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by DaniFong 17y ago
To be clear, there's no checkbox associated with water vapor causing a runaway warming cycle. The ipcc radiative forcing metric pegs the contribution at less than 5% of the total positive warming, and cloud alebedo effect, spurred on by the
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Thanks for the response, You seem to have summed up our take on it. Does Matasano offer stock options or profit sharing or run across similar issues? It seems to be the opinion of my partners that saying how many shares are outstanding is j
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Ask HN: Job Offer Stock Options - How Much Should be Disclosed?
9 points by DaniFong 17y ago|8 comments
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by DaniFong 17y ago
It worked very well for me ultimately (honestly I don't know where I'd be if I struggled through highschool), but comes with a word of caution. http://daniellefong.com/2008/05/15/advice-to-the-bright-and-...
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by DaniFong 17y ago
My company, LightSail Energy, started as a simple question: whether enough power could be recovered froma garage roof to power a daily commute. It's now a small startup that's raised money from a top VC, we have a working prototype and exce
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The Nine Eyes of Google Street View(artfagcity.com)
54 points by DaniFong 17y ago|12 comments
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Not at this point: we're not focussing on the design of materials, but their application. We are, however, interested in tribologists and other seal experts.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
My startup, LightSail Energy, Inc. is an exciting, well-funded startup in the $100 billion field of green tech energy storage. We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are seeking to fill several Mechanical Engineering positions. Ap
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LightSail Energy is hiring Mechanical Engineers
6 points by DaniFong 17y ago|0 comments
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by DaniFong 17y ago
This study by Catalyst may contradict your first proposal -- it shows quite a clear trend between increasing Fortune Rank and an increasing percentage of women directors (and corporate officers, to a lesser extent.) http://www.catalyst.org
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Perhaps more closely 'executive supervision and monitoring is undesirable when the monitoring is done by people bound from the top, such as shareholders on boards, or top executives on underlings.' From the abstract: "This negative effect i
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Another alternative explanation: Female directors disrupt the existing, and lazier, board atmosphere with their better attendance records and stricter monitoring. Social friction, or even a low level power struggle emerges, in the worst cas
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by DaniFong 17y ago
To intercept the expected comments that these contests have nothing to do with real world skill (in programming, not 'cracking'), Steve Newman, cofounder of Writely, was a top competitor on TopCoder, as was Adam De'Angelo, previously CTO of
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I'm not an expert in the area: my reference is an old copy of the SF Argonaut I found in the doctor's office. There it said that the majority of independently wealthy women in the early days of San Francisco were single or widowed, and the
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Due to intricacies of the NYC tenure structure, Stuyvesant doesn't even have particularly good teachers -- they get many teacher who are essentially retiring and want students who will teach themselves. It hasn't prevented the school from p
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by DaniFong 17y ago
That's a pretty warped depiction of 'the feminist narrative,' and in any case exceptions don't make the rule. In California, in the 1850's, for example, it was determined that any property of a married woman's was legally the property of he
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by DaniFong 17y ago
He3 is a fuel that can be used for aneutronic nuclear fusion -- a type of nuclear fusion with far less of a radioactive flux putting less demands on the wall material. The moon is one of the only sources (apart from the solar wind). Which i
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I'd like to see a ballpark figure for how much water these small villages could use. The recovery of quite clean water from the moisture in the atmosphere is a useful byproduct of the compressed air energy storage system we're developing; o
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I approach this in the same pattern. There are some technological tricks that have recently made it much easier, though. In addition to Arxiv and preprints I can find online, there's Google Scholar and Amazon Previews (I'm still missing m
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How does our language influence the way we think?(edge.org)
8 points by DaniFong 17y ago|1 comments
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by DaniFong 17y ago
This seems far better attributed to the drive of certain ethnic groups to sustain upward mobility in a stratified society, than to any disregard intrinsic qualities of craft.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Moshe spawned this essay the first time he appeared on HN; maybe it still has some relevance. I wish him the best. http://daniellefong.com/2008/05/15/advice-to-the-bright-and-...
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Baby chimps, raised responsively by humans, ace IQ tests(dsc.discovery.com)
4 points by DaniFong 17y ago|0 comments
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Steven Chu Addresses the National Labs(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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The World Without Technology(kk.org)
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by DaniFong 18y ago
The issue with speed I have comes from the heavy numerical use I'm putting it to: strongly coupled nonlinear differential equations. What worries me is that NDSolve is 1400 pages long, written mostly in C, and relies heavily upon the compil
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by DaniFong 18y ago
RE: My failed tweets, Richard Fateman's reviews of Mathematica are at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/mma.pdf http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/mma6rev.pdf MockMMA is at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/mma1.6/
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Mathematica has completely blown me away with its power; both in the environment and the programming language. I am, however, slightly disconcerted by the separation of interpreter level Mathematica code and the compiled C code that it link
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Your analysis fails to distinguish between programming and other competitive fields, such as law and academic science. But the proportion of women in those fields is increasing, whereas it's decreasing in programming.
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Malcolm Gladwell: Designs for Working (2000)(gladwell.com)
1 points by DaniFong 18y ago|0 comments

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