jacobn

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   by jacobn 14y ago

   Electric cars are second cars - the commuter one, not the road trip one. They currently don't make sense for road trips, absolutely. But they make a ton of sense for commuting, most likely even in cold climates. It's an interesting and broa
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   by jacobn 14y ago

   Ah, sorry, should have been more clear: I'm on 2.3.x
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   by jacobn 14y ago

   If I've disabled the JSON MIME type as input, a la the workaround to the XML issue a couple of weeks ago, am I safe against this vulnerability?
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   by jacobn 14y ago

   So I've applied the workaround, which is great, but how do I test that the workaround is indeed working? I realize that providing an in-depth answer is tantamount to publishing an exploit how-to, but some reasonable way to privately test th
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   by jacobn 14y ago

   Relevant: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/open-minded-conservat... Supposedly based on an actual study - I'll let you vet the sources ;)
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   by jacobn 14y ago

   I have a website that gives freebies (=$$$) to new signups, so allowing throwaway accounts makes people do things like sign up for 100 accounts. Not giving freebies is of course an option, but then there is goodwill lost on that end instead
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   by jacobn 14y ago

   The extremely high tax rates in the fifties and sixties give a misleading impression of the overall tax burden for high earners: http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732470510...
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   Dear Internet: please move the share buttons from the web page to the browser

   93 points by jacobn 14y ago|90 comments
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   by jacobn 14y ago

   Terrain mode shows it more clearly: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&ll=24... (you'll want to view all of the maps linked to in this sub-thread)
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    by jacobn 14y ago

    > "All three of these tests were null results. (i.e. No significant difference in aggregate purchases between either of the two options" (for goog&payp vs stripe, and several other combos) This is a very interesting result. I would
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    by jacobn 14y ago

    I think he understands it rather well - it's "complex simple software". You can think of any software as consisting of a set of problems of varying degree of "difficulty". Sort them in ascending order and plot them. This graph will give a v
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    by jacobn 14y ago

    What if there's a symmetric relationship - I.e. our "parent" looks to us like just another black hole that we, not knowing better, would consider a "child" of our universe. Hawking radiation in one is from stuff falling into the black hole
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    by jacobn 15y ago

    NOAA has an api ( http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=San+Franci... click on the red XML button down right on the page) As someone else mentioned, so does api.met.no (they power yr.no). World Weather Online and Weather Centr
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    by jacobn 15y ago

    I hear you about flash, HTML-only "simple forecast" is in the pipeline, so do check back. (disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)
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    by jacobn 15y ago

    Yes, yahoo's geocoding is not perfect... Searching for just "Vilnius" does the right thing though, and takes you to: http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;a=Republic_of_Lithuania/... (disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)
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    by jacobn 15y ago

    We recently added some very simple keyboard controls: the arrow keys (left-right: pan, up-down: zoom), that might alleviate that problem a little. Yes, you need to click in the app once to give it focus before it registers the keyboard clic
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    by jacobn 15y ago

    ... and most computer languages are turing equivalent, yet people prefer different ones ;) Seriously, yes, all the data is freely available in some combination of text and graphics on the internets - the pitch here is the presentation, aggr
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    by jacobn 15y ago

    The authorization request that the google maps flash SDK issues to google fails when it's issued as an https request. The HTTPS everywhere plugin forcibly changes the request type, thereby making it fail. AFAIK there's no way to fix it on o
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    by jacobn 15y ago

    We've got a simplified version that's html-only in the pipeline, should be out "any day now", so do check back. (disclosure: I'm one of the devs on the site)
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    by jacobn 15y ago

    Thanks! I guess that pretty much answers that question ;)
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    Could Netflix circumvent streaming limitations by remote-mounting the DVDs?

    1 points by jacobn 15y ago|2 comments
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    Fisker Karma ships (electric vehicle w range extender)(venturebeat.com)

    3 points by jacobn 15y ago|0 comments
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    by jacobn 15y ago

    Ah, those are different faint lines ;) The forecast lines don't currently have tool tips, but the averages do. Will add. (I'm one of the devs on the site)
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    by jacobn 15y ago

    http://weatherspark.com/#!climatetrends;ws=29939;ctum=0;cth=... http://weatherspark.com/climatetrends
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    by jacobn 16y ago

    Thanks - that's exactly the type of observations we're hoping to enable! Tooltip: Added & deployed, hit reload to get the new app.
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    by jacobn 16y ago

    Thanks! We're working on precipitation accumulation - there are some data fidelity problems that we're trying to solve, then we'll get that in. The horizontal marker is intended for comparing across the series - i.e. does this peak extend f
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    by jacobn 16y ago

    For the far-future accuracy, look at the percentiles. Compare: http://weatherspark.com/#app;a=USA/CA/San_Francisco;t0=01/01... To http://weatherspark.com/#app;a=USA/HI/Honolulu;t0=01/01;t1=1... The temperature spread (10th to 90th perce
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    by jacobn 16y ago

    The far future is the averages (light blue background) - the forecast is only in the "Forecast"-zone (light purple), but perhaps that can be made more clear (e.g. changing 2012 to "Averages" in the x-axis or something similar). Accuracy of
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    by jacobn 16y ago

    For precipitation the prediction & averages are in percent, but the past is in actual hours of precipitation - hence the blockiness for the past (the vertical axis is from 0-1 hours when zoomed in). For clouds it's percent cloud cover,
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    by jacobn 16y ago

    What if interstellar travel is just really hard (= no advanced life form has figured it out, and it might just be impossible/not economical), and whatever signals their civilizations generate just aren't strong enough to be picked up by e.g