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2016-08-30
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 23 – August 30, 2016 186 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 243 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

Business 10 stories

  1. Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

  2. GitHub Code Search – Programmers' Goldmine

  3. How Startup Options and Ownership Work

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  1. ITT is no longer allowed to enroll students who rely on federal loans and grants

  2. Deutsche Bank’s $10B Scandal

  3. Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 2

  4. Short-selling as a way to profit from security vulnerabilities

Sports 8 stories

  1. Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014)

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  1. Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown

  2. Uber Loses at Least $1.2B in First Half of 2016

  3. Pokémon Go loses its luster, sheds more than 10M users

Technology 154 stories

  1. Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star

  2. NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender

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  1. Web Scraping in 2016

  2. How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015)

  3. The Myth of RAM (2014)

  4. WhatsApp is going to share your phone number with Facebook

  5. Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958)

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment

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  1. Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News

  2. Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour

  3. Breaking a myth: Data shows you don’t actually need a co-founder

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