skillachie

PS: Co-founder at BookFusion

BookFusion can be used instead of Calibre to not only manage and organize your eBook library but also to:

1. Read ePub, PDF and other major format ebooks 2. Send your eBooks to your kindle device if you have one 3. Easily share your eBooks with friends and family the way you would a physical book.

Web: https://bookfusion.com/ Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bookfusion... IOS: Coming in 2016

I would be happy if you would take the platform for a spin and send me your feedback at dc@bookfusion.com

We have lots of updates for 2016

We read all formats that Calibre support. We support natively EPUB and PDF. All other formats are converted to EPUB.

How can I reach you to discuss further ?

Yes we want you to upload the 2 gig. We are a Dropbox for books with the added benefit of a single application to read multiple formats.

Our apps work both offline and online. You have the option to sync all books or only the top X most recently read.

Are you IOS or Android ?

We are developing a platform that can be used as a Calibre alternative to organize, read, make highlights, bookmarks and notes and have them synced across all devices.

Check us out at https://bookfusion.com/ . We will be releasing an updated Android app and our IOS app soon. Feel free to send us some feedback at dc@bookfusion.com

Nice idea. I have tried to barter my development services for art pieces and so on before. Do they have a general barter site at all ?

The points you raised are all representative of the current sad stateof the eBook industry where a single platform dominates.

Readers like yourself should be free to buy , own and lend eBooks like you would a hardcover book.

These believes lie at the core of Bookfusion. We are constantly adding new free books on a daily basis and will be launching our Publishers & Authors platform in Q4 to sell books through our stores.

Currently readers have access to over 40,000 + free books - https://bookfusion.com/books

We have also started to create curated lists. Most recently free machine learning eBooks here https://bookfusion.com/books?list=Free+Machine+Learning+Book...

As an avid reader we would appreciate it if you give us some feedback by signing up and using BookFusion. I will through in a complimentary Starbucks gift card for your time

Feel free to send me an email at dc@bookfusion.com DISCLOSURE: Founder at BookFusion

You could start with one of the many courses from the following sites:

a)https://www.edx.org/

b) https://www.coursera.org/

c)https://www.udacity.com/

Projects + Github + Blog would be all that you really need. Example from Udacity you could take one of the many specializations:

Android: https://www.udacity.com/course/android-developer-nanodegree-...

IOS: https://www.udacity.com/course/ios-developer-nanodegree--nd0...

*Front End Developer: https://www.udacity.com/course/front-end-web-developer-nanod...

And many more

While learning try to do bite size projects that can also be portfolio items that you push to Github. When times get difficult and it appears that Stackoverflow and other online sources will not able to answer your questions, do not be afraid to jump onto one of the many IRCs

Based on previous experience it all depends on what your app will be doing/used for. For some use cases your application might need to be integrated with C/C++ for performance reasons [https://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html] in that case yes

However if your just building apps to display a few pictures, articles and minor social aspects probably not.

In my opinion it would be good to know native Android development instead of being at the mercy of frameworks. There will be a time when you meet some limitation but have no choice but to accept it or start writing native good which will delay your app significantly. At least with native Android you have more control.

>>shady dealings come to light.

Most of the shady dealings that would come to light here will be within the organization. How much time have you spent in the Caribbean or the "third world"? Time and time again I see charities pop up but just to take advantage of donations.

Its always easier to point the finger in the opposite direction when time comes for accountability. Expose the shady dealings and set the truth free. Then you will see the "shady dealings" and yes if the organization is indeed corrupt exposing the truth should hurt them if not close them down all together. Let the donated funds go to a more effective and honest charity

DO NOT MAKE EXCUSES

All charity based organizations should have no problem being totally transparent. Failure to show the impact and details of what was done is indicative of an opportunistic organization that may be corrupt. “Money and funds without obligations and accountability?...Don’t mind if I do!" That is the apparent mindset

Sad but true for a large amount of charities

They are just lining their pockets hence their reluctance to be fully transparent.

1)Set up a few small projects 2)Take a few pictures 3)Create a few press articles to appear as if all funds are being sent to the people in need

Rinse and repeat when the next disaster hits.

All charity based organizations should have no problem being fully transparent. Do not make excuses for them

Very nice. I hope the full song lyrics are exposed through the API https://docs.genius.com/#songs-h2

MetroLyrics locked down their API and did not respond to my email :( http://api.metrolyrics.com/v1/

All I wanted to do was NLP based stuff, nothing for profit. The Genius API should hopefully help. Such a pain creating custom scrapers each time

It is NLP just not the latest "real" as you would call it. Its just rule based.

http://www.quora.com/Why-are-rule-based-methods-becoming-unp...

And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule-based_system

Legal free technical books are very relevant for those that might not be able to purchase them.

Promo:Feel free to upload and organize your ebooks using BookFusion [https://bookfusion.com]. Our Android and IOS apps coming soon. Along with curated list of free technical eBooks

I would also be very interested in seeing this applied to predictions at t + delta as well. Will probable attempt it over the Christmas break

+1 Scrapy comparison please

Can you compare to scrapy as requested by other posters. Why could you not build on top of scrapy and leverage celery for scheduling etc (http://www.celeryproject.org/)

What is the immediate value add to using pyspider ?

Any good business plan resources?. I was able to find pitch decks of most startups but not the actual business plan

I think there might be a market for this , I have seen similar but for PHP based platforms the only one I remember now is http://www.appthemes.com/themes/

I am not interested right this moment, but might be in the future. What is your email ?

No eBook readers on HN! Let me know what you think guys

I was excited until I found out that its currently only Windows is supported :(

"anyone building something on the side while employed full-time." -- but if your on a H1-B you will always be working full-time, atleast in my case.

if you are working full-time and building something that is not even remotely related to your current full-time job, do those contract issues still apply ?

Avichal,

When you say start something on the side. Do you mean trying to get the web application up and running, possibly even, accepting payments from users , then look for a seed round ?

Thank you for asking this question.

lol, i checked google twice, then checked to make sure it was actually google that I was searching "Hacker News" in

I just did this setup a few days ago, only problem is rvm did not work with root, still uses default ruby, however i suspect i need to configure the PATH

In addition I used Passenger as well

I agree, feels more of a financial responsibility/risk ...will you prefer the money now or later which depends on the situation

It would be greatly appreciated if you could provide some input for my question

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4084741/rails-document-co...