Hacker News on 4 November 2007

• NYTimes uses Hadoop, S3, EC2, and some custom code to handle PDF generation for 4TB worth of data
• The future of programming languages in a massively concurrent world
• Ask YC: Profit: $25/user. Customers: satisfied. Competitors: none. Target market: huge. But...
• Who got in?
• The factors of entrepreneurship
• Should you have to pay to see research your taxes paid for?
• Free is more complicated than you think
• Masked thieves storm into Chicago colocation (again!)
• 7 Steps to Land and Leverage an Angel Investor
• I, Robot: The Man Behind the Google Phone