top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-29

Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous

http://blog.andrewmunsell.com/post/28232343440/captchas-are-becoming-ridiculous

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In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo

http://allthingsd.com/20120729/in-week-two-marissa-mayer-googifies-yahoo-free-food-friday-afternoon-all-hands-new-work-spaces-fab-swag/

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Peter Thiel’s startup class notes in PDF

http://klinger.io/post/28064173056/peter-thiels-startup-class-notes-as-pdf

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Discussion of HN at 4chan's /g/

http://boards.4chan.org/g/res/26490724

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Corner Office: Dennis Crowley

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/business/dennis-crowley-of-foursquare-on-open-lines-of-communication.html?_r=1&ref=business

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The illusion of progress lights a fire

http://mindhacks.com/2010/07/20/the-illusion-of-progress-lights-a-fire/

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How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States

http://bearsfightingbears.com/how-to-watch-the-olympics-live-from-the-united-states

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Watch the Olympics from anywhere: this actually works

https://gist.github.com/3195652

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Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/29/surprisingly-good-evidence-that-real-name-policies-fail-to-improve-comments/

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Dear Marissa: Think Different

http://500hats.com/pink-is-the-new-purple

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Do you check HTTPS certificates in your API clients?

http://unfoldthat.com/2012/07/30/does-https-to-api-make-any-sense.html

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Brain scans reveal simple 3D grid structure

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2012/nimh-29.htm

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The Innumeracy of Intellectuals (2008)

http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/07/26/the-innumeracy-of-intellectual/

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Confessions of a 20-Something Startup CTO

http://bencoe.tumblr.com/post/28287898568/confessions-of-a-20-something-startup-cto

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A bold but simple login system

http://notes.xoxco.com/post/27999787765/is-it-time-for-password-less-login

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Curiosity landing is in a week

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/

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Am I a cyborg now?

https://idea.popcount.org/2012-07-28-am-i-a-cyborg-now/

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Bring Google Fibre into Canada

http://avaaz.org/en/petition/Bring_Google_FIbre_to_Canada

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“Critical mass” vs “network effects”

http://daltoncaldwell.com/critical-mass-vs-network-effects

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Gitit is a wiki backed by a git, darcs, or mercurial filestore.

http://gitit.johnmacfarlane.net/

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Show a real-time user count without any client-side Javascript

http://minipenguin.com/?p=647

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When Craigslist Blocks Innovations

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/when-craigslist-blocks-innovations-disruptions/

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Vimwiki

http://code.google.com/p/vimwiki/

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Google search's new basic calculator

http://www.google.com/search?q=calculator

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Cracking Passwords on an Intel Celeron CPU

http://16s.us/16crack/defcon_2012/

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Does mathematics have a place in higher education?

http://mathbabe.org/2012/07/29/does-mathematics-have-a-place-in-higher-education/

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Xah's Emacs Lisp Tutorial

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/elisp.html

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Is Algebra Necessary?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-necessary.html?_r=1&smid=tw-share&pagewanted=all

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Breakthroughs Come From Relaxation

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/lehrer-breakthroughs-come-from-relaxation-H_yfrGZ7SpWXB04vBseIjg.html

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Tips on Emacs Lisp programming

http://nic.ferrier.me.uk/blog/2012_07/tips-and-tricks-for-emacslisp

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The value of short term thinking

http://influencehacks.com/the-value-of-short-term-thinking

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How to be a growth hacker

http://andrewchen.co/2012/04/27/how-to-be-a-growth-hacker-an-airbnbcraigslist-case-study/

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Painless iOS Testing With Cucumber

http://testingwithfrank.com/

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Show HN: Set NASA APOD as Ubuntu Desktop Background

https://github.com/randomdrake/nasa-apod-desktop

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★ 150 Python Apache-2.0

Study: High Speed Trading Hurts Long-Term Investors

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443931404577551633192136866.html

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