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alexyes | 11 months ago | on: New DNA Testing Website

Given the 23AndMe story, it is interesting to see new services popping up

alexyes | 10 years ago | on: Valuing high-tech companies

The target audience for this article is executives at corporate America, who understand very little of tech. It is helpful to understand how the rest of the world looks at tech.

alexyes | 10 years ago | on: Introduction to Autonomous Robots

Thanks for sharing

alexyes | 10 years ago | on: My Ukraine

Russia invaded Ukraine. It was an invasion. End of the story. Why are you blaming the US?

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: On Evangelism

At what stage should a startup hire an evangelist?

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

You're right it is still under copyright. No harm intended

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: Amazon Machine Learning

It offers three basic models.

I hope they will offer more complex models in the future.

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Suggested services to test Android apps on actual devices

Thanks! I am looking into this. If you have any suggestions to test the app on less popular devices, please let me know!

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do/could you use Mechanical Turk

It is important to provide clear instructions to the Turk.

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do/could you use Mechanical Turk

We use the Amazon MTurk for a bunch of things: Categorize websites (ecommerce yes or not, blog, etc.); extract contact information from websites; extract attributes from product titles, etc.

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do/could you use Mechanical Turk

Between 0.01 and 0.05 for item

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: HBO Now Pricing

I hope they will open it up to every device soon. History teaches that is the right path anyway

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some strong ecommerce solutions for native Android apps?

Fyi, I am considering using Shopify.

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: A Japanese inn owned by the same family for 1,300 years [video]

"Until 2011, it held the record for being the oldest hotel in the world."

I wondered what happened in 2011

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: YC W15 invites will be sent out today

Looks cool. I'll try it out

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: Amazon’s Monopsony Is Not O.K.

People can be extremely wrong even if they were extremely right in the past. And the opposite

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: Brad Fitzpatrick on the future of Go

Because we were talking about JS and GOLang. I'm not affiliated to whoever created the compiler. I had found it on HN

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: Brad Fitzpatrick on the future of Go

Have a look at this compiler from Go to JS. Could be useful https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: World population likely to hit 11B by 2100

Interesting. Most people claim both that we will run out of natural resources and that population will grow indefinitely, which is impossible. Cool paper

alexyes | 11 years ago | on: How to buy a tank: a BRDM-2 story

OK, sorry, it was a bad joke..