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Firefox' Enhanced Tracking Protection breaks the map in a weird way. The Map bounces up and down erratically.

This message piles up in the console:

Blocked https://liveworld.info from extracting canvas data because no user input was detected

Re:Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance? on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:30PM (#49675536)
My kind of Renaissance. Sign me up!
Re:SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles on Friday August 14, 2026 @01:03PM (#49301535)
Dark gray on black. Impossible to see...
Yeah. It locked up my browser. What a pile.
Is this actually only one sentence? "...may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling." So if an agency uses readers for tolling, does that disallow the use of the data for other things? Splitting hairs, but...
I just pulled my 1981 Tempest out of storage yesterday. Hope it still works!
Re:Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension on Saturday February 28, 2026 @05:37PM (#47201090)
But that's not a regression...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016) on Thursday December 01, 2016 @03:14PM (#13083073)
Sixgill | Senior Software Engineer | Portland, Santa Monica | REMOTE www.sixgill.com

With our market-proven enterprise proximity platform, customers can Track the key people, places, and things that matter to them, Determine proximity and intent, and Act to drive business value. We turn the increasing mobility of the enterprise workforce and the connected nature of the Internet of Things into a business asset, converting vast amounts of location and sensor data into understandable analytics and targeted action.

In this position you'll have the opportunity to design and develop novel approaches to data collection, distribution, monitoring, inference, and action related to location and proximity data.

What you'll do:

- Design and develop software solutions having the lowest latency, highest throughput, and greatest flexibility while maintaining system simplicity

- Test function and performance at every stage of design and every level of integration

- Document designs and system performance

- Discover what's possible in addition to delivering what's needed

Your Credentials:

- Experience with distributed systems

- Multi-year experience in our technology stack items, where appropriate

- Experience with mapping and Geo-oriented processes.

- Go / Golang, gRPC, REST API

- InfluxDB / Time series database, DGraph / Graph database

- Joyent Triton, Docker

- Linux

Contact: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016) on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:16PM (#12847956)
Sixgill | http://www.sixgill.com | REMOTE | Senior Software Engineer

With our market-proven enterprise proximity platform, customers can Track the key people, places, and things that matter to them, Determine proximity and intent, and Act to drive business value. We turn the increasing mobility of the enterprise workforce and the connected nature of the Internet of Things into a business asset, converting vast amounts of location and sensor data into understandable analytics and targeted action.

In this position you'll have the opportunity to design and develop novel approaches to data collection, distribution, monitoring, inference, and action related to location and proximity data.

- Design and develop software solutions having the lowest latency, highest throughput, and greatest flexibility while maintaining system simplicity

- Test function and performance at every stage of design and every level of integration

- Document designs and system performance

- Discover what's possible in addition to delivering what's needed

Your Credentials

- Experience with distributed systems

- Multi-year experience in our technology stack items, where appropriate

- Experience with mapping and Geo-oriented processes.

- Go / Golang, gRPC, REST API

- InfluxDB / Time series database, DGraph / Graph database

- Joyent Triton, Docker

- Linux, iOS, Android

Contact: [email protected]