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> How many companies has he run? Zero. How many jobs has he created? Zero.

False. He started the American People's Historical Society, which made and sold educational filmstrips, that employed him and at least one other person.
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> the real answer is assume nothing and profile.

They did profile, but what? Their "don't trust folklore" ("just 3% speedup") conclusion is valid only for one specific architecture and only for the most recent CPUs. As you say

> modern consumer-oriented code should run at least well on Intel Nehalem - Skylake, AMD K10 - K12, ARM Cortex A7/A8/A9/A15/A53/A57/A72, Qualcomm Krait/Kryo.

If I understand correctly, they themselves measure 30% speedup even only one generation before on Intel and they didn't measure any ARM or AMD.

It looks to me that "don't trust folklore" claim was possible only by ignoring all the processors you name.

And you are right, they also didn't show that they are aware of the differences inside of one generation (does the cheapest processor of the same generation behave the same?)
First time I heard someone talking about mathematics syntax:

(MIT Sussman, SICM book)
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...

Weirdly enough, I always struggled with advanced syntax, but I recently understood that it was a lack of focus on the abstraction. Kinda like programming languages :)
But that's something you can't really understand when too young.
This: We value that highly, and if he expresses a little impatience or frustration...

Is only due to the fact that Feynman actually tries hard. And if he's frustrated, or impatient, it's because he is challenged to understand who he is talking to and that makes it hard for him to understand how long it may take to get there --and he really wants them to get there.

Doing anything else sucks, because it doesn't mean anything and Feynman wants it to mean something. Getting at the basic meaning of things is what he lived for.

People tend to take this all sorts of ways. I find watching and reading about Feynman so notable, because all the bravado and aggression is just fun down deep. He's playful and in the play comes really great insights.

He related some of this in one of his stories about the Manhattan Project. He was young, and not yet of superior standing among his physics peers. A famous and very highly regarded physicist engaged Feynman on something one day, and Feynman told him he thought the whole thing nuts! No fear, just raw sharing of mind to mind.

That guy would come back and request more dialog time with Feynman because Feynman didn't fear him and just shared his thoughts and feelings about whatever it was unabashedly.

That is what people are seeing in the interview, and it's rare. Very, very rare.

The interviewer should be quite pleased to see Feynman sharing as he would with any peer and not coddling, or glossing over things for what Feynman would consider shallow and unproductive reasons.

Strange as it may appear now, Feynman was showing respect and giving the interview an honest go, not making a show for people who would watch such things as happy curios. Instead, it's a record for those who want to know something about Feynman.

And say what you want, Feynman tried hard to demonstrate good intent in his life. Remember that on passages like this.

And the good intent here is to spark the interest of the person asking why. Rather than punt, or cheat, he's going to say why, "why?" is tough and that he can't satisfy out of respect for a fellow person he would not want to lead astray. This does require going somewhat astray, but the person will be left with some greater understanding as a consequence, and that is as good as it gets, without actually taking the time to really answer why, which is entirely too much time and outside the scope of the interview mutually agreed upon in advance.

That look in the chair, when he sits back and grins a little? It's a challenge. He's opened up a door, and he's inviting anyone watching to go right on in. Think about it some more. Thinking is good, and down that rabbit hole is where the really good stuff is. :) People can get a notch smarter just watching Feynman, and that's as he intended.

He's just precise and he cares about that. Nothing nefarious or mean in any of it.
"one country's overreaction of 9/11"

There is not any evidence that 9/11 has anything to do with this - this sounds more like a regular limitation of work rights issue. Hacker news regularly has stories about the difficulty of navigating the US work rights regime.
> Both houses of Congress are controlled by people who talk euphemistically of the super-rich (who increasingly derive their wealth from inheritance not ingenuity) as "job creators".

I disagree. I hear too much talk about solving gaps and creating jobs, and not single shred of sympathy for the simple rich.

We need to stop thinking its our problems to solve these so-called "societal injustices". It's not my problem. I'm trying to improve myself!

People should mind their own business and try to improve their own situations. If they're in no / shitty jobs, poor health / broken families, they need to figure it out like everyone else! We can't play God and it for them.

It just enable this entitlement attitude of your piousness and their own of what they deserve.
From the viewpoint of a security practitioner and engineer I think what Bruce Potter says is really important here.

Oftentimes people get hung up in fixing or doing things that are important to do for security, but not a pressing matter, and they may miss more important issues because of this.

There are a lot of security folk who worry about things that make very little difference and it not only makes me think less of them but it also is more noise and less signal. It means businesses have a harder time taking security people seriously whenany constantly worry about the wrong things.
"I don't hear any of at shit where I live in Europe"

Didn't Europeans murder millions of people within living memory, and isn't there active "ethnic cleansing" going on in the Balkans even as we speak?

Yeah. "Nuanced".
If you're intelligent and privacy conscious, yes. I also think a statistically-relevant alternate scenario exists where a person is deleting things selectively out of fear of (real or imaginary) ideological persecution. I don't see this legal interpretation by federal prosecutors as discriminating between actively impeding an investigation (obstruction) and controlling what information we retain on the devices we own--especially when that information can be recovered from other places, like browsing history.

They were looking to create a case for philosophical sympathies and they found evidence of that in both his statements and direct actions. That would be enough to charge him, and yet they've chosen to specifically juxtapose his internet browsing history (and deletion thereof) with "[causing] the FBI to expend considerable additional resources during its investigation." As you said they either recovered the files directly, or else subpoenaed the ISP, and neither could be said to take "considerable effort."

They're saying that because he viewed certain videos and pictures (publicly available) online, he must be a sympathizer. I'm saying, yes he's a sympathizer (and deserves prosecution) but his browsing history online should not be a legally valid justification. Unless you want to sweep up journalists & whistleblowers in the process... Even copyright defendants (thanks to the TPP), if the hypothetical owner of defecatingdwarves.us were to demand criminal charges be brought against a cyberlocker illegally streaming their videos, and you just happened to delete the history entry from your recent visit which the plaintiff decided to treat as "evidence."

This case isn't creating a precedent, but it's the first time I have seen federal prosecutors use this rationale and it's concerning. I personally don't think deleting your browsing history alone--even selectively--warrants a potential 20yr federal sentence.
You should consider traveling to the US on your visa and then applying for refugee status: http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/refugees

You can contact the Helsinki Citizens Assembly or the International Organization for Migration for advice.
Ugh, that's a good point. I don't think AppArmor does any restrictions on X11 use. (I think it supports some fine-tuned controls on dbus usage though, so the idea isn't completely out of scope.) I guess it's better to think of AppArmor like a tripwire than a full sandbox if you open up an app to X11.
I applied to the Designer position and never heard back!
30% of Forbes 400 billionaires inherited their wealth, 70% did not. What exactly are you using to claim that the super rich derive their wealth from inheritances?
I was satisfied with his answer. But along his own logic, answering "why does the train stay on the tracks" is a very much more involved question than at first appears, because our intuition and what we now know about gravity are not always in sync.

I still don't understand how you consider talking about "magnetic fields, spin and electrons" is name dropping in the case of magnetism, but is perfectly acceptable in the rest of the series :/
"Fat zones" would be amazing! I think making the weight limit for flights much smaller would be a great idea. Or maybe a BMI + fat percentage limit.
I'm pretty sure its illegal (everyone I know who has done it had a work visa) but frequently ignored.
?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

Please, don't do that.

As for the article itself, I thought it's common knowledge that in most civilized world, social mobility is decreasing and income gap is increasing.
Singapore is another good option. I believe it has a pretty straight forward work visa system. Also a growing number of startups. Here are some job boards:

http://www.startupjobs.asia/

http://e27.co/jobs

https://angel.co/singapore/jobs
It is almost reckless and life threatening to use Android. It can:

1. Cause financial ruin.

2. Destroy your relationships.
3. Possibly hurt your family.

4. Introduce legal exposure to you and your loved ones.

5. and more..

All because it has terrible security. It seems the companies in the ecosystem are just concerned with rushing new models out as fast as they can with little regard for security. Worse, when these things are discovered, they could care less about rushing out fixes.
The Netherlands. The only requirement is that you learn Dutch at a very basic level. Apart from that everybody, and I mean everybody, speaks English and the standards of living are among the highest in the world. Sure beats living on a mattress in some illegal housing in L.A.
I wish they could at least store it in terms of the timezone name, like "Central Time". "America/Chicago" bothers me because I don't know what cities are and aren't in your timezone database.

The ones that have a tiny map that you have to click on are also pretty bad.
Thank you for the link, that's an informative piece.
Who is using deep learning for packet routing and QoS decisions?
There is quite a lot of US visa related guesswork going on in this thread - please do seek expert advice. In my experience the application and compliance problems look much less scary when you talk to someone who does this every day. Lawyers are expensive, but try: http://teleborder.com (YC startup)

And on the global search for alternatives, should US not work out, here's some overview data of 110 most startup-friendly cities in the world: http://my.teleport.org/ -- and a mobile app for searching among them: http://teleport.org/mobile
(visa data layers coming soon, too, but dozens of other cost & quality of life criteria already there)
> Why U.S.?

Because we're the best by far, in about every way?

Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Intel, HP, Yahoo. Everything that matters in technology in here. Silicon Valley. Investors.

Other countries try to imitate the excellence of USA, they don't.

If USA is on your gut instincts - maybe you're meant to be here.
From the article:

> Usually when a leap second is almost due, the NTP protocol says a server must indicate this to its clients by setting the “Leap Indicator” (LI) field in its response. [..] Rather than doing this, we applied a patch to our internal NTP servers to not set LI, and tell a small “lie” about the time, modulating this “lie” over a time window w before midnight
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So, you should leave the US to become rich, then return to turn that wealth into superwealth?
TZDATA ships with historical timezone information, so using the timezone name should also work for past events, no?
They can't dispute them. That's precisely why you're getting downvoted.
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Countries with strong social democratic movements like Germany, Austria and some of the Scandinavian countries are able to provide a very decent quality of life with high education levels. However, they also have other variables like smaller population size (which makes it easier to reach a political consensus) and more ethnic homogeneity.
This person is pretending to be a fake victim. The situation they created for themselves is their responsibility. If they'd taken responsibility for making sure they are not breaking the law, they wouldn't have broken the law. I believe they are lucky to have been deported so speedily. Also the question they were asked -- "Why didn't you try harder for the J1?" is totally legitimate. Acting privileged and entitled to special treatment because they are "from NZ" is just acting privileged and entitled, instead of choosing to take responsibility to ensure they'd actually get the visa it worked for them to have. Also, planning to have "colleagues at Northwestern" and be on a tourist visa is clear indication that they weren't planning something which was going to work, and that they knew this. These people were just gambling the small probability they wouldn't get picked up, and then when they get caught, they try to incorrectly blame "Homeland Security" for their situation, instead of taking responsibility for having applied incorrectly. Unfortunately, this choice to disown responsibility and pretend you are powerless is a common deluded attitude. People get themselves into all kinds of messes and then blame everyone except themselves. "The law must be rewritten for me" is just an egomaniacal delusion of privilege and entitlement.
CST is not the same thing as America/Chicago. If you say CST you specifically do not mean daylight savings time, which is CDT.
I don't mean to speak for the OP, just to relate my own experience. I grew up extremely disadvantaged - bottom 10% - and that's manifested in a few ways throughout life (ie. it took 7 years to get my bachelor's due to needing to work to support me + family members).

Nevertheless, I was recently told by a progressive regarding a tech conference that I was too privileged to offer a diverse perspective ('cause I'm a white guy, you see).

From the article:

"Sean Reardon of Stanford University has calculated that the race gap in student test scores has diminished, but that the class gap has widened. A half-century ago, the black-white test score gap was 50 percent greater than the gap between the richest 10 percent and the poorest 10 percent. Now it is the other way around, with the class gap almost twice that of the race gap."

But for whatever reason progressives (broad term I know) seem to be happy to talk about anything except class and income equality.
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Agreed. Southeasterners as a class strongly dislike dealing with Northeasterners.

In my experience, this directness and terseness is a pedagogical style that's prevalent amongst technical folks -engineers, programmers, scientists- from all over. When you're explaining something complex it is important to be precise. When everyone involved in the conversation has some degree of mutual respect for each other, one can safely dispense with much of the genuflection often demanded by others.

Perhaps my experience is atypical.
Price. Your question is a little strange on HN, so either you're a little anticapitalist, either I didn't wrtie well, either I'm not understanding your question. So here's more explanation, hopefully answering your question at the right level:

- Raising prices is an automatic way to choose customers to match demand. Some part of the customers won't be able to afford water, so they will have to use alternatives: No fancy garden, no watermelon agriculture, no golf course? Good part is, I'm not the one who chooses, the market will decide depending on who really wants to use water. The other customers will have to spend more money on water, and this is good because it compensates the water producer for the loss of the other customers, and give them more money to, maybe, build a desalinization plant.

- "But this is evil!" Yes some people can't afford life in some areas. Maybe the root of the problem is actually an unsustainable density of population in the Bay area. High prices are already driving people out of California on a large scale, and we need to drive even more people out. It's what needs to be done, because we mustn't overexploit natural resources in an area.

- "But this is what Wall Street does, and Wall Street is bad!" Wall Street isn't the entierty of economy. Look at all local exchanges: On a local market, price determines the first customers who will be able to afford the $3/kg tomatoes. If there's not enough tomatoes for the last customer who could afford them, then the farmer could have raised the price; if there are remaining tomatoes, the farmer set the price too high. Money decides where people reside in a city. Money decides that you can either choose to have a lamborghini or eat meat during the rest of your life. Good point is, the government doesn't have to decide who the meat goes to using criteria, the market does automatically, and does it well for 99,99% of worldwide exchanges. The rest is hedge funds, yes they may badly assign funds sometimes, yes they have impacts on global crisis, but those alter the number of worldwide exchanges by only a dozen in a billion.

- But "companies are richer than customers!". Yes and no. They just pay water "before tax". First, don't forget that the consumer pays in the end. Second, in France we have a 68% tax burden, so when a companies would pay 100€ for goods, they'd have to pay a salary of 230€ to an employee if he wants to buy the same 100€ goods. So yes, companies are richer, but it's only our fault: The less taxes we have on wages, less there's a difference between corporate and consumer wallets. We're just imposing this to ourselves. Many economists wonder why we tax wages, because taxing a sector discourages the use of it; Thus we'd be better off with 0% wage tax to encourage employment and equivalent (high) tax on polluting products to discourage their use. But that is a story for another day.

Hopefully I haven't hurt feelings of anyone by showing too much distance with the people who are defavouritized in this system.
> Because we're the best by far, in about every way?

Just a random picture of San Francisco: http://stitchesanddishes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2010...
> Or kekeke

That's perhaps mainly an online gaming thing? My korean friends simply type Kkk. And chinese hihi/哈, thai 555, etc - a regex nightmare to be sure
My bad, I'll update my comment.
Here (Spokane county, Washington state), certain towns use the water bill as a tax. I don't know GP's exact situation, but that's a possibility. A water bill in the city of Spokane, WA is often around $150/mo in the summer where outside the city it's around that much per year.
In June, Ohio mom Abi Bechtel called out Target’s gender designations in its toy aisle.

Just googled the Ohio mom, she happens to run an interesting blog titled "Faith, Feminism, and Fat Acceptance" :) You couldn't make this stuff up.

And so you are sick to death of white, evangelical, cisgender heterosexual American men. Sick of patriarchy and condescension and those narrow gendered boxes. Sick, utterly sick of the evangelical idolatry of gender roles that is carried on the backs of hungry children and hurting children and children caught in the crossfire while the adult world of the culture war rages on around them. Because hell yes, you are angry.

Them Ohio moms!
Looks pretty much like a copy of the one posted a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10022480
I really like that this includes frequency tables for tetragraphs.

I had to laugh a little at the fact that "STOP" is the 5th most frequently used tetragraph though.
What systemd actually brings to the table: Interfaces
If you can swing it, sure
(I didn't down vote you and I do agree with the points somewhat)

1. It's still extremely expensive to get a degree or post-secondary education of some sort. Student loans are the only realistic option for many people.

Still related to the first point, proper education is more important than just education. Many people are still trying to go after what they "love" instead of the supply and demand of the marketplace.

2. It's never been easier to have an opportunity to start a business. Succeeding is still challenging.

4. Largely inaccessible to the low income class and a group of the middle class. You need excess money to invest, which increasingly people don't have.

While it's true that many of these things are easier to start, there are still significant problems that have to be overcome. Many of these have deeper issues.
Unqualified absolute statements (like this one!) are always wrong.

It's not possible to make a generalized assertion about the correct way to deal with time. If you're building a global distributed database, you probably want all your timestamps in UTC. If you're building a calendar application, not so much.

Some systems also need to record the time the observation was made, introducing a 2nd dimension of time. This becomes important very quickly when trying to design a system with an immutable (append-only) data store.
I collect the users city on my site using gps/browser location opt in, or by autocomplete against google locations.

Has anyone figured out a way for me to get the users timezone from their city?
Those are programmers working in tech offices?
The answer to the question "How well suited are FPGAs for -insert field where GPUs or vanilla processors do no excel at-?" is always "Far better than the GPUs or proccessors but with an abysmal power usage". In this kind of new developments FPGAs are usually used as a test before moving to ASICs.
Aside from the first point, you need money to do the rest. Furthermore, consider it from someone on minimum wage and limited work experience, they have basically no money to invest, banks would be reluctant to give them business loans, the education they can get for free barely registers as valid for most employers.

It's important to understand the concept of dead-end jobs. Some people are stuck doing jobs like stacking shelves at Walmart, they need the money they get so they can't quit or reduce their hours to return to formal education, but they don't have a varied background of work experience or recognised skills to easily move beyond what they currently do.

FWIW, I didn't downvote you.
Please stop posting generic political rants to HN. They lower the quality of discourse here.
Been using it for a while now. Here is my plugin list:

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