skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only people who live in the Gaza strip are Palestinians. Since the rockets are being fired from the Gaza strip, that is the only logical place to attack (note: attack only Hamas military bases, sending plenty of warnings hours before any attacks. It is extremely unfortunate that the Hamas keeps civillians hostage and uses them as human shields, and it is even more unfortunate that you completely ignore that.)

Honestly, a little reading into the whole situation and you'll see that Israel is really not to blame here. I'm not saying everything Israel has done in the past is 100% pure, but all Israel is doing is defending its people. Go to the New York Times, CNN, and read past the slightly biased headlines. You'll see.
Groan... all we need is DRM in Silverlight. I hate DRM, but I like Netflix. Why can't we just get M$ to allow their DRM code to run on Linux?? That would solve the problem without all this WINE non-sense.
I wish for the OP's sake that they had included examples of non-white people they asked to attend (but who apparently couldn't make it). It'd at least give a little more insight to who they think is a good panelist. But turning the detractors' argument from "Hey, there's just white guys on this panel!" to "Hey, please include a minority so that no one's feelings are hurt" was probably the least useful way to counter the detractors.
I've always wondered why big tech companies haven't used New Zealand as an experimental place for their "plans".

What I mean by that is, we have 4 million people, and we're not a large place by any means (2,000km in total length, something like that).

If Google wanted to show the world their "vision", they could simply come to NZ, buy a mobile carrier (for millions, not billions of dollars) and give everyone free plans (or whatever their vision is) and lay down fibre to everyone in the country (much faster than the stupid government imo) . They'd even be able to get their awesome self-driving cars on the roads fairly easily, without having to spend so much damn money lobbying.

As per the NZ public, we love new stuff. Right now, we're ripped off in every aspect (consumer-wise). Some massve corporation would change this country in a heartbeat, and for the better. (I'd hope anyway).

New Zealand, in my opinion, has an awesome "sample" size (regarding population). We were one of the first countries in the world to go from cash to using EFTPOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFTPOS) extremely fast.

>> "EFTPOS is highly popular in New Zealand, and being used for about 60% of all retail transactions.[23] In 2009, there were 200 EFTPOS transactions per person"

To me, it makes so much sense for massive corporations to come to NZ, trial their stuff _easily_, and for half the cost (made up number) than it would be to do it in the US.

Once people see how awesome NZ is when it comes to all these self-driving cars, cheap/free internet, cheap phones, and cheap/free phone data/calls/sms surely the rest of the world would want to be just like us? :]

My two cents. :]
>I don't know where you got the idea that all traffic goes out of the country and back in again

I hope so! It's what I was told, and of course it would make no sense. I'll have to ask them to show me some hop reports. Good to hear that there is national traffic for data centres however.
You may want to consider how your second sentence reads. It seems to imply that minority speakers would not be part of the desired lineup to begin with, and that they could only possibly be included "just for the sake of diversity".

Anyway, it's not about saying "gee, we better pick an Indian or two to meet our quota." It's about including minorities in the pool to be considered in the first place. That few or none were chosen indicates that that probably wasn't the case.

And this isn't about calling people out as big fat racists. Hardly anyone believes, in their heart of hearts, that people unlike them are inferior. But we all have unconscious biases like that[0], and many folks are starting to demand that people account for that in their decisions.

[0] Plenty of people are great at lying to themselves about it, too. Search for the phrase "I'm not racist, but" on Twitter sometime.
Do you not have a bank with actual tellers inside?
Cuba is a Ruby microframework for web development
Every group is concerned about their own problems. You can say the same thing to women who are fighting for gender rights "Well, you have it great, think of how bad black people have it. You have no right to complain."
I'm kind of skeptical that they even tried to reach out to diverse people. For example, Keavy McMinn indicated on twitter they never asked her. She's a very well known and liked speaker in the Ruby community and lives relatively close by. If you largely reach out to white guys, of course that's who you'll end up with.
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I didn't see this in the Debian repository yet? Years of experience have taught me that 99% of the time if a project isn't in the Debian repo it isn't mature yes or useful to more than a small niche and probably not worth my time. The 1% that is missing there is when I am part of the small niche.

Not meant as an attack or anything. Just an observation and possibly a 'marketing' suggestion if you'd like more users.
Now this is cool. I wasn't particularly impressed with the article that went around about using Netflix with Firefox in WINE but now that someone took that and applied it like this is something I can get behind.
Speakers != audience all the time - the audience won't be an exact match for the speaker demographics. But having done this for a bit, I've had enough feedback that indicates that having a more balanced/diverse set of speakers is a signal to a wider audience that there will more likely be a wider range of attendees to socialize and network with. Again, yes, not 100% all the time.

FWIW, at indieconf we had about 30% of the speakers were female. About half of the attendees were female as well. Interestingly 30% answered the 'gender' question as female - 30% answered 'male', 30% left blank - I'm assuming based on names given about half of the remaning were also female - that's where I'm getting the ~50% were female.
Don't people "organize" tech conferences? Or "put them together", or "run" them, or something? Since when have they been "curated"? Since it was a buzzword?
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Other bit-flipping issues should be usually trapped by checksums. Typos in scripts is possible but then you should get a massive amount of requests from the same IP and should be easy to notice.
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Or "enjoy the chocolate from my fudge factory!"
Just FYI, something I learned from trying to sell a software product to restaurants - unless they said yes and paid, the answer is "no." When you hear "keep us updated...", that's a polite way of telling you to screw off, they have more important things to do. Take it as it is, my experience, but don't be surprised if after all, no one participates.
I don't get this. What should be in focus is not your gender, nor your race. It is the talk you are going to give which should be the focus. I don't care if you are a man a woman, an indian, a japanese and so on. But I deeply care about the talk being interesting.

That said, I would much prefer having diversity in the speaker lineup - it makes for more interesting talks in general. I am also for biasing toward the minority: If you have, say, only one woman who applied there should be a good reason to reject her.

The problem is statistics. If there are only a few women who are applicable - simply due to the sad fact that there are so few women in the field - then there will be a lot of conference where random selection will mean there are no women in the lineup. That is, you have to weigh the chance of an all-white-male lineup to occur at random toward the fact that people where chosen to be all-white-male.
I think this depends on airport. Going from Seatac to SFO recently they only put about half of the people through the scanners.
> That isn't a strawman argument: the point that the detractors were making was "This is not the correct assortment of speakers because there aren't enough of X race or Y sex."

Was that the detractors' point? I can't tell because the OP doesn't link to any. But just to be clear, I think there is a difference between:

1) Why is this panel completely made up of white males?
2) There aren't enough of people of x/y category

Argument #2 is, I think everyone here agrees, is not a strong one, since this wasn't a conference to discuss diversity issues.

Argument #1, however, could be countered with examples of people they asked but who could not make it. And I for one would completely understand if they wanted to invite Japanese Rubyists, but could not because of schedule conflicts or costs. I don't know enough about Brit Ruby to see if it's meant to be just a local gathering of all-Brits...and even if that were the case, the U.K. strikes me as a very diverse place where it would be odd to see any group that was just all of one demographic.

i don't think the OP's intentions are bad and I don't think it's right to fault someone for being a poor debater when their heart is in the right place. But Argument #1 does not equal #2 (though obviously, the two are somewhat correlated)

To your point:
> Imagine if people were criticizing a lineup because there were too many women? We would flip a shit - and rightly so! Pointing out verbally militant discrimination that causes a conference to be cancelled isn't a strawman, it is a reality.

Well, unless the conference were depicted as "The Women of Ruby", I most definitely would question a general Ruby conference in which all the top panelists were females (or Japanese. Or Japanese females), especially given the demographic of computer science. This same demographic makes it more likely that an all-male Ruby panel could be selected, but doesn't automatically invalidate questions about its makeup.
Do you really feel that going all over the planet and turning the crust to sand is a viable long-term solution? Many mining engineer types and even geologists see no problem with this approach, but consider Appalachian coal: just because they can "put that mountain back together just as before", the result is far from the original. It's like the policy of "moving" wetlands to ease development in my area; almost looks ok, but the result is a local bio-disaster.
"Not all meritocracy is bad."

This is a reasonable thing to say now. We've come a long way.
To test for this probably the simplest thing to do is to also register typos that result from more complex bit flipping patterns (unlikely to result from memory errors) and see if the number of requests is comparable or not.
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I apologize for adding yet another one of these posts to the pile on HN, but here's my situation:

I traded my old laptop for a Mac for the purpose of getting into iOS development, and I ended up just doing the first assignment of Stanford's CS193P iOS Development class (iTunes U) and then putting it off as I started to take in more school work. I realize that that is an excuse, and I feel like the main reason I took a long break was because the second assignment felt completely crushing.

Anyway, I was wondering if any experienced iOS developers, who learned recently (preferably that went through the Stanford course online, or that have been in a similar situation), that could advise me on how to build up to the Stanford course, and so on.

Some more background info:

- I understand most of the basic concepts, but cannot implement them via code

- I am a person that does really well when I have a set path (That is why the Stanford class really appeals to me)

- I know it is very well known, but this is the Stanford course for reference: http://bit.ly/Rhl4vE
They get text messages, leaflets, recorded phone calls and 'roof knocks' warning them to stay away from the military equipment Israel are targeting.
Arguing by pointing out fallacies is incredibly annoying. Having said that, I will temporarily make a hypocrite of myself to post the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_fallacy
I don't know about the article but this is one of the best HN headlines I had seen in a long time :)
+1 for Core Intuition and Developing Perspectives. Identical Cousins is a bit of a "meh", to my ears. Haven't listened to any of the others (giving debug and CMD+SPACE a try now).

If you want technical stuff, check out Edge Cases (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/edge-cases/id538007855).
There are already resellers that provide Linux images and substantial support. See e.g. www.miniand.com

In terms of "central repository of A10 specific images", that might be useful, but there's already a wide range of community sites collating information on Linux on A10, without trying to extract cash for it..

The tablets they show are almost certainly LY-F1 - it's sold under dozens of brand names and in a few different configurations and a few different cases, but the specs match perfectly and at least one of the pics are of the case that's most commonly used with the A10 version of the LY-F1.

But most all of the A10 based boards are practically identical - I'm assuming most are variations over some prototype provided by Allwinner given how similar they are.
How would they apply that pressure? I don't see any airline being keen on being the first to raise their prices for pretty much no reason.
Are you quite sure all of them were missiles?

http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/israeli-naval-force-b...

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/suffocating-gaza-...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/world/middleeast/11nations...
That still doesn't answer the question. Your response seems to suggest, as did Luigi's, that the organizers should have made a conscious effort to include women and minorities on the panel. The question is, why?
The other problem is saying "Windows 8 sucks" is wrong making the whole article one big marketing gimmick.
Sorry, "fallacy bingo" is not automatically a trump card. One must cogently point out how something is a fallacy if they wish to be considered intellectually honest.
And then there are people like me.

I know that there's a full-featured browser available on my phone, I also know that however great and fast my phone is, browsing the web on a device with a screen of about 4 inches in size with no mouse or keyboard always kinda sucks. Even the absolute best mobile websites are barely adequate user experiences, IMO, and thus I use native apps on my phone whenever possible.
"Please: think before you speak. Investigate before you judge. And look beneath the surface before you retweet."

This is the problem I have with "free" speech. Yes you can say anything you want, but the problem is that those with the audience take no responsibility or apply any judgement to the effect. Someone yelling racist epithets on their doorstep to an audience of no one is free speech. Bill O'Reilly calling for vigilante justice on Dr. George Tiller and taking zero responsibility for it is not the intent of "free speech."

"And if I could get my hands on Tiller -- well, you know. Can't be vigilantes. Can't do that. It's just a figure of speech." - Bill O'Reilly (2006)

In a similar way, this John Susser takes no responsibility for stirring up this particular storm but the effects are real. No one got killed over it but its huge disservice to an already very contentious issue. With ignorant comments like those of John Susser we won't be able to make much forward progress.
So what was the case?
I never want to see "Bitch Please" on the HN frontpage.
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Uuurrgghl. Images in a text editor. I'm quite happy Vim doesn't support that.
Dear God! As if it wasn't hard enough to arrange a conference, apparently you have to make sure to invite every minority as a speaker at that conference too. I'm not even in the ruby community, but judging from the python/django community, assembling a team of good speakers is hard enough already.
Spec wise, the problem is the A10 SoC itself, not the board - the boards for most of the A10 based devices are practically identical and very simple. It's particularly the Mali400 GPU that's posing a problem, and there the challenge in terms of specs might very well be ARM themselves.

That said, there's work ongoing to reverse engineer it (Linux works on it, but without hardware acceleration)
> Note for US readers: UK is small island(s) and most of the fun stuff happens in London (my perception).

Yeah, the UK really needs events like this, because it has (in my perception, as an American) been bypassed by a lot of the latest technological advances, in terms of business opportunities. The only big British technology company I can name off the top of my head is ARM, and that's not one that your average consumer would be familiar with anyway. And ARM was founded 20+ years ago - I can't think of any recent British startups or software companies that have achieved worldwide fame.
But sadly, as Gaza is extremely populated, they sometimes don't have anywhere to go...
> Perhaps, but a core premise of the post-PC world is that people will be increasingly using tablets and smartphones to surf.

That's a weakly formulated definition. Post-PC is really the new use cases opened up by mobile form factors. Of course it's going to start by evolving from the way we used PCs. But anyone who's surfed on a smartphone out in public will realize that it's something to do "in a pinch" or it's good because some access is better than no access at all. How we end up using mobile in 7 years will be more different from now than how we used the web in 1998 was different from 2005.
I am sure this is very irrelevant, but anybody else thinks season 5 of The Wire was that bad? I think it was outstanding.
Of course, I do have a bank. Do you mean that I can give the checks to tellers and they will do it for me? (All 340 checks? It will take the teller 2-3 straight days.)
Sometimes the institutions technologists create really do reflect the less than ideal social and economic history that technological progress has been embedded in. If someone calls you out on that, think about how you can grow something different, don't just get defensive.

There are lots of creative ways to address the problem, and a conference dedicated to technological evangelism and celebration is a particularly great place to do it. Maybe the sponsors could purchase attendance for some interested high schoolers that maybe don't have the funding for the best IT/CS class.
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Most banks will give you a check scanner you can feed checks into at home to deposit them.
He gives a quick little mention

"We’ll give a quick but deep hat tip to its ferocious and now deposed champion, Scott Forstall, and leave the discussion of his own exit for a future Monday Note."
Because some people would like to be able to attach a keyboard and use it as a makeshift netbook now and again.

And because there's a lot of work ongoing to make X apps "finger friendly". E.g. Ubuntu 13.04 has making Ubuntu work better on tablets as a major goal.

And these devices are not just tablets. The MiniPC (which is just a MK802 or MK803) has HDMI out and full HD.
I'm not convinced Surface Pro is going to be a hit. I think it will be too close to "laptop" to convince people to purchase it over an ultrabook. With its Intel processor, it will be faster, but heavier, hotter and will likely have worse battery life.

I think the decision process will then be "is the touch screen and a little less weight worth giving up the performance of a real laptop?" And (as much as I love my tablet), I think the answer to that won't be a resounding "yes".
Passion is great, but why couldn't this have happened in e-mail instead of Twitter, perhaps the OP could have e-mailed the conference organizers with some names of some great Rubyists that had been overlooked, but would give a great speech. Win-win. Instead, the conference is canceled, and no one wins. :(
Perhaps not the best choice of words for a wide audience, but the overall message is spot on.
What this tells me is that a significant part of the Ruby community is racist and sexist.

The proper approach is to utterly ignore the race and sex of people. Anything else is racist and/or sexist.
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If your goal really is to get the best speakers available then you should find a way to do the selection without knowledge of the reputation and demographic details of the applicants. The classic study is from orchestra hiring:

"Using data from audition records, the researchers found that blind auditions increased the probability that a woman would advance from preliminary rounds by 50 percent. The likelihood of a woman's ultimate selection is increased several fold, although the competition is extremely difficult and the chance of success still low." http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/A94/90/73G00/

The question to ask is whether the conference organizers made any efforts to do something like this, or whether they assumed that because they are nice people all their decisions must be completely unaffected by any consideration other than the most objective judgment of presentation quality. Many naive people believe their motives are pure but inevitably they're not for any human who actually exists in the real world. We all have to do some work to compensate for that.
I think HN needs to read Garann Mean's kickass blog post on "meritocracy" again:

http://www.garann.com/dev/2012/you-keep-using-that-word/
Precisely. If 2-person and 1-person startups are equally likely to succeed but 2-person startups just happen to be more likely then they will be over-represented in the data.

What is really necessary is a statistically significant sampling of startups from their inception and tracking the percentage of success and failure depending on various factors. There is simply not enough data in the study at hand to say that 1-person startups are less likely to succeed than 2-person startups, in fact it's quite possible that they are more likely to succeed, we just don't know.
It's the title of the article, and what—"Shit" is permissible but "Bitch" isn't?

There's some really good content here.
Not everyone is like you, who's satisfied with a small business making enough money to get by with a relatively satisfactory life. People who risk everything to make something happen don't deserve to hear "Bitch please". The people who wake up at 4am are the ones do it because they chose that life, never because VCs push them to.
I'm so ashamed of myself now... It never occurred to me that I can fire up iTunes and search for, for example, cocoa or test or bdd in Podcasts...

Thanks :)
Presumably your web server doesn't serve quite as much traffic as fbcdn.net. The odds of such a bitflip happening are vanishingly low, so you need an incredibly large amount of traffic before you'll see such errors occurring.
And the Al Sharptons of the web are nowhere to be seen now...
Author here. I'm not a fan of swearing, but I felt that 'Shit' deserved an equally emotional response. Perhaps a mistake.
>> "Both quality and diversity of speakers should be goals when curating a tech conference"

Absolutely not. It should be based purely on merit in exactly the same way academic conferences are organised.
I'd like to hear from investors that Dotcom pitched, as to why they didn't invest.
> This tool is for legal purposes only.

This is a given. Every single tool that exists is for legal purposes only. Almost nobody says it because it is a given.
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