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Many enthusiasts and scientists are recording and identifying birds from nocturnal audio recordings. Some references:

- https://www.facebook.com/groups/NocturnalFlightCalls

- https://github.com/HaroldMills/Vesper

- http://oldbird.org/pubs/fcmb/start.htm

- https://nightmigrants.com/main/page_home.html

BirdNET isn't tuned particularly for nocturnal flight calls (NFCs). But a network of listening stations with automated identification exists and is improving rapidly. Vesper (https://github.com/HaroldMills/Vesper) is one open-source project. Terra (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theterraproject/listen-...) is also related.

Merlin is the most widely-used audio recognition app. It's amazing, try it out. BirdNET is another project (also affiliated with Cornell) that works in a similar way. This project is about locally installing BirdNET.

eBird is a great resource for the casual birder looking to learn more. When I started, I used it to find out where to go to look for birds and what birds to expect once I got there. It also is an excellent listing tool, and listing in eBird helps you identify by knowing what's likely to be seen. As you get more into it, you'll be really glad you kept early lists in eBird. Push past the registration, it's worth it!

I do. You will.

They do have an API. It doesn't have everything but does cover a lot of interesting use-cases.

https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/664302/S1ENwy59?versi...

You can also request to download all or filtered subsets of their entire database and play with it locally.

Among other things, I built this (http://empid.herokuapp.com/, source code at https://github.com/ses4j/empid) using eBird data.

Cities tend to have a concentration effect on birds, especially during migrations. Central Park in NYC, for instance, is one of the best places in the world for birdwatching in spring and fall. Birds migrate at night, and at first light, gravitate to the first tree they can find. Since NYC is concrete for miles and miles, a very wide area's worth of birds all funnel into Central Park (and other parks, of course) and you get amazing quantities and varieties. The same is true for parks in other cities.

And to loop it back around to a video game if that's more in your comfort zone, there is Fantasy Birding where you pick a virtual location every day and are credited with seeing whatever real people really reported in that location that day.

Only the truly intrepid fantasy-bird themselves.

eBird. It is the defacto site worldwide for logging bird sightings. It is free, the app is simple and powerful, and you are contributing to science every time you use it. (It is a product of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and they and other scientists around the world use the data heavily for many purposes). Also, it has lots of tools that help you learn the birds (and birders) in your area - localized histograms of sighting frequency, custom lists of birds you haven't reported yet, lists of nearby hotspots...

As far as identifying, get a field guide (Petersen's, Sibley's are good in the US). There are good forums with talented people helping if you submit pictures on reddit.com/r/whatsthisbird or on Facebook "What's this Bird?" group.

It was better than everything that came before it for it's purpose, so people were happy with the improvement.

But then every time they change something, unless it is just 100% obviously better for everyone, like a speedup, it's gonna annoy some people.

I never thought of plaintext as a way of life, but I think I agree with it in principle (as many others on here probably do.) I didn't know I was part of a movement, but I did write my own simple (and open source) hours tracking/invoicing tool on plaintext principles: https://github.com/ses4j/ts

Well said.

Here's one guy's approach: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/06/build-deep-learning-box.htm...

From a personal/financial perspective, you're probably best just walking away: hiring lawyers is expensive. But walking away silently enables them up to repeat their crimes. Reporting them criminally and giving them a record will make it harder for them to victimize more people.

Do you think they're intentionally blacklisting the +, or are they just writing sloppy validation/regexes that aren't up to the spec?

The topic is fascinating, but the article doesn't talk to how this "reverse design" algorithm works at all, which I think might be very relevant to this audience. Does anyone have a link to more about the design algorithm and how it works?

Weird. I was just reading William Hertling's Avogadro Corp (http://www.amazon.com/Avogadro-Corp-Singularity-Closer-Appea...) and the premise of that book is that someone builds this product exactly. Unfortunately, it very quickly goes all Skynet/HAL on the world.. oh well.

Does any flavor of this functionality exist for Windows command prompt?

I disagree strongly with a couple of your points.

- No need to manually manage memory.

That isn't true at all. You know enough memory management to avoid memory issues in your example. C++11 didn't save you from needing to understand it -- you understand it so avoided needing it.

- Compile time with -O3 is roughly the same as Python VM startup and has to be done only once.

It still requires two separate steps. Also, compile gets slower as the program gets larger, which isn't nearly as true for Python.

This is much much much more entry-level than most of the content posted to HN. Maybe a "Beginners: " label would be appropriate...

Why would that be better than sticking with Bootstrap 2? Bootstrap has been a huge boon for us -- provides a cross browser, consistent, and well documented layout framework that has brought valuable organization and unification to our previously hodgepodge and inexpert usage of CSS. It's a fabulous tool, much better than any custom solution we would gin up with the limited time allotted for that sort of thing.

I wish they weren't dropping IE7 support. You can make fun of "who uses that!" all you want, but we build a site that is used by government people who can't control their own computers, and our current demographics are 50% IE7! Nothing to be done, we just can't upgrade to Bootstrap 3.0. So -- if you MUST do this, at least leave the website docs up for Bootstrap 2, cause we're not going anywhere...

This image needs to become one of the standard meme images.

I'm so desperate for C# .NET stuff to show up on HN that I'm even willing to vote up this uninteresting, unreadably-formatted blog post.

The comments here seem brutally negative, but I applaud Microsoft for yet another step in what seems to me to be a firm-wide aggressive embrace of open source tech. The Microsoft of yore would not have built this at all, let alone released this on Github.