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>'Kahneman tried to explain the hedonic treadmill via with his own aspiration treadmill. He claims that he not only failed, but the data were opposite to his hypothesis.'

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10056

Uh... what that Edge article you are linking shows is that 'experienced happiness' which he thought would be a better measurement of happiness than life satisfaction is even more immune to your life circumstances:

>"This was the first of many such findings: income, marital status and education all influence experienced happiness less than satisfaction, and we could show that the difference is not a statistical artifact. "

This only strengthens the OP's opinion...

He does tell us at the end of the article that GDP correlates with the happiness levels of countries. But that doesn't really detract from the OP's reasoning. (Who knows if that's even causative, instability & war could cause both GDP & happiness to drop.)

Even the study you are linking suggests revisions, and is far from 'disproving' the hedonic treadmill theory.
quick calculation comes to about a 45% tax rate for single in CA and 42.4% for married. So 50% is a small exaggeration, but it's definitely closer to reality than 30-35% underestimate.
> organization wide issue tracker

Does anything like github/bitbucket/gitlab support this?
For anyone treating this as new information... it's not. The etymology of "defeat device," the term the EPA is using, dates back to the 70s when automakers started pulling similar crap.

Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Toyota, Caterpillar, Cummins, Detroit Diesel, Mack, Navistar, Renault, and Volvo Trucks have all been caught rigging their vehicles to lie to owners and emissions testers, with varying degrees of plausible deniability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defeat_device

The (automotive) world has always been like this, it's just been a little while since the last highly publicized scandal.
There is a parallel post discussing Google's response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11533469.
Even so the current Apple SoCs are phone/tablet parts which cannot match broadwell IPC or clock frequency, except maybe on the lowest-end mobile parts. You can be sure that they're working on that, but my guess is it's at least two years away from being on a retail shelf.

And on the desktop and server side, even longer. I doubt we will ever see a 64-bit ARM part that turbos up to 4GHz+ with haswell/broadwell-like IPC. You can say it's because the desktop market is dead/declining/unnecessary now/etc, but it's also because nobody else is able & willing to match Intel's superb physical design. It's a shame that Intel management has failed to monetize that more effectively.
Would be interesting to see hours worked too, are those $200k+ bonus salaries 84hr work weeks with 3 weeks vacation you can never take or normal hours.
http://clarifai.com/?model=nsfw-v1.0&probs=1 works for the NSFW model
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But how is that justification any different from the ones proponents of free-market capitalist use to explain why our system is different from what they propose?
Seriously, how does it take 14 years to verify a design and protect it against counterfeit? SpaceX sent vehicles into space and landed them back here on earth on a moving drone platform in the middle of the Atlantic in less time.
This is a well-known issue in scientific circles. The seminal paper of Ioannidis: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...
I can totally picture Anthony Jeselnik's first album Shakespeare causing a huge backlash these days. That album was released a few years ago, but the state of "offense sensitivity" is so heightened now that it would not have gotten him very far today. It's one of the greatest comedy albums of the last 15 years, but considering he's a white cis male, the amount of fire he would get today would be unbearable.

Let's see how some examples go down:

"People say it's easy to make fun of retarded people, but it's not. You really have to explain it to them."

"My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she had committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights."

"I’ve spent the past two years looking for my ex-girlfriend’s killer... but no one will do it."

http://scomedy.com/quotes/Anthony-Jeselnik

The last special he made, he bombed so hard I just stopped following him. It's just hard to find things funny when absolutely no one else is smirking...
The ability to believe in something--without requiring supporting evidence--is perhaps one of the only useful quirks of the human mind. If you don't believe that that is deserving of respect, we have a very basic incompatibility in parts of our worldview.

Anybody who translates belief into action, even if it's just arguing online, deserves a small modicum of credit.
Just another example of social engineering, brainwashing, and the pushing of an agenda on the American people. This is not to sound misogynist, but they are putting this woman on the 20$ bill, just for the sake of it.

Here is a recent quote by Barack Obama where he lieterally says "women are smarter than men":

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/13/remar...

"That includes, by the way, working through some of the structural biases that exist in science. Some of them -- a lot of them are unconscious. But the fact is, is that we've got to get more of our young women and minorities into science and technology, engineering and math, and computer science. I’ve been really pleased to see the number of young women who have gotten more and more involved in our science fairs over the course of these last several years.

And as I said to a group that I had a chance to meet with outside, we're not going to succeed if we got half the team on the bench, especially when it’s the smarter half of the team."

The leftist means of putting men down, especially in a time when 60% of all college students are women is alarming. Again, this is not to say that women have not been disenfranchised, they have, but the pendulum is swinging too far the other way and will not bode well for society.
In Japan, a cat has been appointed as a railway VP [1], and a cartoon robot cat has been appointed as a cultural ambassador [2]. Their management culture simply isn't very anthropocentric.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21656623-tama-station...

[2] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23716592/ns/world_news-asia_pacifi...
It makes them special since bacteria can survive in numerous environments where viruses are destroyed.
I think it's right there on the tin.

http://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_conservatism.html

"Conservatism is any political philosophy that favours tradition (in the sense of various religious, cultural, or nationally-defined beliefs and customs) in the face of external forces for change..."
It was said, back in hte 90's, that the Brazilian President (Fernando Collor de Mello) would have his... dejects... checked, in his first visit to the USA. There were some rumors, back that time, that he was a cocaine user.
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Because Tesla's engineers all live in California, and Ford's engineers all live in Detroit, and Tesla's engineers really don't want to live in Detroit.
On the other hand, that kind of outrage is my most reliable source for finding great comedians that I didn't know about.
I disagree. I think this shows that if you break the rules with impunity, there is a significant risk that you will be caught. The Panama papers is another great example of this. Overall this is likely to have a net negative impact for VW.

The Panama papers don't, in fact, show that a lot of rich people are scamming tax. Many of those people are likely paying capital gains tax in their countries when they sell their assets (as Cameron did). The few that are evading tax will likely get caught.

As I see it, the majority of the really rich aren't corrupt (at least in the USA/Canada). Other countries maybe, but those countries tend to be corrupt to begin with.
I have absolutely no clue why they think this is a good idea.

The Land Registry is one of the few governmental departments that actually turns a profit! Average is £80m a year if I remember correctly. Apart from that, I think having this data controlled by a private company will make the waters over housing ownership even murkier in Britain.
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I didn't say we should keep Jackson....
Dark humor is like food: not everybody gets it.
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From http://preciousplastic.com/machines/

> You can make the molds completely yourself using CNC to mill the lathe or simply welding them.

.... What? "mill the lathe"? I think they accidentally a word in there.

>These lines can be used to make new raw material (3d printing filament), granulate, spinned around a mold or up to you to find new creative ways.

> Well suited to make large and more solid objects, the oven itself is also a great machine for prototyping and making plastic test.

> Since it works with molds you can easily replicate and set up a production.

This website desperately needs copy-editing.

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Also, I'm completely tired of people coming into an existing engineering discipline and deciding to come up with a whole bunch of terms for existing processes. It's not "a injection", it's *an injection molding machine. All the new terminology does is make things extra confusing.
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From the same paper:

"Many of the characteristics of proteins that enable the avoidance of aggregation, and amyloid formation in particular, are encoded by their amino acid sequences116. The elucidation of this code has enabled the identification of factors that determine the intrinsic aggregation propensity of these molecules117, 118, 119. Hence, it has been realized that globular proteins fold into structures that sequester aggregation-prone regions in their interior; in addition, typical features of the folding process, such as very high cooperativity, generate considerable kinetic barriers to the conversion of folded proteins into aggregation-prone species50, 120. Furthermore, specific patterns of residues, such as alternating hydrophobic–hydrophilic stretches50, 121, that tend to favour the amyloid state are commonly selected against during evolution119, 121, 122 or are otherwise neutralized by the insertion of highly aggregation-resistant residues, which are known as 'gatekeepers' (Refs 50,123).

Other protective mechanisms against amyloid formation are associated with properties of the cellular environment, including the location of proteins within specific compartments124, 125, and the presence of a multitude of molecular chaperones and degradation processes, such as the ubiquitin–proteasome126, 127, 128 and the autophagy129, 130, 131 systems, which function to prevent the formation and accumulation of misfolded and aggregated polypeptide chains11, 132. Indeed, the major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease is the presence of an apolipoprotein E variant that reduces the ability of cells to degrade the amyloid-β peptide133."
For some reason it delights me that Stephen Fry has read William Gibson.
Go uses synchronous I/O backed with an M:N implementation. Rust and D use synchronous I/O backed with a 1:1 implementation. Semantically, there is no difference between the two. The difference is in the implementation, and 1:1 threading is not as slow as you think on Linux.
The data you see on such sites is only the base salary component as they parse through LCA disclosure data. As highlighted above, much of the compensation comes from bonuses / stocks etc. I did some analysis on the above data as well: http://ashwinikhare.in/tech-firms-guest-visa/
10 years of it could just be resting on laurels. If the current design resists counterfeiting well enough, there's not much justification for making a new one yet.

I'm not saying that's the explanation, just speculating.
Land has no value absent the demand for it by people who have money.
Puff piece to excuse Hillary. The editorial board at Bloomberg likely has no experience in what they're talking about.

Regardless of the level of secrecy, in any business you are an agent of the company you represent and there are rules in how you handle proprietary information. Hillary's problem was that she didn't follow the rules. It's the equivalent of sending company proprietary information over your personal gmail account.
We straight lined Amazon's stock signing bonuses for comparison with the other companies.
Ignores geography a bit I think.
In Canada a good salary is 80-100k a year imo (CANADIAN!).
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"The Welsh character is an interesting study," said Dr. Fagan. "I have often considered writing a little monograph on the subject, but I was afraid it might make me unpopular in the village. The ignorant speak of them as Celts, which is of course wholly erroneous. They are of pure Iberian stock-- the aboriginal inhabitants of Europe who survive only in Portugal and the Basque district. Celts readily intermarry with their neighbours and absorb them. From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with human-kind except their own blood relations. In Wales there was no need for legislation to prevent the conquering people intermarrying with the conquered. In Ireland that was necessary, for there intermarriage was a political matter. In Wales it was moral. I hope, by the way, you have no Welsh blood?"

"None whatever," said Paul.

"I was sure you had not, but one cannot be too careful. I once spoke of this subject to the sixth form and learned later that one of them had a Welsh grandmother. I am afraid it hurt his feelings terribly, poor little chap. She came from Pembrokeshire, too, which is of course quite a different matter. I often think," he continued, "that we can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales. Think of Edward of Carnarvon, the first Prince of Wales, a perverse life, Pennyfeather, and an unseemly death, then the Tudors and the dissolution of the Church, then Lloyd George, the temperance movement, Nonconformity and lust stalking hand in hand through the country, wasting and ravaging. But perhaps you think I exaggerate? I have a certain rhetorical tendency, I admit."

"No, no," said Paul.

"The Welsh," said the Doctor, "are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing," he said with disgust, "sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver...."

--Dr. Fagan, a schoolmaster in Decline and Fall (1928), by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
Why are we talking about Go, Rust, and D on a thread about a new C++ library? I mean, I know the answer, but I wish we weren't.

I ordinarily wouldn't care, but I usually feel like I have something to learn from ambitious networking libraries even when they're written in languages I prefer not to use.
So what's going on is an arms race between the rule makers and the people who have to operate things. The people who do things are losing.

I've been waiting for a VW story for a long time. I've heard "fix it in software" most of my adult life. It was only a matter of time.

The only way to have this level of involvement by "regulators" in products is transparency and a collegial relationship. If criminal or civil , or even moral sanctions are in play, there cannot be an open exchange of ideas.

You cannot have it both ways - if there are adversarial relationships as part of people's careers, then this will happen. This, though, is now seen as "corruption".

I mean - really think through all the implications of RJR v. United States dispassionately, without taking a side. So here's one of the largest corporations in America, defined down to racketeer. Yes, I said "defined" - one week they were not, the next they were. That's "defined".

Bottom line? They'd been identified as unreliable already. That should have been enough.

I hate to be that guy, but the Panama Papers also hold no surprise for me. That was to be expected. As Tim Worstall is fond to say, tax avoidance is a normal activity. The hypocrisy of state entities in this is also deplorable. They wish to enjoy the privileges of the state actor while drawing on international resources. How is this not an empire demanding tribute?

Outrage, especially moral outrage, is fun and all but it doesn't accomplish anything. Perhaps ISIS is the bellwether - we'd rather have a sense of moral purity than something to eat and physical security. Because those things require compromise.
I don't want to be rude but it's not luck its competency. You would derive a lot of benefit from learning how to manage your system properly.
>Good for the consumer I think, as they can get the best version of X. //

I look around and I don't see consumers getting the best version of things I see consumers getting what they're told they should want whilst seemingly ignoring major improvements.

Engineered obsolescence seems like a major thing, how does it benefit consumers (except the rich ones who're probably involved in profiting from it themselves - even then they get the downsides of environmental damage and wastage of resources, eventually).

I want a kettle that has the lid catches made in a resilient and repairable way - instead all the kettles I can find (up to about £80) have plastic that is seemingly designed to perish in a year or two at most. My first washing machine lasted about 15 years; now washing machine repair people are telling me that a machine 3 years old is past it and should be replaced. Progress?

Wealthy companies can see off poor companies and bury better designs. Consumers don't tend to look beyond the end of their wallet, or can't afford to.

We're not working together to create better products we're fighting each other to get consumers money.
Geothermically heated water often contains lithium. This could contribute to the good vibes coming from the water.
So what you're saying is that we should punish Google because they're the only ones who produce a product the poor can afford?
Folly is a common word, I think. As non-native English speaker I know the meaning of folly. But I saw wangle for the first time.
Thanks, I like this point of view. I guess something like ratio of modern day comforts / modern day stress vs that ratio from past could be a useful measure.
I think this is largely a case of 'moloch' as described by Scott Alexander: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

In that long (but excellent essay) Scott points out that self organizing systems like human society can sometimes arrange themselves in horrible local minimas which can be very difficult to escape.

I think the way modern science is organized is decidedly suboptimal. Note that I'm talking purely sociologically: science, as a method, is still by far the best thing we've developed to understand the natural world. However, the incentives around publishing / grants / hiring work are broken in a myriad of ways, from small to massive.

For example:

- High prestige journals/conferences are basically a crapshoot: http://blog.mrtz.org/2014/12/15/the-nips-experiment.html - consider that getting a paper accepted in NIPS/published in Nature might completely change the way your career shapes up.

- Grant funding is incredibly competitive, and the way they are awarded is also a crapshot: https://psmag.com/why-the-national-institutes-of-health-shou...

- The pressure to publish/obtain grants drives people to either make up data to obtain fancy publications, or even to kill themselves: http://www.dcscience.net/2014/12/01/publish-and-perish-at-im...

- We reward researchers for brilliant clean discoveries, not brilliant methodologies. However, the outcome of a serious research project is the one thing that a scientist cannot control: science investigates the unknown, if someone explores a plausible hypothesis in a clever way, and the hypothesis turns out to be wrong, the scientist didn't do anything wrong.

- PhDs are often used as cheap labour. A very famous PI once bragged that before they got their new fancy robot, they just had 10 chinese postdocs handle all the plating.

- Private companies make an insane amount of money from publishing scientific research that's carried out with public money, and that's reviewed by scientists (largely) paid with public money who donate their money for free.

I could go on for ages - and so could almost every researcher/ex-researcher on HN. There's a few no brainer changes - but the problem is that almost everyone in power who could affect change stands to benefit from the current system.
You can make inner wall translucent perhaps?
Why is suburbia so resilient?
I hear this "people are being silenced" thing a lot, and it always makes me think.

If other people find those jokes offensive, and want to raise a stink about it, would you "silence" them?

Especially since this is all happening entirely in the marketplace of ideas--people aren't passing laws banning jokes, comics aren't being arrested or shot--if the general tide of public opinion has turned and a comic can't make a living telling jokes of a certain type of offensiveness, isn't that just the way a society evolves?
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what I don't understand is how I'm supposed to be satisfied with false equality where the vast majority of power and wealth get concentrated into a few controlling hands as opposed to the situation that exists in capitalism now, with that power and wealth spread out more vastly than at any point in human existence.
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That seems unnecessarily reductive.
There's a lot to unpack there. Who's doing the silencing? Can the comedian not get gigs because enough people are offended by them? What is meant by "silencing"? Is it just complaining or are they actively preventing that person from working?

Obviously, in a specific venue, only the proprieter has the right to remove the comedian (also, for those of you that go to standup shows: no one wants to hear what you have to say, be quiet). I fully support the comedian's right to say whatever they want to say and bear the full brunt of what that means for their career.
>>Although the disease is not known to be transmissible to humans

This is not quite correct, the disease is believed to be transmittable to humans, but we're not in the practice of eating deer brains, so there are no confirmed cases. All of the states with CWD have advisories on reducing the risk with consumption. Eg: http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/diseases/cwd/deer-carc...

Given that we don't really know how CWD is transmitted among animals it is still pretty worrying.
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Well, one bad joke against the pregnant wife of someone with high-connections caused a stop in the career of a Brazilian Comediant some years ago. But the same kind of joke, now made against a not-so-popular target, went flawlessly
Man I can't even imagine, all the best to you.
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I was going to correct you and say you meant "wrangle". Turns out they can have the same meaning! Wonder if there are other examples of two words being one letter off that mean the same thing.
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