The University of Melbourne advertises itself as Australia’s best university—the first and only member of the Australian Ivy League. This isn’t an unreasonable claim. The Times Higher Education World…

September 2001 (This article explains why much of the next generation of software may be server-based, what that will mean for programmers, and why this new kind of software is a great opportunity for…

Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. March 2005(This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard Computer Society.)You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with…

I spent the better part of my professional life (1991-2014) working at a libertarian think tank—the Cato Institute—arguing against climate action. As Cato’s director of Natural Resource Studies (and…

Have you ever been happy?” My girlfriend asked me that question, after work over drinks at some shiny Manhattan bar, after another…

Fly over a reconstruction of one of history’s greatest cities to experience Rome as the Romans knew it. This reconstruction is based on two decades of research and the input of dozens of specialists.…

Earlier this year, founder-investor Sam Altman left his high-profile role as the president of Y Combinator to become the CEO of OpenAI, an AI research center at its outset that founded by some of the…

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Y Combinator partner and Scribd cofounder Jared Friedman answers the question, when is the right time to apply to Y Combinator? https://twitter.com/snowmaker...

Matthew Edwards, 41, was canceled early Friday evening after he was seen in his car singing along to “Remix to Ignition.” Mr. Edwards has not watch...

Death rates from air pollution and accidents related to energy production, measured in deaths per terawatt hours (TWh)

March 2009A couple days ago I finally got being a good startup founder down to two words: relentlessly resourceful.Till then the best I'd managed was to get the opposite quality down to one: hapless.…

Taking stock of a vanishing world.

Students in Winthrop House, where Robert S. Sullivan Jr. and his wife served as residential deans, had called for his resignation. Harvard chose not to renew their contracts.

That style of motivation could help in the classroom, too.

November 2014It struck me recently how few of the most successful people I know are mean. There are exceptions, but remarkably few.Meanness isn't rare. In fact, one of the things the internet has…

Programming courses for serious developers who want to increase their skill-set. World class instructors, practical topics.

East Texas Federal Court Jurisdiction1. Tyler serves as headquarters to the East District of Texas Federal Court Jurisdiction. 2. East Texas courts are known for their speedy dispositions to resolve…

Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Twice a year we invest in a large number of startups.

Beijing has rejected US accusations that the Chinese government has detained large numbers of Muslims in the Xinjiang region in what former detainees describ...

This is a guest post by Franziska Funke1 and Linus Mattauch2.

Stripe has engineering hubs in San Francisco, Seattle, Dublin, and Singapore. We are establishing a fifth hub that is less traditional but no less important: Remote. We are doing this to situate…

Annual number of deaths from HIV/AIDS and the estimated number which have been averted as a result of antiretroviral therapy (ART).

It took 358 years to crack Fermat’s Last Theorem. And, prior to its proof in 1994 by Andrew Wiles, it held The Guinness World Book of…