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Can you list some X and Ys that exist or have existed? I don't use social media at all (except when people link to G+ or Twitter from HN). But looking around, I don't see anyone offering the same kind of service as Twitter. And even last month, didn't they just offer video streaming, right around the time Meerkat got to market? So it's unsure that they need 3rd parties.

Twitters got how many thousands of employees? Surely if they organize well they can innovate inside. Or just keep an ear to the ground and hear about neat-sounding things and clone them. Or buy them if they have to.

What value add did DataSift bring? They were taking 80% of the revenue. If those DataSift customers were really using the Twitter firehose, there's no real replacement. That means Twitter just upped revenues on those customers by 400%.
I don't think it's ever wise to specialize in only a programming language, even if it's a really good one like Haskell. I think it's important to have a lot of language-agnostic knowledge in one's skill profile in addition to knowing at least one language very well.
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There will be a phase lag and a concentration effect.
I'm guessing a small subset of commands is about all that many productive Vim users know. You don't have to know everything to make good use of the tool.
And Facebook/Instagram has no official data policy, right? They don't offer paid data from what I can see. You can sign up as a dev, email them if you need more access, otherwise...?

So as far as data access goes, Twitter and FB/Instagram are pretty much on the same page. Except Twitter's docs are way more accurate and nicer, probably because it makes money for them and isn't a "throw it out there and see what happens" kinda thing.
Deploying Python on my school's web hosting service involved writing this horrendous mess of a .fcgi file:
https://github.com/dheera/web-sustainabilitysummit/blob/mast...

Deploying Python+uwsgi+nginx on AWS involved another mess of a setup, wiresharking to figure what the hell port uwsgi was running on (the first tutorial I read had a typo ...), and a mess of pythonpath variables. Including requiring both

pythonpath = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
pythonpath = /usr/lib/python3.4/dist-packages

in order to function (like, WTF)

Not to mention I had to know to include the python3 plugin

plugins = http,python3

No tutorial told me that the 'python' plugin couldn't handle python 3.x. Yep, definitely not newbie-friendly ...

Can't servers just have an auto-configure command? I'll just drop a Flask app in /var/www. uwsgi should detect that it's Python, try to execute it as python2 and python3 (or just read the damn shebang lines and use the correct plugin) and just use whichever doesn't give errors. The server should just figure out what ports things are running on, where plugins are located. Auto-scan the newly dropped code for all import lines, search the file system for the right paths, and cache the result; if it still fails, try to just pip install it, and if pip fails, try to apt-get install python-* it.

Save the final auto-configuration result.

Manual configuration will always be an option, but in 99.9% of applications most of this deployment process seems pretty easy to automate.
Which only re-inforces the statement, definitely does not detract from it. But normally speaking you write your contracts in such a way that one party can not unilaterally withdraw without serious penalties.
This is part of a Startup Weekend project, what do you guys think?
Well done :) as for interview simulators, there's always this: http://ipaulgraham.herokuapp.com/
The owner of HutHos does appear to be female, so that may be related?
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Nethack is how I committed vim keybindings to muscle memory. This is really cool (though a few things, like Ctrl-D to kick and extended commands seem to either not work or be clumsy).
Posting here to say congratulations. Would love to know what it's like after it's done.
A "CoLocation" or "CoLoc" for short.

Coin a short, memorable term, then use both terms everywhere until your users have been around for a time. As a user gets more experienced on the site, drop the longer term and use the "jargon" term. It's a novel concept, it deserves a neologism.
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The internet makes information easily available, but it doesn't always provide context. For example Hadoop is great for big data, but I trust the fourty-something year old more than the twenty-something year old to know when to ignore the current trend product and use stream processing instead.

And I'm saying that as a twenty-something.
Why should it indicate difficulty and not easiness? A similar feat would be completely beyond me in math. Even though I minored in math as an undergrad, I have almost no understanding of the questions and arguments being discussed in the professional mathematics literature. I'm never going to stumble across one of my personal ideas in the Annals of Mathematics. It requires so much dedicated time and effort to even understand what is being said.

The professional philosophy literature, on the other hand, is much more accessible. Philosophers treat familiar questions like "Do we have free will?", "What does it mean to do the right thing?", "What does it mean to know something?", etc, in a qualitative manner. After a minimal investment to understand some of the jargon, most philosophy papers are quite readable. It's the kind of enterprise that a layman might actually be able to make an intelligent contribution to.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20633919 suggests that they can be mitigated.
For general purpose social networks, yes, that's my definition of success. They aren't very useful otherwise.
"When I analyze the process that is expressed in the sentence, 'I think', I find a whole series of daring assertions that would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to prove; for example that it is _I_ who thinks, that there must necessarily be something that thinks, that thinking is an activity or operation on the part of a being who is thought of as a cause, that there is an 'ego', and finally, that it is already determined what is to be designated by thinking - that I _know_ what thinking is. For if I had not already decided within myself what it is, by what standard could I determine whether that which is just happening is perhaps not 'willing' or 'feeling'?
...
Whoever ventures to answer these metaphysical questions at once by an appeal to a sort of _intuitive_ perception, like the person who says, 'I think, and know that this, at least, is true, actual and certain' - will encounter nowadays a smile and two question marks from a philosopher nowadays. 'Sir', the philosopher will perhaps give him to understand, 'it is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why insist on the truth?'"
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A good thing is that you don't care about normalizing usage: if the plant happens to only work during the day, it's fine, you can make fresh water during the day and use your storage tanks at night. Unlike with batteries, there's basically no waste in storing water overnight.
If they have, you should probably do your own research, and if they haven't, why don't you be the first one? :)
I see a lot of speculation about what causes this, but if it is actually serving some sort of important linguistic purpose we would expect it to generalize beyond the English language, right? Do French geeks start their sentences with "Si, ..." (or equivalent)?
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Why would it be incorrect? Now it could be against style guides for an organization, but that is something of an arbitrary decision.
Suppose we freeze time for a second, you're transported to and stuck in a multigalactically large room for countably infinite minutes (or until you're done, also you're temporarily immortal) with all the paper and binding materials you need, and some reference books that together constitute a full description of someone's atomic state and immediate environment, as that person is about to start thinking about the Cogito for a few minutes.

There are a few trillion atoms described, so it takes you a long time, but you spend your infinite minutes (or as long as you need) working through the various states, starting with time t=0 based on the reference books, and then for infinite minutes you just simply dilligently work through the state of the person and immediate environment, i.e. continue to model the atoms using the laws of physics, working it out manually, as a human calculator, and writing down all of your work. It is incredibly boring. About ten hours into it you ask for a pill to let you forget that you've already been doing this for ten hours, because it was only interesting for maybe half that time and there is no way you can do this for almost infinite time. Okay, you get a supply of those pills as well, and take one every ten hours. This leaves you all set to spend practically infinite time writing out all this meticulous description.

Now, once you're FINALLY done, and have done up through t=10minutes, which really practically takes you infinite time, you bind up all of your work and put the volumes in a row in multigalactically large bookshelf. Trillions of volumes. Then you're transported back to Earth and time resumes. Okay, for having trillions of volumes, ten hours (that you remember) wasn't too bad.

And now we know there are a series of volumes of books (that you've prepared by hand). At first (in the first few volumes) they describe an initial state of mind, and, due to the moment that was chosen (someone entertaining a train of thought regarding the Cogito) as you go through the volumes you are reading through someone's thoughts, i.e. the thoughts that this person exists.

But do they exist? Of course not: they are just a character in a book. That they think, "I think" does not cause them to exist, and a few volumes later they are done having that thought.

The volumes are all there from volume 1 up till x trillion trillion. You could, if you wanted to, read through them all. Do the characters inside exist? No.

So, the Cogito does not prove physical or metaphysical existence.
Add it to a large tidal river mouth and you just shift the mix point upstream slightly.
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It happens, but it's rare. The really huge success stories typically involve both a product that tends to sell itself and a good and clever marketing apparatus that helps to prime the pump and widen the funnel. Problem is that the world is big and noisy. Even if your product kicks serious butt, nobody will hear about it if you don't tell them. Such products also typically don't materialize out of nothing. Typically they get early customers who provide feedback to make them better until they hit some threshold of product/market fit and take off like crazy.

Product is primary. All the marketing in the world can't help a product that nobody wants... At least not for very long. Sometimes gimmicky marketing can create a flash in the pan.
Great points, thank you.
Guess the intruder wasn't completely convinced that chmod works the first time around
Depends what the things are. And you didn't say (please clarify?) whether this is a user-facing name, or a name seen only by coders. I'm not meaning to diminish the importance of either, btw.

For people, it could be a meetup, but others have already offered many better suggestions, such as convergences and serendipities, which both sound good. But maybe you want something shorter.

What they do when they get together could also lead to naming ideas. For example, if they connect with each other like modules on the International Space Station, it could be a "dock" event. Your real use case is probably different but you should think about what they do, and what result comes out of their being together, as a source of ideas.
That provisioning script seems to install a screenshot utility that fires at every login. That definitely doesn't seem like a standard feature for a hosting provider to offer.
Remember the comparison is not between 47 yo with experience vs 22 yo with no experience. It's 47 yo vs 32 yo - both have experience.
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You can use lacheck for this. Is also integrated in auctex (for emacs) as 'Check' entry on the menu Command.
Given that the term "flying saucer" seems to be a misnomer from Kenneth Arnold's report that described the motion of the observed object as being "like a saucer skipping on a pond" and his sketch of the object shows something that looks a bit like a flying wing (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4376/798/1600/Kenneth%20A...) which notoriously have a bucking or skipping motion in the air, it would be fairly weird if a disc-shaped object were involved. Edit: there's some speculation it might have been the German Horten Ho 229: http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/159/e/d/horten_ho_229...

It would be like you giving me an inaccurate description of something based on someone else's report, and me mangling your description into something that just happened to be very much like the original. It's not impossible, but you'd have to be pretty optimisic to call it remotely plausible.
If you read carefully the discussion, you will see that my point is not that what you said is untrue. My point is that what you said is a "thought-terminating cliche". It's a over-simplified one-liner. Just look at how much had to be written in order for it to be more clear and valid. There is no trust in business relationships. How do you trust a legal entity? The people there change all the time, goals become misaligned, etc.
This is SO not true! The only ideas you can launch with no money as VERY small ones. Could Tesla or SpaceX launch with no money? Could any project that takes over 3-6 man months of labor? So basically you are just writing off anything but simple web projects.
No - as a citizen I'm saying. Don't let bankers buy risky papers to a degree that they cannot cover their own losses.

The german and french bankers should not have bought greek government bonds at the prices they did considering the greek levels of public debt.
I wonder how this compares to https://facebook.github.io/fixed-data-table/
Not sure how reliable this self-evaluation is, but I do imagine I'm starting quite some sentences with "alors," or "bon,".
(this comment has nothing to do with this distro, just the general state of software installation and the transmission of such instructions on the internet.)

I'm not sure anybody else gets you,
but I'm totally with changing the copy-paste way of transmitting instructions.
And I don't mean a gui and a whole lot of clicking.

System Requirements (hw/sw, pre-reqs) / applicability tests (will this work for me?),
tailoring instructions to my configuration(s) (automatically),
recommended and trusted instructions (using PKI) with data and statistics to back up the confidence I should have,
time estimates and ENV-impact statement,
testing and follow up discussion,
and transactional rollback of any step to previous state of the system.

See instructions. Install instructions. Should be easy as a click. Something breaks, undo should be just as easy.

Copy and pasting instructions is like typing in BASIC from magazine listings decades ago.
"Clipboard is the new fax machine"

At the other extreme are "apps" which are nice when they don't break, but opaque and not developer-friendly.

Willing to discuss elsewhere or learning about existing efforts which try to address these problems.
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Some terminations are in order over that policy. But hey.. who am I kidding? It's an IT department in a public school. Incompetence isn't something punishable.
Using an address from an email forwarding service such as spamgourmet might not mitigate all of these concerns, but it should mitigate some of them. Says the guy who doesn't have even a spamgourmet address in his profile. Hmm, maybe I'll do that.
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Only people who don't mind sounding ignorant.
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Is this a real phenomenon? I've never noticed it in my own speech patterns or those of my colleagues.
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It's been 10 years since git has been released, and in my personal case when this happened, there wasn't any good reason other than 'it's what I know'. The company started with SVN when git had been around for a while.

It's slowed down the company globally, prevents us from using various tools that don't have svn compatibility (like android's repo, gerrit or git's client side pre-commit hooks) and overall just been a relative pain the ass compared to git.

The very small edge cases that svn might be better at now did not apply to us. Notice I didn't say perforce, or google's custom solution in my example.
"They" is plural.
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Quite often, she didn't answer the question he asked.
I'd love to see the wormhole simulation implemented someplace I could play with it.
> There are schemes that would allow for your data to be encrypted and secure from even the cops except in cases where they have a acquired a warrant. The argument that there is no way to do so is more political than technical. This is a solved problem, cryptographically speaking.

It very much is not. All of the schemes that purport to do so involve a systemic risk that the master key is lost to a hostile foreign government or criminal organization, and they inherently prohibit forward secrecy.
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I like "they". It's especially suitable in this case, because we don't even know if it is a single person, or a group, or maybe even an automated attack (allthough that sounds unlikely). "They" leaves it open to the reader to imagine their stereotypical hacker.
I know some non-geek Canadians who use this particle: "So, how was your day?". There are similar or even equivalent particles in other dialects and languages, for example "Also .." in German and "Look, .." in Australian English. However, in my experience, the purpose of that particle is to introduce a new topic or to indicate a context switch, rather than signaling that 'I've given the following serious thought'.
Harry Shearer of The Simpsons has a recurring segment on his radio show where he collects clips of people incapable of answering questions without "So, " couching.

In my book it's even less defensible in writing than in speech. You see it in countless reddit submission titles that aren't a response to or continuation from anything.
Maybe on topic: ~ two month ago, /r/TheoryOfReddit/ had a thread about the effects of using "So" to introduce headlines:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/2tuq64/redd...
Banks have (eagerly) bought bonds for 100 EUR from Country A (that considering the risk inherent in the high public levels of debt of country, clearly were not worth more than 30-40 EUR).

Now there is a crisis, and the unsustainability of the public debt of country A is undeniable to everyone, so no-one will buy the bonds, well maybe for 5 EUR. However, through lobbying etc. a deal is struck so that Country B lends Country A 60 EUR to buy the bonds for the artificially high price of 53 EUR, thereby allowing the banks to escape the full writedown from 100 EUR to 5 EUR, but pushing 48 EUR of unrealized bankers loss onto the public books of Country A (debtor) and Country B (creditor).
It's great for companies like Twitter and Facebook when startups build on their platform. The startups innovate and experiment with new features and business models (at their founders' and investors' expense). The lousy ideas fail, the good ones survive and the platform owner can cherry-pick by either replicating the successful feature/business model themselves or buying their favourite.

Then, by cutting off others' access to the platform, the platform owner can make their own service a monopoly and capture a significant proportion (if not all) of the others' customers and revenues.

Phase 3: Profit!
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I think the distortion area is just a function of scaling factors -- crop the picture enough (limit the field of view), and it is "all" warped.
Wouldn't the 'surface' grow much quicker than the 'radius'? then that effect would slow down.
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I realized reading this that I start many many sentences in French (my native tongue) with "Bon, " which is a strict equivalent. After a quick look at my IRC logs, it seems that a lot of my geek friends do the same. It's funny to see that this cultural trait is not specifically tied to the English language.
Just reading the submission title instantly reminded me of "Anton van Straaten's Koan", and for good reason -- it's quoted in the submitted page, and indeed makes up the first 3 paragraphs.

Here it is:

The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping
to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have
heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked
pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are
merely a poor man's closures."

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his
cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire
"Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and
implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object
system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of
his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by
saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now
understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na
responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you
learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became
enlightened.

Now I will be the first to admit that I usually just don't get koans. But I think I get this one. Objects and closures are equivalent in the sense that what you can do with one you can do with the other. However, for each particular case one may be better (easier to use, more natural, whatever) than the other. You should use which ever one is the best for each particular problem.

This is of course easier if you are using a programming language that natively supports both closures and objects...
I can haz black hole, pleez?

Love the cat, visible over and under the focal point.
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Almost entirely unrelated but another good/incredibly annoying interjection is to say '-tish' when hearing someone pause mid-sentence with 'but um'. It's an excellent way to lose friends and get socked on the nose.
Yes. (If a number of big assumptions hold). I've written this blog post in my head a bunch of times and will write it for real soon. There's a fun (very loose) parallel with the expansion of our physical universe.
It renders a bit edgy in Linux (Debian Wheezy), different from the github screenshots:

http://i.imgur.com/3mWdvGU.png
Ideally, you have already finished this step before opening your mouth.
Yours is really cool, too! Thanks for sharing, since lately I've been doing a lot of reading/learning about black holes. But where is the hole in your demo? I see the distortion but I also can still see stars within the event horizon, if there is any.