skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lavabit and Silent Circle are both predicated on retaining persistent user state (messages, logins, etc.), and could be required to modify back-end code to select on that and either dump state (possibly unencrypted, I'm not sure of the specifics of their methods), provide stream intercepts, etc. The point is: user identification is integral to the services.

DDG doesn't operate that way. Access it through a sufficient diversionary proxy (Disconnect Search, TOR, what have you), and you're simply another (unknown) IP address making another (known) search request. While I won't say it's impossible to tie the two together, the cost is far higher than the case where 1) user search history is explicitly stored or 2) a direct IP history is connected.

Scale your countermeasures to suit your paranoia level / risk model. If you're concerned over browser fingerprinting (https://panopticlick.eff.org/), you'll want to include privoxy as well as TOR.

Note that even unauthenticated users to Google are issued cookies, and undetermined amounts of browser state are tracked. I've got a statement from a Google engineer on G+ that such indicators aren't used to identify accounts, but whether or not they're used to identify end users at all is an unanswered question.

So, short answer: you're right, using DDG of itself isn't a perfect guarantee, but it's a much smaller risk envelope than Google offers, and it can be reduced to pretty near nil with a few additional provisions, all of which hugely increase intercept costs.
I'd love to see the movie theaters though try to balance that against the PR nightmare that would come out of them fighting such a case.
Could it be that Jay is hopelessly overqualified for this job? Whatever this position would be.

I assume the sweet positions for algorithm tweaking and HTML/CSS development from scratch are already taken by core Amazon engineers. Well protected holy grail. Perhaps they are looking for is a junior expendable wheel in some sub-project, and not a person actually capable of re-creating Amazon from scratch.

Jay's qualifications seem for me quite senior. He appears to be more suitable for IT lead of a startup or a member of a think tank of a more intimate company.
People defend other people on the Internet for all sorts of dumb reasons. Only women get a special term for when guys stick up for them.
I am intimately familiar with high-level metrics at software businesses in many locales other than Silicon Valley, and direct cost of employees is the largest expense at all of them. (Not true generally, since marketing budgets get arbitrarily high at some firms, but true of all dozen or so that I have direct experience with.) It can easily range to 80%+.

Also, the imputed salaries being paid here are very much not Google/Facebook numbers. The payroll for a team of five Goolgers is plus or minus $100k a month, almost double what it was for Everpix. Everybody was likely taking far below-market salaries.
These lights FTA are OEM, though a lot of tuner cars and lifted trucks aren't I suppose.
...this is getting ridiculous.
What protection is that? Search and seizure is not about privacy; it's about physical intrusion into personal space. Had they meant to address intrusion into abstract privacy they would have.
My suggestions:

⚫ Stick with it. DDG's improved hugely in the past 12-18 months.

⚫ Report your problems to DDG. I've done this in a few cases, and have been stunned to get personal replies in a couple of days. Try getting that from Google (without landing three stories on the top of HN for a day or three).
I was the direct manager for software engineers at a big public hosting company. Being a line manager was miserable. I thought going into management I'd have more ability to influence things but I had less. I had no time to write code, and so I wasn't taking part in technology decisions outside of approving with whatever the team decided, and they are smart people, they didn't need any hand holding. I couldn't influence anything at all with the director who managed me, all I did was communicate whatever he wanted to the engineers. I couldn't influence other teams. I basically sat in meetings, listened to 1-1's and just relayed information. Another team had someone struggling and so I got to do a bit of mentoring there, but I didn't have to be a manager to do that. It just seemed like I was always fighting with HR for my engineers, fighting my boss for my engineers, trying to get other teams to respond to my engineer's needs. It sucked. I think the people on my team were happy with me, but I want to write code. I want to make things. Engineering has a career track that makes sense, when I looked at managers who were my peers I saw politics, and one-upsmanship. I just want to make good products. I don't want to play mind games. I want to do the best I can. I don't need to rise up the ranks. I just want to learn and do cool things with software.

It was a great learning experience though, because before I became a manager I thought that was like a natural progression, something that I had to do, something that I felt I couldn't shirk from, something where people recognized me for my skills, but in reality it's just a shit job, a dead end, unless you're one of the few who advances up the latter, because you know what, all of my managers and my manager's managers were all just relaying their manager's will down the pyramid.

When you are a software engineer you see things you do create value. You build things that work and do stuff. When you're a manager, I have no idea what I contributed. What did I do last week where I earned my pay? I have no idea.

Anyway, I'm glad I survived and am back to writing code. It involved getting a new job at a new place as soon as possible before I got too rusty. I was writing code at home all that time so that helped.
Of course if you compare an overpriced status symbol to other overpriced status symbols, it will come out looking reasonable...
When a big site is down, Tweet this:-

We have just compromised the @sitename Website [siteLinkHere] #hacked #compromised
I've personally interviewed a substantial number of candidates (phone screens and in-person interviews) for Amazon.

Amazon is very prompt about responding to candidates, but no decisions are ever made until the interviewers have a chance to sit down in a room together and discuss. So I don't know how the recruiter at the end of this account could have said half the things he is supposed to have said.

This account sounds like a specific recruiter made a series of huge errors and just kept on compounding those errors with bad decisions. That or there are some factual inaccuracies in the account.

In any case, my primary point is that I wouldn't write off an entire company due to what are likely the mistakes of a single individual, the recruiter who is supposed to be communicating with you.
DDG uses https for its searches. I can't speak to its datacenter links, but haven't checked to see if they address that in their FAQ / info pages.
Yes, they had a lot of interchangeability. The Porsche 912 had a VW engine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_912
I've been looking to move in the near future, and I'm trying to find a city with a good nightlife and good job prospects that doesn't have insane housing costs if you live in the city and insane commute times if you live outside. I'm not making a ton of money where I am right now, but anywhere I'm looking at for tech jobs I'd be taking a pay cut even if my salary doubled because cost of living is so high. Housing in cities is just insane, and investment money slash NIMBY isn't helping.
"Search Tools" on the results page.

I fully admit this is one of my biggest gripes with DDG, though it affects far less than 10% of my searches, likely fewer than 1%.
Well jolly good for you. Out of interest, do you want to do anything particularly outlandish and is anyone actually trying to stop you? Because otherwise this level of extreme seriousness may be entirely uneccessary.
It's not super bandwidth intensive, and my house is in a spot that gets terrible reception. Aereo is a huge win for us. We don't have to mount a big, ugly roof antenna, and we get every channel instead of just what our antenna can pick up when the stars are aligned just right.
I can speak from experience--a PR firms, even at a very light engagement, like lawyers, are bloody expensive. Shockingly so.
You appear not to have read the part about BMW's new pedestrian spotlight feature. Which may raise another issue about deer (or people) freezing in the spotlights.
The Wikimedia Foundation isn't a government agency, if that's what you're asking.
Chinese Restaurant <City I Live In>
Nope..hate that too. I've been using virtual desktops since the 90's to overcome that issue. I use up to 8 vdesktops that I address absolutely by using numpad1 .. numpad8. Each number has a specific function (generic browser, email, editors, db, virtual servers, gimp, ...). Nothing generally overlaps, and switching is instantaneous.
And was registered in 1995. Though WHOIS doesn't return the full registration transfer history. We don't know who's owned it over the interim.
Pocket change in this context would be 1-3% of a cost base.[1] >5% is not pocket change, it is a material expense. The expenses in question may be in the 30-40% range ( >10x a "pocket change" amount of 1-2%). Hope this is clearer.

[1] ie, a "non-material" expense.
When I first read their story, I wondered exactly what you wrote: how much was their amazon hosting bill and could they have at least kept the lights on if they went with a smaller provider?

I know when I was doing my music start up it would cost is many many times more to be on amazon than the two high power dedicated servers.

I don't know the story in their case but I find it shocking how many high bandwidth start ups have never even explored the option of not using AWS. I mostly blame this problem to the easy availability of funding which encourages you to throw money at problems. The issue though is that the more you build out your infrastructure around AWS exclusively, the harder it will be to explore other options later.
PCs are dead
Email? Got some answers.
"We are aware that the Dropbox site is currently down. This was caused during routine internal maintenance, and was not caused by external factors. We are working to fix this as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience."
It's about the men, not the women. The term refers to a certain kind of guy with certain views of women who acts in a particularly bizarre fashion towards them. It doesn't refer to the generic act of standing up for someone, or even the generic act of standing up for a woman. It refers to men who defend and act nice towards women in the vague belief it will get them laid, if indirectly, through being the type of man they believe women will have sex with. They're the type of man who usually tries being too nice for a couple of years, gets frustrated, then gets into the PUA community.
So, you believe most recruiters actually think they really understand and do not just do keyowrd matching on resumes?
Seems like a good opportunity for a Roku-like aereo box. External antenna. 16gb of flash. Couldn't you make a good box with a few antenna options that replicated the exact functionality sold as a consumer product? I can't imagine it would cost much to produce, and a company like roku already has most of the software in place (sans tv schedule and recording facilities) to make this happen.
'tptaeck didn't tweet, it was a comment on HN, just FYI. I think you two are taking about two different things.
If it was 60Hz I would certainly consider it right now. But 30Hz is really killing it, the other issues are no big deal for programming work. I've programmed using cheap LCD screens since the early '00s that were horrible 6-bit TN panels with only very few different shades of gray. Still not an issue at all.

I'll wait for the Think Vision Pro 2840m for $799 in April though.
I'm not sure about other countries, but all vehicles sold with HID (the bright blue headlights that many people find annoying) headlights in the US must come with an auto-leveling system. I'm almost 100% certain that the standards are the same or higher in Europe.
because imgur was focused on making a product people valued from day one while Everpix was focused on VCs, offices, hiring, blog writing, etc.
I'm surprised there is yet no mention of her firing.
Ok.. My post was a bait :).. Please tell me more or can you suggest me some books i can read?
This cool AppEngine project roostrap is going to take away my weekend.
Caught in the sight of #valleywag - http://valleywag.gawker.com/tag/path

For the cynical it's a collective eyeroll.
Disney Research is an impressive place that I never knew existed.
Nobody claimed it was an accident.
Have you checked out Portland, Oregon?
It is a point that doesn't need to be made, and that diminishes all of us almost every time it is. Let it go.
You can find retailers that sell "Pixel Perfect" models with none, but you pay a decent premium for it.
I almost feel sorry for the PR automata having to produce this BS on a Friday night. Compared to Target's multi-billion-dollar gift to credit card thieves, this is nothing.
Yes, Rust will super-efficient, blazingly-fast, and memory-lean. But it's not nearly as good at rapid prototyping as, say, Ruby, so you'll have to temper your expectations.

String manipulation in Rust is currently lacking while we work on the API. We also strictly enforce that all strings are UTF-8, so while this gives us great confidence that we're future-proof it adds a whole lot of difficulty in implementing a fast and correct means to work with strings.
Do you really think that interpretation would improve PG's position? That pattern matching based on gender and race is "very common"? Are you implying that is ok so long as it's the race/gender of other founders?

Thankfully PG does not actually take as extreme a position as Doerr. He merely downplays the existence of it in the VC community.
I'm curious why you feel that way, but I don't want to pollute the thread with an OT discussion. Shoot me an email if you're interested.
Yelp, or maybe a search for "Chinese near ZIPCODE". I know that this is hard.
The university might typically take 40% of the grant money, for "administrative costs"
Would be difficult to say the least, especially if you do not have a STEM background. As PG says, at least 10 years hacking experience is the minimum bar. But if you are an innovator/marketing genius and can muster a tech team, you can definitely be a successful founder.
Personal opinion, based on:

- Lack of traction as evidenced by dismal ratings on the App Store compared to competitors
- Supposed focus on international markets without clear commitment to establishing a presence there
- HR troubles (as commenter linked to below)
- Indication that money is being spent on paid installs by virtue of placing in the top 100 in Chad and Niger
Kalei Styleguide - Generates bootstrap-like documentation for your own CSS
Every single time I've been offered a job, I received the call within 3 days of interviewing -- usually same or next day.

And with one exception, every time I have not been given an offer, it has either been the silent treatment or they wait until the very last day of time that they said they would give an answer (usually a week).
The submission did not say anything about shilling. Do you have additional information on this case indications she was shilling? Or do you think that all paid editing must be shilling?
I saw the title and thought, "Uh oh."
How much are Path going to charge for their stickers? How many do they expect to sell? Average salary in Indonesia is $3420.

http://data.worldbank.org/country/indonesia
In Path's position what would you do with this capital?
Free speech is only protected from the government. To a certain extent companies and individuals are barred from some types of actions that would prevent your voice from being heard (in the literal or figurative sense). But no company is required to permit all speech via their forums or by any individual person. HN is hosted in the US, but actively attempts to block spam content. Is that hurting the "free speech" of the spammers? Sure, if you're into that sort of thing. But HN has no obligation to give them the opportunity.
I love Dropbox, but a distributed solution like BT Sync or AeroFS is looking more attractive.
I'm not saying it's right for everyone, but I like it.
FCC chairman meets with Oakland community in rare town hall meeting
It's not the obscuration of pedestrians from the driver with the bright lights, it's the obscuration of the pedestrian from the other driver being blinded by the super bright headlights. In the brightness the pupil closes and the driver looses any night vision. If you were approaching this situation from the other direction it could be extremely difficult to see the reverse-spot lighted pedestrians.
Bs2MD9cK9sbm@meltmail.com

Good for 24 hours. Let me know if that doesn't work out.
Downvoted, haha, I guess most people didn't know about Huxley's psychedelic experiments.
What if there is a solution which can teach recruiters about some tech trends (like node.js is Javascript used for backend application development)?
I wonder why they didn't simply downsize on the hosting. I mean if that's a huge part of the operating cost, so much you need to shut down the entire operation, doesn't it make sense to go with a different host? even resorting to a dedicated box or choosing a different cloud provider?

It's really hard to believe because I bet the end user didn't really give a damn about whether it was hosted on amazon or elsewhere. It's also hard to believe why not just outsource the generic stuff. I really don't see anything unique about everpix that a North American can only do and not some guy across the ocean. Was it absolutely necessary to have in-house talent for everything when it was a threat to the continued operation of the company?

I wonder if they were simply bootstrapped and grew as a small business focusing on net profit, would they have made a better decision.
I'm tired of this pseudo-intellectual banter about age and if it matters.

No it doesn't matter. Go out and do what you want!
Pay back the original Path investors $25m.

Pray that the money isn't connected to Suharto[1]'s old boys network and never take a holiday in Asia again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto
This is very insightful. I never really considered the fact that I was crushing cans on the way up but it is definitely true.

I've been tacking towards "out of management" for a few years and it is not easy. Taking a "step down" is hard but only because of my own petty status-seeking and I've gotten past that. What I can't figure out is the salary problem. There are some developers who can get paid as well as I do, but not any in my industry where developers are a pure cost-center - I don't work in a software company. Changing industry with 7 year old tech skills (aside from open-source and side-projects) without taking a huge salary cut is impossible.
Nowadays, no. However legacy systems abound.
Because Path is almost certainly in a death spiral, based based on the layoffs and talent exodus. Because their CEO is Dave Morin, who hasn't done himself any favors by sounding like a huge douchebag [1]. Because they're a social media app on the wane, which is as good as a dead social media app.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/my-phone/2013/03/dave-mori...
Must agree. OP's post barely resembles coherent thought. In most cases like this, people don't tell both sides of the story. If you can't even tell your side effectively, it doesn't bode well.
startpage is just a google proxy to anonymize it, though, so it's not like they can add DCMAed results back in.
What about the _Myriad_ decision? I thought many bio folks found the line drawn there nonsensical and impossible to extend, no?
I would expect the credit card companies would require that they not store the entire card swipe data (or the PIN for that matter).
Imgur is financed by advertising, and they offer pro accounts, admittedly subscribed by a sliver of users only. Revenue per user are orders of magnitude lower than for a for-pay service, but they have far more users. Their servers (and costs) are optimised to serve a limited amount of photo fast, host a little more and serve them not so fast; they most likely have far less photos, at far lower resolutions, than Everpix who hosts entire shooting sets for pro-am photographers.
Google posts all their DCMA takedown notices (which must include the URLs to take down) on https://www.chillingeffects.org/, though, so you can access them anyway.
America does many things well, but it does not do cities well. So many of our "cities" are little more than a glorified suburb ringed by an arbitrary boundary.
No, I'm comparing supercars to other supercars (but not to hypercars like the Venom, Koenigsegg, or Pagani). I don't know what you have in mind for "an awesome car to actually drive" but maybe we are not on the same page here. Something like an Ariel Atom would be a bit cheaper and more fun on the track I guess, but much, much less fun on the street / day-to-day.
Stranded by Sprawl (2013)
Doesn't really matter, because as with violence (or “other forms of violence”, if you prefer), spying isn’t blackmail, even if it might be used to support blackmail.
Better monitors very easily be objectively conceived. Latency, refresh rate, contrast ratio, brightness, input options, are all easily measured.

"Better" monitors are easily found through a simple search, and how do you exactly determine a review to be "non-subjective"?

http://www.displaylag.com/display-database/
http://thewirecutter.com/leaderboard/tvs/
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/a-great-27-inch-lcd-monitor...
I'm not sure that your idea is worth very much. Perhaps they excluded you because you just come up with ideas instead of doing work. I'm not trying to be an ass, I just see a lot of this.
Maybe I don't want food?

http://www.plexisearch.com/?q=chinese
If you are giving chances try http://www.plexisearch.com/
Apparently so. It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. SV, specifically startup culture, is a large part of the tech world, but far from the only portion of it. I suspect the preference for young founders is not being able to "see the world through hacker eyes", but as was suggested earlier the willingness to burn the candle at both ends in order to make a startup succeed to the level that VCs wish. Young people are less likely to have families or an outside life.
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
^C32646111+0 records in
32646110+0 records out
16714808320 bytes (17 GB) copied, 17.881 s, 935 MB/s

Running on the host OS of my laptop.
> "Where the F&^K" does this $100M or $1B business number comes from*

Funding rounds that want to raise millions in VC are for companies that aim to eventually be a $100M business.

A smaller business wouldn’t involve venture capital. And the bank is still a viable option if capital is needed to scale, as long as there is a realistic repayment plan.
I'm assuming ND, MT, and maybe TX are due to the shale oil boom?
Headline writer clearly hasn't met many Oracle programmers.
Alleged Dropbox Hack Could Be A Hoax
It depends on what you guys are talking about.

If you mean "constant" primitives, i.e. things which don't require to expand the language grammar or type system, then it's a question of future prevalence of usage of said primitives. If they become almost ubiquitous to any project, then they obviously need to be included in the standard libs.
If you're talking about a new language feature, that depends on how much that new feature may help design and write future libraries, and also what are the aims of said language. I understand that rust aims to become a safer system language, so any feature helping the design of low level, performance critical code should be welcome.
The fact that (as you point out) those bright blue headlights are especially offensive to many people would suggest that the auto-leveling system is not doing its job.
We do at least know that they use x264: http://x264licensing.com/adopters