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rkdaon Pandas author on unsustainabilty of project, lack of funding

Who are the beggars? The quants who take but don't give back?

rkdaon Getting Started on Geospatial Analysis with Python, GeoJSON and GeoPandas

For JavaScript folks, there's Turfjs from Mapbox.

http://turfjs.org/

rkdaon Getting Started on Geospatial Analysis with Python, GeoJSON and GeoPandas

Rasterio ftw! Way easier to use than gdal's Python bindings.

Fun fact: Geopandas uses Fiona and shapely under the hood.

rkdaon Getting Started on Geospatial Analysis with Python, GeoJSON and GeoPandas

You might also be interested in GeoNotebook, a Jupyter Notebook extension for geospatial analysis

https://github.com/OpenGeoscience/geonotebook

rkdaon Gitter is open source

Would it be possible to use a bar chart instead. Pie charts are kind of a pain.

rkdaon Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?

Do you live in the US? Because where I'm from, our public libraries suck and not everyone has access to the internet. I agree that people with access to public libraries and the internet have no excuse. What I'm telling you is that a large number of people in other places of the world don't have access to even that.

rkdaon Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?

It's not that. It's that not everyone who desires to be an engineer/surgeon/attorney has the resources or opportunities to do so. Some people are barely surviving as it is. Intellectual pursuits are a luxury for them.

rkdaon Is group chat making you sweat? (2016)

Link to the old Hacker News discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239614

rkdaon Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

Chat services usually have an import service. At least for their more famous competitors. Doesn't Slack allow you to export your message history?

rkdaon Bonobo – A data processing toolkit for Python 3.5+

Oh... now it makes more sense. Didn't mean to sound harsh. Thanks for sharing your framework! :)

rkdaon Bonobo – A data processing toolkit for Python 3.5+

All those references to monkeys hurt my head. Bonobos are not monkeys. If they wanted to name it after monkeys, they should've called it Capuchin or something.

rkdaon Upspin – Another option for file sharing

Awesome! Mac only for now though :(

rkdaon Exposing Digital Photography (2015)

The Bastard's Book of Photography might be what you want :)

http://photography.bastardsbook.com/toc/

rkdaon How Hash Algorithms Work (2007)

>The word 'cat' will hash to something that no other word hashes too, but it will always hash to the same thing.

Don't hashing functions have collisions?

rkdaon OpenStreetMap plugin for Unreal Engine 4

The problem with elevations from GPS chips are that they are ellipsoidal heights, that is the height from the surface of the ellipsoid used to model the earth. This can be very far from the elevation referred from mean sea level. I think SRTM is still the best way to get elevation data as mentioned by other commenters.

rkdaon Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets

You might also be interested in dat. They're trying to solve this problem as well.

http://dat-data.com/

"Dat is a decentralized data tool for distributing data small and large."

rkdaon A Surveillance Master Dissects a Murder from the Sky [video]

Here's a link to the company's page:

http://www.pss-1.com/#!hawkeye-ii-resolution/ccm3

rkdaon A Surveillance Master Dissects a Murder from the Sky [video]

"HawkEye II is intended to see expansive areas wtih resolutions that allow users to detect movements of people and vehicles. It does not provide the ability to detect gender, ethnicity, age, hair color, nor can it be used for facial recognition. This is an inherent limit to Wide Area Motion Imagery. If cameras get better - and they will - the same rseolution limits will remain in place, the change will be in the size of the coverage area."

At least the company behind this seems to be ethical.

http://www.pss-1.com/#!hawkeye-ii-resolution/ccm3

rkdaon Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

"Embrace, extend, extinguish."

rkdaon Apache PDFBox – A Java PDF Library

Sorry, here's the link to the press release:

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_softwar...

rkdaon Discover Flask

And here's a link to the Vagrant instance

https://github.com/apolloclark/discover-flask-vagrant

rkdaon Hands-On Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis in Python

Nice! Added to the toolbox :D Don't really need it right now but some of my civil engineer friends might :)

rkdaon Hands-On Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis in Python

You can view the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM41Dxlk_zs

Presentation slides: https://2015.foss4g-na.org/sites/default/files/slides/Instal...

Workshop materials: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxNqMqesSSmSSkVmT0d4dDJ4b2c...

rkdaon Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?

From experience, it's a separate app but manufacturer specific. Haven't had much luck looking for a generic app.

rkdaon Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?

I'm using a Lenovo now and they still have it. Old Samsung also had something similar, Battery Life Extender, which won't stops charging at 80% even when plugged.

rkdaon DragonBox: Secretly teach algebra to your children

Can you post the link to the article? Thanks!

Edit: Found it!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanshapiro/2013/07/01/it-only...

rkdaon Penrose Binning

For when you're tired of hexbins.

rkdaon DragonBox: Secretly teach algebra to your children

Looking forward to your future games then :)

rkdaon DragonBox: Secretly teach algebra to your children

Please please say you'll make one for statistics too. I'd totally buy even though I'm not your target audience. :D

rkdaon DragonBox: Secretly teach algebra to your children

What's your inspiration for the game btw? Also, how did you design it? :D Any advice for people who want to make similar games? :)