If you’ve ridden the New York City subway in the last two months, you know Lucas. You might hate him, but you know him. He’s the mustachioed man who stares at you from subway ads, never quite smiling, under a declaration of stuff he does: Lucas buys a round, Lucas takes the stairs, Lucas uses Venmo.…

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I was born on 148th Street in 1965, and from then until the late 1990s it never dawned on me to live anywhere other than New York City. When I lived on 14th Street in the late 1980s, I paid $140 a month to share an apartment with a bunch of other odd and dysfunctional musicians and artists.

FiftyThree Files Trademark For “Paper” Jordan Crook 8:32 AM PST · February 4, 2014 Yesterday, as Facebook launched its news reader app Paper, design-focused startup FiftyThree called out Facebook publicly for using their brand name. Facebook declined to change the name of their brand new reader app.…

PETERSBURG, KENTUCKY-A brightly lit auditorium was packed with young adults wearing bow-ties, young-Earth creationists, and a gaggle of media there to maybe see sparks fly. The sparks could have been generated by Ken Ham, president/CEO of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum, and Bill Nye the…

When you’re a writer, you want something you create to have a long life, to be something that readers will remember and revisit for years to come. If such was Caleb Hannan’s wish, it’s been granted, because his essay on “Dr. V and the magical putter” figures to be a permanent exhibit of what not to…

A letter from Grantland editor-in-chief Bill Simmons on the origins of this story and how it came to be published can be read here. A guest editorial from Christina Kahrl detailing the problems with this piece as they relate to transgender issues can be found here. Strange stories can find you at…

This is a story about 5 Low-Severity bugs I pulled together to create a simple but high severity exploit, giving me access to private repositories on Github. These vulnerabilities were reported privately and fixed in timely fashion. Here is the "timeline" of my emails. More detailed/alternative…

Ben Horowitz Investing Team About Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are. He also created the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund to…

In broad strokes, here is my view of Microsoft’s history. In the beginning, Bill Gates stated the company’s goal: “A computer on every desk and in every home.” That was crazy. The PC revolution was well underway, but the grand total of PCs sold when Gates stated that mantra was, by today’s…

The announcement of Satya Nadella as Microsoft’s new CEO isn’t the only big news out of the company this week. Today, the company announced a $15 million strategic investment in Foursquare, the New York-based startup focused on developing location-based services. What’s more, Microsoft has struck a…

Old Inwood and new Inwood co-exist—imperfectly but not badly.Photo: Amy Lombard Gentrification: New Yorkers can sense it immediately. It plumes out of Darling Coffee, on Broadway and 207th Street, and mingles with the live jazz coming from the Garden Café next door. Down the block, at Dichter…

Revenue and Profit Rise at Google, but Mobile Is a Persistent Challenge Google office space in Manhattan. The company said it would sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. Credit... Karste

Mathematician Chris McKinlay hacked OKCupid to find the girl of his dreams. Emily Shur Chris McKinlay was folded into a cramped fifth-floor cubicle in UCLA’s math sciences building, lit by a single bulb and the glow from his monitor. It was 3 in the morn­ing, the optimal time to squeeze cycles out…

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Jason Edward Harrington is a writer and MFA candidate in the creative writing program at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Follow him on Twitter @Jas0nHarringt0n .

Moving from physical servers to the "cloud" involves a paradigm shift in thinking. Generally in a physical environment you care about each invididual host; they each have their own static IP, you probably monitor them individually, and if one goes down you have to get it back up ASAP. You might…

Apple is kind of like a wildfire. It burns so hot, it creates its own weather. How else to explain Wall Street's rats-off-a-sinking-ship reaction to another quarter of stratospheric sales and profits from the cash machine that Jobs built?

Pitch Deck: Ex-Apple Marketer Raises $10M to Scale AI Agents That Decode Social Video 6 days ago Megan Duong’s Plot has closed a follow-on seed round, just over a year after its initial $4 million raise. READ FULL STORY > Why the Good Noticings Podcast Hosts Are Betting on Positivity Over Hot Takes…

by Doug Moore Prince Harry in martial regalia It’s always a little weird to hear that the offspring of famous political figures listen to metal. Chiara de Blasio apparently gets down with the riffment

New YC Partner Investment Policy January 31, 2014· As of this batch we’re introducing a new policy for investments by YC partners in the companies we fund. YC partners have invested in the startups we fund since the first batch. In the beginning it was harmless, and occasionally even necessary. And…

A BROADCAST FOR THE DIGITAL AGE Othernet delivers a multi-media broadcast to small, portable receivers. By uniting a globally-scalable satellite broadcast with easily-accessible technologies and rich,

Opinion Credit...Owen Freeman IN my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs…

Chris McKinlay was folded into a cramped fifth-floor cubicle in UCLA's math sciences building, lit by a single bulb and the glow from his monitor. It was 3 in the morn­ing, the optimal time to squeeze

Facebook wants to be a newspaper. And it wants you to be writing some of its best stories. To that end, the social giant announced on Thursday it will soon launch Paper , a mobile application that ent

Nest Team Will Become Google’s Core Hardware Group Romain Dillet 6:07 PM PST · January 29, 2014 Google today sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. While many speculated that Google would release phones after it bought Motorola in 2011, it didn’t happen — Motorola remained a partner like other…

Because of my job, I meet a lot of people who are absolutely enamored by the startup world. Or rather, the idea of it. It’s surprising how many of these people are smart, ambitious, and creative — but also a little lost. When you ask them what they want to do day-to-day, I get so many vague,…

As a hopeless lover of both letters and notable advice, I was delighted to discover a letter 20-year-old Hunter S. Thompson (July 18, 1937–February 20, 2005) — gonzo journalism godfather, pundit of media politics, dark philosopher — penned to his friend Hume Logan in 1958. Found in Letters of Note:…

Naoki Hiroshima is the creator of Cocoyon and a developer for Echofon. This post originally appeared on Naoki’s Medium blog and has been republished with permission. Update: PayPal has denied that its customer service representative divulged credit card information over the phone. GoDaddy has…

The widening circle of arrests in the investigation of the Silk Road drug market sites just extended into the heart of the Bitcoin community. The Department of Justice announced Monday that it's arrested Charlie Shrem, CEO of the Bitcoin payment processor BitInstant and vice chairman of the Bitcoin…

Annals of Technology December 2, 2013 “6 TITANIC SURVIVORS WHO SHOULD HAVE DIED.” “THESE 9 NAZI ATROCITIES WILL MAKE YOU LOSE FAITH IN HUMANITY.” “5 INSANE PLANS FOR FEEDING WEST BERLIN YOU WON’T BELIEVE ARE REAL.” These are just some of the lists that the comic strip “XKCD” recently joked would…

A view of Martins Beach, just south of San Francisco. Courtesy of Ed Grant California officials are battling a Silicon Valley billionaire for public access to a spectacular slice of sand south of San Francisco. It's the latest in an ongoing fight between the state and its richest residents over…

As 2013 comes to a close, Spotify has published an in-depth article about their business. The report, Spotify Explained, lays out the economics of their business in great detail. It even debunks some long-held beliefs about how Spotify works (e.g. they don't pay per play, so most of your money goes…