Hacker News on 16 August 2012

• Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum
• Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got.
• Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy
• Font that creates charts
• Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts
• Square introduces monthly pricing
• Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limits rates
• Thanks for your patience about all the (YC S12)
• Happy birthday Debian
• How anti-competitive lawsuits by incumbents are killing early stage startups