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by ovis 9y ago
The title was changed after the original post.
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Ontario to roll out basic income in three cities(beta.theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by ovis 9y ago|0 comments
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Picogeojson (Python)(github.com)
2 points by ovis 10y ago|0 comments
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by ovis 10y ago
There are a few (including USGS Earth Explorer and Astro Digital), but https://remotepixel.ca/projects/satellitesearch.html has one of the nicer interfaces.
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by ovis 10y ago
I was chatting with a colleague last summer, and asking him for more details about a method he had published that I was having trouble reproducing. After pointing me to a few papers that didn't include the relevant details, hefinally t
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Big government is the new West Coast craze(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ovis 10y ago|1 comments
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by ovis 10y ago
My favorite would be https://www.remotepixel.ca , which is both beautiful and full of high quality and useful work.
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by ovis 10y ago
I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't much detail given about the problem being attacked, and no information about the results other than some timings. Sure, Julia's nice, but what are we looking at here? Also, there's t
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Vancouver, 1893(fortyninemaps.com)
2 points by ovis 10y ago|0 comments
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by ovis 10y ago
What if there was a reputation threshold for a traveller to make an instant booking? Of course it's still not immune to racism or sexism, but it seems that it would provide a decent buffer against it.
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Utah lawmakers vote to disable and crash drones near wildfires(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ovis 10y ago|0 comments
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by ovis 10y ago
Karta is a package I've been working on for a while now. Originally, it was intended to be a light-weight pure Python module for geospatial data, but it's gradually grown C and Cython extensions in the name of performance. It does
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Karta 0.7 - Geospatial Python(github.com)
1 points by ovis 10y ago|1 comments
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There should be consequences for Ontario grads leaving Canada(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by ovis 10y ago|0 comments
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by ovis 10y ago
It changes every three meters, so perhaps it depends on which room in the embassy?
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by ovis 10y ago
It does if you're a visitor trying to find an address in the local language.
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by ovis 10y ago
Technology is great, but there should be graceful fallbacks.
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by ovis 10y ago
Do we know for sure what cases this particular order is connected to? Because WhatsApp has been encrypting Android communications since 2014 [0]. [0] https://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/
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by ovis 10y ago
But you load a map with incorrect data. Wouldn't a good JS error be much more explicit? I do a lot of geospatial data crunching, and the thought of having wrong but valid data injected into my pipelines makes me uneasy.
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by ovis 10y ago
Sure, but why not raise an exception? Or return a separate flag? Or even do something like (999, 999) (clearly not valid, at least for latitude)?
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by ovis 10y ago
What geocoders use (0,0) as an error condition? Outputting a valid value as an error flag seems like a pretty bad idea - is this actually common?
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by ovis 11y ago
Yes, perturbation methods are still taught and are still recognized as important. The first math course I took during my graduate degree (Intro analytic methods) covered it, for example.
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Karta – Python toolkit for geospatial analysis(fortyninemaps.com)
4 points by ovis 11y ago|0 comments
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by ovis 11y ago
The GP claims most people on HN , which seems likely.
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by ovis 11y ago
The article implies that the source of trouble is the GCJ-02 datum. Is this really such a major problem though? In North America, both the NAD27 and NAD83 datums are still common. NAD83 nearly matches WGS84, but NAD27 can be quite off. Datu
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by ovis 11y ago
The politician who raises taxes or shuts down water delivery may be replaced at the next election by the one that doesn't and keeps the lead pipes.
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by ovis 11y ago
The article did mention a desire to use netifaces, but I didn't quite understand why the author thought they couldn't.
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by ovis 11y ago
For me, it's nice for interactive code and visualization development. Particularly when parts of a script are slow running, being able to do it once and then iterate on a dependent part in a notebook cell saves a lot of time. Once I&#x
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by ovis 11y ago
That seems very unfair. I have no reason to think the author doesn't understand that Python libraries are built on carefully written C and Fortran, and based on the article they seem to be a perfectly competent programmer.
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by ovis 11y ago
But in those cases, the Python programmer could just wrap the C library in Python, which I suspect is often a lot easier than starting from scratch.

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