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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 10 – February 17, 2011 196 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 48 Get it by email ↓
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How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

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Business 15 stories

  1. How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

  2. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.

  3. Why Non-engineers Think Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups

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  1. Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?

  2. How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit

  3. How India's banks killed the future of commerce

  4. Yuri Milner pays $150k Y Combinator investments by ‘making it rain’

Sports 6 stories

  1. Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

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  1. Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson

  2. What if Hudson loses its plugins?

  3. Generating Worlds in a Minecraft-like Game

Technology 144 stories

  1. Why did Google feel that Google Wave was a good product?

  2. Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0

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  1. World's first embeddable HTML5 document viewer, from Crocodoc (YC W10)

  2. I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks

  3. Man places his genome in public domain, on Github

  4. U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’

  5. Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch

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  1. How I made an HDTV antenna so I could watch Jeopardy last night

  2. Google Rolls Out Two-Factor Authentication For Everyone.

  3. TechCrunch Tours Dropbox Offices

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