Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Friday Feb 17, 2012

0.995 Polish Prime Minister calls for EU leaders to reject ACTA comments

0.991 Polish Prime Minister - “Our position on ACTA was not thought out” comments

0.985 RIAA: The Pirate Bay is The Worst of The Worst comments

0.943 Senators Ramp Up Fear Mongering To Try To Rush Through Cybersecurity Bill comments

0.935 How to Create a Compelling Browser-Based Presentation in Minutes with Deck.js comments

0.931 Craigslist deploys Node.js based SMTP server comments

0.926 How We Built a Product In Just 8 Hours comments

0.924 Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer comments

0.922 Startup Sea launches to find the ventures with the best ideas and most potential comments

0.917 Don’t put your career in stealth mode comments

0.913 Lies, Damned Lies and Piracy comments

0.898 Darpa reveals Avatar program, robot soldiers incoming comments

0.891 Students(US only) complete short survey for a chance to win $100 amazon giftcard comments

0.889 How To Start A Computer Science Flame War comments

0.875 JotForm domain released by Secret Service, won’t say why it was seized comments

0.868 A simple Golang program that demonstates websocket usage comments

0.867 Rifle-Oriented Programming with Clojure comments

0.849 Watch this 20-year-old entrepreneur rip these business plans apart comments

0.845 We donot pay you less because you are a woman comments

0.832 Think all government data is boring? A showcase of location data you want to use comments

0.816 Fed up with instructors trying to teach him how to think comments

0.812 Anonymous says ACTA must be killed with fire, hacks U.S. government websites comments

0.812 “DNA robot” targets cancer cells by releasing antibodies halting cells’ growth comments

0.809 So You’re A Startup - How to pitch comments

0.793 The 3 things a successful SEM campaign must have comments

0.792 Django | Python Developer (Job NYC) comments

0.791 UK Now Seizing Music Blogs (With American Domains) Over Copyright Claims comments

0.788 Should a Congress that Doesn’t Understand Math Regulate Cybersecurity? comments

0.771 Newer faster version of WebGL Quake 3 demo : JQuery is gone, updated glMatrix comments

0.770 Clojure’s Governance and How It Got That Way comments

0.760 Configuration Settings Are A Dependency That Should Be Injected comments

0.758 Neuromarketing firm explores America’s non-conscious consumer behavior comments

0.747 Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech comments

0.737 Who Needs SOPA When Sites Are Taken Offline Already? comments

0.734 Google wins slide-to-unlock patent as Apple battle heats up comments

0.726 Ex-Goldman Programmer Conviction for Stealing Code Reversed comments

0.709 Npm installable version of weinre comments

0.702 FTP Audit Logs: What’s the Value? comments

0.702 Venture debt – what it is and why you might need it comments

0.680 Congress Will Auction Public Airwaves to Pay for Benefits comments

0.669 Advice for Startups comments

0.660 ‘Anonymous’ hacks two more U.S. government websites comments

0.659 How to Detect Dyslexia Before Your Kid Starts School comments

0.656 Safely using .ready() before including jQuery comments

0.654 Postaljs-jquery: a jQuery wrapper for the in-memory message bus, postal.js comments

0.653 The slow rise of the SoMoClo OS comments

0.652 How to write good requirements comments

0.636 Preprocessor magic: Default Arguments in C comments

0.627 Make the best out of SXSWi - Here are the Top Guides comments

0.621 Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Performance Lab comments

0.619 Google and 3rd party cookies in Safari - Ouch comments

0.615 Kid-Friendly Web Businesses Raking in Funding and Profits comments

0.601 77 Thoughts that Inspired our Greatest Innovators comments

0.585 DNS flaw reanimates slain evil sites as ghost domains comments

0.583 Testing randomness comments

0.583 Redesigning the Windows Logo comments

0.578 Good Business Writing is Not a Mark Twain Novel comments

0.578 What Everyone Thinks You Do as an Internet Marketer comments

0.573 High availability with PostgreSQL, PGPool-II and FreeBSD comments

0.570 Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really? comments

0.545 CodeRace: Ryan Carson Wants You To Code… Fast comments

0.544 Mobile-first, a quick introduction comments

0.539 Pricing and Trading Networks: Down is Up, Left is Right comments

0.533 PMulator - Your virtual project manager comments

0.531 Startup Questions Answered comments

0.528 Warning High Dimensions Ahead comments

0.527 How to Fetch the Checked Value in RadioButtonList Control in WinForm comments

0.520 How to start building your own country/ travel API comments

0.515 Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics comments

0.512 Striving for greater efficiency in scientific research comments

0.511 Darpa Wants to Give Soldiers Robot Surrogates, Avatar Style comments

0.505 Half of Fortune 500s, US Govt. Still Infected with DNSChanger Trojan comments

0.502 Two Finger iOS Tips comments

0.501 How Tumblr Created A Design Culture With No Design Team comments

0.491 How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy comments

0.488 US experiencing longest stretch of high unemployment since Great Depression comments

0.477 How to create applications in Sitecore using asp.net pages comments

0.472 Rational Equivalence comments

0.472 How to Not Be a Shitty Recruiter comments

0.472 Aura Slate comments

0.467 Obama may ditch most US nukes comments

0.444 The Impending CSS Vendor Prefix Catastrophe comments

0.442 Most Smartphone Apps are Spyware comments

0.440 How to Save Books comments

0.434 Flow-based fun comments

0.432 What is the idea behind Milners German Investments? comments

0.428 Weta Digital’s CTO on Apes, Art & Technology comments

0.420 Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners comments

0.419 INFOGRAPHIC: Recruiters Aren’t Using Facebook And Twitter comments

0.407 The history of recording: The earliest recorded sounds comments

0.402 Why viral invite systems suck comments

0.402 Announcing SmartAlerts from Socialize comments

0.402 Antisec attacks FTC comments

0.400 New Polish Accelator in Poznan comments

0.394 Beyonce, Jay-Z move to trademark Blue Ivy comments

0.392 BrightFarms’ Business Model: How Tech Could Help Farmers & Consumers video comments

0.387 Robot scribe threatens the well-being of journalists everywhere comments

0.382 Utter boldly goes where no Siri has gone before comments

0.380 UnixUtils: Like Ruby’s FileUtils, but provides unzip, bzip2, sed, du, tail, etc comments

0.375 Coffee Taster: an easy CoffeeScript development environment for Ruby devs comments

0.370 Hacks from Music Hack Day SF comments

0.366 Why we can’t blame Google for ‘cookiegate’ comments

0.359 Berners-Lee ‘sorry’ for HTTP’s 2 forward slashes comments

0.350 How to Really Destroy a World in Mincecraft. comments

0.349 Tizen conference call for papers and registration are now open. comments

0.346 Amazon Order Search is BROKEN - Tech Wog comments

0.339 Big problems with ASLR in Ice Cream Sandwich comments

0.335 ECB vs CBC Encryption comments

0.334 How much would it cost to build the Death Star? comments

0.333 IMessage: some of your messages, somewhere comments

0.333 Insecure Provable Protocols comments

0.324 Bad Ass Rock Star Tech comments

0.316 Can Tesla Survive? comments

0.307 Does Milner plan a JV with Zappos Clone Zalando to the east? comments

0.306 RapidShare introduces 30kb/s free account speed cap, disables resume comments

0.298 Microsoft Reveals New Metro-Infused Windows Logo for Windows 8 comments

0.290 FBI seeks social media monitoring tool comments

0.285 The Challenges of Adding “True” Unicode to JavaScript: A Gist comments

0.274 Emacs Org-Mode HTML slideshow generator (in ClojureScript) comments

0.272 New twists in Italian seismology trial comments

0.264 Axel Springer invests in AirBnB comments

0.262 Linux version of netmap (line rate packet I/O at 10Gbit) now available. comments

0.261 Pininterest Clone Pinspire gains Warner Music Owner as Investor comments

0.250 Berlins most Charming Ceos comments

0.249 Pentagon’s Project ‘Avatar’ comments

0.248 How to Develop a Disruptive Mindset comments

0.243 Interactive prototyping comments

0.240 Meditation helps kids pay attention, neuroscientist says comments

0.239 Wringing out $79B worth of IT: Feds debate system duplication comments

0.235 Final Version of Messages to Drop Lion Support comments

0.228 Groupon manager attacks “slavedriver” CEO Daniel Glasner with two leaked emails comments

0.228 Police spy on web, phone usage with no warrants comments

0.226 Has the address bar had its day? comments

0.218 The Spectrum Dance: Sprint Twice to the Altar, Twice Burned comments

0.218 Lemnos Labs: A New Incubator Breeding Great Hardware comments

0.217 Hacking America’s Future Radio show discussion on OnPoint comments

0.212 The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory comments

0.205 Siemens gets serious about tidal power, acquires pioneer Marine Current Turbines comments

0.203 Why iCloud integration on Apple’s Mountain Lion OS fails comments

0.201 This Week In Social Media comments

0.192 2011 iPhone Sales Top 28 Years of Mac Sales comments

0.182 I made a web based basketball play drawer. Looking for feedback. comments

0.181 Google says circumventing Safari privacy features accidental comments

0.177 Google Android 4 years and counting no ad hoc support comments

0.157 25 Examples of Hand Drawn Elements in Web Design comments

0.154 Yelp Expects to IPO at $12 to $14 a Share comments

0.153 Google accused of illicit iPhone tracking comments

0.151 Google swings new mobile unlock patent punch at Apple comments

0.149 ClikThis - a youtube remote control for your iPhone comments

0.148 Open Source and Big Data: Two Things I Love About LinkedIn. comments

0.142 Apple Shuns The New York Times Because Previous Foxconn Reporting comments

0.136 How To Tell HTML From HTML5 comments

0.132 Fixing the SVG Problem on Android 2.x comments

0.130 What Does Technology Look Like in an Age of Abundance? comments

0.126 Ask HN: Worthy ideas? Critique my thought process comments

0.123 Google tricked Apple’s Safari into tracking users comments

0.122 Chris Grundemann’s Excellent “Introducing IPv6″ Article Series comments

0.120 Microsoft’s Biggest Miss comments

0.114 Downloads Folder: A Binary Planting Minefield comments

0.111 More Backpedaling: Netflix Brings Back the $7.99 DVD-Only Plan comments

0.111 News.YCombinator.com Technology Profile comments

0.108 Fork Yeah The Rise and Development of illumos comments

0.102 Mobile Apps Take Data Without Permission comments

0.096 Attackers have all they need from leaky cellphone networks to track you down comments

0.092 Ask HN: Language for Rules Engine comments

0.089 Anonymous Launches a DDOS Attack on Internet’s root DNS Server comments

0.088 LG Optimus NET P690 Review and price in India comments

0.084 Google Taking Advantage of Safari’s Security Flaws comments

0.083 Google Under Fire for Circumvention of Cookie Settings in Safari for iOS comments

0.074 Yahoo opens development of YSlow page analysis tool comments

0.072 Stanford researcher: Google Circumvents iOS Privacy protection in AdSense ads comments

0.071 The pros and cons of Mozilla’s super-open Boot to Gecko mobile OS comments

0.069 Launching your mobile app at SXSW? Maybe we can help. comments

0.068 Responsive App Design comments

0.067 Intelligent software assigns appropriate background music for pictures comments

0.063 Facebook, Google, others circumvent Safari privacy restrictions comments

0.059 Poll: What OS do you use for your production web server? comments

0.057 Ask HN: Help with start-up partnership proposals comments

0.044 Price of the iPad Name: $55,000 to $2 Billion comments

0.042 Mac OS X Mountain Lion vs. Real Mountain Lion comments

0.041 Ask HN: What’s the best way to implement multiple oauth authentication? comments

0.040 In Four Years, Apple Sold More iPhones Than All Macs Ever comments

0.040 Apple CEO: No pressure from Microsoft, PC industry is chasing MacBook Air comments

0.038 25 Billion App Countdown - Apple comments

0.030 Mac developers: Gatekeeper is a concern, but still gives power users control comments

0.025 Anonymous Antisec hackers break into and bring down FTC website comments

0.024 Ask HN: What happened to Mixergy? comments

0.021 Ask HN: What would you ask Brian Greene (or a Nobel Prize winner)? comments

0.021 Traditional Board Games Get New Life with iPhone, iPad Integration comments

0.021 Vimeo not YouTube gets instant share option in Mountain Lion comments

0.017 Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than total Macs in 28 years comments

0.016 HipChat responds to the similarity of the Apple Messages icon to their logo comments

0.015 Ask HN: I Got DDOS’ed and Possible Hacked To Ubuntu Server comments

0.013 Apple Sold More iOS Devices in 2011 Than Macs in 28 Years comments

0.011 Reanalyzing the Notepad++ open source project comments

0.007 Security Tool HijackThis Goes Open Source comments

0.006 Ask HN: Which technology/framework will you choose for a brand new applicaiton? comments

0.005 Show HN: My side project mobile coupon codes that don’t suck (view on mobile) comments

0.004 Fake Google Android App Store Lures Users to Malware comments

0.001 Best Chrome Apps and Extensions to Edit your Photos comments