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Re: Ask HN: Women who've applied to YC?

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jedwhite wrote: post #6

Not me. Co-founder (3-person team) is @mediamum who is doing a PhD as a Research Assistant at the School of Computer Science at CU (alum include David Morin from Facebook and Woz). She's doing research into the use of social media for crisis communications (hurricanes, wildfires etc) in the Crisis Informatics Lab there. Doesn't hang out on HN so much (must be startup and PhD getting in the way). Interestingly, Woz go…

> She's doing research into the use of social media for crisis communications (hurricanes, wildfires etc) in the Crisis Informatics Lab there.

Oh, interesting. Do you know if she did any research into the use of Twitter etc for communication after the recent earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand?

Re: Ask HN: Women who've applied to YC?

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Post by iamelgringo »

helwr wrote: post #17
iamelgringo wrote: post #9

My wife and I are applying for this winter session. She's been co organizing the Hackers and Founders SV, SF and Berkeley meetups with me for the past 9 months. And, she's the primary reason that our membership has tripled in the last 9 months. She works quietly in the background and makes everything run like clockwork. I've recruited her as my co founder for several years. And, she just signed on three months ago. W…

the search doesn't return anything on Goog. pls fix

I hear ya. It's an alpha that we just released last week. We have a _lot_ of work to do before it becomes actually useful. Thanks for the feedback, though.

Re: Ask HN: Women who've applied to YC?

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Post by iamelgringo »

limedaring wrote: post #41
nkassis wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's pretty cool. If my current idea fails, I'd like to come with something me and my wife can do. It probably would have to be something related to books if someone has an idea ;p

I think my boyfriend and I would kill each other if we ever started a company together, even though we have really complimentary skill sets. Oh well.

Had we tried this 10 years ago, we would have killed each other. We've been married for years, so we've had a lot of time to work the kinks out of our working relationship.

Re: Ask HN: Women who've applied to YC?

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Post by johnyzee »

Female wrote: post #20
bkrausz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I ask why you're hiding your gender on HN? I know of many potential reasons, just curious what yours is.

Honestly? You're all so anti-sexist it sickens me. Whenever a female posts, you put away the boxing gloves and take out the kid skin gloves. The only people that actually say negative things are the unapologetic sexists, and no, I don't like that either. But it doesn't bother me as much. So it might just be my imagination, but just to be safe I prefer to be one of the guys for my recreational forum activities.

Refreshing viewpoint. As a woman in this kind of community you it would be difficult to avoid special treatment, for better or worse, and it definitely takes focus away from whatever it is we come here to accomplish.

Re: Ask HN: Women who've applied to YC?

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Post by pmjordan »

Not this time, but applied with a female cofounder previously. (no interview, pretty sure it was a combination of technically unproven idea and no terribly impressive achievements between us so far; also, lame video) The application wouldn't really have improved much at this point, as developing the product part-time didn't work out (too many distractions from consulting customers). Instead we've been focusing 100% on consulting to get some cash to keep us going, now transitioning to 100% product dev. Might apply again once we get some traction with a beta.

Re: Ask HN: Women who've applied to YC?

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Post by iamelgringo »

PStamatiou wrote: post #59
iamelgringo wrote: post #9

My wife and I are applying for this winter session. She's been co organizing the Hackers and Founders SV, SF and Berkeley meetups with me for the past 9 months. And, she's the primary reason that our membership has tripled in the last 9 months. She works quietly in the background and makes everything run like clockwork. I've recruited her as my co founder for several years. And, she just signed on three months ago. W…

I had a thread about moving to SF on HN back in May. Jonathan personally reached out to me offering help finding a place, introductions to other like-minded folk, help finding a job, etc. Went to one of his H&F's earlier in the summer. Fantastic person. Thanks again!

Awe shucks. You're going to make me blush. :)

Silicon Valley needs more people like you. I'm more than happy to help in whatever little way I can.

Re: Ask HN: Women who've applied to YC?

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Post by anigbrowl »

philwelch wrote: post #57
anigbrowl wrote: post #42

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You don't meet each other's needs and you both know it. Deal with it now, or deal with it later: no blame, that's just how it goes sometimes. If you would cheat on him, then you want something he doesn't provide, but just lack confidence in your ability to find what he does provide somewhere else. This sub-thread exists only because it's an issue persistent enough in your life that you need to get it off your chest s…

If you would cheat on him, then you want something he doesn't provide, but just lack confidence in your ability to find what he does provide somewhere else. Please just knock off the amateur psychiatry. Human beings aren't naturally wired to be monogamous[1]; that's why cultures have to exert tons of social pressure on people to be monogamous. Wanting to have sex with people who aren't your partner doesn't mean somet…

Cheating is a breach of trust. Had I meant monogamy, I would have said so.

Re: Ask HN: Women who've applied to YC?

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Post by pmjordan »

aspir wrote: post #45
gruseom wrote: post #35

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I'm pretty sure YC make a point of responding to all the applications, so this was likely a technical glitch. For example, I distinctly recall that the response we got ended up in my Spam folder.

Because of this post I jumped to my spam filter immediately (applied this round). No updates from YC, but I could have been a millionaire in Hong Kong, Nigeria, and Costa Rica :)

Unless they've changed it, you'll only receive the invitation/rejection via email, questions and other feedback before this are delivered via the HN UI (in the coloured bar at the top).

Re: Ask HN: Women who've applied to YC?

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Post by philwelch »

anigbrowl wrote: post #77
philwelch wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you would cheat on him, then you want something he doesn't provide, but just lack confidence in your ability to find what he does provide somewhere else. Please just knock off the amateur psychiatry. Human beings aren't naturally wired to be monogamous[1]; that's why cultures have to exert tons of social pressure on people to be monogamous. Wanting to have sex with people who aren't your partner doesn't mean somet…

Cheating is a breach of trust. Had I meant monogamy, I would have said so.

You seem to be implicitly assuming that everyone can resist temptation through sheer force of will. Even if you're that way, a lot of people aren't; they have to carefully engineer temptation out of their lives. (There's a known cognitive bias for assuming everyone else is psychologically like yourself, but for the life of me I can't remember what it's called right now.)

Re: Ask HN: Women who've applied to YC?

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Post by ig1 »

Female wrote: post #20
bkrausz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I ask why you're hiding your gender on HN? I know of many potential reasons, just curious what yours is.

Honestly? You're all so anti-sexist it sickens me. Whenever a female posts, you put away the boxing gloves and take out the kid skin gloves. The only people that actually say negative things are the unapologetic sexists, and no, I don't like that either. But it doesn't bother me as much. So it might just be my imagination, but just to be safe I prefer to be one of the guys for my recreational forum activities.

I don't know about others but I don't generally associate a gender with poster's nick unless they're very well known.

As a case in point, it wouldn't have occurred to me that the OP (limedaring) was female if I saw her posting in another thread, even though I recognize her name from elsewhere and could tell you she was female if I thought about it.

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