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Author himself identifies this problem in the concluding paragraph: seeking happiness as an end might be counterproductive
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Thanks for the link. Those are some very valid points.
I'm cautiously optimistic, but let's be a bit more reserved on this until we see it properly peer reviewed. This area is ripe for pathological science and a myriad errors induced by human factors.

Hopefully other labs around the world will be able to duplicate the experiment soon. We'll see if the results are as well.
That article didn't seem very coherent. E.g. on the original test he says:

"His test is not a very good predictor: most of those who
appear to use a model in the pre-course test pass the end-of-course exam but so do many of those who do
not."

How many pass, how many do not? That is the information needed to determine a predictive test.

Reading between the lines, I would guess that he got in trouble because his original article wasn't politically correct. One line in the retraction reads "We hadn’t shown that nature trumps nurture. Just a phenomenon and a prediction." I would guess he came under political pressure, and felt pressured to write this article in order to avoid further problems.
> If there were, the employee wouldn't have to work for the employer, since he'd have just as much money and influence in the first place.

So the employer needs no employees?

> Your argument condemns all employment.

Only exploitative employment.
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There is also, as the author mentions, a correlation between religiosity and happiness. Still, "start going to church" is not on the list of things to do. I'll hazard a guess that the author is not religious and thus doesn't consider it relevant. While I don't personally believe this a worthy pursuit, it does show the arbitrariness of the selection.

EDIT: Point 8 does touch on religion but does not (directly) endorse it.
What can one do to a live happy life is a very hard question to answer for anyone. Life is fundamentally absurd, we are yet to find what this whole madness is all about. Most people choose ( or fall into) an ideology to give meaning and structure life. To cite an example of an ideology
the family man - fulfillment in raising a child, having a family, bunch of friends to hang out with, a job to sponser all this. This is the default ideology of most people and societies built around this.
There are many others , 'the religious man', 'the scholar/intellectual', 'social worker' , 'the rational man who votes' etc.
You have to find an ideology that you find comfortable brainwashing yourself with, doesn't matter which one as long as the delusion is strong enough that you can convince yourself that you are living your life to reach a certain goal or a purpose.
As far as I can tell those are still "coming soon" and not actually available.
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Thanks! That would be something we consider adding next :-)
Ask HN: Help for 24/7 on rotation/call contract for employee (me)
sorry for the throw away account.

I'm a junior-ish sys admin with 3 years experience and I've been interviewing with an IT operations support company where an ex-colleague of mine works.

I like the company, the people and the work they do but this would be my first experience of rotation/on call. I know I will have to wait for their offer and then judge but I'd like to be prepared... too bad I have no idea what's "normal" and what's not!!

I'm in the UK (London) and it would be great to have any feedback/idea on:

- what kind of contract should I expect?
- what things should I negotiate on (harder than usual)? I know they are flexible and happy to consider different arrangements for different people but, as mentioned, I don't know what's normal
- do you get paid a sort of normal salary but don't work during the day if you get woken up the night before? or do you get paid more when you are woken up?

Anything really! Thanks a lot for any input
Particularly the software people and generally tech-savvy crowd are hesitant to stick foreign devices into their computers, and for good reasons.
Kevin from intelliPaper here.

We offer two separate formats of SwivelCard.

NFC is a really good fit for some markets, and other markets don't have the adoption. By including NFC as a premium option, we can reduce the cost of just the USB experience and offer it for less.
Thanks. It seems like these are specifically for web pages where you need to add a script tag to a page you control.

I was thinking very generally of just having the device specify an HTTP(S) proxy and having that remote server be able to inspect any HTTP(S) traffic whether its from a browser or native apps.
I think for places like SV, you will find some moderation in housing where people find outlying cities unconnected to BART suddenly livable. The higher end will be unchanged.

Self driving cars would be sweet, but still only one factor in housing prices. It's still a grind to commute whether you have to drive or not, as your free precious hours are wasted in the name of butt-in-seat time.

Plus more than likely California would pass an asinine law to ban people from using mobile devices even with a self driving car. They are already making rules that you have to be able to take the wheel at all times in case the car fails. Kind of beats the point of a self driving car, while ignoring that the program would probably beat 99% of drivers.
That is an interesting example with the fluid pathfinder - had not considered a fluid solver for that application but it seems to work really well - even perhaps mimicking nature. If you look at a large flock of Starlings their movement is almost fluid-like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE
There's a massive problem where people install the iOS betas and then proceed to leave 1-star reviews all of the App Store because programs don't work as expected. There isn't really any way to combat it, either.

I've seen quality programs lose at least one star on the store because of idiots who don't understand what beta means but "ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO" run prerelease software.
I do not understand why there are so many haters of LessWrong. It's not a cult. No one on that site has ever bought into the Roko idea. Also, Roko's post is poorly explained there. However, everyone thought it was nonsense at the time and still does. Imagine if the most inane nonsense posted to hacker news was used to dismiss everyone who posts here.

As for nanotechnology. It is possible - biology is a proof of that - though some of the early visions may have been naive. It's likely that artificial systems can be created using a broader pallet than natural selection does, and that these technologies will be powerful.

>That it is justifiable to kill a man if it would remove a spec of dust from the eye of every other person on Earth

No, he wrote that it was justifiable to torture a man to prevent 3^^^3 dust specs from floating into 3^^^3 eyes. 3^^^3 is a mind-bogglingly large number - far far far far far more than everyone on earth.
That's the only way that I feel like this program (and similar ones) would be useful at all... It needs to be able to output a file that can be imported into 3d modeling programs and 3d printer slicers.
> Primarily he focuses not on developing a Strong AI (AGI), but rather focusing on safety issues that such a technology would pose.

That's absurd at worst, science fiction at best, akin to worrying about manned flight safety in the 1500's.
>His core beliefs include that the obvious goal of the human race is immortality, that it is justifiable to kill a man if it would remove a spec of dust from the eye of every other person on Earth, and that the most important thing we could possibly be doing right now is devoting all of our time developing a mathematical model of a "safe AI."

Possitive proof that IQ doesn't equal smartness, much less wisdom.
If offloading things to Amazon is an option, why use a Raspberry Pi at all? Wasn't the sport of it to get it running on a Pi? If it only has to look like it's run on a Raspberry Pi you might as well let it run Nginx as a reverse proxy to a discourse.org forum.
If you are a man, there is one thing that will solve the extroversion problem and that is to be able to talk about sports. It is the default subject of conversation for men who don't know each other, and if you can't talk about sports then you are awkwardly trying to find something to talk about 80% of the time.
Saying 'desktop market' gives away your bias there too.
I love the language, but mostly on personal projects.

For the typical enterprise developer, at least in many of our projects, I am happy that we manly use other languages.

I feel like crying every time I see C style coding in C++, with its usual set of security exploits.
Singularity idiots?
Did you merely read them or did you also apply what was said in those readings? Have you also consulted a specialist?
Disqus isn't really appropriate for a forum. It's a simple turnkey commenting system, intended for blogs and whatnot. It doesn't have the capabilities that you'd want for a more involved forum.
From this thread [0], they are looked at as a sort of cult. Funnily enough, they look at HN the same way.

[0] -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8053606
If someone sticks it in their USB port, what do they see? A URL shortcut file they need to click on? Or some kind of fancy executable software?
The main difference between Google Prediction and Azure ML is that the former doesn't require any knowledge of machine learning algorithms, whereas the latter does. Google Prediction automatically selects the best algorithm based on the data you uploaded. In Azure ML, you have to choose an algorithm (and its parameters) yourself.

Other differences are that Azure also has a data transformation component, a built-in text analysis tool, it can perform clustering tasks, and it makes it easier to expose your trained models as APIs.
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I've still yet to figure out why an ultra-thin, 15"-17" laptop style display you can toss in a backpack with a laptop that has a normal DVI/HDMI connector isn't available somewhere. I've seen some on the market, but they're way too thick and heavy for that kind of use-case. I'm talking rMBP display quality and thickness heaviness.
not choosing to socialize may seem like a fine choice and not a source of depression in itself. But I think what the parent tried to say is that there is opportunity cost associated with such a decision. I need good amounts of solitude each week, which makes me an introvert i guess, but if there are no good interactions with other humans at all, my happiness dips noticeably. Having an option to meet with another human (and having a good interaction every so often) is a boost to the feeling of security, which I believe can help the feeling of happiness.
For example If i do something awesome (or really dumb), I need to tell someone, and it needs to be someone that actually cares. Or the experience is not as good / might as well not have happened.
I find this comment interesting - "Way to not watch the video at all", as if it was somehow self-evident that someone HAS to sit through several minutes of video, which if you think about it is a very slow and almost old-fashioned way of presenting information compared to the speedily-read, rapidly-understood alternative of straightforward plain text.

Kickstarter pages are a good example of this phenomenon. Fundamentally, my time is not unlimited, so I read the text first. Only if I'm fascinated do I then go on to watch the video. Is it just me?
I saw that he had hired someone. He didn't stick with it, because he was too busy. It's easy to make that excuse, but my point was to do it again, for real this time. The reason being, he's limiting his career opportunities by working in a country where he's only making minimal effort to be understood.

And I didn't know Hacker News was a career for me. Jackass.
I may be misreading, but isn't the "real story" that they ran essentially the "gravity probe B" experiment on the ground and generated data despite all the noise sources and interference and all that on the ground?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope#London_moment

Its pretty impressive technologically to pull that off. Don't have to worry about seismic noise when you're on a space satellite, for example.
This is the author saying be like me and become aware of the science of happiness. He provides a huge number of references to peer-reviewed studies. This is decidedly NOT like most self-help advice.
"The only correct view is the absence of all views." - thich nhat hanh

We are unhappy when we assign reasons to people's actions or words. When we think that others say or do things because they are "out to get me". That is a view and that is an incorrect view that will lead to all sorts of unhappiness and discontent in your life. Get rid of all of your views. Some things just happen. There is no grand plan.

"Do you want to be right, or happy?" - thich nhat hanh

Don't correct people or argue with them. It leads to unhappiness. Especially don't do this in front of others. It will only cause confrontation that hurts you just as much as the people you are correcting. Even if you are being wrongly accused, just be silent. There will be a better time later to correct the situation and set the record straight. This is much needed in corporations in America that have contentious meetings. People interrupt each other, openly demean and correct each other. Sit silently in these meetings and stay above it all. Everyone will notice and you'll be much happier and content.

There is much more we can learn from Eastern philosophy. When things cause stress and unhappiness in your life, examine them, be mindful of your words and deeds toward others, live only in the present and you'll forever be happy.
Good find, but not so good for Mac-based creatives. Hopefully something better will come along. This form factor is much simpler.

http://www.amazon.com/MB168B-15-6-Inch-Screen-LED-Lit-Monito...
I think this is the best answer right now. Just build your forum the way you would do it normally and aggressively cache.

One addition I would make. Don't cache HTML, cache JSON responses, and build your forum as a one page app. This will allow you to have every response cached while still having customized pages per user (i.e. you could have a user profile on the page that shows a thread).
Exactly. To a non-programmer, even a mathematician (especially a mathematician), the example is a cousin of:

Men are mortal
Socrates is a man
Socrates is not mortal

Which doesn't assign anything to anyone, it just isn't true.
Given that at the end of the day even their USB link is basically a unique code that goes to a website -- thus you can change the content whenever you want -- I don't see why this couldn't be done with a $0.05 NFC sticker and a QR code?

Why the USB part?
Sounds very exciting! This space is getting a bit crowded though (see http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-main-competitors-to-the-Goo...). How would you differentiate Datapal from competitors such as BigML, Predictobot, etc.?
"What about development?"

There is a well-established part of evolutionary computing in which there is a developmental process modeled as well. The direct translation from genotype to phenotype without an intermediate level, might namely make the search process harder! The most often used ones are artificial gene regulatory networks.

Also, Eiben who worked with Winfield in the Symbrion project, had one of the first papers that I know on multiple genders. "A multi-sexual genetic algorithm for multiobjective optimization"

Regarding "efficiency", this is precisely the angle of attack of Alan here, and he makes this argument better than in general terms of "efficiency", namely by trying to formulate the "computational energy costs". That evolutionary search uses more resources than another type of search is however just you saying so. Some arguments would be great. :-)
What's the probability that having speck in the eye at any given time has some terrible consequences (like, for instance, causing traffic accident, or making a mistake when doing a brain surgery)? If we assume that on the whole Earth, at any time there's at least one person who would suffer greatly from speck in the eye, the probability is at least 1/8e9.

Now notice that 1/8e9 of 3^^^3 is more people than have ever lived.
I think more or less everything boils down to this:

1. Good health: when you are sick, nothing else matters

2. Money: it solves almost any solvable problem, and in case it doesn't, it helps

3. Family/Friends/Relationships/Love/Intimacy
I like the vision, but confused on what you're actually selling. After reading the FAQs, I was expecting a card that has physical memory and a foldable USB connector, but it seems this an NFC tag implementation that invokes a URL and is "designed for a connected experience". You're referring to this as 'unlimited storage' and 'wireless' technology.

I'm not interested in NFC tags.. I want ephemeral USB cards with physical memory. Analytics is important, but secondary in this form.
You're right that this article is a bit hard to read in places. But as for your "reading between the lines", give me some reason to believe you're not just projecting your pre-existing assumptions onto this article. What did he actually say that let you read between the lines.
This will sound overly negative, but I'm asking from an old-fashioned perspective...but why is this easier/better than just printing a URL on a card...in that situation, the card-giver also has the ability to update the content on that destination. Or, why can't the technology be as simple as a read/write stick?

The product seems to envision an idea of a "connected experience" not yet deliverable via a website...but what is that, exactly? The intention is that the card-receiver is going to keep inserting this USB stick to check out if the card-giver has updated the portfolio? If the impression/conversion hasn't been made at first insertion of the USB stick, not sure how this card would be any less discardable than a typical business card...

Also, what are the dependencies...if SwivelCard's cloud service goes down, does that hamper the experience of the end-user?

The IntelliPaper tech seems very cool, but business cards don't seem like a lucrative form for it.
"They're trying to protect the integrity of the DNS queries."

Then why are they using a DNS cache run by a third party (who they do not know) on the open internet, and shared with other users they do not know? The entire focus on DNS insecurity that brought about the renewed interest in "DNSSEC" can be traced to a "cache poisoning" scare back in 2008. The rational response to that aspect of DNS insecurity is to move away from shared DNS caches on the open internet, aka "open resolvers".

If "integrity" were the goal, then I would think downloading a trusted copy of the root.zone and running your own root and DNS cache on localhost would be a better approach. Additionally, if you have many double-digit GB's to spare, you could add in copies of the com, net, or org zones. Allowing users to download trusted copies of these is required by the ICANN rules. Alas, Country Code TLD's are not governed by these rules. Imagine if the telephone company would not allow you to have a copy of the telephone book and said you could only call the operator when you needed to look up a telephone number. That's what it's like when public registries withhold zone files. But I digress...

Setting up and maintaining a local DNS cache is a lot easier than setting up DNSSEC.

Really, the only queries you need to be sending out over the open internet are ones to the third party authoritative nameservers that are responsible for the information you are after. That means non-recursive queries only. I have been doing this for years and it works beautifully. In some cases, it can be faster to make only a series of non-recursive queries to authoritative nameservers than to make a recursive one to a cache. I also store the DNS information for hosts I know I might revisit in HOSTS and zone files. This minimizes my need to use DNS. And looking up information in HOSTS and zone files (in cdb format) is always faster than third party DNS.

Once you have achieved this sort of localized setup, and you no longer rely on third parties for DNS (e.g. such as OpenDNS, GoogleDNS, DNS.Watch, etc.), then you may come to the conclusion that the more important DNS security issues are 1. how to verify that the authoritative nameservers you query are the right ones (not imposters), and then 2. how to secure the packets you exchange with the authoritative nameservers.

There is a finished solution available for 2, but not for 1.

Unless you think delegating 1 to a third party is a "solution" (e.g., PKI, CA's managed by third parties like Verisign, etc.).

Lastly, even if you do not care much or at all about DNS security, there are gains in reliability and sometimes performance to be had by using a local cache (and ideally as much locally stored DNS information as possible) versus using a third party cache on the open internet. You get the additonal security of not using shared caches (i.e. minimized risk of cache poisoning) "for free."
Folks, you've put a lot of thought into this, and I respect your efforts, but you're approaching the entire product wrong.

You've created a piece of technology, which precisely matches the purpose of a site URL on a business card, except your solution is more tacky, more cumbersome, and less familiar to people, so more prone to confusion than delight.

It's scary how close a basic site URL matches your product benefits:

- You can add more data (videos, resume, etc.) on a website.

- You can change the data at the site remotely after giving the card.

- You can track access to the site (including location by IP etc.)

Considering the fact that including a URL on a card is far more accessible (no need for a NFC compatible device or an enabled USB port), cheaper and not to mention way more elegant, than a USB contraption, you'll have to find something that differentiates your product from a URL, or you'll fail.

Remember - technology itself doesn't sell. Benefits sell.

P.S.: And honestly, saying "you'll be the most popular person at the conference" because of cheesy USB business cards really drives the message forward your target audience is the socially inept. Don't do this. No one cares what gizmos you have on your card.
The Devil's Slide Trail, a brand new park along the coast south of Pacifica (south of San Francisco), has an example of one of these emplacements.

http://parks.smcgov.org/devils-slide-trail
You're making a lot of absolute statements. I sense that a lot of these things depend on the situation, rather than are always true.

Reversing stupidity isn't intelligence.
Apendleton-

Kevin from intelliPaper here.

SwivelCard has bee a very good fit for many of our customers. One use has been to focus conversations.

Consider a situation where you manage a portfolio that is constantly changing, and you want to draw attention to aspects of it and personalize your pitch to a client. How cool would it be to have a face-to-face conversation focusing on real issues, and end with

"I've made a few notes. Use this SwivelCard to access them.
They are secure and only you have access to this information."
No, I don't need your email address - and there is no account to create or manage."
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he left out the conjugated bonds in all the examples; for example, cyclohexane and benzene would be identically represented.