skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I just disagree with your interpretation of Richards' response. If you were made to feel that horrible chill while you were sitting in a professional space, if you thought about it and realized that the ones making you feel so uncomfortable really shouldn't behave that way in this environment, would you not have the right to speak up for yourself and say, "Hey, this is inappropriate, it's wrong, and it's not fair for these people to be making this space uncomfortable in this way?"

Maybe we just have to agree to disagree. That said, I'm sorry you got picked on, stranger. Fucking sucks, doesn't it? That shit's toxic, and it fucks with your head for a very long time. I am sending you an imaginary virtual hug.
Because it supports the theme of her consultancy and has proven to be effective in generating potential leads. There will always be people who agree with her version of events, not bother to dig further, and she will benefit financially.

That is the primary reason her response to the comments was an 8 instead of a 2. It's her business.

Think of it as the equivalent of you linking to your github repos or your essays on developer collaboration.
I'm not commenting on the "getting fired" part. That's a tricky decision, but keep in mind the people in question were there as "Evangelists". Which means you really want to watch what you say.

If you spoke about the cool Mexican restaurant during the presentation, I'd sure as hell call you out on it. But it's still different from the jokes in that it doesn't make anybody feel excluded. Sexual jokes do - they signal clearly to women that they are an entertainment object.

I'd equally call you out if you'd make jokes about other minorities. And honestly, nobody thinks racist jokes are appropriate - why do people still believe sexist jokes are cool?
Just FYI this can be interpreted as a physical threat against Adria. Probably not what you meant and you might want to revise.
I'm sad you got fired, however, that was clearly no one's doing but your own employer, not the person who tweeted and not the Con. If you are as good an employee as you have described, then firing you, is the sign of a bad employer and you are better off not working for them any more.
I know people who don't particularly enjoy what they do, despite being good enough at it to be in the six-figure bracket. They enjoy the six-figure lifestyle and tolerate their work, rather than doing work they love and living a poorer lifestyle. Swings and roundabouts - do what brings the most happiness overall to your life.
pyCon clearly set their expectations for their guests during this event. I think if the "community" has such a large issue with it, they can stop attending conferences that don't adhere to their social expectations. (pyCon would not get any smaller though)
Given the massive government subsidies, they were probably selling below cost.

Hopefully the market recovers and we continue to see prices come down in double-digit percentages each year. With every price drop, the return on solar installations grows and the business model of companies like SolarCity grows more viable.
Did everybody forget that Google owns Motorola Mobility?
It ties into Google Now. It's already super convenient for me. Swipe up "Google, note to self, pick up milk". Now I have a TODO.

Combine that with what Google already knows (that I leave work at 5 and drive within half a mile of a grocery store), think about the intelligence they could bring to my Todo list.

(I know lots of people aren't going to like the privacy implications, my comment isn't meant to apologize or touch on that aspect)
Read the Startup Field Guide
Some amazing content in here.

Love the talk on how the internet works, it's a great intro for people who are getting into the web.

Getting started with automated testing is a great intro for that subject as well.

Also, kudos to the Pycon video team for getting these videos up less than a week after the conference!

Note: Looks like the videos are still being uploaded.
Google Reader had an easy and clear migration path to export your data. I can't understand why people keep bashing Google for it. Just take your data to somewhere else. If tomorrow Keep goes away they'll do the same.
I am seriously saying that I have talked with people who have been made uncomfortable by sexual jokes in non-sexual contexts, and that they have told me that part of their discomfort came from fear. Fear that they were in a situation where sexual harassment or sexual assault was a sudden possibility.
If the writer was a true independent consultant, they realize their bosses are their clients, regardless of gender, if you cant make them happy you will be out of work. If she comfortable enough to be catty and bring emotion into their business, they will not be an independent consultant for long. Suck it up
I was going to let your comment slide until I saw your followup 'downvote' comment below.

> The fact is, the way language is interpreted by the listener is far more important than how it was meant by the speaker.

This is absurd to the point that I call Poe's Law.

Nearly ALL language can be "offensive" in some way shape or form. Someone saying they are "offended" literally means nothing. Intent matters. A lot.

Now, couple intent with offense and you have something.

To make up something completely on the spot, imagine it is an equation: offended = O, not offended = NO, intended offense = IO, no intended offense = NIO.

NO + NIO = most civil dialogue.

O + NIO = mistake. Someone should speak up and say something.

O + IO = someone being a jerk, actively trying to hurt someone.

NO + IO = someone trying to be a jerk, the other person realizing it and not letting them do it (among other options here).

What happened here was O + NIO. No mature, rational person's first reaction in that situation is to go nuclear. A mature, rational person will A. ignore it and move on B. explain their offense C. note it, mull it over, look for future conversation to explain their side D. ignore it but use it as a teaching tool (in the abstract) if they have a platform (among other options, but those encompass most. How one chooses to react depends on many variables). Now, if someone takes the time to be mature and rational and actually explain their offense AND THEN the other side continues, well, then the equation has changed. What should have happened (best case) would be a civil dialogue explaining the offense. What should have happened (bare minimum) was anonymous reporting to pycon. What should not have happened was what happened.

So, to sum it up, someone's interpretation is only one side of the equation. To say it is "far more important" is, frankly, absurd.
And the nice thing about gmail is that, if you had to move off of it, you could (as long as they keep the imap interface around: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/417/export-gmail-... ).

There may be no feature complete alternatives, but there sure are a lot of email readers out there if you had to move off of it.
Hackers (by my own definition) make this thing here work now.

A master of his art has the time to design not just his solution, but the task itself, and the experience to understand all the implications of a given solution.
You don't sound like much fun. I work with many women and men... We are all make horrible sex jokes throughout the day. Are you the guy sitting by yourself at lunch?
Criteria you should concern yourself with.

1. Brevity
2. That is relates to the service or product
3. Phetically accurate easy to transcribe from sound
They've lost a lot of goodwill with this action.
I don't know what about LaTeX makes it slower than TeX to compile. I always use LaTeX rather than TeX so I'm used to the former's speed.

So recently when I compiled a huge TeX document, I assumed the compile had failed because it returned so quickly -- it seemed to return immediately -- but it completed successfully.
Yeah, notebook was one of the first times I was seriously starting to use a 3rd party service, then it was yanked. And now it's back, as 'keep'. And in 2-3 years it'll be gone again. And Reader will be back as some 'feature' in Google Drive (or it'll be called 'Docs' again, or still remain as 'Docs' as some of the google drive/docs pages still point out).
I usually hate social logins, but I actually like the way SO does it because you can bind your account to multiple services. Now I no longer have to remember which specific one I picked.
How is Now strategic?
in her article:

>Jesse Noller was up on stage thanking the sponsors. The guys behind me (one off to the right) said, “You can thank me, you can thank me”. That told me they were a sponsoring company of Pycon and from the photos I took, his badge had an add-on that said, “Sponsor”.

>They started talking about “big” dongles. I could feel my face getting flustered

So it seems that from the forking thing to the dongle thing there was at least 30-60 seconds, enough time to consider the person who turned around to interject into your conversation no out of it and no longer listening to every word your saying.
In the USA and most commonwealth countries, there are conditions that can eliminate your reasonable expectations of privacy. Sitting in the middle of a bunch of people means that any one of them is free to repeat what you have said.

I don't agree with the extent of the law in the USA, but in this case, common sense is in line.
I recommend you go through https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5302116, which was a discussion in which another person recommended a product. The upshot is that people see HN as a different type of forum compared to other places, and some people may actually read your original post as a personal testimonial (regardless of the disclosure, the phrase "This product is very, very effective" highly suggests you've used the product).

"And before you question my integrity publicly ... Your person attack against me"

If this were any other context, I would accuse you of shilling (and draw an analogy to penny stock pumping). Since this is HN, I take you on your word that you have no financial interest.
Removing or fundamentally disabling a service that many people depend upon is qualitatively different from merely removing a feature.

Google dropping Reader has potential impact more like Yahoo!'s debacle with the Delicious relaunch. That change was so drastic that it was effectively a data-loss event for most users, obliterating years of carefully curated data. As Om points out, such actions are very destructive of brand trust. That's a risky position for any online services company to voluntarily put itself in.

FWIW, Evernote has removed significant features (esp. regarding Skitch) and gotten quite a bit of heat over it.
Let's keep the threads of argument separate here. On the one hand, we have the question of whether or not that joke was acceptable in that situation, and in the ancestor comment, danilocampos was arguing that it was not. I tend to agree.

Then there is the separate question of whether publicly shaming the person as Richards did was an acceptable response. I certainly do not think it was. But it's a separate issue.
Some people were/are emotionally invested in Reader, and to an extent it was so good that many people were dissuaded from building a better RSS reader.
So Twilio currently only offers SIP origination (DID/gateway from POTS -> IP/SIP), also known as inbound SIP trunking. I think this needs to be made more clear on their site.

Android has a native SIP client (so do Nokia phones), which makes me wonder what purpose the Twilio Android SDK serves.

And holy mackerel, 0.5c/minute for inbound. If I were running my own SIP enabled PBX I'd rather use Voxbone.com or one of their resellers. They have unlimited incoming minutes, charged per channel (concurrent calls).

Edit: added bit about SIP trunking
Hi, Tom.

I have talked to actual women who tell me this. Why do you, as a guy, feel qualified to invalidate their experiences?

I don't think Adira felt immediate fear for her physical safety, no. But I do think fear of sexual harassment and sexual violence are an important reason why it is very important that "harmless" sexualization of professional situations isn't harmless at all.
Getting a part time bartending job is really hard where I live. If I could bartend on weekends, I'd make 50% of what I make now and that'd be plenty.
You're really in the service business when you're a freelancer, otherwise you're just a pair of hands. So your greatest value is when you aren't giving cookie cutter service.
Why can't you just turn around and say one of the following:

Shhhhh.

Take it outside.

You're not funny, and I can't hear the talk.

I'm going to call the conference police if you don't quiet yourselves.

Or something to that effect? If somebody persists after you ask them to quit, fine, blast away.
Seems far easier to move from Google Reader to an alternative than that, and yet look at the amount of bitching.
I dunno if you're right about the difference between men and women. I do know that there's a difference between a professional and a non-professional environment. If you're talking about sexy stuff in a professional environment where you don't really know all the people within earshot, at the very least you're exhibiting some fairly poor judgment. And, at worst, you might be making some of the strangers around you very uncomfortable.
As you do with google reader. You can fully export your feeds and move elsewhere. At /least/ they're letting you keep your data. I'm not saying it didn't feel like a dick move... but at least they make it easy to move away. I already switched to another reader and I'm getting more used to it every day. We may be emotionally attached, but the world moves on. How many of these small companies you give money to give you the freedom to download your data?
It is a barter for fair market value regardless.
i worked at a place like that once, it was pretty boring and stale. I worked with co-wrokers.

Now i work some place like yours! (with both other women and men) and its great. I work with friends and acquaintances now not co-workers.
wyager and svachalek are right, but the 9/10 harness was confirmed by the OP video. It's pretty darn scratch resistant.
Everyone assumes that this was a big strategic decision to scrap Reader and ditch RSS. But from what I've heard, it was more of a practical decision to drop an unmaintained project because no one knew how to update it for new backend infrastructure. But I'm sure that they misjudged the importance that people put into Reader. All in all, it seems like a wasted opportunity and a massive amount of lost good will.
I remember seeing a linguistic graph of the US showing how different regions referred to fizzy sweet drinks (here in Australia, that's 'soft drinks'). The predominant usage was 'soda', fair enough, I can see it. Then there was a fair area of 'pop', which sounds cute and archaic to my ears, but fair enough. The confusing one was a swathe of the US south where they're referred to as 'coke', regardless of the actual drink. I remember someone here on HN relating the story of being asked to get some coke, came back with Coke, and being told he got the wrong thing...
I hope this satire.

They discontinued Reader and added a new feature to Drive. Get over it.
If you don't like it, don't use it.
This. Get out of the pain body immediately and start doing what you want to do. You have a skill set, one many would like to have, work with what you have.
Go see a pastor. Find people who care about you.

Get professional help as well.

start working out everyday. This alone will make a huge improvement in your sense of happiness.
"Relentlessly cynical", you sound like a great person to hire!

Someone like you shouldn't work for a startup. Go and work for a big company, go poison the atmosphere there. It's just not a good fit on both ends. If they're cheating you so bad, if it's so obviously a bad deal, why do you even care? In your view, startups suck and no one makes a lot of money or learns anything, so you aren't missing much.

Go work at Oracle and be happy with your 401k.
"The reason Thatcher was so successful though is that she worked like a man."

Spoken from someone with a limited imagination and adherence to gender-based stereotypes.
Then they'll build one now.
Hi, Jess. I spend time in gay bars too. I also like them, and have never felt uncomfortable there. But elsewhere I was once hit on in a way that made me feel unsafe. It's not fun.

I'm glad that hasn't happened to you. But if this particular scenario doesn't help you to understand how you you might feel unsafe in a sexual context, go ahead and make up your own.
Increases appeal of Android devices and provides another advertising opportunity ("find place to eat" -> bam! hyperlocal recommendation. Restaurants would pay significant amounts of money for that type of targeted advertising)
Do you make sex jokes at work?
No.It becomes important for women to stop leeching off of men. It becomes important for women to let more men leech off of them. This is what equality entails.
They were not kicked out of the convention.
Your math is right, but his suggestion is wrong. No way should he charge $250. That's crazy, unless you are in the top 1% in mobile apps. Even then is sounds a little high.
You're right, I had absolutely no doubt that smiling-guy was involved. I thought it especially harsh since you can CSI his name from his badge in about ten seconds with Imagemagick or MS Paint.
I loved Notebook and have yet to find something comparable.
> The service that drives more traffic than Google+ was sacrificed because it didn’t meet some vague corporate goals; users — many of them life long — be damned.

I think this explains why Reader was killed... It competes with G+. Want updates from your favorite website? Follow them on G+.

It's a turn away from open formats and interoperability.
Sapphire has, by definition, 9/10 on Moh's hardness scale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale_of_mineral_hardness

(Sapphire is just Corundum that isn't red or pink)
So what's the solution? To keep products and strategy static forever so that nobody gets perturbed?

It seems like Google has given ample time and accessibility for its users and developers to adapt.
Vertu still exists? What do you mean by "that dumb"?
I agree they were inappropriate, just not obviously sexist.
> Thanks for speaking up, contributing your viewpoint on HN and not attacking me.

No but I will be speaking up and attacking you.

> bring you back on and dealing with it constructively.

And by constructively you mean maybe they'll post his picture on the billboard and call him publicly an "ass clown".

So yeah, how about them insults? Is PyCon a conference where taking face shots of attendees and posting them for the whole world to see then calling them ass clown?

> to not to work with you on this and

Not to work with him on what. What kind of double speak is that? "Don't use toilet humor when talking to your co-workers at a conference". Yes, I hope his employer 'works' hard with him on that.

> I also hear about the experiences of women working at startups.

Do you hear about backstabbing, public humiliations and taking advantage situations for personal profit at the expense of other's lives?

> Sometimes the answer is our API or not answering email after 7pm while other times it about being assertive and shedding impostor syndrome.

Sometimes the answer is public flogging in a middle of the street.

> The forking joke set the stage for the dongle joke.

You are a developer's evangelist and you don't know what "forking" a repo is. You might consider filing a lawsuit against Github and Linus Torvalds because that's all they do. One invented it then other place is where forking happens all day every day.

> It sounds like if I'd said something about the forking you would have denied it having a sexual association.

And that is because ... it doesn't. Your title has 'developer' in it, you should at least find out what forking really means.
This is rape paranoia, if you feel that's fine then good for you, as I see it it's no better than racial profiling.
It's almost too late to do that. Products that were slowly grinding are now seeing much more traction, and the initial exodus has passed. There may be a second one when it is officially stopped, but it would be difficult to compete with those products that grabbed customers already.
I started learning to code last year using Hartl's Rails Tutorial. It was actually a big part of me deciding to go with Ruby and Rails over any other language and framework.

I have spoken with many dozens of other beginners at local Ruby meetups. Basically EVERYONE learning Rails and Ruby (at least in NYC) uses this thing.

It might not be a bad idea to read through the Rails Tutorial, even if you're an experienced Rails developer, just to see what the baseline is for people starting out these days.

Very much appreciated, Michael!
If PyCon is one of these "venues that require customers to agree to a code of conduct barring inappropriate jokes", many people will consider whether it's a venue in which they feel safe.
Hola Nuna

I just followed all your instructions except the views. The stud thing doesn't work, unfortunately. When I do this:

> curl https://xx.xx.xx.xx:6984 -k
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

I can't get a connection. I assume something with my CouchDB local.ini is wrong. Can you please document the contents of local.ini as well? Especially what port/bind_address I should define there.

Thanks,
Michael
The more Google [Now] knows about you, the better it can target you with ads.
I'm not finding the exact quote right now, but Sergey always wanted Google to be able to interact with the user and suggest things to them automatically. Google Now is a part of that strategy.
I guess, there is some correlation between being worthy of YC club and successfully negotiating yourself a founder title. That's probably one of the reasons, why somebody with a non-founder title can't get in that easily.

Saying that, such situation is likely to has negative outcome for the company. A conflict in the founding team and high likelihood of significant contributors leaving the company and abandoning projects can't be good.
My advice: keep your apartment. Don't do anything drastic until you get a better grip on things. Also ask yourself if you are doing the basics of staying mentally healthy: exercise, socializing, novelty.

Get back to what you love. Find out where your interests are. Try this, it worked for me: http://zerotosuperhero.com/mindhack/find-your-lifes-last-kno...

Asking for help was smart IMO. Good for you.
Wondering the same thing as well, and I've worked on capacitive screen design. The dielectric constant of sapphire seems to be better than glass[1] for this type of application, so it should be okay.

[1] http://www.st.com/st-web-ui/static/active/cn/resource/techni...
In my workplace, we migh say that someone has a tiny dick and its a very light joke that every laughs about.
Problem solved then. Other feed readers exist, so what's your point?!
Most patents are reviewed by people with corresponding qualifications within the broad categories: mechanical, chemical, biological, electrical. Software tends to fall into the electrical camp.