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Trust me, companies recruiting for internships know that you don't know anything yet. I interned and did co-ops after my first sophomore semester. Probably more than half the purpose of big corp internships is to fill the recruiting pipeline. Startups and small companies may need a more "ready to hack" person, but you'll find that out quickly.

Another quick observation, not meant to discourage at all - we all lack in several areas. Always. I think for hackers, one of the only skills that matters is that you have established your ability to learn how to do details on the fly (like pick up a new language) while holding onto the fundamentals that help you stay productive and organized.

In other words - hang onto the "I have so much to learn" attitude, but be confident in your "getting things done" ability along the way.
Yeah, but asylum recipients (asylees?) don't get to choose where they are settled. You could end up in Oberunterschwabenhafen and not be allowed to leave the village.

Germany is a bad choice for asylum - I mean, it's great that Germany has a robust system for asylum, because there are people who genuinely need it and benefit from it, but if you're looking for a place to work, this is probably the wrong mechanism.
Exactly my thought, too.

> You can still use it if you have a pair of headphones in too, with the cans' play button subbing in for control.

Sadly, my headphones do not have a button, and I wont be on the go without them, so sadly Pressy is not for me.
I fail to see where...
Why Tesla is focused on oil-rich Norway as it expands beyond the US
Same here. Best of luck to you.
Haha. Well, I wouldn't be all the surprised if the the NSA was bigger employee wise. But budget wise, no way.
Facebook to Update Privacy Policy, but Adjusting Settings Is No Easier
- They blur their answers for non-registered users. They're wasting my time when I think I find what I'm looking for only to find a blurred image. Just tell Google you don't want to be indexed if you don't want to share the content.

- You can't use their website without using your real name. They're really persistent in this. A pseudonym won't do, they'll ask you to identify yourself with a scan of your ID before they let you participate. It's ridiculous.
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I do have earphones with a button, and the button already works to start and stop my music and skip to the next track (with two presses). But sometimes it gets delayed for up to 5 seconds (for reasons I've never understood). If Pressy can fix that then great. But if it can't then there are going to be a lot of disappointed backers out there.

One of my long-term disappointments with Android is that they never used the modified plug the iPhone uses that also allows for volume control. But then, Apple may have patented it.
I didn't even think of it as a security thing. A surname, signature and vague region in a country is not a particularly narrow combination. I was mostly just wanting to look at the signatures themselves - I'm not by any stretch of the imagination expert in breaking security. Any idiot could take a URL and increment a param in the URL.

As to why I shared the script, I dunno I just figured others might find it interesting - though on reflection it's not particularly advanced.
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Most performance indicators are imprecise. P/E ratio is one of the stupidest measure of value, but it is widely use in finance. No one(at least no value investor) would invest based on P/E ratio alone though, there is a lot more due diligence that's done before investors put their money into a stock. (At least that's what you hope happens.)

The problem with productivity measures, is not how they are measured but what they are used for. Most managers want to use productivity measures to evaluate individual or team performance, however, performance is tied to incentives, so you always end up with a lot of push back from the team or someone gaming the system. (IMO, this is because of lazy managers wanting to "manage by numbers", without really understanding how to manage by numbers.)

Rather than using it as a performance management tool, productivity measures, however imprecise, can be used alongside other yardsticks as signals of potential issues. For example, if productivity measure is dropping with a particular module/subsystem, and defect rate is increasing, then one might want to find out if the code needs to be rearchitected or refactored. In these cases, it is okay to be imprecise, because the data are pointers not the end goal. When used correctly, even imprecise data can be very useful.
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not the only one but, I would take a customizable feature button over the headphone jack; there is always BLE :)
As you can easily re-enable it with any decent browser (Opera 12 is great) that is no issue since if you actually want to have a site to have interactive features on its pages, just enable it. Otherwise, you get soothing, plain, static content. Most sites to not require Javascript for reading text or looking at images.
This seems like a really neat idea.. One of the things that I loved about my Droid X and still miss terribly is a physical camera button - it's just so much easier to take my duckface selfies using a physical button!

I like the idea that this is so configurable also - I can think of many applications for something like this..

It's interesting that they have a hardware component, though this really seems to be a kickstarter for a button dedicated 'smart actions' application (in that it works without the button using mute button clicks on headsets) - not that this decreases my interest in it in the least.

Excited to see where this goes...
Wouldn't another option be to setup hugepages for the db and then just have the db process use hugepages?

They'll never swap out and bonus less memory used. (note transparent huge pages have only brought me pain so far)
I saw this and thought "Ryanair and the No Insurance option" - glad to see it in there as it is amazing that a company could do that...
I must agree to skip Germany. The main problems for asylum seekers are no "Arbeitserlaubniss", so you are not allowed to work legally (you might sell drugs, thats what the thugs want). And even worse you have a "Residenzpficht", so you are not allowed to leave your village or suburb. Thats why police is always searching for foreigners first, because they might violate "Residenzpflicht" by being in the wrong county for a family party, and might have drugs.

Let me throw Estonia into the bucket, and drop the asylum. Its easy to found a company there. You don't pay corporate tax, only a flat income tax, and you have access to EU market.
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What were they doing using gmail in the first place? I thought all officials used internal goverment email services or outlook confiugred with internal goverment servers. Even small 50 person companies generally have outlooks configured.
That's a sweet e-reader. Hopefully they'll support MOBI/EPUB files. If so, this is the first e-ink product that I've seen that I would want to upgrade from my old Kindle DX. Very nice. I could get a lot of use out of a product very close to this. All I want is document/book consumption. I don't want browsing, I don't want games, I don't want music or motion-sensors. Just do one thing and do it well, please.
I get that screening is a service, but it's very gray. US (& UK) companies need to act with a higher standard globally. Barclays got in trouble with some corporate matchmakers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfina...
custom actions like this for your hardware buttons should work with the existing buttons without the need for the hack. holding power on with some custom roms can be configured to have the flashlight on while it's held.

would be nice if an api for these buttons existed in the android sdk. anyone know if it's there?
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Tsk, Norway may be the wealthiest due to their oil, but Sweden is wealthier than Denmark.
I don't really care about color or refresh rate. I want a poster sized display for fairly static content.
I wonder if people that are interested in only the App to have their Headphones buttons remapped comfortably will be able to acquire that, and for what price. Not that I have done any research on Apps that already do that, since as I said, my headphones don't have a button. :)
The point was that people who have financial interests can still provide useful information for the community.

I wasn't questioning that. I have no doubt the information he is articulating is valuable, but who is benefiting more, us, himself or his client? Regardless of how pedantic I'm being, your point is slightly flawed and should be called out. I don't feel it's worth attributing merit to people's efforts without understanding their behavior first.

There financial interests are very different and thus the information they create can lean one way or another. One is a paid consultant and another is a full time salaried employee. The one makes more money directly by benefiting the client (Mueller) and the other one makes more by equity and control (Cutts).

When it comes to money, people are largely motivated by 3 things: control, equity, and cash (which all subsequently translate quite nicely into money/wealth) however, each one can manifest itself very differently. Someone who makes their living by advising clients has a very direct interest in cash, so it's more obvious that his/her behavior is in line with ensuring that cash goes into the bank first and foremost.
Two points of feedback;

1. No one I know wants to browse "independent music" as an amorphous blob of everything lumped together. On the initial "Hot Songs" page, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to get by clicking on the Play button for each song. I went from a weird electronica song to an "alternative" song to an acoustic guitar song.

2. Also, there seems to be quite a lot of stuff on there. As a new user, I don't want to listen to lots of rubbish to find good songs. Give me a clue about what other people have listened to a lot, favourited, and so on. If I find some things I like I'll probably explore the site a bit further. If I don't find anything within the first few plays, I'll leave and I won't come back. (The data could be fake - just things you like - but regardless, give me some sort of opinion to work from.)
does this A/B testing border on a dark pattern? http://teslachat.tumblr.com/post/59767541777/we-hid-the-demo...
> "You should expect that everything you put anywhere is going to be read by spies. That's why spies exist; to gather information"

That's ridiculous. It seems like you're condoning mass-surveillance by saying "It's their job". Doesn't the government get to tell them what their job is and don't we get to tell our government what we think?
It's something that can be done in theory, with a few fundamental changes to resource qualifiers and, maybe, drawing primitives. It's close enough to be tempting, but I believe it would be a better design to use e-ink as a secondary display.

That, of course, reduces the power benefits of e-ink in such a product. Only when an e-reader is in use would the color display be drawing zero power.

But, if you add up all the issues, tempting as it may be, a monochrome e-ink Android would just suck too much. An e-ink OLED combination might be just right.
I honestly wonder if that is due to patents.
If they peek in once, they wouldn't go to jail. If they come in a thousand times and take pictures, that's very different.
What about DIA? Budget ~ $25billion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Agency
But where is the actual advantage to using it? Better battery life, sure, but most people are fine charging their phone once per day.
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Most people never notice it. I rent a lot of cars and it is ALWAYS there. When I point it out to people I'm riding with, they always seem surprised.
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It's easier, faster, and less expensive to simply not work with people who insist on NDAs. Frees up time for those who trust and respect him.
First, congrats for asking the question, "Did we do something wrong?" Getting more sign-ups is laudable, but are they qualified signups that are improving metrics you care about? Removing the demo, you're potentially removing an important lead-qualifier for your traffic.

The real test is "which cohort achieves higher [metric you care about]?" For example, let's say you care about revenue. Does the "demo button present" cohort generate more or less revenue than the "demo button absent" cohort?

What do your analytics say about that?
It is not about the values. people do value privacy, but there is asymmetrical information between service providers and customers. As such, the price goes down to zero and the product quality reflects it.

Economist George Akerlof pointed this out in his 1970 paper "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism.". The way society fixed it with cars, was to introduce Lemon laws. If they hadn't introduced those laws, people would likely sit here and argue that nobody values what material the car chassis is made of, or if gas fumes leaked into the compartment. Nobody would value safety people would say, as everyone would rather buy the cheap car over the expensive (and more secure) ones.
O'Reilly is having sale and discounts so often that I avoid buying books at the full price while waiting for a coupon. This often ends with me forgetting about the book and not buying it at all.
The kickstarter response implies that there is a market for this thing. You personally are not part of that market, but I'm not sure why you are complaining about that.
This is handy and all but have the last 12 months not taught us all that this sort of unauthorised access to systems can land you a period of state funded accommodation?
Thats what happens when you outsource your administrators.
If i remember correctly the CIA made a hosting deal with Amazon.
So every high level Amazon administrator can access highly classified informations.

And for Snowden he saw the black hole and everything they are planning he must have seen some very scary stuff, hopefully he wont be the guy in jail or death with a mark on his head "Told you so." and we did not act.
I don't know why United does it, just that the A320/A319 swap is so common with them that on frequent-flyer forums it often gets a stickied thread with tips on what to do, warning signs, etc. Hence the advice about never taking a seat in row 3 (and for economy passengers, never booking into the last couple rows of the aircraft, since those seats don't exist on the 319).
I agree that it's ultimately a policy issue that needs to be mended by congress, what I disagree with is the needless "dig" at companies that store and analyze large amounts of data, as if that somehow is invalid conduct. The problem is the government demanding access to that data, not that the data is there in the first place.
That would be terrible. It's one thing to name as fleeting as a treadmill after someone like Colbert, but I cringe at the thought of future science teachers in 2025 having to explain how an element is named after an entertainer they've never heard of.
Last NDA I signed somewhat specifically limited itself to the business aspects (tech was, oddly, missing).

I actually really like that model--it leaves me as an engineer free to talk shop and not perform mental gymnastics with the color of the implementation stuff in my head, and very clearly gives protection for the stuff that makes up the core business of the startup (you know, the actual business).

There seems to be very little real IP in web startups these days--and I really hate software patents. So, an agreement where I can't talk business but can talk code and techniques sits very well with me.
Another happy M92 user here. It's a big enough size to read technical books fairly well.
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I don't understand how Google's algorithm doesn't understand that when I click on a Quora link on my phone it insists I install an app I already have. That's a negative reflecting on my search experience. I would imagine the ton of immediate bounce backs could tell it that.
Too bad. The website seems very "High school project" caliber but I like the mission very much. It would be a shame if it's a scam.

1. an edtech accelerator embracing lean startup practices.
2. a collaborative coworking community in NYC dedicated to education entrepreneurship.
3. a campus focused on learning technology.
4. the birthplace of the future of learning.

One thing I do notice is there's a fine line between "We have 60% of the stuff figured out, and will make up the rest of the 40% as we go" and going 40/60 instead. One is an ambitious startup, the other is a scam.
I wasn't surprised (the CIA ran the drone program), but apparently it is a common myth that the NSA is larger.

More importantly though.. what purpose does leaking this serve? It shows nothing illegal, or even questionable. It has nothing to do with the documents leaked previously. I just don't understand why he thought this needed to be leaked.
Partway through a 12-week course, I had a student hand me an NDA to sign before he would tell me the awesome brilliant idea he was so eager to discuss. He was baffled when I didn't sign it on the spot and said I'd get back to him after I had a chance to read it. He never showed up in class again.

If you want me to sign an NDA, make sure you follow thru on your commitments to me. If you're a student and I'm the professor, pass the course first.
Might as well just use a Readability-type plugin to pull out the text.
Performance success metrics that are not tied to hours in the seat are great. Quantitative Performance Indicators for individual contributors requires thinking from both sides of the employee manager seats. Besides always good to remember: your #1 job is to do a good job, your #2 job is to find a better job.
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Actually, he probably didn't:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300057
I think your interpretation of "sign a document so I can sue you later" is pretty inaccurate. Someone is disclosing an idea and wants to protect themselves in case you decide their idea is worth implementing. I don't think it's an unrealistic request. Furthermore, most NDAs I've seen don't really protect much of anything.

The downside of saying 'no' is that you will never (or rarely) have them as a potential client. Maybe you have clients throwing themselves at you, but in my neck of the woods, clients aren't exactly a dime a dozen. I'm not going to sign anything that I feel would put me or my business at unreasonable risk, but no NDA I've ever signed has been worded that unrealistically.

To make a blanket statement that I'll never sign your NDA and NDAs are a dumb waste of time sounds like a difficult person to deal with right off the bat.
Listening is the Language of Leaders
Thanks for your feedback. Hot songs is nothing but a bunch of songs other users have favorited and played the most in the last 3 days. So what you are getting is indeed a curated collection, not necessarily from a genre but across alternative, electronica etc. If you are interested in a particular genre you can use the radio or explore section. You can also signup and follow people to see what they've favorited, commented on etc. I hope this helps.

Thanks again for trying out.
> it only works with the client and server have a pre-shared key

What "pre-shared key" are you referring to in SRP? The only a priori value needed for SRP is the safe prime (N) and generator (g).
How is this news? I don't need a budget, or Snowden to tell me the obvious.
The Pragmatic Programmer is one of my favorite books ever. I recommend it to every programmer. At whatever point I'll have employees of my own, it will be required reading.
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> More importantly though.. what purpose does leaking this serve? It shows nothing illegal, or even questionable. It has nothing to do with the documents leaked previously. I just don't understand why he thought this needed to be leaked.

Maybe it's about taxpayers knowing where their dollars are going? First you show that your government is spying on you, and then you show how much of your own money that costs..?
Compressing the memory area used by the leaky process in question would be a gentler and more robust "solution" here. There already exists a Linux kernel module called "zram" [1] with which you can accomplish just that (though you might have to tune your swappiness a bit first).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram
I wonder why Google doesn't do anything about it. It seems these big companies/brands get to get away with anything.
I wrote a bookmarklet to delete stuff like this without opening the inspector:

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Post about it: https://plus.google.com/114437281866675781856/posts/hkp9F9Wr...
>> Thats what happens when you outsource your administrators.

Wait, I understand that he was a contractor. But wasn't he previously an NSA employee too. So he basically stayed in the same chair, but just got a bigger pay check. Revolving door and all that. I wouldn't go so far as to call it outsourced, his work was still 'in-house'.
I guess you also don't own any keys or a keychain then too? Since it comes with a keychain "fake audio jack" to hold pressy when not in the audiojack