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I found a killer internship last year. Here is what did and didn't work:

Didn't work: reading techcrunch and HN waiting for a great startup to drift by. I reached out to a few of the companies that were big on HN and TC, but at that time (because they were on TC and HN) they were swamped with emails and usually at a critical stage in the companies growth. Thus, wasn't a great time to try and chat.

Beyond that, I couldn't get a great feel for the companies (the people)from their sites alone. And this is just as important as the idea, if not more.

Worked: Talking to people who you know in SF and in the startup world. I spoke with a friend of mine at a startup - he introduced me to other friends. who introduced me to other friends. and before you know it I had a dozen phone calls lined up. I think I was able to get passed along for a few reasons:
-I had a good short blurb on myself that folks could forward along. It showed that I was hungry.
-I had a personal website so that people could read about what I was up to.
-I knew what size company I wanted and was flexible with pay.

Also worked: talking to recruiters at VC firms and incubators. They have tons of contacts and know great places to look.

If you have ones in mind, then sure. reach out. I found that people are surprisingly friendly to young folks who want to learn.
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"I've got an iPad that I've been testing... with our infrastructure."
Apple has a cross licensing agreement with MS, done at the time of Steve Jobs.
Unfortunately the cited paper is terrible science which was written in ignorance of how common Bitcoin software works.

They basically declared any coin "horded" if it was currently assigned to an address which had never spent. But the default behavior of the reference client is to always send your change to a never used address, which will only ever be spent from once. Additional, the common and strongly recommended pro-privacy behavior is to use a new address per transaction, and businesses need to do that to sort out which payment is which.

So it was actually surprising that the figure was as low as it was... but what it wasn't measuring was "hording".
Android is not fully open source nor are critical components of mobile firmware including base band and graphics code.
This reminds me of when developers were trying to create public transport related apps for Australia (about 4 years ago) and were told that using the timetable information would be copyright infringement [1].

I'm pretty sure it was worked out in the end as apps are now available with that info, but it seemed absolutely ridiculous at the time that public information, for a public service wasn't in the public domain.

[1]: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/05/1235842537210.html
By commute do you mean a casual cycle down the sidewalk? Commuting is dangerous and people get killed everyday. wonder how well this would work with a head on into a pole or when being hit by a car. I don't know what you see, but I see a bloody mess. The only way this contraption will work is ideal circumstances, which would be a blacktop with no poles, rocks, sharp objects, cars or any real danger for that matter. If you ride on something like this then go for it. I think it's dumb.
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I use http://www.virtualpostmail.com/ as my "pointer". It was very helpful when I was traveling around for a year with no permanent residence. As an added bonus, they scan my mail (on request) and make it available on a web site, also downloadable as pdf.

It's not free, of course, but I'm on their smallest $10/month plan and generally don't get anywhere near the limits there.
This reminds me. I once did work for this guy in Chicago. This guy was responsible for leading a team that converted all government computers in the city from Windows NT to 2000. The man does not know how to program, create websites, remove viruses, configure routers, build computers, or configure networks. I would not trust him with Ikea furniture! He was also a terrible manager, never knew what he wanted to see, mainly because he simply did not know what was possible. And yet, the city paid him a ton of money to do IT. In case you are wondering, the transition project took 5 times longer then budgeted for, surprise, surprise...
You can go to any of the major bitcoin markets and sell thousands of dollars of coins while hardly moving the price for USD.

E.g. on MTGOX right now the best bid is $271 and a market order to sell 100 bitcoins right now would net 27056.5448 USD and would take the last price down to 270.1650 USD, resulting in an average price of 270.5654 USD/BTC.

Selling 1000 BTC would result in an average price of $266.9482.

Its certainly not the most liquid thing and getting funds to and from exchanges (or buying other things) isn't as available as one would hope, but it's not highly illiquid by any means. There are good markets for other major currencies too, though none are quite as liquid as the USD ones.
It gets worse - the UI team lead had an associate's degree in Art & Web Design from a community college, and a bachelor's in Zoology. [1] Normally, I would say credentials generally don't matter - but combined with the code quality, the argument writes itself.

I started looking him up after seeing this mention (and the awful code below). [2]

1. http://www.linkedin.com/in/mkayan

2. https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace/blob/mas...
Wrong, here's the list. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070611-microsoft-andro...
I actually do suspect that's what's happening, yes.
Wasn't aware of that; thanks!
Lithium is everywhere, but the cost to extract from seawater and such is enormous since it is very low concentration. Efficient production is limited to naturally occurring concentrations. What I've read is lithium being closer to 2-3% of the total cost of the battery. With increased demand and limited production this could increase.

Batteries are not falling in cost as predicted: "Though the projected prices are lower than current prices, they fall substantially short of the expectations which were perpetuated, notably, by Tesla CEO Elon Musk."

Tesla is buying 75% of all cylindrical li-ion batteries and to reach even 1% of global marketshare they'll need 30x more. "Cell supply is crippling Tesla’s ambitious effort to expand its global reach."

“One of the bigger challenges for us is going to be lithium-ion cell production,” Mr. Musk said at Teslive. “We need a lot of batteries.”

Whatever the merits of fuel cells, there's no way batteries won't be a limiting growth factor for battery powered vehicles.
For your web design, which is part of marketing - namely perception and eye-grabbery - there's too much white space. Too much white space, to me, equals yawn.

I'd make the starfield extend further down the page, past the first screenshot. Then I would somehow frame the other sections of the page. Maybe by adding an interior border or some sort of texture.

Marketing is a cousin of visual design.
I would add to your list of reasons why Fourier Transforms are awesome.

By complete coincidence, Bragg's law, used to do everything from X-Ray Diffraction to particle scattering, just happens to be a fourier transform. Every time we bombard a tiny thing with light or radiation in order to understand the structure, what we literally get out of it is emission dots that correspond to the periodicity of the lattice -- literally the 2D fourier transform of the scattering cross section. When I heard that in Quantum III, it blew my mind. It's straight out of quantum scattering theory.
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There are actually some independent people who test various drugs on Silk Road. Obviously they could be wrong/rigged, but it seems like a far better step than buying anywhere else:

The LSD Avengers are a group of individuals that perform trip, reagent, and lab tests on LSD that is found on the Silk Road in order to verify the legitimacy of the product and to weed out scammers. Their primary goal is to aide individuals in easily finding the holy grail of psychedelics.
I agree. It's all about the trends. But that's what they came to see. So give the public what they requested.
So you're saying that the old PageRank and hubs/authorities algos are completely irrelevant these days? Its all simply based upon user behavior?
I'd really love to make transactions in bitcoin in Seattle, but haven't had the opportunity. I check once or twice a month...

<checks>

Aha! A local food truck is now accepting BTC. Will have to visit when next they come through the neighborhood.

http://www.coindesk.com/now-accepting-bitcoin-seattle-based-...
Well, technically someone did think of this before... http://www.bugshark.com/
Poll: How many Bitcoin do you own?
Please upvote if you think this is interesting so that more people respond.
90-99.999
80-89.999
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60-69.999
50-59.999
40-49.999
30-39.999
20-29.999
10-19.999
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Not up on their site yet but coming next month are a set of analog synth components from Korg, including 2 oscillators, an MS-20 style LPF, a step sequencer and multiples/combinators for $150ish.
They don't have a dog in that fight because you specifically chose the fight to make that true. If the same person ran on a different platform that argued for, say, boycotting or tariffing Chinese green energy products in order to build up local industries, the Chinese would care but the NSA would not.
Your question has several aspects to it. Get funded where? in SV? or in the US generally?

Cambridge, MA is an option - there is a great ecosystem here. Although my understanding is that east coast investors are more "conservative" than west coast early-stage investors and VCs.
Needs an option for 0. Not everybody owns bitcoin.
But if it works that bad on IE9, how is it going to work on IE8?
Volume might be lower in BTC, but it's going up in pretty much any other currency, and since prices are mostly pegged to non-BTC currency, it makes sense that BTC transaction volume drops as the currency appreciates (you can buy goods using less BTC).

Also, while big % changes makes people shout bubble, they clearly are not looking at BTC in the same way early adopters and speculators are. BTC is not stock (which can look like a bubble if its up 100% in short period of time) it is closer to a newer better version of gold that only 0.00001% of the population owns. People excited about BTC are thinking about what happens if 1% of the population owned BTCs.

Bitcoin might fail (sometimes better technologies do), but it is clearly a big improvement over current currencies and that's pretty exciting.
If given a choice between building a platform or API with equal likelihood of success--go with the platform every time. APIs sit in the background and are rarely the star. Brands have value, and it's very hard to build a brand if you are just the glue.
Except that the first hospital had no guarantee that there would be no consequences, which completely refutes your point.
Please delete this. This is in poor taste.
The Blockbuster near me in Sydney just closed down and on the last day had all DVDs on sale for $2. They still had loads of stock left at the end of the day...
0. I had one at some point a few years aback but I deleted the miner and the wallet along with it.
My son is now ~7. The hardest part was when he was between 3 - 5 years old. His language hadn't developed at the time, and finding out what exactly was bothering him was really hard. He is moderately autistic.

Yeah its hard to be the parent of an autistic child. Eventually one learns to increase patience and fortitude.
Nice findings!

By the way, try the reverse sequence (0.21 .. 0.01). I find it much more calmed and the LHS graph looks quite beautiful
This is very true.

I remember the days when poorly-built flash websites were the norm; they may have sucked from a usability standpoint, but they sure had the edge in originality!
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0 - But I am thinking of buying.
where are you located? tap into the school ecosystem (e,g MIT, Harvard - I am east coast based) and build a network, be curious, ask questions.

there are some online resources but they are not well curated.

You can intern with me if you like :)
> If they had been wearing this silly contraption then many of them would not still be riding today.

What are you basing that on? Did you actually look at the product's website? Do you have some reason for thinking the product doesn't work as claimed?
0 - But I am thinking of mining.
0 - No way, it's a bubble.
Watch the video again.

Go to 00:38, and assume that the dummy was hit by a lorry with flat face. The lorry would make a direct impact on the back of the head, before the helmet inflates.

Go to 03:55, and assume that the cyclist had hit a wall. This time too, the cyclist's head would hit the wall.

I wouldn't buy this helmet.
Negative bitcoin - I am in Bitcoin debt to a Bitcoin loan shark. :(
[2] is terrifying.
The industry moved to advertising because it works.

That's really overly simplistic. It's a complex system and to assume that its the best system (as Mike Hearn stated) is to ignore the fact that there are competing interests at work and the ones who value privacy have significantly less clout than the ones that don't.

PayPal are not a monopoly, by the way.

That's just wordplay. Paypal has not faced significant competitive pressure for over a decade, if ever.
Sorry, it has one now. For some reason it was lost when i created the poll.
Kickraux version of jay-z tom ford... You gotta hear it!

https://m.soundcloud.com/trapsounds/tom-ford-remix-kickraux
What about negative amounts? It's possible... Sometimes.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/14260/negative-ba...
Well, since we already knew the number of shares, the comment made little sense to me.
Isn't the source a detailed and convincing report claiming that he died of Polonium poisoning?

Sure the comment doesn't have further facts, just a broad gesture to the context. But hey, when a situation has been established, you comment on it.
It really doesn't matter what it is. I hardly ever use it. The only reason to charge it every month is to keep the battery from going bad.

All that, and you're not even going to say whether you looked at the Hövding website?
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Would an undercover cop say "fuck the police!" when talking to the people he was angling to bust? Of course he would.
A population so small, making so much noise... :)
> Toyota (and others) have been touting fuel cells for well over a decade.

The cost of fuel cells has decreased to 5% of what it was then, and at least three manufacturers are coming out with limited production fuel cells cars. Just because it took 50 years to get ready doesn't mean it isn't ready.

Musk's point is basically that the energy density of fuel cells is worse than batteries. That's true, but they can be refueled instead of mechanically swapped. He says the current total cost of the system is higher than batteries. That's true, but Toyota is halving the cost every 5 years as they ramp up production, where battery cost is falling maybe 10% in that time.
Your FB and Twitter logins are both busted!
The first since it's is the new bit of information. The valuation is then implied since the number of shares is already known.
> If a grocery store harms you in an illegal way you they can be punished by the force of the state in a variety of ways.

Hypothetically. If you have enough money. And enough evidence. Good luck with that. I'd rather take my chances in SR's dispute resolution center...
Twitter shares priced at $26 each
Depends how well you know your dealer.
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That isn't the same. You pay people to break your site for you, this bounty program is paying people to find vulnerbilities in commonly used web software like Apache and whatnot. Two completely different things in my opinion.

There is a better service than the one you posted from Australia called Bugcrowd: http://bugcrowd.com - a much better executed implementation of the idea, but still not offering money to people.
On Hacker News for at least a year, and have yet to research ANYTHING about bitcoin *runs.
I assume this would inflate even upon a gentle fall.
well my roommate has made this also video chat over webRTC

check http://easymeeting.us/hello

hello is the room name which you could setup by accessing it
IE6 opens up some painful wounds for me. It was a dark dark time for the web. Still hurts thinking back to the use of transparent PNG's and all the issues to get them to work!
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You want something un-formulaic? My favorite: bible.ca
I've spent quite a bit of time working with easypost's API. If you have to ship anything, they've got a great platform and customer support.
Ask HN: Received A Cease and Desist for my App - Am I Infringing?
I recently published an app in the Windows 8 App Store, an unofficial client for the PlentyOfFish dating website. The app is called ManyFish and clearly states in the app description: "Requires a PlentyOfFish account. PlentyOfFish℠ services are operated by Plentyoffish Media Inc. This app and its creators are NOT affiliated with Plentyoffish Media Inc."

I received this email from PlentyOfFish at my app's support email address. Am I really infringing PlentyOfFish's trademarks here? What should I do? The full email was too large to post here so you can read it instead on PasteBin: http://pastebin.com/QTC7X9MR

Would love to hear people's opinions.
0, because I just sold (doubled up on a single bitcoin). Will buy in at the next trough.
Exactly! Well said austenallred.

Most startups fail because they aren’t hitting their target growth rate, not because they failed to build a product that works.

You have to fight to grow. Evaluate how much time you spent building your product, and then invest just as much time in growth-related activities.
I am not an expert on the various points of the debate- I only know it exists. You can Duck Duck Go for "gpl derivative work definition" and find some references to this debate. Perhaps someone else has a specific answer for your question, sorry.
Just a display bug. The actual balance is not negative.
Mine are all stuck in MtGox's clutch, I've just about tripled my current investment. I hope it doesn't crash before they give it up.
What do you hope to achieve with this comment? What good could possibly come from it?

Instead of attempting to shame while pointing fingers, say something constructive or leave the issue alone.

I agree with 'danielna, your comment is in really poor taste.
That's... not unlikely. Like I said (or should have said) -- I haven't done any testing in the least, nor am I even at what I'd call an alpha version.

That said, I'm seeing people log in successfully. What sort of errors are you getting?

Mind shooting me an email on it? I'll make it up to you, somehow.
A more exponential graph probably would have been better.
No, it's not too formulaic. These "formulas" are very helpful to average web users because they are instantly able to understand a given website because it's following the norms.

Are car designs too formulaic? After all, they all have steering wheels and pedals. They all share characteristics so as to allow any driver to immediately know how to operate the vehicle without having to re-learn every component for every new car. The same is true for websites.

In fact, we've finally gotten to the point of understanding this, thanks to usability research, please don't try to reverse the trend.
13 people with 100+ bitcoin? Unfortunately I think this is another example of HN polls becoming completely unreliable.
Every game after MW1 from the not really Infinity Ward "Infinity Ward" has been a let down. Of course, I've preordered (PC) every one of the COD games since MW1 in hopes of reliving it's awesome 32-player dedicated slugfest. Based on the user reviews on GameSpot 4.4/10 (http://www.gamespot.com/call-of-duty-ghosts/reviews/) on metacritic 1.9/10 (http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/call-of-duty-ghosts/user-r...), it's not looking very good, and I really think I'm not going to pre-order from EA any more.
Really? You're going to trot out the age-old HN aversion to loss-making? It's time for HNers to learn that ambitious companies that know how to invest resources SHOULD be making losses. IPOs are fundraising events. The capital is expected to be invested into the business to drive further growth. When companies lose the ability to invest at acceptable returns, then you might see them shift the balance to profit-making.
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Agreed. I'm a big fan of EasyPost.
> What’s going on? We can’t be sure, but I think that the shuttering of Silk Road has led to a meaningful decline in Bitcoin transactions.

We can especially not be sure when we look at the graph of transactions per day and see nothing special on October 2nd... Good job reading patterns into noise there.
Not to be an ass or anything, but isn't there some irony in "Microlancer" criticizing orignality in marketing site design while his designer site epitomizes the currently very trendy flat style? Complete with high contrast colors and a scrollspy'd comments section.

Again, not trying to be an ass. Actually I'd argue that true originality is damn near impossible to achieve, given that our ideas don't usually spring forth, fully clothed from Zeus's forehead.
Or, just wait until your SaaS is cutoff by the company firewall, something done at large companies with products like DropBox, Google Docs, Evernote, etc...
You say "formulaic" like it's a bad thing!

Formulaic --> Follows well-understood conventions --> Easy to make sense of --> Gets the message across better --> More sign-ups --> Profit --> Food on the table --> My kids grow up strong and healthy --> I'm more likely to propagate my genes

So I'll take formulaic every time.
This: "There’s little difference in my productivity in a 80 or 40 hour work week."
Honored to be considered for this.. great group of leaders!
It doesn't really matter. As a web-designer your job is not to invent a new aesthetic but to communicate a companys message in whatever way is most beneficial to that specific customer whether thats flat, 3d, contemporary, ugly, typographic and so on.

Spend some years doing this and you can follow any trend.

You are like a carpenter and 98% of you will stay carpenters, which is great as long as there is a need for carpenters.

But my advice would be this.

Learn design, learn to mimic, learn to be original. But don't be an artist for other peoples money unless they pay you to.

Instead on the side build a product, a company, a service a website, an experimental design lab and go crazy. And if you have the time learn to code. In fact as soon as your skills are descent learn to code.