In 2000, economist Steven Levitt and sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics about the internal wage structure of a Chicago drug gang. This piece would
At one point not so long ago, Yahoo (s yhoo) was one of the top technology companies in the world. “The only exception [was] Google,” Bassel Ojjeh , a former senior vice president of data technologies
An anonymous letter written by an investment manager was published earlier this month that makes a number of bleak, if not exactly surprising, statements about wealth distribution in the United States. The author suggests that even the bottom half of the top 1% of Americans doesn’t have access to…
For a long time I've been thinking that Facebook users are very similar to smokers. Like all classic addicts, both are not proud of their behavior, deny the strength of their addiction but eventually will admit they want to quit. But they won't. Allen Carr could probably rewrite Easy Way to Stop…
Want to Feel Badass? A Design Teardown of Music App Mindie. This essay originally appeared on PandoDaily . Last night me and Mindie were fooling around in bed. It was fun and delightfully surprising.
Twitter went mad last week because somebody had transferred almost $150m in a single Bitcoin transaction. This tweet was typical: 194,993 BTC transaction worth $147m sparks mystery and speculation htt
Compared to a control brain (top), neuroscientist James Fallon’s brain (bottom) shows significantly decreased activity in areas of the frontal lobe linked to empathy and morality—anatomical patterns t
Perhaps you’ve heard: Facebook may — or may not — have a teen problem. It’s been the talk of the town since Facebook’s last earnings call, when CFO David Ebersman admitted that in the past quarter, th
Yeah, I think it's just part of a much broader picture. And so I think at the highest level, it's to try and make something great. The only way you can do that is to care, you know, to an extraordinary level. And I think many things then testify to that, whether it's how you finish the inside of…
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Have you heard of Turntable.fm ? If you haven’t, then let me tell you that it is cool, and might represent where the web is going. Turntable.fm is a New York City-based social music listening and disc
259 $\begingroup$ I've been revising Theory of Computation for fun and this question has been nagging me for a while (funny never thought of it when I learnt Automata Theory in my undergrad). So "why"
I hope my father dies soon. And while I’m at it, I might want you to die a painful death too. I’m entirely serious on both counts. My father, age 86, is on the final approach to the long dirt nap (to
Two Israeli computer scientists say they may have uncovered a puzzling financial link between Ross William Ulbricht, the recently arrested operator of the Internet black market known as the Silk Road,
Instagram, known as a visual communication platform, is looking for way to expand its appeal to its community of 200 million (and growing) users. First it was short-form video and next up is messaging
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Ray Tang / Rex/REX USA Round 6: The shorter fighter backs his 6-foot-2-inch opponent into the corner and pummels him with right and left hooks straight into the rib cage. The beanpole boxer has his ha
A few weeks ago, I attended a conference at Stanford University. We finished in the late afternoon, and as I walked out into the sunlight I noticed groups of people, young and old, all streaming in th
Burgers on the Grill This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice . This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. But some companies have…
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Fadi Chehade, president and CEO of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), appears to ponder the teleological inevitability of ICANN’s independence. (Reuters) Is the U.S. losing c
Because flour without yeast makes a shitty baguette 6 min read · Nov 20, 2013 -- “So what are you going to do?” My friend asked. “Not sure. I’m exploring opportunities and investing in myself.” I repl
My favorite speaker at YCombinator was Kevin Hale , the founder of Wufoo. He taught me that everybody in a company should be doing personalized support so that you can identify (and fix) the most pain
Native advertising is all the rage these days as an emerging form of startup monetization, particularly for media companies and social networks. If you can seamlessly marry advertising with content, t
Snapchat’s latest valuation puts it at $4 billion dollars. Let’s compare that to the market cap of some other well-known tech companies:
Here’s an awesome graph put together by Tech Crunch that I have altered to include Snapchat at a conservative valuation of $3.5bn.
Investors aren’t dumb. In fact,…
One of the most important color tricks I’ve ever learned was to avoid using the color black in my work. Mrs. Zamula, my childhood art teacher, first warned me about black when I was in middle school.
'What's it like working with Mexican drug cartels?' Banking giant JPMorgan cancels Twitter Q&A after thousands of abusive tweets Firm had planned public relations stunt with senior executive Jimmy Lee
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I’ve been reflecting recently on my past few years working as a software developer. During those years I’ve had a lot of job interviews. I got many rejections, a few job offers and never heard back from some companies. This is a review, from my own perspective, of what works and what doesn’t work…
I’ve been using Kindles for almost two years. My first Kindle was a 4th generation Kindle (not the touch one). Since then, ebooks for me was just a thing from a science fiction articles, just like flying cars. It was technically plausible but couldn’t see it replacing paper books anytime soon. News…
Illustration by Istvan Banyai W_henever a friend asks me if I have any interesting tales involving text-messaging, I think of Jeremy. Jeremy, a man I am no longer in touch with, was someone I once con
I find Flash games on Facebook great fun. Not playing them, of course, that’s boring. As you may remember from my previous post, “winning at Puzzle Adventures“, I like to take a look into their guts and figure out how they work, and whether or not I can get insane scores with no effort.
When I…
President Kennedy, minutes before he was assassinated. Photo by Walt Cisco/Dallas Morning News via Wikimedia Commons Fifty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 59 percent of Americans still believe it was the work of a conspiracy. I was once among them. Back in the early…
About a year ago, I was on a conference call. The customer was a Fortune 500 company with a correspondingly enormous web presence, and they wanted some help validating that their new Sass architecture
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November 14, 2013 How I Was Unbanned from Hacker News by Brian de Haaff Somehow I managed to become what I thought was hellbanned on Hacker News. I was ready to apologize for sinning — to bow down to
Become a member Sign in Wells Riley Design at @envoy 157 Following 830 Followers · Profile Claps Highlights Responses Latest May 11 · 9 min read Powering a Sonos Play:1 with a USB-C battery pack (instructions + photos) 57 Wells Riley in Envoy Design Mar 8 · 5 min read Behind the scenes of our film…
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