Hacker News on 14 January 2011

• MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for independent learners
• Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising
• Git Immersion
• US Patent system so dysfunctional you can patent a stick from a tree
• Malware researcher Dancho Danchev gone missing since August
• Projects: hijack (Hijacking the iPhone earphone jack)
• Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
• Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account
• The most mysterious Google ranking ever...
• "I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems."