OkCupid played a major role in the successful effort to bring down Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich. On March 31 the company showed a message to all visitors using Mozilla’s Firefox browser. The message stated: “Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would…

Photo: Geber86/Getty Images One longtime personal assistant’s story of her time working for a Hollywood household name, as told to Jennifer Vineyard. She’d said I would be working on her production si

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), gleeful science ignoramus, at CPAC in 2011. Image: G age Skidmore/Flickr The scene played out like pitch-black comedy on March 26th at the House Committee on Science, Spa

The Right Way to Ask Users for Mobile Permissions How Cluster dramatically increased iOS access conversion Published in LaunchKit Library · 9 min read · Apr 4, 2014 -- Brenden Mulligan is building Lau

​ From time to time, we find ourselves curious about a topic and do some digging (we're contractually obligated to use this word in every post). So here, for your edification, the nectar of our mind g

Brendan Eich, the well-known techie who has gotten swept up in a controversy about his support of California’s anti-gay marriage law Proposition 8, is resigning as CEO of for-profit Mozilla Corporation and also from the board of the nonprofit foundation which wholly owns it.

Strategies In Some Ways, It’s Looking Like 1999 in the Stock Market Characters from Candy Crush Saga, the game from King Digital, greeted the company’s initial public offering at the New York Stock Ex

In the mind’s eye of many people, Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens , serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture , books and magazines

In 2013, two extremely unusual Model S collisions resulted in underbody damage that led to car fires. These incidents, unfortunately, received more national headlines than the other 200,000 gasoline c

March 27, 2014 Whatever goes up, that’s what we do A year ago, Facebook announced a new News Feed that was completely redesigned to focus on content–it had large photos, big user icons, better integra

A Breakup Letter to Facebook from Eat24 Dear Facebook, Hey. It’s Eat24. Look, we need to talk. This isn’t easy to say since we’ve been together so long, but we need to break up. We’d love to say “It’s not you, it’s us” but it’s totally you. Not to be rude, but you aren’t the smart, funny social…

Last week, media outlets from CNN to the Economic Times reported on a story that pretty much everyone could feel good about: a 14-year-old font nerd in Pittsburgh crunched some numbers and figured out

A month ago , I got dumped. It was the third in a series of failed long-term relationships I’ve had over the past five years. All relationships end differently. Some exes stay friends and some disappe

Update (3/29/14): I've written up an analysis of national tuition cost trends in a new blog post . It turns out that Michigan State University's tuition situation isn't uncommon! Earlier today, I ran

Mitt Romney famously called Tesla Motors a "loser" company during his run for president. He lost, of course, and Tesla is by any measure winning. And so we see would-be presidential candidates lining

Demo day just wrapped up for Beacon . We feel pretty good about what we've done since starting YC in January. But it's been a long and winding road to get here. One of my cofounders ( @dmitric ) and I

A Nation of Takers? In the debate about poverty, critics argue that government assistance saps initiative and is unaffordable. After exploring the issue, I must concede that the critics have a point.

San Francisco's Bay Bridge covered in fog. Nick Bilton/The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — For some time, people have been saying that San Francisco is transforming into another, different kind of big

A curious download hit Apple’s App Store this week: a messaging app called FireChat . It’s a new kind of app because it uses an iOS feature unavailable until version 7: the Multipeer Connectivity Fram

"A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco. Data science is statistics done on a Mac" - @smc90 This week we welcomed a new member to the Balderton team, Ferenc Huszar, ( @fhuszar )

I’m reading about how Microsoft read a blogger’s Hotmail (or other Microsoft hosted email) to determine who leaked Microsoft information to that blogger. Microsoft’s response is pathetic , stating that “the privacy of our customers is incredibly important to us” in the same post that explains that…

I was in a Facebook discussion about “Friendly Artificial Intelligence” — this is a buzzword from the Singularity Institute people. They believe in their heart of hearts that artificial intelligence o

Over a period of 6 months, two programmers and I, worked nights and weekends to create, launch and kill an iOS app called YayNay (hot or not for anything). We maintained full time jobs and families wh

Somewhere on the outskirts of Marrakech, Morocco, inside a vault housed beneath the shadow of the Atlas Mountains, there sits an engraved silver-and-nickel box with the potential to spawn a shift in t

Back in May, [Chris Bowler posted][1] about his use of Reading List. His post actually inspired me to dump Instapaper and use only Apple’s Reading List feature instead. On the surface this seemed like

In 1997, about a year after launch, Hotmail was growing exponentially, adding thousands of new users every day. We were on fire. And then one night, it all seemed to unravel. We had a program called t

As first noted by developer Olga Osadcha, Apple is testing a related search suggestion feature on the App Store, which started rolling out earlier today for iPhone users on iOS 7. The new menu, a scro

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What's cooler than a Girl Scout selling cookies? A business-savvy Girl Scout who sets up shop outside a cannabis clinic to rev up her sales skills.

Facebook cofounder Sean Parker may be almost as disruptive to his New York City neighbors as he was to the California redwoods.

“I have more botox in me than any ten people,” Dr. Seth Matarasso told me in an exam room this February. He is a reality-show producer’s idea of a cosmetic surgeon—his demeanor brash, his bone structu

Anonymity is all the rage these days, and so we bring our attention to Whisper . This week, we’re joined by Leena Rao , who has some mixed feelings about the craze around anonymous social sharing apps