skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> tone there is kind of similar to what you get when people accuse rape victims of being complicit

Not when there are hostile state actors who have presumably been enjoying that access for years without publishing it. These guys just told us about it.
ePubPack[1] to create the ePub, FlightCrew[2] to validate the ePub, Calibre and iBooks on the iPad to preview. For Kindle books, I use Mobipocket creator[3]. Kindlegen[4], the tool Amazon provides to convert ePub to Mobi didn't output consistent results so I stopped using it.

I'm by no means an expert, so there may be a better set of tools out there but these have worked well for me.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/epubpack/

[2] http://code.google.com/p/flightcrew/

[3] http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloadsoft/productdetailscrea...

[4] http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...
Its 7000+ employees not 3000+.
@pg: Please include subdomains in the link descriptions with Tumblr-hosted articles.
i've got a few things planned for over summer, iOS apps are in there, i'm sure this will be useful!

thanks,
What do USAA, CVS, Costco, and Berkshire Hathaway all have in common?
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You'd need a LOT of grass.
Pretty damn smart considering that they had the foresight of all this, when they filed for IPO in February.
There's no subdomain - OP used a tumblr.com/XXXX shortener
I fail to see how their "anonymity" has value when it cannot be exchanged for real currency.
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A little bit late to this one but thought I might as well post anyway. I got (and am continuing to get) some good work from some cool people last time!

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By raising the stakes, I mean it lowers the things FJ needs to do in order to comply. He could say, look I've ALREADY licensed it for you to use and all you need to to is attribute.
Performance. Whether that is through a better VM (Rubinious?), faster gear, whatever, your worry not mine.
There are many subreddits where posts/comments along those lines get downvoted hard.
Different take: this would allow people to carry iPhones into company buildings (eg. service centres belonging to banks, government offices) and areas where camera-phones are banned for security reasons. The bank I used to work for banned camera phones from their offices, I imagine many other companies do the same. I would think twice about buying a phone I can't take to work. Or, corporations might rule out iPhones when choosing a model for the company phone. This would let Apple back into that (fairly large) market. Possibly.
Failing to encrypt user passwords isn't a short-cut; it's an inexcusable and egregious failure — especially when it's done by a company that has the resources to do it right in the first place.
See my comment above. Applying the CC BY license would add legal certainty that attribution is the ONLY thing needed for compliance. He could say, "look I've proven I want you to be able to distribute it with very minimal barriers. please comply with my attribution requirement."
Find a key person who knows the retail end of the consumer market. Having been there before, just the time invested in building simple relationships can be a major resource suck if you're starting from zero. Plus, navigating all of the oddities of dealing with consumer products (from potential certification/testing stuff) to packaging/distribution/channel sales and so on is a world of its own.

Based on my experience, also be prepared to give away a ton of product to buyers at potential outlets and spend lots of time discussing little nuanced things that will likely drive you insane :)

Your other option is to setup a retail oriented website and sell direct. It will take longer to get from Point A to Point B, but will be less resource intensive. If you can generate some basic demand in that avenue, then you can pursue QVC or some of the "As Seen on TV" marketing companies for a distribution deal.
Was on the board, now serves as an advisor.
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I've heard this sentiment before from other places -- what's the objection to him? I'm honestly asking.
I know nothing special about Groupon but this does look really bad.

It's akin to finding a greater fool down the road to leave the bag with. Normally that wouldn't bother me too much but given that they're going public the last fool who ends up holding the back may be your average, every day investor.

Maybe they'll put their personal money in it. Maybe the company managing their retirement account will buy it. Either way, it'll be out there in the public for less sophisticated investors to buy.

And, given that they've used such a high percentage of their latter investments to pay out early investors, always always looks bad. It shows low confidence in the company in the long run.

I think it would be wise to stay clear of Groupon.
First, selling unofficial/unreleased parts with an Apple logo on them and jailbreaking are completely different. You can sell all the cases and backplates you want, but you can't start putting someone else's trademarks on them.

Second, Apple hasn't sued any jailbreakers.
it's actually slightly unsettling to see that some corporations that pay the amount of tax they should, is considered news!
I'm no fan of Groupon, but by not having user-submitted reviews (AFAIAA) they avoid the issues Yelp runs into by trying to please both businesses and users.
Hear, hear! I wonder how Apple will spin it when I can't photograph a police officer abusing someone with my iPhone? Is that a feature? Or is Apple trying to tell me that 'photographing abuses of power' is not one of the intended uses of the iPhone and if I want to use it for such a purpose, I shouldn't buy one?
This sounds rather similar to the Facebooks OpenGraph protocol (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph). I wonder if this is related to Google's planned entry into social. It would help if they knew the context of search terms so they could match it up to ads in Gmail for example. or use your gmail conversations to help reorder search results...
Whatever happen to HTML5's data-* attributes?
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> You really think sheets of visible light transparent but IR opaque plastic are going to be outlawed?

When you woke up on September 10th 2001, did you imagine you would ever have to take your shoes off to board a plane? Weird things happen and weirder rules get enacted. The tech we build is, sometimes, misused. I even like nuclear bombs - they can be used for good. This recording prevention device cannot.

> Do you think your favorite band is really going to allow such a device to be enabled during one of their shows

I'd have no problem if the Rolling Stones decided to start using recording prevention devices to "protect" their shows. I'll worry when the police starts wearing them on their helmets.

IIRC, HP patented a similar device a couple years back.
Yep, I am sure it is a HW egg
Maybe they'll put their personal money in it. Maybe the company managing their retirement account will buy it.

What makes it even more troublesome is how many times we've been through this in the past 10-15 years.
To put it in perspective $2200 would be 3.5 billable hours from our IP attorney. Spending this small sum up front could save $500K in legal fees (assuming it only took 3.5 hours to reclaim a squatted domain legally).
Tangent: Their ticker will be "P."? Are there any other labels with punctuation in it?
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Ask HN: Any applications from Turkey?
I am not sure whether this question might be prohibited or not (checked rules). But I wonder If there were any applicants from Turkey that applied to YC? Or from non-EU countries?

Just wanted to read about their experiences.
Getting free copies of copyrighted stuff over the Internet is often not illegal. For example, my Debian update does exactly that every single day (and sometimes I download FOSS manually).

If you are going round advising people to the contrary, then you will, in at least some cases, wind up encouraging them to give unnecessary money to charlatans with inferior products (for example the people who burn free software to a CD-ROM and sell it on ebay).

For that reason, I find your behaviour to be unethical, and that's before we start considering the possibility that you are intentionally shilling for such people.
There is a startup in the current batch from Turkey in fact.
It is fiction. Right now I'm thinking of doing a single product site, like the ones you see for iPhone apps that has direct sales, and links to Amazon and iTunes versions as well.
For Sierra (kings quest, etc) fans there are a couple good options:

http://sarien.net/ (web based!)
http://www.agdinteractive.com/ (high-res remakes)
http://www.tsl-game.com/ (The Silver Lining - a completely new game continuing the Kings Quest story line)
One of the differences between now and the last dot com bubble is that these days, founders and early stage investors get their big paybacks before the IPO so have even more incentive to pump up unsustainable business models.
But you can have half of a bitcoin. In fact, they're divisible to 8 decimal places—so, in reality, when you have "1 bitcoin", you actually have ~10 million atomic units of tradable currency. It just comes "pre-redenominated," because it currently lacks value, and may be redenominated downward (making the unit "bitcents" or somesuch) as the exchange rate increases.
Looks like a missed startup opportunity.
From what I could make out of the prospectus, the revenue number is the sum of the face value of all coupons sold. Since Groupon has to pay the merchants a predetermined percentage of the face value, I'm having a tough time understanding why the entire face value should be considered as revenue. To take an analogy, this would be like Visa claiming the total value of transactions as revenue instead of the fees it charges the merchants for said transactions. Am I missing something?
This would be great. I'd gladly be in a situation where I could split investment dollars between two large growing competitors in a market situation like this.
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Yikes - I believe in the PSN hack there was some question as to whether the passwords were encrypted or not. I'm glad it's out in the open for this one. Think we'll see Sony changing their name any time soon?
There's a big tradeoff between reliability and density: 50nm MLC is good for around 10k cycles, but 34nm and 25nm MLC are rated in the 3k-5k range, and it's not clear yet whether 20nm MLC will be able to stay in that range. SLC is much more reliable, but also much less dense than MLC.

It's easy to maintain overall device reliability (and performance) by having more spare area, but that negates a lot of the benefit of moving to a smaller process. (And the performance penalty from having fewer flash chips to stripe across for a given drive size also detracts from the smaller process size.)
^^^^^This
You can also block the tag 'bitcoin' (http://archfinch.com/tag/bitcoin) and follow 'hn' (http://archfinch.com/tag/hn) on http://archfinch.com/ and subscribe to your personal RSS.
More specifically, don't make Anonymous mad.
Sigh, I can't edit it, but yes the jeffmills pop underish thing is really annoying. Skip [3] and refer to this article from SearchEngineLand on the impact of their duplicate content detection:

http://searchengineland.com/your-sites-traffic-has-plummeted...
Unsuscribe from /r/reddit.com /r/todayilearned /r/pics /r/videos /r/askreddit /r/politics and pretty much all the default reddits.

Suscribe to topic specific reddits ( e.g. /r/haskell or /r/Android ).

Enjoy your tenfold improved reddit.
Yes, I don't care at all about the hiring thread. So it's not like it's an unequivocable "this should be voted up 1000 times" kind of thing.
Yeah, that's my main competitor. Their API is lacking, though: http://develop.github.com/p/gist.html

So, I'm trying to fill that void.
What is the Lisp equivalent to Ruby's Rack and Python's WSGI?
Apple (Finally) Posts WWDC 2011 Schedule
Seems Sony really has kicked up the swarm with that GeoHot clamp down.

I am fairly certain that there are some executive meetings that are seriously questioning whether or not that initial action was wise.

I never thought this type of extortion could work, but Hot Damn. This is an effective campaign.

Talk about relentless!

Edit: This is really a losing battle for Sony. They are too big, there are too many vulnerabilities. They are too exposed. I know this sounds extreme, but are we witnessing the end of Sony as we know it ? It sounds ridiculous on the surface, but think about the distraction this has become. The billions of dollars of civil liabilities they are now open to, and this is not stopping any time soon. Talk about the perfect storm created by one anonymous group. Kinda insane, but also feels kinda cool....in a weird way. There is something liberating about a small group of 'anonymous' hackers taking on a Goliath of a corporation and winning. And I am a Capitalist to the core.

Although, the likely, annoying outcome of this is that this strengthens the hand of those that want a 'censored' Internet to prevent these types of things from happening. So this could very well lead to the end of the internet as we know it today. Also very hyperbolic, I know....but I believe it to be true.
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From the other article they are apparently also spending huge amounts on cashing out the early investors.
Apple Safe Files List: Staying On Top of Malware Definitions
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The question is whether Sony is really an outlier in terms of security, or if most big corps are getting by with security by obscurity (or no one cares about hacking them).
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If it was easy, everyone would be doing it! There are 5-10x as many jobs in design/eng compared to biz dev/product mgmt/mktg.

In business, if you don't have tech/startup experience I would argue it's harder to make the jump to it. You limit your options pretty quick if that's what you ultimately want to do.
> Find a key person who knows the retail end of the consumer market.

Where's a good place to start? Most of our contacts are in live entertainment or distribution for live entertainment. We've gone to some industry conferences like LDI, but there's not much of a consumer focus.

> Your other option is to setup a retail oriented website and sell direct.

We're definitely considering this. If you had to do it over again, would you start here and move to retail channels later?

Great advice, thanks!
Presumably because he was a former computer hacker and of course the fact that it is a high tech website which uses unique and technologically advanced methods to discover new information and keep the identity of sources secret.
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It's more a reference to the unstoppable memes on Digg and Reddit that become all-consuming obsessions for a small part of the public and irritants to everyone else. That these hobby horses happen to involve American politics is really just a coincidence.
It's neat, but are there any practical applications for this?
As someone who lost serious money on a short position, I completely agree that you should buy PUTs even if you are sure about your bet.

Though not all securities [E.g. Penny Stocks] have liquid options, and in those cases, you will have to borrow the stock to short it. As OP states, you will need to have a margin account to be able to borrow and short a stock.

E.g. Let's look at LNKD options.

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/lnkd/options

http://i.imgur.com/fFBBK.png

If you think that LNKD will tank in July 2011, you can buy Jul 77.50 PUTS for 7.35$. Let's say you buy 100 PUTS. Your total outlay will be 7.35 x 100 = 735$. If it goes down, your option price will increase and you can sell them and cash in your money. If for some reason, LNKD shoots up and goes to 100$ again, your option will be worthless and you would lose your 735$ which you paid.

Let's compare this to actually shorting LNKD. First, to short 100 shares at 77.50, you will need at least 77.50 x 100 = 7750$ in margin. If LNKD goes to 100$, you are down by (100 - 77.50) * 100 = 2,250$.

As you can see, PUT option lets you make a bet with much less capital (735$ vs 7750$) if you think LNKD is not worth 77.50$.

Please be very careful before you enter the world of stock market. It's very seductive and there is a high chance you will lose serious money if you don't understand what you are doing.
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I've never been a fan of Pandora. Usually my stations end up sounding like a typical classic rock FM station. The commercials they have on their site for the free service is almost as bad as FM radio commercials.
"If this deficit spending were actually going to financial institutions and disappearing (which is happening with much of the fed's lending of late, but primarily because the few borrowers who are qualified are not enamored with leverage at the moment), you would have a point..."

The Fed printing money and giving it to the bank adds to effective over-all spending and so effective deficit spending is going to the banks.

You might idly slice the size of the official Federal deficit any way you wish - high by comparison to earlier GDP ratios, low in comparison to the GDP ratios of other countries (Japan has a public debt of ~100% of GDP - funny how they have the world's highest ratio here despite their huge trade surpluses).

But this slicing doesn't mean much with the Fed and Fannie Mae's activity involving massive shoveling of money into the housing and other sectors.

And it should be clear it doesn't matter if this happens "primarily because the few borrowers who are qualified are not enamored with leverage at the moment". Indeed, the whole point is using money to prop up failing sectors makes it more likely that fewer in the private sector will want to borrow for actual productive investment.

I would agree that Krugman's pushing for larger deficit misses the elephant in the living room that is the bailout. But hey, he complained once and that's more than many did.

Like I said, this is neither Keynesianism nor Monetarism as such but a state "captured" by the various industries which suckle off it (especially defense, financial services, education, health care but also others).
Agree. Also the other questions are reasonable, but not heat inducing.
Hybrid drives won't take off. Just hit the history books. It's not like there were hybrid tape/HDD drives. When a technology like this comes along it will slowly marginalize the old gear.

So my crystal ball predicts the adoption of tiered setups. Anything that needs the performance bad enough to justify the cost will buy SSDs. HDDs will slowly be pushed into secondary "bulk storage" roles, then finally to backup and archival.
hahaha!!
I think the idea is that the investor is there to support a talented jockey (entrepreneur) against the turbulence of the horse (new business). Maybe this horse got outraced by another horse/jockey, but if the investor should have faith that the jockey can pick up the saddle and learn how to ride a new horse.

Agreed, not the best analogy... especially because as I understand a lot more is invested in horses than jockeys (in actual competitive horse racing). But, I think that's the point.
Hmmm... An HN proxy that allows you to kill stories, threads and comments according to your taste... Sounds like an interesting project.
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This seems more comparable to a bunch of people finally ganging up to beat the shit out of a bully who had a history of treating weaker individuals badly.
Nope...I was responding to the OP's statement about not understanding how they could have turned down $6B from Google.

If they IPO and the company is worth $12B - $20B and all their investors get to cash out. As much of a shell game as it is, that would have been a fiscally prudent move by management.
Banks hopefully encrypt them, but even a cursory glance when logging in to most nowadays shows they don't hash them (asking for individual characters). Or at least, you hope they aren't storing hashes of individual characters of your password ... even with salt.
Don't pick on the spelling. Have you considered users who don't have English as their first language? I hear there a few is all ;)
Man are you a spook?

I don't get this anti-Bitcoin thing at all. I'm not for or against it, it's interesting tech for sure - fascinating even - and obviously polarizing to some. But I just don't get this attitude at all, at least amongst HN'ers.
I strongly disagree with this post on two different levels.

For one thing, starting out on a relationship with a potential future investor by looking for ways to put them in the hot seat doesn't feel like a success path for me. They will always be able to make things a lot hotter for you than the other way around ... so why go there?

Secondly many the specific questions would go better in a post called "how to give a VC an impression that you don't bothered to prepare for meetings". When were they founded? It's on their web site. What's their background? Oh, that's on their web site too. Why haven't you done your homework?
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I'm not surprised that he didn't notice. People become conditioned to ignore repetitive information.
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Does the extension hide this story?
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First Encryption. Encryption is so important since I wouldnt want to save my financial informations into a cloud service. I know that evernote doesn't use an integrated solution for this. (You just need to encrypt your notes one by one)

Second: Encryption (again)

Third: Third way to access my files if one forgets email/password. Sometimes people might lose access to their emails. This way, If I forgot the evernote's password, then I cant get access back to evernote.

4th: Might be ligher than evernote. The software should be as light as "notepad". I can open 100 notepad windows and doesnt consume much memory. And most important notepad never crushes..
It all depends on the type of your work.

While I did my PhD I've often worked multiple days without a real sleep in between, because some problems were so interesting to me. At those times I would wake up in the night, think about how I can more effectively implement something, and then spend the remainder of the night hacking on the problem. I didn't even really consider this as work, but more as side-project for which I have infinite time and for which I'm getting paid for.

On the other hand, there are also some dull works you have to do as a research assistant, such as writing project reports, so that the funding agency continues to send you money. When working on those kinds of things it often took less than 8 hours until brain fog set in and forced me to work on more interesting things. If writing those reports would have been a full-time job I'm sure I wouldn't even have handled standard 9-to-5 work without going crazy.