skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The faster-than-light neutrinos probably got explained by a loose cable, sorry. :) http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/02/faster-than-light-neu...

As to the double-checking, the analysis behind this result used the whole data set collected by the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC). So that's years of data, and the experiment hasn't been running since 2008. The question of course is, can some other experiment produce the same results. As this is B-physics I would guess LHCb, one of the 4 main experiments at CERN's LHC, might be able to do this, but I really don't know for sure.

If you can repeat the same experiment and get another 3 sigma deviation from the Standard Model predictions then yes, you could combine the results to get a >3 sigma total (though they don't simply just add up to 6).
I think about this, but I find it far more likely that my domain goes bad for one reason or another, or my server crashes than that gmail shuts down my account.
I don't think it's a problem to have many projects, as long as they all start for a genuine reason.

I really enjoyed this article because it confirms the same suspicions I've been having over the past couple years. I often compare things in life to an apple tree. Almost everything comes about gradually and organically, from relationships to careers to conversations. Our flaw as human beings comes from one of our greatest strengths: that we can observe and analyze information really well. That often leads to people trying to skip the tree and jump to the fruit: the reward. It just doesn't work like that.
Shit happens, but with nearly every other provider, you can at least talk to someone to find out what happened and get your service restored, or at least get your data.
Kozmo for Coffee?

For many people, part of the point of going to a coffee shop is the social interaction and serendipitous encounters.

Good luck tho! :)
You're right, this really is just introductory pricing for the MVP. We really need to work out what a sustainable pricing model is, but we decided that we should first work on the MVP. Do you have any suggestions?
1. You don't specify a locality

2. You could scale this more easily with TaskRabbit.

3. A flat monthly rate will run you into the ground. Example: I order 10 drinks every morning delivered to my office. Or, if you limit to one drink/day, as head of this company I could buy a year of this for all of my employees, then together they remember to order on a daily basis.
Yes and that will all change as you continue to embrace multiculturalism. These properties are only possible in a society with high cohesion. People are more than happy to support their own communities.

People are more trusting of those who are racially or ethnically similar to them.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/03/20/148946156/how-do-...

The sorts of things you list are not easily attainable in America because of our multiculturalism. When I pay taxes, I don't know how that money will be used by people who probably do not share the same value or aspirations as I do. Different racial and ethnic groups in aggregate put different values on different things.

Because of that, it's more dog-eat-dog here. People are less trusting of the government to promote the values they wish to see in their society. That's why Americans are wary of socialist programs.

But it's not all bad. It's that culture of independence and competition which breeds innovation. It's the melting pot, the mixing and meshing and synthesizing of view points which breeds progress. It's the reason America is a technological and economic superpower.

My point is: you have your thing, we have our thing. It's a trade off.
My suggestion is drop this project.
Figure out what it costs on Task Rabbit. Add 50% + price of drink.
wow, a business model that bets on the lazyness of american people! where can i invest?
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300 people on day one. They are all going to want their coffee at about 8am.

Also they will probably be fairly randomly geographically dispersed.

If this is the case, then delivering the coffee hot is going to present another challenge, it might not be a case of 'pick up 300 coffees and deliver them to 300 addresses'.

I fail to see how this is at all possible.
If you serve 300 people on day one, people will get angry that their drinks are becoming room temperature. You'll have to battle the Starbucks line, and in doing so end up doing larger batches of purchases, and finally the drinks will be cooling/warming too much before they are delivered.
Unless you're Santa Claus, delivering 300 orders of coffee in a day is flat out impossible.

- First, everyone is going to want them within a two or three hour time period.

- Second, you're going to have to go to Starbucks after every order or every other order or else the coffee will get cold by the time it's delivered.

I think you can reasonably deliver 4 per hour, maybe 8 if you get really good at clustering them together. So I think more than 25 per person per day is going to be unreasonable, and realistically probably more like 15.
The BBC documentary linked at the end of this article, "Fred Dibnah, Steeplejack", is right up the alley of many here on HN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuSW9kOBADo
Good point, hadn't thought of the process list.
I think you're conflating style and substance a little too fully. I can appreciate your objection to "ripped it to shreds," but that's not a very substantive objection to the reporting/analysis.

Your desire not to be told who is right is problematic. Just because opinions on the shape of the earth differ doesn't mean the news media must refrain from telling it's readers the truth. If you want to compare press releases and come to your own conclusion you don't need a staff of reporters for that.
That's a truly excellent talk and really even the first slide, titled "Statistical Inference," should be enough to gain a ton of information, so if you're intimidated by the length just give the first slide a try. Michael Jordan is one of my favorite statisticians/machine learning researchers, and if I see he's speaking somewhere I always try to go. I don't go to many stats talks, but his talks are always some of the most mathy I do see, and he's not afraid to dive in to the mathematical mechanics of methods.
I've just installed it (Chrome) but it doesn't seem to do anything, would you happen to know what I'm doing wrong?

Edit: Using the https version of news.ycombinator.com
I'm surprised his program didn't print the PRNG seed(s), exactly to allow re-creating pieces that stood out.
I don't think this is a worthwhile distinction, even if it's historically accurate. Both Bayesian and Frequentists focus on point estimation and distributions. EAP and MAP are just as Bayesian and the full posterior distribution. And the sampling distribution is just as important to Frequentists as the posterior distribution is to a Bayesian.

The key difference is whether inference is based on the sampling distribution or the posterior distribution.
appears there is no way to log in, only to sign up. i've got two accounts created under the same email address, logging out kicks me back to the signup page, where is login?
It might be a good idea to put something on the website saying where the service will be first. That would certainly encourage me to hand over my e-mail address.
I don't understand how they got to 10 years?
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The faster-than-light neutrinos probably got explained by a loose cable, sorry. :)

Right:) That's exactly what I was referring to: the uncertainty about the model/experimental setup is larger than the N-sigmas uncertainty reported by the model and instruments.
Most everyday problems related to rounded edges in CSS can be solved with CSS3 PIE (http://css3pie.com/).

How well these shapes would render though, I don't know.
At least you can just change some DNS records and get your mail working on another server. If your gmail account gets suspended there's no way to get that address back, ever.
I read their webpage and thought the same thing. They should just add a <h1> tag to the website that reads "Bring Cloud Storage to your own Hardare" above their main graphic.
I tend to agree that someone like Scoble does not form the best basis to cast judgement on how engaged G+ is (even though he proves that G+ is not a ghost town). Apart from his other talents and selling points, he has also benefited from his being an early adopter of the platform. As such I'd say a large number of his followers don't hang on to every word or comment he may make.

On the other hand look at the stats of true tech luminaries like Linus Torvalds: thousands of likes, hundreds of reshares and comments per post. Torvalds is the kind of guy - with nothing technologically left to prove - that the G+ community enjoys following very closely. There is no way your G+ stream can be a ghost town if you follow people like Torvalds and far lesser luminaries (but greatly accomplished folks) on G+.
You can counter that with European soldiers coming home to dead families and destroyed cities. The US was prosperous and had unmatched conditions to help returning soldiers.
That would work well in situations involving facts—politics, for example. It's relatively easy to fact check a claim like, "since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history."

But creationists and evolutionists make claims about the distant past. There are no facts available, we have to evaluate evidence and reasoning. Even if, as in this example, the evidence strongly favours one side over the other, a journalist is ultimately conveying his own assessment of the "debate".

This court case is even less amenable to fact-checking. So far, the court hasn't made any findings of fact or legal rulings. All we've got is arguments from each side. About the only thing a journalist can do is evaluate them. So if you insist that reporters avoid inserting their opinions into the story, then duaneb is right - the only fact available is that Apple filed a response.

If the DOJ-Apple case were really important to me, then yeah, I'd read the filing myself and form my own opinion from the primary source. But to me, this case isn't that important. It's interesting, and I'll keep an eye on it as it progresses, but I don't want to invest a lot of time and energy in it.

That's why I prefer Philip Elmer-DeWitt's approach to duaneb's. It gives me the facts along with the reporter's experienced if not expert opinion. It's clear which is which, contains enough argument in support of the opinion that I can evaluate DeWitt's reasoning. It's a bit snarky for my taste, and I view that as a weakness in DeWitt's argument, but ultimately it doesn't matter whether I agree with him. I've learn something without having to become a reporter myself.
EDIT: After all the feedback, I realized I'm wrong. There is no sustainable way of delivering all that coffee at 50 cents a day. So, we've decided to change to $1.50 a day, and ramp up slower. We're starting in the D.C area, but considering moving to the Bay area if demand is significantly creater. Thank you for the help
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Interested students can just put their phones on silent.

For that matter... why don't schools let kids keep their phones on silent and in their lockers? Using your phone in class? Get yelled at. Throwing paper airplanes in class? Get yelled at.

This is not a hard or new problem.
Depending on your intent, this may be a great reason to avoid PHP, or at least to leave PHP out of your job description.
Excuse the dumb question, but what's MVP? Most Valuable Player?
the service works best as a 'credit report for domains'. perhaps analyze a domain someone enters and give them a report with all the due diligence
What about that do you not understand? They keep RHEL as up to day as most businesses care to have it, the only thing really connecting RHEL 1 and RHEL 6 is the name, and there isn't much reason for that to wear out..

Unless maybe you are talking about Redhat the company, not RHEL? This article is about 10 years of RHEL.. Redhat has been around for nearly two decades now.
"Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"
Minimum viable product (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product)
The nearest Starbucks to me is 44km away, which makes me think that if you were able to deliver, it would likely be cold. Also, I can't say that Starbucks coffee is nice - seems more like coffee flavoured milk than an actual drink. You can also make perfectly awesome coffee at home, for cheaper than your delivery cost, and you get to use your own cup.

For that reason, I'm out. Nice looking iPhone app though.
The resonances and composed particles are used in the calculations, so if this result is true, it would involve new things that are not in the standard model.

We studied only the simple version that has only one Higgs field :(, so I don’t know what type I/II means, but using Google, I found this (see slide #6), that starts with a not very technical introduction: http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/SciPrgPgs/events/2007/kanefest/ha...
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It refers to Minimum viable product http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-...
Two problems with that:

1. I'd rather have one app do the whole thing, so that I know it's tested and it works.

2. How about labels, contact, calendars, etc?

I'd pay for this app, but only if it allowed full roundtrip.
As I said, the security issue here is interesting to me as somewhat of a "hacker," but not really so important.

However, there definitely are ways to exploit this. For example, the person holding the phones could search for nude pictures, or material in text messages that could be used to blackmail the children (possibly the same thing, not necessarily).

I think having a bunch of "cell phone lockers" in a very public area of a public school would guard against that kind of thing pretty effectively. It would take a conspiracy of school employees to pull it off and really not be worth it.
No, it's not a problem per se, why? It's just one of the reason why crappy design still abound, which was the OP's question.
Very interesting, can you expand? How do frequentists use the sampling distribution other than the classical MLE etc?
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Extension methods can only use the public API of objects. Opening a class and adding methods allows one to access the private API, too. That, of course, is only a difference in languages that have the public/private distinction.
Funny this blog post is from 2005. I use to have the THX sound play when logging into Windows (sad times).

The Music Thing blog has some other great posts about music and instrument hacks.

The reference to the C code is here:

"The score consists of a C program of about 20,000 lines of code. The output of this program is not the sound itself, but is the sequence of parameters that drives the oscillators on the ASP. That 20,000 lines of code produce about 250,000 lines of statements of the form "set frequency of oscillator X to Y Hertz".
You could try out: hncomment watcher http://christopherdebeer.github.com/hnCommentWatcher/
Coffee? You're gonna go out for THAT?
I think the best way to go about this would be to approach businesses in a small area, maybe a couple of streets, rather than targeting an entire city and advertising it online. Create a few flyers and hand them out. That way you can delivery multiple coffees at once which will make your business a lot more efficient. Another thing, if someone gets a coffee delivered for them in an office, all their colleagues will want their coffee delivered too. Word of mouth should work quite well for this business but to be successful, you'll definitely need to target businesses. Oh and finally: why not allow business accounts that let them order numerous coffees at once?
There are times when, even as a Bayesian, one is interested in calibration. Model checking without a specified alternative is an example. Frequentist ideas -- sampling from the model and comparing it to the observed distribution -- can be helpful here. I'm thinking of Rubin (1984): http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall11/cos597C/r...
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Yes, I've seen that often. It's most apparent even without any zooming on mobile Safari. For this reason, whenever I use the triangle effect, I'll offset the element/pseudo-element by one pixel to avoid the gap.
I kept thinking the next step was a generalized, personalized, on-the-spot concierge, but this app makes me think the best path to that is to go in through some small service, like coffee, or laundry.

I like it.
My Bayesian theory is a bit rusty, but here we go.

Say we have data X, and some non-finite dimensional index into the family of functions that describe the the data, called \theta.

The Bayesian perspective classically holds \theta constant and optimizes the expected loss, conditioned on the data X. The frequentist perspective, on the other hand, classically optimizes \theta, that is, it picks the best \theta over the data X, unconditionally.

This has two impacts. First, all things equal frequentist statistics will tend to be more stable, and more calibrated, but less coherent. It is commonly said that frequentist statistics will "isolate" one from poor decision making, and all things equal, that will be true.

Specific, clear wins for frequentists are bootstrapping procedures (e.g., Efron's bootstrap, the b of n bootstrap, Jordan's own scalable "bag of bootstraps" from NIPS 2011), which are methods for building what are called "quantifiers" for "estimators". In short, this means that if you have some estimator (e.g., a classifier, or a mean, or whatever), you want to be able to quantify the certainty of your estimator -- so if you've only seen 5 examples, you want to express that you're less certain about this. This is clearly a frequentist application, not a Bayesian application, and in general, it points to the fact that pure frequentist tools not only have a place in inference, but they fill a niche that Bayesian tools necessarily will not, and in some cases, cannot, fill.
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Thank you for your feedback. I can understand why you don't want this, and it makes perfect sense for you. With a Starbucks 44km away, you wouldn't want a cold coffee, and we probably couldn't serve you. This is for people who are too busy to make coffee, and/or just want a nice cup of coffee without the hassle, every morning. I appreciate the feedback
This is a tricky problem. Will individuals think that getting Starbucks coffee delivered to the comfort of their home is worth the additional fee? Also, the product is fairly price sensitive and delivery has to be done on a tight schedule.

Some suggestions:

* target businesses. Your orders will be larger, evenly scheduled and the customers are less price sensitive. Expect tough competition, though, unless ...

* Broaden/specialize your product range. I assume you've chosen Starbucks because of the brand recognition. But what if you offered spectacular coffee from local coffee shops (assumption: Starbucks produces average coffee)? This could be one of your USPs: great coffee from local baristas delivered to the doorsteps of your customers.

* Transportation makes or breaks any type of delivery service. You need a form of transportation that's dirt cheap (no gas), small yet can carry many cups of coffee. I'm thinking a bike designed for cargo, maybe something like [1] ?

* Vacuum flasks may solve some of your issues. Why not carry around a couple of these and pour the coffee when you reach your destination? Naturally this would have some implications on branding and product range.

[1] http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/bicycle-cargo-chapter-1-rack... http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/bicycle-cargo-chapter-2-bike... http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/bicycle-cargo-chapter-4-carg...
It'd be interesting you did demand delivery pricing, so that pricing became more expensive at peak times (eg: 8AM) that way you can manage the effect of everyone wanting their drink at the same time.

You should start hyper local, one neighbourhood in San Francisco - SOMA? Hayes Valley? Mission? If you did it in a hyper local area you might just turn a profit at $1.50 delivery each.

I think this would also be hugely valuable to companies, such as being able to order all my teams starbucks drinks in one click.

I'm curious why coffee though? Most people do not appear to mind getting their coffee in the morning. Especially as it is so habitual. I hate laundry though! I hate taking my trash out. I hate not getting fresh bagels/fruit each morning.
I've only recently come across the technique myself. I think the hype is because it is new (well new in old new thing kind of way). What I find interesting is the duality like relationship between MCMC and variational methods. Variational methods are an optimization alogrithm. I don't understand variational methods enough to say anything insightful but given the work showing the duality between optimization and probability* I find this new development of hype to be highly interesting.

Drawing on the concept of duality, I think Variational methods will come to be seen as holding no more power than probabilistic techniques. But a Duality is still great cause you can plumb old techniques to get new results.

*http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/~akian/publis/akian_quadrat...
Wow, they have 6300 likes!?
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I'm currently working on a site that uses it heavily in production for visual enhancements and details. It's a great trick that works well, and doesn't require any additional markup if you use :before and :after pseudo-elements. Using CSS instead of images means it's easy to programmatically manipulate it, as well. eg A color picker system with a notch that varies with the color being picked. The new Google+ design uses the triangle trick with a twist, making an open triangle that shows what's underneath it, like your cover photo.
No, it's symptomatic of a growing and powerful trend in thinking and attitudes of the members of the US Government.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1779544,00....
Even at $1.50 per coffee I'm struggling to see how this will be sustainable.

I would guesstimate you're looking at 20 minutes of labour at the very least for each coffee. That includes getting to and from Starbucks, ordering, having the coffee made, and completing the transaction by delivering it to the customer.

Each person involved might earn $4.50/hour before costs...
Actually the practical format you want is MOBI, which Calibre will also convert to. It's a little annoying that everyone else has settled on EPUB, and Kindle doesn't read EPUB. But Calibre will seamlessly convert EPUBs to MOBIs and MOBIs to EPUBs, so the end result is all non-DRMed books can be read on all devices with almost no effort.
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I wish there was more than one rss feed. What I really want to appear in my rss reader are the highest rated stories, not all of them.

As it is, using the rss feed is actually more inefficient than visiting the page every now and then.
Cool, but not really compatible with HTTPS Everywhere :( Have to browse HN on HTTP to see the extension in action.