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Here's my usual list of recommendations, the best books I've read in the past 5 years.

Fiction:

- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

If you know nothing about this book you might naturally hesitate to read "Harry Potter fanfiction" and assume that it's dumb/horrbile, but it's not. Just suspend your disbelief and read the first 5-10 chapters. Trust me, it's brilliant, hilarious, and life-changing.

- Atlas Shrugged

Controversial, I know, a lot of people here hate it for some reason, but it was incredibly influential on me, inspired my passion for entrepreneurship and science and philosophy. Still is one of the best books I am aware of.

Nonfiction:

- Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham

Also a collection of his essays that you can find on github. He is one of the most clever writers I am aware of, but I assume you know that, since you're on HN.

- "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins

This book explains in simple terms a very awesome and elegant theory on how mind works. Incredibly fascinating, I've learned a lot from it and it explains a lot of things, and will change the way you think about thinking process.

- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Engaging and entertaining explanation of evolution, absolutely fantastic book.

- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli.

Despite the stigma, and people thinking that Machhiavellian = "evil", I've found this book extremely clever and wise.

- Serious Creativity by Edward De Bono

The best book on creativity and the process of generating ideas that I'm aware of.

- Abundance

This is a very inspiring and optimistic book about the future of technology.

Entrepreneurhsip:

- Start Small, Stay Small

Guide to creating your first product/business for hackers. It lays out all the basics of entrepreneurship in a very concise and clear ways, my favorite introduction to startups.

- Rework

Very wise and intelligent advice about startups, intelligent and witty, must read.

- Lean Startup

Classic book on "lean startup methodology", very useful.

- 4-Hour Workweek

Despite the silly title I think it is a great book and is very much worth reading. Many people here dislike Tim Ferris, but whatever, I think this book is cool.

Autobiographies:

- Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman

- Ghost In The Wires by Kevin Mitnick

- Catch me if you can by Abagnale

- iWoz by Steve Wozniak

- Losing my Virginity by Richard Branson

All these are fantastic and very intelligent autobiographies by the very awesome people.

Now I'm reading "Gödel, Escher, Bach" and "Rationality: From AI to Zombies."

"Rationality" is great and I would definitely recommend it to anyone. Can't say much about GEB, I've only started reading it, but everyone is saying that it is so great and the best book ever, so I think it's definitely worth checking out.
You may want to check out the power of myth by joseph campbell.
I'm almost done with The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error: http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error/...

It's a brilliant book written by Sidney Dekker, a "Professor of Human Factors and Flight Safety". The basic point is that the default way of understanding bad outcomes is what he calls "the Old View or the Bad Apple Theory". He instead argues for the New View, where "human error is a symptom of trouble deeper inside a system".

Normally with a book like this, I read the first couple of chapters, say, "Ok, I get the idea," and can ignore the rest. After all, I both agree with and understand the basic thesis. But so far every chapter has been surprisingly useful; I keep discovering that I have Old View notions hidden away. E.g., when I discover a systemic flaw, I'm inclined to blame "bad design". But he points out that's a fancy way of calling the problem human error, just a different human and a different error than normal.

Even the driest parts are helped by his frequent use of examples, often taken from real-world aviation accident reports. There are also fascinating bits like a system for high-resolution markup of dialog transcripts to indicate timing (down to 1/10th second), speech inflection, and emphasis. I'll never use it myself, but I will definitely use the mindset that it requires.

Given how much time software projects spend dealing with bugs, I believe we need a new way to think about them, and for me this book describes a big piece of that.
EVEN THE HTML TAGS ARE IN UPPERCASE:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>SHOUTCLOUD: THE CLOUD THAT SHOUTS BACK</TITLE>
<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="/css/landing.css" TYPE="text/css">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
...

Also; http://api.shoutcloud.io/V1/FUCK_OFF/You/Gherkin
That's neat. Nice price too
all of HTML is in caps.
This valuation isn't that uncommon these days, at least Lynda had revenue.

Interesting, though, considering CodeSchool went for only $36M.
Nice, I just created a web version of my upcoming mobile game using cocos2d-js. You can play it here: http://www.adhyet.com/flamingnotes/

I ported the C++ code from cocos2d-x to JavaScript. Took me about a week. The web version doesn't have all the features, but it does serve as a decent demo.
Disclaimer: I've never taken them, so what I'm saying is based on what I've read, but it seems to me that it's about as risky as cannabis or alcohol.

If you're going to do what pro-bodybuilders do and inject enormous quantites (as well as insulin, HGH etc) then you probably deserve what you get.
It wasn't meant to be an insult, and apologies if it came over that way. If mods want to delete the comment, or want to talk to me about it - I'm happy to do that. I seriously wasn't trying to be negative for the sake of being negative and my "honest" disclaimer at the top was to try and mitigate any hurt I was causing the article's poster.
"Some of the Cisco networking certs" -- well, if you ever make it to CCIE you will never have to worry about having a job.
Now a subsidiary of Zombo: "The infinite is possible"

Sorry...

"THE INFINITE IS POSSIBLE"
It took me doing a reading group to get through that one. That was more my fault than the book, but GEB is real work, and having a number of people involved definitely helped me stick through the parts where I might have wandered off for brain candy.
> How do I get my money from my bank account into the Stellar network?

In addition to using gateways, as diyang suggests, there is another way, but you first need two things

1) Someone on the network who you trust. This may be your bank, but it could also be something else. I'm not going to tell you who or what you should trust, and to what extent, that is a decision that should be always in your hands

2) A path between the entity you trust and an entity that either you or your bank has access to.

Until #2 exists, you can do what the poster below just said: use a gateway. This is not recommended, as they are probably going to track you and it may not be always possible to deal with them in a humane way.

So really it depends on what your bank is, whether it makes sense to draw money from your bank into another form/service that is compatible with a service that stellar can talk to. What bank? What country? These things are going to matter on the global scale.
1. http://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-A-Brief-History-Humankind/dp/0...

2. http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Marcus-Aur...

3. http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Youre-Joking-Mr-Feynman-ebook/d...

4. http://www.amazon.com/Book-Five-Rings-linked-TOC-ebook/dp/B0...
Relationship advice from hackers ;)
There seems to be a pattern that if a supplement becomes too effective, drug companies lobby politicians to get it classified as a pharmaceutical so they can make money selling it.
Great book. I haven't read his more recent I am a Strang Loop. For people who have read it, is it worth the plunge?
The "creepiness factor" of targeted advertising.

I am completely cool with advertising, as well as Real Life targeted advertising such as direct mail.

However I am profoundly offended by targeted online advertising. For example a few days ago I was scouting around for a book on purely conceptual mobile website design. I like APress' books on conceptual iOS App design, so I wandered around APress' site, eventually to come up empty-handed.

Now, when I log into facebook, absolutely the whole fucking time is an ad for APress books.

Look I think APress is a right chap but I don't want him following me home from the WiFi spot late at night!

However I realize now that I have a realistic method to make A Compleat Clusterfuque of Facebook's ad tracking:

I have so far avoided entering any of my favorite books or movies. I also - from time to time - advise my FB friends to avoid it themselves. Few of them were previously aware such tracking was possible.

Here Are A Few Of My Favorite Things:

Movies:

The President's Analyst
2001: A Space Oddyssey
Logan's Run
(all those comedy flicks that star Leslie Nielsen)
Bound For Glory
Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Most but not all the James Bond flicks
Very few of the sequels to anything

Books

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
All Quiet On The Western Front
The Hobbit (but not Lord of the Rings)
2001: A Space Oddyssey (quite different from the movie)
(most but not all of Kurt Vonnegut's novels)
Amateur Telescope Making
Foundation Trilogy
Stranger In A Strange Land
Time Enough For Love

I need to catch some ZZZs soon so I'll cut this short.

More or less what I'd do is list a bunch of favorites, as being a whole bunch of completely unrelated books and movies, absolutely none of which I'd actually seen nor read, generally having to do with topics that either do not interest me or even offend me.

Daniel Steel is quite popular. I read a few pages of one of her novels it was well-written but I could not conceive of actually reading the whole book.

While this wouldn't stop FB from showing me ads, it would result in a lot of wasted time and effort showing them to me.

What really gets me down, though, is that the vast majority of ads that I see, are offering me attractive women of my own age.

I am fifty-one years old. The one small comfort I take form my divorce, is that Bonita did not want to have children.

As yet, Facebook has yet to offer me a woman who might bear my child. Figure That One Out: many if not most of my FB friends have kids, they are always posting their photos, singing their praises &c.

I always "Like" their posts, commonly reply, sometimes share yet FB has yet to clue in to flogging a way for me to continue the non-quite Eternal swim in the gene pool.

:-(
The main intention is that the CA is able to run its own phishing checks on every (sub)domain and deny the issuance of a high assurance certificate to it. Otherwise, you might be able to do something like what nailer said.

CAs explicitly deny issuance to domains that have popular brand names in them - issuing a certificate for comodo.ian.sh would not be possible in most circumstances. I doubt the CA/B Forum wanted that workaround for EV as well.
How to Leverage Other People's Hard Work to Grow Your Startup
From the pdf walterbell linked to,section "System Overview":

>...two ARM® Cortex-M0 processors are located in separate layers with different functionality as follows:
>The DSP CPU efficiently handles data streaming from the imager (or other sensors), thus is built in 65nm CMOS (Layer 3) with a large 16kB non-retentive SRAM (NRSRAM).
>The CTRL CPU manages the system using an always-on 3kB retentive SRAM (RSRAM) to maintain the stored operating program, and is built in low leakage 180nm CMOS.

For ROM, the CTRL CPU just always keeps its SRAM powered.
I can't seem to find the CPU frequencies, but I would imagine they are very low, as a previous slightly larger version in 2010 had a Cortex M3 working at 1MHz max[1].

[1]http://blaauw.eecs.umich.edu/getFile.php?id=394
> Most prostitutes in such countries are poorer immigrant women

Citation? I ask because that's not my personal experience and I haven't heard the same information from the sex workers I know.
Perec's _Life, a User's Manual_ is an inspiration. Meticulously structured, continually mysterious, always several steps ahead of you, and yet it doesn't beat you over the head with how "clever" it is. Highly recommended.
Founder here. As nailer says, the only detail signed in a DV cert is the hostname of your website. One of the crazy inefficiencies about buying certs elsewhere is that they tell you to use the openssl req command to generate a CSR. This prompts you for all sorts of details like your city, state, and company name. This information is all ignored, and having to enter it is a waste of time.
Whaaattt? What are they going to do with it? It seems like linkedin is trying to get into teamtreehouse + facebook.
Of course not. But I prevented sales from signing a 5-year contract last quarter because I didn't want to be committed to the terms of a specific deal for 5 years. The most we'll do is 3 years just so that I don't get put into a position of supporting a customer who is no longer a customer we want to serve.

But we have let customers break contracts over small things in the past. Contracts are only as good as the people behind them, and we think we're good people. It happens. We always strive to do what's right for our customers.

Also -- I've never done what Marc did, I'm just saying I can sympathize with the desire and that I think most of the press took a very slanted view of it, because it's the easy way to view the situation.

My point was that I think the reality is more nuanced. I don't know Marc. Maybe he's an asshole. Maybe he's a great guy. Or maybe he thought this was a way to keep people on the team in a way that made sense to him.
I think it is the opposite of what you were saying. It's illegal for drug dealers to sell drugs (the pimp). It's illegal to grow or make drugs (the trafficker). It's not illegal to consume drugs (as the drug user is the prostitute or the perceived "victim" of the crime).

In this case there is no john. Addiction is a mental illness, so the drug user is the victim just like the prostitute would be.
"You know, the people who pick up tools only because they think it will land them a job more easily."

Here, have an up for this...

Edit: Ha! I seem to have touched a nerve!
That's exactly what I mean. Running as fast as possible minimize the chances to recover from errors and puts a lot of pressure on the working team. I know it's not just about companies. Anyway, don't get me wrong, between the 2 I would go for the Silicon Valley model all the time. ;)
My favorite thing about this is that the API is versioned.
The 3 of us will design and code MVP in 3 days and we will live stream it
I actually followed the last 7DRL fairly closely and I'm definitely tempted by them. I've considered trying to give the next one a shot.

I think having a deadline and the goal of creating a smaller, playable roguelike really appeals to me.
Building big data systems in academia and industry
The New Touring Omnibus, a dev who was interviewed on FogCreek's blog, Peteris Krumins, said that it was his favorite book of all time.
If you want to know whether your employees will resign, whether you yourself will fire them, whether anyone will accept your offers of employment, or even respond to your job board posts, then read "The Social Animal" by UCSC Social Psychologist Elliott Aronson.

That's a rather pricey book, but the vast majority of what it discusses are phenomena that I commonly find in the workplace. While strictly speaking it doesn't name The Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field, it does discuss the Nixon Whitehouse.
This might be a good resource.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2D_animation_software
Meet the man leading more than 1,000 players in today's massive Eve battle
If you like history at all, the Robert Greene books are awesome. 48 laws of power, 33 strategies of war, etc... They break down each lesson and their reversals with historical examples.
Spam Nation by Brian Krebs.

It's nice but I started reading other books while being half way in. A sign that I experience it more as a study book than a relaxing read (ok, I did the same with Game of Thrones). I'll finish it at some point, it is quite fascinating to read about the world of spam, the Russians and the high quality of illegal online pharmacies.
The question is, what will those gangs of violent, well armed men start doing when smuggling isn't profitable any more?
>> We have seen how keeping cameras on police moderates their behaviour.

Apparently not in the most recent case in South Carolina where the officer's dash cam was running and didn't stop him from shooting a man eight times in the back, did it?

Also, the camera's are there for the cops sake, not for ours. I welcome having body camera's, but I think you'd be surprised at how many times a cop has justifiable means to use lethal force, and doesn't.

Sure, it helps us keep tabs on them, but I'm pretty sure the actual reality of what they put up with compared to how these situations are portrayed in the media, are going to be eye opening to a lot of people.
Google Is Now a 'Tier Two' Employer, Says Recent Comp-Sci Grad
This is a very bad day for me. I was working on the integration of skills and education at fillskills.com. Serves me well since I gave up on it because of various reasons. Mostly because I was afraid of what people would say when I launched.

This is great for education in general though. Imagine finding the skills to you need to build your career and then the exact education to build it with.
Actually, leaded gasoline is more likely to be the culprit.
Certainly the current surge of MMA popularity (perhaps abating) appears to me to be a return to more primitive western mores around violence.

It is interesting how eye gouging and biting were, even in greek times, considered out of bounds. Why? From where does this moral sense of fairness-in-violence come? Why would people cheer a man who has successfully broken another mans neck, but shun a man who has gouged another mans eyes out?

One wonders if we will eventually return to widespread animal sport fighting.
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth [1]

1: http://www.amazon.com/Astronauts-Guide-Life-Earth-Determinat...
That's why I prefaced it with a warning that pedantry lay ahead!

I don't think it's clickbait, I think it's interesting for a wide variety of reasons - the unregulated supplements industry, novel stimulants (or potential stimulants, IIRC beta-methyl PEAs have not been that active compared to alpha-methyl ones) etc etc

>> The herbal-shmurble con-artists are simply too small a fish to matter in the multi-billion dollar game that is drug approval.

By selling as a dietary supplement rather than as a medicine they side-step pretty much everything. Supplements are a multi-billion dollar industry themselves. Every so often a politician will mention regulating them like medicine, usually in terms of making them prove their tenuous health claims, but it turns out there's a lot of money for lobbyists in their war-chest.

Last time I remember hearing about this was in Germany a few years back I think...
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> Can a computer land in the Hudson?

Well it did. One of the (probably lifesaving) actions that Sullenberger did was to deploy the RAT which meant electrical power was maintained. This was not a checklist item, merely something he though useful. This meant the computers were still firmly in control when the aircraft ditched and the stall protection they gave certainly helped the ditching.

Interestingly after the accident the NTSB and Airbus made a number of ditching simulations and it showed just how hard it was for pilots to achieve the correct entry mandated by the ditching certification (minimum speed, -1 degree approach). However one pilot, an Airbus test pilot, managed to do much better than this by levelling out at high speed and very low using the radar altimeter. He the allowed the speed to decay until the aircraft touched the 'water'. This unusual proceedure probably couldn't be done by many pilots but it could be done by a computer.
Oddly, I cannot use Mac OS X Safari to copy the linked article's text to the clipboard. I intended to quote a bit in an HN comment but no, it was not to be.

That's done was some javascript, the easiest approach is simply to disable JS. That doesn't work as sometimes a script is used to fetch the text with ajax or so.

If someone is taking great pains to prevent the GUI Clipboard from working in any way, then no doubt their own text was lifted from someone who took no such pains.

:-/
Wrong according to whom?

If most people believe X and that makes you think X is probably wrong, then you are probably in one of the groups that believes alternatives to X. There are lots of groups like yours, they can't all be right, and therefore your chances of being any more right than X is are slim (all things being equal). At least, with X, you have the support of the population and can fit into society during your lifetime.

And the nice thing about X is that it has been battle-tested by many people, and while it may be "wrong", it WORKS.
> I deleted my LinkedIn account because it's not useful for computer science fields (I think). I didn't want spam anymore.

I've never had a LinkedIn account, it has not stopped them spamming me regularly.

They seem to harvest contact details from people who install their apps, and then "invite" all those people. They then proceed to send dozens of reminders hoping the recipient will cave in to make it stop.

LinkedIn is a company I would like to see burned to the ground. They are parasites with no redeeming qualities and do not provide any value.
> No, you stated you were working

Noticed the smiley?

Nevertheless, how do you differentiate between holidays and work and where to draw the line? If you're responding to a work emails while being on holidays, does that count towards the taxable income in that country you're visiting?

> Did you file a tax statement and did you pay any taxes on income earned while you were residing in Thailand?

Absolutely. We're not evading taxes. All income is taxed in Spain. And we weren't residing in Thailand. We were only visiting it and happened to also do some things that were related to our business back home in Europe. The work we did had nothing to do with Thailand itself.

I'm not an international tax specialist, but at least from a moral point of view I don't see that we did something wrong.

In European countries for example you only become a tax resident if you spend more than 183 days there.

EDIT: formatting
I guess what I'm referring to is the idea that there are no people in the cockpit at all, or even that there isn't a cockpit anymore.

We've had tremendously advanced autopilots for a long time, but there have always been people up at the front, supposedly in charge.

It's the difference between getting on a bus with a guy in the drivers seat who has auto-braking so he doesn't accidentally rear-end someone and getting on a bus with no driver at all. People are OK with the first, but less likely to be OK with the second.

I'm not saying it's rationally correct for people to behave this way, but they do behave this way.
A good friend of mine recommended Atlas Shrugged a while back. I couldn't finish it. I just couldn't swallow the "better than you" venom Dagny spewed everywhere. Maybe I'm missing something
If that's the case, shouldn't all certs only be valid until the domain expires, and all domain name sales should require revocation of all certs?