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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Deleting content does not seem possible on HN, but you're implying that it is? Once you have posted something and walked away, you cannot delete it from HN.
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
WeatherUnderground was effectively shut down post-purchase. API signup is gone, etc. Terrible transition and no support for prior products.
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
There is a huge amount of unwarranted assumptions and misplaced trust in the President* to follow the advice of his team in this thread. He has made it very clear that he thinks he is the smartest person in the world and doesn't need t
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Yes, your constant downplaying and total denial of the most important technology and political events of the century is very "HN like". Have a great afternoon.
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
> There are so many issues with your comment that I don't know where to begin, but I won't bother addressing all of them because it will just devolve into typical Hn-ness. But I will address the more egregious misstatements you
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Makes it clear that this is not a technology problem, like most of the commenters here are assuming. There is no technology fix for a President* who actively tries to get foreign countries to destabilize our democratic elections. If they do
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Mods, can we get Russia added back to the headline? It has been removed and is causing confusion in the comments.
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
A physically violent and currently-attacking-us Russia, spying on the communications of the US President*, is _not_ a good thing. This is a very clear military threat.
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
> If this is truly the root cause of the issue, it should be relatively simple to rectify. I think it's pretty clear, with the most charitable possible reading of this article and your comment, that the root cause is not an issue
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
I don't think the technology of choice here is the problem. It's that the President doesn't care if he is compromised, but that he sold the nation on how unsafe Hillary would be with communications. Pick any tech you like for
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Smartphone Pressure Collection and Bias Correction Using Machine Learning(journals.ametsoc.org)
2 points by jacobsheehy 8y ago|0 comments
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Daily-life design pattern, meaning a general idea or plan that can be applied across many things in life, thus simplifying a routine or otherwise enabling improvements. An example might be, improving the parallization in the way a kitchen w
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Ask HN: What daily-life design patterns do you use that could be productized?
2 points by jacobsheehy 8y ago|2 comments
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A network of smartphones can improve short-term weather forecasts(insidescience.org)
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
> Would they be so eager to take that high road? In my opinion it has been made clear that doing business honestly and with morals will win in the long run. So yes they would have taken "that high road" because, if you want to
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Yes that is part of the plan! I will send you a message when the time gets closer. Thanks! Edit: or you can email me to stay in touch, jacob@allclearweather.com. Cheers!
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
You are fully correct of course - excellent points!
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
They do offer a free API but it is nowhere near as full-featured as WU. They have many tens of thousands fewer weather stations that report current conditions, for example. The variables returned are fewer when it comes to conditions and fo
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
There was no way of knowing it was abandoned. I am taking a guess at the length of time ago it happened; my guess is informed by lack of quality of service and public-facing updates. It's reasonable to assume that the API degraded in q
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Unfortunately I don't have specific code examples. I was operating in stealth mode at the time and the code was closed source. I could dig some examples probably later today? From memory, data might return normal json but with "&q
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
IBM did not handle this well. This official announcement is months late. The API was abandoned months or years ago but they were still taking people's money for it. When they finally cut off the payment form and removed their API plans
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Didn't have the website up then, was too early sorry about that! Thanks for your feedback!
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Well, all pictures require moderation before users see them. I'm investigating using one of the cloud offerings from MS or IBM that does bad-photo-detection so I can offload much of that responsibility before I have to see any photos o
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Thank you!!
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Interesting. Has there been any update in 3 years? I honestly struggle to find up-to-date information about what other weather companies are doing with sensors and ML. If they are still using ML and still using the sensor data, I wonder if
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Here is some context. This is a hobby project. I make All Clear Weather (Android, US-only for now, see below for why) because I demand better of weather apps. Many of the top weather apps on Android do nothing but display sometimes-outdated
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Show HN: All Clear Weather – creating new live weather datasets with ML(allclearweather.com)
57 points by jacobsheehy 8y ago|16 comments
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Thanks! 1. I'm definitely just starting simple. My first goal that makes sense to target is: a) quality control algorithms for the data that make b) it possible to do data assimilation into WRF. I would not expect this project or mysel
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Buzz Feed News has a stellar rep.
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by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Citation needed. From what I understand, 1) that theory is incorrect and the death penalty is not seen as a deterrent by potential future criminals (rather it may be the opposite) [citation coming]; and 2) Policymakers who say it is a deter

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