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Ask HN: Where do you find quality book summaries and lists?

There are a few blogs, like Derek Sivers' (https://sive.rs/book) as well as Graham Mann (http://www.paulgraham.com/books.html) that have what I find are thorough book summaries that capture the book contents well. Additionally, I find the set of books they review to have a high signal to noise ratio. Are there similar sites you have to share?

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Ask HN: Career growth – when to stop climbing, am I at my upward movement limit?

I'm not sure how much higher I want to climb the corporate ladder, although my current position seems like a stepping stone for many, and it seems like the company thinks the role I'm in - that is, the role itself, not me specifically - is a temporary step. The role above me does seem like a destination for many.I also feel a bit stuck - a few of my peers have moved up, while I haven't, and I...

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Ask HN: How do I decide faster and with confidence?

Even when I'm doing something trivial like playing a video game, I tend to over think decisions like"which character should I put in my main party?" and you can imagine how that negatively scales to more important decisions. Introspectively, it feels like I don't do well with greys as opposed to black and white (leading to analysis paralysis), and I tend to think back on if it was correct or...

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Ask HN: RSS Feeds for Coronavirus and Similar

I use RSS as my news source and I am curious if you have any local, state, or federal RSS feeds that have quality information, whether that's public closures, travel restrictions, or similar news. I live in PA but am often in CA.Similarly, if there are quality international sources that would be useful, please share.I unfortunately don't have any to share, which is why I'm asking.

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Re:Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018) on Monday June 10, 2019 @07:37PM (#20151921)
Mostly this article, in addition to hearing about how good emacs is from various others, I want to try emacs. On that note, what you're saying sounds really useful - my .vimrc file is organized by folds to due to it's size. However, as a ~30min old emacs user, I have no idea how do do what you said. For example, is there a way to 'org-babel-load-file' when I open my init.el? When I try it by pressing M-x org-babel-load-file then typing ~/.emacs.d/init.el, I get a message "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"

edit: would you mind posting a sample of your init.el file so I can see how you organize it?

Ask HN: Share your best OPML/RSS Feeds

Even though Firefox v64 will stop supporting RSS/Atom feeds natively [see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202028 for a discussion on that news], I just found how convenient and efficient RSS can be. Before it gets harder to find feeds, I'm hoping everyone can share their OPML exports from their favorite reader, or share their favorite RSS feeds.Aside from the Hacker News RSS Feed...

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