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fun trick. buy your friends name in a new gTLD like frankjones.hiphop /build fun website on said domain/buy google adwords for friends name and direct to site. tell friend to google their name.

great for birthday pranks.

I think this is a great sign- there have been so many stories of teenagers committing suicide from public ridicule on the Internet, FB is really helping their users by creating a safer and nicer place to exist online without fear of cyber bullying by taking this action and really devoting resources to save lives.

EXACTLY! more benefits for family planning are a great thing for everyone!

Do you like eating salad for lunch? which was a leading question because after I said yes the person interviewing me said, oh good because we are more salad type people here.

sorry you have faced so much discrimination as a white man. I hope one day that changes.

Hi,

I love your website- the logo is amazing!! who designed it?

>> https://prism.com/

accept it and move on. Most of my friends have over 100k worth of debt from undergrad so it seems pretty normal to me. I'm sure your familiar with a lot of things that are different for most people.

no- check out the muse's yc app https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-muses-successful-applicat...

Fascinating dive into the data-really appreciate the sentiment analysis of comments made about women and diversity.

mail chimp also....MOVABLE INK. really cool company that can do real time animations and videos in emails. https://movableink.com/

within many anonymous forum networks there are sub groups specifically catered to the mens rights activists crowd and other groups of male internet comrades who do terrible things like threaten emma watson with releasing nude photos of her because she had the guts to speak up for women's rights.

The entire internet is not a 'hackers against women' online community because more than 50% of internet users are women.

Everything else you've said is so insanely misogynist there is no point in addressing it. Just so you know, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. You are the troll. You are what keep women from participating on forums like this. Try to stop holding women to standards of social responsibility and start holding yourself accountable for why we feel so threatened online.

To be clear- I AM NOT saying that reddit or 4chan supports these communities. I love reddit. I just think it's time we stop saying well it's the "internet" so trolls will be trolls and women just have to 'deal' with it.

We can say 'no, this is unacceptable behavior' and not allow violent threats against women to be tolerated on the platforms that we love.

What role do anonymous forums play in the macro problem of the lack of female leadership? A big one.

We, as a community of innovators, need to stop these online communities of 'hackers against women' from existing because their threats, like the nude leaking of emma watson photos, prevent women from being public figures, starting companies and sadly participating in a huge chunk of the internet. Read below an excerpt from the article:

"Those three problems — women being threatened, women being pressured to change their own behavior to avoid sexual assault, and women being told that they don't deserve protection unless they stay pure and ladylike — are all individually terrible. But together, they add up to something even worse: a vicious cycle that pressures women out of public life. When we tell women that the threats and attacks they experience are their own fault, for failing to be sufficiently chaste or failing to take "responsible" precautions, we are telling them that they are on their own: that they cannot rely on society's protection against those crimes. How many women hear that message and decide that they have no choice but to give up that activist campaign or to turn down that higher-profile job or to hold off on writing that article? How hard will it be for UN Women to recruit its next Goodwill Ambassador?"

Yes, you want to prove to your users that you understand the problem and that you are the solution. You can be the solution without the product by helping them best use the traditional system you are trying to disrupt. Grab a good community of beta users and hook them into your market research. We started with a survey then a phone call and now we take them to coffee to really know what their needs are. As we build product, we're testing our UI and UX with these initial users heavily involved in our market research. We've found that they are more likely to provide feedback because we're truly building a product specific to their needs. Demonstrate you can solve their problem however you can then build the product of their dreams.

why is this even on hacker news? posts like these are so discouraging for women like myself trying to get more involved in this community.