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Show HN: Our first iPhone app, built entirely in JavaScript(ravn.com)
74 points by yosho 15y ago|51 comments
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Jeremy Lin - Soft Bigotry Towards Asian Men and Low Expectations(patheos.com)
2 points by yosho 15y ago|0 comments
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by yosho 15y ago
I've read too many stereotypical comments today on this topic that I'm just going to unload my thoughts. If you want to argue that racial diversity is important for your 'elite' universities, that's fine. I can't argue with that since it's
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by yosho 15y ago
Another post and discussion on this topic today. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3543946
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by yosho 15y ago
Isn't it pretty easy to determine if there is racial bias in admissions? Isn't the fact that Asians need to score a couple hundred points higher on SAT score just to get admitted enough evidence that there is bias? Correct me if I'm wrong,
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by yosho 15y ago
Lol, if you're able to hack the score, please send your resume to hiring@ravn.com
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by yosho 15y ago
Hi, I'm one of the creators of the landing page. We thought traditional beta signup pages were boring (ie. Launchrock style) so we added a "Ravn Hunt" game to our landing page. Our landing page was pretty traditional beforehand, but after t
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The splash page that drove up conversion by 300%(ravn.com)
58 points by yosho 15y ago|31 comments
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Ask HN: Why Doesn't Google Believe in Customer Support?
3 points by yosho 15y ago|1 comments
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by yosho 15y ago
I get how some people might feel like it's annoying to auto follow, but the reality is that most people don't care / notice that they're now following all of their friends. And at the end of the day, having friends using the same app as you
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by yosho 15y ago
Oops, yah that is great feedback, we're going to change that now. For some reason, I guess we just naturally assumed people know we're in Beta.
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by yosho 15y ago
Yep, there is no Amazon for activities right now, we want to change that :)
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by yosho 15y ago
Hi, I"m the author of the blog post. I definitely think there are too many people these days chasing the sexy trends. What they fail to realize is that by the time something is sexy, it's often too late to catch up. Take Groupon and all the
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Pivoting: Why We're Bringing Unsexy Back(blog.ravn.com)
85 points by yosho 15y ago|31 comments
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by yosho 15y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full Time We're Ravn.com ( http://ravn.com ) looking for front-end developers. We want someone that has: - Great Decision Sense - Deep understanding in HTML, CSS, JS - Attention to Detail - Awesome Personality - Experienc
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by yosho 15y ago
We're a stealth startup in SF that's part of i/o ventures. We're in the outdoor adventure and travel space and looking for people who are passionate in that area. We are looking for potential interns and willing to relocate them. We have op
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by yosho 15y ago
San Francisco, CA Stealth funded startup in the local/travel space looking for backend engineers. A couple of areas that we're currently working on include smart search and recommendation engines, social and game mechanics, and sorting and
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by yosho 15y ago
I interviewed with Bridgewater, it's definitely true about the personality tests, I was given two of them and they asked me questions about my results and what I thought about them. It was really obvious they were looking for a certain type
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by yosho 15y ago
San Francisco, CA Web Developer/Backend Engineer at an Early Stage Stealth Start-up Helping people discover new experiences. We are a stealth start-up located in San Francisco that helps people find new, unique experiences and activities in
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Infidelity might save marriages(nytimes.com)
6 points by yosho 15y ago|0 comments
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by yosho 15y ago
Don't know how to rephrase what's already been said so I'll just say it again. Thanks so much for providing an awesome service!
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by yosho 15y ago
Can we at least maybe have a star rating or color rating or something that lets us differentiate high voted comments from mediocre comments? It really does simply take too long to scan and read all the comments. Most of the time I'm just lo
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by yosho 16y ago
Why just track YC? Why not open it up to all the tech incubators or the entire startup scene and have something really useful and a competitor to crunchbase.
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by yosho 16y ago
http://m.gizmodo.com/5733025/watch-ibms-jeopardy+playing-com... a video of the computer playing against 2 of the best Jeopardy players.
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IBM Super Computer Beats Humans at Jeopardy (gizmodo.com)
1 points by yosho 16y ago|1 comments
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by yosho 16y ago
For our startup http://skyara.com , we thought about pivoting in that direction... but we think online video lessons isn't as engaging as real life interactions even though it's easier to gain traction through virtual services. It's defini
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by yosho 16y ago
The one thing I really got out of this article is that HN has a IRC channel, that's awesome. http://webchat.freenode.net/ join #startups I'm totally idling there from now on.
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How to charm a VC into mentoring you(gigaom.com)
2 points by yosho 16y ago|0 comments
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How paying it forward can make great business sense(blog.skyara.com)
4 points by yosho 16y ago|0 comments
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by yosho 16y ago
I think what the author is talking about is having too much money to the point where a lot of it gets wasted before a solid business model is proven. However, I still believe that seed funding is important to most startups for the simple fa

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