skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just so it's clear, this (merely) composite particle is made of known quarks and is predicted by the Standard Model. It's basically like producing element 113 on the periodic table.

The discovery of a new fundamental particle (like a Z-prime), or of a composite not in agreement with the standard model (like a pentaquark, kinda), would be much bigger news.
We make a concerted effort to reduce legal fees by coordinating with our attorneys to do whatever footwork we can. On bad months, it will cost us $7k-$10k. On a relatively idle month, $2k.
Are you in software design or IT?
Coming from Ruby, I was pretty excited to see Elixir[0] (and before that, Reia[1]), a language that runs on the Erlang VM but is more approachable for me syntactically and that adds some interesting features. I think it's worth checking out for anyone who wants to 'learn them some Erlang' over winter break.

[0]: https://github.com/josevalim/elixir

[1]: http://reia-lang.org/ (abandoned; author points user to Elixir now)
Nice one, that I wasn't familiar with. Another great site for sailing theory is Arvel Gentry's page. His Origins of Lift piece was the first reference that made the process clear to me. http://www.arvelgentry.com/origins_of_lift.htm
I'd say the right answer is something like this : 'Because if you do that we will kick that other team's ass and you will regret it. We are the best people for this project and we will kill ourselves to make this product the best in the world.' I guarantee you he would invest in us at that point. :)
Willem, how much of the performance improvement was related to Smarty templates being compiled to C++ vs. the application itself?
Google doc listing companies that Support SOPA
it's nice to be reminded that there's a world outside SV/London where people can actually get started (and funded).

It's also nice to bear in mind that there's a world outside SV/NYC/London where people can get started and succeed without playing the "getting funded" game at all.

Shocking, I know.
Complexity is the root of all evil. There's been some publications [1] that compare revenue per employee which sometimes is interesting. For technologists, it might actually be interesting to see LOC per User. Hyves seems to run at 1/3rd of a line per user; is that high or low? Any published stats like that?

[1]: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2283-ranking-tech-companies-b...
Unfortunately, this is true - at least it gets regularily reported in german newspapers and I have no reason to believe that they are wrong.
I write unfortunately because the translation is that germans today are far less wealthy than ten years ago and now we pull our neighbours down with us.
If this involves auto-submitting every blog post to HN, then please don't.
The common cold is not a single virus but many many many different strands which are continually mutating. Ever gotten the flu after the vaccine? That's because the vaccine doesn't target all flu strands, merely what the developers identify to be the main strands of the flu virus for that season.

These particles are very difficult to find, extraordinary amounts of electricity are required to create them for the brief period of time they exist independently. Incredibly sophisticated equipment is used to detect the signs that such particles emit, and mind boggling computational power is used to sort through the petabytes of data gathered through thousands of collisions to be able to identify a particle with sufficient confidence.

Due to the unchanging nature of particles and their components, and the robustness of experiment methodology, and theoretical models to assist what one may look at, finding a particle becomes practicable.
Microsoft's 2012 CES will be its last
Keynotes from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer have kicked off the last three CES shows. But now the company says its product news doesn't align with the show's timing.
What a horrible article. Whoever wrote that was some sort of Amish anti-technology fruitcake. Fuck him.
Actually, my Blackberry did this 8-9 years ago.
> Question: "Do you have a problem with the law in question?"

Unspoken thought: "In and of and by itself?" Spoken Answer: "No." Unspoken thought: "I may however have a problem with the application of the law."

Question: "Would you be able to return a guilty verdict?"
Spoken Answer: "Yes." Unspoken thought: "If the plantiff can shown what harm the defendant has caused to the non-consenting victim of accused crime."

Update: If the application of the "law" would lead to an unconscionable injustice... such as punishing (or condemning or reprimanding) a human for something which has not harmed anyone against their will.
That was the observation of P. T. Barnum over 100 years ago ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum ).

I've not head behavioral economists' studies that cast doubt on it. The classic case of marketing > sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_rock
Now this is released... after I spend hours and hours figuring out undocumented stuff myself. Great stuff.
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Thanks so much for the comment. Emailing you right now!
It now costs over a billion dollars a year to run Facebook
That's not the point.

Selling and advertising tickets online is at least as good as the offline alternative at the same cost (presumably cheaper). Otherwise, why bother?

Thus, better/cheaper online advertising -> more tickets sold -> higher demand for air planes.
The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – Class 2
It's a mistrial because you're telling the judge he's not important. Of course judges don't like that, they worked their whole life to be a judge, and some jamoke without a law degree shows up talking about jury nullification. That's why you see censures and mistrials.
Is there one describing the truth?

Is there any way of searching xkcd by subject matter?
Unfortunately they limit the patent to touchscreen devices. Otherwise, I'd say that my sl45i did that almost 11 years ago.
I agree with the article that we're likely to eventually find virtual worlds more interesting and fulfilling than outer space. I do not agree that we should look down on these VRs or be alarmed or disappointed by this possibility.
Protest SOPA with stopcensorship.js
Akamai to Buy Cotendo for $268 Million to Expand Cloud, Mobile Services
Angry Birds Crushes Facebook in App Downloads
Because it's a sharepoint platform!
I'm interested in reading the articles, but $200 to get ahold of them in an out-of-print-book is a bit steep.

Any other sources that you could recommend by chance?
Metal indispensable
I built this to protest SOPA. Here is a test page:

http://dougmart.in/stopcensorship/test.html
It's hard not to take these "hipness reports" with a gigantic rock of salt. Anyone that's lurked a tech forum for the last few years has heard stories of Blackberry surging in popularity among London teens and Nokia pride prevailing over iPhone hype among Europeans. Needless to say, Europe hasn't exactly proven to be a style bellwether. The vastly simpler and more likely explanation for the difference is that Apple products are far more expensive in Europe (and, to a degree that varies by country, that people in many European countries have less disposable income than the average American).
Not true. Bitcoin mining is a viable benchmark for integer performance, something that is used for things other than cryptographic brute forcing.

Also, the data processed is around 104 bytes (two SHA265 executions: the second part of the first execution for the 80 byte header (hash state from first part + the next 16 bytes) (the first part of the first execution only needs to be done once and is done on the CPU), and then the second execution (hashing the result of the first execution)).
The same quote also mean just quality, since you get better phone for the same money you want to spend ;)

I understood that HTC is from the US banned until they change their product, but you may be right.

Anyways, it's much harder for any non US company to compete with Apple (and Motorola) on US market. Take an example of Nokia which was absolute smartphone leader everywhere in the world excluding US. HTC and Samsung are in the similar position.
At the end of the day, the Europeans can't have their cake and it eat, too. Either the Eurozone is a truly integrated, multinational superentity, or it's a meaningless construct on top of a group of wholly independent nations. It can't be the former when things are going well, and the latter when things are going poorly. A fairweather EU / economic zone doesn't work, because it's built on a foundation of quicksand.

How can these countries rely on a cooperative economic superstructure when, beneath it all, they still see each other as competitors? Transnationalism doesn't work when you're secretly a nationalist.
I can queue an OpenCL kernel, execute it, and read the response back from the OpenCL buffer in a fraction of a millisecond. What sort of audio work are you doing that requires less than 1ms latency?
This is actually a great title it will draw in more traffic because of the supposed controversy of it
"whitest"

As more and more people of different races procreate, "white" will eventually be nonexistent.
The OP is from Italy; it may be the case that English is not his first language, and that he simply made an error.
I have to imagine that the title was written by a non-native english speaker - or it was a crude joke. In this day and age, I can't imagine a native english speaker using gendered language in this situation.
OpenCL has no concept of "frames per second". The turn around time is higher than the speed of your OS's thread scheduler.
But where is Greece?
Title changed, sorry, I did an error because of my poor English. In Italian if you say "your son" there is not a strong correlation with the gender.

EDIT: To everybody that signaled this news because there was an error in the title: now it is outside the listing, and many daughters (and sons) lost the possibility of being exposed to it. Overreacting is always bad.

EDIT2: considering the issue again, overreacting is probably better than overlooking this kind of issue...
Seems pretty egotistical to believe our concepts of communication are the only and/or best in existence.
Government spending has a wide range of benefits. Unfortunately once the private debt load get's that high is simply more rational for individuals to default vs trying to maintain that debt load. Because of the Euro that private borrowing involved international lenders private defaults help that country in the long term.

In which case a deeper recession and some polices that caused more borrowers to default would actually help Spain recover at the cost of it's banking sector. The short term alternative is to prop up it's private sector for a few years in the hope that the world economy improves and they avoid a deep recession at the cost of a crushing public debt load.
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Money as Debt II [video]
I'm not sure if there are any in Europe! [NB I'm in the UK]

Note that I'd love to be corrected on this point - I graduated in '88 and co-founded a startup after working in academia for 6 years and the help we got from the University we worked for was laughable (they asked if we wanted to lease a building!). However, we did meet our first angel investor through the university - he had done the same CS degree as me about 20 years earlier.
Sure, discovery outside the standard model would be bigger news, but this is still very exciting, imo, for a few reasons. It shows that the LHC has real value and is working. It shows that the science is right and now it's been confirmed. It also shows that we can continually gain understanding of how everything works which makes us smarter as a whole. It may not be sensational, but it sure is fantastic to see the progress being made.
Question for anyone caring to posit an opinion.

I have interest in a few apps out there. All are available on iOS and Android. I have found the iOS apps to be MUCH more profitable. Apps made for iPad are incredibly profitable. Now realize, I am only talking about apps I had a hand in.

My question is, why is this? Is this just the way the market is? And if others are getting more profit from Android than iPhone, what do you think is driving that?

I guess the question is, how do you get Android users to pay you? It is an important question if such a growing number of people are using Android.
You can't oppose a patent application unless you work in the patent office.
Con: *NIX software isn't as easy to install. I mean there's stuff like brew and ports, but it's just not the same. You have to sit there and compile and then oops you have a problem you need to go fix. For instance, postgres9.0 on ports has a bug where you have to specify the hostname, so you're doing psql -h localhost just to bind to the local database. I hear brew is better but there's an opportunity cost to switching and making sure everything installs.

No hibernate option, not that it always works in Linux.

Pro: No Unity interface :). I jest, but some people don't like the UI and that could be a pro for you.

Mac App store is definitely a plus, but apparently Ubuntu has one too.

You can use Xcode and be able to play in the iOS sandbox.
The pendulum (or why you shouldn't be despairing over SOPA)
Thanks.

(I have removed my flag, and hope everyone else who flagged it removes their flags too.)
BlackBerry 10 is a failure that won’t be able to compete, company source says
A couple of recent blog posts linked to the fiu.edu article. They may also be interesting reading:

Kevin Drum: The Problem With Science:
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/12/problem-science

Modeled Behavior: Of Science and Scientism: http://modeledbehavior.com/2011/12/21/of-science-and-scienti...
It is two underclocked 6970s, Two 6970s in Crossfire are approximately 6% faster than a 6990, or 20% faster than than two 6950s.
Smarty 3.1.7 released
>> most learners learned more Chinese from overseas residence than from taking university courses in Chinese

No surprise there. It is hard to learn a foreign language to a high level of fluency without constant background exposure.
"just price" indeed. In France there are incredible offers for Android phones (I got my Motorola Atrix for "free" back in september), whereas the prices of iPhones have doubled since the device opened itself to multiple operators, from 99€ for 16GB to 199€ for the same iPhone4 (with network plan) between december 2010 and december 2011.

We suffer from a strange case of illegal trust between our three main network providers (four if we include the big reseller Virgin) in France, and sadly we have a hard time to convince the authorities to act, since we don't have the concept of a class-action lawsuit in our system.

edit: typos
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Thanks! Yeah, both are growing, but android are growing faster, figures. Article tries to suggest that iOS is shrinking.
Interesting app. AFAIK it's hard to chunk Chinese text to words since they don't use spaces (In the case of Japanese, I know for sure that perfect automated chunking is impossible). But it's not quiet right for English, too, because it shows short words like "a" and "it" individually, while for an advanced reader "I have to" and "I don't think so" or even longer strings are a single chunk.
> As an existence proof, Ruby gets along just fine without it.

Missing that Ruby stops scoping variables at a method and uses separate lexical scoping rules for constants thereby avoiding this issue mostly.
Bell Canada drops traffic shaping in favor of an "economic" approach
I think a no-commitment sampler of the kind of music I'm signing up for would be sufficient. I would toy around with that and make a better informed decision based on it. I probably would not sign up for a free trial.

The price did make me hesitate at first for sure, though. Once I understood that it's for 365 songs I felt better about it.
What does this have to do with multitasking on a touchscreen device during a phone call?
This answers my question. I do not (and have never) owned a cell phone, so the iphone hype and android hype gets confusing.
It's true, but it's debatable how much it explains.
Germany looks relatively good right now, but it's been 20 years of slow growth and lots of pain after '89. It's funny that just a couple of years ago, say 2003, you'd read about the booming Greece and "sick man of Europe" Germany.
Thank you. Btw I'll make sure to avoid this error in the future.
I want to second this. Given the shortage of qualified developers, I actually find it baffling that more companies aren't taking this step. Kudos to Living Social to being proactive rather than whining about lack of talent!
Questions:

(1) The news of new particle found keep coming now and then. so, for a newbie, Does finding a new particle change anything ? i.e. does it change the way we think about physics. i.e. How important finding a new particle is ?

(2) Could it be possible that there may be infinite type of particle and we keep finding them ? OR the way our detection system works keep sensing same particle as a different one ?

(3) Is finding a new particle is intention of LHC ? If I smash one brick with another, I bound to find two brick part. Is more science involve here ? ( not in the process, I know its big deal, but in the logic. ? )
tldr - The user simply reads , as 'and', ; as 'or' and . as being done.
What's interesting is that Blackberry _has_ surged recently:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/31/android-uk-...
One more thing: Not a founder, but people say startups have incredible highs and equally bad lows. Would you really want the possibility of loosing everything playing on your mind during one of those lows? Huge chance that it'll become a self fulfilling prophecy and ultimately hurt the company in that case.
Smart Guide to 2012: The networks that run the world
Looks good, somewhere between

https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/ubuntu-help/index.html

and the paper manual. I especially like the keyboard hints embedded as they go along.
This is great. Adding it to my sites now.
Paint-on solar cells developed
Mootools still disqualifies itself in my mind by patching around on builtins.
I agree that a fairweather Eurozone is not sustainable and that at least a fiscal union is needed (through good times and bad times, till war do us part). Luckily, many young people like the idea of a stronger united Europe, so hopefully it's just a matter of time until the public perception shifts. If the Euro just survives for another decade or two it's probably going to turn out OK.
For a job application I can see how the essays, videos, etc. could be considered onerous, but from the looks of it this is more like a _scholarship_ application than a job application, and five months of paid training in a work environment is a pretty significant scholarship. In that light, it doesn't seem excessive at all: of course you have to write essays, of course you have to make a short presentation; these are run-of-the-mill requirements for many (not to mention much smaller) scholarship grants.
You could potentially use http://hubski.com as a blog, which is built on top of news.arc, and thus, has a similar commenting engine. It allows for richer content, like embedded videos and pictures. But no nice url...

A few people submit their blog posts to hubski. Since people don't share feeds, it's not frowned upon.
Yahoo's Core Business Is Currently Valued At ~0
Yea, but how many of those 16million pixels can be map'd to the display.

A: Not all that many which is why breaking that up into smaller chunks an enabling a virtual 4k texture without compression is a good idea.
Syntax is not as important at all.

Semantics is important.

If you think about a piece of code you should have AST's in your mind anyway -- not strings of characters.
Siri still only understand English right? If so that would go a long way explaining the fall in non English speaking markets.
The Myth That SOPA/PIPA Only Impact 'Foreign Sites'
I'm using Macs and Linux machines since many years now as a web developer. On the Mac you just have a few tools available (first textmate, now sublime) that for everyday work I would miss on Linux.

Otherwise there are not that many differences. On the Mac getting and installing the newest distributions of some packages can be a tiny bit more difficult. Sometimes you need to google to find some instructions to get some things running that are more easy to install on Linux (sometimes it's the other way), especially if you need to compile something.

That said it may depend on the kind of work you want to do. Both systems may offer advantages in different areas, the Mac may shine for graphics processing and software you have to pay for, while many oss projects target the Linux world.
IMHO, the best way to improve reading speed is to read more and more. Once you know more words and can tell their meanings in shorter time, you read faster. There is a chinese idiom for it: 熟能生巧
Ian Bernstein, the founder at Orbotix, has been around on the amateur robotics scene for a very long time. He started a popular BEAM robotics website many years ago (http://beam-online.com/). I took a lot of inspiration from him during my highschool years. It's great to see folks like this making waves with actual hardware (the very neat AR Drone from Parrot also comes to mind). They were part of the Boulder Tech Stars summer program (http://www.gosphero.com/techstars-boulder-demo-day-is-here).

While some folks might scoff at the product, keep in mind all of the potential uses for smart phones interfacing with robotics and hardware in the real world. I think this is just the beginning. Toys are a gateway drug :)
Huh, it was really interesting to me how he used a .org for his (commercial) Appointment Reminder website to get an exact match and rank #1 for that phrase on Google. To quote:

'Exact match domain names. ”Hey Patrick, how is it that with no marketing budget and nearly no marketing work you rank #1 for [appointment reminder]?” I told everybody that I was buying the .org specifically because that would happen but apparently folks didn’t believe me.'
certainly, but that's besides the point. If you look at the jQuery community vs the others, jQuery's is filled with much much more spaghetti code
Perhaps I'm more paranoid than most, but I'm young, and I've seen services I relied upon shut down several times. The problem, however, is that letting users rescue their user-generated content /hurts/ the company doing the hosting. Only a few companies, such as Google, let you actually export your data; fewer let you keep it in active sync. But I wish more companies would realize that the loss due to not boxing in your users is usually minor; and the gain is also minor, unless your site shuts down, which it likely will, in which case an export feature is something you'll have to build no matter what; better build that before-hand.
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Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia And RIM To Battle Google Over Indoor Location Market
One solution is indoor positioning, Google recently brought indoor positioning out of the labs with the late November release of a “My Location” feature in Google Maps. Google says the feature, which is currently only available on Android phones, can track a user’s location within several meters in select malls and airports.
Get ready and be steady
Maybe you should start a competing venture called "Ugly Academy." JUST KIDDING!! :)
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