Hacker News on 8 December 2013

• A Programmer's Guide to Data Mining
• David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'
• No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim
• NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say
• Baby's First Garbage Collector
• CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007)
• Further improving digital certificate security
• Airbnb says this man does not exist. So I had coffee with him
• An open letter from Carl Bernstein to Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger
• Is it bad practice to use your real name online?