Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Monday Mar 19, 2012

0.986 Simple functional programming in R comments

0.967 ENSIME: What It Is and Why We Care - Northeast Scala Symposium 2012 comments

0.957 Samsung and RIM sued for infringing lol-worthy emoticon patent comments

0.943 The Big Lesson of a Little Prince: (Re)capture the Creativity of Childhood comments

0.920 NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – The Pirate Bay’s Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) comments

0.861 Pentagon War Simulation Finds Perils for U.S. if Israel Were to Strike Iran comments

0.839 Coolest Thing Invented in 2012 so Far comments

0.832 A Reason To Celebrate Occupy Wall Street And The Tea Party Movement comments

0.795 Array languages for Lisp programmers comments

0.753 How To Catch a Criminal With Data comments

0.747 Panel says problem schools hurt nation’s security comments

0.700 When Bear Dreams to Become a Driver comments

0.673 Say No to 72 DPI comments

0.635 Ending the mass assignment party comments

0.631 MIT High-Low Tech: Electronic Origami Flapping Crane comments

0.606 JOBS Act - Paving Path to Fraud on Wall St. comments

0.601 Are vendors closing OpenFlow? comments

0.582 How Google Fights “Bad Ads” comments

0.573 Live Coding Implemented comments

0.514 Google: Actually, Meta Tags Do Matter. comments

0.509 Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era comments

0.490 Steve Wozniak comes out in support of Mike Daisey, says ‘his method succeeded’ comments

0.476 Way comments

0.467 Climate ‘tech fixes’ urged for Arctic methane comments

0.462 JMS and web services are BOTH scaleable comments

0.461 Tell Everyone About Your Business Idea - Don’t Keep It A Secret comments

0.444 #2: Don’t shutter Posterous, let’s restartup and try again comments

0.429 March Madness - SQL Azure - sys.bandwidth_usage comments

0.429 Creepy villians and super heroes comments

0.429 Vandal-proof stainless steel keyboards comments

0.403 Looking for very capable programmer(s) for existing venture comments

0.367 BigData Podcast “Follow the Data” #1: Gavagai Gavagai comments

0.363 Fascinating trivia from the history of character encodings comments

0.357 42Floors (YC W12) launches the best & easiest way to find commercial real estate comments

0.323 How much would you pay for privacy? comments

0.315 Daily Deals Aggregator Frugalo Acquired By TwitVid comments

0.304 Gamification for Improved Search Ranking for YouTube Topics | Research Blog comments

0.302 How Pinterest drives Design Public’s Business (seriously) w/ Data comments

0.292 Why Systems Programmers Still Use C, and What to Do About It comments

0.281 Notice Israelis: Congress to approve E-2 visas today comments

0.263 Linux 3.3 released, restores Android components in staging comments

0.258 Windows 8 to Debut in October comments

0.250 Microsoft aiming for October 2012 release of Windows 8, tablets and PCs on deck comments

0.228 Free tool for genomics pattern discovery with dynamic Bayesian networks comments

0.227 Some random observations on Linux ASLR comments

0.196 Who’s Responsible When Robots Kill? comments

0.195 Free Apps Drain Smartphone Batteries comments

0.160 From Gmail to FastMail: Moving Away from Google comments

0.159 Nuclear clock will be accurate over billions of years comments

0.156 IPad, Kindle Fire, Galaxy Tab And Motorola Xyboard Webpages compared comments

0.145 Internet Explorer 10: “fast” and “native” has gone to other browsers comments

0.136 Subpoenas to be served via Facebook and Twitter in Estonia comments

0.133 Why Does Disruption in Financial Services Come from Below? comments

0.130 A wonderful account of how we got from Mosaic to HTML5 comments

0.129 CitySync is a New Civic Portal for City of Portland comments

0.121 Surprising phone number harvesting scheme comments

0.100 Apple Sells 3 Million Units Of The New 3rd Generation iPad In 3 Days Flat comments

0.097 Analysis Confirms iPad Display Really Is One Of The Best Ever Made comments

0.083 TED- Avi Rubin - All Your Devices Can Be Hacked comments

0.082 Web Designers Love Chasing Trends comments

0.076 How much would you pay for the universe? comments

0.028 Without ads, Android apps could be more than twice as power-efficient comments

0.025 Apple Quantifies Their iPad “Record Weekend”: 3 Million Sold In 3 Days comments

0.019 Ask HN: Is there a great analytics tool for git? comments

0.017 Facebook sued over “automatic webpage generator” pdf comments

0.011 Maintaining Hacker News Culture comments