skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone below mentions PostGIS, which from my understanding is among the best tools in the field (if you heard of OpenStreetMap, the whole DB for all their geo data runs on that, and people use dumps like others do with Wikipedia to build their own customized GIS apps on tops of it).

That said, other people mention Cloudant deployments here, and that is CouchDB. If you want a Mongo-ish (they are still very different) NoSQL document store (notice I did not say database), there is extra layer of functionality on top of CouchDB known as GeoCouch. I have never personally used it but I have been looking for a reason to.

https://github.com/couchbase/geocouch/
I'm astonished at that graph. Jet fuel is more expensive than normal petrol ("gas") right?

So, if it's $5 a gallon in the US for Jet Fuel, in the UK for petrol you'd pay roughly £6.10 for a gallon of normal car fuel[1] which is like $9.60 .

Seriously? it's cheaper to fuel a private jet in the US than a car in the UK?

[1] estimated from http://www.petrolprices.com/search.html?search=London%2C+Mid... based on the cheapest price in London. Prices quoted are for 1 Litre.
Hi Jason,

Yes - that was the same claim I got from your support back then (score update within a second mostly) - but that breaks up a linear process into an asynchronous one (since you can't complete the purchase process immediately). Hope that makes sense - we will be looking forward to your API update.
The customer's problem isn't the network/manufacturers problem, hence why Apple were so successful with iPhone.

If the network/manufacturer can't make money, that's not a viable solution for anyone.

This does not solve a problem, it creates them.
The article is misleading. It is not a choice between a fingerprint or a PIN.

Touch ID requires both a fingerprint and a PIN. If the phone hasn't been unlocked in 48 hours or has been rebooted, you have to enter the PIN. This would probably protect your 5th amendment rights in the case of going to court (since it would probably take >48 hours).

Touch ID is there to make PINs more widely adopted, by minimizing the inconvenience of entering a PIN every single time. That's a great boost for security.

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/09/11/apple-new-iphone-not-...
There appears to be an issue with sorting some of the wines by low price. For some types it appears to sort correctly but for others, the results are not actually sorted by price. The error appeared for Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Sauvignon Blanc, and Riesling.
OS X login passwords exposed in cleartext
It didn't last long, maybe a decade before integrated devices won out.
It is a simple abstraction of something that many people find very complicated - or choose to not spend time understanding / configuring.

(You could say same about Github, Travis etc.)
Embarrassed. I didn't know about this. Thanks everyone!
It's a shame Carl Sassenrath's MakeDoc didn't catch on (outside of the Rebol world at least).

NB. MakeDoc was already 4 years old when Markdown was born.

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MakeDoc
You are only letting people have one thin slice of cake at a time by restricting your search. Why not just spit out a sortable table and let people have more control.

I just used this: https://github.com/joequery/Stupid-Table-Plugin and it was very nice to work with.

Best of luck!
Ask HN: How to turn a mailing list into something more?
I recently started a news summary / news curation service. It summarizes the daily news in 15 seconds, and sends out a newsletter everyday. I have almost 1,000 subscribers who read it regularly.

How can I turn this into more than a newsletter? I'm thinking having an App? Move the service online instead of in the email? Any ideas?
This might interest you: http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/gas-prices/20133
I read your post. I totally agree with the squashed screens. It would be awesome to have a fancy flip / rotatable screen to allow for more vertical space.

Also, wtf is with the lack of pg up / pg dn ?! That's just weird.
Is it time for online privacy?
After Snowden's issue, several companies are coming forward to create secured E-mail services. Such one successful startup was Mailpile.

Now a new start up called AirSpaceOne came with an idea of Secured E-mail client and Cloud storage based on personal pocket sized serve, which you can carry anywhere.

Expecting more companies to come forward
Using Pay Per Click For Online Marketing Research
Yes I know, I've been fingerprinted a dozen or so times. I don't know statistics but I would guess the majority are first-time or just connecting which still classes as entering the US.
Counter-example: Coca-Cola.
There's also Solaris Containers, which leverages ZFS snapshots, etc.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Containers

Of course, Solaris is even more despised by some people since they changed hands.

I think Docker appeals more to people, because:

- It's on Linux, which is more popular than FreeBSD or Solaris.

- It's very easy to set up and configure.

- Integration with Puppet et al.

- The have great marketing :).
they could all be declared const and the program would still run.
Surprisingly it doesn't use reverse g "upwards" but rather an ordinary 10g "downwards". I wonder why is that and can't they make the system much smaller by aiming for the head.
I do agree, but he needs some backup for day to life, so he have to do some kind of part time jobs
YUI Compressor as a Service
> Next week, we'll look at what such a data structure might be.

(8 . (4 . (2 . (1 . NIL))))

(There's a rage face to accompany this answer, the one for an overexcited noob who knew an answer, but rage faces don't belong on HN.)

(I'm unclear whether the array version should include the 1, since it is not "counted").
As everyone has noted, good writing shouldn't be bogged down with syntax, yet the author proposes people ditch editors/bars and just write it directly? If you want that, just switch to source view and write. Otherwise, I'm quite content with working in a lightweight editor with keyboard shortcuts.

Frankly, I prefer to format my text with HTML anyhow. Markdown is easier on the eyes, but it has limited function and is just another level of separation between what I write and what you see.
Here’s a (non–tail-recursive) solution in Factor that doesn’t.

: collatz ( n -- length )
{ { [ dup 1 = ] [ drop 0 ] }
{ [ dup even? ] [ 2 / collatz 1 + ] }
[ 3 * 1 + collatz 1 + ] }
cond ;

Usage:

27 collatz
The premise here that "Markdown lets you think about what you’re writing instead of how it looks" should be questioned.

Who says that the content of the writing is necessarily so much more important than how it looks? There's a reason that books are meant to look nice - we enjoy the look and feel of them. Likewise, I enjoy reading things on certain blogs - e.g., The Verge, Medium, Grantland - because they look really great and it's a great reading experience.

I'm almost tempted to think that it's the opposite - superpowerful WYSIWYG is the future of writing. End users will get to create amazing multimedia experiences. For better or worse, writing will be freed from being just about words.
I think they might work rather well together. For example where I live I doubt there will be charging points at street level for a long time (if ever, due to conservation restrictions) - but if a self driving electric car can take itself off somewhere else to get charged at night or during the day then it might make things rather more practical.
> Did I understand this correctly

No. According to the article the DoD charged google what it cost them, so it was null to them. There might be some savings of local tax, but google is supposed to pay that separately (don't know if they did).

This is mostly a non-story.
I've tried both versions of the Surface and each time my opinion is "I wish they'd split their OS, like Apple." - people usually don't need an entire desktop OS (with touch screen functions or not) on a tablet, they want a tablet OS - like iOS.
My wife has an iPad 1. It's still working great and she has no desire to upgrade.
The use of backup/recovery email account is to safeguard another account. if you bought all under one roof, then it's like "paying internet bill to hackers for hacking your account"
There is indeed a massive advantage of a mouse over a keyboard-based interface - it's far, far more discoverable for novice or occasional users. In fact, I'd venture to say the mouse (and the corresponding advent of discoverable graphical interfaces) was the primary driver of making computers accessible to non-techies and hence largely responsible for the computing revolution.

But, a keyboard-based interface is still more efficient for someone who can put in the time to learning how to use it efficiently (and customizing it to their specific work), and uses it regularly enough to maintain that knowledge. For a lot of people who write code for a living, a text editor definitely falls in that area.
Having tailor made emails and also have a tailor made dashboard to give relevant info to the user.
Amen to this.

I have a drea, that one day there will be a post relating any big software/internet corp, without a snarky comment about NSA .
Should Microsoft for freemium with windows phone?
Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem With Android KitKat
Congratulations!

Please don't let the delay overly worry you. Here's what the great master Shigeru Miyamoto said:
"A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever."
(from:
http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto/Quotes).

Of course, you could do 'updates' but you have to make a good impression with your first cut.
Well, you can feed a lot of people and give work to a lot of other people with "under $2million."

I think that is what we are complaining about.
Absolutely, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the big car manufacturers pursue both avenues.

Fully automated cars will decimate consumer demand for vehicles as people find it much more practical to share vehicles when they don't have to stay in the same place when you are not using them.
Yes, that's what I was asking about. Are you referring to the NSA leaks? Because I think there's a lot more to criticize about Microsoft than that.
NSA war room modelled after Star Trek
Sure the money is spent paying people to build those yachts, etc., but then the benefits of that labor, once spent, continue to accrue only to the owner. In other words, the yacht builders are paid once; the owner benefits continually from ownership of the finished product.
And here's the design concept: http://www.dbia.com/projectpage/LIWA.pdf
The article doesn't mention the possibility of freemium for lower end phones, where profits are lower and licensing is likely a higher percentage of overall cost, and a paid model for premium phones, where manufacturers are making more.

This would give manufacturers a reason to create windows phones, if they can operate on cheaper hardware than even the cheapest android handset.

The challenge may be that windows phone starts to be viewed as a discount or poor OS vs the competition.
Apple is giving even less money for trade-ins.
Perl was my first real programming language.

I was 12, I have a video game in Perl I wanted to modify (Frozen Bubble), I only knew shell. I did not have an Internet connection at home so I had to boy a book. So I bought Programming Perl 3rd edition, which had recently been released. And I read it. Front to back. Several times.

I probably wouldn't advise anybody to start programming by reading 1000+ pages of Larry Wall's prose. I do advise anybody serious about programming to read that book sometime. It is not only a book about a programming language. It is a book about the essence of software, or rather Larry Wall's vision of it, hidden behind a book about a programming language.

If I write code for a living today, it was in large part thanks to Larry Wall.
I don't think consumers are quite that rational - a lot of people I know, myself included, would be far better of financially by using taxis and hiring a car on the occasions when we need to drive a longer distance.

However, for that extra wee bit of convenience (and no doubt other purely emotional factors) we all buy our own cars....
I feel sorry for all those poor automotive marketers that can no longer pitch based on how well a car handles, performs and drives. What a car actually is will change once they're completely automated, particularly seating configurations and ride comfort more than anything else.

Also the need to own a car diminishes, replaced with an on-demand go-anywhere taxi service. Don't need a car? Don't need car garages. Don't need a driveway. Don't need traffic lights or signals or pedestrian crossings.

Though there will be the transition period when a glitch launches some poor sod off a bridge. The news will eat it up as how the technology can't be trusted, but will ignore the statistics of casualties from manual vs automated drivers.

The same technology will filter through to everything from the military to the pizza delivery guy - just as it already has for the massive mining trucks driving themselves around Australian mine sites.

The impact of a 100% driverless car on city layouts would be profound. At some point I'm sure the OH&S arm of the governments will ban all manual-driver cars on the road and such modern day classics we be held in showrooms or farmyard sheds, available only on private roads where no insurer will dare cover.
I hate eclipse - don't be shy, just say it
If Google, Facebook and Twitter would all disappear tomorrow the world would continue to revolve and productivity in general would likely be up.

Google is really a useful tool and productivity would probably drop if it disappeared. How many technical answers did I get from Google? A lot!

I agree about Facebook and Twitter however, it wouldn't surprise me that both company get myspaced in the next 10 years.
Exactly like a big Roomba: do your work, go off to charge itself, come back for more.
Excellent point, though once police departments realize this fact, they may force arrested people to immediately unlock their phones, or use their fingerprints, which they already collect, to do it.

It would be nice if you could adjust the 48 hour timeout.
Great work Matt!
I would focus a bit more on design and layout and give more data.

When looking at a list of wines, you've got the score, the name and the price, all widely spaced out, there is nothing attractive about it, it doesn't make me want to go buy, doesn't link to the reviews, etc etc.

I was going to learn ember this weekend, and if you'd like, I'd be happy to do a bit of a design exercise and see what I could do interesting with your data. Free of charge of course, it's just so I can learn and maybe add to my front-end portfolio. Let me know if you're interested, email is in my portfolio.

A few weeks ago I did a windows 8 design idea, in angular, it's in my hn submissions.
If you're interested in cool projects built on top of Docker, take a look at http://github.com/dockerforge, it has a nice list.
USB Condoms
abortz from DropBox has stated just this, in this thread, 4hrs before your post
The real perk is having _access_ to something that's not on the market for any price - the privilege of a convenient government airfield. Even more exclusive than a regular private jet.
Can you point me to an online sample session, equivalent to this: http://coewww.rutgers.edu/www1/linuxclass2010/lessons/Email/...

My point stands. EAS is not just extensive it is needlessly complex.
Translate This: Google's Quest to Eliminate the Language Barrier
Universities Are Trying to Stop the Next Mark Zuckerberg From Dropping Out
Or Markup. Oh wait.
I started on a H-1 right after school (where I was on an F-1) and my GC was filed within the first month of my joining msft.

But you're right, people on F-1 can stay on something called OPT for 2 yrs after graduating whilst working. But my employer decided against that because not only is it a pain in the ass to work with that, there's no guarantee that you'll have enough H-1s left 2 yrs down the road.
I think the fuel thing is just an inconsequential side-effect of having their aircraft based at Moffett. It's not like there is a commercial vendor selling fuel at Moffett, so of course they bought it from the only place available on the airport. And apparently that's subsidized government fuel or not taxed in the same way. What else were they supposed to do if the aircraft are based there?

I don't see how that's a big deal. It seems like it's just a matter of course. The bigger question is why they're basing the entirety of their fleet at Moffett when only one aircraft is involved in research.

As for the folks with their eyebrows raised over the "shell company" that owns the aircraft, this is a very common practice in the aviation business. Nothing out of the ordinary or shady at all.
The OP was suggesting this was a bribe or 'kick-back'. The scales for which are entirely ridiculous. Of course Google cares about money, but to suggest that they would make sweeping changes to their infrastructure and privacy policy for something on this small a scale is nothing short of hilarious.
The ugliest C feature: tgmath.h
Could you provide a sample batch file for this purpose? That’d be really helpful.
Our economy certainly doesn't reward one based on hours worked, however it's clearly implicit in this behaviour that extra hours are expected of people because they make more. Why? Clearly that's nor justified by economics...
Superb demo pages! I can see a lot of thought has gone into this. Love the comparisons with other plugins. Well done.
You're joking. It's still an amazing feat of endurance. People still die making the attempt. And there are 7 billion people in the world. So that means that 0.0000000142857143% of the world have done the climb.
I fail to see the point: using remote memcache (as opposed to "machines directly connected through a gigabit link"), the round-trip latency will at best erase the benefit of an in-memory cache; at worst, it will be slower than using a disk cache AND have all the caveats of a remote service.

Am I missing something?
if somebody join hands we could start a non-tech website, it's not a big deal.
I am ready to invest my time and contribute little money.

I am in! who else could join?
Good list of subreddits. I also recommend:

/r/Ask Science (http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/)
/r/DataIsBeautiful (http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/)
Such a stupid insult.
Is a UK ISP filtering HN?
I had to post this by tethering my laptop to my phone and circumventing my home broadband provider, EE, which seems to be blocking HN. Perhaps the title is triggering some new and overzealous filter?

The site has been inaccessible from my home for two or three days, but I can get at it from a US-based VPN and through my mobile data network.

I'm not a networking expert and I don't know exactly what's going on, but here's the traceroute if anyone can help me prove or disprove what I suspect:

http://titanpad.com/pC1Yyrl4H1

I'm a journalist, and if UK ISPs are involved in this level of filtering, I'm definitely going to write something about it. I've been Tweeting @EE, as well. I suppose it could turn out that somehow it's my fault I can't access the site through my broadband ISP, but I kinda doubt it.
Ooh, news to me. That certainly wasn't the case 2 years ago.
Actually, the data is encrypted firstly with a per-device key that is unique to the phone and unable to be accessed directly (unless you want to go decapping chips), then additionally with a hash of your pin or password. A copy of the data is useless unless you can get to it in an already unlocked state. An erase firstly deletes the encryption key entirely then begins a secure erase in the background.
my understanding is that twitter doesn't make boatloads of cash off of licensing access to the likes of gnip/datasift/etc.

more of a push towards where it wants its ecosystem to move.

but yes, it is another rev stream.
It used to be a mongod-level lock, it's now a logical database-level lock. It used totally laughable, now it's merely amusing.
It's not a little "tin foil hat", it's full-blown "the government bombed the twin towers" level of raving-mad consipracy-theorist nutjobbery.

The idea that any government organisation would have the competence to pull this off should be a stark sign that they didn't.

It's getting tiresome that nearly every single post on HN features at least one comment accusing the NSA of being implicated in the subject of the story.

And this isn't a radical apologia. I'm deeply concerned about the NSA, GCHQ, data interception and the fact that judicial processes are being sidestepped. However, I can't help but feel that jumping at every shadow mires this discussion in so much hysteria that it's going to result in people tuning out, and the real issue being buried under reams of facile argument about whether or not the NSA has backdoored the friggin' RNG on Intel CPUs!
One thing article does not mention is the false positives. Filter helps only partially, i'm still left with hundreds of false positives. PVS-Studio considers false-positives as natural part of the progress. A total turn-off me.
Cppcheck does very well in that regard, i only have 2 false positives with cppcheck. Best part is they are considered bugs by cppcheck team.
Also wonder about the opposite, errors that have been caught by cppcheck but ignored by PVS-Studio. They do exist.
http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0149/

My points are:
- Every c++ project should use cppcecheck since it has almost no noise.
- PVS-Studio if you have a dedicated analyst in your team and able to pony up $10k per year.
The cost of UK fuel is mostly tax. Jet fuel is tax-free by international treaty, I believe (treaty of Rome?)
he is using them as values
I had my iphone go in to a pool. I did put it in rice but that didn't work I watched some youtube videos and opened it up. It took a couple hours as you have to be careful and do it slowly but I am glad it did. Inside a touch of corrosion had started. Had I just left it then maybe it would have wrecked the phone eventually.
I wiped it it away with rubbing alcohol and dried it out. I resembled it. It didn't work at first but then I charged it and it worked fine and continued to with no problems.

Depending on your time it might be cheaper to pay for it to have it done but I wanted to learn a little more about the inside of the iphone so for me it was worth. You do run the risk of breaking it but if you are slow and steady you should be fine.
Only with unacknowledged writes. If you ask for acks, it gets ridiculously slow. Much, much slower in every single way than Postgres with a fully indexed HSTORE. That's also fully ACID.
The woman trapped on the Internet
How to Get Customers to Want to Pay Even Before Building Your Product
Some previous discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5485035

Also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5351672
Screen resolution is the biggest handicap with most laptops today. Looking at my laptop screens after using the mobile reminds me of how good the screens on mobiles are today. It made my laptop experience worse in comparison.

Meanwhile on mobiles and tablets, touch resolution & lag are the issue.
Your numbers are a little off as Imperial (UK) Gallons are 20% bigger than US ones although it doesn't massively detract from your main point.
1-dimensional prototype HTML5 game