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Jacob Sheehy
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Jacob Sheehy writes Jacob's Blog, a personal blog at jacobsheehy.com about startups and science. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Open source software is important for modern science”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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- Open source software is important for modern science2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-02-03
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I wrote about this recently in post about future startup ideas [1]. Go is young and building an IDE along with its evolution would be amazing. LightTable might be very successful with that, but I imagine the more exciting place for Go IDE experiments could be Android and tablets. As multicore mobile takes over, I think a few years out apps in Go might be a popular thing; and building software on the target platform…
Comment linking /2013/03/living-in-the-future-startup-ideas/
on “Light Table 0.4 released”Submitted A Call for Open Crowdsourcing Platforms as a story · 40 points
HN discussionOkay, time to build drones full of atmosphere sensors! The weather forecast is about to get a lot better....this is excellent news for crowdsourcing remote data about the atmosphere. I've been pulling pressure measurements from smartphones for a while, but a core problem is that a lot of weather develops over areas of low smartphone density. Sending out drone fleets will be a most excellent solution; they're reusabl…
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on “Model aircraft operators free to operate commercially in US, rules federal judge”Submitted Living in the Future: Startup Ideas as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThanks - I have about 400,000 barometers connected globally right now. Our data archive is about 1.5B measurements, we're getting about 5M per day. We will use this as the primary new input to WRF model runs, outputting high-res forecasts. The network I run is called PressureNet, you can see our website at http://pressurenet.io or have a look at our flagship Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id…
Comment linking /2014/02/open-source-software-is-important-for-modern-science/
on “SpaceX CRS-6 Launch Webcast”Submitted Startup Ideas: Living in the Future as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI have a vision for a weather data collection app using the camera and accelerometer to automatically take sky photos, but I don't think the APIs support it yet: http://www.jacobsheehy.com/2013/05/weather-forecasting-with-...
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on “Google Glass Application List”Submitted PressureNET 4.0 Beta: testing new methods of crowdsourcing weather data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionUsers correcting the weather in-app is a huge curiosity of mine. I first blogged about that like 8 years ago for a now-defunct project: http://www.jacobsheehy.com/2013/12/locally-crowdsourced-weat... I have also re-implemented this feature in All Clear on Android [1]. My main lesson from all this so far is that it is useful and fun to collect and show the data, and real insights can be had by users seeing their peer…
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on “AI can predict if it will rain in two hours' time”Submitted Imagine success for today's startups 20 years out as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIndeed, their lack of openness is frustrating. I recently wrote[1] about the importance of open source code, and open data too, specifically in terms of crowdsourcing projects for scientific advancement. It'd be great if more of these projects were open, especially the ones with "open" in their name. [1] http://www.jacobsheehy.com/2014/02/open-source-software-is-i... (Full disclosure: I run an open project, Pressure…
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on “OpenSignal Nets $4M to Build Out Its Crowdsourced Mobile Sensor Data Maps”Submitted Open source software is important for modern science as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Software is Important for Modern Science | Jacob's Blog as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crowdsourced weather forecasting with Google Glass as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crowdsourced Weather Forecasting using Google Glass as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open source is critical for science: a call for open crowdsourcing platforms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Year Later: Startup Ideas for the Future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We need an open crowdsourcing platform for smartphones as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Software is Important for Modern Science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I wrote about Amazon Prime Air as a startup in March as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Imagining success for today's startups, 20 years out as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weather Forecasting with Google Glass: Crowdsourced Sky Photos as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Futuristic Startup Ideas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living in the Future: Startup Ideas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Locally crowdsourced weather notifications to improve model accuracy (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Obligation to Build Open Source Software for Modern Science as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We need open Android crowdsourcing platforms for modern science as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A call for open crowdsourcing platforms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why build open source software? Because climate change is urgent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source and Modern Science: A Call for Open Crowdsourcing Platforms as a story · 1 points
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