Suitov's comments

Yes, it's sexist, and it's pretty confusing UI when in other contexts they're using their newer arrow-boxy form fill icon. Nothing about two humans says 'fill forms' to me. I don't think you'll get anywhere with Joe from Support, though, and probably not with largely-male HN.

Yeah, I suppose I'll take non-serious spam over self-important spam. It's easier to filter if I'm not in the mood.

How many what?

My employer has to nag me every year to use up my leave days. If they don't, I forget! I'm on the autistic spectrum and easily get caught up in routine.

Generally I use holiday time strictly for relaxation and enjoying being at home.

I go for 64 as a default length, but it's surprising how many sites respond with "No! You can't havee more than 8/10/12 characters or I'll sulk!" Makes me extremely suspicious re: just how they're storing them.

Damn, I really should have thought of this when switching over to my current password manager. Upvoted and soon to be put into action!

I may have to cancel my monthly RSPCA donation so I can pay for my house. That'd be sad.

I see an upvote arrow next to comments and stories, and I'm a very infrequent poster with next to zero karma.

No idea how to tell if my upvotes 'count' or not.

I like NewsBlur's training feature that lets me block things I hate. This poll has convinced me to give Digg a go, though. Thanks guise.

I actually read HN through the RSS feed, which I assume contains everything posted. The noise-to-signal ratio is high, but I've had some luck training my RSS aggregator to hide anything related to startups. After that, I actually click on maybe 1 link in 5 (very rough guess, could be fewer than that).

Oh hell, is it? Quite often I'm short on cash and just tip with the change I have - not tiny-denomination coins, I hasten to add, but 50ps/£1s. Bugger.

I need to do more. I've made some steps towards doing most of my browsing over Tor (because it's no use if you /only/ use the proxy when you're doing embarrassing stuff!) and I plan to start encrypting my email using Ars's guide (http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/encrypted-e-mail-how...)

At the moment I'm afraid I still use Gmail. I'm a real newb at this.

Very definitely years. It wasn't just for finished programmes (i.e. ~ number-of-channels*24 hours of footage/day): it was for all rushes. All the footage that was filmed in the course of making the final programme.

We're talking stupid quantities of data here and I've never seen a detailed answer to how it was all supposed to be stored.

Yes. "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." I don't know what US telly news covers, but this is by no means a niche story.

HN is being swamped here and IMO it's degrading the impact of the story. I'd appreciate fewer, but more detailed/technical/analytical links.

I wave!

>I've appreciated my time on HN specifically because I notice many replies to "inflamed" speech specifically eschew further inflammation and focus on the mindful discussion. Bravo.

I, too. It's almost like my IRL workplace, but with loads more techie clued-up people. And IRL, I very much enjoy working in a context in which there are very few alpha males, Insanity Wolves and Ayn Rand readers.

Now, personally, I do my best to be avoidant or calmly assertive when someone I meet annoys me, and I mentally file people who throw chest-beating tantrums under "giant baby" and avoid them on the assumption that instability implies unreliability and they wouldn't be pleasant to work with. Fundamental attribution error be damned, one blow-up is one too many for me to feel at ease around someone. So that tells you something about my personal definition of unacceptable behaviour, I suppose.

My answer is: sort of. I use the same username across several services - it's unique, it's short and it's mine, and in the internet scheme of things it's unequivocally associated with my real name.

That said, do I bother filling in my real name on every site to which I sign up? No. Because I don't use Facebook signle sign-in and nobody implements OpenID these days.

Upvoted, even though I'm in the "get out!" brigade. It's hard for us to have perspective and we'll never have the full story.

All the same, a lot of us have experience falling prey to a sunk cost fallacy/gambler's fallacy situation, and I think anyone advising the OP to leave based on that has their heart in the right place.

TL;DR: advice from people on the internet is best ingested with a keg or two of salt.

Get out. Your co-founders sound like hucksters and you're in the grip of the gambler's fallacy. The longer you wait the worse the inertia and eventual pain will be. Take the hit, walk away and make use of the positive things that came out of this: your skills, and the experience that will help you not get fooled again.

Opportunity for advancement. And money. More than that, I'd be looking for a company that was amazing at staff development, really cared for its staff and stood up for them, and furthermore a company doing something I can believe in; I currently at a place that does public service work and that's not unimportant to me.

I know the above is virtually all soft stuff, compared to the money and autonomy-related options in the question, but having worked in places where I felt valued and supported, and in places where I felt ignored and mistrusted, it's important.

But, um, why do you assume people are clicking "other" for fun and not clicking "female" or "male" for fun? Do you have data about people's reasons for clicking? Is there some data on HN's readers' gender distribution with which you can disprove - oh wait, that's what this poll was intended to provide...