Hacker News on 29 August 2007

• Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All - Zed Shaw
• Mitch Kapor speaks at YC dinner
• Experience with Amazon Flexible Payment Service
• Is college worth the cost?
• ACM Queue - A Conversation with Joel Spolsky: What it takes to build a good software company
• HackrTrackr now has area based forums for Y Combinator Readers
• "A sizable fraction of the world's crops" are from mutations induced via radiation
• My eyes hurt...
• "Why netbeans' rails support is so creamingly good"
• How to keep the lid on a good idea