Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Thursday Aug 23, 2012

0.996 5 Principles for Applying Machine Learning Techniques comments

0.691 Pew Study: The Economy is lagging because the middle class is broke comments

0.476 The Socialist Republic of Twitter comments

0.455 German ‘porn pirates’ to be publicly named comments

0.401 Meet the 7 Startups at StudentRND this Summer comments

0.261 Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City comments

0.256 Who’s afraid of Solar PV? comments

0.181 Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives comments

0.113 NBD, SoundCloud built a hovercraft during their first internal hack weekend comments

0.017 How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life comments