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Fellow hackers, what (auto)biographies have you found inspirational? How have they changed your life?

As a South Asian Indian, I am puzzled by ethnicity questionnaires which never have an option that seems appropriate. "White" seems wrong as does "Caucasian", even if we are suppose…

References to Dorian Nakamoto on the web: Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/ATILATX3PEXZ4/ref=cm_cr... Letter voting for an art rail project (search for "nakamoto"): htt…

Acquisitions provide liquidity for startups that hope to realize value only in the long-term. This is actually a good thing because it can actively encourage more ambitious startup…

Comment thread from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6623205

$ !! runs the previous command. This is especially useful: $ !! $ sudo !!

Your hunch was right. Google's just tweeted ( http://twitter.com/googlepubpolicy ) that: "@NYTimes is wrong. We've not had any convos with VZN about paying for carriage of our traf…

You don't need to be the best either. You can be a salesman on the adjacent street.

I don't think Simpsons paradox plays any role here, if I understand this correctly. In the first graph, the leading digit counts are not the things being summed up across all the r…

http://www.youtube.com/education?lg=EN&b=1 might be a good start.