Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Friday Feb 17, 2012

0.981 Why You Should Refuse to Build a Startup on Content comments

0.942 Will 2012 Be the Year of the Health Tech Start-up? comments

0.929 Pymacs: allows both-way communication between Emacs Lisp and Python comments

0.880 Cassandra: Two Data Centers and Great Performance comments

0.839 How To Build A Time Machine - Doc Ignite comments

0.812 Irrational Design, a Start-Up, Shuns Venture Capital comments

0.800 U.S. Returns Jotform.com Domain; Still Refuses to Say What Happened comments

0.777 8 Reasons Not To daytrade comments

0.772 Best iOS tutorial for beginners… in 3 minutes comments

0.767 WinRT for coding for Windows 8? Is .NET really such rubbish? comments

0.749 Sony hints that Vita OS might head to smartphones comments

0.723 Predicting the Computers of 2027 comments

0.718 While you were chatting…A startup revolution was born comments

0.714 The Piracy Threshold comments

0.689 Startup Founders Rush To Put Their _____ In A Box comments

0.681 Anonymous Hacks U.S. Government Consumer Websites as Revenge for A.C.T.A. comments

0.679 Twitter Advertising for Small Businesses comments

0.677 How do you build a positively charged feedback loop? comments

0.669 Are Electric Cars Worse Than Gas Cars in China? comments

0.669 Seattle ranks 4th in startup density, 2nd in valuations comments

0.667 IvanK Lib comments

0.663 Ex-Apple Designer Creates Teaching UI That “Kills Math” Using Data Viz comments

0.662 Thoughts on R7RS comments

0.654 #TellVicEverything - Canadian response to proposed surveillance bill comments

0.636 The Grand Unified Theory of Business Development comments

0.620 Man-Computer Symbiosis - J. C. R. Licklider comments

0.604 When tests are just not the best tool to assert comments

0.599 Approaching Developers - Code of Ethics comments

0.585 Study: Cell tower leaks enable easy location tracking comments

0.585 “Why do you need a machine” DNA sequencer on a USB stick comments

0.583 Seeing double: how Ruby shares string values comments

0.569 Most People Just Exist comments

0.565 The marvinator • Metro comments

0.557 “White hat” Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail comments

0.551 Patent for a single shared profile service comments

0.542 Escapes.js – Retro ANSI art in JavaScript comments

0.536 FBI’s Looming Server Shutdown Could Leave Chunks of the Internet Dark comments

0.532 UM research paper, covertly tracking cell phone locations w/ only a cheap phone. comments

0.528 Introducing non-technical people to LaTeX comments

0.520 Google found evading Safari’s privacy controls comments

0.513 LinkedIn: The Missing Manual Worth Reading comments

0.512 Obama opens Silicon Valley field office comments

0.500 Why do developers resist writing good warning and error messages? comments

0.485 Sloppy Reporting on the Self Driving Car comments

0.484 Your doctor doesn’t want you to see this – diagnosis using AI comments

0.472 How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer comments

0.472 Don’t be proud of an empty vimrc comments

0.472 The Doom Loop comments

0.472 John Winter Group - BemaBux comments

0.472 FB 2012-2025 Infographic comments

0.472 Implementing Actors in Kernel comments

0.472 Celebrity for Equity comments

0.472 Swearem Ipsum comments

0.468 How to get fired from Fox News in under five minutes comments

0.464 Making the switch to a Chromebook – Productivity tools comments

0.463 Colorpicker and Datepicker Plugins for Twitter Bootstrap comments

0.463 Windows 8 vs. Mountain Lion: Does Microsoft stand a chance? comments

0.458 What have you tried? comments

0.446 The Computer as a Communication Device - J. C. R. Licklider , Robert W. Taylor comments

0.440 Do they Have Gmail in Heaven? My Suddenly Strange Thread with Anthony Shadid comments

0.440 Java Spotlight Episode 70: Kotlin, Live at #Jfokus comments

0.435 JavaScript Closures Explained comments

0.430 The Rise of Ebook Platforms - 24Symbols, Vook and Inkling comments

0.428 When Is it Worth Haggling for a Better Price? comments

0.402 Solve For X - Carbon negative liquid fuels comments

0.398 Why is nginx so popular with the adult websites? comments

0.390 How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI comments

0.382 Language experts to help identify Internet ‘trolls’ comments

0.371 John Nash’s Letter to the NSA comments

0.362 Google explains how and why Safari privacy settings were circumvented comments

0.362 Swipe JS - a lightweight mobile web slider comments

0.359 The fake journal trend comments

0.347 How Wall Street takes advantage of very confused Ivy League graduates comments

0.337 This is a port of ScalaPrimavera for Kotlin. Same team, Same goals. comments

0.317 Proud to have published technical books that still deliver value after 20+ years comments

0.311 Apple labor petitioners to make deliveries again next week comments

0.310 With Windows like these who needs enemies comments

0.305 No Mountain Lion; Just get the Wallpaper. comments

0.278 BiwaScheme: a Scheme interpreter in JavaScript comments

0.264 Here’s What That Apple Safari ‘Tracking’ Was Really About comments

0.262 Spark Linux tablet now available to pre-order comments

0.231 Java 7 Update 3 available comments

0.224 Updated Java 6 EOL date (to November 2012) comments

0.221 Inga Saffron: Why Skyscrapers are Overrated (video) comments

0.219 Chromium with the Dart VM comments

0.214 Google cookies ‘bypassed Safari privacy protection’ comments

0.210 Cutting Pageload Time by 50% comments

0.207 Integrating Responsive Google Maps comments

0.186 Berners-Lee’s Original Proposal of the Web comments

0.185 Dating Site That Features Constructive Criticism For Failed Encounters. comments

0.180 OS X: Mac Screenshot How-To & Power Tips comments

0.164 AppHarbor adds RavenDB support comments

0.150 App Hackathon During SXSW 2012 comments

0.139 Gitchboard: An API for creating GitHub project leaderboards comments

0.133 No, Mac OS X wasn’t ported to ARM by an intern comments

0.126 What Users Are Searching For Locally comments

0.095 Substroke Design Dump comments

0.091 New Tool Makes Restoring Stock ROM Easier On HTC Rezound comments

0.080 Meet Cyborg Steve Jobs comments

0.075 Microsoft makes new Windows 8 logo official, will be Metro styled comments

0.066 Game developer finally releases his first game on the Kindle - after six years comments

0.050 Bootstrapping Design Ch 4: Typography pdf comments

0.041 Adapt Your Business to the New Digital World comments

0.032 Firefox 13 opens context menu search page in foreground comments

0.031 Trend Micro Migrates Security Tool HijackThis to Open Source comments

0.028 Apple Sold More iOS Devices in 2011 Than It Sold Macs in Almost 30 Years comments

0.022 Ask HN: How can I make $50k per year working full-time from my laptop? comments

0.021 After Beta, Messages Will Be Exclusive to OS X Mountain Lion comments

0.020 Mountain Lion drops support for several older Mac models (Updated) comments

0.017 Hewlett Foundation offering $100,000 for design of automated essay grader comments

0.012 Ask HN: Why does Code Canyon’s signup process suck? comments

0.012 Google caught tracking Safari users on Apple’s iOS comments