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by sean_b 16y ago
Yup, Google Cache doesn't have the page, but Bing cache does: http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http://hustlebear.com/2010/...
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by sean_b 16y ago
Yup, I suspect that site is looking for local weather stations nearby and using the current conditions reported as a basis for a suggestion. That will be most accurate for current conditions. With Coat I used projection data to give the w
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by sean_b 16y ago
Yup, sadly outside the United States, cost free weather data seems very rare. In my initial search I found many meteorology agencies (even those publicly funded) required payment or licensing for using the data. For the UK, the service is
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by sean_b 16y ago
I use weather data from NOAA for this
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Show HN: Coat, a simple weather forecast and clothing suggestion app(coatapp.com)
3 points by sean_b 16y ago|7 comments
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by sean_b 16y ago
Ok, I'll look into that too. The app only offers weather forecasts for the continental US so I originally assumed most folks were interested in fahrenheit, but I can see the appeal of celsius :).
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by sean_b 16y ago
It looks like those zip codes weren't in the original zipcode dataset. I'm adding them now, thanks for pointing that out! update: It was actually a bug in the code, fixed now :)
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by sean_b 16y ago
I recently built a project ( http://www.coatapp.com - A simple weather forecast application with clothing suggestions) on Linode and couldn't be happier. The disk speeds are very impressive, and super useful for apps that deal with large