think it would be really cool if every doctor/hospital visit you went to in Canada, you got an e-mail copy of the invoice showing how much it cost, and how much was covered, just so people would start to understand:

a) how much they're costing themselves in taxes
b) so they could see how awesome we have it compared to others.

I should build this. I have the connections to make it happen. Hmm...
Thank you PaulHoule!
It's not clear from the Wikipedia list if the language categories are mutually exclusive. For example, it seems quite likely that nearly everyone who speaks the Wu, Jin, and Min Nian Chinese family languages also speaks Mandarin.

I'm not even sure what it means to say that Min Nian is the native language for anyone in Taiwan. Sure, lots of people learn it at home but anyone under 60 is going to be just as fluent in Mandarin.
How does the NSA break SSL?
Well i haven't seen it but they must be low if you say so. But that just means they are spending way too much and making the patients pay for it. Perhaps they need to redistribute their costs better. Why make the guy who needs skin glue pay for the expensive stuff he hasnt even used (or needed)
I read this and I hear every experience I've ever had on government contracts: a bunch of entrenched liberal arts majors who-know-what-these-computer-things-are-about on the governments' side thinking they can throw money and jargon on literal paper at a bunch of fresh-out-of-college interns hired by the company owned by the government's project manager's college roommate, getting pissed when the programmers don't understand their acronyms and 20 year old paper business process with steps labeled "call Jim in accounting".
If you buy in batch, it ends up costing $10/GB. I'm connected via a karma device right now; as soon as Comcast asked me for my social security number to sign up in my apartment, I said f that and bought the karma. If I have to download large files, I generally download them to an amazon instance and sync locally when I have an unmetered connection.
What does successful mean to you?
Various of the other things in there are implementations. To take a direct parallel, compare it with PHPPHP. PyPy allows you to run Python code inside any Python implementation.
I doubt anyone is going to get in trouble over the PDF report I read about Healthcare.gov, but that's not why I'm commenting.
I fit into that description. 30. Lot's of problems related to money and discipline. No helicopter parents through.

What I realize quite often when I'm talking to friends and what I hear very often when I talk to my parents is a lack of deep social connections.

If you have a social circle you really like and you can count on it's far easier to organize yourself and get your stuff done. Because you learn that stuff together in your circle. You just grow faster in a group of like-minded people than fighting all the bullshit alone.

Finding this social circle is pretty hard for me. If this social circle is lacking or you just does not care about you if you don't fit their worldview you are on your own. Now you are scared and desperate to to fit somewhere in.

Everyone is fighting their fight alone. It's more often than not a piss-match about status and money and importance than a real friendship. The partying is the illusion of this social circle that you want to keep in your life. If you drop this you'll have to face that you are totally alone and nobody gives a fuck about you.

If I talk to my parents or grandparents I realize that they still meet with their colleagues from school or university or old jobs.

If you don't function now nobody cares. Old friendships just vanish.

This may be my problem. I'm not sure. Maybe I'm an loner or idiot. But there is a difference in comparison to earlier generations and most people I know or talk to feel pretty alone very often.
I sent a pull request, maybe it will be soon.
Half an hour job for a $200.000/year professional is $50; doubling for overhead is a roughly $100 cost for that service. Doubling it again for profit&stuff is $200 reasonable price.

Charging $2000 for a $200 service is the problem here, especially since that is not an informed market price, but an ultimatum set without a market negotiation or possibility for competition.

In most countries, including first world countries with medical facilities and doctor training comparable or better than USA, the full price would be $100 or less - disregarding who'd pay that bill (you, insurance or government), that is the full price charged by hospitals for such a service.
We need price caps for emergency care. Limiting prices to a small multiple of Medicare rates should solve the problem. Private providers can operate with price limits. Look at private electric utilities as an example. I'd like to see a price cap proposition at a future California election. I think it would pass.
I agree. Especially astonishing that he mentions as an aside in the last paragraph that his case study patient is gay. Oh, but that can't be relevant. There is no data showing that gay kids are more likely to be depressed! It's clearly just a generational problem.
People looking to test this out might want to try apply for the starterpack (https://cloud.google.com/developers/starterpack/ promo code brdo-in). I know a few people with pretty vague ideas that still got accepted, although I'm not sure if they'll be more selective now that the service is generally available.
Tongue Twisters - rare languages