skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using Acme for web devel. Yields very well to scripting. Together with plumber and a few scripts, it provides pretty much a complete IDE. The ability to simply click on any text to 1) execute it or 2) search for it or 3) copy/paste/replace is something that I miss from other editors. Essentially, any text becomes hypertext. Output from compiler or debugger links you to source files etc.

Aside of that there's a big chunk of remote filesystem access ported from Plan 9, but I haven't used that yet.

Acme is, in fact, a modern, windowing terminal -- it lets you view, edit, execute and navigate. No surprise given that it comes from Rob Pike -- one of the guys behind an earlier windowing terminal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blit_(computer_terminal)
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/blit/

http://swtch.com/plan9port/ is quite easy to start with on any POSIX system.
Sounds pretty fraudulent in that case, since the advertising materials clearly imply that it's detecting porn, not just listing all image files on the computer. I mean bad classification would be one thing, but not even attempting, while claiming that it does, seems like another. Maybe demand your $20 back?
Linux actually adopted some of those ideas: unicode, union directories, and /proc filesystem are all plan9 ideas. But rio seems pretty awesome as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_%28windowing_system%29
Working on it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19888836
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You've all seen the Jello commercials with the "pudding face" [1], right? Well I must have some synchronicity with their marketing department, because around the same time as those were released, I started making an app that does the same kind of face warping but is based off the "troll face" meme [2]. Now that the app is released and I've started getting a few example pictures out, I've realized that the reach of Jello's campaign is far more effective than the meme, and people recognize the app as a pudding face maker. So my dilemma is this: should I capitalize on that fact, clinging to Jello's terms and rebranding the app, or is that too black/grey hat to go over well? Mostly a moral question of course, but I'm interested to hear some opinions.

[1] Example "pudding face" commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ysBe2iaOo

[2] My app, Trollaroid: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trollaroid/id477395357
Sure, but there's no "Rest of World" option in that poll.
Good of you to mention SuperCard which was, in many ways, the obvious successor to HyperCard (and it was revived a few years back and died owing to lack of interest). These days Runtime Revolution fills that niche. SuperCard was kind of flaky (I developed some stuff with it) and, more importantly, took an IDE -> shipping app model (where the dev environment was pretty much split off from the standalone app). This made it more useful for "real programmers" but less accessible for tinkerers.

It's probably worth mentioning that HyperCard was incredibly stable. You could work in it for months on end without crashing or losing any work. That alone was pretty staggering for the time.
Sublime Text is a text editor which runs on Open GL, it's not quiet what you mean though.

http://www.sublimetext.com/
I'm curious now: do you have citations for the "growing body of knowledge around porn-induced ED in 20-somethings"? I don't mean to undermine your point, I'm just interested in hearing more.
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Sorry that that was your experience with AgileZen. Organizing work is a surprisingly difficult problem, and one for which we're very interested in providing a decent solution. I'd love to hear about your experiences and how we can do better. My email is (same username) at gmail.com, if you're interested. :)
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According to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15968878 it's for GCHQ rather than MI5.
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There is a huge and growing body of knowledge around porn-induced ED in 20-somethings, among other myriad ways it negatively impacts the health and productivity of individuals and relationships.

Source?
The debate isn't about whether Flash is more capable than HTML5 - more whether HTML5 is a better 'model' than Flash and when I say better I mean that 1. It is not owned by any one company and 2. You can view the source.

Viewing the source has been fundamental to the evolution of the web and it will be fundamental going forward - with Flash you can't do it. Not to mention that Flash's sand-boxed implementation doesn't play nicely with other HTML elements. (Try manipulating Flash video with Canvas).

But what the author is really talking about is changing the process of establishing standards - bottom up rather than top down. Give us, the developers the basic building blocks and we will build the rest. It should become obvious then what to implement as a standard, if anything.

I recently read Paul Graham's Hackers and Painters and although I certainly don't agree with all he says, one paragraph stood out:

"Let yourself be second-guessed. When you make any tool, people use it in ways you didn't intend, and this is especially true of a highly articulated tool like a programming language. Many a hacker will want to tweak your semantic model in a way that you never imagined. I say let them. Give the programmer access to as much internal stuff as you can."
Not much

Alexa ranking is 11 million, that means it get something like 100 hits a month
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Previous discussion from earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3299155
I'd check my PC to see if it was infected if I were you.
I have no criticisms for sink.js my comment was more on the philosophical side. The danger in a solution like sink.js is it becomes "good enough" until people need more than it can provide. Then they turn to the APIs and end up dealing with fragmentation.

If you think about it that's exactly what happened with IE circa Version 5. The one good thing IE did was make it possible to develop for one browser. What the industry should have done then was what they're doing with HTML5 now. Define a standard so other competitors could enter the market without creating fragmentation. But that's not what happened and now everyone has to write for 3 browsers (if not more thanks to IE7,8,and 9)

Same with sink.js. For all the bad in Flash almost everyone has it and it's a consistent thing you can write to. If people use sink.js now and don't pay attention to the fragmented APIs underneath we'll end up having to write to 3 different APIs down the line.

So again I'm not against sink.js. I'm just saying people using it need to realize exactly what you said and pressure browsers for a common API in the long run.
Pretty much any country kinda close-ish to Europe.
I probably should, here's an example of the images it returned as porn: http://screensnapr.com/e/PEB3NG.png
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As a society, we need to be less obsessed with being everyone's parents. (edit: not that I want my parents monitoring my porn intake either, frankly)
I'd like to see some references to this supposed "growing body of knowledge", because it sounds like the kind of complete BS put out by anti-porn religious zealots.

As a society we need to move past this ridiculous idea that the enjoyment of sex, including sexual fantasization and pornography, are something to be ashamed of or feared. Sex and porn are normal parts of a healthy, adult sexuality.
If you're interested, you can see the data the iPhone has collected so far -- Go to Settings -> General -> About -> Diagnostics -> Diagnostic & Usage Data.
Not to nitpick on the author. But 16KB was quite a bit memory in early 1970's.
But some things just aren't worth doing.
Do you have any way of capturing the actual JAR? Our Sophos security friend wants to analyze it, but we don't know how to get it.
This is likely a matter of personal preference, but I strongly dislike having to sit through a video on a landing page. Thus, I visited the site, read the five bullet points, and left again having no idea what they were trying to get me to do. It wasn't until I opened the page one more time while writing this comment that I realized that the bullet points were clickable. I'm not a UX designer, but I didn't feel that this setup would have a good, uh, conversion rate? Is that the phrase?

Just my two cents.
Right, but on the blog post they say they'll offer a few to the community most likely. 100 seems a little excessive for a board test batch, but maybe it was the smallest order number they could get.
> Think really hard about whether you actually need that business cofounder. Consider investing the time you'll spend looking for someone with improving your own sales/marketing/product skills. Join a community like Y Combinator and they'll help you learn all the mysterious business stuff that isn't actually that hard. In the end, if you make something people want, everything else will fall into place.

Honestly, the attitude toward "non-technical co-founders" needs to change in this community and the fact that anyone would say you don't really need one is just naive. Build it and they will come is a Silicon Valley pipe dream that happens to .1% of companies. Talking to customers, exploring competitive products, negotiating service contracts, firing up potential employment candidates, getting press, lining up distribution partners, selling clients, exploring new markets for potential leads, managing non-technical resources, fund raising, pitch writing, and more are just a handful of the things that a "non-technical co-founder" can be doing. Doing them yourself when you can find someone more experienced or focused on this is poor management of resources and speaks to an inability to delegate or manage limited company time and resources.

Having been through YC, I can tell you right now that not only will they not teach you "all the mysterious business stuff", but if you think "business stuff" isn't actually that hard, you work with shitty business people and aren't aggressive enough in your initiatives.

Everybody likes to downplay the importance of business people in startups. My first co-founder and I in Earbits were both non-technical. While we looked for a technical co-founder we lined up an advisory board from Google and EMI Music, raised friends and family money, recruited a designer for equity only to mock up our site and design our logo/brand, and had record labels sending us boxes of CDs for a radio platform that didn't even exist yet. During that time, three technical people flaked on our project, one of them after signing the paperwork to join. Do you see me talking about the lack of importance or reliability of technical people? No. Your bad experience or rumors about shitty business people are unfounded. Most successful companies have a solid business-oriented co-founder. For every crappy "idea guy" there is a flaky developer.
This is service contract management, not technical or systems management.

Cloud is IT infrastructure outsourcing and (just like other outsourcing) requires a strong contract. Being able to specify, clarify and hold your provider responsible on contract specifics and making your management comfortable with it is becoming part of the IT operations job.

You need to set expectations with management. One of the benefits of outsourcing is that you should be have an exit or ability to switch to a similar provider... otherwise you are a captive customer.
I would also be extremely curious to see those citations.

Because time and again, sociological "research" that attempts to show porn as bad winds up being exposed as the worst kind of science, when it's even remotely related to science to begin with.

I don't like to be so biased based on my (dis)agreement with a study's conclusions. But in the case of porn research, it just so often winds up being about as close to relevant as "Reefer Madness" is to the effects of drug use.
I bet he did it in a throw-away virtual machine. That thing has spyware written all over it.
The Node Beginner Book is excellent.
http://nodebeginner.org/

I've read it twice. I suggest doing the examples as you read along with the book, and then improve on them (there is room for improvement in the code architecture).

After that there is a list of other such tutorials here:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/04/6-free-e-books-on-n...
I'm genuinely curious - how many people in this day and age still feel the need to hide porn? Doesn't that seem a bit infantile?
> ... porn [is a normal part] of a healthy, adult sexuality

This is the kind of statement that should really be carefully evaluated. Smoking was "normal" once, too, along with many other unsavory bits of culture we have now moved on from.

See: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cupids-poisoned-arrow/20...
edit: http://pastie.org/private/jun6syyaoe2uynjbrla4a
Is it? You know what I hear from developers a lot? "I make enough money. I'm interested in solving interesting problems and working with interesting people."

So Amicus gives a small-ish amount of cash (relative to other signing bonuses I've seen), but ties in several other perks that say a lot about company culture. Each of their ideas says something about the company:

Counter Culture coffee - I didn't know anything about this brand before seeing this listing, but it appears their focus is sustainability and education.

Donated dairy cow - I've heard of this one before, and another similar program with goats. More "responsible world citizen" action.

Gym memberships - Combined with other items on the perk list, it appears that Amicus wants to provide you the opportunity to live a balanced life that includes fitness.

iPad 2 - Ostensibly for "prototyping", but really a statement that they want to provide you with tools that allow you to work while comfortable. More balance.

Iron Man Helmet - Manditory for all company events, I'm assuming. This is just fun!

Unlimited beer - The statement here is that the company is laid back and trusts you to do the responsible thing.

Fixie bike - Hipster fantastic, but who are we to judge? It reinforces the fitness/balance statement.
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And I wonder how many of those who buy are actually porn-watchers who want to go the extra step to ensure their stash is invisible to their SO?
A process that doesn't self-correct is not a good process. A process that doesn't contain mechanisms which naturally guide teams back on track is not a good process. A process that tends to be followed incorrectly and misused to a degree such that it becomes a hindrance (even relative to no process at all), even in the hands of teams operating earnestly and with good intentions, is not a good process. A process that succeeds only when used by the best teams filled with the best developers is not a good process (such teams will succeed regardless).

Agile is not a good process. It may contain elements which are useful, but on balance the history of agile has been a history of abuse and of use as an excuse for old fashioned micro-management. The infatuation with agile has set back the practice of software engineering in industry by a disheartening degree.

The future is not "do whatever you want" nor is it "revert to the bad, old waterfall days" as agile zealots try to scare everyone into believing, but the sooner we get past the religion of "agile" the better.
Maybe. But yet, they managed to let thousands of programmers to know that they're hiring.

The cow might just be a gimmick (and let's face it, you can't do more hipsterish than the fixed-gear bike), but it's pretty awesome guerrilla marketing.
A lot of the research, at least that I'm familiar with, actually comes a bit more from the left, generally pro-sex but skeptical of (at least some kinds of) porn, with the arguments being that porn tends to promote unrealistic expectations and a certain sort of attitude towards women, which get in the way of forming healthy real-world sexual relationships.

I'm not sure how solid any of the conclusions are, though, and I don't know what the ED research would be referring to. Here's one (slightly dated) meta-analysis that does find some association with aggression, especially following watching porn that involves violence: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1995....
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It was not clear that you were using "groundbreaking" facetiously. Hence my confusion.

I agree there are problems with how science works right now, and I agree on what the problems are. I disagree on the weights of the incentives, though. You describe "rampant" fraud. I have observed none. Then my conclusion is that the claim that fraud is rampant is incorrect.
100 seems reasonable for QA when you are planning on making >10K right after.

They are auctioning these 100 boards (populated).
> "while the others are pushing for it, clearly not giving a crap about free speech either"

This, I think, is the problem in American politics. The best the citizenry can hope for, given the amount of corruption that unfettered political donation has brought, is for a corporate champion whose own economic interests just happen to align with our liberty on this issue.

Because the legislators supporting this don't care about piracy any more than Google cares about free speech. They care about protecting their share of political donations by the industries whose economic interests are aligned with pushing crap like SOPA.
It's not just piracy, unfortunately. Suppose SOPA passes - there are all these tools available to stop Google/other services from interacting with "rogue" websites.

But what about other things that are as bad as or worse than piracy -- if we use those tools to stop piracy, why not use SOPA-like tools to stop them? (This isn't a slippery-slope argument, it's more of an "equivalent-harms" one.) Similar to how terrorism-inspired tools are used all the time for non-terrorism law enforcement.
> Wouldn't that effectively hide all traces of any browsing history locally, be it nefarious or otherwise?

No; on the Mac, `dscacheutil` still knows about the sites you visit during private browsing, and I am certain that similar logs exist on other OS's. (Of course, your ISP also knows what sites you're visiting, but I guess that's what you meant by 'locally'.)
My bad, corrected.
Whether it's a board or a spreadsheet the point is that it's just a crutch, what works is facilitating communication, breaking work down into manageable chunks, and facilitating a conversation with the whole team on every aspect of work.
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Here's the Australian equivalent:

https://plus.google.com/103685227755333384561/posts/VasNhJpVFA4

Although not as tough as GCHQs
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It's also helpful that one of the guys involved owns a PCB manufacturer!
"a huge and growing body of knowledge"

... Laydeez
I really wish more of the wealthy had the foresight and ingenuity to focus their philanthropy on high risk high reward areas like Thiel does.
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Dojo gets a lot of use in the corporate world because it's so complete, particularly in terms of GUI widgets.

I always use jQuery myself, but I'm still not satisfied with any of the jQuery grid components, for example. It's disappointing.
I came across a really nice socket.io benchmarking tool @ a node.js hack event last night ... https://github.com/mixu/siobench

Quite a nice ecosystem forming just around socket/engine/hooks io's
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It's not clear to me what this offers exactly beyond events, which are easy enough in socket.io. And dnode allows very free-style form of RPC where you can have an event/call pass a function that then can be called from the other side.

What is it that makes hook.io exciting?
For what its worth, I built a greasemonkey script to help find new comments in threads:

https://github.com/polyfractal/HNHalfLife
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> People have a lot of power by their selves. Never underestimate your own power. The power that the courage of millions of people that admits openly that they read wikileaks and are not afraid about it.

Thank you for stating this.
It's not impossible to gather objective data on the impacts of internet porn use.
Mine is in a directory called "Not Porn", which accomplishes all the same things, and is also a fun joke.
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Amicus is a set of good people. Just being snarky
Detecting porn eh? This reminds me of China's Green Dam initiative, which ended up banning Garfield, claiming that it's porn.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-06-15/green-dam-it-chinese-s...
It seems that the main argument of the supporters of the bill is that piracy is bad for the economy, since it causes job loss.

In reality, at least the way I see it, things could not be further from the truth. Yes, there is a slight loss to the American economy when foreign consumers are not paying for the movies and music (although mostly American companies are to blame here - I cannot buy music anywhere on the internet even if I want to, so TPB is my only source of 24/7 entertainment). However, when it is the American customers that are "stealing", this is not really bad for the economy, as no money is actually lost, it is simply redistributed when the consumers use the money they saved when downloading to buy other stuff - probably coming from the industries that make much less profit than the entertainment industry.

Also, the entertainment industry seems unable or unwilling to face the fact - the consumers aren't buying not because they can download for free, but because the products are crap, not worth the money. Avatar was the most commercially successful movie of all times, in the period of most piracy of all times.
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So it's been gathered, right?