Hacker News on 11 December 2007

• Ask YC: Is there a recession/depression coming?
• What I've Learned From Sales, Part I: Don't Feed the Trolls
• Left-Hand-Turn Elimination
• Skeptical Scientists Urge World To 'Have the Courage to Do Nothing' At UN Conference - with evidence
• Why don't sports teams use randomization?
• Charlie Munger on Economics (pdf)
• Facebook's Beacon May Have Broken the Law
• Merb | A different Ruby framework
• Reminder: Peter Seibel is talking at the Justin.tv office on Thursday (Dec 13th, 12pm)
• Making Ruby Look Like Smalltalk/Haskell/Erlang/Ruby