skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You completely miss the entire point of video games: fun.
Aveo is a subcompact but yeah fugly.

Their biggest screwup was pretty much in the 80s-90s. Nothing but ugly crap. Not until 2000 did they take their head out of their ass and actually started trying to compete. With maybe decent products. Now some of their products are actually leaps and bounds ahead of what they were in the 90s(quality wise), but I still refuse to buy one. Since they turned me off completely with their cost cutting they did in the 90s.

Some cost cutting is ok, but when you have the same exact interior in a 15 Chevy Cavalier, as you do in a 50K Corvette, you got a problem. At least in the C6 Vette they finally fixed that problem.
Review my startup: YouIntern.com
YC Winter Application Notification
So, we are getting close to the deadline for YC choosing the groups for this winters session.

Does anybody know if they e-mail both the `chosen` ones and also the groups that were not picked all on the 29th? Do they ever make phone calls?

Thanks.
I just launched a pet project with a few friends and I'd love to hear any feedback.

It's a website that connects students looking for internships and employers providing them. The focus is advertising/marketing industries, but we're looking to expand into other verticals in the future.

Thanks!
Redesign MySpace all you want News Corp. Michael Arrington's profile is proof that people love glitter gifs and that will forever be the bane of your existence.
turn on full keyboard control in sys prefs. i do all dialogs with the keyboard.

try using quicksilver instead of spotlight

you don't have to use itunes. i rarely use it.

i like the way cmd-tab includes things from all my spaces. but i can see that an option for your way could be a good addition.
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This looks great! I've been trying to find a good internship lately. I go to Northeastern, and while the internships in our co-op program are usually far above "copies and coffee", they're not always too appealing :)
And GM does better the more people use SUVs, but that has nothing to do with network effects.
Unfortunately, its a copyright violation to embed fonts. I'm surprised Firefox decided to implement the ability to embed fonts, but I'll be far more surprised if Microsoft decides to. And, if they don't, embedding fonts will remain something you cannot rely on.
use sIFR
What are the best ones on TED?
What Language And Data Storagage Engine Is Your YC Idea Using?
Question for everybody that applied to the winter YC session. What programming language and back-end storage engine is/does your application use?

Ours: PHP5 + MySQL5 + Slices from SliceHost running CentOS 5.2 and Fedora 9.
Are you suggesting that companies should pay tax on their revenue, and not their earnings?
NOODP != nofollow.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

One source we use to generate snippets is the Open Directory Project. You can direct us not to use this as a source by adding a meta tag to your pages.

To prevent all search engines (that support the meta tag) from using this information for the page's description, use the following:

<meta name="robots" content="NOODP">
>I think a lot of people are confusing "good UIs" with "pretty windows".

Very much so - although ideally you can have it all.

>When it comes to usability and general quality of the UI, Gnome has surpassed dumbed-down OSX UI long time ago, they just don't have pretty windows to win the masses.

As a daily user of both, I disagree. I don't think Gnome has surpassed - at least not in a meaningful way. OSX is very prescriptive on how apps behave and look (consistency) - Gnome is just one part of the problem, there are the millions of other little inconsistencies that bug me (but I guess they aren't really gnomes problem).
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Wow! Great reading!
I might have missed it, but I didn't find a decent browse interface. If I'm starting out searching for internships, I don't necessarily know any search terms to jump off from. An idle browsing of all available positions would make things easier from the intern side.
My post, and the one I responded to, have absolutely NOTHING to do with the past and all the innovation space exploration brought us. You completely missed my point.

Right now, given our current credit and debt crisis, space exploration (aka extraneous spending) should NOT be at the top of the list. Paying the bills needs to be the focus here, and while space exploration might be the "best money ever spent" as you claim, you might have forgotten that we don't have any money to spend right now.
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What'd you use to geotarget the "internships near you" box?
I'm in the same boat, but I have yet to look in the internship database that Georgia Tech offers to it's co-op/internship students.
People may have better things to do then hunt down a theme that looks nice. Like getting to work right away.

Maybe the existence of so many choices to launch apps is indicative of more then Apple doing something wrong. It could show that everyone has their own paradigm for using their computer. And it's easy for anyone to customize the OS to do what they want if its not what Apple did by default.

So much for being locked into one choice, eh?

I don't know about you, but i have the ability to hit F9 and then the arrow keys to move around to various windows open in Expose. Or hit cmd + ` to switch between windows of my currently open app. Or cmd + tab and then use the arrow keys to go to the App i need. Or alt + tab to go between various elements of the currently open window. I can go on and on about the various keyboard shortcuts that OS X has. They're not the same as the Windows shortcuts so you have to relearn some. But they are there

And if you do use an app launcher, you could try not having anything in the dock and just using said launcher to open apps. This way, everything in your dock is open. So you don't have to hunt for the easy to see (imo) blue dot under apps.

But hey, I'm just one random person. And it sounds like you have your mind made up. So have fun using windows. I'll be over here having fun with my mac. Sounds like a fair trade?
Great idea--just makes a lot of sense. Some thoughts on UI:

1) Would be great to put listings front and center on the homepage. The idea doesn't need a whole lot of explaining (it's a good thing)

2) I wouldn't auto-hide the internship details on a listing. That is the most important info on the entire site, I think.

3) Agree with commenter that most people prob browse rather than search
One of the core constructs of a building is the drywall, but that doesn't mean you start hanging it before the frame is finished.
ahem... http://randaclay.com/bahamas.png
Your entering a crowded market (there are a million sites with this purpose), but your site is about 100x nicer than the others I've seen.
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Which of these would be the same?

!(!(true))
! ! true
!!true

Having !! not be the same as ! ! would probably be the first case in PHP of significant whitespace.
Forgot to ask, what city is everyone's group out of? We are from San Diego, CA.

Looking forward to the responses.
>"Economists really hate the Bush tax cuts (which McCain now supports making permanent) because they favor the non-working ultra-wealthy."

I haven't seen that argument made. Perhaps you could link to it?

I have seen the tax cuts opposed on economic grounds because of the deficit. I have seen them opposed on philosophical grounds because the author believes the tax code should be even more "progressive". But I haven't seen that argument made based on economic reasoning.
Yeah, you have to hand them 40% equity.
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Looks good - My comments are more a matter of style, so take with a pinch of salt...

1. I like the logo, but I don't like it against the blue. It washes out the colors. I'd change the background to something more complimentary - or maybe instead of a drop shadow a white glow would work (not sure without seeing it :)

2. I don't like the byline "Freedom from Coffee and Copies". You'll turn off the set: "I had the best times fetching coffee" and "I show them the ropes to X, why shouldn't they get me coffee" and "If they can't be bothered getting coffee, they aren't motivated enough to be an intern at supercompany Y"... etc... etc... This is even if they have a great position - people can be stubborn on principle. I'd save it as a byline for the "Interns" section.

3. I initially didn't like the name, which is never really a big deal, but I liked it when I saw the "you-intern" blue/red logo. You could also emphasize the three colors if you went to "you-in-tern" - which is also a neat play on words.

Again, all just style. Good luck.
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I think it's mocked up - It's showing the diametrically opposite side to the world for me at the moment :)
Oh? That's really odd. I understand it being illegal to create something with fonts you don't have, but making it illegal to read something in a certain font is ridiculous. That's like font makers charging magazine designers for every single time they create something using their font.
So did I. Well the first and last names are common enough that its likely ;)

But that scam looks reasonably targeted.
That whole motif was pretty common in the 70's.
How can it be a copyright violation when fonts are not copyrightable in the first place?

Not to mention it can also be a copyright violation to embed images, but I haven't seen that stop anyone.
What do any of your comments have to do with the actual story?
Looks pretty good, it will get even better as you get more internship opportunities up
F# uses it too for adding OO members to types:

type Foo =
...
member self.Bar(arg) =

'self' can be named as you like.
Part of me hates the fact that this works so well. But then again I think "in your face" is actually OK in this case, because you're making it easier for people to find what they're actually looking for.

This is a whole lot more annoying when websites do it with stuff that you're not interested in, like ads.
IMO, a video game that goes to the 1st place on Hacker News' front page has to be clever, not fun. Having this game make a very simple (and typical) use of physics doesn't make it terribly clever.
More damage, probably. But the thing is one would have to be well schooled in English to write a truly legitimate sounding one, and that would probably mean growing up in an English speaking country. That probably means that you live in an English speaking country (or other developed country) so you hopefully have some better options than being a scamster, and there is probably more local law enforcement to stop you. That's the universe balancing things out - not that I'm defending it at all. All that said, I'm sure some better written scams do exist.

I wonder what the most convincing scams are (the ones for which some HN folks would maybe fall)...
I'm looking for an internship too, so I signed up! I'm a Grad Student at San Jose State, so hopefully I shouldnt have too much trouble finding programming internships..
That there is exactly the point. Its the "we don't have time to build a mill, we've got grain to grind" argument.
Final date/time: Tuesday (10/28/2008) evening @7:30 pm @ University Zoka.

Address: 2901 NE Blakeley Street, Seattle, WA 98105

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q...

Let's meet near the fireplace area.
Watch this thread for updates/changes.
See my comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=344640
I hit 42, but my "lives" is negative 20. I died and one of the falling balls finished the level so the game got confused. This seems like a common problem with flash games I think finishing the level and the death counter must be on separate threads or the flush the pending event's after you finish a level but I have seen this before.
We'll get you next time. :)
I'd change around the search box. The main one in the middle of the page is too low. And the top search box is too boring.

"Search Employers, Internships, and Reviews" to bring people to Advanced Search is too wordy

Remove the whole blogs part of the main page...it takes up way too much time and you gain absolutely nothing from it.

I'd also add a browse functionality which at least lets people look at all the jobs in a particular field. i.e. Finance, Medicine etc.

Your actual internship description needs to be full from the start. You take up 90% of the space just to tell them the company name, and then for actual description you ask them to click "Show full info"
Subversion sucks, get over it
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Very nice links, guys! Thanks!
The physics don't do much to the gameplay, but they make the game very good-looking. Physics aren't just useful, they're also sexy.
I think it's not just about "in your face", but just easy to find. A lot of site make the download link real small and sometimes it drowns with the ads or rest of the elements in the page.

I prefer sites that look natural than loud. A big download button doesn't mean loud necessarily.

At least that's what I think.
this ties in beautifully with yegge's recent post about marketing
I think it would be very uncharacteristic for Apple to venture outside of consumer electronics and computing.
The search box at the top returns an error page for every query.
I'm not convinced that this substantially increases the installation and especially the usage of the application.

I bet many people click the download button so that it can download before they figure out whether they even want it. I do that all the time. If I read more and I decide I want to install the software, it is already on my desktop waiting for me. If I read more and decide it won't work, I just delete it.
I use a mac (officially sanctioned) at work. There are only a few times I envy my PC using colleagues and that's the functionality they have with Outlook. Nothing on my Mac gives me that kind of functionality. Sure I can hack up alternatives using a mix of apps, but it's not the same experience.
Bad news Linus, in America, the sugar is also corn. Not just the starch. USA! USA! USA!.....
I actually meant that as a genuine question without meaning to discuss it but..

We believe that almost everything the government does, it does poorly

There is definitely some truth in that in a general sense. But it seems to me that it is really a technical side issue in this particular case. The efficiency costs/gains are debatable. Even if you think you see an answer, it's marginal. It largely depends on what you consider the 'output' of a healthcare system. If you take traditional public health indicators such as life expectancy at birth, rates of various avoidable deaths & such, as the output of healthcare systems, private health systems are generally 'less efficient.'

What I mean to suggest with the above line is that a lot of practical pieces of general world views & rules of thumb (Government should not provide services because it is inefficient) are taken to specific contexts regardless of their validity in these cases.

That's why I always find it very hard to believe that anti public health arguments are truly decided on technical grounds. This is a moral not a technical issue.

We believe that health care is not a right but a privilege.

I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic. But it does seem closer to the point. In other words, I have no duty to ensure you have healthcare. I have a duty to ensure you are not murdered, but not that you don't die from diabetes.

If you take what seems to be a current debate in US politics, it seems very fundamental & moral rather then technical: Assume the responsibility or try to enable more healthcare without assuming the responsibility.

I think most would probably agree that regardless of the tax regime & regardless of price of medical care (within possible levels), some people will be left without. Many people in fact.

Short of assuming responsibility for health, you are debating ways of getting the number of uninsured from 17% to 12% or 10% or some moral equivalent. Some people will be left out. But that's ok because they chose that or made a dumb mistake or had a fighting chance.
That's right, it was addressed to you.
It's sad that even recent history gets badly mangled. This article is written as though she completely created the Google logo, when in fact the logo had already existed for some time and she basically just changed the font (and produced a bunch of other concepts that were ultimately abandoned). The link provided by "wheels" correctly identifies the "before" logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Google1998.png. I think it was created by Sergey using the Gimp, but I could be wrong about that (it was before my time).
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You think the reason that it's: healthcare no & education yes, is that education concerns children?

There are many aspects of children's wellbeing that the public does not concern itself with including to an extent child health.

BTW, the paedophilia laws are not really analogous. Sex with children is prohibited because it is considered rape. A child is considered unable to consent so it is non consensual. Non consensual sex is prohibited with adults too.
Wow, that turns my internal notion of the profitability of this scam on its nose. I had no idea this was profitable enough to pay for postage.
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I think the iPhone would have been uncharacteristic several years ago. I am definitely not making the case that a car is realistic but you never know.
This is definitely the best way. Set up an asterisk box either at your location, or better yet, in a datacenter and then get a sip provider like http://www.broadvoice.com/.

They can give you local numbers all over the world and you can then grow your asterisk install with your business to as many inbound numbers and extensions as you need.

It takes about a week for the average geek to install and grok asterisk but it is well worth the effort.
"... maybe there's software that will reconstruct data from a graph or chart? ..."

Compelling idea. Are the sources all images? Using software to process images to extract information?
This information is correct, I'm not sure why you have been downvoted...
Careful. The year of the Lisp is not far off.
as brian says - the key is to tell how many people don't just download but remain users.
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2 more questions:

* Are there Americans that feel education should not be a public service?

* Are you saying that healthcare is seen as a public responsibility but not one that needs to be delivered by 'Government?'
I believe a large-ish download icon is good user interface. I know if I go to a web page discussing a program and desire to download it, if I don't see a button (or the word "Download" in large, bold text), I immediately switch into find-the-download-page mode. Since Firefox this has meant typing "/download" into the window, which has mitigated a lot of the need for a button, I guess. :)
Re. profitability, this older news might be of interest:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22214192...
I would say that's a different market. An iphone isn't a cheap alternative to a pc. It a supplement.
Why are you running on two different OSes?
I think you might be exaggerating how inaccessible 3d animation and rendering is. Pretty much anyone can download Blender3d (blender.org) and learn it in a year or two well enough to make decent animations. (It'd take a lot of practice, of course, but it's still not that hard)
I don't get all the continual subversion hate lately. Is it really that important? Maybe if you have 100 contributers to your open source project it starts to make sense, It's just becoming a bit tiresome reading the same old lists of why subversion sucks and why git is the best thing since sliced bread.

Different tools suit different uses. Git seems good for open source tons of developers tons of patches/branches etc.
This is typical innovation... mixing two things together to make a third thing.

Next physics invaders... + [add your own mix]. I choose +pony.
This is because people just show a "game over" banner and don't set a death flag or something like that. Then you see that the game is over, but sometimes you can keep moving the ship (I don't know if this happens in this game) or events that happen in the game can make a different game over message show. It's a bug in the game, not in flash, but a very typical bug.
That's right, but the idea isn't new. There are many physics demos that make even shooting to boxes (or even just seeing them fall) interesting. This game doesn't add anything else to such old idea, excepting maybe having been done in Flash.
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First: of course! Many do-it-yourself designers are blind to how obscure they've made exactly those buttons/links they most want people to click. It's easy to make a design that's natural and intuitive for yourself; for everyone else you have to test, or (second-best) use well-worn rules of thumb that others have tested.

Second: I suspect there's still room for improvement. White text on a solid brown rounded rectangle with slight drop-shadow gives a fair button/click-here hint, but is still not as strong as I've seen elsewhere.

Some companies who thrive by download rates (Adobe Flash, Apple ITunes, Skype) use brighter colored buttons, with a faint gradient, and possibly a down-arrow icon, mouseover highlighting, or a contrasting border.

You may also want to compare against a large text 'download [filename] now' link with strong hyperlink hints (blue, underlined).
I would assume that the first would be different than the second two, in the case that !! was some other operator. It's not clear to me whether other cases in which there are double-character operators tolerate having whitespace between them. Is "$name++" the same as "$name+ +", or is the latter an error, or neither? I can't be bothered to check right now. :)
> This is typical innovation... mixing two things together to make a third thing.

I'd argue that every innovation involves mixing two (or more) things to produce a third. So calling it "typical" is a gross understatement.

If you don't find the game compelling, it's not because the combinatorial (a + b = c) form of innovation is somehow uninteresting, but because the elements are.

I agree that (space invaders) + physics = (moderately more engaging version of space invaders).
I agree, I don't think it's likely, or practical.

However, the ZipCar, the New Beetle, the Mini Cooper, the Honda Element -- these are all increasingly appliance-like vehicles. I think Apple's take on a consumer appliance car would be interesting, especially if they could get their web services in order.

Just fun to think about, for me.
What boo Quickbooks? It's what people use. It's a bit rich expecting businesses to switch bookkeeping software (which their accountant/bookkeeper recommended & uses) because your cart has a better idea.
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Childrens health is a major responsibility of government. If a parent fails to keep their child healthy, this is child neglect, and the government steps in (often removing the child from the care of his/her parents). If a parent cannot afford medical care for their children, the government will pay.

There may be administrative differences between specific government programs in education and health care, but there is little public opposition to either one.
I think this is a pretty good list. I would add:

* Don't pander -- be careful about pushing emotional buttons
Over evaluated stock during the tech bubble is not my definition of "glory days in the past".

Microsoft have more competitors now but is also stronger than ever.