A Geocode Is Not an Address

A Geocode Is Not an Address

For instance, Puerto Rican addresses often use “urbanization” and “barrio” divisions to distinguish between otherwise identical street addresses, and mainland US software frequently has no input field for these. So should a place like Puerto Rico simply adopt What3Words as a fix for its broken address system? Using a geocode instead of an address is, in the case of What3Words, like swapping your first, middle, and last names for three names chosen at random—and, in fact, your name would be guaranteed to be as different as possible from the names of those closest to you, like your parents, spouse, and children.

Source: www.wired.com

The Third User (2013)

The Third User (2013)

Apple keeps doing things in the Mac OS that leave the user-experience (UX) community scratching its collective head, things like hiding the scroll bars and placing invisible controls inside the content region of windows on computers. While it’s true Apple is missing something—arrow keys—we in the UX community areN missing something, too: Apple’s razor-sharp focus on a user many of us often fail to even consider: The potential user, the buyer. While Apple has copied over the aesthetics of industrial design into the software world, they have also copied over its limitation:  Whether it be a tractor, Ferrari, or electric toaster, that piece of hardware, in the absence of upgradeable software, will look and act the same the first time you use it as the thousandth time.

Source: asktog.com

Ask HN: What’s preventing us from achieving seamless video communication?

Ask HN: What’s preventing us from achieving seamless video communication?

With all due respect to all the amazing folks working in the domain, as a person working outside the field, the quality of even 1:1 video communication still seems far from ideal. Folks say there’s less room for improvements with compression after H.264. The audio artifacts definitely impacts the perceived quality so not sure if there’s room for improvement here technically.

Source: news.ycombinator.com

Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass

Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass

“This is the first time in the archaeological record that we saw glass being used to be able to refine gold,” says Marc Walton, codirector of the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts, a collaboration between Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago. “The glass appeared to be material that was [actually] recycled glass materials … so it really shows the industriousness and creativity of the craftsmen, who understood the properties of gold and glass enough to [use them for] this process of refining gold.” Since gold is inert, it doesn’t fully dissolve into melted glass, while impurities and other materials do, making this “a really novel way of using recycled glass material.”

Source: www.atlasobscura.com

The speed of BGP network propagation

The speed of BGP network propagation

Sadly, a lot of networks struggle to get consistent network announcements to work right, often resulting in totally backwards-from-logic routing:

However even those networks that do get most regions down, regions like Asia are much harder to get to route correctly, partly due to local ISPs either dealing with overloaded links or their links not always following logical geographic points. When we see a BGP update message for our prefix, that provider+location combo wins (or if they are late, loses)

This could be slightly flawed, since some networks might have hard to observe mechanisms for quickly sending routing information inside their network, but those initial route updates internally may not be sensible network paths. , If you look at ORD (Chicago) and MIA (Miami) you can see other carriers pick up the route from telia at another location, and hand it over to our provider before 20 seconds later, it arrives as a direct route.

Source: blog.benjojo.co.uk

Cyber Security Tools for 2019

Cyber Security Tools for 2019

Powered by : BHUDKI It’s all about experience, dedication and work you did, do in your daily life when it comes to field of Cyber Security. There are much more tools available,and user who finds comfortable seat with other tools rather than mentioned here.: Mentioned below, cyber security tools for 2019 is solely my own best. For other, juice choice might be different.

Source: www.hackershousenepal.com

The Third User or Exactly Why Apple Keeps Doing Foolish Things (2013)

The Third User or Exactly Why Apple Keeps Doing Foolish Things (2013)

Apple keeps doing things in the Mac OS that leave the user-experience (UX) community scratching its collective head, things like hiding the scroll bars and placing invisible controls inside the content region of windows on computers. While it’s true Apple is missing something—arrow keys—we in the UX community areN missing something, too: Apple’s razor-sharp focus on a user many of us often fail to even consider: The potential user, the buyer. While Apple has copied over the aesthetics of industrial design into the software world, they have also copied over its limitation:  Whether it be a tractor, Ferrari, or electric toaster, that piece of hardware, in the absence of upgradeable software, will look and act the same the first time you use it as the thousandth time.

Source: asktog.com

Almost every country in the world agrees deal to cut plastic pollution except US

Almost every country in the world agrees deal to cut plastic pollution except US

Plastic waste across the world: in pictures

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A father and son on a makeshift boat made from styrofoam paddle through a garbage filled river as they collect plastic bottles that they can sell in junkshops in Manila. Tons of plastic and other waste lines areas along the Thames Estuary shoreline, an important feeding ground for wading birds and other marine wildlife. Getty

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Children collect plastic to be sold and recycled, in a polluted river in suburban Manila.

Source: www.independent.co.uk

High school to eliminate valedictorian honor over ‘mental wellness’ concerns

High school to eliminate valedictorian honor over ‘mental wellness’ concerns

Buzz60

Citing an unhealthy competitiveness among students, an Ohio high school will no longer recognize a valedictorian or salutatorian beginning next school year, school officials say. Under the current system, high school students who earned a C grade or higher in Advanced Placement, honors or College Credit Plus classes earned an extra .03 points to their GPA. No GPA cap was in place, so students chased higher and higher GPAs instead of pursuing other endeavors: “Kids were using their summers, using time during the year to stack themselves up with even more classes,” said Tracey Carson, a district spokeswoman.

Source: www.usatoday.com

Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs

Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs

But links can appear in API resources too, and using them instead of foreign keys significantly reduces the amount of information that has to be separately documented by the API provider and learned by the user. The relationship name in a link can be thought of as being analogous to the column name of a relational database foreign key column, and the URI in the link is analogous to the foreign key value. While links aren’t widely used in APIs, some very prominent web APIs use links based on HTTP URLs to represent relationships, for example the Google Drive API and the GitHub API.

Source: cloudblog.withgoogle.com