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Marco's post lists some iOS, Mac (dev & news) podcasts, but I'm not aware of any good "replacement" of John Siracusa's one. While he's not always right--is any of us?--I really enjoy the depth he likes to go into the subjects he picks. So, question is: does anyone know any similar podcasts to Hypercritical?
Where have I seen this before... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9fepEyGRx8

Okay I get her version isn't at all the same as the Watercone (it's the rack, right? Or just the rod?), but it purports to solve the same problem. So where's the discussion about what this system and its potential deployment do differently to Really Solve the Problem This Time? I know it's only a 5 minute presentation and she has to go through each of the "Steps of the Scientific Method", but still.

Are the other finalists' presentations online somewhere?
I'm in France and these checks are US checks. I go to USA once per month to collect them (they are sent to a PO box) and deposit them. That's why I only do it once per month.

I'm actually unfamiliar with the deposit slip. My bank's ATM simply takes checks one by one and I use my credit card to log into my account to have them deposited into my account. Can you explain what deposit slips are?

I shall check with my bank, thanks for suggestion. When I opened my account they simply told me to do it at an ATM.
I'm wondering if you missed my argument entirely. Why aren't you saying "I'm sure that if a greater percentage of successful businesses are started by white dudes , there must be a good reason for it"? Looking at the demographics of success stories is actually not at all helpful. In fact it would only be helpful if an equal number of startups began as 1 founder vs 2. Otherwise this data tells us nothing.

Let's look at this from a different perspective. Assume that the data conclusively shows that 2-founder startups have a higher chance of success than 1-founder startups, by a huge margin (say 10x). Does that mean that you should seek a co-founder before launching your startup? Even then, it does not. Consider two different startup ideas, one is founded on a very solid plan with a good chance of success, the other is founded on a bad plan with a lot more risk. The good plan is going to have a much easier time of finding a co-founder, because the potential co-founder will look at the idea and see that it has a lot of merit and potential and they'll be enthusiastic about joining in, whereas the bad idea will have a much harder time finding co-founders. However, imagine if someone with a bad startup idea pushes much, much harder to get a co-founder because they have learned that startups with co-founders are more likely to be successful. Will that help the company's prospects any or will it just warp the equation and result in a bad company failing even with a co-founder?

I think it's more important to go about a startup with your head screwed on straight than to attempt to imitate the forms of previous success. If you find someone you trust who seems to be a valuable addition to your startup as a co-founder, then by all means make that partnership. But if you can't find a co-founder for whatever reason but you are still quite convinced of your business plan then I don't think you should wait. You should certainly be careful that you aren't deluding yourself and be sensitive to any criticism of your startup idea nonetheless, but a good plan is a good plan even if you go it alone.
I wish Netflix would come out with a first-party native app for the Mac platform. Silverlight never gained any traction, and if it weren't for Netflix I could get it completely off my Mac.
Don't get me wrong, I love HN. I never thought I would have to write something like this.

However, HN is indeed a bubble. Any criticism of the community (like this one) will get voted to the bottom and never be seen. However, a quick look outside HN (e.g. on Twitter) will reveal that HN threads can often be nothing short of ruthless. Maybe it's just me, but I've seen a rising number of these recently (this one included).
Apple Didn’t Invent That
Sorry to make a different thread than the two others I've made, but FYI, here's was the proposed Brit Ruby 2013 lineup:

http://lanyrd.com/2013/britruby/speakers/

It was important to see this list, for those of us who have never been, to understand if Brit Ruby includes only British speakers or Rubyists from all over. (it at least includes a few Americans)

FWIW, here are a few other speaker lists for comparison:

Ruby Conf 2012:
http://lanyrd.com/2012/rubyconf/speakers/

Ruby Midwest:
http://lanyrd.com/2011/ruby-midwest/

Ruby Madison (Wisc.)
http://lanyrd.com/2011/madison-ruby/

It should be noted that all of these conferences feature at least more than one non-"white guy"...but all have more speakers than did the announced lineup for Brit Ruby 2013.
"4 million is nothing considering windows market share."

This 4 million number is equal to the number of individual consumers who bought a shrink-wrapped Windows 8 UPGRADE box. It was announced 4 days after the launch of the platform on the 26th.
5 smartphones that challenge your point & shoot camera
Omniscient Debugging
The barrier to entry to becoming a Ruby programmer is as low as can be: all you need is a laptop and internet access. You can become a celebrity without people even knowing your name, let alone your face: why_ (or _why or whatever) was at one point the biggest name in Ruby (AFAICT from outside), and he might have been a cat with a keyboard for all anyone knew.

On top of that, there's plenty of famous and powerful non-white engineers. And if you don't want to look at the top, look at your peers: in my university in America, whites are the minority in most gradute CS classes.

By all objective measures, this is the last industry where people should be subject to a witch-hunt and have their conference cancelled because of their speaker lineup.
I used to be a full time programmer, now I'm part time and getting a humanities degree at UCLA. I've never taken a CS or programming class. I've also never done math higher than Stat. Web development has more to do with understanding markets, design, flow, and what's important to the consumer, over what they teach you in CS. My 2 cents. I do like working with CS majors though.
How do you propose to fix things? Selecting speakers that are not as preferred by the selection committee simply because of being a minority race (minority in the context of the community in question)? i.e. the committee ranks all speaker applications, figures out the necessary demographics to mirror the conference's targeted community, and then allocates speaker slots for each demographic to the best speakers who are in that demographic?

If you artificially make minorities (based on the community's demographics) a majority on the selection committee, in the hope they will select speakers that more closely mirror the larger community, and if they pick more speakers who are members of minority groups, how do you know they aren't being subconsciously racist/reverse-racist in exactly the same way you're complaining about whites/males being racist?

How do you objectively evaluate the race-blind quality of a set of potential speakers if your claim is that everyone on any possible selection committee is potentially subconsciously biased?

What if you make an effort to select speakers that mirror the demographics of the larger community, and conference attendees rate this new anti-racist conference lower than they rated the last ("racist") one? Is this demographics equality campaign to be pursued at the expense of attendees' perceived value of the conference?
In case people haven't noticed - the USA has long ago stopped being a free and democratic country. They can put you in prison for any reason, without trial,for any amount of time. This is a country,where journalists writing about some events(latest trial of an alleged "terrorist" - a guy who spent 10 years in Guantanamo without trial and now is fighting to regain freedom) is banned,under the threat of being accused of endangering national security, an accusation that could earn a journalist several years in prison.

How is this different from countries like Russia, which can send anyone to prison for anything?
"And it must be consumer PCs too, since enterprises aren't deploying Windows 8 in any large number."

Former Microsoftie as of August - this is not true. We had already sold tens of millions of Windows 8 licenses prior to 10/26 as part of our Enterprise Agreement (EA) process with big enterprises. Ballmer mentioned this onstage during his //BUILD keynote too.
So they shouldn't be arranged along the same lines as academic conferences? Please.
It's not that it's a swear word, it's that "bitch please" feels to me like something straight out of memes/rage comics. Things like this impacted hugely on reddit's quality downfall, and I wouldn't be too avid to see this happen here.
This is probably the most correct and verifiable answer. To check: search for any stocks that have had significant appreciation in the last few years and see how they've done lately versus stocks that have been flat during the same period (msft, for example).
>Everyone who criticizes the TSA (and with reason) should also think about what they would do if they were given the task of trying to prevent Black Swan events with minimal disruption to the 99.9999 percent of normal travelers.

I suggest you look up a guy named Bruce Schneier. He's my go-to authority on these sorts of things.
The OP, Mark Suster, is frequently on the front page of HN[1]. But many of his insights don't get this far. For those, you have RSS[2] and Youtube subscriptions[3], as he is also the host of "This week in Venture Capital".

HN is great for finding some gems. For others, you can use the referrals as good start digging spots.

[1] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=bot...

[2] http://feeds.feedburner.com/BothSidesOfTheTable

[3] http://www.youtube.com/channel/SWkbknrWhbJws
Going to side with TSA on this.

Art is art within a specified context. Outside of which, it's usually something else. In this case, a security threat.
What data do you have showing that Windows 8 is actually unpopular in terms of sales volume, given that it's only been in market for three weeks?
I've never seen one of their builds not report multiple errors!
Do you honestly think one of the largest players in this market (and arguably, the smartest) would release a tablet that's heavier, hotter, and with worse battery life than an Ultrabook? Have you even looked at the specifications of the Surface Pro?

Microsoft knows exactly what they're doing. And I agree, due to it's similarity to a conventional laptop, they won't sell as much as they could. That being said, the Surface Pro is a bad-ass piece of machinery, and probably going to be hard to beat any time soon.

Aside from those points, I agree with what you said. From my perspective though, who in their right mind wouldn't want a tablet with a dual-core hyperthreaded Core i5 with 4GB of RAM and a beautiful 1080p screen?
> The technical community has a diversity problem, but they are a victim of the problem, not the cause of it.

I think that's a false dichotomy. By doing nothing, we help foster the problem.

Personally I think quotas is one good way of helping solve the problem. The idea being that they counter the existing bias against some groups.

If there is no existing bias, quotas are indeed "unfair". If there are existing bias, quotas will be unfair to individuals. I still think quotas can do good overall.

If there is bias, and you cannot see it: you will perceive quotas to be unfair.
You will probably find many of these islands even right now.

Plus, I can divide my 1000 wallets into 20 islands, and only have 1-2 transactions between the islands.
I think this argument falls flat on the face when people just do things they enjoy, like they might just enjoy programming. Do you really need permission to get into programming? I don't think so. On the internet, nobody even knows your skin color. If you like programming, just do it. When most of us started, it wasn't a trendy thing to do, we just did it because we enjoyed it.

What I find particularly vexing here: just a couple of years ago everybody was deriding the geeks hacking away on their computer, and didn't want to have anything to do with them. Now that they officially seem to have some fun, suddenly everybody wants in and the same people who made the nerds life hell 20 years ago by bashing them for their nerdiness now start bashing them for their alleged sexism and racism? What is wrong with people simply doing their thing? Why not leave such people alone, or join them if you enjoy the same things?

Edit: another thing, it seems this conference was simply organized by some Ruby developers who decided to give it a go. If people have a problem with it's structure, why don't they simply start their own conference?
How would you envision this? 9 out of 10 ideas are just bad, or 9 out of 10 executions are just bad, and you can't know which ones are good or bad ahead of time.

The amount of stress comes from the fact that you constantly need to reassure yourself and your stakeholders that your startup is a 10%er and not a 90%er.

I'm not a VC so I don't have all the data, but from my point of view I see no way out of this system.
They didn't "have their conference cancelled". They cancelled it because they felt pressure from their sponsors. Without more example or explanation, we have to take them at their word that the pressure was on level with a witch-hunt. If that's the case, that is indeed a poor state of affairs in terms of open debate and civility.
European Union Building Super Lasers More Powerful Than Any Yet Constructed
When googling from within a corporate intranet it can appear to Google to be a large amount of traffic from a single source IP. This is probably what the message is about.
Twitter already pivoted
> It makes them indifferent to the question, not hostile.

Or ignorant of the issue. Which isn't necessarily the same as indifferent.
Random question but I've always wondered this: I don't yet understand the market for 1.5+ hour weekly podcasts like some of 5by5's. Do listeners generally have long commutes or even listen during work? Do listeners generally only listen to 1 podcast a week?

I'm intrigued because I listen to a few far shorter podcasts each week but would find even a single 2 hour episode almost impossible to get through on my schedule.
Yeah, this looks to be the most probable course of action to me, and the doom and gloom that is raining down from the rafters seems a little premature.

In the same way that Vista was a disaster due to its changes and incompatibilities, Windows 8 is a version 1. And in the same way that, by the time Windows 7 had come out, the industry had adapted, new drivers had been written, C# was a standard, etc, etc, when Windows 9 comes out 2-3 years from now RT apps will be widespread, Windows tablet hardware will be a couple of generations refined, and Office will probably work with Metro.

And there will be glowing reviews talking about what an achievement Windows 9 is, how it is the best OS Microsoft has released in years, and how it completely wipes out the colossal disappointment that was Windows 8, ignoring of course that Windows 8 like Vista before it provided the foundation upon which the new system is built.

Will Microsoft be around forever? Who knows, but a company this large, only a few years removed from the success that was Windows 7, is going to get at least a few more kicks at the can.
sound like there is an opportunity for an entrepreneur to get an inside position on the next Administration in four years. I bet you could put together an IT plan that would spin up an infrastructure in less then six months and have two _very_ interested parties who you would be able to sell to.
> I'm not going to argue whether it's fair or not to expect this: but if an organizer is facing these kinds of allegations, then they can help alleviate the issue by writing a substantial post on their criteria for selecting the speakers and some examples of people they asked but who could not make it.

I just want to call attention to this, because it's hiding at the end of a longer post and it's a really good, constructive suggestion of how to approach this entire matter in a reasonable, non-polarizing way.
If I send the money between my wallets, the transaction fees are not an issue - I keep that money, don't I?

Making a new TOR connection per transaction shouldn't be too hard to automate.
>Like I said to another commenter, actual prevention and the appearance of prevention are different problems.

That's not the government's job, though. It is not the role of the government to make people feel safe. It is not, in fact, the role of government to make people feel anything in particular, be it safe, happy, calm, or sexually aroused.

It can be argued that the government should -actually- keep people safe, but it is very hard to defend the position that we need to have the Feeling Police, which is a few neural folds away from being the Thought Police.

edit: If you'd like to ask "then, who should make people feel safe?", my answer is "psychotherapists".
Depends on what you use them for. Services like ImageShack and Photobucket keep your images around, while (last time I checked, which is admittedly about a year ago) Imgur's FAQ says something about deleting old images that haven't seen any traffic for a certain timespan (at least 3 months, IIRC).
Doesn't that make the speaker lineup even more peculiar?
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FYI: I don't think the OP was talking about physical barrier to entries. That's all the more reason why such a big disparity between privileged males and all other minorities in programming should be frightening!
When you agree with it, it's an honest opinion. When you disagree with it, it's propaganda?
The banks will put you in direct contact with the merchant. From a merchant's perspective, your service is just another unnecessary middleman to deal with. The damage you're doing is advertising the chargeback feature. You are encouraging users to initiate chargebacks (whether through your service or not), which is not a good thing.
Maybe they should hire people who actually know what a bomb is? Instead you have employees that probably can't even solve an algebraic equation despite getting a high school diploma. This isn't meant as a blanket statement about all TSA personnel, but a little expertise in the area wouldn't hurt.
I'm not sure I like this argument. Because one woman (who from your comment I presume everyone should know about - I don't know her) said they were never approached, this means the organisers intentionally selected (using your words) 'non-diverse' people?
Yep, and recoiledsnake's article actually backs this up, since Windows 8 web traffic was already quite high before the 10/26 launch date (according to that statcounter graph, at least).
Maybe something like Chipin.com - no experience with them.

Paypal might not be "dependable" and Kickstarter doesn't really do "funding for a cause" from what I've seen.

I applied to Kickstarter for a project to create a PayPal alternative, soon after Kickstarter launched. They rejected it.
From my layman's point of view, this article is delusional and sounds written by a fan, not a journalist.

the first would see Mega funding the project itself once it became popular through purchasing bandwidth. This is the most viable option [...] Dotcom wants to commit Mega to purchasing $20 million

But who will fund the $300m for actually building it?

He’d need to find $300 million of private angel funding to get moving, something which the country has little of, but should be straightforward to find overseas

Yeah, shouldn't be that hard, like, he is Kim Dotcom!

unlike any other businessman, he’s excellent at cutting through red tape

Is he? I haven't heard about that.
I think it might be a good idea to indicate your previous software experience (if any) and if you have anything in particular that you would like to achieve after you have learnt it.
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At what point do we just call x86_64 "x86"? Do you for example have any x86 hardware that doesn't support x86_64? If so, what is it and what is it used for?

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

>> The first AMD64-based processor, the Opteron, was released in April 2003.

>> The first processor to implement Intel 64 was the multi-socket processor Xeon code-named Nocona in June 2004.

>> Intel's official launch of Intel 64 (under the name EM64T at that time) in mainstream desktop processors was the N0 Stepping Prescott-2M. All 9xx, 8xx, 6xx, 5x9, 5x6, 5x1, 3x6, and 3x1 series CPUs have Intel 64 enabled, as do the Core 2 CPUs, as will future Intel CPUs for workstations or servers. Intel 64 is also present in the last members of the Celeron D line.

>> The first Intel mobile processor implementing Intel 64 is the Merom version of the Core 2 processor, which was released on 27 July 2006.
Tech conferences: what's the big idea?
The future of Siri
I mentioned this in the other thread about Build and Analyze, but I listen to ~ 40 hours of podcasts a week.

I listen to them mostly when I get home from work (maybe 3 or 4 hours a night), and then usually a bunch of marathon sessions on the weekend.

It's easy for me to find myself overwhelmed by the number of ones that I subscribe to (particularly if I manage to miss a couple days straight, and then suddenly have a big pile of unlistened to shows), so I'll periodically go through and unsubscribe from the ones that I don't seem to make time for.

I'd say the ones I listen to are about 50/50 comedy podcasts and tech-related.

It sounds like I'll soon have ~3.5 hours less per week to listen to (as I subscribe to both Build and Analyze and Hypercritical).
> Show me a community college course on computer science that's better than or equal to the least of these:

> Affording tuition is not the only constraint that limits people from attending a traditional university.

When I say that 70% is not good enough and HEY maybe we should try for 100%, you tell me that MAYBE praise progress then.

And then you come around and say HEY my examples like community colleges and scholarships are only 70% maybe try for 100%! Does this sound familiar yet?

> Praising progress and providing constructive criticism need not be mutually exclusive.

So provide some constructive criticism, rather than saying "70% is awesome because CHEAP so who cares about quality".
I'm loving Ruby support in Elastic Beanstalk so far. My biggest complaint is that there isn't really a way to launch worker processes like resque or delayed_job. A separate autoscaling group that can run a rake task would be nice. Support for a Heroku style Procfile would be especially nice.
Yet, you won't hear about people investing on ideas like these, but another social-mobile-location-enabled-micro-payment startup with 10M valuation.
And thankfully that is changing -- we at least see higher recruitment into computer science (and other engineering disciplines) for girls in Norway (and higher number of boys to teaching colleges) -- finally.

That did not come about without a lot of different people and organizations working actively towards changing the ideas of what and who kids would "allow" themselves to aspire to be.
Do you really need permission to get into programming?

If this is the only factor that you think is stopping people from entering programming, then you're seriously mistaken.

A quick Google search brings up this: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/hdh9/e-reserves/Williams_-_The_glass_...

Maybe also try watching this: http://www.missrepresentation.org/the-film/

A lot more happens behind the scenes than you seem to know (as indicated by your post.)
Wow, he ran his campaign like the ran the companies he destroyed/raided.

You have to wonder how this incompetence translated into electoral failure. Maybe a better businessman would have given Obama a challenge.