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> Is the increase in "satisfaction" being offset by something else, or is "satisfaction" (as they define it) simply orthogonal to happiness?

I know a little bit about these kinds of studies. One of them is measuring minute by minute "emotional" sorts of happiness, that's usually what they label "happiness" or "experiential happiness." The other is when you sit and evaluate your life, they call that satisfaction or "reflective happiness."

Actually, the results shouldn't be so surprising. We've only such a capacity for neurons and chemicals firing in our brain, of course a millionaire can't feel 100 times more satiated from food than a guy making $75,000.

Honestly though, I don't believe in experiential happiness, it doesn't matter so much to me. It's just biochemistry, animals feel that kind of happiness. Reflective happiness, thinking happiness, "satisfaction" - that's the one I optimize for. The biochemistry takes care of itself if you live good habits of gratitude, good friends, doing meaningful things, and take care of your basic health.

No matter how many good works you do, how much charity you do, how much money you make, your basic "happiness" or minute by minute emotional happiness only can get so high. But reflective happiness has almost an unlimited capacity, and doing more things you find meaningful does bring that up.
It's also an arguably necessary way to change processes in (largish) organizations who do not have good practices. Sometimes it's necessary to be a highly paid consultant to be taken seriously.
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All kinds of social outcasts seem to be over-represented in tech. It's like that one lunch table in school where everyone who wasn't popular sat.
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You're thinking too deeply into that example. It's just a thought exercise to better understand how gravity works and easier for people to grasp.
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Maybe Schmidt is actually risking the flak to make the point.

That's how I feel: if he makes some hand-waving denial then everyone will assume he's lying, so it's better to admit what the potential reach could be openly, and then address what the positives could be. I think their biggest problem from a service delivery standpoint is the difficulty of working with Google in a domain-specific mode. For a while they were experimenting with letting you up/downvote search results, and I was hoping that was going to converge with some of their set/collection tools so that you could build very specific filters (more than would be practical using regex) and save them for later use.
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I think that, apart from a slightly misleading title, this article is really well done, and gets to the core of the matter.
By and large, I think, society starts conditioning for gender roles very early-girls get dolls, guys get erector sets. (in general)

But it certainly doesn't have to be that way--there's no reason why people can't get more engineering-oriented toys for female children as well, and I'm sure most people who read HN would be more likely to get toys along those lines for their children, regardless of gender.

The issue becomes, then, convincing society at large that this is an issue that needs attention, and that the typical gender roles and toys only reinforce inequality (like representation in tech). That, unfortunately, is difficult, when some (very vocal) people refuse to acknowledge that there is any discrimination in society, and many would think that changing culture around toys is "just being PC."

Such a large change would take a massive effort. While the STEM initiatives going on today, especially those directed at minorities, are a step in the right direction, for them to be effective, I think they'd have to get a lot more mainstream awareness--right now, some people are aware of them, but the majority, in my experience, are not, and even among those that are aware of it, not many a) think it's a good idea and b) care.

Perhaps if a bunch of celebrities got behind it, ads were taken out online and on primetime TV, and politicians started caring? Maybe calling politicians to support STEM initiatives, especially minorities, could help?
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I've heard this time and time again, but what if your application is a genuine ball of mud? Would you really not advocate a rewrite for an unmaintainable spaghetti classic asp app still in production today?
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Agile does not require perfect implementation.

I have yet to see an "unsuccessful" project using agile, as in the customer and team was not happy with the conclusion (I've been involved with > 10). Usually things change before that point is reached.

If the team cannot change when things start sucking, then things will continue to suck, regardless of methodology or lack of. Most teams can adjust (at least the ones I want to be a part of).
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"I'll just point out that neither you or Kiba have introduced any evidence in your arguments..."

I haven't made any arguments. I've criticized some statements for using outbursts of emotion and assertion in place of arguments, and I've criticized other statements for implicitly treating "women are underrepresented in IT" as synonymous to "women are oppressed" rather than actually going through the trouble of arguing the point. But I haven't advanced an argument of my own yet. I have my own tentative answer to "why are women underrepresented in IT"--can you guess what it is? (Probably not.)

"...that you don't even know what begging the question is..."

Care to enlighten me?

Wikipedia: "Begging the question (or petitio principii, "assuming the initial point") is a type of logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise."

Implicitly treating "women are underrepresented in IT" as synonymous with "women are oppressed" begs the question, because "women are oppressed" (or the more complete, "women are underrepresented in IT because women are oppressed") is the proposition to be proven.

"... and that someone arguing rationally would have instead pointed out all of the areas in IT where women are treated fairly or overrepresented, and leave it at that."

Criticizing the form of someone's argument is perfectly rational--more so than criticizing their "stupid, patronizing attitude" or making personal attacks.
Prior to that, there was equipment using channels that were between some of the channels on the old 23 channel Citizens' Band. That was far worse. C.B. operators running splatter-prone illegal amplifiers were bad enough, but people discovered these apparently "empty" channels (sometimes called 3A 7A 11A 15A 19A 22A and 22B) and modified their radios to use them. Eventually the F.C.C. gave up on those channels being viable for things like garage doors and R.C. model airplanes, and they became part of 40 channel C.B.

I think some of that remote control equipment shared 72 to 76 Mhz for a while. That's a gap, 2/3 the size of a t.v. channel between channels 4 and 5.

I'm wondering if the F.C.C. will take away t.v. channels 2 through 6. Almost everywhere, the stations formerly on those went to U.H.F. with the digital transition. I guess they figure that few people want to buy really big antennas for the lowest frequencies. (UHF and 7-13 use much shorter antenna elements). Anyway, those channels have the best coverage potential of all of them, but they're hardly used now. (see tvfool.com or the FCC database)

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/video/tvq.html
I often read HN on my iPhone while stuck in motionless traffic. Should I stop?
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What toxins?

By the way, I mentioned specifically too much water. You only need to drink when you're thirsty. I'm asking what benefit you get from drinking water when you're not thirsty.

By the way, "people are dehydrated a large majority of the time" -- citation needed.
Just a small tip: don't stretch before strength training. You want the blood to remain in your muscles for the duration of your workout. Warm up by doing some cardio instead.
... Am I the only one that thinks it looks hideous?
Again, not talking about dehydration. What benefit does excess water consumption give, versus just having a drink when I'm thirsty?
Just rip it out of LaTeX.
I'm in Canada and I can't see it without logging in, but it's not a "paywall", just a "registerwall".
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people feel the need to be artificially connected and artificially communicating while sacrificing the REAL connection and communication which is actually taking place at the moment.

I voted your comment up, but for someone who believes this, you sure seem to spend a lot of time on HN "artificially communicating".
1. So few people use open source?

2. Closed source is better at optimizing for user experience?
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And that everyone needs to have something to say about what they've done. In other words, they have to have done something.
I take this back. I have played with "ping" for a few days and it is bad. It feels like a "minimum viable product" where they forgot the "viable" bit.
Can we get a direct link to the PDF?
Am I the only one amused that wired.com is writing about wireless?
Yes, that sentiment goes right with a zero sum mentality.

(Though with all the laws today, it's hard not to break at least some of them.)
I agree with you. Reminds me of those Geocities pages from the 1990s that were loaded up with animated gifs. Not as garish, but just as gratuitous.
I'm sure the real story is different. My rough guess at it is

* the main marketing tool that digg has left is "Kevin Rose as genius"

* Kevin and the people he drinks with pushed for the adoption of new cool technology.

* the entire thing was a giant clusterfuck because of Kevin and the people he drinks with.

* but once that became obvious there was a need for a scapegoat so that digg could keep its primary marketing tool.
I'm a terrible person. After reading about the plastic surgeon, I couldn't help thinking that we need more cliffs.
I guess I'll believe it when I see it. "The enterprise" is a fairly amorphous term, but most enterprises I've worked in either didn't have a wireless network you could connect to (for security reasons) or made you go through a process with each device that would make a colo-rectal surgeon blush. Enterprise IT want to lock down and control things (usually un-necessarily IMO), and I don't think the iPad exposes enough knobs and dials for them to feel comfortable with it. The bottom line (once again, based on my experience) is that enterprise IT departments don't care about the productivity of the people they 'support' - I wrote this post about it a while back http://jcooney.net/post/2010/06/30/The-IT-Department-doesne2...
For a guy running a "lifestyle" business, he's doing pretty good...
Reminds me of Clippy.
Malcom Gladwell: How one man changed the food industry.
Here is the Yale Alumni Magazine article that the NYTimes piece references: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2010_09/egypt3841.h...
That would have been the case if the universe was closed, i.e. if the matter density was above the critical density. However, the matter density is only about 20% of the critical, which means it's infinite. (The remaining 80% of the critical density seem to be the cosmological constant, which means the universe has flat geometry to within experimental error.)
It's a bit flashy.
I quite like the photo with the overhead view.

// Part of me wonders if this is just to go in his anti-VC speeches.. "See - we made a "lifestyle" business and now I drive a custom supercar"
No. After careful examination, I have concluded that it is, in fact, abominable.
For the inevitable curiosity, apparently these run in [at least] the $350,000 range. It's never cheap to hit 0-60 in 3.7s or less.

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupes/112_0212_pagani_z...
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This encourages having SQL queries initiated by the view, after the header has rendered. This seems antithetical to MVC to me.
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> So few people use open source?

Compared to closed source? As a function of time spent interacting? Yes.

> Closed source is better at optimizing for user experience?

Manifestly. Firefox is the only real counterexample I can think of (where development is conducted in the open, not where source code dumps are made available).
What would be better if you let employers get real-time screenshot data as often as they want (maybe even video). Seems like this is where the value of your product lies.
"I’ve found that time management has little to do with “lifehacks” and how you manage your email inbox and more to do with prioritization, saying “no” to people, and clearly communicating the expectations you have for yourself and others."

Well said.

For those interested in similar ideas regarding diet and exercise, you might enjoy http://www.marksdailyapple.com
Is there anything specific that you think Bitbucket is missing or lagging behind in compared to Github?
Not as expensive as I thought, actually. Especially when the title is "custom supercar".
The iPad has support for enterprise wifi networks and works very well with Exchange. It is about as enterprise-friendly (without being MS) as you can get.
DHH is that rich?
Well that was the production model, so it's at least $350k. All depends on how custom it is.
Exercise is basic necessary maintenance required by the human body. You either do it and have a happy/healthy body, or you don't. Eating healthy is just as important, separated into two categories: overall caloric intake, and nutritional content.

Car analogies are a dime a dozen in computing, but they apply here as well. Not exercising is like changing the oil in your car every 10,000-15,000 miles, instead of every 3,000 - 6,000. Your car is still going to last years, but its lifespan will be shortened, and it's going to run poorly towards the end of it. The nice thing about a car is you can repair it, or buy a new one. Repairing a human is tricky, and you definitely can't buy a new one.

I'm absolutely baffled by those who put their careers or money at a higher priority than their own physical health. You really want to be rich and famous with a crappy body? Is type 2 diabetes, along with likely amputations, blindness, and erectile dysfunction, your thing? Looking forward to clogged arteries and heart disease? What about stroke, wiping away your ability to control your own body, or even being able to think or speak? Etc, etc...

I don't intend to be mean, but many American's simply don't prioritize their health high enough. People seem to have every excuse in the world not to do it, except for a good one.

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True story. My brother is enrolled for his doctoral in physical therapy. He dissected cadavers (donated human corpses) during one of his classes. My family and I went out to visit, and he was able to let us look at one.

My father, who is about 30 pounds overweight in his late-50's, hasn't really cared about his health. He eats too much high-saturated-fat ice cream, puts cream in his coffee, likes cookies with lots of butter in them, etc... I've been trying to get him to eat healthier and exercise for years to no avail.

Well, my brother was having me hold/feel the heart from the cadaver (it was already cut out of the dissected body). I was squishing some of the arteries with gloves on, and my brother said "Try squishing this Coronary Artery. Sometimes it might be crunchy from heart disease."

So I did, and WOW! It was ROCK SOLID! So much calcium and plaque had built up inside this persons heart that it completely clogged the artery. It was as if there was a pebble-sized rock inside of it.

Of course, I forced my father to put some gloves on and feel it for himself. Well, that scared the SHIT out of him! These last few weeks since, he's made a decision to stay away from high-fat foods (and has been doing so - non-fat ice cream now, skim milk in coffee, etc...). He's also putting together an exercise room.

It looks like he's in the right mindset now, which is a very good thing! Sometimes the dagger of death hanging over your head is the best motivator. :)
Fake it until you break it?
Microwave ovens getting water molecules so excited at 2.4 GHz ties in with WiFi performance. It's a tidbit the head tech at a local wireless ISP didn't even know... 2.4 GHz WiFi is particularly prone to fading in fog/rain because water absorbs energy so efficiently at that frequency.

No, no, no, no, no.

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Yeah, and actually this is a custom job that's made up of the "best bits" of two other customer jobs, so you can bet the HH is probably a fair amount more than that.

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This is an interesting question. The guideline I have heard over and over is 2L/day. I wondered what this is based on. Wikipedia says the 2L/day guideline comes from the EPA, and the corresponding British guideline is 1.8L/day.

Following the links on Wikipedia I got to this article:
http://www.aafp.org/afp/991115ap/2269.html It lists low fluid intake (as well as restricted access to a bathroom) as a risk factor in kidney stone formation. However, another article (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12576800) reports some conflicting results. Apparently, as people drink more water, they consume more sodium to compensate, negating some of the benefits.

I wonder what someone who actually knows about this would say. Also, 2L isn't that much, but I wonder if I drink 8 glasses of water a day. An experiment is in order.
NASA publications indicate a microwave absorption peak due to water vapor occurs at 22.234 GHz and peaks due to oxygen occur lear 60 GHz and 118 GHz (..). Below 10 GHz absorption caused by atmospheric gases is small.

The associated absorption graphs do indicate there is a small peak of 2 dB per kilometer around the 2.4 GHz band due to water. (I'd expect to have a larger drop through a wall.)

From: NASA Reference Publication 1108(02) 1987; "Propagation Effects on Satellite Systems at Frequencies Below 10 GHz; A Handbook for Satellite Systems Design; Second Edition" by Warren L Flock.
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Are you replying to people? I sent in the answer on Friday but I haven't heard anything back. Now I'm worried I messed up somewhere. I don't see how though, all the math works out.
The current version doesn't feel too impressive though I'm sure the pie is big enough that improvement will happen quickly with big investments being made rapidly. The vision is inspiring. The implementation needs work.
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Even some well known companies occasionally try to walk all over the GPL.

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In some cases the query is lazy loaded with a call to .each or something similar in the view already. In other cases, the query is run in the controller before anything is rendered. I think the main goal is to improve client side performance (by downloading scripts and other referenced files sooner) and see the most benefit on pages that load multiple models, for instance a sidebar showing popular posts and recent activity.
Does it scale?
Actually, the shape of the dot is unchanged by going faster. Since it isn't a real object, it isn't affected by relativistic contraction. If you emit a circle, it'll be a circle.

It is of course changed by what it gets reflected off of, but that's not special to this situation at all. If you're at the center of an enormous hollow sphere and shine an astronomically-bright laser circle around, it'll always be a circle to you no matter how fast you move it.
whoa this seems a bit dangerous and flies in the face of what we get drilled into us since children about weightlifting. Do you have any authoritative source for this?
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Well, it's not exactly clear what powers we the people have granted the Federal Government, so the courts (part of the government) exist partially to interpret that. In this case, which should be cause for celebration, the courts came to the conclusion (which I think most here would agree with) that those powers do not include pulling cell phone records at will.

The commenter to which I responded got off topic on an anti-government tangent that made a number of assumptions not at all related to the article for no other reason than to make an anti-government rant, which I grant is a cheap source of karma here.
The police aren't involved in that case.

If the divorce is contested (which can happen in a no-fault state), the lawyers for either side can send subpoenas to anyone they like looking for relevant records, and a standard one to send is to the cellphone company. Which can reveal a lot.

My question is whether a sufficient right to the privacy of those records has been established to block those requests in principle.
Not really, in Rails, you might have this controller code:

@things = Thing.where(:it => "good")

And this view code:

<% for thing in @things %> <%= thing.name %> <% end %>

But the SQL query doesn't fire in the controller. It gets kicked in the view when you "for x in y"

Concerns still wonderfully separated.
lazy loading is bad for overall performance, though. Retrieving all of the models with eager-loading will avoid exploding query counts and lower the total time to render a page (and lower the load on your servers.)
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My baseless suspicion is that Ping, like iTunes LP, is just something Apple did to keep the record industry happy. Someone important probably had a revelation, 5 years too late, that they need to get in on that social thing the kids like so much and Apple was more than happy to placate them. I agree with Gruber that it could turn into something more down the road but at this point Apple's heart obviously isn't in it. Maybe because all the pieces aren't in place yet. I could imagine Ping looking a lot more like Lala 6 months from now when all the right deals are signed.