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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,746 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
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Algernon's Law
Why most supplements fail: IQ improvement skepticism, Yudkowsky & Bostrom’s heuristics, nootropics
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Goodbye Facebook.
Let’s get something straight: This is not a Facebook hate post. That being said, I’m running a little experiment of disabling my Facebook account. Why you ask? I first joined Facebook t…
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Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase Happiness
Kenji Crosland's Blog: Thoughts about personal growth, meditation and mindfulness, the creative process, career development, and technology.
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Malthusianisms
(See also: Umeshisms, Anthropicisms) Why, in real life, do we ever encounter hard instances of NP-complete problems? Because if it’s too easy to find a 10,000-mile TSP tour, we ask for a 9,0…
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I work for The Internet now
I have an interesting problem: How do I shoehorn "hired by The Internet for a full year to work on Free Software" into my resume?
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Why I'm Doing It All Wrong
Discuss this post on Hacker News. Conventional wisdom for doing a startup as a young entrepreneur these days is something like the following: 1.Drop out of
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A standing desk for $22
I’ve been interested in standing desks for a while. I keep reading things like: he who sits the most dies the soonest. All the options online are expensive. Until now. Ryan Witt and I combined our brains to see if we could come up with a better solution: Introducing
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What They Don't Tell You About Public Speaking
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How we gave colors names and it messed with our brains (part II)
Update: This post was an Editor’s pick by Cristy Gelling at Science Seeker, and was included in Bora Zivkovic’s top 10 science blog posts of the week. Lately, I’ve got colors on t…
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How 30 days without social media changed my life
30 days ago, I made the decision to give up social media for a month. Well, here I am, reporting that I’m still alive and that the past month has been life changing- the most successful month of my existence.
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Hellbanned from Hacker News
Yesterday I submitted a post on Hacker News out of frustration at moderators pedantically changing post titles. After quickly rising to the number two spot on the front page with 482 points and 37 comments, the post was deleted by a moderator, presumably the operator of the site, Paul Graham.
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What you know matters more than what you do
Insight into Impact I recently had an interesting conversation with some colleagues. We were talking about a young researcher in our field who happens to ... Read more
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The Elephant in the Bath-House
Mary Eberstadt’s Weekly Standard article The Elephant in the Sacristy shines a strong light on facts that will discomfit many of the politically correct. I don’t completely agree with her analysis; as Amy Welborn argues , Ms. Eberstadt is too quick to dismiss the role of the doctrine of celibacy in creating an…
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Richard Feynman’s Caltech Graduation Address on Integrity
physics, history of science, pseudoscience, hoaxes, writing, education, skepticisism, humor, quotes, illusions, 3d stereo photography.
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Work on unimportant problems
It seems obvious that some problems are important to solve and some aren't, as in, curing cancer is more important than delivering social gaming. Often, people lament the abundance of tech firms working on ultimately unimportant stuff, and advise to work on important problems and not just chase the money.
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I must be crazy
Chris Hulbert, Splinter Software, is a contracting iOS developer based in Australia.
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Why I stopped working on the Bongard Problems
Please note: this text was written in the summer of 2007, and explains why I, the author, took a long respite from working on my research topics, after the summer of 2006. At the time when I wrote this, and up until around 2011, I had really stopped my research — so the title was correct up to then. Later, after 2011…
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Let's get a little louder
Julia Solórzano is a design leader and technologist specializing in GIS, web and mobile development, federated identity, design systems, and strategic leadership.
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Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them?
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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Don't Waste a Single Moment
I’ve embarked on a new adventure as CEO & Cofounder of Referly – a startup that is helping anyone earn rewards for referring products they love and generat...