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I've always been puzzled by the fact that so many people see Feynman coming across as a jerk or something like that in this clip. I think it's because ordinary everyday English language doesn't have a good way to tell someone that their question is wrong—that it's assuming something it shouldn't, and the assumption is what should be questioned instead. It's curious that even when asking for new knowledge, people can be affronted by the implication that they don't know what they're talking about. Physics is hardly the only field where you learn that the everyday understanding is an oversimplification, and a beginner being misled by those oversimplifications has no reason to be embarrassed.
Will any aliens, meeting the human species as a whole after viewing this, feel totally catfished?
I up voted, because this does seem wrong, but this lady is overly dramatic in my opinion.
Seems like there's a lot of worry about the precedence this case sets, but not a lot of detail about what actually happened.
Great description. I didn't know about the diet angle. I was just prescribed anti-inflammatory meds for pinched nerves and now I can alter my diet to help.
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> then he was not allowed to work on fixing up his own house

Then tourists are not allowed to cook and must go to restaurants, and coding for open source is also illegal? I think guards were wrong.
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Thanks, what an inspiring reply.
Using a custom allocator with standard collections can be highly useful, as the article points out. I do recommend defining your own container deriving from a type such as std::vector using private inheritance, and exposing the base definitions via the "using" keyword and replicating applicable typedefs/constructors.

Doing so will help prevent "interesting" behaviour and help expose assumptive template definitions in a code base.
Now you know why companies have these annoying policies which automatically delete all email older than 90 days.
I don't think this is even legal; I'm sorry for your situation, but you must see that if this sort of thing were allowed, it would pave the way for slavery.
You've obviously never had to spend a night in jail.
> Can you imagine reading CV of a person with fancy kid mail?

Yes. In fact I did quite a bit of hiring at some of my previous companies and I never cared about email (why would I care about email? This isn't a signal, this is noise). Do people, at least in tech, really care about such things? At least in my deals I never found one. I'd imagine in stuffy jobs it might be something to look down upon but in tech? That seems silly considering how progressive our industry typically is.
This happened to my friend's parents because they misunderstood a visa form.
I'm also developing my first iOS app and will keep an eye on this thread for advice. Question to the OP, are you just starting out with the learning process or are you ready to start deploying apps you have created?
Specifically, Hilary Clinton's email scandal would be a crime under SOX, as would be the recent IRS data destruction.

The problem isn't that there aren't laws that criminalize these activities, there are.

The problem is that the government will never prosecute itself, and thus the government lets the corrupt get away with it increasing corruption over time.

One example of this is that there's been no reform of voting systems despite their failure in 2001, and increasing evidence of voter fraud in every presidential election since.
It's still kind of a no-no in my opinion. Just because you're a suspect or witness doesn't mean your computer should be automatically subjected to the government. Anyone can be declared a suspect.
How do you determine it was evidence if it is destroyed? Who knows if I deleted conspiration notes instead of porn?
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If your one-line intro for anything includes the word "system", stop and rewrite.

Or "solution", for that matter; regardless of whether "enterprise" is also present.
True 'dat, but combined with the first GPU die shrink in years, there's a decent chance a generational jump is actually coming. Whether the first version will be bug-free is much more questionable...
> Clearing one's cache/browser history is in many situations an automatic action, and it's troubling to find it lumped in with pre-meditated action.

Taking out the trash is in many situations an automatic action, but if you do it to hide evidence, it's obstruction of justice and it's a crime.

I don't find it troubling at all just because it's a new technology. When researching something in pre-internet days, I'd often write things down. Book titles, periodical dates and pages, microfilm request forms, key quotes. That my browser does that sort of thing automatically is different, but not all that different.

If anybody doesn't like that, they can turn it off right now with one checkbox. But clearing the cache because you want to destroy evidence is no different than, as in War Games, quickly taking the trash can out to the curb.
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Or you could just be living a normal life:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/may/07/experien...
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Pretty sure it was a standard list of questions - perhaps emailed.

Still, she is one of my favorite writers so it's interesting to read what she likes reading.
In principle, agreed, but you are neglecting the huge role played by domain squatters.
Coming in close second is Llanfair PG, with a very impressive railway station sign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
What you can do is to move to country like Ecuador (Cuenca, let's say) or Thailand, or Indonesia (Bali), or Phillipines. It's relatively easy to live there on a long term.

You can find a job on oDesk (upwork now). I did it before, I earned $3K/month and worked 5 hours a day only. It's a good money for these countries (well and for US too).

Just work remotely, live there, save money. One day you'll find a job and will legally move to U.S. (seems like you'll be qualified after 9 years of professional experience).
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Those millions of illegal immigrants are living on the margins of society in order to avoid the authorities. They are unable to get well-paying work, they are at the mercy of employers who can rat them out to the INS at any time if they complain about poor labour conditions, they cannot get health insurance, they cannot get mortgages or college loans for their kids. You can't hide like this while working in the tech industry. Do you know of many illegal immigrants working at Google?
The name of the expert quoted in the briefing, Werner Dahm (https://www.aiaa.org/Secondary.aspx?id=15445), rung a bell.

He seems to be the son of an earlier Werner Dahm, the one who helped develop the Saturn V rocket, and who was before that the youngest of Wernher von Braun's team at Peenemunde.
What does "treat obesity" even mean? Obesity is a self-inflicted issue. Consuming more calories than you burn is all it is. Nothing more. Obese people need to have their food intake restricted. There is nothing to treat.
I also recommend this service, been using it for awhile now and It's pretty accurate.
Experience: I was deported (2011)
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> who's to say which information on a typical consumer-class hard drive constitutes a forgery contaminated by trojans and rootkits

If only we had some sort of system where two legal experts argued this in front of a neutral third party, possibly calling in technical experts as needed. If only.
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This guy was scared that the FBI will come after him and decided that he didn't want to provide them with information that they would likely use to threaten him with 100 years of jail time regardless of his actual involvement.

Is that decision so exceedingly unreasonable that he needs to spend 20 years in prison for it? Keeping in mind that he has no obligation to create or retain the records that he deleted in the first place.

Mind you, I don't like this guy at all, and he does look sketchy as hell, but he is not even charged with knowing about the attacks. He is guilty of simply being afraid of the government.

And the worst thing is, most people don't even know that SOX applies to them as persons.
Even if he deleted specific entries from his browser history, if they knew that, then they must've had their own records of it. So they already had the evidence. So it wouldn't matter that he deleted his copy, it was unnecessary. That wouldn't obstruct or destroy anything.
You can get a used Mac mini relatively cheaply these days if you're on a budget. Or turn your PC into a hackintosh (less ideal).
Great Feynman clip. It's very difficult to not feel his underlying passion and curiosity. As an add, I enjoy this animated short of Feynman elaborating on the intersection of art and science:

Richard Feynman - Ode To A Flower - https://vimeo.com/55874553
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Likely anytime he needs to catch a bus or a train. Or wishes to have a discussion about something other than Auckland housing prices, Rugby, or Reality TV.
"(...) a) watching caloric input and b) exercise have been known as being primary to weight control since antiquity."

No.

No, no, no and no.

This kind of misinformation is -=dangerous=-.
It pushes overweight people into a dead end which will result only in frustration and sickness.

What was known was that WHAT you eat can make you fat.

Exercise has no impact on your weight (fat-wise).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0GSSSE4l8U&feature=youtu.be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0pz4Ggpis
I'd be interested in the stats in the other direction - how low of a chance of someone born in the upper quintile ending up in the lower quintile. The u.s. seems to be disproportionally high in mediocre people being at the top, being there through famil money.

Basically britain's upper class twits satirized by Monty Python.
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Question to HN: What are the easiest countries for people from <anywhere> to move to as a software developer? Eg; easiest visa rules, there are companies hiring, people aren't egregiously racist?
Louis CK on the same topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u2ZsoYWwJA
Having recently left my last position as a Senior Systems Admin. I'm now in the process of making a shift in IT career paths to a developer of some sort of description.

OP, you really should consider making your way here to NZ.
As usual with dramatizations of poor policy where the treatment of people is concerned: response on both sides was over the top. Obviously immigration reform is needed. Obviously immigration workers and the security they employ are more tough than they need to be. The problem with this article is the author dehumanizes them because she feels superior to them and more importantly aggrandizes her suffering as if it is comparable to any one of the analogies she draws, let alone all of them.

She spent the night in a jail cell and it was uncomfortable. She was treated like a criminal (ignoring the fact that she was, in fact, a criminal, accidentally or not). She was not, however, treated like anyone typical in Nazi Germany. She certainly wasn't treated like anyone was sticking it to PhD students out of jealousy (how would they even know, especially given the number of people they have to process through customs in a day?) Making the comparison like she is diminishes the actual terrors and actual social dichotomies faced by people that are in no way deeply concerned about not having a cell phone for a day.
> This is a really hair-splitting distinction that only makes sense if mathematicians wrote proofs (e.g., about commutative group theory) while keeping ZFC's axioms in mind.

They may not do so explicitly, but it is easy to see where the axioms become important when dealing with mathematical structures. For example, if you are considering the group of integers with addition, the existence of this group is predicated on the existence of the integers, which is predicated on the existence of the natural numbers as a set, which is an axiom of ZFC (axiom of infinity[1]). The case for other foundations is similar.

> But even then, it's not really an appropriate distinction -- accidentally assuming inconsistency and moving forward with it is exactly as far-reaching as assuming inconsistency at the foundations.

No, because when studying a mathematical structure we always consider concrete instances of it, which are usually in fact the motivation for the definition of the structure. So mathematics based on possibly (relatively) inconsistent structures (other than foundational systems) is not really a thing; group theory was not initiated prior to the discovery of structures satisfying the groups axioms, and neither was the study of rings, fields, modules, topological spaces etc. On the other hand, we cannot consider models of ZFC unless we build it within the assumptions of a foundational system (possibly ZFC itself). So at some point we have to pick a set of axioms to be the bottom of our ladder of turtles, and the axioms of that system are very special indeed.

Another difference is that the axioms of a group (or a field, or a topological space) cannot stand on their own; they clearly reference sets and functions. ZFC's axioms only reference sets, all of the fundamental properties of which are enumerated in the axioms themselves. If you gave an (english speaking) alien the definition of a group, he would need to ask you what the definition of sets and functions were. So even if we wanted the group axioms to be our foundations, this would not be possible.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_infinity
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Yep. Not paying people properly for work is a crime. I know in California that's a big deal. See, e.g., the crackdown a couple years back on "interships" that were just free jobs. And my guess is that immigration authorities would see food and lodging as payment, meaning both employer and employee would be violating the law.

However, I don't think there's anything illegal about paying an independent contractor who's living in another country. So my suggestion to codeornocode would be to find some sort of work in the US that could be done remotely from some safe third country. Immigration authorities care a lot about displacement of their own citizens, but in the places I've lived they don't give a hoot about somebody who is on a working vacation.
I think this article in several places equates actively deleting your browser history with using an incognito mode in chrome, or another method of automatically deleting, or even preventing the creation of history all together. This is not the case, you are perfectly fine having a system that will automatically delete your history, at least for now, it's not illegal to do that.

This is also why many companies have a very precise document destruction procedures. I used to run a company that was involved in the document management industry. Many companies track very closely the lifecycle of every document they create, and many have programs that will purge the document literally on the day when it can be delete. If you have to keep a document for 7 years, there are systems that will purge that document at midnight on the 7th anniversary of it's creation.

This is perfectly legal as long as it's all automatic. I think under Sarbanes-Oxley you do have an obligation to preserve evidence once the investigation is open, so you would have to disable the automated system. But as long as your documents are destroyed as soon as it's legally possible, you are basically covered.
Yeah, I second this. I've never been to the Middle East and I haven't heard the best things about living/working there as a foreigner, but it's absolutely doable - I knew a couple guys in Nepal who would go to Saudi Arabia and Dubai for work (cattle ranches or something), visa and all. Other folks from India and other places who would go for tech work, engineering, etc - all over the Middle East (even Oman) and it's not so bad. There are stable, thriving economies there.
Count me in that list! This is fantastic, and is likely to help push me over the edge to using tmux by default on my local workstation.
To me Feynman was acting like a jerk at that moment. He was aware of who was interviewing him and should have acted accordingly. He knew what the purpose of the interview was, and who the audience would be. He could have simply stated that the question can be answered with varying degrees of sophistication, but an ultimate "why" is not to be found.

The journalist was in no way pretending to have any physics knowledge nor was he insinuating anything. He asked a totally reasonable question and wanted Feynman to talk about magnets, not rant about how there's no ultimate answer to a "why" question.

Feynman was being arrogant and patronizing when he shouldn't have been. Just search for "why" on this[1] page and see if he himselfs asks "why" questions.

[1]:http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_01.html

EDIT: Alright, this turned into a tiring argument about who's right or wrong, when in this context it's a non-issue. People react differently to his sermon, end of the question. Is Feynman right about "why" questions? I think so. Was it necessary to make the point as he did when he did? I don't think so.

And please stop making assumptions about me. I'm all for discussion, but you need not assume anything, just as I reciprocate. You have no idea who I am, and nor I you, but we can still talk!
> These people should be ridiculed, like Jenny McCarthy is, since there's no reputable scientific or epidemiological basis for their beliefs.

You think that is why Jenny McCarthy is ridiculed?
If only that didn't require expertise, both on the part of the defendant and the defense team, who both probably struggle at keeping their e-mail clients properly configured.

You do understand that it's quite the common perception, outside the technical field, that computer evidence is nigh-infallible, nearly on the level of DNA evidence. So much that, once brought into context, it's pretty much believed as iron-clad evidence by non-technical people.
Full text of the paper is here:

http://www.cell.com/chemistry-biology/fulltext/S1074-5521%28...
Just jumping on the bandwagon to say that NZ is an amazing place (visited for 2mo) and seemed decently hospitable to various foreigners. Not as diverse as the US but it's a wonderful place to live/work with great people.
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Would an editor kindly put a note in the OP link that this is a pdf?
I don't think `davnicwil` is wrong here, but I do think it's overly negative. A lot of immigrants through the course of history have fled truly terrible situations and ended up in pretty bad situations where they were disadvantaged, but at least able to get their feet on the ground and build something up.

I agree that I would guess you can do better, especially looking at other countries (there are so many out there! and wonderful people everywhere). But worse comes to worse, don't be afraid that the sky will fall down on you if you can't find better than this arrangement. Just keep working hard and leaping for better (and do keep your eyes peeled as there absolutely could be people who would take advantage of you).
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I'm interested in starting a hosted wiki business, is this a viable market to be in? Any advice to someone who hasn't created a SaaS business before?
Nobody can say for sure if he did it knowingly or not, and this isn't the point. One thing is when you try to hide the evidence (i.e. it can be proved that you lied about it), but you fail to. The other thing is when there's no evidence. You cannot charge man with anything if there's no evidence of crime, but you "think" he destroyed it on purpose (prior to investigation). Maybe he deletes browser history on the daily basis. It's OK. There's nothing wrong with it. Shouldn't be. No matter how "suspicious" it seems to you, your suspicions don't matter.
> Also, the CDC has better epidemics to worry about than the obesity one.

They can worry about more than one thing.

> I frankly don't care if people want to be fat.

No one cares that you don't care.
Except I have an external drive that is a 5400RPM 3.5" drive, a Samsung Spinpoint (the last generation before Seagate bought the unit from Samsung), and it does at least 120MBps sequential writes.
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I'm sorry, I should have provided the source in my original post. Pages of interest are 9 and 10:

SOURCE: http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-ma/legacy/20...

It states (item 40), paraphrased, that he deleted his internet cache and also browsing history selectively, which was used to reason that he was attempting to hide his philosophical similarities with the brothers.

I take issue with item 43:

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By deleting his Internet cache and other files, MATANOV obstructed the FBI’s
determination of his Internet activity during the night of April 18 and the day of April 19, 2013, and the extent to which he shared the suspected bombers’ philosophical justification for violence, among other topics of interest. MATANOV’s deletions have thus obstructed the FBI’s investigation of the bombings and the suspected bombers, and have caused the FBI to expend considerable additional resources during its investigation of the bombings and the suspected bombers.

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This man is clearly guilty, and the other evidence is damning. That said I cannot ever see validity in the argument that clearing history of access to publicly-accessible records online definitively indicates obstruction, or "malicious intent." Localized browsing history should be considered more ephemeral than user-stored files, because otherwise where is the line drawn? Could you be charged in 2018 for not leaving your computer in a cold enough climate for encryption keys to be recoverable from RAM? Possibly, because without those you'd cause the FBI to "expend considerable additional resources during its investigation."

I say this because the application of that reasoning doesn't discriminate between individuals actually trying to defraud (e.g., this gentleman) and those who are privacy conscious. It has chilling and unintended consequences, and those shouldn't be ignored when the case can absolutely be made without this assertion.
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If you are an Android developer, how do you track your app's rank in various leaderboards (Top Free, etc) and for various keywords?
You mean Kafka, maybe?
> First it was a ban on plastic bags. Then came the workplace prohibition on e-cigarettes.

And now they're adding bus and bike lanes? God, what a repressive shithole.
That isn't the issue. Its an Intel platform and Intel _wants_ to lock everyone into their platform... which requires the platform to be as accessible and ubiquitous as possible.

Limiting Thunderbolt to a few computers no one owns (except Apple products, Thunderbolt is everywhere there) basically signs Thunderbolt's death.

Thunderbolt 3 is now fast enough that I can do 40gbit Ethernet over it. With the upcoming PCI-E 4.0 standard, that is 2-3 lanes worth of bandwidth.

Yet, Intel isn't storming the industry and trying to legitimately compete with USB 3.x.
I agree. As per Taleb (Antifragile) if you adopt conventional perspective of "probability" you will be bitten by the occurrence of the apparently improbable. Downside (here called "impact") is much easier to assess/predict, and compare against "upside", which in the case of taking infosec risks could be e.g. saved implementation cost.

Probability is more of a distraction. Probably.
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Because then even more students would fail their "engineering-level" math courses and write off the mathematics department as hateful and evil?