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Re:The 'Grammar Vigilante' of Bristol [video] on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:52AM (#14021661)
it's :)
Re:New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess on Friday January 27, 2017 @11:33AM (#13500719)
Ok, who knows how to get them?
Re:Facebook’s Virtual Reality Foray Derided as ‘Fanciful Story’ on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:33PM (#13369256)
At Zenimax: "Hey guys. This whole VR is becoming a real thing and we dismissed it along with this Carmack dude. Lets fill a suit against Zuckerberg for ludicrous amount of money, maybe we can get couple millions for free via settlement."
Re:HTTPS on NYTimes.com on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:30PM (#13369232)
How is this news worth upvoting though?
Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:41AM (#12644172)
This coupled with the Automatic Statistician (https://www.automaticstatistician.com/index/) will help fix a lot of biases and human errors that creep into scientific research.
Re:YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube v... on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @01:23PM (#12591283)
Do you have any stats on youtube usage? Personally I don't use the offline feature very much.
Re:A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python on Monday March 30, 2015 @01:06PM (#9290882)
I've fixed this by converting the geodetic coordinates to ECEF. See v1.2 release notes here: https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder
Re:A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python on Monday March 30, 2015 @01:05PM (#9290876)
UPDATE: I've just released v1.2 which supports Python 3. For details: https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder
Re:A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python on Monday March 30, 2015 @04:51AM (#9288358)
Thanks!
Re:A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python on Saturday March 28, 2015 @01:05PM (#9282018)
Good point. I would need to use this distance function instead: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html

On it!

Re:A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python on Saturday March 28, 2015 @11:55AM (#9281811)
Thanks for that comment!

Good question regarding the license. I'm not too sure about that. I'd appreciate it if someone could shed some light on it.

Regarding the version, I've only tested it on python2. I should add that in the README. Thanks!

Re:A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python on Saturday March 28, 2015 @11:04AM (#9281678)
Very cool project. Out of curiosity, how do you test the validity of the addresses?
Re:A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python on Saturday March 28, 2015 @10:36AM (#9281599)
Check out this library for Node https://github.com/tomayac/local-reverse-geocoder
Re:A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python on Saturday March 28, 2015 @08:56AM (#9281350)
That is interesting. I haven't looked at that data set. At the moment, this only looks at cities with a population > 1000 obtained from GeoNames.
Re:A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python on Saturday March 28, 2015 @08:52AM (#9281344)
I should think so. I've tried nominatim/osm data but it took forever to query a large set of coordinates. I was only interested in knowing the nearest city and admin regions 1/2. And this library is really fast... ~20s to lookup 10M coordinates on my MBP. If you'd however like to know the full address, then this is maybe not a good idea.
Re:A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python on Saturday March 28, 2015 @08:40AM (#9281325)
Thanks! I'm the developer of this library and I hope you find it useful.
Re:Why engineers make great CEOs on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @07:12AM (#7709538)
Marc Andreessen at SS '11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9phm2ae0Ss&feature=youtu.be...

"The engineer who can become an entrepreneur, who can then become a CEO... there's something magic about that formula"

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