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Govannonon The Many Ways Google Harvests Data

>Nope. When you enter someone else’s place of business, you have no expectation of privacy.

This is only somewhat true. At the spa for instance, you very much have an expectation of privacy. Practically speaking it is sort of contextual? Even at say a restaurant, I would be both surprised and disconcerted to discovered the business had recorded the entire conversation that occurred at my table, even though I would be unsurprised by a bit of eavesdropping.

Govannonon California Losing Residents via Domestic Migration

>CA has the highest poverty rates in the country

By what metric? looking at the census data, it appears the poverty rate of California, while not great, is certainly not the worst.

https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/saipe/saipe.html?s_ap...

Govannonon Introducing the new Snapchat

>what about regular pictures? They’re supposed to take candid moments of the real world

I'm not sure that is an accurate representation of photography as a medium, nor has it ever been.

Govannonon Blum: “The proof is wrong. I shall elaborate precisely what the mistake is.”

Formal Science?

Govannonon Welcome, ACLU

Not exactly. THe ACLU actually does work in the area being discussed [0]. I believe the criticism is that people did not donate for that reason, not that the ACLU doesn't do anything about it; the ACLU does quite a bit.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice

Govannonon New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess

As it turns out, Adderall is amphetamine.

Govannonon Waymo: Google's self-driving car company

That example isn't even compressed, which could drastically reduce its size.

Govannonon Understanding Aesthetics with Deep Learning

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Govannon on Fungus in humans identified for first time as key factor in Crohn's disease

Not to be obtuse, but wouldn't what is basically an anthropomorphic doughnut be fine in two dimensions? Or do you just mean that that would not likely be the digestive tract of such a thing?

Govannon on What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists

Possible linguistic pedantry; he used "a" set of natural numbers, but "the" set of real numbers. It's equally difficult to represent the set of natural numbers.

Govannon on Microsoft announces major commitment to Apache Spark

I would be surprised if it didn't end up being C#, but I have no real foundation for that sentiment.

Govannon on Hyperloop Technologies, a startup trying to build the Hyperloop

To be fair, the practice of flying in fish from Tsukiji could easily be more related to prestige than quality. There are three major fish markets in Tokyo, and nobody cares about two of them (Kanda and Koto).

Govannon on American Gut Project – Open-source human microbiome analysis

They quantify the difference in samples here:
HMP GG PGP AGP Total Samples 4,788 531 683 4,658
http://americangut.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mod1_main....

Govannon on The Hedonic Treadmill

Mesopotamia would have had farming [0], but if you consider the requirements just a group of people, I think there were settlements of sorts back well into the paleolithic. but not kings-with-castles-and-princesses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution

Govannon on A New Map for America

I think putting San Diego in a different group than Los Angeles was also rather odd...
Edit: now that I look at it, I would also question their "Urban Corridor" from Los Angeles to Las Vegas... unless they mean people travel between them easily. That corridor is mostly desert.

Govannon on Anal probes are fine, if you've got nothing to hide [pdf]

We could also just start flipping coins. Probably nearly as effective and far cheaper.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-06/news/ct-met-ca...

Govannon on How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography prosecution

>but the Federal Government is completely sitting on it. Arguably in a democracy we Americans should all be blaming ourselves for that. Because of the whole voting/paying attention/holding elected officials accountable thing. The Federal Government is representative of our collective ability to do that well, plus our historic ability to do that well I suppose.

Govannon on AWS and Zombies

Technically viruses are not considered "alive" either

Govannon on Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

Plan A, while fairly conventional, got shot down by the IRS.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-09/yahoo-s-ali...

Govannon on Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter

And they are logograms, or at least they compose a logographic system.

Govannon on SF plans 120-day annual short term rental caps

I think it's more an issue of proportion and scale than number of towers. If there are 8 new projects, but the population looks to grow enough to fill 10 new projects, then there still need to be more.
http://www.spur.org/blog/2015-02-20/top-analysts-predict-ano...

Govannon on UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository

I'm no longer a student there, but Shannon Alfaro was great at anything parser/language design related, and Gopi Meenakshisundaram was great for graphics. Eric Mjolsness is probably brilliant but everything I took from him was very dense.

Govannon on White House Names Google’s Megan Smith the Next CTO of the US

I'm really happy this position was given to a woman.

Govannon on An eloquent comment about FCC's Net Neutrality proposal

"If the FCC successfully reclassifies broadband under Title II, private investment and important innovation would come to a standstill."
My big issue with this was that within the context of this comment, the above quote is unfounded speculation? As far as I can tell at least.

Govannon on U.S. Daily Temperature Anomalies 1964-2013

That makes sense; my only thought was that if you are graphing "anomalies" you might want to filter out non-anomalous behavior. Higher highs or lower lows are actually to some degree expected in those years. I suppose it could be best not to control for oscillatory behavior though as the affect of any climate shift on those oscillations is possibly not insignificant.

Govannon on U.S. Daily Temperature Anomalies 1964-2013

Loved It!
One comment I might have is that your model assumes the average temperature on a given day of the year is constant across years. I would have to spend some time thinking of how to control for it, but have you considered the impact of climactic oscillation? Your data seems to reflect these patterns to some degree, and removing/reducing them might make the overall shift clearer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_El_Ni%C3%B1o%E2%...

Govannon on The “Housing Affordability Crisis”

This works great in dense cities with good mass transit. Some cities like Los Angeles virtually require auto ownership; this would just further increase costs in low income neighborhoods not served by effective mass transit.

Govannon on Why You Should Never Use MongoDB

> Some stuff may want data from across relations (who owns this thing, and what is their email), but that's pretty infrequent
That might be a shaky assumption. Speaking as someone who works on a CMS, content usually has an author, and people accessing that content might be interested in them.