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Ask HN: Maintaining useful business documentation
8 points by sdrinf 16y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Why is the Cofounder spreadsheet locked for writing?(spreadsheets.google.com)
17 points by sdrinf 17y ago|15 comments
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Ask HN: common iteration patterns for business development?
4 points by sdrinf 17y ago|0 comments
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by sdrinf 17y ago
I'd like to address the market risks: Did you know, that large retail sites increasingly employ people to post merited positive, and no-merit negative reviews to funnel consumers into a buying decision? And, by economy of scale, they do thi
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by sdrinf 17y ago
Due to other engagements, I've decided to pass on in participating this, but not before my imagination went wild :) First iteration: this is a schoolbook-example of discreet state spaces; the moves of each player can be represented by a tre
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Ask HN: Spam fighting with bogus lead gen nowdays?
4 points by sdrinf 17y ago|4 comments
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by sdrinf 17y ago
A quick&dirty math approach: At a very basic level, you're working with: potential_revenue = sum(total_market) * P(customer) * LTV_over_period (LTV usually stands for lifetime value of customer, but we're only considering annual numbers
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by sdrinf 17y ago
Picking single-aspect reasoning lightens the condition (and thus, the strength of the argument) quite a bit. If you take a single learning problem domain, there are a number of fully unsupervised ML/IR systems already out there with superhu
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by sdrinf 17y ago
Um, no. The trade-off isn't between utilizing humans VS utilizing computers. It's the R&D cost of building simple, and proven systems, and paying peanuts into mturk VS the R&D of complex, and sophisticated systems * probability of w
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by sdrinf 17y ago
Ask HN: Predictions for 2009 -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416530 Evaluating the results of that set concludes the following predictions: -All predictions in the form of "X is going to die" have a >~90% probability of bei
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by sdrinf 17y ago
A referral upsale channel for Amazon's affiliate sales program -let's count them tricks of trade: misleading title (checked), inflammatory content (checked) targeted at a controversial topic (traditional pattern-matching makes people want t
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by sdrinf 17y ago
Albeit there is an echo-effect in the back of my head, content interpretation (for me) is non-vocal, but rather abstract; and as such, there isn't much tone difference between sources. I do, however, multiply everything being said by the me
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by sdrinf 17y ago
Yes I can. Nine times, no less! ;)
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by sdrinf 17y ago
Is this the case, where they're forced to send out C&Ds, or risk having their trademark lost? (such as happened with Google: http://209.85.135.132/search?q=cache:UCKy7KCtdhQJ:xooglers.b... )
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by sdrinf 17y ago
It's an interesting double-standard, forcing corporation transparency, when your own goverment isn't. Case in point: I had recently the pleasure of signing up for your country's "visa waiver" program. Technically, it's not a big deal, since
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Ask HN: good business cases of AI?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by sdrinf 17y ago|1 comments
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by sdrinf 17y ago
Thank you for creating this. I've written some stub about Google, and Paypal, and I encourage fellow hackers to take a stab at their favourite successful startup -I hope, that a "divide, and conquer" strategy might be put to a good use here
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by sdrinf 17y ago
Thank you for your feedback. My main motivation behind this project is learning, thus I'm not expecting this site to be a direct cashflow of any kind. I suspect, that information gathered systematically to answer the aforementioned question
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Ask HN: list of companies, and business models?
4 points by sdrinf 17y ago|6 comments
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by sdrinf 17y ago
I imagine the relationship between the artist, and its contractor to be similar of small groups of hackers, and their investors. At any given time a record label has several "good enough" artists in their incomming tunnel to be able to make