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http://katemats.com/assessing-technical-risks-for-startups-new-tech-leader-series/ Good check list from Kate Matsudaira.

http://katemats.com/assessing-technical-risks-for-startups-new-tech-leader-series/ Good check list from Kate Matsudaira.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17866646 Interesting article by BBC, provides simplified explanation for Black-Scholes model: a formula that is used model market for option-like financial instruments

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17866646 Interesting article by BBC, provides simplified explanation for Black-Scholes model: a formula that is used model market for option-like financial instruments

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17866646 Interesting article by BBC, provides simplified explanation for Black-Scholes model: a formula that is used model market for option-like financial instruments

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Apr-19.html “This announcement means that Dropbox never had any mechanism to prevent employees from accessing your files, and it means that Dropbox never had the crypto smarts to ensure the privacy of your files and never had the smarts to only decrypt the files for you. It turns out, they keep their keys on their servers, and anyone with clearance at Dropbox or anyone that manages to hack into their servers would be able to get access to your files. " – ehh, a way to go dropbox :-( / noted at https://lwn.net/Articles/438401/ ...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_ioffe?printable=true&currentPage=all An excellent (as always) write-up from New Yorker about a rising star in Russian modern politics Alexey Navalny and the current state of corruption in Russia ( fake government contracts, kickbacks, etc). What is interesting to know (and I happen to agree) that Navalny describes current governing elite in Russia as a just a bunch or crooks, i.e. that nowadays there is no such thing as all-powerful KGB or Mafia, but rather a loosely connected network of highly-corrupt officials motivated mostly by personal financial gain. ...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216?print=true “Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them” About feds “enforcement” efforts for economic crimes. An excellent article (needs aprox. 30 mins to read)

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/03/how-not-to-post-security-article.html an excellent follow up on a hoax story about Samsung installing keyloggers on its laptops.

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2011/03/high-water-mark-of-american-science.html “A group of physicists went AWOL from the American Physical Society conference in Dallas this week to explore the ruins of the nearby Superconducting Super Collider. The SSC was to be the world’s largest and most ambitious physics experiment. It would have been bigger than the LHC and run at triple the energy. But the budget ran out of control and the project was scrapped in 1993.”