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New comment by knice in "Positive association between altitude and suicide in U.S. counties"

knice — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:16:52 +0000

Would higher altitude not correlate with colder, gray, gloomier (highly scientific term) winters?

Coastal fog linked to high levels of mercury found in mountain lions

knice — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:12:34 +0000

Article URL: https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/11/wilmers-mercury.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21640254

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New comment by knice in "How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System"

knice — Fri, 04 May 2018 14:58:50 +0000

I imagine the 20th century was the worst time for it because we had more sophisticated data collection and analysis methods, but failed to recognize our own inadequacies when using those tools to draw conclusions.

Kind of like social media algorithms today.

New comment by knice in "ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source"

knice — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:57:26 +0000

This paper by one of the team members has more detail about the process used to narrow down the search field to a list of galaxies and identify possible locations of the event:

[edit]: link to the exact paragraph that discusses the method http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/10/13/scien...

New comment by knice in "ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source"

knice — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 17:36:36 +0000

Apologies, I'm not one of the researchers involved in the discovery. I'm just the web developer who built the announcement site for UCSC. Ryan Foley will participate in a Reddit AMA tomorrow (Tuesday, 10/17). I imagine your questions might get answered there.

New comment by knice in "ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source"

knice — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:36:43 +0000

There are before and after comparison photos here:

http://reports.news.ucsc.edu/neutron-star-merger/media/

New comment by knice in "ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source"

knice — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:33:15 +0000

A team from UC Santa Cruz used the data from the Swope telescope in Chile to locate the source of the gravitation waves and observe the light from the event. The data provides evidence of how gold and other heavy elements formed in the universe.

http://reports.news.ucsc.edu/neutron-star-merger/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5EkI5qbYYc

Full disclosure: I work at UC Santa Cruz and built the site linked above. :-)

New comment by knice in "Enough with the dead butterflies"

knice — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:33:47 +0000

I once had a job making ice cream and it bothered me that I had to add yellow food coloring to the banana ice cream. We used real bananas and didn't add banana flavor. But I was told to add yellow color anyway.

New comment by knice in "I can’t just stand by and watch Mark Zuckerberg destroy the internet"

knice — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:46:39 +0000

It is not in Facebook's monetary interest to identify or remove fake or questionable news from our news feeds. By it's nature, fake news is emotional. It causes an emotional, gut-level reaction ("OMG, must like and share this!") that promotes virality. Virality === $$$ for Facebook. I imagine they have already experimented with news feed filters that reduce noise and I'm sure the result was reduced engagement. As long as Facebook profits from attention, we should expect them to be tepid at best about any change that reduces their share of our attention.

New comment by knice in "Autoprefixer 6.1 is out with CSS-in-JS and :read-only support"

knice — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 16:58:51 +0000

It doesn't necessarily seem _political_ to use flag mottos for release titles.

New comment by knice in "Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'"

knice — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:46:39 +0000

I think they see this as a key differentiator between iOS/iCloud and Google services and they want the public to know about it. In a post-Snowden world, it's worth noting the difference between platforms that prioritize user privacy and platforms that share user data with advertisers in return for additional services.

New comment by knice in "The Mind of Marc Andreessen"

knice — Mon, 11 May 2015 14:01:28 +0000

[And on video](http://www.cnbc.com/id/101733893)

New comment by knice in "I would have hired Doug, but..."

knice — Thu, 07 May 2015 14:56:03 +0000

Thank you for a thoughtful, detailed response. It seems like a mix of job exposure and natural curiosity led you from language to language.

Throughout this thread, I've noted a distinct lack of dogma about everyone's evolution as a programmer. While I imagine there was some of it during the popular phase of many of these languages, it's nice to see mostly pragmatism in everyone's career journey.

New comment by knice in "I would have hired Doug, but..."

knice — Thu, 07 May 2015 02:10:36 +0000

Just curious, as you moved from language to language do you think there were any patterns as far as the timing of your moves? Did you jump into new languages as they emerged or wait for them to reach a stable mindshare within your peers? Or perhaps waited until you needed to pick up a new language in order to pay the bills?

New comment by knice in "Science’s Biggest Fail"

knice — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:36:30 +0000

Asking science to refute marketing claims is a huge distraction for science.

New comment by knice in "US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview"

knice — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:44:34 +0000

I don't think your definition of Godwin's Law matches its stated definition. However, I want your definition to get forked into its own law because it is an incredibly astute observation.

New comment by knice in "Success at Work, Failure at Home"

knice — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 06:25:46 +0000

It seems like I read a story like this several times each month. It is good advice. We all know it deep down. Yet the "I'll sleep when I'm dead" culture of constant work persists. How do we change that? I ask honestly as someone who is reformed. It took nearly losing my marriage for me to establish balance in my life and work. How do we set up an enduring culture of respect for actual balance?

New comment by knice in "Dear Spike Lee"

knice — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 22:01:12 +0000

I was thinking the same thing. Always, always, always have a contract in place. I really feel for this guy, but the way this went down, he provided them with his best work on the hope they would then reasonably compensate him.

A contract, negotiated up-front, might have prevented the agency from taking advantage of him.

New comment by knice in "Facebook Messenger 3.0"

knice — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:27:38 +0000

When you launch the updated Messenger app on iOS, it asks for permission to use your contacts. The alert message was sufficiently creepy that I didn't give it permission to "sync contacts" with Facebook.

New comment by knice in "A friend died nearly 2 years ago. I had no idea"

knice — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:57:47 +0000

This was my thought too. The OP's friend seemed to be responding to each communication with leading statements and not once does it elicit a "tell me more" or "Oh goodness Mike, what's wrong? Is there anything I can do?"