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Learn to speed-read by learning from a couple of speed-reading books. I recommend the Evelyn Wood system to get you started.

Thanks for the shortened URLs. Question: I always obtain those by hitting "Share" and then copying the link. Is there a better way?

I'm just happy to see the New York Review of Books appear on HN!

Carpentry. I thought I knew a bit about woodworking because of my middle-school shop class. Turns out it's an extremely precise and technical activity, packed with lessons in engin…

Okay I did it myself: https://gist.github.com/javahead123/7045923

Someone PLEASE do this for meetup

Sorry to offer the most trite comment possible, but how does a 22-year-old trying to pick up chicks constitute "hacker news"?

I'd like to tack on another key feature to these 13th chords (no pun intended)-- and that is of spreading out the voicing across the instrument's (usually piano's) range. There's a…

Great piece of history. I think the author's conclusions are flawed though. He writes: > Ecological activism did not play significant role in all of these developments; neither did…

How I wish the Times would actually put in some technical details! If their aim is the transparent diffusion of news, they shouldn't shy away from technicals that maybe most people…

These meetups are great for DC hackers and entrepreneurs! If you classify yourself thus, you must attend!

My opinion: it looks terrible. In particular it doesn't match the contours or shadows of any of my other desktop items. As for the google favicon, am I the only one who still misse…

For quick reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2474573

I currently live in DC, and the possibility to get a security clearance is opening up to me. I still have high hopes of moving to Silicon Valley once I'm done with my PhD, but if I…

Wonderful. The concept of falsifiability is a gift Karl Popper gave to humanity, and we mustn't forget it. So from a statistical standpoint, you're estimating theta, some parameter…

I'm sorry, but I really don't see the benefit for having made this thing-- the tweets it puts out are useless! Are we just playing around in how to program Markov text generation? …

Arg. It's not division by zero, it's zero work divided by a finite number of workers. Nor is it an undefined supply of jobs-- should you need the quantity "workers per unit work", …