Hacker News: 6thSigma

New comment by 6thSigma in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2017)"

6thSigma — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:32:15 +0000

Location: South Texas

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: Only in Texas (San Antonio, Austin, Houston)

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Android, Java, iOS, Swift (beginner), Git/Github

Résumé/CV: Upon request

Email: aschuenemann at gmail

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I'm a full-stack developer, primarily in Ruby on Rails. I've also built apps in Android (Java) and currently learning iOS (Swift).

I've been a full-time entrepreneur and freelancer for the past 4 years. I've co-founded two startups, the most recent being in the edtech space called TeachTag.

List of stuff I've built: http://www.aschuenemann.com/projects.html

Willing to do full time, part time, freelance, or consulting work.

New comment by 6thSigma in "Apply HN: Brightwork – Making APIs More Intelligent"

6thSigma — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:35:34 +0000

If I understand this correctly, Brightwork is essentially acting as a middleman between APIs and the developer. Are you creating new API auth tokens on behalf of each user or are you using only one token and using that to make all of the API calls? If it's the latter, how do you handle rate limiting?

Is this concept against the terms of third party APIs like Twitter/Facebook?

New comment by 6thSigma in "Apply HN: Alternative to Advertisement"

6thSigma — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 20:20:12 +0000

Advertisements (specifically online advertisements) are used by companies looking to reach their target market. For example, fantasy sports sites advertise on ESPN.com because a lot of sports fans go there.

How will you get sports fans to visit listing-platform.com?

New comment by 6thSigma in "Apply HN: Tiz.com"

6thSigma — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:53:23 +0000

Do distributors currently have software that you can tie into to get up-to-date stock and prices?

Are there any legal hurdles with scaling this across state lines?

New comment by 6thSigma in "Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund"

6thSigma — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:11:05 +0000

Phrasing matters. If someone applies with a project management app you can say "Seriously? Another project management app? How is this different than X, Y, or Z?" or you can say "How is this different than X, Y, or Z?"

The former puts the applicant on the defensive whereas the latter encourages discussion.

New comment by 6thSigma in "Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund"

6thSigma — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:31:53 +0000

I think a mini application with a few questions from the normal YC app as a comment would be helpful. I see a ton of Show HNs in which I have no idea what the product does (either because the website copy is vague/confusing or because I don't know the market). Having a comment template or something reviewers can look at without have to ask the same questions in every thread would be great.

New comment by 6thSigma in "I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA"

6thSigma — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 16:45:13 +0000

Will there be a Startup School this year?

Show HN: 100bits – Send 100 bits to a random user or charity

6thSigma — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.100bits.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9840719

Points: 3

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New comment by 6thSigma in "I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA"

6thSigma — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:35:44 +0000

What's YC's valuation?

New comment by 6thSigma in "Welcome Peter"

6thSigma — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:46:25 +0000

This is awesome for YC. Will he be reviewing applications?

New comment by 6thSigma in "Ask HN: What was your thesis topic?"

6thSigma — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:56:15 +0000

Logistic differential equations with a focus on population growth.

New comment by 6thSigma in "Cancer Is More Bad Luck Than Bad Behavior, Study Says"

6thSigma — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 16:40:13 +0000

This is interesting, but dangerous. Smokers make up 90% of lung cancer deaths [1]. At some point you have to acknowledge that smoking definitely does something to influence lung cancer.

[1] http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/about-smoking/health-effect...

New comment by 6thSigma in "Bettir (YC W15) Wants to Chat with You About Your Blood Pressure"

6thSigma — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:51:43 +0000

I've been told I have white coat hypertension. My bp readings are 130-140/85 in doctor offices and usually 110-120/75 outside.

High bp runs in my family so I've been considering monitoring on a more consistent basis. I may have to try this out.

New comment by 6thSigma in "Ask HN: Are you voting?"

6thSigma — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:28:48 +0000

> And by the way, except for two elections, voter turnout in the U.S. has hovered between 70% and 80% since the 60s.

Where are you getting this from? I was under the impression it's closer to 50%.

New comment by 6thSigma in "Ask HN: Best registrar only and why"

6thSigma — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:25:54 +0000

Sure, what's your email? You can email it to me if you prefer. Email is in my profile.

New comment by 6thSigma in "Ask HN: Best registrar only and why"

6thSigma — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 01:58:52 +0000

I really like Google Domains. All domains come with free privacy guard which is nice. If anyone needs an invite let me know.

New comment by 6thSigma in "Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich"

6thSigma — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:15:54 +0000

For those that don't know about the Phil Ivey "hack," here's basically what he is accused of:

A certain card manufacturer had a defect in which there were tiny deviations in the designs on the backs of their cards.

What they would do was the dealer would show all cards face down and Ivey and his accomplice would have the dealer rotate the cards so that the designs were all the same way. Then as they would play, they would have the dealer rotate the numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9 (which are the good cards in Baccarat).

This way they could spot all of the good cards face down based on the designs on the back. Ivey made sure to request a card deck shuffler to ensure the cards weren't rotated during shuffles.

Ivey won tens of millions of dollars doing this and is now being sued by several casinos even though he never touched the cards, didn't have any kind of cheating device, and had the casino agree to every move he did.

New comment by 6thSigma in "Reddit Plans Cryptocurrency to Give Back to Its Users After $50M Raise"

6thSigma — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:53:34 +0000

If reddit figures out how to get past the legal and technical hurdles this brings, I'm very excited to see what comes of it and if other online communities will do something similar. Communities which produce a lot of content/value for free such as open source developers can begin getting equity in the companies they are helping.

New comment by 6thSigma in "The Apple Watch"

6thSigma — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:00:37 +0000

When was the last time you used Android?

New comment by 6thSigma in "Meet the Apple Watch"

6thSigma — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:53:59 +0000

That's what I figured. That seems like it would be incredibly clunky to use. Turn the dial, scroll up, turn the dial some more, scroll left.