Hacker News on 17 December 2007

• Evan Williams: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
• Ask YC: AI
• Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous...
• Ask YC: Suggestions for Loved One's Dementia/Alzheimer's
• Google Is All About Large Amounts of Data
• The trouble with five
• Why we use i, j, and k in for loops
• Pikluk on VentureBeat
• F*cking programming
• Striking writers in talks to launch web start-ups