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I think you are confusing Firefox with Opera:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1032-1008869.html

http://people.opera.com/howcome/2003/2/msn/
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Inkjet printers were made in the 70s and everyone I know still uses one (labs, etc) (even for thesis prints)

To Flash or not is probably the least significant decision anyone at CERN makes.
I agree. For consumer startups, it's not that important to solve a problem. As you mentioned, Angry Birds and Pinterest do not solve problems - they give us dopamine and entertainment instead. Consumer products need to be like crack, and you also need to be a well-networked crack dealer (marketing).

Entreprise startups do need to solve problems though, or at least help you make more money.
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If PadMapper used an api, then why did they receive a cease and desist?
> ban stories by domain

Brilliant. This is a much-needed feature.
Let then consider the value of an idea, from a business perspective, as how many people will see a benefit in adopting the product.

Conservatism is a property of human psychology. People will change or reconsider their current habit only if there is a strong incentive to. It's like static friction force.
Are you planning to add support for Firefox?
Not so fast!

I am taking issue with the so-called "falsity" of the "this statement is false". If you imagine that statement, and imagine that what you imagine is probable in the extreme, outside of your imagination, free, and unmolested by your probings, then "this statement is false" is always, only, incidental.

And don't come back saying saying "false" and "proven false" are different. I can compare strings!
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The magic number for CMS is 4.1 sigma. That was combined across all channels I think?
The quantity and quality of programming courses available online right now - completely free of charge - is astounding to me. I taught myself to program in high school in the mid-to-late 90's, and while there was a ton of information available online even then, I still kind of wish stuff like Udacity, Coursera, Khan Academy, iTunes University and MIT OCW were available back then.

Still, I think the social aspects of college are hard to fully replicate online. For many people, interactions on places like Reddit, mailing lists, etc are somewhat too anonymous and random, while things like Skype and FaceTime are more for people who are already familiar with each other.

I do think the Internet has huge potential to fundamentally change the way we obtain education. It certainly has fundamentally changed the way we obtain information, but it hasn't changed the way we get marketplace-accepted education yet. I think that is coming.
At the point you made the comment, the full number has not yet been shown. That's only the combined number for Higgs to gamma-gamma for 2011 and 2012 (so far).
Are you sure "fake it til you make it" is the correct term for this idea? I'm familiar with the term, but usually in a different context.

Regardless, you're spot on.

My silly anecdote: Back in university I used to play pick-up two's volleyball a couple nights a week. At the other end of that same gym, the school team would practice, occasionally overlapping with the pick-up folks.

One day, their practice broke up around the same time as a game of sixes ended, so me & my partner wandered down and challenged a couple of the Team guys to a game of twos. It was quite memorable. 15-1, if I recall, and really not even that close. Pretty humbling, since we could certainly hang against anybody else we'd played up to that point.

But we stuck at it. Over the next couple months, we'd ask for games off those guys from time to time. 15-4. 15-8. 15-7. Then one day we lost 15-12. Fifteen to Twelve. Against a guy with a four foot vertical leap and a guy with one of those crazy olympic jump serves. Guys who were having their tuition paid for playing this sport. Wow.

And it's not like we went back and proceeded to dominate from there on out. Sure, we were better, but not that much better. We were better when we were playing better players. We were only playing that well because we were playing up to their level. It was quite a thing to see.

I've seen this same thing again and again over the years, particularly with Rock Climbing, where a group of people can attack a boulder problem that's way over any one of their abilities, and eventually get not just one guy over the top, but everybody, because of the group energy.

I can't see why it wouldn't be the same with programming.
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How come you missed something more obvious?

* Controlled Fusion

My guess is that the politicians were sold on the unlimited energy that successful controlled fusion would provide.

As somebody once said: Any problem on Earth can be solved with the careful application of high explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off.
I have a very minor claim to fame in that I appear in the background of one of the RSA animations (at about 6:45 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmGrNdJ5Gw - and the nasty words about Perl coming out my mouth are not mine :-)
it's not hard to fix, agreed.
at the same time it must be fixed in gems, not by developers
The Monte Carlo method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method
Sorry about that. He just said 5 sigma for the combined signals (I think? maybe I misunderstood again.)

Nobel prizes all round!
I don't know about you guys, but I hate the new graphics. It's not that I don't like hi-res graphics, but I just dislike the current style, tiles especially. Classic jetpack had great graphics style and everything seemed to fit together. Graphics on demos posted for the Jetpack 2 seem ackward and don't fit one into another. I hope author uses the money to hire gfx artist not only for the backgrounds, but for tiles and other bits, too.
I dont think the science fiction(tomorrow is here) kinda branding will work. Verizon tried a lot with for their Driods without luck.
I admire and respect Steve Jobs as a businessman. I don't admire and respect him as an engineer, and certainly don't admire and respect him as a scientist. The differences are subtle and staggering all at once.

I disagree that the question can be put to rest. Your logic follows from a fallacy known as 'Argument from Authority' or 'argumentum ad verecundiam'.

I understand that the comments on this board are derived from a wide variety of individuals, where there is a wide range of skill and talent. I completely agree with your 2nd paragraph.
Can someone please explain what 5 sigma signifies?

Edit: “Evidence” usually means a 3-sigma signal, which existed last December, “Proof” would be a better way to describe a 5+ sigma signal, if that’s what the combined CMS/ATLAS data shows - http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=4809
I've never heard of the US trying to steal technology at a national level - it wouldn't even occur to them.

Never heard of ECHELON [0] before? There even was a European Parliament Committee investigating ECHELON effectively stating that the U.S. used ECHELON to eavesdrop on private and commercial communication of befriended nations, thus that the NSA (responsible on the U.S. site for ECHELON) is performing industrial espionage. If the U.S. is doing that with their partners, you can bet on that they try to do that with RUS, CHN et. al.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
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Just announced 5 sigma.
We limit the app demos to a 1 minute maximum, then the simulator resets. We figure this is probably enough to prevent people from abusing the free time. Also, if the developer has a data-driven app that could be exploited in under a minute, they don't necessarily need to upload a demo and could just stick with the screenshots to showcase their app. Do you think that's a good solution?

We've been in close touch with the Pieceable guys. We've been talking to them about how we can continue to run with the technology beyond the end of the year and we don't foresee any issues with continuing that integration or providing something similar. Good pick-up!
Yeah. The gamma-gamma and Z-Z together have been combined into a signal of 5 standard deviations from the no-Higgs Standard Model. Which is the common threshold for a discovery.
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Glad to see I wasn't the only one :-)

Damn... I played Jetpac to death when I was a small.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetpac for those who are curious)
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I believe 5 sigma is the threshold for "proof" in the physics community.
To connect some dots that were not clear to me: The user photos, are from twitter, and are collected from links listed in your profile's about box.

Simple - but it took me a minute to connect all the dots...
I went through an angel round and a Series A myself. I will focus on a first time entrepreneur's case and use realistic numbers.

1) You have and idea. You make as much progress as you can before trying to raise.

2) Ideally, you network with some angel investors / micro VC's before you start talking about your round.

3) You incorporate your company. You will issue an arbitrary number of shares for the co-founders (typically 10M+) and you allocate some shares as an option pool (typically 10-20%). Option pool will be used to give shares to employees, advisors, consultants and board members.

4) You decide that you have made enough progress to raise a round (doing this too early will be bad for you)

5) You talk to a lot of angel investors and early stage VC funds. Angel investor is somebody who invests his/her own money, VC is a person who invests other people's money. That's the only real difference.

6) If somebody is interested, you start talking about the terms. Now you really have to learn the jargon.

Let's assume you will do a traditional priced round. You will negotiate a pre-money valuation (typically $2-10M for first time entrepreneurs). Let's say an investor proposes you $1M with a $4M pre money valuation (means your post-money valuation is $5M) and you had initially issued 10M total shares. Each of your shares will be worth $4M/10M = $0.25. Your company will issue $1M/0.24 = 4M new shares for your investors. So you don't actually sell shares, you just issue new shares which will reduce your ownership percentage of the company(by 20% in this case). This deal could be done with a single investor (usually a VC) or a group of investors who are each putting smaller chunks.

There's another format called "Convertible Note/Debt". It has become popular in silicon valley. Instead of negotiating a pre-money valuation, you negotiate for a discount rate (let's say 25%) and an annual interest rate (let's say 8%). In this case you don't immediately issue shares to investors. Instead you promise to give them shares when you do your next priced round (Series A) with the valuation that those investors pay / (1+discount rate) / (1+interest rate). For example if you get a pre-money valuation of $20M a year after the convertible note, your angel investors will get shares worth $1M(1+0.25)(1+0.08) = $1.35M from the $20M pre-money valuation. That will be $1.35 / ($20M / 10M) = 675K shares.

The most common format these days is a convertible note with a cap on the valuation. Typically the cap is negotiated just like a valuation. If you get a valuation higher than the cap in your Series A, angel investors will get shares from the cap you agreed on instead of the full price.

7) Typically, the investors give you a term sheet. When the negotiations are over, they go through a due diligence period. They will ask for some docs to check there was any BS in your pitch. In a seed round, this is usually very lightweight.
99.999% confidence.
> you don't need to load unsigned drivers to modify the boot loader, you can do that with administrative permissions alone (as far as I know).

Now, that's where the problem lies, not with the unsigned boot sector. On the existing win7 system, rewriting the boot sector and loading unsigned drivers are essentially equivalent permissions (elevating from the former to the latter requires one reboot).

> the best you can hope for is locking out unsigned code. we have platforms that do that, like chrome OS and iOS. after many years, it seems they continue to work!

At the expense of JITs on ios; and chrome OS doesn't yet have enough experience in the wild.

Also, locking out unsigned code doesn't stop stuff like "return oriented programming".

> when we try and take this security technique that we know works and move it onto the computers that everyone uses, we are met with much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

A chain of trust is known as a security technique that DOESN'T work, regardless of what it protects -- SSL forgeries are rampant, and the vulnerability is not in the algorithms.

The UEFI secure boot makes a small difference in real security. It will easily become as trustworthy as SSL certificates, meaning, not at all. And if the key ever leaks or is broken ... there is essentially no recourse other than buying a new computer.

There are ways to secure the boot in a way that's helpful for security without limiting choice. UEFI secure boot is not one of them.
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5 sigma is the traditional limit of significance for new discoveries in particle physics. If you have data showing the existence of a new particle or phenomenon at 5 sigma you publish and you announce and you start saying "this thing exists" instead of "this thing may exist".
Good feedback, thanks mate. I'm just wondering what kind of an icon we could implement - maybe a small iPhone-shaped watermark, perhaps even with a play button or cursor pointer inside of it?
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> build something that people desire

This sounds very much like solving a problem for them. Though, you made a point by putting forward that there is a perception bias in play too. One should also reconsider our definition of a "problem". We usually consider this to be a pain for a normal person. Though twitter and facebook could be seen as a media to satisfy narcissist needs which is not the problem one would expect normal people have.

My impression is that finding a problem to solve to identify a potential viable startup business is just an heuristic. This search could be pushed in error by our bias on identifying and evaluating problems.
What failure? I don't know what you mean by failure here. If you mean "fails to be the rockstar of the tech industry" that isn't much of a failure.

Microsoft is only a failure if we expect them to build an ever more powerful monopoly with no possibility of escape. They may be trying to do that. Instead they have a large and solid business which is still very cash flow.

Tell me of Microsoft's failure when the profits of Google or Facebook surpass the profits of Google.
Really striking what a large percentage of the words are jargon. Sometimes I understand less than 10% of the words in a sentence. I think I might now better understand how a non-programmer feels when seeing a talk related to programming.
This is basically lecturer giving lecture to lecturers. Pretty amazing.
I think it's not the right metaphor. In class, the difference between an A and a B is 10%. In, say, Chess, the difference between a master and a grandmaster is that a grandmaster will win almost every time. I think that's a better scale.
Actually, it's 99.99994% confidence (1 in 1.7 million chance of error).
OK, guess I should stfu then.
5 sigmas means that a model without a Higgs would have their actual data set be 5 standard deviations out from what is expected.

That corresponds to 99.99994% confidence on a standard null hypothesis test, and is the usual threshold in physics for considering something proven.
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Pretty much a design staple of Metro.
They just announced 5.1 sigma, and on a normal distribution that would mean that it is 99.999966% certain, so that there is about a one-in-three-million chance that this is due to random chance, otherwise there is some sort of excess here due to a new particle.
But is there any actual reported widespread case?

cf http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4197340

It may turn out that we are getting there.
Previous discussion (~3 months ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3633526

edit: nevermind, they're the same person.

edit2: on second viewing... I still hate it. So far towards artsy-minimalism, so far from function.
> This way Carreon can pretend that he had to abandon his just campaign under pressure of the savage hordes of the Internet and try again with a softer target than Inman.

He's actually claiming he won, and essentially that it's thanks to him the money went to the charities and Inman did not take a picture of it.

Also, because he dismissed his own suit he can re-file at will later on.
Scalpers can only make money if there are more people willing to buy tickets at the face value than there are tickets available.

Here, go learn what a demand curve looks like and then think more carefully about this: http://www.khanacademy.org/finance-economics/microeconomics/...
I saw this a few months ago (i cant remember where) and i'm sure there were a whole load more screenshots to go with it.

While i'd love to see this and it is undeniably beautiful, its not really what i'd call a practical solution. This makes me wonder, is it only beautiful because its a concept? It only looks so good because its free from practical restriction, what would it look like if it was made into a real world application?

This also makes me ask, is the only way to radically change UI to come up with a completely new from scratch paradigm, and if so, is this why we have metro?
I hope this "under priced era" will end soon. Cost of living is pretty expensive here (in eastern Europe). It is on par and sometimes even more expensive than in USA.
This is very nice. Also a bit retro? Reminds me about a linux GTK theme I was using a long time ago.
This physics-exchange post does a great job at explaining why 5.0 sigma is required as a threshold for discovery in particle physics,

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/8752/standard-dev...
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That's true for almost every field of academic research and work; around 70-80% of the words are not in any dictionary (or, if they are, their standard definition has nothing to do with their professional meaning).
How would you define "improvement" if not rendering something more effective by changing it or making it different? In this particular case, search on Android is being made more effective by searching contacts and apps.

As Steve Jobs said, "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." They just want to stop everyone else from doing it too.
I use state machine of sort (jbpm) in the backed to drive business processes. We have thin client connecting to database, nodes in state machine are actions on databes, or screens we show to user (with inputs possibly). Edges are transitions between screens. Edges can have conditions on them. It's all saved in database between requests, and request/response moves state throught transitions to the next interaction node (possible going throught a few action nodes doing sth on the databsae).

Any exception on the way rollbacks the whole state, and we commit only when we reach next interaction node.

It works great.
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