skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't track searches,at http://www.plexisearch.com/

And we don't have ads, so there is that too.

We want to make search better. Not out of the goodness of our heart, but because we figure if we do a good job someone will buy us, and then we will get paid, and the bad guys at Google or Bing will at least offer you better results when they are being creepy. That's what it is all about right?

We are about 1% the size of DDG.
Sure - my wording was poor. I mean to say that the women wield enough collective and individual power to ensure that they are not an ignored minority. It's not yet close enough to 50/50, the female voices are clearly central to the group.

Let's remember that this is a journey, that YC seems to be at the forefront of it and we should encourage the progress to date while maintaining high expectations for the future.

Meanwhile there are genuine benefits to being at the forefront of diversity, as it widens the pool of awesome founders.

Moreover other players tend to take note of what YC does, and as the evidence builds this will help change the industry.

This reminds me of the industry groups going after Apple for their manufacturing practises, which turn out to be amongst the best in the game. While I felt that Apple was unjustly accused, they did open their books about their sustainable practices, and that's helped improve industry expectations.
Paid editing by a random person, going to happen, could be a job for people, this is just called writing.

Paid editing by someone with authority over Wikipedia, that is where I think people are going to draw the line.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/16/path-is-raising-50m-at-a-50...

Definitely. They were looking For $50 Million and a lead investor in July.
More rent control doesn't help them. Rent control for everybody means the wealthy pay less on rent too. Rent control for only the poor doesn't work, and Section 8 is too unpopular for them to roll out a widespread program like that for everybody who doesn't work for Google.
Take the salary cut. Consider it paying yourself to do something you love 40 hours a week. That's your life man, that time you spend at work.
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I had a similar experience. I didn't really trash my GPA but saw the writing on the wall starting my third year. I dropped out, withdrawing in time to avoid a semester of bad grades. I worked, got an apartment, lived on my own, and at around age 23 decided I was ready to go back and finish. I often wonder if people would have more success at university if they took a couple of years after high school to go experience the real world and grow up a little.
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It also occurs to me that in the US, k-12 is paid for by local governments via property taxes.
That painted a pretty insightful picture, thank you for posting it!

I was curious because I had heard for quite a number of people who had switched tracks from engineer to management and found it unsatisfying but they didn't go into as much detail as you did in your post.
I am thinking that all super/hyper cars are at least as much about status and exclusivity than about driving. I can respect that, but I question the honesty or sanity of someone who pretends their Ferrari is a fake.
They're the highest iOS grossing social network in Indonesia.
1) They don't build it themselves; to my knowledge they custom order.

2) Nobody printed that paper using a custom Google server.
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If you're single, in tech, and not in NY or SF... you shouldn't have any trouble with housing costs.

Anyway, take a look at Chicago.
Overstock makes $124K from 780 Bitcoin orders a day...
I think you've already made up your mind about PG, and there's nothing I can say that will change that. So I just won't say anything.
I think Amazon should hire US workers
> We should shame them publicly

Don't give them any more attention.
So I suppose you'd rather not wear any bulletproof vest?
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Not saying it's easy or even plausible (though just asking nicely would probably do it for verification). Just that it'd be nice.
> Couldn't the low number of female computer scientists be due to the fact that not many girls are actually interested in such things?

That really doesn't help anything. Why are they not interested? Are you saying something in the core of being a woman makes them not want to code?

> spoon-fed by liberals.

Something something true colors.
I am attending Network Security and Compliance courses and I have in class a 50 and something guy.

At first everyone kind of smiled, but then smiles disappeared, as it turned out he was much better than most in class. Additionally he had a better job than the rest in the class as well.

So I agree, the answer is yes -I guess.
I had a shit experience like that with Google about four or five years ago. They interviewed me on the phone. Then called me in for in-person interview on campus. Then like thirty days went by before I got the reply "No, sorry." It was kind of hell waiting that long to get a no reply.
This is absolutely amazing information. Thank you so much for sharing.
I think some people only see one side of the trade-offs here.

A counter example would be a start-up I worked with that started out on a smaller provider. When we launched a beta of the application, we unexpectedly got invitations for national TV coverage with less than 24 hours notice. We asked the provider for everything they could give us, but they only had a limited amount of unused capacity themselves so there was little they could do. Of course we couldn't come near to soaking up the traffic spike, and lost a huge potential number of positive user experiences.

That sort of thing doesn't happen to you on Amazon or the other largest on demand providers.
ND and MT, probably yes. TX is just TX being awesome.
You imply that all of these people are not members of your same community. They are.

As a result, they can be reasoned with. The politicians are not elected by money alone, but by votes. Convince them that the votes they need will be lacking and they will go your way. The landlords live amongst you; if they don't, again, force the city to pass an ordinance against outsiders owning a disproportionate amount of property.

The police also live amongst you; take action by befriending them. It's much more effective than assuming they are an enemy.
But at that point what is the difference between a macro and a function, from the maintainers' perspectives?

Is it just that, when a maintainer sees a function call it's easier to guess what it does, then when they see the use of a macro?
DDG is much faster than Google for me. All Google services are very slow when I'm logged in. GMail, Google Search, Finance, YouTube, everything. They can take 4-8 seconds to load a page, and sometimes they hang indefinitely.

Incognito mode or a different browser brings Google back to sub-second speeds, but it's frustrating enough that I set DDG as my default so that straightforward searches resolve quickly. I switch over with !g whenever I need better search results, news, etc.
Those titles are so ridiculous, it makes Gawker look worse than Path.
I keep reading comments from this angle, so I'll throw in my 2 cents as an Everpix founder :)

I can assure you that without the facilities of AWS, which saved us a ton of time and development overhead early on, there would have been no Everpix. Period. Actually, the very first Everpix was on Google App Engine, but that's a different story.

As an early stage startup, whose core business is not building infrastructure, do you really want to be in the business of managing for instance your own S3 type storage with the same performance and reliability at 200+ TB scale? We never lost a single user photo or account. Never lost a database server either. When your users trust you with their life photo collection, that does matter.

Then of course, if your company starts gaining traction, your bills increase so things change. As a matter of fact, post Series-A, our plan was to switch out of AWS, concurrently to our infrastructure's redesign to go from managing 100s of million of photos to billions.

Doing the switch earlier would have been premature IMO: there was no one the team with such experience, even less bandwidth. The opportunity cost would have been significant on all the other aspect of the company. Let's not forget the required upfront capital which takes some time to recoup so savings would not kick in from day 1. Finally there's also the fact our infrastructure was still rapidly evolving (type of EC2 machines used, database architecture, etc...), so even buying reserved instances was very difficult as there was a good chance of buying machines we would not need anymore 6 months down the road ultimately wasting money (it did happen).

So what we did instead what focusing on driving continuously driving down AWS costs through various optimizations - if you were to look at our dashboard graphs, you would notice AWS costs were growing slower than users / photos, which reflected that work.

Long story short, the infrastructure was paying for itself through subscription revenues. The real "killer" was payroll. I use quotes because in this type of business, it's expected to have payroll your largest expense - there was no surprise. BTW note that the team was already 1 person = 1 entire product component like iOS or infrastructure so quite lean and highly productive. For a VC backed consumer business, you pretty much need the VC money to cover these fixed costs until you reach profitability.
What is so special about "git merge --abort" and "git rebase --abort"?
How did you get the Proxy Settings screen ? Is that a separate app that you need to install ?
Ah, OK, it sounded like you'd picked Princeton in particular.

And yes, there are substantial differences between the Ivies, and between other "otherwise prominent" institutions. And even within a single school it can fluctuate widely, whether due to trends or chance. For example, http://web.mit.edu/ir/pop/students/diversity.html shows a pretty wide range in African American enrollment numbers at MIT over the last 4 years (ranging from 5.3% to 7.7%) and similar fluctuations for Latinos (but at a much higher base level).

Another confounding factor here is that even though the applicant pools and matriculating classes for these schools have gotten much more national than they used to be, the matriculation demographics still tend to skew somewhat local. MIT, for example, has a disproportionate number of undergrads from Massachusetts: according to http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/geo/ there are 340 of them out of 4080 US students total (8%) this year, while the population of MA, at 6.6 million, is only 2% of the US population. Similarly, http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admi... says Princeton has 204 students from NJ this year, but only 38 from MA, while the population of NJ is only 1.5 times that of MA at most.

Since different parts of the country have different racial breakdowns (MA is 7% African American, not 12%, for example) this complicates any analysis of the goings-on at such schools. :(
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Notwithstanding the Awesome, there is plenty of fracking goin' on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tight_natural_gas_plays_i...
Indeed; it seems people are not even aware of the origin of this 'defence'.

The man accused described his black golf caddy as a friend.
Of course, he was no such thing no matter how cordial their relationship.
"In a nutshell, this coder provides the same level of performance as Arithmetic coder, but only requires additions, masks, and shifts."

Didn't IBM's Q-Coder also make the same claims?

Here's another one: http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/people/official/jarek/courses/7491...
[Everpix founder here] Interesting idea and no we didn't try negotiating with Amazon. Not sure how much room there is here?

However it's important to keep in mind in a situation like this, and at this scale of burn rate, you're not looking for a solution to shave off a few thousands $ left and right, which is kicking the can down the road (if even), but for a long term solution.

The key problem here is that I don't think you can realistically switch a business built on the VC funding track to the bootstrap track without the collateral damage of killing your company's essence i.e. the product.

For instance: when suggesting to have fewer employees, that is implying you have room for that or that your employees are interchangeable, which is far from the truth. It's not like we had 5 tech support people, and we could have downscaled to 3. We had hired quite slowly and were already as lean as it gets i.e. 1 person per project: iOS, Web, Infrastructure, Science, Design, Imaging / QA. All these folks were working at full capacity managing a multi-platform service managing hundreds of millions of full-res photos with ~100 servers, displaying photo collections of 10,000+ photos in very responsive apps, and running cutting edge computer vision science at a scale no other consumer photo startup was doing (the closest was the semantic search in Google+ Photos). You can certainly cut salaries (which we did and only works up to a certain point in the very competitive SV hiring market), but you can't remove positions which would be akin to extending a bridge to nowhere.

Regarding the infrastructure expense, I shared some thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7041640
I think the point is that if DDG doesn't collect certain information then it can't give anyone that information.
Great material for a business school case.
Sure. In general, if you have a time-domain signal (like a music file) you can break it up into little pieces and compute the frequencies in the pieces. For example, you could take a small part of a song, and say "this part of the song is a 400hz sound for 0.3 seconds". This is typically done with an algorith called the fourier transform, which is used to convert between time-domain and frequency-domain signals. However, as you make smaller and smaller time fragments, you pay a cost- less accuracy in the estimate of the frequency (because you have fewer samples to work with).
In general, this relationship could be expressed as "accuracy of frequency * accuracy of time = a constant".

Presumably, what they found is that human's auditory system is not doing simple operation like that but has the ability to pick out frequencies in short time segments (IE, while listening in real time) with better resolution that a short-time fourier transform. IE, somebody could estimate the frequency of a pitch faster than what you'd expect by the equation I gave above.

None of this violates the laws of physics; the ear and brain would just need to do a different type of analysis. Probably more like wavelets.
Excellent question. I don't have a solid answer, but slander and libel claims could form a civil case, while intimidation, physical threats and using social media to extort could be criminal. I would file both a restraining order and a temporary injunction.

Frankly, I'm concerned for small businesses and raise a flag on using reviews as a leading source of authority.

It's a broken system that Yelp (and other intermediaries) should definitely be held accountable for perpetuating.
At Everpix, we were already extensively using spot instances for the vast majority of our EC2 needs (which were pretty intense considering the type of computation and image science we were doing). That did save quite a bit of money when we did the switch and it was easier to do than we expected, so strongly recommended!
All paid editing on Wikipedia is certainly shilling. If it is fair, balanced and notable, why would anyone pay for it? And this case calls for a particularly tough response, since she was part of the foundation and probably had admin access.
I have been using DDG as my starting point for all desktop searches since 2011. I use Safari as my main browser and use the hosts file method to set DDG as my default search[1]. I wish iOS had an option for similar.

Using DDG started off awkward, but the bang syntax is muscle memory now. I would say my breakdown of providers is as follows: !g: 50%, !w: 30%, !gi: 10%, !az: 5%, !yelp: 5%

I never use DDG directly.

[1] https://duck.co/help/desktop/hosts-file
> But I don't know if/how you have that conversation with Amazon.

I do. I've had a conversation like that with Amazon. What I found is the Amazon hosting team is excellent: they moved mountains for my account to get us to success.

The Amazon account exec arranged immediate discounts and bridge services, even working through the holidays, then brought in multiple engineers for phone calls with me to teach me how to optimize our project to cost less to run. Every one of the Amazon people who helped me was 100% on board with finding ways to make the project successful.

That conversation is always worth having with vendors in my experience. They may be able to come up with ideas, or offer rebates, or promotions, or even convertible note financing toward the next fundraising round.
Tap and hold your Wi-Fi network, then select "Modify network". The proxy options are under the advanced options.
Not all women-led companies were started by women, too.
I find it humorous how you are more likely to trust the word of some blackhat organization over that of an established company with a reputation that it needs to uphold. Lying would hurt it eventually. Also, the hackers admitted that they only DDOS'ed the website and made up the bit about the database leak. https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421852503848656898
No marketing campaigns (we spent maybe ~10K on online ads mostly for testing). We did use a national PR firm though for several months and PR contractor for a couple months as well before that.
Well, I think people have different reasons for buying outlandish vehicles. Consider Jay Leno--he doesn't need to roll around in a flashy car to get special treatment or demonstrate his bankroll, but he's really into the wonderful variety of mechanical approaches and different driving experiences. On the other hand, you have people who know nothing about cars or driving, and will never hit the racetrack, who buy a Porsche Turbo or Lamborghini because it's attention-getting and expensive for its own sake.

I don't own a Ferrari, but if I had the means for an expensive track car and a trailer (i.e., nobody would even see me driving it on the street) Ferraris would be on the shopping list. I suppose the purist's solution would be a race-prepped 911 GT3 however.
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I think it's more about first world culture and career opportunities.

Programming (or anything with a keyboard) is not really seen a manly profession in developing countries. Or, to be frank, in the first world countries either.

The difference is that in the first world, the pay increase and quality of life is much greater between say carpenter or fireman vs computer programmer.

I've been in conversations in with high level execs where the disdain for the 'tappy tappy' crew is clear.
I think a concise way to put it is that automatically assuming a man's only reason to defend a woman is to infantilize her infantilizes her. [edit: i know you didn't use the word "infantilize", but that seems to be the gist of the term "white knighting" to me -- the accusation that someone posing as the big strong man is rescuing the weak person]

If most people in a particular population are men and a random set of people come to a woman's defense, she's mostly being defended by men. Don't read too much into it.

edit: I can't reply to you, redthrowaway, so I'll just say that I wonder what the evidence is that these guys defending Ms. Stierch deserve the term "white knight" if it's not a knee-jerk reaction to any man defending a woman. I haven't seen any evidence of "expectation of a sleazy reward" so I question the application of the term. edit2: we probably agree on this particular point. I see that you take exception to the overall rejection of the term, on the grounds that it's possible to apply it correctly. I tend to agree with tptacek that it tends to be overused and incorrectly used, and really wouldn't be unhappy if it just disappeared along with the term "butthurt." :)
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Wow, if your mailbox is like mine, you must hate "reply to all" with equal passion.
This is the best data:
https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence/blob/master/...
I linked some mentoring resources further down, specific to connecting high schoolers with female role models. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7039716)

RailsBridge (http://www.railsbridge.org) is aimed at adult women beginners too.

Technovation Challenge (http://iridescentlearning.org/programs/technovation-challeng...) is a worldwide program for high school girls to develop engineering and entrepreneurship skills. I was a mentor for this locally and it was great fun. Super smart girls.

Little Miss Geek (http://littlemissgeek.org/) runs great workshops in London high schools. A 14 year old girl built an app thanks to inspiration at this workshop and now speaks out publicly about how fun it was. Fantastic role model. (http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/15/b...)

Edit: Also, if you're searching for this topic, "girls in STEM" (or SET, SETI, SEAT, etc) is another great source of resources aimed at encouraging girls in science.

I'm not a parent or teacher, so I'm not in touch with what high schoolers find interesting these days. But imagine if there were a program backed by top VCs getting startup engineers, especially ensuring visible minorities among the bunch, into high schools to break down how their popular apps or games du jour work. Rather than "I want to learn to program, ok, let's print out 'Hello World'", outline the systems thinking behind the apps and services that the audience uses every day. Maybe it could even be effective as an online video series. Maybe it already exists.

Still: There are things we all can do if we actually care about helping change mindsets early on. Even many smart teenage boys (so I am told, see disclaimer above) don't want to go into engineering because it's nerdy and unpopular. We need diversity on the inside, not just on the outside.
Take the money and invest it in Bitcoin.
This meets with my experience, not to mention that north of Amarillo and Midland/Odessa are currently booming, at least as far as can see when I'm out there. Not to downplay the larger cities in the state that are growing.
I'm asking for a 20% increase. (but I was really lowballed in salary negotiations for my current position)