skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her job title is "evangelist" and her work is to be the public face for developers and to promote Sendgrid to developers. Any sane developer, male or female, will now keep at least out of earshot from her and won't engage in any private communication with her.

Why risk your career to talk to her about the benefits of using Sendgrid? No thanks I'll talk to the reps from Mailgun/Postmark where I don't run the risk of my face getting blasted all over the internet and my career ruined over a misunderstood joke. She's in PR, by posting their faces she must or at least should have known what she was doing to those developers.

I'd have a very different opinion if she was a 22-year-old developer without much media experience who quickly tweeted the photo. But she essentially works as an evangelist (sales/promotions?) and has been featured in The Rachel Maddow Show, NPR, Computerworld, The Associate Press, Inc.com, Black Enterprise, Pioneer Press [http://www.crunchbase.com/person/adria-richards]. She works in social media and she did what she did at least partly for her own publicity.....well it worked but it cost two people their jobs.
We've been collecting slides, videos and notes from PyCon on Lanyrd. Here's our collection:

http://lanyrd.com/2013/pycon/coverage/

(Or browse from the schedule: http://lanyrd.com/2013/pycon/schedule/ )

88 slide decks and 53 videos so far.
Bezos Salvage Team Plucks Apollo Rocket Engines from Atlantic
Does that pay back calculation include the fact that this increases the resale value of your house?
I don't think it's fair to hold witnesses and reporters responsible for the consequences of telling the truth. The only person responsible for the speech that was reported are the people speaking.

I can't quite understand your last sentence, but if you are looking for people telling women that they are irresponsible for not speaking up, just read the comments on this recent discussion of the Steubenville rape:

http://www.underthegunreview.net/2013/03/18/henry-rollins-co...

There are quite a number of people there telling women that they are morally obligated to speak up when something bad happens.
I've spent more time than I can remember thinking about how suicide is selfish. It is selfish. Everything is selfish. When someone helps another person cross the road, it's selfish. They do it because they feel good. That's not bad, it's life. The issue is not whether it's selfish to commit suicide, it's what has got a person to that point. If the hell inside my head doesn't let up, eventually I have to kill myself out of desperation. To see that as selfish in my opinion is missing the point.
If Google keep creating new things, how can it manage so many products?
Killing some old products is a good option for them, though bad for users.
It just went up: http://lanyrd.com/2013/pycon/scfdpc/
OOP In JavaScript: What You Need to Know
I'd argue that software and digital technology are different from everything that the legal system has legislated on in the past because this is the first time we've been able to make 100% accurate copies for zero cost. (Ok, maybe not zero with the cost of electricity and storage, but essentially zero.) I also feel that the legal protections of the patent system, while perhaps not completely broken, are certainly not tuned to the realities of software development. Software is different. It's sui generis and I believe our laws should be adjusted to reflect that.

That said, I agree completely with your point about integration. The worst thing we can do as a community is step aside and allow others to create legislation that is not in the interest of technology or the good of the people at large.

Edit: minor grammar.
Actually, what I meant by gross was just the idea of these guys sitting around making innuendo within earshot of a public audience. Not the specific joke, do we even know what it was?

Frankly, I have a hard time believing your position is genuine and well-considered. On the one hand, you understand why you wouldn't want employees talking this to a client. But as a walking billboard for your company in front of a random audience whose only unifying trait is an interest in Python, you can't understand why it'd be a problem?

And the idea that you'd have no employees is, um, what? You've never worked in a place where people behave like professional, competent people who err on the side of caution when choosing whether or not to make a penis joke? Let me tell you, there are a lot of places which are able to hire and retain employees just fine.
I wish more companies like Cisco and Google would do this...
Something tells me you like Serfdom too.
Posted anonymously.

It sounds like those involved were spoken to and the issue was handled. Good.

Sexism doesn't belong any where. Believe it or not but I experienced it myself at Pycon. Private conversation with a male colleague became weirdly sexual and offensive. I had to point out that it was inappropriate and end the conversation. I urge everyone to not tolerate this kind of behavior. It's not appropriate to be making dongle jokes in a public, professional setting period. Deal with it.

A "private" conversation is one where the participants are alone. These two people clearly were not.

Yes getting fired over this sort of thing is rather extreme. Does that make Adria wrong and this stupid post worth getting up in arms over? No. I think SendGrid is right to back her and they would be crazy not to. The Pycon organizers handled the situation appropriately and I think the attention it has drawn is a good thing.

I hope that this sort of incident will become less prevalent in the future. With more outreach and good work perhaps my daughter won't have to "get used to" this sort of thing when she grows up.
I was just about to start the tutorial for this reason. I don't have any Rails experience but I've been learning basic Ruby.

Should I start with this (4.0) tutorial?
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/
>A major factor you have to always consider when reading HN comments on stories like this -- and I'm not even kidding here -- is that a large percentage of the HN population has no idea how to convince women to have sex with them. I mean, among online forums, I would place good money that HN's readership has one of the highest ratios of adult virgins (non-elective, i.e. not by choice)

And all feminists are just angry because they're ugly and emotionally damaged. How is my statement any different from yours? How is your language somehow not worthy of being terminated while these men are offensive?
If you want to build the future, you need to understand smart materials
I'm guessing that's 30 days total PTO. Something like:

10 vacation days
10 holidays (Christmas, etc.)
5 sick days

That's 25 days; 30 is a bit more than usual but I'd believe it.

Now, if that's what he means by 30 PTO days, I'm dubious about only 15 PTO days at the startup.
If you're interested in a little bit of a "roll your own" thing, we have an Open Source project called Neddick[1] that could help. It's heavily centered on RSS feeds and our real target for it is inter-enterprise use... but the RSS feeds can come from anywhere (even Google Alerts, which is actually something we use quite a bit of for our "dogfood" server). Everything is indexed and searchable using Lucene, and there's a feature for adding comments, as well as a recommender to suggest similar pieces of content.

You can also do RSS aggregation, as each "channel" can consume as many RSS feeds as you want, and then the aggregate of all the entries is itself exposed as an RSS feed.

There's also voting, tagging, a "share" feature that lets you send links via email or XMPP, etc. It also looks a lot like Reddit for some weird reason.... whistles innocently

(There's a new visual theme coming that won't look so obviously inspired by Reddit, BTW)

All of that said, we're not at a 1.0 release yet and while a LOT of stuff works, and someone could almost certainly get value from it, there are definitely bugs and things that don't yet work the way we want them to. In particular the recommendations engine is currently just the Lucene MoreLikeThis filter which is pretty naive. We have plans to roll some much more sophisticated analysis using Mahout[2] eventually, but haven't gotten there yet.

Eventually we'll have persistent searches with alerts via email and XMPP, alerts based on vote thresholds, and a whole raft of other features. It's coming together, just more slowly than we'd like.

If you want to take a look, there's a public demo server at

http://demo.fogbeam.org:8080/neddick1

Sample logins are testuser0-testuser19 with password "secret".

The front-page right now is actually being fed the RSS feed from here at HN, but you'll notice it's a few days out of date. That's one of the bugs I mentioned. There's a bad piece of content coming in on one of the feeds, and it's breaking the parsing, which is currently causing it to break out of the loop that consumes the feed. Fixing that is on my TODO list for Real Soon Now, so hopefully by this weekend.

Edit: This channel is more up to date, and it is, indeed, being populated from a Google Alert. This is getting a bit meta circular now... :-)

http://demo.fogbeam.org:8080/neddick1/r/Microsoft

If you wanted to use this for a more general "entire web" alerting tool, you'd have to build (or acquire) a crawler to go out and get the data. I think there might be some useful stuff in Nutch[3], Droids[4], Manifold[5] and/or Heritrix[6], but I won't swear to it.

That's the bit we're not really interested in, as we aren't trying to build a public, consumer facing app here, but a tool for use inside organizations. Still, if somebody wanted to use it that way, it could be done. Scalability would also be an issue, but I think that could be managed..

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick

[2]: http://mahout.apache.org

[3]: http://nutch.apache.org

[4]: http://incubator.apache.org/droids/

[5]: http://manifoldcf.apache.org/

[6]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritrix
Wow. An example where the British chose the French pronunciation and the US is (a bit spottily) tending to Anglicize a word. I never can think of one when I try.

Thanks for that.
Did you read the whole forum thread? We are planning to address his complaints.
Your largest local network
Niggler, I want to publicly apologize for any misunderstanding. Please accept my most sincere apology.
Oh, please. Everyone should be cynical about the work arrangements they get into, because let's face it, the company as a whole doesn't care about you. You are a replaceable resource. If you believe otherwise then you are hopelessly naive.

I remember talking to a friend of mine who had to fire half his workforce in order to give his company six months more runway to succeed- he was absolutely devastated about it. Those coworkers were his friends and allies. He still did it, though. To a certain extent it wasn't even his choice.
Show HN: A Downfall parody using an HTML overlay
That doesn't strike me as a violation of the code of conduct. The CoC says PyCon won't participate in public shaming, but it definitely doesn't forbid attendees from talking about things they experienced at PyCon.
Could you show the bit where taking photos is against the CoC?
You'll note that both Facebook and Google provide ways to hook up multiple emails to the same account, and multiple recovery accounts. Why do this if nobody uses it?
Yes, she did- "this wasn't the first time that day I had to address this issue around harassment and gender."

She clearly states in her blog she felt it involved "harassment and gender", which is often referred to as sexism.
What exactly are you referring to? If my understanding is correct you're able to export starred content as well.
The elasticsearch talk (http://pyvideo.org/video/1784/elasticsearch-part-1-indexing-...) is fantastic. Can't wait for part 2.
I believe the liquid bandage also has an antiseptic in it as well to make sure you kill any pathogens.
I guess? The fact that the CM team doesn't even generate 10.1 builds for the Passion is a pretty good indicator that it's too weak. Or HTC won't upgrade the graphics drivers.
"This is extremely minimal, I'd honestly expect more from a Google product."

Off-topic, but does anyone remember the time when Google's UI consisted of just a textbox with their logo on a plain web page? And how they were getting tonnes of praise for that?
Ding ding ding. That's the progression I envision. Next is Google Glass. After that, automobiles with the same integration. I'm both scared and excited to see what Google will be able to do with all the data they have feeding into Now.
The parent observation is really on the money. Hyperlocal recommendations are very interesting, but _paid_ recommendations are a potential gold mine that I think people are only now starting to catch on to.

What I find particularly interesting about it is the potential to produce genuinely relevant advertising. As a simple example, imagine I ask my smartphone where I can find the nearest fast food joint and it tells me there is a McDonald's around the corner. It might also serve an ad that says there is a Burger King one block further away and if I go there and show the ad I will get free fries and a drink with my sandwich.

There are some very interesting possibilities here that we have only begun to scratch the surface of.
I'm not diluting nothing. Patents shoot down competition.
Google says maybe?

http://www.diamond-materials.com/EN/products/overview.htm

http://www.e6cvd.com/cvd/page.jsp?pageid=298

The prices are a bit high: a 0.8 cm diamond optical window goes for $450, for example.
A "Photo-Experiencing" App
If Google kills Reader, http://ifGoogleKillsReader.tumblr.com/
The US introduced import tariffs of $0.18 to $1.60 per W for Chinese panels, which are produced for $0.63/W. Not entirely tethered to what the U.S. consumer sees...
Looks like all that stolen technology can't save the company from making bad business decisions. Solar and other green tech intellectual property has been among the highest priorities for Chinese hackers in recent years.
In order to have me as a user, you're going to maintain this until the heat death of the universe. I don't care if it's free! I deserve it!
She clearly states on her blog that

"this wasn't the first time that day I had to address this issue around harassment and gender."

Generally speaking, I think "harassment and gender" going together make it fit the definition of sexism.

Regardless, she does classify it as "harassment".
She writes with passion, pathos, and poignancy. It's easy to feel her pains. Lots of emotionalism.

But she misses two much larger 'stories': First, what's happened to the 'news' business is a short term disaster on top of a long term tragedy. Second, what's happened to the news business is one more case of what's happened to big parts of the US economy.

It appears that society has one need from the news business, and that business has one need from society: Society needs from the news business solid, useful, important information on government, foreign affairs, the economy, etc., and the news business needs from society eyeballs to get ad revenue. At this point, neither society nor the news business is getting what they need.

More generally, my view has long been that what society needs from the news business, "information on government, ..." is so important and has been so poorly provided that the news business is, may I have the envelope, please (drum roll), the most serious problem facing our country and our civilization. In simple terms, the norms of the news business just have not been to provide the information our society needs. There is a nice, not really comprehensive but still nice, view of what the news business has been doing in the OP -- next to nothing to do with providing the information society needs.

Instead of the information, for at least 100 years or so the main product of the news business has been just light entertainment. The 'story' telling techniques have been borrowed from formula fiction going back to the ancient Greeks -- a protagonist to identify with who has a problem, threats, evil (especially as in the morality plays), black/white hats, etc. Drama? Yes. Solid information? No.

Thus my view is that this lack of information caused, say,
for just a short list of a few little things, The Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War, the wars in Viet Nam, The Great Recession, the devastation of the US 'rust belt', etc.
That is, my solid belief is that with some solid information instead of just formula fiction techniques to tell dramatic stories for light entertainment, we could have avoided all those disasters.

For some evidence about my claims about the lack of solid information in the news content, the level of content featured on HN and in the comments is large steps above the standards of any well known news outlet -- magazine, newspaper, TV, or Internet.

Information quality? The news business has a tough time reporting percentages meaningfully: E.g., "up 5%". Okay a percentage change is a measurement a at time s and a measurement b at time t and then

100 * ( b - a ) / a

and the "up 5%" omits the times and is unclear if the change is an annual rate, or not. So, the "up 5%" is just drama for entertainment and not information. Next the news media regards graphs of numerical data as just opportunities for graphic arts. So, they fail to indicate units on the axes, etc.; the graphs they do would do poorly in freshman physics or engineering labs.

It goes on. The output of the news business is rarely significantly useful. Did I mention that their goal was just light entertainment?
Not exactly sublime text but check this out:

http://icecoder.net/
Show HN: jQuery-free curtains (My First Thing)
Read the article again. Windows 8/RT isn't the same as Windows Phone (which Google confirmed in the article has been whitelisted). The source of that is the Windows team deciding not to add CardDav/CalDav support to the Metro-style Mail and Calendar apps, so you won't be able to use CardDav/CalDav from any other provider either.
> realize what an asshole you sound like when you judge other people

I'll just let you read what you wrote.
So this is the ugly side of "ship fast, ship often".

At some point, when you have a ton of resources and people are shipping products out the wazoo.....you have to kill products. When you kill products, you lose confidence for future product announcements and skew your engagement numbers.

What is a company like Google to do, when their larger products command most of their resources?
Your invocation of some obscure situation where you would feel legitimately threatened in a sexual way has nothing to do with the reality of what happened. It's true that women can be put into sexually threatening situations. It's patently false that what happened at Pycon is an example of one.
I see your point, but I'm really not clear if the joking here was sexist or mere crude humor. By 'crude' I mean body humor - jokes about farts or smelly gym socks etc. are wholly unfunny to me and generally make me want to exist the conversation ASAP. I can't say I find them offensive as such, just stupid and gross - a matter of taste rather than ethics, so to speak.

So I can imagine sexist-seeming jokes about robots with dongles, but I can also imagine stupid ones about robots with butts or whether car exhaust counts as a robot fart. The sad thing is that we have no way to tell whether the remarks in question were sexist or just stupid, and that has encouraged a lot of folk to just project their own preconceptions onto the entire incident.

This sort of thing is exactly why I don't like using Twitter.
Altavista wasn't an arm of one of the most powerful, valuable, and influential companies on earth.
Is technology morally neutral? See No Evil: The Case of Alfred Anaya
I pride myself on being very calm and patient, even while my 9 month old is screaming in my ear and smashing the keyboard while I try to type this.

I don't normally comment much, and when I do I try not to be negative. One thing I discovered in the last few days is that I have absolutely no patience for whining, especially when coming from grown man. This post, and a lot of comments around here sound like whining to me. These are my feelings regarding the recent Google Reader news and the comments surrounding it..

I want to be clear, I know why people are pissed off, some are angry because their beloved product was taken away, and for some, their trust was broken, perhaps more than once. It has certainly struck a nerve, and I want to have these conversations, but something about the tone of the people has really turned me off.

</end of whine>
I don't like this train of logic. How can I read minds? What if I bring up something about my dog, and trigger someone in the room who was the victim of a dog attack?

So dick jokes are off the table, I get that. What about "your mom" jokes? Or blonde jokes? What is the invisible line that I dare not cross?
Odesk isn't a place for quality artists. If you are not confident in your ability to identify professional artists from amateurs than I would not advice you to go through odesk.

conceptart.org is a good go to community to concept artists. The community here generally stride for realistically rendered artworks. However, in the recent years this website became flooded with more newcomers and students. It may take you a while to sift them through.

polycount is a good go to community for 3d production artists. There's actually a good amount on top industry professionals who are active in this forum.

Deviant art is the largest community by user count. But you're more likely to find a mix bag of talent here. If you're looking for more anime / stylized art, this would be a good place to start.

Behance is mostly concentrated with graphic designers / motion graphic artists. So you can look for UI related talent here.

A source I would recommend is CGHUB (www.cghub.com). It's now the most active community among industry professionals.

What kind of game are you making. If you provide a little more detail I may be able to help you pinpoint where to begin looking.
CalDav is what the iOS Add Account option for Google uses to sync: http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...

Seems unlikely they'll drop it given their approach to iOS so far has been to infiltrate the ecosystem with their own Google apps, though never say never I suppose.

As for why they're pushing people towards their own Calendar API, presumably so they can add/promote new features specific to Calendar which aren't present in CalDav. They can get more usage of Calendar-specific APIS/Features by pushing devs towards their own version, instead of letting them default to the CalDav API because that's what they're familiar with.

The responses gathered from API request form also act as a feedback mechanism for their own Calendar API, which they can use to fix any deficiencies.
Well. Whatever you think about whether the original incident was overtly sexist or not, the response has surely been.
only after spending enormous effort fighting those who are gaming it.
Because it's literally worthless.
Sadly, in Dickensian Britain, a .Net developer is worth the princely sum of £1 a day, while a Python/Django expert can at best hope for £600 a year!

http://i.imgur.com/3Aw8oop.png (genuine screenshot from the Independent, a British newspaper)
What is it? I signed up but I don't quite understand what the site is about.
Do you have a link to that? Couldn't find it through their search.

(edit: doh; of course Googling worked... https://www.coursera.org/course/matrix )