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 bran
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…
W hen 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,
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
I used to be such an asshole. I would meet someone and they would tell me about their startup and 10 minutes in I would start giving them suggestions on what they should do. “Have you thought about ad
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 privat
More About Ben 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
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 we
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 Yo
We want to make things that are future friendly. By anticipating what's next, we can react to today's concerns but also build long-term value for people and businesses. The following ideas have been o
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, an
In a nutshell, Persona is great for us because it means that we don't have to store anyone's passwords and nobody has to create a new account to log in to Zonino. Persona makes signing in really easy for developers and users. You can reuse your Persona account on many websites. And you don't even…
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 prob
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?
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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
jason wright Feb 2, 2014 would you really invest in a company dependent upon the Healthbook API remaining open? fredwilson Feb 2, 2014 i think once they open it, they would not be able to close it giv
New YC Partner Investment Policy by Paul Graham 1/31/2014 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 star
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 For the Love of Money 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 rai
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
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 oth
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
Sometimes producing a good animated GIF requires a few advanced tweaks, for which scripting can help. So I added a GIF export feature to MoviePy, a Python package originally written for video editing.
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
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 it
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 arres
“ 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 so
As of their latest update, Facebook can read your texts on Android phones. Edit: I just found out via the Reddit comments that Facebook updates are rolled out, so this update may not be available to y
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
Square thinks I’m not a real person. (Updated below.) Seriously. During the signup process, they ask for some personal information: your name, home address, phone number, and Social Security Number. T
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
W henever I read comments by politicians defending the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Predator and Reaper program – aka drones – I wish I could ask them a few questions. I'd start with: "How many women and c
No soft landing, no happy ending— we simply failed . It’s been a long four year journey, full of highs and lows. I am simultaneously incredibly proud, and incredibly disappointed. I’m incredibly proud
While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail. Now the FB
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