Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Hacker News stories for 2 AM on Wednesday Feb 22, 2012

0.969 Compression tames Big Data on Hadoop comments

0.965 What do directors think when people make a torrent for their movie? comments

0.960 Is your startup idea already taken? comments

0.955 Play Framework 2 with Scala, Anorm, JSON, CoffeeScript, jQuery & Heroku comments

0.937 A Unix Shell in Ruby comments

0.928 Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Affirmative Action Case comments

0.914 Silicon Valley Sets Up Shop in New York comments

0.908 SOPA author back and worse than ever comments

0.894 Startups (And Angel Investors) are a Girl’s Best Friend comments

0.893 Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about) comments

0.856 The Older You Are, The Harder It Is To Win At Social comments

0.852 Back to Basics: Copyright(s) comments

0.837 Understanding Python Decorators comments

0.829 You Need To Learn How To Program comments

0.820 Confessions of a Successful Entrepreneur comments

0.819 Web Development Using Virtual Machines comments

0.800 Cofoundr is re-launching: exclusive deals for Entrepreneurs comments

0.790 Things Academia Gets Wrong About Startups comments

0.783 The differences between Joxa & LFE (Lisps on the ErlangVM) comments

0.780 Bret Victor: Inventing on Principle | The Big Picture comments

0.776 Using PostgreSQL’s hstore with Rails comments

0.774 Göbekli Tepe - the oldest known human-made religious structure comments

0.759 Win 2 tix to this year’s SXSW Interactive just for mentioning this blog post comments

0.750 Anti-Pattern ‘Validation by Execute ‘n’ Rollback’ comments

0.742 Could Google Delete Copyrighted MP3s From Gmail? ‘Only In Extreme Cases’ It Says comments

0.742 Scroogle, Privacy-First Search Engine, Shuts Down for Good comments

0.727 Free vs. Open (feat. Hadoop) comments

0.727 Performance on-demand; Giving your ops team runtime flexibility comments

0.722 How the Chinese Figured Out How To Say “Linsanity” comments

0.718 Why Do Alumni Donate to Their Alma Mater? comments

0.717 I Was a Beauty School Dropout comments

0.712 Internals of Cubes – Lightweight Python OLAP Framework comments

0.700 Facebook Profiles Accurately Predict Job Performance comments

0.696 A Haskell implementation of Scheme comments

0.684 A VC Firm Acknowledges Missed Opportunities comments

0.661 Samsung Trojan Horse comments

0.657 Make Sure You Are Solving A Real Problem comments

0.636 Trans-Pacific Partnership Proposes Copyright Suppression of Price Competition comments

0.634 My domain name strategy comments

0.634 PostgreSQL benchmarks under giant lock free DragonflyBSD comments

0.629 Apple Customers Can Sometimes Just Say No comments

0.627 HBS: Persistence Leads to Startup Success comments

0.627 TL;DR as a service? comments

0.615 Misfortune Teller comments

0.612 So You Want To Be a Developer (Part 1) comments

0.609 The (private) drone wars have begun. comments

0.606 Software engineering: UK vs Silicon Valley comments

0.601 The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory comments

0.589 Put your money where your mouth is comments

0.586 Why client-side web development is harder than server-side development comments

0.585 Amazon Launches Cloud-Based Business Process Automation Service comments

0.577 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 released comments

0.565 Denver family stranded after passport denied because of crease comments

0.565 Australian Ride-Sharing Marketplace Jayride Grabs 400k in Angel Funding comments

0.559 Happy cat day comments

0.554 Female Bioware writer harassed on Twitter comments

0.542 Searchify launches IndexTank hosted search platform comments

0.541 Getting started with ClojureScript and Noir #2 comments

0.539 In Hiring Programmers, Style Trumps Language comments

0.537 My Money or My Time. (Just not Both). comments

0.529 Step Inside FRACT, Part Tron, Part First-Person Videogame Synthesizer comments

0.529 Anybots: Trevor Blackwell’s (YC founding partner) Robot Staffing Company comments

0.520 Predict What Consumers Want Before They Know It comments

0.520 The Top e-Commerce Websites Operating in India comments

0.514 How different is Objective C from C++? comments

0.511 Get It and Forget It: Smartphone Users’ Fickle Taste for Their Apps comments

0.503 Growing a chicken without a cortex comments

0.501 Ben & Jerry’s Launches Campaign Against Citizens United comments

0.500 To LLC or not to LLC? That is the Question. comments

0.500 The Passion Myth comments

0.500 Prof. dr. N.G. de Bruijn, 1918-2012 comments

0.499 Y Combinator’s Secret Weapon comments

0.494 Your Brand is a Living Breathing Entity comments

0.484 Open source “Internet of Things” printer comments

0.483 Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End comments

0.478 The Bro’s Guide To Pinterest comments

0.475 Why Online Dating (Still) Sucks, and a Simple Attempt at Fixing It comments

0.467 How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy comments

0.467 How to do cheap backups comments

0.467 ShopOnlineShop comments

0.467 Catazinelive comments

0.467 How Engagement Score is Calculated comments

0.467 The Weave comments

0.461 Cold Contacting vs. Spamming comments

0.461 Culture Vs. Strategy Is A False Choice comments

0.456 On extracting an element from a web page with CSS styles comments

0.449 How to use RSS feeds to simplify your job search comments

0.433 Tribal Skepticism? comments

0.432 We Just Bought 10,000 Copies of Mark Cuban’s eBook for our Customers comments

0.429 Partnering For The Perfect Giveaway comments

0.429 Distant ‘waterworld’ is confirmed comments

0.428 50 Most Innovative Companies 2012 comments

0.423 Data Killed the HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion) Star comments

0.416 Forgetting the Operating System comments

0.410 Rising Importance Of Design In Technology World comments

0.402 Worf (Star Trek TNG) Would Have Made A Great Entrepreneur comments

0.401 How To Look After Your Investors comments

0.391 Courts: Colorado woman must turn over password to encrypted hard drive comments

0.386 Flickr Is Getting a Major Makeover comments

0.384 Great ad for an Institute of Technology comments

0.381 ICS’s HttpUrlConnection backported as a library for all versions of Android comments

0.381 AtomizeJS: Distributed Software Transactional Memory comments

0.380 Applications for Tech Wildcatters due Friday, Feb 24th comments

0.372 Hijacking YouTube for Fun and Profit comments

0.372 Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings in IE comments

0.363 Slow boot? Blame systemd comments

0.360 A handy tool for sharing resources in a team comments

0.357 Texting in Braille comments

0.354 The Apple/Google Cold War comments

0.353 What If London’s Geography Were As Distorted As Its Tube Map? comments

0.340 Is YouTube too big to fail? comments

0.336 Sad to report: death of Prof. dr. N G. de Bruijn, 1918 - 2012 comments

0.333 DistCC Monitor comments

0.333 Kiip Poaches Zynga Exec to Grow Beyond Games comments

0.319 Basecamp Next: Becoming Basecamp comments

0.304 The Next Facebook comments

0.301 Play 2.0: A First Impression comments

0.300 Wireless stickers to track everything in your house comments

0.297 How your business could get sued for using Pinterest comments

0.295 Why do Google ads point to adware? comments

0.295 Comcast launching Xfinity Streampix to compete with Netflix comments

0.294 Fluent: A sparrow like UI for gmail comments

0.293 Ten exciting system changes in Mountain Lion comments

0.283 InfiniteGraph 2.1 Released, now with support for Gremlin comments

0.281 Facial Recognition Billboard Only Lets Women See the Full Ad comments

0.278 VIM: Intellisense for C/C++ via clang, tags navigation and NERDTree comments

0.278 Elsevier Open Access solutions comments

0.270 Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import pdf comments

0.265 New Google doodle in honor of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz comments

0.250 Call for mirrors for the Raspberry Pi Server comments

0.232 Googlighting, Microsoft’s Latest Viral Attack On Google Docs comments

0.212 Researchers Reveal How Attackers Can Track Cell Phone Locations comments

0.209 Is Facebook flunking as a storefront for retailers? comments

0.205 How to make any cloud your cloud comments

0.204 Hyperlocal Marketing Offers Powerful Returns For Marketers - Business News comments

0.200 Best Wireframe And Mockup Tools For Designers comments

0.198 An ABC Inside Look into Foxconn, the Factory in Which iPads Are Made comments

0.190 Sortbox: Job Applicant Review Made Smart comments

0.186 I’m listening to my own radio station “Waka Flocka Flame …” comments

0.184 Amazon Appstore more lucrative for many devs than Android Market comments

0.178 Stik.com’s Google+ Scams Their Own Customers… comments

0.170 How Google +1 affects SEO comments

0.161 Apple changes the deadline for sandboxing to June 1st. comments

0.159 Feedback for my site: Queue and schedule chains of web-related tasks comments

0.157 Google’s new “batshit crazy” UX comments

0.154 Arch Grants Raises $2.5M; Square Co-founder Signs On comments

0.145 Zipmark launches developer platform for mobile payments comments

0.143 Free symbolic algebra system for Windows comments

0.142 YouPorn accounts leaked by negligence of YouPorn comments

0.129 New breed of steamy alien planet found comments

0.128 UK Meteorological Office has “insufficient supercomputing capacity” comments

0.125 Weekend Project: Craigslist & Foursquare Mashup comments

0.125 Ultra-customizable HTML5 animated clock comments

0.122 How Indeed, The World’s Largest Job Search Site, Exploded To 60 Million Uniques comments

0.120 Graphic designers are breaking the web comments

0.119 Future of Social Gaming: US Social Gaming A $5 Billion Market By 2015 comments

0.113 New Cloud Message Queue Live on Rackspace comments

0.111 Story of the first Square reader comments

0.111 2012: The Year Scam Apps Killed the App Store comments

0.110 Googlighting by Microsoft comments

0.110 Spanish Startup Accelerator Mola.com Raises $1.6m comments

0.109 Exclusive First Look At Spin’s New Music-Playing Website comments

0.103 BrailleTouch: Mobile Texting for the Visually Impaired comments

0.102 How to pin photos from Instagram to Pinterest? comments

0.098 Bike + Code = Bike + Code + Job comments

0.093 A Geek Needs Help comments

0.089 Schema.org launch video markup comments

0.087 Comcast unveils $4.99 per month Streampix service, taking aim at Netflix comments

0.086 Show HN: Hurricane now runs Rails and Django comments

0.085 Simple Strategies for Smooth Animation on the iPhone comments

0.073 Miss (Firefox) Aurora’s “New Tab” window? Here’s how to get it back comments

0.067 $150 million rogue trader caught by Threadneedle IT systems comments

0.067 Salesforce Rewrites Force.com Facebook Tool Kit comments

0.065 What’s keeping Mountain Lion off of some 64-bit Macs? Ars investigates comments

0.059 Researchers find “leaks” in location privacy of GSM cell phones comments

0.057 New Productivity App #2 to Clear (app store: India) comments

0.053 Indiegame - Wings on Fury as Android Game comments

0.052 What is good license choice for OS project that might be included in SaaS? comments

0.047 We’re turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account. comments

0.044 Ask HN: Women hackers moving to (or living in) the Valley comments

0.041 Ask HN: who are the most interesting new entrepreneurs? comments

0.040 Ubuntu Android add-on designed to replace PCs comments

0.035 Poll: HN Meetup: South Florida comments

0.027 Android is most-used smartphone OS in UK, overtaking Apple, data shows comments

0.023 The App Store Is A Republic comments

0.017 Voice controlled TV? Will be an APP for that? comments

0.017 Ask HN: what do you use for mysql HA? comments

0.015 Which Animated Photo App Will Be the Next Instagram? comments

0.013 HTML5 version of Clear iOS app comments

0.010 Get Ready for Gas Prices to Hit $5 by Summer comments

0.006 Social messaging apps “lost networks $13.9bn” in 2011 comments

0.005 Apple Extends Deadline for Sandboxing of Mac App Store Apps to June 1 comments

0.004 Add free website snapshots to your app with Snapito’s (beta) API comments

0.003 Ask HN: How do you choose a good font for your next project. comments

0.002 Ask HN: would you pay to guarantee your app’s first 1k users? comments

0.001 Show HN: I built visual password hashing for Chrome and Firefox comments

0.000 Ask HN: Who’s hiring interns this Summer 2012? comments

0.000 Twitter mobile app updates for iPhone and Android comments

0.000 Show HN: The Clear iphone app in HTML5 comments

0.000 Ask HN: Why isn’t hacker news optimized for iphone/ipad safari? comments

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