Hacker News on 14 October 2009

• The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"
• Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking"
• Elements Of Statistical Learning: now free pdf
• Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard Drives
• World of Goo does a Radiohead. Pay whatever you like.
• Dropbox Acquires The Domain Everyone Thought It Had: Dropbox.com
• This must already exist
• High Quality Ruby on Rails Example Applications
• In Search of a Good Idea
• In which I stomp on some of our glorious “green shoots”