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> Can anyone here who feels truly happy tell me otherwise..

Not sure if this helps answer your question, but I felt truly, blissfully happy the first few months of my arrival at America (from India).

I'm not sure what it was, maybe the fact that I achieved the 1st step of a childhood goal / dream. Or maybe it was the new experiences, living in a foreign land, finding cleanliness, orderliness, and a very efficient system in everyday life that was largely lacking in India.

But I really had nothing. Just 2 suitcases and 500 $ in borrowed money. I learnt on the 1st day on my job (on H1B visa) that I was there only for 2 months to fill in for an American woman who was going on her maternity leave and that I would be sent back to India * after that. I also didn't know anyone here, was told by the company that brought me here that I need to vacate the hotel they put me up in within a week, had no credit history, nothing.

I think that fact that I had no obligations -- financial or otherwise -- was part of it. Didn't have a mortgage, loan on a car, was single, no dependents to take care of, and very little physical possesion.

Nearly 2 decades later, I'm still trying to get back to that state of happiness. Like others have stated here, I don't think money has much to do with achieving 'happiness'.

I think the pursuit of happiness is purely a western-culture phenomena...

[ * hustled and extended my stay beyond the 2 months by doing the work of another citizen co-worker who offered to get the manager to extend my contract beyond 2 months if I "fixed" her code... 18 years later... I'm still here :) ]
While still useful, this appears to be more of a bundler than a compiler, per se.
The faster the lines are moving - the more transactions per day can a store process, thus more fees for processor. I don't see a logical reason for processors to artificially slow down payment process just for a tiny fee difference, no? plus they theoretically get less chargebacks and fraud activity with chips.
Was Forbes ever a respectable publication though? I ask with all sincerity. It seems their volume is super high and that's about it, so they get name recognition from repetition, not sure what else from.
A study of people who got into devastating accidents leaving them paraplegic or quadroplegic found that after 6 months, those who were generally happy before the accident returned to being generally happy. Those who were unhappy before the accident got worse or stayed the same 6 months later.

On the other end, people winning the lottery also reverts to their pre-lotto happiness level after 6 months.

I guess the point is that you probably won't find happiness in work success if you're currently miserable.

There's some newer studies that helping other can make you happier, like this one published in Science:

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/application_uploads/...

The effect is not huge though. A meta study on this showed that it's only about 1 point on a 10 point happiness scale.

If you really are not happy, consider these common and proven recommendations:

- Get plenty of good exercise, at least 30 minutes, 3-4 times a week

- Get enough rest, 8-9 hours a night

- Check your vitamin D levels and supplement if needed.

- Eat healty and avoid alcohol and sugar

- Spend time building social support, do not neglect your circle of friends and family

- Get into a routine, for example go to bed at the same time every night and wake up at the same time every morning

And of course if you feel like this for more than 6 months, see a psychologist.
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I don't think that success at work makes me all that happy because what success means at work is defined by someone else.

Of course, other people might feel like it matters to them and if so then I don't think there's anything wrong with that. However, I think it's really important to see that there are many things beyond your control, so if you try your best and still fail, I like to think you should still find happiness in how you hopefully grew as an individual.
That's why I won't be doing it myself - I'm just going to provide the platform, there are already people working on an open-source baseband, and they're much smarter than me =)
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OpenBSD is very good at suspend/resume, particularly for non-bleeding edge laptops that developers have had a chance to use. I've had better luck with suspend/resume on OpenBSD than on Linux. I recommend Thinkpad X/T series laptops and have also had success with older Asus Eee PCs.
I got rid of my home phone 15 years ago because of all the spam calls, and it used to be illegal to spam cellphones.

Now I get at least a call the week about my mortgage or car warranty. At first I explained to the people that I had neither a car nor a mortgage so I could get off the list, but that hasn’t helped.
> Suing for patent infringement is not considered exercising a legal right, it's considered being a dick and vandalizing someones property. So this is not to be read like a contract between to businesses, but like a truce.

This is an oversimplification. There are plenty of mum and dad inventors who would get destroyed by large companies but for relying on patent protection for their life's work.
My contrary opinion is that people who job hop every two years are the ones who come in, make enough progress that management thinknthey are pretty nifty, then leave before they have to domany maintenance on the technical debt they left behind.

Sure, it is good to be highly paid, but the situation just reinforces the idea that people who wear suits are paid far too much.

Though I find myself i the situation of wanting to earn more, so I am seriously considering switching to SAP. Sell my soul, buy a house, live with my conscience formthe rest of my life?
> to replace it with something inferior

Media Foundation ain’t that bad. I coded some moderately advanced stuff with it, custom stream sources, custom transforms — it was fun, and it run well.

I can see how it was inferior back in 2007. The first version of MF was shipped with Vista, and Vista… Let’s just say many people were disappointed with it. Nowadays however, when you only need to support Windows 7+, MF is fine.
It's a very, almost uniquely, western thing and has some roots in liberalism (philosophical not political), ironically heavily influenced though a bastardization of the epicurean philosophical tradition. There are plenty of philosophies and traditions that understand otherwise. Stoicism being one of the biggest counterbalances.
While much of this goes over my head, detailed write-ups like this by people who have no direct way of gaining a financial outcome from all their hard work is the cornerstone of why the internet is fantastic.

Amazing work!
Their "reasoned" arguments come from their own sensory experience directly and they are aware of that.

Do you think a deaf, blind person, with no feeling, and no awareness of their own body would grow up to be able to make reasoned arguments? Of course not. Why not? Because they had no sense experience.

Good empiricists go further and acknowledge that their reasoning is only as good as their sensory organs, including and especially their brain with all of its cognitive quirks.

A good empiricist will acknowledge, for example, that "healthy" "normal" human minds are terrible at solving certain moral problems while "unhealthy" "psychopathic" minds are demonstrably better. This flies in the face of the rationalist argument that healthy humans are fundamentally rational creatures.
I might be taking you too literally, but I think “just wait” is bad advice. Many of my peers at college graduated without ever building anything of substance on their own. Don’t know where they ended up, but I doubt they got good jobs.

I think it’s super important for CS students to pursue their interests beyond what’s covered in school. It’s the only way to gain the skills you need to get a good job out of college.
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Most everybody already realizes this. We have exactly such a system in place. The argument is about exactly where the balance is to be found.
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The article makes this odd claim:

"The constant reassignment of phone numbers creates further problems in determining which calls are legitimate and which aren’t."

I find that hard to believe. Shouldn't the phone company know up to the second exactly which numbers it has assigned and which it hasn't. And couldn't it pass that info on to peers?
Alipay overseas (e.g. in Kyoto) only works for Chinese citizens.

Anecdote: I tried to pay with Alipay in a Uniqlo store on my last trip to Japan. The payment failed, so I paid by card instead. A minute later I received an SMS from Alipay telling me it was because international payments are only available to Chinese ID card holders.
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This is a common knee-jerk response that doesn't make any sense. None of that stops Bitcoin from being wasteful, and most of it is still necessary if Bitcoin is used more.

Are you claiming that Bitcoin replaces physical security? How would it do that? Why doesn't someone just walk in and take your computer?

And if you're concerned about the creation of small computer chips (why would you be concerned about this), I assure you that Bitcoin is using more of them.
The same thing can be said about ISPs but IP spoofing is still a very large issue.
No - they can use one hand to chat whilst getting cash out of a pocket with the other.
Who, and why?
And the lack of Bluetooth makes it soo much safer.
Ambitions, e.g. for success at work or sport, are natural and come from the urge to have a high social ranking. After all we're first and foremost social beings. So our position among others is inherently important to us. But we're not living in clans any more. Civilisation has made things difficult. This kind of success (to assert ourselves over others) is overly glorified. Athletes are looked at god-like. Money and fame are overrated. To some extend it's natural to try to be successful, but the world is full of extremely successful people who find themselves being unhappy.

Those people often see that helping others is a true source of happiness.

Matthieu Ricard is a quite famous monk having published a lot of interesting stuff:

http://www.matthieuricard.org/en/

This one is on the topic:

http://www.matthieuricard.org/en/books/happiness-a-guide-to-...
Ok, this is the perfect place to say how I use Algolia :)

I view HN as follows: smart people upvote interesting resources. Among those resources are educational resources. These resources are potentially of very high quality. It's a good reason to upvote something into oblivion.

So whenever I want to learn something, I don't go to Google first. I go to Hacker news. I type in the topic I want to learn, and hope that there are highly upvoted educational resources.

Two things can happen:

1. The upvoted resource is amazing.

2. The upvoted resource gets burned to the ground in the comments.

In the case of 2, then there is almost always a good recommendation to find in the comments. Sometimes these comments are standalone comments -- a bit risky, but better than nothing. Sometimes these comments are well supported by positive raving child comments.
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On the other hand, look at it from a hiring manager's perspective: people who have stayed in a job long enough to see how things go wrong are also less expensive. I'll be honest, if I'm looking at a CV for someone with 10 years of experience and they have changed jobs every year or two, I will suspect that they are missing some pretty important experience as a senior developer.

Everybody makes serious mistakes that don't show themselves for years. Those who don't stick around usually assume that any mistakes they find in their new company were due to incompetence. Similarly, people who have not stuck around for years have never been instrumental in doing difficult culture transformations, or fixing long term architectural problems.

It's truly unfortunate that the industry rewards those who don't tackle these kinds of difficult problems. The legacy is an industry where the problems are ubiquitous: flavour of the month architecture, my way or the highway bullying, either process of the month or "pragmatic" (aka ad hoc) processes, absolute disrespect for coworkers (I'm the only one with an ounce of sense).

Yep, I'm happy to take the discount on the developer who is humble, knows how to navigate political mine fields, knows how to recover from mistakes, knows how to refine techniques and processes, etc, etc. I'm also happy to take the odd "rock star" if they are actually good enough, but I'd never build an entire team of them (willingly).
Have you noticed that all your generation does is whine, and complain about everything? It is very annoying.
I doubt resale values on GPUs running at 100% for months on end is going to be high.
I think at this point they are mostly targeting servers and not bothering with things like web browsers.
I think it's better to search for joy than happiness. If you find joy frequently, you'll be happier. Find a way to get off the hedonic treadmill, and you'll be happier.
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This is extremely cool. I'm impressed that they were able to get it up and running with so many different languages.
SMPlayer can barely even be considered an mpv front-end and I hope nobody who uses it will ever make an mpv bug report again. It's a gigantic pile of hacks from the MPlayer age, and it “interfaces” with mpv using the most horrible method possible (embedding the mpv window and sending keystrokes to it)
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This should be the top comment.

To me, the mode where the store scans your temporary payment QR code (like in McDonald's) feels like signature-less swiping in Starbucks in the US. You can't confirm the amount beforehand in either case. But the WeChat way seems more secure, as no one can clone my temporary QR code.
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What's the best way to find job openings nowadays without dealing with recruiters?
The author has mentioned "random shit that markets do, like completely ignore clearly superior products..."

Can anyone give me such examples?? I am curious.
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Or wallet stolen (arguing for the other side).
If you could have made more money by job hopping, and your other programmers left for more money presumably, is your company really valuing experience?

It's very easy to say you value experience, but if you wont allocate resources towards employees with experience then your company is signalling that they don't actually value it.
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* OpenGL is a dealbreaker since modern things in it (compute etc.) don't work on iOS/Mac; and elsewhere has a lot of driver stability problems. Does not work on any consoles.

* Metal is a dealbreaker since it does not work anywhere that's _not_ Apple.

* Vulkan is a dealbreaker since it only works on Android (mobile) or requires fairly new drivers/GPU (PC). Does not work on consoles.

* Direct3D 11 is a dealbreaker since it does not exist outside Microsoft platforms, and does not have some modern stuff (async compute etc.).

* Direct3D 12 is a dealbreaker since it does not exist outside Microsoft platforms; and on PC requires Win10.

See a common pattern? All of them can be considered "dealbreakers" for one or another reason. The (perhaps sad) reality today is, that you can't cover "all platforms" with a single graphics API.

Not that it's a big issue though... making a renderer/engine that works on more than one graphics API is not that big of a deal, compared to challenges everywhere else in game development.
And for those rare places that only do cash, it's not uncommon for the person in line to turn around and ask a stranger for cash and they'll pay that person in a WeChat transfer. Done in seconds. Happened to me and observed it myself a couple of times.

With digital wallets, there's zero need for credit cards and their predatory interest rates.

China is just absolutely crushing it. The Amazon Self Serve store that's still in testing in USA? Tao Bao pushed their version and it went live last week.
>None of that stops Bitcoin from being wasteful, and most of it is still necessary if Bitcoin is used more

What? If used more we wouldn't even need to transform it to any other currency, its because is _not_ used more that it is usually needed to convert it to something else.

>"How would it do that? Why doesn't someone just walk in and take your computer?"

No, someone cannot walk in because he doesn't even know where to walk in, its the same reason Satoshi is extremely rich despite the curiosity of millions to know about him, but no-one even knows his real name or anything at all; we don't even know which country he lives in; so yeah it does replace physical security; at least to a significant extent.

>And if you're concerned about the creation of small computer chips (why would you be concerned about this), I assure you that Bitcoin is using more of them.

It was just an example of the millions of resources that are wasted by the finance industry, a lot that include transportation (gasoline/ fossil fuels which is way way worse than most sources of electricity gpus are using)
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No, it's not.

Changing a core basis of a project/product because of one person's bad past experience is insane.

Would you stop using wooden doors because you got a splinter, or because a forest fire burnt down your house?

Would you stop using glass windows because you got sand in your pants at the beach?

Would you stop drinking water because you saw some guy drowned once?
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I was sure I'd read a lot of comments from people living in China who disagreed, because of this column[1] as well as a few others like it.

However, I realize that column is almost 50 months old. At the time it was part of a worry, because it was very difficult for anyone to understand what was going on in the Chinese economy and therefore which economic policies would be harmful. (Eg. stimulus during bubble, or tightening during stress)

Has cash really become a lot less popular in the past few years?

[1] http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/01/on-getting-paid-in-wads-...
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The hostility is because it's ridiculously obvious that moving from a minimum-wage job to a run-of-the-mill professional job is going to net you an incredible percentage increase in salary, especially in the US where the minimum wage is a joke.

And where is the 'events happening now' in what I said? Job-hopping? Not exactly a new thing.

> I mean, do you make a similar comment on all the articles you read?

So... I can't be rhetorical to call out bad behaviour, but it's okay for you to do so. Nice work.
"Without having used WeChat's approach with QR code scanning, it doesn't seem that different for the end user in practice."

The difference is that anyone can accept WeChat payments, no matter how small their transaction volume.

I haven't been to Australia since 2002, so am a little out of touch. Are there small businesses like fruit stands? Do they take paypass/paywave?

What about buskers?
Apple's iPhone is central to the product/value they deliver. And it's treated as such by Apple.

Google's Android is not. They deliver ads, and now some services that don't depend on ads. They needed to keep the channel open for these, in the face of a mobile transition that could otherwise be dominated by Apple and maybe Microsoft. Thus, Android.

Of course, this was also back when Google was still willing to really take a flyer on something.
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I use it for my own sites, mostly for file uploading, forums, etc... We use them at work in simple cases where writing something in java or C would have been overkill. CGI will be around for a very long time.
Yes, if it is creative success and not merely monetary success.

I am of a personality type that I don't think I could be happy without creative success (loosely defined as, having done a good job on creating things that would not exist if I hadn't made them). In a previous phase of life, I was not successful at making things, and I was pretty unhappy. Now I am successful at making things, and am much more happy (though I have also developed several mind-management skills as well).

If you are talking about "1m+" as the sole gauge of success, I don't think that means very much.
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I know it's resource-heavy, but at least you can start tying your own dedicated hotkeys inand sending out notifications from it. And you can build your own features that make it its own similar to Google Music Desktop Player

Plus you don't have to worry about Pocket Casts breathing down your neck because it's still through their system.
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Wtf is up with these?
Not if you want to get in on the NEXT new thing. By definition, you don't know that.
Windows NT was a spiritual successor to VMS, sharing a father in DEC's Dave Cutler. VMS fell out of use and is widely considered history. Still, it had some interesting ideas and I've always preferred my history to be living.
If this were true, YC's batch sizes would be getting smaller, since they only invest in companies that could become as big as Airbnb or Dropbox. But the batches are getting bigger.

Maybe this is true for investors outside of YC's deal flow, though. That would have some interesting implications.
Well, I tend to think of VC's as investors who target insane growth companies so that kind of makes sense.

One of my good friends works in private equity and their investment targets are 100% focused on small banks who return an average of 2-5x.

Not quite the 5-10x returns but they have much higher success rates.
> FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is trying to put more muscle into the agency’s efforts to combat illegal and fraudulent robocalls. Last month, the FCC proposed a record $120 million fine against a Miami man who the agency said was responsible for making almost 100 million falsified robocalls in late 2016.

Why bother fining a single guy $120 million? What purpose does that serve?