Hacker News on 1 September 2010

• Bribing maitre d' to skip the line
• Easy Ways to Fail a Ph.D.
• Welcome Alexis
• Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster With Top Aligned Labels
• Why can you turn clothing right-side-out?
• Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator
• Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?
• William Gibson: "Google's Earth"
• How to set up your own private Git server on Linux
• Google releases its own Javascript Lint tool