skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It didn't like this :( It should list out all files from C:\

let root = "C:\\";
let getdirs dir =
try
System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(dir)
with
| e -> Array.empty

let rec list_files dir = seq {
yield! System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(dir);
for subdir in (getdirs dir) do
match subdir with
| x when x.StartsWith("C:\\$") -> ()
| subdir -> yield! list_files subdir

}

list_files root
|> Seq.iter (printfn "%s")

printf "done"

All types inferred.
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Right, that's "K" as in "Konstanzfunktion" in the original German. The book "From Frege to Gödel" uses "C" as in "Constancy Function" in English, and I got in the habit of using that.
I don't see anything very hacker specific. Actually just some boring and overpriced t-shirts.
http://mercuryapp.com for tracking your feelings about specific things.
I don't know why you were downvoted. I believe you are making a valid point. The internet didn't invent wasting time, it just is better at convincing you that you aren't.

Most "normal" people waste the majority of their leisure hours, depending on your definition of waste. The audience here, however, is not typical.
This article makes a good point.

But the problem is that Google controls traffic to that extent. Almost any website if asked honestly will say that at least 60% and more likely 80% or more of their traffic comes from Google.
valid point(s) ...but then, what's the fridge of the internet? facebook?
This is org, or orgmode: http://orgmode.org/
This actually makes me more excited about HTML5.

That, and learning that Netflix on the PS3 is a HTML5/WebKit implementation. I'm sold.
I thought he was taking a "medical leave of absense" and not a vacation.

It's possible that his condition is deteriorating, especially considering this is his second length leave of absence.

How long will the product development take---2 years? 3 years?

How long will Steve be out---a year? When he returns will he be at a 100% or will he likely leave for medical reasons again? For many people, this looks like the 'end of an era' with Steve Jobs.
What Steve Jobs' Medical Leave Means For Apple Investors
They'll probably show a trailer right before the 'Asteroids' movie starts.
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unfortunately - yes: http://validator.w3.org/images/valid_icons/valid-html40.gif

It was used blindingly by most people regardless of whether the page was valid or whether it was used on HTML, normally alongside "Made on a Mac".
It doesn't sound like the researcher had any trouble remembering the words. Just remembering which ones he had taught to the dog.
I think it would be cool to have some "mood" analysis. The app tells me, "you started as angry, swung to calm, and are now worried. Based on current trends, tomorrow you will be happy; plan to surf."

I'm searching with text, yes, but what I'm really looking for is insight.
Only Apple can get this sort of marketing fluff in the The New York Times very morning Wall Street will respond to the announcement about Jobs. When Endgadget calling their sources "Reliable"is sufficient for its editors, the Times is only one or two steps above MacRumors.
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'Road train' technology trials get rolling
Why is it that perennial hackers and software developers are perceived to always dress odd and down? Most hackers and developers I know of dress to what they feel comfortable especially with a long coding day ahead.

Besides the point, most hackers are quite bigger in size, so having models in your site with nicely sculpted bodies quite takes the programmer/hacker out of the equation.
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Notgettingdressedtoday.com launch competition to find the best dressed hacker. Send your best hacking outfit to info@notgettingdressedtoday.com - best dressed hacker will win a t-shirt of choice and be posted on the site's facebook wall.
IBM Watson Super Computer, takes on Jeopardy
An interesting bubble, this Angry Birds phenomenon. And people seem to be starved to buy things, all the time.
On the other hand, being in the same room all day all week can be incredibly depressing. I've done it in the past and prefer any kind of office to working at home for extended periods.
+1 for apigee - we just migrated our web services and the stats, graphing and real-time debugger are excellent. Migration was super easy.
An ad hominem attack is not quite as weak as mere name-calling. It might actually carry some weight. For example, if a senator wrote an article saying senators' salaries should be increased, one could respond:

Of course he would say that. He's a senator.

This wouldn't refute the author's argument, but it may at least be relevant to the case. It's still a very weak form of disagreement, though. If there's something wrong with the senator's argument, you should say what it is; and if there isn't, what difference does it make that he's a senator?

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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Because most business journalism isn't all that good.

If the product is going to be out in the summer you can bet a good amount of the design has been going on for many months. Obviously Jobs would be heavily involved in it, and would continue to be. This point of the article doesn't make much sense to anyone who thinks about it for more than a few seconds or who is familiar with how products are designed; it's as if they intentionally decided to keep the story at the surface-level.
In a large company there are few things designed by a single person. However, there are a number of things that Jobs has had a significant design role in: rounded corners on the Macintosh, the sunflower iMac, the glass staircases in Apple stores to name but three.
Upvote just for being confident enough to mention that - everyone has an embarrassing learning experience like that in their history.
Yes, Apple created none of the value at all, and has no right to capture any of the value. They do nothing.

<sigh>
Have you done a Firefox HTTP log? I'd be curious to see what the browser thinks is going on here...
They're a middle man providing a service that has taken different forms in the past. You can be cynical, but realistically their goal is to make a profit by providing a service which has it's own costs to cover. How much would those developers have reaped without their service?
Not working in Chrome. I pressed send and it just printed back everything in the editor without executing.
Yup, here it is, more than 200 of them:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1101/video-game-t...

Very few of them are 'notable', as far as I know.
Eight Types of Intelligence Make the Entrepreneur
Never be ashamed that you still like to have fun.
I don't think kids young enough to enjoy coloring books are likely to care about Facebook.
Wow. I actually doubled-checked the location bar to see if this was the real deal or just some designer take on it.

It's a really great logo, definitely "with the times" with the bold, sharp lines and flat colors. I'm not sure I'll be putting it on any websites, since I don't think most users care or understand markup versioning, but grats to w3c for doing something that doesn't look like it came out of a committee of phds and marketroids.
The only "real" copy protection would be trusted-computing right down to the hardware. Signed binaries, with the signature database ultimately in hardware and controlled by a single party.... and even then, we'll have jailbreaks and keys leaked.

But seriously - this was interesting in and of itself, for those who don't know the tools.
The whole concept of copy protection and registration is a war that can't be won. Denying unregistered people proper updates seems to me, form experience,to be the most effective deterrent - I don't like to apply updates if I'm not sure if it will cripple my app because I used a weird serial # - and nobody likes to run a "keygen" these days because who knows what it does.

In the end - all software is piratable, and usually by those who won't pay for it anyway.

With the declining price of software and mass-markets like the app-store, more people will pay. (I like a certain piece of SSH terminal software for windows - but I don't use it, because I'll be damned if I'm going to pay over a hundred bucks a seat for it - it's not THAT much better than the free alternatives. If they brought that price down to something reasonable, I'd use it all over)
Right, it's not as if Google ever tried to get me to install their toolbar in my browser so far this week.
That would be perfect for my toddler. He sits on my lap and plays with Uzu (an app) but can't resist the home button. There seems to be many people asking in forums for cases that solve the same problem by obscuring the button. It could be great for a kiosk mode too, especially if the gestures to get out of the app could be a chosen secret.
At the time I got my MacBook 3rd gen in 2007, it was very good value (in terms of being well-engineered) for money. And it's still going strong, only had a memory and SSD upgrade since then. Particularly the battery is amazing, I still get 2-3 hours out of it.

I chose it over a ThinkPad at the time, which I considered roughly comparable, on account of the displayport. No other laptop in that price range had DVI out without an expensive dock.
We are doing the exact same thing at our startup.

We also setup pre-commit git hooks, that run PhpUnit and QUnit. So our branches are always stable. We also included CodeSniffer in the pre-commit hook to adhere to the strict html specification.
Hey, and it knows who I am.

Good luck to every aspirant!
The only thing worse than having a very high percentage of your traffic come from Google is not having it at all.

My sites typically get 75% of their traffic from search engines. I know that it could be all gone tomorrow, so I've worked on developing new sources of referrals. I still haven't found anything that delivers traffic as consistently as SEO.

In fact, generating advertising revenue from long tail traffic is a big part of my business. I don't feel like I'm in a death trap. Implementing the advertising is actually one of the best things that has happened to my business in a long time.

My company is a content business, not a software business, but I've never worried that I'm over-optimizing. If anything, I feel like I spend too little time micro-optimizing, and I spend a lot of time focusing on SEO.
Code Soloist #12: These are the things you think you know until you do them
Something tells me it will also have a bigger screen - like 4". The PPI would still be good enough, although less than 300 PPI.
Does anyone know the basic tradeoffs between the two stores?
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Oh, her house is out in the garden so she only has access to the garden door, all the other doors have keys and she hasn't managed to grow opposable thumbs yet, so I think we're safe :P I do agree with you for house pets, though.
Sorry if I ask a stupid question -- what the heck are plastic electronics? The article doesn't do much to explain what that means... Some specifics and examples would help a lot. Also, you mention iPad as a competitor, but it's not clear how and why.
Oligarchs and their preferred investment vehicles
The law recognizes unauthorized copying as stealing of intellectual property. This is not difficult to understand.
"We humans define intelligence in such limited terms."

More to the point, our understanding of intelligence was rudimentary until just a short time ago and is still developing.

We're like medieval mechanics, presented with an F-22. At first, things just seemed magic, and we couldn't even theorize how all of it worked. Now, we've started to develop some theories, and we can even make some toy examples that mimic certain aspects of functionality, but we're still far from being able to build even a crappy knockoff from scratch.
Also google has "search by date" in advanced
Could be. We share pics of the kids with non-local family over facebook. But really, putting stuff on the fridge is more about making the kid feel appreciated than anything else.
I think it's important to note that this isn't a New York Times piece but a Read Write Web (and an amateurly written one at that) reposted in the NYT template shell. It's a bit misleading to call it an NYT article entirely, though they should take some responsibility for republishing it.
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> Those are consumable software and they are the most popular.

I've heard from successful app marketers that the target audience for the App Store is 13 to 14-yr old kids, using their parents credit card on their iTunes accounts.

Apps that are better than anything Apple makes will always do well[1]. But I think we should lower our "standards", our hubris and make something of entertainment value. Something that makes 13 to 14-yr olds look cool. Because peer approval and recognition is everything at that age for most people of that age.

The App Market (Android) and App Store (iOS) and Marketplace (Windows 7) let you reach teenage consumers in a way that doesn't require much marketing, just the right product at the right time.

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2010/12/28/camera-reaches-over-7800...
Is it just me or does that title not parse at all. It should be something like "Beautiful men and women are more likely to have higher IQs"
I don't know. Solar powered, hydrocarbon energy that's fully backwards compatible with today's energy transport infrastructure? Sounds too good to be true.
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I like it. How long until it's implemented using CSS3?
"polymer transistors and electronics"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_Logic
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Ask HN: Help with monetization for programminginterview.com
I have a PageRank 5 website that I made a couple of years ago when I was preparing to interview for tech jobs in Boston. I collected a bunch of programming interview questions and wrote my own answers to them in C++ / Java, and decided to put them online for posterity.
www.programminginterview.com

Fast forward to the present - I've quit my job and started working on my own projects full time. I moved to Shanghai to conserve capital (lower cost of living versus Boston), but unfortunately my funds are running low so I'm looking at my old sites to see if I can squeeze some money out of them to expand my runway.

Currently I'm just promoting "Programming Interviews Exposed" and other programming interview books on Amazon but the earnings are literally chump change, maybe $10 / month max. There are also some affiliate links to ThinkGeek.com but they've earned nada. I'm also selling links which I know is bad but it's another $25 / month which is kinda poor for a PR5 site. I used to have a job board but it got little to no traffic so I got rid of it.

Traffic is pretty good, very solid at 6500+ uniques per month, all very targeted and mostly from Google searches.

If the community has any ideas on how to improve the monetization of my site I would be eternally grateful!
they do have an ad control but it is very hard to control those shady advertiser... they are ready to do anything to bypass any rule .. ask google about that ...
Two thoughts popped into my head after reading this.

1. Beautiful people tend to have more confidence. If you recall from grade school there's an old rule about multiple choice tests which says "if you don't know for sure go with your first instinct". People with an abundance of confidence do this naturally while those without confidence will often talk themselves out of the right answer.

2. Beautiful people get more attention. For better or worse a beautiful person probably drew the attention of their instructors since it's human nature to be drawn to attractiveness. This means a more personalized education which in turn should translate into a slightly higher IQ.

Given the difference recorded here is only between 5% and 6% I could see small factors (like the ones listed above) being the cause of such a phenomenon
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Apple and a Jobsless Future
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I prefer uservoice to getsatisfaction, it doesn't have as many features, but it's easier to use. I think that's more important for a social support tool
> refuses to render 44200px-high images

COWARD!
It's very common to have structural changes in letters at different sizes in order to maintain readability, yet no one complains about consistency. Why?

Because being consistent is very deliberately not supposed to require being identical. So long as the visual identity is maintained, and I think it is, then small changes are welcomed.
Cool stuff, but nothing groundbreaking.

Set up pre-commit and post-commit hooks, integrate with your run-of-the-mill CI suite or testing framework, hook up with deployment scripts - that's pretty much it.
Well sometimes it's the other way around that's notable. See Spacehulk. Awesome board game and a pretty good video game as well
And when you have population density. It makes economic sense to provide better services when you have x number of people per m^2 as compared to the Australian density.

I'm a big believer that Australian cities should be bearing this in mind and building up rather than out.
Samsung Vibrant 4G for T-Mobile in the wild? (Update)
Electronics are printed on silicon, with Plastic Logic technology, they are printed on plastic.

Plastic is more durable and flexible, cheaper (in the long run) and can be produced in non-clean rooms.
Agreed. I mean, if people take the time that they would have spent playing Solitaire and Minesweeper and use it to play Farmville instead, is that really such a waste?
I don't have a screen shot, but I do get text pop-ups from Google on top of my YouTube videos with things from my search history. For example, "Is leg pain a problem in your life? Go to [...]." (This actually happened.)

Just yesterday I got one from SpecialTeas.com which said something like "We miss you at SpecialTeas, please come back."

The point is that it's not cool to be showing someone a YouTube video and then all of a sudden not only are there ads showing up based on my search history, but the ads are actually incorporating my search strings and purchase history directly into their text. Especially when these have to do with personal issues, medical problems, etc.

Is there anyone here who wouldn't be uncomfortable if they were in a movie theater with their family and friends and all then without any warning they suddenly started projecting your Google history and credit card purchase history from the last 5+ years? (Both of the examples listed were drawing on searches I had done 3 to 7 years previously.)
It is far too late for Jobs' illness to have any effect on the iPhone 5. That product is practically done from a design standpoint if it is going to be in user's hands by July.

If anything the iPhone 5 will be largely similar to the iPhone 4 except faster and with an NFC chip in it. And yes, a dual CDMA/GSM radio which happens to come from Qualcomm.
You sound like a Python guy, but that's exactly how Heroku works. It totally sold me on the idea of just pushing to your production/staging repo to update a server.

I imagine to set it up yourself would be a bit of work, but it sounds like you have continuous integration built in? That's cool.
So 25k gallons (of gasoline, presumably) = ~900MWh, which is the energy they claim can be harvested from one acre annually, once production reaches commercial levels. On average, each acre receives 5800 MWh per per acre annually. This comes out to ~16% efficiency. The big question is the cost per watt of this technology. Of course, there's the added benefit of removing CO2 from the air...
There is huge oil and mineral wealth in Russia. After the fall of communism, the few well connected players bought up everything at ridiculously cheap prices
What is 'Plastic Electronics?'

Essentially this is silicon chips without the silicon. Electronic circuits printed onto cheaper plastic substrates which offer promise of cheaper electronics with interesting properties such as flexibility. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_electronics
I think money and resources are global, you just need a good reason for investors to buy your idea.

Each place has its own pros and cons. Establishing yourself in Silicon Valley brings different kinds of issues like salaries. According to the WSJ, most VC funds are spend on employee wages because of competition from Google and Facebook. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/12/29/the-war-for-t...
Oh, and I forgot another source of huge amounts of energy: Jupiter. 75% hydrogen, 1.8986×10^27 kg, which works out as ... well, a whole lot of fusion energy if you can harvest it.
I couldn't find anything about this policy, but it does seem to be a common practice. Even the HTML5 spec is almost-valid HTML 4.01.

However, I did find other exceptions. For example, the CSS3 Media Queries spec uses the @bottom-right and @bottom-left page selectors, which are introduced by the CSS3 Paged Media module (Working Draft): http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/default.css
Don't forget people who don't know what the address bar is. They will Google "www.companyname.com".
Deloitte: 10 million iPads will be sold to companies in 2011
If so, how does this make the iPad a competitor?
I would like to see something like this integrated into 750words now that you mention it
"how they have this much free cash" -- Russia has hydrocarbons; e.g. look up Gazprom.
As far as I am aware Plastic Logic was never a product company, they were a technology company.

They had to produce the Que because no partners believed the technology worked at scale - they wanted to see an actual product created. This in itself was a huge culture shock for a technology company to have to suddenly sweat product details.

And so far the technology hasn't worked in a scalable manner, but this is a matter of time and capital.

eReaders were an interesting choice, when Plastic Logic decided on this the iPad was non-existent and the only eReaders were crappy Sony ones, by the time they managed to launch it the market was far more mature and expectations of what a product had to do to be good had sky rocketed.

You're probably wondering what other products their plastic technology can be used in, it is very diverse in reality - eventually plastic logic will have electronic paper for the same price as regular paper. Imagine if medicine labels updated on the fly with reminders, recommendations and guidelines. Posters on the wall changed over the air rather than needing to be reprinted, etc etc. Futuristic stuff in theory.

It is very easy to criticise a a company for raising so much capital and never launching anything - but what they are doing is ridiculously futuristic - literal hard technology that'll impact every persons life in the long run.

I wonder if the early investors like Hermann Hauser and Amadeus have made any money from this yet.
Interesting to couple this article with the new data on test scores. If you missed that the test scores indicate that pairing like students US scores against International students produce similar results. Asian US students score about the same as other Asian students, etc.

I have struggled with this debate for a long time: does falling US test scores mean falling US predominance? But that hasn't modified US start-up success or other factors. This article continues to paint a picture for me that despite the lower test scores compared to other nations, there are lots of actors that go into life-long success. Attention and memorization are just two of them.
Dupe.

Discussion at:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2115551
hopefully the people choosing are well dressed hackers themselves, not metrosexuals, tweens, or emo's on fixies.
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