technology
Just finished day #4 with the Apple Watch. I keep getting asked what I think about it so I'm collecting my impressions here. Some background: I'm not a watch guy. I have little interest in expensive mechanical watches and haven't worn a watch since
privacy
Update: They have removed the tracking. Impressive responsiveness! Friend +liongrass pointed me to an organization called the "Global Commission on Internet Governance" that released a statement calling privacy "fundamental human right" on their open source website. Lofty goals and admirable words. If only their actions and
apple
Like many globe-traveling entrepreneurs, I use a lot of mobile data. In Hong Kong, my carrier slows down my data when I hit 6 gigabytes every month, so I hook up to public wifi whenever possible. While there are tens of thousands of wifi hotspots across the city, public wifi
china
Baidu's content data network (CDN), the computers that serve Baidu analytics and Baidu ads has been hijacked and is being used to launch a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on popular developer tool Github. The China Twitterverse has been buzzing today with reports of weird javascript errors
china
Great post about in ChinaLawBlog about how China is putting an end to so-called variable interest entities (VIEs) that most of China's large internet companies, including Tencent, Sina and Baidu, used to IPO overseas and raise funds from foreign investors. Yet, the remarkable fact is that these highly
china
Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the death of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. The BBC reported on those mourning the anniversary of his death in Beijing: Mourners have gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of China's purged former leader, Zhao Ziyang. More than 100
identity
Came across this video where a number of students in a British Chinese language school are asked whether they consider themselves British or Chinese or something else. I tweeted the link without comment intentionally hoping no one would notice and a Twitter follower called me out on it. Some thoughts:
politics
Many have asked why there has been so much more attention to the Charlie Hebdo attacks compared to Nigeria's Baga Massacre. Here are my thoughts: I've been to Paris multiple times. I've studied French. I've read French cartoons. I've read
bitcoin
Update: Bitstamp CEO Nejc Kodrič issued a comment via Twitter an hour or so after this post went live Bitcoin had a rough year in 2014, losing much of its value. The first few days of 2015 aren't looking much better. Since January 3rd, we've watched
blog
Richard Stallman's views are always "interesting"...his latest on Uber are no different ranging from well-reasoned to the absolutely insane * It requires passengers to run a nonfree program (an app). As always, a nonfree program tramples its users' freedom. Free software has never figured out
technology
Paul Graham in his latest treatise argues that the USA should allow more foreign tech workers into the country. American technology companies want the government to make immigration easier because they say they can't find enough programmers in the US. Anti-immigration people say that instead of letting foreigners
technology
Great conversation with NYU artificial intelligence expert Gary Marcus by Russ Robert on EconTalk puts our progress on AI in perspective. TL;DR: Progress on artificial intelligence as we know it today is almost all the result of brute force and not actual intelligence. people have always been saying it&