Hacker News on 3 December 2007

• Joel Spolsky's talk at Yale, part 1
• Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living
• Who clicks on ads? "Middle America"
• Paul Buchheit: There's no such thing as a "social network"
• How to Read Mathematics
• Damien Katz: Lotus Notes Formula Engine Rewrite
• Sorry, Lisp. I tried.
• The code giveth and the code taketh away [comic]
• Basics of Compiler Design (full book online)
• First OLPC deployment: now it's real!