Hacker News on 16 July 2007

• Why is raising money unproductive?
• Aaron Swartz: Announcing the Open Library
• Is it bad if I don't want to work at a C++/Java startup?
• YC alums visit Cambridge
• Ignore the competition
• Remember InviteShare? Sold for $25,000!
• Lessons for Consumer-Focused Startups (from Accel Venture Partners)
• Rails users: would you use rails again?
• HBase: A Google Bigtable clone (new opensource project)
• Interview With Paul Buchheit (taken from Founders At Work)