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2014-04-21
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 14 – April 21, 2014 188 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 111 Get it by email ↓
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Stock Photos That Don’t Suck

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Business 10 stories

  1. Stock Photos That Don’t Suck

  2. Employee Equity

  3. Tptacek's Review of "Practical Cryptography With Go"

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  1. Boring Systems Build Badass Businesses

  2. The Collison brothers and $1.75B online payments startup Stripe

  3. Joel Sposky's Take On Equity Allocation In A New Software Startup (2011)

  4. 900 social insurance numbers stolen from Revenue Canada via Heartbleed

Sports 7 stories

  1. The Guardian and Washington Post win the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

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  1. HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

  2. Airbnb closes $500M round of funding at a $10B valuation, led By TPG

  3. The Truth About Google X: A Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors

Technology 163 stories

  1. SF’s Housing Crisis Explained

  2. Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

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  1. The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]

  2. The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

  3. New axe design uses lever action to make splitting wood easier

  4. Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87

  5. Huginn: Like Yahoo Pipes plus IFTTT on your server

Entertainment 5 stories

  1. Show HN: Super Planet Crash

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  1. British Pathé Puts Over 85,000 Historical Films on YouTube

  2. Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check

  3. Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Streaming for $20/Month

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