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I've given up. Considering how this is supposed to be a big announcement which is probably important for a number of reasons that may affect a lot of people. I am surprised he didn't start with:

"I know a lot of people are tuning in without degree's in Physic's. Let me break it down for you in Leymens terms. We are fairly certain we have discovered this. It is important because of that. Now let me get onto why we think this."

I get that this talk is not meant for me. However, it is important - apparently. Its on the front page of Guardian.

If this is an announcement of great importance and it is 98% mumbo jumbo aimed at high end Physicists or whatever then.. I don't know. Its another chance to get people interested in science that has been missed.

Note: I am not saying the whole talk should be dumbed down. I am just saying a 2-3 minute prefix for those who do not understand a single word for the first 20 minutes of the presentation.
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TL;DR: New boson discovered!
> Apple also had the Newton, a tablet-like device...

Apple created the Newton when Jobs was gone. In the series of questions/answers after the WWDC 1997, right as Jobs was about to make his comeback, he admitted that he didn't like the Newton, and that he did not wish for Apple to continue developing it.

EDIT: Here you go, I found it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnO7D5UaDig&t=3665s
CMS is at 4.9 sigma. Soooooooo close.
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This is a very important step in the right direction. Russia, for example, shouldn't be exporting its wealth and replacing it with bad investments. But it is. Discovering these problems will lead to actual policy improvements.

One wishes that the measure of human capital were not so crude, however.
Really nice, though it begs the question; seeing as you can't meaningfully affect Windows 8's design without joining Microsoft on the relevant team(s), why not apply your design skills to the Linux desktop, either Gnome or KDE (I don't know which is more popular as I'm not really a Linux user). Improving the Linux GUI's presentation is always a good thing in terms of improving end-user adoption.
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CERN confirms Higgs boson
Final (CMS) summary: We have observed a new boson with a mass of 125.3 +/- 0.6 GeV at 4.9σ significance!

Atlas comes in at ~126.5 GeV with 5.0σ. That would be a confirmed discovery!

Interesting that Atlas' mass is outside CMS's confidence range, though Atlas didn't have a range on theirs.
I think the issue is the lack of consent. The data is freely available and anyone who wants to use it to compile lists of Perl developers can do so, but if you're going to put up a list of female developers without a) asking them first and b) presenting it in a context that anticipates and avoids the gender-politics objections to doing so, then you're going to get a negative reaction. It's probably something that shouldn't be creepy even without consent and carefully-honed context, or at least no creepier than a list of Russian Perl developers or Perl developers who use Windows or whatever, but that's not the world we live in.

It looks like an honest enough mistake, but I guess we're going to have to listen to another bunch of white male community guardians parading their feminist credentials and belittling the original developer for his backwards lack of understanding anyway.
"We have observed a new boson at 125.3 +/- 0.6 GeV at 4.9 signa significance"
The part that struck me as most ridiculous about this was that the technology export was legal as long as it was "dual use". If China had just done a better job of covering up their true intentions, then UTC wouldn't have broken any laws in the first place.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not an aerospace engineer. I imagine that some of the required "customizations" would have been difficult to request without revealing the true purpose of the aircraft. Still, the Chinese are pretty good at reverse-engineering, and something that does 90% of what you need has got to be a good starting point.
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Same here. Please show karma in the popup. Left lower corner (orange bar of the popup where you have submissions and comments) seems perfect for this.

Edit: Only now I see that karma is shown next to user name (thought you were not showing karma at all).
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5 sigma is kind of arbitrary, isn't it? Just a nice "round" number. Obviously better than 4.9, but the line is fuzzy, if it even exists.
Some things are proprietary but there was no magic involved.
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The ATLAS presentation is set in Comic Sans. Monumental.
But then at the end he kept mis-speaking as to whether there were five Directors-General or six. Maybe they're at 5.9 sigma after all!
Yawn, this was featured on the verge ages ago http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822891/windows-desktop-ui...
Is that comic sans?
There are 2 big experiments (detectors) at LHC. This is for the CMS detector. Next up is Atlas.

Clarification:

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/lhc/LHCExperiments-en.ht...
Nothing says High Energy Physics like Comic Sans.
So I see a lot of people are frustrated about the impenetrable physics "jargon".

I'm not exactly sure how you'd expect some sort of tldr; of potentially one of the most important scientific announcements of the last 100 years.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822891/windows-desktop-ui...
This is for the scientific community. The scientific method is that all results should be scrutinized, tested and verified. If you want a 2-3 minute explanation. Wait for CNN.
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Could we combine the ATLAS results to get over the 5 sigma mark?
He specifically said that would come later.
The world's most cutting edge scientific results presented with comic sans. :)

(edit: The current ATLAS talk, not the first one on the CMS data)
Are there any other theorized boson candidates, which may fit the experiment results or is Higgs Boson the only candidate?
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Looked more like Chalkboard to me.
gaucho here too! :) Edit: Had David Stuart, (Cern -Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS))
Sean Carroll is liveblogging from the room and has some actual interpretation of what's being said: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/07/03/...
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Since this is apparently "only seen" through the Monte Carlo analysis I suppose they haven't seen one specific particle decay with it, I suppose?!
That's the thing though... I interpreted it as being a true statement, but one that cannot be "proven" to be true. I merely possess the strong belief that it is true.

Is your argument that the statement could possibly be false? Otherwise we're already in agreement... Nobody is suggesting the statement is false (I think).

Edit: to clarify, the statement in question is "this statement cannot be proven," not "this statement is false."
I don't understand the particle physics they're talking about, but I do find it fascinating how a lot of the work is really how to sort through a massive amount of data to remove all the noise and find the signal. It sounds like they're using some machine learning algorithms to examine and classify various interactions in the data.
I love how we're using Hacker News here -- this is definitely not what it was designed for. What we're really doing is something like a live chat room while watching a common talk, but unlike chat rooms it can be threaded and points can be allocated. Also unlike a chat room, HN does not automatically update when we get new discussion messages, but that's a constraint of the technologies at the time it was built.

It might be very interesting to try to use comet-casting or websockets to revolutionize chat in precisely that way, realtime threaded discussions. So, in addition to all of the chat constraints you have the ability to dynamically mark certain chat messages as replying to other messages, and as the noise in the chat room gets higher you can filter yourself to just "I want to follow this discussion."
It's possible to combine the data and get a higer significance. AFAIK, Officially, CERN doesn't do these combinations, but independent people do. See here:

http://blog.vixra.org/
Of course they don't and still do: through speculation, they're artificially taking control of the supply allowing them to re-set its price point without providing value. The tickets would sell all the same through the original provider at the original price, they just inserted themselves between the producer and the consumer (usually through brute-forcing the producer's ordering scheme) in order to extract wealth from the consumer.

That's parasitism.
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Correct. What really counts is independent verification, all at high sigmas: Tevatron, CMS, Atlas.
More video how it flips (with some history)

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So, the magic number here was 5σ, the generally accepted "gold standard" for discovery, which would mean a 1 in 1.74 million chance that the results occurred by chance rather than being a signal. As other commenters have pointed out, the presenter originally announced a 4.1σ observation, then continued to add data from other experiments until the combined result was 5.1σ. However, right at the end, he added in some additional data which actually brought the significance down to 4.9σ... That's science - you can't ignore data just because it ruins your big presentation.

IANAPhysicist, but I'd be interested to know how strict the 5-sigma discovery rule is considered - for example, could they still get a Nobel prize for a 4.9σ announcement? I suppose it's not that big a deal - the LHC is still running, and I'm sure they'll have enough data for a true 5σ announcement soon. Regardless, hats off to all involved, it must be exciting to be at the forefront of human knowledge :)
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> It sounds like they're using some machine learning algorithms to examine and classify various interactions in the data.

They are.
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I love how HN users love to make live meta analysis; in most of the topics, some significant percentage of people are not focused much on the topic, but on observing other users' interactions and its techno-historical review. These show opportunities for future products.
I don't really buy that in this case. It's still high level and summarized and no one is verifying or scrutinizing anything based on that presentation alone.

NASA handles these kinds of announcements well, but then they also announce cyanide-based life. So.
Atlas is still presenting. So let's wait and see what they came up with. 4.9σ was just from CMS.

Edit: It is worth noting that 125GeV fits well within Fermilab's recent announcement: http://news.discovery.com/space/tevatron-data-detects-higgs-...
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It's not only a question of finance. A support is much more relevant as has been seen in the French presidential election. If a candidate doesn't have the public media support, election can become a very difficult up hill battle.

The goal should have been to have more justice in this world. What happened there is wrong. The extradition of the UK "pirate" is much worse and a treason of a country against its own citizen.
Actually, it makes sense considering they want Google+ to be the "homepage" of the web. Why compete with your own products?
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CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson
This is why Google Wave got me so excited - and why I was so disappointed when it was botched and silently killed. I think an app like Wave could be great for many things, including discussing a live event like this.
It is not creepy in all fields. It is creepy in computer programming/science.

The problem is the culture in this special field with a lot of allusion to pornography, sexual abuse, etc. When you have well known figures in the Ruby community explicitly telling that it is good to use porn to sell software technology, you have a problem.

In my field, process engineering and biotechnology, even if some groups are extremely male dominated, I have never experienced such behavior in more than a decade of going to workshop/conferences and working with 100's of people all over the world.
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I wonder if the people doing it are trained in computer science or physics? Not that it should matter in the end results, just curious how people got there.
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That was simply nerves. He knew how much media attention was on him.
I think these physicists have been watching too many Steve Jobs presentations. "4.9σ... Oh, but one more thing!" ;)

In all seriousness, does anyone know how common it is to do this kind of gradual reveal during scientific presentations vs. stating your basic final results in the introduction? It's kind of fun, but you could cut the tension in that room with a knife!
I had the same feeling, to a point where, wanting to send some link replying to a friend, I am condfident that story will still be on the first/second page.

These two may help see what's happening http://hn4d.com/, http://hnrankings.info/

For the time being, I'll skip the pleasure of investigating.

Edit: I am also very often surprised that something showing in /newest feed (even 1st, 2nd page of /newest), shows on front page, too.
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Even the Guardian reporter has admitted that it goes over her head. Heck, I'm doing a Master's in condensed-matter physics and I don't understand much of the jargon.

What I can tell you is, the parts which sound the most intimidating are actually probably the simplest bits. CERN operates a particle accelerator -- this means that the LHC basically smacks subatomic particles into each other at absurdly high speeds to create infinitesimal explosions with tremendous amounts of energy (these are the TeV, GeV numbers that you see -- they're talking about the amount of energy that was concentrated in the explosion). The explosion essentially disrupts the underlying fields of the universe so much that new particles can be created or destroyed, but if you excite the Higgs field to its quantizing particle, it tends to immediately decay into other things.

The other things are subatomic particles, including quarks (the letters u, d, c, s, t, and b for up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom -- you may have heard him for example say 'bb') and bosons (he talked a bit about W W* and gamma-gamma; gamma rays are light while W bosons are, well, a little more complicated let's say).

All of the stuff he says about Monte Carlo and so on is about creating "expected" curves from the Standard Model. You want to have two curves, "expected" vs. "actual", so that you can compare them.

On the base axis usually there is energy -- this is the energy of the explosion. There are usually two curves from Monte Carlo which tell you what you expect to see. Then there are data points with error bars which tell you what's actually seen and what the statistical "counting" errors are, how weak the signal is. Usually there is then a follow-up graph where they have tried to "subtract out the noise" to see the signal more clearly.
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I wouldn't think Hawking would be betting on such a result.
Yes, that's what I meant with my previous comment :) I don't think you meant it quite that naive; it just reads like that!
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She is working the crowd, so to speak. Here is the final CERN press release, which claims a 5 sigma result:

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR...
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Any idea about what prevents them from combining the data?
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So far, the only 3rd party blogpost on this linked here (Michael G Schwern's [1]) didn't link to the module nor author, so as not to "embarrass the author further". Many males serious about feminism (or "anti-patriarchy", whatever you want to call it) take care to not provoke costs which females must bear, and try to helpfully inform.

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Nice. A few months back I created a bookmarklet to do exactly this -- https://gist.github.com/1831405

It was kind of a one-off, but it's been serving me well the past few months. When at the page https://raw.github.com/ryt/githtml/master/example.html -- both of our bookmarks seem to work identically.

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I doubt the extensions have much to do with it. Where Firefox had a vibrant community of people making extensions for their favourite website's search box, Opera added a way to access any site's search box from the address bar. This is just an example - a lot of things that Firefox extensions have been most used for are natively supported in Opera, though typically in a very different way.

I don't think anybody but a particular kind of power user like you or me would chose a browser for its extension community. I think the free firefox ads all over many websites helped more. I mean, at some point, the Dutch Linux user group collected money to pay for a full-page colour Firefox ad in the Netherlands' largest newspaper. From their own pockets! The holy war to promote Firefox was really going strong for quite a while, and only got stilled when the many of the same people decided to switch to Google Chrome because they discovered that speed was more important to them than that whole open source principle they financed that ad for, and that really the ad was against Microsoft / IE and not so much for Firefox.