Hacker News on 17 October 2008

• Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck
• Warren Buffett editorial in NYT: Buy American. I Am.
• Do I Look Like a CEO?
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
• YC Winter 2009 application is due today (Friday).
• MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 12: Skip Lists - good coders code, great reuse
• Arithmetic Is Hard—To Get Right
• Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?
• Coding Horror: Programming Is Hard, Let's Go Shopping
• Ask HN: What tools and methods do you use for software testing?