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> But I ended up picking Mercurial for the distributed version control system, which we were definitely wrong on that one–should have picked Git. I'm curious to know: is this senti…

In your experience, what metric(s) is(/are) the best indicators of product-market-fit (or lack of it)?

My 2c: "Upvotes" is too noisy a metric, and will give too much importance to HN ranking. I strongly suggest tweaking the HN ranking model for "Apply HN" posts to be as random as po…

Funny, typing "livingsocial layoffs" in google gives me these suggestions "livingsocial layoffs 2015", "livingsocial layoffs 2014", "livingsocial layoffs 2013"

Or simply use incognito mode and click on Google search result.

Hah missed that. In that case, thanks are due to Chrome+Firefox+Safari!

What I found most heartening about the article was that it spent several paragraphs describing why they initially had to use Flash, and how they managed to get rid of it, but not a…

"The CEO has hired management consultant McKinsey & Co. to look for areas of the company to cut, said a person familiar with the matter." Shudder.

Number of companies funded by YC that have shut down: ~300 Does this include aqui-hires? Also, would you know how many companies rejected by YC are worth more than $1 billion? Zero…

Easily the most amazing "How to Get Tenure" article that I've ever read, even though (or maybe because) it hardly talks about how to get tenure! Passion and success are so strongly…

They got in trouble with lawsuits because of the recent Uber employee vs contractor verdict. In addition, they were bleeding cash in customer acquisition so that didn't help too. T…

It's fascinating to be able to see generational power shifts in such short cycles of time. I still vividly remember the days when M$ could never do anything wrong, and only a few y…

I'm a data scientist, and it relieved me no end that I got this one right: http://i.imgur.com/V5oJ4i4.png I would have had second thoughts about my career choice if I got this wron…

Data Warehouse optimization. What? A tool that helps discover inefficiencies in Hive/Presto/Dremel query/pipeline/scripts. Why? It is so much easier to just add new machines to you…

I wish the headline was s/600%/from 1.5M to 7M in 2 years/ No less impressive, and so much more informative!

This would have sounded credible if Apple didn't have an iAds business that mines user clicks and offers retargetting ads to paying customers. Instead, now, this sounds like Micros…

time to go long on bitcoin!

A writeup by his doctoral advisor about his memories of Yitang Zhang: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf

The most important skill, in order to be data-driven, is to ask the right questions. If you're looking to get to product market fit, the questions you should be asking are very dif…