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No thanks. This is what it looks like if you have web history turned off.

http://imgur.com/wgF7Q5J

I've had web history turned off for a while now.

separate shoutout to the HTTP Archive http://httparchive.org/about.php

Never knew this thing existed, but seems like a really nice resource.

original statement in case anyone's interested: http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-a-statement-about-mahbods-an...

xkcd in real life: http://xkcd.com/461/

its a shame that this is not being done under the wikidata framework. those guys have been thinking about databases like this for a while, and can be reliably trusted to at least keep it up for a reasonable amount of time.

kind of like the mayone.us of patent trolls. brilliant idea.

what is the consensus on being able to run a version of GNU/Linux on the surface? Possible?

Make no mistake, this is a major announcement in the mapping space. Scout is consistently the leading navigation app on smartphones after Google Maps (perhaps by quite a margin, but still ...) and given how core mapping is to apps like Strava, this probably means that OSM is now mature.

The real question is how this will affect the ability to OSM to attract new contributors and improve the map even further. While routing works well on OSM, the POI layer and the address layer (important for geocoding) still needs a fair bit of work, at least in the US.

Here are some stats from the project: http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/

my favorite is the GUI. While many credit XEROX with the GUI, most of the ideas came out of the quite amazing Sketchpad by Ivan Sutherland. As an MIT student, this list makes awesome reading!

Here is the relevant snippet:

Nearly 50 years before the iPad, an MIT PhD student had already come up with the idea of directly interfacing with a computer screen. Ivan Sutherland’s “Sketchpad” allowed users to draw geometric shapes with a touch-pen, pioneering the practice of “computer-assisted drafting” that has proven vital for architects, planners, and now even toddlers.

I have the same question. OpenStreetMap definitely has the necessary infrastructure see: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree

People have also added a large number of trees on OpenStreetMap -- see: http://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2013/02/quicker-mapping-of-stre...

yeah, here is the relevant paragraph from the Wikipedia entry:

>The maze is made up of a 16 by 16 grid of cells, each 180 mm square with walls 50 mm high. The mice are completely autonomous robots that must find their way from a predetermined starting position to the central area of the maze unaided. The mouse will need to keep track of where it is, discover walls as it explores, map out the maze and detect when it has reached the goal. Having reached the goal, the mouse will typically perform additional searches of the maze until it has found an optimal route from the start to the center. Once the optimal route has been found, the mouse will run that route in the shortest possible time.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromouse

very cool.

check this out for a modern example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExW_rxKdNJE

For those interested -- people are still interested in building maze solving robots, still called "micromouse". Here is one amazin micromouse that can traverse a maze and remember the solution very, very quickly. These days, its as much a mechanical problem (i.e. building a mouse that is robust, and has accurate sensors) as it is algorithmic.

very interesting. I've been meaning to do a study where I track maps over time to get a visual picture of how the world was "discovered". Have you seen anyone else that has done something similar or any references?

I've been thinking about this for a while, and thought github finally understood the value of a "git for data". Github really needs to be data repository, with "Code" being only one type of data. But then they become a hosting service for large data files, and that is a headache and a different business. I dont see how academics who work with reasonably large datasets would move to github as long as they have to manage their data on another platform. Perhaps Github could have deep integration with AWS / DO and collaborate to solve that pain point.

Can someone explain how DRM on HTML5 would work?

I personally like this one: http://jblevins.org/projects/cv-template/

is it possible to get this resume exported to Pdf? I might consider it in that case, but i dont really have that much trouble using Latex and it really is quite beautiful once it comes out. Thanks Latex template makers!

I'm a PhD student at MIT interested in doing research using the Commoncrawl dataset. Are you interested in working on this together or at least getting together and chatting about it? drop me a line: nagaraj@mit.edu

i love bootstrap to death, but am I the only one getting Bootstrap fatigue?

i thought the point of this way, gee, the world bank makes it hard for you to get data out, so we scraped them, and here is the data for you guys to play around with. I looked for a bit, but couldnt find the data -- am I missing something?

This is beautiful if you want to print maps: http://www.maposmatic.org/

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Mapping is too important a thing to let one company control the experience. The debate is not about whether Google Maps is good or bad, but if its bad for you there is little choice. You can't fix it. It's not a 100% there, but get on the OpenStreetMap train, fix your local area and have fun. And enjoy all the good stuff startups are building on top of that data.

Here is an easy way to get started: http://www.openstreetmap.org/fixthemap

Question for CityMapper -- have you guys considered OpenStreetMap? What is currently wrong with OpenStreetMap that you would rather use Google? Would love to get some feedback back to the OSM community.

I agree -- the maps look great. https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=restaurants+in+boston.

There might be some complaints/confusion about attribution from the OSM community, but overall really happy to see a major search engine use OSM maps!

are videos from previous startup schools available online?

anyone has any idea where their location data (i.e map) is coming from?

this is more a description of Google+ as the author sees it rather than what "killed" it or what could save it. I do agree with the general point that it seems to be a place for geeks, but that could be because the author / myself are geeks and we hang out around other geeks. hardly reassuring "evidence".

This map is cool, but it doesnt help me use it for what I imagine is a pretty common use-case, finding a popular route from Place A to B. Would it be possible to drop placemarkers between two places and do routing based on Strava popularity? Right now Google bike directions are pretty bad where I live, and it would be nice to know what route the "insiders" are taking to do a popular route (MIT to Concord is one Im thinking of, but I can imagine other alternatives)

Around MIT, the route around the river is pretty popular as the map shows. Except at one point you have to choose between a fork in the road -- do you take a right and run right next to the river and enjoy the water, or do you keep running straight and enjoy the rush of cars on Storrow drive as you run. Im more of a car person, but my girlfriend likes to run by the river. Strava shows me that the Storrow alternative is indeed less popular :(

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#17/-71.07863/42.35498/gray/b...

for the founders -- if you're building a bike whose USP is built-in bike-based routing -- im surprised you're using out-of-the-box google directions. Have you considered using something like OpenStreetMap based routing? Perhaps incorporate hills? Perhaps allow users to modify the map and incorporate trails that they take regularly?

Here is a good example: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/launching-smart-directions/

But overall looks like a cool concept, and the bike looks slick. Congrats!