Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Wednesday Mar 14, 2012

0.912 Peter Norvig to teach ‘Design of Computer Programs’ at Udacity comments

0.886 People are dying in a futile effort to stop Russell Brand taking heroin comments

0.853 Everywhere I’ve Been in the last 3 years - GPS points comments

0.852 AOL Swears that AIM Won’t Be Killed, But It’s Already Too Late comments

0.851 European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout comments

0.843 Can a Startup Renaissance Fix Young America? comments

0.818 Windows 8 and Future of Tablets comments

0.781 Thoughts About Datomic comments

0.779 Name dropping Now, what could go wrong with Silicon Valley comments

0.773 Canada relaxes rules on foreign ownership of wireless companies comments

0.748 88% there: “Don’t Mess With The Internet” billboard in Lamar Smith’s district comments

0.746 Billboard visible only to girls comments

0.683 Underscore.js .profile() method](https://github.com/micho/underscore.profile) comments

0.682 1K javascript speech synthesizer comments

0.667 Britannica: Define Outdated comments

0.602 Archos outs G10 xs tablet line, readies Transformer Prime contenders comments

0.521 Unix for Poets comments

0.519 HTML5 3D Tetris tutorial using Three.js comments

0.517 Yahoo Facebook patent battle: Mobilizing Engineers comments

0.516 Watch how the Moon was formed comments

0.515 Where HNers work comments

0.475 OpenCV vs. Matlab vs. SimpleCV comments

0.375 Nubimus - A Programmatic Dialogue comments

0.326 Check out Arena’s new BOM Manager comments

0.308 Introducing Justinmind Usernote comments

0.303 The Man Who Broke Atlantic City comments

0.281 Verifying the authenticity of 3000 leaked Syrian emails comments

0.253 How Google is cracking down on the “bad actors” in the AdWords ecosystem comments

0.229 Ask HN: Can drones be a solution to dealing with higher level talent shortage? comments

0.173 Apple ‘iPad Mini’ is planned, Samsung official tells Korea Times comments

0.153 Announcing a New Database Widget Partnership with AngelList comments

0.127 Data | San Francisco comments

0.087 Why Joint Decision Making Exacerbates Rejection of Outside Information comments

0.085 Hackers of the World, Unite comments

0.059 The Road to Hell Is Paved with Viral Videos comments

0.054 Sparrow coming to iPhone comments

0.043 Ask HN: Feedback from Code Academy grads? comments

0.042 New City of San Francisco Data Portal comments

0.024 Ed Catmull of Pixar on why successful companies fail (VIDEO 2007) comments

0.010 Ask HN: Questions that scare every developer comments