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I love the Bhagavad Gita. I just wish Hindus actually followed what it said...

That being said my additions to the mix are:

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Dhammapada

Tipitaka (http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/index.html)

Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Philosophy in the Flesh by George Lakoff
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I've listened to a couple recorded lectures by Lakoff before and enjoyed them, I'll have to add Philosophy in the Flesh to my reading list, thanks.
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I did it. My ecommerce company is doing well enough to comfortably support two people (ramen profitable --> pizza profitable --> casual dining profitable... we're just short of casual fine dining profitable, but if linear growth continues we'll be there in 6 months).

I'm not sure that I have very many useful lessons for other people, other than that it is possible to make money by selling stuff online while doing your own supply chain/order fulfillment. It took more than three years of SEO growth for us to hit critical mass.
I think the message is to have new experiences, ones that are odds with one's habits ideally, because the opportunity cost of habits is new experiences. I'd say you can do this by learning too, and one should pick exciting new experiences. Compress change.
Why not use cython and do only the sensitive stuff in c?

It is really interesting that the gui problem still isn't solved after so many years.
Personally i think microsoft made the right thing by really decoupling design from code. I'm not using windows tough...
On the contrary, you're acting like you desperately want to be a sysadmin by demanding to control which specific version of each package is installed.
Apathy of the Google extension review process...
Application development should always be supported by the underlying platform developers.. iphone apps is supported well by apple, andrioid by google. While the quality of these two may be different due to the high standards that the two companies
hold the developers to. It should be hard to set the infrastructure up, to packaging and deliver it to the end users. After all the hard work is done you are happy and just upload your beta tested package over the market while munching on a pizza celebrating your success!
Not so easy with chrome extensions... The support sucks... Worst the team that approves and reviews seems to be like a call center in an alternate universe living across a black hole.... Once your product enters for final review it almost never comes out.... And they make sure you never get to understand why or how...

Here is the thread unanswered on the support forum:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=180dff32974ef19b&hl=en&fid=180dff32974ef19b000491b267b5615f
Just to be clear, I want to be very clear to make the distinction between the word "support team" which is the forum, which is not the point of criticism here...They are very helpful always... its the extension reviewers who I am talking about...
A brief summary of important terms (IANAL, this is just a quick read):

- This has 1x preference and no participation.

- Pro-rata rights are available to some shareholders.

- Ditto information rights.

- The preferred has a veto over selling the company that can be exercised with a simple majority.

- Lots of stuff not included: board seat, drag along, antidilution, redemption rights, employee option pool (!), restriction on sales, or a no-shop.

Overall mostly VERY favorable to the entrepreneurs, mostly by virtue of what's been left out. The one notable exception is the prefered's veto over an exit, which is a big ouch.
There is plenty of malware that finds victims by looking at the results of google searches. Google seems to think that they have an obligation to prevent the indiscriminate spread of self-replicating infovores. Fucking Censorship if you ask me.
I think a lot of us realize the privacy concerns and are very carefully weighing the cost/benefit tradeoff, especially from a user perspective. Instant Personalization has a distinct air of "evil" about it, but it can be very beneficial to users and a great experience in the right hands.
I'm going to take a shot at: yes.

We tried this approach too, and it worked great. But for every correct application we got two or three wrong ones.

We emailed them explaining the problem, to give them a chance, and only one replied - to tell me I was being unfair not to consider him....
Am I the only one who is very libertarian-inclined but hated Atlas Shrugged? Instead of creating characters that are human (with flaws, weaknesses, subject to emotional reactions) but that manage to "win" by sticking to some ideal, she creates characters that are the personification of that ideal, completely out of touch of reality.

I mean, not even Greek gods were perfect if you know basic mythology. Yet, you want me to believe that Hank Rearden will just give up "his true love" just because he sees value in Galt? And what happens with Rearden's self-interest? (as in, I want the girl, dammit!)

Acting out of self-interest in only valid when dealing with money? Stupid!

Besides, talking about the "Philosophy of Ayn Rand" is no different than talking about the "Theology of L. Ron Hubbard."
"Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche, who you'll probably love if you like Rand.

Read The Gay Science first. Will to Power is a posthumous publication of, essentially, Nietzsche's notes. It's not clear he ever meant to publish it and it doesn't really present a cogent statement of his beliefs.

I do think you'll like Nietzsche if you like Rand though. They're probably equally mercurial and narcissistic. At least Nietzsche's a little more rigorous (which isn't saying much, Rand is like Fisher Price philosophy).

"Being & Time" by Martin Heidegger. An intense, logical investigation of individual existence. A deeply nuanced philosophical take on death, being, and temporality. This is the book to grapple with your inevitable annihilation.

Arguable. It depends on whether or not you're reading it as a serious philosophical work or to see Heidegger's perspective. Phenomenology doesn't have a whole lot of respect amongst most modern philosophers.
If I were to name one, it would be "The Black Swan", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

You hear all the time about how unlikely it is for someone to succeed as a startup. Or how the Democrats have a 65% chance of winning. Or even how statistically speaking, it's safer to fly than to drive.

After going through that book, my perception on randomness was changed forever.
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This is a very good initiative.

A small note, what's the license terms of those documents? "Open-sourcing them" doesn't mean anything and all author rights are still reserved for those documents.

It would be more appropriate to add the terms of the licensing for the documents. For example, the CC-PD (to put them in public domain), GNU FDL or CC-BY-SA or CC-BY.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
One of my all time favorites is Zen and the art of motorcyle maintenance.
Relax. You're not alone. I'm extremely libertarian and I hated the Fountainhead (haven't read AS). And objectivism rubs me the wrong way.

I think generally libertarian philosophy is inclined towards voluntarism as the broad umbrella. In other words, altruism - I hesitate to use this word so how about charity - is not to be forced upon people by the hand of the government, which is coercive. Personally, I believe that there are genuinely people, who through no fault of their own, are unable to help themselves. Like the electric-wheelchair-bound multiple gunshot wound victim who was one of my low-income food-delivery clients in DC. That could have been anyone. And if it happened to you, you woudn't be able to care for yourself. And you'd want someone to, out of the goodness of their hearts (or hell, for whatever screwed up reason they might have) to reach out help you.

But that isn't the same as someone "putting a gun to your head" and telling you you'd better help that person, at the threat of arrest.
While I hesitate to claim it would be worth the cost of flying from Australia, the talks are not generic pep-talks. We encourage the speakers to talk about their specific experiences.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/graffiti/crook....
Actually to me it looks a lot like the tech/sci section of google news. I think in order to differentiate from them you need to add some more features, like tech related subcategories. Otherwise I would also look at them as a source of inspiration.
The Moral Animal - by Robert Wright

It delves into evolutionary psychology to explain human morality. I especially liked the discussion on monogamy (the parental investment theory).

A few more recommendations:-
Godel, Escher, Bach
Human Knowledge - Bertrand Russell
Somehow I doubt this is the last rocket, balloon, or other high altitude vehicle they will be building, too.
Some magazines are mostly marketing and advertising. Read them if you want to learn about marketing and advertising
I don't know what OS you're using, but I believe this is possible with Fluid, an SSB app generator for Mac OS X that uses Webkit. I quit FB a while ago, but use it for other sites in a similar fashion.

http://fluidapp.com/
Try Recurly combined with Paypal.
No that's not what I meant - let me put it another way.

Say you get the sudden urge to build a car. That will probably require weeks or months of work to complete, so it's a goal that you have to keep in mind while you do all the related jobs - sourcing parts, designing and building the bodywork, etc. If you don't set yourself that goal then what should you do instead? Purely following your day-to-day whims can leave you with a string of unfinished projects in your wake - surely just as disheartening as trying and failing at a particular goal, if not more so?

"Don't set goals, just do things" is bad advice if you find yourself wanting to create anything bigger than an afternoon's work.
Just smoke some cannabis if you want time to stop (interferes with your ability to filter perceptual information in a linear fashion--nevertheless one's own personal freedom to choose to do such a thing); the rest of us have jobs that require routines. Btw, don't pass the human species off as habitual, we are anything but in respect with the animal kingdom in its entirety (lack of a definite homeostasis in nature). With all that talk about measures, was there a mention of how spontaneity is to be measured? Breaking a habit just to find a new one seems frivolous. It seems to me one would have to be put in a truly unpredictable environment (such as the wilderness) to become less routine.
They could sue you for copyright infringment if they wanted.

And allowing google to index your "stolen" content pages is just outrageous. You don't own that content.
What is really weird about cricket is the number of people who prefer to listen to it on the radio rather than watching it on TV!
Firefox extensions are Javascript CSS and XUL so I don't think that's obvious. I think it's entirely reasonable to assume that they might be sand boxed and have no awareness of each other.

Multiple Mozilla extension instances are indeed able to communicate via some centralised code.
That's not likely to happen because Playboy's ads will presumably be targeted at (a subset of) men. Anyway, FB doesn't need you to be happy. What are you going to do, move to MySpace?
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>I don't like this article, let's talk about cars instead

Easy on the nitpicking, guys.
I resent the ad hominem attack. I happen to have a computing science degree from when they used to actually teach Lisp in university.

many universities still do teach Lisp (in AI courses, for example). this seems like an attempt to appeal to authority, which is another logical fallacy...
Challenge problem:

Prove or disprove (with counterexample) that it is still impossible for the fairy to end in the center if she starts in the middle unit on the southern side of the first floor.
ok, wouldn't that require like a very very very long time? Google has a dadabase probably terabytes big and if someone does want it can't they do something like what DDG does? I believe they get their searches by yahoo for free
Whilst I was reading this article, I couldn't stop thinking of this:

"My life is the complete opposite of everything I want it to be." - George Costanza
Hardware can be expected to work on Windows. If they don't, it's the hardware manufacturer's fault. There might be nothing you can do about it, but it's their fault. They manufacturers are expected to support Windows. If hardware doesn't work on Ubuntu, it's your fault for installing an unsupported system.
I wish I could agree, but the reality is that my (physical, real life) social life is increasingly organised through Facebook. I'd miss out on a lot of social activity if I wasn't on it.
Under Windows and OSX, statically-linked or self-contained packages are indeed the only way to stay sane when deploying an application.

However, this comes at a price: You'll always have to provide a newer version of the application whenever a serious issue is fixed in one of your dependency libraries. This means extra work for you. Also, you'll have to take care of an auto-upgrade mechanism.

On systems with a package manager, you'll only have to provide updates if you fix an issue in the application itself. You also don't have to write an auto-upgrade mechanism. Just upload a new package to your server.

However, if you don't care that much about users' security, statically linking is indeed a lot less work than using a package manager.

(FWIW, I'm the maintainer of Mingw-cross-env (http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org/). This is a project that provides a cross-build toolchain for statically linked Windows applications. It builds a cross compiler and lots of free software libraries. We have that kind of discussion from time to time on our mailing list.)
For mindmapping, has anyone used Compendium before? I used it for mindmapping a project, it's rather useful. It's rather flexible and you can create sub-mindmaps easily.

You can also use it for brainstorming sessions and problem solving as a team (project on a screen and let everyone see it).
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Personally, I just want to see the Naive Melody video that David produced.

Fantastic song by the star of the best concert movie of all time.
If you want an anti-existentialism refreshment that will open your mind, try Lao-tzu or Confucius. Be careful, all translations are not equal. If you wish to have translations plus Chinese characters, check http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php and have a deep dive into something different.
fedora- are you talking about rpm? Yes, this is a nightmare- package conflicts are common-place, and generally a real b*tch to fix. RPM was the main reason I ditched Fedora and switched to Ubuntu. In 3 years I don't think I've ever had an install failure or conflict or any problem with apt-get. It's always worked flawlessly.
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For fiction, I recommend Lolita, The Count of Monte Cristo and Voltaie. That is a nice entertaining mix.
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If my XPath is correct, there are 168 people with the Graham last name that are noteworthy enough to merit their own wikipedia pages.

Either Paul Graham and his immediate family[1] have done well for themselves, or maybe, just maybe, it's one of the top 10 most common names for people from the British-Isles.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_%28surname%29
laughs and high fives?
Nice to see the positive reference to Glasgow - I had forgotten that Byrne was born in Scotland.
In the 19'th century, people would follow a test match by newspaper.
The real reason "Wesabe lost" (to Mint)
Successful businesses often reinvent themselves for greater success in ways completely unanticipated beforehand. The longer your business survives, the more chances there are to find new ways to thrive.

The article http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint made it sound like they gave up. Businesses can survive even when their original goals do not—running a business isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon.

Yes, Wesabe was behind in the race with Mint. But you don't "lose" until you go out of business.
Notice how the Top-10 format itself, a classic cover item, has only recently been admitted into the link-bait hall of fame.
Because of their one-child policy, China will also have an aging problem in 30 to 40 years time. Theirs may even get more of a problem, as their replacement rate may be (Chinese statistics are inaccurate, so it is hard to tell) lower than that in Europe.
Most books by Hermann Hesse, really... Narziss&Goldmund changed my perspective on life. If you have anything artistic in you, it's a must-read. Steppenwolf, Siddharta and the Glass Bead Game are other must-reads.

Gabriel Garcia Marques, One hundred years of solitude.

Practically all of Jorge Luis Borges' short stories. Mind-bending.

Milan Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Michael Ende's Never Ending Story.

Enjoy!
Someone mentions Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" below - which is very good. However, can I strongly recommend his book "Collapse" - which is rather thought provoking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_...

On a related note, a novel that looks at some interesting very long lived organizations and has some interesting philosophical components I'd recommend Neal Stephenson's Anathem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem
There is no wiki page for the provided link. Is it only me ? Tried the suggestion on the wiki page, no avail.

HN is cleansing the apostrophe in the url. It is god's rather than gods.
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Some notes about Note-taking:

Write it down

- 1. "copying" the information

- 2. using your own words

1. is great for storing information,

2. is better for learning (and recall) !

Spending all your time in class doing 1. is often a waste of time (lecturer should provide handouts instead).

"Never memorize what you can look up in books"
- Albert Einstein

Having an "extra copy of your books" written down in your notes is not very useful - write a summary and your understanding instead.

A personal wiki can be a great tool (as an alternative to Evernote and OneNote):

- Tiddlywiki is very simple, mediawiki is very powerful, PpcSoft iKnow is personal Wysiwyg wiki (with automatic linking and storing the data in plaintext "markdown")

About Pen and paper

- "Nothing beats pen and paper for speed, efficiency, portability , usability, economy, and ease of use."

- However, it sucks when it comes to editing, re-organizing, copying, sharing and re-finding

(Disclaimer: I'm the founder of PpcSoft)
No ladies in Zeitgeist. False information.
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It doesn’t look that difficult.
"Removing discouragement is the same overall as adding encouragement."

It may have the same effect, but it something entirely different. For example, would you argue that legalizing the sale of tobacco or alcohol is the same as encouraging people to smoke or drink?
Peter F. Hamilton trilogies are astounding eye openers.

Safehold Series by David Weber is worth the time
Reading http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint made it seem like they "lost" because they gave up.

Successful businesses often reinvent themselves for greater success in ways completely unanticipated beforehand. Most successful businesses in fact face more than one “going out of business” crisis in their lifetime.

The longer your business survives, the more chances there are to find new ways to thrive. Marc mentions they were near to running "indefinitely on revenue," but doesn't address why they didn't go that route. Sure, they were NEARLY failing, but running a business isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon. You only "lose" when you go out of business.

And yes, Mint was "winning." But still, the fact that Marc chooses not to focus on what they could have done just to survive makes it seem like he doesn't understand that staying in business is crucial, even when you're "losing."
Looking at Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg from a positive perspective is the new flavour of the month. It's a novelty compared to a few weeks or months ago where Facebook was the bloody piñata of the internet.

I don't think that this new angle is a bandwagon like deriding Facebook was - maybe it's just a sign of the new nuanced approach to thinking about Zuckerberg and Facebook.

I don't mind the Facebook coverage as long as it is original, independent and not just a flailing industry's attempt at staying relevant and interesting by jumping on a bandwagon.
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My parents introduced me to computers when they bought me my first micro back in about 1983. Around the same time they took an evening course about computers themselves (including some amount of programming). I clearly remember my mum typing out the BASIC source code to a text adventure game from a book I bought some time in the late '80s (in the UK at least, it wasn't entirely uncommon for cheap games to be "distributed" in source code form in magazines and sometimes books).

Years later my mum financed my first 16- and 32-bit computers, which I paid her back from a part-time job at a local bicycle shop. I've had a career as a programmer for around a decade now...

Despite all this, I still resented the fact that I wasn't allowed to spend more time on the computer! I had two sisters who were also given time on the computer (they played a Frogger clone and taught themselves to type, mostly). The newspapers were (and to some extent still are) full of bullshit articles about the evils of "computer addiction" which my parents took seriously enough to limit the time I spent with them to only an hour or two a day.

Now in retrospect, I realise that - compared to some others at least - I'm incredibly lucky. It doesn't stop my burning hatred for newspapers like the Daily Mail though...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2292004/getting-a-instead...

Seems like a character encoding issue. Is your browser set to an encoding other than UTF-8? It looks okay for me on Chrome, Opera, Firefox and IE 9.
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