skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Author of the repo here).

This is just a draft. I wasn't expecting this to be published here in its initial state.

Actually my intention was just to create an exhaustive collection of references to useful resources for the OCaml programming language. The list is far from complete and needs more refinements both in terms of content, organization and design.

So all of your critics are fair (and actually useful). I'll continue to improve it, and I promise you'll be surprised the next time you visit the page! ;)

Btw, if you want to quickly understand how the ecosystem of the language works and actually start experimenting with it, here's an excellent guide for beginners:

- <http://blog.nullspace.io/beginners-guide-to-ocaml-beginners-...

Hope it helps, and if you have any suggestions I'd be glad to know about them.
In Chinese culture copying and making it better is encouraged I think.
It's not the car key that I'm worried about people cloning. It's the droves of people who leave their house keys attached to the keyring when they hand it to the valet.

Definitely agree about trackability with the app.
The 0 is a positive one.

> / 1 -0
-Inf

BTW this is just IEEE floating point.
and not considering holidays
Ask HN: How many of you are philosophers?
what are your works?both published/non published or currently working on.
On Windows Phone / Windows 8 this problem is even bigger. No matter how much effort you put in to build the best app in its genre, earning even $100 per month is extremely hard. I know a lot of Windows developers who are serious about building apps for those platforms, and none of them makes $100 per month or more from those apps.
Looks like income inequality is FAR worse in the app store compared to the rest of our economy. Will the Apple loving leftists speak up about this?
The site is quite broken on my Nexus 4.

http://i.imgur.com/H72QriT.png
Seems like a variant of culture shock[1] which has similar characteristics. The difference being the degree of anxiety experienced seems to be particularly acute for a minority of Japanese tourists in Paris.

Anthropologists and ethnographers are trained in, and can experience severe culture shock since their goal is often immersion to learn more about a culture. Panic attacks in severe cases of culture shock are not uncommon, one of my professors did a stint in Spain and lost it when she saw a slaughtered pig being carried through a market place. She described being short of breath, and other classic symptoms of a panic attack.

Another instance I know of is a Japanese American female anthropologist being immersed into Japanese culture while staying as a guest at a family. She found herself panicking at the supermarket. After nearly a year there, dressed in "homewear" with a stroller and the family's children looking to buy food to make for the night's dinner, in the midst of the crushing social obligations she had such an identity crisis right then and there that she abandoned ship and moved in with a friend she knew in Tokyo. She still finished her book, which is really good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_shock
I don't need to read the article, because according to Betteridge's Law of Headlines, any headline ending in question mark, the answer is "no or nothing". If there was good enough evidence that "chinese dumplings" have an affect on "global warming", they wouldn't phrase it as a question, they'd phrase it as a statement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Scale a web application with one docker container
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture-bound_syndrome Many of these are also just as interesting
Media folks have a lot of time in their hands.
Ah yes indeed [1], I didn't know.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point#Exception_h...
Just as it used to be embedded in American culture: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva75.html
Well neither are most startups - in the sense that most of them will crash.

That is the nature of those kinds of businesses.
Why are we targeting Chinese here? Remember the Nokia episode where they were filming with professional cameras and showing that video as made by Nokia phones? Here is the link http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3294545/nokias-pureview-ads...
10 years stuck at minimum wage
I think this is one of the primary reasons I like Linux. Current versions of Linux run acceptably well on old hardware whereas current versions of Windows just chug along on old hardware.

Computerphile did a piece on this (intalling Linux on a very old PC)

XP to Ubuntu with an 8yr old Hacktop - Computerphile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAI368bZC1g
Have you seen Waydowntown [0]? It's a movie about the malaise of living entirely indoors in a non-human-scale city (Calgary.) You might like it if you haven't already seen it!

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219405/
Linus is afflicted with a mild form of Tourette's!
PsychoCat: This Game Aquired *100M Visits* Only In 3 Days In China!
Shame they didn't put more thought into their info graphic to better communicate their point. Different graphs using the same color scheme to represent slightly different sized bins of what may or may not be the same measure. Lower to higher is left to right. But on a different graph it's right to left. No explanation of time period for Revenue Distribution graph. Choice of graph type seems somewhat arbitrary. Donut charts and stacked bar charts become harder to interpret as the number of bins go up and the trend line gets buried. The colors seem to be the dominant feature of the graphic.

Plain old bar charts might be boring, but they would have more clearly communicated the message without all the extra distractions. They would also allow the graphic to use fewer code and require fewer text (legends could be omitted). At least they did specific actual graph values in the graphs. The area graph shows how one color can be effective when the graph contains only one type of data element.

Lesson here is to think carefully and make conscious choices about how you communicate your message. It's true in pitching an investor, pitching a customer, or presenting to an audience. Make sure your message gets through. Otherwise you just have a bunch of graphs dropped on a page and the reader has to search for what you're trying to say.

Also, hire a designer. You'll be happier.
Ask HN: Technical vs. Management weight on a project
Hello,
I'm currently working on a company that is really into Agile practices, Scrum, Lean, etc.
They claim things like "80% percent of developing a software project is about management, and 20% is about actually coding" and "projects usually fail due to management issues and not technical issues"

While I somewhat agree, my take is that engineers/programmers are usually less experienced and have less studies in management and that is why it fails on that side, but not because of management being more important.
Do you agree with these claims? (other than the figures, they are just there to make a point)

Also, I'm more interested in technical stuff, and while I agree with the importance of proper management, I do not wish to become a manager, agile/scrum coach or whatever. Is there a career path where I can achieve that?
I think you are underestimating what the really big guys are pulling in. I doubt twice is high enough for the tail end, three or four times is likely better.
Very interesting, can you cite one of these studies? I'm not doubting you but I'm curious about the research.
yeah but... the real problem lies elsewhere...

VMware (and that style of virtualization) is so popular because of the utter failure of OSes to do what they are supposed to do.

Protected multiuser multitasking operating systems are supposed to be able to protect processes from impinging on one another, and they can't do it. The result is that on a very large scale we have datacenters that spawn VMware virtual machine after VMware virtual machine, a "make everything look like a nail so we can use this hammer" approach that is wasting huge amounts of resources.

There would still be a use for VMware if OSes worked, but nothing like we see today. People should get back to work on fixing OSes so a cloud host could actually run processes from different customers in a lightweight way and have them not screw each other up.
I kind of had the opposite reaction. ("Paris syndrome syndrome"?) I kept hearing from tourists that Paris was a shitty town, Parisians are rude, nobody in France likes Paris, etc. But after spending a few weeks there, I really grew to love the place. The parks were lovely, the food was great and inexpensive (if you went to the markets and bakeries instead of always going out), the weather was fantastic, and it was a perfect walking city. Nobody was ever rude to me, though perhaps it's because I always approached people with my broken French before requesting to switch to English (if needed).

On the other hand, I expected to love London and Barcelona, but they fell flat for me.
Wasn't something like this already being done in the pre-iPad era with bars of soap or wax?

If you loose possession of your keys for a time someone can copy them. Did someone not know this?
Just discovered alternativeto.net :) Very useful!

Having a bit of trouble getting data crow to work headless (even though it should 'just work'). Might end up delving into code after all :p
Are there any Linux PDF readers that work as well? For instance I reported this bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628920 years ago but the example PDF I included still looks horrible in the latest Evince. So I typically keep a copy of Adobe Reader installed to deal with files like that, but I'd love to replace it with something open source.
AngularJS opinionated styleguide for teams [GitHub repo]
Far more irritating version of this old game:
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/chatnoir/chatnoir.html
"However, states the report, only the top 1.6% of developers make more than $500,000 per app per month, but of those who do, some are earning tens of millions per month. The next 2% – those who make between $100,000 and $500,000 per month."

I think these percentages are not low at all. In fact, they're almost pretty good. This is how success is distributed in almost any profession.
The Real Estate Scraper Wars
I dont think the slide or Photos were the shocker. ( May be that is what i expect them to be. ) The comment from Barra was the real shocker.

Barra is only a year into his job as leader of Mi’s internationalization efforts, but he’s already “sick and tired” of hearing his company derided as an Apple copycat. He sees Mi as “an incredibly innovative company” that never stops trying to improve and refine its designs, and the allegations of it copying Apple are “sweeping sensationalist statements because they have nothing better to talk about.”
It should be possible to write a solver for this with a "decision tree". There are decisions where the blocks run out of the screen - you ignore these. You only take into account "sensible" decisions (this has to be formalized). When there are multiple possible "sensible" decisions you branch. One decision consists of an action "click x times on block X and y times on block Y …"
Personally, i prefer "zathura". besides filling out forms it can do everything, with a very sleek ui and outstanding keybindings (vim-esque). I encourage you to try it :)
Xiaomi, MIUI and the Android ecosystem within China
It appears to me, that you are jumping the gun too soon here. The photos, might have been ripped off by a good for nothing designer from the marketing dept. There are countless good photos out there, who has the time to check that some stupid-running-late guy/gal did something like this, specially when it is hard work to go and take such artistically/professional photos.
To me the strength of windbg is not the 1990s style Multiple Document Interface UI. It's the fact that the commands are so terse and powerful. Once you get over the (steep, I'll admit) learning curve, you get a lot done without typing very much. I find gdb a lot more painful to get around for even simple stuff.

The remote debugging support is also phenomenal, though you need a culture to support it. I've only seen it work really well on the MS campus.
It's not really an analogy; The divide is still along similar racial lines. Civil asset forfeiture laws predominantly impact poor black or Hispanic people. Here's what the ACLU has to say: https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/civil-asset-forfeit...

" Asset forfeiture practices often go hand-in-hand with racial profiling and disproportionately impact low-income African-American or Hispanic people who the police decide look suspicious and for whom the arcane process of trying to get one’s property back is an expensive challenge. ACLU believes that such routine “civil asset forfeiture” puts our civil liberties and property rights under assault, and calls for reform of state and federal civil asset forfeiture laws."
That last item was a bit hyperbole.
The Judicial checks the Executive in that the Executive is tasked with brining people before the Courts. The Courts decide if that person should be punished in accordance with the laws, but they can also rule on the behaviour of law enforcement in accordance with the laws too.
I don't think that's a major issue.
Oh, I understand you haven't seen the toilets on the subway stations then.
Unfortunately I have to correct page proofs of papers back from scientific publishers using Adobe Reader. This is going to make things tricky unless I have a WIndows machine.
I've wondered about that angle too. Maybe the Judicial branch should have its own enforcement arm. SCOTUS does have its own police force.
They are defined that way now, yes. But those are retrofitted universal-constant definitions chosen for their equivalence to the arbitrary things-on-earth definitions originally used. There is nothing intuitive or natural or universal about 1/299792458, for example, to suggest it as a good basis for a unit of distance, other than "that's really close to the original arbitrary length of the meter".
Rosetta flybys
No need to port anything, you can use edb: http://codef00.com/projects#debugger or https://code.google.com/p/edb-debugger/
So depressing. This (and the parent comment) is the reason I didn't go into research -- it's a life of pipetting and manual labour that no-one's interested in automating, either because it's too complex or because labour is so cheap that there's no financial incentive to do so.

I'm happy to leave someone else to do that. I'd rather be in a job I actually enjoy the day-to-day of.

And that's to say nothing of the problems of PhDs: namely that there are ten times more PhD positions than there are postdoc positions. That ten-to-one crunch when it comes to finding a job sure does sound fun...
I also got that with FF 31.

For me, it was because I had dom.storage.enabled=false. LocalStorage obeys cookie settings, so I guess disabling cookies would do that too.
It's only what I've heard. Can't remember where from.
You don't always have the code, check out edb here: http://codef00.com/projects#debugger or here https://code.google.com/p/edb-debugger/
In my experience, hardware companies are incredibly hard to pull off, but they're also incredibly fun. On the software side, the problems that need to be solved can be wickedly complex, interesting, and far different than creating another CRUD app. Lots of unsolved problems on the software side of the hardware/IoT space.

As for the offer, per another post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071330) I always try to decide if it's a co-founder role or a hired-gun role.

>The times I've been in this situation it really came down to figuring out if I was a true co-founder or just the hired gun. True co-founder roles meant I was confident in the founder(s) ability to execute, was confident we'd work well together (takes time), and was stoked about the industry/product/role. We paid ourselves the same salary, I received founders shares (not options), and off we went.

>When I didn't have time to properly date first I just assumed I was the hired gun. In these situations the cash component was high and any equity vesting immediate.

Their offer suggests you're the hired gun, and at (far) below market.
Unfortunately using SPICE pretty much requires knowing exactly how it works so that you understand it's limitations. In turn, this makes it hard to learn, especially for students.
Who Matters Most, Author or Reader? David Sedaris and M.J. Stoddard
Automate PNG and JPG Image Optimization
Employment rates for STEM Ph.D.s are down or stagnant across the board
I generally find most PDFs come from the web.. so PDF.js has been more than sufficient for my needs.
Just ask 10 fucking interview questions
does it support digital signatures (i.e. from a Smart Card) within forms like Acrobat does? This seems to be required for a lot of PDF forms I've had to fill out in the past few years.
Not only the subway but all the commuter trains and trams as well. IIRC that was the first time they organized something like that.
Evince does it.
Interestingly, the Fahrenheit temperature scale was set up because it's easy to calibrate independently of the boiling/freezing points of things at specific atmospheric pressure. A 1:1:1 mixture of ice, water and ammonium chloride will self-stabilize at a consistent temperature; that temperature is the zero point of the Fahrenheit scale. Fahrenheit also wanted the freezing point of water at 32 and human body temperature at 96 for easy marking on a thermometer (64 degrees between the two, easy to mark off halves and get the full scale).
Hacking India
The solutions here seem to be split into two camps:

1. Use Okular / Evince / Poppler / Sumatra / Zathura / whatever (actually, I think you might begin to see the problem already).

2. Use Acrobat Reader in Wine.

Neither of these is going to appeal to my family members whose idea of a good time is not installing something via "Software Center" and spending ages tweaking the configuration to work properly, so they can use a half-speed version of Acrobat Reader on Windows. They will probably end up sticking with Mac or Windows.

Which is perfectly fine, because no one is forcing them to use Linux. I just want to point out that stuff like this totally kills the idea of "Linux for the everyday user". First you have to offer them a lot of the stuff which they are accustomed to (a decent document editor, a decent PDF reader), then slowly increase their awareness about software freedoms. It is unfortunate that most FSF zealots end up reversing this order, and driving away the common user.

Solutions? I'm not sure, maybe someone can weigh in. The best I can think of right now is for organizations like Canonical and Red Hat who might be interested in promoting Desktop Linux to pay for Adobe to release and support Acrobat on their distros. Either that, or actively put in some sort of a translation chart in the OS for common users "Acrobat <-> Evince" or such.
Mirror Mirror on the Wall…
Paris-fetishization isn't limited to the japanese. In other asian countries paris is also put on a pedestal as some sort of cultural and fashion peak of civilisation. Just a few weeks ago I was talking to a thai girl who excitedly told me that her lifelong dream was to go to paris - it's so built up there; marketing, films, the setting for drama, and yet some locals seem to lack the context to apply the same sort of reality checks they'd naturally apply to marketing treatment of something more familiar.

Paris is a lovely city, in parts, but the "media hologram" builds it up as more than that - it's a utopia, the birthplace of romance and art, a lifestyle. And maybe it is, but not the theme park portrayed in the media. So I found myself wondering what that girl really expects if she ever does make it there, and whether reality would match up to her dream.
In R.A. Lafferty's Hugo & Nebula nominated "Past Master", a time machine is used to retrieve Sir Thomas More to help fix their attempted utopian society, http://irosf.com/q/zine/article/10456

"Thomas's initial reaction to Astrobe is perplexity: how can the people of Cathead reject happiness when they have been offered it on a platter? Why choose misery over a golden life? The people of the slums inform Thomas that a miserable life is better than no life at all. As he asks questions and explores this brave new world, Thomas discovers that the best people on the planet, those of finest intellect and judgment, have migrated to Cathead."
Hoverbike drone project for air transport takes off
>As Apps Disappear, Will They Be Seen As Disposable?

Haven't they always been? They're mostly games and toys. The number of actual tools I have installed is really really low, I have a half dozen additional apps because they're currently fashionable for communication. Everything else on the store is either serving a need I don't have, or ephemeral nonsense.

I'd even lump things like pandora in with the ephmeral as disposable. I got a new smartphone a few months ago and haven't even thought of installing it until writing this post. So even if the company pandora will be around for decades, I've reached the point of diminishing returns from installing apps before I get to them.
Apple iPhone 6 Logic Board Revealed
Six High-Pay Careers That Older People Can Pursue: Career #6: Web Developer
Ask HN: Rails / Grunt integration – how?
Long time Rails[1] user. Have discovered Npm[2], Bower[3], Grunt[4], Yeoman[5] recently. How do I get these excellent tools to play nicely with the Rails ecosystem[6]? Notably Sprockets[7] and Grunt do not seem to see eye to eye?

What strategies have you used? Would love to know.

[1] http://rubyonrails.org/

[2] https://www.npmjs.org/

[3] http://bower.io/

[4] http://gruntjs.com/

[5] http://yeoman.io/

[6] http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html

[7] https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets
I can't seem to get past level 17. The black and red squares always end up on the wrong sides.
How GNU/Linux is relevant here? Average consumers know Windows and would want it (seriously, they frequently consider GNU/Linux to be another version of Windows and expect it to behave almost exactly like Windows did, then get disappointed it doesn't - that happened to my dad, for example)

GNU's not Windows, nor strives to be one. It's about bringing Free Software to whoever wants/needs it, not winning in popularity contest.
Yeah - Mike Bostock of the d3 fame works for the NYT and was almost certainly behind that
It's a fantastic piece of software. It can use different backends (mupdf or poppler) and it can also deal with DjVu files.
Sure, provided that you are independently rich.
Essays in English yield information about other languages
Karl Sims worked on evolving virtual creates at the Media Lab. He used evolutionary search to design creatures that could perform various kinds of locomotion: crawling, jumping, swimming, etc. [1] I heard the story that his original physics simulation had a bug which the evolutionary search exploited to make creatures that could fly.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=192167
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2PCWYAZQc
and every single variation is going to hit the front page of hacker news
Working more than 40 hours a week means he earns less money. The max is 48 hours (with limited exceptions) so £6.31 * 48 is £302.88 per week, or £15,749 per year. Thus, still less than OP is earning.

But then the UK has 5.6 weeks of holiday for most workers. Since 28 days of paid holiday applies to OP and to people on minimum wage it cancels out.
Just as it used to be embedded in Finnish companies: http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3294545/nokias-pureview-ads...