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Ask HN: Geospatial database recomendation
Hi, I'm trying to implement an application to store a gps tracks, seeking database solutions, for now I know Postgis and mongodb, Any other alternatives?
If you don't travel a lot you probably just don't know. I've filled two passports. I've technically smuggled lots of stuff for myself including a computer I specifically flew to Chicago from Costa Rica to buy as it was cheaper.

Edit: actually if you don't have yourself/friends/family in poor countries so you're aware of the local prices you could be completely unaware of this stuff and the tax/legal obligations for importing them.
Oh, thanks. Sorry, I've just notice the CSS style for web browsers. So I should ask what is the use case for the web? Replacing PDF files for embedding without special viewers? And to add some custom styles if we want? seems great.
This article twanged of what we tell women in India (and implicitly tell women everywhere in the world) -- if you don't want to get raped, don't wear skimpy clothes, go out alone at night, try to stand up for yourself, or go about your life how you see fit. If you do any of those things and get raped, you had it coming for you.

Bullshit.
The anti-Facebook: 1 in 4 American neighborhoods are now using Nextdoor
So cops aren't afforded free speech by the liberal HN loons. No surprise there really.
Jibo the robot raises $1.75M on Indiegogo
If there is one thing police is scared about it is an out of control mob. Egypt is an example of what the possible outcomes are in situations like that. Any amount of weaponry can be overcome by sheer numbers once the citizens get pushed beyond caring if they live or not. Police the world over should never forget who their ultimate masters are, this guy even refers to that 'Don't scream at me that you pay my salary'. But they do, and as such police is ultimately accountable for keeping the peace and enforcing the law, for protection of people first and assets second.

As soon as that part is lost 'to protect and serve' (or whatever the local variation is) becomes a hollow slogan.

When I was a kid I was taught that police were to be respected at all times because they have dangerous jobs and are first responders when you need them. Nowadays I'm not so sure that I should trust police, respect them often enough much less (my few interactions with police have been with a few exceptions quite the little displays of 'we have power over you and you'll know it'). I've seen first hand corruption, bribe solicitation, abuse of power and a refusal to actually do the work they were hired for in the first place. I wished I could re-gain my childhood respect for the police forces of the world but they're going to have to work really hard to get that.
You are right that it in that

>>It is not possible to always defend the rights of people, >>and always collect evidence to prosecute.

but the US system was designed to weight the scales in favor of defending the rights of individuals when these goals come at odds.

"innocent until proven guilty".
Airbnb is also a network for (hotel/business) tax evasion too.
In One America, Guns and Diet. In the Other, Cameras and Zoolander
Many devices allow changing IMEI codes. See https://www.google.com/search?q=imei+code+change
The power of government can be terrifying, when it's turned against you.

It would be nice to have a third-party opinion from someone who lives in Clarksburg to fill in the details that this article is missing.

It's not possible to tell if this guy is really a victim of overbearing local government or a shady businessman who finally had his underhanded practices catch up with him.
There is also the FOSS http://meteorite.bi/saiku which might be worth trying.
In general Apportable sounds great. But in reality - we see little results, relatively. Lots of IOS only apps, still. None of the big guys, who would surely be interested in offering devices/app-stores with full access to ios apps have bought you.

So i wonder: why is that gap between the marketing and reality ? and maybe an emulator will close that gap ?
i just checked this particular item but all the countries that use € are all 2499€ and the others (uk, swe..) are about 2500€. i guess the difference here comes from the actual curreny differences.

i think its mostly taxes, because when i add the 19% VAT that i would have to repay when entering germany with a us bought laptop (i think laptops are toll free, not sure ... but some electronic devices have tolls) im at ~$3000
This makes zero sense. Why would they brick phones, costing each user (and likely themselves when the users sue) hundreds of dollars in damage when they can easily disrupt phone service in an area for a controlled period of time or block specific subscribers at the telco?

Note that the kill switch operates at a per phone level, so they would have to identify every user at the protest they want to brick, at which point there are better ways to handle the situation.
LightningMotorcycle – Electric Sportbike claimed to be fastest motorcycle
Arguably, you could the fix OP's issue by improving/changing the domain model. In this example, issue of state arises because the Order relies on the inherent possibility of changes to the attributes of a Product. Adding line items(quantity,price,product_id,etc) instead of direct product associations would provide a more stable representation that's easy to reason about without the additional complexity of REVAT.
It doesn't fit the HN demographic narrative that the cop is the perp and the perp is the victim. Live in a bad part of town for a while and reality will cure that.
I love reading the book of Acts in the Bible because it relates their travels within a part of the Roman empire. What strikes me is how similar to modern day traveling it seemed to be, just in longer timescales. But the same way we could say today "I'll catch a plane to Madrid and from there I will proceed to Paris", you read there about people taking ships and then traveling on foot to other locations as if it weren't such a huge deal i.e. not as if they were saying "I'm embarking on this long journey to the end of the world, farewell!"

I guess we could say the part of the world covered by the empire was quite "globalized" at that time, in a sense.
Just be first in line to board the plane.
I'm curious about these too. Haven't tried them yet. Has anyone here? (Not that you would know, yet, how long they last.)
no, sadly it reads like a political power play. Someone is the system decided they would use their power in government to fix things and this guy was an easy target. He had some homes, some with problems, but obviously no real means to fight back.

See this way to often, people get in office or a position where the public really has little to no real ability to push back. They can do exactly what they did to this guy, take your property or prevent you from using it until you just cannot afford to keep up the fight. If they lose, they will just try later or keep going on someone else. There is no penalty for the majority of abuses by government functionaries, none. People think cops get away with murder, they haven't see jack
Inasmuch as that is even coherent, yes.
TL;DR

Steve Ballmer

Bye. I'm outta here.
People to teach. Basketball to watch. You know.
I'll write postcards and stuff.
Love you. SB

P.S - I've got all the shares.

Satya Nadella

Whatever. I've also got loads of shares too.
Keep your postcards.
L8r amigo.
I'm not opposed to an open-source text editor that aims to replicate features of a closed-source application. But "Lime Text" is clearly riding on the success of "Sublime Text", and it irks me because "Sublime Text" isn't owned by a big large company or someone with a lot of money - it's a project that started as someone's side-project and has just recently started as a full-time job.

John, the author, has been clear in the past that if for some reason he no longer wants to continue developing Sublime Text, he'd open-source it so it wouldn't rot in the bit graveyard.

Yes, GIMP rides the coattails of Photoshop, and LibreOffice rides the coattails of Microsoft Office; but these are commercial applications that are supported and paid for by consumers. Sublime Text is optional. Sublime Text is free, but you can pay for it - if you like.

Change the tag-line and keep the name.
Microbes line up to form electron transport cables (2012)
Face tracking + projection mapping = very strange
The problem that I see with REST is that it leads in general to APIs that tend to transfer logic to the client. This is basically a loss of encapsulation and makes it harder to change the server implementation later without breaking clients. It took a long time for the industry to move towards behavioural interfaces for good reasons. Are those reasons now void? I know that there is some encapsulation because only a representation is transferred but still, REST interfaces tend to represent state and not behaviour. Am I wrong?
aljazeera? the new york times for terrorists? really?
Github: Folder Jumping
So basically language decoding is multimodal like one of the other comments here said? Like in digital communication, perfect decoding needs appropriate SNR (context) in addition to optimal spectral efficiency (conciseness/preciseness of the language). Interesting research.
World-wide rocket launch schedule
You require me to share on Facebook before you show me flight info? That's a great way to get me to close the site and never come back, never mind all the other risks associated with hidden city travel.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8198886
Welcome to the YC Demo Day App
This is awesome. Not really sure why they chose to release it as an XLSX document on GitHub, but it'll work!
Maybe not if you take into account all the people who will need an explanation of why this item is called a 'shield'.
Don't they give it back to you at the end of the flight when that happens? In my experience, only bags checked during checkin get routed through connections.
Real reason why SMS messages are just 160 characters long
> Sliced democratizes access to hedge funds. Even though hedge funds have outperformed S&P 500 over the past decade, very few investors have access to them.

Hedge Funds on average do not outperform market indices such as S&P 500. I'm curious as to whether this was TechCrunch's take on the problem, or the startup's?
Ok. Can I interview you first? Why wont you use it? Assume you are a user. Do you know what can you buy when you visit a farmer's market? I know you can check the website of a farmers market. But most of them don't have vendor product info. Let's see you know Barton creek FM so well you know each stand. How about at Muller? Will you just go there to try you luck. You can also argue most of vendors have their own websites. But really? A small business like them to build and maintain a website? I saw most of websites are old and lack of update for Barton's. A followup question: use this app, you see your neighbor is putting up some small trees for sale, like craigslist, will you buy from your neighbor. Like my mentor, a golf legend, plants 50+ trees at his backyard, he wants to sell some of them, at his 70's, how could he do that? In the end, and also how I pitched, most of grocery shopping happens at formal and informal farmers market in developing counties such as in China and India. So I also think there is a huge opportunity there.
Intellectual Ventures cuts 140 employees from its patent-buying workforce
Revenue!
In .xlsx format.
Lending and credit are fundamentally, irreconcilably opposite to anonymity. It doesn't make sense to talk about taking out a loan in a decentralized/anonymous cryptocurrency system.

A reputation system (credit reports/scores) only works because each human who borrows money can have at most one identity. In an anonymous/pseudonymous system that cryptocurrency advocates want, I could take out a loan, spend it, and then take out another loan with a new pseudonym (or Bitcoin address) minutes later.

There is no threat of inability to get credit in the future. Even if you had agents willing to commit violence to coerce people to pay their loans (or, if we're in civilization, a state that will do asset seizures and wage garnishment with some semblance of due process) you wouldn't know who in the real world to point them at. Why would anyone lend Bitcoin?

If you were going to do that, you would need to verify government-based identity and use government to recover your money from deadbeats. In which case, why are you using Bitcoin anyway? At that point you could just lend the local fiat currency so your debtors could use it to buy Bitcoin (or whatever else they wanted.)
I think the best strategy for us civilians to be safe is to act dead just like when you see a wild bear.
Show HN: Timeful App – find time for your good habits
"I withstood... outright challenges to my authority."

This grated on me
Fair enough, I do realize this is possible ! ( especially when you are flying to developing countries ). But you hinge on your luck to not get caught ( and depending on your 'navigation skills' - you can get out of the scenario ).

I m only curious to know about the "legalities" involved ; I m pretty sure this would have been addressed in the pitch. I was only looking for an answer that said : Here are the countries and Here is a list of things you can carry to those destinations without breaking any law.

Or if this fell into the "break first, fix later" philosophy of other shared economy startups as well.
The problem is that "imminent risk" tends to creep downward over time, to the point that it becomes "imminent risk that a citizen unit will improperly fail to bow and scrape."

If you're going to shut off several thousand cell phones, you can bloody well get a judge out of bed for that.
A Culture of Easy
Funny thing.

Has the cloud market already become larger than the server market? And has the mobile market already become larger than the desktop/laptop market?

I ask because there are always lots of markets that appear, grow like crazy, stealing money from another related market, and then saturate, without ever getting bigger than the original one. The trend we saw in computers - where every new generation brings a cheaper incumbent that plainly wins is an exception, not the rule.

I'd be quite open about a new generation of computers being an exception again, I even tought they'd be for a while. But there is no way the mobile (phones + tablet) market will grow a lot anymore. How many phones does a person need? The cloud (IaS) market has space to grow, but so do servers, and each has its own set of advantajes, thus there's no reason to imagine that the cloud will "win" while servers "lose".
I don't understand why there is any support for this ability in a phone. So they can prevent you from calling for help, from recording them, or what not? How much of a phone is disabled?

Finally, if they can do then its likely they will have phones produced only usable by important people who will be immune so who will those people be? How do they get their phones. Let alone, if its in the phone some group will figure it out and trigger it which would be pretty much awesome in my book

Government should never be given any ability to suppress speech or the expression of it and my communicating with another person is expression. They have no right to prevent it, especially under the guise of get them all and let God sort it out mentality that they hide behind to trample individual rights
Ask HN: Ideas on how engage attendees at YC demo day (today!)?
Hackers,

We have a pretty solid beta version of an anonymous venue-based chat app called Roomvine. We were hoping to have it used at today's YC demo day as a way for people (attendees and presenters) there to anonymously interact with each other and give uninhibited feedback about the demos as they happen. (Check this picture for what it could look like: https://twitter.com/Roomvine/status/501771295952883712)

Tried networking, twitter/Facebook ads and tweeting people who are there to trigger some participation but no luck.

Any ideas on how we can still turn it around? It would be a pretty useful interaction and feedback tool in such a setting.

Thanks :)

www.roomvine.com
Do you have some evidence this landlord deserved 'comeuppance'?

Or that in another case highlighted by the article, the investment firm founded by the City Manager and his brother better deserved the income from new units built where old ones were torn down?
How to use Google Contacts as a Lightweight CRM (partly renounced)
https://github.com/DataGarage/node-xlsx-json

Node module to convert xlsx to JSON.
"Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human, and generally this premeditated state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter)." -- wikipedia

The question of whether a set of laws is legitimate is another question.
You can "share" it with yourself. Then go to Facebook and unshare it if you don't feel like your friends seeing you sharing a page.
Ha! Give it a chance, the quality of the reporting might surprise you http://america.aljazeera.com/
No matter who was doing the acquiring, the "acquisition costs" of firearms are impressively low. Who buys a military-grade .45 pistol for $60?
Hello, strangers.
I'd assume it's an XLSX simply because that's the format they received it in from the Defense Department.
well at least in germany you are supposed to declare this income. but that is the same with any form of rent that you gain based on your property. so it doesnt matter if i rent out a property that i own for the whole year via a classified ad in the newspaper or for 1 week via airbnb.
Annotations work particularly well in two contexts; first, when explaining the meaning of a single word

It's almost like people do not remember the mid-2000's where the New York times had the dictionary popups on their website. The worst user-interface that ever existed - double clicking (or highlighting? I don't remember) would display a modal popup with the word definition. This happened on every word, so oftentimes they would popup definitions for 'for', 'and', etc. It was highly intrusive (the NY Times removed the behavior after widespread consternation, turned it into a small '?' behavior).

Maybe if everyone expects that behavior all of the time, it would be worthwhile, and people could get used to it. As it stood on a single website, it was not very valuable.

If you are curious, here is an article from 2011 about the types of words that were looked up using the service:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/07/nytimes-coms-most-looked-up...
Let's separate morality from causation here. Causation is fairly simple: aggression of any kind, even just yelling, causes (statistically) you to get hurt by police. That's just a fact.

Therefore, the author reasonably concludes that it's wise to cooperate or at least remain calm.

There's are separate moral and policy questions, of course, that can hopefully reduce violence in police encounters. Technology plays a role here, too.
Recording a 4-6-3 double play isn't about keeping score either, it's about tracking detailed statistical information about every play. That's kind of the point of the article: baseball has standardized notation whereas tennis does not. It's as if different baseball stats trackers gave different field positions different numbers. One guy starts counting from left field, one guy starts at the catcher, one guy starts at the pitcher. Or maybe they use letters instead of numbers. Or maybe they use 2O for a double play (it's two outs, after all). Or STO for strike-outs.

That's the state that tennis is in, and that's the point of the article.
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How to deal with a quarter life crisis – Drive slow, homie
The Romans did have some interesting technology, but one of the things to notice about it is that the highlights are all "imperial" biased: Sturdy roads, aqueducts, buildings, and military equipment are basically the things you want to have in order to consolidate and maintain power over a large area for a long period of time. One historiographical stance to take is that, rather than being a deterministic progression like a game of Civilization, a group of people can become trapped within a locally-optimal set of technologies and their attention diverted ("bread and circuses") from other possible breakthroughs while the political leaders squabble for control.

In contrast, technologies like the printing press have subversive uses and tie in directly to the political changes of the Renaissance.
Imported it into Google docs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AXPtmdbZ6zJph9Nly6_3...

(throwaway account)
Yes, the file is 1033-program-foia-may-2014.xlsx - just the fact that 'FOIA' is in there suggests that it's the original format.
Memento the "HTTP Framework for Time-Based Access to Resource States" [0,1] tries to approach the "time" problem of REST with an additional set of headers and intermediate gate-keepers.

See http://www.mementoweb.org/guide/quick-intro/ for an introduction.

[0] RFC 7089 (Informational)
[1] http://mementoweb.org
This does not seem like a reasonable idea in a business-rules sense. the 12345 in http://api.example.com/product/12345 is presumably a SKU, which is the natural key for a product you're selling. You don't get to convert it into a GUID and declare it immutable.

If the price isn't effectively fixed, the API client is going to need to generate a quote ('shopping cart'). The API rates the product when the quote is made, and then there is some business rule about how to handle quotes from before the price change.

The value-based URL refers to an entity ('SKU-price pair from some time in the past') which has no reasonable use.
You want to look at customs declaration forms and the penalties for lying on them.

The consequences will vary by country although the forms themselves are very uniform in my experience.

Every single item has some tax on it, however things like your clothes and personal possessions may be excluded at the customs' official's discretion.

Lying on those forms or omitting things you are required to declare is illegal and punishable with prison.

http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal...
> That's the intuition used to develop the concept, but it becomes increasingly difficult to apply that intuition to in more exotic locales.

Then maybe it's better to use a different term for things that are different. Maybe it's better to keep the term "derivative" for the rate of change of one thing with respect to another thing, and to let the generalizations that aren't that be called something else.
And replace them with what? Pitch forked crowds? Security guards? Private police forces?

All of the alternatives I know of are worst. There are many police forces they don't abuse their power. We just need better checks and balances to prevent abuses and to reverse the trend of militarization of police. Also in the US the Justice system needs to start making an example out of police officers who abuse their positions.
I don't think it's about that; I simply have no idea what this has to do with entrepreneurship, startups, or technology.

This is an opinion piece about something in the news involving politics.

Plus, this doesn't portray police in a particularly positive light. In it he says basically: 'Don't want to get shot? Do what I say when I say it, because I have the power to kill you and you don't know if I've been having a bad day today or not.' That's is totally absurd; so I don't think flagging it is denying cops freedom of speech.
Flynn could really make a dent in the PaaS space, although they seem to have a problem communicating their value proposition. I understand it's something like an open-source version of Heroku? If they take all the hassle out of deployments (everything that happens between git push and bare metal), I see a lot of Heroku users that are sick and tired of paying outrageous 35$ a month could flock over to them.