Map making is a finicky challenge where oftentimes your map data — points, lines, and polygons — must align just right with your external data that exists as a CSV file or related. Mapshaper is an online tool that helps you massage your geographic data to where it needs to be.
Source: Adjusting map data with Mapshaper
A hotel executive said a recently-passed New York law cracking down on Airbnb hosts will enable the company to raise prices for New York City hotel rooms, according to the transcript of the executive’s words on a call with shareholders last week.
The law, signed by New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday, slaps anyone who lists their apartment on a short-term rental site with a fine up to $7,500. It “should be a big boost in the arm for the business,” Mike Barnello, chief executive of the hotel chain LaSalle Hotel Properties, said of the law last Thursday, “certainly in terms of the pricing.”
Source: Hotel CEO openly celebrates higher prices after anti-Airbnb law passes – The Washington Post
Well of course it would – and it’s pretty surprising that in 2016 government officials (governors!) still understand so little about technology and innovation that they enact idiot protectionist laws to keep the old way of doing things in place instead of making the old people innovate themselves if they want to stay relevant. Unless, of course, the governor is in the pocket of some hotel lobbyists.
Somewhere a Lenovo engineer is crying over how your OS is accessing the SSD
Source: Lenovo downward dogs with Yoga BIOS update supporting Linux installs
Finally – wtf is with Lenovo!?
With proof of concept. Of course, this requires “hacking” the originating bot back and only works if the bot is running over http, but still, better than nothing.
Source: Invincea Labs
Mike Kelley is a Los Angeles based artist specializing in architectural, aerial, and aviation photography.
Source: Mike Kelley Art
This stuff is made by sitting at an airport, taking pictures of everything that flies by and then creating a composite.
Long-overdue rules protecting security research and vehicle repair have finally taken effect, as they should have done last year. Though the Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress unlawfully and pointlessly delayed their implementation, for the next two years the public can take advantage of the freedom they offer.
Source: Why Did We Have to Wait a Year to Fix Our Cars? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Government idiots.