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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 29 – August 5, 2012 193 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 218 Get it by email ↓
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Peter Thiel’s startup class notes in PDF

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Business 10 stories

  1. Peter Thiel’s startup class notes in PDF

  2. Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow

  3. Mechanics of a Small Acquisition

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  1. Haskell Live: A Live Coding Adventure

  2. 1 Bitcoin Worth 10 USD

  3. Yuri Milner's Fundamental Physics Prize

  4. Amicus (YC S12) Uses Facebook To Mobilize Volunteers for Nonprofits

Sports 13 stories

  1. Installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs: No easy answers

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  1. Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

  2. SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor

  3. Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game

Technology 148 stories

  1. Dear Mark Zuckerberg

  2. Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles

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  1. Don’t Lie On Your Resume, But Lie Like Hell During Your Exit Interview

  2. Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

  3. Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek

  4. Do you have a secret?

  5. Blind man shocks researchers with what he sees.

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. ASCII Google Streetview

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  1. Show HN: My weekend project using the Soundcloud API

  2. Live Streaming in Rails 4.0

  3. Localtunnel: Show localhost to the rest of the world

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