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A company being successful doing X does not mean that X is what users want.

Some users probably want Google etc. to use all data available to improve their services, but some don't. The vast majority of those companies' users don't think about how the companies use their data at all. The services get better, sure, but I don't think the full price has yet been paid.
what other tar commands/options do people use when extracting? lately with tar it doesn't even seem you need z/J/... to pick the compression format, just tar xvf archive.tar.whatever and it figures it out itself
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To be clear, these trains aren't empty. The Lake Shore Limited (Chicago <-> New York) goes sold out for days when winter storms take a shit on the Northeast air corridor and everyone's trying to get home from Christmas break. It's also $100 regardless of season.
bsdtar does this, except by looking at the file format rather than looking at the extension. It supports tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, lha, ar, cab, mtree, rar, and ISO images, compressed using gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, lzma, or compress.
Every time I need to extract some kind of tar file i just do tar -xf filename.tar.<whatever> and it works fine. This would be nice for compressing, but seems pointless.
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For GNU tar at least it's not necessary to specify the compression program when extracting--it will auto-detect it. Additionally when creating tar files it has -a, --auto-compress to use the file extension to determine the compression program to use.

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/gzip.html#a...
As a generalist, my company has got around this issue by having me bushwack new stuff while the specialists come and take over doing all the things I was doing (but better.)

I imagine at some point I will no longer be useful and I can leave the company entirely doing some occasional consulting for them.

As a generalist, I welcome this day and look forward to another place to whip into shape.
Your reasons are exactly why I would not get into an early stage startup as a generalist without a lot of equity. Too many "rationalist" managers out there that think the way you suggest. Despite the fact the generalist provided a valuable service, you don't need them any more, fire away.
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There's also Git from the Inside Out:
https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside...

*Part of a new publication by Recurse Center/Hacker School
> I'd use PyPy which would've done wonders for responsiveness on the existing product and adopt containers for deployment.

That's an easy claim to make, but you don't know whether their stack would actually get much improvement out of PyPy. We've had trouble in the past using PyPy with C extensions. Trying to migrate to pure Python equivalents was a headache. Once we managed to get a PoC of a service running under PyPy, we saw very little improvement.
Or, add this to your .bashrc (ensure that it's sourced.. some distributions don't do this automatically):

alias untar="tar xvf"

Then, open a new terminal window, and from then on it's just:

untar filename.tar.gz
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Hmm, that math with the rate limits does work.

With Twitter's stance on third party data usage, it would be risky, but I think the idea could work.
I use atool (http://www.nongnu.org/atool/)
You can just do "aunpack file" or "atool -x file", same goes for packing..
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Recent versions of BSD tar will also detect the compression algorithm for extracting. No such luck with the -a, --auto-compress option though.
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Same here, it's the non-encapsulation of persistent structures. Learning top-bottom feels like an impatient solution that will backfire.
Go doesn't solve that, at all , in fact Go doesn't solve anything at all , thus the need for a proper package management solution in Go.
Does this have threeway bartering or more? If not, we could have a bartering tickets aka money.
I dunno, hopping on board the rocket ship still seems a lot easier than building the rocket ship.
I think the better analogy is inventory, which is an asset. The value of data depreciates over time. Having too much data that is not producing insight or value is inefficient asset allocation.

In other words, lean principles should be applied to data. Reduce data collection that doesn't add value. Calling data a liability is not quite the right analogy for me.
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This strikes me as some sort of Orwellian contortion. It really is a matter of your point of view. Insofar as code is correlated with functionality (and it is at least to some degree), code can be viewed as an asset. In addition, code can be sold for cash, and this makes it an asset from the strictly financial point of view. It may have maintenance costs associated with it -- and these certainly need to be taken into account -- but that is not the same as being a liability.
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If CF download the file to check the hash, it wouldn't really be helpful as a caching service. That would mean CF would hit your server for each request before it served up the asset to the customer. Your server wouldn't benefit from caching. Maybe you'd get a small speed increase from their worldwide endpoints but that would reduce the advantage of having CF manage your site. One of the biggest advantages is that CF serves hits that your server wouldn't have to. That allows you to need less infrastructure.

Further, it might be better to never serve sensitive financial data via a 3rd party server. That kind of data would be best served directly to the customer's browser from your server.
Hope he can relay though, esp. if he is in a good relation with them.
In the US, working for free is illegal and hence a minefield when the company goes to attract outside investment. If that weren't enough, everyone should be on a multi-year vesting schedule including the founder [you work for a year, get 20,000,000 shares and the founder stops working, and then what?] Finally, the stocks are only worth your salary if you can sell them, but who will buy them at face value? If the company can buy them, then they can pay your salary.

To put it another way, if you're going to work for a year for no salary, and you are capable of building the software for an Uber for X from scratch, why not just build your own Uber for Y? And to put it a third way, suppose your former colleague was asking you to give him the next year's worth of paychecks from your current job in exchange for equity a year from now. Would that be a good deal to consider?

Good luck.
>Many worlds is by far the best hypothesis to date.

well, to me it actually works in the opposite direction, like prove by contradiction - if the Many Worlds is the best/logical/natural consequence of the indeterministic view of QM than the indeterministic view is definitely have to be overturned.

All the Bell experiments i read about so far have obvious gaps allowing for obvious explanations. And if you take the latest one, the heralded loop-free, then there is obvious question - why didn't they published the statistics of the unconnected, non-entangled runs? I mean it is obvious from current QM orthodoxy that non-entangled runs wouldn't produce S>2, yet from alternative, locally-realistic, experiment result explanations the S>2 would be produced in that case too (the S>2 isn't possible in the locally realistic world, yet it is possible to locally realistically explain S>2 in all the Bell experiments that so far i've seen)
If everyone else at your company jumped off a cliff, would you? Because that's basically what they're doing.
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> Introducing new definitions like yours is just an implicit attempt to advance anthropocentric exclusivity, pretty much the re-worded equivalent of that religious dogma of "only humans have soul"

Oh man, I hope you realize how /r/iamverysmart you sound right now. The poster you're replying to has a very good point that is often discussed by philosophers[1]. Your anti-theist quip doesn't serve your point either. It just makes you seem like more of an asshat.

Let me explain: since pain is (trivially) a subjective experience, does X still experience pain if it no longer has the capability for a subjective experience? For example, if I got hit by a car and ended up brain dead, it's intuitive to claim that I would no longer be able to experience pain even if you decided to cut off one of my limbs.

Was the chicken in a similar state of being? I don't know -- maybe, but probably not. Either way, it's an interesting question.

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pain/#second
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It's hard for me to believe that you can't find roles in a growing company for a generalist. My experience has certainly been different.
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Good thoughts, where they stayed on the topic. Too much political commentary for me.
Like all the data the NSA, TSA, and FBI dragnet stopped 9/11, the Boston bombings, Christian terrorists shooting up doctors and churches?

Oh, no, it doesn't. Not least because there's so much data even they have trouble working out what to do with it all.
Was thinking the same thing. The inevitable trend with VR is that it gets miniaturized to slimline eyewear, contact lenses, or embedded directly wetwear.

As it progresses, input devices will need to evolve quite a bit since it won't always be convenient to have a full-size keyboard, and part of the value of having a screen on your eyes vs. in your hand is that it frees up your hands for other things. Being able to use slight muscle gestures (ala "Rainbow's End" by Vernor Vinge) in combination with eye-tracking, audio controls, etc. seems like a logical leap until we can decode brainwaves sufficiently to use that as input.

I imagine something that shows a swipe-style keyboard overlaid on screen with your current finger position is also a likely solution.

That said, my big beef with this seems to be forcing a traditional keyboard layout on screen that takes up a massive amount of screen real estate. Would much prefer thinking outside of the traditional keyboard layout and making better use of space.
Unless you've heard of places paying per line of code you seem to have missed the point of code being a liability. It's what it does that's valuable, not the volume of it
Luckily I preserved my original battery because it's still better than any of the replacements I tried. Even so it does not last as long as it did when new.

The replacement batteries can't seem to handle power surges, and this causes the phone to crash.
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Do you think open source fine art is better than one from a single artist's vision?
Instead of looking the values up in a database, the clerk contacts you to look up the value...and then readds it to some database?
The secure shoelace knot is delightful: http://fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
I have known about MW for 25 years or more, thanks to popular science writers. I don't see it getting more traction than it already has absent some way to falsify it. It's stylish from a distance, but like imaginary numbers, you should tidy up your multiverse when you are done playing with it.
Does this maintain an inode metadata index as well? Otherwise how will you avoid stat'ing the whole filesystem (or a branch thereof)?

Does it handle extended attributes?
I think the improvements are more around Metal and such. It see improvements everywhere not just Mission Control, especially when hooked up to my 4K monitor.
Thanks for the comments. Our crawler does respect the robots.txt standard and the nofollow tag. Seems like noarchive is what google recommends. Will look more into it.

Although we do put a banner on the index page - we don't have them on each page. Thanks for pointing it out - will fix!
No worries, I never said you were attacking me.
Play with this thought for a while.

No, not all money is debt in the sense that it's loaned into existence. But it does create a general expectation, and quite often a legal obligation, to accept it as payment. That is, any money-denominated debt is fulfilled by a credible offer to pay in cash (unless previously otherwise negotiated).

Even if simply printed into existence, money is a right of demand, that is, if I run a printing press and drop-ship you a pallet-wrapped billion in Benjamins, you've got equal rights to anyone else to bid that money against anyone else on goods or products.

Capital wealth is similar: it's a legal fiction (though an awfully well established one) that by right of claim to some property, the owner thus has other capabilities, including, significantly, collateral for debts, which can be used to provide liquid debts. Hocking a ring at a pawn shop, home equity loan, corporate paper, or the very significant sovereign debt available to holders of petrochemical resource claims or reserve currency authorities

Aside: which is among the reasons why there's much hay made over claims of personal worth, the solvency of reserve currencies, and over whether and to what extent petrochemical reserves might be stranded -- above and beyond merely comparing net worth, these determine access to loans from others. Donald Trump and oil companies / oil-producing nations are notably testy about the first and second, much of the noise eminating from RT (and much echoed through ZeroHedge) are based on concerns over access to capital (Trump, Oil) and in weakening the dollar and through that, the United States' access to credit markets.

Since definitions of what property is are determined by law, precedent, force of arms, etc., you'll also see a lot of resorting to that as well.

But yes: money is ultimately a created fiction, a universally exchangeable good, whose fundamental supply is unlimited, a reality constrained largely by the fact that increasing its supply without restraint does lead to a dimunution in the exchange value of units currently in existence, and all instruments denominated in currency amounts (e.g., debts, bonds, contracts, etc.). Each individual currency unit is a demand on future production, though the increment of that demand is not itself fixed for all time (inflation/deflation).

There's more on this concept in Modern Monetary Theory. My own thoughts are independently conceived, but I'm finding it's quite similar.
Ahhh yes. That makes sense. Thanks :)
Many worlds is not a logical consequence of the non-deterministic view of quantum mechanics. One of the reasons cited in favour of the MWI is that it is wholly deterministic. That is probability doesn't appear at all in it's framework. This is much more in keeping with previous physical theories (Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell's laws of electrodynamics for example) which were also wholly deterministic.

If you're interested other reasons the MWI is often considered "nice" is that it is: linear, local, causal, realist, entirely unitary and in some sense (this is often disputed) minimal. Other interpretations have to add mechanisms (for example wavefunction collapse) in a rather ad-hoc way in order to stop many worlds happening.
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You not only thought he wasn't, but had evidence of it.

That again is a different problem: one of communicating your findings to others.
I'm not saying it's appropriate; just offering a possible explanation for the use of the word. Personally, I'd just go with "female" or simply saying "she's a software engineer" gets the point across well without having to delve into sex vs. gender identity etc.
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>Let me explain: since pain is (trivially) a subjective experience

no. Pain has basic objective component, basic common denominator - it is the specific reaction of nervous system, specific set and intensity of signals going through it in reaction to tissue damage. More complex nervous systems build more complex constructs on top of that foundation, like the expectation of pain, memory of pain, etc... and many of that additional constructs are subjective in nature, no argument here.

>For example, if I got hit by a car and ended up brain dead, it's intuitive to claim that I would no longer be able to experience pain even if you decided to cut off one of my limbs.

does your amygdala still function - fully "brain dead" would mean no, so no pain.
Code can only act through its volume. The fantasy of codeless functionality that is being propagated here is exactly that.

Functionality only exists because of code. The two cannot be fully separated from each other in the way that some in this thread are implying.
> Code really is a liability, even from the high-level view in the boardroom. The asset is functionality.

The programmers who understand and maintain the code are the real assets; everything else is a liability. Without those programmers, those programs will quickly rot because change is always happening and sticking a random programmer in there will over time degrade the program.

Smart companies know this, it's what talent acquisitions are all about. You want the goose that lays the golden egg, not the egg. The egg has some short term value, but it depreciates quickly, the goose is the real asset.
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And don't miss the Lacing Shoes part of the site. http://fieggen.com/shoelace/lacing.htm There's a section at the bottom of the comparison page for solving shoe problems by lacing them differently.
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There are levels of vulnerability:

1: Vulnerability to a pre-computed table. This hits hard if you are using plain-old MD5 without a salt.

2: Vulnerability to a newly computed table. This will hit you if you use a global salt and a fast hashing/encryption algorithm.

3: Vulnerability to high throughput custom hardware. This will hit you if you use a fast hashing algorithm like MD5. Modern GPU-based algorithms can churn through hundreds of billions of hashes per second on fairly inexpensive hardware. Which means that attacking, say, 20 million accounts it's possible to run through billions of possible passwords (which means a full dictionary attack, the top million most common passwords, plus common ways of combining words to make passwords, plus every random alphanum string up to 9-10 digits) for each and every account in only a month of work.

4: Vulnerability to very weak passwords. This will hit you if you use a slow hashing algorithm and there's no global vulnerability because you use per-record salts (or bcrypt/scrypt).

4 is where you want to be, always. You can't protect against weak passwords, but you can make it expensive for weak passwords to be revealed, and prohibitively expensive for stronger passwords to be systematically cracked.

The entropy of the hashes isn't really relevant since it's the repeatability of the hashing that's at issue. For example, the hash 7c6a180b36896a0a8c02787eeafb0e4c seems to have plenty of entropy, but since it's the MD5 of the string "password1" and you can just google that hash to find out that information, the theoretical entropy is moot.
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Since I can't find a good .com I'm thinking about using one of the new TLDs.

Is there any disavantages in getting something like mycompany.money or mycompany.services?

Spam filters that will block it for no reason? People who will try to access mycompany.money.com? Are they safe, like, are they all managed by the same company that deals with the .com (ICANN?)? Any TLS/SSL problems?

Another question, is namecheap any good? I found about about them on the github student pack and they offer whoisguard and a free PositiveSSL. Unfortunately it's not a wildcard and who knows when letsencrypt will be ready. I'm not affiliated just want feedback.

Thanks!
Ha. From the end of that AMA:

> I would never run for office, neither would I want to be in office, of any kind. I would rather drive a nail through my foot.
I like this idea, but I do not really understand who it is aimed at. The focus seems to be on reproducibility of scientific experiments and code, which is great! Many existing code artifacts are WOGSL (Works On Graduate Student's Laptop) which is the CS equivalent of "runs when parked".

So, let's break down the fields of CS for which this should be applicable:

* Systems: This won't work except for the few systems projects that are entirely in-RAM AND will work on tinycore's kernel version

* ML: This, I can see, especially with the seeming focus on dataset management. Much ML is compute-bound and the overhead of using the FUSE FS's is hopefully negligible.

So, is this focused on ML and ML-using code and experiments? If so, I think that should be clarified. I think a lot of systems folk will be (rightly or wrongly) turned away from it due to the seeming overhead of the various hyper* extensions. Not to mention that they are all written in Node/JS (Again, rightly or wrongly, many systems folk will not want to run their stuff on platforms written in JS)

I like the direction this project can go, but there seems to be a lack of focus or direction in your mission right now.
>The same approach can and does exist in Rust

Without the documentation, stability, portability, quality guarantees, and compiler support (that's a big one — code generation for coroutines needs to be good) of a standard library.

>Concurrency in C and C++ is also third-party libraries

C++ is on track to standardize concurrent file and network IO. Draft specifications have already been published, and Microsoft shipped coroutines in VS 2015. It would be a damn shame if C++ got concurrent IO before Rust.

I would like to use Rust professionally, and I'm sure you do/would as well. But no one can possibly sell their boss on using a project with a single part time maintainer to provide critical functionality.
It appears fico forums is mainly around the idea of the credit score. Building good credit is certainly a positive asset to have in your personal finances. However, having an understanding of how to spend less and why it is important to live within your means is fundamental to being successful financially.
It's also still absolutely not the primary input method of the device, even on the iPad Pro.
Good call. https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/8753

It seems like this has been on the back burner for a while, though ...
"celt" has an interesting etymology. A medieval scribe miscopied the Latin "certe" ("indeed") as "celte" ("using a celtis or celt") in Job 19:24, and based on the context everyone figured a "celt" must be a tool for carving.
in case if anyone interested in the mechanical curator bot source code: https://github.com/BL-Labs/embellishments
My observation is that most casual lifters don't keep records either.
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ITT: people advertising their SQL-teaching websites.
MD5 is a primative. Many algorithms specify a hash/compression function (which MD5 is) or a permutation (which AES is) in how they work. Message authentication (HMAC) can use any compression function, key derivation can use any compression function, and so on. Even stream ciphers can use MD5.

People implementing things that use crypto should only be using functions that are "Authenticated Encryption" which specify the full suite like AES-GCM (permutation function: AES, in Galios/Counter Mode), or "Key Derivation Function" (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA2 or Argon2d-Blake2b). What they've done at AM is implement their own key derivation function using the MD5 primative and concatenation.
Considering that we literally grind male chicks alive in factories, pump animals with a ton of chemicals to increase their weight and so on...not sure if anyone would think it is animal abuse even today