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Yesterday Sam Altman published a short post containing his thoughts on Secret, and also anonymity in general—namely that it breeds meanness, and that anonymous social networks are destined to decay an

One of my friend’s startups recently had 3x growth in average revenue per customer from January to February. They went from earning an average of $230 per customer per month to just over $600 per customer per month. Did they up-sell their customers a new feature? Had they changed their pricing…

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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 side, and I thought, Perfect, I’ll be doing personal-assistant work, production work; I might even be…

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 Brenden Mulligan 9 min read· Apr 4, 2014 -- Brenden Mulligan is building LaunchKit, a set of tools every iOS developer should use to create, release and manage their apps. He’s also works on…

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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 Characters from Candy Crush Saga, the game from King Digital, greeted the company’s initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange last week. The shares dropped 16 percent on their first day of trading.Credit...Richard Drew/Associated Press It sure looks like a bubble. Maybe not…

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 are the envy of designers worldwide. Yet for some reason, practically none of this mastery has been…

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 car fires that happened last year in North America alone. In both cases, the occupants walked away…

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 integration with Facebook messenger, and it brought Facebook’s website into closer alignment with its…

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…

DESIGN Russia is using a World War I camouflage design to try and fool Ukrainian drones Dazzle camouflage worked on 20th century warships, but 21st century drones are another story. DESIGN The U.K.’s next banknotes might feature cute foxes and prismatic butterflies Better than scowling historic…

#Love: Unfollowing Exes Jordan Crook 1:00 PM PDT · March 30, 2014 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 disappear. Some continue hooking up and…

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 across a conversation about how the cost of tuition at Michigan State University (MSU) has changed…

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 have applied to YC six times, getting in for the first time for Beacon. I dropped a note about it on…

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. Here are five public welfare programs that are wasteful and turning us into a nation of “takers.” First, welfare…

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 city. First, San Francisco was the new Hollywood — given that people like Mark Zuckerberg are now…

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 Framework. The app was developed by the crowdsourced connectivity provider Open Garden and this is their…

"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 ). Ferenc has a great background to work in VC, with experience in the VC backed start-up, PeerIndex,…

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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 of literally incomprehensible power is just around the corner, and they see their job as somehow…

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 while pursuing this effort. Consumer apps are a hit or miss. YayNay was a miss. Read on to learn a bit…

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 the way music is consumed and monetized. The lustrous container was handcrafted over the course of…

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 a fantastic idea — I had full OS integration with reading things later (and I got to read them on…

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 the “janitor” that ran as an overnight batch process and it erased all of the email that users put in…

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 scrollable bar with suggestions for searches related to the current search, allows users to discover…

The U.S. government will treat Bitcoin as property for tax purposes, applying rules it uses to govern stocks and barter transactions, the Internal Revenue Service said in its first substantive ruling on the issue. Today’s IRS guidance will provide certainty for Bitcoin investors, along with…

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.