Hacker News on 17 December 2008

• Join reddit, xkcd, dtoid, ars technica & more - donate your hacker skills to non-profits
• "You're stealing from people who count on your honesty to make a living."
• Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface
• Laying off George
• Death To The Embargo
• Common Lisp + Machine Learning Internship at Google (Mountain View, CA)
• Jessica Fridrich Specializes in Problems That Only Seem Impossible to Solve
• Hacker News Search Extension for Firefox
• Set in Our Ways: Why change is so hard after our 20s
• Outsourcing Killed By Django And Ruby On Rails