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changdizzle··on An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall
It looks like someone else linked this Ali Express item @ $1500 elsewhere in the thread: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/largest-32-inch-e-ink...

Does this one require a driver board as well?

changdizzle··on Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists
I'm thinking more orientation / ratio - for example, right now the wall behind my couch in the living room is bare and I would love a landscape print for it. On VSUAL I have to manually scroll through to see the ones that have that orientation. This is something that Art in Res has on their search function.
changdizzle··on Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists
Checked out the site - looks awesome! Is there any way to filter? It's cool at first glance looking through the whole selection on the site but could see it getting tedious the 2nd time+.
changdizzle··on Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’
Can I ask what the project is? Have worked in the space for a bit and would love to connect to learn more.
changdizzle··on I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016)
This is crazy, for some reason this rang a bell and I checked my email and sure enough, I ended up buying those gift codes from you! Funny how things come full circle :)
changdizzle··on Buy Low-Tops, Sell High-Tops: StockX Sneaker Exchange Is Worth $1B
You realize this is talking about one of the sellers on the platform right? Not the platform itself.

Looks like GMV is actually ~1.2B/year and even at a conservative 10% profit margin, they're pulling in at least $120M/year.

"The company said its revenue more than doubled in the last year, with gross product sales topping $100 million a month. It has expanded into streetwear and luxury goods like handbags and has more than 800 employees."

changdizzle··on Uber Says Sales Growth Outpaces Losses
what's the electric car company??
changdizzle··on Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets
As far as I know Otto wasn't YC - are you sure you're not thinking of Cruise (which was acquired by GM)?
changdizzle··on Snapchat Parent Working on IPO That Could Value Company at $25B or More
Couldn't you just short the stock when it IPOs? :)
changdizzle··on Tencent Buys ‘Clash of Clans’ Developer Supercell for $8.6B
you forgot their latest and greatest - Clash Royale, generated $190mm in revenue in the first month out
changdizzle··on Scammers Game Amazon A-Z Policy By Replacing iPhones With Clay
Whenever I sell any of my electronics now, I do it via Craigslist or specialty forums - Hardforum and Anandtech have pretty large For Sale/Trade communities and they all use Heatware for feedback.
changdizzle··on Why DNSimple Has a Dedicated Status Page Domain
I second this - I'm a customer of a company that runs on DNSimple; having a status page doesn't help the fact that I can't access my service. There's also @DNSimple for status updates
changdizzle··on Say No
this is really cool - anything like this for HipChat/Slack/Gchat/other clients?
changdizzle··on Rapportive clone fills void left by LinkedIn
I installed, logged out of Gmail, restarted my browser and re-logged in.

You also need to click on the actual e-mail address in the e-mail for it to popup, definitely nowhere near as elegant as rapportive and seems to work ~60-70% of the time

changdizzle··on Striking Back At Recruiter Spam
I think it's assumed from the article (and the screenshot of the Gmail trail) that the team members have explicitly stated that they don't want to be bothered and don't work with recruiting agencies, this is a total last ditch effort.

At our ~20-person startup, we have a few recs open and I still see multiple people get calls on their mobile phones from recruiters over and over, and in the majority of these cases they don't even know how the recruiter got their number.

changdizzle··on An Uber Impact
I'd also like to see how many hours on average someone making $90K in gross revenue in NYC is working.
changdizzle··on Build your own drink mixing robot
awesome, yujiang! it's been cool to see all the hardware stuff you've been hacking over the past few months, sad i missed this your party (and the bar mixvah)!
changdizzle··on HelloSign launches API for eSignatures
Are you asking if we store the signature requests for you? Yup! Happy to clarify any questions at ed [at] hellosign [dot] com
changdizzle··on HelloSign launches API for eSignatures
At our lower tiers, no, but if you're looking at doing a significant amount of requests happy to talk about bulk pricing - ed [at] hellosign [dot] com
changdizzle··on HelloSign launches API for eSignatures
Thanks for being a HelloSign/Fax user! Any feedback, good or bad is very helpful.
changdizzle··on HelloSign launches API for eSignatures
Tom, not currently but it's on our roadmap. If you shoot me an e-mail at ed [at] hellosign [dot] com, happy to notify you as soon as it's ready.
changdizzle··on HelloSign launches API for eSignatures
Ed from BD @HelloSign here. Essentially any process that involves signing a legally binding document is a valid use case because our API makes the process that much simpler. The main ones we see are anyone that needs to send a lot of forms, HR (onboarding, PTO, admin forms), Legal and Real Estate. We've also seen teachers use us for permission slips, gyms for waivers, agencies for releases, etc.

For more info on what an API integration with us entails, check out our case study with Instacart - http://blog.hellosign.com/instacart-fuels-growth-automation/

Happy to answer any other questions!

changdizzle··on The International – Dota 2 Championships
This is awesome - I think there's a huge intersection between Esports and the HN crowd - look at how many people on here love playing games like StarCraft, League, MineCraft, Dota2, etc. Also, Twitch is absolutely (forgive the cliche) killing it and they're a YC. Minefold (YC W12) was also a game server company but it looks like they're now defunct.

It's interesting to note that last year Valve was able to raise $1,274,380 over a three month period. I've been around Esports for a long time and I truly feel we're about to hit the golden age. Exciting stuff!

changdizzle··on Putting the Chat into Snapchat
Anyone know which video chat API they're using?
changdizzle··on Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware
Even more amazing is that it was first reported on Secret a week ago: https://www.secret.ly/p/uxaztevdcicghcabkkczuzkpkz
changdizzle··on Apps with millions of Google Play downloads covertly mine cryptocurrency
This is alarmingly similar to the ESEA situation where ESEA (a premium membership gaming community) discreetly built a bitcoin miner into their anti-cheat client [1], fried some users' graphics cards and were found out then fined $1MM. [2]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/2/4292672/esea-gaming-network... [2] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/e-sports/

changdizzle··on Every 10 Mins You Don't Touch Your Phone A Child Have Clean Water For Entire Day
Awesome idea - saw this a little bit earlier in the day - not very conducive to when you're out and about because it requires you to be active on the website and the phone unlocked.
changdizzle··on CEO Aaron Levie Will Only Own 4.1% Of Box When It IPOs, Investor DFJ Owns 25.5%
tagline for the future Box tell-all movie?
changdizzle··on CEO Aaron Levie Will Only Own 4.1% Of Box When It IPOs, Investor DFJ Owns 25.5%
cuban sold his shares to DFJ during their series A in 06 due to disagreements: http://pando.com/2014/01/31/box-is-the-unicorn-that-mark-cub...
changdizzle··on Introducing HelloSign for Google Docs
All documents are provided with an audit trail of when the different parties view the document and other relevant info. This method of verification is standard across the different e-signature providers. Feel free to contact me if you have other questions at ed [at] hellosign [dot] com
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