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State of MetaFilter | MetaTalk
Today I need to share some unfortunate news: because of serious financial downturn, MetaFilter will be losing three of its moderators to layoffs at the end of this month. What that means for the site and the site’s future are described below.

Vagrant 1.6 – Vagrant
Vagrant 1.6 is now available! This is a new major release building upon Vagrant 1.5 to add new features to improve workflow, expand Vagrant to support more development environment types, and more.

Vk14: Verpakking of inhoud? – DeWereldMorgen.be
Het Humo-interview van reclamemaker Guillaume Vanderstichelen met Meyrem Almaci van een paar weken geleden was in die optiek ontluisterend. De opzet was an sich al apart: gerenommeerd reclameman interviewt beslagen politica. De reclameman stelde zelfzeker dat ‘de politiek’ het helemaal verkeerd aanpakt. Politici zijn veel met inhoud bezig, en te weinig met de verpakking. “Ze moeten mensen doen dromen.” Kortom: of je nu een nieuw parfum of een maatschappijvisie aan de man brengt, slogan en sfeer primeren. De lezer voelde Almaci’s onbehaaglijke verbijstering toenemen naarmate het gesprek vorderde.

12 Free (as in beer) Data Mining Books | christonard
I was doing some research on an algorithm this morning and came across a new book that I wasn’t aware of. That prompted me to look for more. The list of what I came up with is below. Each of these is free-as-in-beer, which means you can download the complete version without expectation for anything in return. I think most of them are available for purchase as well, if you prefer a hard copy. Some of them include code samples in R, Python or MATLAB. Regardless of your background, skills or goals, there’s something for you in this list.