jacobsheehy

10 ms·

31.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
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 Many of the top weather apps [1] do nothing but display sometimes-outdated weather data in poorly formatted tables. Frankly the
32.
Show HN: Sensor data and sky photos for ML: new take on a weather app (Android)(play.google.com)
3 points by jacobsheehy 8y ago|4 comments
33.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
Alright, I did remember the incident off the top of my head, I abide by your weird rules. 1) The photos are fake, I did not say the Quartz was the source of the information that the photos are fake, I was showing the photos. Are you suggest
34.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
That one tabloid that showed those fake, grossed out "images" of Hillary during the last election cycle. Not linking the image because your requested no links allowed. These were displayed by the millions at grocery store checkout
35.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
> We just assume every noteworthy image is fake unless Who is we? How do you know this? Citation needed. I think it is a very small portion of the population who actively operates under this assumption for photos. I would guess 5-15% but
36.
On Reddit, Russian propagandists try new tricks(nbcnews.com)
1 points by jacobsheehy 8y ago|0 comments
37.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
That is the broken window fallacy. You cannot support growth by destroying things and using that as a reason to buy more.
38.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
> What would these companies be getting sued for exactly in your mind? I was responding to a comment, sorry if this message got lost. Companies who do not spend their money according to stockholder wishes get sued, correct? For misuse of
39.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
This is what gets me though and it's so confusing. If I were a stockholder of a big megacorp and they weren't spending their money on looking climate change solutions - especially the corps causing the most damage (due to future
40.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
- Poor leadership (me). Inability to align team on a common goal (!), inability to communicate clearly about plans, etc. I learned that I'm not the leader I thought I was. - Canadian business. Means US B2B enterprise checks get stopp
41.
Weather Timeline Unpublished from the Play Store(weathertimeline.com)
2 points by jacobsheehy 8y ago|0 comments
42.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
I'm building 'virtual weather stations' out of disparate, unused data sources. This effort is to create new data sources that describe our atmosphere. I don't know if any of it will be useful but I cannot find much else
43.
Show HN: Weather data created by phones for machine learning classifier training(play.google.com)
7 points by jacobsheehy 8y ago|1 comments
44.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
This is absolutely not true. People don't know that. Ask 2000 people on the street in a southern red state what their contribution to climate change is. I bet you get 0s back. "Taht fake thing isn't real" - "My car
45.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
I was banned from HN some time after I made that post (for something else) and should not be posting any more (sorry mods, I'll stop). This will be my final post. Here's a news article about it (probably). https://www.t
46.
by jacobsheehy 8y ago
It reads like a long defensive argument, "how else did you expect us to make huge sums of money"? It is exactly as tone-deaf and legalese as you would expect. There is no new information here; Facebook says legal contracts actuall
47.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
> Being at the forefront of science and technology is what helps to maintain our position as a/the global financial leader. This is what Republicans understand and care about and why science is funded. Your post here specifically st
48.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
Is it the Democratic Party's position that GMOs are bad and so are vaccinations? I hadn't heard this before and I think it's completely untrue. You took my quote out of context. I was saying that it is mostly Republicans and
49.
Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired(cnbc.com)
593 points by jacobsheehy 9y ago|186 comments
50.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
> People of any party tend to be anti-scientific when the science in question contradicts their party line. [citation needed]. That's just not true. > Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. More false words have never been spoke
51.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
> You've never heard Barack Obama speak on TV? Nope. Not about this anyway. > http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35209628/ns/technology_and_science . What's that supposed to mean? It does not show anyth
52.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
> So... they only fund science because they care about how investment in science improves our lives? I'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion from what I wrote. I wrote the opposite. Many Republicans are seemingly interested
53.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
> Before attacking huge swathes of the population especially about their ignorance Wait, what? I never did that! The closest thing to an 'attack' I can imagine anyone reading from my post would have to have been about > Repu
54.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
Okay, but you're still missing my point. It's not about the specific amount of money that is spent. Ever. It's about what the money is spent on and where it goes. I very much suspect that the Republicans who are in favour of
55.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
> There are many Democrats who feel that space exploration is a waste of money that would be better spent on social programs. That may be so, but I've never met one or heard from one. They would seem to me to be such a small minori
56.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
I'm unable to watch the video right now, I'll check it out in a bit. But I can say right away that you are not responding at all to what I said. I'm aware that Republicans love to fund science, but usually that only happens w
57.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
In the 1990's, a survey was done and found that something like 60% of Americans thought that the NASA budget was 25% of the entire federal budget (it's like 0.4% today). This is done very specifically by propaganda just like you m
58.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
> You miss the point that a satisfied person has little incentive for activism. This is interesting - what do you mean by this? I'm not sure what you mean in this context, but in an overall, general sense I strongly disagree. Certai
59.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
I think you may have misread the article. It does not present the data you think it does. > In countries with the highest levels of gender equality, where women are least likely to experience any of these negative forces That is absolut
60.
by jacobsheehy 9y ago
The author thinks low-income people's incomes are rising and that is false. The rest of the article is fallacious because of this.

More ›