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> In the United States, we are obsessed with happiness. But as people get older, research shows, they cultivate happiness by avoiding unpleasant situations.

Someone asked a few days ago what the best habit was that HNers developed last year and what the health benefits were. I realised I shouldn't do things because I thought they'd make me happy, and it has changed everything. Put another way, I don't only do things I think I'm going to enjoy any more.

It's an incredibly powerful mindset to not have an expectation of happiness or enjoyment as an outcome of an action. I used not to do a lot of things because I couldn't see the point or because I thought I wouldn't like them. Now I do those things anyway, more just to see what they're like rather than because I expect to enjoy them. I do things to see what actually happens instead of limiting myself to my own preconceptions.

Most of the time, I'm right, and I don't enjoy those things, but that's OK. They're still showing me different aspects of life and allowing me to exercise arguably our most innate gift, the ability to experience. There have been a few surprises though. I've taken up sports I'd previously discounted, and now I've stuck with them long enough I can see the appeal. I'm learning a musical instrument and get much less frustrated because I see the learning process as just training my brain, a function of time and effort. There's no point in being frustrated.

Now I just view experiences as things to be experienced, without requiring anything more of them. This means there's less pressure on me and on them to give me anything. My attitude to them and awareness of them is more important than deriving happiness and enjoyment.

Now I've written that it reads like zen, but when I practiced zen it was because I wanted to be happy from it. The thing with learning is it's not enough to have the knowledge. You need the insight to really internalise something. It's that "A-ha!" moment. I guess I arrived at the same conclusion as the Zennists from a different direction. Only doing things you think will make you happy is just a way too limiting mindset.

It really has been a complete revolution in my approach to life. I can't recommend it enough. And it looks like this attitude will keep my brain healthy too.
I don't know if using Twitter on a smartphone is a reasonable infosec strategy. More than a few Twitter accounts have been hacked or taken over with social engineering. And he's using a Samsung Android smartphone, so you don't know how up-to-date he is with security patches.

But then again, according to Trump himself: “I know a lot about hacking." And he also knows “things that other people don’t know. And so they cannot be sure of the situation.” The man could be a brilliant hacker for all I know.
And then when you get the job, you will likely never use this skill again. 50% of your time will be spent on plumbing and wiring, 40% on meetings and politics and "agile processes", 9% on learning new ways to plumb and wire, and maybe 1% of your time will utilize these sorts of skills that can otherwise be identified from afar and solved by looking up in a book.

Once you get your foot in the door, this sort of trivia becomes vastly less important than your ability to impress the right people and politically maneuver yourself into winning situations. This is the reality of life in a mega tech corp.
Earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13294108
And, upon looking at your profile, I'm putting my foot in my mouth. Like, the whole thing, heel and all. :)
I wonder if one day there could be some kind of law forbidding manufacturers to restrict running software on the hardware they sell. It seems like an anti-competitive practice.
The same experienced people that gave triple A ratings to junk bonds before the crash?

Snark aside, if you happen to halfway accurately solve the problem of rating a startup's risk and potential, better keep it to yourself and go down as the most successful VC in history.
The best place to ask questions for me is the internet.

It is regularly so hostile and rules lawyerly that I have to collect everything I know about the problem into the post, and pre-empt every objection with an existing fact.

And, once I do that, I'm almost always close enough to the solution that I don't need to press "post." Just typing what I know into the Stack Overflow window, and imagining all the objections to the question, structures my question to the point of finding the answer!
IT has now also executed ajax:

https://www.google.nl/search?q=site%3Adoesgoogleexecutejavas...
Nevermind a game is quicker to download than install and complete the first level. Games get pirated and then not played. Heck, I got an entire Steam library of unplayed games.
America has become ridiculous.

The headline is absurd. The article is absurd. Everything about this is absurd.
Anyone who has run a wordpress or vbulletin site has probably seen this at some point in time. Got tonnes of logs from IPs in Ukraine, Russian, China, etc that crawl for holes and if they find one you will find something like this somewhere. VBulletin is the worst - executable code is stored in the database so that's where you'll likely find it.

I find it hard to believe this is what a state sponsored attack would look like - in business, we see this all the time.

I would love to see some action taken on this, there's probably tonnes of time and post business spent on these attacks. I just don't want to see that solution in the form of slanderous claims that paint it as more than it is.
;-) 98% of developers would be clueless to leap second issues. Hell, 50% struggle with leap years.
Oh come on, people sell (and have sold) in millions of copies through PC gaming history, even though piracy was "rampant".

The major boost in sales was improving the sales process (Steam and similar stores) and dropping prices, not attacking legitimate users with DRM rootkits. People keep repeating this DRM suppor mantra when up until now there STILL hasn't been any good proof that it does any good. If anything, it only damaged sales due to people not buying games that randomly stop working when internet fails.
Um, that "open SKU" always exists - it's called the developer unit and can run any binaries so as a developer you can run your own game during the process.

They're just locked behind the dev kit licensing costs and NDAs.
>>Trump rarely uses email or computers, despite his frequent tweeting..

>If 2016 taught us anything, this is a reasonable infosec strategy - Although I assume, when he becomes President there is some high powered govt. agency that can do it securely if he uses whatever protocols they suggest.

I do wonder about problems even with Twitter. If the current @POTUS account announced a nuclear attack had just been launched I think most people would assume the account was hacked because it doesn't have a pattern of being used used for information like that. But with Trump it doesn't seem completely impossible that Trump might actually tweet out some information he had just learned or decided, no matter what it is.

Imagine the worldwide chaos you could cause by hacking Trump's twitter Saturday night at 3AM and announcing a nuclear strike to or from someone!
How is that connected with the ability to run your own binaries on the PS4?
So what was the language C, C++, Rust?
This was long time coming, and hopefully they'll do a lot against the black market as well.
If you're talking about facts, give us a source?
Have you actually considered how many people it would take to use all energy that sun and future tech can provide? I'm sure no human being can give you even a rough estimate.

It's an unimaginably large number of humans. Seven billion human beings is a drop in the bucket as far as I am concerned.

Universe is really vast, if not infinite. And when we have more people, alive, and doing meaningful things while automation takes over menial tasks, it's really going to make us tackle other problems faster, like transportation.

There's only so much matters and so many stars in the universe. Granted, they can last a stupendous long time, especially red dwarf stars.

Future technologies aren't something that can't be predicted entirely, but we can only consider the laws of physics as we know of to constrain our prediction.

Last time I check, there is no way to produce unlimited energy for eternity, no way to defeat entropy. Until that happen, we'll have to consider population control unless our numbers are stable or in decline.
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Read my first sentence - so yes I understood that it's not CSS. But you're not just claiming a 'typescript framework', you're claiming 'a library for creating modern user interfaces'.

I'm not telling you it's ugly just to annoy you, I'm telling you because I'm really interesting in creating user interfaces and so the first thing I look at is what it looks like.

I'd love to use it and being written in TypeScript is great.
Hackers of various sorts have strong interest in hacking the Trump Organization to get dirt on him. Knowing how IT in that sort of medium-size sales-oriented low-tech business works, chances are they have very weak security procedures on their financial and other data. I wouldn't be surprised if hackers are having a field day.
As the parent said, you unfortunately need to declare the income as a US citizen but may or may not need to pay taxes on it.
It's getting difficult to keep track of all the services Amazon is offering these days. If it's products then the feature will be integrated into the search results so it should not be a problem. But it feels like they are announcing something new every other week these days.
If the PSP is any indication, it would do extremely poorly. Console sales were above 80 million, but any single title struggled to sell significant numbers, and it is widely believed that it was due to piracy(my personal view is that it's 100% piracy - when I was growing up I knew 7-8 people with PSPs and not a single one of them had one genuine game).
Nicely done!
I have been writing crawlers for a while now and executing Javascript is very expensive and slow, even for Google. When I crawl the web I usually run javascript from a headless browser only on top priority sites.
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Having attended the talk in person, it was probably one of the best uses of animations and diagrams in a presentation I've ever seen.
Funnily enough, I'm a PS4 developer, have two devkits on my desk, and I had no idea about any of those things(they are certainly not mentioned in official documentation). It's just not relevant at all to software development how the hard drive is connected or what sort of south bridge it uses.
Without any political connotation, of just email as a communications platform: Email incurs costs of mental kind on the end user. I see nothing bad of not using it - if one can afford not to. For example, Donald Knuth seldom uses email as well. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html

I'm not sure if it's such a great strategy for a future president, though (especually as he seems to spend awfull lot of time on twitter).
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Do you think you could just take the TV back and get a refund? I would.
I just read the article and I found the premise of the article that its difficult for non-scientists (the uniformed) to make a judgement on the validity of the fact present to them without indepth personal research. Then I read the comments. It seems not a single person understood the premise and began arguing with each other the validity of climate change.
> The man could be a brilliant hacker for all I know.

Or he's been briefed by brilliant hackers.
Do you seriously need a discount on something that costs $2.99?
> Unfortunately being an experienced user, I'm not aware of a single online source for learning this stuff - I mainly teach people directly in person or on IRC.

How about http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ ?
Someone around the GOP could merely have hired a hacker from Eastern Europe or Russia specifically to do the hacking.

I find it troubling that this avenue was not explored.
So... why are this type of Wikipedia entries posted on HN?
I concur in India. I have 10+ years experience with a lot of work in embedded and I had this interviewer who when interviewing opened this page in his laptop and started asking questions from there.

Many of my colleague just learn the algorithm implementation by rote because in India it is very rare for companies to dig into algorithms or talk about its applications and optimizations.
I'm absolutely interested in the hunt for alien life. It's just that I don't think SETI (looking for technological radio signals) is a good way to find it. No signal we've sent into space can be detected from more than half a lightyear away. Radio broadcasts lose power over distance far to quickly to be detectable over interstellar distances, unless you're transmitting with the power of a star.

You could send a tight beam of course, but then you need know where to send it. Aliens have to know we're here and they need to care enough to spend significant resource to send us a message.

So while I'd love to see a sign of extraterrestrial life, I don't think searching for radio transmissions is the way to go.
I find it troubling that this avenue was not explored.

What indication do you have that it wasn't?
As someone who has both the X1 and PS4 devkits on my desk, it's interesting to me that Sony actually goes through the effort and massive cost of developing a separate SKU, where the devkit is a huge machine with extra cooling, more ram, more ports, and then the X1 is exactly the same as a retail unit, just with a different certificate installed on it.

But yes, theoretically, "anyone" can buy a devkit and have access to the full architecture of PS4/X1 is they want to.
I am not sure what are you asking about. I was replying to a post about the need to lock down consoles. Historically, this event caused the lockdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_cras...

I was not much of a gamer in 1983 but I believe on-line gaming and cheating was not a significant issue at the time. Nintendo first moved to lock its system and take control over the content due to quality concerns.
There is an information asymmetry between the investor and the executive. The traditional laws were designed to diminish that asymmetry - crowdfunding wants to workaround these laws to make starting companies easier - but it does nothing to address the problem of information asymmetry.

To be more concrete - it is very easy for the executive to extract value from the company - some of them are blocked by law, but most are about just slightly overpaying for something (most notably their own salary) - which will always be on the margin and impossible to control by laws.

Traditionally there are a few models for the investor to beat the asymmetry:

1. Become involved in the company - this can work only if you have a big stake in the company (with dispersed ownership you get collective action problems) and the company is a big stake of your activities (you cannot get involved much in many companies).

2. lend not buy equity (and require collateral etc)

3. The laws for public offerings - with all the strict accounting and other ways to information disclosure

4. Investing in startups. This is a small special case where investing can be something between becoming fully involved in the company operations and being a small shareholder of a public company. Startups goal is to grow a 100 times or die - so small continues extractions by the executives are ruled out.

I think most crowdfunder proponents think it should fit in 4 - but probably the difference between 4 and 1 is not that big.

Update: Just after posting this I realized that the information asymmetry is just one aspect of this - and it really is about principal-agent problem.
> I look forward to learned models as a service.

My current disappointment with machine learning as a service is pricing. For example, the same job that could be solved by a cheap $5/month instance with open source software, would cost $45/day if it were implemented in Google's Cloud Prediction API. My task was to classify news and I had a volume of about 100K examples to classify per day.

Why would cloud API cost hundreds of times more?
Because the submitter found it interesting. From the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Wikipedia articles are not uncommon: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org
Maybe because your accusation that Slim steals money to fund the NYT? Yes, his telecom company charges more for a crappy service than it possibly could if Mexico had a better regulated market with more competition. Is that stealing? No. Is it moral? Probably not, depending on who you ask. But that's what you get when you mix free market with government corruption.
Probably the opposite will happen, actually. Just liked caged animals that don't breed, our habitat will so far be removed from our natural one, our species may die out from lack of ability to form natural male-female relationships anymore.
Cell is dead. There were a few similar machines -- Intel IXP comes to mind. They were universally difficult to program and did not provide a significant performance advantage once multicore x86 became cheap.

ARM chips took the many-independent-cores end of the market, GPUs took the wide-SIMD end, and may history show that the Cell approach was a failure.
This happens every year after the Christmas quarter and the tech idiots always proclaim that it's the last nail in the coffin for Apple.
> The mainstream media has earned the mistrust,

I completely agree

> Greenwald isn't powerful enough to impose it.

Correct, but it's the collective push of "independent" news sites, including The Intercept

And as much as they push for the "Mainstream media is untrustworthy" agenda, guess what, they are less trustworthy than the mainstream media. But it's more insidious
Think through your proposal to track all times in TAI and then convert them for display. What TAI time do you pick to represent the time that will be displayed as "00:00:00 on January 1, 2020"? Are you going to be okay with it changing to "23:59:58 on December 31, 2019" due to the geopolitical whimsy you mention? What if you just wanted it to represent the day "January 1, 2020"? Do you not use timestamps for anything but exact seconds anymore?

UTC doesn't know how long a second is, and TAI doesn't know how long a day or a year is. But most people need to specify "10 years from now" more often than they need to specify "300 megaseconds from now".

Banning leap seconds would be fine. UTC leap seconds are messy but at least we get by. But updating all time conversion software (instead of just updating authoritative clocks) every time there's a leap second is ludicrous.

It's true that applications should use the proper representation for what they're intended to do. And they do. Most applications use UTC because they describe human-centric events. Astronomers use TAI.
I knew it.

I knew that something is going to break somehow because for some reason people continue to falsely believe that 1 minute always has 60 seconds.
I've been dying to write a protocol to replace both TCP and UDP (me being naive, I think I could write a decent one). I feel like there's fundamentally really no good reason to have multiple protocols, because fundamentally, neither is UDP 100% unreliable, nor is TCP 100% reliable. I think what we should really have is just one protocol with adjustable tolerance parameters. But I haven't had the time to put much thought into stuff like congestion control, so I don't know what it involves yet. I'm glad someone is doing something similar though.
Have you worked on Linux kernels for embedded boards? I have seen shit just as crazy as he's talking about on the PS4 internals. He mentioned USB magically working; same thing happened when I worked for this company that was porting OpenWRT to this ralink/ppc board. The vendors kernel tree didn't even compile, and we spent days looking through their weird USB hacks trying to figure out how to enable power on the damn USB port (we won .. until we tried to rebase against the next kernel version).

Many ARM kernels from Android manufactures are so terribly put together than when they do eventually release the source, they're so full of holes they would never be accepted upstream.
While we're at it, can we get rid of daylight savings time too?
TAI has no leap seconds, but years, as currently defined, do.

And yes, I'm advocating for changing that definition, and making UTC a constant offset from TAI that works the same as TAI for the foreseeable future.
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It certainly surprised me as a tourist- for example Berlin's network is not much less extensive but cost a fraction to use.
Worth pointing out that the article defines middle class as an annual household income of $50-125K. That's higher than I would've expected on the high end. Also, they rightfully call out too-restrictive zoning as being responsible for a lot of the shortage.
Currently, there is a lot of reinventing the wheel. Many models start from scratch instead of transferring already good results from past models. It should be easy to plug vision models, audio processing models, behavior models together, the way we use various libraries in programming.
> Nobody said Russia rigged the election.

Nobody sensible said that, but I've seen more than a few comments along those lines on various sites, enough to believe that general sentiment is commonplace.

As for Comey, I'd say he let her off easy. Take a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1Mc6-RDyQ

Then look at the PDF attached here of an email between Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton and ask whether this looks intentional or not:

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/30324
> it's like a stopped clock telling the right time rather than a deep insight

That's a really good analogy (I mean in general, not specifically referring to this situation)! I'm going to start using it.
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The imbalance of power is not an issue. Angels have overcome this issue with syndication. There is no reason syndication will not work with non-accredited investors. The main problem is the equity crowdfunding platforms that want to collect 3-7% fee for doing nothing. They do none to minimal work for companies raising capital as well as for investors investing in such companies.
First time coming across it?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_stopped_clock_is_right_twic...
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Since there seems to be some confusion, I'll restate what you are saying a bit because it's important.

Increasing activity in a brain region doesn't necessarily make it "thick and healthy", no matter how much you do it. This is the "exercise model" and it is a hypothesis (if not still at the conjecture stage, not my field).
It's meant to be parsed as "traveling to play golf (without a pool... to ensure the public)", not "traveling to play golf (without pool...) to ensure the public.
Why? It seems to be an eye for an eye. 5 years is geopolitics is nothing everyone plays the long game.
if everyone is going to earn a living doing the same thing, it'll become easy accessible and understood by everyone and thus it'll defeat its own purpose.
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