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by kirchhoff 12y ago
The hitchhiker: https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=48.768... Factory: https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=49.681... Injured cow: https:/&
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by kirchhoff 12y ago
https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=49.681...
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by kirchhoff 12y ago
They are all either Google Street View or equivalents (Yandex in Russia for example). The curator of this site is, I think, scouring several other websites which collect and display interesting Street Views, picking out those which are exce
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by kirchhoff 12y ago
Seconded..
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Show HN: The Instant Web(theinstantweb.com)
11 points by kirchhoff 12y ago|1 comments
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by kirchhoff 12y ago
For those wondering what the point of this is, it can be used as a form of 'instant search' for most websites, by using this sort of syntax: [term] site:[url] e.g. nursery rhymes site:youtube.com
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by kirchhoff 12y ago
Not sure? notesure.com
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
That's a little unfair. Many interesting and useful projects / apps have been launched on HN.
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
As a parent I think it's neat.
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
John - 57.3% ?
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
I'll try to reproduce the problems you mentioned. There are some keyboard shortcuts - J and K for previous and next image, and G for go. Maybe these are being triggered somehow. When you see stop(0) it might still be searching for a St
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
I didn't say he copied my site directly (clearly the design is totally different), and even if he did I don't mind at all. My site wasn't the first, http://www.globegenie.com was. I liked the concept and built an
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
Thanks for the comments. I suppose I could represent the state in the URL, though it might be an ugly URL if many countries are selected. I did already try to minimize the UI as much as possible - I'll see what else I can do.
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
Heh, well that will teach me for boasting about my site. I just did a big UI update and am ironing out the bugs. When you say 'previous image' do you mean the same image that you would see by clicking the back arrow next to the ad
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
I don't mean to gatecrash, but as I have been running a near identical site for a few years I feel compelled to comment. The street views generated on this site are not really random; they are picked from a predefined list in a db. Thi
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
You can do this on www.mapcrunch.com
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
If you are storing individual views in a DB, it will not be random, as there are far too many to store.
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
Except that US crude oil production is now rising. http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MC...
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
I run a couple of Street View based sites. Here are a few interesting and lesser known places which they've covered: Wieliczka Salt Mine: http://www.instantstreetview.com/2n9vv9z3sayesz1uyzp0z2u Battleship Island: htt
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
Firefox on Windows with Adblock plus. Works on in Chrome. A below commenter mentioned ABP so it might be that.
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
Your blog breaks the back button with a redirect.
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
It's possible to avoiding creating history entries by using location.replace()
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
How about the next 10?
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
Well this is just my opinion; I don't think pictures are too important for tech news, which is why I like HN. How are you sorting / arranging the articles? Are you pruning them at all?
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
Personally I don't think the Pinterest / waterfall layout works well in this case, as it's a little overwhelming.
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IBM opens Jeopardy-winning Watson to developers with a self-service cloud(arstechnica.com)
1 points by kirchhoff 13y ago|0 comments
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
I quite like NewsMap and made a HTML5 version of it a while ago. http://www.newsola.com
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
As someone with several side projects, I feel your pain. You probably need to make the site appear more active, until there's enough interesting content to keep visitors there a while and encourage them to post.
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
There's a good reason for that. If someone's found a profitable niche, there's no incentive for them to reveal information which might attract competitors.
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by kirchhoff 13y ago
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2oa3rqz3esq8az13wzl1z1v

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