Higher Order Perl: http://hop.perl.plover.com/
On Lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
Also http://it-ebooks.info/ has a wide selection of free ebooks with ads.
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Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?
#92Just a bit of caution. The Ludwig von Mises Institute is a group devoted to specifically advocating one branch of economics, Austrian Economics. Part of this branch is staunch Libertarianism, but they don't believe in several aspects which are typical in mainstream economic branches, such as using statistical modeling and mathematics to draw conclusions about economic status or action. I'm not here to debate the meri…
That said, the "One Lesson" of the book's title is applicable to all schools of economics: that to qualify as good economic thinking, the consequences of a proposed change must be propagated through the entire economy, and not cut off until they are plausibly insignificant. This is something that any modern economist should agree with, regardless of what their other biases are.
Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?
#93The novels and short stories of Peter Watts (scifi) http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?
#94Some classic poems, they're short, but you'll find yourself rereading the ones that really engage you occasionally throughout your life. Here's some I found to be immediately accessible, to get you going. Poe's Raven - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178713 Dulce et Decorum Est - http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html The Charge of the Light Brigade - http://poetry.eserver.org/light-brigade.html
It's funny, I never cared much for poetry until I started listening to Iron Maiden and found out that "The Trooper" is based on "The Charge of the Light Brigade", as well as "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" being based on a Samuel Taylor Coleridge work. Now I enjoy reading both Coleridge and Tennyson quite a lot (as well as a few other poets, although it will never be my primary interest). And people used to say that he…
In the other direction, I never understood rap until I studied Anglo-Saxon poetry. It has the same muscular rhythms and concern for status and manliness. I'd love to see a rapper do Beowulf!
Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?
#95Warren Buffett's letters to sharelhoders:
http://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
This is pure wisdom (a lot of economic subjects, but not only).
Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?
#96These are fiction, but they're really enjoyable futurist sci-fi. The first one is about the singularity, and the second one is a really unique and interesting take on artificial intelligence. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera... http://lifeartificial.com
My novel "Darwin's Theorem", which is about stories, evolution, religion and science, is available for free: http://tjradcliffe.com/darwins_theorem/darwins_theorem.epub
It's character-driven pure speculation on big ideas.
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#97'Rationality: From AI to Zombies' is available on a pay-what-you-want basis. It talks about cognitive science, ethics, human (ir)rationality and how to improve it, among other things. It stems from the Lesswrong Sequences [2], which have a lot more content, but are a bit messy.
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#98Perhaps not sequential reading on your laptop but very useful none the less...
https://openstaxcollege.org/students
Selected excerpts from the Physics and Biology volumes have been used by colleagues of mine to support background reading for pre-university students in the UK.
Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?
#99Debt: The First 5000 Years [1] Anthropological analysis of finance.
With Each & Every Breath [2] Highly practical primer on meditation and how it works, from a Thai Forest tradition perspective.
[1] https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
[2] http://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/EachAndEveryBrea...
Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?
#100Just a bit of caution. The Ludwig von Mises Institute is a group devoted to specifically advocating one branch of economics, Austrian Economics. Part of this branch is staunch Libertarianism, but they don't believe in several aspects which are typical in mainstream economic branches, such as using statistical modeling and mathematics to draw conclusions about economic status or action. I'm not here to debate the meri…
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