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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.

Let's not confuse students and fellows with missing staff. [...] Potential missing staff in some areas is a separate issue, and educational programmes are not designed to make up for it. On-the-job learning and training are not separated but dynamically linked together, benefiting to both parties. In my three years of operation, I have unfortunately witnessed cases where CERN duties and educational training became contradictory and even conflicting.

http://ombuds.web.cern.ch/blog/2013/06/lets-not-confuse-stud...

An unsatisfactory contract policy

This will be difficult for LD staff to cope with. Indeed, even while giving complete satisfaction, they have no forward vision about the possibility of pursuing a career

http://staff-association.web.cern.ch/content/unsatisfactory-...

Pensions which will be applicable to new recruits as of 1 January 2012; the Management and CERN Council adopted without any concertation and decided in June 2011 to adopt very unfavourable mesures for new recruits.

http://www.gac-epa.org/History/Bulletins/42-2012-04/Bulletin...

And a warning to non-western members:

"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 cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264
So focusing more on the essentials including: healthcare, housing, food, transportation, education, motivation and a little cash
I don't think supporting basic income instead of housing projects is a cynical view. A basic income that guarantees enough money to have a basic living should help most poor much more than housing projects or food stamps.
This is a great essay for any startup person who's actually serious about creating, advising, or investing in the next Waze in Tel Aviv, Oculus Rift in Orange County, California, or Dropbox in the Bay Area.

Of course we'd prefer a deep dive, but that requires a lot more thinking, data, reasoning and work.

You're talking about a book versus a blog.

I really liked this essay.

Yes, some of the stuff is redundant, but there's enough modifications and it is compact enough that this is a very useful list.

HN folks:

If you can do better, do it.

I see a lot of whining and complaining on here and no alternative solutions that are better. If you have something better to say, say it. If you've read something better, provide the link.

Otherwise, be a little more appreciative that someone who knows a lot more than 99.99% of the folks in startups is sharing his insights concisely for free.
The number of so called Hayekians whom have actually read and understood significant parts of Hayek is depressingly small.

(for what it's worth you can probably say exactly the same thing about Keynesians).
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Congratulations. I'm glad to hear that HN feedback was a factor in making the team feel they were building something that mattered. I know there were always plenty of comments in threads about Docker that were dismissive, but count me among the people that were always pleased to see containerization on linux made trivial.
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Looks closely related to OCaml and similar in feel to Rust. I’m really excited that so many hobbyist language designers are exploring the space of low-level languages focusing on correctness and performance. (But of course I would.)
If you are the first person to write a bot to automatically submit entries, you could submit most/all of the allowed 10 million entries.

OK, maybe your IP would get banned, but what if you have access to a botnet and, therefore, lots of IP addresses?

OK, maybe they have a captcha, but what if you trick your botnet victims into filling in the captchas during their normal web browsing sessions, by pretending to be a google bot-detection page?

OK, so you win, but the address is a random address that isn't yours. How much would you have to give the person whose address it really is, to pretend you live there? Half? Still not bad.
Didn't see this tweet earlier, seems to be Netsol's primary public response:

https://twitter.com/netsolcares/status/425751251369095168

"We are working to get you opted out."

Holy shit, what a crazy response. "Working" to get him opted out? Like they are doing him some kind of a favor and putting in effort above and beyond just not defrauding him in the first place?
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The IAT is the bread-and-butter technique for determining implicit associations and are probably the best technique we have for assessing personal bias.

When you try it out for a topic where you do have a strong association you'll actually feel directly what it's measuring and why it's relevant.

P.S. Did you really try to answer as fast as possible? If you take your time it won't be able to measure much.
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This is Ben, the CEO of Docker, and Solomon's partner in crime. Being based on Apache 2.0 (and adopting an open design process, having a large number of non-Docker Inc. maintainers, having over 300 contributors) should be read as a strong signal that we will not go proprietary or even "open core." Anyone can use and modify Docker under Apache 2.0 without fear of "copyleft" or similar restrictions, which creates a strong disincentive for us to abuse our position by going proprietary. Our business plans, as stated in the blog, are around commercial support and hosted services. (In addition, being Apache vs. GPL makes it much easier for enterprises to adopt us, and much easier to get integrated into projects like OpenStack.)
It's not that techies as a group are libertarian but that there are many powerful techies who are libertarian.

They don't work environmentally. Move the offices closer to where they live or live closer to work. That's like arguing that improving plane efficiency is good for those who want to live in Malibu and commute to Mountain View. Mountain View to SF eats up a LOT of gas. It's that Google and other companies benefit from groups being in the same office.

Edit: the reality is that those buses are a perk because otherwise far fewer people would be able to live in SF since commuting to Mountain View, Cupertino, etc during rush hour takes untenable amounts of time. Thus to compete for tech workers who want to live in SF, companies are choosing to provide these buses.
A browser based comic book reader:

http://reader.justforcomics.com
https://github.com/balaclark/HTML5-Comic-Book-Reader
Ask HN: Boilerplate SaaS app for Python?
I am looking to create a SaaS application. It needs to let users register, login, subscribe to a plan by paying with stripe, cancel plan, upgrade plan....etc., it feels awfully like I'm reinventing the wheel.
Basically I am looking for something like https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-stripe-membership-saas but for Python.
I am using django and flask, but find that someone must have solved all these generic problems.
The closest thing I found was https://github.com/zhaque/django-saas-kit but it hasn't been active for quite some time.
Anyone have a suggestion? Basically I am looking for a boilerplate SaaS python application I can use for my own project which comes with the basic features like user authentication, subscription management.
I think some of the perception of how extreme it is has to do with what IDE the coder is using. For instance, in IntelliJ I can have the mouse on a method name and hit a keystroke to go to that method definition, and then another keystroke to go "back" to where I was. That's really helpful for jumping around and following a logical train of thought that goes through several small, one-concept methods - even across files. But, if I were having to deal with an IDE or editor where I was having to string-search and scroll, it'd be maddening and I'd wish for longer, more self-contained (multiple-concept) methods.
Another vote for dancing! I used to dread dancing for many years. Then I found tango. Argentine Tango has been an amazing positive dimension to add to my life.

My confidence in social settings in general and particularly with women has been greatly improved. It's a great balance to programming and problem solving activities, too.
That'd be Mountain Lion, then. Mavericks is 10.9.
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I really liked the fact that you substituded "females" with "blacks". It forces feminist too look into the mirror. Sometimes they are so blind with their feminist feelings.

Most woman are not feminist, but the ones who are, tend to shout a lot. They are the ones that make things worse for the bigger group.

Of course, i'll now be marked as a "hater". I hope people will actually comment on your post with arguments.
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Check out NoFlo http://noflojs.org/
Wouldn't colliding with the walls of the chamber be extremely undesirable? That seems like it would create stress/damage in the chamber, and given how sensitive and expensive ALPHA is I'd imagine that they don't want to do that, right?
Crypto I was very well put together, Crypto II has a high threshold to maintain [0]

References:

[0] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
Can anyone share the bits of an Apache config required to get an A+? Even better would be an Ansible / Puppet / Chef cookbook.
Because his name is not clickeable it means 100% of the people that is interested in him had to google him. So it's pretty easy to measure it's impact.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%20SAM%20POLK

So it's impact augmented by a factor of 20; if he was searched 10 times per month before it means now he is being searched 200. So not that much but even if it were your point still doesn't make sense to me because what difference would there be with anyone writing anything? I guess that your point is not that everyone should write anonymously right? So, what is it?
Ask HN: VPS multiple request
Hi, i hope anyone can help me, i have a vps on linode and i need to support in some times like 10,000 connections open in http with keep alive, it's sufficient this? thank's in advance
Out of curiosity, why did you decide on an annual Plex subscription over the lifetime option? Do you just doubt the viability of the lifetime option or is something else going on?
The key part is "Make something a few people love." PG said as much, and he's right as usual (though not always).
Easy, take all the parts that need to be cleaned and convert it into disposable laminated paper product or plastic. The employee at the end of the night just removes the dirty ones and replaces it with clean ones. The tubes for example could be disposable.

The conveyer belt would have to have a wax paper or laminated sheet wrapped around the belt and affixed in place.

The only thing that would have to be cleaned is the cooking surface and grinding mechanism, which should be trivial.

You basically would need one employee to fill the device hoppers with fresh ingredients in the morning, babysit the device for the day adding more ingredients as necessary and then break the machine down at night and set it up again for the following day. I estimate 20 minutes labor in the morning and 40-60 at night. A huge savings for the ability to pump out 3600 decent burgers over a 10 hour work day.
There is serious criticisms as to exactly what those studies measure. At best you can say that they measure contentment. That people from those countries are more content with their lives and have less significant complaints. That is quite different from happy in the joyous sense of the word.
Given no information, the expectation of randomly guessing is around $ 0.16 USD.

But I suspect Voltaire and friends will find a way to win this. (The odds of rigged games just went up 300%.)
I've had www.rickshawart.org for a now.. two years. Not making a lot of money, still a no-loss project, and a ethical, profit-sharing one =)

The structure is a tad special in that we have no fixed costs (apart from the hosting part).

Any feedback of course is appreciated - that's really niche, and we're wondering how to move forward when our product is that special.
The issue is 99.9% of startups don't have these traits and 100% of them fail. Having these traits greatly increases your odds.
>This is just flat out wrong. "Depthifying" things in post produces better 3D, full stop, because a single 3D depth works poorly across the entire image.

No, you're flat out wrong. Again, would you colour in a black and white film in postproduction and expect an accurate result?

As movies normally create depth by blurring objects at different distances to mimic the human eye, this interferes with actual focusable depth if it is postprocessed into 3D. It is possisble to do it right, but it takes the best part of a year (see: the 3D-ifying of Titanic), not two weeks like Disney moview or Clash Of The Titans took.

Point taken about animated films usually having better 3D, but that is exactly because it's easier and cheaper to produce natively.
Crazy. Some of the comments on this old TechCrunch article about the economics of Outbox look Nostradamus-like

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/25/outbox-digitizes-sf-snail-m...

It just never fully made economic sense. Especially with the overhead of undoing something that was just done, mail delivery.
Excellent, I had heard about leslipfrancais, but not the socks one =)
> As I've said before - IMAP has a spec for "keywords".

That's just because IMAP has a spec for everything.

That's the huge problem with IMAP: it can do too much and it's one of the more complicated "classic" protocols (from the area where RFCs were much more concise and bare-bones).

There are so many implementation bugs in various clients and servers that IMAP feels like being kept together by duct tape.

As such, people are very reluctant to add more protocol features to their implementations and even if they did, with some likelihood, the feature would only work in very specific client/server combinations.

In case of labels, the incentive for Google was to produce the implementation that works best with the existing clients (use pretend-folders for labels), and the incentive for client is to implement labels the google way (the only widely-deployed server that currently supports them)

Email is such a mess.
I sell a $10 app on the App Store and have provided three years of free, major upgrades and dealt with many thousands of support emails. I never really felt like I was giving too much to people who paid $10.

Although I have never sold software at a higher price in the past, so I have nothing to compare with.
This graph needs a clean up and there should be arrows.

Basic and QBasic/QuickBasic are on two different parts of the graph, as well as Javascript and Ecmascript.

The should be interactive and force-based so that it aligns in a nicer way.
Ask HN: have you ever refused to complete a code sample request?
I know there have been many discussions regarding code samples, and normally, I have no problem with them, but I've just been given one by a potential employer and I have a few issues with it.

First of, they only sent me a psd of a page and a bunch of fonts. No directions on what to do, what frameworks, limitations, what features to implement, etc.

I don't have photoshop, so I can't guarantee that what I'm seeing is exactly what they want, but I assume it's pretty close.

What I find a bit offensive is that the psd they sent me is clearly a new design for the companies website.

I've never met anybody at this company before, haven't had a proper interview or introduction, this has all been done via a recruiter up to this point.

It feels like they are trying to get some 'free work' in the process of testing out candidates, and I find this offensive. Not only to me, but the other potential hires as well.

Has anybody handled this sort of situation before? How'd you approach it? I probably wouldn't have as much of a problem if I had at least met somebody at the company and maybe had a better feel for them as a group. They aren't a small start-up, they aren't huge, but they've got a decent amount of money (I'm pretty sure) if that makes any difference.
You forget to mention that BSDs have had jails for ages.
[URGENT]Can I delay start date of my job after signing the offer?
Hi.

I got an offer for a company in Silicon Valley, for an intern position during the Spring semester.
I'm an international student, and I checked with the international student's office in my school that I can work using full-time CPT during semesters.
The offer letter specifies the beginning and end dates of work.

I signed it because I thought I can work during the summer, but the director of international student's office considered my application, and told me that I may not be able to work during this semester.

So maybe I will have to delay the start date of my work to summer vacation.
They are finishing the paper work and preparing everything for my spring intern.
If I tell them my situation this will piss them off and I am worried about them cancelling my offer.
This is my first and only offer after 6 months of soul-sucking and desperate job search.

What do you think? There's nothing I can say to them even if the cancel my offer, but might there be anything that I can do to avoid it?
Disposable meat hoppers changed daily. Specialized cleaning machine with high pressure water and autoclave temperatures for blasting the disassembled grinding mechanism and sterilizing it. All that is left is cleaning the cooking surface, which is already normal in every diner.
I am feeling sorry for all the women subjected to all that spam, not only by this guy. And talking about this guy, let's be honest, he was different from other "spam" contacts by implementing a bot-assisted spamming, nothing he should be praised for.

Math genius? More a spambot writer, but not for money, for an advantage.
Are you claiming that Sergey is a libertarian? If I ever meet a powerful libertarian techy, I'll believe the idea that powerful libertarian techies actually exist at all.

The fully loaded buses work environmentally on a per-seat/person basis, especially if one group is travelling from one place to the other. It is probably less than if they were living in San Jose and commuting by car. You can always do better, but the buses make the commute environmentally reasonable if not ideal.

> That's like arguing that improving plane efficiency is good for those who want to live in Malibu and commute to Mountain View.

That's like arguing that taking the bus is bad since one could always walk, bike, or sleep in their office instead to reduce their impact even further.

As long as we are exchanging platitudes...
From http://messymatters.com/the-perfect-bracket/ :

"accounting for team strength, the chance that each of the 63 tournament games is won by the favored team is a mere 1 in 70 billion".

Which implies an expected payout (a billion dollars times the 1 in 70B chance) of 1.4 cents.
Yes, particularly relevant in the Bay Area, where gender discussions are mainstream. I lived in the student co-op system in Berkeley, and it was then for the first time that I really started to appreciate the meaning of "other" as a gender option. I guess YC and SV companies are not yet ready to be that "open-minded"?
OmniGraffle is the only diagram editor I've ever been happy with. It's the one OS X app I'm annoyed to not have an equivalent for on my Linux box at home...

It's amazing that Omni's products aren't copied / used as inspiration more - e.g. it's not that using OmniGraffle as a model for how the UI in a diagram editor ought to act would be all that hard... I wish the Dia guys would spent 10 minutes picking ideas from OmniGraffle, for example..
Just need to persuade Microsoft to add the container facility to the Windows Kernel now...

Seriously, if MS can be persuaded that this appraoch is beneficial for their ecosystem too, then everyone is a winner!
I recently started messing around with Clojure, and I love the language. I noticed that you are pretty much basically forced to write lots of short functions if you want to stay idiomatic and readable. It is pretty good in a way.
No offense but nothing done over a weekend would qualify as work that could be contributed to a serious project. It would be out of context and would probably not fit in important ways into the project.

From the point of view of a person interested in hiring you, they just want to see your code, your style and perhaps the way you think.
Do you agree with the following definitions commonly used when discussing gender issues?

Sex: Assigned biological category -- male or female: designated at birth by visual assessment of anatomy based upon presumption of reproductive role.

Sexual Orientation: Term for an individual's physical and/or emotional attraction relative to their own sex such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or straight.

Gender: The social meaning given to biological sex.

Gender Expression: External characteristics and behaviors associated with gender that are socially defined and associated with masculine or feminine. For transgender people, their gender expression doesn't match their biological sex.

Transgender: People who identify with a gender that is different from their biologically assigned gender.

Intersexed: Describes people who are born with external genitalia, chromosomes, or internal reproductive systems that are not traditionally associated with either a "standard" male or female.

Cis-gender: People who identify with the sex or gender they were assigned at birth.

Gender is generally assumed to be defined as that part of 'sexual identity' which is a social construct and hence changeable.
They are also cheaper, so the barrier to indiscriminate use is much lower.
Mail.app, smart mailboxes for everything in the past month, past week, and past month's unread. Mark stuff as unread if you need to deal with it later. Screw inbox zero, screw a zillion folders and a zillion rules.

Though I do sort junk from social sites into their own folder and filter them out of those smart mailboxes.

No other mail client supports smart folders. They all want me to make a bazillion folders and a bazilljon rules to support them. It all seems so primitive.
Nokia has better low end distribution channels. I would assume all those Windows Phones are in the rest of Thailand.
Can you explain how it is possible to generate secure tokens? I can't find anything related to it from the iCloud documentations.
Usually you can, but it depends on the particular company. I'd explain the situation to your employer ASAP and work with them to adjust your start date.
I'm guessing the OP is talking about the PAST of Amazon, not the present. They ran for many years at a huge loss in order to capture the online retailing market, and didn't provide any returns for many, many years. Arguably, it worked.
I gladly paid $49.99 for MailMate on my mac ( http://freron.com/ ) and am still extremely happy with the purchase. It's the best email client I've used for a long time and well worth it.