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by riordan 13y ago
Mapbox is working on a really slick tool for guided feature extraction from satellite maps [1] that'll be part of the iD editor for OpenStreetMap. I'm hoping this will provide a HUGE help in adding more buildings into OSM. And whi
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by riordan 13y ago
OSM's been pretty hardcore about their no import policy because of accuracy issues in validation. They want to map these places themselves and don't want to trust others for accuracy, let alone the legal issues that come with impo
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by riordan 13y ago
I'm part of the team at NYPL Labs that's been working on these historical geospatial projects for the past few years (The Vectorizer is the work of our own @MGA), and that's EXACTLY what we've been working toward. For al
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by riordan 13y ago
Pretty sweet. The real-ish station status data's got to be pretty interesting in aggregate. I'm also looking forward to people competitively racing these things with the personal trip data a part of the platform.
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The W3C's plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal for all web users(freeculture.org)
222 points by riordan 13y ago|154 comments
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by riordan 14y ago
The return of FuckedCompany is upon us... sorta
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Public.resource.org's touching tribute to Aaron Swartz(public.resource.org)
102 points by riordan 14y ago|3 comments
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by riordan 14y ago
Let us know if you want contributions to help offset it. Count me in.
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by riordan 14y ago
Additionally, it appears Archive Team is on the case: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/290097792838406145
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by riordan 14y ago
Considering Aaron's legacy of "full-time, uncompromising, reckless and delightful shit-disturb[ing]" as so eloquently put by Cory Doctorow, he probably wouldn't have wanted us to deal with the trivialities of copyright law at the expense of
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Aaron's domain registration runs out in Sept. We should archive it in his memory(networksolutions.com)
303 points by riordan 14y ago|35 comments
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OpenStreetMaps hosting weekend-long editathon(wiki.openstreetmap.org)
3 points by riordan 14y ago|0 comments
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Why Opera thrives in Europe’s last dictatorship(qz.com)
67 points by riordan 14y ago|42 comments
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by riordan 14y ago
We're really looking forward to seeing what you've got in store on Tuesday. It's been a while since the Interactive News Team profile a few years back; I think we'd all like to know how a major night goes down in the newsroom for your team.
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by riordan 14y ago
I know the rules for headline changes, so I won't suggest one, but the real takeaway here is Valve's big move toward wearable computing.
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by riordan 14y ago
This is among the most brilliant digital preservation strategies I've encountered. You want to make sure your material lasts as long as possible? Get it out on bittorrent. End of story. We wonder what books scholars will write about 500 yea
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New York Public Library Guide to Digital Archaeology(nypl.org)
2 points by riordan 14y ago|0 comments
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by riordan 14y ago
Yet isn't this precisely DirecTV's point? One of DirecTV's core claims has been that online streaming of TV content undermines the value proposition of for-pay television [1]. I get that having your most vocal, most internetty users channel
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by riordan 14y ago
This is exactly it! And it's fundamentally a transformative concept for "cultural memory organizations" as libraries, archives and museums often (somewhat pretentiously) call themselves. Of course, this is a concept hackers have understood
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UVA Computer Science professor resigns over incompetence of board(gist.github.com)
213 points by riordan 14y ago|128 comments
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by riordan 14y ago
Can't agree more. Having once been a publicist, the first rule of dealing with the press is to realize that they have ALL the power and that anything you do must be in service of that. The notion that everything is on the record is of parti
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by riordan 15y ago
I don't say this to be snarky, but I will say that this post about yahoo is a link to yahoo's press release portal aggregating third party press releases kind of indicates where they're going. Yahoo News is still the top news site. Yahoo bu
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by riordan 15y ago
The call is limited to the first 100 individuals to respond who also signed an ACTA or SOPA petition. Anyone know of a good tool to call in and rebroadcast the call so everyone can listen?
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Whitehouse hosting off-the-record conference call on SOPA(whitehouse.gov)
1 points by riordan 15y ago|1 comments
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The Boston Globe (Owned by NYT Co.) Supports SOPA(articles.boston.com)
13 points by riordan 15y ago|2 comments
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by riordan 15y ago
The surprising thing is we already have this very program: Under the EB-5 program for investors, by investing $500k in a targeted high unemployment area in a capital intensive project that creates jobs, an investor can get a green card. I h
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by riordan 15y ago
It's completely a generalizable solution. From upstart standups who tape their open night sets for YouTube to seasoned comics with tv shows and HBO specials like Louis CK and David Cross (who similarly self-produced his last special "Bigger
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by riordan 15y ago
Here's the problem: after the 2001 anthrax scare, all mail sent to Congress has become incredibly delayed (on the order of weeks) while it gets tested and radiated. What some lobbying campaigns have done to get around this is send mass faxe
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by riordan 15y ago
For me it's always The Underdog by Spoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1hZVDLkJDc I've never heard a song that better sums up the feeling of building something incredible.
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by riordan 15y ago
Sorry about that - skimmed the page and totally missed the original. Mea culpa

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