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   by orless 11y ago

   Not sure if it's of much relevance, but my ex-collegue blogs on Greek start-ups: * http://eulenausathen.com/ * https://twitter.com/eulenausathen
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   by orless 11y ago

   I had two interviews with Google in 2011 (senior dev position in corporate engineering), got rejected after the on-site interview in Munich, Germany. I'm not sure why, I think I did really good back then. Their recruiters keep calling
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   Show HN: XML Schema to JSON Schema Converter(github.com)

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   by orless 11y ago

   This is a difficult matter. I'm actually on the Open Data side (not the "dark force"), but let me play the devil's advocate here. * What if the data will be used to convince people to use less trains? Busses and car sh
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   by orless 11y ago

   I'm not on that very project, but my guess would be that sessions are not completely stateles on the server side so they have to have session timeouts to drop obsolete sessions. I'll ask when I meet someone from that project.
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   by orless 11y ago

   Thank you. :) Yes, they do a lot of interpolation there, see the description: http://www.bahn.de/hilfe/view/pk/de/zugradar.shtml There are a few of ongoing projects which will display the precise real da
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   by orless 11y ago

   Thank you for the feedback. The Chrome extension is meaningless without the service providing the data. And the data isn't set free, unfortunately. We're talking to DB Vertrieb about this app next week.
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   by orless 11y ago

   Won it. :)
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   by orless 11y ago

   Here's our "train radar": http://www.apps-bahn.de/bin/livemap/query-livemap.exe/dn?L=v... Disclaimer: this is NOT realtime GNSS data. New project coming in that direction soon.
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    by orless 11y ago

    Few weeks ago failed to find public IBNR/RL100 mappings. So we ended up typing 200 main stations per hand (basis was Wikipedia). DB has the data in systems (for instance, ETN), it's just, well, not open...
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    by orless 11y ago

    Most trains already have GNSS capabilities, we (DB) get quite exact positions every 30 seconds (going down to 10 soon).
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    by orless 11y ago

    "National IDs" for the Germain stations would be so-called RL100: http://fahrweg.dbnetze.com/file/fahrweg-de/2394144/vHBDX5Ond...
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    by orless 11y ago

    Thanks, moved the comment there. :)
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    by orless 11y ago

    I'd be glad if you drop me a message so that we could establish a contact. xing.to/va or valikov-at-gmx.net (Disclaimer: working for the Deutsche Bahn.)
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    by orless 11y ago

    In this context absolutely worth mentioning is the Public Transport Enabler ( https://github.com/schildbach/public-transport-enabler ). This is what we used to create this prototype: https://medium.com/@h
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    by orless 12y ago

    I recently took part in the "Open Data Train Challenge" Hackathon of the Deutsche Bahn (German railway and transport giant). This was probably the first Hackathon of this kind in Deutsche Bahn and definitely the first one for me.
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    Our app for reliable train connections won the first German Railways Hackathon(medium.com)

    2 points by orless 12y ago|1 comments
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    by orless 12y ago

    I just wonder why noone ssem to be interested here is this - quite unique - event.
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    Solar Eclipse 20 March 2015 – Right Now(telegraph.co.uk)

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    April Fools joke that would be good for Tesla: how to limit speed with BMW JSDK(stackoverflow.com)

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