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Apple has near complete profit share: http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-share-of-smartphone-indus...

Yes,92% of industry profits is domination in my book. Without sustainable profits, marketshare is meaningless. Only profitable players are Samsung and Apple.
That's the first thing I tried too. I thought the site was broken because there's no button to push and after hitting enter nothing happened. It's ok if you don't support everything yet, but at least have a message saying "Not yet implemented" or something, please.
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>Does not work if I don't use a dot at the beginning of the extension.

Maybe because you're expected to type the full filename, for example crash34_master.tar.gz
Been using this library for a while now. Works great, I based my app https://www.lightroomdashboard.com on it
How to get a better night's sleep
Back to Future is still awesome. But I don't remember it having all the F-bombs?
Apple's Launch Event Was Creepy as Hell
It is nice to have NIH give us a good justification for having a surfboard rack in the office :)
> There are an enormous number of folks that compete in
> races and are timed

There are an enormouser number who go casually running a few times a week, and don't really time themselves.

With lifting weights, you lift a specified fixed numerical quantity that generally you need to record so you lift the same or more the week after.
C++,C#, Objective-C and Java are all procedural languages. This has little to do with whether they are object oriented or not. That said, it would have been interesting to see whether object oriented features of languages have an effect on software quality.
So, you're saying a few things here which I disagree with.

First of all, the basic argument, at least of the "existensial risk" community that I frequent is that, compared to humanity's extinction, nothing else that's happening now is quite as bad. (Unless of course it is something that would also lead to human extinction).

More importantly to your point, you seem to be operating under the assumption that " there is massive effort and capital being directed at [solving this problem]" (paraphrased). As opposed to say something like climate change. This assumption is wrong.

There was recently an incredible victory for something called the "Future of Humanity Institute", which had just received $10 mil from Elon Musk. This was an extraordinary sum for a charity dealing with existensial risk, which is very decidedly a niche topic. Even if you look at all the charities dealing with X-risk, I doubt you'll be looking at more than a $100 mil dollars raised or so, and that's something of a stretch IMO. (If anyone has any real figures on this - please let me know!).

As for something like climate change, it's hard to find good sources as most of my google searches return mostly criticisms of climate change activisits, but I would be shocked if the amount of money spent on climate change isn't in the 10's of billions of dollars.

The argument of the people concerned with x-risk is that, at the moment, considering how little money is actually spent on research concerning x-risk, more money needs to be spent. And since these technologists are the only ones really aware (or at least talking of) the dangers, they need to try to get money invested in this issue.

Btw, I will mention two other minor things:

1. I'm not trying to defend "people level the criticism at the technology industry that it is currently mainly focused on creating trifles for already-wealthy people" - I consider this a really separate topic, since its usually different people involved with x-risk charities vs. trying to make money.

2. A lot of the community that talks about x-risk is also part of the "effective altruism" movement, which concerns itself greatly with solving more immediate issues.
It's not uncommon to have 1 stretch break a day that's lead by someone. As in they walk in the room and say "Okay everyone it's stretch time. Please stand up and follow my moves". I haven't personally seen it more than once a day and I've worked at Japanese companies that didn't have it though.
Folks, Big data can cure cancer. Big data can also start world peace. Google it. I'm srs.
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What I propose doesn't have to be that expensive. How many active startups are there today? Too lazy to re-open up my old copy of CrunchBase...but let's say there's 10,000. The Twitter API let's you perform nearly 18,000 user lookups. With each lookup, you get current number of followers and tweets, and you also get their latest Tweet as an object. If you approach this in the most brute, blunt force way -- paginating through every account's timeline...even if each account was at 3,200 tweets (which is relatively rare for small company accounts that haven't yet brought in a social media team), it would only take you 18 days to collect every single tweet. However...what's the point in doing that? You could also just do a fetch for 200 tweets per user in a single call and extrapolate the tweeting rate for all 10,000 companies on a daily basis...very few Twitter accounts will send out more than 200 tweets in a 2 day period (and for those that did, you can assume that they're still kicking...or are going on a bender).

The analysis doesn't have to be real-time...companies usually implode as a slow burn. If you look at companies like Ashley Madison and Superfish (OK, only the latter is a startup)...they pretty much shut up on Twitter as soon as things blew up. But companies that slowly lose steam...I imagine firing the social media person, or even just having much less heart into social media, is a common symptom. And one that is hard to see unless you're frequently checking on a specific company...but relatively easy to see in a simple statistical analysis. Yes, there would be false positives...but 20-50 false positives a couple of weeks versus 10,000 potential false negatives to check up on is still an advantageous situation.
SQLite is proably saving files in emscripten's virtual filesystem (emscripten's implementation of fopen() etc. by default makes them work on memory), and the sql.js API just reads and writes the file there.
Do you know where can I get the English version?
It's too painful for people to check their facts before declaring mainframes dead or something IBM is leaving. As you said, they're incredibly profitable. Same thing happened with OpenVMS, which turned out much profit for HP despite little investment. Next they'll be telling us Group Bull, Unisys, and Fujitsu are similarly scraping by in the mainframe business. And NonStop and IBM i are on verge of cancellation. And blah blah blah.

I'm sure we'll be hearing the same crap in a decade while said crap is posted via a service that imtegrates with a COBOL app on a mainframe. ;)
To be honest, I'm not at all surprised - considering you can use it to do stuff like this: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20pre...

(But then, you can use a hammer to bash someone's brains in, and we don't export control them...)
the "state" in the definition is just a general word, like vapor state of water, state of things, etc... Feel free to google on your own.
SQL.js is a great library -- we use it on http://sqlbolt.com/ to teach SQL right in the browser in a platform agnostic way.
Entertaining commentary:

You cannot squeeze out some kind of imprimatur of good citizenship by holding a product launch in a “civic” center.

...

We all knew that Jobs’ refusal to dress ‘appropriately’ was the flipside of a loner genius with a unique vision who wasn’t going to conform. He was half-crazy but headed to unexplored territory. The first guy who does that is authentic; the second guy is not. CEO Tim Cook is the second guy.

Cook’s persona is creepy, almost mortician-esque. He has an unconvincing forced jubilance, wedded to a lurking, hunchbacked rigidity. His body seems superfluous, a nuisance. The white hair and nerdy glasses round out a kind of depthless, mealy look that betrays a measure of cruelty. His arms hang useless, as if he has to exert every ounce of willpower to raise them when the script calls for mock exultation.

...

As an illustration of how the Apple Watch changed people’s lives, he tells us how the watch helped a man keep to an exercise schedule. Does he think we’re so dumb we believe this was never possible until the invention of this watch? Also he showed how a doctor could tilt the watch forward and check his daily schedule of rounds; ironically, this task was something that my own father could handle with a small notebook and a pencil in the 1960s, as a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital no less.

The Apple Launch soon became a drone-fest, with Cook introducing another man who was dressed virtually identically to Cook, who introduced another guy dressed the same, and then a woman dressed similarly, then again another guy, like Russian matryorska dolls popping out of each other. They were all in the same uniform, or rather anti-uniform, in some kind of California-forced-conformity/anti-conformity. The last time I saw so many people looking like that, it was the mass suicide at Heaven’s Gate.

...

Mercifully, it ended with Cook giving a shout out to the Apple workers in the audience, who responded like cult members fed sugar and gumballs all week. And then, in a fawning introduction, he introduced the band One Republic, who gave a kind of generic performance that would offend nobody, in a hall that hosted revolutionary bands like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead.

Lest I be called a killjoy, let it be noted that I am typing this on a MacBook Air. I have an iPhone 6, and an iPad Mini. I am an Apple person, as it were. But just because I buy the products doesn’t mean that I buy the mythology surrounding them.

...

The Apple Launch is a closed circle of fawning sycophants, thrilled with gimmicks, adapted to computers, programmed, a throng of identical authentic individuals chained to their machines and congratulating themselves on being ‘connected,’ led by a human that resembles a robot.

Two hours of watching the Apple Launch actually made the Manson Family seem homey.
I don't understand why they spend that much money finding out what had happened in the past or where we came from. Why not spend those money finding ways to save our future? Maybe a technology that converts those smoke coming out from factories to oxygen instantly or something that will clean the water or fix the ozone maybe? We need all the help we can get.
Basically the workload that an average person is going to have: a bunch of processes running simultaneously with varying degrees of cpu and memory intensiveness.

In special cases you can get better performance with more, but less beefy cores (graphics is a prime example), but in general a few powerful cores performs better. The main reason is because communication among cores is hard and inefficient, so only embarrassingly parallel programs work well when divided among many cores. Plus the speedup you get from parallelize a program is minor in most cases. See Amdahl's law[1] for more on this topic.

Also, I'm not an expert in this area, but I have some familiarity with it. So hopefully someone with a bit more experience can come and confirm (or refute) what I've written.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
Well, this collecting data is exactly why the US tech industry is considered to be reckless with privacy and safety of data.

And lawcases have shown that the "we record everything" in the ToS is legally null and void – only stuff the user directly expects to be recorded are legal.

If you are a flashlight app, and in your ToS is "we’ll send all your contacts to a third-party company", then this is void, and if you do so, the user can sue you. As has happened with Facebook in the EU several times.

This reckless "we’ll record everything" is why the EU is planning their new "you can't record anything unless directly allowed to, and you can not sell it or give it away to any third-party entities, not even governments" law. (Well, the last part was thanks to the NSA).

This attitude hurts the US tech industry.
The problem is that WebSQL was just SQLite, and SQLite only has a single implementation, it's basically implementation-defined.
Indeed. Given the actual state of the science, it's arguably irresponsible to make unqualified claims about "exercise". Doubly so if the claim is being made with regard to an individual or small group rather than a large population. The way people talk about the benefits of "exercise" is about on the level of saying that "food" prevents scurvy, goiter, and rickets.
Despite my other comment, I do regularly post that one. Hilarious. Anyone that saw better architectures (eg Burroughs) knows that he's probably right that cloning 360 wasted a prime opportunity to kick IBM's ass with technically superior, state-funded product. There's a chance they'll make a come-back in near future, though.
You know, there's quite a few people who have invested a huge portion of their lives in working on things like x-risk charities. They did this even though, with their skills & intellect, they can early significantly more money by e.g. not working in a charity.

I'm just saying, I don't think it's wise to simply sweep all of these people's hard work and efforts under the rug of "procrastation" and "they're somehow making money from this".
I've been tying Ian's "world's fastest shoelace knot" for a few years now. It took me about a week or two to get comfortable with it and it really is amazingly fast.

It's interesting to experience your brain relearning a habit that has become so ingrained. Reminds me of the Smarter Everyday backward bike episode [1]. In fact, I just tried to tie my old 2 loop knot and accidentally tied Ian's knot again.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0
Totally agree that they are different.

What I think is the same philosophically though, is ceding the power over fundamental activities/interactions for functionality. It's not even intentional or conscious - which in fact is what I think makes the metaphor even powerful.

When real AGI comes, if it comes well, then it has the possibility to look like the pinnacle of functionality, just like our tools are now. So it is definitely exponentially more powerful, but for the average person it will look like magic, much like most technology does now to the under-informed.

...and given that we would have built it, it won't be black magic either - just so totally far removed from the average person that it will look like magic.
I can remember tar commands.
Should we re-consider the 'sociopath' thing about this boss in this thread and all other following?

I am not defending on this boss's position. Hell no.

But why does not other employee of his company end up in the same sympathetic position as this OP?
voicecode.io is far ahead of anything else in terms of out of the box programming by voice. Everything else requires a lot of up front effort and essentially designing your own language before you can be productive.
Reminds me of an idea I had: https://github.com/runvnc/pubsub
One could, cynically, break it down to

> In the US, your customers are an asset. In the EU, your customers are people with rights

because that’s what this is about. And I, personally, have to fully support the EU view here, which is that the privacy of a person is more important than the profits of a company.
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I taught Ian's Fast Shoelace Knot to my 91-year-old grandmother a while back, when I first ran into this site. She liked it well enough that she still ties her shoes that way. It's a nifty knot.
I am perfectly fine with that, in fact I expect it when using services like google and facebook. I expect that facebook is crunching my data and feeding me ads, while the advertisers never see who I am or what I'm about.
iPython Notebook setup as a server with wrapper
New Google Wallet and Android Pay
You were making a nonsense value judgement that a 150k+ engineer would take home less than a 40k engineer in a different place. Both places take a third in income tax at those levels. I don't know how much rent is in Turkey, 40k is 27k after a third is taken for tax - if you wanted to match even this number, that means you would have to be paying $73k in rent in SV, even higher than I was suggesting.

So yes, "probably take home less than you" is definitely moaning and has no substance. It's playing to the "omg, I'm so poor" crap that's prevalent in some parts of our industry.

Living expenses are higher in first-world countries and that does need to be taken into account, but claiming to have less money than someone on a quarter of your wage "because tax and rent" is nonsensical self-pity.
The idea that technology has some linear progression is an illusion. I stayed in a "mud hut" several years ago during a trip to Morocco which had running water, flush toilets, and electricity. It was built of mud not because the builders lacked access to "better" technology, but because big mud bricks were a simple, practical, and economical building technology well suited to the desert environment.
I was thinking the same thing - sure, it's cool to have a glossy touch screen and futuristic touch panels, but I can't count the number of times touch screens / buttons have gone wonky on me with everything from my cell phone, to my tablet, to my microwave, to my fridge, whereas the light switches in my house are about 50 years old and have yet to let me down...
Suppose one of those five (or others with which you are familiar) was the "actual" author of Cow Country. Who would you guess it was, based on the Amazon preview?
Do you work on "a technology that converts those smoke coming out from factories to oxygen instantly or something that will clean the water or fix the ozone"? If not, why not? I find that I can often understand why others make the decisions they do by comparing my own motivations for similar decisions.
Here's a soild SF book that deals a fair bit with that question:

http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/Permuta...
Haha, no, not joking.

Many worlds is by far the best hypothesis to date.
It would not be terribly difficult to create a workalike on other * nixes as the task is effectively just mapping your filesystem's stat(2) metadata onto an SQLite db, with a virtual table representing file content and a user defined function that calls exec()* . SQLite gives you most of what you need here for free and makes the rest relatively easy. In fact a module containing the implementations for the latter can even be loaded directly into the existing sqlite3 cli.

If you added an inotify daemon and FTS indexes you would have essentially a clone of Spotlight and other indexed filesystem search engines.

* piping the filenames somewhat obviates this though
Why does every mention of a phone camera have to be iPhone? Can some people not separate phone from iPhone any more?
The Australian economy is pretty different to the US.

Australia is just coming off its biggest economic boom in history. Its had 24 years of constant growth and average unemployment over the last 5 years has been at historically low levels.

Worker rights are pretty different in Australia compared to the US too.

The Australian economy has problems, but they are different to the US economy.

I think the grandparent poster's point had some validity.
I know but the orbit module doesn't go through re-entry it was also designed to either bring cargo or serve as temporary living / scientific quarters when the Soyuz was used for manned orbital flight rather than a ferry to Mir or to the ISS.

But and it's a big but the space is separated which means a great deal this means that the Soyuz orbital module can be used to bring cargo to the ISS the space in the Dragon capsule is really just wasted, there's no way there will be cargo in there no matter how well tied down during lift off no human flight program ever had anything in the cabin that wasn't a part of the space craft or needed for life support / emergency, so it's still a bloody waste of space.
Well, if you start with the premise that within a few decades we'll have superintelligences and magical nanotech, I wouldn't be very concerned about climate change either.

I think the premise that we'll have superintelligences and magical nanotech in a few decades is fatuous, but that's a different fight.
The Ruby ecosystem has very strong emphasis on tests and test driven development. Perhaps bugs in Ruby simply often are fixed before they're committed because the test suites have better coverage.

Also I think Ruby developers are more likely to be professional (as in paid and educated to be programmers), whereas python developers might (slightly more) often be mathematicians, scientists or sysadmins.

As is noted in the paper, all other factors that were controlled for were strongly dominant. That means who you are and what you are doing is much more important than what language you do it in.
4 and 5 are both correct results. Implementations have a lot of flexibility regarding when macro expanders are called.
You could take a bunch of regions where it would be reasonable to build trains, and then you add a bunch of regions where it would not be reasonable to build trains, and count them together. The population density of that combined area tells you very little about whether it is reasonable to build trains somewhere in that area.
This makes total sense as a web service.

In all seriousness... why? This would be an awesome unix tool.
For [0] and their total compensation calculation, have they included capital gains? The compensation shift from high-tax-rate wages to favorable-tax-rate stock options among the top-tier folks introduced $1/year CEOs, and then you have entire industries like software where stock options are frequently more important part of the compensation than wages.

Not only one gets a favorable tax treatment for long-term capital gains, they can also choose when to trigger those tax events, selling over 40 years instead of one swift transaction.
var input = document.querySelector('#leInput'),
commands = {
'.tar': 'tar xfv',
'.zip': 'unzip',
'.tar.bz2': 'tar jxvf',
'.tar.gz': 'tar xfvz',
'.tar.bz': 'tar xjf',
};

I don't think the difference between .bz2 and .bz makes any sense. Am I wrong, or is it just that bz2 extracts verbosely and bz doesn't? I'd guess these flags were copied from some random sources without the author realizing they are nearly equivalent.

I know difficulty with tar is a meme[1], but once you get over that "j" means bz2, why is it hard to remember V for Verbose, Z for gZip, X for eXtract, F for File (which you'll almost always be passing)? I ask this both rhetorically because it shouldn't be hard, but also because I am sometimes oddly hesitant when forming tar commands. But not enough to reach for a web page.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1168/
That sort of gets at my point, stash makes sense in a corner of a high disciplined workflow. But the article presents it as approaching "best practice" and as a belt to sport with one's lederhosen. By analogy it's a bit like multiple inheritance in C++, on occasion and for some people it might be just the thing, but it's probably not a good starting assumption at the design phase.

Though again, it's a minor criticism and mostly related to the impression of importance positioning it at the end of the article suggests [i.e. placing the strongest point in paragraph four of the five paragraph essay].
Why hasn't anyone made (afaik) an all in one extractor that depends on all the popular compression tools and uses the appropriate one depending on the extension. That would be useful.
Thanks for the info. I found out in another thread that it is shut down 14 days after the last comment. I just saw it all too late since I don't frequent this board/list.
One such unix tool is "dtrx", which has been around for ages.

http://freecode.com/projects/dtrx