“Vacations are for the weak” (sethbannon.com)

Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move (lists.gnu.org)

Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death (www.bostonmagazine.com)

How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood (www.theatlantic.com)

Lock Picking – A Basic Guide (www.hackthis.co.uk)

Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz" equivalent? (item?id=6999429)

Hyperloop: Not so fast (blogs.mathworks.com)

Gate Tower Building (en.wikipedia.org)

Business Ideas for 2014 (www.scottsbarlow.com)

The Saddest SaaS Pricing Pages of the Year (blog.priceintelligently.com)

Happy New Year from Y Combinator (blog.ycombinator.com)

129 Cars (www.thisamericanlife.org)

Intermittent fasting: The good things it did to my body (www.bbc.co.uk)

NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption (www.washingtonpost.com)

Jolla outsells iPhone 5C and 5S (in Finland) (www.jollausers.com)

The Best To-Do List: A Private Gist (carlsednaoui.com)

Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic (arstechnica.com)

Unfinished, unfair and brutally difficult (www.polygon.com)

Improve Your Python: Metaclasses and Dynamic Classes With Type (www.jeffknupp.com)

Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland (commotionwireless.net)

Machine that Levitates Objects Using Sound [video] (www.hardware-360.com)

Pure JS OCR via Emscripten (antimatter15.com)

Homebrew Cask - CLI workflow for the administration of Mac binaries (github.com)

Twitter SVP Chris Fry Breaks Down How His Engineering Org Works (recode.net)

Teaching Software Architecture: with GitHub (avandeursen.com)

How Scarcity Trap Affects Our Thinking, Behavior (www.npr.org)

Distributed systems for fun and profit (free ebook) (book.mixu.net)

The Sugar Addiction Taboo (www.theatlantic.com)

Show HN: We made 1 app this year (lentor.io)

Find Friends Abuse (blog.snapchat.com)

92 Facebook Apps Have Access To My Account (mypermissions.org)

Rex – palm-sized, single-board computer for DIY robots (www.kickstarter.com)

OpenSSL site defacement involving hypervisor hack rattles nerves (arstechnica.com)

Rapgenius Uniques Fall 90% (www.quantcast.com)

Boltzmann brain (en.wikipedia.org)

Loan Monitor Is Accused of Ruthless Tactics on Student Debt (www.nytimes.com)

MapReduce and Spark (vision.cloudera.com)

The Morality Apocalypse: An Open Letter to Bill and Melinda Gates (blog.joellehman.com)

Building a living photo frame with a Raspberry Pi and a motion detector (www.ofbrooklyn.com)

100 growth hacks in 100 days – 1 to 10 (www.slideshare.net)

Drawing fractals with PostgreSQL (explainextended.com)

Apple’s 2013 Scorecard (hypercritical.co)

The “middle class” myth: Here’s why wages are really so low today (www.salon.com)

Introducing Shopify Mobile (www.shopify.com)

How a Cabal Keeps Generics Scarce (www.nytimes.com)

Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution, Guy Steele (2009) [video] (vimeo.com)

A New Way to Make Rational Resolutions (online.wsj.com)

How Language Seems to Shape One's View of the World (www.npr.org)

Finding Your First Clients As A Freelancer (www.conceptcupboard.com)

Email Transparency at Khan Academy (bjk5.com)

Facebook Is Using Your Profile to Track Global Urban Migration Trends (www.theatlanticcities.com)

College Students' Thesis Topics Are Hilarious, Depressing (www.slate.com)

New Year's Resolutions for SysAdmins (www.usenix.org)

ESR: bzr is dying, Emacs needs to move (lists.gnu.org)

How the United States is reinventing itself yet again (www.washingtonpost.com)

Ask HN: Getting a CS "degree" via MIT OpenCourseWare? (item?id=7003127)

React Developer Tools, a Chrome Extension for debugging React JS Components (facebook.github.io)

No More Promises: Realizing Your Programming Job Sucks (item?id=7003052)

T-Mobile CEO hints at family plan disruption in 2014 (news.cnet.com)

MOOCs for tech entrepreneurs (globality.be)

Bitcoin Is Good (recode.net)

Show HN: Having a hard time waking up? Check out Wake Alarm (blog.tinyhearts.com)

Asteroid 2014 AA: Harmless impact over Atlantic Ocean last night (www.slate.com)

Google’s VP9 Video Codec Gets Backing from ARM, Nvidia, Sony And Others (techcrunch.com)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939) (www.newyorker.com)

Understanding the Politics of Tech Startups (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

The Coca-Cola Company got a range of 16M MAC addresses reserved (alobbs.com)

How Trello Onboards New Users (www.useronboard.com)

Uber’s Denial of Liability in Death Raises Accident Accountability Questions (techcrunch.com)

Introducing PigPen: Map-Reduce for Clojure (techblog.netflix.com)

Xkcd: Haskell (www.xkcd.com)

New Mac Pro Uses 74% Less Aluminum, 68% Less Power And 84% Lighter Packaging (techcrunch.com)

Ask HN: Any decent postgreSQL tutorial for a newbie (item?id=6999158)

Runnable Adds C/C++ And Java Support, Launches Company Channels (techcrunch.com)

FireEye Computer Security Firm Acquires Mandiant (www.nytimes.com)

Hybridize - Minimize DRAM Waste on a Diskless Cluster (github.com)

The HTML5 Vibrate API (shapeshed.com)

Running A Business (blog.eladgil.com)

Lessons learned tuning TCP and Nginx in EC2 (engineering.chartbeat.com)

Ask HN: Summer internships (2014) (item?id=7002824)

Kanye West Cryptocurrency Coinye West Like Bitcoin (newsfeed.time.com)

Android Phones Are Basically Used As Dumbphones (www.businessinsider.com)

Show HN: nss_http - Dynamic User Management on Linux (github.com)

Path Encoding Vulnerability in https/www redirects (homakov.blogspot.com)

Would you use code-review-as-a-service? (www.paidcodereview.com)

Memory management: how to merge with your computer (fototropik.com)

Century-old photo negatives found in Antarctic explorer's hut (edition.cnn.com)

Hackers Who Revealed Snapchat Flaw Received 1 Email From Company, 4 Months Later (www.forbes.com)

NSA Exploit of the Day: DEITYBOUNCE (www.schneier.com)

Similarities between the Learn to Code Movement and Online Poker (bplesser.com)

ScrewYouZerigo.rb (gist.github.com)

Bitcoin Is an Expensive Way to Pay for Stuff (www.bloomberg.com)

Breaking Bad Contest Winner Arrested for Running a Drug Operation (www.wired.com)

Ask HN: How to start a career in freelance web development? (item?id=7004395)

Ask HN: Great Idea but Cannot Implement...Yet (item?id=6999151)

Hardware in 2014 and Beyond (octopart.com)

It’s Not a Church, It’s Just an Apple Store (recode.net)

Show HN: I created the first BitTorrent Sync service (http://www.usesync.com)

Finding a bug in find (plus.google.com)

Ask HN: Paypal Horror Story Selling My Bitcoin Miner (item?id=7003994)

The Lobbyists and Legislators Who Kill Municipal Broadband in America (www.slate.com)

Lean Startup Does Not Mean Cheap (ramlijohn.com)

Guide To Litecoin Mining With Nvidia Graphics Cards (cryptojunky.com)

Ask HN: Which books changed your life? (item?id=7001282)

Show HN: Control your 3D printers via Raspberry Pi from the web (item?id=7001389)

More free Windows Server 2012 R2 training from MVA (blogs.technet.com)

Will help Startups initiate their product design (design-tour.brajeshwar.com)

The lost secrets of webOS (www.theverge.com)

Some things R can do you might not be aware of (simplystatistics.org)

Zappos Goes Flat, Gets Rid of Managers (www.inc.com)

Undelete a Google Keep note (productforums.google.com)

Changes Coming to your Droplr account (droplr.tumblr.com)

Google Shuts Down Bump (www.businessinsider.com)

RapydScript, javascript precompiler with python syntax (github.com)

Ask HN: What are some practical steps to improve ones security? (item?id=6999452)

The FBI Warns Retailers About Thieves Armed With Foil (www.businessweek.com)

If 2013 Focused on IoT Hardware, 2014 Should Focus on IoT Apps (www.besttechie.com)

Making Stuff Go Viral (dilbert.com)

Ask HN: Trying to pin down both algorithm and problem it solves ... (item?id=7002747)

PostgreSQL Exercises launch reflections and open-sourcing announcement (alisdairo.blogspot.co.uk)

Social unrest in 2014: Protesting predictions (www.economist.com)

Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code (codegolf.stackexchange.com)

A Zip Archive Walkthrough (i.imgur.com)

Show HN: Fig - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker (orchardup.github.io)

Csvconf (csvconf.com)

Attack The Problem, Not The Competition (onstartups.com)

It might cost you $39K to crowdfund $100K under the SEC’s new rules (venturebeat.com)

Apocalypse, New Jersey: A Dispatch From America's Most Desperate Town (www.rollingstone.com)

Introducing PigPen: Map-Reduce for Clojure (techblog.netflix.com)

GoCardless (YC S11) is looking for software developers in London (item?id=6999130)

ZenPayroll is hiring – join an early-stage team on a mission (item?id=7002639)

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