Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Wednesday Apr 25, 2012

0.982 Java programmers, code to the interface, even if it’s a class comments

0.981 Functional programming is a ghetto comments

0.942 Big Data Reference Model comments

0.903 The Grand Experiment: German Pirate Party Attempts to Reinvent Politics comments

0.820 The Creative Monopoly comments

0.810 Understanding Clojure’s PersistentVector implementation comments

0.788 The Low Risk Way to Start a Business comments

0.702 Silicon Valley’s war for the mobile web comments

0.658 Amazing programming joke comments

0.656 My .02 on VC seed money by David Lee comments

0.635 Early Stage Fundraising Tips comments

0.604 The Age of Excellence comments

0.589 Setting Up Your User Nurturing Email Program How To comments

0.568 AWS CloudFormation Can Now Create Virtual Private Clouds comments

0.518 How To Make A Recently Added Songs Playlist in iTunes comments

0.500 TechHive from Macworld’s Jason Snell comments

0.500 Study - The Creativity Gap comments

0.467 Biophotovoltaics comments

0.462 Sensory overload, from the founder of Omniture (infographic) comments

0.449 Launch Culture Gets Toxic comments

0.429 The evolution of APL comments

0.397 Cool calculator tricks comments

0.390 RuggedCom - Backdoor Accounts in my SCADA network? You don’t say… comments

0.387 Tim O’Reilly: Gradually, then suddenly comments

0.381 Monitor your site, and do it for free… comments

0.377 Something Is Rotten In The State Of E-Book Publishing comments

0.373 Google Drive: A Lazy Boy’s Dream comments

0.370 A Web Retailer Buys The Perfect Domain Name. Then Comes a Letdown. comments

0.363 Why choosing between Google Drive or Dropbox when you can use both? comments

0.322 Buying a house reduces likelihood of starting a business by 20-25% comments

0.313 Buying a good domain name from a bad country comments

0.305 Agency Shares Adwords CTRs From An Automotive Campaign comments

0.297 When “Changing Behaviour” is your value proposition comments

0.283 How do I “install” Clojure on windows comments

0.271 A pretty good comparison of Dropbox to Google Drive comments

0.268 Felix Salmon: Could the NYT make money from its scoops? comments

0.258 Value Created versus Time Spent - The trouble with interruptions comments

0.248 They write the right stuff comments

0.244 Former Terrorists and Neo-Nazis Get Their Own Social Network comments

0.231 Clog magazine debates new Apple building’s design comments

0.185 The unlocked, no-contract Nexus phone on Google Play comments

0.157 Note to Facebook Shareholders: What to Do After You Make a Zillion Dollars comments

0.155 Who is living off their (bootstrapped) startup fulltime? comments

0.145 My Problem with Git: No Abstraction comments

0.144 Steve Jobs building NeXT comments

0.121 CSS3 PopupBox Balloon With Full Drop Shadow comments

0.114 Microsoft to Consolidate Entertainment Offerings comments

0.111 E-Mail, Source Code From VMWare Bubbles Up From Compromised Chinese Firm comments

0.104 Introducing a tool to help you find websites you forget comments

0.087 President Obama Drives Sphero the Robotic Ball comments

0.084 Google Doesn’t Want Me to Buy New Shoes comments

0.078 Visit global landmarks with photo tours in Google Maps comments

0.069 Why HTC is the Best Android has to Offer comments

0.060 Introducing the home computer terminal (1967) comments

0.052 Amazon.com: Send to Kindle for PC (Mac also available) comments

0.037 VMware Confirms Hacker Leaked Source Code For ESX Hypervisor comments

0.036 Video: talk brings you up to date on just about every major field in genomics comments

0.025 Star Trek / Champions Online usernames + passwords compromised comments

0.021 This is The HackStore (Installous for Mac) comments

0.018 Designing a Chat App for iOS - Nice walk through visual design comments

0.017 Ask HN: What kind of challenges do hardware startups (like Nest) face? comments

0.007 Show HN: MyEzApp.com, build your own cloud apps online comments

0.006 Onion Browser brings encrypted mobile browsing to iOS comments