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Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap
AbstractThe usual legal story about partisan gerrymandering is relentlessly pessimistic. The courts did not even recognize the cause of action until the 1980s; they have never struck down a district...
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High-speed rail taking shape even as opponents seek to kill it
By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco ChronicleFebruary 12, 2017Updated: February 12, 2017 6:00am Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle The columns of a viaduct under construction in Fresno for the...
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My Homebrew Z80 Microcomputer
IntroductionThis website documents the building of a computer based on the Z-80 microprocessor. The intentions of this was to have fun and learn. The project starts simple with only some ICs in a test...
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A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
Two weeks ago, Sidd Bikkannavar flew back into the United States after spending a few weeks abroad in South America. An employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Bikkannavar had been on a...
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Python moved to GitHub
README.rstCopyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved.Python 3.x is a new version...
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1 month after launch
1 month after launch February 13, 2017 Wow, 1 month since launching Opps Daily. As usual, here's an update on our total stats. Visitors: 1921 Subscribers: 641 Revenue: $85.00 Connections made: 11/29...
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Still True: The Public Must Fight for Its Right to Privacy
The term, "information superhighway" has always been insufficient to describe the Internet. In reality, the Web is a global communication space containing the private information of a large part of the...
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Bill Binney: “Things won't change until we put these people in jail”
He is considered one of the best analysts in the history of the National Security Agency (NSA), "the largest, most expensive and most technologically sophisticated spy organization the world has ever...
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Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart disease risk (2016)
Two people stand at a stove, some chopped onions, or maybe a pitcher of pancake batter, at each of their sides. One puts a pat of butter into his pan, letting it melt. The other glugs a bottle of...
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LX40–a New Engine in Iqaluit
On 1 February, Swiss International Air Lines flight 40 experienced an issue with its number 1 engine—the engine on the left side of the aircraft—and diverted to Iqaluit in northern Canada. After...
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Mark Cuban on Why You Need to Study AI or You’ll Be a Dinosaur in 3 Years
Mark Cuban opened the Upfront Summit in an epic interview by Jason Hirschhorn, founder of Media REDEF.Machine Learning / AIThey discussed many topics ranging from protection of the press to what Mark...
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Got tired of grid recommendations, decided to compare them side by side
README.mdA grid comparison standardContributionIf you want to add a grid, please create a pull request of a new file in grids. We have automated testing for you to know if everything was done...
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What can Rust do for astrophysics?
(Submitted on 9 Feb 2017)Abstract: The astrophysics community uses different tools for computational tasks such as complex systems simulations, radiative transfer calculations or big data. Programming...
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Have you looked at your windshield wipers lately?
Enlarge/ I was the only person in the car. Try not to consider the circumstances for how I got this shot.The next time you're in a parking lot, or when you're walking on the sidewalk along a street...
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Ask HN: How can I get investor intros in Berlin?
Please don't waste your time pitching to investors in this position in Berlin. If you make X < 100.000 EUR monthly revenue, then any "investor" in Berlin will probably tell you:"Very interesting....
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Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and Apogee (1997)
Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and ApogeeThe Moon at Perigee and Apogee One of my favourite science fiction stories is Larry Niven's Inconstant Moon, about a night when the full Moon shone...
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Show HN: WebSocket-first development
README.mdThis is a demo app for lattice-core which is a framework for crystal I'm working on that is still very much in the proof-of-concept stage. The intent is to really show how powerful a...
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Why does e to pi i equal -1? (2015) [video]
Offentliggjort den 4. mar. 2015The enigmatic equation e^{pi i} = -1 is usually explained using Taylor's formula during a calculus class. This video offers a different perspective, which involves...
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Medium plans to launch a consumer subscription product this quarter
Medium CEO Ev Williams announced today at Upfront Summit that his company will launch a consumer subscription product, with the first version coming this quarter. This could help develop an additional...
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What happens when you dump the App Store?
In what amounts to one of the purest and most interesting experiments in assessing value of Mac OS’s App Store the founder of Rogue Amoeba posted a description of what happened when he pulled his app...
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