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With WHDLoad (http://whdload.de/) and a compact flash card disk swaps are a thing of the past.
Are you saying that you think the BBC guy and his audience did know and understand enough about quantum mechanics to receive an explanation of magnetism?
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In Oslo, Norway, a city with abundant supply of fresh water, the water use per citizen is about 42 gallons per day. This includes industrial use and leaks from pipes. The city wants to further reduce this to less than 35 gallons per person. These numbers are not particularly low in Europe.

243 gallons is quite a lot in comparison to these numbers.
Actually, I can't think of many other civil offenses that warrant detention; so it is somewhat out of place that a civil offense such as using the wrong type of travel authorization by accident results in treatment that is generally reserved for people who have (or are suspected to have, with reasonable suspicion) committed a criminal act. Complaining about treatment that is generally reserved for criminals, or those strongly suspected of being criminals, for a simple bureaucratic error, is a fairly reasonable complaint.

This whole situation occurred because a convenience feature, which allows you to do a fully automated system to get an approval to board a plane to the US, didn't actually properly check for the legality of entering, so they were only ever determined to be using the wrong type of authorization once they had already arrived, leaving no choice but to detain them at the airport in order to deport them. And this is a pretty crappy situation; a very difficult to navigate bureaucracy, that seems to offer a convenience feature to allow an easy way around it, and then makes you waste a flight and be detained for a day just to be flown back again because you're not an expert on the intricacies of immigration law, is a pretty crappy system.

I agree that some of her rhetoric may have been a bit over the top, but it is a pretty awful situation to have been put in, and it seems like there would be much, much more efficient and humane ways of working around it.
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Well, I wrote 'help treat obesity'. There are existing drugs used alongside diet, exercise, counseling, etc. to help treat obesity, and this compound could potentially be an alternative to those.

It's also not certain that obesity is self-inflicted 100% of the time. Google 'obesity microbiome' and you will find research showing particular gut flora which triggers obesity in mice. Consider that e.g. gut flora are often transferred from mother to child, and that in general the bacteria in your gut have to come from somewhere.

Regardless, there's no reason to deny an avenue of assistance to an obese person who wants to lose weight. Simply asserting that they need to stop eating so much is very similar to asserting that an an addict (which is what this actually is, IMO) should just consume less. It usually doesn't work, we know it usually doesn't work, and continuing to just assert that it's that simple is, at best, ignorant.
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I have said this to so-called progressives until I am out of breath. Class and economic inequality is the most pervasive and dangerous form of inequality facing us today in the rich world. We dwell on forms of inequality that are broadly ostracised and largely eliminated, while the elephant in the room is economic inequality that our business and political leaders endorse as enthusiastically as Confederate leaders embraced slavery.

Many people today believe that the poor deserve their lot in life, just as people would have said about African-Americans a century ago. Presidential candidates and senators say it openly and without rebuke. 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". Meanwhile anywhere from a quarter to a third of our population is languishing with no jobs or shitty jobs, poor health, broken families and is always one parking ticket away from financial ruin.

This is the greatest challenge of our generation. We have to fix this.
False statements on a visa application is a federal offense and grounds for inadmissability. Presumably they clicked "no" to "have you ever been denied a visa" when in fact they had.
Also, judging by the words "colleagues-to-be" they intended to work on their visa waver. This is illegal as well so even if they've got in they could have been deported later and banned from the US. The whole write up can be summed as "What do you mean 'Ignorantia juris non excusat'?!"
Brookings, a center-left think-tank, has a pretty good summary of a lot of stats about income-mobility http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2008...

(Also, a shorter note from the center-right AEI https://www.aei.org/publication/tracking-the-same-households...)
I'm no chemist/biologist by education (happen to touch the field from time to time) and I am oversimplifying, but the point I wanted to stress is that the delayed test results largely depend on what are you searching for: something that is unnatural to human body or something that is naturally occurring/produced by human body. And unless you have extremely highly controlled test procedures and account for any changes to specimen caused by the test process, including but not limited to storage, then well... you have a biased test. That's scientific testing 101. Yes, sometimes this bias can be safely ignored, but I'm of no competence to tell if drug testing positive/negative results differ by a margin large enough.

AFAIK, even flash frozen and gently thawed prokaryotes do not have 100% survive rate and eukaryote survive rate is considerably lower. My comment revolves around the idea that biochemical reactions have pretty strict requirements on conditions for happening at all, while chemical reactions are much looser in this regard. Even 99.999% survivability calls for scientific research on structural/biochemical/chemical change prior to using such techniques for anything touching legal system with anything shorter than ten foot pole. IMHO. Happy to be corrected.
> Bernie Sanders is 73 years old. How many companies has he run? Zero. How many jobs has he created? Zero.

Do you believe that horseshit about rich people creating jobs?
This language deserved all the attention it could get and now since it is OpenSource it certainly does much more!!
> 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.

I think you didn't understand the subject. It's not that Feynman thinks he doesn't know "the ultimate why" but only that there isn't a simple analogy he can use to answer the question: sometimes to answer something correctly you have to provide enough details, and that's what he claims he can't do to the "uninitiated" listener as long as his goal is to do that "correctly." He does this intentionally, not because he's a poor teacher, but to present that fact that for some level of understanding it's necessary to invest much more time.

I see however that people are certainly more satisfied with a bad answer than somebody telling them "it's to hard for you to understand it." The bad answers even to that question are available a dime a dozen.
Aren't there dozens of terminal apps for Windows? Like:
http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/

I think far more people use POSIX compatibility layers like Cygwin, which include SSH, and then a console app of their choice anyway. Microsoft does indeed have their own version with POSIX compatibility and tools, although everyone prefers the open source ones.
MSFT are adding SSH support to Powershell - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/06/03/lookin...
This is really weird! So lets say if a person once made some stupid remarks on a blog or somewhere else, and wants to erase his or her internet presence so that future employers can't see it, it is a crime too ?
Counterpoint with a few points of anecdata: 2 good friends, 1 Stanford CS, the other Stanford Econ (minor CS), both got kicked out of the US -- one due to an H1B issue, the other because he visited home in Uzbekistan and didn't get let back in.
> and it's hard to feel sympathy for people who take the privilege of international travel too lightly by not researching the relevant visa regulations

Really? I travel internationally quite often. I'd never dream of "researching the relevant visa regulations". For example, my wife and I have twice booked river cruises through Europe, entering half a dozen countries each time. We did book through a travel agent, and I just assumed we would be fine. And we were. In my experience going from one first world country to another tends to be very low friction. The USA is becoming an increasingly huge outlier. I haven't been there for a while but actually I probably would do some visa research before going these days. Although having said that if I'd obtained an online visa waiver I'd consider that to count as sufficient research.
I think the point is they were treated horribly. They made a mistake, but it was a clerical error. Seriously in NZ you could shoot someone in the face at the airport and not get treated like that. It's a very different way of life here.
OK, just 'an idea'. Music is human impression. So one who want to train NN to impress humans with music, must first train NN to model human impression with all its limitations of perceived frequencies, reaction and tolerance to repeated patterns and so on. Then you may use the result as a limiting envelope for 'composing layer'. The good is that you will probably not need a human to estimate "humanness" of the result.
Sharing a mindset is criminal too now? Thoughtcrime, really?

Also, nobody under investigation has to implicate itself?

If you play postal, and one of the guys you have smoke breaks with runs amok - deleting that game from a "new philosophical viewpoint" makes you guilty?

The problem is, that law tryies to mindread here in the end. Which they can not. There is a diffrent between rhetoric and action.
That may be the worst author interview I've ever read.
Then why didn't Feynman simply say so? He patronized the interviewer and in my opinion it wasn't productive. An honest answer, and admittance that he didn't know of any better way to explain/justify it, would have been excellent. Instead we get sermoned.

And concerning your last paragraph, I assume you're talking about the interviewer and not me. I'm positive he wasn't looking for a "simple answer". He was just trying to get Feynman talking about magnetism.
I was about to make en emacs joke, but I don't feel the need anymore.
Sorry but that's complete nonsense. That's over 2.5 billion domains. You probably mean all 6 letter English dictionary words -- which might be true.
I might not have read it correctly, but I didn't spot the point where they said their J-1 was not approved - just that it was in progress (and from what I hear, months-long approval processes seem pretty common in the States).

The two countries whose visa process I'm most familiar with in this situation are Singapore and Australia. I've hired many foreigners into Singapore on Employment Passes (the H1-B equivalent) and in some cases, they came in on a tourist visa whilst their EP was in progress (testimony of our hiring speed rather than the Singaporean administration, which delivers the thing in 7 working days).

Similarly, when I applied for Australian PR, which takes quite a bit longer than Singapore, the embassy specifically told me it was fine to travel in and out of the country during the application, and I did so on the usual visa waiver whatever it is called.

I once was cornered - in a polite and friendly manner - by an Australian immigration agent in Singapore on my way to Perth, who for all intents and purposes looked like a perfectly normal, unarmed civil servant in a suit, and who was wondering why I kept popping in and out of his country. Satisfied with the explanation he let me continue after 2 minutes. And if you think immigration is a hot topic in the US, you should see Australian news at the moment...

I've also held two work visas in Switzerland despite owning an "inferior, work-stealing frontalier" (not my words, those of the more right wing protectionists) French passport and I regularly fly in and out of the country without any issues.

Therefore, this story strikes me as an illustration of how bad the backend/IT/processes for immigration are in the US. The main failure point was a lack of communication, with the airline as well as with the travelers. All airlines flying to Singapore and Australia check your visa situation (as in, ask to see the visa and scan it) before you check in precisely to avoid these problems. One also has to wonder the wisdom of not allowing visa types to overlap conditionally, since other countries seem more than able to cope; and whether failing to obtain a work visa really ought to be grounds for exclusion from tourism travel.
Try O-1 Visa. O-1 visa is getting more popular as an alternative to H-1B. O-1 visa does not require a university degree, and I think you have a good shot depending on how well you put yourself out there.

http://www.quora.com/O1-Visa
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The previous answer defines it as the "Did I re-read it" test.
The whole system needs an overhaul. Voters never see the effects of the immigration laws the politicians write. I'm Canadian, but I've worked in the US in the past and make frequent shopping trips (like most Canadians). Many times I've gotten the secondary inspection treatment -- the technique is to try to ruffle your feathers. You always come out feeling violated, but that's the system.

I'm sympathetic towards the border guards that have to enforce rules that barely make any sense. They have limited information and antiquated computer systems, yet they have to filter millions of people a day, to "protect" the country. Illegal immigration is a thing and so is smuggling, and terrorism.
Many people understand the visa waiver program to mean "America has no immigration laws which apply to white people." This is not actually what the visa waiver program means.

Many countries are pretty lax with regards to people immigrating to the country to work. The United States has fallen into a weird equilibrium where working illegally is very, very common and, since the polity hates this fact, also very, very illegal, but only enforceable against people who mostly follow the rules. If you're reading this and don't hold a US passport, you probably mostly follow the rules, so you need to be very, very careful to not violate immigration law when coming to the US.
Nobody can say for sure if he did it knowingly or not

And nobody can say absolutely for sure whether a murderer had the mens rea to charge him with first degree.
It's explained in the interview, but since you missed it:

"And I am applying the Dirri (Do I Reread It?) Test"
US Immigration has been throwing the book at people way, way before Bin Laden. Sorry your feelings got hurt. Next time, pay attention.
I don't know how relevant comparing Oslo with a desert city is.

in any case, why is Oslo reducing water usage if it is abundant?
Sorry - your response doesn't cut it. The ETSA and the J-1 infrastructure obviously can talk - how else would the border agent know to arrest you? If it can talk, then why doesn't it tell you that you're breaking the law, if it's so gosh-darn clear with 60 seconds of research? Remember - you're a local. Tourists are not.

Potential tourists see these articles and factor them into their travel plans, usually by not going to the country in question. If it was Venezuela putting people in prison for not following an obscure visa-rule, I doubt you'd be justifying it so happily.
My point was not about (officially or not) scheduled spikes in traffic. These are known for all parties in advance. I was talking more about organic traffic - Random Joe hailing a cab just because. And cabs generally just drive around expecting to catch the Random Joe wasting time/vehicle/fuel. Now if you can predict temporal/geographical density of Random Joes hailing a cab - well, you have an edge there simply by increasing utilisation rate. Is this even possible? Have no idea.
I would like to think it was certainly emailed because I can't imagine a live interviewer getting those kind of answers and continuing in that vein; I really want to assume the only way that could have happened was if there was no real back-and-forth between the interviewer and the interviewed.
I'm agreeing with you that "criminal" was too strong a word. I edited a couple words in to see if that could be made more clear. (I also agreed from the get-go that the immigration system needs reform. It's one of the worst in the world by any measure.)
If you go to the linked YouTube video, you will see that this one conversation is one of a series of conversations in a larger production. wtallis pointed out elsewhere in this thread that this was a BBC production for a largely non-technical audience.

You have missed the point because you were unaware of the larger context in which that one conversation sat. :)
Stop calling it a disease. It gives obese people an excuse.
No. I'm of the opinion that Feynman didn't teach him a lesson with his speech and analogies. You don't get hired by the BBC to interview Richard Feynman by being a dimwit yourself.
I wouldn't presume anything. There are lots of reasons this could have happened, and not just due to lying on the application. Perhaps they had not been denied the J-1, but were just having trouble meeting all of the requirements in time; a J-1 visa requires a whole lot of paperwork, including from sponsoring organizations, and if some of that was taking longer than expected and may not have been done in time, they may have just thought "oh, we can do the ESTA and stay for 90 days with no visa, during which we can work this out", when in fact that is not allowed.
While I agree with your points when storing timing of (happened in the past) events, but I disagree when storing display preferences for the user. As a user, I do not want to change my timezone settings just because my country went into Daylight Saving.
What environmental damage? It's dangerous to just assume that Any Development == Environmental Catastrophe
What qualifies a bad idea?

California is one of the best climates in the world to grow certain crops.

It's also one of the most popular climates to live in.

If there isn't enough water for both, how do we pick? Do the people who want to live there get automatic priority? Vica versa?
When did Einstein take an IQ test?
Frankly, when working around many excitable, brilliant, bullish people, one often finds that one must start a conversation loudly in order to clear the floor, or else one runs the very real risk of getting interrupted and having a bunch of time wasted. [0]

If you look carefully, you'll see that this is what Feynman does in this little clip.

[0] I understand that there are people who find this style of conversation off-putting. Thing is, just as there is a protocol for taking the floor, there is also a protocol for retaking the floor if your colleague is seriously going off the rails.
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Came here to make the same point. Named timezones like America/Los Angeles are still important because they refer to both the timezone offset as well as the DST rules that govern that particular political zone.

That being said, the gist of the post (time normalization) is obviously good. Stored time should always be UTC and converted for display later.
The political realities of timezones is _exactly why_ you should be storing the timezone name if the user is scheduling it for an event in their local timezone. If a user is expecting an event to happen at 6pm in their local timezone, and political reasons cause that timezone's offset to change (ie. daylight savings), it will still happen at the correct local time for that user.

Storing UTC offsets means that any future political changes will result in the wrong local times for users.
Yeah why would you want to fix the system and make it easy for people to do things correctly and detect when they have made a mistake. Oh no wait that's actually exactly what you'd want.
Just stop going to the u.s. Frankly, the place is a dump and its people are ignorant and crude. I never thought I'd have an unironic conversation with someone arguing against the existence of evolution until my last trip to the u.s. They are superstitious and even the most liberal of them has politics to the right of your government's fascist wing, and a bizarre attitude toward sex where their behavior is nothing like their rhetoric.
It is self-inflicted. Does this magical "obesity microbiome" ignore physics and make you fatter without energy going in?
Yeah, I got that you were agreeing about the word "criminal"; it just sounded like you were objecting to her using the term "criminal" for her treatment as well, and I was pointing out that since this is one of the few ways in which a civil offense can lead to detention, that that's actually not as bad a characterization as I think you were making it out to be.

Anyhow, sounds like on the real issue as opposed to arguing semantics, we're in fairly strong agreement. This immigration system is baroque, inhumane, inefficient, and the results actually run counter to what the system is supposed to be doing.
True...ASO...more non-programming concepts to understand as an indie developer.
I don't think you understand how different this is to the way things are done in NZ. Our police are polite and friendly. To be treated like that would have been a shock.
> I think it's because ordinary everyday English language doesn't have a good way to tell someone that their question is wrong

English is always stealing from other languages anyway; it's high time we stole 無 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_%28negative%29)
It use a little bit more of memory than a php application for sure, but it work on a small openshift free "gear" as we are dogfooding there (which is 512mb of ram: https://www.openshift.com/products/pricing) with everything crammed in: jetty + mysql on a single node.

You can follow the guide for openshift here: http://lavagna.io/help/openshift/ .

I'll see if the free heroku tier work decently and provide a guide too.

(And yes, it will work on a 5usd digitalocean instance, as it's strictly more powerfull than the free gear from openshift)
I always had the same impression of that response. The basic philosophical point he's making instead of explaining magnetism to a lay-audience is known as the Munchhausen trilemma[1], essentially answering a completely different and unrelated question he'd prefer to pontificate on instead. 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."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_Trilemma
Thanks for the answer and the link. I think my confusion is/was that an "if" statement in the interpreted language might even be implemented as a conditional move in assembly. Thus it seems like it would be useful to distinguish "if (condition) a = a + 1" from "if (condition) frobnicate(a)" when defining a trace, even if both are written with an "if" in the interpreted language.
You have missed the point because you were unaware of
the larger context in which that one conversation sat. :)

Why are you so sure? Most commenters who don't agree with me have wrong preconceptions/assumptions about me. I have watched this whole series of videos multiple times over the years. I have always felt that Feynman's sermon was not useful.
My anonymous friend always goes to USA on the ETSA, puts business as the reason for travel, and works there (not a new job though, just the same job they already do from overseas). Although he too has been detained for random stupid reasons, never for more than 6 hours, and of course has had his luggage gone through 2-3 times each trip.