skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing wrong with Django's MySQL-driver, and RoR might be the easiest thing in the world to deploy with Heroku. It seems to me you should read up a bit on both, try them both out, and rely a bit less on rumor and hearsay. In reality they are both great choices for many types of web apps, but which one is right for you depends on a lot of different factors. Find out which one you like to work with the most, and you probably have your answer.
I haven't spent much time reading or thinking about NFC, but I'd love to hear some thoughts about what industries & companies NFC could enable. Outside of payments & access control/authentication, what other opportunities do you see in the industry?
http://housingmaps.com/ is the granddaddy of them all. IIRC, it was one of the first such mashup apps with the newly launched Google Maps API (well, it was one of the first to become popular, at least (for the pedantic crowd who hasn't had their morning coffee yet ;-) ) )

Also: Redwood City is in the Peninsula (i.e. directly South of San Francisco). BART does not serve RWC; Caltrain does.
Assuming you meant Caltrain, then you should look for places near the intersection of 4th St & King St (that's where all Caltrains start). There's ATT Park nearby, and a decent amount of stuff to do.

Also: it may be hard to find something now, given that you're interested in June. Most apartments are advertised just a month before being vacant.
http://padmapper.com as others mention here.

Click on Filter Listings, enter your criteria for your ideal apt, and then get daily email alerts sent to you too. It's an awesome resource.
Regarding the amount owed, from my lawyer when I did this two years ago:
Please note that there are two methods to determine the tax – the authorized share method and the assumed par value capital method (both methods are detailed on the website). DO NOT sure the authorized share method as this will calculate a tax balance of over $75,000.00. Do use the assumed par value capital method as this will calculate the balance at roughly the $75.00-125.00 range.
It's not rocket, it's rocket science. I.E. a complex or difficult mental exercise or field or study, used frequently in an ironic sense to suggest that a task should be easy or simple because it is not rocket science. (definition from wikipedia)
The world is a pretty big place. There's room for more than one café. :-)
So clearly there's some discontent with startup journalism.

It would be hard for this to smell more like an opportunity.
I think it's Caltrain, not BART in Redwood City
Are you at all interested in what's going on outside the U.S. ?
I remember being impressed by Dragon Lab's Dragonfish Login Form Demo[1] when it first came out. They implement the effect by using a rather large background image and a mask image and move the background image around via Javascript.

I wanted to see how close I could get using CSS3 without any images.

I recommend using a Webkit browser [you can also see an alternate implementation using Firefox 4]

[1]http://labs.dragoninteractive.com/panel/demo/
Yes I'm that Tom Bell, and I meant fabric! Lack of sleep, I'll update when I get home. Cheers for noticing.
The best apartments in San Francisco will never be online. You'll need to get to the neighborhoods you like and walk around.

You'll find plenty of large apartment buildings online, but the really quaint nice spots just have a sign in the window.

Lots of people move here and even more talk about it. I'd guess having a sign in the window cuts down on the BS.

Redwood City is fine for work but if you're moving here you'll have way more fun in San Francisco.
Jack Shafer at Slate has a good take on this; to wit: any objection you might have about the WI GOP trawling through this guy's email, you should temper with the knowledge that the same objection could be used by the WI GOP itself to hide government actions from the people. Most FOIA requests are political in nature. And government officeholders have always tried to use that as an excuse to dodge records requests.

It's more important that we ensure there are never any excuses for not complying with open records than it is that we make sure open records aren't "abused" for political purposes. "Political abuse" is not an exemption for open records.
I'm also interning out in San Francisco from June to August/September, and looking for a place to stay. A friend out in SF recommended http://www.sfhomestay.com/ to me.

Padmapper looks pretty good though, and I'm going to spend some time checking that out now.
Hacker News Etiquette
I'm wondering about the Hacker News Etiquette… for example, is it considered inappropriate to submit one's own content?
Why learn tricks to remember stuff if there is paper and pen (or portable computers)?
Depending on how much or how little you know, this may be useful: Roadmap for Learning Rails[1].

In some sense, it's an ideal and you could probably learn some of these things at the same time. That said, if you know nothing about HTML or SQL or <insert many other things here>, you're going to find Rails overwhelming and simply not get a lot of what you're doing. (Maybe that's fine too. Dive in, get lost, figure out parts of it. Lather, rinse, repeat. Some people probably learn this way, but some people no doubt like things a bit more orderly.)

[1] http://techiferous.com/2010/07/roadmap-for-learning-rails/
Ask HN: Interning as a developer this summer
Note: apologies for posting this under a dummy account; would rather keep this anonymous on HN, but I'm happy to be more candid via e-mail.

I'm a CS undergraduate (2/3 years completed). I really want to experience working in the Valley this summer. However, as a UK citizen, I find the visa situation to be a little daunting.

Apparently there's a shortage of talented developers though. So I had this thought: in exchange for visa help, flights and somewhere to sleep, would a startup be likely to take me on?

Just to clarify: I would essentially work for free over 3 months to cover the hassle involved.

Here's some of my experience over the past year:

- Wrote non-trivial iPhone/iPad apps (+ some Android experience)

- Server-side APIs: Python+Tornado, MySQL (involving lots of data)

- Analytics on top of a Hadoop cluster for a large global telco, dealing with petabytes of incoming data (ongoing -- also involved in deploying the cluster)

- Web visuals using ExtJS, Google Maps API, RaphaelJS

Would love to hear if this sounds even remotely plausible.

Thanks!
Why did the social prestige of science and engineering decline in the US?
I rarely have pizza (trying to be healthy) so when I do, I find myself ah hem... eating a slice or two extra

Make it three pizzas, ha
In general, I think the more incubators, the better it is for the whole start-up eco-system. Talk is cheap. Thus, there is no need to quarrel online. Let the success of MassChallenge and Y-Combinator start-ups speak for themselves which program is the best.
How Adormo was funded by its future customers
Although prostitution and bribes isn't that related, I know Sweden did something similar — the supply side of prostitution is legal but buying isn't. From what I know I think it has worked fairly well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Sweden#Purchasi...

I know something similar is also used for collusion in the US, where a party that is first to snitch can avoid prosecution.

Although there are undoubtedly other ways of curbing corruption, e.g. competition between agencies driving down bribes to zero (in theory at least), this could work.
I remember reading this or a slightly different version in one of the chain emails that I was receiving back like 5-6 years ago. The main difference between this one and the ones I was receiving is that mine were presented as being said by Bill Gates at a highschool/college talk he gave. Definitely more interesting that way.
"Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could."

It's funny, but at the time this was written this was kind of a controversial and insightful statement. Now, it sounds so obvious that it's a cliche. Amazing how quickly culture can change. This was written barely 10 years ago!
You don't have get an apartment in SF if you'll be working in RWC. Remember: SF is not the Bay Area. The Bay Area is a large metropolitan area with three major cities. You'll be working about halfway between two of them (SF and San Jose). You might very well want to stay in Mtn View or Palo Alto -- much more hip in the tech sense than SF.
I might have missed it, but did he specify whose laws should apply?

Say I send his postcard from Sweden to America, and it goes via China. Whose laws apply?
Startup pitches at GeekNRolla 2011
Tags only cost about $1. If you go for volume you can reduce that cost. UHF tags used in the supply chain now (e.g. wal-mART) are 900MHz, and a whole different ballgame.
I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
I have access to site analytics for 2 sites pushing 70 and 100 million page views respectively, compete is HILARIOUSLY wrong, we're talking close to 1000% off in accuracy.

There's a reason Alexa measures in percent.
I didn't get hired via Hacker News ;) But I I can tell you from my previous working experience that Monetate is a great place to work. I think Tom actually put it best once when we were talking "Monetate is a mentally a valley startup in Philly."
Flexibility and eagerness to take on challenges and learn goes a long way in your initial days as a developer.

But don't forget the maxim that you are what you repeatedly do (and other people will give you more of the work you have demonstrated enthusiasm and ability with). If you accept to be flexible and take on challenges means you take on the Perl/CGI company website with the flat-file back-end feeding the 3rd party ActiveX display, you will become skilled at dealing with Perl/CGI, fakeabases and ActiveX.

What you do shapes your future, and it's quite reasonable to say "I choose not to head towards that kind of life, because I dislike X philosophy" - you may be misinformed about X, but it's not a "ridiculous" position to take unless you are struggling for money or alternative options.

as a fresh graduate do you really have enough experience to make decision about culture?

That's not really a valid question - you can't fault inexperienced people for making decisions without experience, that's circular.
Because given enough information about preferences and enough time to think about it, coming up with a more efficient solution to a particular distribution problem than the market did seems possible in principle.
According to Snopes, that's wrong:

* http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/schoolrules.asp
Some context: The author is a writer, and his blog often covers both writing and the publishing industry.

What he's getting at is that often we idealize our actions, and then act in ways that go against these ideals, thus the lying part. Most of the examples given are of this nature.

The other part is that new technology is allowing these changes to happen sooner than people consciously perceive and internalize them.

Thus, the author exhorts people to analyze their behavior, especially with regards to new technology, and to come to grips with it in a non-kneejerk manner.
Wherever the letter is at the moment the laws of that country will apply.
Imagine not having to check-in at the desk to get into your hotel room, but instead being sent your "key" digitally. When you get to your hotel room door, you simply tap your phone on it. These were use cases we used 4 years ago, before the rise of smartphones.
Right, because they need someone just out of school to tell them how to improve their business. LOL.
Hi, I'm looking to intern but with a catch:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2399960

Email is in my profile, if it could work.
I found that nearly every used car I looked at on CL was either being resold by small-time "car dealers" or bought up by these same people. It was nearly impossible to find a good used car so I finally leased a new one instead.
Gah! But how would I complete a programming challenge without Google!?
More for the mathematician than programmer, http://projecteuler.net/ offers a nice collection of challenges, some of them very tricky.
I tell my kids, "When someone says something is 'unfair,' what they really mean is, 'this is not working to my advantage.'"
Take a look at http://codingkata.org/.

Best suited for playing around in a new language, but could perhaps inspire exploration of a language you are fluent in.
I'm less interested in what works than in what doesn't work and why it didn't work details.

While my own are certainly always very educational, I prefer to learn from the mistakes made by others. This due to the time and cost savings involved.

Just repeating mistakes is, well, boring.
I was going to recommend the South Bay, but I wouldn't say MV/PA since Santa Clara is right there and much cheaper in my experience in terms of rent.
If this was true, you would have seen all of them migrating en-mass to some Caribbean or European micro-state.

And that raises a good point, I live very close to the Caribbean and own property in the Caribbean (well the Keys, but I boat to many of the others islands a good deal), these nations should serve as an example of a super rich based economy. There are only two classes on most of these islands, the supper rich and those who provide service based, low wage labor to the super rich class or vacationers. These nations serve to exemplify what happens in an economy where wealth is consolidated unchecked.

Being rich or powerful doesn't mean wisdom

Never have truer words been spoken, there is a lot of luck in wealth as well, but once you become wealthy it takes a lot less luck to maintain and grow it.
Find a place you want to live and call the complex to see if they have shorter-term leases available.
The fact that he bolded that line only served to highlight his real and only true objection

Maybe. "Rather, the same initial rejection would occur, for the same reasons; and the search for justification, afterward, would terminate at a different stopping point. [..] This might be an important thing for young businesses and new-minted consultants to keep in mind - that what your failed prospects tell you is the reason for rejection, may not make the real difference;" -
http://lesswrong.com/lw/wj/is_that_your_true_rejection/
I'm a Ruby developer - I wouldn't know slow performance if it bit me.
I would recommend learning Ruby (if you don't know it already; if you come from other imp. languages, don't fall for the trap that 'it kind of looks the same' ; sure it does, but unless you learn a lot of the great syntax and language features, you won't be having too much fun imho) and then just starting a medium sized project for yourself to find out how rails works. Whatever you want to do, you can find it on Google; study the solution, try it out, tweak it to what you want to achieve. During such a project, you'll learn fast about practical Rails things. You might end up loving or hating it ;)

Edit: tutorials didn't help me much; they all blabla about the crud stuff which is boring as you'll probably never use it. That's why I suggest not going that route.
Elizabeth Hodgson,Civicboom, UK does not have Startup Mentality
Well, to the extent that a cert enables the browser to compare the site's name to its IP address, it is dependent on DNS.
If you are asked to do perl, fakebases nad activeX in your early days and enjoy it. That's fine. If you don't like it you can always reject the next assignemtn .But you have rejected after knowing that you did it and you didn't like it.

That lad, has probably not even worked on say Windows. Its premature to reject that platform based only on "design principles" it follows

>>as a fresh graduate do you really have enough experience to make decision about culture?

>That's not really a valid question - you can't fault inexperienced people for making decisions without experience, that's circular.

You are generalizing my statement. I am specifically referring to judging culture. You can't even figure out let alone make judgements based on that if you are fresh out of college because you have barely seen any corporate culture by that time.
I did submit articles from my own blog a couple times, when I thought they were both interesting and good enough to provide for a nice discussion.
This is correct, BART stops in Millbrae.

The San Francisco Caltrain stops are at 22nd (in potrero hill) and 4th and King (SOMA). If you don't live in either of those neighborhoods, you'll need to take a bus or MUNI train to the station.