Hacker News on 6 April 2008

• Is poverty self-perpetuating?
• Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life
• More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy
• The Top 9½ Books In a Hacker's Bookshelf
• The True Price of SMS Messages
• Blizzard has learned 11 lessons on innovation that can help almost any business
• Choosing Languages
• Video: College Student Builds Paintball Tank
• Non-Advertising Business Models for Your Startup
• Solutions to Exercises in "ANSI Common Lisp"