skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overall I think the article is true, but I've also been saying the same thing myself about people my age for several years.

I'm reminded that a friend of mine in grad school occasionally gets phone calls from the parents of the college students in some of his classes when they do poorly, and that parents are often the ones setting up tutoring and such for their in-college kids, rather than the students themselves.

It's plain ridiculous.

Feeling like you want to become self supporting and out from under the parental thumb definitely seems to be unusual in my generation.
why would anyone give 40 million to Oracle for a web development contract?
Yay! Another comment where the younger generation blames the older generation. You see the problem with this type of argument, right?
If I understood the author correctly, she is a psychotherapist talking about people she sees professionally. So, this could just as easily be a story about how Millennials are much more willing to see a therapist for these sorts of problems than their parents' and grandparents' generations were.
you can't refute

Actually, maybe we could, if we had some evidence, which you don't.
As technologists, what can we do to tackle this issue? What tech companies are focused on bringing down medical costs?
The commenter is making a perfectly apt joke about the state of healthcare in the US, as exemplified in the linked article. It is indeed a "nice dig" because it's sadly true, and Americans should all know it.
I completely agree. Hell, some first-time parents are as old as many first-time grandparents.
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This therapist alone has seen more than 100:

"Her case is becoming the norm for twenty- to thirtysomethings I see in my office as a psychotherapist. I’ve had at least 100 college and grad students like Amy crying on my couch because breaching adulthood is too overwhelming."
Great counterpoint in the New York Times the other day on the shifting values of millenials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/opinion/sunday/millennial-...

This is more the extrapolation of one struggling 30 year old onto a generation rather than the symptoms of an entire group of people
It's not hard. Limited only by your imagination.

Emergency calls dispatched to competing ambulance/hospitals.
Competing emergency dispatch services, say 911, 922, 933,...
Customized emergency dispatch services - We'll have a life flight helicopter on call for only $99 a month!
Plus any ideas from millions of people looking out for their best interests.
The guy co-authored Metasploit: The Penetration Testers Guide book. Doesn't the fact that you're unaware of this prominent person call into question your own credibility?
Because this is a different invention.

The post office.
Hooray for anecdotal evidence! I even agree with some of it, but there's sweet fuck all to back up any of it.

A highlight for the those of you that couldn't make it through the whole way:

"A generation ago, my college peers and I would buy a pint of ice cream and down a shot of peach schnapps (or two) to process a breakup. Now some college students feel suicidal after the breakup of a four-month relationship."

This shit is publishable?
Is it impossible that writing, even if not towards the current goal you are working towards, has some benefit? I mean, even for real writers and poets, not just the rest of the unwashed masses?
Ever wonder why people in third-world countries generally don't grow up to be successful like boomers did? Did you always think it was because they weren't tough enough? Actually, it's because the boomers had an awesome environment to grow up and have a career in. That environment doesn't exist anymore because the economy has tanked. Boomers literally have no idea how good they had it.
Does this have anything to do with the variance between the "expectations" that were laid out for Millennials & the reality of what actually exists.

If you're brought up to follow all the rules & go to college, work 40 years and then retire & as soon as you get through the first part (follow the rules & graduate) and you can't get a job at Starbucks - life might seem a bit harder than you expected.
Domino’s trials new drone delivery system for pizzas... I think they didnt get the kind of PR Amazon got...

http://metro.co.uk/2013/06/05/dominos-trials-new-drone-deliv...
Canonical released v1 of their phone OS for developers in October.
Average age is only up because women started child bearing later.

About a hundred years ago it was common for men in their very late 20's to have finally built a life of their own and get a bride. A bride who was 16 or so because that meant she still had plenty of child bearing years ahead of her.

What if men just got back to that same state, while women have joined men in this status instead of having the whole teenage pregnancy thing?
Their expertise could be used in any number of ways in Apple's various server side services imo.
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It was definitely a dig, but I don't think he was seriously implying the US isn't a first world country. I think the frustration stems from the fact that the US is the most obvious example of a first world country, and yet still hasn't figured out how to provide cost-effective and universally available healthcare to its citizens.
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I really like CoffeeScript, but I don't think it's really closer to pseudocode than Python. Python, for example, eschews anonymous functions in favor of forcing you to name things. It also tries to avoid terse symbols for language features in favor of verbosity. To me, CoffeeScript syntax is somewhere between Python and Ruby.
How do you get a kidney transplant without insurance?
As a guy who has suddenly become closer to 30 than to 20: Man, partying is SO MUCH MORE FUN when you have money than when you're a broke student counting pennies.

So. Much. More. Fun.

The way I see it, there just isn't any valid reason for wanting to "grow up". I have never seen anyone who is happy claim they are a grown up. "Grow up" is something people who are disappointed in life say when they see you having more fun than they are.
It doesn't help that educational standards have been falling and college prices have been rising.
A belt with integrated batteries throughout and a micro USB cable would be so useful, and the batteries could easily be integrated fashionably. I don't know why anyone doesn't make that. You could charge your phone in your pocket
Let me rephrase. Nobody will go to jail for the level of poking and prodding I expect Dave is trying. I'm 100% sure the CFAA won't send anyone to jail for alert(1)

My 100% is a gut feeling. I'll quit computers if I'm wrong
I'm 21, do not have a college degree, work for 7.50hr, and feel exactly like this with the exception that I have to deal with it on my own because I neither have the time or money to spend on therapy. I've learn to deal with things and keep it moving because no one else is going to lend you a hand unless you have something to give in return; that's how I see it anyways.
I agree you can't just build a smartphone. Heck, even building a dumb phone from scratch is a monumental task, let alone being successful with it. What was Apple thinking... Oh wait, they redefined the rules of the game. So that's what you do to shut up the naysayers.
Predicting Social Security numbers from public data
yes, hence "disingenuous".
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I don't buy it. If it was a real recession rather than a chronic shortage in marketable skills, some of these millennials wouldn't have mommies and daddies who could afford to keep them around. My dad grew up in the Depression and somehow managed to support himself from manual labor from the age of 14. Show me an unemployed hipster 20-something willing to do day labor but unable to find any. You can't find one.

Maybe this "Great Recession" is an effect, and not a cause, of the fact that white Americans are increasingly too decadent to work for a fucking living.
You made ExplainShell? If so great job. I tried some of my favorites `$ du -sh | sort -nr` and `$ grep -nr` and found the output very smart.

I second the idea in here that the command should somehow stay visible on screen as you scroll down, but is had an even crazier idea: what if you translated a command into paragraph form at the top as a summary?

I might explain `$ grep -nr` to another person as: "search recursively within all files and subdirectories in the current folder and display the results with line numbers" or I might describe `$ du -sh | sort -nr` as ”display the disk used by files and folders in the current directory using human-readable file sizes and sort the output from largest to smallest"

Your tool provides all of this information already, I wonder what it would take to get it that final step to put it into laymans terms while still showing the breakdown of the actual command (which is truly the only way to learn to use it).

Congrats on making such a great tool, I can't wait to tell my friends tomorrow :)
I have twice tried, and failed, to use support for Xbox live. Some idiot I don't know registered an Xbox account a while ago using my Gmail address by mistake. I ignored all the emails and figured they'd stop when a deadline ran out for confirming the email address or somesuch, but apparently not. Now his credit card has expired, so I tried to contact Microsoft to cancel the account and make the emails stop. According to their live help people there's no account registered to my Gmail address, and yet every month there's a new email that arrives from verified Microsoft servers. Impasse. And for extra bonus points, every single support link in the credit card emails is broken because they have re-worked the site for the new Xbox.
Or maybe it is about people who are 30 and need therapy?

Why generalize an entire generation? ... because, page views.

I'm 32 and I HATE laundry and every single person in my age group that I have met hates it too.
Used one of these recently. Had a SATA port (not eSATA) on the outside of the device that I'm assuming is used for upgrades / etc. Not sure why you would ever expose a port like that without some sort of cover.
So you are stating that the hardships of a college student in the USA right now even remotely comparable to a poor person trying to get along in a third world county?
This looks great for devices that have their charging area centered on the device. My Nexus 10's USB port is near a corner. Personally, I'd be happier if everything used Qi wireless charging.
> The real benefit of being comfortable with trees and graphs is so that you're comfortable with actually using trees and graphs yourself, directly, when they'd be useful to manipulate. If you want to look at a commit log, well, that's a graph, and I guess you can't work with that if you claim that graphs are weird obscure stuff and cringe at the word "acyclic". Want to use a filesystem? Apparently that's a hard thing for some people, sadly enough because it's a tree (or graph, depending on your attitude about soft and hard links). That's where you're writing code that manipulates the actual data structure, instead of just using some lookup-table interface.

I am not clear how you are disagreeing with me here. :) Surely manipulating commit logs, understanding say how Git works, squashing commits, rebasing, manipulating access to the file system, surely, these are things that are not out of the realm of being asked to do. Hell, if you are dealing with a freaking linked list at some point or not in your career, you are dealing with a DAG.
Time magazine had another good one earlier this year: Bitter Pill http://livingwithmcl.com/BitterPill.pdf (pdf)
I have a friend from Australia that visits America regularly. We were talking about tipping once. They don't tip in Australia, and instead, just pay the wait staff and bartenders a large, regular salary. So a tipless dining economy can certainly work.

My friend said when he first encountered tipping in America, he did not understand it. At some point, he got it. He figured out how to use tipping to establish long-term relationships with the staff at the different restaurants and bars ... which you could then leverage in other social situations. People remember you, and when it is important, they will help you out. It was less about getting good service for oneself so much as demonstrating social proof for negotiations. What he said echoed some of the things I've heard from the pick-up artist community, though he was applying it as much to business dealings as anything else.

I've read the blog post written by the restaurant owner who talked about how tipping is primarily a power issue. That there's this underlying, smarmy association of tipping with fantasies of intimate relations with the waitresses. But now that I'm recalling my conversation with my friend, I realize that, while that kind of dynamic is indeed at play for some folks, it also seem like a waste of time and resources. Being able to establish influence at a number of venues that can later be tapped seemed more sensible to me. Meaning that, if you're not actually dealing and trading in power and influence, then you're indulging in the illusion of power and influence. I suppose people have to get their entertainment in some form.

To be fair, not being able to tip won't bother the folks who use it to maintain their network. They'll just find other ways to establish relationships with the staff.
Hey Josh,

I actually agree with your quote - but a surprising number of your posts / comments / submissions are or have links / references to your site.

That's not inherently bad (I'm not against self promotion at all), but it sort of comes across like your contribution to the site is one big promotion for your site rather than focused on the contribution to the community.

Hopefully this isn't too out of line - but I thought I'd mention it as I've seen a few of your posts in the past couple of days referencing that site multiple times & realized they were all yours.
I hope your object model doesn't require understanding the MRO to trace the code, unless you're doing some serious library plumbing that I can't even really fathom using in front-end code right now. But I'm fairly certain you could mimic those semantics with wrappers around prototypal inheritance somehow.
I am astonished that PyPy does not appear on this chart.
Nope, I'm saying you have to have a really good environment (i.e. "help") to be that successful.
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I suppose Cuba is the reason we don't have universal healthcare. If they do it, it must be Communist.
And Javascript Allongé, my personal favorite!

https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/read
According to the article, a paltry 2% of your net revenue goes to uncompensated care (that's the California average).

"Though hospitals’ nonprofit status allows them to reap tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in tax benefits, California Pacific Medical Center’s main campuses spent 1.27 percent of their more than $1.1 billion in net patient revenues in 2011 on free care for indigent or uninsured patients, lower than the state average of 2.07 percent, according to statistics compiled by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The far smaller St. Luke’s branch spent 5.32 percent that year."
The cool thing about the Internet is that if you're curious about some data you can analyze it on your own. Perhaps you would show us what you've found? And what impact that's had on how you conduct business?
As a small aside, I think this is the first time I have seen Google referred to as the Borg. That was always Microsoft's title in the slashdot days.

Times have changed.
Emergency room care is not the same as free kidney transplants.
Do you have any proof that this hurts the business? They may have lost a sale to you but gained 10 others.
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It's an article in the New York Times, an American newspaper. By default, it is about America. Not every news article needs to declare a globally unique namespace.
Yes, and the millennials have an awesome environment to grow up and have a career in. The tech industry has one of the lowest barriers to entry ever seen. The more advanced science fields are making dramatic strides, all you need is the education and motivation to get into the industry.

Quit looking backwards with green tinted glasses and consider how good you yourself have it right now. Take some goddamn responsibility for your own life decisions.
A real poet or writer may not use everything (s)he writes for months but they still write (bad first drafts or just work that they'll never use). Also, for a real poet or writer, that is their job. So they HAVE to write, even if they miss a day or two. For someone who writes for hobby and wants to get good at it, it helps to have a plan like this in place. Hitler would have been an artist if he had the self-discipline to create something - anything- everyday.

If writing/exercising/insert-any-habit-here works for you by doing inconsistently, good for you. It works for the OP when he does it consistently. To each his own.
I don't see "having the crap beat out it in production" as a good strategy here

Absolutely. The people who will pay the price for that design philosophy are not the ones making the decision to use that design philosophy.

It really doesn't matter if poor security engineering is the common case, we should expect better from a modern system with the budget of a federal project and the legal requirement that we use it.
You should also make sure the site is readable on a desktop computer. Everything was in the wrong place for me. Everything it seemed like I should be reading was yellow-on-yellow or completely invisible.
> I'm thirty but I do notice many of my coworkers and other folks my age cannot grow up. It's not even just a matter of getting a job. Most of the folks I know are still partying all the time as if they're at a high school kegger.

I'm thirty but I do notice many of my coworkers and other folks my age have grown too lame to party. If parties are fun, why stop?
As always, with the WSJ - just do a google search for the title and you can bypass the paywall:

This worked for me:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230485480...

(might be time limited though)
As an aspiring writer I am inexplicably envious of you for having someone to edit your writing every day for such a long period.

You very lucky person.
I'll discuss the first point in the article:

He mentions that the current generation thinks it's moving faster. And he cites some inventions (the train, the telegraph, the radio, the telephone).

Well, didn't all of these "inventions" happen in THE SAME generation?

We're not talking about 5 generations between the inventions, many of them happened within years of each other. This certainly allow me to believe that technology changes people.

Look at the dinner table. Who even eats together at the dinner table? It's not a "normal" thing to do in many "modern" cultures. Even when they do, many don't even speak anymore, but instead they are on their smartphones / tablets.

I happened to know very the members of my family from the previous generation. And, to tell you the truth, things have changed A LOT within the last 100 years. Work is different, life is different, even relationships are different.

The "new problems" you refer to may be what is inherent for humans. To show disrespect, to contradict parents, etc. are all things that every young generation has to deal with. Parents are not new and neither are children.

What's different may be how the generations deal with these inherent traits. What people considered to work in the 1900's probably won't work nowadays.
In my opinion, that guy is a true hacker.
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"Genetic tests are useful for many things"

Nobody is arguing that they aren't. The point is, you know nothing about the accuracy or precision of the test in question. Just because it's "genetic" doesn't mean it's a valid test.

"The FDA can't prove that this information isn't useful, and the fact that the utility of information is unknown is not cause to ban its acquisition."

That's just Not Even Wrong. The FDA's mandate isn't to prove that a drug or test isn't useful before regulating (an impossible bar) -- otherwise, we'd be back in the bad old days of patent medicines. The FDA is there to ensure that the risks of drugs and medical tests are balanced by their benefits.
The older generation effects the younger generation.
The skyrocketing prices in healthcare and education have the same root problem: too many non-essential people (read: clerks) are on the payroll (e.g. search for "Dean-to-Professor ratio"). The government will not solve this problem, it will make it worse.

I think the only real solution to the problem is to break both hospitals and universities into smaller pieces with more direct correlation between performed work and rewards. Right now gigantic organizations ("too big to fail") in hospitals and universities make it impossible for staff members to see how the money is spent. The smaller doctor offices can be more effective and offer lower prices to patients. Same goes to smaller schools. This is one of the examples where scale makes things worse, not better.

Of course, you also have to have shared facilities with expensive equipment. However, these facilities does not need to be a part of the hospitals/universities. For example, there are already 3rd party labs that provide services to hospitals and doctors. Same can be done for other procedures (e.g. MRI) and this can also help to use equipment more efficiently.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-05-09-un... 49 billion in 2011. Yes and that's a far off estimate. Just go to the billing dept. in any major hospital in the Southwest. The gov needs to pay its bills. Yes, and hospital costs are out of control and need to come down.
I am surprised that such an experiment hasn't been conducted before! Was it just caution that held them back or something else? Since the moon lacks an atmosphere, there is zero chance of contamination of the moon with plants.
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Find a friendship :-)
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Wow this description is quite surprising. I thought they were a software consulting firm based somewhere in Africa. =/
I know I'll be lynched for suggesting an extraneous JavaScript library like Bootstrap here on HN, but what if the command stayed visible at the top of the screen once you scrolled past it on the page (just like how Bootstrap's Affix plugin works) and the relevant part of the command you were reading about became highlighted as you scroll down the description (just like Bootstrap's ScrollSpy plugin).

That would be an intuitive UI without relying on wires to connect the content to the sections of the command and it lends itself to responsive layout as well because the command can easily wrap to multiple lines without losing clarity as you read the explanation (where the wires might start to eat into screen real estate at phone width and become much less clear if the command had to be split to multiple lines to stay visible)
Discounted Cash Flow, a fairly common type of asset analysis. Also used by Warren Buffett.
Or whatever came 10 years before that. FTP? Batch tape?
Yet another "Millennials Suck" article. Woooptie doo. What's really going on is the Baby Boomers are getting old and they're sounding like that old Grandpa in his rocking chair bemoaning "kids these days."
There was a similar project mentioned here before showing transpiler chains, can't find it. Seems like it should be mentioned.