Welcome to Hive. You made a good choice to join up.
It is worth verifying your account by linking to it from another social platform and adding it here. Can you edit the Hackernoon post to mention Hive? We do get some fake accounts, so such proof is useful.
Have fun and a !BEER (something else to check out).
Thanks very much! Still figuring all of this out, but lovely to receive such a friendly welcome. I just edited the article to include a link to Hive and followed your suggestion on verification. Thanks for the beer, too. :))