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I hope you are not put off by the title. But I want you to offer me for a few weeks.

Do you know of a place where I can work as an intern this summer? Preferably your own startup.

I can start as soon as July 14 and would like to end in mid October as the latest.

I study math at Magdeburg University, Germany. Currently I live in Ankara, Turkey, for a semester abroad. I would not mind travelling around the world for the internship.

I have strong background in mathematical optimization and computational aspects of math. I have also picked up stochastic and did recently formalize my interest in economics and finance. The Germany study system is a bit strange - basically you can regard my as a graduate student.

My university requires me to write a seminar paper ('Studienarbeit') about my internship. So my field of work has to be related to math - or even better to optimization.

Do you think you can offer me the opportunity to research in a way that matters to your company and can be related to my study of mathematics?

Compensation would be nice. I'd especially appreciate an interesting field of work and a place to sleep.

Any other hints would be welcome as well. If you need more details - just ask. Thank you.

Disqus is looking for interns. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158091

P.S. I hope I got all the connotations right.

P.P.S. I can program and prefer functional languages. I like Python as well. I can adapt nonetheless. Internship does in no way have to consist of programming.

P.P.P.S. If someone is interested in learning what I will hopefully find out - please drop me a line.

Could you add an e-mail address to your profile?

I thought I just did it a few minutes ago. I'll check again.

Edit: It's in my page when I'm logged in - but one can not see it (yet) from the outside. I wonder if I do something wrong or hacker news uses some kind of caching.

Anyway: It is matthias dot goergens at gmail etc

The 'email' field in the profile is not visible to others (only seen by yc admin). 'About' is visible though.

I did not figure this out, yet. Thank you.

Not your fault at all. Confusing UI.

I have seen confusion with this aspect of account configuration numerous times. Perhaps simply adding a note next to the email field indicating that the email address is only visible to the administrators would help solve this problem.

edit: perhaps you could vote up and/or comment on rms' suggestion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100

Yes. I even searched for a check box like: "Make my email visible to the public".

At this point, considering how many people have been confused by that form, it's PG's fault for not fixing it.

Perhaps it is for building social capital - accustome users to help each other.

Just like in a related way - but with a different morale - SMS seems from one point of view an inferior user interface. But people use it anyway instead of calling.

Anyway - I suspect he just has not come around to fixing it.

I didn't realize this for 6 months until I read a similar conversation someone else about seeing an email address.

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