skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about curated author pages? Maybe with some information about the author and a list of his books by publishing date. I know, this may be too close to the Mahalo-model, but it could help with your low number of pages to index. You could start with your top searched authors.

And maybe you could show a little more information about the book when you click on it. I'm not sure what data Amazon provides - there must be more than just the picture, no?
That internet of things thing is promising, but imho no one has yet identified which problems the people really want to solve.
Ultra-cheap wifi/sensors/little_but_not_too_much_cpu/extensible modules are yet to come, what will happen when 4-5$ modules will be available?
Great idea, but oh the irony - it's currently throwing a Bundler::GemNotFound exception.

Could not find gem 'remarkable_activerecord (= 4.0.0.alpha4, runtime)' in any of the gem sources. ()

EDIT: back up almost immediately.
You may try taking a look at Microsoft Codename "Dallas" https://www.sqlazureservices.com/Catalog.aspx
The First Caucasian Samurai
YouTube Movie in the Works, And You Can Be a Part of It (Life in a Day)
Earth Class Mail CEO Sarah Carr on How Business Model Had to Change
Very interesting, I always assumed that the semantic web would never take of - too many people have to coorporate for it to work.

But that is a problem that wikipedia has solved so well.
In a twist that the author certainly did not intend to happen, his description of books as an ad-free medium led me to think of a model where out of copyright books are printed with in-page ads and distributed for free. Would that work? :)
I had forgotten about your site, I still think it looks and works great. In fact, I remember liking your site so much, that I submitted to HN..

How low has the traffic fallen? If you can't get search traffic, maybe there are some other traffic sources?

Usually horizontal scrolling fails miserably, but at bigbooksearch it "feels" natural.
Actually it is a retarded idea from Apples point of view:

Chargesbacks comes with a pretty high fee, which Apple will have to pay. The would be better of refounding the customers money, as the would be entitled to keep their 30% and the developer would have to foot the bill.
Sure. But you can't say that with a blink tag ;-)
Does Eric Schmidt have a dubious biz partner?
Not all SSDs are faster than a hard-disk for sequential writes (for instance writing a big file to disk).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738/24
For the truly hardcore avid readers I know, their initial scepticism about e-Ink readers is overcome once they try it out and realise that the decrease in the romanticism of the experience is outweighed by the fact that they can take their entire bookshelf away on holiday with them.

For real readers, who get through a novel every day or two, the sheer mass of paper books is an annoying encumbrance.
No big deal - I was laughing about it a few minutes later.

I don't think I was ever seriously at risk with a life jacket on and plenty of other boats very close. But through the rapids - 10 feet away can mean you can't reach the person for a few minutes downstream.

Talking about it makes me want to do some more rapids - it was my first time and I really enjoyed it. It was class 4-5 so fairly difficult rapids even for a 6 man raft. Made for a lot of fun, especially when sitting in the front!
Matchbook cover version (his words): All truth claims can be unpacked as predictions.

You'll have a lot of trouble if you try to use this as a complete or comprehensive theory of truth, as the blog's first two comments point out. (First comment asks, "What about (putatively true) statements concerning the past?" Second comment asks, "What about math?")

He tips his hat at the bottom to Pierce, but the piece just feels thin, for lack of a better word. There's not a lot of meat on the assertions.
Yeah yeah mister ponziMLMspammeridontdoanythingbutearnsomuchwhatever.
Thanks a lot, this is of great help.
Thin clients over the internet - a gigabyte connection is faster than a laptop harddisk.

This would be awesome for a lot of home users who wouldn't have to worry about virusses, spyware, etc. It would be awesome for developers because we can ensure that the servers have runtimes for all the scripting languages available and we could make it easy to test your program to make sure it works, since there is only one configuration.

And whomever provide this service would be able to charge a commision fee for selling the software, plus getting money from storage, etc.

I really would love to do this, so if anybody works at an ISP, please get the users some additional bandwidth.
This is really another on the list of technological fixes that the author didn't forsee - search technology has improved massively since 1995. The data was likely out there - it's just it was hard to find.
Currentlig using 60% of my 51GB.
I've got all workrelated files there (I'm a webdesigner), my music and a folder of collected inspiration. No videos.
I am not sure my computer can even sustain that kind of data rate.

I have already hosted some low-traffic websites off small-office data plans an can tell it mostly works. Uptime is not that good and you'll spend some time on the phone explaining it's their connection and not your server that's down. In the end, it's not really worth it.

As for effective bandwidth, what most telcos sell is the connection speed to their first router. Your mileage may vary.
What does this mean for regular people?
It's strange but my TOS also prohibits home servers. But the ISP modem has DynDNS and portforwarding built-in. As well as wifi-hotspot (FON and Citi-wifi). The only thing I can't get is a static IP or a "static" dynamic IP. Damn thing changes daily and to random IP blocks. This isn't an off the shelf branded modem, it's completely custom job by the ISP so they know exactly what they have in their.
And as a result nobody gets good internet.

Dammit.
I find it weird that he said that the internet was once 'cool and hip', yet filed lawsuits against anyone and their grandmother for putting his content online without license.

Um, prince, what made (makes) the internet cool is the free flow of content and information. Many 'modern' bands use this to launch their careers.
That's basically the model for magazines nowadays. Subscription fees pay shipping costs and not much else.
Laying in the fiber is a sunk cost, so that shouldn't be the biggest issue.

At two dollar per Mbps oversubscribed 100 times is $20 for each user/month, sell the service at $70 month, and you should have enough to turn a profit, pay back the investment and keep the thing operating.
Prince will call his own bluff when he doesn't use internet sales for his upcoming concert series. Yep, phone and on-site sales only, just like waiting for Jethro Tull back in '76. Given that the internet's washed up, how else to get tix into people's hands?

Given that on-line sales usually equals Ticketmaster sales, this might not be a bad thing...
I'm also on about 50% of my 50GB. The thing is, I'd rather dump everything in there and not worry about what is and is not "critical".
I've actually seen books with ads before, it is not a new concept. Those were rather old books, too (pre-internet). Only very few ads, though, maybe three pages in the whole book.

I like your idea with the out of print books!
It's simple. Every object should have a URL with its history, owners, manufacturer, components, value etc.

A Facebook of objects. Someone should build it.
Personally I use Puppet to handle configuration of all my systems. All code is on git/hg on codebasehq.com. This means that I don't need to backup entire systems, only databases and other user created content (which I use tarsnap for).
I can't wait to use ǐTéx (ring-a-ding)!
For uninstalling things, pkgutil is a useful tool to know about. You can list all installed packages with pkgutil --pkgs and uninstall them by doing pkgutil --unlink pkgid

I wondered for a long time how to uninstall packages from OS X until I discovered pkgutil.
The Internet replies: "Prince should stick to making music."
It's a tie for me.

1. The entire http://www.choip.me website, I built it because I was sick of seeing ads for twitter scams on other tweet longer sites, so I just threw together a Twitter + Disqus mashup on appengine to do the same thing, and provide a better way to take discussions "offline" on Twitter. Not bad for basically a weekend project I think.

2. The custom search portals on www.unscatter.com. Of course I'm still working on it, the interface for creating them is very rough. But the functionality is there. A couple examples of what can be done with it are the Devsearch - http://www.unscatter.com/search/unscatter/devsearch/ and Conservation Search - http://www.unscatter.com/search/unscatter/conservationsearch...
I'm not sure this is the "best feature" that no one uses, but it is one that I've always thought some crafty hacker could do something cool with.

BonjourFoxy[1] adds Bonjour support to Firefox and is predominately used to find websites advertised by printers, network cameras and so on, but it can also be used by other extensions to advertise and discover network services.

Currently the only extension I'm aware of that makes use of this is iGiro[2] which combined with an iPhone app let's you scan bill numbers straight into Firefox's text field.

Now admittedly I haven't got any killer P2P extensions in mind, but surely some other folks out there do —?

[1] http://www.bonjourfoxy.net/

[2] http://igiroapp.se/
One thing I noticed: it now starts a separate app for running flash: http://grab.by/5iXg

I guess they are going to hide it before FF4 comes out of beta. You can force quit the bottom firefox and the misbehaving flash object will die: http://grab.by/5iXj
Ridiculous, ignorant, and a repost from months ago.
You might find the datasets/opendata sub-reddits interesting.

http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets
http://www.reddit.com/r/opendata
The Internet: "Prince is completely over,"
dupe : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492475
Fast Company Influence Project Pisses Off Online Influencers
What would you do if you had a million dollars?
I think s/he was referring to that in general diving at certain depths bolting to the surface can injure or kill you.

As a PADI course this skill-set will ALWAYS be taught in a pool or shallow water.
http://themoviedb.org, http://thetvdb.com/ and my own API on top of these: http://igorpartola.com/projects/disciddb
Lisphp's map/filter/reduce functions are implemented in the same manner that Parentscript does.

This is map: http://github.com/dahlia/lisphp/blob/81849070ac7ff13948786b5...

This is filter: http://github.com/dahlia/lisphp/blob/81849070ac7ff13948786b5...

This is fold: http://github.com/dahlia/lisphp/blob/81849070ac7ff13948786b5...

Lisphp respect the iterator protocol of PHP instead of Lisp tradition in the practical reason.
Not related to the article: This DZone site is a horrifying mess of a site. After clicking on the link here I felt like I had done something wrong and ended up on a spam site.

EDIT: The other commenter is right: this is link spam. Here's the real article's link:

http://blog.m1key.me/2010/07/rest-with-scalas-lift-framework...
Ask HN: Mumbai/Pune HNers meetup ? 
Are there enough people here to have something like this ? Please vote in if you are interested.
Interesting, I kinda liked D, but I heard about it years ago and assumed it had died in the meantime.

Good to hear it hasn't.

Edit: I seem to be unable to find the actual license of the digital mars compiler - does anybody know where it is?
I realize that it's not blogging per se, but UseTheSource has automagic syntax highlighting. If there's demand I'll add inline LaTeX.
Man that language is awesome - default nonnulable types, closures, mixins, static _and_ dynamic calls....

I am in love.
I tried to explain that in the blog post. Some quick examples: If you back up a Mac app using Dropbox and then restore it, nothing happens when you double-click on it because the executable file within it wasn't set to be executable. If you restore your "downloaded files" with Dropbox, the "quarantine" metadata won't be there so you won't get the "This is an application downloaded from the Internet" warning. If you restore a "bundle" (e.g. an iPhoto Library) the bundle won't look like a single file anymore -- it'll look like a folder; double-clicking on it would open the folder instead of launching iPhoto. Modification timestamps are all set to the current time, so if you used that information to find things in the past you're out of luck.
I like this idea a lot. I've registered my blog and will be checking it out. Good luck!
I actually learned accounting basics by using ledger. Loving it.
Ask HN: Incorporating in USA (nonresident)
I am opening a company (C corp) in US for my webservice. I am European. Any information / opinions on these questions are very appreciated. I am sorry if some of these are stupid. I talked to a lot of people, read on-line stuff but certain things are still not 100% clear.

1) I intend to open it through www.bizfillings.com . Their site looks legit and packed with information. Any experiences?

2) Delaware or f.ex. NY ? (does opening comp. in Delaware make you suspicious/border-case in your country? I have no "evil" intentions, don't care for tax after profit that much, do care for running expenses, complications, bureaucracy)

3) I will have 2-3 advisors with 0.5 - 3% stock and one helper with 12%. Is it cheaper to make the deal and give them shares before formation, or can it be easily/cheaply done after it. In what range are the (legal/bureau.) expenses associated with this after formation (I know angel deals cost 5-15k)

4) what do such advisors usually prefer: shares, options, ..? What is the simplest, cleanest way to do this. I want to include some vesting terms too. I intend to talk to them of course, but I would like to know more about it when I do.

5) How to open a Bank Acct. I heard it's hard to open it unless you physically come to and US bank (some say it's even harder after patriot act..). Can Bank Acct. be opened by a third person that would go into US bank with mandate from me? Would it-help/he-have to be one of the owners/officers of the company?

That is all for now. I hope your answers help others too.
http://zoho.com is good.
Location-Aware Load Balancing
The video shows a freakishly-low take-off speed o_O It looks like you could practically jog along side it, though that could just be from its size.
But water is simply interpretation of phenomena in a specific context. Even on a compositional level.

H2o have more fundamental properties, that again themselves are interpretations.

Unless you find out a way to be certain about your fundamentals. And that I am not sure you can.
obviously a bug. did you email pg?
Comparing S3 to an offsite RAID volume seems like apples to oranges. The biggest difference I think is the data are stored in multiple data centers and Amazon takes care of all the issues with that. There were a lot of interesting comments about S3 cost here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=422225

It would be awesome if Amazon offered something analogous to a single offsite automagically-expanding RAID volume for a lot less money than S3.
It touches a matter, but not the matter of the article he thinks he is arguing against.

The OP is against advertising, on two grounds: 1) that he doesn't want to be exposed to things against his will, and 2) that business is by its very nature unethical.

You're right when you say that these are emotional arguments, and not logical ones.

The fact that the OP "wants to make the world a better place in his way" isn't comforting to me; as Shaw pointed out, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

My point isn't one of "verbal purity"; rather, I'm just trying to take the words seriously enough to follow through their implications.

(I assume, by the way, that the OP would be upset to find that his post was linked to on HN, because that link could be viewed as a form of advertising for the piece, and we know how he feels about advertising....)
Post from "weev" (AT&T/ipad data hacker) on his arrest and treatment
I love that he uses transparencies on an overhead projector. That's true old-school.
I'm on the same boat and I researched on it quite a bit. I'm stuck at point 5; bank account. from what I have found, its not possible to open a bank account without being physically there. IANAL however.
Once upon a time, ads in books were extremely common. However, writers hated this, and many of them forcefully opposed the practice during contract negotiations.

One publishing house made the mistake of violating a contract provision against ads by putting a cigarette ad in one of Harlan Ellison's books. Harlan responded in his own inimitable way, as described in the "DID HARLAN REALLY MAIL A DEAD GOPHER TO AN EDITOR?" section of http://harlanellison.com/text/newsfaq.txt .
http://code.google.com/p/django-linkcheck/

The take-up is probably limited by the fact that my documentation is erring towards the minimal.

That and the erroneous dependencies I forgot to remove until last week. :)
The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of experience. The father, on the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television.

It is so strange to me that television continuously presents things which are disconnected from reality, and people, who watch television for hours a day, end up using it as a replacement for life experience. I cannot really blame people for this; I think most people (here in America, at least) see most of their lives through television, so it's only natural that it's where most of their 'experience' comes from. But it's still dangerous. And things like this (choking, injuries/wounds, freezing, etc.) are all presented in such an unrealistic way, but with such consistency, that people never even question whether or not that's how it is outside of television and movies.

I wish television producers were more responsible. It's made us into a nation of incorrectly trained, mislead incompetents.

Article is light on HN content, though.
good recommendations. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Nicholas Zakas is also a very good book
http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Professional-JavaScri...
Last year I came close to drowning because of massive cramping at the end of a one-hour training in open water. The frightening part is that it took myself a long time to realize I was drowning: I probably was a bit drowsy from hypothermia. I remember going through 'left foot cramping, just continue, you'll be fine' all the way through cramping up of my upper legs & finally abdomen until I realized I was in trouble. I concur that once you are in trouble it is very difficult to signal anything to bystanders.

Lessons learned: swim parallel to the coastline & don't swim alone. When you start to cramp up start to swim more conservatively, change styles, when it gets really bad, assume a fetal position & focus on floating, don't try to swim. The cramps will eventually go away, then you can slowly start moving again. Watch out for hypothermia.
While mentioning Lawyers. I know one case when a Lawyer was appointed and he went to physically open a BA. There is one website which sells "open company in USA" kit, where it claims it has a video how to open Bank Acct. 100% online. I can't find it right now and am not sure how legit it is.
> It touches a matter, but not the matter of the article he thinks he is arguing against.

So what? He still can have some good points, which you seem to refuse to consider as he "broke" your rule of being strictly consistent.

Btw, with your last sentence you clearly put yourself on a side of a policeman..

[edit] I forgot to mention that this 'good intention' vs 'policeman' was about you not the OP. You falsely assumed that I want to attribute everything right to the OP and everything wrong to you, making another fallacy btw. Not at all. I hoped you with your comments want to make it all better and not just be a nazi here.

Please also don't underestimate the power of motivation. I personally find Shaw's famous cite intellectually witty but not wise. Motivation is a primary source of what we do.
Prince believes in Chemtrails and also recommends using the Internet to research them:
http://mikecane.tumblr.com/post/780660047/prince-is-all-scre...

[typo edit]
Hehe, that's I game I loved to play when I was a kid (ok, I admit, I still like it today). Never occurred to me that bodyfat could have something to do with it. And I agree it's an amazing feeling, maybe we could start an underwater meditation club? ;-)
If you do, you could point everyone to this link 10 years down the road and gloat how prescient you actually were.
> (I assume, by the way, that the OP would be upset to find that his post was linked to on HN, because that link could be viewed as a form of advertising for the piece, and we know how he feels about advertising....)

I'm not in love with the OP's piece myself but I think this is being unfair to it. There's at least a quantitative if not a qualitative difference between informally posting a link in a forum designed for it and the sort of weaponized mass psychology modern day advertising has (d)evolved into.

The piece is wooly and rambling and not a particularly coherent argument, please don't sink to its level when criticizing it.
Nice idea, execution, and such. Congratulations and good luck!

Two things, though: if I were a restaurant owner, the burger in your logo would probably irritate me. After all, few restaurant owners see themselves in the fast food business, I assume.

Second, if you want to go international, ChompStack is probably a bad name. The "Globish dictionary" doesn't contain the words chomp and stack.
As I continue to research this today, I grow more and more amazed at the lack of public data sets. There are what? A million different websites that keep some kind of list of something? And I'm finding only a dozen or two databases publicly accessible? It's crazy. Everybody either wants to charge or actively wants to prevent you from getting their data -- even when the data is common knowledge, was gathered at public expense, etc.

Anybody from Google on? There has to be some shortcuts here somewhere.
Great site. I think you should limit your first plan a litte more. No custom stuff on the cheapest plan. And maybe a free version with one menu, just to test it out.

What you could do for restaurants that are not interested, is built something quickly for them so that you can actually show them "look this is what you could do!" - actions move people more than words, in your case your product will convince the customers more directly!
Suspicious Facebook app pulls in 300,000 fans