Hacker News on 12 February 2009

• How Not To Sort By Average Rating
• The Audacity of Doing Nothing
• That 'Electronic Bank Run'? Didn't happen.
• Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down
• Is the Relational Database Doomed?
• Python: copying a list the right way
• Why HTTP?
• Whoosh: a fast pure-Python search engine
• FirePython: Firebug for Python
• Tesla Gets $350 Million In Government Money to Build Model S Sedan