skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty broad generalization of a continent with a lot of variation in cultural patterns, economics of housing markets, structure of workforces, etc. Here are some numbers, from 1994, but should give an illustration of the range:

Share of those at age 25-29 still living in parent's home, %
Men Women
France 22.5 10.3
Germany 28.8 12.7
Great Britain 20.8 10.8
Spain 64.8 47.6
Greece 62.6 32.1
Italy 66.0 44.1

Source: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/research/nordic/gerdem.pdf - it quotes source as EUROSTAT Data by Fernandez-Cordon 1997, itself quoted by Lauterbach and Lüscher 1999, p.430:

Lauterbach, Wolfgang and Kurt Lüscher (1999), ’Wer sind die Spätauszieher? Oder: Herkunftsfamilie,
Wohnumfeld und die Gründung eines eigenen Haushalts. Eine empirische Untersuchung über das
Alter bei der Haushaltsgründung’, in Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft 24 (4), 425-448.
I downloaded it becuase I like poetry and wish I could sing; I am amazed how much I'm having trouble "letting it out all" even in a room alone...Cool side effect of the app; learn about yourself
A beautiful article. Looking back, I wish I had had more activities, not fewer and at least compared to my immediate peers I was not exactly a slouch.
Well, I'm a computer scientist, not a psychologist. I did consider titling the post "the insecurity complex", but I figured that would be even more likely to be misunderstood. :-)
Joe Stump: Why I switched from PHP to Python
Hey! If the title is accurate, we can just keep applying it over and over, until every jpeg shrinks to 0 bytes!

Yaaaay!
Hahha, fantastic. Nice job.
Respectfully disagree. See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/dining/25brooklyn.html no one in that photo would qualify as an aging empty-nest yuppie

To quote: These days, with a kitchen and a bit of ambition, you can start to make a name for yourself in Brooklyn. The borough has become an incubator for a culinary-minded generation whose idea of fun is learning how to make something delicious and finding a way to sell it.

These Brooklynites, most in their 20s and 30s, are hand-making pickles, cheeses and chocolates the way others form bands and artists’ collectives. They have a sense of community and an appreciation for traditional methods and flavors. They also share an aesthetic that’s equal parts 19th and 21st century, with a taste for bold graphics, salvaged wood and, for the men, scruffy beards.
What do you mean "where computers can compete"? That is just begging the question. Is it ok to assume Turing based computation will go where you say they will go?
Exactly!

http://www.newmediaist.com/blog/2007/01/08/dissecting-story-...

"revenue(traffic) does not equal profit. Without income
statements, it is impossible to know how much money they are actually bringing home. If I took out a $100,000 loan from the bank, I could buy
$100,000 worth of advertising for my website. I could then fill my
website up with advertisements, and make $60,000 from Google Adsense. I
could then post a picture of my $60,000 cheque on my blog (or 60K visitors) , and no one
would know I actually lost $40,000 to get that cheque. (or visitors) "
No insinuation.

Squishy suggested it may not be programming, but there's no reason why it couldn't be a neologism or brand name in that field.
Put a single "Recent Challenge" above the fold, along with a 1 sentence explanation of why the user should participate. And test the hell out of user response to optimize the ones most inviting of action.

Upon first arrival it's much too difficult to understand what the site does.

I'm not crazy about the name, either. But it's an interesting idea.
Infrastructure 2.0 Work Group holds First Session
I fully agree, and it's already happening!

Average users have long-since stopped telling each other their phone numbers or keying them in more than once -- you search for the person on Facebook and their number is in their profile -- then you put it in your cell phone's contacts and never think about it again. With Facebook apps on some phones, you never have to see the number at all!

URLs are headed the same direction -- users don't type in domain names much less URLs, and DNS is not trustworthy, but Google is. Chrome's OmniBar already makes interpretation as a URL not the default when it is confident enough in its search results.

As an added bonus, the disappearance of meaningful domain names and URLs will hasten the death of "False REST" -- Hypermedia will finally be The Engine Of Application State!
Where do you live?

It's interesting for me to hear this kind of stuff since I live in Tulsa Oklahoma. Nearly all my friends, single or married, have bought their own homes in the last couple years. My wife and I rent but only because we would rather save up to build our own house outside of the city.

I have a feeling that a lot of this 'lost Generation' stuff stems from people who live on the east and west coasts but that may just be my bias. Anybody else have an insight?
Human composers also learn by listening to works of other composers before them.
The benefit of the current system is the network effect: Any phone, no matter if it's 50 years old or an iPhone 3GS, can dial any other such phone. In the entire world. Of course new technology can make that work in a smarter way (not that I'll take advice on "smart" from someone who thinks not capitalising sentences serves a purpose), but not without breaking backwards compatibility, which would severely limit the utility of such a switch.

Anyway, it's done. It's in SIP, it's in Skype, any cellphone has a phonebook build in, and most smartphones can dial directly from a Facebook friend-listing. I can dial 411 and be connected to anyone by name in a matter of seconds.
Does anyone know what kind of software he actually worked on previously?

It just says that he sold intellectual property to Intellectual Ventures.
Sorr yeah fixing that now.
It's ironic that this report was put out by the AFL-CIO, an organization who has done as much as anyone to preclude the movement of younger workers into the workforce (via union seniority policies, minimum wage laws, etc.).
For web design (my current expertise) I would give student a folder with index.html , img folder, js folder, css folder and explain the html file/code makes calls to the contents within those folders to explain structure(show them where in html that happens). Then i'd tell them to go play with the css and see how it affects the design and read up on each property.
back up now.
Is he serious? I don't but it's a funny read.
"When a computer beats on a drum it has been told by some human to beat a drum."

Well yeah, it seems likely that if a computer ever becomes really intelligent, it has been built by a human. So?
Heck, this is just replacing a numeric unique-identifier with a textual unique-identifier. Many companies have already gone this route by getting phone numbers that spell clever things according to the letters on the phone keypad.

Technology has completely obviated the need to remember phone numbers anyway, so overhauling the whole system at this point would be a complete waste.
As the article implies, there are initiatives to install a wireless celluar network inside the subways of nyc. While the premise of this project is to allow people to make calls in case of a train emergency, the practical application will be to allow people to access the internet while riding trains. As ebooks are cheaper than real books, I imagine many people would be interested in saving the money if they happen to live in one of the most expensive cities in the US.
"I think it's kind of a wasteful philosophy to assume that everyone should have their own independent piece of land. If both parties are content to stay under the same roof, what's the problem?"

I think that for the majority, living with parents when you are adult is a huge psychological burden. Not only the society that does not approve such lifestyle, but also the fact that an adult person must have their own personal area to which their parents do not belong (sexual life is one example).
Caching AJAX Results in Javascript
Sorry, filled that in.
It's called being a bunch of spoiled, lazy liberal kids who think they're entitled to whatever they want. It says the number who cannot afford their bills rose 14%... Probably bc their bills rose 200% b/c they need (and are entitled to) the macbook, they need tivo, they need starbucks, they need... ETC

LAME!
"Suppose that it costs $1 and a quick test shows that it seems to help "a bit". Why not let folks skip a Coke for on the chance that the benefit is real while "thorough testing" goes on?"

You missed the part about the worst case being death. What if using the device provides short term relief but makes 15 percent of patients die within half a year after its usage?
I know of many people who live at home with their parents out of necessity (I did for a little while after college). I also know people who live at home with their parents with the intention of saving up money to put a down payment on a house (a few have done that). But I also know some people who have spent themselves into debt even while working and living at home, guaranteeing that they won't be leaving any time soon.

I don't think it's possible right now for the average person to do what our parents or grandparents typically did (get married, buy a house, have 2.5 kids, and send them to college) at as early an age as they did.

All of these life events have become insanely expensive by our parents' standards:

Marriage: avg. wedding cost in the US is now about 30k, avg. ring is about 5k. (I'm not saying this makes sense, I'm just saying this is where money is allocated.)

House: avg. housing costs are still up over historical norms and anyone who was able to buy their first house in the last few years is probably upside down on payments.

Kids: More expensive than they used to be. All signs point to dramatically increased costs across the board: health insurance, clothing, education, activities, and food.

College: College prices have bubbled as much as housing and the cost of a degree has nearly doubled in 15 years. By the time your kids take the plunge, it may have doubled again.

And this is on top of individuals carrying higher levels of debt from all of these events later into their lives even while real world wages have stagnated.

All indications point to jobs trickling back into the economy more slowly than they left. My only hope is that a good portion of those who are stuck at home are working on ways to extricate themselves (startups, consulting, freelancing, etc.).
The bits relevant to the topic at hand:

archive/
people/*/ - misc files from people I know
projects/*/ - dead source trees of mine
downloads/ - stuff from the interwebs
playground/ - simple throw-away code
projects/
pool/ - design sketches and failed experiments
prototypes/ - successful experiments
*/ - design sketches for larger projects
scripts/ - simple usable tools
*/ - my active project trees
research/ - huge cache of docs, whitepapers, books
software/
sources/*/ - other people's source trees
No it's not. As long as they're buying well qualified traffic, then there is no difference. I don't care who's paying more for their traffic. Organic traffic isn't 'better' in any sense except that it's free.

The devil, as it were, is in the conversion rate. If I have a $1M/year ad budget, and I'm successfully converting that budget into $10M in revenue. Well, then I'm a successful business.

If I spend $0/year in revenue, and convert my purely organic traffic into $1M... well I'm also a successful business, but (likely) less so than my more aggressive counterpart.

At the end of the day, it's about the bottom line. I have no idea which company is in better shape based on their traffic numbers. But to blithely say 'well, fansnap isn't successful because they gaspbuy/gasp their traffic' is lunacy. It's about making money... nothing else.
I don't know what it is about cupcakes (and brownies, especially brownies), but the store-made versions just are never as good as home-made, if done well.

I've been to some of the cupcake bakeries and they just seem to be all window dressing and no meat (to mix metaphors without referring to cake or icing). I think the author was getting at this: cupcakes are simple, so people try to add "features" to justify the price/attract customers.
Well, it's tough, right? SE and Trusted both have lots of kernel hardening features that Win7 doesn't have. And even base Linux and FreeBSD are "simpler" (until you add OpenSSH, Apache, and the NFS stack). Win7 has baggage; MSFT is still paying for the DCOM mistake.

You have to counter that, though, with the hundreds of thousands of dollars Microsoft spends on security testing every functional unit of the shipping product. It is not unpossible that they paid someone at Leviathan, iSEC, or IOActive to spend a week auditing Minesweeper (they haven't paid us to do that).

They don't just audit their code. A couple times a year, they do a little internal conference called "Blue Hat" (pace Black Hat), which, as the beauty pageant for all their consulting vendors, tends to get the best researchers from those firms as speakers. They highlight trends and findings for execs, and try to get some of the benefit of the audits spread across multiple projects.

There's also an entire layer of researchers, testers, and project managers on top of the security tests. Some of those people (like Leblanc and Howard) are actively turning the results into curricula for training, or for new code standards, or even changes in the shipping VC++ config. Other people develop automated testing tools. Still others develop better, more secure APIs.

When you think of the resources Google has, you assume that the best developers there all have access to a MapReduce cluster that will run their "hello world" test programs against the corpus of the entire Internet as of I dunno 3 weeks ago. Only Google has that resource. Microsoft has more ongoing security test results than any other company in the world --- even moreso because they had so. much. catching. up. to. do. from the late '90s. That has to be a killer resource for them.

So, we'll see. I wouldn't run a Microsoft OS as a server, for a lot of reasons. But I have more respect for the work they're doing --- and the intentionality of that work --- than I do for a lot of Unix security projects.

Everything OpenBSD did to fix NetBSD's security in the '90s, Microsoft adopted on a massive scale, and then spent tens of millions of dollars to improve.

Sorry for the long comment, I just don't want to come off like I'm sniping at you, or trying to start an OS war.
You're going too little backwards in time. Spaceflight was proposed in the begining of the 20th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard#A_Method_of_R...

And yes, it was very criticized at the time but as you said, mainly by the media, as it seems. I doubt, however, that they did it without any backing.

And I was wrong about satellites, it seems. I was pretty sure that the idea of using them as communications relay was also dissed, but I couldn't find any references about it.

I can, however, give you one solid example of something that was completely discredited by the scientists, which is flight. It was widely believe at the time that no object heavier than the air could fly.
You mean like this: http://is.gd/2SEvr ? (thanks jacquesm)

I'm not so sure about that strategy, and even $100k is a joke for a bunch of semi-polished twitter apps without any monetization perspective beyond shotgun advertising.

I could see this stuff going somewhere in the $10k ballpark - but still have no idea why anyone would want to buy that bag of mediocrity, except perhaps for eliminating a potential would-be competitor.
One can't generalize "European" on this. The difference between, say, Norway and Portugal is colossal.
"I am asking because I have a bunch of friends in Europe and none of them lives with parents. As far as I can tell, their social programs make it much easier to live on their own than, for example, in my home country (Uzbekistan)."

Why do we need social programs to live on our own? I am 28 and have been on my own since I got out of college. I was able to find a job within 6 months of graduating that paid me enough to move out (which isn't that expensive in most parts of the US).

I think the reason many people in their 20s can't move out is because of credit card debt. I have so many friends that are thousands of dollars in debt..because they decided they needed the latest gadgets.

What we need is for more people to take personal responsibility.
Theft

The business model is predicated on other people's honesty.
In Switzerland it used to be the case that a career in the military helped having a career in the private sector. I don't think this is true anymore.

At the same time, no one ever needed all the qualities you mention in the swiss army. It never fought a war.
If it is an intelligent computer it will not need to be told what to do, it will motivate itself, but we may not even recognize its actions as motivation because the concepts are not clarified, we only know what motivates us, we can not begin to imagine how a sentient AI would be motivated, maybe it will tell us, maybe it won't, who know... That motivation does not necessarily have anything in common with a human motivation, there are plenty of alternatives. It might not want to beat a drum, even when told to.

For that to happen though we have a bunch of formidable hurdles to cross, and in spite of all our processing power and data storage capability we have not yet been able to simulate the intelligence of even an insect or a small mammal.

Whether an AI is built by humans or aliens or comes in to being through some freak coincidence is irrelevant.

As long as it takes a human with their intelligence to tell a computer what to do it has not achieved intelligence, merely the capability to follow instructions very precisely.
That's perfect if you've got a top-down command-and-obey culture. However many organizations do not look like this. Veterans that I've known often have not developed their abilities at building a consensus, getting people to buy in, or pushing responsibility and decision making down to the people in the trenches. In some environments that can be a real problem. (Ironically the problems seem to be invisible to the people causing it.)

This is not a slam on veterans. My point is that many different corporate cultures work well. However a mismatch between employee and culture tends to fail badly. And graduates of the military culture are not going to work in all corporate cultures.

It is worth re-reading the article with this in mind. Many of the companies listed that recruiters avoid are great companies. Companies like Oracle, Coca-Cola and Intel are world class and clearly work very well. But they breed people who don't fit into most other US corporations.
It's technically possible to put a site on a top level domain. Now that ICANN has started allowing the purchase of TLDs we will soon be going to http://google and we'll probably see a URL shortener at http://l
I think that's a complete overgeneralization. People who are just starting out didn't cause the current economic crisis or the housing bubble. Neither did they foot the bill for over-consumption for the last twenty years. Some may have been raised with the expectation for nicer things, but I don't actually see how that would be their fault.
This is possible when you live in the same space as your parents. I think it's just about keeping the relationship age appropriate.

When one is a baby, they need everything taken care of for them. Once you become a toddler, you can probably eat by yourself if someone puts it down in front of you. By the time you're 6 or 8, you can usually do fine in the house all on your own for a few hours at a time, and so on.

The main problem is when you're a teenager, I think, because you think you know everything and your parents can realize all of the stupid crap you're doing, so there's a big clash there, but once you progress through that stage, things are easier again, as long as your parents are willing to give you an appropriate amount of space.

I think moving out _can_ be important and helpful. I just think that our society is too judgmental of some who've chosen that they prefer to be under the same roof as their parents. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, as long as both parties are sensible regarding it.
the house analogy breaks down when you consider that you can build a house to look like anything and it doesn't have to interface with anything else, like your neighbors' houses.

a web application has to interface with standard browsers and protocols, so maybe it's like a car that has to operate on standard roads and can't take up 2 lanes or fly.
Most of the research on this comes from the field of educational psychology. The specific term that you would search is 'self-efficacy'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy
Couchdb-powered Geomena."The Wikipedia of geolocation data?"
From Portland. Legally obligated to mention that :D (Though I don't know these folks personally.)
it is thinking positive.
Definitely another bubble, or signs of local froth in NYC, as Greenspan might say. Some insights from http://ny.eater.com/tags/froyo-wars

The fine reporters over at Crain's notice there's something of a fro-yo trend in the city right now. Over 30 stores have opened in the past 20 months (with more on the way), pushing out the traditional ice cream standbys. But the experts say this fro-yo battle just isn't sustainable: "Everyone will do well through the summer and be able to sustain through the fall,' says Andrew Moger, president and chief executive of Branded Concept Development. 'But I'd be surprised if many of these places hold on for more than two years.

Fro-Yo Row a.k.a. 3rd Avenue between 22nd and 34th Streets....That 12 block stretch now has (or will soon have) a Pinkberry, a Red Mango, a Berrywild, a Flurt, and something called Yoqua Bar

PS - Apparently VCs have lavished tens of millions of dollars on Pinkberry and Red Mango http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/04/23/investors-swe...
Everyone needs beta testers.
How silly of me to think that we were long past this argument since it contradicts with everything that happens in other countries.

You can keep your system privatized if you really want to. Just look at the Dutch system:

-All citizens are required by law to have private health insurance

-All health insurance companies are required by law to accept all applications

-All health insurance companies are required by law to provide a government mandated care package

-Low income citizens are supported by government health subsidies

The people get affordable, universal health care. The insurance companies can compete on price, service and additional coverage. The government can control the health care coverage and subsidies.
That's nothing -- Verizon will charge you rent just to re-enable the GPS API on your phone!
"...34 percent of workers under 35 live with their parents for financial reasons"

I'd like to see "workers under 35" defined a bit more precisely. Is it literally "anyone under the age of 35 who holds a job", which would include teenagers working at McDonald's and (quite unsurprisingly) living with their parents?
I'm in the same boat, I graduated with a computer degree but I didn't learn much about stats. Since then I've gone back to take part time courses to catch up. I find it really interesting and useful. I wish my school made stats a part of the required curriculum.
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Not at all. I think both of these are completely and utterly broken in the US and need fixing. Healthcare first, then phones/ISP/cable co's.