Agreed, this seems silly to build your own which likely performs worse than PosgGIS and has way more bugs.
At least the article could have addressed why that would not work for their use case.
edit: also now they have to classify polygons into groups that wholly fit into some "city" polygon. That seems like it becomes a pain to maintain since you may want to expand a region in the future and it happens to go outside of your previously defined "city". Or maybe you want a region that isn't in a "city", like a "country" or "mid-atlantic" region.
The group’s next challenge is finding a way to keep the suit tight. To do this, Holschuh says there are only two options: either maintaining a constant, toasty temperature, or incorporating a locking mechanism to keep the coils from loosening. The first option would overheat an astronaut and require heavy battery packs — a design that would significantly impede mobility, and is likely infeasible given the limited power resources available to astronauts in space. Holschuh and Newman are currently exploring the second option, looking into potential mechanisms to lock or clip the coils in place.
Surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, but if you use (or can move to) Namecheap for your domain registration, they provide free DNS service that includes dynamic DNS [1]. The script to set it is merely an HTTP GET to a URL. A lot of routers provide that ability as part of their dynamic DNS set up (I know dd-wrt does, as does the Mikrotik router I currently own).
Interesting in the 5 years since this was written, what the friend claimed would happen has come to pass. Car2go runs several all electric car sharing fleets in various cities. I've used the one in San Diego a number of times.
I am going to upgrade my iPad 3. I mean you can sell it to Amazon for $400, and buy a new one for $500+tax. Doesn't seem like a bad deal to basically lease the iPad 3 for six months for about $120.
I can't say that I've used it much, but the traffic data doesn't seem to be as full in terms of coverage as Google Maps. I just did a side by side comparison of traffic in both Google and Apple Maps:
Apple is reporting heavy traffic only on Flatbush, Atlantic, and the BQE (major traffic arteries for those not familiar with Brooklyn).
Google is reporting what Apple has, plus traffic patterns on a lot of other local avenues (3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, Vanderbilt, Fulton, Union St, etc).
I believe they get their updates from TomTom. The routing around traffic was actually a bit better than Google's in San Francisco the few times I used it side-by-side.
I thought she mentioned it was a 4 year vesting for that equity, which means 1% = $80k. But then that values the company at $8M, which also doesn't match the asserted $5M.
I'm not following how you're drawing a 4x valuation from vesting, but I'll admit that my head is in an SSL3 negotiation bug I'm grappling with while posting, so maybe I'm crazy.
Which has a very different legal system from England and Wales (or anywhere else, for that matter). Primary legislation from 1707 through 2000 was enacted in Parliament in London, but the judicial system itself is based on Roman law rather than Common Law or the Napoleonic Continental System.
This affects me (I'm in Edinburgh and so is my colo server). You, whoever you are, are probably safe.
Charlie, while both you and Cutbot are in Scotland, this is actually a UK issue. First, copyright is an issue reserved to Westminster. Second, the High Court (and Court of Appeal) ruled that normal web browsing is a potentially infringing activity. In the case of newspaper content, the NLA for the rights-holders now require commercial users to obtain a licence — initially for those receiving briefings from monitoring firms, but the ruling covers all commercial use, which includes simply visiting a relevant web page while at even a charitable place of work.
Also, please note that this isn’t about the location of colo servers: the law as interpreted by the courts concerns viewing a web page while in the UK.
If it's based on the Roman Law, then precedent is pretty much irrelevant right? So we just have a judge without any common sense here, and most likely this won't be repeated in other such cases.
> the judicial system itself is based on Roman law rather than Common Law or the Napoleonic Continental System
Says on Wikipedia[0] that it's a hybrid of Roman and English law. Why did they even use Roman law at all? The Roman Empire had been gone for several centuries, and England was in control after the 1707 Acts of Union, so it's surprising they didn't reform the system to follow English procedures.
One of the difference between Roman (aka civil) law and English (aka common) law is the that precent matters differently.
Lots of countries in Europe are based on civil aka Roman law.
The Act of Union in 1707 Scottish law was guaranteed to continue after the union, that was a demand. Why didn't they change it? Probably for the same reason the USA adopt Mexican law? Why should they? It's a different country with different legal systems.
Probably for the same reason the USA adopt Mexican law?
Bad analogy. The US and Mexico are not connected by an Act of Union.
And actually - parts of Mexican law were incorporated by states in the Southwest, where they made sense: primarily land-use and water rights.
It's a different country with different legal systems.
Act of Union - as I read it - united Scotland and England into the same Kingdom. You guys shared a flag, your armies are the same, the currency is the same.
A difference with no distinction.
Now, a prickly Scot could want to keep his oddball legal system and more power to him. But don't get all irate if the rest of the world looks at that choice and wonders that two countries that share currency, an army, a monarch, and etc should not also share the same legal system.
A better example is the US and Louisiana. While obviously, Louisiana is a state of the union, its laws are based on civil law rather than the common law that the rest of US is based on [1]. It's a real pain when dealing with Louisiana contracts and business.
Another distinction is that Scotland has its own devolved parliament. Some issues, including copyright, are reserved to the UK government, but Scotland can (and does) pass its own laws on devolved issues.
It's a bit of a political minefield to start saying "X isn't a real country". It's easy to come up with subjective rules about why X and Y are the same country but A and B aren't. E.g. is Australia a different country from UK (same queen, based on english law, queens appointee can dissolve parliament, etc.)? Is USA and UK same country (same language, legal system similar (but diverged earlier), similar measuring system (inches and miles!), militaristically have been working together). Is UK and France same country? Both in EU, different currency, but EU law taking precendence? Is France and Germany same country? Same currency, similar (civil) legal system, EU law.
These rules about what makes a country are mostly arbitrary and are often made for political reasons to either give power or take power from certain people.
Doesn't matter any more, because now instead of highlighting the point in the article that really matters, it's now been given the even more unenlightening title of the article itself.
Generic titles get more clicks, because the reader needs to click through and read the article to find out whether they're affected by the ruling. For the most clicks, headlines need to be specific enough to pique your interest, but vague enough that you can't feel satisfied that you know the whole story just from the headline. I can't say whether the submitter consciously considered that or not, but this story's headline is a great example of how well it works.
No, it's annoying when HN submission titles don't clearly state what jurisdiction articles about law apply to. I would personally have the same objection regardless of the article's nationality.
No. While I am from the US, it's difficult to tell exactly where in the entire world this court case applies to. If it was clearly stated that this was in the UK in the article, I wouldn't have that much of an issue.
Unfortunately, the only way to actually figure out that this was in the UK(as opposed to any of the other Commonwealth states that use similar court systems) was to go to the subsequent articles linked in TFA.
> If it was clearly stated that this was in the UK
> in the article, I wouldn't have that much of an issue.
Clearly, because while the US doesn't take any notice of anything anyone else does, anything done in the US eventually applies to everyone else in the world. Therefore everyone in the world has to take notice of everything that happens in the US, while people in the US don't have to care or notice about anything outside.
Given the terminology used in the article, this could have been in Austrailia or New Zealand. Both countries use a similar court system(High Court->Court of Appeals->Supreme Court).
Between those two, the UK, and the US, the only place it was obvious that it could not have happened in was the US. Here, the term "High Court" usually applies only to the Supreme Court.
Agreed. This article is stupid because it extrapolates from a few cases he's seen personally (and it was his coworkers messing up; I'm sure he's such a good developer that he's never made a mistake attributable to the command line tool, like making a typo).
And as long as we're being totally unscientific about the whole thing, the most common mistake I've seen when using a version control system has come from people checking in unintentional modifications using the command line tool because it is easy to miss. In a GUI, you can better see what is being committed, and a simple checkbox lets you skip it, while double clicking gives you a diff that makes it so much easier to review every change before you commmit.
At least the article could have addressed why that would not work for their use case.
edit: also now they have to classify polygons into groups that wholly fit into some "city" polygon. That seems like it becomes a pain to maintain since you may want to expand a region in the future and it happens to go outside of your previously defined "city". Or maybe you want a region that isn't in a "city", like a "country" or "mid-atlantic" region.