Hacker News on 30 August 2011

• Early Photos of Y Combinator
• Why must you laugh at my back end?
• How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers?
• 87% of the U.S. Population are uniquely identified by {DOB, gender, zip}
• VimConf
• Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun
• Lessons from Valve - How to build a designer's paradise
• Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear
• Leak reveals US Government lobbied on behalf of Oracle.
• Pakistan bans VPNs