How much would you pay for a Netflix subscription? For some people, paying $8 a month for Netflix is a steal. Others aren't so willing to open their wallets. Both types of consumers represent a kind o

You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can't find enough workers in those fields, and the country's competitive edge is threatened. It pretty much doesn't matter what country you're talking about—the United States is…

3: Who Told Us What We Think We Know A UN inspection team that visited the site of the massacre on Monday, August 26, almost 5 days after the event. Why was the inspection so late? As a spokesman for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon pointed out (Gareth Porter in IPS, August 27), the request to the…

The gram of marijuana Forbes bought with bitcoins on the Silk Road black market. Researcher Sarah Meikeljohn was able to identify the purchase by following our bitcoins' path into the Silk Road's accounts. The crypto-currency Bitcoin has become the preferred payment method for much of the online…

In Enemies Within , the new book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman on the NYPD's indiscriminate and probably illegal spying program, reference is brie

Engineering is the bottleneck in (Deep Learning) Research January 17, 2017 January 17, 2017 Warning: This a rant post containing a bunch of unorganized thoughts. When I was in graduate school working on NLP and information extraction I spent most of my time coding up research ideas. That’s what grad…

With less than a month left until Apple finally takes the wraps off of its next-generation iPhone 5S and possibly the “iPhone 5C” as well — not that there’s much left to unwrap — the company has now i

It used to be hard work to get a video to play in a browser. A site could link directly to a video file for download, but that takes readers away from the site and out of their browsers. You could, as most sites did in the 90s and early 2000s, require one of a handful of browser plugins, such as…

The Syrian war has been a slowly unfolding catastrophe, one that has embroiled several of the world's major powers. Early Saturday, the United States and its British and French allies conducted airstrikes on three targets outside Damascus and Homs in response to an alleged chemical attack by the…

I hate the Pumping Lemma for regular languages. It’s a complicated way to express an idea that is fundamentally very simple, and it isn’t even a very good way to prove that a language is not regular. Here it is, in all its awful majesty: for every regular language L, there exists a positive whole…

In Here Is New York , E.B. White opens with this sentence: “On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.” Sixty-four years have pas

September 3, 2013 Beyond Flat It seems mobile UIs are converging. Next month, millions of iPhone users will download a flatter version of iOS, one that doesn’t mimic real-life objects. Skeuomorphism used to be a huge red line that divided iOS and Android design [1]. Now iOS will be flatter, like…

Early this morning Microsoft acquired Nokia for €3.79 billion (plus €1.65 billion for patents). It is a deal that makes no sense. While industry observers love to pontificate about mergers and acquisitions, the reality is that most ideas are value-destroying. It is far better to form an alliance or…

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Luke Wood, left, the president of Beats Electronics, with co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre in 2012. Getty Images The maker of the popular Beats by Dr. Dre headphones is looking to buy out its Asian partner and bring in a new investor that can provide it with fresh funds for growth, people…

So many of our online social interactions are firmly entrenched within specific tools. Want to share updates with family and friends? Facebook. Want to chat about current events with the whole world?

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So a couple of months ago Douglas Atkin, head of Community and E-staff Member at AirBnB, took to the stage of the Le Web conference in London (video) to announce the formation of Peers: “a grassroots organization that supports the sharing economy movement.” I like grassroots organizations and I like…

August 29, 2013 Learning how to think The most profound thought from a recent Inc. Magazine interview with Paul Graham was his response to a question about bad habits shared by YC founders: They don’t realize how independent they can be. When you’re a child, your parents tell you what you’re…

Recently, I wrote a post called “Entrepreneurs Deserve Full Transparency” for my WSJ series. Several entrepreneurs wrote me, but this story really stands out as a warning to do your diligence and demand full transparency. Not all accelerators are created equal. I’ve posted the following email by…

(I know some people will be interested in a followup post to Don’t Fly During Ramadan. I plan on writing one, but this post happens to be timely.) Yesterday, August 28th, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous speech, “I Have a Dream”. If you live in the US, you’ve probably…

Tyler McIntyre 3 min read· Aug 29, 2013 -- I am constantly approached about helping someone start the next “Apple” or “Google”. I have had some success in the tech startup scene, which made me a de-facto and pro bono consultant to friends and friends of friends. Most developers and entrepreneurs…

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"When Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh computer in a California auditorium in 1984, the screen displayed a photo of him . At one level, it was merely a way of demonstrating the computer’s graphics

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“What can I start doing today to make my life happier and more fulfilling?” This is one of the most common questions readers ask us via email, blog comments, and social media. So today I want to share some simple, actionable ways to improve your happiness and wellbeing on a daily basis. In the seven…

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Published in Both Sides of the Table · 7 min read · Aug 11, 2013 -- I’ve done a lot of video interviews. This is one of my favorite if not my favorite outright . It’s only 12 minutes long and if you’r