In 2009, the U.S. unemployment rate exceeded Europe’s for the first time in decades.  Apologists for European labor market regulation rejoiced, so I publicly bet that European unemployment would exceed U.S. unemployment over the next decade.  The original…

Some New Yorkers believe cash-free businesses violate civil rights and want to join cities like Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington in banning them.

Tesla just shifted the goalposts for "full self-driving" technology.

The once-hyped social media company, known for gamifying mobile check-ins, is still alive and well as an incomprehensibly vast data empire.

We have a few changes about YC to share.

A new study finds that suburban neighborhoods outperform urban ones across the board.

I work at Red Hat on GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection, and I spent most of the past year making GCC easier to use. Let's look at C and C++ improvements that

At Swiss Public TV and Radio (SRF) we recently published an investigation of the "Collection #1-5" password leaks. In this post, I show how I searched through 900GB+ of data with Spark and R.

Animals are no less emotional than we are.

Eye contact parties, cuddle puddles, 'conscious dance.' The Bay Area has changed in a lot of ways, but still knows how to get kinky.

Splashdown occurred at 8:45 am Eastern time about 230 miles off the Florida coast

I’m releasing new software today for solving crossword puzzles in the terminal. cursewords is a small Python program to open, navigate, and solve puzzles stored as .puz files. If you’re a Mac or Linux user, you can install it today by running pip3 install…

Technology startups are finding it harder to attract venture capital and are shedding staff