Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Friday Aug 17, 2012

0.807 Blessings: a pythonic answer to curses comments

0.700 OnLive screwed employees prior to acquisition in “massive dick move” comments

0.490 Clockwork Raven - MTurk framework from Twitter comments

0.477 Dear sw007 comments

0.453 Why isn’t Twitter charging for their API? comments

0.406 Confirmed: OnLive’s assets sold to another company comments

0.337 Backlift beta now open, featuring auth, validation and auto refresh comments

0.209 Apple’s aesthetic dichotomy (2011) comments

0.047 A Proposal To Improve Hacker News comments