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by willj 7y ago
Trees take about 10 years[1] to reach their peak CO2 consumption. That’s a long time to wait. Also, trees and other plants seem to be decreasing in how much carbon they are absorbing, compared to what they did a decade ago. [2] [1] http:&#
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by willj 7y ago
They probably mean via a Google Form. That’s a fairly safe way (in my experience) to add inputs from many users concurrently.
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by willj 7y ago
Naive question by someone who’s never started a business: when bootstrapping companies while keeping your day job, how do you deal with intellectual property clauses in employment contracts, such that your employer owns the “inventions” you
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by willj 7y ago
Might be worthy trying out nodebook [1] which at least enforces the forward directionality you mentioned. Also polynote by Netflix, as a user below mentioned. [1] https://github.com/stitchfix/nodebook
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by willj 7y ago
I'm glad they wrote about this, but it's certainly not breaking news or anything. Back in 2016, EPA released a report [1] that was years in the making, which covered the history, science, and effects of hydraulic fracturing in the
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by willj 7y ago
Everyone is oblivious to their surroundings. Whether it’s because they’re looking down at their smartphone or listening to a podcast or music on their AirPods, people aren’t paying attention to what’s happening around them, and they are wal
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by willj 7y ago
Isn't this different because with fb and google you're signing a EULA?
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by willj 7y ago
I'm super interested to know the answer to this question. I imagine it's more interesting than just uninstall/reinstall.
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by willj 8y ago
Context: I work at a company that makes a CRM product. The people that use our tool day-to-day are employees of our clients, and so the marketing stage is over: their employer bought the product, and now they are paid to use it. What I&#x27
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Ask HN: Is there a place for A/B testing with users paid to use your product?
1 points by willj 8y ago|1 comments
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by willj 8y ago
Citation for "designed to handle the strain" of heavy metals?
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by willj 8y ago
As someone who worked in this field for several years, and worked closely with EPA, the biggest problem is the politicization of funding for EPA. Year after year its funding gets slashed, or at the very least stays the same and so is eroded
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by willj 8y ago
So here is a little bit of explanation (which it sounds like you may already know). The general reason is that the cost reflects a lot of factors, and, if number of rows + available resources (CPU, memory, IO) + locks are constant, for the
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by willj 8y ago
Curious (possibly naive) question: isn't there a fundamental difference between the goals behind creating models with ML vs the "old-fashioned" way? That is, in modern ML applications, you're creating a model with dozens
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by willj 8y ago
Oh wow! I use the web app a lot, so it makes sense I've not seen it, since their web app is a dumbed down version.
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by willj 8y ago
I haven't seen this mentioned in the article or comments here, but an article I read (can't find it right now) mentioned that advertisers prefer podcasts on Spotify to Apple, because Spotify can give them data on how many users ar
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by willj 8y ago
I think the thing that is concerning to me is not so much that users don't care about the envelope from, so much as it is that other email providers' anti-spam measures may block my email if some spammer start spoofing me. Then, p
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by willj 8y ago
This freaks me out too, and it turns out it's true: here's a mention on their Bug Bounty page [1]: "Email spoofing bugs do not qualify. We are quite aware that users can set arbitrary From addresses on emails, that our SPF re
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by willj 8y ago
Neat! I'll have to check this out.
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by willj 8y ago
One problem I'm stumbling into is that multiple projects and experiments require the same source data, which may be several gigabytes in size. While it would be nice to have each project folder be self-contained, this isn't practi
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Ask HN: Data scientists, how do you organize and store your data files?
3 points by willj 8y ago|3 comments
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by willj 8y ago
There are two things in my (and many others' minds) about why his confirmation is an egregious "ramming through" by the Republicans that have many people outraged. 1) He is not entitled to this seat. If you were interviewing
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by willj 8y ago
97,000 pounds of dioxin would kill lots of people. Some compounds are unbelievably toxic.
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by willj 9y ago
That's a really cool idea. Thanks!
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by willj 9y ago
I made (Let's) All Mine, a site that I hoped would pay for a master's degree in statistics. The idea was inspired by The Million Dollar Homepage [2] which was an experiment in what qualifies as a website. Essentially, that site to
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First week of 2018 x 1M Miners = Grad School
3 points by willj 9y ago|0 comments
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by willj 9y ago
OK, I updated it so that users can have a custom name instead of just the pseudo-anonymous hashed IP addresses. Thanks again for the idea!
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by willj 9y ago
Hmm, interesting idea. The only thing I'd be worried about is moderating those messages to be "appropriate". I'll think about this more. Thanks for the idea.
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by willj 9y ago
See the comment above, and on my website. Yes- this is an experiment akin to and inspired by The Million Dollar Homepage. I don't know if it will work, but it's an idea.
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by willj 9y ago
Sorry, do the links below the miner not work? Yes, it is another miner, but the idea was to flip the idea on its head. Instead of being a site that annoyingly is also using your CPU cycles without your permission, this site is just a miner

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