skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some people who send me corrections via PDF annotations and notes. Neither Evince nor XPDF fully support these. Highlighted annotations particularly, Evince shows the highlight but doesn't show the annotation text (no icon to show it, hovering doesn't do anything either). I need Adobe Acrobat Reader for that.

My Poppler is a bit out of date, though it's not clear to me whether more recent versions of Poppler support highlighted annotations fully:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583377
I wonder why so much discussion about arbitrary rules of assignment when the solution to the problem can be written (and is more readable) without ever mentioning this complicated "assignment" feature.
When this was written, iOS 8 was unannounced and folks generally just used localStorage for cross-browser storage. IndexedDB isn't as high-level as some folks would like, and key-value is handy for many apps/sites.

Even with iOS 8's support for IndexedDB, there are edge cases in different browsers localForage handles, and it handles storage of Blob data and TypedArrays transparently too, which is handy.
I feel like to a large extent this is just techcrunch being techcrunch and writing link-bait articles.

My thoughts on this:

1) Just about everyone is "interested in making money" from their apps. I'm not sure how they're filtering the developers in the survey, but I'm willing to bet the amount of effort put in, and the actual methods used to "make money" differ wildly among those developers. Apples to oranges.

2) 5-10k per app per month for a single developer with a full-time job doing this in his spare time is pretty good. For a 300 employees company, not so much. Similarly, millions a month will sustain a large company and make an individual developer extremely wealthy. What are we comparing?

3) I'll go out on a limb here and say that games make more than any other category on the app store. They also tend to require a higher budget and production value: better graphics, sounds, a storyline, etc... Maybe the 100 flashlight / todolist apps competing for the same spots don't make much money but they also cost nothing besides a weekend of work and the $99 / year ADC membership. I also wouldn't be surprised if most of that "1.6%" were game developers. Lumping every app together and trying to get stats out of it doesn't tell us anything about how much the developers are spending to get those apps out.

4) Obligatory plug: Storm8, the company I work for, is recruiting. We're a mobile games developer (on the App Store we tend to be better known as TeamLava) and have been profitable and fully bootstrapped for over 5 years now through rapid growth. We're all very passionate about creating new games and refining our existing ones and have a lot of interesting projects to work on. We're looking for developers interested in learning more about the mobile games industry, no experience required. Email is in my profile if interested :)
Requests to the moderator are more likely to be seen if you email to hn@ycombinator.com with your request.
Very enjoyable! Loved the interstitial comments' specialty-barista-like attitude.
Peace in the Middle East at Last
"Disney CEO Iger, obviously elated opened saying "Walt Disney wanted to scoop up this property [Israel and Palestine] back in 1947 and was close to a deal with the Brits but then history got in the way."We've always wanted to buildout a real historic destination into a theme park instead of building places in the middle of nowhere like Epcot Center that only Americans who never go anywhere would want to go.”"
USENET was still technically superior to most discussion tools today

I'd go even further and say it's still superior to all of them. So is IRC.
Is there method in stdio.h for ARM's madness?
"Nicotine and sugar are Schedule I and II narcotics"
That one statement tells me that all your dreams will come to naught and your future will a hellish dystopia beyond your wildest imagination. And you will never understand why.
On the other hand its one of the (or the? at least last I checked) only pdf readers on Linux which supports subpixel rendering of text and other vector content, which makes documents much more easily readable in my opinion.
Skimming through that led me to stigmergy as a way to organise social action, it's an interesting concept, thanks chipsy. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy
It's also been a changing target. "Size of the library of Congress" in 1996 is not what it was in 2012, for example - the comparison doesn't carry well over time.

Football stadium of encyclopedias?
Say you have three unreliable programs that occasionally leak memory, spin CPU etc. (yes, it would be nice if all our programs were perfect, but they're not). It should be possible to run these three programs on the same server in such a way that the failure of one won't affect the others (so e.g. you have 3 servers, each runs one of each program, and you load balance between them, and you have some system that eventually detects when one of the instances fails. So as far as the outside world is concerned, all your programs are running reliably). At the moment, the most practical way to do this is to run 3 different VMs on each server, one for each program. Which is insane. There are some encouraging recent developments (e.g. docker/lxc), but it should be easy to do that kind of isolation purely at the OS level.
>Is civil asset forfeiture a set of laws designed to systematically discriminate against a particular demographic group for the benefit of the more powerful demographic group?

Probably not designed to have that effect, but it does.
Cool game. The browser interface keeps appearing in ios7 Safari. Add this meta tag.

<meta name="viewport" content="minimal-ui">
A big employer for chemistry PhDs that no one in the West has heard of is Wuxi Pharmatech, a contract research outfit in Shanghai. They do everything, synthesis, discovery, lead optimization, clinical testing, process development, formulation, the whole pipeline. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies stateside have turned into IP brokerages, if you think you have a promising target you buy a startup that has a compound for that and hand it off to your offshore contract firm.

Research, where you need PhDs, has been cut savagely, because of the short time horizon Wall Street demands that is totally incompatible with the realities of research.
Couldn't disagree with you more. To name just a dozen new internet things from the last 10 years that I did not have in 1990s.

o Google
o Wikipedia
o Netflix
o iTunes
o Spotify/Pandora
o Stack Exchange/Overflow
o RSS (Google Reader/Feedly/etc..)
o GitHub
o Facebook
o Instagram
o Whatsapp
o Gmail
o Google Earth/Maps.

I can only imagine what the next dozen new categories will be invented in the next 15 years.
Fair enough, I've asked the contributors/users what they think and am open to making the change for 1.0: https://github.com/mozilla/localForage/issues/219
== https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome
I don't really see how disallowing people from registering a name already in use by a person or company goes against "openness". If you're using someone else's name, I think they're justified in trying to forcibly retake control of it.
Mostly KDE itegration and support for a really broad array of formats. Most people probably don't use it as such, but it's more of a general document viewer. (For example, you can actually open Microsoft .ppt files with it.)

It's a great pdf viewer, and has plenty of features, but so do most of the other well-known ones.

I love it, but I'd probably use something else if I wasn't using KDE as my desktop environment. It's lightweight if you're already loading all of the KDE libraries, but rather heavyweight otherwise.
l'Metro ghetto!
Not sure what newsgroups you use these days, but every one I ever made use of has turned into a cesspool of spam and low value content. Usenet has been dead for at least 5+ years for me - there was a 4 year period where my fingers had memorized every shortcut available to nn...
Show HN: Adventure, puzzles, and a brand new challenge
Hello, I want to invite you to try out my new game, its on google play, and its made in unity. If anyone has any suggestions about the game, please feel free to comment :D<p>Also here's the link to google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sas.g﻿

and this is the link to a video of the game:D : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PojxJ6-U8Ds
This puts incredible power in the hands of the financial industry. It is the most clear evidence I've ever seen for the shape of the coming (already here?) plutocratic era.
You are not too old either
Correct. Note: US centric dates: My point being that starting up a railroad in 1850 was a great idea, not so good by 1900.

Or there were about 150 startup automobile mfgrs around 1900, not quite so many by 1925.

Starting up a telephone company in 1900, good idea, in 1950, not so good idea.

We still have railroads and car mfgrs and telcos in 2014, they're just not realistic startup fields.

Every other field of recent human activity has gone thru the same stages of startup success, startup failures/consolidations, oligopoly oscillating with semi-regulated public utility, sometimes a long term decline in the industry after that.

Someday its economically inevitable that "Internet and HTTP" will not be the place to do startups. I don't think its today, but my grand kids are highly unlikely to be doing internet startups.
Interesting. Don't love the HW piece, but definitely relevant for what I want.
Some information about civil asset forfeiture for those who are interested:

A 2010 report by the Institute for Justice: http://ij.org/policing-for-profit-the-abuse-of-civil-asset-f...

A 2008 report by the DOJ which makes some surprising admissions: http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Publications/e1108-Asset-Forfeitur...
Aaahh! That explains this picture:
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/i/Richard_Stallman_at_MIT_dancing...

I've always wondered what he was doing like this in the computer room. Now I know. He was sorting files.
Any idea if PAYE real time will be rewritten to avoid using Adobe behind the scenes then?
Yeah, it's dead all right but still technically superior. It was Reddit but distributed, with more features, and better UI.

IRC is alive though. And it seems to be even seeing a bit of a resurgence. It's certainly more pleasant to use than proprietary communicators.
What does the finance sector have to do with any of this? At MIT, for example, only 2% of PhDs go into finance:

http://web.mit.edu/facts/alum.html
I've seen other stats that suggest PhDs (particularly in STEM) actually have the lowest unemployment rates (around 2.2%) compared to any other cohort arranged by degree attained: http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
We're talking about civil and administrative asset forfeiture where one need never even be charged with a crime to have their assets seized.
I think burners are not likely to be averse to strange mental states and are therefore significantly less likely to collapse in a sulking heap realizing their entire life to date in <home country> with its immense <economic/social> pressure has been a <well-choreographed cubicle waltz/waste of time/linguistic desert> and they should have just left... or that they can't order food.
Prized but Perilous Catch
Well, I didn't go to restaurants much, so it may not qualify as "French cuisine" in your eyes. But you could get a world-class baguette[1] in almost any part of town for about a Euro, same with croissants, and produce at the markets for... well, basically a negligible amount of money. I remember getting a small bag of delicious donut peaches for about €1/kilo. The same peaches were €4/kilo at the supermarket. (As an aside, pretty much all the vine tomatoes I ran into, even the ones at the supermarket, tasted amazing, as if they were just harvested from someone's garden. The only time I had that experience in the US was when we grew our own tomatoes.) Cheese shops were abundant and had fantastic selections, though I don't remember the exact prices. (They were very reasonable.) You could buy a whole rotisserie chicken for €7 or less if you knew where to look; I got these a lot and used the bones for stock. (Tragically, I think I still prefer Costco chicken!) There was a lot of canned terrine, rillettes, pate, etc. in the specialty stores (€5 or less), and a can could last you a week. You could also get them at the butcher shop, but I never found one close to me that had them. Pastries at some of the world-class bakeries were very expensive — €7 to €10 per piece — but they literally looked like jewels and it was worth it for the occasional indulgence. I had many lunch picnics at the parks and it was fantastic every time!

Oh, and obviously, there's lots of wine, but I'm not much of a wine drinker so I didn't investigate too much. Good beer was surprisingly cheap, though: I found a supermarket near me selling Chimay Blue for €2/11oz.

[1]: Literally. There's an annual contest! http://parisbymouth.com/paris-top-baguettes-for-2014/
Cheap Words
You don't have Zipcar? That's what we use for weekend getaways. The cost and convenience of it makes it an okay deal. We also ride share with friends for hiking, take ferries, trains, bikes, etc.
In Europe bank card retail purchases and most debit card withdrawals (some exceptions) are free.
Finding alien polluters
I've seen it and worse in both London and Manchester. I was attacked in Manchester several times for the heinous crime of being a student, which led to my changing Uni. Not a city I care to visit anytime soon.
Really, really good examples. Thanks!
Yeah, the article is a bit misleading in its focus on "employment rates". It's using employment rates on the day of graduation, i.e. people who have an offer lined up before graduating. People who graduate and then interview, starting sometime later, aren't counted as "employed" in these numbers. Ultimately almost all STEM PhDs do end up with a job within a year or so, as the article later acknowledges. Later in the article they quote the unemployment rate for STEM-doctoral holders as ~2%, as you found.

I don't think it's therefore a particularly useful analysis. There are a lot of issues with the STEM-PhD job market, but significant risk of unemployment isn't really one of them. Bigger issues are things like whether the opportunity cost is worth it, and the fact that people who go into a STEM PhD really wanting to do research are often disappointed (there are plenty of industry jobs, but many don't really involve scientific research).
>That's misleading.

Please explain.
The barriers were still high back then, but they were different barriers. Bandwidth, CPU and storage all cost a lot more than they do now, and the tools available were less sophisticated. Building an online store or CMS back then was a much bigger piece of work.

Today, you don't need to focus on those kinds of problems, generally. The problems are the next level up.
It seems like our conception of money has been damaged to a point where it's increasingly just a fictitious construct, rather than a means of transmitting value. Basically, money is now arbitrary number whose only purpose is to obtain an even larger arbitrary number at a later date. The way we treat currency is more and more decoupled from reality, and that's a pretty dangerous phenomenon. What's the evidence for this?

-insanely inflated valuations for startups that offer trivial services and no revenue

-a behemoth financial services industry that makes money off of money, while offering little tangible value

-businesses flocking to easy, safe investments that create little value

-devaluation of the labor that creates value
I always use the nodeadkeys variants and use compose key to get characters that I don't have on my keyboard, which is many more that the stupid deadkey allows for.
Very cool, I'll be keeping this in mind for the next Ludum Dare! :)
One word: Wikileaks.

MasterCard refused to process donations: http://observer.com/2010/12/card-declined-visa-mastercard-re...

Whether you agree with Julian Assange or not, the fact that democratically elected leaders in a democratic country tried to force a democratic society to _NOT_ support a cause by telling MasterCard "don't process these donations" was an incredibly chilling event.
Well that his solution to the problem, isn't it? ;)

He wants that .5% to 1.5% to go to him instead!
I read a selection of comp. newsgroups every day, any spam is filtered out before I see it.
the overall unemployment rate for doctoral holders is ~2%.

Remember that someone who would rather have a regular job but works one day a week at TGI Chillibees counts as employed for statistical purposes.

From anecdotal experience the underemployment rate is high - there are plenty of people that would like to have a full-time job but are making do as adjuncts.

The adjunct cancer has spread to places that you thought were immune. Look at Vassar College, it's a respectable place. In the Chemistry Department there are ten tenure-track professors, one full-time lecturer, and five adjuncts. Villanova, another respectable institution, is looking to fill three adjunct positions to teach graduate level courses. They do it because they can. There are sufficient pharmco refugee candidates around Philly and Boston from the last round of mergers and acquisitions for the model to work.
But then you're judging something you haven't learnt yet.

Just saying... I assume you have your reasons to refuse Lisp.
Right, this strikes me as a situation with real potential for "the cure is worse than the disease".
> Emacs is a tool that composes programs that do one thing well, like Bash or X.

or like Vim! (as in Evil)
A response to Vint Cerf on how the ACM can do more for professional programmers
As zokier was presumably pointing out, other languages have a different sort-of-default variable name, namely `$_` (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DollarUnderscore). :-)
Yup. And the opposite of it when a person starts with some random abstract (supposed to be background) things and takes 5min to get to his point although I lost him within the first minute.

Some people may be amazing programmers but if they struggle to share their ideas, the impression they make will be 'meh'. And impression, even an irrational one, caries a great weight.
Also interesting to note is that the UK and Germany top a list of the EU’s most polluting coal-fired power stations. These were the findings from a recent report by environmental campaigners. The report called "Europe’s dirty 30" looks at CO2 emissions from coal power plants in the EU.

From the report:

"Germany and the UK are the self-declared climate champions of the EU. However, Germany uses more coal to generate electricity than any other EU country, while the UK comes third in absolute coal consumption for power after Poland;"

Here's the 10 most co2-polluting thermal power plants in the EU according to the report

1. Bełchatów, Poland
2. Neurath, Germany
3. Niederaussem, Germany
4. Jänschwalde, Germany
5. Boxberg, Germany
6. Drax, United Kingdom
7. Weisweiler, Germany
8. Agios Dimitrios, Greece
9. Brindisi Sud, Italy
10. Lippendorf, Germany

The full ranking of 30 power plants is in the following report (3.1 mb)
http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/dirty_30_report_finale....

Or you can read the summary from this Guardian report
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/22/germany-u...
HoPE 2014 Video
Probably correct. But, it doesn't feel that way.
Link to an animated gif you didn't make to your g+ account full of stupid cat gifs? HN in a nutshell.
Show HN: Webhook – Static site generator with a CMS
Suggestion : add keybindings. I'm spoiled by 2048 I want direct repeated manipulation at my finger tips. :)
in case anyone missed it, there is Olly for x64: http://www.ollydbg.de/
This is certainly the bottleneck in my research. I ran thousands of core years of computer simulation in the first year of my PhD. I have all the data I need to write a PhD thesis but I'm still years from graduating due to the aforementioned bottlenecks. An arsenal of software I've written in numpy/scipy/pandas saves time, but only goes so far when you're trying to carve out stories from your data to write papers.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_of_Death:

The name 'Wire of Death' is an English rendition of one of its popular Dutch names; Dodendraad which can be translated as either "Death wire" or "Wire of the dead". As the war continued and more and more victims fell to the electric fence it became known as simply De Draad meaning "The Wire". To the German authorities it was officially known as the Grenzhochspannungshindernis ("High Voltage Frontier Barrier")
I feel like there's more to this story than what the article and charts show. For example, what's the total number of PhD students over time? Has there been an increase in PhD students relative to demand so that naturally there will be less PhD graduates without immediate employment?
Is there such a thing as "merging" on HN? What gets merged? Just the topic or the comments as well?
Yakki Divioshi FRIDAY – EP.2
This is a great point, employment stats are not the same across all PhDs.

Back in the early 2000's organic chemistry PhDs were in very high demand. Salaries went from ~$70K/yr to start to over $100K/yr by 2005 or so.

Since 2005 two things have happened: (1) as mentioned above, a lot of off-shoring of basic research has happened, particularly to China and India (not saying this is good or bad) and (2) a shift by the biotech industry away from small molecule drugs to biologic drugs (antibodies and other proteins).

The result is that organic chemistry PhDs have been hit pretty hard while PhDs with knowledge areas that support biologic drug development have done pretty well.
Free for the end consumer yes, but the retailer probably pays some kind of fee?
Use of illicit drugs becomes part of Silicon Valley's work culture
Thank you for that. Have never looked into japanese zoning.
According to Banga, in addition to being bad for MasterCard, cash is bad for countries and governments.

Yeah, if you're of the mindset that everything that anybody purchases should be tracked and scrutinized.
The End of the Universe: A Search Between Rising Disorder and Complexity
An amazing thing about this case is Google Book Search. 20 years ago the research in this case would have taken a team months & months to do.

Today, anyone at all can do it in 60 seconds:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Happy+Birthday+To+You%22&...
I'd argue that Paris actually represents the epitome of what the OP detests in cities because they actually replaced narrow, winding alleyways with broad boulevards aimed at road transport.

It's also a clear example of why the author's theory that street width is all important is wrong: central Paris is still very walkable with an incredibly strong sense of "place" because of the broad boulevards rather than despite them, whereas plenty of the "walkable" streets he highlights are either cul de sacs in suburban areas or pedestrianised zones in town centres usually accessed by car.
In the context of the previous two comments, it was stated that present-day mainstream right-wing speeches call for violence. If so, I must have missed it. I did not intend for my statement to reflect on the actions of Malcolm X.