skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"PDFs are another matter and are suited best for desktop, notebook, and possibly tablet (iPad) reading, but aren't considered eBooks per se."

If you publish poetry, you wouldn't want the text to reflow. You want it to stay exactly where it is. Just give it a 3:4 format (1:1,35) at eg. A4 paper size or larger, have it on screen in eg. an iPad size, and you will have a book that looks spectacular - and in 5 years too. And you can even have a cover on your book...
Yahoo Mimics Facebook Connect With “Y Connect
Netduino Plus (With Ethernet and Micro SD capabilities)
I don't know what it is. I read the "How It Works" page and don't understand how it works. There's something called a metric, which is encoded as a JSON string and somehow sent to a phone which renders a UI to send something back. What is communicating with the phone? Is it a web service you're going to run? Is it a library for my application to use?
Public Beta Notes: http://forums.netduino.com/index.php?/topic/390-introducing-...
> that you put out there on the internet

You can add to that list the medium of books, articles, presentations, artwork, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, drawings, music, film, interviews, and and other vehicle for personal expression.
This tool has the potential to drive down the costs of integrating mobile feedback. You can just use my app to integrate a range of input and media, as opposed to writing your own app from scratch to collect input.
I don't think the Rails Rumble is actually in Earth, Texas (as the map shows) ;-)
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I made this to help me pick random colors (highlight each box for the hex rgb color code) and found out I was addicted to reloading the page over and over again...
Doesn't that require shipping to a US address?
The HTML link includes a launch parameter telling the phone where to download the Metric (the json string), allowing the Skanr client to parse it, render the interface, and send the results to the defined destination.
Besides, why shouldn't I be able to give away my book or re-sell it?! This bullshit about paying for a book is really just the borrowing price... just new techno babble to go with the copyright disputes.

I want to re-sell any ebook I don't want to own anymore. And I am not going to just dump it without trying to find another home for it.

How do we go about doing that - technically, I mean - never mind that "they" don't want you doing that?

I seem to remember reading something about an English service, which somehow made book swopping possible... ? Anyone?
You wouldn't be happier if you got virtually the same experience for 40% to 50% less money each month?

Having used both Slicehost and Linode, the (user) experience is similar, node performance is better, and the price is cheaper.
I think you might be surprised. There are plenty of people with drive but no morals.
Site isn't loading for me, anyone else having this problem? I'd love to give some feedback if I could visit the site.
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This is a Rails Rumble project my team just finished tonight. Love to get feedback, but please bear in mind it's 49 hours old.
You've probably put this on your list already, but the beta value always works for me when just looking at price alone.

But for value investing, I try to do as much analysis of the business model, recent initiatives and the top execs as possible. Businesses don't make decisions, key people within businesses make decisions. This is a little wishy-washy, if you will, though -- it is Warren Buffet 101 on the other hand. Maybe you could develop some sort of quantification of top talent via some checklist or tiers of achievement.
I think the issue with language specific sites is that the majority of the internet into this sort of thing already speak English. It might be a false assumption, but it seems that the educated people interested in the sort of thing that goes on here and on reddit are, in the majority, English speakers, even if it's not their first language.

Sites that cater to a "lower intelligence audience" (without trying to sound condescending) will have a market because the people in their audience won't be English speakers and won't want to adapt, but in the business and technology world being without English is a pretty big hinderance.

Although it'd be interesting to be proven wrong, I wonder if there are any already successfully non-English startups around (that focus on technology).
You could create a text file called alpha2omega.txt, which contains the line:

Look at the binary representation of pi; you'll find the sum of all human knowledge encoded there in ASCII, EBCDIC or any other code ever invented. You just need Google to index it all for you so it's useful.
I blame Google!
Really? I loved that bit! I want to apply for a group of people who have personality.

Anyone who couldn't see that that was a bit of creative writing expressing the themes wanted is someone who's not really fit for the job, imo.
Ahh one sec, I'm resizing the server.
Great! As someone who floats from cafe to bedroom to cafe throughout the week, this is a service i have been looking for. Impressed that you already have a location in Melbourne, Australia in your database, i'll probably go check them out.
Haha yeah we know. Unfortunately the first bug we've discovered is that editing the address doesn't update the coordinates :)

We can't deploy again until voting closes but the fix is being committed already.

Luckily it's fairly minor!
In the Netflix era, spoilers son, spoilers!

I would have been interested to get their take on Omar.
Nope. Keep going. "Integrating mobile feedback" is a feature. See if this helps: a benefit is something my mom would understand, or a CEO would understand. What basic business function is improved by "integrating mobile feedback"? Why do I want a range of input and media, and why mobile?

Feature/function/benefit language is tricky, but it's extremely important.

Here is a fantastic example of what I'm talking about:

http://www.appointmentreminder.org/
It's because we're from Australia :)
What HTML link? A URL pointing to some kind of service you'll run? How will this service be connected to a phone? Is it something I'll build into a mobile application? Do you register a phone through a website and the phone runs some generic Skanr application? You've only lead me to more questions!
-Projected growth relative to peers

-Relevant industry multiple relative to peers

-Insider trades (Executive or board of director trades)

-Value catalysts such as M&A, restructuring, spin-offs, etc.

Other stuff really depends on specific industry, feel free to ask any follow-up questions
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I think it's also people who are scared of subjecting themselves to criticism, so they have to criticize others who share what they perceive as low-quality material that gets positive attention.
It's a self-defense mechanism: he shouldn't be allowed to share his stuff because it's not good enough == I don't have to share my stuff and subject myself to outside criticism because it's not good enough.
I blame it on the boogie.
Nice way to cross over from illustration to code. Though personally I prefer Opacity since it supports generating drawing code for Quartz, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, as well as Canvas.
Seems cool. I like the dashboard design. Mind telling us what technology stack you chose to use?
I suspect that some of them are people that took rejection by YC a bit harder than they should have

This is a worrisome statement. You get enough flags on a submission and it's automatically deleted, right?

The YC deadline is coming up in two days. Should we not submit cool new hacks to YC right now? It seems like people who are insecure about their applications might be incentivized to kill submissions where people demo something cool, under the premise that they want to stifle potential competition for YC slots. (Which is dumb, because the URL will still be on the application, but I never said this was rational.)

[edit: I know jacquesm was talking about previous YC applicants, but this led me to speculate on whether flaggings were performed by current YC applicants.]
I agree with calling out what happened, but I don't think it's good to make a big assumption using just one instance of a bad event.
Do you know how many distros are rip offs or tweaks of other distros?
A while back I worked for a company that didn't care about the schedule I worked so long as the work got done. Eventually I was rolling in around 11am to noon and leaving around 9-11pm. Having that place to myself in the evening was bliss. Also sleeping on my natural sleep schedule (3am to 10am) greatly increased productivity.

Sadly they refused to switch me to salary (I was hourly & quick at my job & actually had to underperform & work slowly to keep my paycheck decent) so I finally quit. The best feeling in the world was when they had to hire 2 hourly replacements to do my job.

Moral: If someone is good at their job & is a happy, trusted and efficient employee, value them and treat them accordingly. If their job is not 9-5 critical, let them work the schedule when they are the most productive.
This is one of the reasons for programmers making startups to use "platforms as a service" like Google App Engine, Heroku, Rackspace Cloud et al. They really do simplify deployment and managing systems, and let you focus on code, particularly for platforms that traditionally are hard to scale without a lot of knowledge and work.
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Also see loosecubes.com.
Nice work guys - this is excellent. Site feels awesome, and I will definitely be using it rather than having to put a shoutout on Twitter to find coworking spaces.

Great idea. Excellent execution.
I have nothing against slicehost, but a key point in the OP was price. Ever since their June RAM bump, they (on paper) offer a much better value.

Its also worth pointing out that of the various benchmarks I've seen (a handful on blogs and there are some pretty key threads on webhostingtalk.com), Linode typically comes out on or near the top.

On top of that, you add their participation to things like Rails Rumble and their data center choice (just missing Asia), and it all makes a compelling argument.
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I don't know about the disgusting submissions but I believe my post was marked dead as my friend had also submitted a very similar post here that I was originally unaware of, so no hard feelings there.
Rails Rumble Apps
Looks good too, but I think the guys have captured some of the social elements better with @desksnearme - additionally the availability rollover in desks is awesome.
@benhedrington doing something involving libraries in beijing. we're in stealth mode ish.

youku and tudou and all the other youtube-likes are essentially unusable in the US. partially intentional to avoid copyright trouble for the companies involved, however they have set up servers abroad to cater to countries with large overseas-chinese populations.
There is a great chapter in The Pragmatic Programmer on why you should stick with text files for everything possible. Section 3 / Chapter 14 "The Power of Plain Text".
It argues that as programmers, our base material as craftspeople isn't wood or metal, but knowledge, and with plain text we have the ability to manipulate knowledge with virtually every tool at our disposal.

http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master...

This blog post doesn't express things nearly so well as the book, but the argument has validity.
Ironically, fb_id is one of the big missing pieces in the personal datadump that Facebook users can now download.
You are misinterpreting what I wrote I think.

I did not mean that you should not be submitting cool new hacks here, that's no problem at all.

What I meant was that there may be characters out there that have been rejected by YC in the past that vent their frustration by being less than good citizens of HN.

So it's nothing to do with people that are insecure about their applications or submissions to HN today, it's got to do with people that were rejected during previous rounds that took it personal instead of as constructive criticism and/or limited resources.
Too much jargon. You've managed to make it even less understandable. Answer these questions, and substitute them in your explanation:

- What is a launch parameter?
- What is a Metric?
- Why do I want the Metric to be parsed?
- How does a Metric render an interface? What does this even mean?
- What is an example of a 'defined destination'? Is it my server? Is it digg.com? Is it a new site? Is it Google Analytics?

Pretending I understand what that meant, a better explanation might be:

"The Skanr client allows for mobile phones to update your server with usage statistics. It works by downloading Metrics stored on your server, parsing them to add client-specific details such as mobile browser version and carrier, and then uploading them to our analytics service."
How do you actually receive meatspace items you purchase? Via a mail forwarding service?
It's a pretty basic Rails stack. We did for this year's Rails Rumble, so we've listed all the gems and libraries on our team page: http://r10.railsrumble.com/teams/kiskonians-dancing-in-lab-c...
The link that launched the Skanr app contains a variable with a URI to the Metric file. The Metric file can be stored anywhere, it just has to be a valid HTTP URI. The data is collected by the Skanr client and sent directly to your web service via XHR. Keep the questions coming if you have them :)
I spent several years in an industry where we'd have call time at 6 or 6:30am, which meant a 5am wakeup. I am a night owl so needless to say it sucked. By the weekend all I'd want to do was sleep. The thing is, between shows my body clock would revert right back to the old 3am bedtime schedule.

Isn't it amazing how you can get the same number of hours of sleep but if it isn't on the schedule you naturally prefer it can feel less refreshing?
I think that is exactly the point, if you look at all of the extras (bandwidth,disk,ram) the pricing all comes out to when you reach the amount for each (bandwidth, disk, or ram) upgraded server it is the same for both extras or upgraded server.
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Probably, although it doesn't seem to be the focus of xargs.

And the version of xargs that is included with Solaris 10 doesn't have the -P option. In which case, installing gnu parallel is a slightly easier option than installing a different version of xargs.
Okay, the WordPress site is now launched. Not a lot there - mostly just a brief project overview.

http://serversofdoom.wordpress.com/
Considering that even Microsoft has been embracing PHP, WordPress, and other OSS projects lately, I can't imagine you'll find a major technology company not using open source somewhere. Actually, I doubt you can find a major company in any industry that isn't...
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basically agree... but it is at least a little more surprising considering MS is still pumping out this trash mms://msnvidweb.wmod.msecnd.net/a10026/e1/ds/us/CMG_US/CMG_Microsoft/9e361baf-9952-4d5e-9a9a-4b0bd0179d8d.wmv (if you have silverlight http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/US/details/faaf9eb8-77c...)
make requires a Makefile, whereas one can pass parameters directly to parallel.

There also seems to be a few more options revolving around job success/failure and how to react -- a) ignore failed jobs and report how many at the end, b) cleanly exit as soon as a job fails and c) stop all jobs as soon as one fails.
Ask HN: Why is the ESPN website still a subdomain of go.com?
ESPN is a huge site. According to Alexa, it's #17 in the U.S. and #68 worldwide. It's a HUGE site, obviously.

So, why does espn.com redirect to espn.go.com?

My first thought would be SEO/SEM. But there are countless ways to keep SEO/SEM when you change domains, and presumably Disney has the resources and manpower to make something like this happen.

They promote it as espn.com, so why, after 15+ years, do they still redirect to a subdomain?
Nice! It seems easy enough to use and the design is downright gorgeous.

What are your plans for this? I could definitely see myself paying for this.
A Pomodoro app might be a good start.
On the contrary, the print view has longer lines, which makes it harder to read on a widescreen display.
They have an Alto II: http://www.computerhistory.org/VirtualVisibleStorage/artifac... .
I think you're wrong. France is the kind of country where everybody's english is *&"{#@~^. I'm studing math and IT in college and I can tell you that I might be the only student who can speak/understand english properly.
as an example here's the link

skanr://?action=download&source=http://192.168.0.100:4000/items/skanr.json
Jakarta, thanks for the feedback!

Our tool also calculates how much your stock is worth, so to be able to combine that with a relative value approach would be pretty powerful. We're adding it to the list!

We calculate Cash ROIC, not ROIC, because we believe cash is king. We'll take a look at ROE & ROA, but we also calculate FCF yield. When comparing gross to operating, what insight are you seeking to gain?

Yeah, Morningstar has solid data like that. We're planning to analyze how shareholders' equity & free cash flow have grown (or shrank) over the past 10 years.

Shoot me an email. It's in my profile. Or tweet @vurudotco . Your feedback would be great as we move forward!
In terms of the website design you should find something to put in the whitespace to the left of the video and below the description - maybe a quote from a well-known person, or make the video more square and pull up the content below the fold.
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I really like this idea.

What in particular would you like to know? If its steady or if its been growing over a number of years?
Nice site, and I'd like to add the coworking space I work at, but...I don't own it. It looks like adding it presupposes ownership of the space.
Full list of links to the story.

1: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/what-do-rea...

2: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/what-do-rea...

3: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/what-do-rea...

4: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/what-do-rea...

5: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/what-do-rea...

6: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/what-do-rea...

7: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/what-do-rea...

8: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/what-do-rea...

9: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/what-do-rea...

(This is worse than multi-page stories. =( )
They don't go into much detail, but they are talking about contextual ads (google adsense), so this isn't that surprising at all: contextual ads on celeb stories pay less than contextual ads on mortgage stories.

But, for large sites that sell its own ads against its traffic for good CPM rates, then, you do make good money off page views (even the celebrity ones), and more page views over time = more income.
For all those in their early 20's who are reading this - you should know one thing. Nature has blessed you with the ability to stay up late and still get things done the next day.

Most people in their twenties abuse this skill and go out partying all night. I know I did a lot of that.

The reason you have this skill is because it's designed for child-rearing in your 20's. That's my hypothesis. People with children don't get much sleep.

So either use this skill to push your career/skills forward, or use it to raise small children while you're still young. Either way will leave you better off. If you push hard to make some money, and then have kids, maybe you won't need to work 9-5 when you do have kids. If you have your kids early, then you'll have the time and energy to put into your work when you're a bit older, because your kids won't be draining your energy.

The sub optimal solution is to have your kids later on, at the same time you realise you need to work hard to push ahead. That's doubly taxing and twice as hard.
I would love to boot a software Alto emulator. (With its OS, Smalltalk environment, etc.)
Thanks for the compliments!

Due to the excellent feedback we've received, we are planning on commercializing this soon.
Square waves and electrons are seriously some of the most beautiful, incredible things.

But for my money, how about logic? Why the hell do logical operators make sense, how have ideas with absolutely no physical basis taken a life of their own and woven all this magic around us?
No, it isn't. It's stating that claims that HN is turning into Reddit when authored specifically by people with newer accounts are less likely to be valuable. It's almost a direct corollary that long-term HN users have enough perspective that their complaints about the decline of HN's quality are at least potentially worthy of consideration.
On an iPhone, can't watch it.
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I haven't yet watched the video, so I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic... but I vividly remember a time in undergrad when I read Cringely regularly. I'd get all excited about these huge claims (e.g. "Mac Mini is built just for taking over the living room"[1]) and would start talking to anyone who would listen about these big, exciting possibilities. Then I realized it was just a gripping style of writing and the ideas weren't particularly earth-shattering... or correct. THEN, I found out the guy's a liar: "In 1998, it was revealed that Stephens had falsely claimed to have received a Ph.D. from Stanford University and to have been employed as a professor there."[2]

Haven't read much Cringely since. Should I?

[1]: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2005/pulpit_20050120_0008...
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely
We have a portfolio tracker that allows you to do exactly what you said. We don't (yet!) include dividend payouts and the like. We hope to add this in the future. The only hitch is that users aren't able to have several different portfolios (yet!), so you could try out one approach and then delete it and try another. I know it's tedious.. but we're bootstrapped!

Thanks for your feedback! And follow us on twitter @vurudotco
Take any news China related (like Russia related) with a very large grain of salt.

“The Internet’s center of gravity is shifting toward China, said Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA China in Beijing, a technology consultant.”

This is one of the more ridiculous things I've read recently. China is not the center of the internet. And the only technology they have is either bought or stolen.
What a joke! Doesn't even mention the guy was given for adoption while giving all kind of irrelevant info.
I'm one of them. The weakness of yuku is most of the videos are uploaded by the website itself, not the user generated content. The reasons behind it is quite complicated...
I like it. Actually, I'm looking for a desk to work at in Buenos Aires for the next 3 weeks. The cafes here are very busy and noisy.

I wonder if AirBnB will enter this category since they are a "marketplace for space".
Website owners don't have to create an iPhone application to interact with a mobile phone. Hows that?