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by bransonf 7y ago
Can I just take a moment to say how much I appreciate Hacker News? In an internet filled with advertising, tracking, toxicity and trolls, HN is a relief. The design is simple, fast and functional. The community does a tremendous job of legi
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by bransonf 7y ago
“Cartographer” was replaced by “Geospatial data scientist” or the like. There is little market left for purely drawing maps. That is now just an expected skill among those in the field of GIS.
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by bransonf 7y ago
I see. We disagree on a philosophical basis. I’m not a determinist. That said, I can respect that you are.
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by bransonf 7y ago
Not to defend Amazon here, but if the market demands cheaper products, which necessitates a ton of labor, and laborers are being overworked... Doesn’t replacing them with robots actually sound like a viable solution? The market demands this
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by bransonf 7y ago
I’m not sure I understand where you’re coming from... Even if not absolute, there is certainly more choice in pursuing a PhD than getting an STD. Maybe someone experiences pressure to pursue a PhD (I have to some extent) but the end choice
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by bransonf 7y ago
As someone currently contemplating pursuing a PhD and working in the Public Health space, I don’t like this author’s take. Sure, many PhD students report a high burden of stress, but comparing this to the general population is a poor assump
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by bransonf 7y ago
Serious question: Who is going to accept Kong as a valid form of payment? What incentive is there to accept Kong and what guarantees its value? One of the biggest issues plaguing cryptocurrency as a transactional currency is the volatility
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by bransonf 7y ago
Maybe I misunderstood, do you only pay for the tiles on mapbox? I’m just accustomed to having to use a restricted api key with mapbox. If that’s the case I’m totally ditching maptalks for all it’s quirks. And I don’t know of any libraries f
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by bransonf 7y ago
You can style the tiles or use your own. Where did you find the $1000 quote? I know you can have them hosted unlimited for $245/month but I was fairly sure it was free for self-hosted use.
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by bransonf 7y ago
This tells me why a virtual environment is good, but not why a Conda venv is good. Am I missing something? Why not just use pip?
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by bransonf 7y ago
If you can find the time to set it up, OpenMapTiles [0] is the way to go. In the long run, you’ll probably save more money than the time it takes to manage. [0] https://openmaptiles.org/
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by bransonf 7y ago
Well, I think it has better (official) WebGL support than leaflet, but most all the developers I know are jumping to Mapbox by default. EDIT: My favorite open source library right now is maptalks. Basically mapbox sort of functionality and
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Investors Gird for Year-End Turmoil in Cash Markets(wsj.com)
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by bransonf 7y ago
On 11/13 they promised to be preparing to start deliveries on 12/15. If at this point they had not made an effort to reach this goal (placing an order with the manufacturer for example), that is a misrepresentation of fact. Fraud
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by bransonf 7y ago
An LLC does not protect one in cases of fraud. IANAL, but I believe the practices of Unicorn may constitute fraud under a legal definition. In such a case, Nick Evans would be personally liable for damages.
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by bransonf 7y ago
If you give $700 to a company that promises to deliver a scooter, and they spend that money on advertising, that’s fraud. They have no plausible argument that they didn’t know they couldn’t deliver or refund customers after they started spe
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by bransonf 7y ago
Interestingly enough, I transitioned to gun violence research, which is what I do now, after wondering something along these lines. If you live in a neighborhood where gun violence is a common occurrence, do you still get startled when you
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by bransonf 7y ago
That professor was wrong or your understanding is. There are plenty of statistically viable ways to determine differences between groups. Even a simple T-test is usually sufficient. The difference of means does not have to be more than the
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by bransonf 7y ago
I did research briefly in a lab studying heart rate variability. HRV is a really interesting statistic in predicting heart health outcomes, and very interesting is the racial difference in HRV. Basically, African Americans exhibit much high
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by bransonf 7y ago
SPOILERS: From a technical standpoint, I was disappointed in the finale. It was too outlandish that they accidentally developed an AI that could break all encryption. In real life, it almost certainly would mean that the technology gets sol
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by bransonf 7y ago
Similar to this, using “Shark Skin” surfaces has been found to have a lot of potential as well. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2018/...
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by bransonf 7y ago
Thank you, this is exactly what I was thinking of
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by bransonf 7y ago
There is a sci-fi story somewhere that talks about this premise. It’s a machine that just gives constant orders to the employees of an establishment. Like “grab the mop”, “go to the bathroom”, “mop from left to right” (you get the idea) The
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by bransonf 7y ago
Substantially more than the people I know over the age of 40. Of course that’s a relatively arbitrary number. Many of the younger people I know may not fully understand the vector they create for network penetration, but they often joke abo
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by bransonf 7y ago
If it has connection to the internet, it can be a channel for hackers into your home. I know far too many people over the age of 40 that really should know this.
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by bransonf 7y ago
It looks pretty similar to flask as far as syntax goes. Why do you think plain starlette is better? Are the type annotations annoying to debug?
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by bransonf 7y ago
For anyone displaced from their VPN by this... Not mine, but another HN user made a tool to automatically create a VPN instance on your choice of cloud provider. https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
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by bransonf 7y ago
I remember a time when Google would turn up countless Yahoo answers posts. Now it’s all Quora.
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by bransonf 7y ago
I’m fascinated by the markets of Huaqiangbei (Shenzhen) although my only exposure have been through the YouTube channel Strange Parts. The enormity of the market is shocking and I cannot think of a better place for hardware innovation. It’s
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by bransonf 7y ago
Not OP, but I think the point here is that very few end users have a say in the tools they use. You sell the big company on your software, one or a few elites like it, and they buy thousands of licenses for all of their employees.

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