skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this hits it precisely. One thing I'd like to add:

> if he expresses a little impatience or frustration...

IMO what sets Feynman off at the beginning is the way the Interviewer asks his question by describing his feeling when interacting with magnets. I can almost hear him think - "oh god, now it isn't only the magnetism that I should explain, but even this guy's feelings - am I a neuroscientist?" Physicists are trained to be precise with language, so asking about feelings when just trying to know how magnets act may be understandable to the common (wo)man, but people like Feynman stop being a common man when talking about physics. As soon as the interviewer rephrased it to the how question, his mood turned and something in there got unlocked. To me this is beautiful to watch.
I'm also having issues connecting to buckets based in Ireland (eu-west-1). Just hangs at authentication stage. Tried from 3 different internet connections, all having the same problem.
I'm assuming this is also why I can't start any instances.

> 12:51 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates for the EC2 APIs and launch failures for new EC2 instances in the US-EAST-1 Region.
> i can't get an H1B visa because i don't have a university degree

I have exactly the same problem. I'm from Russia and I don't have university degree so I can't get H1B visa right now (but I will when I have 12 years of exp).

US is really hard country to get in.

I relocated to Stockholm, Sweden since Sweden doesn't require university degree for work permit. Software developers are in shortage occupation list.

Sweden is easiest wealthy western country to get in.

If you will bored in Sweden, you can later apply to UK (as far as I understand Tier 2 General doesn't require degree either).

You can get your job in Hong Kong and Singapore without university degree but it will be a bit harder.

So I recommend Sweden. It's better to be normal employee in Stockholm than working for food in California.

Also, don't stay for a few months in US on tourist visa. Next time they ban you to issue new visa!
Can you discuss job and visa situation of NZ?
I agree with all of your points. Very salient. Though, judging by a lot of (presumably) American's comments on this thread, this is the way American's want it. There seems to be a lack of understanding of the intricacies of the law, and a general nastiness that if you fall afoul and are treated harshly, like a criminal, then it's your fault.

I guess it makes sense. The country hasn't become a prison state with the highest incarcerated population in the world by thinking clearly and acting commensurately.
Have you ever seen a combination like this?
Yep. Can't even get a response to a s3cmd command.
Probably just fallout from the fact that EBS snapshots are stored in S3. If you can't create an EBS volume, you won't be able to launch an EC2 instance from it.
It's not the most concise way to iterate over a sequence of numbers from 1 to 9. Worse than that, it suggests that there may be a number missing somewhere in the middle. You have to scan the entire sequence with your eyes to be sure.

for (int i = 1; i <= 9; ++i)

is both more concise and requires less thinking to know what's going on.
Thank you all for your feedback, I will continue working on this and make a new post once this project goes live.
You asked: "What's loyalty in this context anyway? Working your ass off for your employer? Or perhaps not firing someone even though he's holding your business back? I would recommend neither."

I consider those very short-sighted interpretations of loyalty, so I gave some better examples. If you don't want them, then don't ask for them.

I'm completely baffled by your reaction to receiving an answer to your question.
even ec2 is down:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia)
Increased API Error Rates
12:51 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates for the EC2 APIs and launch failures for new EC2 instances in the US-EAST-1 Region.
Netflix at Velocity 2015: Linux Performance Tools
"1:08 AM PDT We believe we have identified the root cause of the elevated error rates and latencies for requests to the US-STANDARD Region and are working to resolve the issue."

looks like the cavalry are coming
> don't stay for a few months in US on tourist visa. Next time they ban you

Are you suggesting that the U.S. immigration authorities are banning people for using visas to their capacity, for their intended purpose?
For what it's worth, eu-west-1 buckets are working fine for me here, via s3cmd and aws cli.
That claim about DNA, mutations and quantum effects - well it makes the paper less credible. DNA and its replication and mutations are largely non-quantum and it is also not true at all that in DNA every matters; minor alterations of the do not produce invalid code.
In addition to the comment:

You need a "blue card" to work to work in the EU, its comparable to the US Green Card, but (i think) easier to get.
From the Wikipedia-Article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Card_(European_Union)) :

Acquisition of Blue Card has several requirements. The applicant must have a work contract or binding job offer with a salary of at least 1.5 times the average gross annual salary paid in the Member State. A Blue Card acquirer must present a valid travel document (and in specific cases a valid residence permit or a national long-term visa) and documents proving the relevant higher professional qualification.

Here is more information regarding Germany (but it is from 2008): http://www.wohin-auswandern.de/blue-card-en

To be honest, the salary probably won't be a problem, with your expertise you should be able to land a pretty decent job.
as good old chap Arnold once said, no pain, no gain. working out in any way goes much deeper than bigger muscles and better cardio system (and denser bones, and stronger joints, and...). one of most interesting side effects is that once you regularly push yourself from any sort of comfort zone into sweating-like-pig (or even better with climbing, pushing yourself over your fear or death which is pretty darn strong emotion), repeatedly, routinely, something strange and beautiful happens (well it did to me). you start taking life's challenges with a smile, not fearing them, rather taking them as a mean of improving oneself. I could go on, but I presume you get the picture.

No pill is ever going to supplement this. And as you write, I would be also extremely surprised if this doesn't have multitude of nasty side effects on various parts of our bodies.

But if you look around you, ie how much cash flows into diet supplements/losing weight business, yes it will be probably success. People are lazy, too busy etc. and are looking for quick solutions for their issues, rather than actually investing some time.
Open-source library request: A library that lets you use S3 and Google Storage Cloud simultaneously and fail-back to another if one have problems.

There are many use-case when paying 2x for storage is a reasonable tradeoff for higher availability and also be provider independent.
Mind to elaborate a little bit on this?
The lack of a degree will be an issue for points in Australia. The college diploma maybe helpful but recognition of your institution is required.
>>>> Stop calling it a disease

Let me decide when I stop calling things.

>>>> It gives obese people an excuse.

Over-simplification of a complex issue.

I have never been obese. I am 45 years old in a couple of days and I can see my abs. Unfortunately, I have a genetic defect that affects my metabolism, giving me a intermittent and profound fatigue every now and then. After reading, thinking and talking to dozens of doctors about the whole metabolic process, I have come to the conclusion that obesity is indeed a disease.

In the same way, when fatigue kicks-in, I just cannot avoid being tired: I am not lazy, I exercise every day, I eat clean and sleep 7-8 hours every single night but I just cannot avoid being tired. For casual observers, they will think that I am a lazy, but the truth is quite different. This same analogy applies to obesity.
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Cool, I will have to check this out. I am currently playing with PilOS, a 64-bit PicoLisp running on bare metal (in Qemu for me right now).
How does your forth-like language and bytecode compare to Retro and the Neko bytecode?
NicoJuicy appears to be referring to asylum seekers. They don't need a visa, just an asylum claim. I don't know about Belguim but in the UK asylum seekers are not initially allowed to work.
What to do when a high-rep user is willfully breaking site rules/meta consensus?
First of all, time is a relative quantity, therefore we can only measure distance in time from something.

Secondly, time units do not have a fixed reference clock. `Second` is clocked by the Universe, `day` is clocked by midnight and year is clocked by New Year. Generally, by `time` we mean "distance in time since last Midnight in one second resolution" and that includes single clock source. By `date` we generally mean "distance in time since last particular arbitrary event in one day resolution", which includes two clock sources (midnight and new year). This gets rather awkward, but both sources get controlled by the "particular arbitrary event", therefore we can handle that. Combining both definitions into "distance in time since arbitrary event in one second resolution" gives us `datetime`, controlled by three clock sources. Thing are bound to get awkward.

Lastly, as others have already pointed out, all this makes definitions of future events in `datetime` pretty much useless, because there is no way to predict how many ticks clock sources will generate, unless you stick with one (e.g. n Universe clocked seconds from NOW (isn't TAI exactly that?)) and deal with fluctuating clock sources in the future.

Neither solution solve inherent problems with multi-clocked `datetime` definition only might make some problems easier to solve by shifting clock tracking to frontend: 2051-09-12 16:23:00 +0300 does not need to keep track of clock sources while 2051-09-12 16:23:00 Europe/Vilnius does.

The whole "Bonus" section is about arbitrary{ty|ness} of "last midnight" - how long ago did it actually happen for this moving target? Should I consider offset from last midnight from time I have actually seen it or when it was supposed to be seen here? Automatic time zone settings attempt to do the latter. And if you want former semantics, well just do not use automagic and add whole new clock source to this mess - "distance in time since last time I personally thought it was midnight".
That's too trivial, so I doubt that's what the theorem is about.
yep, we're seeing timeouts and 404s for images stored on s3 :(

good luck to the on-call engineers at amazon!
No, but "An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest" by Turnbaugh, et al. (which has been cited over 2,000 times) shows that it decreases energy going out in feces.
Lots of good picks added to my to-read list here.

If you can read French I recommend "Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes gens". To give you an idea, the translated title would be "Little treatise on manipulation for honest people". Unfortunately, it is only available in French.

http://www.amazon.fr/Petit-trait%C3%A9-manipulation-lusage-h...
Heroku build logs spitted this out:

Unable to fetch source from: https://s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/heroku-sources-production/heroku.com/<some-uuid>?AWSAccessKeyId=<some-access-key>&Signature=<some-signature>&Expires=1439198046
Site’s struggling for me. Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...
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Unless you are somehow burning your shit to measure the calories that your body didn't absorb in a certain digestion, I'm going to call bullshit on your formula.
What's stopping you from writing it?
Not necessarily. I am giving a talk in San Marcos, TX at 11am next week, but I have no idea what time zone it is in as I am not American.
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It doesn't say whether Private Messages were analysed, assuming not.

What's frustrating about PMs at the moment on FB is that only on the mobile apps is it easy to use emojis. The smiley-face link on the messenger.com interface & the facebook.com domains only provide a choice of "stickers" (which are awful). So unless you know the keyboard shortcuts off-heart you're stuck using plaintext.
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Is a translation available? I'd rather like to know what the poems say.

(Also, I know someone who'd really like a nice facsimile edition. Er, other than me. Those birds are amazing.)
Storing the offset won't work for future dates due to daylight savings changes.
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Interestingly enough, if the occupants weren't looking outside, a "1G roll" would feel almost the same as level flight; here's a video showing how "gravity" seems to invert along with the plane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMWxuKcD6vE

This is also why pilots can become spatially disoriented:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_disorientation
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Nice to see some effort in this area. How is it compatible with the flux architecure?
In Nvidia's deep learning lab last week [0] they described setting up on Ubuntu as "the easy way" and Windows the "not so easy way" [1], adding that their developers are on Linux so no-one has really tested it on Windows.

[0] https://developer.nvidia.com/deep-learning-courses

[1] http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2015/webinar/deep-learn...
The article gives absolutely no impression of the tech used to digitize it. It's made clear in the article that they did actually open it for the digitization (I was imagining a fanciful rig carefully sliding between pages to scan them), but it's basically a puff piece for the actual gallery, which is only linked at the end. Here's what you really want to see:
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-FH-00910-00083-00098/1

My parents have some similar calligraphy watercolors; Korean in origin, though using chinese characters. They're quite a sight to behold (though not nearly as old), with fantastic use of minimalism and color to portray the life and depth of trees and birds.
Looking at the stack manipulation examples I had a terrible flashback of the time when I had to program in Postscript to print (generate?) labels with barcodes :S

It is a quite interesting approach, and probably simpler than porting an existing compiler to a custom OS. The downside is that there's no software written in the new language, compared with the existing software written in Forth (perhaps? how portable is that software?).
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Depending on your use case, it may be slightly easier to accomplish this with s3 event notifications + AWS Lambda to write to a different region or service.

Importantly, make sure you CNAME your bucket under your own domain so that you can switch services.

edit: Much easier than AWS Lambda, actually: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/03/amazon-s3-...
Central to where? The other 96% of the world that are not in the US don't agree with your very specific notion of "central".
As I pointed out in another reply, a higher percentage of Americans have college degrees than ever before.
We are seeing lots of 503s, empty response bodies, and peer reset / dropped connections.
This fits what I've heard from people who went (having passports confiscated and held against their will, being put in prison until they signed their companies away, things like that).
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"The colour of your eyes, the shape of your nose, your intelligence or propensity for disease are encoded at the quantum level."

Uh, nope.
The article quotes the pilot, Tex Johnston, saying something similar,

"The airplane does not recognize attitude, providing a maneuver is conducted at one G. It knows only positive and negative imposed loads and variations in thrust and drag. The barrel roll is a one G maneuver and quite impressive, but the airplane never knows it’s inverted.”
Time and priorities. There is a difference between "I wish this thing existed, so I can use it/contribute to it" and "I need it so badly that I'm willing to spend a lot of time to make it production ready".

So far S3 seems to be reliable enough...
GitHub is having release download issues, possibly due to this. https://status.github.com/
Germany, for example, had officially recognized nobility till 1919. There were official classes and you could not become military officer or government bureaucrat if you was not born in the right family. First German experiment with democracy and equality under law was after WWI and failed spectacularly.

America, with democracy and no nobility laws was rightfully called land of opportunity compared to that.
That's very interesting actually. Do you have any links/references for this research?
I thought H1Bs weren't locked to employers. Can't you transfer the visa?
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That's exactly what the GP is trying to tell you. "Who cares about anyone else, that's not me in the picture".

I visited San Francisco for a month a month ago and it was pretty bleak.
The issue has now been checked & confirmed by Guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/09/facebook-p...
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You are a brave man. What if you run a long/important task on the server and you lose the connection (A/C in the building going away, Internet connection outage, etc...)?
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Whats frustrating is when you have customers who are also down because of the outage - but when you say Amazon is experiencing severe outages causing 50% of our requests to be dropped and there's not much we can do, it makes us look pretty bad when they they go to the amazon dashboard and only see "Elevated Error Rates."
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Disclaimer: I work full time on blockchain tech. My answers in order:

I've never heard the term private blockchain and therefore not sure what you are referring to. If you mean a blockchain that is exclusively mined and used by a single entity, I don't see the point. Perhaps people are piggy backing on the "blockchain" buzzword while creating something that is quite different?

A blockchain cannot exist without a currency/coin. Blockchains need a reward mechanism for miners who "protect" it and a cost for submitting transactions to prevent spam.

What keeps miners interested after all mining is done is an open question. As long as there is a reward for mining, there will be miners but if that reward drops too low, we could see the network's hash rate drop substantially (miners quitting their job) and the blockchain would become more vulnerable to double spending attacks (a single miner intentionally "undoing" a large number of blocks).

There is no fixed transaction cost, each miner is free to decide how much they "charge" to mine transactions. I wasn't aware that transaction costs had kept rising. Keep in mind that as the BTC/USD price fluctuates constantly, the average transaction cost in USD might change often while remaining the same in BTC.

In theory, the Satoshi client (original bitcoin) developers could release a new Bitcoin software which changes the Bitcoin consensus rules and anyone downloading this new release would be participating in a new "altcoin" which would be separate from the original Bitcoin. They could send or receive Bitcoins to people using the old software. For the Bitcoin protocol to change in a significant way, a large number of people would have to agree on the new rules.
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Can't docker login or pull images from the hub. Both operations hang.
So you would base aids to the less fortunate on the willingness of those who have more to "donate" to those who have less ?

How would you go to make it happen, practically ?

Since people willing to donate have no real vision of people who are in need, you would need some sort of organization to collect the donations and distribute them.

This organization would need to run some sort of policies in order to make sure the people asking for donations are actually in real need of those.

You also would need to pay the people needed to run these organizations, perform the checks, mantaining a database of people in need and donators, and perform the actual donations.

For any country (remember, a country is responsible to the welfare of all its citizens, not only the ones well-off), working with possibly millions of willing donors and petitioners, pulling off something like this without a predictable budget and some defined policies and rules is quite hard.

Thus the modern welfare state, which might not be an ideal (or even efficient) solution, but a better one has not been invented yet.
The reason for Country/City is because the timezone name is a global reference. It may be written in english, but everybody uses. Things like "pacific", "central" and "standard" mean very different things in other places.
The trouble is, no amount of "computer forensics" can explain the reason why records disappeared. May be it was a virus, a bug in browser or someone else had access to the computer.
YES! More precise, they don't ban you, they just don't give you a new visa. US immigration authorities use the following logic:

If immigration officer has opinion that you are potential immigrant, he will refuse you a new tourist visa.

Or another definition:

If there is no clear evidence that you are not potential immigrant, you will be refused to get a new tourist visa.

For example, people often won't get US tourist visa:

1. Who spent too much time in US on tourist visa (even if they formally didn't break their limits);

2. Who previously had a visa under "Work and Travel" program;

3. Who are young single girl;

4. Who said that he/she has relatives or friends living in US;

I wasn't careful and said that I have a friend living in US. They immediately refused to give me US tourist visa!

I read several hundreds interviews with US immigration officers (people posted their experience after refusal) and I think I clearly understand how US immigration authorities made their decisions. But it's too late, I did it AFTER my interview with immigration officer.

I didn't want to stay in US illegally but immigration officer think so.

US immigration authorities are very, very, very suspicious about Russian and Middle East citizens.

BE CAREFUL WITH THEM!
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Some notes:

- You may be familiar with tetsubi in the West as "caltrops."

- I've seen yawara for sale on keychains and cell phone straps for young women.

- The sasumata still exists today, minus the nasty barbs around the haft; every public school has one or two to be used for subduing intruders. I was (un?)lucky enough to participate in a drill once -- they did a pretty good job of subduing me and pinning me down!
If you want to optimize for money, I would recommend Zurich. It is the only place in Europe where net salaries compare to NYC or the Bay-Area.

If you are interested in moving here, shoot me a mail. Alternatively, check out my blogpost on medium: "Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland" (https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...)
Looks like this brought down typekit too.
"Font Network is experiencing issues caused by an outage at our storage provider."
http://status.typekit.com/
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If you want to work in Indonesia or Thailand you need a local company to sponsor your visa and work permit, which makes remote work tricky. In years past you used to be able to just leave the country every 60 days or whatever and hop right back over the border, but you can't get away with that these days.

Doesn't make any sense, but that's how it is.