Republican Mayor Richard Berry was driving around Albuquerque last year when he saw a man on a street corner holding a sign that read: “Want a Job. Anything Helps.” Throughout his administration, as p
I've long turned up my nose at sermons and related forms of mass moralizing. One reason, quite simply, is that they bore me. Honesty good. Violence bad. My eyes glaze over. Empathy, rah! Racism, boo!
Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: On the Trail: A History of American Hiking by Silas Chamberlin Yale University Press, 243 pp., $30.00 On Trails: An Explorati
A few months ago, while dining at Veggie Grill (one of the new breed of Chipotle-class fast-casual restaurants), a phrase popped unbidden into my head: premium mediocre. The food, I opined to my wife,
“In battle, the commander is the first one to go over the top,” Joe McKinney, shirt unbuttoned, wearing a shower cap and one of those airplane neck pillows, exclaims over music swelling from every dir
Opinion Goodbye, Yosemite. Hello, What? The Ahwahnee Hotel in 1980. Because of a trademark dispute, it has been renamed the Majestic Yosemite Hotel. HOTELS generally don’t figure prominently in my ima
A man is begging on the side of a Tennessee mountain. He's crumpled on the ground, his clothes are soaking wet, and he's sucking air hard. His wife weeps as she huddles over him, her hands resting sof
O ne day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatte
Published in Greylock Perspectives · 2 min read · Aug 15, 2017 -- There was a ruling yesterday in a lawsuit about LinkedIn and the ability for LinkedIn to block another company from scraping public da
Facebook has acquired Ozlo, a Palo Alto-based artificial intelligence startup, to help Messenger build out a more elaborate virtual assistant for users. Ozlo specializes in understanding text-based co
Marlon Craft is posted at the 161 Street Yankee Stadium subway stop, spitting bars befitting the scene like, "If Flash woulda copied Herc that woulda been some lame shit." This is the setting his firs
Why website body text should be bigger, and ways to optimize it. 14 min read· Sep 29, 2016 -- Body text is the key component in communicating the main bulk of a message or story, and it’s probably the
A few weeks ago, I was trying to call Cuba . I got an error message—which, okay, international telephone codes are long and my fingers are clumsy—but the phone oddly started dialing again before I cou
Disclaimer: I worked for 7 years at Mozilla and was Mozilla’s Chief Technology Officer before leaving 2 years ago to found an embedded AI startup . Mozilla published a blog post two days ago highlight
6 min read · Dec 13, 2016 -- I’ve held this personally close for a long time, to the point where some of my closest friends still aren’t sure whether or not I’m lying or telling the truth. I’m not sur
Matthew Desmond has a piece in the New York Times about homeownership and racial inequality. The piece is mostly good, but one part of it irked me: While most white families own a home, a majority of
“You’re a wizard, Harry,” Hagrid said. “And you’re coming to Hogwarts.” “What’s Hogwarts?” Harry asked. “It’s wizard school.” “It’s not a public school, is it?” “No, it’s privately run.” “Good. Then I
In the early 1960s, Richard Feynman gave a series of undergraduate lectures that were collected into a book called the Feynman Lectures on Physics . Absent from the book was a lecture Feynman gave on
When I first worked for a (student) newspaper, the job of a publisher seemed odd to me; as far as I and my editorial colleagues were concerned, the publisher was the person the editor-in-chief, who we
Silicon Valley’s emphasis on work-life balance may be evolving, but its priesthood still values a very particular kind of grit. This ideological tension came to blows earlier this week in a marathon T
Pinboard has acquired Delicious. Here’s what you need to know: If you’re a Pinboard user, nothing will change. Sad! If you’re a Delicious user, you will have to find another place to save your bookmar
It’s not terrible, but essentially, it’s a bland, tepid, barely competent knock-off of “Shark Tank.” Apple made its name on game-changing innovations, but this show is decidedly not one of them.
Mon 16 September 2013 big data / buzzwords / hadoop "So, how much experience do you have with Big Data and Hadoop?" they asked me. I told them that I use Hadoop all the time, but rarely for jobs large
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Between 2001 and 2003, Judith Miller wrote a number of pieces in the New York Times asserting that Iraq had the capability and the ambition to produce weapons of mass destruction. It was fake news. Lo
Published in tech-at-instacart · 4 min read · May 3, 2017 -- Curious about the food Americans eat? Look no further. Instacart is excited to announce our first public dataset release, “The Instacart On
As the sun sets, a giant Trump campaign yard sign nearly dwarfs the Antico family, six-bedroom home in Wayland, Massachusetts, November 1, 2016. (AP Photo / Charles Krupa) Throughout the 2016 campaign
Net neutrality is in jeopardy again. We need another grassroots movement By Ashley Boyd , VP Advocacy A little over two years ago, the mood here at Mozilla — and across the broader Internet health mov
2 min read · May 8, 2017 -- So, you are a first time CTO in a start-up. You’ve just landed your seed investment, and you and your team are feeling pretty good about yourselves. At last, you have enoug
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