skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in a similar situation years ago and found some great internships with small organizations.

Determine what type of company you'd like to work for and the region you'd like to work in. Put together your resume and a cover letter explaining your situation - student with skills seeks internship. Enthusiasm, personalization, and academic credentials will likely go a long way.

Breadth is important. Contact a lot of companies. You may not be able to work with your first choice, but there may be opportunities you're not aware of.

This worked well for me. I met enough people during my second internship in NYC that I had a bonus and a great job when I graduated.

In hindsight, I'd also recommend contacting non-HR employees of companies you're applying to. Don't be afraid to track down the CEO's Skype or AIM account. If you send a personal email, I see no problem in following up with a phone call.

I want to emphasize that it's unlikely something interesting will fall in your lap, so you need to be proactive. That said, I think you'll be surprised by the response and happy with the results.
Was this a fried harddrive problem? If so, maybe Spinrite would help?
Normally I'd agree, but a comment on the WSJ post makes a significant claim that's directly at odds with the TechCrunch post yesterday: that SAP bought the company and shut it down. I have no idea whether there's any truth in that.
Took a quick look. Seems like this suffers from the chicken/egg social network problem. The more users there are, the better the data/app will be. However, users won't use the app until the data/app returns better results.

Example: I put in 92602 (Irvine in OC). Only two pizza stores popped up-both chains (Little Caesars & Round Table) and both >8 mi from the middle of 92602. As a user, this is an immediate turn off because the app isn't helping me find great pizza places. It is only showing me pizza places that I know about-ones that are far from me to boot. I know for a fact that there is a Round Table Pizza that is much closer than the one mapped.

To combat this, you might want to load up some data programmatically so that you have a baseline (scraping PizzaHut.com or Dominoes.com would be a start). Users can then add to your base data set as well as vote up ("share") places that already exist.
in tofino - only a few times a year :) if the weather were warmer in canada i'd go more often. you?
I like the new animation, gives me the feeling that something is being created rather than running one way down a limitless train track like I've been doing since ... Windows 95 still had a horizontal scrolling animation.

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/startupshutdown/spl...
Flot plots vector graphs on "Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2.x+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Konqueror 4.x+." That sounds more portable than Flash to me.
What is your connection to the hacker culture, if not problem solving?
update: I spoke too soon. Following this article I was able to get in contact with them and our ads should run soon!
"paying a fee to put your favorite review on top or putting sponsored links on the site (like google) seems pretty legit to me"

Are you kidding? It's a review site! Silently manipulating results based on payment from the reviewees is a hideous betrayal of trust. It is absolutely NOT legit.

"in my experience most small businesses (mostly restaurants) i ask about yelp love it"

Who the hell walks around asking businesses what they think about Yelp? Got something to tell us? I'd call you an astroturfer right now if you hadn't been a member so long.

"i'm all for exposing shady practices of yelp or any other company for that matter, but most of this stuff is baseless."

Baseless, is it? Well, I'm waiting for this inside info you've obviously got. Sounds pretty base-ful to me.
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Trying to sum it a bit: laptop's facial-recognition systems suck. They really do.
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He doesn't need a full time money manager, there are capital management firms that work based on a % of the total portfolio (not on trades, so they are motivated to grow your investment). They put your money into a larger portfolio they manage and you pay institutional transaction rates. I have used Ferguson Wellman for more than 15 years for this and been very satisfied: they are a category of firm to investigate to manage a portfolio.
You might want to check out hackrtrackr.com . The creator talked about his site elsewhere in the thread.
Just don't let him blog about it... my dumb ass did that and got expelled. Best thing that ever happened to me, looking back, but it caused a whole lot of turmoil.
It spreads WiFi throughout your neighbourhood - as long as they mesh network enable it.

Assuming it existed, that is.
Start with a static website on your own computer. You need to learn things in this order.

HTML

CSS so you can style your pages

JavaScript so you can do dynamic things

JQuery makes JavaScript much easier

With this you can actually publish a fully functional web site with a hosting company.

The server side is needed if you have a high volume site or one with dynamic content, such as a shopping site or with visitor created content. For that you need an application server: Django, PHP, Rails, Tomcat, Jboss, etc. About that time you will need to think about databases and SQL. My advice is to learn how to create good pages before learning the server side.
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Well I didn't mod you down, I argued with you ; )
From some lens, my approach could be seen as problem solving. I've always viewed it as more of a creative art: I view the things I create as concepts. "What would happen if a web site worked like this, for instance, then I create every to revolve around that central theme. Some of the stuff I do is geared at problems, but I feel that viewing mistakes as bugs is a very sterile approach and I hate it.

I don't have a lot of the traits that go alongside hackers, either. Coding languages don't fascinate me, by-and-large. When I look at a language, I figure out exactly how to get things done and then I don't look at it again. As a result, I don't find much fascination in discussions about programming, which is rare among hackers.
This article focuses on strategies for preventing showdowns with users, which is the right approach since a company is never going to win these sorts of confrontations, whether it is Facebook, Digg or anybody else.
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We pull games from Kongregate, AddictinGames and others too, we also let game developers upload games. The game content is already out there we are most aggressive in making sure we have all the best games.

We focus completely on publishers, which no one else is doing and where we innovate. Our API and contextualized games adds to this capability. More coming.
This corruption doesn't have anything to do with the "Rails Way". The corruption was at a much lower level then things like nil foreign keys, long fields, etc. that Rails validates. It was the filesystem that was corrupted, and whether he did database validation in ActiveRecord, using database validations, or both would not have made a difference, as far as I can tell.

Think about it for a second - if the corruption that caused this was things that could be validated using Ruby or in SQL declarations, it would to more than feasible to import that data into some format form which it could be recovered.
I thought the point was to share favorite pizza places, don't chains just add noise? If anybody's favorite pizza place is Pizza Hut or Dominoes, I feel extremely sorry for them.
Great info.

They say only the top 5% of apps are suitable for the free / advertising model, but I wonder about the apps using the freemium model. i.e. release a free version to get publicity, and charge for the better version. Data on that would be pretty interesting.
Granted, we are fond of our forms, but I'm still not convinced that we're particularly fond of our cells. I think that, given the option, most people would choose to live in a body that is identical in appearance and function to their own but that needn't get sick, tired, hungry, or old -- even if it meant replacing the cell substrate with something different. Actually, for all intents and purposes, that is the goal of modern medical science. Sure, achieving it would raise all sorts of new issues and problems, but it's what we work towards right now.

Likewise, it wouldn't surprise me if a large system comprised of humans seeks to replace humans with more reliable parts. As you point out it's already happening. :)
1. this isn't like search results where there is an algorithm that returns the quality of review. by most standards one review is the same as the next. the ability for a business to highlight the review in which they feel puts them in the best light (read, actual review) seems like a legitimate compromise to me.

2. haha, oh man, i guess i can see how someone thinks im an employee, but in reality i'm an entrepreneur (yc w08 actually) who lives in san francisco. i like to have conversations with business people of all types, and it fascinates me that yelp is changing the fabric of small business. so yes... when i meet a restaurant owner i do ask them what they think of yelp. actually, a lot times they ask me, "how did you find us?" maybe i'm just too friendly or inquisitive?

full disclosure: i do have a friend and some acquaintances that work at yelp. running a startup in sf it's hard to not be connected to other startups in this city in some way shape or form.

3. i should have made this more clear, but i was speaking of jwz's "stuff" being baseless. it was 4am when i wrote that post so forgive me.

going through jwz's complaints he's essentially saying the reviewers are idiots. yeah, some are! so what! some people are idiots in real life too. the funny thing is it seems like yelp has spawned some healthy conversation about dna's bathrooms, specifically how much girls detest them for not having seats on the toilets (true).

extortion claims? granted if you don't agree with #1 then you may see direct sales as extortion, but i tend to believe it's not. i've never received a call myself so i'll reserve judgement until i do :)
What does this do that Yelp doesn't?
in my organization, anyone who advertises their own credentials, especially a PhD, had better be very very good or that person will be ridiculed mercilessly.
Average iPhone app usage declines rapidly after first download
Stephenson categorized techies into two sub-categories. The forger and the honer. the forger would create new tech, and then abandon it to pursue the next new thing. the honer would forever dabble in non-start tech, envisioning and forcing it to do wildly inventive things that the creator never envisioned. perhaps you two are simply two sides of the same coin.
so, it looks like from slide 9 it takes 20k downloads in a 24 hour window to get into the top 25, so lets say then maybe ~50k to get into the top 10.

I wonder if the returns from being on that list pretty much guaranteed to get you more than 50k downloads?

If so would it make sense to essentially buy your way into the top 10 (either with advertising or literally "we'll pay you 2 dollars to install this 1 dollar app in the next 24 hours") and then make money on your way down?
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One can print more dollars (and that's happening). One can't increase gold supply nearly that easily.
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I've been wondering if this is a case of "the grass is always greener." For a while, my goal has been to have a residual source of income that I can survive on so that I can work on whatever has struck my fancy that day. To those of you who have achieved financial independence, are you able spend time satisfying your intellectual curiosities? Or is your time taken up by other things that you didn't anticipate?
the old solution to Attention Deficit Disorder was corporal punishment.

lemme tell you, it was wildly effective. so much so that ADD didn't even exist until they started doing away with the practice...
I feel extremely sad that you can't relate to how the actions of yelp are - at best - unethical business practices and - at worst - plain old extortion.
This shift over to primarily video content irritates me: I like reading text, and video is difficult with my college's slow Internet.
My rule of thumb with javascript is to put everything that is critical to page functionality right at the top and everything else as far to the bottom as I can (just before </body>), that way all your buttons/sliders and other active components will work as soon as the page is rendered and any other javascript will never hurt performance.
I suspect parent meant "priced too high" which you are just thinking of as "market dried up". Here's an example: I'll give you, sight unseen, $1 for each of them (US or CA, your choice).

You don't want to take it? Of course not, because the price you want for it (your ask) is higher than my bid, and my bid is probably not even the best bid (someone who has seen it will almost certainly offer you $2).

"market dried up" is a shorthand for "the inside bid is fairly low", which is basically what noonespecial said and you disagreed with.
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people don't like reading. most people read @ an 8th grade level because of the brain damage inflicted by mandatory government education.
Who downmodded this? This is the best post on the page. 51% means control of the company. Which means control of revenues, hiring decisions, investment behavior. You can own 49% of a very profitable company and never see a dime. Nor make decisions about your own salary if you keep working on the thing.

Any offer to purchase only 51% is also insulting, being a transparent attempt to pennypinch while getting total control. They think they can run the business to serious profitability but don't think buying 90% is a good idea?

From the perspective of a founder, giving up 51% of a company is exactly the same as giving up 100%. It is a sale and unless you're happy walking away and doing something else don't do it.
I completely agree and my visits to such sites have gone down as well. Other sites that I have stopped visiting less include sports.yahoo.com and movies.yahoo.com. And don't even get me started with tv.yahoo.com.
There was a reason to reading the sports section!
I feel the same way about ESPN. I like reading interesting articles about sports but it is actually not that easy to find good content - there is no hacker news for sports (yet!).
Yeah this sort of direct sales may be good for yelp and good for businesses who participate. The point is its bad for USERS of the site, who many of us are. If true, then seeing no bad reviews, or a bunch of good reviews might be meaningless, so useless.
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If you don't like video, maybe you shouldn't be going to the web site of a cable channel?
Probably because people that install spyware don't program or start their own companies, and hence don't read HN.
Yea, an increasing derivative with respect to time is sexy.

Preliminary job well done, guys.
The main problem I have with video over text is that it takes much longer to convey the same information. I can read about 5 times faster (450-500 wpm) than most video (90-100 wpm). So other than special cases where video is crucial, I much prefer text.
> One of the ironies for the city is that having non-profits as the largest employers means that a large portion of the city's economic activity is off-limits for local taxes.

"Non-profit" only affects income taxes. You can still tax their property, purchases, activities, and employees.
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sure, if in fact it is true that bad reviews do get deleted. i believe this topic is still up for debate.

does anyone on HN actually use yelp? have you guys ever talked to a small business person who's had interactions with yelp?
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most people probably would be illiterate without a mandatory government education
They had a laptop stolen that had a backup of their database. After it was stolen they let users know about the theft and that passwords were stored as plain text. I don't believe any data was ever lost.
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On top of that you can't scan, skim, skip, and search it nearly as well. It's thus much harder to assess the value of video/audio content up front.
I've both been hired at startups through the coop program and have hired employees through the coop program for my startup.

Give that a try.

In Canada, if your marks are high enough (B average), you can also qualify for an NSERC undergrad student research award, which basically lets a startup recoup half of a reasonable salary if they were to pay you.
ps

did anyone actually look at this:

http://yelp.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452b44469e2011278fa14eb28a...

the favorite review is clearly marked. seriously - if the claims of reviews disappearing maliciously are true then sure let's hang yelp from the gallows. i do know for a fact that they're quite aggressive about anti-spam for being such a large site.

the fact is they've had such a positive effect on my life that i'm willing to actually hear the other side.
I feel the same way, but users are already sharing chains as their favorites, so I thought it would make for a better user experience. Since users are already sharing these chains, the fact that these stores are being added shouldn't signal their quality, the votes should.
Well, keep in mind that those are the figures for free applications. The barrier for paid applications is a lot less - about a tenth.

I've seen application developers experiment with this approach, generally using in-application advertising, but the conversion rates aren't compelling - and if you fail to get ranked, then you've blown a lot of money. I'd only try it in conjunction with a lot of simultaneous free press, working whatever opt-in e-mail list you've built up for your app business, etc. And I'd stop for a bit when you get onto the top 100 and let the natural benefits of just being on that list carry your application higher.

Greg Yardley
Co-Founder, Pinch Media
13th slide: http://cs343-spr0607.stanford.edu/materials/jeff_dean/

IIRC, this was a Stanford class, where they had invited a bunch of people to talk about software. The main site seems to be offline (http://cs343-spr0607.stanford.edu)
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The presentation combines data from a lot of sources, including some of the quality applications you've mentioned. I didn't break out the retention characteristics by decile, but late in the presentation there's a slide on cumulative sessions over time by decile. As you can see from it, there's a small percentage of kick-ass applications people return to disproportionately.

I honestly can't tell you what's best for your business - a series of quick applications that many people will buy on impulse, use once or twice, and uninstall, or a quality application that's lovingly supported, sold at a higher price point, and gains additional users gradually through a growing reputation. Luckily, the AppStore supports both styles.

Greg Yardley
Co-Founder, Pinch Media
Oh I'm sorry. I didn't notice that the "Email" field isn't public. You can contact me at windsurfer619@gmail.com
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I am unhappy with Hostmonster. They auto renewed my account 15 days before it expired and it cost me $120 for a basic package. Sure, they probably told me in fine print when I checked the renew option, but who can remembers what they read in fine print 350 days ago? At least Godaddy only costs me $4 a month for auto renew.
Maybe they chose Flash for performance? Google uses annotated timeline primarily for their Finance site, which has a lot of data.

Long time ago, before new JS engines (FF 3.1B2, Webkit Nightly), canvas performance was not very good. I remember I abandoned my JS charting experiments because of this. For simple static graphs it was ok, but changing complex graphs based on user input was painful, redraw was not fast enough to have a smooth experience.

It was especially bad on Explorer, which doesn't have native canvas support, so it must be emulated (usually using VML via ExplorerCanvas from Google [1]). I think Flot also uses ExplorerCanvas.

BTW There are a pure JavaScript solutions for annotated timelines, though they look different - MIT Simile project's Timeline [2] and Timeplot [3].

[1] http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/

[2] http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

[3] http://simile.mit.edu/timeplot/
Also, I often can't watch video content without unplugging my speakers and putting my headphones in so I don't disturb other people. Oh, and my laptop fan starts going like crazy and my CPU goes to 100% with FLV.
Somebody downvoted you, but I agree entirely. Perhaps it's because I'm used to the Mac's ultrasimple boot - colorless Apple logo, then boot - but the focus on the boot logo isn't well-placed.

It's better than the Vista one, but the team misses that I don't want any fancy boot. The lack of something fancy is a statement itself - Apple gets that, Microsoft doesn't.
from my experince at 16, you are correct. volenteering with te school will get you into trouble. get the kid a computer of his own with an open source operating system on it. this is a) harder to break than windows and b) a more friendly platform for exploration. I did this at 13, but my parrents are hacker literate.

I cannot comment on ethics though, or parrenting. Both of my parrents were computer scientists at one time in there carreer, and I still bounce Ideas off of my father. Personaly, I think this is the best way to grow up with such a skill set. my only regret is that I have not had much motivation to hack when I can have a rely interesting discussion with my father.
In this case, it's because you seemed to argue that it's okay that this review site lets businesses control what reviews you see. HN is a teensy bit kneejerk, and your argument as stated there is flimsy, though you clarified yourself below.
A terrible tragedy of epic proportions, to be sure.
It seems to be what keeps a large puportion of the american population reading! However, it does not make business sense.