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"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper

The numbers make the problem clear. In 2007, the year before CERN first powered up the LHC, the lab produced 142 master's and Ph.D. theses, according to the lab's document server. Last year it produced 327. (Fermilab chipped in 54.) That abundance seems unlikely to vanish anytime soon, as last year ATLAS had 1000 grad students and CMS had 900.

In contrast, the INSPIRE Web site, a database for particle physics, currently lists 124 postdocs worldwide in experimental high-energy physics, the sort of work LHC grads have trained for.

The situation is equally difficult for postdocs trying to make the jump to a junior faculty position or a permanent job at a national lab. The Snowmass Young Physicists survey received responses from 956 early-career researchers, including 343 postdocs. But INSPIRE currently lists just 152 "junior" positions, including 61 in North America. And the supply of jobs isn't likely to increase, says John Finley, an astrophysicist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who is leading a search to replace two senior particle physicists. "For the most part, I don't think departments are looking to grow their particle physics programs," he says.

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previou...

A warning to non-western members about values at CERN:

"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y)" [where Y>X]

source: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report

ISBN: 9290831693 http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264
I think it boils down a little that for PHP you get php-fpm with the distro package and with Flask/Sinatra for example you have to

* decide which *(c|s)gi package you want to use
(thin, webrick, gunicorn, unicorn, puma, tornado, 100 more)
* write your own supervisord/circus/god/whatever
wrapper to make it restart automatically
* fight rvm/virtualenv/chruby/whatever

Notice a pattern? I can deploy a sensible, non-minimal php web app with "apt-get install nginx php5-fpm && scp" whereas I need already a decent amount of decisions for the other 2.

With PHP deployment only gets complicated at a larger scale. With Python and Ruby web apps it's complicated from the start.
Tangential question, but: can anyone here remember learning how to read?

I've never thought about it before, but... I don't remember at all what it was like to learn to read! There's a big blank spot in my head for kindergarten, and then I remember reading some spooky children's books in first grade, but I have no idea how I came to acquire that ability.

So does anyone remember how you picked up your ability to read? If so, which learning techniques were effective for you? Maybe there's a way to transfer those techniques into book form.

Although I wonder whether it's even possible to learn to read just by looking at squiggles on paper. At the very least, it seems like there would have to be text + images. But how do you print out a sequence of text + images which somehow teaches the reader the meaning of that text? There's so much to cover: the alphabet, then the individual words, then the meaning of particular word combinations...

It almost seems like going to school would be the most effective way for them to learn, because they'd be learning from someone and they'd be able to ask questions when they get frustrated.
Excellent link. I've seen it before but on second look should definitely include in the essay.

As to whether this global power structure is deliberate or emergent, I think my essay makes it quite clear that it's the former. Looking only at the link you provided, I can see how one might ask that question. But after examining the origins of the globalist power and the synchronicity of their operations, making the emergent argument gets pretty difficult.
Charge a dollar for it, in Bitcoin. People who love btc go crazy when they can pay with it, and I think they would like it a lot more than if it were free.
I guess you failed to read the comment I replied to then? Comments sometimes spin off into subjects which are not relevant to the original topic. Welcome to the internet, lighten up.
Given that he has russian (slavic) first name that sounds plausible.
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According to http://www.wri.org/sites/default/files/pdf/global_coal_risk_..., they plan to build 'only' about 40% of new coal plant capacity, with India taking another 35%.

So, not that that matters for the absolute pollution, but if that >50% is correct, their mix will improve.

Also, they try to build those plants far away from cities. That, hopefully, will spread pollution.

That PDF also states that those plans may not be implemented, as a) coal companies lose money in China because the government fixed electricity prices and b) the public doesn't want their pollution.

On the negative side, their absolute pollution will likely go up, and the gap with the western world will go up even more (elsewhere, new coal plants will often replace older, more polluting ones)
I honestly can't recall the joke you referred to. I do remember other jokes which I found funny. I apologize for that.
There are lots of small CSS problems that engage the same part of my brain that reading IQ puzzles does, including that buzz you get when you solve them.

I think there might be other devs who feel the same way, and so from next week I'll be publishing a new CSS brain teaser every Friday that I hope they'll get a kick out of. My goal is to make each challenge fun, short, and educational.
Uncaught SecurityError: An attempt was made to break through the security policy of the user agent. (parse-1.2.13.min.js:1) (Hint: I block cookies.)

Nothing but a sickly looking map, and no data.
Autism aside...

You know that's been totally and utterly discredited, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy

there is a very real danger of a reaction when you combine so many vaccines.

Citation?

Others are completely unnecessary, like Hep B at birth.

Citation? Wikipedia suggests it's been very successful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_B_vaccine
Exploded? No.

But that's what we've been trying to find with this article: How Typography affects users.

From the different researches cited in the articles (all backed with data), font selection did seem to make a difference. Maybe Little.
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Any reason the number of alerts are capped at 3, as opposed to say 5 or 10?
Are paid accounts with unlimited alerts in the works?
There is no free lunch?
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>That's the total cost to the French medical system for a normal delivery? I find that hard to believe.

Many EU countries are trying to boost their birthrates, so the state covers most/all of it.
When you deal with enough of something, difficult and non-dramatic improvements can become both practical and worthwhile.
Yeah that's the plan. I'm currently limiting the accounts because I'm fronting all the costs myself.

Apparently it can cost up to 10c to send an international SMS :( which is why I only have SMS open to US/Canada for now.
I'm cautious about your Latvia story - its sounds to me like the bike was worried about fraud. Thats pretty common - about half the times I go to the US, I have to ring up the bank and get the card unblocked.

That being said, there are countries attempting to control the flow of money. Argentina wants to enforce its price for the dollar. Cyprus wants to prevent everyone taking their money and running. and so on. However, most of these countries see attempts to circumvent their controls as illegal. I feel its unwise to get my hopes up about bitcoin for this sort of transaction for that reason.
Common Lisp do have optional typing though, and hygienic macros is a controversial subject. Dialect scoping is cool though
" lining the pockets of the patent bar is likely to overcome any quality of argument as long as computer programmers have even less Washington influence than illegal alien terrorists."

1. The patent bar[1] itself has little to no influence in Washington. Nobody cares what they think. Congress cares about what the companies some of these folks work for think, but AIPLA, for example, has never had any real lobbying impact. They've complained about every rule change, every bill, every everything that has ever "hurt" their members. As far as i'm aware, there has never been any changes that have resulted from their comments.

2. The influence of computer programmers in Washington is mostly due to the fact that they spend time posting here instead of doing anything about anything. This is an entirely self inflicted wound, and the sooner programmers stop convincing themselves this isn't true, the better off they will be. Watching this happen without fail since 1997 is one of the reasons i became a lawyer.

I would wager a large amount of money if even 1% of the local user groups of programmers of various sorts that still exist, each appointed a representative, and had that person go to their local congressperson/senator, and said "I represent a concerned group of local small business people and programmers, and software patents are destroying our ability to make a living and causing us to lose jobs", that software patents would have been a solved problems years ago.

[1] I'm also not sure why you keep saying "the patent bar".

The patent bar itself is not of one mind, and there is no real, single organized patent bar that does anything, because the patent bar are those attorneys and agents licensed to practice before the PTO, and since being a lawyer is not a requirement, they come from a variety of walks of life, not just a bunch of attorneys. The actual patent bar (IE as run by the PTO) offers literally no opinions on anything, and certainly does not lobby, just like the bar of the 9th circuit court of appeals doesn't lobby.

There are a number of outside organized collections of patent attorneys, like AIPLA, but as mentioned, none are really "the patent bar". There is no single mind among these folks, either, Most of the inside and outside litigators I have met in the corporate realm rail against software patents. So even "the patent bar" is not consistent here, it's more like you have the criminal defense lawyers vs the prosecutors, rather than a single "criminal law bar".
We could stop and reverse damming rivers. That's another alternative. Less people living in deserts. Less people in general.

I'd rather pursue those than start messing with yet another part of the planet.
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Elsewhere on the site the lead instructor writes of graduates, "Nationwide, their annual salaries average around $90,000."

The adjective "nationwide" is an important qualifier. http://omahacodeschool.com/articles/building_talent_in_the_p...
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Play Framework has grown in leaps and bounds in 2013! Not only has Play seen wide adoption in internet and social companies like LinkedIn, Klout, Gilt Groupe and Gawker Media, but recently more and more traditional enterprise shops are turning to the framework for its focus on developer productivity, reactive and modern web apps, and its usability with Scala and Java.
Probably true, but if you want to get "technical", Jimmy Page never played anything the same way twice :)

Even your version doesn't turn up anything though - just 7 5 5 5 gives a whole bunch of Jon Bon Jovi and Scorpions knockoffs.
First, I could not spot a link to anything except that site, so here it goes [1] (official document from government).

I'm late to the party, but essentially what I have to tell - this is just a list of specs. There is no context to that. Let's look at a simple example of SQL?

I think that mentioning SQL as a standard to be supported displays meaninglessness of this document. Which SQL? As far as I know, all of RDBMSes have their deviations from standard. Or they refer to any SQL-like language, not specific standard? How to interpret that? If Oracle expects clients to support PL/SQL, how that would reflect on chosing right client software? If it does not support PL/SQL, but has an excellent support for Microsoft's T-SQL?

Document does not specify where and when to use these standards, as well as it seems too short (just a feeling without getting into that).

For me this initiative is just words. They did not know what they were doing when they began. The did not know what they did in the end. Somebody asked somebody to "do something about this openness". And they did the easiest thing they could - list of open somethings...

Or may be I am missing something?

[1]: http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/2012/11/21600/0646006465.pdf
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You know, people say that Common Lisp "is the same as it was" but I dunno. Even if the spec is the same a lot of new libraries are coming out that're changing the playing field, like LiL (Lisp interface Library) or STMX (Software Transactional Memory).

I still do think that we need some new Lisps to do new stuff which can then be cherry picked and so on by new Lisps though.
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I don't know any solutions for setting up a mail server easily.
But my general opinion is that software is poorly written if it requires an arcane setup all kinds of moving parts.

Usability studies shouldn't just be focused on the UI but equally on the setup an maintenance of server software. You would need to find a balance though since you won't want to remove features just because of ease of setup.

Sorry for ranting a bit and take the discussion a bit off topic.

Software is complex but it would be nice if us developers put energy into making complex setups feel less complex. It might even benefit security and less malconfigured services.
The Austrian theory is that this problem solves itself: 30 yr olds try to hide their money in "inflation-proof" non-fiat currencies for 50 years, and then when they cash out they get a crash course in Supply and Demand -- all these BTC flooding the market and no one producing anything for sale drives the (nominal, BTC) price of everything up, so those BTC don't actually buy much anymore, and people have to go back work to make things for each other.
Most people that don't know how to read probably know how to pronounce almost every word, so they're just associating the letters to something they already know. That being said, I don't think anything on paper could really help, aside from a picture of an apple next to the word to just memorize.
It's the complete opposite.

Once Bitcoin has stabilized/has become mature it's not an investment vehicle anymore, it's a currency.

For as long as it is very volatile, it's an investment vehicle. You don't want something to be mature when you invest in it, you want to be in very early on, because that's the only time where you make a significant profit.(10x-100x)
Abe is one of the worst politicians ever in Japan. Pushing Keynesians economics to the max, going on TV everyweek to show his face in variety programs, and controlling the media to ensure his Abenomics crap get good press, while pushing for an increase of VAT instead of reducing the absurbgovernment spending. Now this. This is about as low as you can get.
Interesting - if I click through to the tab found via your link (http://www.guitaretab.com/l/ledzeppelin/30410.html?no_takeov...), the first bars look to me like they should match my original search:

4/4
Gtr I
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
|-5-----5-7-----7-|-8-----8\-2-----2-|
|---5-------5-----|---5--------3-----|
|-----5-------5---|-----5--------2---|
|-7-------6-------|-5--------4-------|
|-----------------|------------------|
|-----------------|------------------|
H H H H

Not sure what's going on there - but clicking on the 'raw text' button shows me pretty much the same as I've posted above, so I assume that it's been mis-transcribed somehow? It looks like the 7+5, 7+6, 8+5 and 2+4 columns aren't being included.
perfectly put
> what is it that would make us do things, what is capable of driving and changing society?

The same thing that it has always been. There is nothing new here.

If you look at the populist changes to society throughout history, they are fixing problems that are literally unimaginable to modern western sensibilities.

For example, the average age upon death of a working class Londoner in the 1780s was 19. [0] Can we even imagine that? People, in huge numbers, dropping off at 19? So that's how we got labor laws.

Consider the civil rights movement. It's tempting to blur this with today's racial "tensions", but back then there were cities that would post signs threatening to shoot blacks on sight. This was common enough that there's probably one within an hour's drive of where you are right now [1].

In 1932, the year that the Nazis came to power, German unemployment was over 30% [2]. That is basically unimaginable for most countries today, and those that are in this ballpark have exactly the sort of unrest (e.g. Greece, Spain) that probably leads to social change. It's certainly way different than anything you see in the US.

The thing is, NSA spying or whatever don't really rate a mention next to any of these. Sure, it is a violation of your rights but people don't rise up for "on paper" sorts of causes.

It is easy for HN and the educated leisure class to paint everybody as "apathetic" or whatever. But out in the real world, 58% of Americans spend at least one year below the poverty line [3]. People aren't worrying about the Orwellian society because they're worrying instead about how to pay for Christmas presents for the kids.

If you really want the masses to care about whatever HN's issue of the day is, the first step is to figure out how to get the masses into the educated leisure class so that they have time to care.

[0] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2001/02/orph-f20.html

[1] http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu/content.php?file=sundowntow...

[2] http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks3/the-nazi-rise-to-po...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
There might be. The US government spends way more money per head on public healthcare than the UK (and only slightly less than Norway) and that's totally separate to all the private spending! http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthc...

Procedures are so expensive, doctors so highly paid, and insurers so profitable that the US is essentially subsidizing all that while still not providing universal healthcare.

In the UK we're both taxed less AND don't have to have private insurance due to the above. (It does have some downsides though, particularly in not being able to easily 'shop around' or get access to cutting edge/experimental medicine.. it's a bit one size fits all.)
Your (b) sounds suspiciously similar to "if you've got nothing to hide, then why do you want privacy?" Having control over your money is valuable on its own merits for a lot of people.
But is the laughter at those properties that MAKE them normals, or is it at those everyday abnormal things that particular normals have?

Honest question... i'm not sure
Can you shed any light on why you think it'll bottom out at 300?
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Knuth agrees with that. That's why he doesn't guarantee rapid replies to almost anything (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html)

And, relevant to the topic: he is quite productive, but I don't think he would make it in academia at his current output rate. It does help that he splits his work into separate papers, though, and that he publishes 'dull' papers about his tooling, too (IIRC, the original plan was to have two volumes of TAOCP. Now, we have 4 plus fascicles plus some books about the software he wrote to lay out his books and create the fonts therein)
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2 of your 3 red flags can be almost immediately dismissed.

A quick search into the mentors will reveal that many of them are indeed highly respected members of their community and skilled developers. Some of the skilled developers have also worked in or built startups and have experience with doing much more than development.

Also, its pretty clear this will be the program's inaugural class, so providing outcomes from program grads is obviously not possible. The fact that this is the inaugural class might give some cause for concern, but they are very up front about that.

Your criticisms about the application seem valid, though minor.

I am in no way affiliated with the school, though I have met a few of the mentors before.
"All processes that exist entirely in software are representable as a series of mathematical operations. Therefore, software methods are math"

This is where your argument breaks down. This is not logically sound.

Just because something is representable in some other form, does not mean it is that other form.

The interactions of subatomic particles can be represented by a series of feynman diagrams. It does not follow that interactions of subatomic particles are actually feynman diagrams.

If you want more examples, there are plenty of things in physics that are representable as interactions and models that are provably do not occur that way in the physical world :)

instead of "are representable by a series of mathematical operations", you want to say "are in fact, a series of mathematical operations "

Even then, the argument doesn't hold because they aren't patenting processes in software. They are patenting processes (which is valid), particular instances of which happen to be represented in software.

There are good arguments for why software patents should not exist. Most of them deal with abstractness of the processes or claims, not "mathiness".
The resemblance with Tilera Gx [1] is remarkable!

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/171678-intel-unveils-72-c...
While Apple is a great company and I do appreciate their taste and positive influence on quality of everyday gadgets.

A multinational corporation who has a very dark history of underpaid and to a point almost slave workers, abuse of patent and legal system, participation with illegal government projects at the cost of their customers privacy and freedom around the world stands in direct contrast to what Mr. Mandela had dedicated his life for: Equality and Freedom.

I can ignore the fact that Apple like any other for profit corporation will not do jack shit that does not inline with their main interest [profit] directly or indirectly. I would still find this a little disturbing and ironic like seeing Snowden 'Honoured' with a full page image on GCHQ or NSA homepage.
Aha. It seems odd then to say that there are two choices in the case of MFN conversion, when they amount to the same thing.

I know YC has seen MFN usage in the "everyone gets $100k" scenario, but I also could see them useful for family and friends rounds where an unsophisticated investor with a conflict of interest wants to put in the first $10k but not set a price. In that case, a default conversion might make sense as an option.
I think getting to a decent understanding of German should not be too hard, but some nuances are. Even some native speakers struggle with parts of the grammar, like dass/das, dativ/genetiv, etc. I am a native German speaker who learned English as his second language and is now learning Greek, including a different alphabet, as his third.
BJORN DANIEL SUNDIN can be counted as representative of western world in this list.
I was going to include Alberta until I checked the Cascadia stuff -- I think its only logical.

Final call: BC, Washington, Oregon, Northern California, Alberta.

It seems fair to me.
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