Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Thursday Feb 16, 2012

0.990 Head of Mozilla Says ACTA Is ‘A Bad Way To Develop Internet Policy’ comments

0.967 Lodsys v2.0: Intellectual Ventures sues AT&T, T-Mo and Sprint over MMS patents comments

0.945 Five Ways To Decide What To Build comments

0.936 The Principles of Good Programming comments

0.912 Canals Don’t Create Water comments

0.889 Why Startups Should Care About Content Marketing comments

0.878 GoDaddy Boycott Fizzles; Twice As Many Domains Transfer In As Out comments

0.851 A Beginner’s Guide to the Nordic Startup Ecosystem comments

0.824 Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon comments

0.794 Quick Tests with Bash comments

0.794 Scaling to 10M on AWS comments

0.793 Tipsy Fruit Flies on a Mission comments

0.782 Photo site programmer may be executed in Iran “at any moment” comments

0.768 Narrative Science Uses Twitter To Create Automated Stories comments

0.766 Fun with Ruby Block Parameters comments

0.763 Understanding smartphone leases: buying is better (Part 3) comments

0.739 Smart Ruby constants comments

0.735 Microsoft Have Internet Explorer Performance Lab to Reliably Measure Performance comments

0.713 SSDs have a ‘bleak’ future, researchers say comments

0.704 Execute a function given its name as a string comments

0.704 Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire comments

0.659 Colbert Report abruptly suspends production comments

0.651 Why Isn’t Amazon Dominating Online Payments? comments

0.645 Html5sql.js - Makes using SQL on the client side easy comments

0.642 Clever use of location and user-agent data comments

0.625 The Charlemagne Riddle comments

0.610 Anatomy of an FS_SPECS (FreeSWITCH) Feature Set comments

0.575 The future is a RESTful Drupal comments

0.501 What Linsanity Has Done to MSG’s stock comments

0.499 Bravery is where innovation goes to make babies. comments

0.496 Introducing Brewer.js - matehat comments

0.491 Mobile becomes a core component of AdSense - Inside AdSense comments

0.491 Inside Europe’s Largest Text Pirate Site comments

0.484 Akka Future vs. Twitter-Util Future Akka-User ML comments

0.463 CensorZilla comments

0.463 Against TED comments

0.463 The Element of Surprise comments

0.463 Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew comments

0.453 Game Terraria linked to terrorist bombing or clueless? comments

0.437 Harvard’s Liberal-Arts Failure Is Wall Street’s Gain comments

0.407 Boilerstrap: A beautiful mashup of HTML5 Boilerplate & Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 comments

0.403 Tiger projected onto the streets of Paris comments

0.401 Hadoop for the Enterprise Architect comments

0.372 Microsoft creates ‘mini internet’ to test Internet Explorer 20,000 times/day comments

0.369 6 Steps to Crack a Complex Business Report into Actionable Infographics comments

0.367 Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars comments

0.367 Fresh Insights from 12 of Philly’s Best SEO’s comments

0.354 3 IETF Mailing Lists To Follow For Monitoring DNSSEC comments

0.347 Government Moves Toward Cloud Computing ‘Perfect Storm’ comments

0.347 Hey Startups ‘Minimum Viable Product’ Includes Privacy Controls for Users comments

0.341 Git undo last commit comments

0.333 Apache Embraces Cloud with Deltacloud Approval comments

0.321 Google Dart Roundup: Dartium Binaries Available, I/O Libraries, Book and Docs comments

0.314 Tech preview of Chromium with Dart engine now available comments

0.310 Why an NDA (or Any Small Contract) is Worth Your Time comments

0.309 Pure javascript resumable file uploads launched at Minus comments

0.308 EU Court of Justice: SOPA-like legislation is verboten in Europe pdf comments

0.278 How Piictu is balancing attracting users and earning revenue - with Jon Slimak comments

0.245 Klout, a Marketplace for Influence? comments

0.236 HackerNews goes offline via LetsLunch comments

0.224 Another Verizon CMAS snafu comments

0.217 Beta testers needed for file transfer site. comments

0.216 No Jobs? Learn to Code (my new post) comments

0.214 HP CEO: Say goodbye to ‘open’ Android comments

0.209 SEO Needs an Anti-Hero comments

0.187 Apple’s Gatekeeper is for Security — but not yours comments

0.187 Device Administration:Remote Wipe and Remote Lock comments

0.169 Solve for X: Neal Stephenson talk on getting big stuff done comments

0.161 Apple Makes Gatekeeper a Friendly Signpost in Mountain Lion comments

0.158 How to divide digital assets in a divorce? comments

0.117 Device-To-Device Push Framework for Android comments

0.114 JavaScript, Dart/Chrome and TIScript/Sciter comparison comments

0.089 Facebook Asking Some Users To Upload Government Issued IDs comments

0.073 Telework: Resque plugin to control Resque workers from a web UI comments

0.068 Spark tablet pre-order registration is now open comments

0.061 New Features in Xcode 4.3 comments

0.049 Google owns duck.com. Shouldn’t it belong to DuckDuckGo? comments

0.036 Advantages of iOS Developer over Android Developer comments

0.032 Mozilla’s Boot2Gecko Mobile Platform and Gaia UI comments

0.025 HP Bets On The Cloud With New Gen8 Servers comments

0.021 Hey, Apple Here’s why I am not buying more iPads comments

0.017 FTC staff issues report on mobile apps for kids comments

0.014 Show HN: Review my Startup: (mobile) Programming w/o Coding for everyday people comments

0.013 Mobile Morning Coffee - Apple locks down address book, LightSquared is dead comments

0.010 OS X tip: Open the containing folder for a running app comments

0.010 YSlow is now open source comments

0.009 Is a Developer Pay Wall coming to OS X? comments

0.009 Show HN: Photo Picker+, New Library Improves Native Photo Picker (iOS+Android) comments

0.008 YSlow is now open source comments

0.005 Apple Sold More iOS Devices in 2011 Than All Macs Sold in 28 Years comments

0.001 Show HN | Gmelius, Towards a Cleaner Gmail (Chrome extension) comments

0.000 Show HN: Web app to send email notifications when a Dropbox file has changed comments

0.000 Traitor to the open source: I just re-signed up as a Mac OS X and iOS developer comments