A lahar was the cause of a deadly railway accident in New Zealand about 60 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangiwai_disaster
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Some people have been looking at extracting the necessary certificates needed to communicate with their bikes via Bluetooth: https://www.reddit.com/r/vanmoofbicycle/comments/14xj66k/get...
Some previous commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676307
His concise monthly European rail news is also great: https://www.seat61.com/news.htm
> Obermayer told me that his source for the Panama Papers, whom he refers to as John Doe, had tried to get the attention of several large international outlets, including a U.S. paper, before he got in touch with him. “The leaker didn’t say, ‘Here’s the biggest leak in history, are you interested?’ ” Obermayer said. The first documents that John Doe offered him were not journalistically compelling, at first glance. But Obermayer recognized that they had come from Mossack Fonseca, which he knew operated in extreme secrecy. “I thought, If somebody has obtained data from inside Mossack Fonseca, this could be really interesting,” he said. Knowing the implications of the firm’s name, Obermayer speculated, may have been why he ended up with the Panama Papers.
1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Public_Key...
Students just need to be aware that they should learn from solutions provided by wolfram alpha (there's nothing wrong with that), otherwise they're going to flunk the closed-book exams anyway.
> There are also high barriers to entry in these markets, in part because of network effects: the more consumers use a search engine, the more attractive it becomes to advertisers. The profits generated can then be used to attract even more consumers. Similarly, the data a search engine gathers about consumers can in turn be used to improve results.
Simply put, the EC believes that Google is a barrier to any viable competition, so there's no ability to develop a competitive service to Google's own.
"Google Assistant will use more than one device to decipher the exact voice commands"
1: https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/863046075002884097
2: https://blockchain.info/address/13AM4VW2dhxYgXeQepoHkHSQuy6N...
1. New tools built from ground up to plan, schedule, and operate buses. I imagine there are a lot of efficiencies to be gained here, and they can probably resell these tools if it is successful. Automated, dynamic schedule, dispatch, even ticketing. There's a lot of old tech to be replaced/improved.
2. Integrating the data they gain from their app to find and operate profitable routes. One of the key issues of the London bus system is that people do not "tap off". This means there is limited information about how to best optimise TfL routes. While TfL can sample existing routes and have a good understanding of existing infrastructure, a problem lies in identifying new routes. Citymapper, through its apps, likely has a more intimate understanding of routes that are desirable. They have point to point data - even the data where people walk, as opposed to which stop they get on/off. They also don't have an obligation to serve unpopular routes whereas local governments (might) run buses at a loss in order to be accessible. This enables Citymapper to design and tailor routes specifically to be profitable routes that their customers desire.
3. The third outcome is just the outcome of doing both 1 and 2. By building their own bus operating system, they can prove the system themselves and make it even more enticing to potential buyers.
I'm very interested to see how this turns out and whether Citymapper will actually end up running real bus routes across London, and potentially other cities.
Just think about it - do you ever transfer during your commute? Would you prefer a route with less transfers and walking? This is the type of problem Citymapper can address. They have a wealth of data at their hands and are much less constrained by regulations. That said, there are several good reasons why public transit is almost always subsidised and I hope Citymapper is conscious of that.
[0] https://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/google-earth-eas...
While the monarchy exists mostly in name outside the UK, her death will be closely followed by the people whose lives have been touched by the British Empire.
Is this an article or an opinion piece? It reads very weirdly but I can't pinpoint it.
It's refreshing to feel the scale of slower-paced rewards compared to today's expectations of near-instantaneous rewards.
TL;DW: Steam accepted blank recovery codes for password resets, enabling passwords to be changed without needing access to the recovery email account.
I hope someone is writing a new test case.