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I'm a particle physics grad student. My god, what utter nonsense. The only reasonably accurate paragraph is this:

"And, more importantly, the lower energy range from 114 to just under 145 billion electron volts, a region of energy that Fermilab has determined, through earlier experiments, may harbor the Higgs, has not been ruled out. But the Higgs is quickly running out of places to hide."

The region of higher Higgs mass is indeed ruled out (at 95% confidence), and currently the bound is even stronger than stated -- the Higgs mass is expected to be between 114-130 GeV if it exists.

The article's main flaw is its assumption that, because the remaining mass window is "small", it decreases our chances of finding the Higgs. This is not the case for several reasons. Most importantly, it has been known since the planning stages of the accelerator that a Higgs with such a low mass is more difficult to find, in the sense that it requires running the experiment for longer, collecting more statistics, before we can decide whether or not it exists. So it comes as no surprise that we first have conclusive results about the higher mass range. It just happens that the Higgs, if it exists, doesn't have a high mass, so we keep looking.

It is expected that in 1-2 years we will have enough statistics to either discover or rule out the Higgs in the remaining mass window.

The second mistake the article makes is in claiming that not finding the Higgs is somehow a bad thing. That it means the LHC was a waste of taxpayer money. I would say quite the opposite. If the LHC finds the Higgs and nothing else, then it will only confirm our existing model and we will learn nothing new about the world (except for the value of the Higgs mass). This is the worst possible outcome. On the other hand, not finding the Higgs would be an extremely exciting result, since it would open the way to less well-explored ideas about the origin of mass. The goal of the LHC is to teach us about the world, not stroke physicists' egos and tell us how clever our existing theories are.
If you end up in the city, make sure you are very near the Caltrain, since it sounds like you are not planning to drive. Trying to commute to Palo Alto by connecting to the Caltrain from other public transit (MUNI etc) is a PITA.
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They are out eating fried chicken.

Seriously, ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.
We monitor millions of urls with adsense and other ad networks every day and I can confirm that Groupon is only advertising a tiny fraction of what they were 3 months ago through these channels, web-based US traffic.
Job creation is just about the worst 'benefit' that can be ascribed to a project. Practically any expenditure can be tied to it. Using this argument just puts your project on par with digging ditches and filling them back again. This is not something a LHC promoter should be proud of, in and of itself.
This is an interesting statistic for another reason aside from de-anonymization, particularly directory listing applications. A lot of web sites have url's to access the user's profile page by their username. For popular sites, it's always a rush to register "yourname" as a username so that you can get website.com/<yourname>. Inevitably, your name gets registered by some one else and you're stuck picking a nick name or appending a randomized letter set to it.

I've been pondering a useful way to have /<yourname>in a URL, so that everyone with that name can use the url containing it without collisions. Of course, I always end up with something like website.com/a3fx/<yourname>. Which is arbitrary, and ugly. However, with this stat it seems we have something close to a non colliding, pretty, meaningful addressing scheme. Ie: website.com/<dob>/<gender>/<zip>/<yourname>, sure it's a bit long but it provides assurance you're getting who you think your getting.
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For all the talk about SF being a great start-up culture, what's true everywhere is still true here: No one wants a roommate who can't make rent.

Damn near every place I went to with a photocopy of my job offer did I get offered a spot. Try getting something in paper from the company you're working for and bringing that to some open houses. I got much better responses from that tactic than bringing beer or nothing at all.
Earlier 'discussion' here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2943965
They are built on different EC2 instances.

Ronin = Small Instance: 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of local instance storage, 32-bit platform. ~$60/month spot.

Fugu = High-CPU Medium Instance: 1.7 GB of memory, 5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each), 350 GB of local instance storage, 32-bit platform. ~$120/month spot.

Ikea = Large Instance: 7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform. ~$240 / month spot.

Zilla = High-Memory Extra Large Instance: 17.1 GB memory, 6.5 ECU (2 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each), 420 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform. ~$360/month spot.

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Mecha = High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large Instance: 68.4 GB of memory, 26 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform. ~$1440/month spot.

I think Heroku will pay less than the spot price for the raw server, but fork out bandwidth, storage, EBS IO, backups and so on. Amazon sells its basic servers cheap, but virtually nothing is included.

It looks like their margins go up at Zilla, but maybe the high-RAM instances need more bandwidth and backups.
>A novel idea to fight Spam in Distributed Systems with no or minimum State.

It is not novel. It has been discussed extensively in the context of email spam.
Ah yes, another person new on the Internet. Welcome. The blogger doesn't seem to be aware that this is an old idea, dating back to 1992 or earlier (well before the also old 1997 date given in WikiPedia for HashCash). See the references in this paper: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/proofwork.pdf
Perhaps HP should covertly sell the new TouchPads through eBay for $250. :)
1. you wouldn't want it too loud. just a hint is fine

2. it only sounds when the user pulls the rope, so it's fully within the user's control
I would be curious to see an analysis of the Node Package Manager (npmjs.org) and the general Node package structure.

NPM is basically encapsulated into one command (npm), and there are no ways for modules to modify the way Node itself works, without the permission of other modules, plus NPM automatically resolves dependencies and ensures that things Just Work.
That said, as other commenter has mentioned, should the server be compromised, the JS crypto lib may be overwritten with something else that steals the decrypted content in the browser.

The thing is, the browser still depends on the server for the crypto implementation EVERYTIME the user logs in to use the application.

Native application also suffers from this, since any downloads of the native apps still depends on the hosting server not being compromised. However, the vulnerability only applicable when the application is being download, instead of over and over again in each time of usage as in the case of web application.

The only way I can think of is of using extensions. In this manner the trust issue happen once during the download of said extension. By doing this, the implementation would be almost as secure as native application.

Almost as secure, because web pages are still content+execution. For the solution to be secure, the pages needs to be secure itself, since other Javascripts or the implementation of the web app could may not protect the user from XSS based attack.(You could say the same about native apps though, as the security depends on how secure is the codes against things like buffer overflow).

I personally thinks that it would be the best bet right now.
NPM is by far the best package manager ever. We all owe Isaac so much booze for that.
>Thieves don’t suddenly become fair game for any treatment just because they are thieves.

Any treatment, no. Humiliation? Sure. Mark Bao struck the right note with his video of the "dancing" thief, but I'd be willing to go further than that. When you violate someone's person or property, I'm okay with a disproportionate response. I think it should hurt you more than it hurt them. I make no claim to any moral foundation to this belief, but I don't feel sorry for muggers who get the shit kicked out of them or thieves who get exposed and ridiculed online.

Granted, the OP makes a good point: you have to be damned sure in these cases that the person you're humiliating is, in fact, the thief.
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How come the identity map is disabled by default?
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> you have the right to hack into your laptop, turn on the webcam, collect evidence necessary to locate and recover the laptop, but you don't have the moral right to exploit the thief beyond that

Unless you do it in an amusing way, humiliating them in front of millions of internet users. This performs a public good by making people laugh, but more importantly by reducing the incentive to steal laptops.

> Shaming the theif by showing their face is reasonable, but only if you know they aren't an accidental victim

If it becomes well-publicised that people buying dodgy laptops can have their privacy violated, it will be harder for thieves to fence them. This will reduce future laptop thefts.

> Sharing the thief's nude photos with the police or with any unnecessary third parties, where the they are not necessary for recovery, is a violation of privacy

Yes, one that can bring considerable publicity, which as I've explained earlier can have the effect of reducing future thefts.
Same here, but for San Diego :)
Some zip codes have zero residents -- a few large office buildings have their own zip codes, but nobody actually has a home address there. Examples: the Empire State Building, the Pentagon, the former World Trade Center, IRS tax processing centers.
Everything about this pisses me off: the woman who likely knew she was buying a stolen laptop, the cops judging the woman calling the photos "disgusting", and the "expert" witness who says "there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in communications via the Internet."

Sigh
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Nice work, but the "they look like they were drawn by programmers" comment makes me think you missed the point of Gravatar's specific default avatars.

They're intentionally ugly. The theory is that an ugly default avatar makes the user more likely to upload their own image.
Reputation and eventually ostracism. The thief would suffer public records indicating offenses against society. I bet the market would entertain many such reputation schemes. here's one that tracks bad drivers (I've no affiliation): http://www.zapatag.com/

Would a bank give a loan to a thief? It's up to the bank. It's hard to say how effective a social credit system would be.
Coincidence... really? I know the favicon is a common property and all but what are the chances two sites with similar ideas ends up using the one?
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I guess I’m weird but I have really no desire to punish people.
It's actually a majority of states (31) now. These laws don't simply mean you can shoot anyone who trespasses in your house; the entry must be forceful and you must believe that the person intended to seriously harm someone in the house or remove someone against their will. The castle doctrine simply creates a presumption that, barring evidence to the contrary, someone who "unlawfully and forcibly" enters a home plans to harm the people inside.
He is right. 3.45T are total costs of bailout. $2T Emergency Fed Loans (you can give shit-sandwich and exchange it to get real $$). $700B TARP. $300B Hope Now program. $310B Fannie/Freddie and AIG. And ya... we also added $140B Tax Breaks for Banks.
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The "rental" would include the damage you were dealt while not having that item.
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The article is not really clear about that, but it sounds like the laptop was broken and had to be fixed.

Given that it’s possible to buy new laptops for $300 it is certainly entirely possible that $60 are a reasonable price.
You are assuming people have credit cards here. Some do, yes, nut over 99% don't.
It's not immediately obvious from the label what the button does, but it is from experimentation. And unlike the multistep 'cut' or 'paste' buttons or 'move to' (which pops up a dialog, I think?), the discovery process for a user is one click.

Or maybe two. One to go from selected file to all other files, and another click to get back.
From looking at the description on Wikipedia, installing Linux would also bypass LoJack, as the software that's reinstalled is a Windows service.
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I wonder if they fire bad hires? Even the strictest hiring regime will result in some errors. Do they fix those?
I think the fact that 32GB models at $150 sold out just as fast supports the idea that your "demand curve" is the one that is different from the average consumer.

Also in support of this are the crazy prices people are paying on eBay for them right now, upwards of $250 for a 16GB model. It's pretty clear they could have sold them off quite briskly at $150/$200, possibly even just as fast. It seems the resellers nabbed most of them anyways.
These ones are nice but they are not the most impressive that you can find in Paris!
This site is full of pictures : http://www.postitwar.com

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If you look into commercial space research, you'll find that a lot of it (maybe most) is done under non-disclosure. We usually don't get to hear about it until there is a successful product to show.
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Not just that, on eBay and various Amazon retailers the prices seem to have stabilized at around 250 USD or even up to € 250 in Europe. If HP chooses this price point most of the current demand will still be there, especially if I could just walk up to an electronics store and get one!
This is pretty nice! But is twitter sign-in a first step or will it always stay like this?
Could be nice to add a small post explaining why we love a specific app! And on the same idea, could be nice to say the app we will NEVER use again !
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Although I don't really appreciates the tone here, I think that point that you are trying to make is that, if we are just going to use plugin, just use plugin all the way; why bother with Javascript for crypto at all.
Could be nice to have one or two examples before having to sign up.
I will not give my gmail and/or facebook information without being sure I would use the site.
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This was really interesting, because lately I've been asking myself how to improve my design ability by starting with the technology or starting with the customer.

I will read through the App Engine docs every day or so to figure out what cool thing I can make out of the APIs provided. Maybe I should forget that and just think to myself 'what would I want to use?'.
As a data point for your London vs not London question - if you work for a university in London (vs a university outside of London) you normally get something like an extra £2.5k per year as a "London allowance". I think public service type jobs get an extra payment too (teachers, police, etc) but I don't know how much.
A problem with that is that people move, so zip codes change. You could fix that by substituting artificial, user-chosen groupings for zip codes if you used enough of them to have a similar distribution. Users could pick a grouping based on their interests, and you could even keep the geographical aspect of it by treating them as "neighborhoods". People who play the stock market could choose WallStreet, science fiction fans could choose Area51, wine aficionados could choose NapaValley, and so on.
Are you using the Google or OpenDNS DNS Servers?

That's the real issue - previously these DNS servers did not work well with CDNs because they didn't send the location of the client making the request to the origin server. This extension fixes that problem.

If you aren't using these DNS servers then CDNs probably route your requests properly.
Considering there are multiple teams shooting for over 100k ft flights at Black Rock this year I'd say the US isn't as restrictive as they could be. For instance, here in Australia it's nearly impossible to get a waver for 100k ft flights due to the financial considerations.
I think that someone here needs to start a HN housing list or something. I'm looking for a place myself out in NYC and CL is nothing but trouble; however, I have gotten 4 replies from some very helpful Nigerian folk offering to fedex me the keys to their places after I simply wire them 1st month + sec.

Seriously though, CL is filled with crap, it takes far too much work to find places and there is no way to judge any roommate compatibility before the open house (which quickly leads to renting the room if everything goes well).
It's too early to call this one for sure, but still, I'm proudly on the record as betting against the Higgs.

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I am reminded of an observation made by my former boss, a planetary scientist at NASA, about that same statistical effect:

When a new Earth-crossing asteroid or comet is discovered, it's orbit is rarely known with any great certainty. The cross sectional area of the Earth divided by the area of space the object might possibly pass through yields the chance of a collision. With each successive night of observation, the orbital characteristics are determined to greater accuracy, and the cone of potential trajectories is reduced. As a not-so-intuitive result, the reported probability of a doomsday scenario grows geometrically higher with each successive night of observation. In some cases it makes national or world-wide news as the probability of mass extinction grows from 1 in a billion, to 1 in a million, to one in 10,000... Obviously there's a trend there, right? Some journalists think so, then mass hysteria ensues and NASA receives correspondence from mothers asking if they should euthanize their children to protect them from the horrific event (a true story, sadly).

Then at the height of mass hysteria, the next night's observation brings the circle of uncertainty just small enough to exclude the passage of the Earth, and instantly the probability of Armageddon drops to zero. Those media outlets who hyped the doomsday scenario then accuse the scientists of fear mongering (ironic), and the public forgets until the next big object is found looming our way, and the cycle continues.

It's sad, but not unexpected that the general public lacks the mathematical literacy to understand these statistical quirks. It's truly sad, and perhaps even criminal that journalists, and especially science journalists fall victim to those same misconceptions.
Funny, cause if the Spanish crown didn't fund Columbuses search for alternative route to East-Indies, we wouldn't be talking about American science right now.
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EMP? Come on, that's vaporware. Right up there with "dirty bombs".

I've yet to see any military deploy an EMP or dirty bomb in their arsenal. Conventional wisdom suggests this is due to one of two reasons.

1) The theory works, but weaponising isn't feasible (EMP).

2) The theory is incorrect and is security theater (dirty bomb).
The "inaudible" part of the question is: "I would like, for example, for you to express in clear terms how, say, Java, in any of its incarnations, addresses the ideas embodied in OpenDoc."
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There's another part of the talk (not included in the linked clip) where someone asks Steve what things they'll do differently than the rest of the industry. Steve responds that being different isn't important; what's important is being better. The two have a back and forth on this issue — it's hilarious in hindsight given the perfectionist nature that Apple has come to embody.

And for what it's worth, the market seems to have proven Steve right. Nowadays, we can see some of Apple's competitors resorting to "different" in an attempt to gain traction. Doesn't seem to be working for them, either.
That is interesting, there are times when I want to use PG as an ETL tool and take a midsized ( < 2tb data ) set and load it up and slice and dice it and produce some output for other programs and then have it go away. So, I'll keep you guys in mind.
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It's tricky but the best way is to be a Chinese citizen in the country. This will avoid bribery laws of USA (China is more lax and society there encourages it), Chinese government officials will be supportive (Baidu > Google), assist government in finding anti-government people and more.