skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of assertions there…with zero numbers reported. None. FTA: “The latest figures, which are based on live searches, pre-orders and pay monthly sales that have been compiled by uSwitch…” In other words, this isn't UK-wide, it's an estimate based 100% on the information collected by uSwitch.com (http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/), and they are a price-comparison site (meaning that people are simply looking for the best deals). As of today, the #1 phone on uSwitch is…the iPhone 5 (16GB).

The PCWorld article (in a niece comment) is similarly problematic—and it reports exactly the same thing I already said. The S3 reportedly outshipped (no proof that it actually outsold, sorry; Samsung doesn't report verifiable shipments, and has never reported sales) the iPhone 4S in CQ3'12—the very quarter that Apple released the iPhone 5.

It's therefore unsurprising that the S3 would outsell the iPhone 4 (which would see a sales decrease as the interest in and sales of the iPhone 5 pick up).

It did not keep this position for CQ4'12 (Apple's FQ1'13), where the iPhone 5 topped the S3 and any other individual Android device in most, if not all, markets. Yes, Android outsells Apple collectively, but you read something that isn't evidenced by the facts.
How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year
Front End Engineer at Statwing in San Francisco (YC S12)
About Us:

We love analyzing data. We love the feeling of getting an idea, exploring some hypotheses, and finding a surprising story in the data. So we’re trying to democratize data analysis, to give everyone that feeling.

Most statistical analyses are conceptually simple, but they’re so dressed up in the arcane language of t-tests and p-values that they’re off limits to most humans, and painfully time-consuming for experts. Most people fall back to the much less powerful Excel (and its PivotTables), spending their time shuffling data around an interface that’s barely changed in 15 years.

So we’re creating the modern data analysis tool, so anyone can get as much value out of their data as a trained expert, and much faster. We’re two Stanford alums and we work in San Francisco’s Mission District, near the 16th and Mission BART stop. Our investors include Y Combinator, Jeff Hammerbacher (cofounded Cloudera, coined the term "Data Science," built the Facebook data team) and Jason Seats (cofounded Slicehost, runs TechStars Cloud).

About the Job:

Radically improving the UI for data analysis is the core challenge of our company. As our first hire and only front-end specialist, you'll drive the function and feel of our UI, creating entirely new ways of interacting with data. You’ll meet weekly with the designer of the TiVo UI (an advisor of ours) to sketch out solutions to extremely challenging usability problems, which you'll then implement. You'll code in HTML, CSS/LESS, Ruby, and Coffeescript, using Bootstrap, Backbone, Underscore, jQuery, and d3. And as the first hire, you’ll earn significant equity and help shape our culture.

The ideal candidate:

• Excited about taking responsibility and ownership over big pieces of the product

• Comfortable with UI and UX challenges. Graphic design skills are a bonus (we
currently have none).

• Interested in data analysis.

• An extremely talented programmer, skilled with front end tools like HTML, CSS, and
Javascript/Coffeescript. Familiarity with the other tools listed above is a bonus.

• Deeply concerned with system reliability, code quality, and front end architecture.

• Open to asking for help, taking feedback, and collaborating.

• Humor. Has a sense of it.

If you’re interested, email us at jobs@statwing.com
Someone else was manipulating Google Scholar search results by automatically generating papers from LaTeX on his site, then citing the other generated papers with fake bibliographies. Unfortunately, I can't remember any of the identifying details. Does anyone know who this was or a link to his spam?
All Entrepreneurs are "Social" Entrepreneurs
This sounds suspiciously like the EFF but exclusively/more for IP focused issues.
How to regulate your brain to make better decisions
This seems like it's going to be a problem a lot of places if people are using 2 factor auth via their phones. You can delete someone's Github also immediately but I'm not sure if they keep backups somewhere. It sure says that stuff will be deleted IMMEDIATELY
I'm sure that this happens a lot, but it isn't my experience.

I lost my first job when 2/3 of the company way laid off.

I left my second job for manangerial reasons, but that was more that my position was an experiment and when the manager who'd created it left the person who took over didn't know how to manage me.

The company after that I left because we were bought out and I wouldn't sign the new, draconian NDA.
I tend to agree with this advice, but OXO (maker of well-designed houseware products) is a famous counter-example. Not only do they outsource manufacturing (as nearly every product company does these days), but they also outsource product design, which is absolutely their core competency.

I've never understood how they made that work, but obviously it is a strategy that has worked well for them.
Ask HN: Who wants a couple of free domains?
Hi everyone,

fasterdev.com expires in a couple of weeks, and I have zero use for it. I'm happy to give it away to a good home :)

If you have an active use for this domain, please post a comment below outlining roughly what you'd do with it. I just wouldn't like the domain to not end up being used.

I also have another unwanted domain expiring soon: easyemailprotection.com - an idea never realized, as you may infer from its homepage ;)

Thanks!
I definitely commend you for taking the effort :) If I had a company, I would love to have you on my side to help me point out my flaws.

Your manager needs a reality check to realize that while he's good at starting a company, he can't really manage it.
the stuff in "If" is far too hard to live by, surely?
I've always had mixed emotions about NICs that have hardware assisted offload features. I welcome the decrease in CPU utilization and increased throughput, but the NIC ends up being a complex system that very subtle bugs can lurk inside versus being a simple I/O device that a kernel driver controls.

If there's denial of service hiding in there I wonder about what other security bugs might be lurking. It's scary stuff, and pretty much impossible to audit yourself.

Edit:

Also, I'm a little freaked-out that the EEPROM on the NIC can be modified easily with ethtool. I would have hoped for some signature verification. I guess I'm hoping for too much.

Edit 2:

I wonder if this isn't the same issue described here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632650
Show HN: Tubeadoob - A tribute
The API combinator
"I wonder how many emergency room visits (and deaths) are associated with coffee usage. I suspect the number is negligible, if not plain 0. With billions of cups of coffee consumed daily, I'm skeptical that it's really caffeine that is the villain."

As an EMS provider, my anecdotal data would say the number is low, but definitely not zero. Typically, associated with excessive and/or irresponsible usage (witness people who take their first ever dose of Hydroxycut and chug two Monsters, having a bout of tachycardia and an accompanying panic attack - certainly nothing life-threatening in and of itself, but on the other hand, if there's an underlying cardiac sensitivity...)
As someone who works with FPGAs/ASICs, this isn't that weird.

Everything gets serialized/deserialized these days, so there's all kinds of boundary conditions where you can flip just the right bit and get the data to be deserialized the wrong way.

What's more interesting is that it bypasses all of the checks to prevent this from happening.

Here is the wiki page on the INVITE OF DEATH which sounds like the problem you hit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INVITE_of_Death
About the favouring those with deeper wallets: there's a great history of players making their own miniatures. I think provided they are reasonably near the dimensions of the 'original' piece - the homemade pieces are accepted and encouraged, allowing those without the financial means to use their own.
Oh, I wasn't making any judgements.

Male crowd, female crowd, whoever the organizers want at their event is perfectly fine by me - after all, it's their event. I'm just interested in the tools they use to get wherever they want to be.
The INVITE of death was discovered on Feb 16th, 2009.

http://ims-bisf.nexginrc.org/OpenSBC-vul.html
I’d actually guess that this is because we aren’t automotive mechanics.

I’d bet there is at least a small group of automotive mechanics that are interested in increasing diversity in their field.
This will run these options for every gem command though. Better restrict it to install and update.
The Q-boys should heed its advice. http://www.scribd.com/doc/124175489/Quora-quora-com
This is like saying if someone stole your key ring, they now have access to your house.
All future Net-SSH gem releases will now be signed (as of 2.6.5)
You will enjoy Quit[1] then!

I really suggest listening to (at least) episode 1 [2]

[1]: http://5by5.tv/quit

[2]: http://5by5.tv/quit/1
Charlottesville VA is first city in USA to pass an anti-drone resolution
What to look for in an iOS developer
I do agree, but one has to be willing to take on the responsibility of maintaining that code if need be. The offending codebase isn't always vetted in that sense, and it may not be something you want to take over.
AFAIK much of the Rubinius library is independent of VM features (since it was only in C for historical speed reasons), so there should be opportunity for reuse.
New version of Do-it-Yourself (DIY) HTTP based botnet tool released
And FWIW, GraphicsMagick has an active bug tracker.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=537937&group_id=734...
I'd add release, and add a notice that you can't provide support, but are happy for people to fork it. If it's hosted a place like github, there's then an easy way for people to track down those forks if needed. The problem isn't really unsupported code, but when it is hard to decide if the code is unsupported or not. If you know, you can make an educated decision about the cost of using the code anyway.
This is a slightly worse version of the behavior that prompted JWZ's first rant about bugtrackers in open source software (cf. http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html ).
I don't think you understand what the word "like" means. It is a word used to convey similarities, and not exact sameness. The OP states that chocolatey is LIKE apt-get for Windows, he does not say that choclatey IS apt-get for Windows.
I agree with minicole that "female" activities like pedicures are off-putting even insulting. I am watching my girlfriend, who is an accomplished artist, move into web development. She has a whole different set of values and weighting of those values than I do or do the male developers I work with. I firmly believe that there is a huge benefit in letting women apply their values to projects and letting them know that their values are appreciated. My experience is that this results in a more cooperative collaborative environment.
So this post on Ars is interesting- because it seems to involve a non-US company sending DMCA takedown notices, which triggers a US Law, but if you try to find the non-US company and sue them then going after them might be very hard (even if you win, because recovering damages might be impossible). So essentially, they can use US law against a site, but have little change of repercussion?

If they have invalid WHOIS information, isn't that ground for them losing their domain?

Or I could be reading this incorrectly.
It's also worth noting that this is (mostly) possibly with RubyPython running in Ruby against a CPython2 dynamic library.

Zach Raines did 99% of the heavy lifting (I've got a very small part to the whole project, and no time to work on it right now), and it works pretty nicely overall.
Exec is a perfect case for this. I just tried it for two jobs with good results, and my top request for Exec to offer people who are even more experienced e.g. hire an Exec person with accounting experience to find well-reviewed CPA firms, or a person with paralegal experience to find well-reviewed law firms, or an HR-experienced person to help with various startup forms like insurance.
He's specifically asking about coffee as opposed to other caffeinated drinks, I think.
Why Range Rover Owners Will Love the Microsoft Surface Pro
Set your User-Agent string to "Mozilla/5.0" and try to access jwz's site.

I thought he was smarter than to make stupid assumptions. Is he ever going to fix this (bug)? Doesn't look like it.

Maybe the assumptions are left over from his experience with Netscape? There's no RFC I know of that requires some silly user-agent string scheme. But feel free to enlighten me.
Windows phone does this unification in a way that works better for me.

All messages (sms, chat, facebook messages) are together
All emails are together
All social walls (facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc) are together.

You can switch the communication medium i.e. reply to facebook message with an SMS and so on. Of course all of these are filterable and configurable. This seems to work better for me as they are most of the times distinct worlds.
My problem with the “Internet Of Things”
That's what I use to get from Mozilla forums. Then I moved the company off of any Mozilla tools since we could get help on our issues. Been almost 10 years back, so not sure if it's still the case.
Samsung Galaxi S3 Mini laat concurrentie ver achter zich
Is an unlocked phone really that important to the majority of American consumers? They've showed quite readily in the past that they really don't care that much.
We'll soon submit the Poutsch API. I think it's a great tool!
> Why do we not have the same goals for automotive mechanics?

A lot of industries that have issues attracting certain kinds of people don't have explicitly diversity goals as a part of their makeup. But that doesn't mean that people aren't trying to break into those industries and have a career there.

Keep in mind that the kind of work you do isn't just influenced by your hobbies and likes, but also by what is considered acceptable for a certain person based on gender/race/etc., stereotypes about kinds of work, and classism (among other things).
We are not crushing it
But the packages it installs may.
If your key ring included a teleporter that could steal all your possessions with a single button click, then yeah.

If someone steals your keys, they stil have to find a time when no one's home, and it's still hard to steal things from a physical location quickly. Once you notice your keys are gone, you can call a locksmith and rekey the house.

That's why the article recommends a time delay. There should be enough time to realize that your access has been compromised, and nothing destructive should occur faster than that time limit. Ideally, the time limit should be configurable, so you can go on a vacation and know that even if someone hacks into your email the day you leave, nothing will get committed until your return.
He said he's opensourcing it feb 14th after he saw Discourse and that it was opensourced.
Well this hurts. I have a critical machine with a dual NIC Intel motherboard. I had to abandon the 82579LM port because of unresolved bugs in the Linux drivers, and the other one is a 82574L, the one documented in this post.

I suppose I can send just the right ICMP echo packet to router to make it send me back an innoculating frame.
This was my initial reaction. Is there any reason why you couldn't create a kickstarter campaign around this?
The official line has always been fuzzy. A lot of the more quota-led managers would bring out the "no-proxy" rules a lot. But then there is a very blurred line between a "converted" figure and a plain old handmade one. In this regard, HQ was much more lenient than other stores.
Microsoft Surface Pro Reviews
Humans rarely use new words when old words will do. When we were looking for a word to use for "thing that keeps us alive in space", "ship" was the obvious one since we already had a word for "thing that keeps us alive on the ocean".

When we are looking for a word for "soldiers that accompany ships in space", "marines" is almost certainly the word that is going to be used.
Show HN: LeanSentry - Better Monitoring for Windows Server Apps
oDesk, Elance and probably many others allow you to actually watch your developer as they work. It isn't for everyone, but it's pretty powerful when you're getting over initial trust issues.
Amazon Launches Its Own Currency to Make It Easier to Spend on the Kindle
I misread this as "How to attract women to web developers". Boy was I disappointed...
I'm really curious about all the research coming out of Iran. would not have expected a country under lockdown to be doing so much research.
Why Social Movements Should Ignore Social Media
Can you cite the conversation?
Interesting example - sounds really strange that they outsource their product design
The original idea was to use the rest of the world as a testing ground to work out any potential bugs in the software prior to releasing in the US.

It could be even worse to release in the US with a critical bug than to release later.
"the homemade pieces are accepted and encouraged"

It's not like they can do much about cardboard cut-outs and stand-ins.
why is an 8oz cup of brewed coffee 133mg of caffeine and a 16oz starbucks 330mg?
I don't really have an opinion one way or another about this, but I wonder if there's the same sort of anger about the fact that Lucas has (and defends) a trademark on "droid".
Any word on PlayBook getting the BB10?
I launched Mycelial: http://www.mycelial.com

It's a community/portfolio/resume for people who like to build things. Not much traction, but still useful to me. It was worth building it just for the reason that it provides me with a much better place to display my work.
Data Governance – Do Job Titles Matter?
Significant whitespace in Python was a significant factor in my decision to get proficient in Ruby over Python.

Yes, I hate it that much, and I know quite a few Ruby devs with similar views...
If I wanted to take up a hobby or skill that I felt was sort of "woman's only" thing, like knitting, I would be uncomfortable joining a stitch 'n bitch group initially, and I'm sure a lot of women would have reservations about a guy popping in to their knit nights. I'm sure some would be thrilled that a guy would take an interest, but it would be a novelty. I would happily learn on my own through Internet tutorials, but I wouldn't have a support community to learn from and bounce ideas off.

I think the same sort of feeling would surround women trying to break into a male-dominated activity.

I try to think about what might convince me to take steps into a knitting program (assuming I actually wanted to learn). If I expected that it would be completely women I would be more uncomfortable, but if it was more 'professional' and less casual, I would probably be less anxious. I think a professional environment with a sort of "we're here to learn, not chat, not network" would make things easier because there's less social pressure, it's more focus on the task.

Likewise, I think a "Beer and Pizza knitting workshop" would be as much a turn-off. I think it's just the idea that it's an emphasis on the social side of it. I know what I am doing is socially different, and the more social and friendly the atmosphere is the more awkward it is to picture.

For instance, if I'm going to a class, and the image I conjure is a row of desks or something, someone teaching a technique, maybe coming by individually, helping with a difficult process, answering questions. That's pretty neutral, I can picture myself there. If the image I conjure is a bunch of guys standing around the tailgate of a pick-up truck drinking beer, eating pizza, belching, and talking about their colorwork and cast-on techniques, I'm going to feel uncomfortable. Not only that, I'm going to feel patronized by the class.

Now, obviously regardless of the circumstances, the class is not going to be at all like either of those images in my head. But what would cause me to choose to sign up or not has far more basis on that picture.

I think if you want to encourage women to join your class, advertise it in a way that makes it look like it's not judgmental, like it's not patronizing. Something that's not some apparantly watered down "web design for women" class. Keep it professional, respectful, and above board. Include women in your advertising material.

If I wanted to learn to knit, and I came across a class that wasn't billed as a sort of chatty woman's group but instead just a class on techniques; if it made it apparent in their description that men were welcome; and it wasn't directed at specifically ignorant men who wanted to learn so they could say they can do it too; then I would be comfortable going. Past that, I would have to know it exists, so if there was some sort of men's knitting mailing list that I was on, it would be a good place to send it.
This is a great example of responsible stimulant usage. A similar drug that is consumed every day by millions of people is alcohol. It has a much higher death rate than caffeine and seems to be over-used quite often. However, the vast, vast majority of users are responsible.

I think we can agree that moderate usage is acceptable and useful. I think the major point of the article is that we have to be aware of how much caffeine is in drinks so that people can use it responsibly. The danger in energy drinks is that they are fairly opaque and people don't know how it compares to something like coffee. Most people will dislike the effects of overstimulation, but we want to make sure that everyone has the tools to protect themselves and their children.
A cynic might imagine that a percentage increase is easy if you don't have many female employees to start with.

From the article:

"At the time of the talk, Etsy’s had twenty women on its 110-person engineering team, which is a roughly eighteen percent (or a four and half times) increase from the previous year. It’s not quite hockey stick growth, but it’s a huge step forward."

Still, clearly it's a huge problem in the industry, so props to Etsy for trying to tackle it.
Very good detective work. However, a small suggestion, given:

I’ve been working with networks for over 15 years and I’ve never seen anything like this. I doubt I’ll ever see anything like it again.

This is a very excellent case for fuzz testing. My thinking is that you want to whip up your Ruby and your EventMachine and Redis going and run a constant fuzz with all sorts of packets in your pre-shipping lab.

The idea is that you want to create a condition where you do see it, and the other handful of lockups that are there that you haven't yet seen.
Did they start with one female engineer or twenty?

I have increased my revenue by 50000000% this month, by the way....
> I'm sorry, but "why?", by itself, is never a serious question.

I asked my question crisply and respectfully, taking the pro-diversity folks as serious and being people of goodwill.

I think it's disrespectful of you, not to mention logically deficient, to immediately start your attack by asserting that my question was not intended in good faith.

If you can't muster up a simple, respectful response to a simple respectful question, it doesn't speak well of your self examination on this topic.
Colonial Marine, Galactic Marine, Star Marine, Void Marine, Interplanetary Marine. I could come up with many more, why not just pick one of these instead.

Space Marine sounds familiar for a reason. I've got to side with GW on this one.
That's just silly and so US-centric it's laughable (as is the parent). It's not BlackBerry that is causing the delay, the US carrier device testing/acceptance is the stumbling block. If it was up to BlackBerry they would be available now.
Treadmill Desk Hurts Productivity