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Actually government does. It makes sense to nudge people towards acquiring more skills and they routinely do that. Also, the economy is punishing for those who don't have a college…

I may be mistaken, but I have found the Microsoft Edge to have done considerable catching up. In my Mac and on PC, it beats Chrome anyday in performance and ease of use. I understa…

This is true for Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or any other religion that has happened to be caught in the political machinations of the enterprising state. I am reminded…

These time lapse videos are an incredible tool to teach kids about plant growth. It was really hard for me at school to visualise plants as living beings and their "life" was alway…

An alternate line of thought - do we need Electric vehicles to do all that? If we could reliably transition mass of passenger transport and daily commute options to electricity, th…

Politics. It may sound a bit of place in a forum like HN, but I have a point to make here. What you feel is a fairly common phenomenon and I know a ton of people who aren't happy a…

Agree that depression diagnosis might be wrong. But the therapy is incredibly effective against all the symptoms he has described in details. Therapy is not just for depressed peop…

I have maintained my blog ( http://www.hashin.me ) for the last 8 years without ever trying to monetize it (I am 28 now). I have written hundreds of articles there, about a lot of …

That sounds super interesting! The results will depend upon the kind of information this database provides about each paper. We don't know yet the kind of processing each paper goe…

This is an interesting side of the problem I have never thought about. Is this boredom and other psychological stresses responsible for the sexual offences committed by deployed tr…

I agree. Epigenetic studies hold the key to making reasonable interventions into genetic conditions. While genetic screening is desirable, it is going to take a long while before w…

One reason why the poor stay poor is that they simply don't know how to spend money. Financial literacy doesn't penetrate well into India's rural poor because of the lack of qualit…

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One thing that caught my attention is that the doctors get it right only 60% of time. The algorithm gets 80%. But that is also a lot of room for improvement considering what machin…

I am being curious here. Do anyone really print out the code so that the comprehension really increases? I can imagine all the benefits, but can someone give any first hand experie…

I have completed this tutorial by Micheal Nielsen and it has enormously supplemented my understanding of the subject. The good part is that it just had enough mathematical rigour t…

To add, Jeeva means living thing in Malayalam, another language from the south India. In fact, Jeeva is a common name in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, two states from the south India. [1]…

Hahaha! I knew it will be this one even before clicking it! This one is so good!

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Have anyone tried building a Mesh using ESP8266 and custom hardware for signal enhancement? I am working on a similar project and is interested to know if anyone have had success w…

I can see that they are emphasizing on the #DiamondBattery hashtag so that general public will be hooked and share it more, but why haven't they given any hints (mildly technical) …