Hacker News on 3 October 2007

• Y Combinator co-founder Jessica Livingston shares advice on how to get accepted (audio interview)
• Just launched! Asking for news.yc feedback.
• "Planning" is highly overrated. The best performers seesaw between "ideas" and "actions."
• The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, Part 3: Where to go and why
• Free for the next 60 days: "Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications" book
• Practical Image Recognition (prevents cat entering house when she carries a mouse)
• We don't write tests. There just isn't time for luxuries.
• Justin.tv Wins Funding, Opens Platform
• Visualizing Fitts's Law
• Software Is Hard