skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had both paid and non-paid internships and I've been fortunate enough to have the non-paid internship turn into a contract position and then a full-time position. However, what scared me about each position is that I was never told upfront if there was real possibility for a full-time position. I'm still against non-paid internships, but at a minimum, if you must have an unpaid intern, at least let them know whether or not that internship can realistically turn into a full time position or not and what benefits there will be as an unpaid intern. Set those expectations, that way at least the potential intern can weight the pros and cons for themselves whether or not the unpaid position is really worth their time.
> it stands Magic The Gathering Online Exchange, a website where you can trade children's playing cards.

I'm not sure if you did it to drive the point or not, but Magic: The Gathering is by no means "for children". The average age of players is way over 18 in most areas.

(Slightly biased as someone who's been playing M:TG for over 18 years.)
Still confused about why I should care, given that I will be dead. I'm not sure my Google Voice text messages will be of any use to anyone. Maybe I'll just leave my username/pass in my will, and people can dig through my personal info before my funeral.
It's much like facebook's "like" button. It informs fb you've visited the page even if you don't click it.
"... a new virtual currency ..."

It doesn't seem that way to me. It's more like a bus token since you can only spend it in certain venues. Or a coupon if you can redeem it for cash. At best, it's a virtual bank account.
This is very clever, I just tried it and was impressed.

Streak, thanks for sharing all your clever technical hacks, I always enjoy reading them.
i realise you want the actual answer here, but if i was going to sell my own stuff, i would be using bandcamp http://bandcamp.com/ and have as a buyer many times. it's simple to set up and purchase from, is the main selling point.
http://i.imgur.com/zWIdKcF.jpg
> the dance group MIAIRIRIS

That's not 'I', it's '|' -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARRS
I want to! See my comment regarding infrec's offer to help.
> Wall Street didn't disappear because of the Great Depression

A whole lot of government regulations affecting the Wall Street and other parts of the financial sector were put into place to prevent a recurrence of the crash of '29 and subsequent panics affecting the financial industry, which is one reason why Wall Street, the banks, etc., didn't disappear.

Somehow, that seems less likely with Bitcoin.
I hope you're enjoying your delusional investments!

Seriously, _I_ have no hard feelings about this. I'm cheerful as all get out.

You're sounding pretty defensive, though.
You pretty much nailed the nail on the coffin. Mixing friends and business is incredibly tricky and often times you just have to say "no". Good points though. Get dumpin.
I agree that was unkind. But treating a little positive feedback as validation is, as the original author now clearly realizes, a giant mistake.

You've got a business when people repeatedly exchange value with you. Kind words are validation of a sort, but the weakest kind. To go from there to spending a year building a platform is basically hearing what you want to hear. Better not to ask than to believe what you hear uncritically; if you don't ask, at least you know you don't know.
Most money in the Eurozone flows through banks, and I think we've seen recently just how much control Eurozone countries have over their banks (pretty much as much as they want).
I'm not terribly impressed with Bitcoin. But it might be possible to make a few bucks on this downturn.

"A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." -Warren Buffet
> Did you start before Dalton Caldwell's talk?

Who is this Dalton Caldwell, and why is he relevant?
I don't understand LinkedIn (anymore).

Their business model seems to be to source candidates to recruiters. This may be good for recruiters, but for candidates? I'm not so sure. It's certainly better to have an overall strong online presence (Twitter / Github (if relevant) / personal blog) than contacts on LinkedIn that don't mean anything.

Groups are full of spam.

The website is incredibly unresponsive.

They bought the excellent IndexTank technology and team a while ago, and promptly shut it down (the tech was open sourced though, which is more than can be said for a lot of acquisitions).

It seems they only keep on living because people are somewhat afraid to delete their profile; but everything inside LinkedIn feels dead.

And now Pulse. Who would go to LinkedIn for news??

Pulse says "The company shares (...) our belief in the power of knowledge and elevated discussion".

Elevated discussion? On LinkedIn? Come on!
So I don't quite understand is the falling price because mtgox is down for maintenance (if so why does it have that effect, I don't run into the street and burn my cash just because the banks are closed on Sundays) or is that just a coincidence?
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well said. folks tend to forget that there's no entity such as a 'market' that you can deal with, there are only people, just like you with strengths and weaknesses, nothing more.
Why bother doing that when you can just hack or seize exchanges? If MtGox and the next 20 largest bitcoin exchanges get shut down how much more difficult would using bitcoins be?
I've been using this for a few months, it is FANTASTIC, great great job. This made my life better.
Even more fun because the material world seems to operate in mostly quantized steps at its most fundamental level.
Do it when you can see the fuckers and run if you need to.

When I was 12 I once took out a hornet nest with a water hose by simply doing rounds of blasting them with water then running away while they tried to chase me.
Some great free marketing resources:

http://headrush.typepad.com/ (highly recommended)

http://www.hubspot.com/marketing-resources

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/marketing-guides/

http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/free_stuff.asp

http://www.fogcreek.com/guide/
So they maliciously fork block chain, now what?

Surely, they can double spend their money, but it doesn't affect my coins as long as I don't to transactions with them.

They can't kill bitcoin: the moment they leave life returns to normal. If they don't leave, bitcoin client will learn to reject their blocks.
@gtolle and I have been working on this for a few months now. We know we have a long way to go, but wanted to share what we've been up to.
Congrats to the pulse founders for entering the millionaire club.

Sucks that they have to pretend to be excited about joining LinkedIn and likely suffer there for a few years, but every rose has a thorn.
I think you misread me. I clearly said Hummingbird was not better enough to triumph. I was taking apart the idea that standard notation is so awesome that it can't imaginably be improved on.

Standard notation, QWERTY, English, Facebook, etc. are all flawed in many ways but to replace them you can't just be 1% or 5% better; you need to be an order of magnitude better. No one cares about learning Dvorak for 5 more WPM but if people could double their WPM the world would switch.
Have you even tried transfering money around with bitcoins? It's amazing. Absolutely amazing. The price of bitcoins is irrelevant and uninteresting compared to the way it facilitates transactions. It is incredible technology, potentially the most disruptive technology ever invented. And if anything the recent press will ultimately make more people aware of bitcoin, and perhaps lower prices will convince more people to try it out.
I think the speculators lost. Those of us who actually use bitcoins for transactions simply got a bit of free money out of the rise and knew to hold off until the exchange came back to reasonable levels. I still like bitcoin for what its good for and think that its real uses will keep it around for some time, whether the mainstream adopts it or not.
> what's a better way, subject to real limitations of time and resources?

Selecting at random from the applicant pool.

Any reasonably selective filter function that becomes sufficiently part of HR conventional wisdom will render the fraction of applicants who both pass it, and are capable of getting and keeping a job, unavailable in the market. The residue is people who either fail the function or pass the function and are sub-par employees. Because the feedback loop on the effectiveness of hiring practices is sufficiently attenuated, the utility of the filter going negative will not be noticed.

Treat easy, popular ways of identifying top talent like stock tips: even if they were true in the past, by the time you hear about it, it's not a good idea anymore.
you would be surprised.

i can't vouche for FAA, but hospital equipment manufacturer have even stricter regulation and there i can vouche for way worse 'upgrades'.
In my experience, technical questions aren't usually language-specific per se. Instead, they focus on algorithms & data structures. Are you getting a degree in Computer Science? If so, you should be pretty well-prepared for technical interview questions already.

AI and Machine Learning are very interesting fields, but you need a deeper understanding of CS than you do for mobile/web development. Just out of curiosity, are you familiar with what a state-space search is, and the difference between breadth-first and depth-first?

edit: FYI, I'm also C.S. major graduating this semester. I consider my interests to lie in AI and ML as well. I've not had any trouble with technical interview questions.
Droid Sans not as common as the other fonts on the list. I threw it into the mix for a couple reasons. For one, the feedback from twitter suggested that Android might support fewer characters than other platforms. For another, I expected a lot of commonality between the other fonts, but Droid fonts were an independent effort so I thought there might not be as much overlap.
Many exchanges are outside of their jurisdictions. They'll need to call in favours. And favours are money.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/imeem-founder-dalton-caldwe...
The RSS system was partially so painful because it was so fragmented. Some pages had links to feeds, some used the proper meta tags, some just didn't have them because they lost control of the presentation of the content. Some were headline only, some were snippets, some were full-article. And every few months one of my feeds would change location so I'd have go set up the new feed. Sometimes they'd just go dark because their provider had an error and the blog author might not even know.

In short, the RSS system had lots of nice properties, but it just wasn't compelling, partially because it was so fragmented.

Google will generally make robust infrastructure that exists much longer than most small sites. I'm willing to put some trust in them, though I personally dislike G+.
Given its a extension for universal access to the G+ notification count, people who go out of there way to install this and keep it have not only bought into the notion of the G+ stream, but like it enough that they want more convenient access to it.

With this as a premise, an optional feature inside an already optional extension to scope out more content for the stream just seems to be a logical extension for the enthusiasts who use it.

Even supposing the only content on the G+ page was exact reshares of articles, it isn't an exact 1-to-1 match with an RSS subscription since it also augments the users search results, populates contact details into the Android People app/address book as well as any other integrations they add to circles.

I don't really get the significance of the article, though maybe it's because I've (mostly) got over my Reader mourning phase.
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I think part of the difficulty of knowing when (or when not) to quit is that opportunity lurks even inside failure.

My first startup attempt was a coaching marketplace and community for poker players. My co-founder and I were both successful professional poker players and coaches at the time, but we were young (20ish) and all but clueless about technology. I still think the market opportunity was there, but we hired an agency who outsourced everything, made bad tech choices, took forever, and gave us a fraction of what we originally agreed on. I learned to program myself in order to complete a major component of the site (in flash) which they had just completely botched.

What we ended up with wasn't terrible, but it fell way short of the vision we had, and our marketing efforts fell mostly flat as well. We were able to recruit a few smart people to post and discuss hands here and there, and we wrote a few articles ourselves that showcased the flash hand analysis tool I had built (the best functioning aspect of the site), but we weren't getting any other traffic. There were a few bugs and an assortment of minor ux issues which made the site feel a bit clunky, and people's feedback was pretty unenthusiastic, so all in all we weren't feeling very good about the direction of things. It didn't take very long (maybe six weeks or so) before we threw in the towel.

It wasn't a complete failure--after all, I had learned how to program and discovered that I quite liked it (certainly much more than grinding poker online), and both of us had learned a lot of lessons about business and technology. But there was another lesson that we only discovered with time.

Even after we completely abandoned the site and it went dormant, I would still check google analytics from time to time to see if there was any traffic, and an interesting trend started to emerge: a few of the hand posts and articles we had posted were developing really steady search traffic. One article in particular was generating something like 20 uniques per day.

At that point, we were both just done with the whole endeavor and had no motivation to try to pick it up again, but we realized that if we had kept at it and continued to create more and more quality content, that we probably could have had an seo goldmine on our hands, developed reputations as poker strategy bloggers, and leveraged that into the community we had originally envisioned. Who knows if it would have gone that way, but it seems like there was at least a relatively unobstructed path to success available to us if we had been willing to stick it out and let the long tail kick in.
"Because Facebook tracks you, mentioning Google's tracking is fearmongering bs". I don't follow your argument.

I do, however, follow the like-button-blocker ShareMeNot

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sharemenot/

http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/
> nobody outside of the HN-esque world has any issues with Google.

People say the same thing about non-technical people using Facebook, but it isn't all that truthful. They have legitimate concerns, they're just waiting on the internet-at-large to determine the next best thing before expending any energy on making the switch.
The people are just taking back some of the power they had previously delegated to banks and governments. Our leaders have become too far disconnected from us, they don't even understand that we are used to unprecedented freedom of actions and speech, to levels that sounded crazy before the Internet (some people grew up downloading data from military satellites and servers just for fun, not in any way out of malice - this is something they'll never understand).

Let the hive mind decide what is moral and worthy and what is not. Democracy must evolve and this will never happen as long as the old generation has power to stop it.
In case your account is not yet enabled for inactivity...

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You might want your data to be shared with a trusted friend or family member, or, you might want your account to be deleted entirely. There are many situations that might prevent you from accessing or using your Google account. Whatever the reason, we give you the option of deciding what happens to your data.

Using Inactive Account Manager, you can decide if and when your account is treated as inactive, what happens with your data and who is notified.
As opposed to "real" money like the dozens that have totally crashed over the last few decades?

I'm not planning on buying my groceries with bitcoins any time soon, but saying a four-year-old currency in the first throes of popularity and stress-testing, and using inadequate means for it at that, is "not real money" seems awfully shortsighted.
Given the volatility you may doubt the longevity of bitcoin as a currency, but since you can exchange it for some goods and services it looks like Real Money to me (at least right now).
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Would you please stop baiting people?
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I understand where you're coming from, but I don't think any criticism of Google automatically translates into tacit support of Apple. They [Apple] certainly have their warts, but this isn't about them at all.

For my part, I share many of the frustrations voiced here. I can't stand Google's persistence in ensuring I'm constantly logged in, or Chrome's ever helpful reminder that I should sync it with my Google account.

The business case is obvious, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. In fact, I dislike it enough to no longer use Chrome as my default browser and have moved away from all of their services with the exception of Gmail.

I don't take my privacy as seriously as some here, but it's easily gotten to the point that I no longer feel comfortable trusting Google with the entirety of my online experience. For what it's worth, my bar [for not-trusting-companies] is set relatively high, and Google has absolutely begun clearing it, unfortunately.
PPC + Landing page is typically promoted as a valuable tool for validation around here.

With launchrock + adwords this has become stupid easy.
Yeap, it is like a microcap chinese manufactoring firm, high beta. don't depend on it, get in and out quickly...
A friend of mine who worked for a venture fund expressed the theory that people tend to do startups based on things they like a lot. Since many startup founders are young guys, this leads to an oversupply of startups in things that are young-guy-ish, like music and video games.

The notion was that both VCs and founders should look at broad markets and dig in to find opportunities. As Bezos did back in the day with books. Less fun initially, sure, but taking one's company behind the barn is definitely not fun.
I mean that's a really astute point and raises interesting questions. If someone takes your bitcoin, is that theft? What if a bitcoin denominated contract is breached--did you really suffer economic damages?
Any artist in Asia has been doing this for years. CD is promotion, live performances are the moneymakers.
It does and it doesn't. I see a lot of similarities with the recording industry and the current start up "scene". In the music business, you get noticed by labels for having an awesome mixtape, much like developers getting noticed by VC's for having a popular website/app. Touring clubs makes a couple bucks, probably on par with a "McJob", but more often then not even small acts have a sponsor or some backing so they don't have to work full time and can fully commit to performing. My cousin got popular the same way; performing in small clubs, his record got noticed, hacked is way into a radio Christmas Show which got him noticed again, got a couple acting gigs, a movie roll, and now he's actually pretty big in the Midwest and overseas. Here he is; Tylerhilton.com

"You can want artists not to care about their recording rights as much as you like, but wanting recording rights not to matter is not the same thing as them actually not mattering."

I do agree with that. I want them to be compensated for their creative efforts, which means the artist, not necessarily their label, holds those rights. I wish they didn't matter as much as they did so everyone could enjoy their music much easier, but you cannot have your cake and eat it too I suppose.
Straw man army. Which bitcoin enthusiast said that "winning" requires "replacing our means of commerce" or "changing the world" or even "never having insane volatility"?

I consider myself a bitcoin enthusiast, and I have never made any of those arguments, and I don't consider myself to have "lost." If the value of bitcoin goes to zero and stays there, I don't consider myself to have "lost." It's still an awesome idea that interests me from computer science and economic/political perspectives, and everything we've seen happen in the bitcoin economy is to me a cool proof of concept.

I don't understand why the "anti-bitcoin fanatics" are so vehement in their criticism of bitcoin enthusiasts. You seem to deriving much more excitement from the recent bitcoin price drops than I ever did from its price increases. Honestly, I just think the decentralized transaction log based on proof-of-work is a really cool idea, and the hypothesis that there could be a trustworthy means of making and verifying transactions without a government or central authority controlling the thing being transacted is compelling. I would think that even if I just read the white paper and there had never been a single bitcoin transaction in real life. The fact that there is a high-profile bitcoin economy is just icing on the cake.

The anti-bitcoin fanatics have carefully constructed their position to ensure that they can interpret literally any event as evidence that bitcoin is stupid or doomed or a scam. Is the price rising? That's obviously market irrationality and pure speculation. Is the price falling? That's clearly the market correcting itself. Is a certain exchange doing well and gaining a good reputation? That's an evil monopoly that goes against the decentralized goal of bitcoin. Is a certain exchange experience technical difficulties? Then that's just a bunch of incompetent amateurs, or worse, malicious scammers trying to distort the market. Is there a lack of people actually buying useful things with bitcoin? That's clear evidence that there is no real bitcoin economy. Is a business supporting bitcoin payments? Well that's still crap, since they're tying the price to the USD exchange price, or using credit cards, or the business owner is just some bitcoin shill, etc.
This is nothing: you should see the wizardry in their in-gmail application.
I'd be interested in hearing your case for Bitcoin being fundamentally flawed. Honestly, I can only guess what you mean. Is is because it is deflationary? Is it because there are more speculators in the market than actual users? Is there some other, technical flaw, perhaps?
Yeah that quote drives me crazy. LinkedIn already has those news stories at the top of our home pages--I have shared a couple but I have never seen anyone engage in mine nor others' posts. Unless LinkedIn plans to create a forum for news while utilizing Pulse, I don't get that statement from Pulse. But again, they'd be losing to already-popular forums.

More than anything, I just hope LinkedIn doesn't shut Pulse down. It would be a huge loss to many of Pulse's loyal users.
They implied they might take some servers down to add more to their cluster.