Hacker News stories for 6 PM on Thursday Feb 23, 2012

0.911 Schneier: government, big data pose bigger ‘Net threat than criminals comments

0.890 Locust: A scalable user load testing tool written in Python and gevent comments

0.836 Why Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and Your Past) comments

0.834 You are your own worst critic comments

0.815 Ron Conway: Silicon Valley Stronger Than Ever comments

0.813 JQuery UI 1.8.18 Released comments

0.781 Defending Independent Innovation comments

0.776 68 Hackathons Happening in March 2012 comments

0.765 WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning charged, declines to enter plea comments

0.718 Don’t Know What To Do With Your Life? Seek Bargains. comments

0.684 ENCRYPT ALL THE THINGS comments

0.664 I’ve lost enthusiasm for my startup comments

0.662 Apple Patent Application Details Ultra-Flat Keyboard comments

0.648 Rails Went Off The Rails comments

0.639 Whitehouse starting process to draft data privacy rules comments

0.632 Why Apple products are well designed and buggy comments

0.580 Case Study: Using Mongo and MapReduce to Analyze a Difficult Research Problem comments

0.567 Certified programming with dependent types (a tutorial) comments

0.532 Getting the right proxy for your API comments

0.510 IDA Pro piracy map (jump to the bottom) comments

0.503 Why bloggers and press don’t matter for user acquisition (2007) comments

0.483 US Appeals Court: Forced Decryption Is Self-Incrimination comments

0.467 Mongo & Mongeez comments

0.453 I’m starting a company comments

0.446 Woz on Creativity: Work Alone comments

0.429 America’s Darwin Problem comments

0.407 Is Sugar Fattening comments

0.400 GPS jammers and spoofers threaten infrastructure, say researchers comments

0.394 Computer Programmers the 7th most sleep deprived profession comments

0.379 Test comments

0.315 Listen up, Retailers. Point of Sale is Doomed on Facebook comments

0.307 Apple wants to reinvent keyboards, making them even thinner comments

0.305 10 Steps to a Home Office You’ll Love | Apartment Therapy comments

0.281 Binary tree traversal win app comments

0.243 Smackdown: Google TV vs Apple TV vs Boxee vs Roku vs… comments

0.198 55 Upcoming Hackathons: Civic, Music, Photos and Robotics comments

0.188 Problems With Popper comments

0.173 WordPress Quarterly - 1st Issue is Now Shipping comments

0.173 AngelCube graduate start-up Goodfil.ms raises $150k comments

0.160 MailerJS: Send email with client-side JavaScript comments

0.125 Apple Readying ‘Products That Will Blow Your Mind’ comments

0.094 What Facebook really thinks about your personal privacy comments

0.090 Microsoft to Google: Please Don’t Use Patents to Kill Video on the Web comments

0.061 Is Google Preparing A Cloud TV Offering? comments

0.059 Microsoft: Motorola and Google are trying to ‘kill video on the Web’ comments

0.057 Apple’s Chinese legal woes over iPad surface at home comments

0.034 Win-win with Cocotron and Xcode 4.3 — code for Mac, build for Windows (Part 1) comments

0.030 Try WebRTC live demo, html5 based video conf (Chrome only) comments

0.029 Are Microsoft, Google and Netflix trying to bring DRM to HTML5? comments

0.025 BookReader: a Full-featured EBook Reader for Mac comments

0.008 Mozilla Stocks the Shelves for an App Store Grand Opening comments

0.007 Apple Acquires Chomp; App Store Search And Discovery To Be Completely Revamped comments