Hacker News on 15 September 2012

• Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer
• Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database
• Facebook explains what's wrong with the mobile web
• The Pirate Bay - 9 years and still bloody runnin
• U.S. Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs
• Fast Inverse Square Root
• The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead
• Bollywood vs. Bin Laden
• The Minimum Viable Rails Stack, Now Reddit Frontpage Approved
• Little-Known Awesome Algorithms: Fenwick Range Trees