Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Wednesday Mar 14, 2012

0.998 Natural - Natural Language Processing in Node JS comments

0.993 Javascript Literals are confusing. It works well in Python? - Stack Overflow comments

0.959 Peter Thiel to Teach Startup Course at Stanford comments

0.958 Node.js Ultra REPL comments

0.939 Whiskey - A new node.js test framework from Rackspace comments

0.910 The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time comments

0.891 Aardwolf: JavaScript remote debugger powered by Node.js comments

0.886 Startups Trying to Improve the Political Process comments

0.876 Microsoft, Charging Extra to Watch Netflix on Xbox 360 is Greedy comments

0.813 Show HN: Stack Overflow meets MTurk - Minute Favors comments

0.787 Why don’t I see anything worthwhile happening in the startup space? comments

0.762 Goldman’s Greg Smith Just One More 1% Buddhist Convert comments

0.759 TouchDevelop and the future of mobile application development comments

0.753 Intro to Data Science at UC Berkeley taught by Jeff Hammerbacher comments

0.741 Business models are a commodity comments

0.714 Mobile is killing marketing as we know it - and it’s a good thing comments

0.696 The prevalence of psychopaths on Wall Street comments

0.696 A Random Walk through Oddly Named Physics Things comments

0.691 Insight into Google’s Input / Output machine comments

0.667 How to TDD with CATCH comments

0.660 How Socrates Would Design Experiences comments

0.635 How IBM’s Deep Thunder delivers “hyper-local” forecasts 3-1/2 days out comments

0.626 The Chinese Do A Better Segway comments

0.625 Killer silk: Making silk fibers that kill anthrax and other microbes in minutes comments

0.618 NASA five-rocket mission to launch tonight, with live webcast 03/14 10 pm (EDT) comments

0.596 TeXtalk: Patrick Gundlach talks about LuaTeX and building support communities comments

0.588 Our Favorite SXSW Notes on HackPad comments

0.571 Corporate Psychopaths movie comments

0.559 Local Will Matter More and More comments

0.559 The Taboo Treatment: How Fecal Transplants Save Lives Medicine comments

0.558 LocalStorage? IndexedDB? What we need is Redis for the browser. comments

0.537 AC and DC battle for data center efficiency crown comments

0.522 Tim Ewald demonstrates the simplicity of using Datomic from code comments

0.522 The Deception of Difficulty (why nothing is as confusing at it seems) comments

0.519 OneID - Secure Online Authentication comments

0.509 Seed investment as a recruiting strategy. comments

0.506 50% of the online ads are never seen comments

0.500 In-car EEG monitoring to detect drowsiness comments

0.498 E&Y Progressions: health care everywhere pdf comments

0.491 Al Gore at SXSW 2012: Democracy Has Been Hacked comments

0.488 Testing Netflix on Android comments

0.483 Is America Beyond Peak Meat? comments

0.468 Upgrading WebHooks To Be More Useful comments

0.467 Roller Disco comments

0.467 Backseat drivers comments

0.467 A Reporter’s Escape from Syria comments

0.467 Wunderkit comments

0.461 Nudism is Healthy for Brains and Body comments

0.455 Exclusive Danny Sullivan Interview comments

0.427 Neutrinos shot through 780 feet of stone, spell out their name comments

0.418 What’s New in Apache Shiro Application Security 1.2 | Stormpath comments

0.408 Unknown Tech Company Defies FBI In Mystery Surveillance Case comments

0.406 Calling on all developers/engineers in the SoCal area comments

0.399 Abstract vs. Concrete Syntax Trees comments

0.395 SEC charges SharesPost for Operating Without a Broker-Dealer License comments

0.393 Pay It Forward Pays for Itself in Startups comments

0.392 Web Development comments

0.371 Unnecessary curly braces in C++? comments

0.360 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: March 2012 Tech Pulse Index comments

0.355 Google ruined itself with social, Google+, says former exec comments

0.352 RestService, the missing Android class. comments

0.352 “Cliff Click has left Azul to start 0xdata” comments

0.348 Making Avro file reading in Python faster than Java comments

0.343 Anisotropic Filtering in WebGL comments

0.333 Easing Eye Strain With “Optical Aerobics” Exercises comments

0.328 SXSW 2012: The exciting, the informative, and the awesome comments

0.319 This is cool: An open data standard for food comments

0.315 Open Source iFixit comments

0.313 Optimizing airplane seat selection to be next to a hot chick. comments

0.297 Code Review with PDFy comments

0.290 Lisp Hackers: Edi Weitz comments

0.282 Bug reporting: 8 ways to annoy your software development team comments

0.276 Ready or Not, Time to Share More comments

0.263 Test whether any website is blocked in Iran in real-time comments

0.262 Speaking for Hackers comments

0.257 Anonymous creates profit center with duck duck go comments

0.256 Passphrases only marginally more secure than passwords because of poor choices comments

0.244 Lehigh Valley HACK 2012 - First ever event of its kind in the Lehigh Valley comments

0.230 Sulia is Hostile to any Conceivable User Experience Goal comments

0.221 Code Reviews and Developer Feedback comments

0.218 Project Barcelona to see BBC open archive for downloads comments

0.212 IAmA Winner of “The Most Human Human” Award at a Turing Test. AMA comments

0.211 How To Hire Android Developers comments

0.209 Make it Easy to Unsubscribe from your Email List comments

0.205 New single ion clock is ’100 times more precise’ than existing atomic models comments

0.188 A biophysical framework for musical performance comments

0.183 Blogger’€™s frustrating mobile theme comments

0.170 Google Chrome’s Net Internals comments

0.153 Google just released a new +1 button design. comments

0.116 Developing for Windows 8: Photobucket app creators talk Metro comments

0.113 Microsoft is about to drive a wedge into the mobile market comments

0.108 Internet Explorer is most likely intentionally broken 2007 comments

0.104 Comprehensive collection of PG talks & interviews comments

0.102 MG Siegler Drove More Traffic to Branch.com Than Ten Major Publications Combined comments

0.099 Apple giving gift cards for upgrading iPad2 to iPad3 comments

0.097 How to Track Traffic From Pinterest in Google Analytics comments

0.095 Anonymous has released their own operating system. comments

0.071 Was the FBI complicit in the hacking of Stratfor? comments

0.067 Poll: do you read/audit your code?: comments

0.057 Poll: How does alcohol/smoking affect your thinking? comments

0.037 Paypal undercutting Square with new card swiping device comments

0.034 250,000 hits later – Sending Billions to the RIAA & MPAA – Stats & Update comments

0.021 Who’s On Google Plus? Why Are They All So Smart? comments

0.012 Ask HN: Steve Jobs & Cancer - Can we learn from this? comments

0.012 Pushover - Simple mobile notifications with native clients for Android and iOS. comments

0.007 Ask HN: How do we get enough beta users? comments