Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Thursday Dec 20, 2012

0.999 Functional Programming Principles in Scala: Impressions and Statistics comments

0.848 Tricks to better public speaking comments

0.562 Engineering Pornography (2002) comments

0.554 Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, ends up defending corruption comments

0.518 The New Data Browser comments

0.467 A web-wide moment of silence for Sandy Hook comments

0.467 The Ecological Fallacy comments

0.400 Implementing a CoffeeScript Feature in Pure JavaScript comments

0.255 Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror comments

0.028 RethinkDB 1.3 is out, now available on OS X comments