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vskron Ask HN: Where is AI/ML actually adding value at your company?

Slightly tangential, but how do you collect training data for AI/ML models you are developing

What percent of company do you expect in return. YC has a pretty deterministic formula. Do you have a similar formula? Or do you decide (or negotiate) on a case-by-case basis

vskron Square jumps in market debut

It is truly amazing how bankers always get away with this kind of incompetent non-sense. Every single time a stock sees a "jump", it is because those "analysts" did a poor job in evaluating stock price. And company going IPO is leaving money on the table, which is stolen by those greedy (too polite a term for bankers) bankers.

vskron Firefly – Full Text Search Engine for Dropbox

Is LevelDB linked in this article related to leveldb developed at Google ( https://github.com/google/leveldb ) ?

vskron FbStart – A new program designed to help early stage mobile startups

What does Fb get in return for this?

vskron Why Innocent People Plead Guilty

Will making prosecutors accountable for wrongful conviction keep them in check?

vskron Google killer-robots.txt

What does killer-robots.txt mean. And what do /+LarryPage links point to? (His google plus profile?)

vskron Google App Engine – SMS and Voice Integration With Twilio

Congrats!! Would be great to know how this was made possible. Did Google approach Twilio, or did Twilio approach Google, or is there a third party services partner program that any developer can follow

vskron Tracking down a memory leak in Ruby's EventMachine

Amazing post. How much time did it take to debug and identify the issue

vskron Dropbox + git

Script should generate the URL/URI. it is basically location of your backup in dropbox folder.

You can find out the url by doing the following 1. Go to root dir (top dir) of project you are backing up 2. run following command 'git remote -v'

It should show you the location where you are going to push to

vskron Dropbox + git

^^ Exactly.

vskron Ask HN: Would you use a prediction market mobile app

There will be virtual currency involved. So, when users participate and if they predict correctly they will earn virtual currency.

Most of the events in prediction markets involve something that user already knows what is going to happen.

vskron How often do you send a "Where are you?" SMS message to your friends

it definitely is a market research question, but it is not meant to advertise any product

vskron How often do you send a "Where are you?" SMS message to your friends

hah

vskron How often do you send a "Where are you?" SMS message to your friends

Yup, that is the inspiration for this question

vskron Priming affect during tech interviews

Thanks... but I hope you read the article beyond "affect"

vskron Location based Q&A

hipster.com used to be a location based Q&A but they took a pivot and are now a instagram knock-off

vskron Location based Q&A

Cool location based Q&A androi app, which allows you to ask/search questions around your location