Hacker News stories for 6 PM on Monday Feb 20, 2012

0.939 Free online computer science classes - Where to start guide. comments

0.922 For The Young, Smartphones No Longer A Luxury Item comments

0.918 Want to improve science education? Shut up and listen to your students comments

0.865 How To Get Experience Working With Large Datasets comments

0.844 “all the programs that could be written have already been written” comments

0.802 Stop Using Lorem Ipsum comments

0.781 Using ubuntu upstart to stop a daemon comments

0.780 How I Kept Up With Meditation For an Entire Year comments

0.771 Do Things, Tell People. comments

0.759 Can SSD Upgrades Boost PS3 Performance? comments

0.754 Fiscal crisis: Could the American government default? comments

0.722 Things to Do With Your Own Drone comments

0.718 Driverless Cars of the Future Are Here Now comments

0.704 Madhouse is trying to make an anime version of “Everything” American. comments

0.702 Why Don’t Americans Riot Anymore? comments

0.690 Somewhere Inside, a Path to Empathy comments

0.687 Maintaining Large Binary Resources in Git comments

0.681 Frontend Code Doesn’t Have to Suck: 5 Tips for Web Developers comments

0.604 9 Hot Tips for Small Business Marketing on Facebook comments

0.576 I made an easing formula playground with JavaScript. comments

0.571 Dehydration Influences Mood, Cognition comments

0.569 When did Proview become a company? comments

0.558 Google Plusification, or it’s Not About Latitude and Foursquare comments

0.556 Why Veterans Are a Good Fit for Tech Jobs comments

0.517 Fedora Project Requesting Testers of DNSSEC-Trigger comments

0.509 Guy builds iOS game entirely from Ray Wenderlich tutorials comments

0.506 Why is Clojure so slow? comments

0.477 Defense against the Black Arts comments

0.467 Puncture comments

0.467 Growing Up comments

0.465 Accounting Control Fraud Disappears from the Regulatory Lexicon comments

0.462 New Hope For Open Source Textbooks comments

0.456 Game Development: A Better Approach comments

0.455 Comments on the proposed DMCA excemption for “access control” measures. comments

0.448 FundScholars.org - Kickstarter for Education comments

0.448 Ten $50,000 grants for startups who move to St. Louis comments

0.426 The History of the Universe Timeline comments

0.417 Review: The Playstation Vita, Sony’s Portable Powerhouse comments

0.408 Designing Time in Interfaces comments

0.406 Brit student locked up for Facebook source code hack comments

0.390 It’s Unnatural comments

0.366 Social Network Login Status Detector comments

0.363 Apache Lucene alternative MG4J comments

0.356 Japan’s Tough For Game Developers comments

0.339 Report: Google ‘Tricked’ Millions of Browsers comments

0.336 Airbag Saves Skier in Washington comments

0.329 Open source blog as another Backbone, Slim, Rails, Bootstrap sample app comments

0.311 Apple’s Mountain Lion: more control for you or over you? comments

0.308 What does it mean when there is a (1) by my login name at the top? comments

0.299 Dear HN: If you could take a free online class in anything, what would it be? comments

0.295 Is this Orkut after the Brazilians have left? comments

0.291 Friday Night At The Standard: Army Girls comments

0.263 Mistash: Pinterest for your product lust comments

0.250 20 Lectures on Discrete Math comments

0.249 Movie Reviews Make All The Difference For Apple TV comments

0.234 Becoming an iOS Developer comments

0.228 Ad Agency BBH Moves Into Social Gaming, Seeks Developers Who Like Lollipops comments

0.219 ‘Windows support’ scammers still trying to scam YOU in 2012 comments

0.217 Meta name=”pinterest” content=”nopin” comments

0.210 Facebook credits the Open Graph for Pinterest’s 60% increase in daily Fb users comments

0.175 Versioning HTTP APIs comments

0.136 Your Bandwidth Will Be Throttled. Here’s Why comments

0.124 Chrome to surpass IE by end of March comments

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

0.102 ‘Youtube’ has replaced ‘Video’ on topbar of Google.com comments

0.094 YC S12 Single Founders Wanted comments

0.094 Is Apple going ‘thermonuclear war’ in iPad China trademark battle? comments

0.090 Attn: Programmers – Review My App: CodePorting.com – Convert .NET Apps to Java comments

0.089 Retina on OS X comments

0.084 Thinking Cities (video) comments

0.073 New Apple guide helps iOS developers get started comments

0.063 Sonastand - Battery free speaker stand for iphone comments

0.059 ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta (feature list and video) comments

0.018 ‘Go Away Google Plus’ User Script Lets You Hide Google+ comments

0.015 Supporting high-dpi pixel-dense displays like iPhones/iPad with CSS or IMG comments

0.012 My weekend project: All 1e280 possible tweets on one page comments

0.009 App developers receive $12 for each iOS device sold (math from AAPL earnings) comments

0.008 Ask HN: Open Labs in the US? comments

0.008 HTML5 iOS apps are easier to clone comments

0.006 Ask HN: Why is this account “banned”? comments

0.002 Ask HN: thinking about buying a website, what would you investigate? comments

0.001 Ask HN: Best way to derive an AES256 key from a password/passphrase? comments

0.001 Fake Pokemon Yellow ends up on iOS App Store comments