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• Why All Programmers Should Get a Master's Degree

  by meri_dian on 4/17/2018, 3:33 PM with 2 comments

• by meri_dian on 4/13/2018, 12:55 PM with comments

• Brewing Up Earth's Earliest Life

  by meri_dian on 4/10/2018, 3:14 AM with 0 comments

• The American Optimism of a Kansas Muslim

  by meri_dian on 4/9/2018, 3:07 AM with 0 comments

• People are mad about Cambridge Analytica because of Trump and Brexit

  by meri_dian on 4/6/2018, 8:56 PM with 0 comments

• New Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer Shows Promise of Success

  by meri_dian on 4/6/2018, 5:55 PM with 0 comments

• Men Overestimate Intelligence in Science Class

  by meri_dian on 4/5/2018, 3:45 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon Asking Cities for Their High Schoolers' SAT Scores

  by meri_dian on 4/3/2018, 2:14 PM with 56 comments

• Kim Jong Un 'Deeply Moved' by K-pop Concert in Pyongyang

  by meri_dian on 4/2/2018, 12:03 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Where are you?

  by meri_dian on 4/2/2018, 1:52 AM with 45 comments

• Eisenhower Warns of the Military Industrial Complex

  by meri_dian on 4/1/2018, 9:27 PM with comments

• The SAT Is a Good Intelligence Test (2011)

  by meri_dian on 4/1/2018, 3:27 AM with 0 comments

• The 10 Reasons Most Machine Learning Funds Fail

  by meri_dian on 3/31/2018, 1:40 PM with 0 comments

• The Progressive Case for the SAT

  by meri_dian on 3/31/2018, 4:33 AM with 0 comments

• Is There Life Adrift in the Clouds of Venus?

  by meri_dian on 3/30/2018, 11:09 PM with 0 comments

• John McAfee Explains How to Delete McAfee Antivirus (2013)

  by meri_dian on 3/30/2018, 4:32 AM with comments

• DJs of Color Reclaim Electronic Dance Music

  by meri_dian on 3/29/2018, 7:25 PM with 0 comments

• Ecuador Cutting Off Assange's Communication Channels with the Outside World

  by meri_dian on 3/28/2018, 5:36 PM with 0 comments

• Brown University Graduate Student of Color Orientation

  by meri_dian on 3/28/2018, 9:38 AM with comments

• Time to Give Up on Identity Politics: It’s Dragging the Progressive Agenda Down

  by meri_dian on 3/27/2018, 7:01 PM with 9 comments

• Schools in Rural Areas Shifting Toward a 4-Day Week

  by meri_dian on 3/25/2018, 3:01 PM with 0 comments

• Economists See Merit in Trump’s Trade Case Against China

  by meri_dian on 3/24/2018, 5:21 PM with 49 comments

• The Declining Value of a CS Master's Degree (2013)

  by meri_dian on 3/22/2018, 11:05 PM with 161 comments

• How the Shale Boom Has Kept the US Afloat

  by meri_dian on 3/21/2018, 9:12 PM with 0 comments

• Scientists Genetically Engineer Bacteria-Archaea Hybrid

  by meri_dian on 3/21/2018, 3:19 AM with 0 comments

• Evidence of Delayed Aging Among a National Sample of Americans

  by meri_dian on 3/19/2018, 4:20 PM with 24 comments

• Where You Went to College Doesn't Matter. This Is Why

  by meri_dian on 3/18/2018, 8:40 PM with 1 comments

• U.S. Sues California to Void Illegal Immigrant Protection Laws

  by meri_dian on 3/7/2018, 4:01 AM with 10 comments

• US Military Budget: Components, Challenges and Growth

  by meri_dian on 3/6/2018, 10:57 PM with 0 comments

• Trump Approval at 48%, Higher Among Millennials Than Seniors

  by meri_dian on 3/3/2018, 6:33 PM with comments

• Coding Bootcamps vs. Computer Science Degrees: What Employers Want

  by meri_dian on 3/3/2018, 1:52 AM with 0 comments

• End Pay Bumps for Iowa Teachers with Master's Degrees

  by meri_dian on 3/1/2018, 10:16 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: In the event of a recession, how will the market for devs be affected?

  by meri_dian on 3/1/2018, 5:45 PM with 0 comments

• A Dot for Each of the More Than Seven Billion People Living Today

  by meri_dian on 2/27/2018, 5:30 PM with 0 comments

• Iran Wants to Join the World Order It Undermines

  by meri_dian on 2/24/2018, 10:59 PM with 0 comments

• Chinese Bitcoin Mining Company May Have Made as Much Money as Nvidia Last Year

  by meri_dian on 2/23/2018, 7:34 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Who are you?

  by meri_dian on 2/21/2018, 6:39 PM with 5 comments

• Struggle Against MS-13 Hampered by Sanctuary Cities

  by meri_dian on 2/21/2018, 5:30 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Salary expectations for a mid to senior level Android Developer in NYC?

  by meri_dian on 2/21/2018, 3:31 PM with 0 comments

• Analysis of Campaign Donations Reveals Liberal Bias Among Journalists

  by meri_dian on 2/20/2018, 6:57 PM with 0 comments

• Wanting to Preserve Your Way of Life Does Not Make You Racist or Fascist

  by meri_dian on 2/20/2018, 4:44 PM with comments

• Ask HN: What will fees be on the Lightning Network?

  by meri_dian on 2/18/2018, 4:28 AM with 0 comments

• Problems at Singularity University

  by meri_dian on 2/15/2018, 6:27 PM with 15 comments

• Ask HN: What happens when there's nothing left to invent or discover?

  by meri_dian on 2/15/2018, 4:24 PM with 41 comments

• FBI Says Chinese Operatives Active at Scores of U.S. Universities

  by meri_dian on 2/14/2018, 7:20 PM with 179 comments

• “Loving Your Enemies” (1957)

  by meri_dian on 2/14/2018, 3:59 PM with 36 comments

• Ask HN: Does immigration to the US hurt developing countries?

  by meri_dian on 2/13/2018, 5:53 PM with 1 comments

• Shifting Scientific Consensus on Climate Change

  by meri_dian on 2/12/2018, 4:33 PM with 0 comments

• Android P

  by meri_dian on 2/12/2018, 3:49 PM with 0 comments

• Water Filtration Breakthrough Using Metal-Organic Frameworks

  by meri_dian on 2/12/2018, 1:08 PM with 0 comments

• Embracing Wynne Godley, an Economist Who Modeled the Crisis (2014)

  by meri_dian on 2/11/2018, 7:54 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Good Facebook alternatives?

  by meri_dian on 2/10/2018, 7:48 PM with 0 comments

• by meri_dian on 2/9/2018, 5:01 PM with comments

• Grim Climate Models Do Not Account for Passive Decarbonization

  by meri_dian on 2/9/2018, 1:36 PM with 0 comments

• by meri_dian on 2/9/2018, 1:36 PM with comments

• Cheddar Man Had Dark Skin and Blue Eyes

  by meri_dian on 2/9/2018, 4:06 AM with 0 comments

• The Fake Documentary on Netflix About a Roman Treasure Ship

  by meri_dian on 2/3/2018, 1:35 AM with 0 comments

• Evidence of Extragalactic Planets

  by meri_dian on 2/2/2018, 11:28 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Why are there still recruiters?

  by meri_dian on 1/31/2018, 1:51 PM with 42 comments

• Star Merger and Nova Predicted for 2022

  by meri_dian on 1/31/2018, 5:07 AM with 0 comments

• A Forum Dialog on Beethoven's Godhood and the Supremacy of Classical Forms

  by meri_dian on 1/30/2018, 6:02 PM with 0 comments

• Verizon Dumps Huawei Phones as US Government Pressure Mounts

  by meri_dian on 1/30/2018, 3:26 PM with 1 comments

• Pope Francis' Message on Fake News

  by meri_dian on 1/30/2018, 4:16 AM with 0 comments

• Trump to Test Base with Bipartisan Tone in State of the Union

  by meri_dian on 1/29/2018, 3:34 PM with 0 comments

• Significant Breakthrough in Quest to Decipher Voynich Manuscript

  by meri_dian on 1/27/2018, 6:43 PM with 2 comments

• Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria Expressing Botulinum Type Toxin

  by meri_dian on 1/27/2018, 5:31 AM with 0 comments

• The Dark Side of America’s Rise to Oil Superpower

  by meri_dian on 1/25/2018, 4:43 PM with 0 comments

• No One Likes Apple's “What's a Computer” Commercial

  by meri_dian on 1/25/2018, 3:17 PM with 0 comments

• “Poor Elon Doesn't Know How to Run a Business”

  by meri_dian on 1/25/2018, 2:49 AM with comments

• The Third Age of Jagex, Developers of Runescape

  by meri_dian on 1/24/2018, 6:01 PM with 0 comments

• Engineers Design Artificial Synapse for 'Brain-On-a-Chip' Hardware

  by meri_dian on 1/23/2018, 2:51 PM with 0 comments

• Tesla On Autopilot Crashes into Parked Firetruck

  by meri_dian on 1/23/2018, 5:41 AM with comments

• Towards a More United China: CCP Rationale for Mandarin's Supremacy

  by meri_dian on 1/22/2018, 10:04 PM with 3 comments

• The IQ's of Academic Elites

  by meri_dian on 1/22/2018, 6:21 PM with 0 comments

• How to Win Friends and Influence People

  by meri_dian on 1/20/2018, 4:18 AM with 1 comments

• U.S. tests nuclear power system to sustain astronauts on Mars

  by meri_dian on 1/19/2018, 5:13 AM with 130 comments

• 9 Phrases Only MBA's Understand

  by meri_dian on 1/19/2018, 12:23 AM with 0 comments

• “Highly Anticipated” Fake News Awards

  by meri_dian on 1/18/2018, 3:31 PM with 0 comments

• New California

  by meri_dian on 1/17/2018, 4:33 PM with 4 comments

• Photorealism Explained

  by meri_dian on 1/17/2018, 4:20 PM with comments

• by meri_dian on 1/17/2018, 6:05 AM with comments

• How Cities Made a Huge Mistake in Promoting Cycling

  by meri_dian on 1/16/2018, 6:10 PM with comments

• Meta: Require users to open a link to enable upvoting and comments

  by meri_dian on 1/15/2018, 1:36 PM with 4 comments

• Towards a Galactic Positioning System Based On Pulsar Observation

  by meri_dian on 1/15/2018, 3:26 AM with 0 comments

• Haiti: A Long Descent to Hell

  by meri_dian on 1/12/2018, 2:57 PM with 0 comments

• A Skeptical Take on Recent Claims That Australian Raptors Spread Fire

  by meri_dian on 1/12/2018, 2:51 PM with 0 comments

• Ochlocracy – A New Status Quo in the Modern World

  by meri_dian on 1/12/2018, 5:44 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Should there be a Bar/Actuarial/CPA/etc Exam equivalent for software?

  by meri_dian on 1/10/2018, 10:01 PM with 2 comments

• The Odd Chemical Composition of the Hypatia Stone

  by meri_dian on 1/10/2018, 3:51 PM with 0 comments

• J147: Promising Alzheimer's and Aging Drug to Enter Phase 1 Trials

  by meri_dian on 1/10/2018, 11:57 AM with 0 comments

• The Way the World Is Going, by HG Wells

  by meri_dian on 1/8/2018, 7:53 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What is the transition from cubicles to open office like?

  by meri_dian on 1/8/2018, 2:45 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: If I work with applied mathematics should I still study analysis?

  by meri_dian on 1/5/2018, 5:40 PM with 23 comments

• Basecoin: A Stable, USD Pegged Cryptocurrency with Algorithmic Monetary Policy

  by meri_dian on 1/4/2018, 3:02 AM with 0 comments

• Viceland: Shrink Wrapped Counterculture

  by meri_dian on 1/4/2018, 2:08 AM with 0 comments

• No reserve. No retreat. No regret

  by meri_dian on 1/1/2018, 4:39 AM with 0 comments

• The Room (film)

  by meri_dian on 12/31/2017, 7:31 PM with 0 comments

• Searching, Hoping, for New Physics

  by meri_dian on 12/31/2017, 3:39 PM with 0 comments

• Impact of wealth and status on opposite sex ratings of attractiveness

  by meri_dian on 12/30/2017, 12:40 PM with 1 comments

• Jewish Exodus from Arab and Muslim Countries

  by meri_dian on 12/26/2017, 9:12 PM with 0 comments

• Israeli Players Banned from World Chess Championship in Saudi Arabia

  by meri_dian on 12/25/2017, 4:33 AM with 10 comments

• Sublime Lucretius

  by meri_dian on 12/20/2017, 6:43 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Convince me of a blockchain's utility

  by meri_dian on 12/19/2017, 6:11 PM with 3 comments

• Most Interesting Findings of Report on Pentagon UFO Program

  by meri_dian on 12/19/2017, 4:50 PM with 0 comments

• Pentagon Scientists Recover Strange Alloys from Unidentified Objects

  by meri_dian on 12/19/2017, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Why Net Neutrality Is Bad (2014)

  by meri_dian on 12/14/2017, 7:02 PM with 1 comments

• Charges And Pleas In Computer Crime Cases Involving Significant Cyber Attacks

  by meri_dian on 12/13/2017, 8:24 PM with 55 comments

• Chinese Agents Trying to Cultivate German Politicians Through LinkedIn

  by meri_dian on 12/12/2017, 1:39 PM with 0 comments

• De Rerum Natura, Lucretius' 2000 Year Old Magnum Opus on Atomism and Reality

  by meri_dian on 12/8/2017, 1:47 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Is national sovereignty and democracy compatible with an open internet?

  by meri_dian on 12/5/2017, 10:18 PM with 0 comments

• 3D Printed Bacteria

  by meri_dian on 12/2/2017, 3:47 AM with 0 comments

• Genetic Evidence on the Origins of Indian Caste Populations

  by meri_dian on 11/16/2017, 8:09 PM with 1 comments

• 0.00000000000000002 Seconds

  by meri_dian on 11/16/2017, 3:56 PM with 1 comments

• Mosquitos with Cas9 In Their Germlines

  by meri_dian on 11/15/2017, 1:32 AM with 0 comments

• Promising New Autism Drug to Enter Clinical Trials

  by meri_dian on 11/14/2017, 6:03 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon Drops $250M for the Rights to LOTR

  by meri_dian on 11/14/2017, 5:56 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: What knowledge and skills should a Head of Security possess?

  by meri_dian on 9/25/2017, 3:00 PM with 10 comments

• The Surprising Popularity of Bach's Complex, Esoteric 'Art of Fugue'

  by meri_dian on 9/21/2017, 1:35 AM with 0 comments

• Creation of Molecular Robots That Can Be Programmed to Build Other Molecules

  by meri_dian on 9/20/2017, 10:13 PM with 0 comments

• Trump Calls for Whistleblower Protections

  by meri_dian on 9/18/2017, 5:06 PM with 0 comments

• Expansion of the Universe May Not Be Accelerating After All

  by meri_dian on 9/15/2017, 8:27 PM with 0 comments

• Bodega Apologizes for Upsetting Everyone

  by meri_dian on 9/14/2017, 8:45 PM with 0 comments

• Compromise Reached Between Trump and Democrats on DACA, Border Security

  by meri_dian on 9/14/2017, 3:47 AM with 0 comments

• Trump to Hold Bipartisan Meeting with Democratic Leadership

  by meri_dian on 9/13/2017, 6:27 PM with 0 comments

• China to Ban Gas and Diesel Cars

  by meri_dian on 9/11/2017, 3:32 PM with 0 comments

• The Rohingya Insurgency

  by meri_dian on 9/9/2017, 8:15 PM with 0 comments

• Critical Reception of Beethoven’s Compositions by His German Contemporaries

  by meri_dian on 9/7/2017, 3:16 PM with 0 comments

• Hackers Gain Access to Hundreds of Global Electrical Grids

  by meri_dian on 9/6/2017, 6:07 PM with 0 comments

• 5.7M Year Old Human-Like Footprints in Crete

  by meri_dian on 9/1/2017, 2:42 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: The Most Epic Thing You Will Ever Watch

  by meri_dian on 8/29/2017, 10:09 PM with comments

• Complete Remission of Hard to Treat Brain Metastasis Using Immunotherapy

  by meri_dian on 8/28/2017, 6:38 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Why can't autonomous vehicles solely rely on visible light sensors?

  by meri_dian on 8/25/2017, 4:25 PM with 3 comments

• Carbon Nanotubes Excluding Salt from Seawater

  by meri_dian on 8/25/2017, 2:01 PM with 17 comments

• Increased Genetic Likelihood for Psychiatric Disorders in Modern Humans

  by meri_dian on 8/23/2017, 7:12 PM with 0 comments

• More Feasible Molecular Level Data Storage

  by meri_dian on 8/23/2017, 5:56 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: The moon is tidally locked. So isn't the Google animation incorrect?

  by meri_dian on 8/21/2017, 3:41 PM with 1 comments

• The Great Divergence

  by meri_dian on 8/21/2017, 2:34 PM with 0 comments

• 4500 Year Old Trading Network in Vietnam

  by meri_dian on 8/18/2017, 6:23 PM with 0 comments

• Lincoln's Lyceum Address

  by meri_dian on 8/17/2017, 9:56 PM with 0 comments

• The Cultural Revolution

  by meri_dian on 8/16/2017, 10:26 AM with 0 comments

• A Computational Model of Opinion Formation – The Inevitability of Extremism

  by meri_dian on 8/15/2017, 1:29 PM with 0 comments

• A New Perspective on the Emergence of the Thermodynamic Arrow of Time [pdf]

  by meri_dian on 8/7/2017, 8:22 PM with 0 comments

• Converting Skin Cells into the Elements of Any Organ with a Non-Invasive Touch

  by meri_dian on 8/7/2017, 5:55 PM with 0 comments

• Examining Media Bias (2008)

  by meri_dian on 8/3/2017, 11:35 PM with 0 comments

• The Statistical Mirage of Clutch Hitting

  by meri_dian on 8/1/2017, 8:23 PM with 0 comments

• White House Looks to Pull Out of Afghanistan

  by meri_dian on 8/1/2017, 5:27 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How do you get into supercomputer programming?

  by meri_dian on 7/31/2017, 7:12 PM with 1 comments

• The Transition from Unconscious Information to Conscious Thought

  by meri_dian on 7/31/2017, 6:54 PM with 0 comments

• Wisconsin Foxconn Deal to Bring Over $700 Mil / Year in Wages

  by meri_dian on 7/28/2017, 2:44 AM with 0 comments

• Neural Stem Cells in the Hypothalamus Shown to Control Rate of Aging in Mice

  by meri_dian on 7/26/2017, 9:18 PM with 11 comments

• The Religious Mind is Not Dead

  by meri_dian on 7/22/2017, 1:57 AM with 0 comments

• Fake news: People are bad at detecting manipulated images of real world scenes

  by meri_dian on 7/19/2017, 1:50 PM with 0 comments

• You're Probably Arguing About Trivial Things

  by meri_dian on 7/5/2017, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• CNN Blackmail

  by meri_dian on 7/5/2017, 3:03 PM with 0 comments

• Recent Observed Global Warming Significantly Less Than Climate Model Simulations

  by meri_dian on 6/29/2017, 3:03 PM with 0 comments

• How prevalent is computer simulation in macro-economic research and forecasting?

  by meri_dian on 6/20/2017, 8:52 PM with 1 comments

• Google Taking Steps to Secure Its Supply Chain

  by meri_dian on 6/14/2017, 8:17 PM with 0 comments

• Helen Keller on Beethoven's 9th Symphony

  by meri_dian on 5/28/2017, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• The Oklo Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor

  by meri_dian on 5/24/2017, 1:00 PM with 0 comments

• Hardcore History

  by meri_dian on 5/9/2017, 9:18 PM with 0 comments

• The Lindy Effect

  by meri_dian on 4/28/2017, 3:40 PM with 0 comments

• Don't Intervene in Syria

  by meri_dian on 4/6/2017, 4:19 PM with 0 comments

• The Explanatory Gap

  by meri_dian on 3/21/2017, 9:03 PM with 0 comments

• Bloomberg: Democrats Shouldn't Adopt Obstructionist Tactics

  by meri_dian on 3/20/2017, 5:22 PM with 0 comments

• Differentiable Neural Computers

  by meri_dian on 3/13/2017, 6:20 PM with 0 comments