skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the opening up doesn't include an API that allows me to transfer kindle book files onto my Linux box in a portable, DRM-free format, then for me at least it is worthless and Amazon can throw their kindle on a bonfire.
I find it difficult to understand why you would want to do this exact thing that a lot of other companies have done and you are not even innovating. It looks very similar to twitter or yammer - could you not have used them as a base to rethink communication even more?

Your app can work if you do a lot of marketing - but it's not innovative or new. You will have a hard time getting people excited about this, because they have already seen it.

Competition should be used as a base to improve on - and I'm not sure where your improvement is.
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New accounts are currently on a 30-day trial, and the intention was that prospective clients should contact us for pricing.

We are currently editing the site to reflect this.
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1. I didn't notice the "No signup required" at first. Shame.
2. After the interface is very clean and easy to use.
3. You really need an easier way to add people. (FB/Google Addr import/etc).

Good luck !
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How would this affect the temperature on earth?
> I, Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, am asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches.

UL, So I'll guess you'll be crying into your €16.6m
the first part is addressable with keyboard shortcuts.

left (previous), right (next), space (pause), + (vol up), - (vol down), r (autorepeat toggle).

we're working on some tutorial-type stuff that'll tie things together. thanks.
Thank you for the warning.

Browsers should provide users with the same opt-in control over audio that they do over pop-up windows. Unsolicited audio is a scourge.
I do like it, but perhaps with less mouse-over states. I just want to get the cursor to the right corner and already half the screen has flashed at me.

Had used the old version quite a bit, discovered some great artists. William Fitzsimmons, Caitlin Hart, etc.
YouTube getting into movie rental business
Someone at your link, in the comments (edit: just realised that it's you), claims the Crown Copyright means re-use is reliant on a revocable licence. Is that true? How can that be compatible with Creative Commons as they suggest here:

http://data.gov.uk/terms-conditions/

I'm a bit more worried by "you must ensure that you do not distort, mutilate, modify or take other derogatory action in relation to the information".

I don't even want them to restrict distortions, mutilations or derogatory actions (whatever the hell that might mean in relation to the location of public loos, or government spending figures). However, "ensure you do not ... modify ... the information" seems to defeat the whole purpose of the project.
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Remember the iPod: it doesn't really matter if something already exists: thye first company that gets it right gets the prize.

Right now, I suspect something Android-derived will play an important role on e-reader devices, specially if animation-capable OLED or PixelQi-style LCDs take a hold.
E-mail, contacts, calendar...
Why name it after 4chans admin ?
I wonder what Adobe will have to say about this. As a Firefox user, I am out of luck with no h264 support. It's interesting that the only two browsers that don't support Theora are Safari and IE, which makes the choice of h264 as the standard a bit odd to me.
From http://www.youtube.com/html5:

# Videos with ads are not supported (they will play in the Flash player)
# Fullscreen is not supported

So, no they should fix these bugs.
i wouldn't recommend making it a trial. folks won't want to do the work to create their collab groups. let this spread virally and then figure out a freemium upsell later. for example perhaps you let groups add a virtual currency in a pro account, or your allow unlimited collab group creation but invitees get up to 3 groups they can join and then need to go pro.
Can anyone explain the downvotes ?
Surely my point is valid even if couched in the sarcasm of devils advocacy - are sarcasm tags needed ?

A democracy cannot function without an informed public.
The press has traditionally been seen as the main guarantor of keeping people informed.
Creating a paywall is exclusiory to the less well off.
This therefore makes the United States less democratic.

Can I please be argued with rather than downvoted or is there no such thing as netiquette these days ?
I found this really inspiring. It reminded me why I put myself on my MicroISV path.
I've heard him say many of the same things before, but this was a nicely distilled 20-minute version.
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I Bemoan the State of Computer Science
http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...
A general tip for benchmarking:
Never run the benchmark tool on the same machine as the application. Both will compete for CPU and the results will be nearly useless.

Apart from that it might be useful to use several clients (e.g. with autobench) especially if the application is able to handle _many_ requests.
Hi all, this is Alwin, the writer of this "hilarious" email...

I am amazed to find all this about my email :-)
I was just being frank and trying to be clear, upfront, before any possible disabling of our Amazon access (which has not happened yet).

My customers are used to lengthy, detailed emails. They respect and expect my honesty, good news or bad news.

I agree that I could (should?) have been more apologetic.

But please note that my iPhone apps are not using the Amazon API at all. Amazon claims that Amazon data is being used on a mobile device, that is, data that once has been downloaded from Amazon. Which should be rare, because we have our own online media databases and our Windows / Mac software only queries Amazon for barcodes that our not found in our own databases, as a fallback.
The "violation" of the Amazon ToS (if any) is very minor and rare.

But yes, it IS a violation and I will have to deal with the consequences. And informing my customers was the first thing on my mind. Which I did, fast and with all details.
Can captions be supported with HTML5 videos? I could live without annotations, but I wouldn't want to lose captions.

Bill, I see deaf people.
already on the homepage, much discussion there:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1066667
Pros : Very clean user interface

Cons :

(A) User Login should be the first thing , rather than what are you working on. Simply because it gives me confidence that the app knows who i am.

(B) If i cannot "Manage my domain(change settings)" without having to set myself up - then enabling that link on the side is just confusing.

(C) If you are using the terminology "Groups" then i would think it should be "Individual" rather than "People". People is plural as well isn't it.

(D) When adding a New Unnamed user - the app comes with - added new user False, I understand what you are saying there but me thinks it can be put better. Also, attempting to make a new unnamed user moderator comes up with - "Are you sure you want to make False a moderator ?" - surely better wording there.

My 2 pennies mate.

I know there are other similar products but i don't think that should stop you from developing this further.
I like some of the ideas, but i got too shocked by the radical change. I guess i got confused because not all of my saved songs appeared in the playlists and i got pissed off. Im very interested in what the result will be after they get it polished. I guess im just a "playlist" guy, rather than a "giant picture of some band" kind.
You have plenty of options right now (the market is hot). Some thoughts:

- Take a 2-3 week vacation somewhere else far away from the valley

- Come back and see how you feel afterwards

- http://founderdating.com (not quite what it sounds like)

Don't do the EIR thing. Better to go moonlight for free for a week at companies that seem interesting to you. It's amazing how spending time around a healthy/functional startup will cause you to recover from burnout.

And yes, without a college degree you can work for some of the big guys. As long as you have relevant experience on the resume to fill in the time gap, you'll be fine.
Go live in Australia mate.
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I believe Sir Berners-Lee's personal website is powered by Drupal and he has endorsed it in writing before this - so this is no suprise.

I am glad to see a government project capitalising on Open Source and owning the software they use rather than the usual UK debacle of Microsoft Consultancies and non-ownership of poorly customised and badly broken foriegn owned closed source code.

Finally an ounce of sanity.
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you succeed enough so you can buy the dot-com name ;-)
> I'm an avid user.. but stuff like that is also hurting me..

Disclaimer: I work for http://www.humyo.com/

Humyo is not as well-known as dropbox (especially in the US) but we have a significant userbase (>500k) and are I think fairly feature-rich. (e.g. We've got a number of the top-requested features on dropbox-votebox already implemented, have Zoho integration, versioning, recyclebin, WebDAV access). Have you considered and discounted us or have we not made ourselves known to you?

There are two schools of thought - "more features == better" and "fewer features == better focus on important features == better". I'd appreciate others' thoughts on this. Is the humyo featureset: 'good' or 'too confusing'? (or is there some other turn-off on the humyo site/signup process)?

(I've held off commenting on other dropbox threads since I don't want to spam HN with what might be seen as an advert, but since this sub-thread is about featureset I'm interested in the comparison.)
After (a very brief) look this seems to me like another Atkins-style diet

Taubes' book is not a diet book, it's a thick book on all the things that are wrong on modern research on nutrition. It explains why the problem is not fats (nor greens), but refined carbohydrates like sugar and white flour.

Very worth your time, really.
Non-realtime society games, learning foreign language kits (the kindle has audio output), a programming language (+ perhaps eulerprojet like contests). I was really excited about this one until I figured they haven't read RFC 5322 on email address validation since they can't validate mine: first.last+kindle@gmail.com.
Given the attitudes of the previous administration who set this up I would think it likely that there is a correlation between being on the list and being as it were 'left-wing'.

The suggestion that the list was set up to hassle lefties rather than stop terror is not untenable.

Be interesting to see if in fact this list is not a great danger to America by subverting its advertised purpose for political ends.

A nice mashup perhaps would be party membership of those on the list.

People are prepared to give up liberty in emergencies - the abuse of such powers to harass pacifists, enviromentalists in the UK anyway puts us all in danger for when a real emergency requires fast action.

Similar to the fable of the boy crying wolf (but a more sinister young fellow with political ambitions).
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Is there a way to add additional video support into Firefox through an addon?
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moot

n. An ancient English meeting, especially a representative meeting of the freemen of a shire.

v. To bring up as a subject for discussion or debate.
Duly noted, thank you.
Have you discovered yammer doesn't do these things particularly well?

I hate to see yet another product become "a better twitter for ____." You'll get more press if you actually solve a real business problem in there.

How about making it integrate with ticketing systems, so that it's automatically updated? How about integrating with version control, so that commit messages share the story?

Obviously these things are developer focused, but these are the things that get missed in apps like this. Tell me what I'm doing, not the other way around. (obviously I should be able to talk too.)
That's a great idea, thank you. It seems to work in safari too.
Thank you Matt :)

Yes, lodgings see the bids from other lodgings in real time, including all the details. Why?
Any chance to "subscribe" to a certain language? Not sure when somebody will ask something about Romanian, but I'd like to be able to answer even if it's after 6 month.
Would be cool to have a video to showcase functionalities. Even with a free sign-in is kind of empty in there.
Very cool. Simple to use. I think that showing the billing model on the site would help a lot.
Twitter announced at LeWeb in December that they would open the Firehose to all developers in “early 2010”: http://mashable.com/2009/12/09/twitter-firehose/
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Thank you Steve. You are right. We have had several hours of discussions in reference to the proper word to use ("lodging" or any other) and we have not been able to come up with a definite solution.

We will change the "How It Works" area today as per your suggestion. Thanks!
Even a simple a static tutorial would be good
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I always think getfirefox.com when I need to download it again.
I think the main problem with his post is that he sees his audience as fixed. If, in ebook form, his books are priced lower, but he gets a greater percentage, there's the possibility that it will balance out.

For example, one thing that stops me buying books is what to do with them when you're finished. Some books you want to keep, others you want to dispose. It all takes space, management and unnecessary handling. I fully expect to have an ebook reader one day, and when that happens, I expect to greatly increase the number of books I purchase and read. As it is I re-read many of my books time and again because going and buying new ones is a hassle. And yes, that means through Amazon. You've got to wait for it to arrive, store it, decide whether to keep it etc etc. Ebooks : click, download, read. With bulk disk space, you'll never dispose of a book again.

If I were an established author (but not JK Rowling) I would be depressed. If I were just starting out, I would be excited about the possibility. It's just like the music business all over again. Bands have made online work, Authors will be able to do the same.
Cold deserts?
Can't wait for the x64 version.
You are correct. We believe that the collaboration problem hasn't been solved properly yet, and we intend to use this as a base to iterate towards something better.
Preliminary trial / purchase details added to site. Thanks.
And well played for exploiting the current high visibility of this word, it being the nickname of Time Magazine's most successful fellow last year.

Although not all the associations are pleasant.

In fact this point is moot.

Your app seems very pleasant and useful.
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...well, almost everything.
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Fixing (D). We'll think about the other points. Thanks for the feedback.
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Note the very clever use of an arm microcontroller to bootstrap the FPGA based board, effectively giving you a machine that can be reprogrammed from the ground up.
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Apple sees tablet as one device shared by the whole family
I wonder if apps will be allowed to connect to the internet and if so will there be any charges there. If not, the obvious workaround is to write the smallest possible app and then let the app download additional features on the fly as it is used. I'm guessing Amazon have thought of this though and will crack down on it somehow.
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> Lua gives you raw C numeric types

Standard Lua (the one from PUC-Rio) doesn't really, it uses boxed numeric values, as I imagine ruby (and almost every other dynamic language) does as well. "Boxed" meaning that each number is stored on the heap with some kind of tag, and when you pass such a value to a function you're really passing a pointer to it and that indirection costs cycles and puts pressure on the cache. LuaJIT's most significant (IMO) feature is that it stores numeric values directly, like C does, so when you call a function the actual bits representing it go right on the stack, not the address of where the bits can be found, and it uses some cool tricks of floating point representation to prevent the garbage collector from trying to follow these stack values as if they were pointers. This (combined with the trace optimization) is why when you write a numeric for-loop in LuaJIT it runs (nearly?) as fast a C.
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Ask HN: Why is my submission dead?
Hello everyone. I wasn't sure who to ask- but I just submitted an article and it was automatically killed.
Can anyone tell me why?
If it helps: My karma is a little over 100, my average is 1.6, and I am over 100 days old. I don't know those influence anything, but those are my "stats." Any answers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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You should show your pricing up front. I'd never start a trial if I didn't know what the price was going to be after the 30 day trial was up. I'd be worried I'd like it but would find the price too high.
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That was a great video. I watched it a few months ago, which inspired me to write this blog post too. Thanks for the link!
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Dude what did you submit?
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Religion would be a lot different.
> However, "ensure you do not ... modify ... the information" seems to defeat the whole purpose of the project.

If you could modify the data then you could essentially make stuff up and claim that it's based on data from data.gov.uk. Wouldn't _that_ rather defeat the purpose of the project?
No amount of math can tease apart the indiscernibly complex.

If there's any structure at all, you can find it with enough math and enough data; that's exactly the purpose of statistics.

But without controls, and without repeatable experimentation, we can not have a true scientific method. The scientific method requires hypothesis, predictions, and repeatable experimentations.

No, this misunderstands science. All the scientific method requires is testable predictions. Predicting the outcome of a controlled experiment is merely a very efficient way to go about it. There are plenty of scientific fields where simple controlled experiments aren't really viable, and people get by. It's just more difficult, and requires more discipline from researchers.
I am guessing, if this tablet is for real, it would not be "low-use data access" device. Web browsing, downloading movies and music, etc all require relatively high bandwidth.

I was having a discussion about this very subject yesterday with a co-worker, I brought up the idea of tethering when one is without wifi, I feel this option would be the most likely. Thus not undercutting iphone sales.
Ask HN: Book-project is a total failure, but what exactly can we learn from it?
After getting interested in online marketing me and a friend decided to produce an ebook and sell it online. We were both quite successful in our day-jobs so we figured it would be a good subject to write about.

So we wrote an ebook full of good career advice and we created a blog where we posted free articles related to the topic. We also posted a few articles to ezinearticles.com and twittered links to all new blog-posts. This resulted in about 1000 unique visitors over a span of two or three months. No sales. So we created a "sales-pitch" page (ehm.. with fake reviews) and invested money in google CPC ads. This was expensive and resulted in a couple hundred more visitors, but again, no sales.

We have declared the project a total failure and stopped working on it. But it still bugs me: What the hell did we do wrong? What can I learn from this experiment? I invested a lot of time and I'd like to get at least that out of it. I can't think of a better place, that's why I thought I'd ask here before we take the website down. Did any of you ever try something similar? What did we miss?

Thank you.

Link (Blog): http://www.careeradvicebook.com/

Link (Sales-Page): http://www.careeradvicebook.com/book/

P.S.: We really think the information in this book is worth something. We aren't scammers looking for quick money. I'd like to publish it somehow, even if for free. Any recommendations?
uhm... clickable links:

Blog: http://careeradvicebook.com

Sales Page: http://www.careeradvicebook.com/book/
Yup, just found the link to Amazons SDK website, and anything over 100KB/month the user will have have to pay for somehow.
I assume he submitted this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067175

Which I guess linked to this:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/how-to...

It contains no interest for me personally, but I didn't flag it, and that doesn't answer the OP's question.
You will be doing another startup.

My experience is that once you have worked for yourself/equity the mere thought of being employed by other people becomes impossible to bear.