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Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by dematio »

lobotryas wrote: post #4

Fun article and an excellent hack! Any takers to found a startup in order to dive in and disrupt the sex toy industry with some cutting edge innovation? Imagine the millions you'd rake in if you re-invent sex. I'm looking forward to at least one ero-toy applicant in the next round of YC apps.

Going to top incubators with sex related product is tough.

I'm Vibease co-founder. We tried and we keep trying. So far no luck.

This is our pitch: Vibease helps couples to stay intimate, even from a distance. It's a mobile app for couples with personal massager integration.

Note, we didn't even put the word "vibrator". The rest of the story you can find it from here: http://tech.co/vibease-vibrator-app-2012-11

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by ZoFreX »

tankbot wrote: post #89
victorhn wrote: post #84

This is not meant to be a troll post, but just sincere curiosity. From the site "My full name is Micah Elizabeth Scott, but I used to be Micah Dowty prior to Fall 2010. My friends call me Beth." How can a woman who used to be a man can have a vagina? is there some kind of surgery? do you keep your sensitivity to be able to use vibrators?

Micah, though traditionally a male name, is sometimes given to females. There is no reason to assume there was a sex change, maybe she got married or just changed her name.

Frankly I find it rude to speculate. It's none of my business what someone has in their pants, or what they used to have in their pants.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by skrebbel »

georgeorwell wrote: post #178
makomk wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In some people's eyes trans women are objectifying women merely by existing, and those people tend to interpret everything they do through that lens. I'm a bit surprised to see a comment like that on HN though; this particular form of transphobia is basically a radical feminist thing, and I didn't know we had any radfems.

I'm not a radical feminist in the sense of "intercourse is rape" but hmmm... I think I have body modification phobia - so that would include women getting breast implants - and also exhibitionist phobia and also pull-the-wool-over-your-eyes phobia. (Although quite frankly, I wasn't fooled for long just based on the extremely masculine technical writing. I have never read anything that a woman wrote that looks remotel…

Wait, first you say you're irritated that the OP wasn't "open" about being trans (where, I assume, by "open" you mean "announce it inside the very blog post", cause it's pretty obvious from e.g. the contact page).

Then, you say you're annoyed by "queer people making a point about their sexuality". Now, the OP did not make a point about her sexuality in the blog post (1). You complained that she didn't. And then she did anyway? And that annoyed you?

Really, you can be a transphobe all you want and make an idiot of yourself that way, but this is HN, at least think about what you write.

(1) And, by the way, being trans has little to do with sexuality, but ok.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by tathagatadg »

secure communication of Vstorker(see qdot76367 comments) + this hack with video == Sex over IP.

Target customers: long distance couples, virtual sex business. Taking it further: build a Airtime like social network around it.

Revenue stream: from selling the hardware, membership.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by jQueryIsAwesome »

ErrantX wrote: post #165
jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has everything to do with gender, a man hacking a fleshlight would get none or almost none upvotes, I bet it would even get flagged by a few. Its a predictable fantasy of the average reader of HN, the equivalent of a photo of a pretty woman doing charity with a cat in reddit. Is not only the fact that she is a woman, is the surrounding context of a sexual stimulation device that provoque so many upvotes. Personall…

Reading the threads on this page the comments appear genuinely interested in this tech, and related themes. Asking intelligent questions Etc. In fact, the only awkward thread, which seems a little sexist is this one... Food for thought.

I like yor attempt at emotional manipulation, labeling as "awkward" people trying to have a civilized discussion about a strong bias and doble-standard; also calling it sexist when if anything we are asking for gender neutrality wish is the opposite of sexism for all I care.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by Strshps1MoreTim »

daniel-cussen wrote: post #54
mmastrac wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently that word is automatically deleted from titles. Coincidentally, I had just tried submitting an unrelated article about Miiverse drawing detection and had to replace it with "P*nis". http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826621 [edit] I ended up deleting the submission because it turned out to be an Onion-like site.

This has to be because vaginas look like parens (). It's all part of the Lisp Conspiracy!

Or even (()) :D

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by JeremyMorgan »

I clicked on this only because of the extreme curiosity the headline generated. The article did not disappoint.

Easily one of the smartest things I've read in quite a while, and much of the hardware stuff is over my head but wow, color me extremely impressed.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by rdl »

georgeorwell wrote: post #103

Warning: this is not a politically correct viewpoint, but nevertheless it's my perspective. The actual best thing about this post being in first place on Hacker News is not that it's a woman posting but that she has a Y chromosome and most people don't realize it. It's like her recently-acquired vagina is a new laptop to be hacked. It's still objectification of women if you try to turn into one and then objectify you…

I upvoted the post due to the technical content (it is a pretty good and very clear description of the full process of reverse engineering and consumer product modding. It wasn't arduously difficult or technically demanding, but that is a better starting point for competent software hackers getting into hardware.)

The sexual content (in a place like HN) made me uncomfortable; if it had been a post of normal quality I would have flagged it.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by rdl »

georgeorwell wrote: post #178
makomk wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In some people's eyes trans women are objectifying women merely by existing, and those people tend to interpret everything they do through that lens. I'm a bit surprised to see a comment like that on HN though; this particular form of transphobia is basically a radical feminist thing, and I didn't know we had any radfems.

I'm not a radical feminist in the sense of "intercourse is rape" but hmmm... I think I have body modification phobia - so that would include women getting breast implants - and also exhibitionist phobia and also pull-the-wool-over-your-eyes phobia. (Although quite frankly, I wasn't fooled for long just based on the extremely masculine technical writing. I have never read anything that a woman wrote that looks remotel…

Jeri Ellsworth and Limor Fried (ladyada) write similarly to this, are both female, and tend to be awesome. And Joanna from Blue Pill. Plus a bunch of female phd students, university post docs, and industry people.

I think what you read as "masculine tech writing" is just competence. True, there are a lot of incompetent female tech people who write, but 3-7x more incompetent men who write (due to overall prevalence of men in tech).

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by mikeash »

twowaway wrote: post #171
mikeash wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's her middle name. Not uncommon to go by one's middle name.

I appreciate your stubborn loyalty, it's commendable and, in a way, cute. In this case you're wrong though: http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/5150806818/in/photos... http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/4698425505/in/photos... http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/4371698700/in/photos... (Just a few self-photos from Beth's public Flickr stream; all pics are work-safe. This is an extremely cool hacking arti…

Nothing to do with loyalty. I just legitimately don't see how one gets from that name change to deciding there must have been a sex change. Knowing that the conclusion was correct doesn't help with that, but it's still good to know, so thanks!
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