skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of differences between the "Faster than Light Neutrinos" (FTLN) and the "Higgs Bosons" (HB), so it's not correct to say that the physic community has to use same lesson learned in that case.

Expectations:

* FTLN: They were measuring another thing, and as a side product they get a strange unexpected result.

* HB: One of the main reasons to build the LHC was to find the HB.

Theoretical background:

* FTLN: There is no theory that explains the FTLN (or at least that theories are not in mainstream)

* HB: The HB are a part of the "Standard Model", there are many correct predictions of the standard model.

Experiments:

* FTLN: That was the fist experiment that showed FTLN. There are some experiments that indirectly show that the Neutrinos travel almost at light speed. (For example, the light and neutrinos from a supernova arrive here with a very little time difference.)

* HB: There experiments in the ATLAS, CMS and Tevatron show that there is happening something very strange at 120-130 GeV. There are a lot of experiments were the results are modified slightly with the existence of the HB. Those experiments give an indirect "proof" of the existence and an estimation of the mass of the HB.

Consensus

* FTLN: Almost everybody in the physics community believed that the FTLN experiment has same error (probably even the authors), but most would have been very happy to see that the experiment was true, because that means that there is a big new theory to create and explore. But physic is (in the long term) driven by experiments and so far there are no confirmations of the FTLN and the authors have apparently found where the error was.

* HB: Almost everybody in the physics community believed that the HB exists, the discussion is about which version is the correct (how many kinds of HB are there, the exact properties, or that there is some even more strange that the HB). But physic is (in the long term) driven by experiments and so far there is only some 3.5-sigma "evidence" (that is really a lot of evidence) and probably in lest than two years there will be one (or two) 5-sigma measurements that are needed to proclaim a discovery.
> In the extreme case, it would reduce the number of digital sales from #(people who want to play the game) to #(people who want to play the game simultaneously).

I doubt it. People who don't care about ethics already pirate game. People who care won't cheat, they'll just sell games after they had finished them.

There are already game publishers, that sell games over internet (digital copies) without DRM (gog.com for example). They are doing OK.

Also - in my country selling used software (including games) was always considered fair use, regardless of EULAs. Just like with books.
I don't think you'd use natural gas for backup power, you'd probably use Jet-A or actual diesel. (most turbines in the world probably run on Jet-A, being in actual jets; natural gas gets used for stationary power because it's cheaper and cleaner burning, sure, but that shouldn't be a major factor in a backup generator).
There is a lot of politics in this. Particle Physics is not the only area where we have unanswered questions or need more tools (but it does have a spectacular track record and influential community behind it).
This whole discussion is about MVC. In order to argue about MVC we should have a common understanding of the principles of MVC. MVC was invented by Trygve Reenskaug. His definition of MVC is both consistent and readily accessible. Therefore I have repeatedly referred to him for a definition of the components of MVC. Surprisingly, many of the posters don't seem to regard the inventor of MVC as much of an authority on MVC, preferring instead to come up with their own definitions.

You have just provided a new definition of a view:

"A view is just an interface layer. Whether it's interfacing to a human or not is irrelevant"

If this definition suits your application, good for you. But you are no longer talking about MVC.
Julian Assange's - The World Tomorrow : Anwar Ibrahim
The Solidity of Software
It'll be interesting to see if the response changes based on localization (once this is available in more languages than US English, of course). Having the response to that query change if the locale is es_VE would be pretty slick!

Thinking about this, do systems like Android typically offer localization that specific?
EHow Shows Critics How to Create a High-Quality Content Farm
> This is the most valuable company on earth

...and I stopped reading the article.

I think the author is being facetious/sarcastic, but I can't tell.
Final Fantasy III now on Google Play Store, up for $18
So many of the great innovations and experiments happened in the sixties. Feels like we have lost ambition
Thank you sir. I was worried nobody would mention DCI. I believe DCI is a far better solution to the MVC problem of dealing with 'algorithms' than MOVE. MOVE almost seems to be MVC plus goto.
Mixing Big Macs And Sponsorship Is A Big Mistake
Google Now is awesome, but it's way worse at calling my friends than Voice Search was. It's like it doesn't index my address book.

The other day, I told my phone "Call Nico Thornley." Instead, it searched for "call me-so-lonely." Not the first time Google Now has completely botched a friend search either.
Cool tech, but the article's clumsy attempt to link it to a fashion movement only takes away.
Small Business Cyber Security: An Infographic
An example in how to title a blog
I was also confused by the instruction. The wording "straight down" is generally used in the context of positioning on the screen, and not used to describe the action of placing your fingers on the screen. Since it never specifies where one should put the second finger, "straight down" is naturally interpreted as a position, not an action.

Might be we are all just stupid, but the best instructions are those that even stupid people can understand.

If your natural response to ambiguous instructions are "you're just too stupid", please stay away from designing any instructions for industrial machinery.
Twitter account re-tweets public photos of peoples' debit cards
Facebook effs up users' phone address books
I have filed dozens of OS X and iOS bugs over the years. Almost all of them were closed with the claim that Apple already knew about that bug. However many of them were really subtle and it was unlikely that anybody else had already reported them, especially if a developer preview introducing the bug had just been released. Furthermore some of them are not fixed even now, years after the first report.

My experience is that Apple will almost never admit they don't know about a bug. The only exception are security bugs where one actually gets real feedback.
BSD and MIT:

Change License
This software allows you to switch licenses.

No, only the copyright owner can change the license.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193287
Ask HN: Can you Please Please Please recommend a reputable iOS ebook developer?
I've been getting strung along and shafted by a programmer on Elance for 7 months now and paid out over $2500 for him completing milestones for work. Even still I don't have a finished product and I've been thinking to just call our relationship a loss and start over. I have all the assets completed for a fantastic iOS interactive ebook (with animation pngs and voice & music files) and want to know if anyone has recommendations or success stories with app developers. <Thanks for your help!>
waste of my fucking time
The way that they handled it suggested that they knew what they were doing, and recognized it as an actual bug.
What if the "new" addresses have already been backed up over the good backup?
Yes, that probably IS what would happen. I still wish I read more comments that said they had done this.
when it comes to these things lawyers are unfortunately very creative :(
I agree. But, the only reason anyone writes for iOS is money. It's one of the best selling phones on the market. And iPhone uses tend to buy a lot of apps. There's a long list of developers who made fortunes on that platform.

So if you don't want to write for it, then don't. The only force that can change Apple's behavior is the consumer. Apple doesn't care about anything else. And they never will.

So stop complaining. Write your app. And hope it's a hit. Then you can sell it and buy a house on the beach.
Going to a WWDC lab is basically the only way to guarantee an acknowledgement of a bug from Apple. Too bad it costs thousands of dollars and you have a 2 hour window in which to seize your chance.
Perhaps they did use your page and perhaps it worked for them? Or perhaps your whiny tone made them disregard you as a serious witness, and so perhaps the problem is you. As other commenters point out you can't write clear instructions, what confidence should we have in your ability to write correct code?
Excellent justification for software to become subscription based (you are granted perpetual license to the software "as is" when installed, and for a nominal fee per month you get updates).

If I buy a bundle (Windows and Office installed OEM) can I split the products and resell without new hardware? I ask because if the license as written was to only be distributed with new hardware, then reseller channel pricing may go out the window.

Also, if I can ignore the license terms, what does that do to GPL?
This is a great idea! I would agree with brixon that there is no need for a search box, yet, but I've been looking for something exactly like this. I'm sure you'll get the kinks worked out. Thanks!
I watched it here some months ago:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1489
I'm not sure why you would take time out of coitus, obviously an activity you would enjoy, and watch this instead.

Would you care to explain further?
If lawyers are reading this, a question:

Our governments are treating our emails more and more like real mail (aka. letters).

Is there not a law prohibiting third party people or companies to mess with(fake) my mail addresses?

Fact is, I do not want a facebook email address. And I have given no consent for my email address to be changed.
"Move fast and break things" applies to their website. They may break facebook.com all they want, but breaking MY contact list is unacceptable.
>I'm not sure why you refuse to acknowledge any difference between "existing with black skin" and "choosing to enter a consensual sexual relationship with a person of the same sex". One of these components requires a much larger degree of energy and initiative than the other. One of these is the result of an individual making a conscious decision to do a thing.

No. The correct comparison is 'existing with a particular skin colour' and 'existing with a certain sexual orientation'. One does not take more of a conscious effort than the other.
The follow on arguments for whether certain colour mixes or sexual orientations should be allowed to marry are separate.

Homosexuality is a socially beneficial bahaviour is as much as, people exist that are gay. Human nature makes it so. Therefore they should be treated equally.
I'm not a native speaker, so these instructions may very well be ambiguous. Any suggestions on how to clarify it?

Back then, I built the test case and asked on twitter if anybody else could confirm the bug. I got several answers (e.g. one from mrdoob within the minute: https://twitter.com/mrdoob/statuses/6896165488427008 ) so I thought the instructions were fine.
So he let this bug sit in his game for two years without thinking of a work around himself?

The situation where any platform owner has a bug that impacts your software you should try as best you can to work around it because you never know if and when it will get fixed.
I have pageview and visits widgets on one of my homescreens from mAnalytics. In fairness, I love them.
Media6Degrees Knows What You Want To Buy Even Before You Do
I hope they never fucking fix it. What a douche.
I would bet it was built to listen for passing Soviet subs more than any scientific research
Apple Loses Bid for Emergency Ban on HTC Phone Imports
great cartoon, shame about the cafeteria audio.
FTA: "On the iPhone, you're as locked in with HTML5 as you were with Flash everywhere else before"

In what way has Flash ever been the only way to display web content? This statement is absurd.
It is frustrating, but in short, it closes the gap between Einstein's theories and modern physics. It's effectively completing the Standard Model, or getting closer to completing it.

The frustrating part is no physicist can accurately convey _why_ it's important until it happens.

Still, the fact that it's been 70-80 years since a discovery along these lines is worth celebrating.
wave-particle duality. All fields have an associated particle: e.g em field - the photon.
Valuable in terms of market capitalization[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_by_market_...
This explains it well http://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_Boson
In terms of market capitalization, it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_by_market_...
>You're telling me Apple is unresponsive to support requests from their developer ecosystem? Really? GET OUT OF TOWN! I don't believe it.

This isn't something that is exclusive to Apple though this has always been an issue with them even regarding security issues with OS X.

>Despite all of the rightful moaning of iOS developers, for some reason they continue to flock to the Apple platform.

They develop for iOS because that is where the money is though this isn't the issue. It isn't as if the Android browser doesn't have its fair share of bugs.

>Apple will continue to treat their developers like second class citizens until there is a financial incentive to do otherwise.

You're right. Apple puts the interests of their customers first (not trying to be smug here). The developers come second. The only time you do hear complaints that go unanswered for devs it is usually only answered when there's a public (consumer) interest regarding it. A good example of this is Phil Schiller replying to customer's email about the Rogue Amoeba situation.

I'm certainly not defending Apple but this is a problem that has existed for as long as I've been interested in tech.
Specifically: in the left-side margin, add a column of logos that link to some of the most frequently used licenses (apache, BSD, GPLv2, etc)
Slacktivism is in fashion because it's just too easy, and it encourages even more of this behavior. One campaign justifies another one, although none of them accomplished anything significant. People justify it like you did, and they feel they are doing something. Are they? Better be honest with ourselves that we can't do crap, but it's a hard truth to endure.

Let's assume for a moment that one campaign to free someone in such situation would be successful. One person. From hundreds/thousands in one country. Probably tens of thousands throughout all oppresive countries. What would be the result? I'll tell you: the interwebs would proclaim it's own great success, that's a small leap but a giant step, blah blah. And happily in their chairs keep clicking, feeling like a hero while per every petition there is a thousand people keep being locked up and tortured and/or killed... Instead of exploring new ideas to act and engaging in more 'on the ground' action to help opressed people (probably the least but something practical you can do from home is keeping Tor running[1]), the web keeps signing up petitions. Taking part in such slacker campaigns is IMO a lose-lose situation, sorry.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMr8Xl7JMQ&feature=relm...

btw Tor worked with Avaaz on collecting donations for communication devices, yet: 1) it was a Tor initiative. 2) https://secure.avaaz.org/en/egypt_blackout/ "$25,197 raised so far. Help us get to $100,000". From the frontpage "14,921,795 members worldwide" with a minimum ammount of $15 it gives only about 1700 members who wanted to pay anything (and I can only guess that this number is much lower and there were bigger donations from single entities).
All I want out of it is an anti-gravity device.
(disclaimer: this is based on demonstrations I have seen - I don't have access to JB and thus I can only speak of Siri):

In many of these demonstrations I noticed one thing that was bugging me: Even though the voice recognition in Android seems really cool (I don't have JB yet), it doesn't give definite audible confirmation of the command in many cases and sometimes it even requires user interaction with the screen.

Now personally, I already believe that speech input is kind of a gimmick in itself (try using english voice recognition with my address book filled with german names...), I believe that to even have a chance to move from gimmick to useful feature, it must work without user interaction on the screen.

"Play <whatever band name>" followed by "beep" and the a button to press on the screen doesn't help me. A useful response to "play <insert band name here>" is "playing <insert band name here>" followed by actually playing it.

Or "call <some name>" - if you just get back "calling" or even just a beep - how would you know whether the recognition was successful or not and the correct name has been recognized?

Some commands on Android seem to be doing fine (the weather example), but others fail in one way (the play example seems to require user interaction on the screen) or another (the "turn on wifi" command doesn't produce any audible confirmation or error message - just the same beep sound as if it worked).

Siri, while it might not have as good a recognition as the Android solution, is much better in that regards: It always confirms your command. As such Siri seems moderately more useful as an additional input method whereas Android, by forcing you to look at the screen when inputting a voice command, reduces this to a gimmick and nothing else.
> I think the author is being facetious/sarcastic

Neither, They're stating a fact.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2012/02/16/the-most-...
What game? I think you missed the point of his blog post.
Quantum theory is based on the concept of wave-particle duality. Think of the ocean. The water as a whole is pretty wave-y and non-localized (i.e. it's not in one place). But the crests of the waves (the "excitations") can be thought of as particles because they're localized fairly well.

So really all a Higgs boson is, is an excitation of the Higgs field.
This explains why my sleepy little bug report here http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84679 was blowing up my inbox this morning.
On Starting a Startup
Put it another way -- he wants to run and jump at the same time! You know, the way you would in Super Mario on the original NES and every platform game since.
An overnight increase approximately one megawatt
I just received this e-mail from Hetzner, sent to all their datacenter clients.

"During the night of 30.06.2012 to 01.07.2012 our internal
monitoring systems registered an increase in the level of
IT power usage by approximately one megawatt.

The reason for this huge surge is the additional switched
leap second which can lead to permanent CPU load on Linux
servers."
So Facebook messages are better because instead of getting your e-mail, you now have to jump through hoops to read it?

Got it.
Really good Ram Booster for Android
StanFan Tech Launches Worldwide Science Fair Competition
One page explanations written by physicists: http://www.fsc.ufsc.br/~marilena/higgs.htm

edit: As the links are down, here they are from the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080209000844/http://www.phy.uct...

http://web.archive.org/web/20110724100137/http://www.phy.uct...

http://web.archive.org/web/20110724100208/http://www.phy.uct...

http://web.archive.org/web/20100202022203/http://www.phy.uct...

http://web.archive.org/web/20100323013823/http://www.phy.uct...
> Also, if I can ignore the license terms, what does that do to GPL?

I don't think it means anything for the GPL. If you really wanted to I suppose you could transfer your license to someone else, but since the GPL lets you relicense under the GPL anyways there really isn't any change.
IT Application Development
It affected anyone on Android and Blackberry using contact sync, IOS6, and Windows Phone 8

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18687044
AWS does have a shot at building a system like that, but I'd rather it be made of open components from multiple vendors.

[I wasn't following the bitcoin stuff as it happened, and then later read about bitcoinica (we actually use the difficulties with hosting providers you faced as an example with our unlaunched product...). I didn't know you were on HN -- awesome. (you are probably one of the world's experts on problems with service provider internal security, now, although it was expensive education). And handling things by paying everyone out was a much better decision than most startups after a breach.]
It isn't ambiguous in the slightest as it tells you not to move your fingers on the screen, so the only reasonable conclusion from this is that the direction down is from above the screen onto the surface, not laterally across the surface. And this instruction is part of the same statement, not divorced from it, so the context is perfectly clear unless you don't bother finish reading the sentence before deciding what it means.

Also, I was not meaning that the person reading was stupid, but that they were careless in their reading of the instruction, which is the sort of thing that can lead you to counting in base nine for the rest of your life, if applied to anything big and heavy that spins.
Interesting, what makes you say that DDG's results suck? I've been using it as my primary search engine for a few weeks now and aside from it not including a map in results unless you give it a very explicit address, I've found it no worse than Google's results.
Even those links state the PoP is a measure of the chance that it will happen at all. That is the historical measurement.
Monitoringsucks, a #devops thing?
And again you fail to see the point of the blog post.
I think I was more interested in the iOS game demo in the video than the rant post itself. That was smooth as butter.
I think the regal battle started on german soil since the company, that oracle was trying keep from selling the used licenses, was a german one.
The case got quite some media attention over here, even the radio-news mentioned it.
Although you could argue the .NET CLR is also optimized for long-running applications, because it's directly competing with Java. Why is the CLR so much quicker?

For interests sake, I typed "java -version" on my new MacBook Pro now and it took 0.9 seconds. Second time it took 0.11 seconds. It's still unacceptably slow, in my opinion.
I am doing a simialr thing. Except ASP.NET MVC 4 Web API on the server and Angular.js on the client. It feels very natural and simple to me. What I find odd is Angular.js works very similar to Silverlight, and my whole setup has similarities to Silverlight with RIA services. Yet SL+RIA never felt natural at all and was very difficult. I've not narrowed down where the difference lies.
I think these are great times to be a gadget consumer. Apple made the Siri interface 'mainstream', and Google is great at throwing brainpower at their own version of the interface. (I hope I'm not mistaken that Apple integrated the 'vertical list' interface first.) The fact that JB's dictation works offline whereas Siri needs a connection is the icing on the cake.

Same for the race to having better maps or the better browser.
Apple are way more focussed on UIKit and the rest of the iOS frameworks, than they are in fixing a minor Mobile Safari glitch.

Two years spent building a work-around would be a far better use of OP's time.
What Does a Circle Look Like?
I think you'd be better served by looking at his CPAN area [1] where you'll find this ~9 year old module (among others) is nicely formatted and highly readable [2]

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~chromatic/

[2] http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CHROMATIC/Class-Roles-0.30/li...
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