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I blame A/B testing actually. Too many folks run experiments without choosing which metric to optimize carefully. Here, marketers probably monitor click-through rates of their main…

"Fed’s goal: get the U.S. inflation rate to 2%": This is partially true, since the Fed's goal is also to maximize employment[1]. So really, they should add employment rates in thes…

That was actually a typo, but thanks for the translation. And apologies...

Dan Boney is awesome. I really like that he is sharing his classes and materials online (I would highly recommend his classes in Stanford[0] and his coursera class[2] as well). I t…

France -> USA. Like many qualified French guys in the bay area I got a degree from a top tier French school and did not want to work for finance, consulting or aerospace (or other …

"We certainly do not claim that publication record is the best measure, or a complete measure. However, it is the record that everyone sees and compares in CV, for jobs, grants, re…

Yeah... Nobody asked for a .doc version of my resume in France either.

Just curious about your data sources, could you tell us what you are basing your recommendation on? Are you using review sites (Facebook, Google, Yelp) or is it something completel…

If you remove the password, how is that a two factor? The day you loose your phone/get robbed could lead to your worst nightmares. Definitely would never opt-in. I loose my phone a…

You are not wrong, Greece is a deadbeet right now. They already are living on life support from the EU-IMF, and have been for more than a year. What's wrong is that, we gave them m…

I think Libre Calc has a pivot table feature though. Are you missing a feature within the pivot table options?

Agreed. Plus, that's a computer that you shake and keep in your warm palm all the time... That will need to have a really good cooling system.

FYI: Yelp and Apple are already in a partnership. Yelp is already in Apple Map for instance[1]. [1] http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/19/yelp-ios-6/

I was actually delighted to read a blog post explaining that some people actually live off gittip these days[1]. I hope that these guys can make it even easier for developers to li…

Well, isn't it what Nest and others are promising? Having a house that can operate itself. Hopefully they'll work toward more standardization of solar panels console and heater so …

I don't think a small team of people can be better than Google or Apple in building a speech to text technology. However, leveraging the tools available to help the deaf is the mai…