skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just what your ordered?

http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map

Given that it is all based on the OSM database, I'd imagine OpenHistoricalMap would already cover historical railways? There is a renderer for the "railway" aspect of the OSM database (openrailwaymap.org), one for the "historic" aspect (openhistoricalmap.org), so it's a matter of programming for the railway map renderer to include the history aspect.

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Edit: Just notice the following note about OHM: "As opposed to other projects such as OpenSeaMap, OHM makes use of its own database independent of OSM." A pity, as this means ORM won't automatically pick up history. OSM does have a "4D" proposal to include time: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM-4D , but it seems that it is not yet active.
I disagree with being categorized as such, but respect your decision.
They can just exclude normal battery wear, or they could increase the price of iPhone Apple Care to include one free battery replacement and then advertise that you're basiclly getting a free battery.
More info further down the article:

> ... adding a small amount of security metadata on top of each APK to verify that it was officially distributed by Google Play. ... The metadata we're adding to APKs is like a Play badge of authenticity for your Android app.
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> ... the small metadata addition, which is inserted into the APK Signing Block ...

Yes it looks like an additional signature.

> ... this metadata will enable new distribution opportunities for developers in the future and help more people keep their apps up to date.

This suggests that you may be able to distribute signed APKs outside the Play store (e.g. host the APK yourself and email a link to beta testers?).
There's already a flight simulator in the Google Earth desktop app, under the Tools menu.
Release should have had a date. All day there were weird things going on , with miners network pollution and seemingly pre-coinbase trades.

Coinbase once again exposes itself to extreme public scorn by screwing over its users.
I was pleasantly surprised to how much attention to detail and thought goes into the cartography design on Google Maps. Just yesterday, I noticed this little gem when searching for the Channel Islands off of California: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Channel+Islands+National+P...

Try zooming in and zooming out slowly and watch what happens to the labeling of the islands since they are actually a collection.
No I'm not. I'm replying as myself who is actually on a B1 visa setting up a business to get in order to get an E-2 later on. That is perfectly legal.

FYI, you can set up a US business without setting foot in the country.
All of these items fit into the rational expectations and utility maximization framework.
Actually really big news.

Apart from the security implications it will also decrease fragmentation of Android versions and encourage manufacturers to update their OS versions.
This isn't a solution. It's a trade off like every other decision.
If I'm being 100% honest, no, other than better integration into the iOS ecosystem. For me, Apple Maps is pretty terrible all around. It feels like it was designed by a group of people that don't actually drive anywhere.

Issues:

- Search results are terrible compared to Google's.

- While the UI is generally smoother, it lags behind (i.e. It shows a turn a good bit after I do). This is especially frustrating when driving through small city blocks and trying to be in the correct lane for the next turn.

- Lane guidance was finally added, but no way to see ahead like in gmaps.

- Day/night mode is very fussy. When I'm driving through the Bay Bridge at night it constantly flips back and forth between day/night due to the overhead lights.

- It is pretty frustrating that the line ahead of me is constantly wobbling around instead of matching the curve/line ahead of me. It feels disorienting and makes it difficult to see if there's an upcoming left/right ahead. Google generally does a good job trying to visually match what you're seeing. https://imgur.com/a/t3Sxm

- If I check traffic when I wake up, then go through my morning routine, then check it again, there's a 90% chance it'll crash on startup.

- No way to add a stop

- No street view

and so on...
Where dp you see that?
Awesome news !

I have been hoping to see this happen for a while.

No point in adding new optimizations and security requirements in the new Android releases if devs can opt out of them by targeting a very old Android version.

As a dev, I feel vindicated for having pushed the organizations I worked at to closely follow the new releases.

As a user, I am happy I soon won't have to check the manifest of the apps I install
Driverless Delhi Metro train rams into wall during trial run
FWIW, Samsung is the corporate booster behind Mapzen, which provides free mapping APIs while contributing to OpenStreetMap:

https://trademarks.justia.com/860/91/mapzen-86091461.html

https://mapzen.com/about/

> Mapzen is an open and accessible mapping platform...Based out of the Samsung Accelerator, we support the geo community through building tools and collaborating on open source mapping projects. We believe that a healthy mapping ecosystem is one that is diverse, sustainable, and accessible to all.
Thor Wants to Throw Down an Electric Hammer on Tesla
As I explain on another comment, there is one thing that is insider trading as acting on priviledged information, and the other is provoking the situation that allows insider trading. The latter is pure fraud to me. Coinbase deliberately hid the release date and deceived the public while put themselves and their organization in a place to profit with insider trading.
And people wonder why I am so hostile to the our way of creating and governing corporations, and our way of divorcing business from the lives and reputations of of those who run it.
We launched on j2me flip phones and soon added support for blackberry. The displays were small and most phones didn't have GPS.
Thanks for the shout-out! I had to put the business on pause this year while dealing with family issues. I plan to get back to it in 2018, however.

Edit: Just saw you asking how things have went on Medium. I'll write a blog post / email update about the past year (2017) soon!
It's pretty wild how far into this we are given that Eich wants to present himself as somehow pro-LGBT for Prop8 support.

Perhaps it has been lost to the sands of time, but it seems curious that this didn't come up as a publicly stated defense while the Mozilla board was contemplating what to do with their total PR disaster out of a corporate office.
That's right. Also keep in mind that the telegraph system was a digital network. It's pretty clear that evolving into the internet was inevitable, as telegraphy had outgrown the abilities of manual operators.
There's definitely some historical routes on there. If you look at the old B&O mainline, they have the historical route of Mount Airy Loop, which was discontinued in the 1950s. They don't have the original planes, though, which was ripped up in 1839 (it was built in 1830). It's somewhat understandable, given that the location of some of the route is pure conjecture at this point.
And here's info about Yahoo Go: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Go
I think you're confusing ideas/features with execution. Apple knew very well at the onset what to build. But they executed poorly and underestimated the amount of non-trivial human involvement in correcting mistakes and combining many layers of information into a cohesive and [mostly] robust experience.

These kinds of applications aren't Apple's strong suit, and Google is years ahead on technical abilities on the data correction and feedback front as well as custom satellite hardware and software design. Although Apple may be moving on that [1].

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/21/apple-satellite-hardware-proj...
FWIW I had a flip-phone with some form of Java based Google Maps IIRC. It had an Opera browser too.
There's plenty of investor interest:

Pump Hydro in disused mine: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/pumped-hydro-in-queensland-ready... (more details: http://www.genexpower.com.au/the-kidston-pumped-storage-hydr...)

Solar Thermal Generation: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-14/solar-thermal-power-pl...

Solar/battery combination: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-31/sanjeev-gupta-joins-sa...

Solar/Wind combination: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-03/yorke-peninsula-batter...
‘Porch Pirates’ Steal Holiday Packages as They Pile Up at Homes
Estonia planning its own cryptocurrency, called 'estcoin'
I also recommend this thread [0]. This thread has same question, kind of "Python 101". One of the answer suggested for beginner, intermediate, and advance levels.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15932381
I actually supported Brave in spite of your history. We've talked on Mastodon.social about it. I am always a fan of humans being complex and redemption being contextual.

Then I read about BAT. Your business plan soured me.

I'm very sorry that I missed ended your politics Brendan. Sincerely. O obviously misinterpreted what you said. But that changes very little, and I've already spoke at length about what it doesn't change elsewhere in this thread.
Is there much different between uBlock origin vs Ad Block Plus?
I've driven enough of those cars to know that movie was pretty accurate in how the cars sounded and drove. Such depictions are sadly extremely rare.
The Green Colosseum
I think you slightly missed the parent comment's point, which is not that they should have walked away but rather have said "man, we really want better maps and imaging for navigation, MapQuest has a great head start, we should work with them to make it even better". I'm not sure what economic model encourages that sort of behavior, though.
This makes no sense to me. Especially if it's false? If I'm correctly accused, I hope I get what I deserve! This feels like saying, "I bet you'll change your mind about manslaughter laws when if/when you accidentally run someone over with your car." No, I'm pretty sure I'll be preoccupied by feeling terrible for killing someone.

And I understand that false accusations happen occasionally, and I am willing to take that risk because a world that insists on zero false positives has a ton of false negatives. It would be hypocritical for me to not accept the consequences if it happens to affect me - I am not advocating for others anything I could not accept for myself. But I can absolutely accept that if I am a visible leader of an organization, or a manager of people, or in some other role of trust, and I am accused of something I believe I didn't do, the best thing for me to do for the organization is to step aside. (It is not like I can guarantee that I will even live to see tomorrow, so anything that I care about, I should arrange so that my personal involvement is not critical.)

But more than that, it's entirely possible (though I have zero reason to expect it to happen) that some behavior I thought was reasonable will be seen by the world as unreasonable. And if that happens, I am happy to accept the consequences. My goal is making the world a better place, not making myself powerful/comfortable at the expense of other people. If removing myself from positions of trust to prevent my behavior from hurting the world is the right thing for me to do, why should I shrink away from it?
Pesos are already widely available to retail investors so it isn't really comparable to the situation with BCH. The average US crypto investor is only buying what is available on Coinbase (note that its one of the top apps in the iOS app store...), not jumping through the hoops needed to use Bitfinex, etc.

Here's a more appropriate analogy. A penny stock with the symbol BCH is lightly traded over the counter by institutional investors via pink sheets. The New York Stock Exchange decides to list the stock for trading, making it easily available to everyone with a TD-Ameritrade/Robinhood/ETrade account but does so with no pre-announcement. Should NYSE prevent their employees from buying the pink sheet over the counter prior to the announcement?
summary(slides): http://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/assets/dawn-overview.pdf
“The purpose of estcoin is to accelerate [development of Estonia's e-residency program], while also providing additional funds and interest for the development of our digital nation.”
Living on thin air: microbe mystery solved
Paper can be found at [1]

[1] Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil [ https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25014 ]
??

Would you invest your retirement savings into a company that plans to return no profit by mapping the world and releasing the data for free?

I thought so.
> A better approach is to use a “set-then-get” mindset, relying on atomic operators that implement locks in a very performant fashion, allowing you to quickly increment and check counter values without letting the atomic operations get in the way.

In a highly distributed system you’d probably want to avoid a centralised data store altogether for fast moving data like rate limits. CRDTs and bucket weighting might be a more effective strategy.

The article states that tracking per-node could cause a problem with race conditions but that assumes it’s the counter that’s the problem. If the node cluster is aware of the other nodes and the relative load of the cluster, you can use this value to weight the isolated rate limiter and the only data that needs to be shared can be broadcast between the nodes using a pub/sub mechanism.

If some variance is permitted (+/- a margin either side of the limit) then having the nodes synchronise their “token weight” based on the size of the cluster means that the nodes can then manage the rate limit in-memory without ever needing to track in a data store.

It does trade-off accuracy, but for accuracy you can then revert to the set-then-get centralised counter, the trade-off being performance because of increased round trip time to the day store.

In most rate limit scenarios, at least from what we’ve seen, extreme accuracy isn’t usually that important vs. being able to scale amd rate limit without having to also scale a data layer to handle the counters.
That's good, then. Having the code right there isn't very good if you can't trust it, but if it at least indicates what's not to be trusted, that's much better.
Is it protectionist to ask US companies to pay tax and abide by our laws. Perhaps you could provide us with examples of French companies operating in the US that are breaking the law, not paying tax and getting away with it? Could I start a US chain of Jimnotgyms tomorrow and avoid tax by a dodgy brand license deal? I don't think so.

US tech companies (and in many cases the US government) have been operating as if the national laws of the rest of the world are sub-ordinate to theirs, or just in the way. Succesive UK governments have turned a blind eye due to the Special Relationship. However things are starting to catch up in the EU. There has been a distinct change in opinion towards the US in Europe I have detected. Bush jnr made the US look sub-intellectual, Obama made it seem inward-looking. I don't know anyone in Europe who thinks Trump is anything more than a deeply cynical character. People don't see the US as the land of opportunity and commerce anymore. They see it as self-serving and insular.

Great empires all come to an end. It takes time, but this one is in decline.
Agreed. I've been in 3 times. Every time I want to just pay for the replacement; they won't even offer the battery replacement if the diagnostic utility says the phone is good.

My phone randomly shuts down or rapidly loses battery once it is below 40%. It's even worse when it's cold.
I'd suggest searching for and reading blog posts of people who are studying deep learning.

Academic papers are very pretentious, they are the tools for scholars to declare victories. They are not the best materials to understand.

http://www.wildml.com/

https://medium.com/mlreview

https://distill.pub/
It's always new people who weren't introduced to Bitcoin and alts properly.
I think half of the signups to Bitcoin reddit happened in the last 2 months, it can show you how many new people there are in the cryptocurrency space.
This analysis was done by BBVA comparing Tyk and Kong performance https://www.bbva.com/en/api-gateways-kong-vs-tyk/ - disclosure: I work for Kong, but Kong (the company) had no involvement with the benchmarking in that article.
Since the programs are printed out and stored in filing cabinets, it'd be too bad if something cool happening at one Dynamicland instance couldn't be easily shared with another instance somewhere else. We know that computing would be better if it was shared in a physical space with real-world social circles. But not everybody has those: some people are disabled, or rural, or outcasts. The same issue comes up with experiments with local meshes and P2P gossip for new social networks.

Not as many people meet strangers in chat rooms or games these days, but it'd be sad if the baby of connecting people anywhere was thrown out with the bathwater of big social panopticons and glass screen prisons.
Perhaps that bottom right corner of figure 8 (e) is why Google Drive downloads perform so abysmally over busy wifi...
Great article, but it has me thinking: what is holding Apple back?

My ideas:

- Apple is just a few years behind; they launched a decade later. Come back in 3 years and they'll be close to parity.

- Apple only needs Maps to be good enough to avoid PR disaster, since they need a reasonable default on iOS. On the other hand Google needs to be good enough to beat competitors since they want to make money on traffic, usage data, and the Maps API.

- Google's use of reCAPTCHA gives it a huge edge over competitors in mass image classification.
Apparently there are a lot of people applying to developer positions that make it to the technical interview and don't know how to code. I have never encountered this personally, probably because the people I have interviewed have always had prior work experience as developers.
How to extract data points from an old monitor photograph
I'm referring to a sampling profiler - as mentioned in the article, these generally work on a timer (either a thread with a loop, or a recurring signal), not by a per-function callback.
Yes, Adblock Plus lets website operators pay them money to be whitelisted, if the ads comply with the "Acceptable Ads" policy.
I can see trouble in the political arena when "recordings" are generated. Not for legal reasons but some voters might be easily duped.
Thanks for very useful advice and really great projects.

One another question I have is what initial motivation for you to create above projects. These services already existed and I setback after some time if I see same kind of service and loose motivation to keep on working on it. Never finishes the thing.

Can you please provide advice how to deal with it and what should be my intial motivation and thoughts for recreating something.
I reckon Google's 3D building designer, that allowed people to plot buildings and place them on the map was used to train an AI to create buildings from features ... maybe. The page says satellite data, matched with street level, but I often see planes flying over my UK city and imagine they could do radar or similar tracking to match with visual data.
Well said. It kills an old Core2 laptop I have. Literally crashes Linux.

My fault of course for using that laptop, but sometimes I forget because it basically works for most other things.
How to Test Distributed Systems – 5min [video]
Unlike bitcoin the government has no way to track gold. Burry it 10 feet under your garden and it can stay there for your great grandchildren.
There may be cases where it does, but it doesn’t seem to do so in this case — at least not where very many of the affected people can find it.

(Myself included. I’ve been noticing for a while that my 6 Plus was running dog slow. Thanks to all this coming out last week I just replaced my battery using a kit from Amazon, and indeed, it now runs well again.)
Didn't google earth have exactly this in the early days? I can't remember exact details, but pretty sure it was an easter egg - ctrl + alt + a would launch it.
Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin
So if I sell my newfound BCH today, which was birthed from thin air a few months ago, but originates from BTC I bought years ago, is it short term capital gains or long term?
The UI's prices were/are accurate as far as I can tell. I think the trading was just that unstable. When it opened at 17:20 PST, the price was indeed ~$3.5k, then shot up and down violently until they pulled the plug three minutes later at ~$9.5k.
Lenses don't work that way, surely. Any image taken directly downwards will include angled elements offset at a greater angle away from the centre line. Also, how hard is it to add an extra camera or two if you're already flying over, sure double/triple the data but that must be relatively easy to handle once you have the infrastructure for image handling and such.
Yes, and your average Bayesian reasoner also "adheres to their orthodoxy" with little "openness to other opinions". Opinions don't move Bayesians. Opinions shouldn't move Bayesians. Stop demanding that other people shift their priors towards yours and show evidence.
Was not illegal to own, was illegal to hoard which is a critical difference.
"It's my data" - this is absurd.

Observations I make are mine, if I observe you it's my observation.

I can tell stories about my observations, but if I make public statements about you that are false, that's a tort.
The person who wrote what I'm going to link you is clearly mentally ill, and it's hosted on a conspiracy theory wiki. I hope linking it doesn't get me flagged as a spammer or nut. You can take the author at face value in regards to them actually having gone through what they're describing, I'm 50/50 split on that.

Despite that, I think it's interesting stuff to read about, basically the adult version of ghost stories. It's what initially made me make the connection between MKUltra (as explained by those who believe in it) and splitting/disassociation.

It's really long and rambling, and I don't blame you if you end up deciding not to read through it.

https://deprogramwiki.com/deprogramming/deprogramming-modali...
About 3GW of computing power. No really.

Apple lacks the raw computing capacity to be able to pull this off, even if they had the algorithms and data already.
Would a hacky script be acceptable?

The one time I needed to turn a scanned PDF (600+ page book) into searchable text, I used this Ruby script https://github.com/gkovacs/pdfocr/ , which pulls out individual pages using pdftk, turns them into images to feed into an OCR engine of your choice (Tesseract seems to be the gold standard) and then puts them back together. It can blow up the file size tremendously, but worked well enough for my use case. (I did write a very special purpose PDF compressor to shrink the file back, but that was more for fun.)