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Mathematical Formula Predicts Global Mass Extinction Event in 2100(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by acabal 9y ago|1 comments
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Step by step, Americans are sacrificing the right to walk(aeon.co)
4 points by acabal 9y ago|0 comments
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by acabal 9y ago
I'm working on Standard Ebooks ( https://standardebooks.org ) in my spare time. Not only is it not-for-profit but the work is released under CC0 too, where applicable. We got on HN a month or two ago--people really seemed to
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by acabal 9y ago
I'm happy to say good riddance. When I was young I had to carry the family's laundry to the laundrymat, wash and fold it there, and carry it back, every other week at least. It takes hours, and at the time you couldn't do muc
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by acabal 9y ago
Web browser: Firefox Email client: Thunderbird Terminal: Gnome Terminal File Manager: Nautilus Basic Text Editor: Gedit (But can you patch the ridiculous "find next" shortcut key to ctrl + f/enter from ctrl + f/ctrl
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by acabal 9y ago
But the web is the one in the position of power here. Media wants badly to be on the web--it's not the web that badly wants media. Imagine if, back in the 90s, bigcorp still-image licensors like Getty or Bridgeman were able to magical
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Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have two weeks to appeal(defectivebydesign.org)
249 points by acabal 9y ago|215 comments
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by acabal 9y ago
They're referring to the French Revolution, and then the Terror. One of the causes of the revolution was the poor being fed up with the massive wealth imbalance. An economic depression was making the masses starve in the streets, whi
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by acabal 9y ago
Sure, the index pages pull from the "long description" in the source's metadata file. In this ebook's case, the metadata file is here: https://github.com/standardebooks/george-meredith_the-shavin...
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by acabal 9y ago
Yeah that was a hard editorial decision :) I hope we did a good job, but if you disagree then all of the commas we removed were done in a single commit, that you can roll back: https://github.com/standardebooks/william-
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by acabal 9y ago
Glad you're liking it! We're volunteer-based so there's nobody to pay but our web host, which so far has been mercifully inexpensive...
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by acabal 9y ago
Our changes do not :)
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by acabal 9y ago
Ironically, you've posted the lightly modernized version of 116. :) In the 1609 printing it looks like: O no, it is an euer fixed marke That lookes on tempeſts and is neuer ſhaken; It is the ſtar to euery wandring barke Whoſ
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by acabal 9y ago
We actually have Huck Finn in our catalog, and of course we've preserved all of the vernacular. I invite you to check it out for yourself to see what you think. "Light modernization" in our sense doesn't mean "ham
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by acabal 9y ago
Unfortunately, not at the moment. Producing our ebooks require some level of copyediting knowledge and none of us speak French :)
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by acabal 9y ago
We track them internally. If you want to work on one, send a note to the mailing list and I'll let you know if you can start or not. Also see our list of wanted ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/wante
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by acabal 9y ago
Glad to hear you're liking things! I started the project and am the managing editor of sorts. We're just a small group of volunteers. Our process is very painstaking and specialized so we get much fewer contributors than larger,
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by acabal 9y ago
The project is just a few years old, and it takes a very long time to produce one of our ebooks so the rate is rather slow. But we're getting more and more contributors :) I'm glad you picked Don Quixote, I personally took the ti
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by acabal 9y ago
Thanks! There is no API but we do have an OPDS catalog that you can access: https://standardebooks.org/opds/
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by acabal 9y ago
Have you tried downloading the compatible epub2 file, instead of the epub3 file? I don't think I've used Calibre to test our ebooks on, generally we test on eink devices and tablet reading software, all of which works more or les
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by acabal 9y ago
Sorry, that's an oversight, the back-end setup is naive in how it does this. I'll have to work on it but I don't have much time today.
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by acabal 9y ago
Check out our contributors page: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/ Specifically, see our typography manual, semantics manual, and the step-by-step guide to producing an ebook (all linked from the contributors page
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by acabal 9y ago
Hi folks, I'm the guy who started and runs Standard Ebooks. It looks like it's been given the hug of death at the moment, sorry about that! While I try to beef up the server you can see all of our productions on Github: https:&
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by acabal 9y ago
I don't disagree, but the difference with the internet is that it's so easy to be anonymous, or at least hard enough to unmask that it's not worth it, and the cost is almost nothing. With a printing press, you have to procure
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by acabal 9y ago
This is a very timely post for me, since I was discussing this idea with a friend just a few weeks ago. I left that conversation thinking that on the whole, maybe, just maybe, the internet is becoming a net negative force on society. Yes,
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by acabal 9y ago
Lofty goals, and needed. However I can't help but mourn that at least in Chicago, all of the taxis I've ever taken in the past several years have been hybrid vehicles. I think I can count on one hand the number of hybrids/e
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by acabal 9y ago
Shameless plug: You can read free/libre editions of Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Suspiria de Profundis here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-de-quincey/confessi... https:/&#x2F
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India’s Silicon Valley Is Dying of Thirst(wired.com)
3 points by acabal 9y ago|0 comments
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by acabal 9y ago
Does anyone have ideas on how a mid-career software developer can switch gears into the clean energy/climate change industry, to do something to help? I've come to think that climate change will be humanity's defining moment,
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by acabal 10y ago
Very interesting and timely considering I just bought a Kobo Aura One. The Aura One is a really nice device, and you don't realize how small and uncomfortable the Kindle Voyage is until you use a big device with a textured back. Plus

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