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I'm sorry you're having such a bad experience here, I really am. As an American, you're right, our immigration system is horribly broken; ten years for a green card is average for most immigrants, if not fast for many. US firms, especially tech firms, use H1B to do exactly what you said, acquire people who are effectively indentured servants. Don't like it? Go back to your home country. Don't want to accept the bottom-basement pay? Someone else will, there are plenty of non-Americans to exploit!

And at the same time they lobby the Congress for an increase in H1B visas claiming there aren't enough US workers, they send out ads asking for ten years experience in HTML5 and CPU design, offering $30k for an "entry level" position, and say they can't find anyone here to fill it. Of course not, your requirements are insane and the wage is equally insane.

Yes, there are plenty of companies using H1B ethically, but for every ethical H1B, there are 5 unethical ones. It's a disservice to both American workers AND foreign workers.

PS: I'm not anti-immigration. I'm very much pro-immigration. What's that? You're intelligent, hard working, and want to come to my country to work your butt off and get rich? COME ON OVER! All I want is an immigration system that's fair to everyone, both those coming in to get a fair shake and have protections, and those of us already here, preventing immigrants from being used as cheap replacement labor.
> understanding in the academic literature is lagging

Even that were too much to claim as the "branch prediction championships" happened on an "academic" place:

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture

http://www.jilp.org/cbp/

http://www.microarch.org/micro37/

also note the sponsors.
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I don't think this is ready for a mass deployment yet, but have a look at namecoin[1] and cjdns[2].

cjdns generates a keypair and maps the fingerprint of the public key to an ipv6 address, so the ip address can be used to verify the secrecy of the connection.

Namecoin allows you to utilize the namecoin blockchain for your dns queries, so it's a secure way to resolve names to ip addresses.

You have to run the namecoin resolver on your local machine though.

[1]: https://namecoin.info/

[2]: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
Why? Because that's the most concise way in general to iterate over an arbitrary list of enumerated values. There's no "abuse" here, just a particular example that could have been written more concisely.
The importance of his answer and the care with which he framed it comes at the very end of the clip. Without specifying a context he cannot answer the question. Leading up to that one is made to understand that without limiting the question to a particular context, an infinite regress is unavoidable. Brilliant, well articulated point that most people don't think about.
Intel uses verification after they fumbled the Pentium FPU, verifying silicon is a good idea (also it's complex but doable)

Now good luck verifying a machine learning system beyond the basics.
I think one of the reasons "Country/City" is used is due to variances within a timezone. Take Mountain Time, for example. "America/Denver" is different from "America/Phoenix" due to Arizona not observing daylight savings time. So in the middle of summer, America/Denver will translate to MDT while America/Phoenix will be MST.

(And I may be further proving your point if Denver isn't the landmark city, I'm just guessing!)
Thanks for sharing that. I've had similar experiences.

I grew up in Seattle, went to school in Philly, and just spent a year traveling through 14 countries in Asia (incl 6mo in India). The poverty on the streets of my hometown when I returned was absolutely shocking. And I found the poverty in Philadelphia to seem so much more crushing than what I saw in far poorer areas, like Indian slums or Laotian villages (I'm really struggling to deconstruct exactly why I had this feeling).
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Meh, bash... I'll try and see if it's possible to do it 100% POSIX to port to *BSD without the hassle of installing bash.
I'm from NZ, our police are great. I just think one day without your cell phone is not the same as treated like a nazi prisoner.
Please try to look in the mirror before accusing other people to derail the conversation through false assumptions. Just a few examples:

"If Feynman didn't know of a better analogy, why didn't he just say so?"

--> This is pretty much exactly what he was saying.

"I assume you're talking about the interviewer and not me."

--> Why would you assume that? You are the one using words such as arrogant, patronizing and jerk without actually explaining what it is you find offensive.

"I'm of the opinion that Feynman didn't teach him a lesson with his speech and analogies."

There's a lot to learn from this particular monologue. The most important lesson here is that human understanding about the laws of nature is hard work and cannot be boiled down to nice 1min snippets. That the interviewer or the viewer didn't learn anything from this, is again your assumption. Stating that this is your opinion also doesn't make sense - why have an opinion about the impression other people get from something? It's perfectly valid to say that you didn't take away anything from it or that Feynman's speech doesn't fit your taste or even that it is, in your opinion, of low quality, but doing a statement that could be statistically measured and hiding behind an 'opinion' in order to not do the actual work, is just lazy.
Can someone recommend a resource for researching scalability solutions like these? Book(s), or video series?
Please understand that I mean no offence.

> He could certainly have given the interviewer an answer to the question that was actually asked, and have still used it to make the point about the infinite regress of "why."

Did you watch the clip in its entirety? If you did, you'd know that there's a few minute Socratic lead-up on the nature of the difficulty of answering "why" questions, followed by an audience-appropriate answer to the interviewer's question about magnetism. The answer includes what could be read as an apology for being unable to completely answer the interviewer's question.

If you haven't watched the clip in its entirety, you really owe it to yourself to go watch it. It won't take long, the whole thing is less than ten minutes. :)
It does, there is no reason to translate to fixed offsets for past events.
If you're using the Olsen Database[0], aren't past (and future) changes all handled properly?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

See: Example zone and rule lines
Deleting Past data
Is there any way to delete past data from showing up on the internet ?
If you really want to botch an interview and bend over backwards to not ask any pertaining (or even interesting) question, this is the way to go. NYT, I want my time back.
I just DONT want to deal with time EVER. It's such a mess. Can't we just.. i don't know. throw away the current system and actually build something that a programmer can understand? Who counts to 24 and 60 anyway?
I run a startup in Singapore. There is a huge shortage of skilled developers in Singapore. Please do email me at sudhanshu@ideatory.co if you want to consider Singapore (I saw another comment suggesting Singapore). i know friends/startups looking for developers here and in Hong Kong (another option). Good luck mate!
Tom Scott talking about timezones and it's quirks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
Alas, what a lazy approach. An opportunity wasted.
Right, but very few people living in the continental US[0], when presented with a timezone dropdown, are going to expect to see anything but Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific. If they do see a list that has city names, they'll be confused that their city isn't mentioned, or that they're expected to pick a city that's in their timezone but possibly geographically distant.

Personally, I (living in SF), use the "PST8PDT" named timezone; it just makes more sense to me than "America/Los Angeles", which is 400+ miles away from me (even though historically we've always had the same time as LA... as far as I know).

[0] Yes, there are a few places in the continental US that don't follow the "normal" 4 timezones and their DST schedules, so there are exceptions; specifically calling out those cities/locales is necessary, at least in those cases.
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I agree with some things you say (culture is a major, problematic component to poverty, especially in America) and disagree with others. For example, shaming bad behavior is likely to be counterproductive, and requiring additional money/resources to be tied to cultural change doesn't strike me as the most pragmatic way forward either.

Lots of problems aren't best solved by governments. I don't go to my elected representative when I can't find a good burger joint in town; I tell someone who grills a mean patty to open up a restaurant. Just as many solutions are best done in the private sector (eg; startups), others are best done in "the culture sector" - Hollywood, the twitters. They're just as important, it's true. And it can be helpful to have public outcry to get the culture machine working on it. But I don't think cultural change should be the government's job (not that you explicitly said as such, but many people might leap to that).

I also think it's important to keep in mind the importance of economic and educational environment when thinking about culture. If you spend a little while in a Philly public school, talking to kids and teachers, you'll very quickly realize that it's completely unsurprising that kids don't have any faith that they can work hard within the system and see positive results. I'd rebel or lose faith too - there's just so much arbitrary shit that rains down on you, so few things in your life that you really have control over, that it wouldn't make sense to believe you could get ahead just by working hard, being nice, and following the rules. I'm impressed that any do.

EDIT: I should add that I completely empathize with where you're coming from emotionally on this. It's super hard, confusing, and frustrating - and I really don't know how much of what I just said above is even correct.
Deportation and visa issues - sure. But I only started to see the stories about bad treatment and jail-like airport detention centres after the overreaction. Were there any known ones before?
The fact that the performance of an implementation varies significantly depending on the actual CPU could already be deduced from some of the Ertl papers.

Moreover, given that one uses specifically a bytecode interpreter and not a JIT is generally the sign that the interpreter is to be used on multiple platforms. "Optimizing" in this context simply means (almost) nothing.

The obvious conclusion is to not care too much about raw performance and focus instead on ease of interfacing with libraries, and to make it easy to add primitives/instructions to your VM. With the idea that if your interpreter is too slow, you just rewrite the critical parts in native code.
It's very hard to get even not particularly wealthy middle class people to see this. People have very aggressive in debates with me about how hard they worked and how they should be allowed to pass their advantages on to their kids. There's also an oft repeated trope about how it's about values and character, which isn't entirely false, but besides the point.

It seems to be a basic human bias; we think everything positive that happens to us is due to our own merit, and everything bad is due to circumstance. In a country like the US, where I'm guessing people don't really mingle, you end up getting some very bitter people who either think they are being pulled down by the rabble or they are being held down by the aristocrats.
I suppose storing the offset is safer, because you have in a single string all you need to know to convert the time to UTC, but yes, that was my thought as well -- given a non-broken copy of tzdata, historical dates should be correctly convertible if all you have is a date/time and a timezone name.
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Seeing huge numbers of 503s from the S3 API in us-east-1. Anyone else having problems? I only found one other on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/630641484677558273
Did you rigorously log your caloric intake before and after your diet changed? If not, there's not enough data to conclusively state that your switch to Paleo was anything other than a simple calorie restriction.
By definition, a trace doesn't have internal branches.

The solution is to use Hyperblock Scheduling. This is an extra pass that merges multiple traces, e.g. the described root trace and its side trace. The result is a single trace with a predicated IR. This is amenable to most linear optimizations, with only minor limitations.

A predicated IR is the ideal representation to apply branch-free optimizations, using bit operations or SIMD tricks. If there are any predicates left in the IR, the compiler backend will either turn it into predicated machine code (on CPUs which support that to some extent, e.g. ARM32) or generate machine code with internal branches.
Here are my suggestions.

1. Take a deep breath and be calm. It will be ok. You have a visa which is the option to move. you are in a good place already.

2. Think of the most stable (infrastructure and cost wise) country you can access visa free, go there and try getting a remote position in the US. With that, you can fun living a fairly stable life in the mean time.

3. DO NOT risk your B1/B2 by trying to trick the system. Aim for a maximum of 4 months/year in the US on it.

4. With your B1/B2 you can travel to Mexico and Turkey for a while too.

Finally, DO NOT risk your B1/B2 and always have a decent reason when entering. the paper you have in your passport is merely for the CHANCE to gain entry at the immigration border and not a visa in itself.

It will be ok bud!
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Personally, I'd go to the European Union. There are a few very good reasons:

- Once you get citizenship in one country, you can freely work on any of the other countries, or move there and live there. Creating a much bigger area of opportunity for jobs. You could have citizenship in France, and work at a cool startup in Amsterdam

- Though it causes a lot of political instability currently (immigrants constantly drowning in the ocean, trying to get across), getting a visa here isn't that hard, especially when you're from a conflict zone and can show you have a good chance to get a job.

- Europe is pretty awesome.
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In this post I cover the development of a full TrustZone exploit in MSM8974 (Snapdragon 800) SoCs, resulting in arbitrary code execution in the "Secure World". I've also provided the full source code!

Please let me know if you have any questions/comments.
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Lots more complaints on Twitter...
As a Dutchman I'm sad to report that the situation seems to be changing. Getting permission for your spouse to come here for example is becoming harder and harder.
Are there any (still maintained) microkernel systems which do unprivileged user mounts? I know Minix3 at least has filesystem services, but I'm not sure if it goes as far as allowing someone to build (for example) sshfs that allows mounts in /home/...
Voting a tax increase is far different that donating your own money. You are voting to force others who may not agree with you to pay under threat of government violence. If you are asking me to provide resources then that is also a different story. And if you are persuasive I just might change my allocation of charitable donations. That is doing it right.

Added: I don't think the parent comment is wrong. It IS our duty to perform charity. But it should not be forced on us.
Sure, but the parent didn't say "CST". For a user-facing interface, presenting random city names is terrible. "Central Time" is a known entity among users, and they implicitly assume that it will take care of the difference between CST and CDT (and in fact, the named timezone CST6CDT does exactly that). Hell, if Chicago one day decided to be like a few of the "weird" US cities and not follow the standard DST schedule anymore, then "America/Chicago" would suddenly not represent most of the users in what's colloquially known as "Central Time". Better to use a name like "CST6CDT" that's independent of a particular city, and thus independent of the political whims of a local government.
> you have a responsibility to be charitable to those less fortunate than you.

According to whom? I never signed up for this.

The only "responsibilities" (what a loaded word; you automatically imply we're irresponsible if we disagree with you) I acknowledge are those I took on of my own volition.
I'm seeing it as well - majority of connections are being dropped for us atm

The Amazon S3 team recently completed some maintenance
changes to Amazon S3’s DNS configuration for the US STANDARD region on
July 30th, 2015.

You are receiving this email because we noticed that your bucket
is still receiving requests on the IP addresses which were removed
from DNS rotation. These IP addresses will be disabled on August
10th at 11:00 am PDT, at which time any requests still using
those addresses will receive an HTTP 503 response status code.

Applications should use the published Amazon S3 DNS names for
US STANDARD: either s3.amazonaws.com or s3-external-2.amazonaws.com
with their associated time to live (TTL) values. Please refer to
our documentation at:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#s3_region
for more information on Amazon S3 DNS names.

Something to do with that perhaps? AWS sent us that last thursday
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Once I wrote a popular post concerning the government limiting freedom. Within a day or two I got called with a survey about my internet usage from the "Finance department" who talked really fast when I questioned on what authority. I answered him questions anyway about all the internet websites I frequent and communities I'm part of. He even asked me what IRC channels I used. I gave every detail. That was a few years ago.
I'm an Android dev, does anybody develop for both platforms? How would you compare the experience?
loading fonts on aws pages is slow as hell because of this https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
Yep, seeing the same.
Từ khoá dài tăng doanh số cho doanh nghiệp như thế nào?
Have you ever connected to an open wifi before? Have you ever played a poker game with friends at home for money? Have you ever sung happy birthday or Christmas songs in public? Have you ever taken a pee outside? Have you ever failed to update your drivers license when you move? Have you ever Jay-walked?

If you have you should be locked up, quite frankly! And don't go pretending you don't know about the eight thousand pages of obscure statutes that apply to you every day. Ignorance of the law is no excuse!
What a long winded way to say "that syntax is weird" while totally ignoring that my main point was consistency.
Deliberated evidence destruction should logically be sanctionned. I don't see anything wrong here. In a crime investigation, privacy should not come into play. That would make it easy to get away with it. Put yourself on the side of the victims if you don't understand.
Sorry to say, but I don't think what you're asking for is legal. You cannot be employed just for food/place to stay. If you need to work in the US, it's not possible with your visa (which I'm assuming is B1/B2).
Can't pull docker images from the hub either, and their statuspage currently shows S3-problems: https://status.docker.com/
It's a good point, but I think empirically not many. Dropbox is the only one I can think of; they were originally getdropbox.com.
I have a very good friend that lives in one of Romania's largest cities. She regularly shows me photos of her city, and her surroundings, and I know what the economic prospects are of the people that live there. My opinion is the exact opposite of yours. I can't imagine the despair, the poverty, the lack of potential, that nations such as Bulgaria (median income of about $300-$400 / month) or Romania face. She just watched her grandmother die, with 'free' healthcare, because the doctors were so horrible they couldn't even begin to figure out what was wrong with her, and the local hospital had no MRI or CT machines - as she got worse, they wanted to take her to another hospital in another city, but the family - which has an average income in Romania - had no car to make the trips. So the grandmother died, at about 67 years old, while the family never even found out what she died of. Must be that universal healthcare I hear so much about that everyone but Americans have.

I think you're completely off base, and obviously so. Americans have among the highest disposable incomes on earth, falling household to income debt levels, and a jobs picture that has been improving non-stop for five years. Americans also have among the highest median household net wealth levels of any nation, and the best universities by far. Bulgaria? That claim almost comes across more as propaganda, when you understand that even Romanians look down upon the poverty in Bulgaria.

I personally grew up in one of the poorest parts of America, Appalachia. My experience is the exact opposite of what you describe. Where I lived there were no homeless; wages were half the national average, and we had great public schools, with some of the best rated teachers in the state; everyone had a home, and a car; a nearly zero murder rate; the standard of living was on par with the US median because the cost of living was very low; unemployment was higher, and people lived relatively simple lives when it comes to materialism. This is all mostly still true there today. Compared to the childhood of real poverty my Romanian friend endured growing up there in the 1990s, I grew up in paradise. Where I grew up, the poor there today have access to medical care and routine medical tech via medicaid, which the median household in her Romanian city can't get access to without going to Bucharest.

But don't take my word for it -

OECD better life index:

http://cdn.dejanseo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/better...

And

http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/fu...

You could also run a dozen other economic metrics like long-term unemployed, unemployment rate, median income, median household net worth, household debt to income, health outcomes from medical care, access to the latest medical technology and drugs. You could compare classic markers for materialism for the poverty line and what it's defined by in say the US vs Bulgaria. The US does extremely well in most comparisons. There are perhaps eight countries on earth that produce better quality of life outcomes than the US, and for the top 75% maybe only five countries do better.
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From http://status.aws.amazon.com/:

12:36 AM PDT We are investigating elevated errors for requests made to Amazon S3 in the US-STANDARD Region.