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Nearly 5 years ago, Paul Graham first proposed the foundervisa. There has been a lot of discussionsince, but nothing has happened. Maybe he was too ambitious in asking for 10,000 startupvisas per year
Lulu A frantic text from a male friend read, “Are you familiar with Lulu… Can you try checking Lulu on me? If something is on there, can you snapshot and send it to me?” Since its launch in February 2
The Bitcoin community has been angrily pressing for details on what the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has described as a massive hacker attack that stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of its users'
The inventor of the world wide web believes an online "Magna Carta" is needed to protect and enshrine the independence of the medium he created and the rights of its users worldwide. Sir Tim Berners-L
THE SQUAD OF FBI agents rolled up to the Houston town house in full arrest mode. They broke into pairs, fanning out to cover three doors and several windows that looked like escape routes. With everyo
January 23, 2014 Saying No v. Hearing No I haven’t written a new post in quite some time. So this seems as good a forum as any to say that I’m officially going to run Alphaworks full-time as CEO, a product (and company) I recently co-founded with betaworks. I have much more to say about Alphaworks,…
danah boyd’s SXSW keynote is sold out. When it’s over, a dozen fans rush the stage. These fans aren’t young groupies hoping to get a closer glimpse at their favorite rock star, but full-grown adults h
For the past 7 years I have been on an ongoing search to present the best new sites, services & apps to my readers. Every week I find at least one site that blows my mind. I get excited about how this
The praise being lavished on CVS in response to its promise to stop selling cigarettes is as profuse as it is predictable. When the drugstore announced last week that it plans to pull tobacco products
Christoph Niemann When an industry has a hold on the public imagination, it's easy to forget just how fickle that imagination can be. By 1946, when women were nearly rioting to get their hands on scar
Unicorn Jobs December 2013 (perspective of a postdoc) Summary Many creative technically-minded people want a dream “unicorn job” where they can get paid to spend most of their time hacking on their own projects. Bad news: Unicorn jobs don't exist, at least not for long. Good news: There are ways to…
More from AI Microsoft’s advancements in AI are grounded in our company’s mission to help every person and organization on the planet to achieve more — from helping people be more productive to helpin
(This post is inspired by a question I received on producthunt.co ( original link ). A few people found it valuable, so I thought I might repost it with more context.) Edit : some conversation on hack
Wikipedia vs. the Small Screen The Wikipedia entry for the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died this month, is edited on an iPhone. Wikipedia has been especially slow to adapt to a mobile world. Cre
(Photo: Iain Sarjeant) For much of the past 50 years or so, voicing any serious skepticism toward Alcoholics Anonymous or any other 12-step program was sacrilege—the equivalent, in polite company, of
June 5, 2013 Tie Your Ego to the Product, Not the Process I was beginning to design my first big feature at Etsy a few months ago and had a kick-off meeting with Andrew , the engineer who would be building it out with me. We talked about design goals, problems to be solved, etc. and everything was…
All illustrations by Ole Tillmann My friend Kevin, who majored in philosophy at Berkeley and is now a civil rights lawyer, and who supports all sorts of good causes (economic equality, gun control, ga
It's an oft-stated goal in introductory coding books and courses: to get you to think like a programmer. That's better than something overly specific and low-level like "to learn Java." It's also not
Much has been written about the meteoric rise and abrupt demise of Flappy Bird, the highly addictive mobile game that seems to have captured the world over the past couple of weeks. Dong Nguyen, an independent game developer in Vietnam, who launched the game obscurely last May, decided to take it…
Nicolas Wittenborn Mar 13, 2014 Are we in a bubble? Matt A. Myers Mar 13, 2014 I just read a good post that tries to answer this question: http://avc.com/2014/03/the- … Nicolas Wittenborn Mar 13, 2014
Millions and millions of people use iMessage every day. But how many people know exactly what's going on behind the scenes, or what happens to a message once you send it? Maybe a handful. Up until now, the vast majority of what we knew about iMessage's inner workings came from reverse engineering…
On Tuesday, March 11th, GitHub was largely unreachable for roughly 2 hours as the result of an evolving distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. I know that you rely on GitHub to be available all
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On Tuesday, under pressure from the New Jersey auto dealer lobby to protect its monopoly, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, composed of political appointees of the Governor, ended your right to
We started Popcorn Time as a challenge to ourselves. That’s our motto. That’s what we stand for. Pochoclin our mascot We are enormously proud of this project. It is the biggest thing we’ve ever achiev
Economic Scene A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth What if inequality were to continue growing years or decades into the future? Say the richest 1 percent of the population amassed a quarter
A hundred and fifty years ago, in "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", French science-fiction forerunner Jules Verne pictured a vast sea that lay deep under our planet's surface. Today, that strange and haunting image has found an unexpected echo in a scientific paper. Writing in the journal…
Matt Fredette and Ashley Blanchard are recovering addicts getting help at Serenity House, a halfway house in Rutland, Vt. America Tonight America Tonight RUTLAND, Vt. — Hidden from view among Vermont'
Mike Zyda of USC GamePipe Laboratory Image Credit: Dean Takahashi LOS ANGELES — Mike Zyda, a professor at USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s computer science department and director of the GamePipe L
I've been an iOS dev for 5 years and have always managed to avoid Android, until now. But believe it or not it's actually a lot of fun, and not that big of a jump from iOS development. Here is a bunch of things I learned building 7 Minute Workout for Android, I hope you find them useful. Note that…
The White House urged tech workers, or "geeks," to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and said having the coverage will give them the "freedom and security" to start their own
Startup Banjo has raised a new $16 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total raised to date to $21 million. The round was led by Balderton Capital, and included participation from BlueRun
Steve Brigham “Welcome to the zoo,” a man snarls as I walk down a dirt track in Lakewood, New Jersey, into an encampment in the forest known simply as Tent City. It’s two in the afternoon, and he’s dr
Warning: This story contains sexually explicit material that may be NSFW. Women on Facebook : The next time you post a photo showing the slightest amount of skin, it could end up on Reddit, where near
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The Internet giveth, and the Internet taketh away. Or maybe that should be the other way around. Months after HealthCare.gov's botched launch, it's suddenly enjoying a burst of popularity. Where is al
Edward Snowden called into a panel at South by Southwest today. He was somewhere in Russia, still on the lam from a United States government that views him as a traitor and wants him imprisoned for it
In an era when we've all got GPS in our pockets, OnStar in our cars and the NSA tracking anyone, anywhere, it is still possible--although rare--for an airliner to seemingly vanish. That appears to be
March 11, 2014 What I learned about online-to-offline Many new online-to-offline entrepreneurs have asked me about my experience founding Exec. “Uber for X” businesses seem to be the startup of the day – it probably helps that on the face they are less technically complex and more accessible to…
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