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by philipn 11y ago
This isn't (or ever really directly indented to be) any kind of generic mapping service, or a map-driven interface for Wikipedia. Wikimapia (and other services!) provide interfaces for that. This is the first draft of a tile service
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by philipn 11y ago
In case you're wondering what this is about: the scale of Wikipedia makes it difficult to just drop in a third-party OSM tiling service, so they're rolling their own map rendering process using OSM data. This is a beta of the ren
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by philipn 11y ago
Yes, almost all employee (and founder!) shares are vested over a period of time. Typically, shares are vested over 4 years, with a one year "cliff." This means if the employee (or founder) leaves before the one year has elapsed,
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Python Enhancement Proposal 495: Local Time Disambiguation(python.org)
51 points by philipn 11y ago|35 comments
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by philipn 11y ago
Whoa, AppCanary looks really sweet now! I'm also really happy they added a lot more information about themselves to their website :) I think there's a huge market for really simple security products like this, as most people do
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by philipn 11y ago
I'm having the exact same experience! I just started using Python 3.4 (soon 3.5) for a new, major project and I'm pretty excited about it. I expected to find a bunch of roadblocks -- like being in a parallel universe or somethin
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by philipn 11y ago
The press really loves to write pieces about how Wikipedia is in a constant state of disrepair. If you were to go off what's written about Wikipedia in the press, you'd think it was filled with child pornography and that the proj
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Mapping Blight in Detroit? There’s an App for That(hereandnow.wbur.org)
1 points by philipn 11y ago|0 comments
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Second-order logic (explained in plain English)(academia.edu)
7 points by philipn 11y ago|1 comments
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The Anti-Dashboard Manifesto(neugierig.org)
2 points by philipn 11y ago|1 comments
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by philipn 11y ago
Sorry, I meant to say peat swamps, not boreal forests. Regarding peat swamps, they are less valuable in that the land isn't being farmed. Transformation of "unvaluable and useless" peat swamps to productive oil palm plantatio
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by philipn 11y ago
This is a really common argument that people make, but I think it's missing some essential externalities. I've worked in the nonprofit space for ~7 years now, and this is the most common over-cocktails argument folks tend to make
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by philipn 11y ago
The reason they look so 'fractal-like' (e.g. trippy!) is because they actually are fractals! In the same way a normal fractal is a recursive application of some drawing function, this is a recursive application of different gene
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by philipn 11y ago
For a vim version(ish) of this, be sure to check out vim-ipython: https://github.com/ivanov/vim-ipython
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by philipn 11y ago
"Hacking into a plane’s critical flight controls is at least theoretically possible on some new models, computer security experts told the GAO." Can someone explain this? I've been asking knowledgeable people all day and hav
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by philipn 11y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure there's really a whole lot we can glean from the purchase of founders' stock here. To an outsider, it feels unfair, but I agree that without it the founders would have likely spent that $25M down to zero.
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by philipn 11y ago
Many extremely well-informed people are concerned. In fact, one of the most distressing things I hear from leading AI researchers who've made "AI is nothing to worry about any time soon!" comments is that they do not address
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by philipn 11y ago
I second the comments here about wondering what an "audit" does here. I have no idea what it means to "audit" my Google Analytics accounts. The other thing is: I have no idea who you are, so why would I hand over my Goo
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by philipn 12y ago
Yeah, same here. It was HTTPS everywhere's fault (or, rather, their fault for not supporting HTTPS correctly ;)
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by philipn 12y ago
This is really interesting, because in many cases these employees go many, many without being able to sell any of their stock. One thing stuck out to me, though: "Terms of the deal call for Mr. Ballenegger to pay back the money if Cha
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by philipn 12y ago
I like pretty much everything someone takes the time to write about development, but this rubbed me the wrong way. I'm not sure what it is exactly the author is trying to express here: that engineers need to stay current on new, hot t
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Show HN: LocalWiki, the open platform for local knowledge(localwiki.org)
83 points by philipn 12y ago|29 comments
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by philipn 12y ago
Yup, over here: http://deletionpedia.org/en/Main_Page
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by philipn 12y ago
Seems pretty clear from that linked post: Tom is going to use/used the money to support his time spent working on the project. And extra funds will be used/have been used to devote more time than he'd otherwise be able to spe
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by philipn 12y ago
This is an interesting topic, but kind of a weird article. Wikipedia wrote a long article addressing the topic of Net Neutrality and Wikipedia Zero a few months back. This is worth reading if you're interested in the topic: https:&#
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by philipn 12y ago
I suspect the alternative is really just more material on "long-tail," open-contributor sites that cover many of the topics that Wikipedia does, but in more detail and with different policies. For instance, the http://
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by philipn 12y ago
In a range voting election, you'd have a lot of people who would bullet-vote for a particular candidate (100/100 points for candidate A). Then possibly lots of other people who would have to think about how people may be bullet-vo
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by philipn 12y ago
That's if someone is using it, not someone trying to register it. I always imagined that the US Patent and Trademark Office had a period where people could file complaints about pending trademarks, which is a different process.
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by philipn 12y ago
Well, no voting system is perfect. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem . IRV is pretty good, and is being slowly adopted across the country. In particular, IRV satisfies the important &quo
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by philipn 12y ago
It's also difficult because in a civil case you're not entitled to a state-funded attorney, so you're going to have to shell out a good chunk of change to challenge the case. Which, of course, you may not have as your assets

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