skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it is a history of western philosophy. Also, I wouldn't say that Russell has a distaste for mysticism; my read of many of his writings on religion (A Free Man's Worship, Mysticism and Logic, etc.) would be that he genuinely sees the value of mysticism and transcendental experience – though I'm going on memory from reading about a decade ago.

Durant's writing is great too, but The Story of Philsophy doesn't have the depth of The History of Western Philosophy, and, I actually enjoy Russell's snark along the way.
Per nostrademons, shoring up your skillset by going into related areas (whether of technology or ops environment) is a good way to secure your career. However, it could also work against you if you ever intend to start your own company. Broadening your skillset helps to make you a master technician (a la Gerber's E-Myth) but often does not prepare you for higher levels of management. This isn't to say "don't do it" but to manage your career by a goal instead of letting things happen by accident.
Probably, I could also imagine various applications that would turn into instant cash cows - the parking spot problem being one of the most obvious.

I wonder what the barrier is here, as the data very likely exists. The usual terrorist fears? Privacy?

Or is satellite coverage still an "wait a day to get updated image"-affair?
"Keynes taught us that budget deficits are essential for countercyclical policies in times of deflation, yet governments everywhere feel compelled to reduce them under pressure from the financial markets."

While, I think he is right, I find this statement a little like a pulled-punch. Are the markets applying pressure or is it politics and hot air from financial pundits? If the markets were applying pressure, wouldn't long term interest rates be higher? I see this more as a perception problem than anything else: people don't want any more stimulus, everything is fine now, let's get some government belt-tightening going.
The OS is the phone
This is not an MVP. It is a Dry Test. Lets try to clarify the jargon a little.

http://yongfook.com/mvp-vs-dry-test

That said - I love the idea of your app :)
http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy

http://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyofScience/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicPhilosophy/
Thanks. Just the sort of info I was looking for. +1
Since Cassandra 0.6 there is a way to keep data in memory, acting as a cache.
Ask HN: what non technical books changed your life ?
what books improved your life ?
Yes Perl is definitely the Kama Sutra of programming languages :)
Could you provide us with details of your setup for your benchmarks? Some box specifications (location, net capacities, CPU/mem/bus specs), presence or not of middleware (and what kind), software configuration, evaluation methodology, etc.?

As it stands, it's impossible to judge what those numbers mean.
Invest in the 280M uniques, not in the guys.
Put the "Francis M. H. White of Monetization" in as CEO, let the founders be involved in other roles (they're great at building a community and at "ghetto" engineering).

That it is weak sauce now just means you could buy it cheaper. If I had $5-10mm (+100% debt) sitting around and nothing better to do with my life for 2-4 years, I'd be seriously tempted to make an offer to Conde Nast.
Almost anything by Alan Watts. Tao: The Watercourse Way is good. He also has a bunch of lectures recorded in audio and available on bittorrent.
I would suggest "Man and His Symbols", which is an introduction to Jungian psychology. Jung took a unique view on the psyche, which I believe is helpful in forming an objective opinion about humankind 'in itself', a necessary vantage point if you desire anything "eye-opening".
On my personal bookshelf, next to my Bible, are:

Sun Tzu's "Art of War" - a fundamental philosophical work for life management

Stephen Covey's "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" - well-known, enough said.

Felix Dennis' "How to Get Rich" - the best book that I have ever read about how the world really works

Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" - a timeless classic.
Logical Investigations, Vols 1 & 2, by Edmund Husserl. Truly a great philosopher.
We do this in limited areas already -- there's razor wire and other "obviously dangerous" stuff protecting power substations, subways, power plants, etc. DoE-mandated security contractors will use lethal force at nuclear sites, probably with limited target identification.

I agree doing this over a 2000 mile border is a bad idea. For that, we should try to develop 0-50mi deep monitoring zone (depending on the area), with seismic sensors, UAV overflights, etc., and then whenever anyone is detected, send CBP/ICE agents to intercept. If they're innocent hikers, no harm done; if they're drug/people/etc. smugglers, detain and process them.

That's largely what we do now. The main issue is insufficient CBP agents, and no real consequences for illegally crossing the border ("catch and release"). I think punishment should be much harsher for anyone involved commercially in running the border, and somewhat harsher for people who do it repeatedly.

Ultimately the best solution is to make Mexico a less shitty place to be.
Ask HN: Anyone use an opinion aggregator? 
Possible Browser plug-in that would collect netflick movie data as well as imdb votes, and store them as overall movie opinions on movies. Something that stores all this info in one place.
No, not the way they where doing it.

Today you can choose between Clozure lisp or Clojure, both of which runs the same on the different platforms and both of which are free.

Back then, the only way they could have pulled it of would be to use something like Lispworks or Franz lisp, both of which are super nice technologies that would be awesome to work with but they are also extreemly expensive (and I have no idea how they scale).
I really enjoy using premake4, http://industriousone.com/introducing-premake it works on linux, mac and osx. I don't know about AIX/Solaris and have not tried it with a really huge project.

It's been coded in C, is scriptable with lua and that would get around the CMake specific language. It generates the project files for the platforms you want, so it may save you from writing the autoconf files yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_Team is the closest I can think of in the medical field. I do not know particularly how accurate it is, but if you cut down the hand-holding and copious reference material it would fit the bill.
1. would also allow you to strafe...
Most of the "eye-opening or incredibly interesting" philosophical material that I've read has been in individual articles rather than books. That said, here are a few favourites from various areas. It's a bit heavily weighted towards recent material; Kant and Plato ought to be on there, but I can't stand Kant as a writer, even if his ideas are profound, and Plato's style has always irritated me for some reason I can't quite put my finger on. I could probably keep tying titles all day, so I'll stop with those that first popped into my head.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory

Gottlob Frege, Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

J.S. Mill, On Liberty

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

Stewart Shapiro, Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology
Properly because you don't establish a new connection each time.
Agreed. I'd buy ads on several of the reddits if I could.
I wish I could upvote you more... the price we all pay for free (car) parking is incredible and the "driving around until you find a spot"-part of it is actually neglible. Check out "The High Cost of Free Parking" if you're interested in the topic: http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking/dp/1884829988
Lifting platforms, work platforms and used platforms of Schuler and Schuler AG
The company SCHULER & SCHULER AG was established as prominent offers of work platforms, furniture and inclined elevators, mobile cranes and services.
As I read the comments, I am surprised how little existentialism there is listed. Maybe not the best place to start, but I think it is the life changing stuff.
> /r/pics? /r/askreddit? /r/iama?

What? /r/iama is one of the best things that happened to reddit. Sure, most of the submissions are shit, but some are golden.

> What does reddit offer me that I can't get elsewhere

The community. Most of the value is in the comments.

---

About usenet, you could try http://www.astraweb.com/

I bought the once-off 180gb plan. Text isn't even counted. It's going to last me years.
Ask HN: How often do you talk to customers?
In a week, how many times do you usually communicate with a customer about your product, isses, etc.? How regularly do you seek feedback from them before building the product, during product development, during Beta, and after Beta?
I'm not sure about that. Google already demonstrated they don't care about their presence in China that much to put up with the crap, so the Party will likely avoid stand-offs in the future.
I know I would. We (my gf and I) use it for ebooks, browsing, and playing games (Yatzee, Scrabble, etc), amongst other things. The only thing I dislike is the battery life - typical tasks (browsing, ebook reading etc) tend to draw power faster than the charger can fill the battery.
Yep, I've read that paper. What I did was actually simpler than any paper I've seen, so I will just describe it here.

The basic data structure is taken from ROAM: a bintree of right triangles. It is regenenerated from scratch on every frame, recursively, starting from several top-level triangles. (So it's technically a multi-tree, I guess.) A triangle is split if the midpoint of the hypotenuse has a screen-space error of more than 10 pixels. Each triangle knows its children and neighbors, so each split can cause neighboring triangles to split to avoid T-junctions. (This was by far the trickiest part of the code, similar in difficulty to balancing a red-black tree.) I also take many not-quite-correct shortcuts, like stopping the splitting process if the triangle lies completely behind the camera or outside the screen bounds.

I believe the main reason my engine looks so good is because it uses satellite photos for textures - they hint at a lot of 3D detail that isn't expressed by the triangles. I render only 1 or 2 thousand triangles per frame, but they pretend to be a lot more, if you don't look at the ridges too closely. Try the m and i keys to look under the hood.
A Brief History of Everything - Ken Wilber

I think Wilber's inclusion of physics would resonate with HNers.
One day I might understand that
Stephen Covey's "7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
Interesting - so what's with 10 hours usage without charging? Do you find it true statement after weeks of using the device?
What is success? Impact.
It probably works out to that but because of typically sporadic use it adds up. Games (any, not just graphics-intesive ones) seem use battery life faster though. It does have great "stand-by" battery life though.
Can you expand on what you find confusing about OpenID?

I ask as I like OpenID enough that at least for my services alpha, I'm only implementing OpenID.
Top Blogs about Startups and Entrepreneurship
I also love it (on it right now).

I use it for email, reading (news, books, Instapaper), surfing the web, watching netflix, scrabble, etc. I also use it as my todo list, calendar, notepad, and doing mockups while in meetings with clients.

I imagine I will always have something in this form factor going forward.

Oh, and the 10 hour battery life is great. I don't feel tethered to a power outlet and never feel the need to conserve power on a cross-country flight.
Seems like there is a subreddit for every bloody think.
Ask HN: Best way to sync browser sessions across platforms?
Like many fellow hackers, I use multiple devices to surf the net every day: mobile phone, iPad, laptop, desktop etc. I always face the problem of losing my browser session when I switch platforms. My straw-man solution is to manually save and restore links of open pages via Google Bookmarks. It works but is pretty inefficient. Do you know a better alternative? If not, what would an ideal cross-browser solution be like?
I've compiled a list of the best blogs about startups and entrepreneurship that I've come across.

Please comment and point me to any blogs I may have missed.
good and true, html5/css3 innovation started with Apple's work on webkit.
More JavaScript performance data
Google Voice: A Telecommunication Service
> If there is a problem that Africa does NOT have, it's drugs. Africans transport drugs, but they don't consume them.

I live in Europe, I have many Nigerian friends that are Cocaine users (nothing bad with that). They weren't consumer before they emigrate, but now, they are and when the go back to Nigeria they are keeping their habits.

So if there is a market there will be sellers sooner that later.
I love it. I stopped using Kindle DX after getting an iPad.
For most companies there really isn't any need for a contact us page. Just have your email address on all the pages.

everything else is in most cases overkill
The book might be strictly Western in its coverage, but my opinion on his approach to Oriental thought is extrapolated, and is the sum of everything I have read of the man. I say this as someone who first discovered Russell as a logician.

Regarding his mysticism, Whitehead must have passed some of it on, but in the History, he is nothing but a rational materialist. You see this in his treatment of Plato and Platonism vis-a-vis, say, Aristotle.

Where others saw Plato's Ideal as a pure goal or experience, obtained only through sheer effort or total transformation, as evidenced by the various religious groups who synthesized platonic ideals with mystical beliefs. Russell saw something a bit more proscriptive, imo. Allegory is open to interpretation, and I think Russell approached Plato as a fellow Cambridge gentleman, and not, say, a troubled mind searching for answers in a world with much less science, and is forced to defer more to the unknown, the perfect place with all the answers .. where we could go, if only we were perfect ourselves. Plato's obsession with the Ideal, order, wisdom the perfect society, etc. is a cry for help; he is desperately seeking full understanding of his world and is unable to. Only if he could change himself and his society would the world change to something more tangible!

Russell missed that part and projects his own image on Plato; the fully informed intellectual royal whose words are heeded by society. He thought Plato enjoyed a similar luxury, and his calls for perfection, specially in the Republic, were made out of snobbery.

This is my personal take on it, and I am excited to take a second stab at the History.
Unreported World have a 25 minutes documentary about it.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/4od
What pun? The "karma" "mark a" anagram or what?
Apple's market capitalization is fast approaching 10 times that of Dell's.
I probably charge mine once/week with I'd say moderate use.
I think he meant ED-209 from the movie Robocop, so not a GOOD thing.
or "looks like the return of 4GL or even the Fifth-generation programming language".
How can I sign up with Quora? I don't have a facebook or twitter account.
Some great recommendations here! All I can add is the quote "All of Science is footnotes to Plato" -- no matter how far we come, the ancient Greeks still have relevance. So I'd get a good introductory good to at least the top 3: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. (I could list a few more)
No, you fool! We need more investment in mortgage-backed securites and credit swaps.

Also, if we can get a bunch of startups to IPO without any real revenue, that would also be a huge help.

Remember, we are consumers, not citizens.
I'm actually thinking of getting an iPad for the purpose of e-books reading but I'm not sure if its well worth the hundred of bucks to buy an e-book reader.

Are there any Android/Open-source powered tablets that are slated to be released soon?
http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/ with Jason Calacanis.

I feel so evil for enjoying it.
"How to Win Friends and Influence People." by Dale Carnegie.

Back in 1980 when I was 19, I was an introverted, anti-social nerd and pretty much unable to engage with people at all. My long-suffering girlfriend (I'm still amazed I had one - can't say what she saw in me, although I was nice to people) of about 12 months standing nailed my feet to the floor and said - "You really need to learn to get along with people."

Taking this as a challenge, a puzzle to solve (my forte), I went to find a textbook on how to get along with people and found HtWFaIP. Yes, the cynical can treat it as a manual for manipulation. Certainly the sociopathic can use it as the basis for their Machiavellian schemes.

But for me it was a lifeline, a way to survive in a world where you need to interact with people.
Emacs and Enlive enhance Clojure-mode
Say your IDE's syntax highlighting needs some tweaking e.g. because your favorite cutting edge programming language is still rapidly changing - how long does it take you to adjust it?
I already use something like this on a weekly basis for reddit.

http://weeklyreddit.appspot.com/

yeah basically you want some sort of digest, unfortunately weekly is often too slow to contribute, so dayly is pretty good. I personally don't mind if its done via rss.
yea, i am currently working on a similar self-improvement concept but a lot more simplistic with game mechanics and for now, limited to the FB platform. Will release it on Hacker News once it's done.
Diet Tips That Will Ensure You Lose Ten Pounds of Fat in No Time
UseTheSource: O'Reilly book giveaway
"The Now Habit" by Neil Fiore. Much closer to the roots of productivity (inner motivation) than other books on this topic. If you liked "Getting Things Done" or "7 Habits" but somehow cannot implement the advice then TNH might help you.
Did you make a "throw the geek" flash game ? It was great.
It's always great when a good book is released under a free license. This should be the normal case for all books that are out of print.

Unfortunately, most books simply vanish and/or have an unclear legal status.
Generating functions and counting
Free Tools to Load/Stress Test Your Web Applications
User's are terrified that an app will spam their friends.

The users that aren't are pre-teens that don't care or older adults that don't know what spam is.

On one of our apps, we improved FB connnect usage by 50% by adding the disclaimer "This won't post anything to your wall or friends. We promise." under the connect button.

Developers need help reassuring user's that an app is not evil. The current FB dialogs are sterile and ambiguous and don't help.

I realize this might not be winnable because (1) many apps are trying to spam and (2) Ultimately, Facebook wishes users would share as much as possible.
it may be serious, but it is not 'philosophy' as the topic is generally understood. (not to discount it as a worthwhile read.)
Ha Ha. I love cilantro, called coriander here in the UK, but I hated it as a kid.
not to sound like an ass, but if you want to seriously deal with philosophy, don't waste your time with sophies world. or 'zen and the art of...' for that matter.
I will happily contribute some of my time each month to help you acquire targeted advertisers. I think you would find that in each country / subreddit the very community you foster will be more than willing to help you.

E-Mail is on my profile if you want to get in contact.
Good read. I recently added http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeorgeSorosBlog to my reading list. I first became interested in Soros because my very conservative son in law hates him - so Soros immediately looked good :-)

Here is an interesting interview with Eric Schmidt: http://georgesorosblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/george-soros-wit...
A "life-like" benchmark that basically tests the speed of establishing a connection to the database, something that happens very rarely in a JDBC environment.
> To score a pair of tickets to see singer-songwriter John Mayer in Cincinnati on July 27, Beth Collins of Radcliff, Ky., spent $172, including about $30 in service fees, for the best two seats available on Ticketmaster at the time, in section 700, adjacent to the rear lawn at the Riverbend Music Center. Ms. Collins, a 27-year-old homemaker whose husband works in a UPS warehouse, borrowed $75 from a local loan service to help pay for the seats; with interest, she paid the service about $100.

I can't help but think this sort of thing is why poor people remain poor.
Sorry for not providing a direct answer, but ...

I simply carry my laptop around.

That is, I don't surf with the mobile phone or desktop computer in the first place. When I bought my laptop, I carefully chose a model that is small enough to be carried around everywhere, but big enough for serious, daily work.

In other words: I bought a portable working platform that frees me from having to switch platforms.

Of course, at home and at work I attach a monitor, keyboard and mouse to it. But I often forget to do that without even noticing, because my laptop has a very good keyboard and I'm so used to it that it feels more natural than most external keyboards.
I stopped being a Microsoft fan many years ago, but it seems like they have a great way to fight back against Google Apps, etc.: make all new versions of Windows work out of the box with free versions of Sharepoint, online Office, etc. and hope to get revenue when some individuals and most companies upgrade to premium services.

Ubuntu One is roughly the same idea: build a service right into the distro.
I think the quality of advice you're getting on this thread is very mixed.

Some of the books mentioned are absolutely great-- like "Being and Time", or Husserl's "Logical Investigations"-- but incredibly difficult to read unprepared. If you were ready to be reading them, you wouldn't be asking the question here.

The two books you mention in the question (Common Sense and "On the Fourfold Root") are both quite readable, as are a few of the primary texts mentioned in the responses ("Existentialism is a Humanism", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra") but in general, I'd have to suggest you stay away from primary texts at first.

In other words, begin by reading works about philosophy, rather than works of philosophy.

A single-volume work on the history of philosophy will give you the broad scope (for example, Durant, or Russell, or "Sophie's World" if you prefer fiction), but will tend to turn the philosophers discussed into caricatures of themselves.

You mention that you are in school; I'd suggest you take a philosophy course or two, if you are interested in the field. Having an experienced guide will definitely help.
That's not quite it. For one, I have no control over what gets archived. My site with the photos would likely not get much traffic since it's only interesting to my family and friends. Also, it's a lot of content: currently around 4GB and growing. Instead, I'd like to be able to pre-pay for a managed server to run with a guarantee for the next say 100 years. If in that time, any of my descendants decide that what I have there is worthwhile they can renew it for another 100.
Great idea. I hope this helps UseTheSource get some traction.
From the HN guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
Thanks. It was really kind of O'Reilly to suggest this.