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There is a very thin line between being a feminist and being an asshole. The problem with these women, who claim to be angered by women being treated as objects is that they don't identify the real problem.

Women are attracted to men and men are attracted to women. This is basic nature and no one can change it. Using either to sell a product is not exactly sexism. For example, many deodorants use both male and female models to promote their products.

Sexism in my definition would be when given the same opportunity, when one gender is being paid or treated better than another gender, that would be sexism, because someone is being treated unfair.

What hypermac (the company in question) did was not wrong. They hired models who were for god's sake ready to do it. They were ready to accept money and stand nude on their product exhibit. It would have been unfair if they were treated unfair, or against their will, none of which had happened.

The real problem about women being objectified is that women are ready to be objectified - either for money or for some other form of compromise. This is the real problem. As long as such women exist, the product makers and corporations would obviously use them. So, if you want this to stop, you have to revolt when someone from your own gender (male/female) is ready to represent your gender infront of a public audience and accept to be objectified for money. Don't go after the corporation that hired them, instead ask these people why they let them objectify you, on behalf of you/your gender in the first place. This is the real problem.

I love the way that these rogue women go after men (and vice versa) only because they want an apology to feel superior and write a blog post about it.

I think it must have been a great marketing campaign for HyperMac and the guy was right - These people deserved no apology for this particular event and this particular event alone (please don't generalize this conclusion).

There's a great saying - Any publicity is good publicity. I hope these feminists realize this and stop fucking themselves up like this, publicly.
as boshea mentioned, I decided to leave to start my own company. My next post will definitely explain things in a bit more detail, so stay tuned!
"How did this even get started?"

Well, the Hacker News guidelines[1] say:

> Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

This rule is frequently violated, because a lot of the times the original title is bad. So submitters that are used to reddit re-title the link, sometimes for worse and sometimes for the better.

But HN is pretty strict about the title rule, so they get edited back to the original pretty quickly.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I've seen some sites overriding context menus to provide their own copy/paste commands (for unknown reasons, probably to change the look). In doing so, they remove all the options browser puts in there.

For example, right now in Opera I have 17 entries in context menu when clicking on a empty spot on the page, 9 entries when clicking on selected text and 15 entries when clicking inside text edit field and yet another set when clicking on a link. Some of the options control behaviour of the browser, some deal with current page, some deal with specific page element. If HN wanted to use context menus for some app-specific reason, all of those options would be wiped out (at least for affected elements) because the app would be in direct conflict with the browser.

Touch events are often another casualty -- sometimes they are commands to the OS (swipe to change active desktop), sometimes to the browser (pinch to zoom), sometimes to the app (drag to drag around a map, or maybe pinch to zoom?).

Additional layers always introduce problems and cause things at the end of the chain to have worse UX or adapt by using lowest common denominator. A crazy example: gmail running in browser running in windows running in a windows VM running on a mac machine which is remotely connected via VNC from an android tablet. >:D Android -> VNC app -> OSX -> VMWare -> Windows -> IE -> GMail app. Ok, this doesn't illustrate much besides the point that browser _is_ an element of input chain (that makes a disproportionate effect on UX too -- the other links are at least trying to be transparent), I just like the idea. :)
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Agreed. Something seems off about this post. Having worked at Google and also having founded multiple startups, I understand the allure of startups. However, I have to say that in my experience, no one leaves a job that they are perfectly happy with in order to found a startup.

The decision to found a startup comes from a deep dissatisfaction with the status quo. Either because there is a problem you are so passionate about solving that you are willing to drop everything, or because you are dissatisfied with your existing work environment, and want to try to create your own.
Hey, I'm not exactly sure what auth code are you talking here, I've sent you an email, can you please explain that part a bit. Thanks ;)
Wow, terrible precedent being set here. Now any France based startup that wants to take on Google with their own media linking service will be overwhelmed by fees before they can even get up and running. I really wish Google hadn't caved to these demands...
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Cue the usual slew of comments stating "I have a hard time seeing how this is sexism."

Really, there's no need to post these types of stories on HN anymore. The discussion always goes the same way - lots of heated argument, no open discussion, no admission of vulnerability.

Very few men are willing to question the power structure they've been brought up in. If you're born at the top, why bother to question the system?

[EDIT: yeah, I'm grumpy about this today.]
[Further edit: when I first posted this my karma was 1129 - let's see where it stands at the end of the day.]
Denmark doesn't have Euro.
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From a customer point of a view, I think it is a great idea! I think this idea would work even better in China. In China, people collect a lot of receipts so that they can get reimbursements form their work place. My family is doing it right now. We save all of receipts. One thing I find really annoying is that overtime, the ink on the receipt will faint away and then you won't be able to read anything. Also of course, there are problems like easy to get lost and no backup receipt. Your idea would save all of my problems. In fact, I really like how when I buy things online I get an electronic copy of the receipt. One suggestion would be that it will be good to have a separate email account for it so it won't spam my personal email account.
>I am not sure what Mobile OS/browser gives acces to the camera control

All modern mobile browsers do.

>but Instagram does more than takes a picture.

Be more specific then, I assumed that's what you thought couldn't be done. Tell me what it is you think can't be done so I don't have to guess.
It's inexcusable from a PR standpoint. It's sad to think how much more love they could have received from the community.
no remote? :(
You probably have your email connected to a gravatar account with your picture.
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Aaaand, cue the throng of straight, white, upper middle class males, who'll post a hundred aggressive comments like "stop being oversensitive".
The resources the welfare state are spending are going towards housing, food, health care and disability for a certain percentage of Sweden's population.

When Gunnar Mogensen says 'We can't afford it' I think he is really saying 'we can't afford to feed, house and care for 100% of our people'.

Am I the only one that was irked by the article glancing over the fact that some percentage of Sweden's people are becoming far less economically secure?

Making life really good for a small percentage of your people is an easy, solved problem. All you have to do is use government to shave away resources from the majority and pocket them. Even the dictator of North Korea can do this.

Making life good for 100% of the people is an incredibly hard problem to solve.

My problem with articles like this one is that they don't really think throwing some percentage of the people over board and saying good luck is a problem.

Sometimes they make utilitarian arguments. I find these unconvincing based on the data.
Could you clarify? I'm genuinely curious about how you would do that.
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Women are bodies, among other things. They can pose for a display for tech junk without giving up other aspects of their humanity. In other words they are not reduced to being bodies, they are just choosing to express that facet of themselves. Tomorrow they'll show off some other aspect.

Edited to add: I'm good friends with a model. She does stuff like this for fun.
> The real problem about women being objectified is that women are ready to be objectified

Root cause analysis, please. Five why's. You've answered one.
totally agree dlevine - in my case, life events happened that make me rethink my risk tolerance and ability to go for my dreams (read my prior post for more context)
She should check her math...10% of your total salary is quite different from 18% of a meal check.
Eh, I would say everyone has the right to feel however they wish; be it happy, sad, angry, or even offended.

Now, you are not entitled to have other people care about your emotions, but that is rather a separate issue. If you feel they haven't adequately defended their reaction you are of course free to disagree, but your right to disagree should not be misconstrued as a lack of a right to be offended on their part.
I'm genuinely confused by this. Declare a brand then sell it?
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No, but he has a bachelor's in physics along with his business degree. And from personal experience I can say that if you hang around enough with engineers you pick up a lot of things.
From what I understand F# works on mono and the F# MS team actually puts in effort to make sure it does. Though for whatever reason mono just isn't that good at running F# code. Maybe it is a weak GC or lack of ability to optimize the code patterns F# produces, I don't know. It is slower than F# on CLR.

Given that, library access and ability to thread are the two big things it is going to have over Ocaml. Cleaner syntax when compared to Ocaml too. Haskell, not much.
The Danish DKK is closely tied to the exchange rate of the euro (+- 2.25 pct) due to being a part of ERMII, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Exchange_Rate_Mechanis...
Noticed that and was glad to see I wasn't the only one. Was it done by an admin? If it was, they need to take a cue from reddit admins.
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Sorry to offend {sarcasm} but a 12 min app shouldn't cover all that should be offered. Although I do think two week sprints and user testing could help with this process.
Please be specific. I don't feel like guessing what you mean.
>> The important thing <<

Is stated in plain sight - twice - on the overview page.
The GNUist vision was developed before the web. It doesn't really address the situation where computers are networked.

If you send a message to my computer, and my computer sends a response (or no response), how does that relationship justify your access to the source code of my computer even under the most liberal interpretation of GNUist principals?

Assuming of course that software on my computer is not GNUist. And even if it were GNUist, should I be required to notify you of that with each transaction to make you aware that you may modify the code with which you are interacting? I'll skip the logical extension of GNUist thought to the point where you can modify GNUist code on my computer.

GNU was designed around single computer, multiple users. But today's world is single user, multiple computers. The pressing problems of that world are different than those from the days of dumb terminals even if those problems are a result of the success of the dumb terminal era solutions.
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Instead of trying to move to USA for a job and facing the H1-B cap and all the legal hassle, why don't you try Canada instead. There are no arbitrary Visa caps in Canada. It is easy to get immmigration once you have a job in Canada and generally you will find lots of software developer jobs in Canada.
The more I think about that statement the less sense it makes to me.

Why does being born a certain gender make one less likely to do something negative either to their own gender or the other gender?

If we take your statement at face value then we have to make a whole bunch of assumptions that make little sense to me (e.g. that people have the same opinions of what is sexist, that all women are "sensitive" to such issues, that women never actively take part in sexism of women on purpose, that women being sexist to men doesn't exist, etc).

So yeah... I'm going to go ahead and say that that statement is just false unless you can show me something that indicates it is true.

Women are people. People are "sexist." More or less likelihood of such sexism is hard to track because there is no fixed definition (or "line") of sexism its self, nor is there an easy way to /prove/ that someone is or isn't sexist/being sexist.
Bravo Sir/Madam ;-)

Reminds me of a friend who had "X's hobbies include lying about his hobbies, lists, and the Oxford comma." on his CV.
The investigation was launched due to Path uploading people's entire address book to their servers with out the user's permission.

I have little sympathy that such a casual disregard to customer's privacy would come to bite them in the ass multiple times.
I think you give to much credit to the manufacture of academic sausage. It seems pretty clear - and supported by people close to the academic journal industry - that most of the cost is straightforward rentier capitalism just crying out for disruption.
Well done. One nit. The IDE interaction is annoying.
> Further edit: when I first posted this my karma was 1129 - let's see where it stands at the end of the day.

And you were doing so well until then…
Yes, of course that's enough, if the team/market/idea/timing is right.

The praise was just so effusive it sounded like many of the aspects that make being a founder attractive – autonomy, creativity, and impact – were still being well-provided at Google. I'll be interested to see the startup he builds, when it de-cloaks.
"Its public debt fell from 70% of GDP in 1993 to 37% in 2010"
Talk about selection bias. For those interested in the real stats (using a not so great but still functional UI), check out http://www.scb.se/Pages/SSD/SSD_TreeView____340506.aspx?Expa...

In the early nineties, financial hardship hit Sweden. It was mostly because of irresponsible loan policies and having a fixed exchange rate to the best of my understanding. One can make analogies to the sub-zero mortgages here.

"Sweden has also put its pension system on a sound foundation, replacing a defined-benefit system with a defined-contribution one and making automatic adjustments for longer life expectancy." Right. Ask my grand-parents who has paid high taxes for most of their life to finance their pension how much they enjoy their cut pensions. And ask them what they feel about going to an elderly home run by an off-shore investment firm that receives a fixed amount of tax money per senior citizen in their care, thus having a reason to lower the expenses as much as possible to maximize profit. It's a company after all.

"the country was demoted from being the world’s fourth-richest in 1970 to 14th-richest in 1993, when the average Swede was poorer than the average Briton or Italian" Yeah, but you really didn't have to pay for much back then, or pay much for something. Wealth is relative. Also, again with the early nineties...

IMO, some things in a society should be public. Health-care and infrastructure shouldn't really be run for profit. I've got some stories regarding that, but it's Friday evening so CYA.
True, but our currency is tied to the Euro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_krone#Relationship_to_t...
Sexism in both?
HyperMac's response was certainly accusatory, which is probably not good for anyone.

But what if they had just said "We believe our display was not sexist, and we won't be changing anything." Is that any better than "We acknowledge that you think our booth was sexist, and we support anti-sexism in tech, but our display was not sexist and we're not going to change anything" ?

The former at least seems honest, the latter condescending.
> The rallying cry "do it for [person]" is usually only effective at rallying the troops who are already on your side, not convincing the other side.

As it turns out, there's not just your side and the other side. There's also the side of people who are largely undecided, and don't realize just how broken the system is. "Do it for [person]" lets them know there's a problem.
Love this. At the very least, you get a +1 from me.
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I think both of those would be better than their actual response, which was accusatory and hostile.
I think he means "I think I'm going to get downvoted by a lot of privileged dudes", rather than "I'm gonna get mad points from this!"
I'm new around here, and I've got to say, this thread has really let me down. All these definitions of feminism and sexism that seem to have been taught by straight white fathers to their straight white sons.
A controversial suggestion:

Mention a small indicator ('*' or '~') below or after a renamed title, clicking on which will show a log of the original title, the name of the admin who made the change and a footnote.
Taking money for something does not mean that you're comfortable with it, that you're not being exploited (unknowingly or not), that what you did was right, that you understand the context of your actions, etc. Being a man or woman does not mean you speak for all men or women.
Given that not everyone from every single country has answered this survey the results can't possibly be right. And it also needs different fields and stages and 'Yes' and 'No'.
Completely agree, because it's totally meaningless. I would much rather see LinkedIn focus more on Recommendations, which are the real prize.