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by pash 13y ago
Over the past two or three decades in the United States there has in fact been a big shift away from targeted anti-poverty programs in favor of just giving cash to the poor. At the federal level, this has meant big increases in the earned-i
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8 ways to report errors in Haskell(randomhacks.net)
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Here's the paper: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/3/1024.full.pdf?sid=c461... Open-access version: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575082/
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by pash 13y ago
150/360 = 5/12, so 150 deg = 5pi/6 rad. Clearly we could use this calculator. :P
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by pash 14y ago
If you want to take a closer (and, yes, mathematical) look at this idea, check out the lecture notes [0] from the MIT course Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science. Sections 4 and 5 of the introductory notes [1] give the classic exampl
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by pash 14y ago
If you can get a raise and stay, why leave? Leave because you don't like your job, or because you'd really rather being making more money elsewhere doing something else. If you like your job, give your employer a chance to pay you enough to
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by pash 14y ago
This is the easiest and most foolproof option. But reverse fleitz's chronology: first get another offer, then go talk to your boss. Edit—To imsofuture's point below: Yes, come to your employer with another offer that you would actually take
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by pash 14y ago
There's not much data to go on, but in the KC area the schedule for suburban build-outs looks like it's being driven by politics as much as by demographic or infrastructural factors. (Of course, the initial choices of the KC and Austin metr
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by pash 14y ago
> Our goal is to start connecting homes in Austin by mid-2014. The timeline Google's followed in Kansas City suggests it will be another year until service is available to a significant chunk of Austin, and likely well into 2016 or be
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Google Fiber’s Next Stop: Austin, Texas(googlefiberblog.blogspot.com)
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The Times's paywall is so porous that this really isn't much of a problem. The content still loads behind the JavaScript overlay, so you can use Safari's Reader or a similar browser plugin to read the articles. You can also get around the p
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by pash 14y ago
The idea is not to print molecules. Instead, you print reagents into a matrix designed to guide a reaction. The reactor vessel itself becomes a template for synthesis. There's a team at the University of Glasgow working on this. They publis
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by pash 14y ago
Driverless cars should be a huge boon to the efficiency of moving cars along existing roads. There may be an awkward period during which both automated and human-driven cars are on the road at the same time, but by the time it's mostly robo
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My perception is that cost tops the list. That's partly about home size (why pay twice as much for a condo that's half the size?), but I think mostly about sheer high prices. [0] Cost is also tied up with the issue of public versus private
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I'm hopeful that driverless cars will be a boon to cities, particularly to the many second-tier American cities whose formerly vibrant cores have been decimated by the need to supply parking for suburban workers. For the past sixty years, s
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by pash 14y ago
The traditional syntax really falls down when your functions are curried and you want to do partial application. In that context, as in Haskell, the f x_1 ... x_n syntax is as natural as it gets.
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Whoops, I changed my example midway through and ended up with something screwy. The first case of the definition of zip above should of course read: zip (x:xs) (y:ys) = (x, y) : zip xs ys
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by pash 14y ago
If you look at the data [0] on food recalls and safety warnings in the United States, you'll see that the large majority of food-borne salmonella occurs not in meat or eggs but in fruits and vegetables, particularly in ground-hugging variet
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by pash 14y ago
> ... in F#, something to the left of :: can never be anything other than the head of a list, and something to the right of :: can never be anything other than the tail of a list! Yes, but the names you assign in a pattern get used ou
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by pash 14y ago
As of last December, there is another repayment option geared toward the enterprising (or not) Hacker News sort, at least those not yet flush with cash. The Pay As You Earn option [0] allows you to pay no more than 10% of your discretionar
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> I'm confused as to why he thinks those taxes should go to Titan. Probably because from 2000–2005, under U.S. law [0], anti-dumping duties did get disbursed to the U.S. companies that brought successful anti-dumping complaints. This
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by pash 14y ago
This is the second house in the neighborhood that's been offered to founders rent-free. The first [0] is home to some people working on an API for 3D printing [1], an app for online jam sessions, and a couple of other projects. Down the str
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My New FiberHouse in Kansas City(feld.com)
75 points by pash 14y ago|45 comments
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I wonder. And I'm curious what other readers think Dijkstra meant by that. I think, as far as the part about mathematicians goes, that the point is that once the problem is stated sufficiently abstractly and sufficiently precisely, there is
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by pash 14y ago
This is why we don't program in English.
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A patent troll loses either when its patent is invalidated in the course of litigation or when its patent is upheld but the court determines that the alleged infringement did not occur. About 40% of patents are invalidated in the course of
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by pash 14y ago
Patent trolls own a patent, at the very least. The court could seize the patent and auction it off (or place it in the public domain) if the troll's string-pullers choose not to pay the loser's penalty.
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Let me summarize the paper's main finding in plain English: the more spending cuts economists predicted, the worse were their predictions of a country's economic growth. Slightly more technically: there is a correlation between (a) the magn
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That's a point well worth making. But in fairness to macro-economists everywhere, most would admit that they don't really have any good idea what they're doing. Central bankers don't say this because their main job is to pretend that the f
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by pash 14y ago
I like to read economics articles on HN because (a) I've been trained as as an economist and (b) I like to read the opinions of other clever people, even (particularly?) those who don't have any background in economic theory. Let me make a

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