Hacker News stories for 10 PM on Saturday Mar 31, 2012

0.960 Code School releases free Can Haz LOLCODE course comments

0.839 Code School LOLCODE course comments

0.774 Issues hindering Scala adoption in enterprises Options comments

0.663 4/1 Richard Branson to launch Virgin Volcanic comments

0.657 AWS Hosts Human Genetics Catalog in the Cloud comments

0.604 Ivan Sutherland: The Sequential Prison comments

0.559 No joke: Al Franken rings alarm over Facebook, Google comments

0.555 Money & Affirmation comments

0.511 Free Books: Concord Free Press Creates New Nonprofit Publishing Model comments

0.500 Usage Caps: Hidden and Invisible comments

0.488 Apple, publishers to settle e-books price-fixing suit: Report comments

0.480 Why the cloud is bad for startups comments

0.375 Gmail Tap comments

0.321 Adobe to charge developers per centimeter of ActionScript code comments

0.309 Google Racing comments

0.307 Gmail Tap comments

0.292 Apple and Google comments

0.257 April Fool’s Day Roundup comments

0.251 Bringing self-driving cars to NASCAR comments

0.200 Introducing Gmail Tap comments

0.172 Twilio announces Telegram API, powered by TaskRabbit comments

0.165 Conan O’Brien Buys Mashable, Ousts Pete Cashmore as CEO comments

0.136 Socket.io and nginx workaround comments

0.127 Google Adwords Click to Teleport Extensions comments

0.127 Google Maps comments

0.093 Draw Something CEO badmouths team member who turned down Zynga’s offer comments

0.090 Poll: Child-free flights comments

0.084 Change The Weather With Google comments

0.048 Ask HN: Coderwall-api Gem and post. Feedback? comments

0.011 Ask HN: another newb question comments

Hacker News stories for 7 PM on Saturday Mar 31, 2012

0.948 Ultra lightweight MVC framework for Node.js comments

0.878 Ask Stack: How can I find a good open source project to join? comments

0.738 Java.lang.Thread considered harmful comments

0.651 Blog - Computer Chat comments

0.606 ITerm 2: The SOCIAL terminal comments

0.578 G+ Crash Course comments

0.571 Trying to learn Vintage Mode in Sublime Text 2? Try the vimtutor file comments

0.546 ‘X Factor’ style song cover battle start-up goes live comments

0.533 Computing for Poets comments

0.500 1-bit photos on Flickr comments

0.408 4/1: Google Analytics turns your stats into piano music comments

0.313 Why a Google tablet store could succeed where the Nexus One failed comments

0.265 Inexpensive super fast and reliable Internet access for businesses comments

0.255 Do you keep your own javascript “standard lib”? comments

0.217 The Web Startup Success Guide - Paul Graham comments

0.162 Google maps for NES surpasses other attempts at April foolery comments

0.144 Why Investors Love Android comments

0.138 Google will abandon Android comments

0.115 Chrome Multitask Mode comments

0.113 Weibo services ‘punished’ for Beijing coup rumors, comments temporarily disabled comments

0.095 4/1: Browse With Your Face comments

0.065 The YouTube Collection comments

0.053 Wait, Google earns four times more from iOS than Android? comments

0.051 The new Blogger update … sucks. comments

0.045 All April Fools’ Day Jokes on the Web Are Here (so they don’t clutter HN) comments

0.025 Ask HN: Proving Early Stage Validation, When Everything Is Wrong With Your Idea comments

0.020 Question: What do economists generally know that CEOs don’t, and vice versa? comments

0.007 Ask HN: Please preface April Fools day stories with 4/1:? comments

Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Saturday Mar 31, 2012

0.904 RESTful thinking considered harmful - followup comments

0.864 Quickly chart your CPU/GPU temperature with Python comments

0.845 Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media comments

0.764 Startup Incubator for Students Launches in Seattle comments

0.601 April 1st on Google Analytics comments

0.556 Challenge comments

0.502 Why Can’t Startups Find Designers? comments

0.463 Is sugar toxic? comments

0.461 Fragmentation is a Bad Excuse comments

0.392 Batgraph-1)abs(3-abs(x))%2F((abs(x)-1)(3-abs(x))))(1%2Babs(abs(x)-3)%2F(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)%2B(5%2B0.97(abs(x-.5)%2Babs(x%2B.5))-3(abs(x-.75)%2Babs(x%2B.75)))(1%2Babs(1-abs(x))%2F(1-abs(x)))%2C-3sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)%2F(abs(x)-4))%2Cabs(x%2F2)-0.0913722(x%5E2)-3%2Bsqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)%5E2)%2C(2.71052%2B(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)%5E2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)%2F(abs(x)-1))%2B0.9&oq=graph+for+2sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)abs(3-abs(x))%2F((abs(x)-1)(3-abs(x))))(1%2Babs(abs(x)-3)%2F(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)%2B(5%2B0.97(abs(x-.5)%2Babs(x%2B.5))-3(abs(x-.75)%2Babs(x%2B.75)))(1%2Babs(1-abs(x))%2F(1-abs(x)))%2C-3sqrt(1-(x%2F7)%5E2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)%2F(abs(x)-4))%2Cabs(x%2F2)-0.0913722(x%5E2)-3%2Bsqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)%5E2)%2C(2.71052%2B(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)%5E2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)%2F(abs(x)-1))%2B0.9&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=hp.3…681l681l0l3497l1l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.llsin.&pbx=1&fp=1&biw=1189&bih=939&qscrl=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&cad=b) comments

0.375 The ‘So What’ Of The Quantified Self comments

0.318 Ubuntu, GNOME and Design. comments

0.313 Why You Probably Haven’t Started Investing Yet comments

0.242 Explaining why hard games are awesome and should not be missed. comments

0.228 Tech Jobs And Airbnb Are Squeezing The SF Housing Market — Here’s What To Do comments

0.188 RealTime Search Engine for Facebook comments

0.187 Free International Tax EBook Amazon for Limited Time comments

0.161 (1) I don’t like this button on face book comments

0.134 BMW adds extra sportiness to its i-series lineup, unveils i8 Concept Spyder comments

0.003 Show HN: Yet another “my first open-source project” thread. Feedback, please? comments

Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Saturday Mar 31, 2012

0.747 Be yourself. Abnormal people create abnormal returns. comments

0.670 PlanningMyBudget: Saving money in a fun way comments

0.643 WTF Python? comments

0.603 Amazon is stifling the e-commerce revolution — discovery commerce? comments

0.552 How to explain Nagios to grandma comments

0.526 Fexl b28 released comments

0.467 Pottermore comments

0.467 Fuck ‘em comments

0.467 Anti-capitalism 101 comments

0.467 Spooning by bitbucket comments

0.457 Will Winning the Lottery Ruin Your Life? comments

0.432 What are the best sources for programming problems? comments

0.404 Impressive Client List Wasted comments

0.391 The truth about the US Postal Service comments

0.378 How we got paying customers before we started writing code comments

0.373 I want to pay for Facebook comments

0.363 Why Groupon is poised for collapse comments

0.333 Why Groupon is poised for collapse comments

0.272 I’m self-referring 1,000+ clicks/week. Figured I’d share how. comments

0.253 Idea for the structure of a tutoring site comments

0.210 The Bureaucracy of Videogames: Why San Andreas Had to Tone Down the Sex comments

0.190 Groupon’s Shares Fall on (accounting) Revision comments

0.162 Atfight.me is looking for a tech co-founder comments

0.143 Google Maps in 8bit mode comments

0.141 When “not” to use Dependency Injection? comments

0.138 Google will abandon Android comments

0.131 Is Unix not a PC operating system? comments

0.092 Apple is the No.1 Consumer Brand in Japan today comments

0.068 Microsoft Joins The Linux Foundation, Donates Windows 8 Source Code comments

0.025 IPhone design elements for Hackers comments

0.022 Run chrome in linux with root login comments

0.014 Ask HN: Hacks for better driving behaviour? comments

0.003 Ask HN: Sci-Fi Books for Hackers? comments

Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Saturday Mar 31, 2012

0.901 Should You Consider API Starter Kits for 3rd Party Platforms comments

0.881 The truth about Scala comments

0.806 Sinking Mugs Are a Functional April Fool’s Day Prank Pranks comments

0.726 Rafa Benetiz: A title winning soccer manager who codes comments

0.723 The 2,800 € Startup (an answer to Vivek Wadhwa) comments

0.704 Scientists have proven that, up close, your brain is plaid comments

0.704 Kotlin M1 Candidate comments

0.696 What Not To Do When Teaching Creative Writing comments

0.670 PlanningMyBudget: Saving money in a fun way comments

0.661 Just How Much Is Your Privacy Worth? comments

0.643 3 Things Every Startup Needs to Prove comments

0.625 Empty Spaces: Can parking lots be great? comments

0.608 Aaencode - Encode any JavaScript program to Japanese style emoticons (^_^) comments

0.593 The Streets are paved with Pyrite comments

0.593 The Camera That Can See Around Walls comments

0.586 SynBio Startup Launchpad comments

0.578 Question perceived wisdom comments

0.571 Self refreshing caches in ehcache comments

0.537 You don’t need to shrink a database to get a smaller backup comments

0.534 Anonymous is not taking down the Internet comments

0.533 What makes Helsinki a hot startup hub - 8 observations comments

0.497 Generalized monad comprehensions in Python (warning: evil hack) comments

0.487 Tumblr Community Guidelines comments

0.477 Is Your New HDTV Watching You? comments

0.467 RockYou and the FTC settlement (Ed Felten, FTC chief technologist) comments

0.447 Why Amazon Can’t Win a Tablet Price War Against Google comments

0.429 Majority Female comments

0.427 Automatically calibrating a computer projector image comments

0.376 Free Premium Files For April 2012 comments

0.343 PHP: nophptags (PHP proposal for PHP without tags). comments

0.328 Richard Branson launches Virgin Volcanic, journeys to the center of the Earth comments

0.320 Five Reasons Why Developers Need To Be Wary About Android comments

0.320 Facebook timeline rolls out to all brand pages comments

0.318 How to make a fixed sidebar or header with CSS comments

0.259 Notch Announces ‘Mars Effect,’ a Free-roaming Space Sim comments

0.258 MIT CSAIL PhD vs. Promising Startup comments

0.246 Scraping FFFFound for a digital photo frame comments

0.230 Youtube turns lights off for Earth hour. comments

0.198 Tumblr: Google Maps 8-bit monster comments

0.157 The Quietest Room in the World comments

0.130 Other than local universities, where would you look for a mechanical engineer? comments

0.074 Writing papers using LaTeX and iPad comments

0.064 Ow, My Trademark (Need Legal Help w\ Infringement) comments

0.046 Tired Of Straight Tech News? Check Out Techcrunch.com/Drama comments

0.042 Apple employees like Tim Cook more than Steve Jobs: Survey comments

0.042 SpiderOak IAMA/AUA on reddit.com comments

0.024 Top Best Chrome Extensions comments

0.020 Ask HN: Would your startup die if your Google traffic disappeared? comments

Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Saturday Mar 31, 2012

0.945 Stackexchange: How can I find a good open source project to join? comments

0.939 Rails 3.2.3 has been released comments

0.896 A simple light weight IDE for Scala comments

0.893 MIT develops microfluidic chips that detect viruses in blood & toxins in water comments

0.848 The 44 Master Moves of Remarkable Entrepreneurs | Robin Sharma’s Blog comments

0.831 I don’t like the Dalai Lama comments

0.828 My Scala Elliptic Curve Cryptography Lib comments

0.780 The latest thing in pair programming is Spooning with Bitbucket comments

0.711 Banks are too big to see what’s coming comments

0.647 Weird Al Yankovic seeks $5 million in unpaid royalties comments

0.604 Solar Powered Plane Plans 1,500 Mile Trip To Morocco comments

0.600 Niall Ferguson and Peter Thiel At Harvard comments

0.574 Explore the entire Milky Way in your browser comments

0.500 لماذا ؟ comments

0.500 Timeline: Beautifully crafted open-source timelines comments

0.467 Sexism in IT comments

0.467 Swarm behavior comments

0.461 Coursera: Compiler Class, taught by Alex Aiken comments

0.398 MacOS KenDensed: The New Foxconn, Government Hacking & Nokia’s SIM Hate comments

0.322 Interview With B Horowitz: RG Verified Blogger comments

0.281 Visa, Mastercard and Discover warn of security breach comments

0.229 Bio as Bible: Managers Imitate Steve Jobs comments

0.197 So Long, And Thanks For All The Quantum Research comments

0.180 Largest space survey ever gains insights into Dark Energy comments

0.166 Coming Of Age comments

0.151 The $30 billion Social Security hack comments

0.131 Beem: A Jabber/XMPP client for Android comments

0.127 8bit Google Map - Monster Hunter: Yeti comments

0.114 The man behind FAKEGRIMLOCK comments

0.044 Use the Google Maps 8bit layer in any app comments

0.038 Ask HN: No Idea & Looking for Co-Founder in NYC comments

0.007 Google Maps for NES (video) comments

Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Saturday Mar 31, 2012

0.957 3 Quick JavaScript Tips for .NET Developers comments

0.787 How to Avoid the 6 Clients that Could Hurt Your Business comments

0.765 Power Management of Online Data-Intensive Services comments

0.723 Simplicity is King comments

0.721 Why you should never use free email services to manage your domain names comments

0.719 Busy Building Things prints inspire startups comments

0.715 When people tell you that your idea sucks you should ignore them comments

0.710 Lawrence Lessig stops blogging comments

0.651 Y Combinator here I come comments

0.631 Geocoda launches with Geocoding and Spatial Database comments

0.625 My Spring Break Project - Startup Alumnus comments

0.577 KillZimmerman is still online comments

0.571 Cucumber for Perl comments

0.567 Is Agile Stifling Introverts? comments

0.545 Soul Link comments

0.500 The psychology of Angry Birds comments

0.492 JavaScript mixin performance comments

0.475 Gall and Pareto applied to software development comments

0.467 JoinAStartup comments

0.462 Passionate employee comments

0.435 Engineering Serendipity comments

0.395 6 Habits of True Strategic Thinkers comments

0.390 Early-Stage Sports Site In SF Hiring Lead Engineer comments

0.377 An indie success story comments

0.356 Opera : The most innovative web browser in history comments

0.333 VFX in Hunger Games comments

0.320 Liquid Metal Battery: Renewable Missing Link comments

0.312 So you need a typeface comments

0.288 I’ve Been Hacked By Russian Journalists comments

0.286 IRKD, by Atlassian - Fix what irks you comments

0.279 Google Maps in 8 bit mode comments

0.272 Introduction to HTML5 forms and CSS3 Pseudo Classes comments

0.263 Appinreview.com comments

0.238 UX and user testing: How we did it comments

0.233 Alternative Artwork for Safari’s Navigator Icon comments

0.208 Poll: What would it take to get you to switch to Blackberry? comments

0.190 Poll: What Would It Take For You To Switch To Blackberry? (On behalf of ekalvi) comments

0.166 Android Design does have a soul comments

0.161 Today on history : Twitter cofounder Evan Williams was born comments

0.160 SVG animations, CSS Animations, CSS Transitions comments

0.153 Ask HN: thoughts about NYT Page Not Found page comments

0.141 Screanleap (YC W11) Wants to Be the Dropbox of Screensharing comments

0.138 Researchers claim hackers can pull credit card data from used Xbox 360s comments

0.126 Google maps 8bit quest mode. A setup for 4/1 perhaps? comments

0.124 Google’s 8 bit maps comments

0.116 Street View guide to Japan: Cherry Blossom Season Edition (Flash Required) comments

0.101 Introducing the Google Play artist hub comments

0.077 Google Japan View Cherry Blossoms comments

0.046 Google Maps 8-bit for NES comments

0.046 Google Maps 8-bit for NES comments

0.018 Ask HN: This is my first open-source project. Feedback? comments

0.007 Show HN: Our Startup Weekend Project comments

Hacker News stories for 2 AM on Saturday Mar 31, 2012

0.889 Two groups of entrepreneurs comments

0.851 Physical attractiveness and careers comments

0.805 Chinese Internet Firms Punished For Permitting Spread Of Political Rumors comments

0.698 C++ 101: An Introduction - First Week Free to All comments

0.614 Which tongues work best for microblogs? comments

0.584 Why fexprs, part N, or lambda only the penultimate comments

0.467 Charles Darwin, Economist comments

0.454 Build 50-100TB Cloud comments

0.451 Rich Ajax Platform - Eclipse comments

0.417 The High Cost of Burnout comments

0.309 Google: righteoussness comments

0.240 Sqrt(xy-yx)+3cos(sqrt(xy-yx))+5](https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=sqrt%28xx%2Byy%29%2B3cos%28sqrt%28xx%2Byy%29%29%2B5#hl=en&sugexp=frgbld&gs_nf=1&pq=sqrt%28xx%2Byy%29%2B3cos%28sqrt%28xx%2Byy%29%29%2B5&cp=29&gs_id=2l&xhr=t&q=sqrt%28xy-yx%29%2B3cos%28sqrt%28xy-yx%29%29%2B5&pf=p&safe=off&pws=0&sclient=psy-ab&oq=sqrt%28xy-yx%29%2B3cos%28sqrt%28xy-yx%29%29%2B5&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=892d95ef72c47e1e&biw=1250&bih=622) comments

0.229 Cordova webOS comments

0.130 Why is it amazing time to be a math teacher comments

0.117 We need to think Beyond Mobile comments

0.078 Where to put OK button in Android app? comments