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Any idea who their data provider is? They have a deal with Google Maps? That would be interesting because the Maps API explicitly prohibits turn-by-turn navigation use cases, and many startups in this space use either OpenStreetMap or a licensed provider like TomTom / Nokia Navteq.

here is the original paper in case anyone's interested: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19430

And here is the abstract: Patents award innovators a fixed period of market exclusivity, e.g., 20 years in the United States. Yet, since in many industries firms file patents at the time of discovery (“invention”) rather than first sale (“commercialization”), effective patent terms vary: inventions that commercialize at the time of invention receive a full patent term, whereas inventions that have a long time lag between invention and commercialization receive substantially reduced - or in extreme cases, zero - effective patent terms. We present a simple model formalizing how this variation may distort research and development (R&D). We then explore this distortion empirically in the context of cancer R&D, where clinical trials are shorter - and hence, effective patent terms longer - for drugs targeting late-stage cancer patients, relative to drugs targeting early-stage cancer patients or cancer prevention. Using a newly constructed data set on cancer clinical trial investments, we provide several sources of evidence consistent with fixed patent terms distorting cancer R&D. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that the number of life-years at stake is large. We discuss three specific policy levers that could eliminate this distortion - patent design, targeted R&D subsidies, and surrogate (non-mortality) clinical trial endpoints - and provide empirical evidence that surrogate endpoints can be effective in practice.

any ideas where the map data comes from? OpenStreetMap?

A big issue in innovation research is to attribute patents to particular people. Patent disambiguation is an attempt at creating some sort of person ID, when the underlying data has no such information. One application is to find the same person inventing under the same name but at a different company (signalling that he has changed jobs) and so on. In doing analyses like these that disambiguation becomes essential. There is no "definition", everyone tries to come up with their own algorithm to unify S. Smith, Microsoft Corp from Steven Smith, Microsoft Corp, there there are always false positives.

openstreetmap, a global project, could really do with some more developers. for example, we still need a reporting framework that displays a dashboard of stats. many other projects can be found here: https://github.com/osmlab

will there be something like https://coinbase.com/docs/api/overview?

commented too soon! looks like you've thought of this. http://www.hind-cite.com/about. very cool.

very cool. I've been thinking of building a distributed analytics service like this -- can you talk about what the architecture of something like this is? If I had to build a custom chart, I would have to go get my own data?

It would be awesome to have a service that provides hosted data, allows anyone to make charts / random transformations / add extra data and then add that to the main dashboard.

does this method work if the APIs are passing data that is encrypted? I believe Waze does this ...

Check what policy your themes platform has on DMCA requests. Most likely they are required to take down your theme even if the DMCA request is "bogus". You might be able to file some sort of counter arguments with your platform, but till they file a request and the platform takes it down, you should feel free to ignore it. DMCA requests are directed at the platform, not directly at you.

care to elaborate more? I've always been interested in something like this to succeed. Its ridiculous that even today research papers have to go to an unknown set of referees who have no help from a wider bunch of more intelligent people to help them dissect whats good and bad about the paper. It is also great for outsiders/newcomers to quickly understand what the research community thinks about a particular paper.

isnt this the story of pretty much every Apple product?

has anyone seen Ingress sourced data show up in Google Maps? Is it already happening or is it only a matter of time? What would be most useful?

I rode one at SXSW in March 2013 -- they're yet to be made available commercially?

where does the data come from? OpenStreetMap?

thank you, this is great!

"An illustration software: I personally prefer Inkscape, but the industry standard Adobe Illustrator or newcomer Sketch are just as good. Use it to post-process your plots and graphs; it’s often much easier than writing plotting directives in Matlab or matplotlib."

Is this good advice? We generate a TON of graphs and charts in academia, and treating them like "design" objects seems to be a lot of work. Worth it? What is industry standard practice for good looking data viz?

Interesting to see that this happened around when Orkut Buyukkokten, the site's founder recently quit Google for Hello Networks.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/orkutb

is it possible to get pretty URLs? that might be the one thing that might stop me from using this -- this is exactly what i have been looking for!

Thank you for generous well-positioned citations to OpenStreetMap -- the community thanks you!

Any idea or links on what the background of the founders is? How do you get trained in the kind of technology that a startup of this kind needs?

I wonder what the implications are for OpenStreetMap. Skybox was playing nice with OSM and Mapbox -- https://www.mapbox.com/blog/skybox-mapbox-integration/

any ideas on what company it is that they're working with?

This reminds me of OpenGeofiction: "a collaborative platform for the creation of fictional maps." http://opengeofiction.net/#map=5/51.495/-0.088

Perhaps someone can port this so that we can all modify it for good measure.

And backed by solid research by MIT academics: http://mitsloanexperts.mit.edu/matthew-marx-non-compete-agre...

I've done this plenty of times. It pains me that I have to modify the footer on 5 different pages if something changes. I want to separate the content from the design, but I dont want to use databases. And I want to use ready-made templates that work well in different environments.

can someone post a screenshot of what happens once you click all the red boxes? I have too many of them and dont want to do it ...

My fav sun memory from the time hanging out there (I was a student intern also) was playing with the Sun SPOTs. Apart from the "cloud" - SUN also saw the "internet of things", and had devices that look much like arduinos and RPis, much much before their time.

I dont think the community is that active anymore: http://www.sunspotworld.com/

This site was due for a revamp anyway. Nowadays some of the most exciting maps are created with OpenStreetMap -- and the blog was featuring most of them anyway. The Google Maps name was not giving OpenStreetMap its due credit.

I wrote a case about the Leap for my MIT Entrepreneurship class and interviewed a bunch of the founding team.

These guys are great -- but they still havent found their killer app. Thats partly because the tech is ahead of its time -- but the vision is clearly excellent.

David Holz the founder is the brains behind this, has been working on a better UI since he was literally a kid in Florida. See: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-24/david-holzs-...

Their CEO is the founder of Quattro Wireless founder, an ex-Apple exec Andy Miller who is a really smart guy. SO they do really have a good team, and lots of VC backing.

Perhaps this new skeletal tracking stuff will help this really catch on. Best of luck to LEAP!