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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cfbe04ff4b85a15daeeac6ee8bca&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e4dceb6040c2842b2729668e6381&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d83997c74e8c91f1abbb9a09eb06&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d83ec589411195e7de7cf8b3ca7f&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85de81fd194ede99e7668b119e78a6&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d1751d3645078095319bbf4a1f35&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cf4563d64f28b61c18cfca30a8ab&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e24da1d1409bbb83c52f909b92fe&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85c96460cf4beaa89425942e434d61&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e70558794636b65dab33a8c63028&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d424bae345eb8ff3b3a94247a417&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Patriot Act Section Goes Way Too Farhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628531Via: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/letters/2015/05/29/letter-patriotact-sunset-senate-spying/28185561/"Section 215 of the Patriot Act is scheduled to sunset on Monday. This law was secretly interpreted to allow the mass surveillance of who you talk to on the phone. Such information can be deeply intimate and private: Consider, for instance, what you could infer from a record of numerous calls to a local oncology center and pharmacies. Section 215 is a pointless, expensive intrusion into the private life of every American. On May 22, the Senate voted against extending Section 215. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has indicated he will bring it up again for a lastminute vote on Sunday. I write to encourage local readers to ask their senators, especially McConnell and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, not to extend these surveillance provisions because they run counter to the spirit and letter of the Constitution. Your say: Submit a letter to the editor (http://static.cincinnati.com/leMay 30, 2015 1:47 AM
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Advice needed: what's a destitute hacker to do?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3715834First of all I ask that anyone commenting please leave off criticism of how I got into the situation I did. Trust me, I've already thought over millions of times how I must be an idiot to have gotten into the situation I'm in, and if I could go back and make different decisions I would. But right now I'm not exactly in the best shape to handle criticism, and don't need to be convinced of anything. What I really need is advice for improving my situation, or any info about programs or employers, etc. that I don't know about. I never had a course in high school or college on how to deal with poverty, even though that might have been really helpful right about now.I graduated from a state university in 2009 with a degree in Computer Science. I graduated with honors and a 3.81 gpa. My gpa could've been a lot higher, but I struggled with untreated clinical-level anxiety throughout school which lead to severe procrastination or simply not turning in certain projects. I got a 1520 on my SATs, Mar 16, 2012 11:47 PM
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Ask HN: Review my idea - Hosting SEOhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690713Background: This idea was borne out of an internal tool I created to figure out and validate SEO strategies for websites I own. I figure since it works for me, I could try and sell this to a different industry/niche - in this case 'hosting'. This tool currently does not have an UI - I run sql queries directly on the mysql server to get my information. I have created a mockup UI to show how I expect it to work.UI for explaining the app functionality - http://axemantech.com/HostingSEO/Pain point it solves: Currently there are many seo apps that show serp rankings, on page and off page seo stats but seting up the system is generally painful. I dislike having to add keywords for my website, add data for my competitors, etc. This generally happens because these SEO apps are generic.How to solve this: Since this app focuses on a specific niche, it will already be setup with all the potential keywords for the niche (and will continously add new ones). All the data that the customers (people pMar 11, 2012 5:25 PM
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Ask HN: Does explaining your program's complete design reduce sales?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3674312I'm working on my very first Android application; and, I've been considering talking through the different parts of my design; and how and where my code is growing organically to support the different ideas that I have.Since I'd basically be explaining every feature and design decision I make from here on out, this leads me to a question. Would I lose sales from my application? I'm very interested in selling it.It's an active wallpaper that plays the Game of Life. I know the market already has one, but I was going to be adding more features to it that would make it more interesting and perhaps a good wallpaper.Mar 7, 2012 4:49 AM
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Ask HN: What's the point with so many stupid people in the world?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2997502Have you ever tried to sit and write code in a bar? It's nice. It's a hell of a lot more conducive to creativity than working in an office cubicle. You got your drink, you got your smoke. You sit at a table with wifi and a plug and you're invincible until about six drinks in. You look out over the patio at the mountains and you think...this is what life's all about.Then at about 6pm the soccer game starts. Suddenly, the owner of the bar comes out and unplugs your laptop, turns on the TV, and cranks the volume up to 7000000. Even though there's no one there. You say, "Man, that's too loud." And he says, "when they show up, that's what they're gonna want."Sure enough, about 3 minutes before the game starts, the patio goes from empty to packed. People are trying to move your table, your laptop bag. Then suddenly they're all staring, slackjawed, at this stupid TV that's blasting the same shitty commercials it was showing yesterday, last week, last month.HN readers, I'm sitting in that bar Sep 14, 2011 7:22 PM
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List of Important Reasons Why Employees Must Stay Organizedhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89804b56524cdba1a23ae249870461&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2Flist-important-reasons-employees-must-stay-organized-15849.html&c=13954954658355191133&mkt=en-usWhen your employees are organized, your business productivity increases. Your employees will work more quickly and with more confidence, and your clients will be impressed. These impacts of ...Jul 31, 2011 11:07 PM
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Ask HN: What is Gravity?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629794While watching a documentary that mentioned gravity (forgive me the particulars escape me at the moment) my 8yo son reached across my lap and tapped the space-bar pausing the video. He then turned toward me and asked, ‘what is gravity?’Now, in our house we require explanations for actions because we are becoming, sadly too late in life, convinced that being on purpose is paramount. Because it is our opinion that if you do not understand, even at the most base level (epistemological questions aside), why you are doing something then you will never have any power over what you do. When any of us does something that results in negative consequences we try to be in the habit of either tracing down the root of our reasoning or admitting that we had none.To this end we have made much of the distinction between description and explanation. Briefly; all explanations include description but not the reverse. When we ask one another for an explanation and instead receive only description it has bAug 24, 2010 2:04 PM
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Ask HN: Does changing locales to fix productivity doldrums work for you?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757407The article about the creative bliss of moving to an attractive, cheaper foreign environment to bootstrap a startup:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=756570... got me thinking on a somewhat tangential question: Does moving around to change your environment actually help you work? Or is it solving the wrong problem the wrong way?From a personal state-of-mind angle that the author is pushing, I guess I'm not entirely sold on the fact that a change of scenery will let a hundred flowers of creativity bloom - in a sustainable way - to an extent that confers upon a startup a meaningful economic advantage. The cost differences might, but I'm not so sure about the aesthetic/spiritual quality.I've moved around a lot in my 23 years. I emigrated from Russia with my parents when I was 6, and moved around the US several times during childhood. Within the last few years spent in Georgia, I've moved several times within the general area I inhabited, including twice within Atlanta. When I was young,Aug 12, 2009 5:53 AM
