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[0. A long history of theoretical and experimental discoveries lead to a specific, well-motivated theory (General Relativity) describing gravitational phenomena.]

1. Theory predicts a very specific and recognizable class of gravitational wave patterns for likely sources, whose details are determined by a small number of parameters that correspond to meaningful physical quantities (specifically, two masses and a distance; I don't know if there are any more than that).

2. Two independent experimental instruments measure a wave pattern that (apart from some low-level noise) is an excellent match to one of the predictions. Fitting the model to match the specific data, the resulting parameters have entirely plausible astrophysical values.

3. This is considered an example of a theory making a specific, novel prediction that is later confirmed by experiment: pretty close to the classic definition of the scientific method.

4. Therefore, the experimental data has provided strong support for the premises of the theory being tested: both its prediction of gravitational waves and its detailed dynamical predictions for the source scenario matching the observations.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something in your argument, but I don't see any circularity here. What about this process isn't precisely the way that science is supposed to work?
I would have guessed Fence Erectors would be most likely to marry Republican Presidential Candidates, but I guess I'm wrong.
Expecting to have a government (or a series of governments) work like a "free market" is problematic, because there is no reason to expect that market to be efficient. In particular, no one should expect a free market to be efficient when transaction costs are high. Consider transactions one would have with a regional government: a family moving from one state to another is expensive, paying a lawyer for your small business to ensure compliance with a new jurisdiction is expensive... even just getting a real conversation with your state-level representative (let alone lobbying for a tax break) is kind of a big deal: has anyone here done it recently?

As a result, you would expect concentrations of power to emerge in the form of special interest groups and corporations who can pay those transaction costs more readily.

(This is intro-to-Econ level stuff, if you ever care to study the field.)
One more reason patents feel like a waste of everyones time. Limiting consumer choice by claiming ownership to payment methods is only going to slow down progress. I wish they would compete on actual experience and features rather than rights to the market.
Why do we all rely on communicating through news.ycombinator.com? Because it's useful to have a central hub. It's a very easy system to understand and use.

There's no obvious alternative right now. Someone should build one. It's not super easy. There are big and interesting political and technical questions... which GitHub conveniently sidesteps by just being a central server.
The problem with dependencies is that developers approach it from a top-down approach. The question they answer is: I need an HTTP client, JSON API, monitoring tool, logging framework.

Never do they ask the opposite: what kind of foundations do I need? What elementary blocks do I need to have or learn in order to make a JSON parser in 5 lines of code? Is it possible to do logging without all the cruft? Can I write the library in the same amount of time as I can read the docs? Could the code I write be the docs?

Similar line of reasoning: can I leverage my OS to do scheduling/IPC/monitoring/security? If it can't, should we lobby for better OSes (that might scale over multiple machines?) Does Linux/Docker offer the right fundamentals?

Dijkstra was truly right: the art of programming is the art of managing complexity.
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There's something magical about computer music from that era.
The waves are produced by mass accelerating through spacetime, so in theory everything produces them—you, me, a black hole, a neutron star. As physicists learn to tune their instruments, more sources of the waves will be within reach. But you're right: the odds of detecting a signal this strong and clear right off the bat were low. If LIGO hadn't happened to be on when the waves reached it, after 1.3 billion years of traveling through the cosmos, they would've been missed completely. So this was a mix of extraordinary science and extraordinary good luck.
Cody Brocious used to run Breaker 101, that's the only "bootcamp" I'm aware of.

If you'd like to learn, read The Web Application Hacker's Handbook. That's all you need for a strong start.
I hear ya, that pisses me off.
I was hired as one of the product designers in the winter class of 2015 and love my job. It’s not smooth sailing but it is also my first job out of college and it is incredibly rewarding to see the kind of impact you can have on shipped products and also really inspiring to see a 100 year old company trying to change from the inside out. We have an amazing culture in the design studio and I couldn’t imagine working anywhere else right now.
I'm sorry. Honestly. Trust me, I won't ever tell someone to feel better without context again. I'll keep my comments to myself.

I can't delete that comment. I would have if I had seen the replies in time. I made a huge mistake but it wasn't malicious.

It's not fair to think the worst of me. I really didn't mean it to come across as obnoxious and I feel absolutley awful about it

Edit: Actually, I'm gonna go ahead and abandon this account. This whole exchange has made me feel incredibly bad about myself

I don't want to be associated with this incident in the future
Blegh, paywall'd.

I have no idea if this article[1] is missing any key information from WSJ's but I found it via Google news and their primary source is the WSJ article.

Summary so far is that they're making two devices, one is an improved cardboard that presumably uses your device's screen but also provides additional sensors via Bluetooth/OTG.

The second device is a standalone headset.

No details so far on if these are both going to be HMD's or if this will be a Google Glass successor.

[1]: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/11/google-developing-standa...
See my cousin-comment in this thread: they did not let Lehman fail.
You probably want to read about their active isolation measures. Then you should find anything by Vladimir Braginsky you can get your hands on. This is a good start: http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Measurement-Vladimir-B-Bragins...
HTTPSecurityReport is great! Thank you!
Are there really people out there whose decisionmaking process goes like "well we don't really need this library, but I'm gonna depend on it anyway to further the ideology of our movement"
But. But. But.

"temporarily embarrassed millionaires".

As simple as that. Every one's worried, even the guy who is making $5 an hour, is dreaming it will be unfair to him to pay that tax, even if there is no realistic chance that he will see that kind of money ever.
Changing Time&Date settings to Jan 1, 1970 permanently bricks 64-bit iOS devices
Two way syncing with our ethos of mass connections would be very difficult - not that we are against it - we'd love to support more update actions vs only create actions. The devil is in the details there - but don't expect Zapier to focus entirely on two way syncing anytime soon. Our recent multi-step zap launch supporting complex workflows is our main focus.
Re: passer by passes by

If someone walks past my house, no problem. If someone sets up a telescope at the end of my driveway to look in my living room, I'm calling the cops.
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Github hasn't had much time yet to respond to the various recent gripes about unfixed stuff. You should first give them six months to get their act together. You're making a rod for your own back if you go to all the trouble of investigating moving your project now.

Why not just demand an update from Github about which of your issues they are fixing? If you get no response then start investigating options.
Hi Bryan,

I'm a student at the University of Virginia and a founder who hopes to use Zapier to "scale" my business processes as my venture moves from high-touch to more mass-market products. I took a class called Internet Scale Applications where we implemented a scalable application with Docker, Django, MySQL, ElasticSearch, and Kafka. It's great to see that what I learned is immediately applicable in the industry.

My questions has to deal with problem recognition and tool selection. From my understanding of Zapier, you guys went into YC after university, with little time in the industry. As you were scaling, how did you recognize problems in your technology which were present / were approaching, and how did you choose tools to address these problems?

I ask because many times the information overload of tool selection can lead to analysis paralysis. This is most often seen with the "Django, Node, or Rails" debate of student programmers who want to make something, but I presume it's a flaw of human nature, and not of youth.
A good package manager that supports lockfiles addresses this issue.
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Nice. I built a similar service for HN comments, Github stars and other small things like that a while (still running). Is your code open-source?
In the sense that he's prone to exploding and one doesn't want him in populated areas?
That's really not as bad as I thought it was going to be. Reading the story from his perspective really gives you that sense of anxiety that it was several minutes straight of silence, although I'm sure that's what it felt like for him.
GitTorrent? https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
there are legitimate technical reasons for using NPM (disk is cheap, project local packages ftw, etc.). gem, less so. I can, however, tell you the primary reasons for using npm or gem: I need a dependency, my os hasn't packaged it, and it's the path of least resistance.

Also, I am a hobbyist programmer. I also know that git was created by Linus Torvalds, it's a DVCS (although Torvalds calls it an SCM), and it's based on a DAG (directed acrylic graph), which is a directed graph with no directed cycles, and excellent for modelling causal relations. I can explain to you the difference between a rebase and a merge. I know that git uses SHA-1 hashes to identify check-ins internally, as a data security feature. I know that checkins and other objects are stored in the .git folder at the repository's root directory. I know that these objects are garbage collected, although the frequency at which they are escapes me. I know that, despite common belief, git commits are immutable, but also that the git history is not. I know that git was inspired by BitKeeper, after the incident that caused the linux source to be moved away from that system, because Linux got fed up with tarballs and patches, and hates CVS with a fanatical passion. I know that git had three design goals: distributed, fast, and guarantees that you get the same bits out that you put in. And I've have several years of causal experience with git, using probably one tenth of its functionality.

I may not be able to recite git's internals at you, but I know it's features (to an extent), I know the tools, and I know the reasoning. And the functionality sure as heck isn't magic.
They also injected fake signals into the detector now and then, partly to keep the analysts on their toes.

http://www.ligo.org/news/blind-injection.php
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> there is equal access to incentives like this for any entity with sufficient scale.

Even when that's perfectly so and the rest of Democracy is perfectly fair, this dynamic is intrinsically unfair and benefits the rich and powerful established interests at the expense of smaller entities. It's the gateway from capitalism to cronyism.
So, finid...have you stopped beating your wife?
> Are those programmers using this operating system's tools for software installation? Hardly. And why?

Because this is a bizarre argument. I accidentally make dependencies on specific variants of libraries because I don't immediately need to support other variants and lack examples and/or time to worry about theoretical portability.

I don't use OS specific packaging because it was intentionally written to be non-portable. My learning it is an irrational commitment to keep using an OS at the neglect of all others and even if its distributor changes (or can no longer honor) the conditions of our deal.
Isn't this standard operating procedure these days? Big companies have the leverage to negotiate their tax situation, Walmart and NFL teams come to mind.
Unlikely. There would have had to have been a Soyuz almost ready to go that could be used for the purpose, and there wasn't. I'm also not sure that a Soyuz could have been launched from Baikonur into the orbital plane that Columbia was flying in; they commonly launch into the ISS' orbital plane, and we already know Columbia couldn't have gotten there. And, even if you could get a Soyuz there in time, Columbia wasn't equipped for retrieving supplies from another spacecraft. It wasn't carrying a RMS robot arm, for instance, nor did they have any SAFER jetpacks for their pressure suits. Getting supplies out of another spacecraft, even one nearby, without either of those would be tricky at best...maybe too tricky for a crew already possibly suffering from partial CO2 poisoning.
The Federal government does the same and much of it is for similar reasons, should it be prevented from doing so? We have many examples at all levels of companies donating to political campaigns to get returns.

I don't mind states competing with each other to bring in jobs. Such competition can cause some states to not make bad budgetary decisions that drive business out as well as trap their population in undesirable areas. Business and personal mobility is what makes the country stronger economically. They are betting on a return of investment which is better use of money that making financial promises to agencies which produce no money but instead incur long terms costs. Those deals are usually purely to prop up the political fortune of local politicians. They lead to upside down budgets and long term debts that force higher taxes putting them at a competitive disadvantage for new jobs and drive professionals out.
You could start with a landing page to gauge the level of interest, and then change your deploy plans based on the interest level?
I was about to post this, but less eloquently, and without the obvious metaphor.
There is a great cultural and emotional content that these services contains. Shutting these services will cause a big damage to this heritage.

We are trying to solve some of the biggest problems of music industry with PindropMusic

https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/pindropmusic/id1042553162?mt...
Just now I was working on integrating and optimizing networking for some microcontroller-based software (using lwIP). At the end, I've reached 7MB/s send and 10MB/s bulk receive speed.

I just did the calculation. It says for 10MB/s I'd need 80MHz. The chip runs at 84MHz. So, it's pretty close :)
yes try to guage interest

depends how long it would take. if your not working for x months to do it thats the cost. if you can do it in a few weeks of course.

you can test in a few days, heres two ways you might not have heard of

* put an add on craigslist

* try to sell it on ebay

then cancel the ad when you get a sale
Damn users!
Yeah, it's a matter of definitions. A "profession" is something you do that you get paid for. No one sends paychecks to homemakers. An "occupation", however, is something you do to occupy your time (hence the term, "occupation"). Usually, they're one in the same, but not always: if you don't need a paycheck, you can have an occupation as a homemaker, a philanthropist, a volunteer, a socialite, etc.
You don't need to launch this to get feedback. I would cold email five people who you think will find it useful.

Ask them if they have this problem you're trying to solve. Ask if they currently use something to solve that problem. Ask them for their feedback and if they'd be willing to pay for this service.

You can find emails pretty easily by using any of the following tools: saleshacker, voilanorbert, toofr, curtact, or http://emailhunter.co

If you can't get people in your target market with this painpoint to answer your email, you will have a hard time finding your first customers.
> Switching to another tool won't solve this problem they're having. Typical engineers - they think issue templates will help. No. I'll just fill in whatever gets me past the validation cos I'm frustrated.

Users won't read:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062....
Honestly it has always wanted to play the same songs very often. I used to easily reach 40 hours of play per month on the free tier (back when 40 hours was the max).

Give it enough time and you wind up just hearing the same music. Sometimes I'd start a station with a very different style/genre and it'd still happen where they'd both cross as well. Too much repetition.
>This is not a technological problem, it's a money problem.

It doesn't have to be, and in many cases it is not.
When VW moved into Chattanooga they got their own firestation, EMS dispatch and hospital for instance, that's of course in addition to the roads, water etc...
The Mother of All Database Normalization Debates on Coding Horror (2008)
He's on Global EIR's legal advisory board, so I'm happy to connect you. I'm at Craig at globaleir org
I am not sure why but I am really hung up on the quote “Finally, astronomy grew ears. We never had ears before.” They are detecting gravitational waves not sound waves.
For the Pacific theater, sure, but at the time the Luftwaffe were notoriously bad at attacking ships, especially the hundreds of fast-moving smaller gunboats which would have wrecked the invasion barges.
Chrome for Android will soon alert you to nearby objects you can interact with
My guess: Talent agents & managers, sportsmen, actors, photographers, male models, musicians.
This is already part of the built-in permissions management in the latest version of android, no?
> Or find some students that want to break into open source and have them be 1st level triage for your issues.

Which I had offered as a solution in the thread, but was ultimately shot down with "It's 2016, we have bots that can do that."

Clearly the bots don't work if it's still a problem.
I don't think you're the massive ego. There is a competition nowadays to who's done more. Actually when people tell it, it's not that they want to be the best. It's that they want a minimum, and that minimum is perhaps "At least my partner has to be able to enjoy travelling" or "At least my partner must have seen enough different situations so he will be flexible and compassionate if I become broke/superrich or if we have friends from variety X or Y". Maybe try to decrypt what she was asking for and she'll notice you're on the same wavelength. Don't let that mold into a competition.
> quantum field theory and general relativity are now both experimentally complete, and both look nearly unassailed in their correctness

Well, we know that both theories are "wrong" in the sense that they give nonsense answers if you ask them the wrong questions. It's just that all of those questions are well beyond our ability to test experimentally.
Counterexample: the universe.
I can't understand why GitHub isn't responding to the "Dear GitHub" people. They are not requesting huge political changes, it just boils down to a CONTRIBUTING.md and a basic voting system that many alternatives already have. It might take a couple weeks/months to spec and develop but they should at least send some kind of acknowledgement?

Do they actually want all those large open source projects to leave?
Because of the shape of the event, detection in two places, and more importantly, it matching the signature of the theoretical event extremely closely (especially the ringing at the end)
Yup. My students are always asking how they can get involved in open source....
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> Yoga instructor is missing. That's pretty much the ideal wife (lots of free time, unreasonably fit)

I see why you made a throwaway account to make this comment, but am surprised you haven't been downvoted into oblivion. Does HN really need it to be pointed out how sexist this comment is?
Investors 'go bananas' for gold bars as global stock markets tumble
Show HN: Acre Designs (YC W16) - Zero-Energy Smarthomes as a Consumer Product
Nice! If only you had used arc . . .
"Respond" in what sense? If GitHub has any plans to address the issues outlined in the "Dear GitHub" letter, there's nothing stopping them from writing their own letter saying "We hear you, we're working on addressing the following concerns, and it's going to take approximately this long before you see results". Unless I've missed it, there's been no response at all from GitHub; if they care, why don't they say so?
I do not upload any music on to sound cloud, but never the less, it is one of my primary ways of discovery. I would happily pay $2-4 a month to so called get rid of "ADs" and support them.
Ads from third-parties are supposed to be placed in special amp-ad elements. Those would be trivial to block. Ads that are served as standard images would probably be limited to blogs that deal directly with advertisers (e.g what slatestarcodex does) which is about as inoffensive as it gets.
Hey, co-founder of Acre here sharing our wares. We make Zero-Energy Smarthomes as a consumer product.

We are challenging the typical model, which produces uninspired homes that consume far too many resources: time, energy and money. Our idea is to treat the home-buying and home-building process more like a product. We offer NetZero homes that are simple and quick to build, for a fixed, competitive price nationwide.

Our first offering is upmarket a la Tesla, but will offer our own Model 3 (i.e. lower price-point) sometime next year. Vision is to replace standard homes with high quality, beautiful smart homes that are powered by the sun.

We'd love to get your feedback, especially about driving sales online—how can we get better at getting people to place deposits online? and about the longer term vision of housing: zero-energy, but also sharing economy, mobile lifestyles, density. We'd really appreciate hearing the thoughts and suggestions of this community!

p.s. If any of you hackers are interested, we want to experiment with making homes that go all-out on automation and logging. We'll do that at no extra cost for anyone who found out about us through this thread.
We used a website widget. On reflection, it would have been nice to have Skype integration, but it wasn't possible at the time. I see what you are referring to. I have no experience with outbound chat. That seems like a good idea. I have found my favourite way to receive cold email is to email back whether we are interested or not and if I am, it is nice if the sender links their calendar in their signature so I can schedule it based on what works for me. I don't think I would take the step to live chat either way though because usually I batch process emails and have other things on my mind in that moment.
Pedanticly, it'd have to be while he was alive since the Nobel Committee won't nominate anyone who's deceased. Rosalind Franklin would've surely received one for her work on DNA (among others who passed before their work was recognized).
If it's mostly/all tax credits, what's the downside for Nevada?
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