Hacker News on 14 May 2012

• Plagiarism
• Welcome To Life
• The Coming Meltdown In College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Soon
• VLC has been downloaded over a billion times
• Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails
• We got a takedown notice from LifeShield for our positive review
• Perian is shutting down
• Turn anything into a videogame controller, even a banana
• Wozniak calls for open Apple
• How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup