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Ask HN: What are the data-sources for Google Maps ?
2 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|3 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
India have 2 standard domain [.co.in, .in]. Facebook owns facebook.in, it was common sense that they own facebook.co.in too. I in fact assumed it. Now I know they do not own it.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I think that is List Comprehension and not Generator. 'Return' would be replaced by 'Yield' in case of a generator.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Here is the history of "Zen of Python", aka ">>>import this" : http://www.wefearchange.org/2010/06/import-this-and-zen-of-p... , a blog post written by Barry warsaw. On a side note, other eggs are : >>> from __futu
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I would go for more pythonic "not i % 2".
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What marijuana leaves in your lungs?(youtube.com)
2 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|0 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> woo a lover And suddenly I remember Valentine's Day is almost here.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
When I open a new tab, I still see the form "My Goal today is..." which is kind of irritating. Shouldn't it just show my goals. If I have to set my goal I shall click on the reup extension icon to fill it. Nice idea btw, planning to try t
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Google Chrome version number is meaningless as told by Google itself: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-chromes-vers... This doesn't however mean that other browsers too have meaningless version numbers.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Isn't the development cycle a bit too fast. 4 major versions in a single year.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
No, they don't. They make money mostly by ads.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> And MapQuest still has the greatest market share somehow... No. Google maps has the greatest market share. Mapquest is #2. Disclaimer: I'm interning at MapQuest.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Tim Armstrong is getting AOL to do all the deals that Bartz should be doing at Yahoo.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> When AOL merged with Time-Warner AFAIK, AOL went and bought Time Warner, the deal didn't work out though.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
The article convinced me that it is for good that I never created a Facebook account. Recently I have been under lot of peer pressure to create a Facebook account for so called social-connectivity.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
A lot of people are talking about user freedom here. How many users knew they are giving their data to Microsoft ?
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Code Golf & Programming Puzzles -- now in public beta(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
4 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|0 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> Google has 12 years of the entire history of queries and clicks to mine for signals about how to rewrite queries How about Yahoo ? They have a longer history I suppose. IMO it's all about quality and engineering. More importantly wh
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
He was definitely a script-kiddie though, but 'worst hacker' is kind of over-statement.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
OpenStreetMap data : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm Geonames : http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ OS Open Data (UK Specific) : http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/
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Top 10 most-searched terms in 2010(blog.searchenginewatch.com)
2 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|0 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Still your statement stand corrected. We learn a lot from our first job that is.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
And yet they distributed pink slip quite leniently.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
'The Social Network' had realistic dose of hacking. Loved the part when the lead actor pulls out emacs and uses perl script to scrape the data.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I was shocked by the news. I misread it as "Kidney Sales Estimates Increase 60%"
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
You meant O(1) perhaps.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
You can fix the typo. [ outsroucing -> outsourcing ]
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
One can also take a look at Crunchy. [ http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/ ]
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
>>> 2+2 4 However, >>> import gc <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <title>500 Internal Server Error</title> <h1>Internal Server Error</h1> <p>The
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Too bad that we need to sign-in to checkout the complete text. [Edit: I was planning to check the size of sample data i.e. number of women who participated in the research, but chucked the idea after the bothersome process.]

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