skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interned at a 'Techstars' startup last summer. It was a great experience (I'm also heading to college next year).

My advice would be to contact 5-10 startups which you'd love to work for (a nice email with the stuff you've made and why you want to work there).

Lastly, try to schedule a lunch with the founders before you commit to an internship, it really helps both parties.
I agree. As a Norwegian who have never considered voting for them, I have to say they are misunderstood. I think it all started when the Swedes thought they were similar to the Swedish "SD" party. That caused a lot of attention in the Norwegian and Swedish press that unfortunately were picked up by other countries as well.
I must agree. Some definite things to consider in today's world! Great post - keep them coming!
I'm not going to answer your question, as I think you've got the majority of the items covered, and you probably don't need more 'features', rather a focus on excellent execution of a small set at first, and then see what your users need.

However, and please take this with a grain of salt because I don't know your business, my bank has separate apps for my bank accounts and my investment accounts. This means I open one app, do something with it (often transfer to my other account), then open another app and do whatever I wanted to do there.

I think banks think we structure our lives similar to their corporate structure, which is completely incorrect.
Personally, I don't want to look at my homescreen and see three different apps from one brand, all using a very similar logo, try to guess which app I need for what task, and then jump back and forth between apps.

What I DO want, is a nice clean app that does one thing very well. If I have both a banking and an investment account, I want it to do two things very well, but those two things don't need to be different apps, just an extension of the first app.

I've been building a very modular app in Angular.js and am really starting to appreciate how we can extend app functionality with modules, rather than writing big honking apps for each feature.

App discovery doesn't need to mean 'app store', it could be a group of plugins for your app.
Hope that helps.
group hug
I got the invite some two weeks ago. The acceptance of my sloppy application already lead me to believe they were opening up the site pretty soon. Just working through the backlog.
It's not really about impact, but about context. If someone writes something that turns out to be obviously wrong, given the time-period, you could excuse them -- quite a few great physicists come to mind. Without that information, you might mistake them for an idiot. Or it can make a work even more impressive given the limited knowledge of that time-period.

Dates can also help when someone is talking about a technology which might have iterated past the point that their article is even relevant.

Language is very much context-dependent. Providing less context usually only helps misunderstandings.
But now it can go on your resume!
Mozilla Persona is basically this but better thought out. There is a good talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJff23UdNAI
To elaborate on the other reply, Haskell actually takes a very in-depth and principled approach to managing state. State is necessary for many applications, so rather than eschew it entirely, the idea is to isolate it and make it as explicit as possible. Frequently in complex stateful applications this is done by use of the State monad, with lenses to handle mutation of that state. There's a lot of theory behind it, but in practice it ends up being pretty similar in difficulty level to managing state in more popular languages, just a hell of a lot safer.
It's a UI troll, really.
Here's the story and discussion from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135206

Vinod Khosla, a billionaire investor, is trying to keep Martins Beach access private.
Maybe 1/10 of 1%? The rest of us are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs.

We pass on; and some day we come, at the end of a very dull life, to reflect that our romance has been a pallid thing of a marriage or two, a satin rosette kept in a safe-deposit drawer, and a lifelong feud with a steam radiator.
Thank you for that link.

#leaves to check some old code

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#comes back

Apparently my younger self knew what he was doing. ( The conversion is done correctly :shocked: )
My point was on the focus on getting rich or die trying.

I have absolutely no problem with big salaries for people with a balanced mindset and life. But this combination is a rare thing in technology. Big salaries most usually require being a workaholic.
As a customer, yes, they can be (are) great. I have close to 1,000 orders in seven years, tens of thousands of dollars.

Yet I sold a camera lens on Marketplace. Perhaps the tenth thing I'd sold. I was willing to be patient to get a better price. Nine items sold, no problem.

This one arrived three days after the "expected delivery date". The buyer complained, and my Marketplace account was canceled. I could appeal. I pointed to history, inclement weather. Said I'd be willing to be flagged "Fulfilled By Amazon-only", if that was possible.

"After review, our decision stands and you will remain permanently disqualified from using Amazon Marketplace."
Huge swath of GCHQ mass surveillance is illegal, says top lawyer
Short answer: Ruby/Python for B2C startup, Java for B2B / large company.

This is easy to quantify just by looking at the jobs posted on AngelList.
Something like https://www.dermio.com/?
Record your startup pitch and allow your audience to annotate it in real-time
Wait is there custom domain support? If so I'm in! I can't seem to find info anywhere.
I concur with this assessment. There are people outside of silicon valley who care about silicon valley. Much like there are a ton of people who watch reality tv and think that it's real. Since this is HN there are probably a larger then average number of readers who would fall into this camp.

But for the most part. Nobody outside of that region cares. I'm on the east coast, SV isn't in the news, it's not a concern, nobody here that I am aware of here can be bothered to care what happens.
Isn't https://coderwall.com/ the medium's counterpart for programmers? I don't use either, just throwing it out there.
Mistakes Programmers Make when Starting in Machine Learning
Sounds like we need an 'Internet' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)
It's pretty limited (e.g., no syntax highlighting) and if you're not careful it will do things like change double quotes (U+0022) to curly quotes (e.g., U+201C and U+201D).
Why you can’t sign up for my SaaS app
>As a blind person the apple TV is the only accessible set top box.

OK, I'm curious. As a blind person, how much value do you get from watching TV? Do you just listen to the audio? What do you (for lack of a better term) watch? It seems like scripted shows typically have a lot of content that is only shown, not said; and most other content such as news and sports would be easy to get on the radio, which would seem preferable.

Care to enlighten me?
Exactly. That's why I think the threat of having to shoulder the fraud risk will encourage people to upgrade. Not only is it an additional cost, it's an UNKNOWN cost, which is quite scary.
The Minecraft way: charge right from the start, even from early beta.
That sounds more profitable (and safer).
Links to essays in "Best Software Writing I" (2005)
Orlando's Coming-of-Age Tale: the City's Technology Industry
The nice thing with Haskell is that it can be extremely compact. The problem with Haskell is that it can be extremely compact.
this exists as a new protocol for app developers to build on, see: https://tent.io
This is, honestly, a pretty silly article since it is cherry picking certain bad apples and setting it against the backdrop of the bus protests in San Francisco (mostly the last round of gentrification protesting against this round of gentrification). Yes, SF's housing market is crap, which is a combination of absurd laws and regulations plus demand. Tech workers wanting to live there are helping on the demand side, but that's about it.

As for disruptive industries, cherrypicking AirBnb and Uber isn't representative of the vast majority of the industry. Airbnb enables about 1/2 of its users to illegally sublet their apartments in cities like NYC. And its annoying a lot of the folks out here. But does that make other tech companies bad? Uber, from various anecdotal insider reports, seems like a pretty shady company that tried to operate illegally in multiple cities but is being reigned in. Does that make other tech companies bad? King.com got absurd trademarks for their game designed to extract money from unsuspecting players and is now using those trademarks to inhibit competition. But does that make other tech companies bad? Yes, Apple price fixed the whole book publishing industry and Google bought and killed off multiple products people liked and Adobe costs too much and all three of them conspired to keep tech wages down. And Facebook is an immense privacy-gobbling behemoth that won't let you install their Android app unless you let them read your SMS messages. But does that make ALL other tech companies bad?

Realistically, it's a combination of the fact that some companies are now big enough to actually throw their weight around money/size wise the way other industries do -- Industries that get kickbacks, govt handouts, etc on things like corn and oil that most of America hates -- and the fact that the bad actors are getting a decent amount of press for their bad actions. But that doesn't make all tech companies bad. Nor does it make the actors engaging in these actions all bad. And it certainly doesn't make the average wage earner at a company working for a living worthy of harassment.
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The word "fuck" evolved past "sexual acts and bodily functions" _centuries_ ago. Do you have the same objection of "screwing off"? I anticipate you claiming that you have objections to the phrase, but do you have the same magnitude of objections? Or is one worse than the other?

Second hand smoke smells. That is an actual reason to not blow smoke into somebodies face, it isn't just tradition.

Putting weird political rants into your documentation would presumably not serve a purpose. The word fuck, despite your disapproval of it, has versatile meaning and can be used in a variety of ways in general speech. If you want a political equivalent, it would be like referencing luddism in documentation. Luddism, originally referring to a specific political movement, has long since transcended its literal connotations. It would not be considered particularly bizarre to use the word "luddism" or "Luddite" in documentation.

On the ridiculous notion of "unnecessary": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM#t=105
Mongo on Hadoop
But if Apple gets enough users and developers on its console, people will design high quality games for it even if the best graphics can be found elsewhere; most of what makes a game fundamentally good is orthogonal or even opposed to graphics quality. Like the Wii, but potentially more so due to more users and more developers.

...theoretically. Apple TV is currently a niche product, the mass popularity currently only exists on mobile devices, and adoption of a new TV device won't be instant. But if Apple does come up with a truly compelling story for video content, users will follow.
Chrome + Lego: You can build whatever you like
Really? You think people elsewhere in the USA care about the Echo Chamber's opinions of itself? If anything tech companies are public enemy no. 2 (no. 1 being the NSA) because they don't respect users' privacy.

If Silicon Valley was located anywhere else in the USA and not in the San Francicso Bay Area would things ever have gotten this bad? How much of the problem can be blamed on the tech industry and how much of it can be blamed on the area's notorious politics (beg Twitter to stay within city limits, invest 10 billion dollars for the high speed rail link to downtown San Francisco, refuse to build more housing to meet demands, complain about tax paying tech workers forcing the poor out of the area).
I don't know about him but I have 'kj' mapped to <Esc>. I highly recommend it. (or any variation around it)
When I checked out Medium, they had no Markdown support and very limited formatting options. Not good for code examples. Also no option to use your own domain.

Also I think that the copyright is (better) protected on Svbtle. All in all it seems like a better option to me.
I'm not a Pythonista, but AIUI the example code will still follow redirects, so internal pokes can still be made.
This is a funny example of how people tend to see what they want to see.
I also read that and thought "Oh, they know how my brain works? Seems a bit presumptuous..."

I thought the next section of copy was even more off-putting. "It cares about your identity." Because your name appears on the article and you can use your own domain and avatar. How is that differentiated from any platform that allegedly doesn't care about your identity?

Writers shouldn’t be defined by the brands of their publishers...

And yet, every svtble blog I've seen is very clearly a svtble page first, text content second, and any consideration for personal identity a distant third. I don't really have an issue with that but why feature such a ridiculous claim?
Ok, lets be generous and assume all 45,199 /r/dogecoin subscribers tip daily, and there are 2 transactions for every tip. Each subscriber would need to tip an average of:

$427,079,860 / 2 / 45,199 = $4724.44

Not likely, IMHO, even if each tip required 10 or 100 transactions.

Most tips seem to be less than a dollar. http://www.reddit.com/user/dogetipbot

It just doesn't add up. Where else is Dogecoin being used?

EDIT: some actual numbers are available here http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1wd49h/huge_udoget...

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On January 26th:

- 7,258 inbox messages were read by dogetipbot (even more were sent and were still unread at the time -- backlog).

- 4,565 tips were given.

- 572 new users registered for their first time.

- 359 shibes withdrew some dogecoins

- 743 shibes still kept sending +info requests even though i turned them off. ;)

- 1,063,466.73376456 dogecoins were tipped.

---

1,063,466.73376456 dogecoins = $1488.85 USD (using current exchange rate of 1 doge =US$0.0014)

There you have it. ~$1500 worth of Dogecoin was tipped on the /r/dogecoin subreddit on Jan 26, while $240M worth of Dogecoin transactions took place.
What if, instead, you limited yourself to some number of the most common English words?
<random internet commentator tripe>This could be the basis of a future tricorder or Star Trek-like sensor array. Three ultra-sensitive clocks in an array should be able to infer mass and motion both for the unit and objects in the local area indirectly. Relativistic effects are minuscule, but not non-existent. Extremely-tuned clocks would have some pretty cool capabilities.</random internet commentator tripe>
"Operating system" is a pretty technical and well defined term, you just might not be old enough to know it. :) An operating system is the core that is responsible for operating the underlying hardware of a computing device, upon which everything else is built. If you aren't concerning yourself with device drivers and task scheduling, you aren't building an operating system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
looks like they just use your linkedin data, so it's the same as anyone else with your linkedin data.
Apple has half a billion users with active credit cards.
Show HN: New Features – Beta + Ideas
Take a look at Steve Gibson's SQRL system (pronounced “squirrel”)
SQRL = Secure Quick Reliable Login
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

Illustrated guide here - http://www.sqrl.pl
The biggest issue is that the stats are skewed by commercial aviation. When you remove that, it's relatively risky per passenger-mile.

Small planes are certainly not safer than driving. I'm a private pilot and i've studied it at length (and I love flying).

I don't have time to braindump my research, as it's slightly hard to compare fatalities per passenger mile in autos vs per flight hour with light non-commercial aviation. It's about 100,000 hours per 1.9 fatalities which includes commercial travel. It's SIGNIFICANTLY higher in small planes.

The way I summarize it to people in casual conversation is: Flying a Cessna is safer than riding a motorcycle but more dangerous than driving a car.
That's the next thing I get to explore and I'll definitely be asking for plenty of advice. One thing I plan to do is go out and talk to people who love exploring new restaurants. Bloggers, critics, chefs and just people who generally love food. I'm also thinking about different features that could help provide value while the site is still small, such as custom lists. But mostly, I expect it will be a lot of trial and error.
RaZberry. You can see the (hacked-together) code in: https://github.com/glenmurphy/route/blob/master/examples/cam...
>Or you can keep aiming for 6-figure salaries with a sports car. And a bottle of anti-depressants.

Excuse me, I want everyone to have six figures and a sports car. Yes, I realize this is not ecologically feasible, but other than that I don't see anything inherently wrong with being quite comfortable, as long as you do so in a basically egalitarian society.
No, but for many use cases it's secure enough. Especially when you consider the tokens are short-lived and single-use
IOS in the car; 7.0.3
Being a developer is not about how talented you are
It's effectively the same thing, except that the set of people at the top of the pyramid is larger. It's still most lucrative for the creators, it's just also highly rewarding for the earliest adopters.
The Pebble Steel review: Wearables 2.0 arrive
Sony’s new genome analysis company is not playing catch-up with Calico
They're pretty different actually. Medium posts feel like posting on Medium, Svtble feels like my blog and my voice. You can't design or monetize it, but that's not my goal when writing - it's about my words. Svtble is all about my words, Medium is all about Medium.

I always write on Svtble (because it's better and it's mine) and sometimes post on it later as a Medium post so I can submit to collections. But they are NOT one in the same, not at all.
We're talking about TechCrunch here, they're the ultimate SV echo chamber known for losing their mind over startups like Color and Hipster.com without even knowing what those startups did before they launched (btw, both startups are now dead). They're about as journalistic as reality tv is documentary.
We've been doing password-less entry for years over SSH with certificates. You generate a key, share the public parts and do some magic with your private parts (ahem) and it all works.

What I think the OP is looking for is a similar pattern for the web and browsers. Is there no way we could use the FileAPI to check for a keyfile?

http://caniuse.com/fileapi
The closest I have ever encountered to people being actually bothered by swearing is people who are bothered by children swearing. Teachers that are shocked that children casually use profanity in daily conversations between each other, and the like. Even then though, they aren't actually bothered by the word, but rather by the notion of a child using it.

I would be disciplined as a child for saying that something was stupid or dumb, but it's not like those words bothered my parents. As an adult, when I talk to them I casually use profanity in a variety of cases, and so do they.

Of course if I used profanity directed at them in an insulting manner, they would be upset (as would most people), but that is a reaction to an insult, not the words that were used for the insult.
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I have 2 Apple TV devices and have loved the product in general. { Disclaimer - I am far from being an apple fan boy }

Couple of things that require fixes.

- Content:
Frankly the current content is pretty lame. ABC has a sheepish presence catering to its prime TV shows. ESPN seems to use this as a vehicle for ESPN3.

- Itunes:
I had such a bad experience with itunes movie rentals over the weekend. Utterly bad streaming/buffering experience. Unacceptable.

- Radio:
Come on .... Do you know they have internet radio support?

-Keyboard:
Searching is such a pain. Try using the search on the youtube app.

- Remote:
The remote interferes with your Bluetooth receiver on your mac book.

- lack of local storage
I honestly find it hard to know if your comment is ironic or not.
Top tax haven got more investment in 2013 than India and Brazil: U.N
These sites/articles that try to solve authentication by getting rid of passwords seem to keep forgetting something -- you still need a password/authentication to something else.

If I sign on w/ Facebook/Google, they still have to authenticate me with a password.

If I have a token emailed to me, I still have to access my email with a password.

If I have a token sent to me via text, I may still have to unlock my phone with a password -- and I have to have the phone on me.

There are only three ways, that I can think of, to authenticate someone:

1) a password (or some other secret)

2) a token stored as a cookie or some other file on your computer/device

3) a token sent to/stored on a personal device.

Most products already implement #1 and #2. They will look for a token, and if not present, will prompt for a password. In the case of third-party authentication (Facebook/Google/email), this authentication is still done via a token, and if not present, will prompt for password -- it's basically pass-through authentication. I don't think anything can be done to revolutionize either of these.

That really only leaves us with #3. Texting a token to a phone works and prevents having to remember a password (or use an unsafe password), but it's still inconvenient.

Has someone tried creating another device that serves as a "key" and connects to your device via USB/bluetooth that can be used for authentication purposes?

This is about the only thing I can think of that would be a step in the right direction, but even then, there are probably still a handful of reasons why that would be problematic.
To put things in context. The oil industry is producing 20% of the total GDP of Norway and 50% of all exports. It's very important and it will be painful when it ends, but Norway will not be much worse than other European countries when the oil runs out.
Ah, I'm glad I stumbled upon this. I've seen this exact problem on my device and didn't know what was triggering it. I've been running a widget to track barometric changes, specifically SyPressure, and since I installed it, at least 3 times I've seen the orientation sensor stop working. I hadn't made the correlation since I was in other applications when it would fail.
It's a brainfuck program - you can run it in your web browser at http://www.iamcal.com/misc/bf_debug/
Growth Hacking: The 30-Day Challenge
Ah, when I saw the title I imagined a homeless hacker who wrote code in exchange for food. That would've been a really interesting article :)
Yep, z-wave locks have keypads - it's what I have (Yale Real Living), and is a great solution. The problem I was referring to was the new class of Bluetooth-based locks that rely on your phone, but don't have keypads (Lockitron, Kwikset).

The lock does have some lag in it, but I just try to keep it awake by pinging it, and rely on early detection of the beacon to get the request in early. Definitely not a great solution though, and I'd love to find something faster.