Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Tuesday Feb 21, 2012

0.986 Why doesn’t the MPAA buy The Pirate Bay? comments

0.954 How Venture Capitalists Talk: A Short Primer comments

0.947 How can a self hosting language be faster than its original implementation comments

0.919 Stop Creating Content You Evil Bastard comments

0.900 Big Data on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise comments

0.859 Function Statements, Definitions, Literals, and Expressions comments

0.829 Scientists building robot dinosaurs from 3-d printed fossils comments

0.819 Preprocessor Magic: Designated Initializers in C Function Calling comments

0.769 Money, code and sex - Web 2.0 the Movie comments

0.730 The Most Unhappy of Pleasures: Your Sugar Addiction Is Killing You comments

0.645 Using jQuery, Plugins and UI Controls With Backbone comments

0.625 EmberJS: Initial Impressions (Compared To BackboneJS) comments

0.563 Be a BetaTester comments

0.550 Startup Row Winners for PyCon 2012 announced comments

0.513 How to convince a startup to hire you comments

0.486 Good Agile, Bad Agile comments

0.428 Facebook Hacker Gets 8 Months in Jail comments

0.372 Book: Inside Apple comments

0.363 Gates Fdn.: immunity assessment tool RFP comments

0.340 Donate $5 to A Place to Turn food pantry and the CEO of Punchbowl will match it. comments

0.333 Nothing is about you comments

0.326 RIAA Insists That, Really, The Music Industry Is Collapsing comments

0.322 The Origins of C++ comments

0.319 Rio Tinto ramps up futuristic IT-driven mining comments

0.313 Using statecharts for JavaScript applications comments

0.276 GameBoy Emulation in JavaScript comments

0.219 Skydrive doesn’t support encrypted files? comments

0.168 Facebook to Microsoft: P3P is outdated, what else ya got? comments

0.160 Apache releases first major new version of popular Web server in six years comments

0.135 Yahoo, Gmail asked to route all mails through servers in India comments

0.108 FIX Protocol trading standard due next month comments

0.102 Happening Now: United States’ First Twittercast of Open-Heart Surgery comments

0.101 How we are using ‘Hitler reacts’ video to convey our startup’s positioning comments

0.074 Can an Android phone run without Google? comments

0.058 Office for iPad Rumor Surfaces Again comments

0.044 Does Apple ban developers for selling apps on Cydia? comments

0.039 New pleasures are possible with html5; vibration API is coming. comments

0.037 Show HN: LabroyMedia Blog comments

0.024 Barnes & Noble eyes Kindle Fire with $199 Nook Tablet; Nook Color drops to $169 comments

0.023 Show HN: LabroyMedia comments

0.011 “Mobile App Olympics” hack-a-thon this weekend in Berlin, London, New York, etc. comments

0.003 Show HN: wireshark as a web app comments

0.001 Ask HN: I want to hack shopping on mobiles. But how? comments