Hacker News on 9 August 2014

• Prostitution and the internet
• Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America
• We’re 10 today
• Fast and easy Levenshtein distance using a trie (2011)
• MacBasic
• A Message from the Amazon Books Team
• One wolf's migration across Europe
• Hackers Unveil Their Plan to Change Email
• Getting It Done with Haskell
• The Trucking Industry Needs More Drivers. Maybe It Needs to Pay More