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With no way of migrating Android purchases, along with mountains of other data that is tied to my Google Account, I finally gave in and shifted my email from first@last.us to first.last@gmail.com. To be honest, I'm tired of managing my own email as well, even through Google Apps which I had configured for last.us.
You need to put down what all tasks this person can do without spoon feeding. How can he manage resources if he is not technical? What would he manage without any skills? He would have no clue about what is going on with the products and all technical challenges team is facing.

He doesn't seem like a right advisor/mentor. If was one then he would have advised you right away that he is not a right fit for this job.
with Google is that they seem to have left their balls at the door.

From what I've heard from Google, I think with Android they're already sensitive about the perception that they're the "500 pound gorilla in the room" and they're keen to reassure the carriers and the phone manufacturers that they're not taking full control of their businesses.

Even though I think many people at Google would like to see things unfold differently, they also want to see Android adopted widely as its path to success (breadth instead of depth.) The art of compromise.

I think if you buy a N1 then you can still have a "google-centric" Android experience, though. For now.
I think mentorship is an important part of any internship process. I'm currently an undergrad and I've had two separate internships. Both experiences, while great, focused on utilizing my existing skill set (which I consider to be limited).

At my current skill level I think I would thrive more in a large team environment where I would be receiving an education of a programming language as a part of my internship experience.

As far as finding interns goes I'd contact whatever career planning departments your local colleges have.
Huh, this is funny. I'm a grad student at Stanford and a few months back there was an opening for Mixpanel in one of the job digests that students in the CS department receive. I actually wrote out an application asking if you would consider me for an internship program but in the end I decided not to since you didn't mention anything about being interested in interns. So if you had mentioned it there you'd have at least one applicant :) There's also a job fair in the spring just for start-ups, though I'm not sure how much it costs to attend. It was pretty packed with students last year.
Where did you get #4? The list is alphabetical.
I would say it's also poor UI, even with a mouse is easy to hit one over the other without a way to undo...
They all got approved. Yes! Finally getting something for that work, we'd given up on it.

http://oneappatatime.com/games/published
Even in the worst case scenario, it's more open than it's competitors and every single problem in the article can clearly be attributed to the carrier. Send a message by buying phones that aren't locked down. Thus far, HTC has left their stock Android phones fairly "hackable". Granted, the Nexus One was the last stock Android device we've seen. I'm hopeful that their slider qwerty super phone coming to VZW will run stock Gingerbread, and thus will be open to running a CM release.

In lieu of that, I hope Google gets back into the phone market (I know, I know, they said they won't) with a Nexus Two before all of the CM resources jump ship to Meego or whatever up and coming platform presents itself as more "truly" open (at least until the carriers monetize and lock it down as well).
In the cases it's not, it's a useful fiction, especially for most hacker types who are disinclined to marketing/sales in the first place.
I also have cable problems - I've found that my pair of V-Moda headphones have lasted longest.
But that is because of the carriers. Why do you think Motorola implemented a signed multistage boot process? I'm sure they didn't say, "We want to limit our customers and waste engineering resources on a problem that voids the warranty anyway and doesn't matter to us".

Nah, they reacted to VZW's threats.
They typically laser-cut traces etc nowadays.
I guess, but the flamebait title and the feeling of an anti-Android tirade throughout is hard to shake.
Great analogy, considering that it is often significantly easier to beat the competition ('you') than bring a new product to market ('the bear').
Everytime I attempt to consider using a joint service, they try to drown me in marketing speak before i can even figure out which service is appropriate for my needs. Everything has a custom trademark able name, which is never defined in technical specifics, and all of their claims are vague buzzword laden spiels that i guess are targeted at big busineses.

Maybe you. An tell me what a "smart machine" is but vie tried to comprehend that company a dozen times in the lastly dozen years and always been stymied.
Non-renewable resources running out is scary and peak oil is fascinating, but with such wildly differing estimates on how long we have it's hard not to be skeptical.

That being said, we should definitely be planning for the future, and it's great to hear that the UK and Germany are taking giant strides (Germany generates the largest amount of solar energy, for instance).
I understand why

.... except..... there are about a billion images, jokes, articles, sites degrading Jesus Christ and advocating destroying Christianity
Here's what we did:

0) get some cash from yc
1) work on our product (6 months)
2) raise an angel round of several hundred k based on demos pre launch (4 months from start to finish)
3) launch our initial product
4) get buzz in media
5) 3 months after launch, raise series A

Based on the amounts new yc alums are raising now even pre-demo day, I think it's getting easier to compress the time between steps 0 and 5.
I'm also an ENFP, and I always get the same result. I find it so odd that there are such individual differences in this test, and that those differences follow a predictable distribution in the general population.

I'm happy with the result anyway, but I wish I was better at finishing things :)
1) To be able to "search (almost) the whole internet" you have to pull the content and have "almost whole internet" on your own servers.

2) You have to update your copy of the internet regularly.

3) You don't want to search all that whenever somebody types a few words. So write programs to regularly prepare indexes in advance (just like in the books) and then when the query with words comes you can "just" look up in these.

The steps above sound simple, but you can imagine that the devil is in details, that there's a lot of knowhow needed and a lot of money to do that really right. Just ask Microsoft or even some failed search company.
Why is the orange heart the same nasty orange color as the Sun logo?
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From my experience this summer, many startups don't advertise internships but they were positive when I emailed them. It's worth trying.
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How GE uses Hadoop to analyze big data
Small firms' job-growth role may be overstated
I think you are right, but I have never had to use sharding with MongoDB (yet)
I just finished a HACU internship at the VA in Oakland. It's cool to see another alum here on HN. HNIP was a great program and they definitely made things easy from the administrative point of view.

(hefty travel reimbursements etc)
What is the competency of the military for assessing 1. world petroleum reserves and consumption 2. the economic consequences of an oil shortage?!

I think it's far more likely that Spiegel is misrepresenting the context of the study. The German military, in particular, has a reputation for making contingency plans for everything. It seems to me far more credible that the purpose of the study is rather "in the unlikely event that 'peak oil' is reached soon AND this leads to 'total collapse of the markets', the German Army should respond with actions A, B and C".

Discovering such a plan would then have no more significance than finding out, say, about a study of the defensive measures required if Germany is invaded by the Czech Republic.
It's a combination of embarassing parallelism and clever indexing.
Adioso (YC W09): how they're taking a different approach to travel search
The weapons being a legal sense. Despite having the legal right to concealed carry, a building can forbid you from bringing it inside.

They are all just cases of someone who is providing a service being able to give stipulations over what can occur there. A church won't let you swear, some places don't want you to concealed carry, and a hosting provider doesn't want you to organize hatred.
AWS instances don't have persistent storage...if your server crashes you loose your data, the changes to your OS and even your IP.

AWS is great, but you can't compare the AWS instances with other VPS or Dedicated offerings.
In the case of Rackspace, when they receive complaints and start to wonder whether that religious organisations' continued business is really worth dealing with large-scale DDoS etc.
I've just about reached that frustration point as well. Any regrets with the move?
Give me an email sometime (in my profile). I may not be available myself, but I'm writing a Job Board for the Northwestern ACM this very moment. I can talk to you about presence at job fairs at Northwestern (probably the most elaborate) to a posting on our new board (very easy, free). I can't offer you a massive CS pool like Stanford or MIT, but I happen to think that our CS program is very good, individually.

Also, I guess I can give you perspective on what you're competing against. I just completed a Microsoft internship this summer and plan on doing another (maybe with Microsoft, maybe not) next summer.
According to the web site PictureofHealth.com,

"Most places on Earth, the internet is more accessible than electricity, clean water, or basic sanitation."

I have a hard time believing that statement.
May be so, but not to the people who lack electricity, clean water or basic sanitation.
I had wondered whether that works, I'll have a look at it for the next job. Anything with a working admin system will make my day.
I can tell the difference between 192 cbr and v0 vbr (or 320 cbr) on my $20 Sennheisers. Does it really not bother you?
It only seems that way. Sometimes being manipulative is easier than trying to excel (otherwise we'd see more people doing well
Telus and Bell in Canada -- they're both CDMA providers that added GSM coverage to offer only one GSM phone: the iPhone.

It's just one small example of how far carriers will go to offer the iPhone.
It is relevant; people are "softmodding" GeForces into Quadros, theoretically costing Nvidia millions in revenue. Open-source drivers might make this even easier.
Technologically it's not very difficult, IMO, once you already have search engines that are as fast as Google and Bing.

The tough part for Bing, is with fewer searches, their predictive engine isn't quite as good. But this is where the Yahoo deal will pay off.

But all they need to do is fire off predictive searches and bring those back -- and of course, each predictive search only needs to bring back ten or fewer results.

Bing already does the predictive text suggestion. They just need to send back queries along with the actual text suggestion. At worst they'd need to get some more servers. But I fully expect they'd be able to roll this out in months if they wanted to.

Although personally I'd still focus on relevance. There's so much stuff both engines suck at, I'd love for them to fix some of those holes first.
I'm sad YouTube won't be a part of this :(
Mothers of Innovation
"a) describing why it is in X's interest to give it to you and then b) asking for it"

Is anybody else watching Food Network's food truck race show? There's a young woman on the leading team who demonstrates this every week.

In one case the teams were tasked to butcher a slab of beef. Instead of hacking away at it like the other teams did, she just asked the butcher at the local store they were partnering with (another area they excel in) to do it for them.

She's relentless (and shameless) about asking for what she wants, and gets it.
I highly recommend Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People". This book goes a long way towards explaining a bunch of these skills and shows you both how to do them and why they work. It was probably the non-technical book that advanced my programming career the most.
As someone who just finished an internship, I can provide some insight into the good and bad.

As far as a main project, I would choose something new and independent. Think of that crazy idea you've been playing around with for a while, but haven't had time to implement.

Another thing that often gets overlooked is a side project. My internship work level tended to be very cyclic. Whenever my main project was stalled for one reason or another, I had little to do(I ended up roaming through the code base). Find an incremental project for this. Bugs and small features may suffice.

Finally, recruiting. Posting on sites like this is a good start. The type of students you want will find it. Also contact the career centers or CS departments of the specific schools you like. Most have some sort of system in place. Recruiting begins in September in a lot of places.

Send me an email if you want to pick my brain.
Something like so: http://www.xkeys.com/xkeys/xkfoot.php ?

I seem to remember one of my friends saying that someone at their work uses a foot peddle for Esc (as a vim user).
There are two basic ways to build a search engine.

First think of the web as a big matrix with each row being a document and each column being a term. The first step is to decide how you want to shard this matrix across multiple machines.

You can shard by row, which lets you do really complicated scoring, but you have to hit every machine for every query.

You can shard by column, which is much cheaper, but limits how sophisticated your scoring can be.

Within each machine the problems are all probably fairly familiar.
This is fantastic. I just converted my Google Apps account and I can log in to nearly all the services without making new accounts. You don't actually see these new apps in the Dashboard, but basically you can log in to them using your Google Apps account.

The only gotcha is that users who have used their domain email for a consumer Google service (like blogger, google groups, etc.) need to resolve the conflict by changing the email of the consumer account.
"All programming is an exercise in caching."

-Terje Mathisen
The list is also missing Pittsburgh, which has been doing great throughout the recession for the Eds and Meds reason as well.
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Ah! Ultima GTR!? Very very nice! :). Good for you, man.

Commercial property is crashing. Buy up a warehouse (before a developer does) and live in the city. Win/win :)
I thought they also thought they checked that the MAC address of the phone corresponds to a plausible iPhone MAC address. So, you might have to change that on your wifi card first (kind of a bother.)
In addition, replication is the next thing where PostgreSQL is vastly improving (according to their road map).

Also note that if you want to trade some of the ACID properties for better performance and replication, the so-called NoSQL databases (CouchDB etc) seem to be a better trade-off than, say, MySQL with MyISAM instead of InnoDB.
Steam engines can be better than internal combustion engines?
Casinos, lotteries, etc are taking money from people with the expectation that the vast majority of them will fail. These businesses are so successful that they are made illegal in some countries.
That's why i said it should be better regulated by the government.
That's ridiculous. Book covers are imposed on users (students) who personally gain nothing by using them by an authority (the school system) that cares nothing for their inconvenience. The human body is notoriously easy to improve on, and nobody covers their cars except people with expensive sports cars they love more than their wives. Next.
Micro instances don't have any local storage -- EBS only.
What do you mean?

There isn't really any data to be backed up here, except for the web dev things. For that, there are three servers that all exchange rsyncs every night. One is prod, one dev, and one that is just using some spare disk space on one of the arrays at work.

For the photos, the online stuff is the backup. The originals still live either on their negatives, or on SD cards.
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How much of a speed increase do you see because of this setup?

Are these actually redundant carriers, or is the last leg owned by qwest and just leased to Time Warner and ClearWire?
US diesel seems to be pretty bad. (The fuel itself that is) I remember reading something about higher sulfur content than elsewhere in the world.

I also hate diesel cars (I would buy one, but I hate other people in them) because everyone in a diesel around here invariably fills up with french fry grease. I ride bikes, so I'm directly exposed to their stench.
> Also, Linus doesn't really code anymore; he just types `git merge` until his fingers fall off. (or at least that's my understanding, I'm nowhere near being on the kernel team)

Yeah, that's pretty accurate: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...
If you check http://www.arewefastyet.com you'll see graphs of Firefox's trajectory vs. other browsers. It may look like the other browsers are standing still, but that's just because Firefox is legitimately improving at a much, much faster rate.
Don't rule out their wind installations either, I'm living within sight of some of the largest windmills they're currently operating, the E82 series, 2MW each, there are thousands of them now in Germany.

It's very impressive to stand near them, they're absolutely huge.
I agree, but I place all such offense in the same category as the Mohammed cartoon offendees.
A JD won't teach you anything about persuasion. That only comes after years of experience.
The cost of energy is important to a country because it is one of many throttling point for how aggressively a country can grow. If it becomes unaffordable, and as a result difficult to grow, it can lead to a lot of things (like unemployment and civil unrest).

As far as questioning their competency, I don't even understand what you mean. They have engineers, information, and resources... i'm sure the competent enough to put things together and draw possible conclusions. The oil/commidity trade is very very tied to governments, military embargoes, etc.

For a small idea of how politically charged oil is, one example is the pipeline between Iran and Israel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Israel_pipeline

Oil and the price of it is incredibly important to governments.
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Do you not think that the United States (and any other country for that matter) hasn't progressed down this same path?

The competency of any military assessing world petroleum reserves and consumption is enormous! Petroleum is the achillies heel of an army. Petroleum is probably the single most valuable commodity for maintaining any army's fighting posture in this day and age. With maybe water and food being a close second.

But remember, petroleum must be continuously and logistically transported to troops fighting on the ground or in the air. You can't just locally procure a sustainable petroleum source for an army on the move.
what about this upcoming summer? =)
Cube-land?

This sounds like many startups, too.
I think the peak oil scenario is a bit more likely though than the Czech Republic invading Germany.
Pretty sure PG funds only Homo sapiens
ODesk, my not so great experience, how has yours been?
Also, if Arthur really had been the Joel Spolsky of ancient Britain his knights would never have sat at a big round table, except during lunch. Rather, they would have each had an individual round table in a glass-walled soundproof office with a door that could close.
No, it is not important. Adolescent wish fulfillment does not automatically become important just because you think it is awesome.
Background - We've had 4-6 interns each of the last few summers from top schools. Amazing talent and helped us really move the ball forward.

Here's our strategy:

- Generally provide stand-alone projects that are not 'busy work' but things that really help us. This is good for us (real work) and good for student (real bullet points for their resume).

- We don't use career services at schools with the exception of a couple that are startup friendly. Most are bureacratic (go fill this out on this portal blah blah blah) and when we use their channels, we get hundreds of 'spray and pray' candidates applying.

- Instead, we target programs and maybe even specific professors who teach classes in areas we're interested in, i.e., "Tell us the best student you have in X from your class." We try to seek interns who have options (they tend to be the best ones). This is not a trivial effort so something to keep in mind.

- Back to bullet 1, since we give the students real work, they tend to have great summers with us (or at least that is what they tell us). These students become our ambassadors on campus for next year. And we've found that these students (1) know what we need/like and how we work and (2) tend to know other people like themselves (smart) and so they refer us really great folks.

- Finally, we use interns as a great recruitment vehicle for full-time (may not be applicable). Dating before marriage is healthy.
Creating videos under your Google Apps account?
Yes, modern armies do depend on a good supply of petroleum. That doesn't mean they are fully staffed with geologists, economists, market analysts etc. Pretty much the entire economy is highly dependent on fossil fuels, but the competency to estimate the reserves is concentrated in a narrow field, and estimates of a whole economy's response to oil shock are mostly speculation.
Are people attracted to good dancers?
Is there a problem here in listening to the wrong people? That author admits that this demographic is quite different from what might emerge organically; might their answers be equally as different? I'm not downplaying the inventiveness of this method for getting feedback, but I'm worried that it's a little misguided to use this for development purposes.
I read that list and see "MBA," especially considering activities both inside and outside the classroom, and the sort of profile top programs want to see from applicants.
The army does not extract and market oil. Just because they depend on it doesn't mean they can predict worldwide reserves, rates of consumption, and economic effects of fluctuations in the oil supply. Heck, the oil companies themselves are hard pressed to do a small subset of all of these tasks.
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They were tightly run and limited to 15m minutes.
Usually only team leads talked and there wasn't much back and forth.

It's more normal at Google to have fewer people and 30 or 60 minute mtgs.
My philosophy is always ask for jobs that aren't listed. If I'm applying for a job, there could be anywhere between 1 and 1,000 other people applying. Those aren't good odds of even getting a glance.

If you had applied and asked if you could work for them as an intern, even though they hadn't mentioned it anywhere, chances are there would be one applicant... you.

You get brownie points for taking initiative, taking a risk, and best of all - there is no other competition to distract them from you.
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I just wish that the interface would stay up to date with gmail/google docs etc. I like the new changes to the gmail interface, but my apps account keeps the older one for now.