skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reached out to Mixpanel (mixpanel.com) last spring as a high school senior (with no professional programming experience, but a couple of decent sized projects and a decent amount of experience). I ended up going through their interview process, getting an offer, and then going out to San Francisco and working at Mixpanel for 3 months. The experience was indescribably valuable, and if you think you are experienced, I'd definitely recommend going for it. Even if you don't think you are experienced enough, I would recommend going for it, because worst case is you don't have an internship, which is the exact same as if you don't do anything at all.

The "Who's Hiring" monthly threads are a good place to start looking.
Not all of us had the opportunity to "rank experience over money". Some of us had to earn money during the summers just to get by and hoped to find an opportunity to do that with a relevant internship.
Really? My town legislated a fire department into existence. Now we have "universal" fire protection for the town with no waiting.
You Don’t Understand How Big Mobile Really Is
>aggressive stance SFC takes with busybox GPL violations

I would hardly call enforcing their license an "aggressive stance". When a company enforces their right against those that violate the terms of their proprietary license it's considered "normal" but if a Free Software developer does the same thing it's considered being "aggressive"?

Sony never originally intended to comply with the requirements of the GPL. They did violate the terms of the GPL. That isn't speculation. The reason they ever complied is because they were forced to.

For those saying that there isn't a problem as long as the original authors are not willing to go to court over the violation. Think about what you are saying for a minute. You are basically saying "it's OK to pirate someones work as long as they don't enforce their license on me personally". Yes it's "piracy" as the same companies have defined it -copyright infringement-.
Microsoft is much the same in this regard.
Sure, people can't be the same, but I see paying for major healthcare problems as just one of the basic "civilized society" baselines. I mean, in most of those other cases you have other choices: can't be an air force pilot, do something else. And we do make some baseline effort to ensure that you have some ability to choose a career, by providing free public education. But if you have a heart that doesn't work without medical treatment, you don't have an alternative to "get medical treatment".

I guess I don't at all mind paying an equal share of those kinds of expenses, either. To me, not having heart defects, leukemia, down syndrome, or any of a number of things I might've had is its own reward, because my quality of life is better and I don't have to get surgeries and whatnot. I don't see a need to also come out financially ahead of those who had the misfortune to need the surgeries, so I win the health lottery twice and they lose it twice.

The moral-hazard problem also seems pretty weak, at least when it comes to major things like surgeries; I doubt there are many people who would've avoided getting cancer if they had to pay for it, but if it was free decided hey what the heck (that is, the suckiness of major illnesses is already a bigger disincentive than the expense of treatment). Moral hazard might come into it more with things like overprescription of antibiotics for routine/minor illnesses.
It is not an either/or choice. Sometimes you need to do both: throw hardware at the pb and optimize the code.

Sometimes you need do do everything possible to scale up.
Ask HN: My startup is successful but I don't like what I do
Once I came up with an idea, I launched it and it makes very good money (50-70k euro monthly). It looks very interesting for others, having a nice business, being an entrepreneur, but for me it's getting too boring. I'm not passionate about what my startup does. I really want give up.

Should I kill my startup and build something that I'm passionate about or will love doing it? Or does every business get boring by the time? What are your experiences/advices?
OriginJS - A client side router that doesn't suck
None of them, if you click through.

I just looked at the list and thought to myself, "Twitter released Mustache.js? They also released webrat? No.. that does not make much sense." and did not realize until I clicked through to those repos and checked to see if it was a fork.

I'm not suggesting Twitter is doing a Bad Thing(tm). I just think we under-appreciate those that create and release open source software and that any sort of nod of the head is a Good Thing(tm).
Adding infinite scroll would be a nice touch.
You are kidding right? - EV drive trains are much simpler and have a order of magnitude fewer parts than ICE vehicles or hybrids.
Good god that site uses the same colors as Google ad-words I feel like it's a domain name placeholder, there's no emphasis on anything, everything is blue or light green and text is stretched in one long line (widescreen HD res). God, I feel confused looking at that site almost dizzy as my eyes try to find focus on the page - and I'm not exaggerating - this is the strangest design I've ever seen.
Sorry but it's already done. udemy.com

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People have different desires and needs. It makes some sense to provide options--some people in the market for an electric car are probably also adverse to leather for example. And the batteries are hugely expensive so if you don't need the range, it could be wise to not pay so much more.

Apple provides tons of options. You're looking at it the wrong way--Tesla has two models. Apple has a bunch. You can customize either Tesla and similarly there are a bunch of custom BTO options from Apple (I'm typing this on one that I customized in fact).
HN needs a pub sub mechanism so I don't need to rely on RSS any more.
Google in education
Hack a Square to just take the credit card info for use outside of Square? Half of the battle with scams is building trust, so if people are told to be on the lookout for guys with Obama pins and a credit card reader...
I've started using magit and I really like it; I like that I can just say "revert" on a file and magit knows what the right command is. Makes me think a whole lot less about Git and a whole lot more about my project.
Sorry, deleted not realizing you had replied. For reference:

It's not Kosher, but the thing that always pops into my mind is- you've got the body you were given. Are we now also in the business of equity across our mortal coils?

Plenty of people can never be air force pilots; they need glasses, or are too tall/short, etc. The same goes for athletes, and so on.
> What I think would be best is a gesture-based display. Touch anywhere on the screen, make a squiggle in some kind of pattern -- it's all relative vs. absolute.

Audi does this somewhat already on a couple of models, you can write letters with your fingers to enter waypoints or call someone.
$140 for a second gen i5 and 8GB of ram is pretty reasonable.

A $20 VPS is only for pet projects. For a startup it's worth it to invest in a/some dedicated server(s). Having some redundant firepower of dedicated servers so that you don't have to worry about the upgrades for a while presents a sweet spot between saving cost and scalability.
Yahoo Abandons 10 Mobile Apps
Amusing it is not.

From the very first header:

"Do the same thing other people are doing but charge more because we are hip and edgy..."

Really? "they charge more" as grounds for a parody?

Go and use something else, nobody forces you to use 37 Signals products -- in fact the huge majority of the world, something around 99,9999% does not.

The rest is equally BS. Sour grapes, maybe? What have you done that is successful guys?

And who are you? "Registrant: Domains By Proxy, LLC". Yeah, no balls either.

Could even have been made by the Curebit guys themselves. They sure know how to reuse others people's assets, after all.

(btw, thanks for the downvotes, guy-behind-the-"parody").
The Austerity Debacle
Why not look for a buyer to sell your company to?
I hope that means "10% get it right first time" and not "only 10% can do it at all, even given a computer and a whole day to do it."

Couldn't resist that challenge (although the thread is nearly 2 years old.) I think mine works, at least it gives the right answer for all my test cases.
And chew xylitol gum. It kills bacteria. But it won't cure an impacted wisdom tooth. There are places that will put you out to remove them so stop putting it off.
Oh, and a HN account created on the spot, just to post this BS. Well done.
Ask HN: How do I get VNC access to a remote machine via a browser?
Hi HNers,

I'm teaching my 10 year old son how to program in Python. His teachers have approved the use of school time to work on specific programming projects. Problem is, the school district IT policies are restrictive and do not allow installs on their netbooks without an onerous, time-consuming review process.

Do any of you know some creative, preferably free, ways that would enable VNC-level access to a remote machine via a web browser? This would allow us to bypass the need to use school computers for IDE installs, work storage, etc.

I figure there's gotta be some sort of freeware app that should allow me to set that up. Ideally, he'd be able to have full console access, save his work, Python IDLE access, etc.

Open to any and all ideas...

Cheers,
yekim

[Edits: Changed title and question content to "VNC" instead of "console" based access to better reflect intent.]
Man, I must have been doing something wrong with my models. I'm getting this error in my console when normally it triggers my validation errors:

"Uncaught Error: Can't create an invalid model"
Imagine if a romney supporter did this ... then no one would trust the obama volunteers ...
As an investor, I'm long TSLA & as a human I have to be bullish on this company. It's easy to root for them, but I really hope they get the roll-out of the Model S correct & focus on the customer, not the tech, damn it.

For those of you old enough to understand the joke, I don't think Elon will be trying to buy Cocaine anytime soon, but I'm worried about the next phase after the first round of sales to the enthusiasts like... us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_Motor_Company

In the hopes that Elon and the boys are paying attention, some things that bugged me from the plans so far & from the "butt test" I gave the Model S:

1. The options look great and I'm excited, but help me complete these sentence... "I've owned the Model S now for more than a year and I'm never worried about getting serviced because Tesla Co. will..." what?

2. Tell my mother, or anyone not in your core market, why they need this car & what role it plays in their life vs. buying a gas powered (or for extra points a Hybrid) car.

3. Tell them exactly what's required to put a charger in their garage and how much that will cost; better yet, help them do it (for a fee!) and partner with some other Green tech folks to make a house call and split the costs -- solar panel resellers for example?

4. Nit picking, but man was that 17-inch screen big! Couldn't we save some money a go with a 12-inch and a couple of physical (user programmable) buttons instead?

5. Listen, I'm a large man, where's my "oh shit handle?"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=oh%20shit%20h...

(And in case you missed it, I'm long TSLA & rooting for you all the way!!)
In a way, I actually agree with this statement. Here's my reasoning: RIM's main manufacturing plant is in Waterloo Ontario. They also have a plant in Dallas, Hungary and Mexico. They offer good wages and excellent working conditions. That's more than I can say for Apple and Foxconn.

Just this morning a person in RIM management told me the costs on RIM devices are typically higher because they stay away from unfair labor practices.

That means a lot to me. The humane and ethical treatment of human beings trumps everything, including performance and features.

I have an iPhone 4 (I waited outside a Rogers store all night to be one of the first to have one in my city) but with what I read is going on at Foxconn, I can't support Apple anymore.
Since you like analogies, look at it this way...

You drove to the Ghetto and threw your only copy into a crack house. That crack house got raided, shut down, sealed off.

You took that copy away from yourself. It's your problem. Not mine. Cry to someone else about your rights.
Number of birds = value of larry.
So,
http://twitter.github.com/?larry=2
has 2 birds.
http://twitter.github.com/?larry=100
has 100 birds.
Car loans
Never rely solely on the dealer to set up your auto financing – they do not have your best interest in mind and will likely arrange the car loans that provides them the biggest commission – not the best offer for you personally.
You could probably use/utilise the services which let you run code (like http://codepad.org/).

Not perfect, but it would let you do the job of "executing code" without needing anything more than a browser.
I think this is a really important point.

Sure, an infinitely flexible touchscreen has a nice wow-factor on the showroom floor, but when you're on the highway screaming along at 65 (because you're a good law-abiding citizen) and you reach down to change the radio station and hit adjust heat instead, and then the map destination, before having to take your eyes off the road to follow your finger to the right spot on the piece of glass - touchscreen not so good.

I'd give up some fancy full-color api driven whatever for a nice compliment of ergonometrically designed knobs and buttons any day.

As to voice, I think voice-feedback could be a good start. I have a hard-drive based music player in my car with an excellent audio interface. You can reach down, twiddle the knobs and browse through thousands of tracks without taking your eyes off the road at all because it reads the artists, albums, playlists etc to you. Very fine approach to a mobile interface.
I think there's a slight difference in that you have an expectation of ephemerality in real-world conversations that you do not (or at least, should not) with Facebook et al.

This isn't like the FBI setting up surveillance equipment to capture and monitor conversations; it's like the FBI asking to look at the tapes that people are already gleefully making and leaving around in public bins for others to pick up and watch.

I get the reasoning - and honestly, it was my first instinct on the news as well - but I don't think it's a direct analog.
I've heard that they require that employees sign a new NDA every time there is a company all-hands.

The place reeks of lack of trust and just sounds _depressing_ to work at.
As someone who has had an infection requiring dental care: dental surgery is covered by the Canadian provinces if it is medically necessary. On the other hand, preventative care and cosmetic surgeries are not covered.
The byron bay villa offers peaceful and calming environment
The byron bay villa offers peaceful and calming environment to the tourists. These villas offer eye-catching and world class beauty to the visitors. In the past the city of byron bay was old and traditional one but with the setting up of these villas it came on world map.
Both.

Never underestimate the effect of speed on traffic. Throw everything you can at it.
Photography and the (Lost) Art of Seeing
You are grasping at unrelated analogies and contexts.
Don't forget the 6000+ lithium cells, each with charge leveling circuitry.
I wish this was up on github so everyone could contribute to it to build a better set of docs
Observe the cognitive dissonance of people accusing Google of Big Company Badness and then going on to recommend Bing in the same breath.
Apple has a ton of SKUs. The iPad 2 alone is offered in 18 variations (White/Black, 3G/Wifi, CDMA/GSM, 16/32/64GB). Want a MacBook? There are nine models to choose from (4 Airs and 5 Pros) and each come with a bunch of customizations (CPU, RAM, HD, accesseries, etc).
Clicking on the logo multiple times brings more birds.
This seems like yet another anti-spam measure that will not be implemented globally, therefore cannot be relied on, you still wont be able to strongly trust DKIM/SPF as a ham indicator. Also, many people's filtering setups wont even be able to create the kind of relies DMARC requires, so they wont be implemented either.
> The more evil you think Google is being, the more likely they're doing the opposite of what you think they are.

I've seen variations on this line by people who presumably have insider knowledge of how Google operates. (If they don't, they shouldn't be saying things they clearly have no clue about.)

Anyway, as someone who doesn't have that insider access, and only knows a few people who work at Google, I wanted to let you know how comments like that read to me:

I find them extremely arrogant.

I don't mean to imply you are lying, or untrustworthy, or are somehow a bad (or even just arrogant) person. But as an independent, thinking mind, I find it mindboggingly-arrogant to tell someone – anyone – to think the exact opposite of what their mind is telling them, without any proof, on the basis of some supposed "authority". Not only bad advice, but dangerous.

Can you imagine how many crimes against humanity have been perpetrated with that kind of logic? "Sure, it may seem like persecuting group X is bad, but comrade, trust us, we have your best interest at heart. When it looks like we're at our worst, well, that's when we're at our best." Uh huh.

Again, I'm not calling you out specifically, but I would suggest that Google employees stop with this line of argument. I can't think of any better way to get people motivated against Google than what you're doing.

Thanks.
+1, this has nothing to do with binary search and everything to do with the fact that almost any application written in those languages will have bugs that do not show until numbers nearing INT_MAX are used. Another given is that all applications that use recursion is bound to run into stack overflow errors/bugs when used on big data.
Other complaints aside, I just wanted to say that I quite like the "wall of text" approach. Thinking back to the article on API documentation from Parse (http://blog.parse.com/2012/01/11/designing-great-api-docs/) I'll agree that having everything on one page, quickly accessible, is a good way to do. By breaking up the page with relevant headings and sub-headings the docs can be made much less daunting (as they are here). I'd be much more annoyed with having to click between pages too often.
You could use the free edition of VNC http://realvnc.com
Depends on what stage you are at and what type of site you are hosting. You get the advantage of being able to have unlimited hardware space and not worrying about paying a premium for electric to the colo which, in many cases if you aren't serving up video could be a trade off worth making. You also get the hardware physically where you are which can be a benefit. It may not be the desired option the majority of the time but it belongs on the list as an option.
Arguably, it's also a barometer of Google's increasing status as the primary corporate enemy of Apple Computer, Inc. My gut tells me that if someone actually did the survey they'd find that "Google is Evil" posts and upvotes correlate less with Civil Libertarian politics than they do with the manufacturer of the poster's phone and laptop.
Kaleidescape vs. DVD CCA: Judge Rules Against Movie Servers
Which is a reckless attitude for a doctor that leads to treatment resistant tuberculosis.
There are no startup culture outside of US and Europe. Even in Europe except England(?). My business is an international company working between Germany, Russia and Azerbaijan, you can't see any acquisitions here so often. (I didn't hear yet) Buying a company can only be accomplished through some mutual friends or someting like this.
>Google closing AdSense accounts with no explanation

Well, the original headline here seems to be a fear-mongering fabrication unrelated to the article.

One account was closed and the guy can't figure out why. In fact, this isn't even new information. Google closes suspicious AdSense accounts. Is there some conspiracy out there Google has a number generator choosing to ruin someone's revenue source at random?
I still believe that you will be more successful if you do what you are fond of doing rather than doing things that you were only force to do so or because of money thing. Inner fullfilment is greater than money.

With regards to your startup, you may sell it or you may hire a person who can run you business the way you want it. Then, start doing your passion.
Read the IPO letter to investors. They have two classes of voting shares, like Berkshire Hathaway, which enables them to make longer term bets than the market's attention span can handle.
> 4. Nit picking, but man was that 17-inch screen big! Couldn't we save some money a go with a 12-inch and a couple of physical (user programmable) buttons instead?

A 17" screen is a very cheap component. Adding physical buttons wouldn't save much, if anything. When you're making a $60-90k car, a $100 screen isn't going to change the final price.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE...
For what it's worth, Nielsen just released an alertbox today about "chrome" and the user experience.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ui-chrome.html

The general gist is that /too much/ chrome is bad, and a good way to fix it could be to temporarily hide parts of the chrome, as long as it's consistent in how to find it again and that there is a simple and reliable way to re-enable it.

It seems that Mozilla nailed the consistency (in this case, the forward button will always come back when the user goes back), but I'm wary of the "simple and reliable" method of re-enabling it. From what I understand, you technically can't make the forward button show up until you go back, correct? You can't always reliably go "back", especially if you're on the first page when opening a new tab. I'd say that Firefox is violating design guidelines (or whatever you'd want to call the research just put out by Nielsen today).
Hence the need for honeypots, pg. :)
Only part I got a chuckle about was the book jab
For Biology, "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory

Instead I would say:
1. Some things can replicate better than others.
2. Things replicate imperfectly, causing change over time.
If I'm reading the details right, the bit is for a "founding CTO".

Ms Turly seems to be bright, capable and organised, but so far has only won a lot of competitions.

... which is more than I've done.
They have dental setups in the hospitals here for emergencies but generally it's not taken seriously enough. Poor dental care can have a tremendous impact on a persons physical and mental health.
Google adsense support and appeals has always had problems, it seems if you're disabled your chances of getting any sort of support are non-existent and I assume this post is an attempt to get the issue seen by people at google (I hope it works).

On the topic of their "secret" detection, it doesn't work well. In 2007 when I was in high school an acquaintance had a web page with google adverts on, there was no content beyond what came with a free template he downloaded. Every day he would arrive at school, login to the computer system and click an advert on his website, he would then go home and do the same, he would also contact other people from school via instant messengers and have them do the same, it became some what of a ritual for him. He was making $100 per month from what I recall and this went on for a while. This is the sort of abuse that should be detected very easily; abuse from the same IPs with a set pattern and yet it never was... I have no confidence in a system that can't detect this sort of abuse.
Changing your search engine is easy. Changing your OS is not.
The optimal number of options depends on how long consumers spend making a buying decision. A $50,000 car should have more options than a $2000 laptop or a $500 tablet.