skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The term imaginary property recognizes such contributions to society as the product of the imagination and is more productive as a starting place for discussion thereof"

No, it's derogatory. Very few phrases of the form "Oh, it's just your imaginary X" are designed to be complimentary. In common parlance, "imaginary" is just synonymous with "not real". The phrase "imaginary property" is designed purely to advance an agenda where people write books, create films, make software, etc all for some "manna" which, when pushed, advocates can't actually specify beyond saying "they'll find new business models". Yes, they will. Involving not writing books, films, etc.
Take a look at Typed Racket for a variation on this.
I wonder if/when this will happen to programmers. I keep thinking that the job market for programmers will be radically different in ten years, what with the enormous amount of people "learning to code" these days. He did however suggest people to become programmers in 1999, and if you followed his advice then, you would probably still be quite happy with that decision today.
I agree about soda. To me it was one of the easiest things to eliminate from my diet because after a few months without one I didn't like them anymore.

I have also mostly given up fries, but I still like them even after not having any for months.
https://github.com/JakeWharton/u2020

https://github.com/SimonVT/cathode

https://github.com/fastestforward/gauges-android

https://github.com/pyricau/shipfaster

https://github.com/romainguy/road-trip
I read this article 2 years ago and translated it to chinese http://article.yeeyan.org/view/160173/332716.

After I got a MS degree in Entomology, I found a job as a Software Developer.

"the graduate schools are filled with weak American students and with foreigners lured by the American student visa."

not sure about the first part, but the second part is true.
a lot of foreigners know this is no way out after you get Phd, but no other choices.

My advice to students who are doing a Phd in Biology or Chemistry is to learn coding by yourself and then you can find a job to live a better life.
Three reasons you should not use Martini
"Leave graduate school to people from India and China, for whom the prospects at home are even worse."

Even worse in terms of what?
Spot on chongli, great comment.

For now, I think the right course of action is to a) decriminalize and dismantle the system, and b) until that happens, don't do drugs at all. It's a corrupt system that you just don't want to be caught up in, ever.

(The most appalling thing to me is the lack of compassion shown to real drug addicts. It's like, "Aha! Your life is a horrible shithole now, but we're gonna make it worse. That'll learn you.")
If you're using vagrant v1.5+, there's vagrant share: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/share/.

Requires a vagrantcloud account, free during beta: https://vagrantcloud.com/
But what was promoted in the early 80's, the workouts they would feature him doing, were not compound lifts.
You should check out the dynamic nature of Typeable.

"The module Data.Dynamic uses Typeable for an implementation of dynamics."

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.0/docs/Data-Ty...
Vagrant 1.6 is available, including Windows guests
Could be wordplay. Ultra, as in above.
There are no natural laws. Just because you (or your forefathers) were first on a piece of land, what natural right grants you it? Surely it's far more natural that, if I can overpower you and take it, it's mine? That's actually how nature typically works. The notion that it's "immoral" is a purely human construction. Why is that immoral, but my spending 5 years writing a book, only to see nothing in return because everyone hands it around for free is moral?

I'm not saying people will stop having ideas, or creating music, etc. What I am saying is that people without private means or patrons will have to stop performing creative acts that require a significant time investment. If I've got a wonderful idea for a book/film/game/whatever, but know it will take 5 years to make, how do I make it when I need to work 8-6 to pay for food/shelter etc?

Eliminating IP is to construct a return to patronage; the very wealthy deciding what creative output it worthwhile. IP is actually a hugely egalitarian concept; the world can decide what has value, and reward the creator post-hoc, because the creator is ensured a return.
> Can you quote that argument actually made by anyone in the thread you are responding to?

I can quote you quoting David Simon: "This is about sharing."

If "sharing" implies forcibly mugging those people who do not _want_ to share --and it of course does-- is is just an euphemism for outright communism.
I believe worse in terms of quality of research, education while having a good stipend. I understand there might be exceptions on either side.
its a pain, but realistically, the needs of each community are often best served by that community.
I'd agree with his definition and your point simultaneously. Type system with only 0-th order types are still useful for optimization and error capture, but higher order structures and higher order polymorphism are both incredibly useful and more powerful than 0-th order types.
find a job.
When it's not down, like now or most of the time. :(
And they don't have controls (full screen, volume, seek).
> Now if you are eating 1500 extra calories a day then your body burns, then switching diets is not the only answer, but for most people this isn't the case.

The corollary of this is that if you're running a sufficient enough deficit, it doesn't matter how "bad" the calories are, thermodynamics plays the dominant role:

http://calorielab.com/news/2010/11/20/twinkie-diet-results/

But in reality there's a lot more to "health" than just weight, so take it with a grain of salt.
But that's limited to Vagrant, with services like Finch any port can be forwarded (though Vagrant Share has more options like ssh).

I think it's good to see some competition in this field as these services can only become better.
Out of curiosity, what do you consider a proper diet, what has been working best for you?
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Patent reform hangs by a thread as Senate Democrats bottle up key bill
"The average person reads at 250 words per minute, and slower than that when reading and comprehending on-screen text. This was part of a 6082 word agreement, which would take at least 24 minutes to read."

Is any court going to take seriously the assertion that clicking on "I agree" underneath a 6082 word agreement really establishes a binding contract to transfer intellectual property? Doesn't a contract require a "meeting of the minds"[1], i.e., intent by both parties to enter into the contract? In this case, it would seem that the person who agrees to the TOS will have been tricked into accepting an unusual condition that's not generally part of such agreements. (If a delivery person asked you to sign to indicate receipt of a package, but buried in the fine print was a clause saying that you were transferring the title to your car to FedEx, would that be a valid contract?)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_of_minds
Personally, I think Lustig has gotten a bit shrill in his attempt to get notice for his discoveries and observations. I can forgive him for that.

For myself, I accepted his premise and did my own experiment: by making a minimal attempt to stay away from most sugar, I've lost 15 lbs in the last year and a half.
If anything, the trends outlined in this article have continued in the last 15 years, so it's truer now that it was then. The disparity between PhDs vs. faculty positions is illustrated in this graph:

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n10/fig_tab/nbt.2706_F...

(The last time this was posted here everyone complained about how the annual and cumulative scales are different and make the graph hard to read, so caveat emptor.)

Physics could be an outlier, as there is a non-academic career path for certain specialities. But these tend to be the more engineer-like specializations. If your passion is theoretical physics, your job prospects are probably limited to searching for academic roles, and that's a tough place to be these days.
I can only speak for the biological sciences (I am a grad student in bioengineering), but from my perspective this is 100% accurate.

My PI got his own lab and his first big grant (R01) in his late 20s. My father did the same at 28. In the lab I am currently in, I have personally witnessed 3 brilliant, qualified, 40 year old post-docs with fellow to faculty transition grants be turned down for assistant professorships. If you go into academic science with the idea that you will end up as tenured professor, then you are naive.

As a tenured professor, and even as a new PI, you will not perform much, if any science. You will spend your time writing grants, approaching industry for funding (sponsored research, gifts etc), writing and reviewing papers and editorials, managing grad students, complying with regulations, teaching classes, serving on useless committees etc). There is also stiffer competition for grants every year, making it extremely difficult to stay funded. Our lab does alright because we are heavily industry funded, but individual groups in our lab have suffered.

I plan to either go into industry, work for a startup, or start something with some colleagues.
YES! Thank god. I've been waiting for this for years!!!
Intellectual property law adds the force of the state to concepts/ideas/media/etc that originated by the sweat of my brow

Actually, in many countries, including the US, "seat of the brow" is explicitly excluded as a doctrine w.r.t. copyright and patents.

See Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., where the SCOTUS specifically refers the clarification given by Congress that the fundamental criteria for protection are originality and fixation in tangible form, and sweat of the brow is excluded.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vo...
I got a PhD in particle physics 6 years ago. I did my first postdoc and enjoyed it - I got to travel, and work on relatively interesting things occasionally. Every year since then it's got worse, to the point where I've given up on getting a permanent job and am actively looking elsewhere. If I was offered an tenured academic post tomorrow, I would decline.

The other thing that is generally left out of this discussion is that academic excellence does not matter for a permanent job. There's no politics as vicious as academic politics (since so little is at stake), and who your supervisor is for your PhD matters more than how clever you are. If your achievements are first-rate, no-one up the chain will really understand them, and you'll be derided. If what you do is unoriginal, but suits the political landscape fame and riches (60 hour weeks and a starting salary of $75k) may become yours after you've moved city, country or continent a few times.

That is scale-independent. If you have tenure, funding committees become the new tenure or interview committees. Collaboration boards and conference boards (which confer status and prestige and therefore opportunity) work who likes whom - not on competency.

All the best people (technically and personally) I met during my PhD have left the field and I'm hoping to join them soon...I'm just slightly ashamed of myself for staying in the field this long.
Could you explain? I don't see how your examples contradict what Natsu is saying?!
What do you mean? Didn't understand. the app just send normal text messages from a phone number. why it will get blocked? did you try it?
We aim to have some demoable in the next few months and actually usable this year. We're purplish, at worst :)
I think your theory is an oversimplification, but I agree totally that walking is an under-appreciated component of health.

Anecdote: several years ago, my brother and his wife were in their thirties and starting to get a bit soft around the middle like everyone does when they exit their twenties.

Like most Americans, they lived in a pedestrian-unfriendly city and drove everywhere. They moved to Vancouver and sold their car. Suddenly, they were walking everywhere. I went to visit them and they both looked markedly better: slimmer and healthier.

They eventually moved back to the States and they went right back to the shape they were in before.

I think walking is one of the easiest and most pleasurable things we can change to improve our health. Aside from the time cost, there's little downside to it.
I'm seeing lots of opinions from people who don't do CrossFit.

Here's one from someone who actually is doing CrossFit:

I'm a member at the CrossFit Palo Alto (CFPA) box (that's what we call the gyms, because they're typically a sparse box-shaped gym). I've also dropped in on other boxes across the country, which I do when I'm traveling.

The #1 thing to know about CrossFit is that while it's a 'brand,' it's not a consistent experience between boxes. It's actually very, very different. Erin's post doesn't make a ton of sense to me because it's as if she's saying "I don't date men, because all men are jerks." Some men are, but some aren't. It's the same with CrossFit. I'm sure that the things she described actually happened to her at a CrossFit box, but they've never happened to me at CFPA.

I've been to boxes where I wouldn't go back. But CrossFit at CFPA has been life changing for me as an entrepreneur. It's one hour, three times per week. I get a very high ROI off of those three hours of commitment. I've been at it for a year now and while I was intimidated when I first started, I've gotten to the point where I look forward to the workouts now. The thing that's great about CrossFit is how it makes the other things you do in your daily routine easier. I'm a new dad and I carry my daughter in a bjorn, which means I have to squat when she drops something and I have to pick it up. CrossFit has made squatting easy, for example.

CrossFit can be disastrous if you don't know how to keep from pushing yourself harder than you should. Everything at CFPA is tempered with weight decisions that are very personal. I've never once felt pressured to go to a higher weight; if anything I was frustrated early on because the coaches wouldn't let me go as high as I thought I could. Some boxes likely aren't as good at monitoring that.

United Barbell up in SF is good, as is Horsepower in LA. Those are the three boxes I've been to that I thought were very professionally (and safely) run. Hope that helps.
Ah, you are correct for the US: https://chillingeffects.org/copyright/faq.cgi#QID757

You can indeed use our documents though and I'll add a licence to the repo to make that clear (after speaking to the lawyers involved first to ensure the licence I choose is the right one).
Does anyone know how the situation in Europe compares for post grads in Math, Physics and CS?
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I prefer using vi bindings (from bash type "set -o vi" to enable) to the ^R method. If you know vi/vim then the results you get are very intuitive.

Hit Esc to enter vi mode and then hit "/". Type your search and hit enter. If the first result that comes up isn't what you are looking for then hit "n" for the next result. To go backwards do Shift + "n".
> A Guitar Hero but with real music!

The problem with Guitar Hero was not the music (bad as it often was), but the instruments. The idea that you can learn anything about playing music by pressing plastic buttons on some chintzy toy is — well, akin to the idea that you can learn to read by watching television. But people buy into it because it is so seductive.

Good looking site, though, and I wish it success. I developed a little training app for MIDI about twenty years ago (in Visual Basic), and although I didn't find it very helpful, I hope this kind of tool is useful for some learners.
FWIW, if you just want to forward a port you can run:

natpmpc -a 9077 9000 tcp 36000

which will forward 9077 to 9000 for 3600 seconds.
I also did a map that shows how prices vary from state to state: http://www.additiveanalytics.com/solutions/nationwide_price_...
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To enable that in bash, put this into your .inputrc file

"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward
It's been 15 years since this article was originally written, which doesn't seem like a long time.

But China's GDP was $1T in 1999, and was $9T in 2013. I confess near-absolute ignorance but the job prospects for advanced degrees in China probably have gotten at least a little better in that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_GDP_of_the_People's...
For the determined - the old O'Reilly korn shell book (turtle) has a solid primer for vi mode.
> To Help You Avoid Those Steep Hills

But, but ..... what if you like those steep hills, what then?
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>because the creator is ensured a return.

No it is not. There can be ideas and "copyright" without having IP. But IP does also mean that the "property" can be owned by people that did not create it. This notion is fundamentally wrong and de-valuates any creative work. In patents you can already see it (most inventors are getting just a little fixed money -- the most of the value goes to the companies) -- but also in copyrighted work. The most of the value goes not to the performers of the art (eg music) but to the distributors.
Here's a crossfitter who severed his spine with a poorly-done lift, be warned it's a bit disturbing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qc3kDCB7bA

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/AoClAei.gif

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/uLWrijU.gif

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/s4GWEmj.gif And again! http://i.imgur.com/7gCoxY7.gif and again! http://i.imgur.com/uOXc113.gif

Crossfit! http://i.minus.com/iZUsT11hiMbCz.gif

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/MPSXRUT.gif

Crossfitttttt! http://i.imgur.com/Y2yrqPS.jpg

Crossfit! http://gifsoup.com/view3/4092663/crossssifttt-o.gif

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/gs28aPU.gif

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/0iQG9fx.gif

A lot of what you see in there is either officially encouraged ("kipping" = basically cheating at pullups/lifts/whatever for more reps with shit form) or arises from a total lack of proper training on anyone's part (the guy who just powers up the weight with his arms and back rather than using his legs)

Remember, Crossfit: not even once.
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Roche just in-licensed a new compound to restart their antibiotic franchise.

http://www.roche.com/media/media_releases/med-cor-2013-11-04...
I'm sure that physicists already have plenty of evidence that matter can be created from energy. So I wonder what they hope to discover by doing this?
Having seen many type-checking initiatives for Python come and go over the years, I've come to believe that type-checking is like security in that it is difficult to add after-the-fact and works best when designed-in from day one.

When function annotations were introduced, I ended up removing all their uses from the standard library because every early attempt to use it was too simplistic and failed to support any type-system use case except for extra documentation.
Sure there is. When do you think parse errors happen? All languages are compiled in one way or another.
Seems like they have a link at the bottom of an article.
It's important to know that your content, intellectual property, and possibly confidential user data including full http request/responses are being proxied by this service. Their privacy policy is vague about what they will do with this information other than to say they will collect and process it:

https://meetfinch.com/privacy

"In running and maintaining our website we may collect and process the following data about you:

Information about your use of our site including details of your visits such as pages viewed and the resources that you access. Such information includes traffic data, location data and other communication data.
Information provided voluntarily by you. For example, when you register for information or make a purchase.
Information that you provide when you communicate with us by any means."
I use google maps bicycling directions every day on my bike trip across the US and just saw this the other day.. that plus street view to see how good shoulders + road conditions are can be very cool tools for planning a bike trip.

Sadly in west Texas good shoulders tend to be covered in chipseal resulting in days/weeks of much vibration.
Pitch-drop experiment
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Lyle McDonald's e-book on Ketogenic Diet is probably the best thing I've ever read. It's well referenced and pretty comprehensive.

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/the-ketogenic-diet
the problem is far more people getting a advanced degree.

In 1999, if you hold a Phd degree from US, it is easy to find a faculty position in China. However, Even you hold a PhD degree from Top Univ in US today, you can hardly find a faculty position in China. You have to do postdoc to publish more papers in top journal.
I have never actually seen complaints about the friendzone as a manifestation of entitlement, only lament.
Would you happen to know of any good tutorials for this? Are you talking about using something like Docker?

What exactly is your workflow?

Thank you.
Getting accustomed to allowing public access to development services doesn't sound like a good idea.
So your arguments are "because it's been that way for thousands of years"? That basically amounts to cultural relativism. I would have figured a bunch of hackers ("disrupters") would be more willing to set aside thousands of years of tradition more easily that the masses of duped souls in the general population. Lesson learned I guess. Too bad.
It is pretty simple to get a permanent position in Physics here. All you need is a vagina.
Oooh...too bad google is so committed to online-only, I'd love this feature but I'm too cheap for a data-plan.
I agree with you. I see the same pattern with Indian science landscape. Unless you have nice and strong connections, landing an academic position in India is tough too, even with a PhD from some ace university in the US.
Six years ago, I spent an hour learning to drive manual transmission in my friends car. I did not get very good in that hour.

Then I went and bought a manual transmission car of my own. The drive back home from the dealer was one hell of a trip. I learned very quickly how tricky it is to get a car moving when you're stopped on a hill.

So I totally could have used this back then. :)
I mentioned that near the beginning:

> There are probably dedicated apps that cover this particular example but we are more concerned with how an end-user would solve this kind of problem in general...

VB6, Access and Excel are exactly the kind of tools we seek to emulate on the usability front. Half of the world runs on Excel precisely because it is easy to get started, easy to understand and yet is capable of handling fairly complex simulations. If we can make something equally approachable but backed by a sane, maintainable and powerful language then we can give programming powers to a lot of people who need them.
Plus since walking is so pleasant, and is usually not 'deliberate' exercise (you're just trying to get somewhere), nobody feels the need to 'reward' themselves with extra food at the end of it.
"word-lego"! That's a great phrase :-)
I think that all of these type of services are able to access your content. Maybe the don't do so, but unless you run this on your own server, your data is in principle accessible by the service.
Can any physicists compare this briefly to hyperloop? The prototype tube has curves but would this have to go in a very straight line similar to hyperloop? Does it have the same safety issues in terms of being a closed pipe? - obviously that prototype with open air seats isn't going to carry anyone 1000mph+.