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Buddhism: Not Always So, and anything else by Shunryu Suzuki, What Buddha Taught, by Rahula

Smarter: A Mathematical Bridge by Stephen Hewson, it will make you grok the real structure of mathematics even if you're starting with fairly basic undergraduate level math, and it will make it immensely easier to tackle new areas of mathematics.

Pattern recognition and machine learning by Bishop

Popular: Coders at Work, Founders at Work, Behind the Cloud
As every I think it depends on your point of view. When I joined reddit, half of the default subreddits where so bad that it pushed me to create an account for the sole purpose of removing them from my front page.

Also, It feels like it's giving a place the people who are in for lulz, circle jerk and "bro" things. In the end everyone finds something (except advertisers apparently), and I think it's great.
The hard part is living a lifestyle consistent with being the right weight.

Most people fail to keep their weight down because they do something until they lose the weight, then forget about it. The real strategy is to do something sustainable, which you don't mind, and which you plan to keep up forever.
"Perfume" by Patrick Suskind, and the movie is great as well. The main character is a horrible person but so is everyone else. Possibly the funniest nihilist book ever written.

Also interesting to those of us with no sense of smell.
It's almost certainly none of those exactly. There's many many ways for a bottled spirit to taste different even if it came from the same distillery.

Four Roses uses two different mash bills (i.e. proportion of grains) and five types of yeast to create ten different new make spirits, which they combine in different proportions for each of their products. Bulleit is probably a distinct combination. It may also be aged in a different warehouse or a different part of the same warehouse (which can have a surprisingly large effect). It may be aged in casks with more or less char than the casks used for the Four Roses products. It may be bottled at a different age. The blender also gets to taste all the mature casks and pick and choose which ones get combined to make the final product, and can create a different flavor profile just with that choice.

So rest assured, it's not just a "re-brand", even if it came from the same stills.
Checkout http://www.rubyplus.com for articles.
It's the guiding principal behind weight watchers. If you get into the habit of at least noticing what you are eating, you'll give yourself the opportunity to accept/deny it. The points system for weight watchers is genius and removes the complexity around nutrition as long as you how many points that thing your eating contains.
But the terrists are real. Did you already forget 9/11, the greatest tragedy ever inflicted by man upon itself?
I work on compilers, and while I don't read patents, I read papers which explain patented ideas. I think it is reasonable to assume that some of compiler-related papers from, say, IBM, wouldn't have been published and kept secret if IBM couldn't file patents before publishing papers.

So "programmers don't read patents" does not prove "zero public benefits", because I think it is more like "programmers do read materials which wouldn't have been published if they couldn't be patented".
Amazon infuses $2B into Indian arm
Course: move your website to Amazon Web Services
Catch-22. In a similar vibe (but a fair bit shorter), Slaughterhouse 5. Both cover the hell of war by examining its absurdity. Catch-22 is also the funniest book you'll ever read.

If you're into engineering books, the best I've read is Skunk Works (Ben R Rich). It's an account of the work of Lockheed's legendary skunk works division - behind the U2 spy plane, stealth fighter and the blackbird sr-17.
- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance was a real eye-opener to me.

- Last year, I read both Das Kapital by Karl Marx and The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes.

- Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Note that these are classic works (Zen is the newest, from 1974), but they haven't lost their relevance yet. Zen is a journey in your mind, disguised as a journey by motorcycle by a father and his son. Das Kapital and GToEIM offer deeper insight in why our economy works the way it does, and I especially liked the contrast between the two books. Walden is difficult to classify. It changed the way I look at things, but I can't say exactly how. Sometimes I encounter a situation and a quote or scene from the book pops up in my head. Highly recommended!
I had to look up what a Piper Cub was, whereas I believe almost everyone knows what a Cessna looks like. It's only the most common air plane ever built.
Just from the screenshots, Chronology seems to be a game that doesn't really fit the Steam audience. Might be better on Facebook, Humble Bundle, or a tablet device.
FSF congratulates UK Government on choosing Open Document Format
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention when in 1966 the US dropped 4 nuclear bombs off the Spanish coast. It was, of course, an accident but I've always felt it was pretty serious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash
Buddhism (and better living): Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Siddhartha (by Hermann Hesse), The Way of Zen (by Alan Watts - I learned a lot about meditation and satori).

Also: Think and Grow Rich (by Napoleon Hill, the original self-improvement book)
Depending on the design, isn't there some chance that the heat could detonate the conventional explosive used to force the nuclear material together? as far as I understand it, there is definitely a risk of detonation, though it's hopefully very low. Physics is not directly the reason for it being so low either, but more safeguards put in place to ensure detonation only happens when it's supposed to and is prevented otherwise.
Show HN: Chrome extension with new gifs on each new tab
Screencasts take a long time to produce. I got burned out at 73rd episode for rubyplus.org (within 6 months). I was publishing at a much faster rate. Now I have only articles at http://www.rubyplus.com
> Now people have moved to online stores for buying things,
> with local sellers feeling the heat.

Totally agree. Our shopping habits have changed drastically over the last year. Trips to the local stores have gone down from twice a week, to once on alternate weekends for specific items. We use a combination of online retailers, and were very happy to see Flipkart buy Myntra. Wondering if they would also like to gobble up more with the additional funding they get.

Stretching the online story further, I always wondered if it makes sense for Flipkart to take over an online book library, like JustBooks. They could ship every book with a note saying "If you liked reading this book, here's how to buy a copy from us". Flipkart does have much better quality of service than JustBooks!
Here's a nice introduction/exercise which is part of a python tutorial.

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/thinkpython014...
Just got done reading Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, most if it was pretty insightful, especially the stories in the beginning. The executive management parts I skimmed over in the middle and some parts were really irrelevant for early stage companies but overall it was a good read and informative.

Peter Thiel's book Zero To One is on pre-order, but you can pre-order and then get a pre-print edition mailed to you. It's based around the class notes in his Stanford startup class. I don't agree with everything but it's a very good perspective. It really helped me get out of the perspective of shitty ideas and to think bigger.

Edit: Ops, got Marc and Ben confused. ;)
Amazon invests $2bn in India to counter $1bn of Flipkart
There's a problems with this sort of blog post. It's a survivor story. The author severed the links to his old life, put everything in to his startup, and came through it successfully. But that's only one data point. There are thousands of people who have done the exact same thing and failed, and deeply regretted severing those ties. Equally, there are plenty of stories of people who didn't cut their ties to their old lives and gone on to be successful (Mark Zuckerberg being a good example - many of the first hires at FB were his friends). Consequently you can't really learn anything from it. You can't tell ahead of time whether or not cutting ties is a good idea. The implication is "If you don't cut the ties to your old life you will fail!", but that just isn't true. Even if you're more generous and read it as "If you cut the ties to your old life you're more likely to succeed" that (probably) isn't true either - having ties to things outside of your startup doesn't have a big impact compared to some of the other, much more important things (cash, market, product, etc).

It's a great story of how one founder refused to quit and created something amazing, but that's all. As a lesson in how to succeed in your startup it's not really telling you anything at all.
I binge-read Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. If you're looking for something religious-y, start with the brilliant Small Gods.
Sublime Text packages for Front-end web development
Most products that claim to produce ions are actually making ozone, which is very harmful to your health: http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/ozonegen.html
The hard thing about hard things is by Ben Horowitz :)
For fun half-technical reads, books by Michael Abrash are very good. http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/graphics-p...
How did SpringSled get 138,790 users in under 30 days using these 3 hacks
...and don't like or understand free press.

That's a fairly ironic statement given the content of these documents.
Actually you cannot. Rebuilding from the same source almost never yield identical binaries.
Ishmael

(from Wikipedia) Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. It examines the mythological thinking at the heart of modern civilization, its effect on ethics, and how this relates to sustainability and societal collapse on the global scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_%28novel%29
This is really cool, nice work.
Don't forget Kilchoman! They built it from scratch!
Ha, my bad. Fixed.
Also some highly non-obvious gotchas and notes, straight from the trenches:

- VERY IMPORTANT: you'll be actually writing for a pre-ANSI C compiler! Anything you think you know about C may prove false! Example real-world discrepancy found when porting Lua (an extremely high-quality ANSI C codebase) to Go's cc: http://golang.org/issue/7027

- The ternary operator (?:) is not supported on ARM (see: https://github.com/akavel/goluago/issues/8#issuecomment-4144...)

- You don't have #if, #elif

- You must be super careful, and really know what you're doing, when trying to pass pointers through the C<->Go boundary, as you're entering GC (garbage collector)'s carefully tended house of cards

- You don't have access to the C standard library (although, see https://github.com/akavel/gostdc)

- Using varargs functions is non-trivial

- You must ensure you include one special header in each and every C file (#include "runtime.h") because of special "extern register" variables; although, I'm not sure if this requirement was not removed in Go 1.3.

Hm, that's all I could remember from the top of my head. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me by email (czapkofan@gmail.com) or, obviously, anyone on the golang-nuts mailing list.

That said, it's sure fun! :D actually, maybe in part because of all that :)
Every year or so I repost this. Hopefully you'll find something interesting in here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078221

---

Hacker News stories which contains plenty of book recommendations (sorted by points, labeled by topic):

Science Fiction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2978027

Computer Science: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3595599

General: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1752139

Design: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3276986

Computer Science: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636275

Developing mental models and increasing cognition: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277457

Quant finance: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177815

General: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=663662

General (non software): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1226736

Math: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665029

General: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=875686

Entrepreneur: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2928211

Statistics: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=902074

Philosophy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1503137

General: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1865350

Math for beginners: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=755043

Military strategy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=456275

General: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797070

Investing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248469

"I want to start a web company": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1567456
'Quantum Cheshire Cat' becomes reality
Small Gods is a wonderful little book, and it's a great introduction the the humor of the series since it pretty much stands by itself.
Insanely Simple The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall is quite good
If I understood this correctly, the main challenge in nuclear bomb design is to time the conventional explosions in such a way that the resulting blast will compress the nuclear material, achieving critical mass, and not simply tearing it all apart.

So I think that this fire would probably not have caused a nuclear explosion.
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (9 vols. , English) https://db.tt/3sGQNzs1
9/11 the greatest tragedy? I can think of much worse - though it could be argued if it weren't for 9/11 the world wouldn't be in the state it is in now.
It makes a great read. The interleaving of the Titan accident and the rest of the story is leads to a disjointed structure though, making it a bit hard to follow.

It seems quite possible that we'll blow ourselves up by accident.
Not true. The bomb had a design defect which meant it could be armed and fired by an extended period of heat. The book which this link is promoting covers this.
This could be good if you figure out how to support advanced arguments etc. Right now it seems to be a system to handle a large number of aliases for common commands.
For the programmers community maybe you can post your idea here on HN.
For both communities (programmers and gamers) you could post on the subreddits.
Since HN is not in Australia, what exactly is it that we are not allowed to know?
How to recruit and manage a top-notch team of distributed engineers
I used to work with software that used SIFT.

And I am sometimes a programmer.
Agreed. "managed to hack into"... and then do what?

The attacks were traced back to servers in China.

That doesn't necessarily mean that was the origin, however.
Custom chains? No hill handles? And looks like it has no gears? Why is this better than normal bike if I may ask?
Someone made a website listing books which are often recommended on HN: www.hn-books.com
I just finished reading The Martian recently, inspired to write a review: http://www.alphadevx.com/a/453-Review-of-The-Martian

Currently reading Flash Boys by Michael Lewis, which is about High Frequency Trading in Wall Street which is interesting for the technology involved.

Favorite book of all time is Frank Herbert's Dune, the six books are great in fact.
Great stuff considering my brand new Kindle! :)
Nice try, but pointless and snake oil, since the iPhone is not a secure device.

Try building a secure device that users "own" first, then spend effort on building secure services on top.
I like understanding where I am located in space and time, that is why I love reading about science & science fiction ; it is indirectly related to religion in the sense that it makes you think about your world, about yourself.

Buddhism / Religion / ... :

- Siddartha - Hermann Hesse

- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Science:

- A brief history of time - Stephen Hawking (space, time)

- The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins (evolution)

- Le cerveau intime - Marc Jeannerod (in french only)

Science-fiction:

- The Road - Cormack Mc Carthy

- City - Clifford D. Simack

- Time is the simplest thing - Clifford D. Simack

- Ringworld - Larry Niven
Holy fuck are you naive. Judges are people and are as biased as anybody, heck likely more so since they are commonly assumed to be above others.

You assume that she has made the the order according to her best judgement - what makes you assume this?
This is my problem with the American and Russian government - actually any government - they play games. Stupid, myopic and arrogant idiots who see life other than their own on this planet as a thing to be toyed with. Intellectually they're little better than teenagers.

Machiavelli's blueprint smothers the benevolence of the Ghandis, the Tutus and the Mandelas. A populace too absorbed in day-to-day survival is in no position to change the status quo. Depressing.
Is it useful to back-end devs? Feedback welcome. :)
New unique Puzzle Game
Autobit, Is a new an unique Puzzle Game.

This youtube video shows the gameplay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3xQRriqzl0

Please play and give suggestions!
It seems strange that they would include in their set of example images, a picture of the most famous mausoleum in the world, without it being tagged with mausoleum or tomb or anything like that.
"The Coming of the Third Reich" from Richard J. Evans

I read it recently and it did changed the way I look at the politics and government now. It made me fully understand that things like separation/accumulation of powers are really important. As in when activists of all kinds complained about such set-ups before, I treated it only abstract theoretical problems. Not anymore, I see the point now. The Third Reich did not happen overnight as it seemed from high school version of it, it was made possible by thousands tiny steps by varying parties.

There were other things to learn from that book too, but the above was the most important. It is a first part of a trilogy and whole of it is worth reading. That first part was the most eye opening to me through.
Secret konami code activated
Disturbing the Universe, by Freeman Dyson. http://www.amazon.com/Disturbing-Universe-Foundation-Science...
I don't think that his claim was entirely sincere.
It's sad that semantics appear to be more worthy of discussion than the mere existence of such raw destructive power.
Years of testing have never yielded a nuclear detonation from the conventional explosives cooking off in a warhead - radioactive strewn desert in Australia is a testament to the British testing this directly.

Nuclear bombs require absurd - something on the order of microseconds (I suspect nanoseconds probably come into play) detonation precision in order to reach super-criticality.
Fall-out effects from such a large & dirty H-bomb detonated at ground level would have been pretty bad - you wouldn't want to be downwind of such an event.

[Edit 1]

Actually, if you consider the indirect effects of the use of such a weapon - particularly the large number of refugees fleeing contaminated areas, huge numbers of injured etc. while such a detonation wouldn't destroy an entire state it would probably reduce it to complete chaos.

e.g. The UK government estimated in the 1950s that three H-bombs would be all it would take to destroy the UK as a functioning society - the UK ambassador in Moscow even had a drunken debate with Kruschev on this point - suggesting that the hundreds of weapons the Soviets had pointing at the UK were complete overkill...

[Edit 2]

The UK government was always pretty gloomy/realistic about the likely impact of a nuclear war on the UK - basically even in fairly optimistic scenarios such as the Square Leg exercise used as the basis for Threads were absolutely awful. A real attack would have been far worse that the one shown in Threads, if anyone can conceive of that.
Thinking, fast and slow by Kahnemann.
Man-made 'breathing' leaf is an oxygen factory for space travel
'Enron: The smartest guys in the room' by Bethany McLean. Be warned, it is difficult to read (a lot of jargon and the pages are too packed with new informations).
Come summer, my recommendation for best book I ever read shifts to Asimov's Foundation series. Light, fast paced, brilliant in the use of sci-fi to raise interesting sociological questions. It makes a great vacation read.

Ask again in four months for the serious stuff...
Whiteboard Architecture
>Her not wearing a helment not only derailed her life, but it caused major problems in the lives of everyone around her.

Blame the victim? How about the driver, was it not his/her fault rather than your sisters?
"Humans" as such would have still survived, but I don't know, if that what would have been left of it would be realistically to be called "civilization".

I am also not to sure, if they (the remnants) would survive for long with global climate change and radioactive fallout everywhere.
Nice idea, but in the real world you need to create a service that people "use" first, then spend effort on building a secure device.
Victory: format shifting and parody clear last hurdle
The Worlds First use of NarrowAI (Artificial Intelligence) on iPhone
> software isn't the same thing as physical architecture.

and software isn't the same thing as a design pattern (neither are components). The pattern describes the /concept/ and allows the builders to call an arc "an arc" instead of describing the tedious 100 steps required to actually build one and the explanation of why it works.

Reusability isn't a relevant aspect of design patterns - this is a hallmark of implementation. I can implement 200 singletons and have no need to re-use them. Same goes for windows - just because I have built a bathroom window doesn't mean I need (or even want) to reuse it for my living room.

And language 'quality' is not even a metric, I don't see the relevance of your last paragraph.
All from Isaac Asimov
Looking for marketing artists, to connect our products to right people
Well, I have to admit - there is no proper scientific proof beyond any doubt. Obviously, to prove the statement, one would have to keep two groups of people locked in the lab for years, feed one group with fresh food, and the other group with processed food, and compare the health of both groups at the end.
Then there would be endless arguments: which particular types of food are harmful, and maybe they can be eaten in moderation without any harm at all, and so on, just like the battles that are currently going on around sugar ...

However, there are multiple cases where the introduction of "Western foods" to people who were eating traditional diets caused significant increase in "diseases of civilisation". I personally started from reading "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston A. Price - it is available for free online.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html
It's a sign that the journalist just didn't give a crap. What else did they not give a crap about?
still happy i paid for pinboard a while ago.

the "no-nonsense, speed first" policy and the fact that it's actually being executed are my favorite things about the service.
How big is Apple’s Ecosystem?
Don't forget to wear one when you're driving and walking too. And sleeping. Might save your life.

Consider purchasing a bulletproof vest too, you never know.