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When the LHC was built - one of the biggest reasons used to justify its massive cost was that it would lead to new physics. Th Higgs sighting is sort of the Good News/Bad News scenario.

At the energies predicted, it falls in nicely with mostly established physics (Standard model). So yes that is the good news part.

The seriously bad news part is that it does not lead us in any new directions at all. Theoretical Physicists usually feed off of Observations from experiments like the LHC and new strange results to expand their frontiers.

For a while now unfortunately they have been going down the Warren of String theory without any falsifiable predictions emerging. Instead people have more or less stumbled in the Anthropic principle as the new be-all and end-all. I was really hoping that there was no Higgs to be found at all OR Super symmetry to be found OR Fine structure constant Variations OR some clue abut dark matter :(
I'm curious what ways you found dygraphs "a bit limited". It can do quite a bit more than people realize at first glance.
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You're right. Angry consumers, rioting for iPads would tip it.
I decided to dig up the whitelist to see who has already been unblocked:
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All German sites and then... Sedo..

Edit: and it would have helped for me to read further down; someone has already posted this!
This reminds me of this article: http://hubski.com/pub?id=2069

I think it's an interesting argument. Google+ might be Google's biggest success, and also sew the seeds of their downfall. Now that G+ is spreading into Gmail, there is no going back.
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There are several things to keep in mind when reading things like this piece:

1) Nobody with any actual knowledge about the analysis spoke with anyone who then blogged about it. These people know better. What actually happened was that people in CMS and ATLAS, who don't work on the Higgs analysis, saw the Higgs plots during internal discussions and then told their theorist, blogger friends roughly what they saw.

2) The most familiar exclusion plots are showing the line at which the cross section is excluded at 95% along with the 2-sigma uncertainty on the expected location of this curve. Since the people spreading rumors are not very familiar with the analysis, they do not realize that n-sigma deviations between the observed and expected lines are not the same thing as n-sigma observations. The actual significance of observation will usually be lower.

3) Again because the people spreading rumors are not familiar with the analysis, they are not able to add appropriate caveats about systematic uncertainties, which can substantially reduce significance. Because these rumors started last week, I guarantee the plots on which they were based do not include all systematic effects. And because the bloggers are predominantly theorists, they don't have the experience to add that information themselves either.

So I hope you will take rumors for what they are: rumors.
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I have to point out that this exercise makes no sense (at least not to me).

Taking a minority empowerment effort and turning the tables around will obviously emulate a majority empowerment effort which is matter of fact an empowerment of prejudice.

If a minority group is not biased, then they have failed and will not have an effect in the status quo.
> Label's and studio's have every right to defend their products

Labels and studios should not be allowed to move without the express content of the artist who produced the work. Better yet, labels and studio should just move when solicited by an artist.
"Tho" is a correct variation in American English. It's like down-voting someone for "misspelling" colour or metre.
While we are fighting the recording companies, why not put pressure on the people that give them power: the artists themselves? UMG is speaking on their behalf, acting on their behalf. If they are going to play the musicians card, why not strike back. It's one thing to hear the music industry wants to silence your speech. It's another thing when your favorite artist supports the same efforts.
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I don't believe this one second.

Item: If record labels state that they invest a ton of money in musicians and nearly all of them do not make money, this means that the foremost goal of any musician must be to become one of the few acts who actually do make money. Hence, they don't really need to sell a lot of records at first, they need people discovering them. Spotify is like radio: it does not make much money, but it advertises musicians. I have discovered more new music on Spotify in a month than on iTunes in half a year.

Item: I really really like Spotify. All the friends who have seen it like it. I have given Spotify the same money I have given iTunes before. And Amazon before that. If streaming services will attract a big number of people, they will get better deals.

Item: Any time an 'industry veteran' says that 'something can not be profitable' I sense fear. What he is really saying is that he does not want it to be profitable the same way record labels did not want iTunes or Amazon to be profitable.

At the end of the day, its people who drive the market. If people want to listen to streamed music, they will. Maybe some companies can dry up some sources, but they never succeed in the long run against their customers.
Ok, now make it a nursing seminar, or an education seminar directed toward men. No outcry of sexism. See how that works?
I'm all for it. But there might be unintended consequences.

For example, I wouldn't be surprised if an enterprising banker started a program to lend you $100K on condition that you pay them x% of your salary for y years. Companies like Microsoft might find that an attractive alternative to the current H1B circus.

For a large segment of foreign enterprising individuals this is not a good enough deal though. Looking at myself: When I finished school in the US a decade ago I just spent $100K buying education and I didn't have another $100K available. Now, living in the EU, I have a successful startup and could afford it but I also have a wife and kids and I am no longer able nor willing to move.
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People were invested in Myspace with updates, photos, page customizations, etc. Now they're all on Facebook. There's no reason to believe they won't move again if the right feature set comes along.
I agree but to be fair, they look exactly like any icons which are meant to look hand-drawn.
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Sorry for the late answer.

Depends. In my case (freelance IT entrepreneur) I know that software patents and silly copyright laws are really dangerous for my business. The day IBM decides to send patent lawyers because I happened to solve a problem with the same obvious solution they have patented in 1999, I am done for. So yes, I would say they promote better conditions.

Another thing they like pushing is the possibility to go through administrative tasks online, in a secure way. I must say that it would be a relief if I could do everything through email (though France has made a lot of efforts these last years).

Other than that, I don't know the specifics of their economics program. It is adapted locally from what I understand, only the copyright/patent/net neutrality/privacy platform is international. If you have a specific issue you want to defend locally, go make your voice heard in your national pirate party !
Hm. But to folks with different color vision, they 'are' different paintings. Neither view is 'normal'. An attempt to reconcile views on the same painting is entirely rational.
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You just presented statistical evidence.
Ok, so women can't be professors because of abortion and false paternity? Really?
How can Germany ban something Europe wide, since patents count per country?

I don't get it, at the price they sell these Apple products why would they not buy the right licenses?

I only have questions, no answers. Sorry for that.
Not many people would answer "British" to the question "What country are you from?", because "British" is not a place, but a nationality. ;)

If you asked me what I am, I might respond "British" - whereas if you asked where I'm from, I might respond "Britain".
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Exactly. That's why I think releasing your game at Christmas time has the least probability to be successful compared to any other release time.
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For all the people complaining: this will encourage websites to use less annoying ads.
From https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads :

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* Preferably text only, no attention-grabbing images

* At most one script that will delay page load (in particular, only a single DNS request)
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A question you may want to answer for yourself is how long are you willing to maintain the set with little to no compensation for it. Cause it may take a long time for this to make much money, if it ever does.

Furthermore, the income may have a cap. I know if I was looking for an icon set for a website I wouldn't want the same set everyone else is using. Which is why I always roll my own icons for websites.
I think you are being optimistic. The question is (tho), how will Apple counter this one. If they pull something similar on Motorola, then that's a settlement. If they can't pull anything, they have to buy themselves out - which would be great, because the only way to beat the patent system is its main players realizing, that the game became way too costly, and instead of patent troll firms they start paying lobbyist firms (may even be the same ones huh?) to get legislators to make radical changes on the patent system.
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Hi all,

I run a number of web applications and I am wondering if putting the sites in multiple languages is worth the effort?

I am primarily concerned about conversion/sign-up rates, but also effects from a SEO point of view.

It would be great to hear the experiences of others that have gone through this already...
It seems to me that the only way to end the labels' dominance over the music industry is to deprive them of their sole revenue source - popular and successful artists.

What services exactly does a label continue to provide, now that the internet has made it much easier for artists to self-promote? I presume that large portion of what the labels used to do can now be done very easily by the artists themselves.

There may be an opening for a tech startup here (maybe there's already one (or more) in this field) to take whatever the labels still need to do and undercut them on price and ease of acceptance (the labels are pretty picky about which artists they take). It seems to me that the labels have spurned a lot of the technological advances that have been made possible over the last decade or two in favor of clinging to an increasingly outdated business model in the hopes of squeezing a final dollar or two out of their musicians.
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"Those companies are getting into content because they have no choice."

That's precisely my point. In an oligopolistic market, when the oligopolists (the entertainment congloms) overplay their hand, new entrants emerge to compete with them. Sometimes by choice, and sometimes by necessity. In this case, what's happening is what you're describing: distributors are getting priced out of carrying the product they distribute; ergo, they will need to create their own product. This is what I mean by saying that the entertainment companies will "kill themselves" if they keep squeezing distributors for much longer. They don't have viable distribution pipelines to compete with these distributors, and their ignorance of that fact will be their downfall.

In the long run, it's much easier and less expensive to create a great show (or album, or film) than it is to build, grow, and maintain a great digital distribution company. The distributors will have an easier time getting into the original content business than the content companies will have getting into distribution. Time and economics are on the distributors' side in this battle.

"Think about it, if traditional label struggles with people no longer buying full albums, how is a subscription label going to survive on $10/month?"

A traditional label's economics depend on getting consumers to buy albums in excess of $10 a pop, or tracks at $1 a pop, because the label bears so many costs in producing and marketing its music. It spends a fortune on advertising, promotions, executive salaries, and so forth, and it passes all of those costs on to the consumer in the form of CD prices that are astronomically higher than the raw price of the discs themselves. Present-day a la carte music pricing is still, by and large, reflective of the marketing and overhead costs of these labels.

If you take the costs of running a traditional label out of the equation, and build a label from the ground up -- entirely digitally -- you can avoid a lot of the costs that traditional labels continue to bear. For instance: if a company like Spotify or Pandora were it to court its own artists, it would not need to spend a fortune on marketing and advertising. It could rely on the mechanics of collaborative filtering, organic search, and word of mouth to get its artists discovered by users. As for the $10/month pricing, that would depend on generating enough new artists at scale, so that users felt satisfied by the overall selection on the subscription service.
I dont know about projects on github, but im involved in a couple of projects that are looking for developers. One is for a non profit. And one is for a for profit. They are using cutting edge technologies such as django and node and mongodb and whatnot.
Excellent article, though I had to laugh at the introduction of the if statement just to avoid the appearance of calling the boolean directly, which happens to be exactly how Smalltalk implements its if statements: a direct call to the boolean passing a block as the argument. This approach to programming is how Smalltalk has only a handful of reserved words vs the 80'ish I think Ruby has.
I think I'd be more inclined to call this version a Church tarpit.
> Do you guys believe in the concept of intellectual property

Certainly not as an article of faith. It needs to be configured according to evidence, and that is about as far from the case as possible today.

> It is vital for our whole economy

That as a whole statement is definitely false, since plenty of things have nothing to do with it. And it is quite possible it is not vital to any part of the economy.

Economic research has not been able to determine the value of IP (see, for example: 'The economic structure of intellectual property law'; Landes, Posner; 2003. Conclusion, p422, s3.). That means, as far as anyone knows, we might actually be better off without it. That might be surprising, but there you are.

If there were no, or much limited, IP structure/law, business activity would re-arrange; it would do different things. Putting forward an argument that business could not do what it currently does rather misses that. And if, as you describe, music recording is a business where "almost every one of your products loses a lot of money", it seems there is indeed a very great deal of room for improvement economically.
Wow, that story captured me! I want more.
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Game theory doesn't become computationally intensive until you reach mixed strategies, which start about half way through the first chapter. (If this comment is referring to the PDF preview on my website, the PDF only contains the first lesson.)
You've gotta manage your expectations properly. Vim takes time to learn. Trust that there's a payoff, be patient. I'd like to think my first attempt at becoming a Vim user stuck, but I took it slow. I was using Vim at my day job, and it went something like this:

1 month - really started to feel a productivity increase over text editing in an IDE

3 months - started to feel like I was flying

6 months - began desperately searching for Vim plugins for Eclipse
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You're correct, humanhash was never intended to be secure. I felt that, for usability, I'd have to surrender some collision protection in exchange for brevity. I was originally taking the first N bytes, but I decided to use a simple XOR-based checksum over N chunks of the input instead. This may have been cargo cult cryptography.

I hadn't seen the PGP word list; thanks a lot for that. I would integrate that list this very second if I could, but I'm concerned that PGP owns the copyright to the list.
1) Nobody with any actual knowledge about the analysis spoke with anyone who then blogged about it. These people know better. What actually happened was that people in CMS and ATLAS, who don't work on the Higgs analysis, saw the Higgs plots during internal discussions and then told their theorist, blogger friends roughly what they saw.

Are you saying that you do have actual knowledge, or are you just guessing this stuff just like the others? I'm not trtying to be snarky, I really want to know if you have good hard info or not.
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I'd be really interested in knowing whether Wladmir benefits financially from these agreements.
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If I recall correctly, Warner Bros was issuing DMCAs without even cursory research into whether they had rights to the IP or not. The problem isn't even so much that Warner Bros was cutting lawyer fees - fine - but that they weren't held to the minimum of responsibility provided by the DMCA for issuing fraudulent (OK, or at the very least incorrect) notices.
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Definitely.

If you have problems with this word then it may help to think of it as De[finite]ly - and tie that in your mind to "finite" meaning "measurable".

(Sorry to be a spelling nazi but the use of the 'a' in defiantly indicates this is not a typo.)
Good work & excellent timing. I've been relying on Flashblock to disable the most intrusive ads, but Apple's success in killing off Flash has meant that non-Flash ads are getting more intrusive. I will be installing ASAP.
While some of the features MoonScript provides are very interesting, I'm not sure it's really needed as much for Lua as CoffeeScript is for JavaScript - Lua is a rather nice language on its own.
Why did you do all those things? Did you have to use bash for all that software? Were you concerned about portability? Do you just dislike python?

I have no trouble understanding how complex programs can be written in bash, but I have never understood why.
I strongly agree to the issue at hand where we our patriarchal culture tends to drive women into choosing between career and babies.

I also abhore the fact that our patriarchal culture makes it very very easy for men to have very little participation in taking care of our own children, therefore agravating the issue.

I would suggest that 'maternity-leave' be exchanged for 'family-leave'. Why don't we allow fathers to participate in the care of a newborn baby, or rather, why don't we enforce it.

Not only the care of the child is made a burden on women only, also they have to shoulder the career burden as well.

Maybe then the whole thing would be less of a career problem and turn into a career fact, where it'd just acceptable that anyone employee might at sometime in the future need a leave to care for their respective babies and it would be just normal to do so.
Good point. This is a bunch of garish, inconsistent user interfaces. "Fragmentation" means something else.
That's a great short story. It reminds me of the movie Pi, in which a man obsessively searches for a secret number, to the point of debilitating paranoia. If you enjoyed this short story even slightly, then I highly recommend watching Pi.
if they're doing what they're saying they're doing (only one DNS request allowed) your concerns will be met by this product. most modern display ads use many, many more than that.
Because Motorola isn't selling them a license. Ah, so why isn't Motorola selling them a license then? Because Apple is unique among the big mobile phone players in that they have no interest in licensing their own patents to others for money or for access to the other party's patents. Instead Apple are using them just for the purpose of getting the others off the market.

Nokia apparently managed to bludgeon a cross-licensing agreement from Apple. Motorola is presumably attempting the same.