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Folks who found this article interesting will also appreciate Nathan Altice's book "I AM ERROR" which looks at how the NES's various technical decisions and limitations influenced …

Howdy HN - I'm wondering if folks have any recommendations for books about the early days of companies/industries outside of tech/silicon valley? For example is there something sim…

Given the current state of the world, perhaps it's not a good thing that philosophical thinking has taken a backseat.

For something more accessible, also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TlTaTHgzo

So how do you hire effectively as a CEO? There are too many areas for you to be knowledgeable, yet you need to be able to hire top talent across a variety of areas.

Indeed - you can even extend this idea to only identify factors less than or equal to the square root - all factors greater than this have a matching factor less than the square ro…

It's particularly interesting that Slack's CEO upvoted that answer - I wonder if that's because the answer was accurate or he was just amused.

Like others have mentioned, I'm very interested in how the author arrived at the ratio of '3'. At the very least this ratio doesn't take into account how capital intensive a compan…

The person leading this effort is literally the second Justin.tv hire from many years ago.

I know of one interesting story here. Early on in (what would eventually become a very successful) tech company's life, they acquired some collocated space for free thanks to a fri…

This is an existing team who has already shown they can work and accomplish things together. Buying the best individual labor on the free market may not create as strong a whole as…

That's NOT what adverse selection is. It's absolutely an adverse selection problem - insurance companies, as you say, can't necessarily price based on your existing health conditio…

For one, it reduces the effects of adverse selection[1]. The idea is that everyone reaps economic benefits through such programs, as an average company will have a pool of workers,…

How am I supposed to know, before I click on a link, if the ads supporting the site I'm about to visit are "bad" or not? A possible solution would be to develop an adblock product …

Advertisers also love to serve video ads on a flash platform because it lets them perform custom analytics, logic, etc.

What if a coalition of California-based companies sent emails to their employees informing them of the potential harm this bill could do to their company (and thus each employee's …

It looks like the most commonly-used adjective to describe Jobs was "great" - I wonder how many of those instances were actually "insanely great".

This series of articles[1] goes into some depth in explaining why certain countries (and ethnicities) dominate various sports - this includes an in-depth discussion of why Kenyans …

Not very easy if they want to maintain compatibility with existing clients (especially considering they haven't updated their linux client for years now).

(Disclaimer, I'm not an expert, but I can squat well over 1.5x my weight for several reps) For squats, you should make sure to go parallel and "sit back" at the bottom of the movem…

How many of those 25k employees actually handle any of the infrastructure scaling?

"If it makes me feel good just after waking up for an hour or so, then is it really that useful?" If I retain my daytime alertness, I think so :) Morning grogginess is pretty much …