skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you haven't done this yet:

Check out the jobs sections at greenhornconnect and venturefizz. See whose hiring, contact them and apply. Also, check out the careers page of local VC firms if any of their portfolio companies are hiring.

If a startup doesn't end up hiring you, stay in touch with the people you meet. They may know of an opportunity later down that they may recommend you. Greenhorn and Venture Fizz also have event calenders, which you should use to meet people.

And, if you're really out of luck, volunteer. Look for an organization (not a startup, but like a MassInno, WebInno, conference or Meetup) that aligns with your interests where you could volunteer -say for one night a week or one meeting a month.

Another thing is to dig through your network (college alum office, church, friends and family friends) for referrals on possible opportunities. You never know who is connected to a startup.

Lastly, whoever you meet - online or off - always have a pitch ready to describe who you are, what you can offer, and what you want. For example, "I'm a psychology grad with an interest in y. I have spent the past x years doing z (insert major project, thesis, unique experience). And, now I'm looking to enter (insert specific position)."
I shifted pretty gradually (from elementary school to high school) from being mostly interested in biology to mostly interested in coding (and later to math and computer science). I don't think I really thought of software as a career until 6th or 7th grade. By 9th or 10th, I wasn't really thinking much about biology any more (though I still had enough interest to enjoy biology class junior year), and I was starting to be exposed to computer science.
How non-developers can create apps
And you can always hold out faith that they'll vote the way you want them to.

Which is what you can see in the comments of this thread: hope that if more people voted, things would shift more left-wing, more right-wing, more centrist, etc.

Pure wishful thinking, nothing more.

(And the opposite side of the coin is shown by people bridling at suggestions that fewer people should vote and identifying such arguments as covert attempts to undermine their preferred political team...)
If I recall correctly, South is to be split into two parts (migrations and something else?) and half of it will be integrated into trunk.
Next time I want to complain about work I'm going to think about this.

I wonder if they're happy to have their jobs? I wonder where they envision themselves five years from now? Is there a "corporate ladder" for factory worker jobs too? Are they working to give their "one child" a better life? How long is China going to continue their "one child" policy? I wonder what it's like to have your life managed like cattle? This is where you work, this is where you eat, this is where you make love, this is how many kids you can have. What does this mean for me? Will China be the next super power? Am I unknowingly funding the next superpower with each new iphone and tv that I buy? I don't know, but either way I am going to buy another iPhone when my 2 year contract is up for renewal. Shiny new toys are so irresistible.
Google Buzz Class Action Settlement
my bad, ill edit it
Just have to pull through and get that coding done. The anxiety you are feeling right now is actually adrenaline. Just use it to your advantage to get more done. Nothing changes after we hear back. We still work whether it be with YC or not. Life goes on and so does our companies.
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If it's NOT anonymous, is the value to be able to send someone an email with you identified as the sender but with ambiguity about whether the email was delivered? - so that changes in behavior aren't assumed to be linked to the message?*

Yes, that's it.
I really wish this were rolled into github.
As a non-technical, first time entrepreneur I am finding it difficult to add value to HN. I have been lurking for ~6 months, a member for 1 month and I made my first post yesterday.

With that said, I have learned a ton here and HN is easily the best resource I have ever found on any subject.

edit:

Potential solution: require participation in other user's RMS before you can post your own RMS. Even though I am non technical and don't have much entrepreneurial experience, I can still give an opinion from the view of a customer.
Thats why I took HN out of my RSS reader!
I grew into it, started young. First saw the salaries I could command for my passion, then I saw that I could do my own thing and make out even better doing what I love.

Serendipity. I could've loved carpentry and I'd have been boned, economically I guess.

I'm grateful for what I have.
Ask HN: What are some colleges that provide quality undergraduate CS programs?
Being a high school student applying to college myself, Ragan Wald's weblog (linked below) caused a bit of concern for me. What sort of colleges is Ragan Wald referring to? Are universities with supposedly top notch CS programs beginning to dumb down the curriculum too? I ask this because I am planning to major in CS and actually do want my education to focus on a lot of theory rather than purely practical aspects. I enjoy learning about stuff like machine learning, compiler design, computability theory, NLP, etc. So after reading that article I'm a bit unsure over whether this is a widespread issue for even the best computer science schools. Thanks in advance!

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/01/no-disrespect.html
The research is probably accurate but not surprising for an economist to discover this. Confirmation bias at work I suspect.
Thanks! All are good points, and several of them things that we're planning on doing e.g. SSL, encrypted SSNs with a note reminding users, email notifications.

Would you mind going further on why would it be a good idea to let communication with the broker happen on the site. In general, I get annoyed at the re-implementation of email (e.g. facebook messages) when it is not absolutely necessary (the messaging system on airbnb, however, makes perfect sense).
GitHub should integrate this into their site for editing files.
Schema migration is something I definitely want done right, otherwise production will break. If South didn't exist, I would think long and hard about adding a field, and I'd have to make changes manually in the database, in an error-prone and non-repeatable manner.

In short, you use DjDT more often, but South is by far a much more important part. Which one could you live without, South or DjDT?

I know which one I'd pick...
It's not often you get to say something like that outside of science fiction.
Let's get meta and go by the votes...
Probably before 10 pacific.
But the right woman who does get it is really quite special. My girlfriend has been really supportive of my projects and business effort, and it really means a lot.
Good to know that you are not counting your chickens before they are hatched.

Best of luck! :)
Yeah, I'd love to chat.

I can't find your email on your HN profile, but mine is rodrigo@leasely.com.
Maybe it depends on which browser you're using, but in Safari 5, when the main textbox/input box has focus, C-n works for me, as well as ESC for Meta. You may want to try giving it focus first?
Positive thinking dude!
1000memories (YC) is doing something like that - http://1000memories.com/
If I may add to the wonderful suggestions listed here. Give guidance - of course, but then let him go. Get "into" whatever it is that he is "into". Especially if you don't like it (and, it's not like mistreating puppies or some such). I love my parents, and they did the best job they could raising me, but there were some aspects of my childhood that I wish they were more actively involved with.

Mind you - I'm not blaming them - on the contrary I'm fully aware that every step I've made lead me to the point I am at in life and only I am responsible for my position.
I can't offer technical proof, but the snowball method saved me. Psychologically, getting rid of the easier debts wasn't the biggest factor though. The increased cash flow from the lack of those payments allowed me to make payments on larger debts that actually felt like they were making a dent. That was an awesome feeling.
More generally, this should be bundled into a js plugin like disqus or uservoice. I'd guess it would make sense on a lot of sites.
WTF, Guido wrote that!? I will jump out of a window now.
I know Carnegie Mellon University is at the top of its field, especially in regards to machine learning. Different schools will have different strengths in CS subfields, though for your undergraduate experience I imagine this will be less important than a general, well-rounded CS education.
The continuous integration I want
The only thing you're missing is a lot of misunderstandings, unreasonable demands and endless fights. Who would want that?
Well the variable expansion is quoted, so afaik it could only be interpreted as a single argument to cat.
Lua is super easy, once you get past a) function-calls-on-tables syntactic sugar, and b) metatables. The first especially confused me when I was starting Lua, but I love it now.

Edit: Now with code! http://pastebin.com/rpWwCGVy
this is polished! salesforce should use this for the Apex platform.
If you've fully paid off a debt then even if you fail to make payments in future its not coming back to haunt you. Also even apart from psychological considerations there is how soon until a creditor is likely to institute proceedings against you - it's probably sooner for smaller debts.
There are no keys that will work for everyone. I use Colemak -- the A and Z keys are in the same spot as Qwerty, but K is where N is on Qwerty, so that's a difference. Throw in Dvorak, and you only have A and M in the same place on those three.

A "right" answer is to make the keys remappable.
The parent objected to paying cash + being subjected to looking at ads. I tried to point out that's how traditional media has worked with examples from TV and magazines.
No, it is not even a line-based framebuffer. Starting on every H-Sync interrupt, the CPU has to change the TIA chip latches with accurate timming for "producing" pixel output. So, there is no framebuffer at all.
Thanks, that link works.

It looks like it did something similar to the strategy I described, but it ordered the states differently. It also inserted a lot of unnecessary parentheses. I also dislike the need for \ everywhere. With Perl compatible REs you don't need them, and that gets rid of a lot of line noise.

I'm tempted to put together a Python program to generate these, with options to control how much they expand out.
But they can only @mention you (and have it show a link) if they know your email address (or their contact details are in your Google Contacts)
Google settles Buzz class action suit: $8.5 million
Hmm, looks like it was basically settled for nothing, which indicates a weak case, but one that wasn't worth it to Google to litigate. They agreed to pay $8.5m, which will be split among lawyers and a donation to some privacy nonprofits, which is not much money for Google. If you're clicking through to find out what you get as a class member, the answer is nothing, apart from some mild injunctive relief that seems to involve things Google's already changed anyway.

It's not even necessarily something Google would object to much, because the privacy nonprofits sometimes help them (someone like the EFF is a thorn in Google's side sometimes, but advocates issues Google supports other times).
haha, we have to make sure we keep working on the MVP even as we chomp on the nails to see if we get into YC. :)
That's a good point, if you're taking into account cash flow and exponential return on cash flow, then having projects finish sooner and start generating cash flow and interest sooner is preferred. Fewer context switches also contributes to that.
I am sooooo glad I don't have to vote electronically. Folks here who flip bits for a living know only too well how easy this is to do. Changing a thousand paper ballots? Hard, time comsuming, messy. Changing a thousand electronic ballots? Invisible, silent, quick, untracable...
Since Guido invented the words "list" and "string" in python at least, I guess him using them doesn't bother me.
why don't they just throw an $8 million dollar masquerade "privacy" party?
They are trying to fix this with class based views etc... I hope it works becauseif not they risk losing their userbase to a better framework
See, this is where a fake notification date for the 3rd could be useful. That way when you get notified a day early on the 2nd, you are pleasantly surprised and haven't been dwelling on it all day.
I guess I don't understand what you're claiming. In the above example discussion, I was claiming that if an extra 1000 people who wouldn't have voted went ahead and did vote, then, depending on how they voted, either their extra votes would make a difference, or they would not make a difference. There is a possibility either way (even if the possibility of making a difference is smaller).

On those grounds, I do not see voting as a pointless, worthless activity; your vote added to the votes of others might be the deciding factor in who gets elected.

The bigger picture is, does it matter who gets elected? As you bring out in another thread, most of the major candidates "opposing" each other are actually very similar in what they stand for. Voting one in or the other probably won't make a huge difference. I guess if you want to claim that no matter if we vote or not, the government isn't going to be much different, that's probably fair.

To make more of an impact than voting, citizens may need to get involved as candidates and really try to change things, but in order for that to work, people would need to vote for them, which means, people would need to vote, rather than not vote.

So I guess, to be clear, I claim that your vote, along with the votes of others, can effect the outcome of the election. The outcome of the election may or may not effect the outcome of the government, but that's another matter entirely.

I for one am open to hearing suggestions on what we can do to improve the government beyond voting, or running for office (success at which requires people to vote).
Now what I'd really like is the reverse: Webkit in an emacs buffer. That would totally rock I'd never have to leave emacs.

I wonder how hard it would be to hack something up like that?
You can also view many of the applicant videos over at WikiTorrents.org:
http://wikitorrents.org/wiki/ycombinator_applicants
I hope they start to use a DVCS to kickstart the development.
Facebook buys drop.io and shuts it down
I'm skeptical about efficiency of Notifo:
1) news.ycombinator.com is integrated with Notifo
2) Audience of news.ycombinator.com is very computer savvy.
3) It looks like only few HN users are getting notifications about replies to them on HN.
4) Wufoo users are less computer savvy. That means that very few Wufoo users would use Notifo.

I think until Notifo makes it possible to flawlessly setup notifications straight from thrid-party site (such as Wufoo), the adoption of Notifo would be quite low.
Hey for those of you in the US no problem, it's 10pm here in London and pg said we might be notified before 10pm pt. Nails I can bite, but sleep now...you joking right!
I tried integrating this into an app I am working on, but it was just too tightly integrated within its custom UI library.

This app is truly awesome, but it is just impossible to integrate with anything. Someday I might try to fork it -- lord knows I already know enough about its internals.

(edit: sorry about the double post. I wiped the screen of my iphone immediately after hitting submit -- guess this is what happened.

Also, it would be awesome if someone made this into a bookmarklet)
Observation: this is a time sensitive post by the forum's owner/maintainer/main moderator on the original topic of the forum. Yet, he did not need to rely on a "sticky" thread or any other kind of special modifier.
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You "barely have any karma points"?? Your profile says you have 453... that's going to be far, far, far over any threshold pg is likely to set.
its called a netbook.
What's so great about that, anyway?
I have three pieces of advice I wish every parent in the world could see:

1. Always give your son a new healthy challenge. Let him develop as fast as he can while he is in his prime. If school has a fixed tempo of learning, challenge him in other areas; sports, music, critical thinking, computers, social skills, moral values and ethics, practical skills, helping others, etc.

2. Read "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. He has a few points that made me realize just how much it means to come from a good background, with parents that realize how their kid should be raised to become a independent and successful person.

3. Realize that your son will never become exactly what you wanted him to be. You can introduce him to the world of IT, and you can show him how it is fun to produce your own programs or web pages, but he has to take the choice to pursue an IT career by himself.
I hope django.contrib moves forward in the right direction and these makes these apps reusable
Aw, FF + Vimperator = no go. lol

Neat app. I'm a total emacs nut.
Strangely (ironically) Ctrl-N works fine in Safari (on Windows), but Ctrl-P brings up the "Print" dialog. In Chrome Ctrl-P works fine, but Ctrl-N brings up the "New Window" dialog.

Both work fine in Firefox.

Who said that one of the best things about developing web-apps is that the apps are cross-platform?
Just a heads up, I'm getting a 403.
You can't.

You may get lucky, but that's just not the way to bet.

If you have no talent for programming, or not enough desire, you can't learn it yourself ... and then it really takes years to get good. Years and years if that's not the only thing you're doing.

Maybe you're approaching it from the wrong direction. Arrange things so that one or more technical founders will choose you for non-technical stuff. Humans have been doing the latter for a long time (heck, double-entry bookkeeping was invented in the 15th Century), in terms of talent it should be easier to find someone like you.

The biggest set of problems technical founders seem to have with the non-technical is that the latter don't mesh well with the former. Lack of respect, greed, all too often simply flakiness, something that just doesn't cut it when you have to convince a computer to do something. You can't BS your way past that....
I find this surprising. Maybe because we covered some of those topics in first year, and, as a second-year student, they're still fresh in my mind, but I simply can't see how someone who completes a CS degree would be ignorant on all of them. For the same reason, I can't see how fizzbuzz is a useful test. It was the very first thing we learned to program in our intro CS class. I'm not from a top-ranked school, and while we tend to do fairly well in competitions, we certainly aren't renowned for our CSc program.

I don't know whether to feel encouraged or discouraged when reading articles and comments like this. Are there truly that many incompetent CS grads and/or insufficient programs out there?
maybe it was 4 million users over the course of the experiment, not per month? Just a guess.

edit: I'm wrong.
I'm open to such suggestions, too.
Dude I'm just worried about all the other guys!
modesty's great and all, but if you're not going to link to your blog in the comment at least make sure you've a link to it in your HN profile!
Yeah but then they'd know the next time. I think it would be better if they had decided by the previous day, so they could send all the emails the morning of the last day and not have people obsess all day long...
Someone did start working on that: http://github.com/jave/emacs/tree/xembed

I'm not sure what the current status is though.
Same here in the Netherlands. It's almost midnight, so it looks like I'm pulling an allnighter again. It's all good though, might as well get some work done!
Plenty.

The delusion that anyone is actually voting between "person who won't eff things up" and "person who will eff things up" is not useful, though.
You are right that that is how you get a child to like reading when they are older but reading to them and with them is also a great way for them to learn especially since they are interacting with a parent, while picking up language cues and other such things.
To throw another option out there, try Pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

Uses Markdown, converts to everything, written in Haskell.
Some phones have it, some don't. Likely will continue in this vein due to cost considerations.
That's more like it!J Good Luck anyways!
Sorry about that! Let me address your questions one-by-one:

1. We'll consider this. However, the vast majority of our users already know what model they want (i.e. they've done their research before using CarWoo!)

2. Same.

3. Split tests don't lie.

4. Actually, you're paying for the privilege of us keeping your information anonymous from 10 dealers and only giving it to the one dealer you want to work with after you've vetted them all through our app (i.e. we save you from spam), among many other benefits we provide, such as better prices from competition.

5. We have a 100% Happiness Guarantee and we're not afraid to use it.

6. Sorry about that, we use a 3rd-party service called SnapEngage, I'll have to look into this.

7. Some statistics for the analytically-inclined:

- CarWoo! buyers save an average of over $3000 off MSRP (but this is meaningless without context)
- CarWoo! buyers save an average of $450 more than any other car-buying service (Costco, AAA, USAA)
- For Minis, CarWoo! buyers save an average of about $500 off MSRP (relatively low, but Mini dealers generally aren't that willing to negotiate on price)

Thank you for your comments. Please let me know if you have any other questions or if you'd like a coupon to use CarWoo!
Why have a special modifier when you can just change the amount of upvotes to whatever you want? ;)
I'm about done here but can you really not see any potential conflicts of interest when you allow those who have the most money to flood the zone with hundred-million dollar ad buys? That doesn't offend any small-d democratic principles that you hold?

I want to re-regulate outside advertisements because they are almost always the product of shady dealings. Citizens United happened this year and we're setting records for the amount of money spent, during a frickin midterm. And guys like you complain about corruption in DC. No sense of irony?
I think OP was suggesting that it's the responsibility of those companies to warn their users, etc. Not that it was the firesheep dev's responsibility.
Instead, we have a system where the wolves elect a representative to determine who his supporters will have for dinner.
"But be aware that you're missing out."

People who choose not to marry or have kids may be missing out on certain aspects of life, but that does not mean their lives will be any less rich.
Good man! Good to hear from people this side of the "fibre link". We could do shifts you know!
My friends and I love Gilbert Strang. So much so, that last year during his 18.085 class we made him cup-cakes for his birthday. (see: http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs/PIX/cupcakematrixtxt.jpg).
Submitted a week ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829040 - to a thunderous silence.