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by heynk 12y ago
I've been using Talko for a little over 6 months, and I'm related to a founder. Discretion advised It lives up to the hype. It's innovative in terms of an app that perfectly integrates synchronous and asynchronous communicati
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by heynk 12y ago
They ended up getting a C&D from Uber.
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Show HN: Analyze how long it takes for GitHub issues to close(issuestats.com)
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by heynk 12y ago
I didn't see it mentioned, so I have to bring up that a magnet mount will not cut it for action sports where you might 'crash'. I know multiple skiers who have lost their GoPro in the snow because mount plastic snapped on a d
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by heynk 12y ago
[total apple fanboy here] I also wanted to chime in that I really don't think product quality is the main reason Google TV flopped. I have a Google TV because I got it for free and have been a big fan of it after extensive Apple TV usa
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Protect Your Bitcoins on Coinsetter With Biometric Face and Fingerprint Scanning(coinsetter.com)
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by heynk 12y ago
If you use BitPay as a payment processor I don't think it would be as easy as, say, swapping out BTC addresses, because of different implementations of webhooks and other APIs.
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by heynk 12y ago
I started getting into startups around when Lean Startup was the hottest thing out, led by Eric Ries. He was signing books after a talk and I asked him to sign my iPad case.
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by heynk 12y ago
I have 2 years of a BA in Economics. I started teaching myself programming when I was 18, starting the summer before undergrad. I got an internship at a startup as a "Biz Dev/Marketing intern" and mostly produced content, but
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by heynk 12y ago
I don't care much for pong, but this game is worth playing for the shear beauty of it. Lots of wonderful detail and happy surprises!
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by heynk 12y ago
It is too easy for teachers, and maybe yourself, to mistake correlation with causation. "a student is struggling because they are not doing nightly reading". There is no other measurement to determine whether the student is unmo
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by heynk 12y ago
Very nice! I had some deja vu when I read the title. I posted an HN thread with the same exact title over two years ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3363451 I will sell you soundcloudinstant.com for 1 million dollh
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What I learned from creating algorithmic March Madness brackets(hankstoever.com)
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Show HN: Weighted Scoring Function for CodersBracket(github.com)
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by heynk 13y ago
Hey Guys! I just saw this today and got pretty interested. I was interested in implementing a 'weighted' scoring function, but needed a way to save state somehow. I ended up finding a pretty fun solution using the console. It&#x27
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by heynk 13y ago
It helps to focus on empathy in these situations. You may view their activities or two lesbians as making a 'show', but perhaps to them it is a personal matter which they would prefer to enjoy to themselves. Sometimes hula hooping
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by heynk 13y ago
My employer is currently transitioning from ~25 employees a year ago to ~50 now. When I was interviewed last year, the policy was that there was no vacation policy. By the time I was hired a few weeks later, that had changed to a maximum 10
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Auto-subscribe users to mailchimp in your rails app(hankstoever.com)
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by heynk 13y ago
I personally pay for Codeship for my own projects, and we pay/use CircleCI at up.co. I love both. Both have given us pain in random edge cases where things just don't work, which is frustrating. Both have provided amazing support
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Show HN: An API for gender classification(gender.hankstoever.com)
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by heynk 13y ago
Hey! So excited to see what you're doing. I'd appreciate a little more clarity about this point: > 100% of lender funds go directly to the entrepreneur that you fund ... and borrowers also pay a 5% service fee Are 'borrowe
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by heynk 13y ago
Similar to GP, I also grew up in DC and would say the GP's description of DC's power complex is extremely accurate. The point is that even though the word 'politics' is used often, this structure is present in every indu
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Real Worl A/B Testing Results(hankstoever.com)
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Give HN: collection of Ruby on Rails recipes(uludum.org)
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by heynk 13y ago
In the last month I had success crowdfunding (and subsequently creating) and online course about running a bitcoin arbitrage bot. I set up the crowdfund on https://www.uludum.org/ and added a link to it from my blog, which
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by heynk 13y ago
Does anyone know if Colorado is enforcing seed traceability? That is one of the rules according to Washington's I-502 ( http://www.liq.wa.gov/publications/Marijuana/I-502/I-502_Dra... crtl-f "Traceab
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Simply calculating how long it will take to read an article(hankstoever.com)
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Calculating Bitcoin Arbitrage Profit(hankstoever.com)
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by heynk 13y ago
I apologize for the miscommunication in my post. I am certainly not an advocate for the Iraq war or the line of thinking you're criticizing. I was hoping to propose a follow-up thought experiment to GP's in order to provoke discus
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by heynk 13y ago
Imagine you were a US intelligence officer with an extremely in-depth knowledge of socioeconomic momentum around the world. You are aware that oil is a relatively irreplaceable dependency and that most oil is controlled by foreign regimes t

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