skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bertrand Russel – A History of Western Philosophy.

Easily my most favorite non-fiction book. Even though there are some flaws in the treatment of some philosophers (and their models) here and there (esp. 19th Century ones – but it might just be that I'm more familiar with these myself), it's a great read: Well written, thorough, and never shy with his own opinion. The chapter on scholastic philosophy was an eye-opener for me, as was the part about the 11th-Century church reforms.

Before I read this book, I rarely cared about pre-Kantian philosophy, as I thought it to be outdated and not really relevant anymore. Russel encouraged me to re-discover the philosophical models from a cultural-historical point of view – something that sounds obvious to me now, but at the time I discovered the book (in my early twenties) it was not.
Open Source Dickishness
Go where your target audience is and talk to them. HN seems like a good place for programmers + gamers.

As a word of caution, doing "customer development" correctly can be quite tricky. People saying that would use your service if you ask them is not a good indicator of you solving a real pain point. You need to figure out the right question to ask. Google for "customer development" for good information on that topic.

Feel free to send me an email if you need feedback, I'm in your target audience.
Yes - but a person looking to buy the Malcolm Gladwell book - willing to buy it at 10$ - but who can only buy it at 15$ or more - will probably end up then either borrowing it from a friend or in the worst case downloading it as a PDF illegally. Both of which are a lost sale for the publisher and author.
Observation of a quantum Cheshire Cat in a matter-wave interferometer experiment
The open source PJSIP (which I do have first hand experience of) has echo cancel and some noise cancellation. It's not cutting edge but it works fine in practice. You might not get quite the quality of Skype but better than plain old landline telephone service.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
Facebook: Want to stay in touch? Then it's Messenger or nothing
Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf.
Actually everything by Hesse.
Noone's ever going to build a secure device if people are fed such snake oil and given the impression that they have "some" or "enough" security if they use it.
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. One of my favourite books ever!
India: A History. Revised and Updated by John Keay

Url : http://www.amazon.com/India-A-History-Revised-Updated/dp/080...
I really liked the Wool series, Wool, Shift, Dust.

The Expanse series is fast paced, hollywood-style action, sci-fi but gets sort of repetitive in the 4th book.
It's a whitelist for parked domains...
Show HN: You can now design your own ad and publish at real-time
That's a great book. I've just started reading I Am A Strange Loop by Hofstadter and it's promising.

Also by Hofstadter: Le Ton beau de Marot was a good read.

GEB is the big one, but if you like his style - probably worth checking out some of the others. Best to get print books for this particular author though.
Poor Economics - Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Signal and The Noise - Nate Silver

Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely

This Time is Different - Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff

Subliminal - Leonard Mlodinow

Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb

For something more lighthearted, I also enjoyed:

An Economist Gets Lunch - Tyler Cowen

Inside Jokes - Matthew Hurley & others
(mostly skipped the dense parts)
links:

[iOS] http://goo.gl/7hzvOD

[Android] http://goo.gl/vLuwoQ

Looks very nice! I will try it and let you know
Soil and Soul by Alastair Mcintosh - http://www.alastairmcintosh.com/soilandsoul.htm
Security works in layers, and unfortunately consumers want the wrong layer first.
Might the lack of reporting also be Rupert Murdoch related?
Brasyl by Ian McDonald. Quantum physics, lots of colour, and a Cloud Atlas-like mixing of time threads.
hmm Herman Hesse sounds interesting have you read most of his stuff?
NPM: Why You Should Never “npm-unpublish”
See also "Racing the beam" about the Atari 2600; part sociology, part very accessible deep technical explanation.
BOOTSTRA.386 for the Rails Assets Pipeline
have you read Siddhartha? did you like it.
When there's nothing on my reading list from other sources, I go to the Project Gutenberg most popular downloads list:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/%3Fsort_order%3Ddownl...
Not really interested by this in particular sorry. Nothing against it but just more towards Buddhism.
Review: Codio Cloud Based IDE
ExpressJS sold by TJ to StrongLoop
It's working here (redirecting to .jp)
This title was very confusing for an Englishman.
Thanks, there are a lot of overlapping packages out there and it helps to see a working collection.

And does anyone have suggestions on D3.js packages that aren't just code snippets? Sublime Text 2 has been great so far for JS but it could be more specific.
This article seems to use total injury without reference the % of population that participates in (being a pedestrian, driving in a car, riding a bike etc.. )

Very well written - but a particularly poor content and irresponsible use of statistics.
European Startups Raise Highest Quarterly VC Financing Since 2001
I really enjoyed "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles".

I've have it recommended a few times but the title sounded a bit self help-like so I avoided it. Eventually I did ready and it's pretty great. It covers how people manage to get work done, which is pretty important for everyone.

Last year I read The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt. It's non-fiction, though I believe the central premise is a little tongue in cheek. An ancient Roman manuscript that's rediscovered and helps set off the enlightenment and our modern culture.

For Buddhism I enjoyed Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps, mainly a collection of translated koans. If you've never it I recommend Godel Escher Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid, as it also likes to play with Buddhism. It's a book that tends to get a bit of hate but I found it quite fun and playful.

Non-fiction for sci-fi and fantasy: Robin Hobb and Vernor Vinge.
Why Sublevel? The project specs
David Wertan RE/MAX Charleston SC
I played this till level 20, enjoyed it. Tried to buy it but the app crashes when you hit the buy button on iOS8 betas.
Mount Pleasant Real Estate
I don't know, braid/limbo/etc are all successful on steam and it looks like a platformer that could be considered vaguely similar?

I never saw it on the steam sale, and unless it was accompanied by some good press I'd not have clicked anyway. I still have 10+ completely unplayed sale games to get through...
ayn rand, the fountainhead
jean jacques rousseau, the confessions
sterling seagrave, dragon lady
knights of king arthur's court
romance of the three kingdoms
20M req/month seems like a trivial amount that can be handled by a bunch of geographically-distributed VPSes (for failover and better query times) running any sane (resources-wise) DNS server software.

For comparison, we have a bare-metal E3113@3GHz machine that at the time happens to run only a full-fledged PowerDNS server (sqlite + pipe backends, query cache disabled due to split-horizon requirements, and passes queries to a pdns_recursor if can't answer directly). The server easily handles about 500M reqs/month, with negligibly low load average. Judging from top(1) output — pdns_server-instance has about 2-4% CPU consumption, most of which is probably due to disabled caches.

But there are probably cheaper options with specialized services.
The Social Laboratory
Someone doesn't know the meaning of the word "satire".
The kind of ebike you're recommending is called a mid drive, not a direct drive. Mid drives connect to the bike chain so it combines your bike's gears with the motor, that's where all that great hill climbing ability comes from.

Direct drive is just a regular hub type that sits in the center of the wheel. They're not so good since they do not use the bike's gears, you end up with cogging when pedaling, it distributes the bike's weight unevenly and low power restrictions make it fairly useless for hills. There's also geared hubs these days which look similar but work a little better.

Course, any of these types are better than the copenhagen wheel.

Personally my dream ebike would be a Bosch mid drive connected to a nuvinci internal shifting hub via a gates carbon drive, all mounted on a full suspension carbon fiber frame with the battery mounted in the center triangle.
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web (free D3.js book by Scott Murray)
I loved it, it is concise, deep and enlightening! I highly recommand it.
Duct System Cleaning from Liberty Heating and Air Conditioning Inc
Ai is creeping into everything! Now on apps - what next?
Medical Emergencies at 40000 feet (2013)
Everyone's starting a startup.. and a couple other trends
also check out bill gates' reading list, he reads a book a week
Just listing books that have had a big impact on me:

* The Now Habit - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1585425524

* Getting Things Done - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0142000280

* Simply Christian - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061920622

* Surprised by Hope - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061551821

* The Great Divorce - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060652950

* Mere Christianity - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060652926

* The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - http://www.amazon.com/dp/048629823X

* Tao Te Ching - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060812451

Books from the Bible that I like:

* Genesis

* Judges

* Ruth

* Tobit

* Job

* Psalms

* Ecclesiastes

* Sirach/Ecclesiasticus

* Everything written by John
Chronology is a platform-puzzler. There's thousands of those.

I can see the conditions in m3mnoch's comment as necessary but not sufficient. It's still possible to make a great game and fail, for no very good reason.

IAPs certainly make money, at the cost of a dysfunctional addictive relationship with your users. And that leads to political pressure against the model as a whole: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/11095/20140724/eu-urges-go...
Can see a big corp like apple using this to monitor staff.
That is bad advice.

My wife was in 4th month of pregnancy when I founded my startup. I left my old job in good terms, and could probably return to it.

Burning bridges would put me under much more pressure. I do not think I would manage it.
Well the whole "tipping" mindset leads to that. It's supposed to be something extra, beyond what's required. Now they've started using it instead of having realistic prices and wages and developed social standards where tipping less than x% is supposed to be the signal (x ever increasing). The idea has gotten so ingrained that people tip on "tip-included" prices too. Soon it'll all be a "donation" with a "service charge", de facto mandatory "tip", and extra tips on top.
I bought Labyrinths of Reason many years ago, and I still love dipping into it every now and then. I always seem to find something new in it (one benefit of a failing memory)

Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
by William Poundstone
Liberty Heating and AC Repair Heating Efficiency
Thanks for the encouragement. Might be worth trying again to make this.
Amazon invests $2B in India, following Flipkart raising $1B
Implicit Skinning: Real-Time Skin Deformation with Contact Modeling (2013)
Thanks for catching that. It struck me as odd too.

Disappointing to read needless hyperbole in the New Yorker.
I think the ban is valid. UK roads are both busy, narrow and not suitable for Segways within normal vehicle traffic. Pavements are also narrow or non-existent and Segways would be a hazard to pedestrians, especially children. Hence, I agree with the ban in the UK.

Other countries have more suitable wide streets and pavements due to more modern city planning. The UK is somewhat unique in its stable history, such that the layout of nearly all big cities has not changed drastically over hundreds of years. As the car has taken over the cities, the amount of pavement (sidewalk) space has been reduced.

Here are some typical UK pavements if anyone is interested:

- http://imgur.com/lLnqZYX

- http://imgur.com/MkA91eZ

- http://imgur.com/mly6Oms

There are towns where Segways could share dedicated cycle paths though, however it would need a change in the Road Traffic Act 1991 to allow for local bylaws to make exceptions for Segway usage, since a permit for national Segway usage would not make sense for the reasons outlined above.

I admit that I am guessing here, but my assumption is that Segway riders would be competing for space on the pavement rather than dodging in and out of buses, cars and motorcycles in rush hour traffic. Cyclists have it hard enough in London. I cannot imagine what kind of dramas would unfold if we added Segways into that mix.

http://ibikelondon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/65-london-cyclists...
>but it did not cause the kind of damage that is claimed for this weapon

I don't know, what you are referring to here, but to my opinion, given the distances of a relatively wide area with very limited population, the results where grave enough. Generations of the inhabitants where contaminated and had babies with many defects or deaths born. I guess the descendants of these poor people still struggle with the effects of this bomb.

Given such an event in or near a city of the US, I guess not only one city might get wiped out but the effects would be very real and destructive in a very big part of the US.
Sounds like you live an interesting life! What do you do that makes you interested in HN? What other cool stuff have you been up to?
I think you could get away with almost any language as the base and English as the target since the English alphabet is almost universally understood.

Going the other way around, English - > Japanese or English -> Russian for example, would require additional guidance to explain the new characters.
"Activity was strongest in the U.K., where companies raised 28% of the total amount in the second quarter, followed by France with 19% and Germany with 15%."

How long until Berlin startups can expect reguler SV-level exits? The city is amazing and there's a lot of positivity, but venture capital needs to be there as well.
Some titles I've recently read or at least have placed on my reading list.

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Philosohpy

Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium - Seneca

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (must read)

The Republic - Plato

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History

Five Chimneys - Olga Lengyel

The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (must read)

The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

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Fiction

(particularly dystopian) 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451

(crime/action) Child 44, The Secret Speech, Agent 6 - Tom Rob Smith

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Economics

Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty - Banerjee, Duflo

Why Nations Fail - Robinson

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Economics/Decision making/Psychology

Undercover Economist, Freakonomics, Nudge, Thinking Fast and Slow

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Random titles

The Selfish Gene, Self-Reliance, The Elements of Style (about writing), Slaughterhouse-Five

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Some links to inspire your reading (though you may want to checkout the websites first to get an idea of the topics they cover)

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books

http://bookpickings.brainpickings.org/

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/reading/

http://www.ryanholiday.net/reading-newsletter

I’m just a working-class guy trying to take part in the conversation that all the smart people are having. What books should I read? - http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/03/im-just-a-working-cl...
Anecdote, not data and all, but for me at least, if I hear about a book that might be interesting, I look it up and if it's below some cutoff price point (I'm not sure exactly what it is, probably around $10-$15), I just click buy and be done with it. I don't put it on a wish list or bookmark it, just get it. As a consequence, the (metaphorical, they're on my kindle) pile of books that I own but probably won't ever get around to read is bigger than ever, and my total spending on books is probably a lot higher than it would be if I carefully considered each more expensive purchase.
Both "Better red than dead" and "better dead than red" were slogans thrown around in my youth here in the UK in the 70s and 80s.

Utter craziness - all of it.
Some people may say that we are in a Idiocracy, seeing games like Flappy bird become trend setters while AAA titles are getting barely any downloads. Mobile game developers need to understand the platform is more important than the game. In that you develop what is best for the platform and demographic. Not what you perceive as being high quality and pour millions of dollars and R&D. The more you make the mobile game look like a job, regardless how difficult it was to make, it will not be enjoyed because of such complexity. Although for simple Apps that have little ways to differ from the crowd, then marketing with some quirky difference to it seems to be the most effective.
Free, private and secure video chat rooms (webrtc very nice – just works)
Agree. Now a days I read the reviews on Flipkart and buy the product in Amazon.in. The price difference is significant and most of the time Amazon.in has free delivery while I have to pay extra in Flipkart.
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano (the one Chavez gave to Obama in 2009), from 1971.

"In the book Galeano analyzes the history of Latin America as a whole, from the time period of the European settlement of the New World to contemporary Latin America, describing the effects of European and later United States economic exploitation and political dominance over the region."

The main takeaway (I'm not finished yet), as stated early on, seems to be that for a country/region to lose out economically/developmentally, another country/region has to win. It made me think about cause and effect historically, but also in general.

Somewhat relatedly, at least in terms of cause and effect, and with a historical basis in exploitation, is a question I read that was posed by philosopher Peter Singer, also in 1971, based on a paper he wrote called Famine, Affluence, and Morality. In it, an analogy is made where a drowning child in a pond (in the US) needs saving but at the cost of ruining your new shoes. At the same time, an equally in-need child (in Africa) is starving to death and he/she could be saved by foregoing the purchase of the new shoes. Most people would help the drowning child but not the starving one.

You can see Mr. Singer discuss it here (2 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCgmPRxUYDY

Singer on this question and others (9 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVViICWs4dM

A university professor exploring it in more detail (14 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyzv2UWzaos
Ghcjs: Haskell to JavaScript Compiler
I'm the Co-Founder and CEO of http://Shoptagr.com and one of the biggest challenges for us has been to track item's prices at the SKU level, size, color and more, which is essential for the "the smart savvy shopper".
Sucuri, the Hack, and the Lessons Learned
Responsible Disclosure – Sucuri Open Letter to MailPoet and Future Disclosures
A very fascinating article.
5 myths about Android monetization
Hesse is timeless, there's a reason he resonated with so many people in the 60s movements.

Siddhartha is a great meditation on life in its entirety. For startup-focused professionals it can be hard to imagine satisfaction with a life lacking "accomplishment" but Hesse paints a thoughtful picture.
Spring Batch as Wildfly Module
The main character being an old man is not a good idea. It's important for an adventure game to create a character that the target audience can relate with, even if it's a hedgehog or something abstract. Albeit I agree with you in general, just furthering this point.
5 Top Tips in Pitching for an Investment
Java,Jersey,Tomcat,Titan,Cassandra,Backbone @ Digital Ocean
Is verifybtc down?
I can't access it for a few days.
If you want to gauge the credibility of these reports, note that this person has shown the ability to make absurd misrepresentations of the truth, claiming that (in the aftermath of this) she received a "rape threat," only to show a screencap of a tweet that was nothing of the sort: https://twitter.com/HisFeministMama/status/49283837486538752...
I'm a .NET developer working in C# and front end JavaScript.

I'm really interested in getting into node.js, since the platform is server agnostic and the language is already familiar.

Can anyone recommend any learning resources, especially for .NET developers who want to make the switch across?
"We appreciate Bluebox responsibly reporting this vulnerability to us; third-party research is one of the ways Android is made stronger for users. After receiving word of this vulnerability, we quickly issued a patch that was distributed to Android partners, as well as to AOSP. Google Play and Verify Apps have also been enhanced to protect users from this issue. At this time, we have scanned all applications submitted to Google Play as well as those Google has reviewed from outside of Google Play, and we have seen no evidence of attempted exploitation of this vulnerability."
The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité (expert English test)
Sorry for downvoting you. It was instinctive, seeing a one-word post on the noobcomments page. Make another post and I'll vote it up.
What's the alternative, though? By offering a nicely integrated platform, I would hope the community benefits from the halo effect this has on Scala. Our goal is to make the whole Scala eco-system successful, but we have to pick carefully what we work on ourselves.

The Scala team is absolutely interested in hearing how Scala is used. We had 800 users from all over the world show us their projects in Berlin not long ago. On the more technical side, we build 1M lines of OSS code every night to make sure we don't break anything out there, and we'll be more than happy to include more projects (https://github.com/typesafehub/community-builds).

I see our role as providing the platform for others to build on (examples of extension points: compiler plugins/macros/sbt's client-server-split/abide as an extensible stylechecker). I'd love for us to work on scala-refactoring, for example, but it's not immediately a priority since the community is already doing it, and we have so many other things to do. A tool like "go fix", which is closely related to code formatting, refactoring and style checking, is on our planning horizon (as mentioned in the roadmap that sparked this discussion).

> Compile times and sbt's incremental compilation support is an obvious example of this.
I don't understand. You seem to be implying incremental compilation is restricted to sbt: it's not! We expose this as a service through the zinc project, which is used by the Intellij plugin (name hashing support added here: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-scala/commit/4831c0357...) and many other build tools (e.g., gradle, maven).

Also, regarding sbt: it survived because of the awesome sbt community. The core Scala team (which I lead) is shamefully still using ant, although we plan to move to sbt this year.
>1984

Isn't the fact that we're still discussing a single screw up that was immediately rectified from 5 years ago evidence that Amazon is actually going about this DRM business in a pretty sensible way? Also, Amazons complete lack of interest in "fixing" the very easy DRM removal process seems to provide further evidence to the same end.

Sure, it'd be better if there was no DRM, but there's the perfect world and then there's the world we actually live in.
Louis Vuitton New Arrivals, Louis Vuitton Outlet, Louis Vuitton online
I don't see why not, if you hide the "monthly" under energy mechanics.
Easy solution. All non-closeup bills are literally cut in half at production. Wrapped in bill wraps, you'd never know the difference.