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General Transit Feed Specification is a format for public transit agencies to publish this information. There are a few repositories like https://transitfeeds.com .

The correct abbreviation for the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems is NeurIPS.

correlation does not imply causation

Folium is a nice python wrapper for Leaflet: https://github.com/python-visualization/folium

I think this could be said for many technologies: the cashier scans barcodes, the cook at McDonalds flips burgers when the alarm goes off, the anesthesiologist or pilot watches gau…

Ah. FARS does include data for each crash and each victim. It can be a mess to dig through: https://github.com/wgetsnaps/ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov--fars Also, California has their own data…

All 50 states (and territories), only fatal crashes, goes back to the 1970s: https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx available via ftp or here: https://github.com/wgetsnaps/…

There is https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

Yes. The data is from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey: http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.ht... Here is the script to generate the GeoJSON f…

SSDs are sweet. I just got a 13" MBP 2.7Ghz w/ a 128GB SSD. It's a screaming machine. Everything works instantly and it makes my older 2.4 Ghz MBP look like a sloth. In my opinion …

also, they are apparently safer than 'normal' left turns: http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wmshummersuperstreets/

I love that this hit the HN RSS. However, I prefer the Pittsburg Left: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Left

i've always thought password authentication is not the best way to be doing auth for websites. certificates seem to be the right solution, but difficult for the user to manage. (i …

I subscribe to the RSS feed. Pull it every hour. I guess that's 24x a day...

A while back I wrote an article talking about how Google has more information on you than any other single organization (government or corporate). Sure it's Gmail, search, ads (tra…