Hacker News on 16 August 2007

• Norvig: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
• How to create a startup in 10.5 hours
• What's Wrong with CS Research
• How to write a book - the short honest truth
• The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (by Jared Diamond)
• Why the iPhone doesn't have copy+paste
• Why is it hard to startup a company outside of Silicon Valley?
• The iPhone Is Internet Explorer 4 All Over Again
• news.ycombinator meetup - Cambridge, MA
• How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It)