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by cwal37 13y ago
If you want to be completely open source. There seem to be a lot more libraries and general capability with the specific license we need. I really should have clarified better, I seem to have lost a word or two in there. What I'm worki
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by cwal37 13y ago
Depends on the field of course. I'm in environmental science/energy economics so python is kind of a no-brainer if you want to go open source (and we do). However, my significant other is working on a physics PhD and everything sh
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by cwal37 13y ago
When they complain about having to get the data by hand, I assumed they were crawling through at least hundreds of profiles. Instead, it's just 35. If I had to guess, that's also a contributing reason as to why the first bar chart
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by cwal37 13y ago
It really just means an individual can donate to a lot more individual campaigns now, as the aggregate limit has been struck down. I doubt this will increase any transparency, as current rules are barely enforced to begin with, and the real
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by cwal37 13y ago
That sounds like some huge operations research problems, I imagine you guys have some serious linear programming expertise.
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by cwal37 13y ago
Google cached what is presumably a draft or first submission of the article: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Im7GHQR...
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by cwal37 13y ago
I spent a while trying to get it, went through the online library systems of two very different universities, which should theoretically cover almost every topic, and a lab. However, it seems that it's listed as an ebook in at least on
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by cwal37 13y ago
I agree, it's a good mission statement for the site, but it can get lost in the general HN haze of Silicon Valley and web startups. I work in a very different part of the country on very different things than the majority of HN as far
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by cwal37 13y ago
The Forbes article on this is much better. http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2014/03/26/...
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by cwal37 13y ago
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." h
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by cwal37 13y ago
I work in an entirely different field, but I just wanted to say congratulations. So many startups I read about on HN, techcrunch, or wherever are focused on some odd niche to improve the lives of those who are already well-off. It seems lik
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by cwal37 13y ago
If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, they actually say that it's not a space design and give a couple details as to why.
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by cwal37 13y ago
In case people comment without scrolling to the bottom and reading the FAQ: "Is the design that is selected going to fly to space? No, as the Z-series is still in the prototype or non-flight phase. The cover layer of a non-flight suit,
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by cwal37 13y ago
Differential equations basically are environmental science. I happen to work more in econometrics now, but things like population/ecology, environmental/pollution/waste engineering, and environmental chemistry research are
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by cwal37 13y ago
I recently finished my masters in environmental science, which was diffeq heavy, and got a position working with energy data and doing some economic modeling and operations research. I was a bit surprised that the project I came into doesn&
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by cwal37 13y ago
I've found something similar with reddit. Posting in a niche subreddit might look like a nonstarter with many posts only receiving a couple upvotes and 0-2 comments, but the actual site visits seem to be a couple hundred times the upvo
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by cwal37 13y ago
I think it's more a question of what someone wants out of life. If your job is your life, than that makes more sense. If you value things outside of whatever you do for money, then working to burnout is only going to harm those other a
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by cwal37 13y ago
Alternately, we are more secure as a nation state because oil is a global market. Then, as countries become more reliant on each other for crude, revenue, and finished petroleum products they are less likely to upset the balance. Additional
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by cwal37 13y ago
It does. Just at a very basic level they're reducing the amount of smog-producing particulates and toxins such as benzene in the typical gallon of gas. Obviously, a reduction in those constituents is going to affect their ratios in the
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by cwal37 13y ago
Generally, it is prohibitively expensive. I come from a wealthy suburb where the private schools are a bit worse than the public ones, so it worked out for myself and my siblings as our parents could not have remotely afforded to send us to
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by cwal37 13y ago
I haven't bought anything on ebay proper in quite a while, although I occasionally buy books from half. However, my girlfriend buys a large quantity of good from eBay. These purchases seem to fall into two categories. 1. Clothing. In p
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by cwal37 13y ago
Right, but I don't think the average person does that. I haven't paid their "normal" or listed rate, but I imagine the typical family just pays.
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by cwal37 13y ago
Ahhh, that is a tough situation. Oh, there it is, I completely forgot they are a private university. Well, best of luck with where you're at now!
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My hometown in the Chicago suburbs attempted to build out their own fiber network to provide service to residents sometime in the mid 2000s. I was in high school at the time, but I still get so damn angry thinking back on Comcast's exp
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by cwal37 13y ago
Well, it's not even scholarships in the traditional sense necessarily, but the department covers tuition and you get a stipend. I'm eyeing a PhD down the road, swapping with my significant other when she finishes hers, and I woul
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by cwal37 13y ago
Holy shit, are those prices normal for Austin? Everywhere I've lived (Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee) I've paid roughly $40-50/month for just internet from Comcast that's also a bit faster than yours. I've always been
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by cwal37 13y ago
Just fyi, you would have been getting robbed if your PhD wasn't paid for.
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by cwal37 13y ago
Again, the NIMH argument from authority. I truly do not understand the laser focus on clinical psychology and the DSM, which, I agree, has some major issues. Clinical medicine was not always as science-backed as it is today, but the field e
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by cwal37 13y ago
As for aspersions/dispersions, I tend to miss a lot of autocorrects on my phone these days when I believe I've typed a word correctly, so I came back to fix it and saw your response, which I'll take a closer look at after wor
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by cwal37 13y ago
I actually think /r/askscience is one of the best moderated subreddits, which is impressive given its size and traffic. The example you linked is incredibly frustrating to me. That blogger has a very specific mindset about a subse

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