chunky1994

What exactly do you mean by fundamental truths here?

Mathematics is an internally consistent (for the most part) logical framework that is extremely powerful in expressing our knowledge about the world.

However, that doesn't mean that there is some intrinsic correctness about it or its concepts.

Here's a link to the newscientist article on the same discovery: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24784-turning-back-tim...

And the actual paper (the full paper is behind a paywall): http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(13)01521-3

I think the suggestion of tying the upvote to an endorsement may be a bad idea. It would be conflating the fact that you want the comment to be seen with the possibility that you might agree with it. The comment could be tangential/adversarial to your opinion, and so you might not upvote it, however it could still add to the discussion, and hence you would endorse it.

To answer your second question I believe pg has stated that only users with over 10000 karma have their comments automatically endorsed.

The Extended Phenotype: Richard Dawkins. Applied Cryptography: Bruce Schiener. Linear Algebra: Friedberg, Insel and Spence. Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate

I've recently finished Dan Gilbert's: Stumbling on Happiness and I highly recommend it. It's witty and gives you a very different way of looking at what you think makes you happy.

I know these aren't start-up books, but unfortunately I haven't read any to recommend.

FYI: Pending comments will not be enabled by default as pg just clarified here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7449857

So, this isn't going to be a drastic change, rather it'll be more like a tool for the moderator to improve the quality of conversations that are becoming nasty.

> The moderator (who is not me) will turn pending comments on as needed when conversations turn nasty

Does this mean that they are not enabled by default?

Yes, that is correct. I guess I was in too much of a hurry to share such an awesome invention, maybe I should've done a quick search first.

Thank you very much for the product!

EDIT: Somehow, I'd completely missed all discussion on tarsnap.

I'm curious about the karma threshold numbers, is there any data available for the number of users that have a karma > 1000? Does HN have a data API?

> I've seen several people here mention that it's not "measured directly" - does it mean something else in this case?

As far as I can see from the article (couldn't find the paper detailing the experiment), they observed an artifact that could have been caused by primordial gravitational waves. This is different from using a thermometer to measure temperature because we're not sure yet whether that is the only possibility (or our instruments are not sensitive/too sensitive, it's a different mechanism of inflation etc.), it's the best explanation, but we're not extremely sure yet. (Although as I say this it occurred to me that it's probably much more certain than before because of the discovery.)

The key takeaway here is that the inflationary model is almost certainly the right one and gravitational waves are almost certainly real.

(This is similar to the first Higgs Boson announcement, where we were almost certain it was the Higgs, but not sure enough to claim discovery; because we hadn't determined all the properties of the observed particle)

I have always been interested in turning writing into a secondary source of income, since I have been writing as a hobby for quite some time now.

What genre is your book in, and what kinds of work do you produce? Do you think you could possibly answer a few of my questions over email? Thank you!

From your profile I see you're a physics major. Which year of your undergrad are you in?

Being a physics major myself, my advice is probably reasonable. In applying to internships make sure your skills are clearly displayed, applying for jobs with professors is probably the best thing for a freshman or sophmore.

If you haven't done any major programming, I'd suggest contributing to open source projects or building something that takes concerted, consistent effort, to show companies that they can actually use you.

Work of choice will be really hard to come by, unless you're really lucky; happy hunting!

Just as a point of observation. We go to the same school, we should connect some time.

I don't understand how this is 'ruining' lives. I mean, it seems her husband's family overstayed their visa deliberately and without due process.

How is this not a warranted situation for deportation, and why should he not be deported?

I find it quite baffling too. It seems that a majority of people trapped in these situations lack the strength to reject them and make decisions for themselves, rather than blindly follow cultural obligations.

Since the OP lives in Spain and is a Spanish resident, it's a rather reasonable guess that she's managed to to mitigate her circumstance to one that's manageable (by putting distance between her family and herself), so kudos to her, and yet she still struggles with a rejection of the invite which is quite sad.

Disclaimer: I'm a (semi?) immigrant who's lived in India for most of his life (before coming to Canada, which was heavily dissuaded by a lot of my maternal family) so I have a sense of what it's like to reject the cultural oppression that the OP seems to face.

He's been in the U.S since his masters, an accent change over that many years is quite natural, and hardly has anything do with the fact that he's in a high powered position in the company.

Google's stock just took a 3% dip (~$36), since 10 AM (close to gmail downtime). https://www.google.com/search?q=GOOG

Congratulations guys! You guys are pretty much living proof that it's still a good idea to start startups :)

Look for the who's hiring thread every month. They have a quite a few internships on there. Otherwise network heavily and market yourself to positions you'd like for start-ups either in the states or the ones in Bangalore. It'd probably also be helpful if you linked your website/github here or a resume so other people could contact you if they thought you'd fit or point you in a better direction.

Stumbling upon happiness: Dan Gilbert. It's witty and pretty fascinating, and one of the best books I've heard.

In reading that link here are just a few things that seem to be wrong with it on first glance.

(In the link attempting explain the flatness problem), one cannot just assume all galaxies are moving towards each other without first positioning a center (of those galaxies). That in itself invalidates the rest of the flatness argument, which is required for the article on your link.

This was based on a precursory read, so it may not be entirely right

I too think it's a bit more. Speaking as a physics major in co-op, the co-op program has taught me (and I'm sure will continue to do so) a great deal in terms of entrepreneurship as well as software. It's taught me a lot of things I wouldn't know about running a company had I not actually been in one/heard people who've started one talking about it.

Combined with the people who are here, waterloo is dripping with a sense of vigour that if you go looking for it will send you to great heights.

Think about it this way: Your buddies are starting companies, earning many thousands of dollars and changing the world in important areas; are you simply going to sit around and graduate? I think not.

As a university physics major with a growing entrepenuerial side I subscribe to: Physics today, NY Times, New Scientist, Various other journals I get access to via the university.

I thought that GTA 6 was really impressive, given that they modeled everything as buildings, the idea to use the entire world for a video game is exceedingly clever. A shoutout to the uWaterloo team too. (As an aside they're in velocity as well.)

Cool concept, lets see where it'll go!

I would say that the reason people tend to look for developers who work on side projects etc. tend to generally be good developers, while those who don't can go either way.

It's hard to know whether a developer is good or bad with only a resume/interview. If you're looking for smart motivated people, the ones who tend to work on side projects etc. can actually show you stuff they've built, and generally you can get a good idea as to how/if they'd fit in with your company/start-up.

While this doesn't mean developers who don't take on side projects are bad, it's just hard to identify whether they are in fact good or bad.

It heavily depends on your definitions of both those terms. However, strictly speaking, patriarchy in itself while still constraining of women (an egalitarian society would be much better), also required heavily duty-bound behavior from men. Something which is not conducive to open or effective misogyny.

I do not know of any societies with strong patriarchal norms and very little misogyny, if they do indeed exist.

I think O.P was conflating two issues there, one about patriarchy in India being very traditional, two about misogyny (apparently) being rampant.

I for one don't expect anyone to be okay with misogyny, whether it be cultural or not, and I presume all the other Indians here feel the same way.

As far as I know, negative energy is theoretically still sound; I may be quite mistaken though. What "energy conditions" would negative energy (or mass for that matter) be violating?

While it is possible that for speakers of Indo-Aryan languages hindi is probably easier to pick up, that says nothing of the ease of learning the language for the majority of Dravidian language speakers.

The only reason that you advocate learning hindi over English is the ease of picking up the language, which I believe is just plain wrong. The English language is structurally much more free, and easy to pick up than a language such as hindi.

That being said, your premise of standardizing one language seems to be resting on the rather flimsy idea that if the majority of people spoke one language, they would speak it well.

A language is (usually) only spoken well when introduced at a very young age, and that seems to be the only determining factor as to whether one particular language should become an Indian standard. (If anything that language should be Sanskrit since it's the most structurally sound language among almost all the Indian languages)

I distinctly remember it was the numerical recipes book, and the language used was Fortran 77; so, it was an actual textbook.

However, I really didn't understand much, until my father explained it to me in very simplified terms. The concepts are pretty simple, the details are not.