John Lilly 4 min read· Apr 14, 2015 -- I saw Chris Dixon’s tweetstorm about open & closed systems over the weekend and meant to write something quickly about it —but forgot to write — then was reminded by this nice piece by Ev. WARNING! This is a super nerdy piece. Technology, tech history, trends.…

Bryce Roberts: "We’re to a point we can offer the same understanding we have of @Foursquare users for non-users" http://t.co/FpNI0frFdf big big deal.

Photo via Flickr user Lucas Cobb On Sunday, the least surprising moment in the history of United States politics will take place. Though nothing is official, it's pretty much a given that Hillary Clin

Niv Dror 9 min read· Feb 21, 2015 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near (New York: Penguin Books, 2005), p. 70 (recent data extrapolated) “I used to say that this is the most important graph in all the technology business. I’m now of the opinion…

Mike Kruzeniski 7 min read· Mar 20, 2015 -- I was told a story about Jonathan Ive a few months ago that I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about ever since. As the story goes, about 6 or 7 years ago a big company tried to recruit Jony Ive to run Design for them. Ive respectfully declined. In…

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Ben Horowitz: Great article on the power of @Genius http://t.co/VjWRcl3LyO

Tips and Tricks When Delegating Derek Parham Author’s Background: Derek is the former technical lead of Google Apps and now is an entrepreneur and startup advisor in New York City. _____________ At some point all technical leads discover they need to delegate, but then often have little or no…

This is the third in a three-part series about sex and gender issues in space . What happens when men and women live together in close proximity and under intense conditions for long stretches of time

Debbie Galant: Don’t Blame Menendez. Blame New Jersey. http://t.co/4NLLij41lI

The Nation: Why Don't We Give Edward Snowden the Same Deal General Petraeus Got for Leaking Info? http://t.co/yyOdtmIBoQ http://t.co/z2zj0e1ozs

On Yom Kippur in 1929, Louis Fleisher, Harry Fleisher, and Henry Shorr attended services at Orthodox Congregation B’nai David in Northwest Detroit. The three men—all sterling members of the Purple Gang, Detroit’s mostly Jewish mob—had plenty to atone for: The Purple Gang controlled the city’s…

Every Bushwick resident tends to have strong opinions about the luxury apartment building at 114 Troutman St. known as CastleBraid. But whether you love it or hate it, one thing seems to be certain: CastleBraid residents have each other’s backs. The complex has a private, 454-member (and growing)…

Alexis C. Madrigal: Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors, is becoming a home for racial profiling http://t.co/foD2ZhJr2M http://t.co/q6wrqz2Xul

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Gregory Koberger 10 min read· Mar 15, 2015 -- Exactly five years ago today, I was sitting in a conference room at Mozilla. After a long day of technical questions, I was meeting with Mike Morgan, the head of Mozilla’s WebDev team. “Where do you want to be in five years?”, he asked. This isn’t the…

What is DynamoDB? I don’t intend to explain the ins and outs of what DynamoDB is or what it’s intended for, there’s plenty of documentation online for that. But I will mention the most salient point: That DynamoDB is consistent, fast, and scales without limit. And when I say “scales without limit,”…

Why Do Severed Goat Heads Keep Turning Up in Brooklyn? Some say it’s a strange religious ritual. Others, a prank. I went looking for answers. At the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street in Brooklyn, the heart of Park Slope’s tree-lined prosperity abruptly gives way to grittier windswept…

Traffic jam in SimCity (Photo credit: SimCity) The Non-VC Approach To Growing A Media Business Danny Sullivan 6 min read· Mar 10, 2015 -- I can’t speak with any authority about why GigaOm suddenly ran out of money. But I’ve already seen the rumblings about what it may mean for other tech and…

Michael Brady, a worker at the Newtown Creek plant in Brooklyn, raking wipes and other waste into a bin for disposal.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times With its sewer system under siege, tallying millions of dollars in equipment damage across its underground maze, New York City is…

Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on AI. Part 1 is here. PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview.) ___________ We have what may be an extremely difficult problem with an unknown time to solve it, on which quite possibly the…

PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview.) Note: The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as I dug into research on Artificial Intelligence, I could not believe what I was reading. It hit me pretty quickly that what’s…

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Writing Code For Humans Ilya Dorman 6 min read· Feb 15, 2015 -- I will be talking mainly about development for the web. Problem: Your brain Press enter or click to view image in full size Macro film photo from my Macbook Air’s display Our puny brain can handle a very limited amount of logic at a…

How random is random on your music player? Published 19 February 2015 Share page About sharing Image source, Thinkstock ByDave LeeTechnology reporter, BBC News There I was, walking to the railway station, minding my own business, when... bam! Our song. That's the gamble you take when you set your…

Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect. He is the kind of programmer who is hard at work building the future, and making useful things so that people can do stuff. He is the guy you want on your team building go-carts, because he has…

Preface: I started writing this post with the intention of discussing Gary Bernhardt’s conclusions in his talk, A Whole New World. Gary makes what I think are some really good points about infrastructure, tooling, and the paralysis we seem to sometimes have around it. I wanted to expand on that a…

Remember the 1983 movie WarGames? The film is about a computer “game” with the potential to start thermonuclear war. But strangely this scenario is more truth than fiction. Because in 1979 programmers at NORAD almost started World War III when they accidentally ran a computer simulation of a Soviet…

Published in Monday Note · 7 min read · Feb 15, 2015 -- by Jean-Louis Gassée Forget the iWatch, Apple Pay, and the iPhone 7…the next big thing from Cupertino will be the Apple Car. At first, I didn’t

’s owner rather than the owner herself? Would the victim blame the malicious robot, its hapless owner, or the negligent company that forgot to program it with Asimov’s laws? “We have victims without purposes. These people had no idea this would happen. It’s really emergent,” says Calo. “Maybe it’ll…

Press enter or click to view image in full size How about a search of only original reporting? Jeff Jarvis 5 min read· Feb 9, 2015 -- In recent months, I’ve heard a lot of news executives complain about Google and transparency, particularly in relationship to search. “We don’t know why our stories…