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It said in the article that the machine analyzes the category. My speculation is that if it correctly deduces that the category is one of those "answer-hybrid" ones, then it can tr…

Notice how even when they screwed up, they were still bailed out. Obviously I'm not thrilled that any bank would screw up in the first place, but no one's bailing out BankSimple if…

meh they went to MIT, I'm really not surprised

Just as a sidenote, there really aren't that many tech startups started by MIT people, at least relative to say Stanford or Harvard.

I wonder which would actually faster - binary search on the standard ordered alphabet or going linearly in order of letter frequency. Even better - some hybrid algorithm that goes …

Maybe this is asking too much, but I'm seeing a ton of different recommendations in the comments - anyone have experience with many (or at least more than one) of these options and…

I don't understand how they can block a site this big and this heavily trafficked without even making an attempt to contact anyone.

Should say "planned update" - it's not out yet (we're working on it!)

It is what it is.

Neither of those comparisons make any sense, in my opinion. We've got the standard differences of country size (both in terms of land area and population) and time (a lot has chang…

I hope this was a joke. Concepts like a "mandate of Heaven" are completely irrelevant in modern China. Also as a side note, China really hasn't had disproportionately more "revolut…

Solving problems 1-4 on each day of the Putnam with an "unlimited" amount of time is not a ridiculous expectation. Putnam's difficulty is partly due to its time format.

Overall I agree with you, but usability and user interface don't do anything for someone who doesn't even consider using Ubuntu. Boot time is one of those things that, if you get i…

If you take each group of people in the New World to be an item, then the title is essentially saying "why didn't the various different groups of people in the New World invent the…

I don't want to get into the details (for obvious reasons) but we are quite lenient about public link usage! We're mostly interested in cutting off the potentially expensive long t…

Let's not forget our old friend "getfirefox.com" =)

I think your question is phrased in a somewhat misleading way. For starters, I gave 10% as a loose lower bound, not as the actual number. More importantly, the question implies tha…

You're right that accounts are abandoned or go idle. It's substantially less than 75% though =) Also, well over 100K users actively sync a file each and every day.

In Facebook's defense (I have no affiliation with FB, and in general am not a big fan of them), they probably weren't looking for somebody to whip out Newton's method, but rather j…

This is getting silly, and even more annoying than it already was.

I hate counterproductive articles like this which make it that much harder for legitimate gripes about the iPhone to be taken seriously.

While there are always exceptions, I'm guessing most startups that are around the 10k user mark have plenty of free low hanging fruit left in terms of improving a user's experience…

The motto exists because our basic reactionary instinct on a fly ball is to run inward, which is supported by the finding in this article. But running inward is not a better choice…

There's a reason why the motto of any outfield is "FIRST STEP BACK!"

"Updated: Yet another source says the acquisition discussions are still fairly early stage, and the two companies are also considering working together on a Google real time search…