Hacker News on 19 May 2008

• Breaking News: Girls don't become engineers because they don't want to
• Erlang vs. Scala
• Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies
• San Jose is hell on earth
• Andrew Chen: Why every Web 2.0 startup needs to think about Metcalfe's Law
• Boto: integrated Python interface to Amazon Web Services
• Ubigraph: dynamic graph visualization
• Apple’s market share of PCs over $1,000 hits 66%
• Tim Ferriss Revisited
• Webmonkey.com returns