Hacker News on 10 December 2008

• Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference
• Amnesia
• Java is Dead; Long Live Python
• Michael Lewis: A Wall Street Job Can’t Match a Calling in Life
• Job Interview Questions That Mean You’re Not Getting Hired…And One That Means You Are
• Netflix Progress Prize Awarded
• The single most well-reasoned talk on Global Warming that I have ever seen - Lomborg
• Ask HN: How do you explain what you do to your relatives?
• Stop Sharing Your Twitter Credentials
• Linux - Stop holding our kids back